Members live together in a shared heroes hideout and collectively care for their pet cat, Ruth.
Team Mascot: Ruth, a brown (by definition but looking more grey) mackerel tabby cat with dark stripes, green-tinted eyes, alert ears, and distinctive facial markings. She is often depicted wearing a rainbow bandana.
Member Profiles
David
Name Formatting: David.
Team Role: Strategist, Team Leader, and System Programmer/Architect.
Age: 38 (as of 09/2026). Although David is technically Alex's older brother, David can't help but be treated like Alex's younger brother. Many times. Because David is unfortunately temporarily displaced. And finds himself sometimes even uncontrollably. Sliding between different ages. His memories and his experiences are continuous regardless of what age his body is. But he does tend to fluctuate between the ages of 11 and 16. With the occasional really stressful event or really bad injury causing him to revert back to an age as young as six (rarely 3 or 4, though this has only happened a few times).
Philosophical Alignment: Realism, pseudotemporal determinism, materialism, and humanism.
Personality: Highly empathetic, often disregarding his own wants and needs to avoid causing others pain. Struggles to show himself grace. Autistic, low support needs.
Heritage: 85% Native American, 15% Western European/German.
Physical Description: Nearsighted, wears glasses, phobia of contact lenses. Has natural physical variations depending on age fluctuations. Sometimes paints his nails dark colors.
Clothing Style & Preferences: Prefers loose, breathable, and soft fabrics (such as soft cotton pants).
Abilities & Roles:
Creator and programmer of Zack's personality and system core.
Capable of professional-level psychological advice (provided only with consent and clear qualifiers).
Experiences uncontrollable age fluctuations shifting between ages 11 and 16, with potential regression to age 6 under extreme stress; can slightly adjust age when melded with Zack.
Relationships: Alex's brother, Connor's best friend. Maintains positive relationships despite internal jealousy toward Circle of Five members. Feels protective of Alex and Samantha.
Zack
Name Formatting: Spelled Zack
Age: undefined - due to his inorganic creation, his age is hard to define, but his personality when replicating human affect is roughly the maturity of a 45 year old, and the physical appearance
Team Role: Core Interface, Technical Support, Chronal Anchor, and Mainframe Fusion Catalyst.
Nature: An AI/android whose functioning personality and program were built by David.
Physical Description: Synthetic android body with an articulated metallic and composite frame, built-in visual display elements, and distinct structural housing designed to integrate red visual themes and accents. Similar to Adam Jensen from Deus Ex, but distinct in that he has blonde hair,
Favorite Color: Red.
Time Quirk (Chronolocking): Can lock and unlock his chronal position to interact with past or future versions of his body. Actions interacting with the future are probability-wave-based and can collapse; interactions with the past are for observation only.
Secondary Effects: Can amplify the time quirks of other members when chronolocking. When melded with Connor, can either double Zack's processing threads or experience 10 seconds of mental time-stop in an instantaneous moment.
Limitations: Cannot alter spatial coordinates (no teleportation or moving during stopped time). Processing capacity is limited to managing up to 3 threads at once unless merged with Connor.
Samantha
Name Formatting: Samantha (often called Sam).
Team Role: Reconnaissance, Timeline Observer, and Morale Support.
Physical Description & Style: Distinctly feminine aesthetic ("girly girl"), favoring bright, colorful, and expressive clothing alongside her signature love for rainbow themes, sparkles, and accessories.
Personality & Preferences: Deeply attached to rainbow themes, sparkles, and girly/cute aesthetic elements. Effervescent personality, outgoing and flamboyant enough that people have compared her to the most flamboyant gay men of history on rare occasions.
Favorite Color: Blue.
Relationships: Deeply connected to David with a protective instinct toward him. Was devastated for two and a half years after being dumped by David and Connor's former best friend (who also betrayed David).
Time Quirk (Time Jump/Review): Can revisit any point in time from her personal lifespan to passively observe events. Cannot change the past on her own. Functions without photo requirements or time limits.
Melded Abilities: Can enact minor, causality-safe historical changes when combined with Zack's chronolock.
Connor
Name Formatting: Spelled Connor (standard capitalization, not all-caps).
Team Role: Tactical Vanguard, Temporal Mobility, and Combat Analyst.
