Name: Dusty Darby
Alias: Smiles Per Hour
Playbooks: Janus-Doomed
Birthday: March 10th 2024
Bio: one of the rare people to have powers before Wondercon, Dusty has had super speed and enhanced senses since he was five. After the convention, at the age of 11, he turned ok on his hero name to help people while taking care of his now disabled father. After the events of the first Kinder Center Heroes arc, Dusty was tricked into making a deal with the Man with the Red Right Hand and now he needs to find a way to outrun his fate.
First Seen In: Kinder Center Heroes 1: Cleaning up Mybern
Name Heather O’Neill
Alias: White Rabbit
Playbooks: Nomad
Birthday: March 15th, 2020
Bio: Heather was a lonely and angry child growing up in the O’Neill household, her only friend being her pet bunny rabbit Alice. After Wondercon, Heather came home to find her friend was now sapient and her parents still sucked. She ran away from home with Alice and her powers awakened, schlorping her away through dimensions after the two of them founded the Kinder Center. Heather was briefly able to return home with Alice and try at a normal life, but was pulled back into the Multiverse without her companion. Eventually she was pseudo adopted by The eldritch horrors she called The Mad Hatter and The Carpenter, and The Carpenter made Heather her Stabilizer that would let her return and stay home and use her control over time and ability to slip through points in space relatively safely. She returned to the Kinder Center and has started to try and pick up her life again, applying for colleges to start learning quantum physics to understand her abilities better. Heather now finds herself trying to keep her friends and the center safe as the world keeps changing around her.
First seen in: Wondercon Survival Guide: The Con Crud
Name: Cora Curie
Alias Warp
Playbooks Nova
Birthday: February 31st, 2025
Bio: A powerful reality warper, when Cora was able to warp herself older when she was just a baby and has been able to wield her powers since then. When she was a child, she got angry with a school mate and in a fit ended up turning them inside out. The Untethered, a prominent hero in her dimension, took notice of Cora and took her under his wing. He helped Cora hone her skills before eventually bringing her unknowingly to a new dimension so she wouldn’t interfere with his plans, and it’s here that she first came to the Kinder Center. She made several friends and in the year between the first Kinder Center Heroes and Reunion, she got a very sleepy girlfriend who owns a diner. She has learned that the Untethered has sealed away her home dimension from her and she’ll have to bust through that seal if she ever wants to see her parents again.
First seen in Kinder Center Heroes 1: Cleaning up Mybern.
Name Kyle Redni
Alias Spite
Playbooks Delinquent
Birthday March 3rd, 2021
Bio: Son of Mark and Melinda Redni and certified problem child, he and Dusty are childhood friends. After Wondercon, Kyle came home to find his father strung out and his mother having run off to join a cult. Kyle left home and eventually found himself at the Kinder Center as his powers developed. In the middle of the gang dealing with Roger Clean, Kyle was pulled away from Mybern by Mark getting a new job in Dankrip city and dragging his child there. Over the course of the next year, Kyle became the Hero of Dankrip, eventually defeating his mother who had taken on the name of “The Pallid Dancer”. He has come back to the Kinder Center but has made his plans to leave clear, having found a home in Dankrip. Though the future for Kyle is uncertain, he is the first ‘graduate’ of the Kinder Center.
First seen in Kinder Center Heroes 1: Cleaning up Mybern
Name: Alice Starr
Alias: Copycat-Noire/Claire Skyes
Playbooks: Protege-Scion-Bull
Birthday: February 17th 2051
Bio: Adopted by Dusty and Radford Starr, Alice was a quiet child before her powers awakened and she became a complete gremlin. She grew up in a loving family in Spring Hill but that was ripped away from her on July 13th, 2069. She woke up in a distorted reality where Dusty had been taken over by a mysterious force. She made her way to the past to try and undo this bad future and make a new world that is better for not just her family, but for everyone. She has found new family in the past in the form of Sarah and Charlie Ross-Elfbane, her two granddads, and the kids of the Kinder Center. Alice is adjusting to life in the past, but the shadow of Dusty’s doom and her own impending disappearance lurk on the horizon’s edge.
