Have you ever asked yourself, "What's America like in the Nickstaverse?"
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I've completed the main chunk of a document all about America in the Nickstaverse. It's got details on all 60 states, superhero and supervillain teams, and even a magic system! I'm planning to add section on species, sports, and random civilians, too, so watch the document.
And where is that document? Right here.
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The Colorado State Super Academy is a school in the Super Education System with 18 students. COSA is located in Bold City, Colorado, a city formerly known as Boulder that was renamed following an important battle of the Jhinu War.
Here are the eighteen students attending COSA:
Brainwave (Ellen Benson): A prank-loving telepath who has surprisingly good grades considering she doesn’t pay much attention
Brawn Boy (Bobby Richards): A super strong and invulnerable jock who misses being able to compete in high school sports like the normies
Coldsnap (Melissa Porter): A lovelorn ice controller who misses her middle school sweetheart from Colorado Springs every day
Dinosoar (Julie Whitehouse): A pterodactyl-like mutant whose formed a fast friendship with Draft Punk, who gives her updrafts to fly longer
Diva (Diana Morrison): A sassy sound controller who loves the 70s because of the fashion, the music, and the Civil Rights Act being a thing
Draft Punk (Pedro Juarez): An air controller who formed a fast friendship with Dinosoar and helps her fly longer by giving her updrafts
Emotive (Angela Riley): An emotion controller who keeps getting in trouble for cheering up her fellow students with her powers
Flicker (Sophia Jefferson): A studious teleporter who sees herself as more of a student and is often too busy doing homework to fight crime
Impact (Robert Ashford): COSA’s de facto leader who can absorb energy to strengthen himself, and worries his evil dad will escape Tartarus
IQ (Ignacio Quesada): A precognitive with little-to-no human empathy as his powers make him reduce everything to an equation he can solve
Nighttime (Lisa Remington): A shy, withdrawn, socially awkward sleep inducer, and the slightly younger twin sister of Sleeper
Ousién (Enoki Longtongue): A Quagi kid who loves getting to learn about Earth culture, as well as jumping really high and using her prehensile tongue
Outcast (Denephew Sanford): A repeller from a bad neighborhood who hopes that he can become a famous hero to help out his neighborhood
Puddle Girl (Amy Chen): A Chinese immigrant girl who can turn into liquid, but is only starting to learn how to move as a liquid
Sleeper (Andrew Remington): Nighttime’s slightly older twin brother who hopes to get his sister to be more outgoing, but might go too far at times
Stretch (James Meyer): An elastic good-natured slacker who could definitely use some discipline, as he's often seen being funny rather than actually working
Thunderboy (Ted Johnson): A brash young electricity controller who uses his recklessness to hide his survivor’s guilt for letting a villain kill his girlfriend
Timestream (Diego Rodriguez): A time controller who feels like his ability to control time itself makes him better than everyone else
The Washington State Super Academy is a school in the Super Education System with 24 students. WASA is located in Weaverton, Washington, a city built on the ruins of Tacoma after it was destroyed by Dr. Destruction's final push for world domination.
Here are the twenty-four students attending WASA:
Bast (Michelle Berry): A cat person who gained the ability to turn into an actual cat person after a villain team broke an enchanted Egyptian vase on her
Bluebird (Rita Allman): The daughter of WASA vice-principal Blue Jay, she's just here for her mom and is planning on just being a reserve
Cleidd (Arwen Moonlight): A light elf who moved to Weaverton from Newland and is armed with a sword and lack of knowledge of Earth culture
Clobber (Eddie Atkins): A super strong and nigh-invulnerable kid who caught WASA's attention after hospitalizing his abusive dad
Donald (Donald Jacobson): A socially awkward autistic savant who mostly helps out by building gadgets that would amaze Jimmy Neutron
Hypnotic Boy (Xavier Shields): The illegitimate son of a disgraced KenCo executive and his Pakistani housemaid who uses his mind control to shore up his ego
Jumper (Curtis Garcia): A teleporting prankster who can make heroes laugh, villains annoyed, and his teachers wonder if he's going to do his homework
Laser (Satya Roshanee): A young girl who has a metabolic disorder that causes her to occasionally shoot devastating lasers, hence the control rod
Littlefoot (Charlie Stevens): A sasquatch who was orphaned in a forest fire and adopted by two brothers who didn't read the fine print on the "Adopt-a-Squatch" site
Nighthawk (Nina Suarez): An energy controller who can create silver energy constructs, shoot laser blasts, and fly by creating silvery wings
Projecta (Laura Oxford): The disowned illusionist daughter of the controversial Rev. Gregory Oxford, leader of an anti-superhuman Protestant denomination
Quarter-Life (Gordon Curry): The son of the ex-supervillain Half-Life, who is using his father's powers for good
Safeguard (Ariana Vargas): A girl with a suit of Iron Man-esque power armor that she found while prowling around an old Jhinu War battleground
Shadow (Suki Nakamura): A Japanese immigrant who can turn into a shadow thanks to the combination of a superhuman ancestor and a curse placed upon him
Shocker (Manny Park): A half-Korean, half-Kadathari kid who can shoot lightning to fry supervillains and charge his friends' phones
Spinnerette (Gwen Peterson): A superhero geek who irradiated a spider and let it bite her to get spider powers, and ending up becoming a giant humanoid spider
Starlight (Latrell Compton): An energy controller who can create gold energy constructs, shoot laser blasts, and fly by creating a golden aura
Stormcloud (Saqib Sadoon): A Mesopotamian-born weather controller who moved to America to be with his extended family and to get a better super education
Tarrare (Norm Hale): A fat kid who can eat literally anything be it metal, wood, or even plastic
Thorn (Nadia Khalil): A plant controller who loves tending to the community garden in her spare time
Toxin (Carrie Hart): A girl with a toxic touch that she only recently gained control over, thanks to an experimental toxin being partially neutralized by true love's kiss
Triton (Tolumanatu Pukete): The second-in-line to the throne of Puget Sound after his superhero big sister, whom he is following in the footsteps of
White Witch (Leticia Jones): A magical prodigy who would very much like to use her powers for good, no matter what her weird Christian uncle thinks
Wraith (Lucas Stone): A kid who was turned into a cyborg by his evil dad to be his henchman, only for him to be rescued by the FBS and start going to WASA
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
The most recent expansion of the FBS recruited two more heroes, rounding out the 32-hero lineup we know.
