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The Characters:
Look who's talking! You think the paperboy likes you just because he rides by your front door every morning!
Child of Love: Aino Minako (Student)
Canon: Post Codename: Sailor V, pre Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon
PB: N/A
Original infopost here.
☪ Tall, blonde, blue-eyes, beautiful, and highly athletic, Aino Minako is an outgoing student who loves sports and is not quite as fond of academic subjects! Oops!
☪ Also sekkritly a Guardian of Love a Justice - Sailor Venus!
☪ Always by Minako's side is Artemis, a white cat. Artemis is the feline guardian and adviser to Sailor Venus, and acted as such to her previous incarnation as Princess Venus. He can talk, he just won't do so around you.
☪ If you get funky vibes off non-humans, you'd get them off Artemis - he's an alien space-cat! Minako is also slowly transforming from regular-human into full-blooded Venusian, AND she's the reincarnation of a princess who was the reincarnation/avatar of the goddess Venus, so she might be a little odd, too.
☪ Minako's greatest love is pop culture. She desperately wants to be an idol, and so makes a hobby of chasing them and attending auditions in acting, dancing, and singing whenever possible. Or to go out for the Olympic volleyball team! She's really that good.
☪ Enjoys Oolong tea, curry rice, ramen noodles, and stuffed dumplings, but loathes shiitake mushrooms. Her favorite colors are red, pink, orange, and yellow, and usually dresses accordingly.
And Surreal. The girl child who had been forged into a warrior by pain and blood and fear. Never like a daughter, but always a friend. Someone who could accept what couldn't be made whole.
The Deadly Courtesan: Surreal SaDiablo (Student)
The Black Jewels, Early canon.
PB: Aishwarya Rai
♥ Surreal is sixteen-ish 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. And while she's sixteen-ish, she looks a few years older, more around eighteen - twenty, due to her heritage.
♥ 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 poisons, too, having assisted her mother and Tersa as a child. If you go in the Magic Box? DON'T TOUCH WHAT'S COOKING. This what Tara gets for leaving her in charge.
♥ Her mother, Titian, was kidnapped from Kaeleer and broken by Surreal's sire, Kartane SaDiablo, causing Titian to lose most of her Craft. 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 by one of Kartane's agents, and 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, survived unbroken, 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.
♥ Has issues with males. Look at her face, not her breasts, or she will cut you. Has a Thing with Cara, who also might cut you if you keep staring at Surreal's breasts.
♥ 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. Although 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.
There is another difference between us. You were never Fremen. I am nothing else.
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/townie (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. Is silently pleased about this.
♠ 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.
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.
♦ Going into her sophomore year at Empire State University, with a triple major in business, human development, and psychology. She took a lot of online courses over the summer to keep up and graduate on time.
♦ Lived at 33 Apocalypse Avenue for the summer with Kaidan Alenko, Jack Priest and Ronan Nolan.
♦ A 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 of shapeshifting into an organic diamond form 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.
♦ 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.
That's what Miss Dōjima said anyway, but I don't really trust her. I mean, come on, do you really expect me to believe a word that woman says? Do you?
The Witch Hunter Retiree: Dōjima Yurika
Witch Hunter Robin, Post-Canon
PB: High School - Gemma Ward, Adult - Sophia Myles
You can find the detailed write-up here, and the Fandom Spotlight here.
♥ Dōjima grew up extremely rich, and she's got a habit of making the headlines in the society papers - for all the wrong reasons. Incredibly intelligent, she chafed against her role as the dutiful daughter, and waged a one-girl war against her parents and Japan's rigid gender-and-societal hierarchy since she was fourteen. It made her perfect for undercover work.
Despite her diva-like 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.'
♥ Maintained her deep-cover while a student at Fandom High, for preparation to become a double-agent for SOLOMON's Intelligence Division.
♥ On-leave from the STN-J and SOLOMON pending an investigation into everything that went down at the Factory, and just went behind their backs to cut a deal with former-teacher Sarah Walker with the CIA. Someone's getting a new boss, and reassignment to Verona, CA.
♥ Given that she just taught spying, is out of the spy-closet, obviously. If you knew her during her student days, feel free to be angry at her.
♥ Proposed to withoutverona during their class this summer. Is mildly concerned that he's still in shock. They're eloping because family is a pain.
♥ She's 23 and still a bit of a wild child and a bad influence. Okay a lot of a bad influence. Just ask her Best Roomie Ever.
The Non-Fictional
The Player
☢ Member of the Fandom Shorties Club at 5' 1 3/4"
☢ Answers to Ahddie, Ahds, Hey You, and almost anything else directed at me.
☢ I live with my cats (Circe & Toph) and my boyfriend (The Lad) of seven years in the land of CST. My house is filled with books and comics!
☢ I tend to lose my shoes. While at work. No, I don't know how I do it either.
☢ 31, July 1st was my five-year FH anniversary, and I refuse to grow up 'cause I'm a Toys R Us kid.
☢ My availability has taken a nose-dive in the last nine months, since I'm running the library alone save for my undergrad minions, but if you can see me on AIM (lyrical discord) or gchat then that generally means I'm around. You can ALWAYS always always catch me on email.
☢ Previously played death_of_hope, gorka_wolf, and ofthewilds. Plus numerous NPCs to enable people, because that's what I do.
☢And yes, I'm a dirty enabling ho, with a filthy brain. And I like it.
