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MEME: Ten Things I Don't Know About You!
Since we've had so many new players and new characters arrive in the past couple of months, it's time for everyone to get to know each other a little better! And so, in the spirit of such an effort, we present you with the following meme!
TEN FACTS MEME
The rules are simple:
- Post a comment for each of your characters!
- Include ten (or more!) facts about them that other people might not know.
- Nothing is too insignificant! Every detail offers some kind of insight.
- Seek out people for new CR, make new friends!
The rules are simple:
- Post a comment for each of your characters!
- Include ten (or more!) facts about them that other people might not know.
- Nothing is too insignificant! Every detail offers some kind of insight.
- Seek out people for new CR, make new friends!
Milo Thatch
2. Milo has had one relationship before Kida; it was a brief one with a lady named Lisa McGrath.
3. At the age of 27, he participated in an Academic Exchange Program, working in Paris at the Bibliotech National and the Prado Museum in Madrid.
4. Milo is currently 32 years old; don't let that boyish appearance fool you.
5. He was orphaned in 1885, and thus was raised under the loving hand of Thaddeus Thatch, his grandfather.
6. Not to make things awkward for Hull, but Milo was set to become King of Atlantis shortly before washing onshore. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
7. Before the Atlantis Expedition, Milo worked in the Natural History Museum in Washington DC. His official title there was "Museum Linguist/Translator and Cartographic Restoration Expert," though he was mostly just regarded as the "boiler room repairman."
8. His parents' names were Augustus and Lucille Thatch.
9. Though he's not a geologist, he does seem to know quite a bit about rocks and minerals (as revealed when he tells the story of the "Indian arrowhead").
10. Milo knows how to work the flying Atlantean vehicles. Neener neener neener.
Alisha Bailey
2. Let's be honest here, Alisha is so ridiculously glad her reputation didn't follow her to the island. Back home, she was known as the "Cock Monster," as she had a ridiculous number of one night stands and even cheated on her boyfriends to get her near-nymphomanic fix.
3. She's been caught driving under the influence multiple times. The one time she didn't get away with it is the time she was sentenced to an ASBO (community service), curfew, and ankle tracker (which... she still needs to get taken off).
4. There are subtle hints throughout canon that indicate her parents are probably well-to-do, which gives way to the headcanon that she's been spoiled rotten most her life. At least it'd explain why she got away with a "party lifestyle" for so long.
5. Though we don't have a Rudy Wade here
yet, back in her high school days, after a long time of pining after her, she finally slept with him (probably under the influence of a lot of alcohol). The next day, she refused to even acknowledge him, and he was so heartbroken that he attempted suicide. Ironically enough, she never forgot about him, even if she acted like she did; she also regretted (and to this day, still does) taking advantage of him.6. The good news is that Alisha isn't this person anymore. After her power backfiring on her and almost causing her to be raped by two people (Ben and her almost-beau, Curtis), she became far more responsible and conscientious about her promiscuous behavior. In addition, after bonding with the other ASBO Five, she has long-since left her old social group... and their peer pressure. In time, this has morphed to include her behavior and treatment of others in general. In other words... though she might seem bad now, she was way worse back in the day.
7. Her actress revealed she can't touch "anyone or anything," meaning that animals (and possibly even robotic creatures/zombies/anything else odd) are susceptible to her power.
8. Her phone number is 07415651663 (as seen in E8S3).
9. Though her room is never terribly messy, she does seem to have a bit of a problem getting some of her clothes to the hamper.
10. SPOILERS: DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED In canon, she's stuck in a time loop of falling in love with Simon's future self, losing that love to death, getting his present self to fall in love with her, dying herself, which sets the stage for his his future self back in time and make her past self fall in love with him. For all eternity. Until time ceases to exist. And you thought Titanic was tragic.
stiles stilinski!
2. He's one of maybe four humans in his group of friends. One of two with absolutely no supernatural inclination. His life kind of sucks like that.
3. His mother died from cancer two, almost three years ago; he misses her terribly, and had massive panic attacks often after her death.
4. Stiles sleep talks. No, he never shuts up.
5. He loves baseball and bonded over it with his dad, but his sport of choice is lacrosse. He's kind of terrible at it but he loves it anyway.
