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Muffin Queen Brenda
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:24 am


La-di-da, nothing much to say... so, I'll just copy my profile...

AN IMPORTANT, HOPEFULLY QUICK NOTE.
Two of my characters are of a unique species, which I created myself. They are known as doppelgängers, but this version’s similarity to the folkloric version is in name only. To summarize it, however, doppelgängers have a reason for their existence, which is to serve as protectors of mankind. They begin in a spiritual form, and then they are assigned to a specific person whom their creator believes is in need of their assistance. Physically, they are an exact duplicate of this person, and their appearance is governed by a single rule: that they must maintain this identical appearance. This includes their hairstyle, hair color, eye color, clothing, and important accessories. The person they are assisting is known as their original.

Doppelgängers are immortal. When their original dies, they return to their spiritual form, until they are assigned to a new original. Their health generally depends on their original’s, and due to their copycat nature, they sustain injuries and develop illnesses exactly as their original does. The only exception to this is that the species has one major weakness which is a secret for now but, when exploited, can sicken and potentially destroy the doppelgänger.

NORMAL FORM
Name: Emeriona, usually called Emeri.

Species: Emeri is a doppelgänger. Her original is Danielle.

Alias(es): Queenie #2. That’s about it.

Age: Chronologically, Emeri is 538, but physically, she’s 22.

(I’m too lazy to include details on Emeri’s physical appearance, although that’s due in part to me being unsure of what to write. Emeri is exactly identical to Danielle, so if you really must know how she looks, Danielle tells me that the Queen looks like this.)

Family (include whether living or deceased): None, unless you count her creator; all doppelgängers are created by a being they refer to as Mother Mesorani.

Role (human, villain, or other): ... Clone, I guess.

Relationship Status: She has a boyfriend, Eric, technically, but she’s seriously in denial about it and insists she isn’t in love with him.

Pets (if any): She has a mouse, Erica, whom she named after Eric just to bother him.

Close Friends: Eric is her best friend as well as her boyfriend. She has a few assorted allies, most notably a genie named Kione, whom she occasionally enlists the help of.

Personal Enemies: Everyone who is a personal enemy of Danielle’s is also one of Emeri’s.

Other Info: Let’s see... hm...
- Emeri is what I like to call a “geekophile.” She absolutely adores anyone geeky, sometimes to the point of fangirlishness, depending on the degree of geekiness the person has. XD
- Because of her species, Emeri can do general sorcery, and she also has several powers possessed by all doppelgängers. This includes intangibility, invisibility, and teleportation. She can communicate telepathically with other doppelgängers, detect the auras of people around her in order to determine the nature of their personality, and also has an empathic connection with her original.

OTHER FORMS
Form (human, villain, upgraded, future, etc.): Spiritual.

Name: Technically, in this form, she’s Serial No. 4382697, but she’s usually still called Emeri.

Alias(es): None.

Age: She’s still 538 chronologically, and physically she’s ageless in this form.

Appearance (because it’s easier to compact it): In their spiritual forms, doppelgängers are very nondescript. Most of the physical features humans possess are gone; they have no face, no hair, and no gender-specific features. They are ghostly and wraithlike, and they do not wear clothing. Their spiritual form is usually a uniform color, and Emeri’s is golden-yellow.

Role (human, villain, or other): ... No idea. XD Um... let’s just say spirit.

Other Info (include how this form came to be):
- This is a doppelgänger’s natural form, which they revert to when their original dies or, if they are powerful enough, can shapeshift into.
- In this form, they are intangible, and they cannot touch anything. Most of their usual powers are gone/cannot be used. They do, however, gain a new power by taking this form: shapeshifting. They are also invincible in this form and cannot be injured (but the major weakness of the species still holds, and they can still be sickened/destroyed).
PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:49 pm


Okay, so I’m a bit of a stickler for spelling, and Kate said this might be helpful. So here’s a quick spelling lesson for the orthographically-impaired.

The name of Emeri’s species is a German word, and the correct-correct spelling is DOPPELGÄNGER. Note that the E comes before the L, and that there is an umlaut (the pair of dots) over the A. To render the character like that, hold down the Alt key and type 0228 on the calculator pad (if you have one). To write it without the umlaut, the alternative German spelling is DOPPELGAENGER, which adds an E after the A instead.

I realize it’s a bit rude to correct people that way, but I see it being misspelled frequently. In fact, most people don’t spell it correctly at all. So, there you go.

Muffin Queen Brenda
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