Colette Nichols-Demsky - String Theory: Aftermath

Name	Colette Elizabeth Nichols-Demsky	Aliases
Status	Unregistered Evolved	Ability	Photokinesis

Gender	Female	Race/Eth.	Caucasian
Birthdate	October 31, 1991	Age	20

Height	5'5"	Build	110 lbs.
Eyes	Green	Hair	Black

Residence	Gun Hill
Employment	Alley Cat Courier Service

Parents

Judah Demsky (Adoptive Father)
Richard Nichols (Father, Deceased)
Evangeline Nichols (Mother, Deceased)

Siblings

Nicole Nichols (sister)

Marital Status

Single

Children

None

First Seen

An Ever Thinning Thread Of Hope

Last Seen

Going Nowhere

Profile

Colette Elizabeth Nichols is one among thousands of displaced children living in New York City following the events of November 8th, 2006. Having discovered in late 2008 that she possesses an Evolved ability, her life has been a constant struggle of difficult family situations, loss, discovery, and enlightenment that shows no signs of ending. She is an associate of the _ferrymen much to her adoptive father's chagrin.

portrayed by
Wallis Day

Colette Nichols was born on a particularly auspicious October 31st in 1991. She, like many others, were born into an age long before the idea of the Evolved was more than a flight of fancy reserved for childish dreams. Born and raised in Boston Massachusetts, Colette was a young woman who lived an ordinary life in ordinary times. Much of her childhood was tended to by a woman named Patricia Meunier, a nanny appointed by Colette's parents whom served more the role of a mother than her own flesh and blood. Colette, however, was not alone in this second-hand childhood. Her older sister Nicole (ten years her senior) struggled under the same disaffected roof as Colette would.

Raised in this manner, the Nichols sisters grew up largely apart. Just as Colette was maturing to the age when she had a say about her life, Nicole had already moved out on her own. Colette had no idea about the troubles her older sister had gone through, but she had all foggy memories of the shouting, the crying, and the door slamming to fill her dreams for much of her youth. By the time Colette was ten and Nicole had moved out into her own, it was time for the younger sister to take up the burdens of the older. While Colette's father was a distant man, consumed by his work at a law firm, he did find it within his time to scar the poor girl for what would be the remainder of her natural life. Emotionally and sexually abused, Colette's mother refused to listen to the girl's pleas for help, she herself too preoccupied with the abuse her husband afforded her, and the stress of maintaining their expensive lifestyle and her own job. It wasn't until later in her life that Colette would come to take a stand for herself…

…and that would require a helping hand.

In the spring of 2005, Colette, now a young and embittered teenager, began to take matters into her own hands. Disappearing for weeks at a time from home, only to be brought back by the police time and time again, the young girl rebelled in the only way she felt she could. Years of her mother's staunch refuals to listen to her about her father had made the girl resistant to the idea of posing her situation to anyone outside of her family, and this introversion would only serve to prolong her suffering at her father Richard's hands.

But in the summer of 2005, Colette finally managed to catch a break. When her mother became hospitalized in August with breast cancer, her sister Nicole returned from New York to stay with the family during this time. When Colette finally opened up to her sister, explaining to her how she had suffered under her father after Nicole left, that was all it took to begin to turn things for the better. Unable to bring herself to confront her father or bring the law to bear on her family, Nicole offered to take custody of Colette to "ease the burden" on the family while their mother was hospitalized. By the fall, Colette and Nicole had left for New York City where her sister lived. Moving in to Nicole's lower east-side apartment, the two sisters managed to put the past of their family behind themselves after coming to terms with never truly having been "sisters" when they lived together. The pair grew close, forming a family-unit they had never experienced in their earlier years. Finally, the two had retained a semblance of family from the broken shell of one left behind. And for a little while, it looked like things were going to be alright after all. Then the bomb hit.

November 8th, 2006. Ask anyone and they can tell you what they were doing when the bomb hit. Stories flood print and digital mediums with survivor stories, or anecdotes about those living on the edge of the disaster area when it hit. Every talk media program has had its share of tear-jerking tales from children blinded by the atomic flash, to televised fund-raisers for fallout victims. Everywhere you look, someone has a perspective on the bomb, everyone has a story to tell no matter where they were.

Everyone except Colette Nichols.