6. Despite his general...Stiles-ness, he's incredibly smart, including maintaining a 4.0 GPA in school despite all the ridiculousness that goes on in his life.
7. He's huge geek with a love for superheroes, cult movies, and basically anything nerdy you can think of, and almost constantly has a quote ready to spew at you depending on the situation
8. Stiles has a magic "spark" that makes him a conduit for magical things. He's not sure what this means and Deaton has been infuriatingly unhelpful (as per usual) with it, but one time he made a bunch of magic ash appear out of nowhere. So that's cool.
9. His taste in music is legendarily bad. He's also not the best singer in the world, but belts in the shower anyway.
10. A LITTLE KNOWN FACT THAT NO ONE SHOULD KNOW EXCEPT. MAYBE SCOTT AND HIS DAD. His first name (headcanon, obv) is Rupert. He hates it.
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Hermione Granger
2. You won't find a subject at Hogwarts that she doesn't excel at aside from Divination. But that's because she detests it and its lack of logic. (This might have something to do with the teacher, though she now accepts that Trelawney does experience visions/prophecies sporadically. Not enough to make her a good teacher, but that's another thing entirely.)
3. She prefers cats over dogs. Her pet half-cat/half-Kneazle Crookshanks is her baby. During the war, she protected him alongside her parents by sending all of them to Australia after wiping her parents' memories (and giving them another surname).
4. When she was twelve, she was almost Sorted into Ravenclaw, but the Sorting Hat noticed that spark of bravery in her and Sorted her into Gryffindor instead.
5. After the end of the war (if she survives), she wants to enter the Ministry of Magic and revamp/fix the laws that make those like House Elves, Centaurs, Werewolves and Muggleborn second best in the Wizarding World.
6. She is deathly afraid of heights.
7. Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and even Albus Dumbledore consider her to be very bright. In the words of the former two, she is the brightest Witch of her age.
8. One of the spells that she is known for is her Bluebell Flames. The name kind of gives it away. She used them during her First Year to distract Professor Snape during the Quidditch Match.
9. Her Patronus is an otter.
10. Her birthday is on September 19th, which is why she seems older than Harry and Ron. (Since the Hogwarts Express leaves for Hogwarts on September 1st, she couldn't board it before her 11th birthday. Thus she had to wait an extra year, making her 12, when she boarded the train. Not that she knew about Hogwarts beforehand.)
Merida
2. Though Pixar hasn't given a specific date, they have said she's from the 10th century.
3. "If Merida's curls were straightened, her hair would be four feet long and reach the middle of her calf."
4. In canon, "with five dresses, plus a cloak, quiver, hand wrap and necklace, as well as torn dresses, Merida has a total of 22 different costumes." Because of this, I think that even though she might be a bit of a tomboy, she wouldn't have a problem with a decent-sized wardrobe.
5. Not really RP related, but I find it too interesting not to include. Merida has more than 1500 individually sculpted, curly strands that generate about 111,700 total hairs. Technically, each one also had to be individually animated (though Pixar created a program to do that; the animators called it "Taz").
6. When Merida's frustrated, she "attacks" her bedposts with her sword.
7. Back home, she kept a childhood rocking horse in her room. It proves that even though she very much embraces "carpe diem," she also has the capability of being sentimental.
8. Besides her signature archery skills, Merida is also quite the little swordswoman, capable of holding her own in a one-on-one battle (granted she's neither fighting a person with supernatural strength/skill/agility nor a demon bear). Here in Atlantis, even if she doesn't have her bow over her shoulder, she has her sword on her hip. Safety first!
9. As a child, she was terrified of lightning.
10. Due to an encounter with the Will O' The Wisps and the demon bear Mor'du when she was young, she has grown up believing in the presence of magic, despite her father's insistence that it's fake.
Elisabeth Clements
2. Apparently both of her older sisters have slept with Prince James. Right now she’s not even aware she has sisters but in some alternate universe where she knows they exist, she’s completely horrified.
