The Godlike

This emblem was "branded" on each of the Survivors while in comatose state by Celera at the government's request. This brand is roughly 1/2" square at the base of the spine, at the tailbone. Government officials were not pleased with the "flamboyance" of the stylized comic book hero shield. Survivor Brand

The Following people are individuals, surviving the crash of AA Flight 283, that have been known to have some "GODLIKE" ability. Most of the Survivors have been shown to have "Godlike auras" as seen by Jack Bennet, these are the confirmed or strongly suspected with powers and abilities beyond mortal men.

Main Cast

• Jack Bennet -
  People ask us what are we. Are we human? Are we something else, something more? All questions I've asked myself.
  I seem to embody the best and worst of what we've become. My body can isolate and stop the others when there power gets out of control, my spirit can see ways they can better use what they have. A blessing? Maybe if it wasn't costing me my very flesh.
  I was never the brightest kid, but they changed that, too. Now I'm so much infinitely smarter, able to truly and completely comprehend what giving up my body is going to mean. I am both human and monster. I have walked in the dreams of men of power, I have ridden the waves of Space and Time. Wherever power is used I am there, a silent sentinal.
  Is it my role to act the Jimminy Cricket to the Survivors? Is that why I've been made so smart and then had my body taken away? So I'd know the true consequences of power and school the others toward caution?
  This is too big. I'm just a kid, after all. Yeah, a kid who seems to be able to control whatever this energy is that we all were changed by. I guess I've sort of been dreaming that this would all be over soon and I could go back to my normal life.
  Well, I got a hell of a wake up call. I remember looking down and seeing Brian crouched there on the steps of Lincoln like some sort of cross between Superman and Dr. King, getting ready to emerge into the age, a carpet of rich deep red rolling down the steps, beautiful, flaring out from him like a cape, like the blood of a wounded America crying out for help.
  I guess it was sort of fitting, an irony, really, that it was a Kennedy's blood painting such an image.
  I'd thought till that momment that my powers were sort of weak compared to the others... Until with less effort then it took to remember how to breath, I spread my "fingers" and took control of every camera, every microphone, every T.V. station and broadcast that image across the country so they could share my horror and my awe. Even in death I was not denyed a voice. And in the end true freedom to speak and be heard, to let truth roll off your tounge and be heard... That, my friend, is the Information Age. That is -true- power.
  Not that I ever did anything to deserve it. Not that I've ever done much to deserve anything. But at least my death would have meaning, a sacrafice against injustice to show the world the Survivors are human, that we bleed red, white and blue just like every other American.
  Perhaphs because only in my death did I feel I've ever done anything deserving did Mandy's actions shock me so much; when she breathed strange, hot life back into my broken body. She hardly knew me and I can't say I was ever kind to her, though I've considered her a friend. I can't think why she would do such a thing. Other then what I said, she among us all is a true HERO. I don't care what mistakes she made in Georgia.
  I could see it all along, maybe that's why the others need me. Because I have the power to SEE.
• Brian Jaffe -
  • "I've stood on the moon's surface, I've floated in space, thousands of miles outside of lunar orbit, I've travelled farther than any man before me, and from that distance the earth looks so small. It's not like the satelite photos. They're finite, bordered in white on every side, limited. Space isn't like that. It's like sitting in the front row of a movie theater, so that the screen stretches across every part of your vision, and the earth's just a pinprick of light on the face of it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I wish everyone could see it like I do."
    "When I'm close I can feel the earth, like I'm holding it cupped in my hands, and I think that if I squeezed I could crack it like an egg. There are six and a half billion people on the earth. People who could die if I if I lose control one day, if I mess up. It's a thought that would keep me up at night, if I still slept."
• Arthur Redford - FOR PLAYER TO DESCRIBE THEIR OWN ABILITIES!!.
• Mandy Smith - FOR PLAYER TO DESCRIBE THEIR OWN ABILITIES!!.----

Other Survivors

• Vivian Janell - Able to turn herself, and whoever she touches, invisible to at least the naked eye.
• Mary Beth Manly - Witnessed to have high levels of sonic blast energy, capable of knocking a group of 300 (Survivors) unconcious in one blast. She may be able to focus her voice in a more directed, and potentially more harmful, line.
• Ashton Sawyer - Suggested to the possibly THE "most powerful" of the Survivors according to Jack Bennet's ability to see Godlike auras. Second only to Brian Jaffe. Known to have the ability to fly and levitate nearly a group of 300 adults (Survivors), moving them by hyper-speed flight from Seattle to Washington DC in less than 30 minutes - avoiding harm from the elements. He boasted being able to have "seen this" in dreams regarding the current events. Jack Bennet witnessed some sort of "oil black viper" coiling within his body aura the night before it was learned Ashton had died from heart failure.
• Milos Wiazowski (aka. Afterthought) - Believed to have some type of mental control ability. Witnessed "suggesting" things to Dr. Robert Booth of Celera.
• Julie Young - Able to teleport at the snap of a fingers. Her maximum range is unknown, but is at least 10 miles.
  • Maggie Young - Known to have heaved a laboratory bed/equipment through a wall as well as lifting the end of a full oak billiard table.

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The AMERICAN GODS