Meet the Characters

When not facing off against adversaries, Epilectra reverts to her human persona Eden Rivers. New Yorker, Eden, is a 29-year-old 5th grade social studies teacher in a public school. She was born and raised in Philadelphia but calls the Upper West Side of Manhattan home. Eden develops epilepsy after being struck by lightning at a family Thanksgiving dinner. She learns her new disability comes with a remarkable super-ability when her principal calls her into his office for a meeting. He suffers a heart attack. She attempts to rouse him, tiny lightning bolts spring from her fingertips into his chest acting like a defibrillator. Eden realizes she can transform the errant electrical activity in her brain that causes her seizures into lighting and shoot it through her fingertips into the world, and Epilectra is born. Soon, she teams up with her younger brother, Logan, and their wealthy Latina friend, Angel, to establish Team SEEZ – an organization for superheroes with disabilities capable for turning them into superpowers. Epilectra is SEEZ’s first superhero and its leader.

Why is she perfectly dry when River Rager just had New York under 30 feet of water? That’s what Epilectra wants to know when she first meets Jane walking down Broadway (and every other New Yorker is still on their rooftop). It turns out that Jane – otherwise known as Insulator – has type 1 diabetes and the insulin she takes works with her body chemistry to insulate her from outside dangers such as fire, weapons, disease, and … water. Jane’s new in town, without family or friends, and Epilectra quickly takes Insulator under her wing. She escorts Insulator to the drone around the corner, and the two fly the short distance to SEEZ headquarters where Insulator is voted in as the Team’s newest superhero.

1 in 54. That’s how many people have Autism, and I’m one of them. What does that mean? I like order. I like routine. I like to have a plan. I hate the opposite of all those things – chaos, surprises, disorder. And yes, I want friendships and love, but I’m probably not the best at communicating my feelings of affection. I’m very good at communicating facts and figures, but less tangible concepts make me feel awkward. I suppose it doesn’t help that physical contact makes me uncomfortable (unless I initiate it), and I avoid eye contact. This is for two reasons: 1. When someone looks into my eyes, I feel like they’re looking into my soul and I don’t like that, and 2. Eye contact stimulates my superpower; my neuroplasticity. With eye contact, I can rearrange the neurons in the other being’s brain and make them do what I suggest. I really don’t want that kind of power. I prefer to put on my headphones, find an unoccupied bench near the playground in Central Park, and journal in solitude.

Chen Ping’s nickname has always been C.P. So, when he got his cerebral palsy diagnosis at the age of 8, it was a little ironic. Over the years he took his fair share of teasing along the lines of, “C.P. has CP.” His grandfather passed down an antique wooden cane with a blue jewel embedded in it for him to use, but it turned out that his CP wasn’t too bad, and he rarely needed the cane. He’s always been more of an animal person than a people person. When he got old enough, he volunteered at the animal shelter where he grew up in Queens. Today C.P. lives in Brooklyn and works for Animal Rescue & Relocate, a job he loves. His mother still lives in the tiny apartment he grew up in, and she drives him crazy by constantly speaking to him in Chinese. His grandfather has passed away and even though he doesn’t use the one-of-a-kind cane to walk, he always has it with him. He discovered it gives him an ability much more powerful than stability. When C.P. aims the cane’s tip at another being and presses the blue jewel, the canes emits muscle freezing delta waves which temporarily incapacitates the target. He's found it very handy when dealing with less than cooperative animals at work.

Patricia is a high school sophomore and more than anything, she just wants to fit in. But her endometriosis is making that a challenge. Not only does is cause her terrible cramping and heavy bleeding during “that time of the month,” she discovered last year that she can send all that excess blood in her system to her muscles to make them super strong. And to make matters worse, when she does that her skins turns magenta. She did an experiment last month when her parents were out for the evening. She went down to the parking garage of their Upper West Side apartment building, made sure no one else was around, and successfully lifted her mom’s SUV over her head. At least she’s able to control this crazy power of hers. Can you imagine walking into high school all hot pink and looking like the Hulk?!