3. She’s a fashion designer and is/will be opening a haute couture shop in the city.
4. Lis absolutely abhors all herptiles. Turtles are only moderately okay because she’s certain she can outrun them.
5. Given the opportunity, she will make you a pet project and give you a full makeover.
6. Vegetarian. If she bothers to cook a meal for you with meat in it, it must mean she likes you or something. She’s particularly proud of her eggplant parmesan; it’s a family recipe, except if you ask for details beyond that, you’ll end up confusing her just as you would if you ask her how long she’s been with her boyfriend or how many times she’s broken up with him.
7. She probably thinks you’re better friends with her than you actually are.
8. She. Never. Stops. Talking.
9. She’s always right, even when she’s completely wrong.
10. Her life is comparable to a telenovela. True story.
Sam Winchester
2. Every person he’s ever slept with has died, except for Raven. Oops.
3. Actually, every significant woman in his entire life has died.
4. But speaking of Raven, he has this problem where he gets into serious relationships more quickly than he should.
5. He is literally a walking encyclopedia moose. That’s why his hair is so big. It’s full of knowledge.
6. Sam’s kind of OCD when it comes to cleanliness and his things. It’s backlash from that being the only thing he’s had control of in his life.
7. This one time in Detroit, he let Lucifer possess his body in as a means to stop the apocalypse.
8. Despite everything he’s been through, he’s still able to see the good in people. More importantly, he can see the people in the monsters.
9. All he’s ever wanted is a dog. (he has one here)
10. It goes without saying because Winchesters, but family is the most important thing for him. He's just somewhat more capable of functioning without his brother.
Baby Doll
2. It's never explained why, but when Baby Doll dances, all men in the room become transfixed by it. It's unknown whether or not Baby is actively aware of how she moves, as her mind drifts into daydreams of violent fantasy worlds.
3. The katana in her daydreams is engraved with the story of her life, as told through symbolic images.
4. Before Madame Gorski discovered her ability to dance, Baby did menial work behind the scenes for the Lennox "brothel," such as collecting towels/laundry from the dancers, standing backstage in case Gorski needed her to run emergency errands, and washing customers' dishes.
5. She's would have been only dancer to have ever successfully broken out of Lennox; however, she gave up her chance of physical freedom to allow her friend, Sweet Pea, to escape; instead of risking going with, she distracted the men in front of the gate.
6. It's revealed in canon that she's 20 years old. Most of her real name is exposed too, though the writing is illegible. If anyone's curious, I have the screenshot as the header in Baby's journal!
7. Baby lived in Brattleboro, Vermont, in the early 1960's.
8. In the original story, Baby Doll was wrongly lobotomized; the signature needed to authorized the procedure was forged.
9. Though she comes off as normal for the most part, due to the vivid, detailed content of her daydreams and the intense impact on her perception of reality, it's hard to say just how mentally stable she truly, technically is.
10. With no hesitation, she pulled the cook's own knife on him when he tried to assault one of the other dancers. Though she's small and looks fragile, she has a strong spirit and an even stronger sense of what she finds "right" and "wrong."
Delphine Angua Von Uberwald
2. Ordinarily, Angua is a vegetarian. She prefers not to eat meat, aside from during the full moon. Then it's all she can do to avoid bipedal meat.
3. When transforming, the werewolves of the Disc do not magically keep their clothes. For this reason, there is a small, lightweight dress in a pouch on the back of her badge. Lately she's taken to keeping her communicator there as well.
4. Family is not a popular topic with Angua. Her brother tried to lead a neo-nazi-werewolf revolution and killed her sister, her father is (much) more wolf than human, and her mother is at best a shameless enabler to them both.
5. Angua was the first w...erewolf to join the Ankh-Morpork city watch. This is no small accomplishment, particularly given the watch commander's... uncertainty regarding the undead.
6. While she typically falls onto the "flight" side of the fight or flight coin, Angua will lash out viciously when cornered - or mocked.
7. Angua is sort of big. Werewolves are typically built to about one-tenth larger than the average human, to accommodate for the laws of physics when transforming into a very large wolf (perhaps comparable to a smallish direwolf for those familiar with Game of Thrones.)
