OOC: Infopost, the Winter/Spring 2011 "Breakfast Foods FTW!" Edition
Aww, and I even have a new kid this time so it's not just to make Tracy have to drop another link! So let's start with her, shall we? Yes.
Fandom, meet Stephanie Brown. (Unless you've been following me on Tumblr. In which case I've been spamming her for ages.)
Stephanie Brown, AKA Robin IV - The Girl Wonder
PB: Brittany Robertson
Fandom: DC Comics (Batman, Robin, Detective Comics, Batgirl vol. 2 and 3, Batman and Robin, Gotham Knights, etc.)
A Brief History of Stephanie Brown
Okay, first a little canon rundown on Steph. She's the daughter of Arthur Brown, the Cluemaster, one of the many codenamed Gotham City villains to ever go in and out of Blackgate Prison's seemingly revolving doors. (You can tell he doesn't rank that high on the Gotham criminal ladder because his real name is not a clever pun on his codename.) On account of Daddy being lowlife criminal scum, Steph's home life is not that great -- when we first meet her in Detective Comics 647, her amazing shapeshifting mother is addicted to prescription drugs. (She won't be talking about this unless I clear it with you first.) Not being the type to just sit around and put up with this, though, Steph went and made herself a superhero costume, then hit the streets as the Spoiler, her only intention at first being to, well, spoil her father's heists.
But, you know, crime in Gotham City pretty much being Batman's thing, the Spoiler was suspected of being an accomplice to Cluemaster's scheme and got accosted by Robin (Tim Drake). She hit him in the face with a brick. How's that for first impressions? But Tim got over it and they teamed up to apprehend Cluemaster, and then they teamed up again because see above re: Blackgate and revolving doors. (No wonder Jason Todd has Joker issues later.) The vigilante gig got to be too much fun for Steph to stick strictly to being on duty when Daddy was out of jail, though, and she started freelancing. Batman? Not thrilled, and kept trying to discourage her. Except when he was calling her in to help. LOOK, IT'S COMICS CONTINUITY, IT'S NOT MY FAULT.
Robin, on the other hand? Caving to Steph's persistence and secretly teaching her a few things. And letting her tag along on his missions sometimes. And eventually dating her, even though the conditions of their relationship were that she couldn't know his civilian identity even though he knew hers, so basically date nights were spent on rooftops being big old lurkers or occasionally sneaking into a late-night sci-fi movie marathon with people in costume. Because that's not jerktastic at all, thanks a lot, Chuck Dixon. (Don't get me started on Chuck Dixon and Bill Willingham and the way Steph got written, dude. Just don't. The frothing is epic.) Also giving in to Steph's requests and training her for a while was the Black Canary, Dinah Lance. Until that randomly got dropped. Sigh, DC.
Anyway, Batman eventually let Steph in on Robin's civilian identity and gave her some slightly better crimefighting gear, cue some drama, then Tim Drake's father eventually found out about his son's sekrit nocturnal crimefighting gig and made him quit as Robin.
So enter Steph, walking right on into the Batcave in a homemade Robin outfit and informing Batman point-blank she'll be taking over. He actually agrees, but this . . . doesn't last long. In canon.
See, in canon, Steph disobeys orders while still on a probationary period and gets fired as Robin, only to take up her Spoiler costume again and then get killed off in one of the worst mega-crossover events DC ever did, War Games. That gets Tim to take up being Robin again, and Steph is relegated to a few evidently posthumous dream-sequence appearances to her best friend, Cassandra "Batgirl" Cain, until -- surprise, comics -- her death gets retconned and it turns out it was only faked by Dr. Leslie Thompkins, who wanted to teach Batman a lesson about endangering teenagers, because that's so ethical (but more so than the original "letting her die to make that point" version, I'll allow). So after some time spent in Africa, the Spoiler reappears in Gotham City and resumes her semi-sanctioned vigilanteing ways.
Until Batman "dies." Or in reality, is actually stuck in time. Just go with it. Cue the Battle for the Cowl, where various superheroes including Jason Todd, also no longer dead courtesy of Superboy-Prime punching reality (oh, Infinite Crisis), fight over who gets to be the next Batman. Dick Grayson eventually wins, taking Bruce's grown-in-a-vat-of-chemicals 10-year-old son Damian as the new Robin, Jason turns into a walking-dildo antihero known as Red Hood (an old alias of the Joker's for maximum mmmirony), Tim adopts a big black condom as a cowl, steals Dick Grayson's Kingdom Come Elseworlds costume and becomes Red Robin, and Cassandra inexplicably hands her Batgirl costume over to Steph and just quits. You know. Never mind the seventy or so issues of how being Batgirl was the biggest thing in her life. (I say these things with love, because I do love all the Robins. Even Damian.)
So what does Steph do? Become Batgirl. Which is currently my favorite ongoing DC book.