On November 7th, 2006 Colette Nichols was living her ordinary life. Attending school, spending time with friends, and enjoying the life she had with her sister Nicole. The last thing she recalls on the evening of the 7th, was coming home to find that Nicole hadn't returned from work, thinking nothing of it, and spending the night watching television. Even down to the minutae of what was on that night, she can remember everything up until the Tonight Show came on. Then, according to her, she fell asleep on the couch with the phone in her hand. It wasn't odd for Nicole to have a late night or two out on the town with friends. Near midnight without calling? Colette had been worried. And that was the last thing she remembered…

On the morning of Thursday, April 9th 2006, Colette awoke in the trauma ward of New York Hospital Queens. She would come to discover that an emergency response team had spotted her lying in the streets in Brooklyn and was taken in for observation and care. Severely dehydrated and suffering from light radiation poisoning (150 REM), Colette was considered to be one of many "fortunate ones" who was far enough away from the blast when it occurred to have survived. However, Colette would be hospitalized for months following the explosion undergoing treatment for her exposure to the radiation of the bomb. Compounding her radiation sickness was also the loss of sight in her right eye, presumed by doctors to be from corneal scarring from debris during the blast.

By the fall of 2007, Colette had been given a clean bill of health, and still there were no signs of her sister after the chaotic times that had come. She, like many others, were considered to be casualties of the greatest disaster to hit the United States in its entire history. Compounded by the passing of her mother from her cancer, Colette was left feeling hollow and alone in a world that didn't have the time or the pity for her. Survivor's grief, mixed with the emotional plague that had been her childhood and finally driven home by the loss of her sister, the young girl had nothing left. With her hospital bills paid by her father, who refused to see Colette, the girl had nowhere to go, and no one to turn to.

It was rock bottom, like it was for so many others.

Once the truth had come out, and the Evolved were out in public, the wave of resentment and misplaced hatred that much of the world felt towards this breed of humanity came out in Colette as well. While not as motivated by hatred as members of extremist anti-evolved groups were, the young girl none the less shed no tears for the Evolved that were killed in the streets or dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night. She was spending her days, like so many other displaced minors in New York, in the care of the state. Living in an overcrowded state-run foster home, Colette would see the world around her twist and change while she remained the same scared, vulnerable, and resentful girl inside that she had become so many years ago. All the good that her sister was able to do for her had drained away, and the only motivation she had left was to solve the mystery behind the missing time she experienced. She had no memories of the explosion, no closure on the loss of her sister, and nothing else to take up her time.

Photokinetic Talents
Talent Name	Taught By	Effect	First Scene
Illumination Control	Conrad	Without much concentration, Colette can raise or lower the levels of ambient light in her immediate surroundings. She has not focused on an area of illumination larger than fifteen feet yet, but it was postulated by Conrad Wozniak that her powers have an exceptionally high potential threshold. Colette is able to brighten an area by concentrating the available light, or darken an area by displacing the light to another location nearby, effectively allowing her to make an area of shadow surrounded by an area of brighter illumination by pushing the light to the "edges".	In Darkness
Light Concentration	Self-Taught	Colette can further concentrate light into more focused effects. She cannot generate it, but may collect and focus the light that is around her. The focused output, typically directed from one or both hands, is a two-inch-diameter beam with a maximum range of ten feet in optimal conditions. The quality of the beam, obviously, depends upon her environment. Under 'normal' levels of illumination — indoors, early morning, sunset, full moon — she can create a beam of sufficient intensity to temporarily blind a person, rather like shining a flashlight into their eyes at midnight. This momentary blindness may last for as much as five or ten minutes; the ensuing disorientation, likely a slight bit longer. Weaker lighting — a clear night, twilight, dimly lit indoors — lets Colette gather enough light to see well by, but no more. Stronger illumination, the sun at high noon or equivalent artificial lighting, can be focused to a point that (with a bit of time) ignites paper. This level of output can also be used to blind someone's sight for a period of hours to days upon exposure. Focusing light is not difficult in and of itself; the effect can be maintained for several hours, but requires some degree of /mental/ focus throughout in order for that to happen.	Light on Water, Part II
Color Manipulation	Conrad	By manipulating how light reflects off of a surface, Colette is able to change the color of objects she touches or whole areas around her. A fifteen foot area of effect is her greatest achievement so far without causing herself physical trauma. On the outside of her ability range, she was able to manipulate color over sixty feet around her, but it took a severe physical toll on her body. The color manipulation only lasts while she is within the area, and only while she concentrates directly on the effect.	In Darkness
Invisibility	Conrad	By bending light around herself, Colette can plunge herself into total darkness, effectively shunting out all visible light from her location, rendering her invisible. She is still physically present in the area, and she is unable to see due to no visible light reaching her at all. However, Colette is unable to bend spectrum of light that cannot be seen by the human eye. As such, infra-red goggles and heat sensing equipment can still detect her while invisible.	In Darkness
Photokinetic Illusions	Conrad	By applying the above three abilities together, Colette is able to create silent figment images that at current look like crude and finger painted three-dimensional imagery. She has fine detail control down to the level of her artistic capability, which is limited to very obviously unreal images. With practice and time she could learn to create photo realistic images, provided she finds a teacher capable of instructing her on how to utilize this facet of her power better.	Paint Me Strength
Laser Generation	Tavisha	A further enhancement of her light concentration talent, with remarkable focus and extreme physical duress on her body, Colette is able to concentrate the ambient light around her into laser light that is the approximate strength of a surgical laser. It can burn flesh, paper and wood, but has little effect on materials like stone. Prolonged exposure to the laser could eventually cut through bone, but Colette is not experienced in the talent enough to maintain it for that length of time.	The Spiral's Completion, Part II
Color Sight	Self-Taught	After having lost her eyesight in an attempt to utilize her laser generation, Colette soon discovered that she has the ability to feel visible spectrum of light more than just with tactile sensations. She is now experimenting with the ability to see light without using her eyes, currently allowing her to see the world as roughly defined shapes and colors, like viewing the world through Vaseline-smeared glasses.	Is It Dark For You?
Physical Limitations
Colette has a specific physical limitation to her power. Over-exertion of abilities she is not familiar with, and pushing herself beyond limits already established causes undue physical harm in the form of blood vessels rupturing in her eyes.