8. When Angua joined the AMCW, it was transitioning out of being the Night Watch, and her training reflected this fact. Angua is very at-home in the dark and at night, particularly in urban areas.
9. Angua has long been distrustful of other werewolves, stemming from her family issues.
10. She tends to flinch at words like "bath" and "vet." Something between a man and a wolf has got to have a little dog in it, right?
TJ Hammond
2. He grew up in what he describes the fishbowl; all eyes constantly on him, scrutinizing everything he did. This continues to affect him even as an adult.
3. He was the first openly gay son in the White House. He still thinks boobs are great though.
4. He got high for the first time in the Lincoln bedroom.
5. He has an addiction problem and if someone offers him something, it’s difficult, if not impossible for him to resist in taking it. Doesn’t matter what it is.
6. Other risky behavior is up his alley too. All the anonymous sex? Hell yes.
7. He once convinced his brother and his brother’s girlfriend to take ecstasy with him at a party, and it was while high that his brother got engaged.
8. TJ thought he was in love once. It was the best six months of his life. Then it ended, and he almost did too. Christmas is a sore spot for him now.
9. He’s an excellent pianist, but nothing has come from that talent. Thirty year olds don’t become concert pianists.
10. Before arriving in Atlantis, he opened a nightclub in DC called the Dome. He overdosed on cocaine on opening night, which made the second time he almost died in less than a year.
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Question: TJ's 100% gay and not bisexual and homoromantic, right? I AM BLONDE AND TRYING TO KEEP MY FACTS STRAIGHT.no subject
totally 100% gay and has known this since he was younger, according to what he's said, and he's had to be outed that way. He told his bro that he sleeps with women to make sure he's still gay sometimes. He could be, but he/the show didn't want to get into excessive labelling.no subject
Aaah okay! Good to know. I had no clue how he was written (I have way too many shows I need to watch and will probably never get around to /sob) so I figured I should ask! Thanks!<3Jack Benjamin
2. If there’s one thing he’s good at, it’s being a strong leader for his men. He’s a major in the Gilboan Army and has a lot of combat experience.
3. In the public eye, Jack is a playboy. It’s not uncommon to see him with a lady on each arm at any of the many parties he attends. He doesn’t take them home ever, though. He is just not that into them.
4. Perhaps the most important thing about Jack is that because of the way he has to be and the environment he grew up in, he’s completely out of touch of who he actually is beneath all the superficiality and bitterness.
5. His father told him that if he ever wanted to become king, he would have to stop being gay, that he couldn’t be who/what he was intended to be. It’s disgusting, Jack.
6. Being king is all he’s ever wanted, so he was willing to give up everything.
7. He inherently doesn’t like anyone he considers a threat and has no qualms about finding sneaky ways to ruin them.
8. Jack is flashy and over the top. He’s completely entitled to it.
9. If he’s feeling particularly vindictive, he’ll just take his boys out for a shopping spree. Everyone can use new cars and watches, right.
10. He gets screwed over. A lot. While conducting an operation in enemy territory, his father called off air support so his unit got captured and he was taken hostage. Jack has to live with the knowledge that some of his men died on his watch. What’s worse is that his own father was willing to let Jack be killed by the enemy for his own gain.
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Caroline Merson
1. She's an original character from a world of my own creation. Which... probably isn't that exciting, seeing as the setting itself is mostly identical to the world we live in.
2. Carrie was in the foster child system for the majority of her life. Sadly, due to several intertwining circumstances, she was never adopted.
3. Back when she was young and in a youth home, she was given a toy stuffed poodle, whom she named Georgette. It's been the only item she's ever constantly had with her as she bounced from foster home to foster home. Needless to say, she's going to have a hard time sleeping without it once she gets to Atlantis.
4. After she went out to live on her own, she purchased two pets: a red beta fish named Tony and a rat named Ramona. She's closer to these two animals than she is with any person.
5. Her life goal is to save up enough to travel to and live in San Francisco; she thinks blending in with a large crowd is the best way to stay safe. Zebra logic.
6. Because I'm a horrid sucker for the genre, some of the people in Carrie's world are discovering they have powers (I've gone with a more "cosmic" explanation to help differentiate the setting from things Marvel has used). Sadly, she is one of them. Essentially, she can reverse damage to organic tissue; sort of like healing, but without the germ-killing, cancer-curing benefits.