But never mind all that. Fandom Steph isn't getting fired as Robin; she's getting sent off to school instead. Because a lot of the above history is irritatingly problematic.
Things to Know About Steph
* She's 16 and a sophomore.
* She comes from right after Robin 128 in comics continuity, but because I'm changing how that ends she basically goes AU after that.
* As Robin, her costume is basically identical to Tim's, so she has the green tights and black cape with yellow inner lining. (Early designs from Robin, Teen Titans, and Batgirl gave her a miniskirt thing, but I hate it so I'm going with Pete Woods's version from Detective Comics.)
* She's 5'5", which is tall by my characters' (and my) standards, athletic, but not especially muscular; she's only been training in earnest for about two months.
* At this point in time, she's still dating her version of Tim Drake.
* She's still very much a Robin-in-training; her detective skills are rudimentary, her combat ability is scattershot, and she's not as good at improvising on the fly as the other Robins.
* She is, as are the other Bat-types, ordinarily human with no meta-abilities.
* She has daddy issues. Holy god, does she have daddy issues.
* She is very optimistic and generally upbeat, but she does have a temper.
* She's blonde, blue-eyed, and talkative, which is more or less my type so no surprise there.
* Her PB, Brittany Robertson, appeared in one episode of Power Rangers Time Force as a wee child. This amuses me a lot.
* She's quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy. Also quippy. WHO KNEW?
Steph and the Other DC Characters in Game
Steph, first off, is from a different reality from all the other DC characters in game.
* Bruce Wayne: Well, obviously she'd know him. Not that she'll be telling you he's Batman.
* Jason Todd: Is dead in her time; she would have seen his memorial case in the Batcave so she knows this. No, she won't be going around sharing that.
* Raven: She would recognize by name as a founding member of the Teen Titans.
* Zatanna Zatara: She'd probably recognize by name.
* Dinah Lance: Is her sometime mentor, so she definitely knows her . . . though a teenage Dinah will break her brain.
* Roy Harper: He's before her time; she might recognize his former "Speedy" identity from the Teen Titans, but Connor Hawke is the Green Arrow in her time.
* Jaime Reyes: She wouldn't know him yet! (Although she is supposed to meet him in upcoming issues of Batgirl so yay. But definitely wouldn't know him yet.
* Hayley Fitzpatrick: Is from an AU, so Steph wouldn't recognize her as Harley Quinn.
* Clark Kent: She'd recognize Superman, but not his civilian identity.
* Lana Lang: Really, really doubt Steph would know her.
And finally . . .
What's With the Waffles?
Well. That's a good question. It's been a running gag throughout Steph's current Batgirl series that waffles appear somehow in every issue. But I'm going to pretend that all along, it was a clever reference to how Steph kept saying she would give up the Spoiler gig and kept deciding she liked it too much, okay?
Really, my one regret about bringing her in as Robin and not Spoiler is that I can't make jokes about Spoiler behind the LJ cut.
ETA: Steph's Robin identity is not something she'll be sharing with people. If you think you have reason to be able to tell it's her if you meet her in costume (i.e. Karla's psychic scents), please clear it with me first? Thanks.
And now, we rock the copypasta for my other kids.
Kennedy, the Potential Slayer (brat_intraining)
PB: Iyari Limon
* Is 17 and a senior.
* Is from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but pre-canon for her. In her timeline, season 5 is about halfway done; I'm going to be kicking off with references to "Triangle" soon. THANK GOD, I can actually do something with it now. Will not be living season 8 comics canon, although I may adapt bits and pieces later on.
* Is 5'3" and kind of tiny.
* Is not shy about letting you know she's a lesbian.
* Is not shy about pretty much anything at all, actually.
* Is a pants-and-boots kind of girl, but all her clothes tend to look expensive even if they're not super dressy.
* Is abrasive, pushy, hotheaded, entitled, and kind of obnoxious.
* Is a Potential Slayer, and has been training for eleven years in case she ever gets called as the next Slayer. Has no Slayer powers, save the occasional wacky proto-Slayer dream. I've been playing this as her not remembering the dreams in the morning, but feeling vaguely like she's cranky because she slept on her arm funny or whatnot.
* As such, won't twig your supernatural radar as anything overtly more than human. But since the Watchers' Council had to have been able to identify her somehow, you miiiiiiiight be able to pick up on something (i.e. Tara reads her aura as being really strong; canonically Willow uses Kennedy's life-force to power a spell because "you were the most powerful person nearby") noticeable but completely inconclusive. We can discuss it on a case-by-case basis.
* Is pretty damn decent with a crossbow, passable hand-to-hand, not great with a sword yet.
* Is in a pretty serious relationship with Tara Maclay (life_inshadow). Don't think I don't know exactly how much this will bite Kennedy in the ass later.
* Other people from her universe she's met thanks to Fandom: Buffy, Faith, Wesley, Willow, and Xander. She does not have any idea she's going to actually know her versions of Buffy and Faith in the future, nor that she'll end up knowing Xander, or... see below.
