Full Name; Liam Mercer Day

Nicknames; Gets called a dork or a nerd pretty often, but he takes them as compliments rather than insults. He’s not bothered by them.

Faceclaim; Isaac Hempstead Wright (his younger self at least lol)

Age; 13

Gender/Pronouns; male, he/him

Sexuality; Isn’t sure, but he doesn’t really care to figure it out right now.

Personality; Above all, Liam is a gentle and tender soul who likes to wear his heart on his sleeve. He’s an artsy type, and loves everything fantasy and science fiction. Liam’s especially a big fan of D&D, and always likes to run the games himself- he’s always got a story he wants to tell or work on. His favorite stories are ones that span across countries, continents, and worlds, and always loves to see the hero come out on top. Liam easily can focus for hours on things he likes, but when it comes to everything else he’s spacey and it’s hard for him to pay attention. Liam doesn’t like to hide his emotions and always says what’s on his mind, but generally likes to be polite and nice to as many people as possible- unless whoever it is starts messing with his friends. Liam’s very empathetic and tries to be as considerate of other people’s feelings as he can. He likes to use as many “smart-sounding” words as possible, but he definitely doesn’t know what all of them mean. Liam is easily convinced of supernatural happenings, and knows all the moves he shouldn’t be making in a horror movie scenario.

Background; Liam’s lived a pretty normal life. He wasn’t that old when his mom divorced his dad, so he doesn’t remember much of him in the first place. Liam knows that he wasn’t that great of a person anyway, so he’s not too bothered by it.

Trivia;

• Is almost always doodling on his work during class.
• Definitely watches horror movies he probably shouldn’t be watching when his mom isn’t around. They terrify him, though, so he’s very afraid of the supernatural. Or masked serial killers. Whichever comes up first.
• Hasn’t missed friday game night with his mom yet, and he intends to keep up his streak.

Full Name; Vaska Sofya Mikhailov- but she doesn’t remember that.

Nicknames/Aliases; 09 is what the American scientists called her. For a brief amount of time, some Russian agents called her Red.

Faceclaim; Cascina Caradonna

Other Physical Traits; There’s small, jagged bits of metal sticking out from between her knuckles on both hands- sort of acting like makeshift brass knuckles. They’re embedded in the skin, and right now she thinks them too much of a hassle to remove. Just a tad muscular, and has pretty dark circles under her eyes.

Age; 17 or 18. She isn’t sure, but it’s in that range.

Gender/Pronouns; Typically goes with she/her or they/them, or if any researchers were feeling particularly pissed off that day, “it.”

Sexuality; Hasn’t really defined it or anything, but not straight. But she hasn’t really figured that part out yet.

Personality; On paper, 09 sounds like a wild animal- wary, fearful, paranoid, aggressive, isolated, and easily spooked. It’s a result of her upbringing, she’s spent very little time out in the real world. It’s not hard to piss her off. Her rage and aggressiveness comes from her primary defense mechanism; she thinks that if she’s gentle, she’ll be further targeted by danger. By acting threatening and angry, she’ll have far less people trying to capture- or kill her. As far as she thinks, she can’t afford to be gentle or soft- she has to be rigid and sharp to stay out of harm’s way. 09’s never been big on conversation and firmly believes that actions speak louder than words. And it’s a good thing too, as she pretty much is only fluent in Russian, and doesn’t understand English. When she does speak, it’s in her native language, and she absolutely swears like a sailor. She’s unaware of any social conventions or norms, so she won’t grin and bear it or just come up with a retort if insulted- she’ll skip straight to knocking ‘em flat on their ass. 09 talks with her fists if she can’t, or doesn’t want to, use her power. Right now, she’s focused on self-preservation. She’s even more quiet and reserved if a trigger comes up that reminds her too much of the research lab- she almost totally shuts down for a while because of it, if she’s got nothing else to focus on.

Abilities; Magnetokinesis, aka the ability to manipulate magnetic fields- but she primarily just uses it to manipulate metals. She’s not entirely proficient in it yet, and only really uses it if she’s being legitimately threatened or is in danger. They become more potent yet harder to control the more pissed off or fearful she is. Due to the warping of the magnetic field, nearby electricity seems to go haywire whenever she uses it- she’s accidentally static shocked a couple people after they touched her while she was using it, and light bulbs seem to pop or fizzle. Over extension in any form- using it too long, too intensely, etc, results in nosebleeds, bleeding out the ears, spitting blood- generally speaking, it takes a toll.

Background; Considering she was born and raised for only a year in one of the smaller towns in Russia, it’s a wonder any agents found her at all. The Russians hadn’t stolen her with the intent to use her for experimentation- it was a willing adoption, and they had actually intended to help her rather than hurt her. At least, that was the intent of the doctors (who briefly nicknamed her Red). When she was around 6, American agents conducted an operation to storm the facility and steal away with every superpowered kid they could find- at the time, it was just her. She was terrified of them at first, before a Russian-speaking man called Dr. Charlie Cain convinced her that he was there to “rescue” her from the evil doctors, and take her to his home country. She believed him, but that was short-lived. Ever since then she’s never really known where she was in the world- she got moved around to a couple facilities, and Dr. Cain was always there to oversee. 09 never bothered to learn the language, and nobody bothered to teach it to her- only really being able to understand Cain when he spoke to her in Russian. They pushed her to her limits- broken bones were pretty common, and she continuously tried to escape, which only lead to worse and worse punishments over the years. But she’s escaped now- and is roaming the forest near Hawkins, looking for literally anybody.

Trivia;

• Probably thinks the high school bullies are total wimps.
• Only fluent in Russian. In terms of her understanding of English, she knows a couple of English swears, but that’s it.
• Reacts badly to people appearing suddenly or surprising her from behind. She’ll probably instinctively elbow you in the gut.
• As of now, only responds to 09. Or just 9.
• She literally has NO idea how to have fun. Or what it is, really.