As might be expected for a program centered on teens, there has been lots of family drama. Quatro Lad put his parents, Ouro and Myrn Rud, into witness protection when he narced on the Golden Wolves on Rimbor, but Universo managed to hold them hostage anyway, along with the family members of other students. He took them back into hiding after they were freed, but thanks to an encounter with Lady Memory on Talok VIII he forgot where he left them. Reports of a wild Quatro’s encounters with the Science Police on Zuun seemed to answer that question. Though soon thereafter there were similar reports of drunken Quatro misbehavior coming from Ventura.
Katrina had a contentious relationship with her parents, Rupesh and Zsuzsanna Ramachandra, and they were only too happy to marry her off to crime lord Vid Gupta. After Katrina gave birth to Phora, he was given over to them to care for while she was on the run. They in turn turned him and Skid’s brother Catd over to ZsaZsa Patil, who was operating Gupta’s former gang, now called Nagini. During a fight, Katrina’s mother admitted that she was adopted and that she had been left with them as an infant by what they interpreted as a Naga but was probably actually a Durlan. The infant serpent took on human form, patterned after them, and grew to be Katrina.
Dynasty has a similarly contentious relationship with her mother, Callista Ramirez, a prominent politician on Earth who worked in close concert with Vid Gupta/Universo. It was Callista’s disapproval of her ancestral powers that led her to wear a mask and hide her true identity. While Dynasty was on the run, her mother revealed her identity to the public, but somehow that genie has been put back in the bottle, and now only her closest friends and teammates, and her fiancée Nightwind, know her true identity.
Dynasty’s father, Hermen, with whom she has a much closer relationship, is a member of Metropolis’s City Council. After the family’s home was trashed during a fight with familial enemy Vandal Savage, Hermen bankrupted the family trying to keep up their lavish lifestyle. Dynasty encountered him on Ventura where he claimed to be on business but later admitted that he was gambling to pay their debts. Apparently he was successful, because Dynasty’s bank account is once again full.
The villain Universo, who seemed to have an unusually close relationship with Callista while she worked with him when he was disguised as Vid Gupta, claimed to be Dynasty’s real father. But she compared their genetic profiles and ruled out that possibility. Surely Universo was just jerking with her.
Kyle, Dynasty’s brother, was content with being a holovideo-game-playing slacker until Vandal Savage attacked him. After losing a chunk of ear before his sister saved him, he decided that he needed to be able to protect himself and so joined the Science Police Academy on Mars, though he’s been less than a stellar student there. His dead body showed up on Ventura, two of them actually, and Dynasty determined that they were clones, though there was a slight variance from Kyle’s current genetic markers. Later, when confronting Vandal Savage on Tartarus, Dynasty discovered a whole lab of clones of Kyle in various states of growth and undergoing various experiments conducted by Mantis Morlo. She put down one of these clones herself. Savage was also using some of them to feed his need for the blood of his ancient enemies through arcane rituals.
Speaking of brothers, Kid Skid’s little brother Catd was another of Universo’s hostages, after which he hung out with his big brother for a while until, as mentioned above, he ended up in the custody of Nagini to serve as a playmate for the rapidly aging Phora. Now that he’s been rescued again, and his older brother is once more alive, will he continue to hang with the Legion or will he finally return to Ghoran Prime, where he has been selected for a special reseeding overseen by President Det Sillas? Also on Ghoran Prime, of course, are Skid’s other brother, Sallam, and his parents Khom and Khori, who seem to be the most normal of Academy parents.
We can’t talk about families without looking at perhaps the most dysfunctional one, the unusual unit of Katrina, Quatro, and Phora. When under Universo’s mind control, the former two apparently mated, and shortly thereafter Katrina discovered she was in the advanced stages of pregnancy and ten years younger, though she had no memory of the conception. The pregnancy continued to advance rapidly, perhaps due to the use of Skid’s healing powers, or so Katrina theorized. Very shortly, she gave birth to a Quatro/human hybrid and thus learned who the baby’s father was. A reluctant mother, especially since she was undercover and on the run, she sent Phora (Hindi for “four”) back to Earth with Power Boy and Catd. Power Boy turned them over to the baby’s grandparents, who let Nagini have them. Phora continued to age rapidly and is now a pre-teen, in Katrina and Quatro’s custody once more.
One odd (well, odder) factor in this, weeks ago the team was attacked by a grown Quatro that was seeking Dynasty’s father. In battling him, he demonstrated notable hostility toward Quatro Lad and Katrina. At one point in the fighting, he became a snake before being taken by Mordru’s acolytes. The team speculated that he was actually Phora from the future, brought back for the atmospherium-studded nipple ring he wore, to be used in their magical ritual. Was this indeed Phora and why did he want Hermen Ramirez? And from how far in the future was he, given Phora’s rapid aging?
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