* Will be a Slayer, eventually. After she graduates. Will also end up dating her universe's Willow. Um. After her universe's Tara dies. Yeah. She also doesn't realize that she's from a later point in the timeline than Tara, and is really about three years younger than her. Note: Doesn't know any of this yet and I'm trying to keep it that way, just FYI in case any of your characters happens to know/hear any of this.
* KIND OF FAILS A LOT AT NICKNAMES. (Seriously, "Willpower?")
* Has no canon last name, and I'm not making one up because the second I do it'll show up in the comics and Joss me. (Except I think every time I put this statement in an infopost, I jinx her showing up in the comics at all.) But if you know her, assume you know it. Whatever it is.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Tahiri Veila, the Jedi (weetuskenraider)
PB: Emilie de Ravin
* Is 17 and a senior.
* Comes from the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series of novels that take place a couple of decades after the original trilogy, and is from shortly after the final book in the series, The Unifying Force, having lived through the NJO storyline during her time in Fandom.
* Is from the same time period as Jaina Solo (solo_sword, to whom she is Kind Of Attached in a vaguely slashy way), but about five years behind Jaina in the timeline and from a different version of the GFFA.
* Is almost 5'2" thanks to a recent growth spurt, very slender, with blonde hair, green eyes, and three vertical scars running from her hairline to her eyebrows. Also, is always barefoot indoors and most of the time outdoors, and only wears shoes in the winter, on really dangerous terrain, or if she's flying.
* Is a Jedi, yes. Powerful telekinetic, weak telepath except with other Jedi and particularly ones she's close to.
* Was BFF with Jaina's younger brother Anakin all through childhood, and they'd just started being romantically involved when he was killed in the Yuuzhan Vong War. Was kind of massively shattered by this.
* Is mostly over it now, and dating Jaina's cousin Ben Skywalker (momslilassassin). Has gotten pretty good at not thinking about the fact that Ben's a toddler in her and Jaina's timelines.
* Was, after Anakin's death, more or less adopted by Han and Leia Solo.
* Was orphaned at the age of 2 and raised by the Sand People of Tatooine, so speaks fluent Tusken.
* Is half Yuuzhan Vong thanks to fun with kidnap, torture, and brainwashing (literally -- they implanted Vong braincells in her). But also speaks fluent Yuuzhan Vong, and may occasionally talk to you from that culture's perspective.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Gabrielle, the Battling Bard of Poteidaia (ancientbschamp)
PB: Renee O'Connor
* Is 16 and a junior.
* Hails from midway through the third season of Xena: Warrior Princess and the Very Special Ancient Greece.
* Is an Amazon princess queen.
* Is also a bard, and as such knows and loves to tell a lot of stories, although you're pretty much stuck with ancient ones.
* Can and will make stuff up to talk herself out of a situation, but usually not before she talks herself into it.
* Has awesome abs and generally looks like someone who lives an active and frequently physically strenuous lifestyle. Oh, and she's also 5'3" with reddish-blonde hair (lightening to blonde) and green eyes.
* Can hold her own pretty well with a fighting staff if she has to, but prefers to solve problems without violence, and absolutely will not kill a human being. Like ever. Except for that one time she got tricked into it.
* Has a ridiculous amount of experience with getting held hostage at knifepoint.
* Can and will talk your ear off if you let her.
* Hero-worships the hell out of Xena and will talk about her any chance she gets. And will probably tell you all about how Xena invented CPR, helped come up with the Trojan horse strategy, was friends with Helen of Troy, etc. Or how she herself knows Homer personally.
* Kind of has a thing for puppyface woobie boys. Anything that happens there is inevitably DOOMED.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Lacey Burrows, the Canadian coffee-slinger (laceycantlie)
PB: Gabrielle Miller
* Is from Corner Gas, and comes to Fandom by way of Dog River, Saskatchewan, though she's a native of Toronto and lived there all her life before she went to Dog River to take over her deceased aunt's coffee shop.
* Is very insecure, a little neurotic, and takes this out by constantly trying to help other people improve things.
* Runs Luke's Diner in Fandom, having been duped into visiting by the editor of the Dog River Howler after he got sick of her trying to "improve" the paper, and then getting stuck with the job when she tried to "improve" the way the last manager ran the place.
* Cannot lie to save her life. She's terrible at it.
* Wanted to be a gourmet chef, and gets all wibbly about not getting the chance. It's hell on her already wobbly self-esteem.
* Is very friendly and sweet overall, but not without her sarcastic streak if you get to her enough.
* Has a paralyzing phobia about balloons.
* Will never, ever, ever stop watching the Yule Log channel at Christmastime.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Katina "Katchoo" Choovanski (thismaskiwear)
PB: None, but may as well be Renee O'Connor.
