ALL RIGHT. So this is it. I'm going to spill some of the beans on my main boyo, Dean. There's not a whole lot I can say because, well. He's the main characters. Things that are currently happening to him now are important to the books themselves. He's very, very important. On so many levels. :)
Name: Dean Prescott
Codename: The Black King
Power: telepathy and slight pyrokinesis (and some later ones at a later date)
Team Affiliation: the Squad, the Cabal (and then the Alliance)
What to say about Dean. What to say, what to say...
Dean and Evelyn (Vee) Prescott were born on Avalon. Avalon is a floating city in the Pacific Ocean and part of the Agriculture Triangle. The floating city is not really a city; it's largely residential and produces the majority of fresh food. So lots of trees and green-ness and places to go swimming. Dean and Vee had a large-ish family; grandma, grandpa, mom, aunt, uncle, cousins. No one in their entire family is superum, they're sapien through and through. They were well-loved and taken care of. Johanna, their mom, worked in the agricultural field on Avalon, mostly taking care of apples. When she wasn't out working the orchards, she was home with Dean and Vee. Dean she plied with books and she sang rhymes for both her kids. Vee she taught strong girl stuff -- basically terrorizing her older brother. Dean is/was a dreamer, Vee was a doer. Thomas, their uncle, worked as a lab technician in a place that was concerned with producing food faster. The grandparents stayed home and took care of the neighbourhood kids, making a sort of creche. Annmarie, their aunt, was a teacher. One day, mama, grandda, grandma, and auntie went to the train station and got blown up by a bunch of sapien power terrorists. Uncle also vanished that day, but no one knows why. He just did. The Avalon city squad came and took Dean and Vee to the city's government and it turned out that the closest orphanage was on Mu, two floating cities away. So that's where they were sent.
While the world I created has no war, no famine, no hate, low crime, people still die. And sometimes people are stupid enough to die without making plans for their children. The crimes that happen are usually petty: theft, vandalism, trespassing, and similar. There are a few major crimes that occur (murder) that are punished quickly and severely. Usually these people are tried, found guilty, and sent to the Mariana Trench Facility and are never heard from again. There are still drugs, still prostitution, still bad things, but they are allowed to function only to a certain level. If they grow out of their allowed zone, they are squashed viciously.
Back to Dean.
Dean and Vee were sent to the Helicon Lee Aployta Group Home and stayed there for six months before they (Dean) drew Meechum's attention (by literally running into the man's legs). And that led to a lot of bad things that set Dean on the path he's currently on. And if I say anything else about all of that I will spoil a good bit of ... everything.
What I can tell you (*grin*) is a lot of after stuff. Dean gets himself all figured out and ends up as happy as he can possibly be with Meechum still above ground and being in the middle of a Graham and someone else in terms of love, but. Well. He's happy and doing his thing and still whole. As much as everything tries to break him, and as much as something tells him that evil is easier, he is good and happy and whole.
...more or less.
Name: Dean Prescott
Codename: The Black King
Power: telepathy and slight pyrokinesis (and some later ones at a later date)
Team Affiliation: the Squad, the Cabal (and then the Alliance)
What to say about Dean. What to say, what to say...
Dean and Evelyn (Vee) Prescott were born on Avalon. Avalon is a floating city in the Pacific Ocean and part of the Agriculture Triangle. The floating city is not really a city; it's largely residential and produces the majority of fresh food. So lots of trees and green-ness and places to go swimming. Dean and Vee had a large-ish family; grandma, grandpa, mom, aunt, uncle, cousins. No one in their entire family is superum, they're sapien through and through. They were well-loved and taken care of. Johanna, their mom, worked in the agricultural field on Avalon, mostly taking care of apples. When she wasn't out working the orchards, she was home with Dean and Vee. Dean she plied with books and she sang rhymes for both her kids. Vee she taught strong girl stuff -- basically terrorizing her older brother. Dean is/was a dreamer, Vee was a doer. Thomas, their uncle, worked as a lab technician in a place that was concerned with producing food faster. The grandparents stayed home and took care of the neighbourhood kids, making a sort of creche. Annmarie, their aunt, was a teacher. One day, mama, grandda, grandma, and auntie went to the train station and got blown up by a bunch of sapien power terrorists. Uncle also vanished that day, but no one knows why. He just did. The Avalon city squad came and took Dean and Vee to the city's government and it turned out that the closest orphanage was on Mu, two floating cities away. So that's where they were sent.
While the world I created has no war, no famine, no hate, low crime, people still die. And sometimes people are stupid enough to die without making plans for their children. The crimes that happen are usually petty: theft, vandalism, trespassing, and similar. There are a few major crimes that occur (murder) that are punished quickly and severely. Usually these people are tried, found guilty, and sent to the Mariana Trench Facility and are never heard from again. There are still drugs, still prostitution, still bad things, but they are allowed to function only to a certain level. If they grow out of their allowed zone, they are squashed viciously.
Back to Dean.
Dean and Vee were sent to the Helicon Lee Aployta Group Home and stayed there for six months before they (Dean) drew Meechum's attention (by literally running into the man's legs). And that led to a lot of bad things that set Dean on the path he's currently on. And if I say anything else about all of that I will spoil a good bit of ... everything.
What I can tell you (*grin*) is a lot of after stuff. Dean gets himself all figured out and ends up as happy as he can possibly be with Meechum still above ground and being in the middle of a Graham and someone else in terms of love, but. Well. He's happy and doing his thing and still whole. As much as everything tries to break him, and as much as something tells him that evil is easier, he is good and happy and whole.
...more or less.
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