Catalyst Socks
Description: Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, an advocate for the rights of people of color and for women's rights, became in November 1968 the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Four years later she became the first black person to seek a major party’s nomination for the U.S. presidency when she ran for the Democratic Party nomination. Chisholm represented New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and when initially elected, was assigned to the House Agriculture Committee, which she felt was irrelevant to her urban constituency. In an unheard-of move, she demanded reassignment and got switched to the Veterans Affairs Committee. By the time she left that chamber, she had held a place on the prized Rules and Educatio...
Description: Mirage has always loved being the center of attention. As the youngest of four brothers, he mastered the art of joking around just to stand out. But beneath the humor, there was one thing he took seriously: Holo-Pilot technology. Introduced to illusion tech by his engineer mother, Mirage became obsessed, studying and refining it whenever he could. When his brothers went missing during the Outlands’ Civil War, Mirage stayed by his mother’s side. Together, they continued developing holo devices, and their shared work strengthened their bond. To support them, Mirage worked as a bartender, where he constantly heard stories about the Apex Games—tales of fame, fortune, and glory. He wanted in, but he couldn’t risk leaving his mother alone.
Description: A black background with white text stating "CHEMICAL ENGINEER" at the top in a banner shape. Below, pronunciation is given as "kem-i-kuhl en-juh-neer." A definition describes the role as a "hybrid species, partly human, partly coffee" and ends with "Aka: A master of things that boil, a solver of impossible equations, a caffeine-fueled catalyst for change."
Description: Mirage has always loved being the center of attention. As the youngest of four brothers, he mastered the art of joking around just to stand out. But beneath the humor, there was one thing he took seriously: Holo-Pilot technology. Introduced to illusion tech by his engineer mother, Mirage became obsessed, studying and refining it whenever he could. When his brothers went missing during the Outlands’ Civil War, Mirage stayed by his mother’s side. Together, they continued developing holo devices, and their shared work strengthened their bond. To support them, Mirage worked as a bartender, where he constantly heard stories about the Apex Games—tales of fame, fortune, and glory. He wanted in, but he couldn’t risk leaving his mother alone.
Description: Bloodhound is known across the Outlands as one of the greatest game hunters the Frontier has ever seen. The child of two engineers stationed at the New Dawn industrial plant on Talos, Bloodhound was taken in by their uncle Artur after a meltdown destroyed the facility and killed both their parents. Artur taught them the Old Ways, a belief system that focuses on the glory of nature and rejects modern technology. Yet Bloodhound was constantly drawn to technological marvels, and ultimately used both new and old methods to take down a Goliath that preyed on the people of their village, forever changing their life’s path.
