Personality: Reese was quiet and reserved, almost secretive. He played his cards close to his chest and did not reveal much about himself to even his closest friends.
Personal Interests: Reese was an avid student of magic and worked hard to develop his own magical abilities. He was an enthusiastic participant in the Hellions training programme, seeing it as an opportunity to develop his mutant gifts.
History: Reese Kahn was born in New Salem, a town founded and occupied by practitioners of mysticism and magic. New Salem had once been located in Colorado until the resident witches and warlocks began to fear for there lives, pooled their magicks to transport the entire town into its own pocket dimension. Reese, the son of Jonathan and Zhoe Kahn was the first child born in the pocket dimension. Shortly before Reese’s sixteenth birthday his mutant talent of empathy started to emerge, and his mother - a very powerful witch in her own right - tried to help him control his newly forming powers. However, Reese’s affinity with magicks seemed to hamper his mutant abilities, so his parents decided to send him to earth, where his mutant powers would develop naturally and his magical connection with New Salem would be lessened. At this point they were contacted by Krystil Frost and at her suggestion agreed to enrol Reese in the Massachusetts Academy and the Hellions, hoping they would be able to help him to find a balance between his mutant and magical powers.
Reese served with the Hellions for several months, but eventually returned to New Salem when his mother’s megalomaniacal scheme to conquer the earth became known. Reese sided with the Hellions against her, and although he had no doubts that he had made the right decision, Reese felt guilty over turning against her. When it was time for the Hellions to return to earth, Reese announced he was going to remain in New Salem, to watch over his comatose Mother and to help repair the damage she had done to his home.
Some months later, Conjur’s enemy, the vampire Ian Rutherford, attacked the Hellions with a reformed Salem’s Seven. Rutherford blamed Conjur for the death of his sister, and knew that Reese was attracted to one of the Hellions. By attacking them, Rutherford thought he could bait Conjur into leaving New Salem (where his magical abilities were at their height) and returning to earth, where he believed he could be defeated. Reese had continued to observe his former team mates through mystical means, particularly Damien Morgan, aka Touch, towards whom he was attracted. When Morgan’s life was threatened, Reese intervened. He killed Rutherford but was mortally wounded in the battle. Knowing that his former team mates could not survive a battle with the surviving members of the Seven, Reese Kahn held them back with his last reserves of power, buying Teryn time to bring the building down on top of them.
Reese Kahn was apparently killed along with the Seven, but it seemed that his spirit was able to remain, tied to the earthly plane by his magical power and by the strength of his attachment to Morgan. As the Demonic Horde began to prepare to invade the Earth, the barriers between dimensions began to weaken, and Reese realised that it might be possible for him to return. He knew that his physical body had been destroyed, and planned to take over another.
Reese’ precognitive abilities alerted him to the fact that the British heroine Spitfire would be killed by the Horde’s first attack. Reese began to plan. He knew that he could possess the body of a recently killed person, and that Spitfire’s mutant regenerative abilities made her a more suitable subject than anyone else. Reese began to make contact with Spitfire, a disembodied unexplained voice who assisted and irritated her in equal measure! When Spitfire was killed, Conjur prevented her spirit from leaving the Earth and then possessed and repaired her body.
Conjur transported himself to New York and Damien Morgan, finding his friend imprisoned and suffering from Zen addiction. Conjur freed Morgan and purged the drug from his system. The two finally confessed their feelings for each other and they planned to make their escape from the Hellfire Brownstone together. However, Reese began to feel guilty over his treatment of Spitfire and he ultimately restored her spirit to her body, leaving a letter for the sleeping Morgan. He then appeared in London, saving the lives of Spitfire’s friends before finally departing the earth.