The new heroes were:
Spectrum (Jordyn Allen) - Earth's assigned member of the Spectrum Guild per the Orion Alliance
Steel Magnolia (John Dixon) - A reformed neo-Confederate who's actually in his second superhero incarnation
Pictured left to right: Spectrum, Steel Magnolia
Following The Ten Plagues Incident, an attack on Gothamopolis, Indiana by the Crowns of Hell, the FBS decided to recruit another six heroes. They ended up going with the members of The Amazings, a team for superheroes in need of a second chance at heroism due to Patriot sorting the options alphabetically.
The new members were:
Bandage (Nefertiti) - A mummy from Memphis, Tennessee who uses her enchanted linens to tie up criminals
Fluoridated Man (Frederick Alexander) - A former conspiracy theorist who was fluoridated by an evil scientist, giving him Teflon skin, hydrofluoric acid sweat, and fluorine breath
Folder (Chitose Furukawa) - An origamimancer with a near-endless supply of paper to animate
Halloween Man (Bert Timothy) - A Halloween store owner who used fear to scare criminals out of his neighborhood
Shatter (Leona Masters) - A scientist who wields a liquid nitrogen gun to stop criminals
Stormer (Rodney Ritter) - A charming Southern gentleman with weather control powers
Pictured left to right: Bandage, Fluoridated Man, Folder, Halloween Man, Shatter, Stormer
The FBS grew over time, with four new heroes joining the team in a single year.
The new heroes were:
Demoness (Kendra Johnson) - A former soldier who turns into a demon-looking creature whenever she has a PTSD attack
Grandmaster (Tucker Scheving) - A former FBS agent who took down the villain Checkmate and now uses his gadgets for good
Miss Methane (Cassandra Crawford) - A woman who can use the farts a specific berry gives her to make criminals pass out
Multiplier (Mark Song) - A streamer with the ability to duplicate anything, including people
Pictured left to right: Demoness, Grandmaster, Miss Methane, Multiplier
When the FBS recruited yet another male hero in the form of Vwurmp, the media decried the overwhelming maleness of the team. To rectify this, the FBS hired five female heroes as part of the Gender Parity Initiative.
The heroes added were:
Bird of Paradise (Sabrina Castilho) - A Brazilian-American beauty who can turn into a macaw
Bombshell (TN-20) - A gynoid built to replace a scientist's dead fiancé, and eventually with miniature bomb factories for hair
Fallout (Bonnie Barnes) - A scientist who was turned into a sentient mass of radioactive ash by an experiment
Fauna (Amelie Thibodeaux) - A Haitian immigrant who can turn into and control animals
Medusa (Medusa) - A gorgon with a love of history and petrification blasts
Vwurmp (Joel McGill) - A guy from Iowa who can create portals to anywhere on Earth (and possibly beyond it)
Pictured left to right: Bird of Paradise, Bombshell, Fallout, Fauna, Medusa, Vwurmp
Following the death of original member Crimson Cloak, the FBS recruited two new heroes with arcane knowhow to join their side.
They were:
Crusader (Steve Bird) - An archaeologist who found a divinely blessed sword that summons armor, lightning bolts, and fissures
Grail (Maria Bird) - Crusader's wife, who can make force fields and heal others
Pictured left to right: Crusader, Grail
The Federal Bureau of Superheroics is America’s national superhero team. It was founded in 2013 with 15 heroes who fought at The Battle of Tacoma. As of today, 12 of the original members are still with the team, as are 18 other heroes who have joined the team over the years.
The 12 original members who are still here are as follows:
Burning Man (Bruce Tent) - A former soldier who was turned into a flaming skeleton by experimental chemical weapons
Captain Cactus (Tom Crow Foot) - A Navajo man who drank radioactive cactus juice so he could get superpowers
Cobalt (Veronica Steele) - A power armor user who has sworn to bring her father’s killer to justice
Dr. Night (David Ross) - A former DA who turned to superheroics to bring more criminals to justice
Eclipse (Renee Watson) - An amateur astronomer who can control light and darkness, as well as fly
Ketuwong (Ro Sul) - A Hzeel prisoner-of-war who fights with her laser eyes, super strength, flight, intangibility, and material mimicry
Patriot (G. I. Joe Parker) - An armed-to-the-teeth America-lover known for going into fights guns a-blazing
Queen Bee (Heather Schmidt) - A model who turns into a humanoid bee whenever she's stung by a bee
SigmaX (Project Sigma X) - A robot who didn't want to be evil, and reported his creator to the FBS
Super Duper Man (Harley Cahill) - A former wrestler for the Circuit Maximus who stepped up to stop a criminal in his hometown
T-Wreck (Terrance Kingsley) - An MIT researcher who was injected with T-Rex DNA, but luckily kept his intelligence and proportionate arm length
Timelapse (Tim Altman) - A time controller who mostly controls time in relation to aging
Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Burning Man, Captain Cactcus, Cobalt, Dr. Night, Eclipse, Ketuwong, Patriot, Queen Bee, SigmaX, Super Duper Man, T-Wreck, Timelapse
