Avi Park / Nova — kaleb.one

PLAYER CHARACTER — Do not over-document internal states or future development. This file is a GM reference for arc planning, not a character bible.

At a Glance

Field	Value
Hero Name	Nova
Civilian Name	Avi Park
Age	~18 at manifestation; current age per campaign timeline
Occupation	[Previously: competitive cheerleader. Current: TBD post-incident.]
A.E.G.I.S. File	AEGIS-NVA-012
Affiliation	Alliance — new team (Legacy of Halden City)
Mentor	Recluse / Riley Thomas
Biological Father	Dr. Javier Mendez / Quantum (departed before Avi was born; does not know Avi)
Status	Active — powers publicly witnessed. Identity partially exposed.

Powers

Emotionally-triggered telekinesis.

Force generation tied to emotional state, primarily fear, anger, and overwhelm. Current control level: moderate under calm conditions, volatile under stress. The manifestation history (the kitchen incident, the bathroom lights, the window) suggests the ability was present and building for weeks before the party.

The party incident was public, visible, and unambiguous. A shockwave blew out speakers, shattered phones, cracked windows, and split a wall. Multiple witnesses. Some of them were friends.

Origin

Documented in player fiction. Key beats:

Initial manifestation: Domestic argument at home. Cabinet doors, silverware drawer, stove pot — all moved without contact during an emotional peak. Avi attributed it to coincidence and suppressed it immediately. The suppression was rational and calculating: they had seen what happened to students whose abilities surfaced at school.
Escalation period: Small incidents — locker door, bathroom lights, bedroom window. Each dismissed. Nationals were close. Graduation was close. The plan was to leave on their own terms.
The party: Carter Williams. Flirtation that had been building for weeks. Alone in a room, Carter did not stop when asked. Twice. When Avi tried to leave, Carter shoved them onto the bed and pinned them.

The fear detonated it. Carter was thrown across the room by invisible force and hit a wall hard enough to take down a shelving unit. There was blood.

Liam (Carter’s friend, party host) witnessed it and reacted with hostility. Avi threw him into a doorframe. Ran downstairs. The crowd closed in. The shockwave at the door was the second detonation — larger, more destructive, fully visible to everyone present.

Aubrey (cheer captain, friend) handed Avi her jacket as they left. She didn’t touch Avi directly.

Avi walked into the night alone.

Carter Williams — Personal History

Carter Williams is now the Renegade Force host. He was paralyzed in the incident at the party — the exact nature of the injury (spinal, from the impact) is what led to Force bonding.

Avi does not know this. The connection between the person who assaulted them and the current Renegade Force host is not public information. Riley Thomas knows. Signal knows. This thread is live.

The weight of this: Avi’s trauma response created the injury that made Carter a Renegade Force host. That is not Avi’s fault. The story should handle it that way. But it is also a fact that will eventually surface.

Key Relationships

Person	Relationship
Riley Thomas / Recluse	Mentor. The training dynamic and relationship are the player’s to develop. Reference existing scenes: danger room training, the pink envelope / Darcy introduction.
Dr. Javier Mendez / Quantum	Biological father. Does not know Avi exists. Avi’s origin is separate from Quantum’s awareness of it.
Carter Williams	The assault. Now the Renegade Force host. The connection between these two facts has not surfaced to Avi.
Aubrey	Cheer captain. Gave Avi a jacket. Did not touch them directly. The friendship is complicated now. Active thread — see GM Arc Notes below.

GM Arc Notes

What the story should give them:

The Carter thread surfacing — not as a twist that implicates Avi, but as a complication that forces Avi to be in the room with someone who hurt them, now holding cosmic power. The story is not about guilt. It is about what you do when someone who wronged you becomes something that has to be dealt with.
The Quantum thread — Javier Mendez is on the team. He does not know. This does not need to surface immediately but it is a slow-burning fact.
The cost of suppression — Avi spent weeks deliberately not looking at what was happening. That instinct does not disappear when they join a team. It will show up again in a different form.

The Aubrey Thread (Arc 1 Beat 1.5 — between Beats 1 and 2): Aubrey reaches out to Avi by text, unprompted, days after the team’s public introduction. She kept it for a while before sending. The message is careful — not demanding, not asking Avi to process anything. Something close to: “I saw Carter last week. I don’t know what I’m telling you except I thought you should know.”

What Aubrey actually witnessed [GM only]: Carter appeared at a social event in the weeks after bonding — physically different in a way she can’t name, wrong without being obviously wrong. He was with someone she didn’t recognize, doing something that wasn’t social. He clocked her across the room, held eye contact too long, and left. The person with him is a Signal-adjacent figure — she can’t identify them, but she remembers the face.

Aubrey is an unwitting partial witness to Signal’s operation. If Avi investigates and Aubrey eventually describes the person Carter was with, that is a thread into Signal’s network from a fully civilian angle — one the team would not find any other way.

Avi drives everything after the text arrives. Respond, ignore, meet her in person. The player’s call.

Carter’s Public Emergence (Arc 1 — after Beat 3): A few sessions after Aubrey’s text, an incident surfaces publicly. Carter is not deployed yet — Signal isn’t ready — but something slips. Security camera footage, a phone video, something grainy and inconclusive: a figure stopping a car with their hands, walking away from something that should have been fatal. The footage circulates. The face is not clearly identifiable, but it’s Carter.

Avi’s telekinesis is emotionally triggered. Put a face Avi knows on something Avi is supposed to treat as a team problem and watch what that does. This is the player’s to navigate — don’t prompt it, just create the conditions.

What to avoid:

The Carter assault as backstory that only exists to be “resolved” — it is not a narrative problem to be fixed, it is a fact about who Avi is and what happened to them
Making the Quantum reveal a dramatic confrontation scene rather than something that earns its weight through slower relationship development
Prompting Avi toward the Aubrey thread — surface it and let the player decide whether to pull it

Open Questions

How much does Avi know about how the team was assembled, and who else on it has history with what happened that night?
- Avi is the only PC who knows exactly what happened the night their powers manifested and injured Carter. Team assembly details will be established in Session 0.
What happened with school after the incident — expulsion, quiet disappearance, something else?
- Avi quietly disappeared and was placed in the A.E.G.I.S. MANIFEST program. MANIFEST had difficulty helping Avi control their powers. Riley requested to pull Avi out and mentor them directly.
Does Avi know their father is Quantum, or is that information they don’t have?
- No. Avi does not know. Quantum discovered Avi’s existence shortly after Avi was born — likely through his quantum cognition or incidental detection. He did not make contact. His operating philosophy holds that personal relationships are not only inadvisable but a genuine hazard, especially given his condition. He is deeply emotionally detached — close to Doctor Manhattan in personality, possibly colder. He has not reached out and does not intend to.
What is the current state of the Aubrey friendship?
- To be confirmed with the player. Working assumption: distant, from Avi’s side — they are closed off at the moment.

Last updated: March 2026 Source: Player-authored origin fiction