Nightingale supporting cast

Molly Drakeson-Blackburn: The original Nightingale superheroine and mother of Rikki Drakeson, the current Nightingale. Morose, pessimistic, nostalgic, and a bit of a drama queen.

Julia Sims: Nightingale's friend, full-time partner in crime fighting, and mission control. A petite woman with a 'sexy geek' look going on. Genius with computers and makes great coffee.

Dr. Rainbow: Fellow C-rank heroine. Petite, flat-chested woman with sparkly teal hair in a bob cut. She wears a rainbow striped schoolgirl dress with a short skirt and rainbow thigh-high stockings. She is ethnically Japanese but was brought by her parents as a baby and only speaks English. Has a magical scepter that allows her to summon various medicine-themed effects. Incredibly naive and clumsy and almost painfully saccharine in everything she does. And yes, she is a medical doctor. She is often mistaken for a teenager and called Nightingale's sidekick despite being in her late 20s, 4 years older than Nightingale. Was sexually harassed by Green Streak alongside Nightingale, and then partnered up with her. Although technically speaking she is bisexual, normally she is very passive in such regards and only shows affection in platonic terms. Unfortunately she is not at all chaste, not because she is flirtatious but because her cutesy attitude, overconfidence, and total lack of physical fighting or self-defense skills result in her getting molested and **** by criminals and villains of both sexes very often, but she shrugs it off quickly and her attitude remains irrepressibly cheerful... never learning her lesson about being more careful. When many lives are in danger though, she can enter a fugue-like state and operate much more effectively than usual, although this still doesn't make her a good fighter, only a good paramedic. Meta: Mostly an OC but with elements of Dr. Light, and a reference to 'magical girl' anime in general.

The Weather Watch:

After disgracing herself by participating in a tag-team lesbian **** of the villainess Gloomy Sunday (for a good cause!) and abusing a supervillain scheme to cause thousands of citizens to commit incestuous acts for petty personal reasons, Rikki was stripped of the Nightingale title. After spending weeks as a mere security guard, she was then made the leader of a newly formed superhero team and given a new super-high-tech suit and gadgets by Petite Mort. Aside from the aforementioned Dr. Rainbow it also includes two newly arrived novice heroines.

Thunderbird: the former Nightingale's new heroic title. Her hair is dyed bright yellow instead of read, and her uniform is a yellow one-piece bathing suit fused with hot pants (essentially just adding short little leg cuffs to the usual bikini bottom of a superheroine outfit) along with a visor and a 'power gauntlet' that can be amplified into powerful attacks by her sonic ability. The suit (like the others) also contains haptic feedback and dozens of cameras allowing the girls to see and feel what the others are experiencing, within limits.

Red Balloon: Claiming to be the daughter of a former villain of the same name and with impressive wind and lightning-controlling powers, as well as the ability to float (not fly). She is noted for having large breasts and a very curvaceous figure even by League standards. Her outfit is 100% rubber, and consists of a red top with full sleeves and gloves, black stockings, a red skirt, and a built-in pair of panties/bottoms that has a zipper built into the crotch, supposedly so she can use the restroom in it (since it's too tight and dense to easily pull aside like spandex), with a round red helmet on her head (she seems to have short red hair under it). Her voice is inhumanly high pitched and painful to listen to. In terms of personality she is vain, egocentric, catty, passive-aggressive and extremely judgmental. Unlike many heroines, Red Weather Balloon is (purportedly) virginal and intends to stay that way, and she looks down on most other heroines as 'sluts'. She has an uncanny memory and knows lots of details about everyone. She takes an immediate disliking to Rikki/Nightingale/Thunderhead (partly because she saw a video of Nightingale having raw sex with some thugs on her very first mission) and starts trying to depose her from the team within minutes of meeting her. Meta: An oblique reference to Red Tornado (spoilers, maybe?). Her status is virginal is also a pun regarding her name ("like a balloon, one prick and it's gone"). She was called 'Red Weather Balloon' before joining the team and cutting down her name.

Snowflake: The youngest member of the new team at 21. Although female in the technical, biological sense of the term, Snowflake identifies as gender non binary and obsesses over pronouns and other politically-correct shibboleths. She is light brown skinned of unclear ethnicity (later dialogue reveals she is a multiracial mix of hispanic, persian, east african, and jewish-american) and ALSO extremely touchy about race, frequently accusing others of white privilege. Her vocally held beliefs extend beyond gender and race, too. If you eat red meat around her, you're in for a lecture. She's a strident atheist too, and objects to religious language, especially in any official capacity. Her hair is cut very short (to the point that she can sometimes be mistaken for a male while wearing bulky trenchcoats) dyed chalk white. She is noted for having a very tall (6 foot) beautiful body which is shown off by the suit she was assigned; a gossamer-thin, transparent rubber-like bodysuit under opaque white spandex with very deep 'cleavage' that barely covers half of her large breasts and leaves the middle 60% of her torso visible, while covering her arms, legs and thighs, with a thong-like section covering her crotch. Because the story is from Rikki's point of view, the narrative still refers to Snowflake as a female, but in dialogue she is always called "they" or "them". She insists that her sexual identity is "androsexual" - that is to say, attracted to male-presenting persons. Anyone who observes that it sounds like a complicated way for Snowflake to say she is heterosexual is in for a lengthy lecture. She is turned on by muscular, aggressive, dominant men and passive-aggressively flirts with them at every opportunity, with very little subtlety. However, even though 'toxically masculine' men are initially pleased to have her make a move on them, since she is conventionally attractive, they're often chagrined to find out that just because Snowflake is willing to hate-fuck them doesn't mean any of her beliefs have changed, so these relationships seldom last very long.

