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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: betsy
AGE: 21
JOURNAL:be_themoon
IM / EMAIL: oakashandwillow @ aim / oakashandwillow [at] gmail
PLURK:be_themoon
RETURNING: yes. max gibson |forwardcompatible
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: roslyn small
CHARACTER AGE: 33
CANON ORIGIN: completely original
CHRONOLOGY: immediately after the death of the shapeshifter who killed eli
CLASS: hero! ( so lawful good it hurts )
HOUSING: random please.
BACKGROUND:
Roslyn comes from a universe primarily like ours, except in that the creatures from myths and fairytales exist. They’re good at hiding, and most of them stay in the shadow world, a magical version of the world that acts as their home. The problem is that sometimes things leak from the shadow world. Pretty regularly, actually. There’s a steady flow of magic that leaves the shadow world and enters ours, and the more determined or simply the more curious creatures find ways to ride it over. Sometimes this is fine, and the creatures are more or less harmless. Sometimes they really aren’t. Sometimes normal people find out on accident and hunt them. But hidden within the FBI is the Department of Bureau Safety, operating with a field team who take care of any supernatural cases brought to the FBI’s attention. That bit’s important, for later.
Roslyn was born to a relatively normal and happy middle-class family, their first kid. She grew up happy. When she was four her younger brother Adam was born, and she became an extremely proud big sister. Life continued happily. Roslyn joined ROTC in highschool, looked after her younger brother, and was a good student. And then everything slowly started unraveling. Shortly after Roslyn left for college, her parents were both killed in a car crash. She became Adam’s guardian and had to transfer colleges and move back home to look after him. He was 14 at the time. She worked hard, though, tutoring other students to supplement the income from her parent’s money. They managed pretty well. Just after Roslyn graduated from college at age 21, Adam was killed by a wild animal.
Heartbroken and lost, Roslyn just continued with her plan of joining the navy as an officer, selling her parent’s house and leaving home with as little as she could. She stayed in the navy for five years, leaving at age 26 when she decided to apply to become an FBI agent, as she felt that was a more effective way of helping people. (Also don’t ask don’t tell bothered her a lot, she didn’t have anyone she wanted to date but she wanted to be able to openly if she did.) She was also secretly determined to investigate her brother’s death for herself, convinced that there were parts of it that didn’t make any sense. Six months after her graduation from the FBI Academy, she was approached by a Mr. Stone, head of the Department of Bureau Safety. He told her that he wanted her as part of his field team hunting unusual cases, and as incentive dangled her brother’s case, which he called one of their cold cases. Intrigued, Roslyn agreed to the transfer and soon became the tactical and combat leader of the field team. The team also included Carl (forensic scientist), Jin (media liaison), Madison (field agent), and Piri (another field agent).
Oh god this is getting kind of long. OKAY UH this next section of history isn’t too important so I will condense like a pro really quickly. She was with them for almost three years doing all kinds of cases, and she was pretty attached to her team. They functioned as a sort of surrogate family for her, were there with her when she investigated her brother’s murder and identified the type of creature who killed them, though they were unable to locate it. Everything was pretty great for those years. Heck, they even learned how to utilize magic of their own to help their case. And then Roslyn took a fall for Piri in the field, leaving her bedridden for a month. As it turned out, a very important month. One of the team’s investigations got tangled up with a serial bomber. Piri and Madison were both killed, Carl was returned to lab duty upon his request, and Jin was badly injured and put on recovery leave for an indefinite amount of time. The Department had their funding drastically reduced and it was essentially put on ice for the next year, Roslyn becoming the only active field agent.
