Across Reality App
::PLAYER INFORMATION::
Name or preferred nickname: Bitsy.
Email address: h dot hollister at gmail dot com
Age (optional): 33
Journal: cheezdanish
IM handle (optional): NoKindOfSky
Current characters in Across Reality: ajrimmer_ssc
::CHARACTER INFORMATION::
Name: Hippolyta Daphne Hollister
Journal: h_hollister
Age: 33 (yeah shush, it's legit math, she was 31 in 2006, and now she's 33.)
Fandom (if an OC for a specific fandom): Red Dwarf
Form of media (book/TV series/video game/comic etc.): TV.
Crossing realities:
Hips has been living the last three years of her life in a Nexus of unstable realities, where anybody and anything can come and go as they please. She's taken to using the invention of a great lady (Eiko Takashima, to drop her name) called a PINpoint to gallavant from one reality to another. The only problem is that, well, sometimes the PINpoint is erratic. She's already had a run-in with being stranded in her "home" universe at one point; this would be take two of that annoyance. Hips will appear on the Dwarf due to the result of a PINpoint malfunction, and said PINpoint will not be along for the ride. She'll be well and truly stuck.
Chronology:
Hips will be arriving on board the Dwarf from approximately February 2008 her time. But then again, her original timeline was three million years in the future before she got sucked into the Nexus. She spent most of her adult life serving as a Security Officer on board the Red Dwarf before finally escaping into the Nexus, after the accident that killed the crew...and the nanobots resurrecting the crew. (Post Series VIII, basically.) She spent three years in the Nexus, her time, and met and dallied with some...very unsuitable men. The culmination was her marrying a smegging "zombie" for pity's sake. (Only he wasn't, not really. Las Plagas from Resident Evil 4 are complicated to explain.) In any event, she knows all the original canon cast members of Red Dwarf, and quite a few other canon characters from various shows/games/books etc. Hell, one of her best friends is the god Hermes. He nibbles on her ear when he's feeling naughty.
Background: Hippolyta Daphne Hollister was born in Detroit in the year 2151 to Peter Hollister and Aphrodite Hollister. She spent her childhood being emotionally and physically abused and neglected by these two rednecks. Due to family predisposition and poor diet, Hips was a very large girl by the time she hit puberty. When she was fifteen years old, her father had her sent away to what could kindly be called "military school" but could unkindly be called a "juvenile delinquent detention center from the deepest pits of hell." She was bullied and beaten mercilessly because of her size and her crippling shyness...until one day she just smegging snapped. She fought back, putting one of her tormentors in the hospital and another one in expensive orthodontry. For the next three years, she spent her time learning to fight, losing the weight, and surviving. The day she turned 18, she ran away from the school and enlisted in the JMC. She was assigned to the mining flagship: the Red Dwarf, commanded by her uncle Frank Hollister.
For the next eight years, Hips "climbed the ziggurat lickety-split." Her uncle promoted her as quickly as he could, because he knew talent when he saw it...and she also scared the life out of him. She garnered a reputation for being a hard-nosed bitch, a frigid ice queen, and a scarily competent woman. She was angry all the time. She did her jobs efficiently, powerfully, and brutally, hauling AWOL miners back to the ship and then beating nineteen different kinds of crap out of them.
Then, the accident. She died. Everybody died.
Fast forward three million-ish years, when the crew was resurrected by Kryten's nanobots. She suspected something was wrong, but didn't get the full story for a long while. Two years. When she was assigned to be Arnold Rimmer's parole officer. After quite a bit of bickering, fighting and hatred, they fulfilled every single sickening cliche and fell in love. This caused her to give her uncle the finger and escape in a Starbug with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski. During this escape, the drive plate was knocked out of whack and the crew died again. Bummer.
Therein followed a year of bare survival with no hope of returning to the Dwarf this time. They were wandering aimlessly in space just trying to get by, and encountered a pretty nasty bitch known as Bai who just so happened to have psychic powers. She did a number on Hippolyta's head, which was already totteringly unstable due to her abuse and the cosmic knowledge that she'd died and been resurrected. She broke. And it caused her and Rimmer to go their separate ways. As far as that could be said, anyway, as they were trapped on a tiny little ship together.