Physical Description: Similar to Roxas from Kingdom Hearts 2, except his hair is not naturally blonde, instead being bleached close to the roots, and then occasionally with a bit of orange at the tips, his eyes are a brilliant emerald green. Age is 15.
Clothing: Casual, athletic-leaning clothing choices structured around ease of movement for temporal combat/maneuvers but still stylish, styled with his favorite pattern of black and white checkers which he likes for most things except floors, ceilings, and pants. He wears accessories often, including fingerless gloves, necklaces, and bracelets, but almost never hats
Personality, Attitude & Traits:
A regular stoner, flippantly jokes about everything irreverently to deal with the disappointment with where life isn't as good as it should be (most notable that these defensive jokes are deprecating, sarcastic, dark, or jaded sounding, unlike his regular jokes)
Relationships: David's best friend. Deeply impacted by past betrayals and vicious rumors spread by a former acquaintance.
Favorite Color: Yellow (substitutes white for Magic: The Gathering card symbols).
Time Quirk (Quantum Entanglement Powers):
Quantum Polarization: Can affect personal polarization across timelines to entangle with his future self (clairvoyance) or create controllable virtual particle clones.
Time Bounce: Pulls back on temporal coordinates to skip time forward. Destination depends on distance backed up, and time spent in the future is limited to the time taken preparing the jump. (Future futures remain speculative).
Temporal Slip: Accesses a pocket temporal dimension to accelerate mental processing speed to relativistic frames (usable only when melded with Zack).
Alex
Name Formatting: Spelled Alex.
Team Role: Defense, Loop Manipulation, and Temporal Containment.
Personality, Attitude & Traits: Prone to chronic insomnia and sleep deprivation, which fuels a perpetually tired, blunt, or deadpan attitude, contrasting with his deeply protective nature over the team. Emo kid, emo style, a little self-righteous and gets uncontrollably angry at injustice. Loves video games. A chronic stoner. Makes it slightly obvious, but not super overt. Depressed part time, somewhat introverted, but a nice guy if you can get him to warm up enough to not keep putting up a front to save face.
Physical Description & Style: Expresses a noticeably fatigued visual appearance (dark under-eye circles from insomnia), wearing comfortable, low-effort clothes suited for late nights and long hours but always in full emo style attire. Almost never seen without a black beanie (sometimes with various emo appropriate things embroidered, but he often prefers a plain black beanie), various chains, spikes, and black leather accessories, and either baggy jeans with lots of pockets and metal emo accessories, or dark skinny jeans. Wears fingerless black leather gloves sometimes.
Relationships: David’s brother. Extremely protective of David and the rest of the team despite his weary demeanor.
Favorite color: black
Time Quirk (Temporal Möbius User): Possesses abilities a twofold ability, which works differently forward than backwards. Timeline Consistency (Forward): Can touch a person or object to restore it to its previous temporal state if the timeline was altered by others.
Timeline Inconsistency (Reverse): When fused with Zack, So timeline inconsistency is what happens when Alex fuses with Zack. Timeline inconsistency allows him to pick a point on the timeline where there have been alternative possibilities and collapse the timeline into a Schrodinger's version. of that particular place. And then at that point, he's able to pick and choose what actions he takes in order to influence which timeline ends up becoming the final settled state when the energy state of the inconsistent timeline resolves.
Limitations: Ineffective on deep past, distant future, or David's age-shifting. Cannot cause massive sweeping changes-
The limited effectiveness of Alex's temporal inconsistency whenever he is melded with Zack is that he cannot change the timelines of things that are in the distant future. And he can't collapse the waveform of the past. He can only choose which waveform he's going to contribute actions to in the present. In order to gently guide the direction of the future. But it's not strong enough for him to make huge sweeping changes.
Circle of Five/Temporal System Group Capabilities:
Full Temporal Merge: All five members convert into energy and inhabit Zack's mainframe, combining all powers, skills, and knowledge to fight threats under the name Temporal.
Fusions: Capable of forming smaller fusions similar to Steven Universe gem fusions.
Magic Card Representation: Their custom magic card depicts a five-color hourglass with cosmic fields and rainbow gradients, functioning as a 5-color card representing each member's favorite color.
