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But he stared at Ghanima. Her eyes, the way they danced when she spoke! The movement fascinated him. Those deep blue, steady, demanding, measuring eyes. And that way of throwing her red-gold hair off her shoulder with a twist of the head: that was Chani. It was a ghostly resurrection, an uncanny resemblance.
The Princess Royal: Ghanima Atreides (Teacher)
Children of Dune Miniseries, Post-Canon.
PB: Jessica Brooks
Spotlight on Fandom is here.
♠ Ghanima is one of those people whom it is hard to miss. Tall, blonde, and striking, with the deep blue-on-blue glowing eyes (yes, they are VERY NOTICEABLE) of the Fremen of Dune. She carries a crysknife with her at all times, and she moves like a hunter.
♠ Ghanima is the daughter of Paul Atreides and his Fremen concubine Chani, step-daughter to previous student and current townie Irulan Corrino (irulan_atreides), and the twin sister to Leto Atreides II (future_sandworm). Timeline-wise, she's from Leto's present and is just a bit behind Irulan. Oh, Fandom Weird, how we love you.
♠ She is the Princess Royal of the Known Universe, Empress of the Imperium, and a potential harbinger of the Golden Path. Currently, she's a liberal arts teacher at Fandom High.
♠ Has absolutely no qualms about stabbing you in the back. Ghanima has a strong sense of morality and duty, it's just that her morals are very very different than yours. Oh, and if you threaten her students, you're dead. You just don't know it yet.
♠ Somewhere along the line became the Sayyadina to a pack of teenagers. May bitch and whine about it, but she adores every single one of her minions.
♠ Ghanima is Pre-born; her mother, Chani, consumed so much melange during her pregnancy that Leto and Ghanima awoke to full, adult consciousness before birth, receiving the genetic memories of both their male and female ancestors. This means she has voices in her head. Lots and lots of voices, and they're all real. She's got excellent mental shielding, but probably would register strangely to any telepathic abilities.
♠ Ten-thousand years in her future, a Duncan Idaho ghola will mention that "the Tleilaxu history said Ghanima had died after a relatively normal life." The Tleilaxu obviously never heard of Fandom.
The Chasind have tales of we witches... I have prowled shadows that you never dreamed existed. Am I an unnatural abomination to be put to the torch?
The Witch of the Wilds: Morrigan (Teacher)
Dragon Age: Origins, Pre-Canon.
PB: Claudia Black
Original infopost here.
☪ Has magic. Shapeshifting is her specialty, but is not above setting your pants on fire if you annoy her. Alistair.
☪ Morrigan is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch. Sarcastic, blunt, fearsomely intelligent, and unwilling to bow before the law of the Chantry outlawing her kind. Take all Emma Frost's worst qualities and strip away even the vaguest pretenses of trying to be nice, and you have Morrigan.
☪ Morrigan is supposedly the daughter of Flemeth -- a legendary and fearsome personage who has walked the Korcari Wilds for centuries. However, Morrigan consistently dismisses these tales and is reluctant (or unable) to confirm Flemeth's actual background.
☪ Her appearance is, well, Claudia Black. In Bioware's character file for her, her appearance is described as: "A svelte, exotic-looking young woman with long black hair and large (yellow) eyes. Her body is relatively thin and not strong," and Black is Morrigan's voice actress.
☪ Flemeth is sending Morrigan to teach at Fandom PRE-CANON, with the excuse of saving magic users from the Chantry, to prepare her for interacting with the Warden. Morrigan just wants to observe humanity, with the hope that being immersed in a village will cure her of her fascination with the grubby little creatures.
The Sadist was right. There were so many ways to efficiently kill a man other than splattering his blood over the walls. It was too bad they didn't give her as much pleasure.
The Deadly Courtesan: Surreal SaDiablo (Student)
The Black Jewels, Early canon.
PB: Aishwarya Rai
♥ Surreal is fifteen and angry. If you own a copy of Daughter of the Blood, flip to page 65, section three, and continue until you hit page 75. That, right there, is exactly when Surreal is coming from in canon.
♥ Has dark skin, long black hair, delicately pointed ears and gold eyes, with a hint of green. She would be capable of passing as Hayllian, were it not for her pointed ears, easily covered up by her hair, or the hint of green in her eyes. Hates her body.
♥ Will usually just introduce herself as Surreal; does not tend to use Kartane's surname to avoid drawing attention to herself.
♥ Likes knives. A lot. She's been training with them since she could walk (it's a Dea al Mon specialty), and is never without at least one. She's a fair hand at poisions, too, having assisted her mother and Tersa as a child.