First seen in Cornfield Cryptids
Name Thomas Midgely
Alias Surveyor-Suvivor-Savior
Playbooks Outsider
Birthday April 20th 2051
Bio: An alien from a distant planet, Thomas came to earth to survey it and make records of what he sees before it’s inevitable destruction. He was adopted by the DAGR agent, Susan Midgely, and lived a stable life in Spring Hill until the evening of July 13th, 2069. He woke up in a containment cell in a world where he never met his mom on July 14th, breaking out of the CLOAK facility he found himself in. He met up with Alice again and went back in time with her and Alpha to try and fix the future. Despite his best efforts to help conservation in the past, Thomas’ financial meddling put a firefly sanctuary he helped at in peril and he faked his death to get attention off of it (it didn’t). Thomas is looking for things that matter in this world without the connections or friends he once had.
First seen in: Cornfield Cryptids
Name Cheats/Alpha Ronalds
Alias None-Cursed Mirror- Cheap Shot
Playbooks Delinquent-Janus-Harbinger
Birthday September 30th, 2050
Bio Born to the horrible Reagan and Clinton Ronalds, Cheats life was rough and he was ridicules and emotionally abused by them frequently enough that he developed the ability to control emotions. He lived in Spring Hill with Reagan Ronalds until July 13th 2069 when reality was rewritten and Cheats was replaced with Alpha in a world where Speed Demon had killed his parents. Alpha lived a comfortable life with his aunt and uncle, Marceline and Oaklyn Cruz, filling up his schedule with enough obligations to distract himself from his personal problems. On July 14th his world was turned upside down as his friend Alice Starr aka Lynx was replaced with the Alice from the previous timeline who told him the truth of his parents’ death. Alpha broke into Spriggan with Alice, Thomas, and Flaxen to travel back in time and found himself in a haze at the bottom of The Grand Canyon. He has made it to Mybern but still doesn’t quite feel like he belongs anywhere, and his fate is in the air as he ran away from the Center at the end of Blackheart.
First seen in Cornfield Cryptids/Chaos
Name Kayle Redni/Flaxen
Alias The Yellow Defender-The Living Sign
Playbooks: Legacy-Transformed
Birthday-
Bio: Child of Kyle Redni and Hotdog Demona, Kayle lived in Spring Hill with Alice and the rest of their family. After gaining strange powers relating to their dad and grandmother’s connection to Hastur, Kayl became The Yellow Defender. On the evening of the 13th, Kayle’s world was torn apart and they warped into Flaxen, the Living Sign. Flaxen was once Kayle, but after Speed Demon killed Kyle, Melinda kidnapped her grandchild and turned them into a monster devoted to Hastur. On the 14th of July, the pieces came into place for Flaxen as Alice devised a plan to crash into Spriggan and go back in time. The team struck and was able to defeat Speed Demon, with three of them going into the past to stop this future from coming to pass. Flaxen stayed behind with the wounded Dusty Starr, Flaxen took their revenge, destroying the last fragment of Kayle along with the vile Speed Demon. The world ended in the embrace of Hastur, but Flaxen is something that stretches beyond just one dimension.
First Seen In Cornfield Cryptids/Chaos
Name Carl Ignacio Sherman
Alias Extinguisher
Playbooks Soldier
Birthday July 13th,2022
Bio: After Wondercon, Carl came home to find that both his dad and uncle had died and his mother fell into shambles in its aftermath. He took time off of school to help her and eventually joined CAPE as a cadet to help out with expenses and make sure the story that took his two father figures away from him don’t repeat themselves. Carl was assigned to spy on the residents of the Kinder Center and is finding himself torn between his loyalty to CAPE and to his developing friendship with the other heroes.
