Under the guise of a boarding school for delinquent and troubled youth, Hewitt's true face hides behind a smokescreen of normalcy. Instead of guiding wayward teenagers back to the straight and narrow, the professors and teachers at the small Maryland campus instead are nurturing students of all ages in how to control their manifested powers while remaining outside the reach of the government. People of all ages are welcome, and they may stay as long or as short as they will. Hewitt's prides itself on the fact that within their system, unlike the government's, the individual has a say in their own destiny.  HEADMASTER: Henry Whittaker FOUNDED: 1985 LOCATION: Near Chesapeake Forests Sf, MD SCHOOL COLORS: Red, White and Black STANDARD UNIFORM: None; Costumes/Combat Suits per student and/or teacher creation and design STUDENTS: Open to all ages, free of charge; 18+ allowed on missions with some exceptions DURATION OF ATTENDANCE: As long or as short as a student wishes STUDENT DORMS: One dorm building, boys and girls separated by floors. Floor one, girls, floor two, boys, and so on. |
 Hewitt's history stretches back to just after the Vietnam War, in the stretch of time where mutants had no choice but to be under the strict hand of the government. Tired of being mistreated and overworked, a group of particularly outspoken mutants began planning the first ever breakout from the Shepard-Wyatt Institute. Among those mutants was a man named Lucius Hewitt, a charismatic leader who dreamed of a place where people like himself could exist without bigotry and fear plaguing their every move. He was the one who was able to finalize a plan of escape that would be able to surpass all of the checks SWI had in place.Hewitt's contacts, a group of honorably discharged mutants that had served alongside him in Vietnam, fulfilled their duty to their former squadmate wonderfully. A small group of fifteen rebels escaped from SWI in the early 1980s and were quick to assume fake identities, spreading out across the country in order to avoid recapture by their enraged former handlers. In honor of the only causality of the escape, the man who had dreamed up the school in the first place and dared to try and make it a reality, a handful of those escapees founded Hewitt's School for Troubled Youth in Lucius's name. The school opened its doors in 1985 in upstate New York, operating under secrecy through invitation or student solicitation only. They strove to fulfill Lucius's dream of an alternative refuge for gifted persons, and in order to do that, they needed to find them before the government did. A system of finding those mutants before they were captured by the government fell into place, and slowly the dream of becoming a safe place to flex and train abilities began to become a reality. The school was not without its problems, however. By 1992, the first anarchist cell had emerged from Hewitt's to descend upon New York City. Porphyria, due to their status as one of the most highly feared mutant groups in the country, became something of a black mark against Hewitt's reputation despite their stance of neutrality and individual choice. The next was the revealing of the first school in New York when students defected to SWI in 1994. With the doors forced to close, the leadership of Hewitt's relocated to rural Pennsylvania and resumed operations there. The second location of the school lasted only eleven years when the board of directors, fearing an intelligence leak, voted to close the school's doors once more. Two years later, in 2007, a new headmaster was appointed to guide the Maryland campus of Hewitt's on to more successful endeavors. Henry Whittaker, Lucius Hewitt's nephew, manages to install extremely strict testing to avoid the problems of the past as far as information leaks and security concerns; despite these rigorous measures, Hewitt's still draws students and faculty in numbers that rival SWI's. Even despite trouble with groups like Porphyria, one of the principles of Hewitt's is that the professors do not try to guide their students' moral interests toward helping non-powered people or not. The choice is what is important, because that was what the government failed to offer in the first place. Hewitt's also takes on any mutant who comes to them, any mutant in danger of being caught on account of his or her actions, and any mutant not wanted by the government due to "irrelevant" or "undesirable" powers. Since the late 1990s, Hewitt's and SWI have existed in a state of stalemate. Every now and then someone does escape from SWI and end up at the school, but the reverse is also true. Students have, in the past, defected to SWI and have been accepted on the grounds of loyalty and the providing of information. The official policy with regards to these defections is to do nothing: after all, it was the student's choice. Unless it is proven that the transition was forced, they have the right to come and go as they please. |
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