* Is from Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise comic series, heavily modified for timelines and lack of David Qin and WTF TERRY WE ARE NOT GOING THROUGH TEN YEARS OF THIS BACK AND FORTH BS.
* Is BFF/roomies/in love with/involved with Francine Peters (thatsamilkshake), who was her best friend from high school back in Houston before Katchoo up and ran away from her alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather and ended up in Los Angeles as the kept girl to the head of the lesbian mafia.
* Had a fuuuuuuuun experience a little while ago involving said past coming to bite her in the ass, so now Francine as well as Merlin and Arthur know aaaaaaaaaall about that little secret.
* Is 5'3" but looks scrawny and a little underfed, with thick and very yellow-blonde hair, four piercings in each ear, razor blade scars on her wrists (that she keeps hidden), hazel eyes, and a perpetual glare, scowl, or other crankyface expression.
* Has a low, hoarse voice that cracks when she's upset.
* Knows a disturbing amount about seducing information out of people, setting them up for sex-scandal blackmail, setting up corporate takeovers, and maintaining a long-term cover as a lesbian mafia undercover operative.
* Won't be telling YOU about that.
* Probably doesn't like you, either. (Particularly hates Tahiri, Gabrielle, and Kennedy for various petty reasons that really just amount to "I think I'm hysterical.")
* Still has no idea how she got to be friends with Arthur and Merlin, but she wouldn't give that up for anything now.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Jennifer Scotts time_flyer_5)
PB: Erin Cahill
* Is from Power Rangers Time Force, post-canon.
* Time Force Police officer from the year 3000.
* Works as a Research and Development associate at Space Patrol Delta in the year 2024. This basically means she tests the not-spandex and equipment.
* Occasionally also gets sent off on missions for Time Force that usually involve tailing people suspected of time-traveling for dubious reasons.
* Lives in Newtech City, California along with bridge_carson, multiplez, and needsaparrot in the giant dog-shaped building that can also turn into a giant robot when necessary, yes.
* Still has Ranger powers; can morph into pink spandex-wearing, helmeted superhero type. Won't exactly be doing so at the drop of a hat.
* Decent with a blaster; good at hand-to-hand.
* Comes from a futuristic "utopia" that is actually kind of really creepy, on account of all humans being genetically engineered before birth and the complete lack of junk food.
* Will hold a grudge forever against anyone who gets on her bad side severely enough, but that usually takes something like her former duty partner selling Time Force secrets to criminals.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Samuel T. Anders (cantgetnorelief)
PB: Michael Trucco
* Is from the Battlestar Galactica 2003 reboot and pre-canon, currently about seven years before the Cylons obliterate the Colonies of Kobol.
* Goes by Anders; does not like being called Sam although he's slowly learning to tolerate it, but Samuel or Sammy are RIGHT OUT.
* Fairly easygoing jock; plays Pyramid but has developed an affinity for baseball, and plays basketball while he's living on Earth.
* Because he lives in Los Angeles, with the gang at the Hyperion.
* Is a human-form Cylon, but doesn't know it yet. As such, because I can't get jossed again, he:
- Is resistant or immune to most if not all standard human diseases. Fandom's magical plague is a notable exception.
- Has above-average physical strength and endurance, which he attributes to being in good athletic condition.
- Occasionally hears "All Along the Watchtower" in his head.
* Is quite cap -- wait.
And finally:
Shanie (rhi_silverflame) I --
* Will answer to "hey you" (and also "sir" or "bro," and think it's hilarious) but prefer to go by Shanie.
* Am that rare breed: a Los Angeles native. Yep, born and raised and still live here, where I can taunt y'all during snowstorms and get taunted right back when it's a million degrees in the summer.
* Work 7AM-3:30PM (though lately it's more like 7AM-5PM, sigh) Pacific Time, Mon-Fri, and wake up at 4AM to do this, so pretty much run on EST. :P
* Odds of SP while I'm at work are fairly high; I try to get to tags as soon as I can but I never know how busy I'm going to be at any given moment. And these days it is quite busy.
* Am available on AIM at WeeYappyBlondes and UsedToMyWay, and via email at rpg.shanie @ gmail . com or kindofabrat @ gmail . com. I'm not proactive enough to start conversations frequently and don't do small talk all that well, but I won't bite if you wanna say hi! Also on Twitter as TakenByTheWind (and SidelineSolFan, which is where I try to keep most of my sports rambling), and Tumblr as shaniezak.
* . . . yeah, I'm kind of a sports freak. Generally if it involves teams of people trying to put a roundish thing into a net, I'm there. (Soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and basketball are my big ones, but I love baseball too, and will watch football rather enthusiastically if it's on and none of the others are.)
* Might not always be the first to jump into posts or tag into threads, but am aaaaaaaalways up for threading particularly if you don't mind SP.
* Am kind of, tangentially to the above, always neurotic that if I tag you I might be bugging you.