First Seen In: Phantom in Flames
Alias: Smiles Per Hour
Playbooks: Janus-Doomed
Birthday: March 10th 2024
Bio: one of the rare people to have powers before Wondercon, Dusty has had super speed and enhanced senses since he was five. After the convention, at the age of 11, he turned ok on his hero name to help people while taking care of his now disabled father. After the events of the first Kinder Center Heroes arc, Dusty was tricked into making a deal with the Man with the Red Right Hand and now he needs to find a way to outrun his fate.
First Seen In: Kinder Center Heroes 1: Cleaning up Mybern
Name Heather O’Neill
Alias: White Rabbit
Playbooks: Nomad
Birthday: March 15th, 2020
Bio: Heather was a lonely and angry child growing up in the O’Neill household, her only friend being her pet bunny rabbit Alice. After Wondercon, Heather came home to find her friend was now sapient and her parents still sucked. She ran away from home with Alice and her powers awakened, schlorping her away through dimensions after the two of them founded the Kinder Center. Heather was briefly able to return home with Alice and try at a normal life, but was pulled back into the Multiverse without her companion. Eventually she was pseudo adopted by The eldritch horrors she called The Mad Hatter and The Carpenter, and The Carpenter made Heather her Stabilizer that would let her return and stay home and use her control over time and ability to slip through points in space relatively safely. She returned to the Kinder Center and has started to try and pick up her life again, applying for colleges to start learning quantum physics to understand her abilities better. Heather now finds herself trying to keep her friends and the center safe as the world keeps changing around her.
First seen in: Wondercon Survival Guide: The Con Crud
Name: Cora Curie
Alias Warp
Playbooks Nova
Birthday: February 31st, 2025
Bio: A powerful reality warper, when Cora was able to warp herself older when she was just a baby and has been able to wield her powers since then. When she was a child, she got angry with a school mate and in a fit ended up turning them inside out. The Untethered, a prominent hero in her dimension, took notice of Cora and took her under his wing. He helped Cora hone her skills before eventually bringing her unknowingly to a new dimension so she wouldn’t interfere with his plans, and it’s here that she first came to the Kinder Center. She made several friends and in the year between the first Kinder Center Heroes and Reunion, she got a very sleepy girlfriend who owns a diner. She has learned that the Untethered has sealed away her home dimension from her and she’ll have to bust through that seal if she ever wants to see her parents again.
First seen in Kinder Center Heroes 1: Cleaning up Mybern.
Name Kyle Redni
Alias Spite
Playbooks Delinquent
Birthday March 3rd, 2021
Bio: Son of Mark and Melinda Redni and certified problem child, he and Dusty are childhood friends. After Wondercon, Kyle came home to find his father strung out and his mother having run off to join a cult. Kyle left home and eventually found himself at the Kinder Center as his powers developed. In the middle of the gang dealing with Roger Clean, Kyle was pulled away from Mybern by Mark getting a new job in Dankrip city and dragging his child there. Over the course of the next year, Kyle became the Hero of Dankrip, eventually defeating his mother who had taken on the name of “The Pallid Dancer”. He has come back to the Kinder Center but has made his plans to leave clear, having found a home in Dankrip. Though the future for Kyle is uncertain, he is the first ‘graduate’ of the Kinder Center.
First seen in Kinder Center Heroes 1: Cleaning up Mybern
Name: Alice Starr
Alias: Copycat-Noire/Claire Skyes
Playbooks: Protege-Scion-Bull
Birthday: February 17th 2051
Bio: Adopted by Dusty and Radford Starr, Alice was a quiet child before her powers awakened and she became a complete gremlin. She grew up in a loving family in Spring Hill but that was ripped away from her on July 13th, 2069. She woke up in a distorted reality where Dusty had been taken over by a mysterious force. She made her way to the past to try and undo this bad future and make a new world that is better for not just her family, but for everyone. She has found new family in the past in the form of Sarah and Charlie Ross-Elfbane, her two granddads, and the kids of the Kinder Center. Alice is adjusting to life in the past, but the shadow of Dusty’s doom and her own impending disappearance lurk on the horizon’s edge.
