HERO//BREAK

Nearly 120 years ago, the first human awakening tore through the world without warning. It didn’t arrive with fanfare, only with proof that the rules had changed. A deep-sea worker was discovered walking across the ocean floor unaided. A train in Berlin froze mid-collision, suspended by an invisible force. In the United States, security footage showed a man passing through a steel vault door as if it were smoke. Within a decade, incidents like these became undeniable patterns. Scientists reached a single conclusion: half of humanity would be born with powers. Today, 50% of the global population is known as Awakeners, their abilities surfacing under stress, instinct, or ambition. The powerless half still exists, but the balance of the world no longer belongs to them.