OOC: Infopost, the Gratuitous WHEE BANDWAGON Edition, Fall 2011
Do I have any new characters? No. Am I letting that stop me? Not remotely. I LIKE DOING INFOPOSTS, OKAY. But since I do not have new characters I'm going to fake-bulletpoint my way through this as concisely (ahahahahaha) as possible.
Stephanie Brown, AKA Robin the Girl Wonder (batwaffles)
PB: Brittany Robertson
Fandom: DC Comics (Batman, Robin, Detective Comics, Batgirl vol. 2 and 3, Batman and Robin, Gotham Knights, etc.)
* Is a junior.
* Rooms with Jeremy Darling (stars_and_money).
* Is dating Tony Stark (hoorayimrich) because mixing DC and Marvel is basically a thing that always needs to happen in Fandom.
* Has a second-rate criminal mastermind, Arthur Brown AKA the Cluemaster, for a father.
* Has serious daddy issues as a result.
* Likes punching people in the face.
* Is secretly the fourth of Batman's kid-sidekick Robins.
* The only person who expressly knows this as of yet is Tony. I don't mind other people finding out, but please let me know if you'd like that to happen so we can work it out?
* Is not the sharpest or most experienced junior detective, but she's learning. Her eagerness tends to get in the way of her effectiveness, though.
* Relationships with the rest of Fandom's Batfamily as follows:
- Knows who Bruce is, and that she's way in his future. She is making a very concerted effort not to let anything about his future slip to him if she can help it, because even if he's a much younger Bruce than she knows she has an almost manic need to, if not exactly impress him, avoid disappointing him.
- Knows who Jason is, and knows that in her timeline, at least, he's dead. (In my headcanon, there are certain personality similarities between them that make people tell her they worry she could end up like him.)
- Knows and has been mentored by a much older Dinah Lance.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
See Steph's previous infopost for a more detailed rundown (and explanation of the waffles).
Gabrielle of Poteidaia -- Growing Out of Being An Annoying Sidekick But Not a Badass With a Samurai Sword Yet (ancientbschamp)
PB: Renee O'Connor
Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess (currently late season 3)
* Is a junior.
* Hails from the Very Special Ancient Greece, where anachronism is everything, so if she randomly knows something that should be way past her time and it strikes you as weird, it's most likely intentional on my part, and if it isn't . . . pretend it is, because if canon never cared about that stuff, clearly I should be true to it.
* Is an Amazon 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.
In alumniland:
Kennedy, the Buffyverse's Most Annoying Potential Slayer (brat_intraining)
PB: Iyari Limon
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (precanon, currently between seasons 6 and 7)
* Is from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but pre-canon for her.
* Is of Latin heritage, and from a ridiculously stupid-rich New York family.
* Graduated in May, but has lived through an entire year over the summer term.
* With the single exception of a cracky thing I can't resist adapting heavily, will so not be living season 8 comics canon. (Season 9 starts soon, though. Ugh, watch me decide to adapt stuff from that.)
* Is not shy (read: occasionally kind of obnoxious, actually) about letting you know she's a lesbian.
* Is not shy about pretty much anything at all.
* Is abrasive, pushy, hotheaded, entitled, and kind of obnoxious.
* Is a Potential Slayer, and has been training for twelve years under her Watcher, Constance Aluko (my headcanon), in case she ever gets called as the next Slayer. Has no Slayer powers, save the occasional wacky proto-Slayer dream.
* Dated Tara Maclay (life_inshadow) for almost a year and a half until they broke up over the summer. They're still friends, but it's a little weird. How weird, neither of them has any idea yet.
* Courtesy of Fandom, has met Buffy, Faith, Wesley, Willow, and Xander. All she knows of her future yet is that she'll go to Sunnydale, because Xander told her.
* Just tossing this out here to clarify since a couple of people asked and I think I tried too hard to be subtle: Yes, Constance has known for a while exactly who Tara is, and knows that in Kennedy's time she's dead, and she's deliberately not telling Kennedy any of this.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Tahiri Veila: Jedi Knight, Enemy of Footwear, Tricultural Fast Talker (weetuskenraider)
PB: Emilie de Ravin
Fandom: Star Wars Expanded Universe (post-New Jedi Order, pre-Dark Nest)
* Lived through the NJO storyline during her time in Fandom.
* Is from the same general time period as Jaina Solo (solo_sword, to whom she is Kind Of Attached in a vaguely slashy way), but from a different version of the GFFA and a few years behind her.