But it was probably this mental fracture that allowed her to find the Nexus.
Finding herself there most improbably, and decided to ditch her crew on the Starbug and make a new life for herself without them. And she most certainly succeeded. Setting herself up in an alternate universe where Harry Potter was alive, she moved in with a witch named Nadezhda Serenskaya, and her husband Severus Snape. Good influences, those two. She also had a very nasty, very public, very trainwrecky relationship with one Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool. This heartbreak caused her to fling herself into a purloined copy of Better Than Life, and Deadpool had to jump in to save her. This only deepened the fracture in her scattered blonde head...
Eventually she and Deadpool went their separate ways, and she found herself in a relationship with Thundercracker, a Decepticon in a human body. (Noticing a theme in her tastes in men yet?) TC, or Tee as she called him, was totally unsuited for a romantic relationship and ditched her frequently to go wandering. The relationship ended for good when she tried to "save" a young man that she met in the Nexus, a twisted little man in a death cult known as Los Illuminados...
Ramon Salazar was just as broken as she was. Moreso, in fact. He looked like a short old man with a child's face, even though he was only twenty years old. He was caught in the ultimate trap: wanting to bring about the end of humanity for his master, Osmund Saddler, and yet loving and cherishing the friends he had made in the Nexus. This dichotomy ultimately resulted in him confessing his love for Hippolyta...after she'd locked him in her apartment to try to counter-brainwash him. Theirs was such a healthy relationship, really. Eventually, they destroyed Saddler in an apocalyptic battle, wherein she nearly died. After her recovery, she and Ramon were married.
It is at this point that she's brought into Across Reality. Functionally broken, emotionally crippled, mentally scarred and more than a little nuts, she's now been separated from her husband. This'll go over well for her.
Personality:
Hips has a tendency to overreact slightly. Just slightly. She loves nothing more than to pop off at the mouth, pick fights, and annoy people just for the attention. But she's also capable of stunning heights of loyalty; when she makes a friend, it's a friend for life. She would do anything for the people she loves, a relatively short list, and every time she's had a romantic relationship go sour on her, it eats away at her heart like worms. Even though she married Ramon, she still held a tender spot for Deadpool, Thundercracker and Rimmer.
She gets angry very easily, but it's only to cover her terrors and fears. She's also capable of recognizing when she's made a mistake, and will be truly contrite...but very little will change as a result. She makes the same mistakes over and over again, simply because of the way her brain is. She can be incredibly abrasive and loud, again for the attention. She can also be incredibly funny, and loves hearing people laugh. It's as if she's got a direct line on somebody's deepest self, and will do anything to them to get a reaction, positive or negative. She's a chameleon, becoming whatever is necessary to get attention. This will range from being motherly and supportive to bratty and rude to everything in between. She just wants to be liked...
For all her mental instabilities, she's surprisingly competent at whatever she attempts. She ran her own business in the Nexus for a while, and well. From fighting to fucking, she gives whatever she's doing her full attention, and is not very easily distracted. But she's fairly convinced she can be pretty useless most of the time, due to her abusive childhood. Furthermore, she's also pretty fairly convinced that she's not an attractive person, against all evidence to the contrary. The only thing she recognizes as being attractive are her breasts, which are real and spectacular.
Abilities:
Hips has precisely one "superpower." She has millions of itty bitty nanobots living in her bloodstream, constantly correcting her physical health. The common cold don't stand a chance. Gravity will not make them titties sag. As a result, she never gets sick and her aging has been slowed dramatically. This ability applies only to her: she cannot 'heal' somebody else.
