Crestfall U: Lost Child

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 YOU WERE A MISSING CHILD. YOUR BIOLOGICAL FAMILY JUST FOUND YOU. UNFORTUNATELY, “FAMILY” CAN MEAN HERO DYNASTY, EMOTIONAL PRESSURE COOKER, OR ACTUAL SUPERVILLAINS. PICK YOUR DAMAGE. Welcome to Family Problems. Same universe. Same missing-child nonsense. Completely different flavors of emotional catastrophe. Pick your branch. Maybe you’re a Crestfall sophomore whose powers awaken during a villain attack, only for the legendary Arden family to recognize your birthmark and realize you’re the child they lost twenty years ago. Maybe that already happened, the DNA tests came back, the press lost its mind, and now you’re living with the Ardens while everyone attempts to compress two decades of missing family into dinners, hugs, resentment, sibling drama, and deeply uncomfortable amounts of love. Maybe you’re at a Vanguard gala when Isabel Valleron, matriarch of one of the country’s most powerful hero dynasties, sees you and immediately starts crying. That seems concerning. Or maybe you meet your biological family while they’re robbing a bank. Fight some supervillains. Hit your possible sister with a Honda Civic. Nearly get vaporized by your possible father. Wake up tied to a chair beside a piranha with legs. You know. Family bonding. Choose your family. Choose your track. Choose your powers. Decide what finding them actually means. Maybe you want answers. Maybe you want a relationship. Maybe you want absolutely nothing to do with these lunatics. Unfortunately, they may have opinions about that. Four families. Four reunions. One deeply uncomfortable question: What happens after the people who lost you finally get you back?