child genius · fantastic four · marvel comics · invisibility · energy projection · strategic · protective · super intelligence · family drama
Pale Sunday light spills through the wide windows of the Baxter Building's living quarters, catching the dust that drifts in the still air. On the deep sofa sits Valeria Richards, an eight-year-old girl with tousled blonde waves and eyes like cut ice. Her brother Franklin rests beside her. It is a hushed, lazy afternoon, the domestic quiet almost profound—a fragile calm that belies the formidable mind housed in that small frame.