♥ Surreal's mother, Titian, was kidnapped from Kaeleer and broken by her father, Kartane SaDiablo, but Titian refused to abort the baby, since she knew that doing so would mean she could never have another child. Titian took off and raised Surreal alone until she was ten, supporting them both by turning to prostitution.
♥ Titian was brutally murdered around Surreal's twelfth birthday. Surreal came home to find her mother with her throat cut, so she quickly packed-up what she could carry, grabbed her mother's knife, and ran. Titian was twenty-five. Surreal was raped the next day, and turned to prostitution to survive.
♥ Of course, being a maladjusted teenager, she set about bringing her own justice to the streets and back alleys of Terreille, killing men who wanted to use her and break her with her trusty stiletto knife. "It became commonly known that a wise man paid Surreal in advance."
♥ Has not adopted contemporary dress. Tends to wear leather pants, blouses, and corsets. Might put on a dress or skirts, but only if she's forced to do so.
♥ Has issues with males. Look at her face, not her breasts, or she will cut you.
♥ Her adoptive guardian-figure is Daemon Sadi, better known as The Sadist. Who is the half-brother of Lucivar Yaslana, who appointed himself thumper-of-Karla. Here's where things get timey-wimey: Surreal is pre-canon for all the witches at Fandom High. It'll be another three hundred and fifty years before the events that take place in Daughter of the Blood.
♥ Wears the Birthright Green, with all the powers incorporated therein. HOWEVER. Unlike damned near everyone else in the series, she is NOT a Queen. Or a Healer. Or a Black Widow or anything like that. While Titian was a Queen and a Black Widow, castes don't always get passed down. A few more years and she'll mature to the Grey and be a threat to be reckoned with, but she doesn't exactly have the nurturing instincts that some of the Fandom witches do.
I wasn't trained by the mighty Professor Xavier. I didn't grow up using my powers only for good. I used them for me. They were a way of life.
Without them, it's like being in a sensory deprivation tank. I feel deaf, dumb and blind.
The Telepathic Alumni: Emma Grace Frost
X-Men/Generation X, Pre-Canon.
PB: Jessica Stam
Please go here to let me know if Ems could read your character
♦ Emma comes from the 'Marvel' canon of OMGWTF (Marvel 616). Land of the retcon, home of the mutants, and a general migraine for anyone who believes in pesky things like 'continuity' and 'in character'. That Emma Frost series? Since it contradicts parts of Generation X, it is not my primary canon for Emma. Parts of it have been cannibalized for my whims, and if Marvel can retcon, so can I, only I do it better.
♦ This Emma is nineteen, and does not dress as sluttishly as her adult 616 counterpart yet. She prefers nice designer clothes that accentuate the fact she's pretty, but please do not mod her into wearing low-cut tops or outlandishly short skirts.
♦ One-third of the Fandom Cuckoos, with Karla and Sookie.
♦ Idolizes Kerrigan. Does not realize/care that this may not be a Good Plan.
♦ Not particularly monogamous, and will flirt with pretty/intelligent people who catch her eye and possibly take them home.
♦ Is a burgeoning telepath of high ability. Emma can read and project thoughts, change memories, plant illusions in the minds of others, commits accidental dreamwalking, and has various and sundry other psionic gifts she's working on. Her secondary mutation has already triggered because a house fell on her and Alex Karev. Oops. There's psi-lightning and TK in there too, but those only tend to come out when she's been drugged out of her brain and institutionalized against her will, and she doesn't actually remember using them.
♦ Emma's father is an abusive jerk, her mother and youngest sister are drug addicts, her eldest sister is a manipulative b*tch, and her (adored) older brother committed suicide. Her family disinherited her almost five years ago, once they found out that she was hearing voices, and Emma spent just over a year living on the streets using her fledgling telepathy to get by before things started going really bad, and her friend Hank suggested Fandom. No one knows the whole of this, but Peter Bishop, Jack Priest, Karla, Sookie Stackhouse, and Alex Karev all know bits and pieces.
♦ Slowly gathering her own Inner Circle of people she trusts. You screw with her friends and she will give you nightmares about bugs under your skin for a week.
♦ EMMA LACKS TELEPATHIC ETHICS. I really can't stress this enough. She's got no qualms about taking what she finds and using it to her advantage. She's not actively cruel (usually), she's just very bitter over the fact that people often say one thing and think another, and she loves hanging such hypocrites out to dry.
