St. James Institute

### Staff

Paul Jonah *(Director of Operations)*Brandon Alexis *(former Director of Operations)*

### Inhabitants

001 *(formerly)*004 *(formerly)*

008 *(formerly)*

021 *(formerly)*

041 *(formerly)*

067 *(formerly)*

### Lifespan

The Fellowship -- Present

> *"We seek to enhance the human condition. Create something beyond what evolution can achieve. That is our purpose. It has **always** been our purpose,"*
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> -- Dr. Alexis about the purpose of the Institute, 1987
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The **St. James Institute** is a secretive organisation funded by the US Department of Defence. It was most likely controlled by the CIA or NSA and was run by Dr. Brandon Alexis until 1987. In the mid 20th Century, the Institute ran psychic experiments on often unwilling subjects. In 1987, a child test subject dubbed Subject 67 made contact with an interdimensional organism, causing the Veil between dimensions to tear, opening a portal to the Dark Dimension and causing an explosion that gave a nearby group of kids superpowers. The monster that was released massacred the Institute, and they wildly tried to contain and cover up the incident. They were finally exposed by Catherine Baines and Brian Tomlinson, and the Institute was seemingly shut down.

After the Battle of Neverland, it was revealed that the Institute was still active and had covered up the events of 1989 under the guise of the US government.

## History

### 1955

The St. James Institute, named after the forest that held their facility, was established in 1955 to study a young child with supernatural powers of the mind. A lab located in the remote Ozarks of northern Arkansas, just outside of Dewberry, was chosen to house the Institute.

### 1989

#### August 8th

After the destruction of Neverland Mall following the battle, a clean-up crew arrived to inspect the damage. They were sent away by government agents, who were revealed by their badges to be agents of the St. James Institute, suggesting the organisation was still active.

## Purpose

The St. James Institute was initially created to study the immense supernatural powers of a young child, dubbed Subject 001. In order to fully discover the extent of the boy's powers, the Institute tortured the child to unlock his full potential, believing he could be the United State's ultimate weapon against foreign powers. A harsh life of mistreatment installed a hatred of all humanity in the boy and a desire to exert dominance over all lesser beings. When he made an attempt to escape the Institute, the scientists who had experimented on the boy burned down the area of the lab that they kept him in, killing the boy. His body was never recovered, and no trace was ever found apart from an ashey substance they called E-51b, later classified as the Unidentified Extradimensional Substance (UES).

Upon realizing the ability of UES to manipulate compounds and the physiology of living creatures, the Institute's new goal was to study its effects. The Institute exposed several other test subjects to the substance, giving them supernatural abilities; the DNA of one of these subjects, 004, was bonded with the substance and the DNA of elks to create a hybrid creature of all three. Through this, the Institute learned of another dimension inhabited by the conciousness of Subject 001 and tried to gain access to harness the dimension's unique energy.

Another subject, 008, who had already survived exposure to the substance in the Dark Dimension, was exposed to yet more of UES, giving her psychokinetic abilities that manifested as telepathay, telekinesis and other abilities. 008 was raped by a scientist and gave birth to a daughter, who possessed many of her mother's powers, only on a much greater scale. The child was raised by the Institute and designated 067, due to her birthday.

There were many other subjects that suffered at the hands of the Institute, mostly those who were born with their powers and had them enhanced with exposure to UES. Such subjects included 021, who possessed the power to create illusions in the minds of others, and 027, who could change his appearance to that of anyone he wished, among other biokinetic abilities.

## Members

* Dr. Brandon Alexis - Director of Operations *(1963-1987)*
* Paul Jonah - Director of Operations *(unknown - present)*

### Test Subjects

* 001 - first test subject, wide range of psionic powers
* 004 - hybrid of condensed shadow combined with elk and human DNA
* 008 - psychokinetic abilities, high tolerance to UES
* 009
* 021
* 027
* 041 - pregonitive abilities
* 067 - psychokinetic abilities
* Elizabeth - oneiromancy