BUT a BAU agent named Lucy Carrow stumbled upon them and resurrected the Department more or less through sheer force of will, recruiting a computer hacker named Andrew she was lenient to before, a young genius media liaison named Eli, and herself and Roslyn to form a new field team. They had adventures and a lot of success in the next eight months, though they began running into another group who seemed to be solving the cases for the sake of stealing the creatures or magic users causing trouble. Roslyn and Lucy got along really well. Roslyn confided to Lucy that she wasn’t really sure why she was doing this anymore, and that part of her wondered what would have happened if she’d just followed her initial plan of serving her three years and then buying a bookstore and settling down somewhere quiet. Lucy encouraged her to consider getting out of here, fully aware of just how much damage it had already done to Roslyn. Roslyn quickly gained a pretty extensive crush on Lucy, though she never acted on it.
This all came to a head when a particularly destructive creature (a phoenix) came to their attention. Trying to keep it away from the other group resulted in a firefight that ended with Lucy dead. Roslyn quit the Department immediately afterwards, completely dropping her old life and moving to New York City to buy herself a bookstore and try to live that quiet life.
Shortly after starting her book shop she was approached by a CIA agent named Chava Egloff who was tasked with recruiting her. While she turned down the offer she made a counter offer of dinner to Chava and found herself in a relationship she hadn't even sort of expected. She spent the next six months surprisingly stable and happy, learning how to grapple with it though she wasn't good at it.
At the end of that time span she got a call from Mr. Stone informing her that Eli had been attacked and injured badly by a shapeshifter and wasn't expected to make it. She went to the hospital and was with him when he died, but refused to accept it. Despite orders to stand down she informed them that she wasn't under the Bureau's jurisdiction anymore and went to hunt down the shapeshifter. Drew went with her, also bent on revenge and flaunting the rules but not realizing that Roslyn had a different goal entirely. Legend said that if a shapeshifter could be trapped wearing a specific skin within a circle of runes, given enough time they would cease to be themselves and would be forced to instead become the person they were pretending to be. This was her intention, even when she got stuck in the circle with the shapeshifter and nearly killed. It was Drew who saved her by shooting the shapeshifter against her protests when she believed it was on the verge of becoming Eli brought back from the dead. It's in the immediate aftermath of this, furious and heartbroken over her failure and what she sees as Drew's betrayal, that she is brought to Heropa.
PERSONALITY:
Roslyn is someone who’s had, at this point, almost half of her life defined by tragedy. Had her family not died, the odds are high she would have faithfully served out the service she owed for her college scholarship and then found herself a bookstore somewhere and settled down quite happily. But she’s someone driven, ultimately, by duty. Duty to honor her dead family, to make something of her life because she’s the only one left who can. She feels a need to prove herself, that she can be someone important. That she can save people, even if she couldn’t save her parents or brother. It’s not necessarily others she’s proving herself to as much as herself, though.
She holds onto things for a long time, unwilling or unable to let them go. She agonized over her parent’s car crash for years, and over her brother’s murder for almost a decade. It takes absolute closure or revenge for her to be able to even start the healing process, and even then it’s patchy and slow. She holds onto grudges for similarly long periods of time, and crushes as well. She doesn’t talk about her emotions, good or bad, but just lets them simmer below the surface. She tends to be slow and methodical about everything, double and triple checking information and plans, always recovering bases. She’s the type of person who keeps two safety kits around just in case and gets information from two different sources if it’s at all possible. Most of the time, this makes her a bad leader but a great second-in-command. She pretty much never jumps to assumptions. She thinks very much in the long-term, and is generally willing to wait for things to unfold slowly. Her plans tend to be equally long-term and chess-like.
In contradictory behavior, however, she’s almost a different person entirely under pressure or in the middle of a fight, able to make snap decisions and take chances that tend to lead to success. She’s an intelligent person at all times, and under fire or pressure she loses her overcaution and just goes with the flow, letting herself simply think and be. She’s been in enough fights and difficult situations that by now her reactions are honed and tend to be extremely apt to the situation. She takes a certain joy in fighting, in the release it provides, and she’s never bothered to pretend otherwise. It’s a simple and cathartic thing, to put your fist in someone else’s face, and she tends to show the widest range of emotion when fighting, mostly a slightly intimidating joy. She regularly takes classes in new martial arts techniques to keep herself updated and add new tools to her arsenal.