That said, once you're a friend, you're a friend for life, and you've got a damn scary little blonde that will do anything for you.
Wow Chief! You look more worked up than usual. Does that mean you miss me?
The Witch Hunter Alumni: Dōjima Yurika
Witch Hunter Robin, Pre-Canon
PB: Gemma Ward
You can find the detailed write-up here, and the Fandom Spotlight here.
♥ Took withoutverona home with her to Tokyo. YAY! They've got a nice apartment with a futon, and her kitty Alea.
♥....where she hunts down people with powers for a living. Evil ones! Promise! While being a double-agent.
♥ She's 21 and she's a bit of a wild child and a bad influence. Okay a lot of a bad influence. Just ask her Best Roomie Ever.
♥ Dōjima grew up extremely rich, and she's got a habit of making the headlines in the society papers - for all the wrong reasons. Despite her diva personality, it's kinda hard not to like Dōjima. She's happy, energetic, would do anything for her friends, and doesn't actually understand the word 'no.'
♥ She also has daddy/family issues up the wazoo, which has lead her to become an undercover agent for SOLOMON, but that's a secret.
♥ Fandom has tempered her wild streak slightly, despite what her antics might indicate, and she's actually settled into a relationship with Romeo Montague, whom she adores even if he does keep accidentally getting married. She'll still flirt with anyone pretty, male or female, but she's completely devoted to him.
The Player
☢ Member of the Fandom Shorties Club at 5'1"
☢ Answers to Ahddie, Ahds, Hey You, and almost anything else directed at me.
☢ I live with my cat and my boyfriend in the land of CST, and my house is filled with books!
☢ Unholy addiction to margaritas and Fun Dip. Not necessarily at the same time.
☢ Will bite if you take my fucking Lucky Charms.
☢ My availability is a bit odd since I work multiple jobs, but if you can see me on AIM (lyrical discord) or gchat then that means I'm around.
☢ RL spastic ball of sugar-fueled glee (which some people can attest), not so great at the idea of IMing, pinging, or emailing someone I don't know because I'm paranoid about bothering people. Please. POKE ME. Even after four years in-game, I'm still a fangirl, and I'll probably be thrilled for weeks.
☢ President of the Innuendo Octopus Society.
☢And yes, I'm a dirty enabling ho. And I like it.
But he stared at Ghanima. Her eyes, the way they danced when she spoke! The movement fascinated him. Those deep blue, steady, demanding, measuring eyes. And that way of throwing her red-gold hair off her shoulder with a twist of the head: that was Chani. It was a ghostly resurrection, an uncanny resemblance.
The Princess Royal: Ghanima Atreides (Teacher)
Children of Dune Miniseries, Post-Canon.
PB: Jessica Brooks
Spotlight on Fandom is here.
♠ Ghanima is one of those people whom it is hard to miss. Tall, blonde, and striking, with the deep blue-on-blue glowing eyes (yes, they are VERY NOTICEABLE) of the Fremen of Dune. She carries a crysknife with her at all times, and she moves like a hunter.
♠ Ghanima is the daughter of Paul Atreides and his Fremen concubine Chani, step-daughter to previous student and current townie Irulan Corrino (irulan_atreides), and the twin sister to Leto Atreides II (future_sandworm). Timeline-wise, she's from Leto's present and is just a bit behind Irulan. Oh, Fandom Weird, how we love you.
♠ She is the Princess Royal of the Known Universe, Empress of the Imperium, and a potential harbinger of the Golden Path. Currently, she's a liberal arts teacher at Fandom High.
♠ Has absolutely no qualms about stabbing you in the back. Ghanima has a strong sense of morality and duty, it's just that her morals are very very different than yours. Oh, and if you threaten her students, you're dead. You just don't know it yet.
♠ Somewhere along the line became the Sayyadina to a pack of teenagers. May bitch and whine about it, but she adores every single one of her minions.
♠ Ghanima is Pre-born; her mother, Chani, consumed so much melange during her pregnancy that Leto and Ghanima awoke to full, adult consciousness before birth, receiving the genetic memories of both their male and female ancestors. This means she has voices in her head. Lots and lots of voices, and they're all real. She's got excellent mental shielding, but probably would register strangely to any telepathic abilities.
♠ Ten-thousand years in her future, a Duncan Idaho ghola will mention that "the Tleilaxu history said Ghanima had died after a relatively normal life." The Tleilaxu obviously never heard of Fandom.
The Chasind have tales of we witches... I have prowled shadows that you never dreamed existed. Am I an unnatural abomination to be put to the torch?
