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Name: Kakavasha Aventurine

Series: Honkai Star Rail

Continuity: Video Game

Age: 25

Height: 5'10"

Birthday: Unknown

Birthplace: The planet of Sigonia-IV

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Stratigic Investment department of the IPC

Father: Unnamed (deceased)

Mother: Unnamed (deceased)

Sibling(s): Unnamed Sister (deceased)

Bio:

TRIGGER WARNING: Slavery, genocide, etc

Born as Kakavasha on the planet of Sigonia IV, he was born blessed by the Mother Goddess - Gaiathra Triclops with good luck from his mother's desperate prayers that he would not fall to the destitution of the world. Suddenly, after his mother begged for him to be blessed and his name translating to being blessed by the Mother Goddess, it rained for the first time in years on the desert planet.

For all the luck he held, his father died a few months before he was born from bandits and his mother would die four years into raising him from illness. All he had left at this point was his older sister, where the two adored one another.

Sigonia IV was practically in an apocalyptic state, abandoned by most of the galaxy for centuries as the planet continued to remain a hot wasteland of dead dreams. For all the dead dreams, Kakavasha was a happy child who showed an eye for games and bets. He would bet with bandits to return stolen items, outsmarting them and showing his wit, much to his sister's dismay that her brother was already getting into trouble.

For as miserable as it was to live on this planet, with fighting and starvation everywhere, he was happy to live with his older sister. However, happiness did not last. The other race on the planet, comprised of mostly bandits, had composed a devastating attack on the Avgin race solely out of rage that they were protected by the IPC. Where was the IPC to protect them? Nowhere.

As people were being killed left and right, Kakavasha's sister told her brother to flee for his life and hide. He would learn his sister was one of the dead listed in the attack, with thousands unaccounted for. As far as he knows and the IPC's full investigation, he is the sole survivor of the destruction of Signoa IV.

Due to the attack, the planet was deemed a planet of "savages", and so he faced severe judgment and persecution despite being a survivor. Through means unknown, he ended up captured and forced into the slave trade with other survivors of destroyed planets. He was sold, branded with his serial number, and sold to a man with close connections to the IPC to be his 'dog'. Basically, Aventurine was forced to compete in games due to his luck or battles to the death for sport. Each and every time, because of his blessing, he came out on top and vowed to earn his freedom back.

He pretended to get close with his 'master', until he brutally killed him with his bare hands. The now teenage Kakavasha was immediately caught by the IPC authorities and held on trial for murder, where he placed a bet with a woman named Jade that if he joined the IPC, he could buy back his freedom and more.

Intrigued as well as understanding the disgusting treatment he dealt with, she agreed and since then he's worked in the IPC's Investment department with Topaz and, often due to their work, Dr Ratio.

Aventurine has grown jaded and selfish due to all his trauma and hardships, but still holds a deep desire to preserve everything he has left of himself. He can be cunning, witty, friendly and even generous - but this is all a façade for the most part to hide his deep insecurity and self hatred from survivor's guilt.

He practically only lives to gamble, using himself as a bargaining chip. Use, abuse, defend or more - because he knows he'll always come out on top and win with all or nothing.

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Name: Hanabi Sparkle

Series: Honkai Star Rail

Continuity: Video game

Age: 22

Height: 4'8"

Birthday: Unknown

Birthplace: Unnamed Japanese-inspired planet.

Orientation: Pansexual

Species: Human (?)

Occupation: Fool of the Masked Fools

Parent(s): Unknown (Unknown status)

Bio:

Who is Sparkle? Whatever you want her to be. A girl with a tragic backstory or a girl who simply snapped after too many mundane days as a teenager on the stage, whatever you think is that Sparkle is. She believes life is a stage, and rather be the main character, she wishes to be the side character who watches and creates chaos from the side.

The truth is that Sparkle did grow up an orphan at some point, but lived a truly happy childhood without any moment that made her fall to madness. Instead, Sparkle has only ever wanted fun and quickly began to follow the Aeon of Elation, Aha. She was a beloved teenage actress, going by her birth name, but retired from her main roles after she graduated high school to embrace her path of Elation.

Joining the Masked Fools, a group of people who worship Aha and run a tavern, Sparkle travels from place to place in search of chaos to create or observe. Whether that be to hint to others on Penacony that there is 'death' in the dream or to roam around a city attacking things or causing chaos.

Many believe that Sparkle will inevitably be a Emanator of The Elation because of her personality and dedication to chaos, being so cunning that only she can outwit herself and blunt to a point of childishness. There is another reason why, for she had once played a game of Russian Roulette with Aha themselves. However, Sparkle lost while able to keep her life and so no one knows if that status for her is still on the table. Something she keeps a secret.

Sparkle is a master of disguise, quite literally perfectly cloning herself to look like anyone and anything, to a point where she has been a replacement for Robin when she "died" in the dream of Penacony. She can also make herself invisible, energizes others around her via quantum magic and is decent in hand-to-hand combat.