She’s got a sense of humor, it’s just totally deadpan and sarcastic, which can make it difficult to tell she’s being humorous. The one emotion she does show openly when not in a fight is anger, but even that tends to only come out when people have endangered other people through stupidity. She gives fantastic tongue lashings at that point. She has no patience for trouble that could have been averted by using your brain, and the person being in a position of authority has absolutely no effect on her. She is respectful of authority only so long as they maintain that respect by being smart and giving good orders. She has a bit of a soft spot for people completely out of their depth, and frequently extends a cautious hand of aid to them. This is just an extension of the fact that she really is a very friendly person at heart, and someone who quickly gains deep and lasting attachments to people. She’s just gotten burned on that far too many times at this point, and she tries to swallow those feelings down and pretend they don’t exist. ONE-WOMAN ARMY, she can do that right? She can totally do that.
Overall, she comes across as a very reserved, mild mannered woman. She doesn’t talk about her private life. She’s very recently had the foundations of her world rocked, and it sometimes shows in that she seems a little uncertain as to what she’s doing with her life and where she’s going - this is the first time she's actively gone against authority in such a dramatic way and it's still a very foreign concept to her. When actively investigating, she displays a cold, almost ruthless efficiency, but there’s extreme caution about it. If there’s any point at which she’s likely to be caught off guard and relaxed, it’s when she’s reading, cooking, or just after a fight, her unwinding activities of choice. Or drinking too much, but that’s something she tends not to do in public. You develop certain levels of secrecy after that much time in secretive organizations.
POWER:
roslyn has the canon power of being able to manipulate magic through runes, a power that will translate to here.
a. rune manipulation. Roslyn can use norse runes to sense / use magic. these runes can either be tattoed on herself or written on the spaces around her and must be ones she already knew from home. these are fairly limited and can all be easily handwaved to not work when necessary since technically they work on magic from her world. specifically she knows already:
b.. illumination. roslyn can create a bright light from herself that can provide clear light to a radius of about twenty feet when necessary. if she learns to control it and harness it will be able to show footprints / fingerprints to police investigators and herself, but only people officially affiliated with law enforcement.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
This is Special Agent Roslyn Small of the Department of Bureau Safety in the FBI.
[ so what if that hasn't been her title for months? she gave enough to them that she's entitled to use it at least this one, confused as hell and still reeling from everything that had just happened. ]
I require immediate transportation back to New York City and contact with the Bureau of Department Safety in Quantico Virginia, specifcally Andrew Hussain. Also Chava Egloff if possible.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
[ they are all the people she wants. it will be enough, if only she can reach them. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
She was an agent in the FBI, a former soldier, someone who knew who rules and desperation worked. That was what she was clinging to, now, in the aftermath of anything else that she could hold onto to salvage her sense of self. She had disobeyed direct orders. She had almost died for the sake of someone else's possible return from the dead -
And now she was here and none of it had mattered. She didn't even get to go home to Chava and admit her failures. There was no penance to seek because no one here knew what she had done, how many wrongs she had caused. The lengths she had been willing to go to.
She was stuck here alone, with no one who knew of her, the only recourse to go forward and attempt to redeem herself. No Chava, no Drew, no Eli. She had spent so long defining herself by her ideals, by her team. By the team built around herself so that she always had something to fall back on.
And now there was nothing but the idea that she was once again supposed to help people. Hadn't that been the point of leaving, all those months ago? That she was no longer responsible for other people's lives?
Too late. She'd gone wrong somewhere - maybe Drew hadn't actually saved her and this was her trading her life for Eli's, for the child who deserved at least a few more years in the sun (like her brother, like Lucy). In that case she could accept it and move in. This wasn't such a bad Purgatory.
FINAL NOTES: n/a
NAME: betsy
AGE: 21
JOURNAL:
be_themoon IM / EMAIL: oakashandwillow @ aim / oakashandwillow [at] gmail
PLURK:
be_themoonRETURNING: yes. max gibson |
forwardcompatible〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: roslyn small
CHARACTER AGE: 33
CANON ORIGIN: completely original
CHRONOLOGY: immediately after the death of the shapeshifter who killed eli
CLASS: hero! ( so lawful good it hurts )
HOUSING: random please.