* Have been happily, if not legally, married to divinesurfchick for what will be eight years in February.
* Am a complete, utter, and total dork.
Fandom, meet Stephanie Brown. (Unless you've been following me on Tumblr. In which case I've been spamming her for ages.)
Stephanie Brown, AKA Robin IV - The Girl Wonder
PB: Brittany Robertson
Fandom: DC Comics (Batman, Robin, Detective Comics, Batgirl vol. 2 and 3, Batman and Robin, Gotham Knights, etc.)
A Brief History of Stephanie Brown
Okay, first a little canon rundown on Steph. She's the daughter of Arthur Brown, the Cluemaster, one of the many codenamed Gotham City villains to ever go in and out of Blackgate Prison's seemingly revolving doors. (You can tell he doesn't rank that high on the Gotham criminal ladder because his real name is not a clever pun on his codename.) On account of Daddy being lowlife criminal scum, Steph's home life is not that great -- when we first meet her in Detective Comics 647, her amazing shapeshifting mother is addicted to prescription drugs. (She won't be talking about this unless I clear it with you first.) Not being the type to just sit around and put up with this, though, Steph went and made herself a superhero costume, then hit the streets as the Spoiler, her only intention at first being to, well, spoil her father's heists.
But, you know, crime in Gotham City pretty much being Batman's thing, the Spoiler was suspected of being an accomplice to Cluemaster's scheme and got accosted by Robin (Tim Drake). She hit him in the face with a brick. How's that for first impressions? But Tim got over it and they teamed up to apprehend Cluemaster, and then they teamed up again because see above re: Blackgate and revolving doors. (No wonder Jason Todd has Joker issues later.) The vigilante gig got to be too much fun for Steph to stick strictly to being on duty when Daddy was out of jail, though, and she started freelancing. Batman? Not thrilled, and kept trying to discourage her. Except when he was calling her in to help. LOOK, IT'S COMICS CONTINUITY, IT'S NOT MY FAULT.
Robin, on the other hand? Caving to Steph's persistence and secretly teaching her a few things. And letting her tag along on his missions sometimes. And eventually dating her, even though the conditions of their relationship were that she couldn't know his civilian identity even though he knew hers, so basically date nights were spent on rooftops being big old lurkers or occasionally sneaking into a late-night sci-fi movie marathon with people in costume. Because that's not jerktastic at all, thanks a lot, Chuck Dixon. (Don't get me started on Chuck Dixon and Bill Willingham and the way Steph got written, dude. Just don't. The frothing is epic.) Also giving in to Steph's requests and training her for a while was the Black Canary, Dinah Lance. Until that randomly got dropped. Sigh, DC.
Anyway, Batman eventually let Steph in on Robin's civilian identity and gave her some slightly better crimefighting gear, cue some drama, then Tim Drake's father eventually found out about his son's sekrit nocturnal crimefighting gig and made him quit as Robin.
So enter Steph, walking right on into the Batcave in a homemade Robin outfit and informing Batman point-blank she'll be taking over. He actually agrees, but this . . . doesn't last long. In canon.
See, in canon, Steph disobeys orders while still on a probationary period and gets fired as Robin, only to take up her Spoiler costume again and then get killed off in one of the worst mega-crossover events DC ever did, War Games. That gets Tim to take up being Robin again, and Steph is relegated to a few evidently posthumous dream-sequence appearances to her best friend, Cassandra "Batgirl" Cain, until -- surprise, comics -- her death gets retconned and it turns out it was only faked by Dr. Leslie Thompkins, who wanted to teach Batman a lesson about endangering teenagers, because that's so ethical (but more so than the original "letting her die to make that point" version, I'll allow). So after some time spent in Africa, the Spoiler reappears in Gotham City and resumes her semi-sanctioned vigilanteing ways.
Until Batman "dies." Or in reality, is actually stuck in time. Just go with it. Cue the Battle for the Cowl, where various superheroes including Jason Todd, also no longer dead courtesy of Superboy-Prime punching reality (oh, Infinite Crisis), fight over who gets to be the next Batman. Dick Grayson eventually wins, taking Bruce's grown-in-a-vat-of-chemicals 10-year-old son Damian as the new Robin, Jason turns into a walking-dildo antihero known as Red Hood (an old alias of the Joker's for maximum mmmirony), Tim adopts a big black condom as a cowl, steals Dick Grayson's Kingdom Come Elseworlds costume and becomes Red Robin, and Cassandra inexplicably hands her Batgirl costume over to Steph and just quits. You know. Never mind the seventy or so issues of how being Batgirl was the biggest thing in her life. (I say these things with love, because I do love all the Robins. Even Damian.)
So what does Steph do? Become Batgirl. Which is currently my favorite ongoing DC book.
But never mind all that. Fandom Steph isn't getting fired as Robin; she's getting sent off to school instead. Because a lot of the above history is irritatingly problematic.
