Name: Julian Zhivago Gender/Pronoun: Intersex; he/him Age: 28 Birthday: His ID says November 25, 1993. Sign: Scorpio Gemstone: Opal Blood Type: AB
Fav. Food: While he makes a show out of favoring quality ingredients and fine cuisine… secretly, it’s prawn chips. And spray cheese. And instant noodles. And pizza loaded with anchovies and olives. He loves junk food, okay? Don’t tell anybody.
Hated Food: Tiramisu and other desserts that can be described as “rich.”
School/Occupation: Veterinary technician
Hobbies:
Billiards -- Julian is good at pool and doesn’t know why, but it helps him think so he keeps doing it. It’s common to see him shooting at the bar before it gets too busy, and he usually prefers playing on his own.
Taking the Lead -- In his time away from Destiny City, Julian became an accomplished tango dancer. It’s one place in his life where he can lose himself in a sense of passion, and he especially enjoys dancing competitively.
Smelling Really Good -- Julian has an ever-growing collection of essential oils he uses to make his own custom perfume blends. He has a variety of scents for different moods, occasions and seasons.
Virtues:
Honorable -- Julian doesn’t like bullshit, and he doesn’t like putting people through it either, so he works to keep himself accountable to others. He keeps his promises and doesn’t let personal grudges or recent conflicts get in the way of making compassionate choices. When someone points out he made a mistake or did something harmful, he accepts it and does his best to make amends.
Enduring -- Julian’s past experiences and memory loss have not dampened his drive to reach his full potential - if anything, they actually strengthened his resolve. It’s how he survived putting back together a life that fell apart years ago, and it’s what brought him back to Destiny City even though the idea filled him with dread. His will to live a life he can be proud of empowers him to face whatever suffering and hardship it takes to make that possible.
Grounded -- Knowing one’s personal values and priorities can provide a foundation to build a life on, and Julian is very well in-tune with his. His honor code and convictions give him the stability and momentum to navigate most situations with confidence. When he makes a decision, he rarely has to question it or debate himself over it.
Flaws:
Grim -- Julian’s tolerance for suffering is disturbingly high, and it’s partially because he indulges in it. It’s his element. He doesn’t really consider the possibility of living any other way, and it shows. He’s more likely to complain than rejoice, and he’s more likely to criticize himself than show any love for himself. The cruelty he’s witnessed and committed always lurks in the back of his mind, and it tells him to push his blessings away.
Inhibited -- Letting loose, goofing off, being spontaneous, and doing things just because -- these are all completely foreign ideas for Julian. Everything he does has to fit into some goal or mission or agenda he’s involved with, otherwise it’s a waste of time. Even his breaks shooting pool take place on a strict schedule he never wavers from.
Tense -- Discomfort rolls off of Julian in waves. He’s emotionally closed off, haunted by trauma, and under a lot of pressure to prove himself and live by his values and make something of his life even though he doesn’t know a damn thing about who or what he was outside of the Negaverse before his time away from Destiny City. The last thing he wants is for anyone to see how confused and terrified he is, so he hides behind walls that take desperate effort to maintain. It’s not pretty when they crack.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Murky grayish yellow-green, thin and deep-set.
Hair: Muted plum in color, straight.
Face: Expressive browline, high cheekbones, strong jaw and prominent nose -- overall sharp and angular. His expressions tend to be stern and flat, and he’s hard to read unless he’s angry.
Skin Tone: Pale
Body Type: 5’10”, ectomorphic, and in good enough shape to lift and restrain large dogs. Spidery hands.
Clothes: Julian puts exhaustive effort into his appearance and makes unique and pleasing looks out of thrift store finds. He favors bold-colored button-ups, artsy vests and Mandarin-style jackets, all well-ironed.
Janice Fitzpatrick Someday this name will be in textbooks.
Name: Janice Fitzpatrick
Nickname: Prefers Jan.
Age: 20
Birthday: October 31
Sign: Scorpio
Gemstone: Opal
Blood Type: AB
Fav. Food: Stuff labeled as "fresh," "homegrown" and "organic," things made from higher-priced and fancy-labelled ingredients. She's someone who's willing to spend the extra bit of money on quality and would probably make for an expensive dinner date. Has a particular fondness for Mediterranean cuisine and other dishes that give her an excuse to throw giant chunks of tomato and pepper into.
Hated Food: Anything cheap or junky. Janice can't stand cafeteria food and isn't too keen on fast food either. Frozen anything is right out, and she casts a wary eye to the word "instant" unless it's tea or a hot drink. The only time you'll ever see her touching a microwave is to quickly defrost something or reheat some leftovers.