Appearance:
Hips is 5'6" tall, weighing in at 136 lbs. She has medium-long blonde hair, blue eyes, and her three-measure is 38D-29-36. She is athletic in build, with muscular arms and shoulders; she works out constantly. (She will NOT be fat again, please and thank you.) She carries herself upright at all times, never slouching or slumping; this makes her appear taller than she actually is. She typically favors muted colors (blacks, greens and grays) and t-shirts and jeans. She always wears her work boots and rarely wears heels. She comes across as a tomboy, but is very aware of her femaleness. Her accent is a weird amalgam of American, British and Spanish. (Spain Spanish, not Latin America Spanish. That would be Ramon's fault.)
Final Notes: Hips appears on the ship wearing a gray cable-knit sweater (it's February where she's from), jeans, her work boots and carrying her purse. In her purse is an energy bar, the keys to her flat in England, her cell phone, her billfold (with £300 cash in it) and several wallet-sized pictures of her friends and loved ones back in the Nexus. She is also wearing her wedding band and engagement ring.
::WRITING SAMPLES::
Bulletin Board (First Person) Sample:
Okay ladles and relish tongs, this is Hippolyta Hollister, First Security Officer. S'up and don't even bother to ask why I'm needed. Pretty smeggin' obvious if you think about it, and if you don't I ain't doing your homework for you.
Basically I'm the chief of police around here, and fuck me running I don't want the job. But I'm gonna do the job, at least until I get the smeg home and back to my actual life, thanks. Anybody want to join me? Good benefits, a pension, and...pfft, sorry, I can't even say that with a straight face. Seriously, though, with all these weirdos popping in from the Nexus - or wherever, you know what I mean - we're gonna need at least a small group of people to help keep the peace. And Rimmer, if you give me any shit about my going over your head in this, I swear to god I'll remove your spleen with a plastic drinking straw shaped like a rocket ship. It's necessary, Herr Kapitan, so shut up shutting up, right?
Applicants can form an orderly queue at Level 343, office 250 starboard. Please bring along any references you can wrangle, even if you make 'em up, I ain't fussy. If you're a no-goodnick, I'll figure it out eventually and will then use my rocket-ship straw on your spleen. And then toss you out the nearest airlock. I watched too much Battlestar Galactica back in the Nexus, and I really really like President Roslin, okay?
Action/Prose (Third Person) Sample:
Hippolyta Hollister, lately Hippolyta Salazar, also known as Hips, Hippydoodle, Hippy Hippy Shake and all sorts of other stupid nicknames thought up by Deadpool, was feeling some serious deja vu.
She'd been in this position once before, when her PINpoint went haywire and dumped her in an alternate dimension of the Red Dwarf 'verse. She'd been nearly killed when it happened, and it was only Eiko's genius and Ramon's quick thinking that eventually saved her. But this felt different. There'd been no wrenching of reality, no terrifying descent into the fabric of the multiverse, no ice-cold vacuum that nearly froze her lungs and heart solid before dumping her on that other ship. No, this was as gentle and unexpected as suddenly flying upward into a ceiling full of helium balloons.
But it still sucked. It still separated her from her husband. It still turned her life upside down and inside out and made her achingly lonely. Especially to see Rimmer, RIMMER of all people for God's sake, married. Married to a ridiculously beautiful woman with long black hair and soft blue eyes and perfect curves...
And Lister. In this reality, Arnold Rimmer was co-husband to that lovely girl with David smegging Lister. The thought of Rimmer and Lister shagging each other made her faintly ill, honestly. None of her business, not that there was anything wrong with that, yadda yadda yadda. But still, she knew them both so well as to know that they'd never been attracted to each other, sexually or otherwise. Probably had something to do with that Raven woman. Weirdos.
And yet...she couldn't help being jealous. Deep in her heart, where she wouldn't admit it (although Better Than Life had pointed it out to her again and again), she wanted that sort of marriage. She wanted to have two men utterly devoted to her happiness. She wanted to know that she was that desirable. She wanted both of those men to look at her like they looked at Raven. Or, better still, she wanted Ramon here too, looking at her like that, and allowing her the freedom to have that sort of plural marriage.
Smeg. She bent back over her paperwork in her office and scowled. This was the utter absolute pits. C'mon, Eiko, where are you when I need you? Save me again, please...
