The Heartbroken

The Heartbroken are the supervillain family headed by Nikos Vasil, and later a teenage team wrangled by Aisha Laborn.

Modus operandi
All the Heartbroken are focused on protecting Heartbreaker and ensuring his legacy. Heartbreaker tries to keep his family together and will send his children to collect any strays. This gave the family several empowered children who could gather information for him and even fight if they have to.

For a long time were known to inhabit Montreal, but have been known to move around primarily to areas where authorities already have problems.

When Imp removed Heartbreaker she redirected them to safeguard a different legacy.

Structure
The Heartbroken are the worst mix of an extended family and a cult, like the Fallen or the Clans, though far smaller. Instead of praying on the destitute or mentally unhealthy they can go out and abduct those people directly. Tasks are delegated to members of the family so that Heartbreaker can focus on other concerns.

The children needs are also met, to excess. To give his children the needed experience Nikos made sure they could practice on any available subjects including each other.

Appearance
Despite having different mothers all Vasils are quite similar in physical appearance and attractive. They are slender and on the shorter side of average. Almost all of them have dark black hair, with only two of them having it straight instead of wavy.

Under Imp, the Heartbroken generally preferred to wear black. As capes they generally wore stylized faux-historical costumes.

PRT Response
Heartbreaker is rarely easy to pin down being constantly on the move. Taking over well off or well placed women to create safe houses and get information on what the PRT is doing about Heartbreaker.

The controlled individuals would allow the creation of instant suicidal soldiers that would try and protect where they think that Heartbreaker is located.

Instead the PRT keeps alerts out so that they can be netted. All in all it is a dangerous situation with multiple innocents enmeshed into the group.

They did respond when Nikos broke his patterns and kidnapped someone famous. Launching a full scale raid to try and free the actress. While it is unknown if it was successful it severely damaged the cult's resources.

Background
Formed with the help of Heartbreaker's powers.

Post-Echidna
The Heartbroken began investigating Brockton Bay looking for any wayward siblings. After Jean-Paul sacrificed his life for her, Aisha made the resolution to remove Nikos in Jean-Paul's memory.

Post-Timeskip
Nikos was killed by Aisha with the help of Citrine. She moved most of the family to Brockton Bay and formed them into a team.

Gold Morning
Presumably survived with little to no casualties even with the opening strike on the East Coast. Kept close to Imp during lulls in the action.

Post-Gold Morning
Imp formed his children into an effective policing force.

Early-Ward
The Heartbroken, with the rest of the Undersiders, were called in by Tattletale to Hollow Point in preparation for the attack on the Fallen compound. It is unknown whether they actually participated in the attack.

Post-Goddess' Takeover
When March went after the Undersiders, Imp and the Heartbroken accompanied Tattletale in their escape. They were present at the villain meeting at Sherwood Span.

Roman, Darlene, Candy, and Amias accompanied Chicken Little when he visited Lookout in the hospital. When Breakthrough agreed to work with the Undersiders to address March, Love Lost, and Cradle, three members of the Heartbroken were assigned to each squad.

Post-Time Bubble Pop
Darlene and Candy remotely assisted Lookout during her visit to Earth Shin.

The Heartbroken were invited to the Wardens HQ.

Older kids and Imp had joined Breakthrough during the second Wardens' assault on Teacher's Compound.

The Ice Breaks
The Heartbroken were present alongside The Undersiders during the rally at the Wardens HQ.

They accompanied the group of Breakthrough, The Major Malfunctions and Deathchester, that was stationed in the ruins of Mathers compound between Titan Eve and Titan Oberon. During the battle of titans they protected the rear group from Eve's maggots.

The Heartbroken, alongside The Undersiders, stood in the way of Titan Fortuna going to Earth Shin portal.

During The Simurgh's attack on The Wardens headquarters The Heartbroken were guarding the thinker group, that included Tattletale and Dinah Alcott.