Things to Know About Steph
* She's 16 and a sophomore.
* She comes from right after Robin 128 in comics continuity, but because I'm changing how that ends she basically goes AU after that.
* As Robin, her costume is basically identical to Tim's, so she has the green tights and black cape with yellow inner lining. (Early designs from Robin, Teen Titans, and Batgirl gave her a miniskirt thing, but I hate it so I'm going with Pete Woods's version from Detective Comics.)
* She's 5'5", which is tall by my characters' (and my) standards, athletic, but not especially muscular; she's only been training in earnest for about two months.
* At this point in time, she's still dating her version of Tim Drake.
* She's still very much a Robin-in-training; her detective skills are rudimentary, her combat ability is scattershot, and she's not as good at improvising on the fly as the other Robins.
* She is, as are the other Bat-types, ordinarily human with no meta-abilities.
* She has daddy issues. Holy god, does she have daddy issues.
* She is very optimistic and generally upbeat, but she does have a temper.
* She's blonde, blue-eyed, and talkative, which is more or less my type so no surprise there.
* Her PB, Brittany Robertson, appeared in one episode of Power Rangers Time Force as a wee child. This amuses me a lot.
* She's quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy. Also quippy. WHO KNEW?
Steph and the Other DC Characters in Game
Steph, first off, is from a different reality from all the other DC characters in game.
* Bruce Wayne: Well, obviously she'd know him. Not that she'll be telling you he's Batman.
* Jason Todd: Is dead in her time; she would have seen his memorial case in the Batcave so she knows this. No, she won't be going around sharing that.
* Raven: She would recognize by name as a founding member of the Teen Titans.
* Zatanna Zatara: She'd probably recognize by name.
* Dinah Lance: Is her sometime mentor, so she definitely knows her . . . though a teenage Dinah will break her brain.
* Roy Harper: He's before her time; she might recognize his former "Speedy" identity from the Teen Titans, but Connor Hawke is the Green Arrow in her time.
* Jaime Reyes: She wouldn't know him yet! (Although she is supposed to meet him in upcoming issues of Batgirl so yay. But definitely wouldn't know him yet.
* Hayley Fitzpatrick: Is from an AU, so Steph wouldn't recognize her as Harley Quinn.
* Clark Kent: She'd recognize Superman, but not his civilian identity.
* Lana Lang: Really, really doubt Steph would know her.
And finally . . .
What's With the Waffles?
Well. That's a good question. It's been a running gag throughout Steph's current Batgirl series that waffles appear somehow in every issue. But I'm going to pretend that all along, it was a clever reference to how Steph kept saying she would give up the Spoiler gig and kept deciding she liked it too much, okay?
Really, my one regret about bringing her in as Robin and not Spoiler is that I can't make jokes about Spoiler behind the LJ cut.
ETA: Steph's Robin identity is not something she'll be sharing with people. If you think you have reason to be able to tell it's her if you meet her in costume (i.e. Karla's psychic scents), please clear it with me first? Thanks.
And now, we rock the copypasta for my other kids.
Kennedy, the Potential Slayer (brat_intraining)
PB: Iyari Limon
* Is 17 and a senior.
* Is from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but pre-canon for her. In her timeline, season 5 is about halfway done; I'm going to be kicking off with references to "Triangle" soon. THANK GOD, I can actually do something with it now. Will not be living season 8 comics canon, although I may adapt bits and pieces later on.
* Is 5'3" and kind of tiny.
* Is not shy about letting you know she's a lesbian.
* Is not shy about pretty much anything at all, actually.
* Is a pants-and-boots kind of girl, but all her clothes tend to look expensive even if they're not super dressy.
* Is abrasive, pushy, hotheaded, entitled, and kind of obnoxious.
* Is a Potential Slayer, and has been training for eleven years in case she ever gets called as the next Slayer. Has no Slayer powers, save the occasional wacky proto-Slayer dream. I've been playing this as her not remembering the dreams in the morning, but feeling vaguely like she's cranky because she slept on her arm funny or whatnot.
* As such, won't twig your supernatural radar as anything overtly more than human. But since the Watchers' Council had to have been able to identify her somehow, you miiiiiiiight be able to pick up on something (i.e. Tara reads her aura as being really strong; canonically Willow uses Kennedy's life-force to power a spell because "you were the most powerful person nearby") noticeable but completely inconclusive. We can discuss it on a case-by-case basis.
* Is pretty damn decent with a crossbow, passable hand-to-hand, not great with a sword yet.
* Is in a pretty serious relationship with Tara Maclay (life_inshadow). Don't think I don't know exactly how much this will bite Kennedy in the ass later.
* Other people from her universe she's met thanks to Fandom: Buffy, Faith, Wesley, Willow, and Xander. She does not have any idea she's going to actually know her versions of Buffy and Faith in the future, nor that she'll end up knowing Xander, or... see below.
