NaNoWriMo 2006, Character and Plot Descriptions
It's upon us--NaNoWriMo! One month hence, I shall be writing a comedy of epic proportions, about a demon who wants a maid, a schoolgirl who would make a good maid, a guardian angel and her trainee, a set of twincestual twins, God, and Satan.
It's called Deus ex Machina, and the characters are as follows:
Marie Ammadon
MC. Sophomore at Highland Prep School, she's a sweet, studious girl who generally gets a B+ or higher because she has no life but doesn't really care about her homework--she does it because she's bored. The school has no rule on headwear and she always wears that funky bunny-rabbit hood. It doesn't help her social life.
While the school does have rules against pets, her cat Wink follows her to school far more often than it should, and she doesn't really discourage him. Her cat is her best friend, and she doesn't mind being sent to the office because of him.
She doesn't know it, but the cat is a newbie guardian angel on a training mission.
Her favorite quote is "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein) because she loves science and is very religious, and wants to reconcile the two.
Elsie
Elsie doesn't have a last name, because she, though she looks and acts 12, is really 2020 years old and is supervising Wink (whose real name is Winslow) on his training mission. When he screws up, she jumps in and saves Marie's life--her cats are just stray cats that took a liking to her one day, with nothing special about them at all, but they tend to be distracting when they get in trouble. The orange one's name is Mink, the white one's Callie. Callie likes mice. Mink likes snuggling.
Elsie enjoys dressing up, and tends to appear in strange outfits, including the serving-girl one shown here. It is one of her favorites. You can't see her wings just by looking at her (unless she's actively using them), but her shadow has them. There is no way to remove the shadow-wings.
Her favorite quote is "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." (Bertrand Russell) She likes to say it to remind herself that, as important as keeping her charges alive is, there is always an afterlife.
Molly McKinley
New science teacher. She manages to get around the hair dye rule, the uniform rule, the pets rule, and just about every rule she wants to, because she's a devil's advocate, and her tongue is silver and very talented. She can get out of just about anything unless that person knows what she is, and/or has a resonably strong will.
She takes what she wants when she wants it, and is a fair but hard grader. She upholds rules she likes and disregards the others--if she doesn't like you, you get away with less.
Like Elsie, you can only see her wings if she is using them, wants you to, you know what she is (not suspect, know), or are looking at her shadow. She only has a last name because she's a science teacher. Her mission is to find someone she likes and tempt them to the dark side, because she's been complaining about cleaning her own flat and wants a servant. Satan sent her out to find her own maid.
She takes a liking to Marie (of course), and starts her mission.
Her turtle is a demonic turtle named Jack, and serves no purpose.
Her favorite quote is, "Come to the dark side. We've got cookies!"
God
Just your generic God. He's masquerading as the principal of Marie's school--thus, there are no miracles happening until he quits, except in the school. He pops in every now and again to stop or aid things.
Molly's predicament amuses him, which is why he's there personally, rather than just giving Elsie special instruction to keep Molly away from Marie.
Satan
Satan. He's masquerading as the slacker vice-principal of the boys' school (also boarding) a few streets away from Marie's--thus, there are no terrible anti-miracles happening until he quits, except in the vicinity of those two schools. Mostly, it's just mischeif.
Daniel Skeffington
Micheal Skeffington's twin, older by two hours and sixteen minutes. Sweet and happy and entirely attatched to his pet birds BinBin and TickyTicky, he is easily frusterated by difficult things and therefore has a very low GPA, even though he pays attention in all of his classes and does rather well on tests. He doesn't do the difficult homework.
Wink, in a fit of annoyance, eats BinBin. He is cross, horrified, disgusted and sad, and proceeds to kidnap Wink and do unspeakable things to him, until he is forced to reveal himself to save himself from being entirely shaved.
Utter shock ensues.
Micheal Skeffington
Daniel Skeffington's twin, younger by two hours and sixteen minutes. Highly protective of his brother; this gets him beat up sometimes by their older sister who was stuck caring for them when both their parents died, father from suicide, mother six months later from random murder. She's bitter. She would beat them both, but Micheal won't let anything happen to Daniel--and then he got a dog, Friedrick (the husky), and now she gets bitten if she tries to touch either of them.