Initially, Colette Nichols had the skills of an ordinary High School dropout. Since her character's story began in the summer of 2008, she has grown considerably and all the skills listed here represent individual talents she has accumulated by experience and education from people that have impacted her life to some degree.

Skill Description	Learned From
Colette has been taught basic mechanics and maintenance for automobiles; checking and replacing fluids in an automobile, understanding of what parts are what (though not how they work) to a point where she could perform basic maintenance on an ordinary car or truck. She has a higher understanding of small engines, like the one on her dirtbike, and was shown how to take apart the engine, replace gaskets, oil and clean the parts and put it all back together again. Colette could fix a flat tire or change someone's oil, but if something was seriously broken she'd need help.

Skill Description	Learned From
Two-Wheel Driving: Colette still doesn't know how to drive a car, but she's taken quickly to learning how to drive two-wheeled vehicles like her dirt bike. Colette understand proper operation and safety on two-wheeled vehicles and has been taught the fundamentals of riding heavier vehicles like a motorcycle, but has not yet had actual road experience with them. She can zip around places like Staten Island and even difficult terrain like the ruins of Midtown with proficiency and familiarity.

Skill Description	Learned From
Colette's the last person you really want in a gunfight, but unfortunately she's learned how to handle one. Basic firing principals on short to medium range targeting with handguns only have been imparted to her, as well as how to properly hold, fire and reload and semi-automatic handgun. She still always aims for the center mass, occasionally flinches when pulling the trigger, but no longer hesitates to fire when depended on. Additionally, Colette knows how to disassemble, clean, and reassemble a 9mm handgun.

Skill Description	Learned From
Colette has had no formal self-defense training in any specific capacity, however two influential women in her life have given her the basics of protecting herself. Colette understands how best to squirm out of a hold, how to use her small size and minimal strength to her advantage in avoiding an altercation, and how to throw a punch as a last resort without hurting herself more than the person she's hitting. Very scrappy little thing, kicking and biting and not playing fair.

Skill Description	Learned From
Colette knows New York's geography with an intimate familiarity. Several months of living on the street and later work as a Ferrymen courier has given her a firm understanding of post-bomb New York's roads and streets. She knows the shortest way to get to Ferry safe houses by foot or bike, knows blind alleys and small gaps in walls leading into the ruins she can squeeze through and places where someone can tuck away and not be seen for a day or two. If someone needs a rat hole to hide in or need to know the best route to take to get somewhere, Colette probably knows it.

Skill Description	Learned From
Colette has been avidly reading everything she can on the physics of light. She may not understand everything in the books she's got her hands on, but she understands the principals of how light works, what photons are, and facts about how sight and light interact, as well as other factoids about light that nobody else she talks to cares about but gosh darnit get her talking and she'll go on about it for hours!

