Chastity Collins is a student of the Monmouth School and one of the leaders of the Secret Runners of New York.
History[]
Early History[]
Born in the year 2000 to Conrad and Starley Collins, both of whom were descended from two of the Mayflower's settling families, and whom in the present day existed in the top 1% of New York's wealthy society, Chastity grew up highly privileged, along with her younger siblings Misty and Oz.
When Chastity entered the Monmouth School, she earned a quiet reputation among her peers for become promiscuous with the opposite sex, and displayed little interest in any of her schoolwork.
After Misty turned 15, she and Chastity were both granted an amber gem from their mother, which activated a mysterious portal mechanism located beneath Central Park. Deciding to do what their mother had done with her friends in their youth, the sisters began traversing the tunnel for a thrill-inducing "runs". Over time, the Collins girls brought some of their friends from the Monmouth School in on their secret about the portal, including Bo Bradford, Verity Keeley, Griff O'Dea, Hattie Brewster and Dane Summerhays. Together the group called themselves the Secret Runners of New York, and every time after they did a run, they marked their wrists with a line drawn using a permanent marker.
While Bo discovered that the world above the well was a desolate version of New York, due to the presence of a crazed bald man who sometimes shouted at them from the top of the well, Chastity and the other Runners decided to avoid any further exploration.
However, without the male members of the Secret Runners knowing, Chastity and the other girls managed to get to the top of the well and did some minor exploring of the immediate Central Park area on their own, avoiding the other "crazies" who lived in that world, figuring that it was a future or alternate version of New York. Not long after, Misty's friend Trina Miller enraged her by asking Bo out, and so, with Chastity and the other girls' help, she took revenge by luring Trina to the conversancy garden above the tunnel entrance and tasering her unconscious. Chastity, Hattie and Verity then helped Misty drag Trina through the portal and up into the world above the tunnel before tying her up and drawing the crazies in to kill her.
When the portals were next active the following December, Chastity and the other girls did the same thing to Delores Barnes, who had accidentally spilled hot chocolate into Hattie's handbag; a vindictive act which Chastity and the others did simply for fun.
Prior to March 2017, the new Monmouth student Becky Taylor, who may have become a member of the Secret Runners, eventually earned Chastity's ire when she was named the Belle of the Ball at the March East Side Cotillion instead. As a result, the spiteful Chastity and the other girls lured Becky to the portal before tasering her unconscious and dragging her through the portal to the desolate future New York. Before Becky regained consciousness, Chastity and the other girls tied her to a streetlight and had "Head Girl" written in lipstick on her forehead before they left her for dead. With the growing number of disappearances, in order to throw off any suspicion, Chastity and Misty set up Becky's phone with a suicide note claiming that she couldn't take the pressure and was going to throw herself into the river and planted it in their victim's own bedroom.
As a result of Becky's disappearance, Chastity was selected to be Monmouth's new Head Girl for when the next term began.
The Secret Runners of New York[]
When Monmouth's new school term began, Chasity, as Head Girl, was asked by Ms Blackman to speak at the first assembly. During her speech, Chastity feigned sorrow as she offered a brief eulogy for Becky, though Jenny Johnson quietly remarked to those sitting close to her that Chastity wouldn't have become Head Girl if Becky hadn't disappeared. As she continued her speech, Chastity boastfully announced that Misty would be debuting at not one, but two notable debutante balls.
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Equipment[]
- Portal Gem: A mysterious amber-coloured gem shared between Chastity and Misty, which is used with the portal mechanism beneath Central Park to enable travel from the present day to the future and back. Despite being ostensibly shared between Chastity and her sister, Misty appears to be the one most often in possession of the gem, though Chastity does occasionally borrow the one still held by their mother.
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