School: DCU (premed)
Hobbies: Board Games - While it's a decidedly a strange thing to have a passion for, Janice has a notable one for board games. From backgammon to Connect-4 to Candyland to Risk, she owns at least one set of nearly every game under the sun, and it's unusual for her to not have at least one or two of them set up and in progress at any given point in time. Though she's very practiced in all kinds, the ones she enjoys the most and plays the best are intensive strategy ones: she's won several local tournaments in chess and Scrabble, and for the sake of a new challenge she's recently picked up and started teaching herself the workings of Mahjong (and has already started sneering and scoffing at people who think Mahjong is a tile matching game for the PC).
Basically, a surefire way to get Janice to associate with you is to sit across from her at a table and put a board game in front of her. It's a very rare circumstance in which she'll refuse to play a game with anyone, or stop it prematurely.
Collecting - As said above, Janice possesses at least one set of every game under the sun, and the keywords there are at least one. She's on the lookout for every edition of Monopoly that exists, owns chess sets with themes ranging from the Simpsons to DC vs. Marvel (she refuses to play Marvel side) to the Civil War, and worse yet, her hoarding habits do not stop with her collection of board games. One set of shelves in her room is dedicated to an enormous unholy legion of windup toys, she has enough snowglobes that you could melt them all down and make one big enough to fit Meadowview High's entire student body in, she has a somewhat enviable and well-kept stack of DC comics she dutifully never pulls out and reads; really, the only thing she never developed an interest in collecting at some point in her life was the tried-and-true postage stamp. She literally has a collection of collections, and will occasionally flit between flea markets to buy, sell and trade for new and lost interests alike.
Billiards - When regarding someone like Janice, one would probably, quickly assume that any spectator sport she'd be involved in wouldn't be an outdoorsy one -- and they would be right. While she'll willingly have a go at other breakroom games like table tennis and darts, the pace and careful calculations of pool are what she prefers the most and has the most difficult time getting bored of. To be honest, the main reason she likes it is that, sans the predictable structure of tiles, it plays out fundamentally like a board game, requiring strategy and turn-by-turn planning and some capacity to anticipate what will happen next -- you just happen to move the pieces around by smacking a ball into them with the aid of a polished stick. Sign her up.
Virtues: Passionate - Janice tries to pride herself as being some sort of Vulcan -- emotionless, logical and cool-headed -- and, ironically, one of her best qualities is the fact that she isn't one at all. When she devotes herself to something, she genuinely means it, invests all her power and untold countless hours of time into it. While she might outwardly not seem like someone you can count on, she actually is Someone You Can Count On by virtue of how impassioned she gets about whatever she is being depended on for. This makes her equal parts intensely loyal and intensely dependable: she's a classic example of someone who tries their damnedest to not give a s**t, but the amount of s**t she actually gives is enough to affect her actions.
Driven - Janice will pass Go. Janice will collect two hundred dollars. Janice will own Boardwalk and Park Place and have hotels erected on both, because Janice Fitzpatrick does not take failure as an option. Janice has lofty goals and high standards and the motivation to meet and live up to them; her willpower is a bullet train with a clear destination set in mind. She works it harder, makes it better, does it faster until it makes her stronger, she has no room in her daily planner for giving up and no tolerance for half-assing or good-enoughing. Being the best and being successful is something she's aware takes a lot of work, and she is ready and willing to do all the work that's required for it. There's a somewhat imposing, but very solid air of confidence about her that puts a degree of authority in her words and actions; she's someone who can be trusted to Get s**t Done.
Nobody Expects The Janice Inquisition - It's not to say that she's a human lie detector or cold reader -- that takes years of training and experience that she does not possess -- but Janice is an extremely difficult person to bullshit by virtue of critical thinking skills. She has a natural tendency towards observing her surroundings meticulously and carefully: she takes nothing at face value if she has reason to doubt it, and this applies very readily towards the words of others. A lie can pass by her unnoticed just like it can anyone else if she knows nothing to the contrary, but when she's on the hunt for information she picks up on attempts to bluff or distract her away from the topic very quickly. She doesn't hide the fact she knows you're trying to weasel away from giving a straight answer, and often attempts to press until you do.
All My Ducks In A Row - There are obsessive, meticulous levels of organization and planning in virtually everything Janice does, from the upkeep of her personal space to school assignments to her chess gambits. She possesses the brand of spatial thinking that enables her to be utterly horrifying with Starcraft and pretty much every game ever created by Sid Meier, and can apply it pretty flexibly. Pattern detection and prediction is something she finds intrinsically interesting, and as such she has an everyday tendency towards trying to find patterns in everything and creating ones when organizing her belongings -- in other words, this is the Janice Is Good At Board Games And Strategizing trait. She goes very in-depth and always tries to think three metaphorical moves ahead; however, this only really works if whatever she's dealing with has some sort of predictability to it.
