Cluster 8888

Cluster 8888

## Membership

### Current Members

Will Gorski, Riley Blue, Capheus Onyango, Bak Sun-hee, Lito Rodriguez, Kala Dandekar, Wolfgang Bogdanow, Nomi Marks

### Allies

Angelica Turing, Jonas Maliki, Amanita Caplan, Bug

## Origins

### Date of Formation

**Birthdate:** August 8th, 1988**Rebirth:** June 19th, 2015

## History

The Cluster 8888 are a cluster of eight sensates that were born on the same month and day. They are the youngest known cluster in the world and among the largest known to exist, consisting of 8 members.

## Members

### Will Gorski

* Location: Gotham City, New Jersey
* Occupation: Police Officer
* Inheritance: Psychometry
* Bio: Before Will's ability to psychically read objects and persons with a touch fully manifested at his sensate rebirth, he would periodically get intense headaches and visions of things happening to other people. As a child, this would lead him to become involved in the disappearance of a young girl. He was convinced the girl was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. He ended up investigating the case fully in an attempt to prove that his visions were real. He had a close call with the man who murdered the girl and ended up in therapy. Ultimately, this would lead him to become a cop as an adult.

### Riley Blue

* Birthname: Riley Gunnarsdóttir
* Location: London, England
* Birthplace: Bjorland
* Occupation: DJ
* Inheritance: Empathy
* Bio: Before her sensate awakening, Riley's dormant powers would lead her to believe she was hexed. Blaming herself on the death of her mother, as well as feeling guilty for surviving an accident that killed her husband and daughter, Riley fled to London. In London, Riley became part of the underground music scene and got heavily involved with drugs as a means to self-medicate her mind's strange sensations.

### Capheus Onyango

* Location: Zambesi
* Occupation: Bus Driver
* Inheritance: Enhanced Spatial Understanding
* Bio: Obsessed with 1980s and 1990s action movies (with one star in particular), Capheus used his knack for mechanics and driving to start a business as a for-hire bus driver. At the time of his sensate rebirth, Capheus' business is struggling as he puts more of his earnings toward buying medication for his sick mother. This is made all the more difficult by the machinations of rivaling crimelords.

### Bak Sun-hee

* Location: Rhelasia
* Occupation: Fugitive (Formerly Kickboxer)
* Inheritance: Combat Intuition
* Bio: Sun took the fall for her brother's crimes to preserve her father's company and reputation. At the time of her sensate rebirth, Sun has left the world of professional martial arts and entered prison. Having gained a newfound sense of self, after having realized that she would never truly get her father's respect, Sun decides to break out of prison and live on the lam.

### Kala Dandekar

* Location: India
* Occupation: Biochemist
* Inheritance: Biokinesis
* Bio: Kala is the religiously devout daughter of a chef and restaurateur. In her personal life, Kala has always prided herself balancing her loves of science and her faith. Kala's own genius and her father's adherence to her success allowed her to excel to land a prestigious job at a pharmaceutical development firm. It was there that she caught the eye of the firm's son. At the time of her sensate rebirth, Kala is preparing for her upcoming wedding.

### Wolfgang Bogdanow

* Location: Vlatava
* Occupation: Locksmith (and thief)
* Inheritance: Enhanced Senses
* Bio: Wolfgang had a troubled childhood, living under an abusive father. As an adult, he and his best friend run a locksmith company and moonlight as burglars. The two have familial ties to organized crime that begin to sour when Wolfgang's sensate rebirth happens.

### Nomi Marks

* Location: Star City, Oregon
* Occupation: Political Blogger (former hacker)
* Inheritance: Technopathy
* Bio: Born Michael Marks, Nomi comes from an uptight background that ran contrary to her personal truth. After serving a stint in juvenile detention for computer crimes, Nomi distanced herself from her family and began to live as a proud lesbian and transgender woman. Though in a happy relationship with her girlfriend, Nomi is now hospitalized after the confusion from her sensate rebirth resulted in an accident that put her in the hospital.

### Lito Rodriguez

* Location: Corto Maltese
* Occupation: Actor
* Inheritance: Mesmerism
* Bio: Lito is a closeted gay actor known for high-octane action movies and cheesy heterosexual romantic films. He is a big star in the Spanish-speaking film industry, which often makes his personal life difficult as he and his boyfriend must keep their relationship a secret. After his sensate rebirth causes him to have a bad day on the set, Lito drinks too much and requires a lift home from his female co-star who then discovers Lito's live-in boyfriend. Rather than go public with this knowledge, the actress agrees to keep this secret in exchange for posing as Lito's girlfriend as a way to keep her controlling ex at bay.

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* August 8 Cluster is a team from the Netflix series *Sense8*.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Cluster 8888
* Team Gallery: Cluster 8888
* Membership of Cluster 8888

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