7. She's not overly fond of cornfields anymore. Even more of a reason for her to get out of the midwest and into San Fran.
8. On multiple occasions, she's tried to find out what happened to her parents/why she was put into the foster system, but each time she started, she never followed through. She can't bring herself to do it.
9. Carrie is incredibly frugal (though it wasn't always to that current degree). She doesn't like to waste anything she doesn't have to. Though... that's because she works hard for every last penny and really can't afford to be wasteful.
10. Due to working two jobs to stay afloat, she's never been able to consider going to college.
Nicholas Witt
2. His nickname as a teenager was Icarus
3. Witt's had three relationships. His first one was when he was five. He kissed his neighbor on the lips and they played house every weekend for a year. He only missed two days, and both times he was sick.
4. Witt has a fair number of scars on his skin. In particular the three, long raised lines that go from his right shoulder sll the way to his left side. They're over a decade old, but still pretty prominent. Among that he has fencing scars, a few tree-climbing incidents and a small scar on his left cheek from a crash during flight practice
5. He has Central Heterochromia
6. He is 28 years old, a fact that rarely matches up with the timeline of his life.
7. Witt knows how to use 207 different kinds of guns, a crossbow, a variety of Atlantean weaponry and fist-fighting.
8. He does not know martial arts or how to sword fight, throw daggers, or pick locks.
9. His favorite foods are mangoes and Sweet Potatoes.
10. Until recently, Witt has never been a leader and he is still not confident in his ability to do so. However, in the heat of the moment he displays extraordinary courage and clear-headedness
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2. In Atlantis, she's been shrunk down to 30' in length, making her the size of a large male orca. Because of the size change, humans seem nearly twice the size she's used to.
3. She is a smelt-whiting mermaid. Ironically, that species of fish only grows to about 7-8" in length.
4. When she was six years old, she received her first marriage proposal. From an adult.
5. And because she wouldn't marry him, he spent the next ten years throwing axes and other weapons at her. King Neptune, her father, ended up locking her in a tower for the next ten years of her life to protect her from him. This is where Shirahoshi's naivety comes from: Not seeing much of the outside world.
6. The merfolk and fishmen have had bad experiences with humans; the sea-folk tended to be kidnapped and then auctioned as slaves, and the world government didn't bat an eye over it.
7. Shirahoshi's mother was the driving force behind getting Fishman Island recognized in the eyes of the world government, and preached to her people about the importance of accepting humans so as to not further the animosity between their races. Shirahoshi took her mother's words to heart.
8. She is currently the only mermaid able to speak with Sea Kings, which are one of the creatures in the ocean even bigger than she. Some of them are really freaking huge (yes, that's a full-sized ship on the big one's nose), but they will listen to her without fail.
9. Because of that, she is labeled as Poseidon, which is the term for one of the ancient weapons powerful enough to destroy the world.
10. Thankfully, she is far too gentle of a soul to even begin to consider using violence.
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James T. Kirk
2. Due to gender being conveniently absent from that discussion, it's my headcanon that Kirk is bisexual with a heavy female preference.
3. This one time, he used his pseudo-girlfriend to launch a subroutine program and cheated his way into winning the Kobayashi Maru situation.
4. And then he apologized to the wrong girl.
5. Kirk is coming in from another game. He previously spent eight months in Siren's Port, Canada. While he was there, the Core gave him an unnatural power, same as it did to every other person without a special ability. He in particular became capable of touch-telepathy, though it's limited to his hands.
6. That's why he wears leather gloves if he's going to be in the company of others. Yes, even during sex.
7. He became the guardian of an 11-year-old Spock during his stay in Canada and basically everything he did revolved around the miniature Vulcan.
8. He learned how to cook. Vegetarian meals, even. Sure, he had meat from time to time, but it was much easier to make more of the stuff he was whipping up for Spock than it was to cook something completely different for himself.
9. Due to the malicious aura of the monsters that roamed the streets at night, Kirk ended up sleeping close by Spock at night to keep the boy's underdeveloped telepathy from latching onto the creatures. This also meant that he had to learn to sleep in 95 degree temperatures so that Spock wasn't cold.