Flaws: Under Arrest For Not Being Fun - Janice is a grouch. Not only that, but she puts obvious effort into being one. She's overly concerned with other people taking her seriously, and often ends up being such a stick in the mud that it turns her into a killjoy or earns her more estrangement than respect; she tries to be the straight man in a group and ends up looking sillier than the people goofing off. In some circles she can be thought of as a bit of a workaholic, since she has it in her head that putting your nose to the grindstone is the formula for being mature -- and when you're mature, you have no time or desire to come out and play. This is not Silly Time, it is Work Time. She's the one who kills Funbot with her laser eyes, or at least stands around with her arms crossed and a brooding look on her face while her peers are having a good time: she's Bert, she's Snape, she's Squidward Tentacles. Isn't, couldn't, didn't, wouldn't; yes, now go away.
Giant Goddamned Snob - This trait does what it says on the tin: Janice is a giant, goddamned snob. She possesses the coffeehouse intellectual pretentiousness of someone who considers themselves outside of and above the social norm, does the emo kid scoffing at capitalism-controlled sheeple and thinks she has a unique perspective because she doesn't use the word "sheeple" for it. She's someone who will go out of her way to try some overly-advertised new product just so she can justifiably say that it sucks, and skim over the fact that advertisers are expecting to glean some of their revenue from people doing exactly that. Her speaking vocabulary is full of big fancy words in order to sound like a sophisticated, independent free thinker. She genuinely enjoys freeform jazz music. She's one of the sort who won't go to bed at a reasonable hour when someone is wrong on the Internet.
Issue-Avoidant - As hinted at above, Janice is extremely, futilely driven to Not Care. She sees any sign of emotion in herself as a sign of personal weakness, and she attempts to circumvent it by maintaining a stoic outward appearance or rerouting anything she might be feeling into frustration she can channel into something productive. She possesses a host of issues and worries she is trying to pretend do not exist, and so she distracts herself with microscopic details in school assignments and half a dozen simultaneous board games in order to not have to think about them.
Intensely Creepy And Creepily Intense - As much as she tries to put up a Vulcanesque facade of being calm and coolheaded, Janice is really one of the least calm and coolheaded people you will meet. She is running full-speed and full-tilt and full-throttle all the time, and is so emotionally wound up with everything she has a drop of investment in that she has a high risk of making a personal issue out of virtually anything and everything. Taking a chill pill is not a concept in her mental database. Neither is stopping and smelling the roses. She has virtually no capacity to relax in any sense of the word; she doesn't want to waste her time or feel like she's making a fool out of herself, and thus keeps on at a mile a minute way past the point where it's sensible to do so. Failure is really not an option. Productivity must never wane, she must always operate at full capacity, she is pressuring herself very heavily to be a machine. This makes her a bit obsessive, a bit hot-blooded, very defensive and somewhat disturbing to be around sometimes.
Physical Description:
Hair: Subdued plum in color, straight and falls a fair way past the shoulders, usually kept back in a neat braid.
Eyes: Murky grayish yellow-green, thin and deep-set.
Face: Expressive browline, high cheekbones, strong jaw and prominent nose. Janice's facial features are very androgynous, tipping towards the end of masculine.
Body: 5'9", thin and angular build, flat-chested. Her hands are notably strong and sharp-looking.
Fashion: Her uniform is worn with the optional shorts, along with a pair of legwarmers, and she's usually seen with a pair of rectangular reading glasses.
It comes as a surprise to some that Janice has a very good fashion sense - a bit unorthodox, but good. Outside of school she'll often sport gender-neutral outfits in bold colors: lots of sweater vests, slacks, long-sleeved undershirts and button-up dress shirts. She also has a small but growing collection of neckties, her favorite of the bunch sporting a piano key pattern.
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Knight Title: Asphodel Knight of Saturn
Challenge: You can't bury the truth.
Weapon: A long handled garden spade of ebony wood and iron. It can magically dig into any ground surface to activate spells. (This would have upgraded from a flimsy trowel at Page, to a short handled spade at Squire.)
Squire -- Asphodel digs into the ground and throws out half a dozen foot-long, black twisting roots that land up to 10 feet away from him in a random distribution. These roots can latch onto opponents from midair or from whatever surface (walls or floors) they land on. They can be channeled for up to 30 seconds and wither when deactivated.
The roots sap the strength of parts of the body they’re attached to. Weakened parts are reduced to the strength the opponent would have if they were severely ill. The effect extends a few inches around each root, meaning one can weaken part of an arm or leg, a muscle group along the torso, etc. Body size and individual constitution impact the effect.