He inherited depression from his father. It's not terrible, but it's constant and sometimes it just hits him like a wrecking ball and that's when he has to go find his brother or start hitting or crying. No matter where or when, and Daniel is always there.
This is much of the reason that he ends up starting a love affair with his brother; after eleven years of that, his brother has become the default happy-pill, and he's fallen hopelessly in love. Daniel isn't nearly as into it as he is--Daniel is experimenting, and it's clear, and that hurts Micheal further, which makes him resent him, which makes him do bad things. These bad things get brought to the attention of the principal--but the vice principal is interested, and convinces the principal to let him handle it (not hard, when one has all the powers of Hell on one's side).
Winslow (Wink)
Winslow, also known as Wink, Marie's cat/guardian angel in training. He's already gotten his wings--now he needs his title, if he wants anything interesting to do for the rest of eternity. So he's in training to become a guardian angel--this is his final test, and if he passes, he gets his licence.
Unfortunately, he's still just as much of a moody teenager as he was when he was alive 7 centuries ago, and thus is prone to A) Ignoring Marie at just the wrong time, B) Attacking innocent birds, and C) Being gleeful about the tiniest thing he's done right.
I doubt he passes.
You never know, though...
The Thing on the Back of the Imaginary Book: It's Satan's duty to get annoyed with annoying demons, and when one of his lackeys decides she doesn't want to clean her flat anymore and starts whining about a maid, it's well within his rights to send her up to Earth to capture herself a maid. He sends her as a science teacher to a girls' boarding school in the middle of Nowhere, and sets himself up as vice principal of a neighboring boys' school to watch.
There's a girl at this boarding school, a friendless sophomore with her head in the clouds and a bunny-eared hoodie, who seems diligent enough to make a good maid and easy enough to capture.
Unfortunately, this girl is the subject of a Guardian Angel in Training's final exam, and therefore not only has a licenced guardian angel watching her, but also a trainee, who is working harder than most licenced ones for the sake of the exam.
So, really, how could she possibly be blamed for failing half her students because she doesn't like them? She has far too much work to do to actually do her coverup job!
It's called Deus ex Machina, and the characters are as follows:
Marie Ammadon
MC. Sophomore at Highland Prep School, she's a sweet, studious girl who generally gets a B+ or higher because she has no life but doesn't really care about her homework--she does it because she's bored. The school has no rule on headwear and she always wears that funky bunny-rabbit hood. It doesn't help her social life.
While the school does have rules against pets, her cat Wink follows her to school far more often than it should, and she doesn't really discourage him. Her cat is her best friend, and she doesn't mind being sent to the office because of him.
She doesn't know it, but the cat is a newbie guardian angel on a training mission.
Her favorite quote is "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." (Albert Einstein) because she loves science and is very religious, and wants to reconcile the two.
Elsie
Elsie doesn't have a last name, because she, though she looks and acts 12, is really 2020 years old and is supervising Wink (whose real name is Winslow) on his training mission. When he screws up, she jumps in and saves Marie's life--her cats are just stray cats that took a liking to her one day, with nothing special about them at all, but they tend to be distracting when they get in trouble. The orange one's name is Mink, the white one's Callie. Callie likes mice. Mink likes snuggling.
Elsie enjoys dressing up, and tends to appear in strange outfits, including the serving-girl one shown here. It is one of her favorites. You can't see her wings just by looking at her (unless she's actively using them), but her shadow has them. There is no way to remove the shadow-wings.
Her favorite quote is "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." (Bertrand Russell) She likes to say it to remind herself that, as important as keeping her charges alive is, there is always an afterlife.
Molly McKinley
New science teacher. She manages to get around the hair dye rule, the uniform rule, the pets rule, and just about every rule she wants to, because she's a devil's advocate, and her tongue is silver and very talented. She can get out of just about anything unless that person knows what she is, and/or has a resonably strong will.
She takes what she wants when she wants it, and is a fair but hard grader. She upholds rules she likes and disregards the others--if she doesn't like you, you get away with less.