BACKGROUND:
Roslyn comes from a universe primarily like ours, except in that the creatures from myths and fairytales exist. They’re good at hiding, and most of them stay in the shadow world, a magical version of the world that acts as their home. The problem is that sometimes things leak from the shadow world. Pretty regularly, actually. There’s a steady flow of magic that leaves the shadow world and enters ours, and the more determined or simply the more curious creatures find ways to ride it over. Sometimes this is fine, and the creatures are more or less harmless. Sometimes they really aren’t. Sometimes normal people find out on accident and hunt them. But hidden within the FBI is the Department of Bureau Safety, operating with a field team who take care of any supernatural cases brought to the FBI’s attention. That bit’s important, for later.
Roslyn was born to a relatively normal and happy middle-class family, their first kid. She grew up happy. When she was four her younger brother Adam was born, and she became an extremely proud big sister. Life continued happily. Roslyn joined ROTC in highschool, looked after her younger brother, and was a good student. And then everything slowly started unraveling. Shortly after Roslyn left for college, her parents were both killed in a car crash. She became Adam’s guardian and had to transfer colleges and move back home to look after him. He was 14 at the time. She worked hard, though, tutoring other students to supplement the income from her parent’s money. They managed pretty well. Just after Roslyn graduated from college at age 21, Adam was killed by a wild animal.
Heartbroken and lost, Roslyn just continued with her plan of joining the navy as an officer, selling her parent’s house and leaving home with as little as she could. She stayed in the navy for five years, leaving at age 26 when she decided to apply to become an FBI agent, as she felt that was a more effective way of helping people. (Also don’t ask don’t tell bothered her a lot, she didn’t have anyone she wanted to date but she wanted to be able to openly if she did.) She was also secretly determined to investigate her brother’s death for herself, convinced that there were parts of it that didn’t make any sense. Six months after her graduation from the FBI Academy, she was approached by a Mr. Stone, head of the Department of Bureau Safety. He told her that he wanted her as part of his field team hunting unusual cases, and as incentive dangled her brother’s case, which he called one of their cold cases. Intrigued, Roslyn agreed to the transfer and soon became the tactical and combat leader of the field team. The team also included Carl (forensic scientist), Jin (media liaison), Madison (field agent), and Piri (another field agent).
Oh god this is getting kind of long. OKAY UH this next section of history isn’t too important so I will condense like a pro really quickly. She was with them for almost three years doing all kinds of cases, and she was pretty attached to her team. They functioned as a sort of surrogate family for her, were there with her when she investigated her brother’s murder and identified the type of creature who killed them, though they were unable to locate it. Everything was pretty great for those years. Heck, they even learned how to utilize magic of their own to help their case. And then Roslyn took a fall for Piri in the field, leaving her bedridden for a month. As it turned out, a very important month. One of the team’s investigations got tangled up with a serial bomber. Piri and Madison were both killed, Carl was returned to lab duty upon his request, and Jin was badly injured and put on recovery leave for an indefinite amount of time. The Department had their funding drastically reduced and it was essentially put on ice for the next year, Roslyn becoming the only active field agent.
BUT a BAU agent named Lucy Carrow stumbled upon them and resurrected the Department more or less through sheer force of will, recruiting a computer hacker named Andrew she was lenient to before, a young genius media liaison named Eli, and herself and Roslyn to form a new field team. They had adventures and a lot of success in the next eight months, though they began running into another group who seemed to be solving the cases for the sake of stealing the creatures or magic users causing trouble. Roslyn and Lucy got along really well. Roslyn confided to Lucy that she wasn’t really sure why she was doing this anymore, and that part of her wondered what would have happened if she’d just followed her initial plan of serving her three years and then buying a bookstore and settling down somewhere quiet. Lucy encouraged her to consider getting out of here, fully aware of just how much damage it had already done to Roslyn. Roslyn quickly gained a pretty extensive crush on Lucy, though she never acted on it.