Name or preferred nickname: Bitsy.
Email address: h dot hollister at gmail dot com
Age (optional): 33
Journal: cheezdanish
IM handle (optional): NoKindOfSky
Current characters in Across Reality: ajrimmer_ssc
::CHARACTER INFORMATION::
Name: Hippolyta Daphne Hollister
Journal: h_hollister
Age: 33 (yeah shush, it's legit math, she was 31 in 2006, and now she's 33.)
Fandom (if an OC for a specific fandom): Red Dwarf
Form of media (book/TV series/video game/comic etc.): TV.
Crossing realities:
Hips has been living the last three years of her life in a Nexus of unstable realities, where anybody and anything can come and go as they please. She's taken to using the invention of a great lady (Eiko Takashima, to drop her name) called a PINpoint to gallavant from one reality to another. The only problem is that, well, sometimes the PINpoint is erratic. She's already had a run-in with being stranded in her "home" universe at one point; this would be take two of that annoyance. Hips will appear on the Dwarf due to the result of a PINpoint malfunction, and said PINpoint will not be along for the ride. She'll be well and truly stuck.
Chronology:
Hips will be arriving on board the Dwarf from approximately February 2008 her time. But then again, her original timeline was three million years in the future before she got sucked into the Nexus. She spent most of her adult life serving as a Security Officer on board the Red Dwarf before finally escaping into the Nexus, after the accident that killed the crew...and the nanobots resurrecting the crew. (Post Series VIII, basically.) She spent three years in the Nexus, her time, and met and dallied with some...very unsuitable men. The culmination was her marrying a smegging "zombie" for pity's sake. (Only he wasn't, not really. Las Plagas from Resident Evil 4 are complicated to explain.) In any event, she knows all the original canon cast members of Red Dwarf, and quite a few other canon characters from various shows/games/books etc. Hell, one of her best friends is the god Hermes. He nibbles on her ear when he's feeling naughty.
Background: Hippolyta Daphne Hollister was born in Detroit in the year 2151 to Peter Hollister and Aphrodite Hollister. She spent her childhood being emotionally and physically abused and neglected by these two rednecks. Due to family predisposition and poor diet, Hips was a very large girl by the time she hit puberty. When she was fifteen years old, her father had her sent away to what could kindly be called "military school" but could unkindly be called a "juvenile delinquent detention center from the deepest pits of hell." She was bullied and beaten mercilessly because of her size and her crippling shyness...until one day she just smegging snapped. She fought back, putting one of her tormentors in the hospital and another one in expensive orthodontry. For the next three years, she spent her time learning to fight, losing the weight, and surviving. The day she turned 18, she ran away from the school and enlisted in the JMC. She was assigned to the mining flagship: the Red Dwarf, commanded by her uncle Frank Hollister.
For the next eight years, Hips "climbed the ziggurat lickety-split." Her uncle promoted her as quickly as he could, because he knew talent when he saw it...and she also scared the life out of him. She garnered a reputation for being a hard-nosed bitch, a frigid ice queen, and a scarily competent woman. She was angry all the time. She did her jobs efficiently, powerfully, and brutally, hauling AWOL miners back to the ship and then beating nineteen different kinds of crap out of them.
Then, the accident. She died. Everybody died.
Fast forward three million-ish years, when the crew was resurrected by Kryten's nanobots. She suspected something was wrong, but didn't get the full story for a long while. Two years. When she was assigned to be Arnold Rimmer's parole officer. After quite a bit of bickering, fighting and hatred, they fulfilled every single sickening cliche and fell in love. This caused her to give her uncle the finger and escape in a Starbug with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski. During this escape, the drive plate was knocked out of whack and the crew died again. Bummer.
Therein followed a year of bare survival with no hope of returning to the Dwarf this time. They were wandering aimlessly in space just trying to get by, and encountered a pretty nasty bitch known as Bai who just so happened to have psychic powers. She did a number on Hippolyta's head, which was already totteringly unstable due to her abuse and the cosmic knowledge that she'd died and been resurrected. She broke. And it caused her and Rimmer to go their separate ways. As far as that could be said, anyway, as they were trapped on a tiny little ship together.