* Is almost 5'2" thanks to a late 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 pretty much over that now, and until the beginning of the summer was dating Jaina's cousin Ben Skywalker (momslilassassin). Yes, he's a wee child in her and Jaina's timelines. I may enjoy impossible and doomed intra-canon ships of Wrong. It's a thing.
* 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.
Katina "Katchoo" Choovanski, the Original Angry Blonde Or Something (thismaskiwear)
PB: Comic art, but use an older Renee O'Connor as a visual reference.
Fandom: Strangers in Paradise
* Is from Terry Moore's long-running comic series, heavily modified for timelines and a reduced/altered role for 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." Though all things considered she might get along with Steph.)
* 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.
Samuel T. Anders: Athlete, Unwitting Toaster, and Also Bob Dylan (No, Really) (cantgetnorelief)
PB: Michael Trucco
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
* Is pre-canon, currently about six 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.
- Because he wrote the song originally, in his universe. See? Bob Dylan.
- WILL HAVE SOMETHING DONE WITH THIS SOMEDAY, I SWEAR TO GOD. REALLY.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Jennifer Scotts, Proving the Guy in Red Doesn't Always Lead the Power Ranger Team (time_flyer_5)
PB: Erin Cahill
Fandom: Power Rangers Time Force
* Is 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 BADCREEPYWRONG, 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.
Lacey Burrows: Who Needs Self-Esteem Anyway? (laceycantlie)
PB: Gabrielle Miller
Fandom: Corner Gas
* Is from Corner Gas, and came 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.
* Used to run 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.
***
Oh, yeah, and --
Shanie -- Hey, That's Me! (rhi_silverflame)
* Live in Los Angeles, and as such function on Pacific Time, but I'm up at 4:30 in the morning so I more or less run on EST.
* 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.
* 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 used to try to keep most of my sports rambling but it all sort of bleeds together now because I gave up trying to switch accounts), 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 with some degree of enthusiasm if there isn't much else on.)
* Have a tendency to wander off to concerts and plays and live shows several times a month, frequently on impulse.
* 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. (Also I apologize a lot, unnecessarily. Ask chief_cheerio.)
* Actually, let's just cut that down to "always neurotic."
* Have been happily, if not legally, married to divinesurfchick for eight and a half years.
* Am a complete, utter, and total dork.
Stephanie Brown, AKA Robin the Girl Wonder (batwaffles)
PB: Brittany Robertson
Fandom: DC Comics (Batman, Robin, Detective Comics, Batgirl vol. 2 and 3, Batman and Robin, Gotham Knights, etc.)
* Is a junior.
* Rooms with Jeremy Darling (stars_and_money).
* Is dating Tony Stark (hoorayimrich) because mixing DC and Marvel is basically a thing that always needs to happen in Fandom.
* Has a second-rate criminal mastermind, Arthur Brown AKA the Cluemaster, for a father.
* Has serious daddy issues as a result.
* Likes punching people in the face.
* Is secretly the fourth of Batman's kid-sidekick Robins.
* The only person who expressly knows this as of yet is Tony. I don't mind other people finding out, but please let me know if you'd like that to happen so we can work it out?
* Is not the sharpest or most experienced junior detective, but she's learning. Her eagerness tends to get in the way of her effectiveness, though.
* Relationships with the rest of Fandom's Batfamily as follows:
- Knows who Bruce is, and that she's way in his future. She is making a very concerted effort not to let anything about his future slip to him if she can help it, because even if he's a much younger Bruce than she knows she has an almost manic need to, if not exactly impress him, avoid disappointing him.
- Knows who Jason is, and knows that in her timeline, at least, he's dead. (In my headcanon, there are certain personality similarities between them that make people tell her they worry she could end up like him.)
- Knows and has been mentored by a much older Dinah Lance.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
See Steph's previous infopost for a more detailed rundown (and explanation of the waffles).
Gabrielle of Poteidaia -- Growing Out of Being An Annoying Sidekick But Not a Badass With a Samurai Sword Yet (ancientbschamp)
PB: Renee O'Connor
Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess (currently late season 3)
* Is a junior.
* Hails from the Very Special Ancient Greece, where anachronism is everything, so if she randomly knows something that should be way past her time and it strikes you as weird, it's most likely intentional on my part, and if it isn't . . . pretend it is, because if canon never cared about that stuff, clearly I should be true to it.
* Is an Amazon 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.