Skill Description
This isn't so much a skill as a lessening of her overall "High School Dropout, Don't Know Jack" status. Since she joined the Ferry, Colette has picked up an assortment of little snippets of talents from the other operatives by way of her impressionability and eagerness to learn. The Pinehearst, Sheridan Lab, and Vaccine raids have given her a smattering of useful knowledge and real-world experience involving combat situations relevant to her own capability. She is slowly learning not to panic in combat situations, getting better at taking injury and not becoming completely useless most of the time, and generally being toughened up by her experiences. Overall this skill represents the shedding of her youthful lack of expertise and an approach towards becoming a well-rounded adult, more of a transitional skill set than anything. Emergent skills that may arise from this eventually include organization and planning, first-aid, and god forbid leadership qualities, though these all need more time to mature, but she's on her way.

	A strange girl with even stranger mannerisms, Colette's fated meeting with this young precognitive led to a terrible discovery that sent her back into the life of Detective Judah Demsky. Regardless of the motivations that sent her to Colette and put them on a path together, Tamara has proven herself to be so many things to Colette, and has taught her not only to trust people but taught her how to be happy again. If there is one person in this world Colette would do anything for, one person that she would give her life for, the woman she loves unconditionally is that person. Following a traumatic nightmare and experimentation by Doctor Sheridan, Colette has begun to question how one-sided the devotion is, and Colette has begun to wonder if they could ever have something resembling a normal relationship. It has caused friction and difficulty on Colette's end, and… confusing symbolism on Tamara's.
	Colette had taken a shine to this young Bostonian almost immediately, and their close backgrounds, ages and even appearances has brought them together as fast friends within the Ferrymen. When presented with a life-or-death situation on an assignment for the Ferry, Colette heedlessly threw herself in the path of oncoming danger to protect her. There's something to be said for how fast they fell for each other, and now Colette is developing feelings for the young woman that she's not sure are honestly directed to Tasha, or projecting her feelings for Tamara on the sweet girl in her desire to live a normal life. This doubt keeps her grounded, but also keeps her from truly committing one way or another to either girl where it matters most; believing three important words. What scares Colette the most, is that she might truly be falling in love with Tasha.

A strange girl with even stranger mannerisms, Colette's fated meeting with this young precognitive led to a terrible discovery that sent her back into the life of Detective Judah Demsky. Regardless of the motivations that sent her to Colette and put them on a path together, Tamara has proven herself to be so many things to Colette, and has taught her not only to trust people but taught her how to be happy again. If there is one person in this world Colette would do anything for, one person that she would give her life for, the woman she loves unconditionally is that person. Following a traumatic nightmare and experimentation by Doctor Sheridan, Colette has begun to question how one-sided the devotion is, and Colette has begun to wonder if they could ever have something resembling a normal relationship. It has caused friction and difficulty on Colette's end, and… confusing symbolism on Tamara's.

Colette had taken a shine to this young Bostonian almost immediately, and their close backgrounds, ages and even appearances has brought them together as fast friends within the Ferrymen. When presented with a life-or-death situation on an assignment for the Ferry, Colette heedlessly threw herself in the path of oncoming danger to protect her. There's something to be said for how fast they fell for each other, and now Colette is developing feelings for the young woman that she's not sure are honestly directed to Tasha, or projecting her feelings for Tamara on the sweet girl in her desire to live a normal life. This doubt keeps her grounded, but also keeps her from truly committing one way or another to either girl where it matters most; believing three important words. What scares Colette the most, is that she might truly be falling in love with Tasha.

	After a chance encounter on the streets of Brooklyn with the detective, a series of events in Colette's life were sent spiraling far out of her control. It all started with a photograph, a briefcase, and a business card. After his injuries at the hands of Amato, Colette feels partially responsible, and the fact that Judah nearly died seems to have impressed on her the importance of how she treats others. Anyone could be taken from her as fast as Nicole was, and the man who has become her father is one of the most precious people in her life, even if she sometimes has a hard time admitting it.
	Felix is one of a handful of people who Colette trusts explicitely. The FBI agent has thus far shown himself not to be an obtuse and intrusive adult, like the ones she's had to deal with all of her life. Being an old friend of Judah's is a huge plus too, and the choices in their life that both Felix and Colette have in common became their strongest bond. Once she thought Agent Ivanov to have died; she attended his funeral, she saw the urn that contained his remains. Felix Ivanov did not die, and on his summary return from wherever wasn't the afterlife, Colette discovered just how close she was becoming to doing something unforgivable in his name.
	Thought to have been dead, Nicole Nichols was instead memory-wiped as part of an assignment by her longtime employer Daniel Linderman and given the false identity of Stephanie Caiati. After meeting with Colette and questioning her own identity, Nicole was able to find the truth out about herself, and reunite with her long-lost sister whom she had presumed dead in the bomb of 2006. After a several month long business trip to Las Vegas Nevada, Nicole returned to New York after the startling revelation that she was — like her sister — evolved. Together, the two have renewed their close relationship, bound together even more now by this genetic predisposition.