* Will be a Slayer, eventually. After she graduates. Will also end up dating her universe's Willow. Um. After her universe's Tara dies. Yeah. She also doesn't realize that she's from a later point in the timeline than Tara, and is really about three years younger than her. Note: Doesn't know any of this yet and I'm trying to keep it that way, just FYI in case any of your characters happens to know/hear any of this.
* KIND OF FAILS A LOT AT NICKNAMES. (Seriously, "Willpower?")
* Has no canon last name, and I'm not making one up because the second I do it'll show up in the comics and Joss me. (Except I think every time I put this statement in an infopost, I jinx her showing up in the comics at all.) But if you know her, assume you know it. Whatever it is.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Tahiri Veila, the Jedi (weetuskenraider)
PB: Emilie de Ravin
* Is 17 and a senior.
* Comes from the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series of novels that take place a couple of decades after the original trilogy, and is from shortly after the final book in the series, The Unifying Force, having lived through the NJO storyline during her time in Fandom.
* Is from the same time period as Jaina Solo (solo_sword, to whom she is Kind Of Attached in a vaguely slashy way), but about five years behind Jaina in the timeline and from a different version of the GFFA.
* Is almost 5'2" thanks to a recent growth spurt, very slender, with blonde hair, green eyes, and three vertical scars running from her hairline to her eyebrows. Also, is always barefoot indoors and most of the time outdoors, and only wears shoes in the winter, on really dangerous terrain, or if she's flying.
* Is a Jedi, yes. Powerful telekinetic, weak telepath except with other Jedi and particularly ones she's close to.
* Was BFF with Jaina's younger brother Anakin all through childhood, and they'd just started being romantically involved when he was killed in the Yuuzhan Vong War. Was kind of massively shattered by this.
* Is mostly over it now, and dating Jaina's cousin Ben Skywalker (momslilassassin). Has gotten pretty good at not thinking about the fact that Ben's a toddler in her and Jaina's timelines.
* Was, after Anakin's death, more or less adopted by Han and Leia Solo.
* Was orphaned at the age of 2 and raised by the Sand People of Tatooine, so speaks fluent Tusken.
* Is half Yuuzhan Vong thanks to fun with kidnap, torture, and brainwashing (literally -- they implanted Vong braincells in her). But also speaks fluent Yuuzhan Vong, and may occasionally talk to you from that culture's perspective.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Gabrielle, the Battling Bard of Poteidaia (ancientbschamp)
PB: Renee O'Connor
* Is 16 and a junior.
* Hails from midway through the third season of Xena: Warrior Princess and the Very Special Ancient Greece.
* Is an Amazon princess queen.
* Is also a bard, and as such knows and loves to tell a lot of stories, although you're pretty much stuck with ancient ones.
* Can and will make stuff up to talk herself out of a situation, but usually not before she talks herself into it.
* Has awesome abs and generally looks like someone who lives an active and frequently physically strenuous lifestyle. Oh, and she's also 5'3" with reddish-blonde hair (lightening to blonde) and green eyes.
* Can hold her own pretty well with a fighting staff if she has to, but prefers to solve problems without violence, and absolutely will not kill a human being. Like ever. Except for that one time she got tricked into it.
* Has a ridiculous amount of experience with getting held hostage at knifepoint.
* Can and will talk your ear off if you let her.
* Hero-worships the hell out of Xena and will talk about her any chance she gets. And will probably tell you all about how Xena invented CPR, helped come up with the Trojan horse strategy, was friends with Helen of Troy, etc. Or how she herself knows Homer personally.
* Kind of has a thing for puppyface woobie boys. Anything that happens there is inevitably DOOMED.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Lacey Burrows, the Canadian coffee-slinger (laceycantlie)
PB: Gabrielle Miller
* Is from Corner Gas, and comes to Fandom by way of Dog River, Saskatchewan, though she's a native of Toronto and lived there all her life before she went to Dog River to take over her deceased aunt's coffee shop.
* Is very insecure, a little neurotic, and takes this out by constantly trying to help other people improve things.
* Runs Luke's Diner in Fandom, having been duped into visiting by the editor of the Dog River Howler after he got sick of her trying to "improve" the paper, and then getting stuck with the job when she tried to "improve" the way the last manager ran the place.
* Cannot lie to save her life. She's terrible at it.
* Wanted to be a gourmet chef, and gets all wibbly about not getting the chance. It's hell on her already wobbly self-esteem.
* Is very friendly and sweet overall, but not without her sarcastic streak if you get to her enough.
* Has a paralyzing phobia about balloons.
* Will never, ever, ever stop watching the Yule Log channel at Christmastime.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Katina "Katchoo" Choovanski (thismaskiwear)
PB: None, but may as well be Renee O'Connor.
* Is from Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise comic series, heavily modified for timelines and lack of David Qin and WTF TERRY WE ARE NOT GOING THROUGH TEN YEARS OF THIS BACK AND FORTH BS.
