The Free Family

A family of flying maroons, Charles and Sarah Free with their children, Ida, Jack, and Friday.

Origins
A maroon family, Charles and Sarah Free with their children, Jack, Ida, and Friday, possess the power of flight. Through African meditative techniques, they are able to fly through the air unaided. The technique has been in their family for generations and passed down in secret.

The Free family live as hinterland maroons hidden in a treehouse

Beginning at a young age the Free's begin learning  breathing, calisthenics,, gymnastics, mental techniques similar to meditation to regulate their energy, body temperature, mental state, and the pressure/oxygen effects associated with higher altitudes,

They also learn begin learning calisthenics similar to yoga/gymnastics/capoeira, swim, and wrestle frequently as well as adhere to a specific diet designed to oxygenate their blood.

Sarah manufactures insulated clothing with rubber like padding. They also frequently employ protective headgear.

The Frees also use a special ointment that keeps them warm while flying though warm clothing is still required at high altitudes.

Charley Free
Escaped slave turned pirate and associate of notorious blackjacks Turnspit Riverson, A gambler, musician, tale teller, and unappeasable and lethal duellist.

He runs afoul of another pirate, “The Devil” Roberts, later revealed to be the son of the Devil, eventually killing him in a duel (with the help of Sarah's flying lessons). The Devil demands Charley's first son as payment and Charley points out he should get a betting chance and with the help of Sarah Adams wins a game allowing him to place parameters on how the Devil can claim the child.

Sara Adams Free
A free black woman who's family taught her the secret of flight. Her family attains fame and fortune as an acrobatic troupe. Her parents participate in a slave rebellion, leading to their capture and execution. She wanders for a time before meeting Charley Free and beating him in a wrestling match. She teaches him to fly and joins him as a pirate.

Ida B. Free
First born of the Free children, extremely capable, analytical, sees herself as the bearer of a powerful legacy, brilliant business woman who amasses a large fortune, ruthless politician, becomes a high ranking Orca League agent, begins to advance her family's techniques, develops a teleportation method (eventually used by The Orca League to create an inter-dimensional stargate designed to evacuate black people to a safe haven).

Jack Free
A protege of April, gets involved in the underworld/resistance, then with The Devil's Daughter, and the cosmic/supernatural elements of the universe.

Friday Free
Brilliant, adventurous, inventive, seeks to push the limits, gets involved in stunts, spying, wants to recreate the early days of the family through superheroics, eventually sets up a secret flying school in Newmidya and trains a team against her family's wishes.