10. He knows a lot about manatees now.
Danny Fenton/Phantom
2) Once had robotic versions of his best friends made while he was temporarily rich. It didn't work out.
3) Has a nemesis who is also a half-ghost. And over twice his age.
4) Kinda sorta hates Christmas.
5) One of his ghost powers allows him to create cold patches and intricate objects with ice.
Jack Frost who?6) Struggles with gym class as a human. Can lift buses filled with children and dragons no problem-o as a ghost.
7) Secretly has a hardcore crush on one of his best friends and isn't obvious about it at all. Nope.
8) Likes to toss witty (re: "cheesy") banter at his enemies during fights.
9) Grew up to be an extremely dangerous villain in an alternate timeline where he lost his human half.
10) Tends to phase through his belt and lose his pants when he gets nervous (usually around a pretty girl which is even more embarrassing).
Anita Blake
2. Anita is severely claustrophobic, thanks to an unfortunate diving accident in college. This worsened when she woke up trapped in a coffin with a hostile vampire a few months ago.
3. Collects stuffed penguins and penguin paraphernalia.
4. Also collects coffee mugs with rude slogans on them specifically to irritate her boss, and insists on displaying them on her desk. Her favorite mug has baby penguins on it but she refuses to bring that one to work.
5. Discovered her powers as an animator when she woke up one morning with her dog curled up at the foot of her bed. Said dog had been dead and buried for months.
6. She trained briefly under her Grandmother Flores, who was a vaudun priestess. However, her grandmother felt that necromancy and vaudun were too dark and dangerous a combination and insisted that Anita cut ties with her side of the family and pursue Christianity. As such, Anita is a devout Christian and until her fabulous island getaway here, made an effort never to miss Sunday service.
7. Wears a silver cross around her neck and carries at least one gun with silver bullets and a bottle of holy water at all times. She sleeps with the gun in a holster on her headboard, as well.
8. She is half-German and half-Mexican, but identifies more with her German heritage since she's been cut off from her mother's half of the family. She also hates Mexican food.
9. Her mother died in a car accident when Anita was eight. Their car was hit by a drunk driver. Anita now insists that anyone who rides in her car wear their seatbelt at all times, and she neither drinks nor approves of drinking.
10. She has a blackbelt in judo and has recently started training in kenpo, but still tends to trust a gun in the field since she is on the small side and easily outclassed.
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Connor
2. He is an unparalleled hunter, with the aid of both experience and his naturally enhanced senses. He can track anyone, anywhere.
3. He is incredibly resourceful. You pick up a few tricks, growing up in hell. He can fashion a weapon out of almost anything, and if he can't? Well, he IS a weapon.
4. He can both read and write, but barely. There wasn't much use for it in Quor'toth and therefore it takes a whole lot of effort for him to do either. He could probably use a tutor.
5. Does not trust magic in the slightest, between being raised by a man who was firmly against magic in all its forms, and all of his firsthand experience with magic having particularly nasty backlash. Sirius has been working on bringing him around to seeing the good side of magic, but it's a process.
6. Very anti-supernatural, both despite and because of the fact that both of his parents are vampires. He's only ever heard the worst of them and his firsthand experience with his biological father is limited. He has mixed feelings. Vamps, demons, werewolves and the like are guilty until proven innocent.
7. Speaking of both of his parents being vampires, did you know that his birth is unprecedented? There are prophecies about him and everything.
8. In fact, it's been prophesied that he would grow to be the one who defeated the time-space demon Sahjhan, who tried to remedy this by going back in time to have the prophecy rewritten so that Connor would be killed while still an infant. That was a huge clusterfuck.
9. He's such a force to be reckoned with as a hunter that the demons of Quor'toth came to know him as The Destroyer. The name stuck.
10. He is only just now beginning to realize that his entire life has been one long parade of manipulation and lies, and it's finally beginning to sink in that he was raised as nothing more than a tool for revenge. Stings a little. :(
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Only made worse by the fact that his closest friend is the one person he can't touch. And vice versa.
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