Blackwing

Not much is known about Blackwing, even by her own teammates, she is introverted and quiet. Often preferring to simply observe and act in complete silence. When she does speak, her quiet, melodic voice is coated with an Irish accent that has grown less thick over her years in the US. Blackwing has the power to store objects in a pocket dimension she can access at will through her body, which she mostly uses to procure her distinctive black mechanical glider wings.

## History

Blackwing has never revealed her real name, even to her teammates. Nor has she shared how it was that the principal found her and recruited her to Atlas Academy.

### Early Life

**Secret Origins of Blackwing**

Blackwing's mother was a real piece of work. It didn't take much out of Blackwing's mouth to end up on the receiving end of verbal and occasionally physical abuse. Her birth father was almost never around and the string of men her mother invited into their home were either approving of her mother's cruelty or too weak-willed to interfere. So she lived under her mother's tight-fisted control of her every moments, she had no choice over the way she looked, the way she spent her time or even her friends at school. And she wasn't exactly spoiled for choice.
When she turned 13, Blackwing's power first manifested when she desperately needed to hide the phone she had bought herself with money she'd been given by her father for her birthday. The phone vanished for weeks before eventually it came back out through her hand. Still at 36% like it was when she'd made it disappear. She practised and improved until she could hide small items and reproduce them on command.

She wanted desperately to share her gift with someone. But she had noone.

Like many daughters she idealised her father, even if he had left her she understood that it was really the weight of her mother. Her father was the very ideal of freedom- a drifter who never stayed in one place too long- it all seemed so idyllic to her. So she ran away, stored all that she needed and left the prison she had been forced to call home.

She found her father and explained through tears that she wanted to live with him. Pleaded with him while he picked up the phone. Nothing seemed to sway him until she showed him her power- wanting him to acknowledge she was special in the hopes he'd change his mind. And it did but not for the innocent reasons she had expected. Suddenly, there was space in her father's life for a daughter who could make anything she touched disappear without a trace. Her father was, it turned out, a thief and a con man.

For the next year Blackwing helped her father with more and more elaborate jobs until they received a tip about a rich american's hotel room and a precious cargo he'd be transporting. It was here she arrived face to face with another would-be thief, their scuffle brought the attention of the owner back to his room. The thieves quickly made their escape onto the rooftops, pursued by the other thief and the relentless man who she had tried to steal from. He took out the other thief and then turned his attention to her, but she sensed his hesitation when he finally cornered her. She took advantage of the moment to headbutt him but it barely seemed to phase the man. The stranger asked for his suitcase back in a friendly enough tone, but with a hard edge to it. Her father urged her to throw the suitcase to him but she returned it to the stranger instead. The stranger then did something strange, he warned them the police had checkpoints set up ready for them and invited them back to his room for coffee.

Seeing the futility of the situation Blackwing's father accepted, and the father and daughter joined the stranger for tea. Then he offered her a place at his school.

### Team Sage

Blackwing, being on the quieter side was always a calming influence on her teammate Adapt, as well as the hotheaded and brash Lodestone of Team Champion. Blackwing and Glamour, though seemingly very opposite personalities, have been best friends since their first year together at Atlas.

### Alpha Squad

Along with Glamour, Blackwing prefers to fight through subterfuge and misdirection and the pair often handle the missions that require a finer touch. Still she is a valuable member of the Alpha Squad for rescues thanks to her ability to store support equipment and she keeps a few aces in her sleeve for big fights.

## Powers, Abilities & Equipment

Blackwing has the metahuman ability to open portals through her body into a pocket dimension where she can store objects for retrieval later.

Her favoured piece of equipment is a pair of black mechanical wings- inspired by those of Osprey- that allow her to glide and grant limited flight.