Thanks for the critique, I appreciated you taking the time to read and like!
Don't worry about not recognizing their genders, you're not the first person to bring it up and with the style change, it's much more obvious.
I think this is a structural issue, that I would have a hard time correcting now, even with the redraw/rewrite. It's leftover from when I first drafted the chapters and I'm just gonna have to make the most of it.
I think I took a little inspiration from SU.
Again another structural issue that's smoothed in the redraw/rewrite, but won't completely be fixed. Elliot and Lara don't have powers in the first chapter, the only one with supernatural abilities in Tyler, the blonde, from the very beginning. I want to give an explanation on how he got them, but I'm having a hard time fitting it in somewhere where it's obvious and not just little hints.
It's implied that Inu, the old man, tells them where to go. It's never out rightly stated.
You're welcome, and again thanks for reading! I hope you' stick around for the redraw/rewrite that's coming out in a few weeks. Oh, and sorry for the long response.