Snowflake (continued): Despite having a chip on her shoulder she is not as egocentric as some and will quickly admit fault when she's in the wrong. She constantly verbally spars with Rikki/Thunderbird. Her superpower is what you'd expect based on her name: she can generate and control snow and ice, although she does need moisture to work with it is otherwise very flexible. Her favorite way to use it is to create muscular humanoid golems made of snow ("snowpersons") that attack her enemies; their fists are soft but carry so much weight that being punched by one sends a typical victim flying. Meta: Snowflake bears an uncanny resemblance to an actual Marvel superheroine in the 'New Warriors' with the same name, including being non-white, her hairstyle, vocal non-binary gender identity, and powers (though the Marvel one uses snowflakes made of "energy"). Amazingly enough, the Marvel version was unveiled to the world over a year after the first chapter with Snowflake in it. If any Marvel writers are reading this, feel free to PM me, you can send the royalties to my Paypal.

Mr. Magopolis: A tiny (18 inch tall) big-headed leprechaun-like interdimensional being of cosmic power, accidentally unleashed by Red Balloon from some demons (servitors of Raven Woman) that had been keeping him imprisoned. He signs a contract with her to begin an 'elimination contest' for the Weather Watch, to use fate and reality manipulation to bring ruin and an end to the superheroine careers of all but one of the members, in exchange for fortune and success to the sole remaining heroine. According to the contract he is not allowed to kill or maim them (or get them killed or maimed) and has to make those destroyed complicit in their own downfall somehow. His favorite method is to use "coincidences" to reveal dirty secrets of others. Meta: An expy of Mr. Mxyzptlk.

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The Teen Turbines: The last 'new hero team' before the Weather Watch, having gone onto hiatus because of "reasons" a few months before the story begins. They were given very little oversight or guidance due to a belief that previous "youth" teams had been treated too condescendingly. Although they were initially very successful, the irresponsibility of certain members was their undoing. Meta: Expies of 'Gen13', who were, themselves, sort of knockoffs of the Teen Titans, created by Wildstorm Comics. The original comic was notable for having an EXTREMELY high proportion of fanservice and relationship drama, even by comics standards. Also, since it was Wildstorm, you got to see these sexy 19 and 20 year old girls and boys violently killing people on occasion, which nobody in-universe ever seemed to think was weird. The 90s were a strange time. By the time I read some of these comics 12 years after they'd been discontinued after getting them in a 'bargain box' from a comic shop on a whim, it was quite a trip to read.

Fairburne (first name "Kate"): The leader of the Teen Turbines. A tall, green-eyed redhead, she is almost absurdly attractive even by superheroine standards, and the outfit she wears, a bottomless green full-sleeved leotard with one arm and a side in purple, with bikini bottoms below it, was designed to show off her incredible body as much as possible. She can be sweet to her friends, but the responsibilities of leadership has made her much more tough, abrasive, and stoic. She is very quick to put down anyone who offends her, with her words or her fists. She got her start as a 'teen genius', staying in a mentorship program with the League of Propriety since late childhood as they groomed her for her expected powers' emergence. In addition to her intellect and technical skills she has developed standard 'strongwoman' powers: she's super strong and essentially invulnerable to anything short of an anti-tank missile, and even that would only hurt her a bit, not kill her. Unfortunately, despite having no known super-weaknesses from glowing rocks or whatnot, she still has standard human weaknesses, such as needing to breathe, needing to eat, and, well... Meta: Expy of Fairchild, blending some elements of the Wildstorm and D.C. versions (long story).

Teen Gravity (first name "Roxanne"/Roxy): A girl who very recently discovered she had superpowers after growing up in a trailer park. The child of a single mother who didn't do the best job of raising her. She has a lot of immature and self-destructive behaviors; her addiction to cigarettes is the least of them. Very attractive but not quite as curvaceous as Fairburne, with light tan skin due to part hispanic heritage, C-cup breasts, and short black 'punk'-ish hair with pink highlighted bangs. She usually wears civilian clothes instead of spandex, most commonly a pink miniskirt and halter top with a biker-esque leather jacket. Quickly fell in love with her fellow punk-styled hero on the team, WreckBoi, but he didn't treat her well and quickly began cheating on her, driving her to very irresponsible and self-destructive antics. Her superpower is exactly what her name implies, control of gravity. Secretly, she is actually Fairburne's half sister, though neither girl knew this while they were active on the team Meta: Expy of Freefall.

Thunderbird (first name "Sarah"): Another female member of the team, with powers involving control of lightning bolts, rain, and weather. She is of native American descent, with reddish-tan skin, long lustrous black hair, and sharp features with high cheekbones. Has a similarly beautiful figure to the others, though she is shorter than Teen Gravity or (especially) Fairburne at only 5'4". Her costume is a red and green spandex unitard with an asymmetrical cut that covers one of her legs but leaves the other one bare. It also includes "native-style" buckskin boots with leather fringes, though of course, traditional tribal footwear didn't include elevated heels like hers do. Being in the Teen Turbines caused Thunderbird to realizes she was bisexual when she became romantically attracted to Fairburne. Unfortunately, Thunderbird has some very irresponsible and unfortunate sexual fetishes, and a perceived rejection and "betrayal" by Fairburne gave her the excuse she needed to make those fantasies a reality. As a result, she was kicked off of the team and "reassigned" to her home state of New Mexico by the League of Propriety. When Rikki decided on a whim to choose "Thunderbird" as her new heroine name, the original Thunderbird contacted her lawyers.