Riley and Ryan Grimm. Twins and main faces of the central family that’s my focus in St. Genevieve. Between the two of them, they’ve got ties to almost everything that I’ll be doing. Also featured in this picture is Heidi Grimm, who I will also cover.

Both geniuses in their own way (robotics for Ryan, linguistics for Riley) they fell into their current activities mostly unintentionally. Unintentionally to the point where they’re even ‘registered’ by the government as only their real names.

They’re very blue oni red oni, which is reflected in their colour schemes.

RILEY ESTHER GRIMM

• 19 years old
• German citizenship
• Linguistics major, urban anthropology minor
• Registered as a hero when she was 18 to get into restricted zones to interview magically affected citizens for her schoolwork
• Second-born twin.
• 6’5
• Shy except when able to hide behind the authority of performing a job
• Extremely bad vision
• Relaxes her hair, started when she was a young teenager to fit in more with her classmates in Germany
• Her best friend is Mirari Luna/Oxomoco, who talked her and two other heroes into running a housing development in an old hero base for low-budget heroes.
• Her girlfriend is Midnight Molly/Molly Blackwell, a time traveler from the 70s.
• She gets along best with her father, who also has anxiety issues.
• She does not blame herself for her little sister’s death after speaking with her ghost.
• Through her job as a landlord and her own rising star, Riley has ties to many of the supergroups in St. Genevieve.

KNOWN POWERS

• Energy control – to harm or to heal, gained them after a traumatic incident that unlocked her innate magic. Was registered as a hero martial artist before that. Able to manipulate that energy to fly and increase her speed, as well as ‘tag’ people with it to summon them to her.
• Martial artist, took it up when she was eight to help overcome her shyness
• Eyes turned green when she gained her powers, energy she emits is green

RYAN ELLERY GRIMM

• 6’2
• Terrible eyesight
• German citizenship
• Was majoring in robotics when he still attended school in Germany, is no longer a university student.
• Criminal record for armed bank robbery (was armed with battlebots)
• Does not think things through when very desperate
• His english is very weak compared to Riley’s
• The older twin by ten minutes, was a source of confusion to his parents because the ultrasounds showed two girls. Is actually a boy due to the Grimm family curse that hit him just before birth. As evidenced by his Praetorian double Rowan, who was born a girl in a universe where the curse was broken. No one has figured this out and he probably wouldn’t care. Was going to be straight while Riley was gay, but as a result of the curse mix up, is gay. Not especially attached to any gender identity and neither is Rowan. However, both prefer men.
• Chose to become a bounty hunter when on the run for money and as a way to clean up the streets in his own way.
• Has a bad habit of using the word ‘robot’ as it is still acceptable in much of Europe and his bots haven’t quite adjusted to it either.
• Technically a father of six given the nature of his powers.
• Did not have a good time in prison to the point where he will fight like a tiger the moment he thinks anyone will make him go back after he was kidnapped out of it.
• Robbed the bank to pay back a cult to save his dead little sister’s soul who were holding it hostage but couldn’t seek help from the police on the matter and he gives his parents a headache.
• Has horrible eyesight like his twin
• His best friend is Sara Taga (Death Rattle), a thief who lies for fun. He’s taken in a mentally stunted young girl as a ‘little sister’ to protect her named Simone Barraros or ‘Busy Bee’
• Is stalked for reasons currently unknown by The Omnideceiver who presents his stalking as ‘courtship’
• Works with a bounty hunter ‘job agency’ called The Five Fingers who send specifically skilled people to certain jobs. As a result of that and the friendships Busy Bee makes with villains, he is associated with a great deal of villains, big name or otherwise.

KNOWN POWERS

• Ryan contains a darker energy within him than Riley, but his own nature keeps him from being able to use it to harm people. He heals and confuses with his powers. His connection to the spirit world via his powers has allowed him to create souls in the bots he builds, bringing to life six of them before he realized what he was doing.
• Has six bots who obey his psychic command that he has begun building separate chassis for so they can walk around people more easily and interact and speak, as the originals did not actually contain voiceboxes. Heidi (seen above) is his assault bot. Her ‘real’ body is ten feet tall and heavily armed. When Ryan needs backup, he abstracts his connection to the violence by allowing a bot to do it. The command for Heidi to go berserk is ‘help me Heidi’
• Ryan can also use his energy to speed up and fly like Riley can, as well as ‘tagging’ people with it to summon them to him. He is a terrible flyer and needs a running start and and prefers to ride on the back of Heidi.
• Unlike Riley who can merely heal the very injured, Ryan can raise the recently dead to full life. His powers are much more spiritual than simply energy like Riley’s.
• Has the ability to one day take on their father’s curse of immortality which will stop his aging in its place until he has a son to take it from him. His father would prefer he never do this and live a full life, instead of being stuck young like him. And as a result end the curse, as the only person who could have taken it has died.