The Witch of the Wilds: Morrigan (Teacher)
Dragon Age: Origins, Pre-Canon.
PB: Claudia Black
Original infopost here.
☪ Has magic. Shapeshifting is her specialty, but is not above setting your pants on fire if you annoy her. Alistair.
☪ Morrigan is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch. Sarcastic, blunt, fearsomely intelligent, and unwilling to bow before the law of the Chantry outlawing her kind. Take all Emma Frost's worst qualities and strip away even the vaguest pretenses of trying to be nice, and you have Morrigan.
☪ Morrigan is supposedly the daughter of Flemeth -- a legendary and fearsome personage who has walked the Korcari Wilds for centuries. However, Morrigan consistently dismisses these tales and is reluctant (or unable) to confirm Flemeth's actual background.
☪ Her appearance is, well, Claudia Black. In Bioware's character file for her, her appearance is described as: "A svelte, exotic-looking young woman with long black hair and large (yellow) eyes. Her body is relatively thin and not strong," and Black is Morrigan's voice actress.
☪ Flemeth is sending Morrigan to teach at Fandom PRE-CANON, with the excuse of saving magic users from the Chantry, to prepare her for interacting with the Warden. Morrigan just wants to observe humanity, with the hope that being immersed in a village will cure her of her fascination with the grubby little creatures.
The Sadist was right. There were so many ways to efficiently kill a man other than splattering his blood over the walls. It was too bad they didn't give her as much pleasure.
The Deadly Courtesan: Surreal SaDiablo (Student)
The Black Jewels, Early canon.
PB: Aishwarya Rai
♥ Surreal is fifteen and angry. If you own a copy of Daughter of the Blood, flip to page 65, section three, and continue until you hit page 75. That, right there, is exactly when Surreal is coming from in canon.
♥ Has dark skin, long black hair, delicately pointed ears and gold eyes, with a hint of green. She would be capable of passing as Hayllian, were it not for her pointed ears, easily covered up by her hair, or the hint of green in her eyes. Hates her body.
♥ Will usually just introduce herself as Surreal; does not tend to use Kartane's surname to avoid drawing attention to herself.
♥ Likes knives. A lot. She's been training with them since she could walk (it's a Dea al Mon specialty), and is never without at least one. She's a fair hand at poisions, too, having assisted her mother and Tersa as a child.
♥ Surreal's mother, Titian, was kidnapped from Kaeleer and broken by her father, Kartane SaDiablo, but Titian refused to abort the baby, since she knew that doing so would mean she could never have another child. Titian took off and raised Surreal alone until she was ten, supporting them both by turning to prostitution.
♥ Titian was brutally murdered around Surreal's twelfth birthday. Surreal came home to find her mother with her throat cut, so she quickly packed-up what she could carry, grabbed her mother's knife, and ran. Titian was twenty-five. Surreal was raped the next day, and turned to prostitution to survive.
♥ Of course, being a maladjusted teenager, she set about bringing her own justice to the streets and back alleys of Terreille, killing men who wanted to use her and break her with her trusty stiletto knife. "It became commonly known that a wise man paid Surreal in advance."
♥ Has not adopted contemporary dress. Tends to wear leather pants, blouses, and corsets. Might put on a dress or skirts, but only if she's forced to do so.
♥ Has issues with males. Look at her face, not her breasts, or she will cut you.
♥ Her adoptive guardian-figure is Daemon Sadi, better known as The Sadist. Who is the half-brother of Lucivar Yaslana, who appointed himself thumper-of-Karla. Here's where things get timey-wimey: Surreal is pre-canon for all the witches at Fandom High. It'll be another three hundred and fifty years before the events that take place in Daughter of the Blood.
♥ Wears the Birthright Green, with all the powers incorporated therein. HOWEVER. Unlike damned near everyone else in the series, she is NOT a Queen. Or a Healer. Or a Black Widow or anything like that. While Titian was a Queen and a Black Widow, castes don't always get passed down. A few more years and she'll mature to the Grey and be a threat to be reckoned with, but she doesn't exactly have the nurturing instincts that some of the Fandom witches do.
I wasn't trained by the mighty Professor Xavier. I didn't grow up using my powers only for good. I used them for me. They were a way of life.
Without them, it's like being in a sensory deprivation tank. I feel deaf, dumb and blind.
The Telepathic Alumni: Emma Grace Frost
X-Men/Generation X, Pre-Canon.