But it was probably this mental fracture that allowed her to find the Nexus.
Finding herself there most improbably, and decided to ditch her crew on the Starbug and make a new life for herself without them. And she most certainly succeeded. Setting herself up in an alternate universe where Harry Potter was alive, she moved in with a witch named Nadezhda Serenskaya, and her husband Severus Snape. Good influences, those two. She also had a very nasty, very public, very trainwrecky relationship with one Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool. This heartbreak caused her to fling herself into a purloined copy of Better Than Life, and Deadpool had to jump in to save her. This only deepened the fracture in her scattered blonde head...
Eventually she and Deadpool went their separate ways, and she found herself in a relationship with Thundercracker, a Decepticon in a human body. (Noticing a theme in her tastes in men yet?) TC, or Tee as she called him, was totally unsuited for a romantic relationship and ditched her frequently to go wandering. The relationship ended for good when she tried to "save" a young man that she met in the Nexus, a twisted little man in a death cult known as Los Illuminados...
Ramon Salazar was just as broken as she was. Moreso, in fact. He looked like a short old man with a child's face, even though he was only twenty years old. He was caught in the ultimate trap: wanting to bring about the end of humanity for his master, Osmund Saddler, and yet loving and cherishing the friends he had made in the Nexus. This dichotomy ultimately resulted in him confessing his love for Hippolyta...after she'd locked him in her apartment to try to counter-brainwash him. Theirs was such a healthy relationship, really. Eventually, they destroyed Saddler in an apocalyptic battle, wherein she nearly died. After her recovery, she and Ramon were married.
It is at this point that she's brought into Across Reality. Functionally broken, emotionally crippled, mentally scarred and more than a little nuts, she's now been separated from her husband. This'll go over well for her.
Personality:
Hips has a tendency to overreact slightly. Just slightly. She loves nothing more than to pop off at the mouth, pick fights, and annoy people just for the attention. But she's also capable of stunning heights of loyalty; when she makes a friend, it's a friend for life. She would do anything for the people she loves, a relatively short list, and every time she's had a romantic relationship go sour on her, it eats away at her heart like worms. Even though she married Ramon, she still held a tender spot for Deadpool, Thundercracker and Rimmer.
She gets angry very easily, but it's only to cover her terrors and fears. She's also capable of recognizing when she's made a mistake, and will be truly contrite...but very little will change as a result. She makes the same mistakes over and over again, simply because of the way her brain is. She can be incredibly abrasive and loud, again for the attention. She can also be incredibly funny, and loves hearing people laugh. It's as if she's got a direct line on somebody's deepest self, and will do anything to them to get a reaction, positive or negative. She's a chameleon, becoming whatever is necessary to get attention. This will range from being motherly and supportive to bratty and rude to everything in between. She just wants to be liked...
For all her mental instabilities, she's surprisingly competent at whatever she attempts. She ran her own business in the Nexus for a while, and well. From fighting to fucking, she gives whatever she's doing her full attention, and is not very easily distracted. But she's fairly convinced she can be pretty useless most of the time, due to her abusive childhood. Furthermore, she's also pretty fairly convinced that she's not an attractive person, against all evidence to the contrary. The only thing she recognizes as being attractive are her breasts, which are real and spectacular.
Abilities:
Hips has precisely one "superpower." She has millions of itty bitty nanobots living in her bloodstream, constantly correcting her physical health. The common cold don't stand a chance. Gravity will not make them titties sag. As a result, she never gets sick and her aging has been slowed dramatically. This ability applies only to her: she cannot 'heal' somebody else.
