Character Creation, Relationship Map

I'm falling behind, but trying to keep the character map updated.

My character is the heir to a fortune and will inherit control of his family corporation upon the retirement or death of his controlling mother. He was slumming it (possibly to link to another character?) when the quarantine zone was setup and was stuck without a place to stay.
Possible connections:
- I was visiting you in the zone before it was quarantined and I was trapped there.
- I owe one of you for giving me shelter during quarantine.
- We are ex's, now split up (either amicably or not)

My power is Power Leech.

My extra is my overbearing, power hungry, controlling CEO mother, Mary Elizabeth Cavendish.

Oh. I need to make up an NPC don't I?
Umm. The leader of my supers gang - Malachi somethingorother. I don't like him, but I do what he says to claw my way to the top of his organization or something.

Alright, everyone seems to have their concept and an Extra ready. That means we can move on with the next step.

First, everyone create a custom character sheet and submit it to this game. You can copy the following bit into the sheet as a base or make up your formatting however you like. This information should be in there, though.
Remove your own character from the list of relationships and replace the ??? under Resources with the Extra you created. In the brackets, add their two specializations, i.e. things they are able to support you with. Cube, for example, chose "Research" and "Internet Access" as specializations for his AI assistant. Other ideas could be "Money", "Rumors", "Equipment", "Contacts"... just think about your extra and in what ways you might call on them for help.

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Now have a look at the Pathway Chart, specifically just the top section "Origins"
Choose one of the options that fits your character (either thematically or due to what you get out of it). Those of you who have the Smallville Rulebook can just go through this step by themselves, choosing what fits for them from the options in the book. For those who don't have it and can't look at the available Distinctions or Powers, or don't know how to work with the chart, I'm available to help you either here in the forum, over PMs or over Discord.

Edit your character sheet according to your selections and once everyone has completed this step, we'll move on to the next!

Wow Bowl you really put time and effort into things ! Thanks for all this !

Yes! Awesome prep work! Thank you!!

I noticed in the rulebook the section on Relationships says that at the beginning of the pathways, before we do anything else, we should bump 1 relationship to D6 for every player above 4. So for our game, we would each bump up any 2 relationships to d6 before going through the first step of the pathways.
Do we want to do this? It seems like if we don't, our relationships may not be as strong an influence on the game.

Yes, good point. I've read that before but forgot about that. Thanks for pointing that out!

That is HIGHLY necessary, thanks for pointing that out Tracy

Bumping my Relationship with my Brother to D6 Eli (It just makes sense)
Bumping my relationship with someone else to D6 when I learn a bit more.

Bumping my Relationship with my boyfriend Richard to D6
Bumping my relationship with someone else to D6 later too

Bumping Eli's relationship with his sister to d6.

Bumping my other relationship to a d6, when I get a better idea for the characters.

Same, I bumped mine with my girlfriend and will do the other one later

Ok

+Elijah D6
+Richard D6
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Origin - Cybernetic (Alien)

Add Extra (Uriel Personal AI) Research, Internet Access 2d4

+Duty D6
+Truth D6

New Heritage - Cybernetic D4
New Ability - Technopathy D4
New Distinction - Hacker D4

Two technopaths, one real and one fake... Interesting

I’ll go as ordinary, because that’s what I am :) no superpowers

My contact can provident access to (the station?) security and advanced equipment.

I may bump my relationship with Tracy, from my efforts to infiltrate her group.
The their bump will be either tao or the NPC ...

Initial:
Bumped *CESN to d6.
Bumped Richard to d6.
Extra (circle) Malachi (connected, intimidation) 2d4

Gifted Origin:
Step Up Glory (x2) to d8
New Ability: Mind Control d4
New Distinction: Attractive d4
Step Up Asset Mind Control to d6

If you're still looking for a connection, your second suggestion would work for me. When the quarantine trapped you, I could have let you stay at my place. Maybe I found you as you were in trouble with some thugs (rich kid in a bad area) and decided to help you.

Also, I love Power Leech as a superpower. I played a leech in another game that unfortunately never really got off the ground

^ Richard to d6
^ Belladonna to d6
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Origin - Rich

Add Extra - Mary Elizabeth Cavendish, mother, CEO (Contacts, Suspicious) 2d4

+Duty x2 to d8

New Distinction - Wealthy d4
^ Resource - Elizabeth Cavendish to d6
^ Relationship, Asset or Resource - Weathy to d6