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boughtabookstore) wrote2012-02-03 10:37 pm
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» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Betsy
Current AGE: 19
Personal JOURNAL:be_themoon
IM & SERVICE: AIM - oakashandwillow
Player PLURK: be_themoon
Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Roslyn Small
Character PULL-POINT: A month after Lucy’s death.
Character AGE: 31
Character ABILITIES:
Some knowledge of runic magic, primarily for protection and binding - I'm not sure if this would work in Exsilium, since it most taps into raw magic that just sort of floats through her world. It's really just writing magic, used either in tattoos for personal protection or drawn on walls/doorways/floors to keep things out or in. Her knowledge is pretty basic and consists of seven warding spells, a couple of binding spells, and one specific spell that she has tattooed on herself which ensures she can see through any glamors. It basically gives her what could be called The Sight.
She also has ROTC training through college, navy officer training, and FBI training. She's also an extremely skilled martial arts fighter, having spent a lot of her free time training in various techniques. A pretty good markswoman as well. Knows some very basic hacking from lessons taken from her teammate. She's very well-read and intelligent. In extraneous silly things, she's a pretty good cook and she enjoys and is good at both cross stitching and fishing.
Character HISTORY:
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 two 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.
Character 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. 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.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Glock 22 RTF2, the standard issue for FBI agents and therefore her most common weapon for the past six years.
Chosen SKILLSET: Fighter. Experience in leading teams and tactical thinking.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[ Text seems the most neutral and anonymous way to address this network. ]
Third PERSON: She didn’t like it.
She didn’t like any of this, at all. That she was expected to fight for these people, that she had been dragged here without so much as a by-your-leave specifically to fight their war for them, was not only intrusive and just wrong but also couldn’t have come at a worse time. If they’d gotten her six years ago, maybe she would have been able to embrace this. Hell, a year or two ago even, back when she was grieving her first team and not sure what to do with herself. But not now. She’d gotten out. She’d left the Department behind, left the safety of the world in other people’s hands because she’d done enough.
She’d given four years of her life to the Navy, another six to the FBI. A decade spent in service of others, an act of guilt she hadn’t even realized she was trying to absolve herself of. Lucy had freed her from that. This was her last gift to Lucy. Following her advice, leaving. Buying a bookstore and settling down somewhere quiet, somewhere peaceful. This wasn’t just a morally awful thing for them to do, it was a mockery of Lucy’s memory and Roslyn’s attempt to honor it. It was throwing all of that back in Roslyn's face, like giving the finger to her dream of some day having some peace. Of being able to let go of memories and the people she'd loved and lost and simply live. Well, they could find someone else to fight their battles for them. Roslyn was out of commission as of a month ago. She’d use their training, and their weapon. She’d do what she had to do to gain people’s trust.
But she would find a way home, and she would get back to her bookstore and sell books, and cook that three-chocolate cake recipe Lucy had showed her three days before, and read some books and sell some books and leave flowers at graves and one day, one day be able to remember the way Lucy had smiled without it feeling like someone had cut her body open and ripped her heart out. And that day she would go find Eli and Drew and bring them muffins or cupcakes or something and sit down with them and talk.
This was her life. She wasn't going to let these people dictate how it went.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
n/a
Player NAME: Betsy
Current AGE: 19
Personal JOURNAL:
be_themoon IM & SERVICE: AIM - oakashandwillow
Player PLURK: be_themoon
Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Roslyn Small
Character PULL-POINT: A month after Lucy’s death.
Character AGE: 31
Character ABILITIES:
Some knowledge of runic magic, primarily for protection and binding - I'm not sure if this would work in Exsilium, since it most taps into raw magic that just sort of floats through her world. It's really just writing magic, used either in tattoos for personal protection or drawn on walls/doorways/floors to keep things out or in. Her knowledge is pretty basic and consists of seven warding spells, a couple of binding spells, and one specific spell that she has tattooed on herself which ensures she can see through any glamors. It basically gives her what could be called The Sight.
She also has ROTC training through college, navy officer training, and FBI training. She's also an extremely skilled martial arts fighter, having spent a lot of her free time training in various techniques. A pretty good markswoman as well. Knows some very basic hacking from lessons taken from her teammate. She's very well-read and intelligent. In extraneous silly things, she's a pretty good cook and she enjoys and is good at both cross stitching and fishing.
Character HISTORY:
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 two 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.
Character 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. 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.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Glock 22 RTF2, the standard issue for FBI agents and therefore her most common weapon for the past six years.
Chosen SKILLSET: Fighter. Experience in leading teams and tactical thinking.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[ Text seems the most neutral and anonymous way to address this network. ]
This is Special Agent Small, looking for further information on this situation. Preferably from a non-biased source.
I assume there are others who have been trapped here like me. What data has been collected? Has anyone reached any conclusions? I would especially like any information pertaining to the people who have dragged us here and any potential ways home.
Thank you. Third PERSON: She didn’t like it.
She didn’t like any of this, at all. That she was expected to fight for these people, that she had been dragged here without so much as a by-your-leave specifically to fight their war for them, was not only intrusive and just wrong but also couldn’t have come at a worse time. If they’d gotten her six years ago, maybe she would have been able to embrace this. Hell, a year or two ago even, back when she was grieving her first team and not sure what to do with herself. But not now. She’d gotten out. She’d left the Department behind, left the safety of the world in other people’s hands because she’d done enough.
She’d given four years of her life to the Navy, another six to the FBI. A decade spent in service of others, an act of guilt she hadn’t even realized she was trying to absolve herself of. Lucy had freed her from that. This was her last gift to Lucy. Following her advice, leaving. Buying a bookstore and settling down somewhere quiet, somewhere peaceful. This wasn’t just a morally awful thing for them to do, it was a mockery of Lucy’s memory and Roslyn’s attempt to honor it. It was throwing all of that back in Roslyn's face, like giving the finger to her dream of some day having some peace. Of being able to let go of memories and the people she'd loved and lost and simply live. Well, they could find someone else to fight their battles for them. Roslyn was out of commission as of a month ago. She’d use their training, and their weapon. She’d do what she had to do to gain people’s trust.
But she would find a way home, and she would get back to her bookstore and sell books, and cook that three-chocolate cake recipe Lucy had showed her three days before, and read some books and sell some books and leave flowers at graves and one day, one day be able to remember the way Lucy had smiled without it feeling like someone had cut her body open and ripped her heart out. And that day she would go find Eli and Drew and bring them muffins or cupcakes or something and sit down with them and talk.
This was her life. She wasn't going to let these people dictate how it went.
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
n/a