Knight -- Asphodel can now throw a dozen roots that land up to 20 feet away from him.
The roots now grow around the opponent’s body and weaken a wider area once they’re attached, doubling in size and area of effect - so one root can weaken most of a limb or around a third of the torso. They can now be channeled for up to 45 seconds.
Forgotten Spell: Burial in the Rain
RANGE: 15 feet USES: 15
Asphodel's spade can throw mud projectiles about the size of an orange. Like paintballs, they burst and cling to the opponent or surface they land on. The weather can impact how things work from there: rain makes it wash away faster, and icy conditions encourage it to freeze.
These projectiles do no damage and have no special magical effects. They simply have the properties of normal mud: cold, wet, smelly and unpleasant. Depending on where it lands, the mud can cause someone to slip and fall, make weapons and other objects harder to grip on, or impair the senses if it lands in eyes, noses or ears. It clings until removed, which can be done using any method that would work on normal mud.
Tool of the Negaverse The revolution will only come with knives...
Negaverse: General Uranophane
Challenge:This is not a test.
Weapon (Lieutenant):OBSERVATION...clipboard and pen Uranophane has started out equipped with an ordinary, graffiti-covered clipboard, and an equally ordinary pen. The pen, unfortunately, does not appear to be mightier than the sword in this case, and requires a lot of force, effort and luck to even break the skin.
Weapon (Captain):HYPOTHESIS... Uranophane's weapon has become slightly more combat-useful with her promotion. Now the ink of her pen creates a shallow incision upon contact, and this can be accomplished one of two main ways: by attemping to write on a opponent directly, or by writing on and then hitting an opponent with her clipboard. The former method creates slightly deeper precision cuts while the latter makes a sandpaper effect, or shallower cuts across a wider area, depending on how she hits you. Both have the capacity to cut and damage fabric as well as skin.
Weapon (General):EXPERIMENT... Data not on file...Uranophane has to move up the ranks a bit before she can use this!
Weapon (General-King):CONCLUSION...undocumented Uranophane has a whole lot of work to do before she can even dream of using this!
Fighting Style: Due to her weapon being completely useless in anything but melee combat, Uranophane has learned to be a very up-close-and-personal fighter. Thanks to the metal tips on her boots she can deliver some incredibly mean kicks, and like many of her comrades she has nothing against fighting dirty. Her pen is typically reserved only for moments when she's close enough to reach an opponents face -- which, ironically, has made her less magical clipboard see more use as a makeshift shield against melee hits and offensive attacks.
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:03 pm
Item post. 1. Uranophane's Codex 2. Otherwordly Essential Oils from Almadel
Friends and Foes And I'm surrounded by lunatics who don't even need a moon...
HUMANS
Pierrette Genoise:The exchange student. Blissfully ignorant. Unremarkable and unmemorable. Franz St. Germaine:................................ Audrey Collins:Far too easy, and far too fun. Khaldun Cilentani:Idiot. Not worth the breath it takes to talk about him. Andrew Collins:What an enlightened life he must lead... hopefully we can have some more fun in the future. Howl Wickham:A delight to meet. I wouldn't mind meeting him again. Tallulah Cowden:She'll never win against me, so I can't understand why she tries. Vera Valentine:Capable. Interesting, and not loud at all. Will be useful to know her. She will be... missed. I will bring you to purpose, you will be my duty. Ursula Johnson:Enjoyable to work with. I wouldn't mind getting to know her a bit better. Andeon Boskovic:Another moron. What are morons doing in Barren Pines?! Gunn Killingworth:I wouldn't have expected a man so hated to also be so interesting. Tatiana Konstantin:... Ray Gordon:He teaches English. You know, in between being a clown.
SENSHI
Sailor Nerissa:What a disappointment that was. Sailor Castor:Idiot, idiot. Is this REALLY our opposition?! Sailor Alkaid:At least someone on their side has a few brain cells, I was starting to pity them. [Sailor Pegasus]:Work-related stress, that must be what it is... Sailor Leo:Fool. Sailor Iris:I still think this one was an escaped government experiment gone wrong, or something. Sailor Merope:...
NEGAVERSE
General-King Charonite:The commanding officer of the Negaverse-- the leader of a revolution... and I am now part of it. Proudly. Captain Nealite:My job description, defined by a person- and a person I happen to like. This should be interesting. Lieutenant Obsidian:I could not have asked for a better sparring partner.
GUARDIANS
Janice hasn't encountered any guardians!
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:06 pm
Insects in Amber I think a search party's been sent out to find my good side.
Art by Others x - by LizzyMoo! x - ferret!Janice, by Marushii
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