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Lady Light
The world's top (and first) superhero(ine). Queen of Superheroes, the Mother of Metahumanity.
- Beware the Superman: She never calls herself a superhero, is in a relationship with The Dark and only gets away with it because she is powerful enough to take Weisswald one on one.
- Go-Karting with Bowser: She often visits Queen Madeleine for tea and talk.
- Hard Light: Her power is to conjure hard-light constructs with various abilities.
- Minor Major Character: She is one of the most important superheroes in the story, is directly connected to at least two other major characters, and basically founded the Heroes "R" Us that keeps the world from being dominated by supervillains, yet the closes she has come to appearing in the narrative proper is a phone call with the Dark.
- She is later more directly involved during the battle with Desolation-in-Light, but even then she is at a distance and doesn't really interact with the viewpoint characters.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: She believes that if nonviolent methods have failed, this is the only rational response.
The New Lennston Division
The primary source of heroes and allies for Brennus due to their close vicinity and his good relationship with the current leader Amazon and other junior heroes. Currently very understaffed due to most other heroes being on the Iron Wall. Amazon
- The Baby of the Bunch: Feels this way compared to her more senior teammates. She is the youngest non-junior hero, so she wants to prove she can handle herself. It’s why she takes the job of managing the junior heroes.
- Badass Bookworm: She’s in medical school and is one of the top fighters in New Lennston.
- The Commissioner Gordon: A weird example since she herself is a heroine, but she is the liaison between Brennus and the United Heroes when he needs/offers help in dangerous situations.
Gloom Glimmer
The second child of Lady Light and the Dark, she chose to become a hero yet still has a close relationship with both parents. Gloom Glimmer (Irene when off duty) goes on to slowly reveal her vulnerabilities while trying to reach out and befrieend those around her, especially Polymnia.
- Adaptive Ability: Her power gives her what it thinks she needs.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She an inhumanly beautiful dark-haired girl who often acts like an Emotionless Girl.
- Blessed with Suck: Due to her power messing with her head, she is very weak against psychic assault.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Exacerbated by her Power Incontinence.
- Fetus Terrible: Like her sister, she manifested in the womb - and received her first shot of power suppressants less than a minute later, to prevent her ending up like her sister Desolation-in-Light.
- Power Incontinence: She can't control what her power gives her, and has to take several special pills a minute just to rein it in. Otherwise, her power gives her whatever it thinks she needs - such as a powerful sexual glamour when she wants to impress her new teammates, or telepathy or clairvoyance to answer every idle thought - and she can't turn it off. It also doesn't like the pills, and will try to discourage her from taking them.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She tries to maintain an aloof and professional attitude with most people, but if you get to know her well, you'll find an awkward tween who justs wants to have friends.
- Younger Than They Look: She's actually 12 years old. Though Word of God says biologically she's about 16 and her body matures strangely.
Polymnia
Former Pop-Princess of metahumanity, Polymnia (Melody out of costume)is a new addition to the Junior Heroes. She starts a friendship a Gloom Glimmer and Brennus, who both help her come into her own as a hero through the constant struggles they fight together.
- Blessed with Suck: her powers are focused on sonics. As a result, socially she is great with vocal sublteties. She can;t get non-vocal unless they're blindingly obvious.
- Brown Note: Not only does she have basic sonic attacks to disrupt the inner ear or overwhelm with sound, she uses an actual Brown Note against a villain.
- Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair matched with dark-brown eyes. Irene notes it's a pretty mundane color for an adonis-type.
- Deflector Shields: Although not true force-fields, Polymnia worked out how to create a 'sonic cage', which provides some defense against objects.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She's a Gadgeteer who specializes in sonics.
- Idol Singer: Polymnia is a famous performer, known as the "Metahuman Popprincess".
- Loud of War: As a Gadgeteer specializing in sonics, her combat is based around this.
- Machine Monotone: Averted. Although her manifestation rendered her mute (so she speaks through a voice synthesizer or Sign Language) she custom-built her own vocoder, which sounds very like a true human voice.
- Most Common Superpower: Outstep says they're size G's.
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Polymnia 'hears' her designs as melodies and symphonies.
- Power at a Price: When Polymnia manifested her gadgeteering (with a sonics specialization) she became mute.
- Sensual Spandex: Her costume is partially transparent.
- Spider Limbs: Polymnia's Powered Armor is mostly these - ten of them, in fact. Four hold her up, two hold specialized keyboards, and the other four hold eight speakers each. They are, of course, mounted on the back of her armour.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Polymnia is a sounds-based Gadgeteer who cannot speak. Her birth-name is Melody. Justified in that her family is apparently very musical - her inability to perform any kind of music is what led to her manifestation, which resulted in an appropriate power.
- Super-Senses: She has enhanced hearing. It's not always a good thing, especially in combat situations.
Tartsche
- Barrier Warrior: When he's standing still he's invulnerable, and can spread this invulnerability to anything or anyone he's touching. By Word of God, even if you destroyed the ground beneath him (and he habitually extends his power over it anyway), he would just float in the air until he chose to move.
- Guns Akimbo: Tartsche does this. The Law of Inverse Recoil is justified in this case, as his power makes him immovable while active (and presumably protects him against the noise).
Spellgun
- Innocently Insensitive: Doesn't seem to understand how much insulting Di L upsets Irene.
Outstep
- Time Master: He manipulates time in order to get superspeed.
Aimihime/Bakeneko
- Breast Expansion: She uses her powers for this sometimes. She often takes it too far, to the point where it becomes "cartoony" rather than "sexy".
- Heel–Face Turn: Was a gang member for all of five minutes before she was offered and accepted membership into the junior heroes.
- Meaningful Name: In the comments, it is revealed that her name meant affectionate beautiful princess.
- Shapeshifting: Aimihime is an Apex-tier morpher, capable of taking any organic form but can't change her mass.
- The So-Called Coward: Polymnia calls her a scaredy-cat and Basil calls her unstable, but she is just as willing to go up against major s-class threats as the rest of the group.
- Shrinking Violet: She often disappears into the background of whatever scene she's in.
Chicago Division
The team protecting Chicago from the likes of The Matriarch, and other villains who start to appear when Aap comes to the city. Like most other divisions they are overworked, but fight to defend the people. Chayot/Hennessy
- All of the Other Reindeer: From what we see of a small flashback, she apparently didn't have any friends due to being poor. While we don't see her around her teammates a lot, the fact that she has a terrifying power and can barely communicate properly, probably isn't doing her any favors in the friends department.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She is usually very nice and amiable, but she is terrifying when angry, and it should be noted that she wanted her father to kill her childhood torturer until Dearheart, ironically, convinced her otherwise.
- Blessed with Suck: She has great power, but cannot understand language. She must communicate in emotions.
- It also puts her in a near-comatose state of anywhere from hours to days if she uses it too much.
- Cain and Abel: Her archnemesis is her (unknown) half-sister.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: More like he had a reason for never coming home. He was a prisoner of war for almost her entire life and didn't even know she existed until he met her for the second time.
- Generation Xerox: Like her father, she struggles with her powers controlling her emotions, is usually amiable yet extremely dangerous, suffered Traumatic Superpower Awakening, and has a very damaged relationship with her father while having great love for her mother.
- The Voiceless: She can speak, but only very rarely and in very limited ways.