	A soft-spoken and large man who often tries to go by the alias Jason, Eric Doyle is someone who on the outside seems defensive and standoffish, but in truth has a heart about as big as he is. Seieng his softer side in the presence of Christmas time at Summer Meadows, Colette saw a side of Doyle that few others had, and has taken a shine to the puppetmaster.
	When they first met at McRae's safehouse, Kaylee was mostly just another face in thew crowd, until she had a collision with Doyle, Colette and Brennan on Roosevelt Island. United by their friendship with Joseph, Kaylee has quickly become one of Colette's close friends, and through the struggle they face in securing Joseph's safety they've become even closer. Though she does not know much of Kaylee, what she does know has engendered her to Colette in a way only a handful have. However the trauma suffered at the hands of Dr.Sheridan has put a wedge between Colette and Kaylee that has distanced them some.
	While Colette's reunion with Doctor Brennan was an unexpected one, the fact that he came back into her life was even more so. Harve Brennan was one of the attending physicians who was assigned to Colette following her retrieval from Midtown following the bomb. He wasn't the first of the many doctors she saw come and go, but he was the one with the warmest bedside manner, and the one who left the most lasting impression on her.
	Joseph is a very kind and gentle pastor at the Guiding Light Church, a man Tamara directed Colette to see about the Ferrymen. Given that he comes at Tamara's recommendation, this means that Joseph is a highly-regarded individual in Colette's eyes, and someone she feels she can trust with anything, despite him not having earned that trust. Unfortunately, that may also mean she trusts him with awkward secrets and truths that he would probably be happier not knowing. After Joseph's church was burned to the ground and Joseph was left for dead by Emile Danko, Colette broke down and settled herself onto a mission of revenge to pay back Danko for what was done to Joseph. While she was unable to kill Danko when she had the chance, Joseph felt that knowing mercy was perhaps the greater virtue Colette could have learned from that encounter. Colette has taken to Joseph as a good and trusted friend, and a moral compass she very desperately needs. Things have been tense between them since Colette's imprisonment by Bella.
	Admittedly the first impression she made on Gillian was bruises, Colette seems to have made a friendship with the older woman. She looks up to Gillian in the way she might have looked up to Nicole, not quite with the same sisterly connection, but there's that older, cooler role-model vibe there with her. Having reconnected briefly with Gillian before the fall of Pinehearst, she has since seen more and more of her since Gillian took charge of The Lighthouse, and considers the librarian a good friend.
	There's something to be said for coincidence, and Colette has had the coincidence of bumping into Ygraine on a few occasions now. The Brit courier has made an impression on the young girl both times, and given Colette's relationship with Tamara, she's beginning to see coincidence less as chance, and more as opportunity. Time and again Ygraine has proven to be a source of wisdom for Colette, but the young girl's constant refusal of Ygraine's ideas in lieu of her own less sensible plans has driven a slight rift between the two. Briefly reunited with Ygraine on the burned steps of the Guiding Light church months after she ran away from Le Rivage, Colette was forced to face the difficult results of running out on friends.
	At first thinking Brian was nothing more than a nosy, opinionated and creepy guy, Colette learned to find him as an older brother figure as she lived at the Lighthouse on Staten-Island. However, her relationship with him turned a bit rocky after Colette's failed matchmaking attempt between Brian and Kameron. Ever since the Lighthouse was damaged in an explosion, Colette's been struggling to make up for past failures with Brian by helping with the rebuilding. In her quest to get revenge on Danko, she discovered Brian's secret cache of weapons beneath the Lighthouse, and learned just a fragment of his more violent side. The two rarely see each other these days, with their lives leading them in separate directions.
	Richard Cardinal is a mystery, but it is simply for his offering of Emile Danko's name to Colette that she considers him a friend. By this very notion alone, Colette has been able to pursue a vendetta against the Humanis First ex-marine that she may never have had the opportunity to otherwise. She has since become aware that Cardinal had recruited her for work on the periphery of his organization, and when the visions of the November 8 2010 riots were had across the city, Colette threw herself at the chance to try and change the future, heedless of what actually helping Cardinal may have in long-term repercussions.
	Known as Matilda to Colette for a long time, she was thought to be just an orphan with a uniquely useful gift that allows her to find and locate people, though the details of which were left as a mystery to Colette. The young girl found the location of Emile Danko for her, and with repeated assistance from Molly, Colette was able to find Emile Danko, but was unable to take his life. Since then, Colette and Molly had spent fleeting time together, though Colette still regards the younger girl as a friend, though is wary of becoming a role-model to her.
	Sable compromises both the best and worst of Colette. The acerbic punk of a girl managed to flatter Colette into giving in to her own more selfish desires for companionship that is difficult for she and Tamara to share, however there is a part of Colette that regrets the decision immensely. Despite this she still has a friendly relationship with the young musician and they have both managed to put their feelings for one another aside in order to live together in peace. Colette now counts Sable among one of her closest and most trusted friends.
	Oh, Magnes.