* Is BFF/roomies/in love with/involved with Francine Peters (thatsamilkshake), who was her best friend from high school back in Houston before Katchoo up and ran away from her alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather and ended up in Los Angeles as the kept girl to the head of the lesbian mafia.
* Had a fuuuuuuuun experience a little while ago involving said past coming to bite her in the ass, so now Francine as well as Merlin and Arthur know aaaaaaaaaall about that little secret.
* Is 5'3" but looks scrawny and a little underfed, with thick and very yellow-blonde hair, four piercings in each ear, razor blade scars on her wrists (that she keeps hidden), hazel eyes, and a perpetual glare, scowl, or other crankyface expression.
* Has a low, hoarse voice that cracks when she's upset.
* Knows a disturbing amount about seducing information out of people, setting them up for sex-scandal blackmail, setting up corporate takeovers, and maintaining a long-term cover as a lesbian mafia undercover operative.
* Won't be telling YOU about that.
* Probably doesn't like you, either. (Particularly hates Tahiri, Gabrielle, and Kennedy for various petty reasons that really just amount to "I think I'm hysterical.")
* Still has no idea how she got to be friends with Arthur and Merlin, but she wouldn't give that up for anything now.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Jennifer Scotts time_flyer_5)
PB: Erin Cahill
* Is from Power Rangers Time Force, post-canon.
* Time Force Police officer from the year 3000.
* Works as a Research and Development associate at Space Patrol Delta in the year 2024. This basically means she tests the not-spandex and equipment.
* Occasionally also gets sent off on missions for Time Force that usually involve tailing people suspected of time-traveling for dubious reasons.
* Lives in Newtech City, California along with bridge_carson, multiplez, and needsaparrot in the giant dog-shaped building that can also turn into a giant robot when necessary, yes.
* Still has Ranger powers; can morph into pink spandex-wearing, helmeted superhero type. Won't exactly be doing so at the drop of a hat.
* Decent with a blaster; good at hand-to-hand.
* Comes from a futuristic "utopia" that is actually kind of really creepy, on account of all humans being genetically engineered before birth and the complete lack of junk food.
* Will hold a grudge forever against anyone who gets on her bad side severely enough, but that usually takes something like her former duty partner selling Time Force secrets to criminals.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Samuel T. Anders (cantgetnorelief)
PB: Michael Trucco
* Is from the Battlestar Galactica 2003 reboot and pre-canon, currently about seven years before the Cylons obliterate the Colonies of Kobol.
* Goes by Anders; does not like being called Sam although he's slowly learning to tolerate it, but Samuel or Sammy are RIGHT OUT.
* Fairly easygoing jock; plays Pyramid but has developed an affinity for baseball, and plays basketball while he's living on Earth.
* Because he lives in Los Angeles, with the gang at the Hyperion.
* Is a human-form Cylon, but doesn't know it yet. As such, because I can't get jossed again, he:
- Is resistant or immune to most if not all standard human diseases. Fandom's magical plague is a notable exception.
- Has above-average physical strength and endurance, which he attributes to being in good athletic condition.
- Occasionally hears "All Along the Watchtower" in his head.
* Is quite cap -- wait.
And finally:
Shanie (rhi_silverflame) I --
* Will answer to "hey you" (and also "sir" or "bro," and think it's hilarious) but prefer to go by Shanie.
* Am that rare breed: a Los Angeles native. Yep, born and raised and still live here, where I can taunt y'all during snowstorms and get taunted right back when it's a million degrees in the summer.
* Work 7AM-3:30PM (though lately it's more like 7AM-5PM, sigh) Pacific Time, Mon-Fri, and wake up at 4AM to do this, so pretty much run on EST. :P
* Odds of SP while I'm at work are fairly high; I try to get to tags as soon as I can but I never know how busy I'm going to be at any given moment. And these days it is quite busy.
* Am available on AIM at WeeYappyBlondes and UsedToMyWay, and via email at rpg.shanie @ gmail . com or kindofabrat @ gmail . com. I'm not proactive enough to start conversations frequently and don't do small talk all that well, but I won't bite if you wanna say hi! Also on Twitter as TakenByTheWind (and SidelineSolFan, which is where I try to keep most of my sports rambling), and Tumblr as shaniezak.
* . . . yeah, I'm kind of a sports freak. Generally if it involves teams of people trying to put a roundish thing into a net, I'm there. (Soccer, hockey, lacrosse, and basketball are my big ones, but I love baseball too, and will watch football rather enthusiastically if it's on and none of the others are.)
* Might not always be the first to jump into posts or tag into threads, but am aaaaaaaalways up for threading particularly if you don't mind SP.
* Am kind of, tangentially to the above, always neurotic that if I tag you I might be bugging you.
* Have been happily, if not legally, married to divinesurfchick for what will be eight years in February.
* Am a complete, utter, and total dork.