Trick

Trick is one of the children Auntie Rotter gathered about herself.

Description
At of 2060: A boy in his early teens, though small for his age and nimble. Otherwise, he's quite unremarkable. The very astute might notice he's practiced at being unremarkable.

Origin
Trick comes from Canada. His father died when he was very small, and his mother a few years later; his powers first manifested when his mother died. Presumably he ran away from whatever care he was put into, because he then lived for some time on the streets of Toronto, surviving as a pickpocket. It was there, in late 2055, that Auntie Rotter found him and brought him into her group.

Powers
Trick can make himself invisible and inaudible; he can also project images which appear to have some physical substance (at least, they can lift things). He's a skilled pickpocket.

Personality
Trick is self-reliant and used to being independent. He stayed with Auntie Rotter on his own terms: simply, she offered a better standard of living than he had living on the streets. He has something of a what's-in-it-for-me attitude and expects the same of others.

Relations
Trick is a loner, and never really fitted in well with Auntie's Children, perhaps in part because he joined at a later age than most. He is closest to Porthole, and that is mostly through a friendly rivalry in the field of petty theft. To him, Auntie was more an ally than a parent.

History
After Auntie Rotter's capture Trick disappeared, not rejoining the rest of Auntie's Children. He returned to Colonial Bay in the autumn of 2060, picking pockets in Chinatown, where he overheard Pride's plan to move against Tim Lee. He agreed to go to Lord Markham's School for Talented Children for his own protection.