	While they first met by coincidence in Pineheart's Basement, Colette and Jensen Raith have struck an unusual working relationship. Where working relationship means Colette gets captured and suddenly finds herself in need of rescue. She looks up to the "King of Swords" as a sort've living impression of action movie heroes, a real-life Schwarzenegger who can do anything with enough guns and enough bullets. She also mistakenly thinks he's one of the good guys.
	Teodoro Laudani is confusing on a whole lot of levels. The last thing Colette knew is that he was a member of Phoenix, but now it seems he's taken up more of the militant gun-wielding mercenary angle like Jensen Raith. Colette knows Teo isn't just a handsome Italian boy, but somehow he'll always be that dopey head-scratching guy from the church to her. He's helped her repeatedly to get control over her ability by pairing her up with Conrad Wozniak, the man who taught her what bravery, honor, and all those other really heroic idioms are about. Now he's also taught her that sometimes you just have to fight for something. When Teodoro was apprehended by the Institute, Colette fought twice to rescue him with every ounce of willpower she could muster as repayment for all the good he'd done for her.
	Sure, Colette knows Felix thinks he's a lunatic and a dangerous man, but Colette holds a spot in her heart for this deranged serial killer if only because she knew the softer, gentler side of him, and much like with Eric Doyle holds out hope that he's a lot better on the inside than people say he is. She was right about Eric, but it's hard to say if she's right about Sylar.
	Caliban is scary the way a big domesticated dog is. Sure, it's god huge jaws and slobber covered teeth and could probably rip your arm out of the socket with its bite; but he's well trained. Robert Caliban has one of those "cool and calm" scary voices that makes him seem like he's always in charge, which of course means that Colette thinks he's totally trustworthy somehow…
	For a while, John Logan was just "that nancy boy that Nicole goes to strip clubs with." Of course now she knows Logan's a much more powerful man than she'd assumed, having connections to the Linderman Group and the criminal underworld. She idealizes him like some kind of movie mobster with a heart of gold, like that guy from Goodfellas or something. But she feels she can turn to Logan when she needs help, because of her family's history with the Linderman Group.
	Apparently he was the creepy old man that smelled of alcohol who lived in the basement of the Lighthouse. But like everything, there's more to meets the eye with Flint Deckard. Colette had written him off as a bumbling old drunk, but after the battle at Pinehearst, when he fought to save her life and Eileen's life, Colette took a shine to the curmudgeonly old man, terrified that he may have died trying to protect her. Thankfully for the both of them, he's still alive and kicking. In the aftermath of Pinehearst Colette came to know Deckard as the operator of Hotel California a safehouse with a pretty name and a disastrous interior. For a time, Colette had taken care of Deckard's safehouse for him in his absence, and the protracted time away from the Ferrymen has made tense whatever loose relationship they had, though thanks to their time in Pinehearst's basement and his help rescuing people from Bella's labs, Colette still trust him at her back, even if he doesn't give many other reasons to.
	Her sister's employer and the miraculous healer who restored her eyesight after years of impaired vision. Daniel Linderman is something like one of those fairy Godmothers, save for that he wouldn't look good in a dress or riding in a pumpkin carriage. On having restored Colette's sight, he's also affirmed the girl's trust and shown himself to be someone she can call on in a time of need, even if that may not entirely be the case.