Appearance:
Hips is 5'6" tall, weighing in at 136 lbs. She has medium-long blonde hair, blue eyes, and her three-measure is 38D-29-36. She is athletic in build, with muscular arms and shoulders; she works out constantly. (She will NOT be fat again, please and thank you.) She carries herself upright at all times, never slouching or slumping; this makes her appear taller than she actually is. She typically favors muted colors (blacks, greens and grays) and t-shirts and jeans. She always wears her work boots and rarely wears heels. She comes across as a tomboy, but is very aware of her femaleness. Her accent is a weird amalgam of American, British and Spanish. (Spain Spanish, not Latin America Spanish. That would be Ramon's fault.)
Final Notes: Hips appears on the ship wearing a gray cable-knit sweater (it's February where she's from), jeans, her work boots and carrying her purse. In her purse is an energy bar, the keys to her flat in England, her cell phone, her billfold (with £300 cash in it) and several wallet-sized pictures of her friends and loved ones back in the Nexus. She is also wearing her wedding band and engagement ring.
::WRITING SAMPLES::
Bulletin Board (First Person) Sample:
Okay ladles and relish tongs, this is Hippolyta Hollister, First Security Officer. S'up and don't even bother to ask why I'm needed. Pretty smeggin' obvious if you think about it, and if you don't I ain't doing your homework for you.
Basically I'm the chief of police around here, and fuck me running I don't want the job. But I'm gonna do the job, at least until I get the smeg home and back to my actual life, thanks. Anybody want to join me? Good benefits, a pension, and...pfft, sorry, I can't even say that with a straight face. Seriously, though, with all these weirdos popping in from the Nexus - or wherever, you know what I mean - we're gonna need at least a small group of people to help keep the peace. And Rimmer, if you give me any shit about my going over your head in this, I swear to god I'll remove your spleen with a plastic drinking straw shaped like a rocket ship. It's necessary, Herr Kapitan, so shut up shutting up, right?
Applicants can form an orderly queue at Level 343, office 250 starboard. Please bring along any references you can wrangle, even if you make 'em up, I ain't fussy. If you're a no-goodnick, I'll figure it out eventually and will then use my rocket-ship straw on your spleen. And then toss you out the nearest airlock. I watched too much Battlestar Galactica back in the Nexus, and I really really like President Roslin, okay?
Action/Prose (Third Person) Sample:
Hippolyta Hollister, lately Hippolyta Salazar, also known as Hips, Hippydoodle, Hippy Hippy Shake and all sorts of other stupid nicknames thought up by Deadpool, was feeling some serious deja vu.
She'd been in this position once before, when her PINpoint went haywire and dumped her in an alternate dimension of the Red Dwarf 'verse. She'd been nearly killed when it happened, and it was only Eiko's genius and Ramon's quick thinking that eventually saved her. But this felt different. There'd been no wrenching of reality, no terrifying descent into the fabric of the multiverse, no ice-cold vacuum that nearly froze her lungs and heart solid before dumping her on that other ship. No, this was as gentle and unexpected as suddenly flying upward into a ceiling full of helium balloons.
But it still sucked. It still separated her from her husband. It still turned her life upside down and inside out and made her achingly lonely. Especially to see Rimmer, RIMMER of all people for God's sake, married. Married to a ridiculously beautiful woman with long black hair and soft blue eyes and perfect curves...
And Lister. In this reality, Arnold Rimmer was co-husband to that lovely girl with David smegging Lister. The thought of Rimmer and Lister shagging each other made her faintly ill, honestly. None of her business, not that there was anything wrong with that, yadda yadda yadda. But still, she knew them both so well as to know that they'd never been attracted to each other, sexually or otherwise. Probably had something to do with that Raven woman. Weirdos.
And yet...she couldn't help being jealous. Deep in her heart, where she wouldn't admit it (although Better Than Life had pointed it out to her again and again), she wanted that sort of marriage. She wanted to have two men utterly devoted to her happiness. She wanted to know that she was that desirable. She wanted both of those men to look at her like they looked at Raven. Or, better still, she wanted Ramon here too, looking at her like that, and allowing her the freedom to have that sort of plural marriage.
Smeg. She bent back over her paperwork in her office and scowled. This was the utter absolute pits. C'mon, Eiko, where are you when I need you? Save me again, please...