This all came to a head when a particularly destructive creature (a phoenix) came to their attention. Trying to keep it away from the other group resulted in a firefight that ended with Lucy dead. Roslyn quit the Department immediately afterwards, completely dropping her old life and moving to New York City to buy herself a bookstore and try to live that quiet life.
Shortly after starting her book shop she was approached by a CIA agent named Chava Egloff who was tasked with recruiting her. While she turned down the offer she made a counter offer of dinner to Chava and found herself in a relationship she hadn't even sort of expected. She spent the next six months surprisingly stable and happy, learning how to grapple with it though she wasn't good at it.
At the end of that time span she got a call from Mr. Stone informing her that Eli had been attacked and injured badly by a shapeshifter and wasn't expected to make it. She went to the hospital and was with him when he died, but refused to accept it. Despite orders to stand down she informed them that she wasn't under the Bureau's jurisdiction anymore and went to hunt down the shapeshifter. Drew went with her, also bent on revenge and flaunting the rules but not realizing that Roslyn had a different goal entirely. Legend said that if a shapeshifter could be trapped wearing a specific skin within a circle of runes, given enough time they would cease to be themselves and would be forced to instead become the person they were pretending to be. This was her intention, even when she got stuck in the circle with the shapeshifter and nearly killed. It was Drew who saved her by shooting the shapeshifter against her protests when she believed it was on the verge of becoming Eli brought back from the dead. It's in the immediate aftermath of this, furious and heartbroken over her failure and what she sees as Drew's betrayal, that she is brought to Heropa.
PERSONALITY:
Roslyn is someone who’s had, at this point, almost half of her life defined by tragedy. Had her family not died, the odds are high she would have faithfully served out the service she owed for her college scholarship and then found herself a bookstore somewhere and settled down quite happily. But she’s someone driven, ultimately, by duty. Duty to honor her dead family, to make something of her life because she’s the only one left who can. She feels a need to prove herself, that she can be someone important. That she can save people, even if she couldn’t save her parents or brother. It’s not necessarily others she’s proving herself to as much as herself, though.
She holds onto things for a long time, unwilling or unable to let them go. She agonized over her parent’s car crash for years, and over her brother’s murder for almost a decade. It takes absolute closure or revenge for her to be able to even start the healing process, and even then it’s patchy and slow. She holds onto grudges for similarly long periods of time, and crushes as well. She doesn’t talk about her emotions, good or bad, but just lets them simmer below the surface. She tends to be slow and methodical about everything, double and triple checking information and plans, always recovering bases. She’s the type of person who keeps two safety kits around just in case and gets information from two different sources if it’s at all possible. Most of the time, this makes her a bad leader but a great second-in-command. She pretty much never jumps to assumptions. She thinks very much in the long-term, and is generally willing to wait for things to unfold slowly. Her plans tend to be equally long-term and chess-like.
In contradictory behavior, however, she’s almost a different person entirely under pressure or in the middle of a fight, able to make snap decisions and take chances that tend to lead to success. She’s an intelligent person at all times, and under fire or pressure she loses her overcaution and just goes with the flow, letting herself simply think and be. She’s been in enough fights and difficult situations that by now her reactions are honed and tend to be extremely apt to the situation. She takes a certain joy in fighting, in the release it provides, and she’s never bothered to pretend otherwise. It’s a simple and cathartic thing, to put your fist in someone else’s face, and she tends to show the widest range of emotion when fighting, mostly a slightly intimidating joy. She regularly takes classes in new martial arts techniques to keep herself updated and add new tools to her arsenal.