	Colette isn't aware of Else's brush with stardom and fame, and it would probably temper her reactions to the older woman. Colette and Else don't have much interaction, save that they both spend time at the Brick House and that they both have volunteered at summer meadows.
	Colette only tangentally knows Megan as a Ferrymen co-worker, but has never spent much time getting to know her, outside of knowing through the grapevine that she and Scott go a long way back.
	Andy Rourke is the operator of the Brick House in Queens, and while he and Colette seemed to have a strong working relationship, her self-destructive nose-dive following capture and experimentation at the hands of Dr.Bella Sheridan has put them at odds, only further strained by Andy's violent reaction to Colette's insistence on recording testimony of people's visions of the future.
	Some people have a withering stare, Scott Harkness is among them. He's every movie stereotype drill instructor Colette's ever seen, but she can't quite rationalize that with his generally soft-hearted demeanor when things aren't breaking around him. If Colette views Caliban like a big domesticated dog, Scott's the old hound-dog who's gone gray around the muzzle but can still be stirred to biting someone's leg off if need be. It's a friend she's glad to have.
	Colette is to Quinn what Conrad was to Colette. While the age difference leans towards Quinn as the older end of the spectrum, Colette has made it her personal responsibility to train the fledgling photokinetic to properly utilize her Evolved ability. While she feels that Quinn considers her a friend, Colette is wary to let the other photokinetic in too close due to jealousy that Colette knows is irrational.
	While Colette and Delilah have been around one another on numerous occasions, their friendship is one of convenience due to their proximity in the Ferrymen. Colette views Delilah as the den-mother of the Ferrymen and a loving, caring person that she knows she can rely on. However, the lack of any real personal connection between the two has kept their friendship from forming the same strong bonds that she has with others.

	A healer who could bring Judah back to work, but one who refuses to help law-enforcement out of her own fear. Like Colette, she is ruled by her fear, though in her own unique way. After threatening to turn her over to Homeland Security, Colette was on her shit-list for a long time. When Colette tried to reconcile, things didn't go quite as planned, but in a way their reunion led Colette to the Ferrymen.
	Originally these two didn't get along. Colette was too naive, and Helena was too headstrong. But on the eve of Phoenix's attack on Pinehearst, Helena and Colette bonded over their own uncertainty about the future and the world they live in. While Colette may not be politically-minded enough for Phoenix, her ties to the Ferrymen have made her and Helena unlikely allies.
	This friend of Grace's seems to have a level head on her shoulders and helped Colette through a rough spot in her life in dealing with her fear of the world at large. After being led back to Cat by means of Tamara, Colette found out that the world she knew was only a small portion of some greater clockwork of events. Cat helped Colette find more of a connection to the Ferrymen, and recruited the young photokinetic to help them infiltrate the Pinehearst building. Since joining the Ferrymen, Colette has come to accept Cat as an intelligent and pragmatic leader-figure, and while she feels Cat is generous, they do not have much in the way of a personal relationship.
	This guy comes out of the blue after one of Colette's Ferrymen associates get shot, grabs her over one shoulder and hauls her up into the sky like Superman, then bounds off into the distance leaving her on a roof. He's weird, he's goofy and he was wearing rollerblades. What the hell?. She has no idea that Magnes helped save her from Dr.Sheridan, and might feel somewhat obligated to the young man if she did.

	Conrad Wozniak was a strange man, but he was a man that did not fuck about. Given the opportunity to train Colette in the use of her power, Conrad had proven himself not only to be a foul-mouthed loudmouth, but also a source of wisdom and patience to a girl who needed both desperately. Discovering that Conrad died fighting a terrorist organization, and sacrificed his own life to save millions, Colette has built him up as an idol in her mind. Everything she does is for Conrad's memory, and his death has given her the motivation to understand and master her power.
	Mysterious, powerful, intelligent and gentle. All these things and more define the man she knew as Tavisha, and was later told was a man known as…
	…Gabriel Gray. On Staten Island, he helped Colette save Teodoro Laudani's life, and after discovering she was evolved, came to learn about her and her ability, showing her the similarities between some of his powers, while she showed him hers. In the end, she helped Gabriel realize that by understanding a person, he could understand and mimic their power. She saw a light and goodness in him by her untempered view of the world, that few others could.

	Colette doesn't know what to make of Eileen at all. Introduced to her behind the lie of a marriage to Amato Salucci that was little more than a cover for _vanguard activity, the real Eileen Ruskin is an enigma to the young woman. However, in a chance encounter it was Eileen who warned Colette that Felix Ivanov was in danger, a warning relayed to Judah Demsky not long thereafter. However, a latter conversation with Felix revealed her to be a dangerous woman with the power to control birds. Beautiful, but dangerous, apparently. After helping Gabriel save Eileen's life beneath the Pinehearst Building, Colette has come to realize she is a gentle and very matronly young woman who has a soft spot in her heart for children, and an equally spot spot in her heart for Gabriel. Well, Eileen hasn't said that much, but Colette can see it. She hopes to one day aspire to the bravery Eileen showed in the basement of Pinehearst.
	Stronger, more defiant and yet at the same time having that noticable inner softness that Tavisha had, Gabriel is an iconic figure for Colette. Despite Felix Ivanov's protests about Gabriel's dark side, Colette has never been exposed to it. Only through the gentle heart of a man who leapt to protect her in the basement of Pinehearst and saved Eileen's life has she seen his actions. He has multiple abilities, and can learn them through understanding and intuition — as far as she knows — and she sees him as more than just a mentor.
	Danko took the one kind and gentle person in her life that Colette felt she could open up to — Pastor Joseph Sumpter — and destroyed his church and left him for dead. Experiencing for the first time how helpless she is despite her ability, it was Danko's name offered by Richard Cardinal that spurred Colette on a plan to attain vengeance for what was done to Joseph, and commit herself to the ideal that if she has this power, she has it for a reason.