First seen in Cornfield Cryptids
Name Thomas Midgely
Alias Surveyor-Suvivor-Savior
Playbooks Outsider
Birthday April 20th 2051
Bio: An alien from a distant planet, Thomas came to earth to survey it and make records of what he sees before it’s inevitable destruction. He was adopted by the DAGR agent, Susan Midgely, and lived a stable life in Spring Hill until the evening of July 13th, 2069. He woke up in a containment cell in a world where he never met his mom on July 14th, breaking out of the CLOAK facility he found himself in. He met up with Alice again and went back in time with her and Alpha to try and fix the future. Despite his best efforts to help conservation in the past, Thomas’ financial meddling put a firefly sanctuary he helped at in peril and he faked his death to get attention off of it (it didn’t). Thomas is looking for things that matter in this world without the connections or friends he once had.
First seen in: Cornfield Cryptids
Name Cheats/Alpha Ronalds
Alias None-Cursed Mirror- Cheap Shot
Playbooks Delinquent-Janus-Harbinger
Birthday September 30th, 2050
Bio Born to the horrible Reagan and Clinton Ronalds, Cheats life was rough and he was ridicules and emotionally abused by them frequently enough that he developed the ability to control emotions. He lived in Spring Hill with Reagan Ronalds until July 13th 2069 when reality was rewritten and Cheats was replaced with Alpha in a world where Speed Demon had killed his parents. Alpha lived a comfortable life with his aunt and uncle, Marceline and Oaklyn Cruz, filling up his schedule with enough obligations to distract himself from his personal problems. On July 14th his world was turned upside down as his friend Alice Starr aka Lynx was replaced with the Alice from the previous timeline who told him the truth of his parents’ death. Alpha broke into Spriggan with Alice, Thomas, and Flaxen to travel back in time and found himself in a haze at the bottom of The Grand Canyon. He has made it to Mybern but still doesn’t quite feel like he belongs anywhere, and his fate is in the air as he ran away from the Center at the end of Blackheart.
First seen in Cornfield Cryptids/Chaos
Name Kayle Redni/Flaxen
Alias The Yellow Defender-The Living Sign
Playbooks: Legacy-Transformed
Birthday-
Bio: Child of Kyle Redni and Hotdog Demona, Kayle lived in Spring Hill with Alice and the rest of their family. After gaining strange powers relating to their dad and grandmother’s connection to Hastur, Kayl became The Yellow Defender. On the evening of the 13th, Kayle’s world was torn apart and they warped into Flaxen, the Living Sign. Flaxen was once Kayle, but after Speed Demon killed Kyle, Melinda kidnapped her grandchild and turned them into a monster devoted to Hastur. On the 14th of July, the pieces came into place for Flaxen as Alice devised a plan to crash into Spriggan and go back in time. The team struck and was able to defeat Speed Demon, with three of them going into the past to stop this future from coming to pass. Flaxen stayed behind with the wounded Dusty Starr, Flaxen took their revenge, destroying the last fragment of Kayle along with the vile Speed Demon. The world ended in the embrace of Hastur, but Flaxen is something that stretches beyond just one dimension.
First Seen In Cornfield Cryptids/Chaos
Name Carl Ignacio Sherman
Alias Extinguisher
Playbooks Soldier
Birthday July 13th,2022
Bio: After Wondercon, Carl came home to find that both his dad and uncle had died and his mother fell into shambles in its aftermath. He took time off of school to help her and eventually joined CAPE as a cadet to help out with expenses and make sure the story that took his two father figures away from him don’t repeat themselves. Carl was assigned to spy on the residents of the Kinder Center and is finding himself torn between his loyalty to CAPE and to his developing friendship with the other heroes.
First Seen In: Phantom in Flames