Like Elsie, you can only see her wings if she is using them, wants you to, you know what she is (not suspect, know), or are looking at her shadow. She only has a last name because she's a science teacher. Her mission is to find someone she likes and tempt them to the dark side, because she's been complaining about cleaning her own flat and wants a servant. Satan sent her out to find her own maid.
She takes a liking to Marie (of course), and starts her mission.
Her turtle is a demonic turtle named Jack, and serves no purpose.
Her favorite quote is, "Come to the dark side. We've got cookies!"
God
Just your generic God. He's masquerading as the principal of Marie's school--thus, there are no miracles happening until he quits, except in the school. He pops in every now and again to stop or aid things.
Molly's predicament amuses him, which is why he's there personally, rather than just giving Elsie special instruction to keep Molly away from Marie.
Satan
Satan. He's masquerading as the slacker vice-principal of the boys' school (also boarding) a few streets away from Marie's--thus, there are no terrible anti-miracles happening until he quits, except in the vicinity of those two schools. Mostly, it's just mischeif.
Daniel Skeffington
Micheal Skeffington's twin, older by two hours and sixteen minutes. Sweet and happy and entirely attatched to his pet birds BinBin and TickyTicky, he is easily frusterated by difficult things and therefore has a very low GPA, even though he pays attention in all of his classes and does rather well on tests. He doesn't do the difficult homework.
Wink, in a fit of annoyance, eats BinBin. He is cross, horrified, disgusted and sad, and proceeds to kidnap Wink and do unspeakable things to him, until he is forced to reveal himself to save himself from being entirely shaved.
Utter shock ensues.
Micheal Skeffington
Daniel Skeffington's twin, younger by two hours and sixteen minutes. Highly protective of his brother; this gets him beat up sometimes by their older sister who was stuck caring for them when both their parents died, father from suicide, mother six months later from random murder. She's bitter. She would beat them both, but Micheal won't let anything happen to Daniel--and then he got a dog, Friedrick (the husky), and now she gets bitten if she tries to touch either of them.
He inherited depression from his father. It's not terrible, but it's constant and sometimes it just hits him like a wrecking ball and that's when he has to go find his brother or start hitting or crying. No matter where or when, and Daniel is always there.
This is much of the reason that he ends up starting a love affair with his brother; after eleven years of that, his brother has become the default happy-pill, and he's fallen hopelessly in love. Daniel isn't nearly as into it as he is--Daniel is experimenting, and it's clear, and that hurts Micheal further, which makes him resent him, which makes him do bad things. These bad things get brought to the attention of the principal--but the vice principal is interested, and convinces the principal to let him handle it (not hard, when one has all the powers of Hell on one's side).
Winslow (Wink)
Winslow, also known as Wink, Marie's cat/guardian angel in training. He's already gotten his wings--now he needs his title, if he wants anything interesting to do for the rest of eternity. So he's in training to become a guardian angel--this is his final test, and if he passes, he gets his licence.
Unfortunately, he's still just as much of a moody teenager as he was when he was alive 7 centuries ago, and thus is prone to A) Ignoring Marie at just the wrong time, B) Attacking innocent birds, and C) Being gleeful about the tiniest thing he's done right.
I doubt he passes.
You never know, though...
The Thing on the Back of the Imaginary Book: It's Satan's duty to get annoyed with annoying demons, and when one of his lackeys decides she doesn't want to clean her flat anymore and starts whining about a maid, it's well within his rights to send her up to Earth to capture herself a maid. He sends her as a science teacher to a girls' boarding school in the middle of Nowhere, and sets himself up as vice principal of a neighboring boys' school to watch.
There's a girl at this boarding school, a friendless sophomore with her head in the clouds and a bunny-eared hoodie, who seems diligent enough to make a good maid and easy enough to capture.
Unfortunately, this girl is the subject of a Guardian Angel in Training's final exam, and therefore not only has a licenced guardian angel watching her, but also a trainee, who is working harder than most licenced ones for the sake of the exam.
So, really, how could she possibly be blamed for failing half her students because she doesn't like them? She has far too much work to do to actually do her coverup job!