PB: Jessica Stam
Please go here to let me know if Ems could read your character
♦ Emma comes from the 'Marvel' canon of OMGWTF (Marvel 616). Land of the retcon, home of the mutants, and a general migraine for anyone who believes in pesky things like 'continuity' and 'in character'. That Emma Frost series? Since it contradicts parts of Generation X, it is not my primary canon for Emma. Parts of it have been cannibalized for my whims, and if Marvel can retcon, so can I, only I do it better.
♦ This Emma is nineteen, and does not dress as sluttishly as her adult 616 counterpart yet. She prefers nice designer clothes that accentuate the fact she's pretty, but please do not mod her into wearing low-cut tops or outlandishly short skirts.
♦ One-third of the Fandom Cuckoos, with Karla and Sookie.
♦ Idolizes Kerrigan. Does not realize/care that this may not be a Good Plan.
♦ Not particularly monogamous, and will flirt with pretty/intelligent people who catch her eye and possibly take them home.
♦ Is a burgeoning telepath of high ability. Emma can read and project thoughts, change memories, plant illusions in the minds of others, commits accidental dreamwalking, and has various and sundry other psionic gifts she's working on. Her secondary mutation has already triggered because a house fell on her and Alex Karev. Oops. There's psi-lightning and TK in there too, but those only tend to come out when she's been drugged out of her brain and institutionalized against her will, and she doesn't actually remember using them.
♦ Emma's father is an abusive jerk, her mother and youngest sister are drug addicts, her eldest sister is a manipulative b*tch, and her (adored) older brother committed suicide. Her family disinherited her almost five years ago, once they found out that she was hearing voices, and Emma spent just over a year living on the streets using her fledgling telepathy to get by before things started going really bad, and her friend Hank suggested Fandom. No one knows the whole of this, but Peter Bishop, Jack Priest, Karla, Sookie Stackhouse, and Alex Karev all know bits and pieces.
♦ Slowly gathering her own Inner Circle of people she trusts. You screw with her friends and she will give you nightmares about bugs under your skin for a week.
♦ EMMA LACKS TELEPATHIC ETHICS. I really can't stress this enough. She's got no qualms about taking what she finds and using it to her advantage. She's not actively cruel (usually), she's just very bitter over the fact that people often say one thing and think another, and she loves hanging such hypocrites out to dry.
That said, once you're a friend, you're a friend for life, and you've got a damn scary little blonde that will do anything for you.
Wow Chief! You look more worked up than usual. Does that mean you miss me?
The Witch Hunter Alumni: Dōjima Yurika
Witch Hunter Robin, Pre-Canon
PB: Gemma Ward
You can find the detailed write-up here, and the Fandom Spotlight here.
♥ Took withoutverona home with her to Tokyo. YAY! They've got a nice apartment with a futon, and her kitty Alea.
♥....where she hunts down people with powers for a living. Evil ones! Promise! While being a double-agent.
♥ She's 21 and she's a bit of a wild child and a bad influence. Okay a lot of a bad influence. Just ask her Best Roomie Ever.
♥ Dōjima grew up extremely rich, and she's got a habit of making the headlines in the society papers - for all the wrong reasons. Despite her diva personality, it's kinda hard not to like Dōjima. She's happy, energetic, would do anything for her friends, and doesn't actually understand the word 'no.'
♥ She also has daddy/family issues up the wazoo, which has lead her to become an undercover agent for SOLOMON, but that's a secret.
♥ Fandom has tempered her wild streak slightly, despite what her antics might indicate, and she's actually settled into a relationship with Romeo Montague, whom she adores even if he does keep accidentally getting married. She'll still flirt with anyone pretty, male or female, but she's completely devoted to him.
The Player
☢ Member of the Fandom Shorties Club at 5'1"
☢ Answers to Ahddie, Ahds, Hey You, and almost anything else directed at me.
☢ I live with my cat and my boyfriend in the land of CST, and my house is filled with books!
☢ Unholy addiction to margaritas and Fun Dip. Not necessarily at the same time.
☢ Will bite if you take my fucking Lucky Charms.
☢ My availability is a bit odd since I work multiple jobs, but if you can see me on AIM (lyrical discord) or gchat then that means I'm around.
☢ RL spastic ball of sugar-fueled glee (which some people can attest), not so great at the idea of IMing, pinging, or emailing someone I don't know because I'm paranoid about bothering people. Please. POKE ME. Even after four years in-game, I'm still a fangirl, and I'll probably be thrilled for weeks.
☢ President of the Innuendo Octopus Society.
☢And yes, I'm a dirty enabling ho. And I like it.