She’s got a sense of humor, it’s just totally deadpan and sarcastic, which can make it difficult to tell she’s being humorous. The one emotion she does show openly when not in a fight is anger, but even that tends to only come out when people have endangered other people through stupidity. She gives fantastic tongue lashings at that point. She has no patience for trouble that could have been averted by using your brain, and the person being in a position of authority has absolutely no effect on her. She is respectful of authority only so long as they maintain that respect by being smart and giving good orders. She has a bit of a soft spot for people completely out of their depth, and frequently extends a cautious hand of aid to them. This is just an extension of the fact that she really is a very friendly person at heart, and someone who quickly gains deep and lasting attachments to people. She’s just gotten burned on that far too many times at this point, and she tries to swallow those feelings down and pretend they don’t exist. ONE-WOMAN ARMY, she can do that right? She can totally do that.
Overall, she comes across as a very reserved, mild mannered woman. She doesn’t talk about her private life. She’s very recently had the foundations of her world rocked, and it sometimes shows in that she seems a little uncertain as to what she’s doing with her life and where she’s going - this is the first time she's actively gone against authority in such a dramatic way and it's still a very foreign concept to her. When actively investigating, she displays a cold, almost ruthless efficiency, but there’s extreme caution about it. If there’s any point at which she’s likely to be caught off guard and relaxed, it’s when she’s reading, cooking, or just after a fight, her unwinding activities of choice. Or drinking too much, but that’s something she tends not to do in public. You develop certain levels of secrecy after that much time in secretive organizations.
POWER:
roslyn has the canon power of being able to manipulate magic through runes, a power that will translate to here.
a. rune manipulation. Roslyn can use norse runes to sense / use magic. these runes can either be tattoed on herself or written on the spaces around her and must be ones she already knew from home. these are fairly limited and can all be easily handwaved to not work when necessary since technically they work on magic from her world. specifically she knows already:
a rune to reveal things hidden, i.e. glamors / invisibilities / disguises. only works within about a five foot radius of whatever it's written on.
a rune for binding. written in a circle it can trap anything within the circle unless someone outside of it breaks it. has to be completed while whatever is being captured is within the circle enough for the last rune of the circle to be written.
a protection rune. written on anything it provides a sense of forewarning to its writer within a fifteen foot radius of imminent danger physical or magical. the threat has to come from within that radius or it will not be registered until it crosses the threshold.
b.. illumination. roslyn can create a bright light from herself that can provide clear light to a radius of about twenty feet when necessary. if she learns to control it and harness it will be able to show footprints / fingerprints to police investigators and herself, but only people officially affiliated with law enforcement.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
This is Special Agent Roslyn Small of the Department of Bureau Safety in the FBI.
[ so what if that hasn't been her title for months? she gave enough to them that she's entitled to use it at least this one, confused as hell and still reeling from everything that had just happened. ]
I require immediate transportation back to New York City and contact with the Bureau of Department Safety in Quantico Virginia, specifcally Andrew Hussain. Also Chava Egloff if possible.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
[ they are all the people she wants. it will be enough, if only she can reach them. ]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
She was an agent in the FBI, a former soldier, someone who knew who rules and desperation worked. That was what she was clinging to, now, in the aftermath of anything else that she could hold onto to salvage her sense of self. She had disobeyed direct orders. She had almost died for the sake of someone else's possible return from the dead -
("Don't shoot! Don't shoot, it's Eli!")
And now she was here and none of it had mattered. She didn't even get to go home to Chava and admit her failures. There was no penance to seek because no one here knew what she had done, how many wrongs she had caused. The lengths she had been willing to go to.
She was stuck here alone, with no one who knew of her, the only recourse to go forward and attempt to redeem herself. No Chava, no Drew, no Eli. She had spent so long defining herself by her ideals, by her team. By the team built around herself so that she always had something to fall back on.
And now there was nothing but the idea that she was once again supposed to help people. Hadn't that been the point of leaving, all those months ago? That she was no longer responsible for other people's lives?
Too late. She'd gone wrong somewhere - maybe Drew hadn't actually saved her and this was her trading her life for Eli's, for the child who deserved at least a few more years in the sun (like her brother, like Lucy). In that case she could accept it and move in. This wasn't such a bad Purgatory.
FINAL NOTES: n/a