	Danko took the one kind and gentle person in her life that Colette felt she could open up to — Pastor Joseph Sumpter — and destroyed his church and left him for dead. Experiencing for the first time how helpless she is despite her ability, it was Danko's name offered by Richard Cardinal that spurred Colette on a plan to attain vengeance for what was done to Joseph, and commit herself to the ideal that if she has this power, she has it for a reason. She failed to pull the trigger once on him, and after suffering at Bella's hands will not hesitate a second time.
	A scientist who put both Colette and Joseph through hell with her Refrain experiments. She and Emile Danko are the only two people in the world that could bring Colette to kill another human being, and if she ever sees Dr.Sheridan again, that is exactly what she will do regardless of the repercussions.

	Her voice unsettles Colette, however she can't help but find the gruff woman fascinating and entertaining in her own unique way. After lending a helping hand to Colette when she was a runaway, it earned her the young girl's trust and confidence, even if she didn't want it. Viewing Grace as a surrogate older sister, Colette tries her best to confide into the raven-voiced woman. Following her imprisonment with Bella Sheridan, Colette has given up her internship at Bit-By-Bit that Grace had helped her get.
	Returning to the Bronx after the PARIAH bombing, Colette met the partner of Detective Dempsky and discovered first hand that she's a very upfront and to-the-point woman. While at first opinion Colette thought she was a bit pushy and obnoxious, her more gentle nature from their conversation at the diner smoothed all that over. She hasn't seen much of Kaydence at all, and given her new abilities, that may be for the best.
	Though she had no idea Jennifer was close to Ygraine, let alone very close, Colette managed to spark up a friendship based on selfish demands and gifts. It's not the most stable friendship foundation ever, bu tthe laptop that Jennifer gifted to Colette has given her an outlet for her own personal frustration, and by pointing her to Doctor Anselm Gilbert, a means to find out more about her sister Nicole. With Jennifer living in England now, Colette hasn't seen her in over a year.
	A member of the Ferrymen and volunteer at the Cathedral of St.John, Trent is Colette's erstwhile pain in the ass fair-weather friend. He's pro-evolved rights and very vocal about it. Worst of all he's a know-it-all and a total jerk, or so Colette thinks. In her last and frightening encounter with Trent, Colette was warned by the young man that "bad people" were looking for her, and gave her all the money he had on his person and told her to go to the Lighthouse on Staten Island. She has not seen or heard from Trent since.
	Kameron is a sweetheart who helps run the Lighthouse. She and Colette got along pretty well, until the loudmouthed young girl tried to play matchmaker with Kameron and Brian. Whoops.
	Devi is a tattooed mechanical motorcycle riding hell on wheels. If there was any other way she could appear more cool to Colette, the teen can't think of one. Devi has been the inspiration to get Colette on to a dirtbike and out across Staten Island, while also teaching the teen a pointer or two about maintaining a vehicle like that. She's spent a few days here and there at Devi's garage. Since becoming more active with the Ferrymen, Colette hasn't seen much of Devi or Staten Island.
	There's something about this guy Colette can't quite put her finger on. Maybe it's the odd way he talks, maybe it's the way she actually listens to what he has to say. But there's something strange about him, and when strange meets Colette, Colette listens.
	Althought she was told the girl's name, Colette is prone to forgetting things. All she really recalls is that there was a girl her age down on Canal Street who saved her orange, and convinced her not to head back to Highschool.
	She invited Colette back to her apartment for food after knowing her for about fifteen minutes. Weirdo.
	She's did all she could, having given Brett information on Nicole. But when the private detective accepted her request and started looking for Colette's sister, all for the price of a pizza, she started to wonder if it was all too good to be true? She hasn't heard from Brett since he went on the case of looking for Colette's missing sister, and every time she's visited his office it's been closed. Is he alright?
	Professor Anselm Gilbert had given Colette her first concrete leads on her sister by contacting teachers she was once taught by and her peers. However shortly after doing so, he disappeared from Columbia University and she was told he moved back to England. Anselm was the second person to disappear after investigating Nicole.