Janelle Carr

**Janelle Carr** is a character introduced in Season 2 of *Raising Dion*. She is played by Aubriana Davis.

## Biography

Janelle comes from Chicago.

At a young age, Janelle already expressed interest in science. Because of this, she was very close to her maternal grandfather, who was a navy engineer and high school chemistry teacher. He even bought her a science kit for her fourth birthday. When Janelle was six, her mother allowed her grandfather to take her to a research facility in Iceland to see the Northern Light. It was there that Janelle was exposed to the Aurora Event and eventually developped superpowers; telekinesis, and the ability to blow stuff up.

Due to her limited control over this power, she caused several accidents, including an explosion at her high school lab. This got her detained by the police for 24 hours. Thus, when Biona opened up a facility to help powered people, her mom signer her up.

When first seen, Janelle is staying at Biona, but still has great difficulty controling her powers, resulting in several explosions. This especially happens when Fernando Diaz, a boy whom she has a crush on, is nearby. After another such explosion Fernando's father, Alonso Diaz, almost has her locked up by Biona agents, but Nicole Warren and Tevin Wakefield interfere and offer to help Janelle instead. They make more progress than Alonso did, and the accidents stop.

After Nicole is infected by the spores from the Sinkhole, and Pat Rollins is unable to make a cure since he can't find a way to isolate the P-DNA strand that gives powered people their abilities, Janelles shows off her science skills by using them in combination with her telekinesis to succesfully isolate the DNA, putting Pat's research back on track. Nicole also asks Janelle if she will take over her work as representative of the powered people, feeling they should be represented by one of their own. Janelle agrees, and even plans to become a trainer at Biona, feeling that powered kids like Dion will feel more comfortable around someone closer to their age.

When Simone learns about the Crooked Man, she decides to pull Janelle out of Biona and head back to Chicago. Janelle is furious at her mom for basically abandoning Nicole and Dion in their hour of need, and for taking her from the one place where she felt people understood her. The heated argument triggers another one of Janelle's powers, and she turns into pure energy. In this form, she travels back to McKoy Park Elementary, where she returns to her physical body and joins the fight against Brayden and his army. After Brayden is defeated and the plant monsters returned to normal, Simone arrives at the school and reconciles with Janelle.

## Personality

When first seen, Janelle is an insecure teen who is afraid of her powers and has no control over them. After Nicole and Tevin take over her training, Nicole slowly helps Janelle come out of her shell. She even musters up the courage to talk to Fernando, and stand up to Simone when she tries to take her back to Chicago.

## Powers and abilities

* **Telekinesis**: Janelle can levitate objects and liquids using her mind.
* **Combustion Manipulation**: Janelle can mentally cause objects to spontaniously explode and turn to dust. With more control over this power, she can also use this ability to break things down to their elemental blocks. This is how she was able to isolate the P-DNA strands while Pat could not.
	+ **Energy Transformation**: Janelle can turn her entire body into an energy form, that allows her to travel anywhere at great speed.

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## Trivia

* Her backstory contains a continuity error. According to "ISSUE 205: You vs. Me" she was six years old during the Aurora Event, and is almost 16 in Season 2. That would place the Aurora Event at 9 to 10 years before the start of Season 2. However, in Season 2, Dion is already 10 years old, and since his powers came from him inheriting Mark Warren's mutated DNA, he was evidently conceived after the Aurora Event. This puts the Aurora Event closer to 11 years before season 2. Either Janelle should have been 5 at the time, or should be close to 17 in season 2.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 ISSUE 204: With Friends Like These