The Students of INSA

Here's where the Nickstaverse all started: the Indiana State Super Academy. I started out with just 18 students, but I eventually expanded the student body to 30, and also made it be one of sixty schools in America's Super Education System. Indiana's is based in Gothamopolis, a city built on the ruins of Gary that functions as the Fort Worth to Chicago's Dallas.

Here are the thirty students attending INSA:

Amaranth Archer (Aaron Archer): A bow-and-arrow user who's cleaning up the streets for his big sister Argent Archer while she's off at college

Atlan (Atlan Misikan): The heir apparent to the throne of Lake Michigan, childhood friend of Pyro and Light Bulb, and an expert in underwater combat

Blackout (Marilyn Shelby): The daughter of the retired supervillain Edgelord Deathslayer, she can create dark energy constructs and portals

Blockhead (Rockwell): A dimwitted but well-meaning earth golem from Gothamopolis's Golemia neighborhood who is made of stone, obviously

Chlora (Dinah Rosenberg): A orphaned plant who was adopted by a nice Jewish couple and has elastic vine-like limbs and pollen and pheromone shots

Chronokid (Martin Pali): A kid who uses the time-controlling harness his dad invented to be an awesome athlete, thrill-seeker, and superhero

Deadweight (Sanjay Kenchen): The son of the two Indian inventors behind several useless knickknacks, he invented a gravity belt that lets him control gravity

Deep Freeze (Malcolm McMurdo): The son of the ice-controlling superhero Icebox, he inherited his dad's powers and love of freezing villains

Enferma (Serena Ramirez): A Mexican immigrant whose life was complicated by her autism and her gaining disease manipulation powers

Format (Jack Hanssen): A shapeshifter whose bullying days ended with Pyro, Light Bulb, and Atlan taking him down back before they all went to INSA

Hairspray (Cassandra Agarra): A Afro-Chicano girl who found out she was actually Fassai-Chicano, and thus had prehensile hair to tie up villains with

Human Balloon (Rebecca Charleston): An aspiring school reporter who gained the ability to inflate her body like a balloon thanks to a chemical drenching

Kid Strychnine (Brian Espada): The son of the poison-controlling hero Poisoner and the femme fatale anithero Scorpion who turned out to be a major class clown

Light Bulb (Kiara Bright): The daughter of the light-controlling heroine Glow, she's Atlan's friend, Pyro's girlfriend, and an all-around nice girl

Magix (Nicole Pearson): A magical prodigy who, in her spare time, enjoys styling her friends' hair, growing ice cream cones, and messing with villains

Magnus (Henry Weber): A superhero whose power lineage had defied the odds by lasting from the Civil Rights era to today, baffling geneticists

Mimic (Sandra Vuvusol): A half-Cherokee, half-Jhinta girl whose family moved from Tahlequah to Gothamopolis to get the best super education

Morningstar (Lucifer): A light golem whose parents' choice to give him a traditional light golem name led to a turn to crime, and eventually, redemption

Nitro (Alan Berryman): The son of the speedster Nanosecond, he can run fast enough to confuse any villain, but not phase through walls, that'd be ridiculous

Phantom Load (Electra): A lightning golem who, like, just wants to text her followers about how on fleek her electricity-controlling superheroine game is

Princess Precious (Katrina Zorin): A girl who can turn into metal and use her father's wealth responsibly to fund her supercareer

Pyro (Isaiah Goratski): The son of the fire-controlling superhero Fireball, he's Light Bulb's boyfriend, Atlan's best friend, and is the school's de facto leader

Rainboy (Benjamin Harvey): The son of INSA counselor Rainbro, he can shoot rainbows to light up those villains with the full visible spectrum

Slickster (Stephanie McQueen): A human-blob hybrid whose liquid body greatly aids her in fighting villains and pranking fellow students with Kid Strychnine

Sonar (Bruce King): The son of the late sound-controlling heroine Scream who turned around his dad's anti-super views through defeating the villain that killed his mom

Telp (Harold Rhodes): A half-Varanyi kid who has telekinesis and telepathy, which he uses to be a big nerd who gets stuffed into lockers and does math

Vampira (Anna Huang): A half-Chinese, half-vampire girl who has her mother's chiropteran and gaseous forms and her father's sun resistance

Vapora (Rei): A gaswinder who, like all gaswinders, can turn into thick black smoke to obscure the battlefield and suffocate villains without breaking a sweat

Zapotron (Zapper #ZP40): A robot who's super smart, super strong, and has telescopic limbs to better rope in his friends for congratulatory hugs

Zomboy (Etienne Chirac): A zombie hero who had to flee his home in Haiti due to hurricanes and ended up taking his tankiness to Gothamopolis