The Characters:
Look who's talking! You think the paperboy likes you just because he rides by your front door every morning!
Child of Love: Aino Minako (Student)
Canon: Post Codename: Sailor V, pre Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon
PB: N/A
Original infopost here.
☪ Tall, blonde, blue-eyes, beautiful, and highly athletic, Aino Minako is an outgoing student who loves sports and is not quite as fond of academic subjects! Oops!
☪ Also sekkritly a Guardian of Love a Justice - Sailor Venus!
☪ Always by Minako's side is Artemis, a white cat. Artemis is the feline guardian and adviser to Sailor Venus, and acted as such to her previous incarnation as Princess Venus. He can talk, he just won't do so around you.
☪ If you get funky vibes off non-humans, you'd get them off Artemis - he's an alien space-cat! Minako is also slowly transforming from regular-human into full-blooded Venusian, AND she's the reincarnation of a princess who was the reincarnation/avatar of the goddess Venus, so she might be a little odd, too.
☪ Minako's greatest love is pop culture. She desperately wants to be an idol, and so makes a hobby of chasing them and attending auditions in acting, dancing, and singing whenever possible. Or to go out for the Olympic volleyball team! She's really that good.
☪ Enjoys Oolong tea, curry rice, ramen noodles, and stuffed dumplings, but loathes shiitake mushrooms. Her favorite colors are red, pink, orange, and yellow, and usually dresses accordingly.
And Surreal. The girl child who had been forged into a warrior by pain and blood and fear. Never like a daughter, but always a friend. Someone who could accept what couldn't be made whole.
The Deadly Courtesan: Surreal SaDiablo (Student)
The Black Jewels, Early canon.
PB: Aishwarya Rai
♥ Surreal is sixteen-ish 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. And while she's sixteen-ish, she looks a few years older, more around eighteen - twenty, due to her heritage.
♥ 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 poisons, too, having assisted her mother and Tersa as a child. If you go in the Magic Box? DON'T TOUCH WHAT'S COOKING. This what Tara gets for leaving her in charge.
♥ Her mother, Titian, was kidnapped from Kaeleer and broken by Surreal's sire, Kartane SaDiablo, causing Titian to lose most of her Craft. 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 by one of Kartane's agents, and 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, survived unbroken, 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.
♥ Has issues with males. Look at her face, not her breasts, or she will cut you. Has a Thing with Cara, who also might cut you if you keep staring at Surreal's breasts.
♥ 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. Although 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.
There is another difference between us. You were never Fremen. I am nothing else.
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/townie (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. Is silently pleased about this.
♠ 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.
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.
♦ Going into her sophomore year at Empire State University, with a triple major in business, human development, and psychology. She took a lot of online courses over the summer to keep up and graduate on time.
♦ Lived at 33 Apocalypse Avenue for the summer with Kaidan Alenko, Jack Priest and Ronan Nolan.
♦ A 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 of shapeshifting into an organic diamond form 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.
♦ 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.
That's what Miss Dōjima said anyway, but I don't really trust her. I mean, come on, do you really expect me to believe a word that woman says? Do you?
The Witch Hunter Retiree: Dōjima Yurika
Witch Hunter Robin, Post-Canon
PB: High School - Gemma Ward, Adult - Sophia Myles
You can find the detailed write-up here, and the Fandom Spotlight here.
♥ Dōjima grew up extremely rich, and she's got a habit of making the headlines in the society papers - for all the wrong reasons. Incredibly intelligent, she chafed against her role as the dutiful daughter, and waged a one-girl war against her parents and Japan's rigid gender-and-societal hierarchy since she was fourteen. It made her perfect for undercover work.
Despite her diva-like 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.'
♥ Maintained her deep-cover while a student at Fandom High, for preparation to become a double-agent for SOLOMON's Intelligence Division.
♥ On-leave from the STN-J and SOLOMON pending an investigation into everything that went down at the Factory, and just went behind their backs to cut a deal with former-teacher Sarah Walker with the CIA. Someone's getting a new boss, and reassignment to Verona, CA.
♥ Given that she just taught spying, is out of the spy-closet, obviously. If you knew her during her student days, feel free to be angry at her.
♥ Proposed to withoutverona during their class this summer. Is mildly concerned that he's still in shock. They're eloping because family is a pain.
♥ She's 23 and still a bit of a wild child and a bad influence. Okay a lot of a bad influence. Just ask her Best Roomie Ever.
The Non-Fictional
The Player
☢ Member of the Fandom Shorties Club at 5' 1 3/4"
☢ Answers to Ahddie, Ahds, Hey You, and almost anything else directed at me.
☢ I live with my cats (Circe & Toph) and my boyfriend (The Lad) of seven years in the land of CST. My house is filled with books and comics!
☢ I tend to lose my shoes. While at work. No, I don't know how I do it either.
☢ 31, July 1st was my five-year FH anniversary, and I refuse to grow up 'cause I'm a Toys R Us kid.
☢ My availability has taken a nose-dive in the last nine months, since I'm running the library alone save for my undergrad minions, but if you can see me on AIM (lyrical discord) or gchat then that generally means I'm around. You can ALWAYS always always catch me on email.
☢ Previously played death_of_hope, gorka_wolf, and ofthewilds. Plus numerous NPCs to enable people, because that's what I do.
☢And yes, I'm a dirty enabling ho, with a filthy brain. And I like it.