In alumniland:
Kennedy, the Buffyverse's Most Annoying Potential Slayer (brat_intraining)
PB: Iyari Limon
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (precanon, currently between seasons 6 and 7)
* Is from season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but pre-canon for her.
* Is of Latin heritage, and from a ridiculously stupid-rich New York family.
* Graduated in May, but has lived through an entire year over the summer term.
* With the single exception of a cracky thing I can't resist adapting heavily, will so not be living season 8 comics canon. (Season 9 starts soon, though. Ugh, watch me decide to adapt stuff from that.)
* Is not shy (read: occasionally kind of obnoxious, actually) about letting you know she's a lesbian.
* Is not shy about pretty much anything at all.
* Is abrasive, pushy, hotheaded, entitled, and kind of obnoxious.
* Is a Potential Slayer, and has been training for twelve years under her Watcher, Constance Aluko (my headcanon), in case she ever gets called as the next Slayer. Has no Slayer powers, save the occasional wacky proto-Slayer dream.
* Dated Tara Maclay (life_inshadow) for almost a year and a half until they broke up over the summer. They're still friends, but it's a little weird. How weird, neither of them has any idea yet.
* Courtesy of Fandom, has met Buffy, Faith, Wesley, Willow, and Xander. All she knows of her future yet is that she'll go to Sunnydale, because Xander told her.
* Just tossing this out here to clarify since a couple of people asked and I think I tried too hard to be subtle: Yes, Constance has known for a while exactly who Tara is, and knows that in Kennedy's time she's dead, and she's deliberately not telling Kennedy any of this.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Tahiri Veila: Jedi Knight, Enemy of Footwear, Tricultural Fast Talker (weetuskenraider)
PB: Emilie de Ravin
Fandom: Star Wars Expanded Universe (post-New Jedi Order, pre-Dark Nest)
* Lived through the NJO storyline during her time in Fandom.
* Is from the same general time period as Jaina Solo (solo_sword, to whom she is Kind Of Attached in a vaguely slashy way), but from a different version of the GFFA and a few years behind her.
* Is almost 5'2" thanks to a late 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 pretty much over that now, and until the beginning of the summer was dating Jaina's cousin Ben Skywalker (momslilassassin). Yes, he's a wee child in her and Jaina's timelines. I may enjoy impossible and doomed intra-canon ships of Wrong. It's a thing.
* 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.
Katina "Katchoo" Choovanski, the Original Angry Blonde Or Something (thismaskiwear)
PB: Comic art, but use an older Renee O'Connor as a visual reference.
Fandom: Strangers in Paradise
* Is from Terry Moore's long-running comic series, heavily modified for timelines and a reduced/altered role for 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." Though all things considered she might get along with Steph.)
* 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.
Samuel T. Anders: Athlete, Unwitting Toaster, and Also Bob Dylan (No, Really) (cantgetnorelief)
PB: Michael Trucco
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
* Is pre-canon, currently about six 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.
- Because he wrote the song originally, in his universe. See? Bob Dylan.
- WILL HAVE SOMETHING DONE WITH THIS SOMEDAY, I SWEAR TO GOD. REALLY.
* Is quite capable of being smartass, sarcastic, and/or bitchy.
Jennifer Scotts, Proving the Guy in Red Doesn't Always Lead the Power Ranger Team (time_flyer_5)
PB: Erin Cahill
Fandom: Power Rangers Time Force
* Is 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 BADCREEPYWRONG, 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.
Lacey Burrows: Who Needs Self-Esteem Anyway? (laceycantlie)
PB: Gabrielle Miller
Fandom: Corner Gas
* Is from Corner Gas, and came 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.
* Used to run 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.
***
Oh, yeah, and --
Shanie -- Hey, That's Me! (rhi_silverflame)
* Live in Los Angeles, and as such function on Pacific Time, but I'm up at 4:30 in the morning so I more or less run on EST.
* 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.
* 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 used to try to keep most of my sports rambling but it all sort of bleeds together now because I gave up trying to switch accounts), 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 with some degree of enthusiasm if there isn't much else on.)
* Have a tendency to wander off to concerts and plays and live shows several times a month, frequently on impulse.
* 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. (Also I apologize a lot, unnecessarily. Ask chief_cheerio.)
* Actually, let's just cut that down to "always neurotic."
* Have been happily, if not legally, married to divinesurfchick for eight and a half years.
* Am a complete, utter, and total dork.