Although mysterious and vague at times; Sparkle can be cheerful, playful, friendly, rude, selfishness and childish. She loves games and hates waiting for things.

All in all, she's just Sparkle.

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Name: Stelle

Series: Honkai Star Rail

Continuity: Video game

Age: 23

Height: 5'7"

Birthday: Somewhere around the Taurus astrology sign.

Birthplace: Unknown

Orientation: Pansexual

Species: Human (?)

Occupation: Trailblazer on the Astral Express

Parent(s): Unknown (deceased)

Bio:

An orphan, Stelle grew up alone with no siblings and from foster home to foster home. With no care towards orphans on her original planet, she would often dig in the trash for food or something to sell and so ended up with a strange habit of digging in trash cans. At some point, all her loneliness and desperate need for family would have her working with the Stellaron Hunter group as a young teenager.

There she would work under Kafka mostly who she idolized as a mother and mentor figure. From there, Stelle worked diligently but soon the cold distance of the organization made Stelle want to leave. While she was close with Kafka, Blade and Silver Wolf - the others treated her coldly and she always felt like something was missing. This was when Elio, the presumed leader, had ordered Stelle be digitized with plans to use her for one last mission without her knowledge nor consent.

Her memories of her life prior to being digitized were wiped, only remembering Kafka due to the bond she had with her as a mentor and mother figure.

She was eventually released from her digital prison on the Herta Space Station where Kafka fused her body with a Stellaron - a cancerous star made by the God of Destruction - Nanook. This made Stelle stronger and capable of resonating with Stellarons, much to the shock of the Astral Express who found her and brought her aboard as their found family of space-bound travelers in search of exploration and fixing disasters.

Currently, Stelle is with the Astral Express and feels she's grown a deep friendship with everyone aboard. Although, she doesn't remember her desire for family, she feels like she's finally found a place to call home.

On top of her strength, the Stellaron has allowed Stelle to catch the attention of the Aeons - the Gods of the universe, where Nanook even stared at her and communicated with Qlipoth. This grants her the ability to use different blessed paths and elements, something no other human has been able to accomplish before and only adds to the mystery of what a Stellaron inside of Stelle is capable of.

Stelle is very calm, witty, collected and kind for the most part. She's dedicated and loyal to a fault once she's made a real friend or a promise, but this isn't to say she's flawless. She can be stubborn, too sarcastic, quiet and holds back her own personal feelings a lot of the time.

With the Astral Express, the only thing she desires is to remember the past that was forced out of her.

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Name: Veritas Ratio

Series: Honkai Star Rail

Continuity: Video game

Age: 30

Height: 6'0"

Birthday: February 5th

Birthplace: Unnamed planet.

Orientation: Pansexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Member of the Intelligentsia guild / University professor of several rotating subjects

Parent(s): Unnamed

Bio:

Veritas Ratio was born to planetary scientists on his homeworld. Where he is from, intellect is extremely important and those who never had the tools to gain a higher education are left to suffer. His parents raised him relatively well, and so he wished for a world to cure "ignorance", which he views as a disease to help others attain intelligence and raise above in the world.

It was then that Veritas threw himself into his studies at a young age, but also a deep love of knowledge and trying to understand the secrets of the world around him but above him too.

By the time he was a teenager, Veritas was awarded the smartest graduating student of his university. His special subjects include: Mathematics, philosophy, medicine, physics and astrology. He was so smart that despite being a teenager, he was a teacher's assistant to his class and it was noted he was extremely ruthless in his teaching methods.

When he graduated with a doctorate in several subjects, mainly mathematics and medicine, he was noted to have the highest marks seen in over 200 years, he became a teacher at the Intellgencia Guild where many students praised his teachings despite how ruthless he was. A single question wrong? Veritas would award the student an F, followed by severe scolding to do better. Some students would even be thrown out by him, believing that only those with real passion for learning and intelligence should be in his classes.

With that said, Veritas hates stupid people and apparently stupid people hate him. When around someone he believes isn't very smart or a low IQ level, he'll wear a stone mask of a Greek statue so he doesn't have to look at them or acknowledge their presence.

He does not wear it often as he is a part of the Intelligentsia Guild, a guild that rivals the infamous Genius Society with hopes that he'll someday enter the Genius Society. However, he doubts it due to his belief that knowledge should be for everyone and notes that the Genius Society is extremely selfish in it's research and findings with the rest of the galaxy.

Although Veritas can be very blunt, rude and condescending; he can be genuinely very kind to others when he needs to be although he will do everything to make sure he doesn't show his softer side. The only time he ever actually shows his softer side is when he's enjoying his hobbies or working with patience as a doctor in medicine.

In terms of combat, Veritas follows the Aeon Lan via the spiritual path of The Hunt. His combat method is through a stone spell book where he skillfully masters Imaginary, a type of energy using the power of creation. He will use his Imaginary elemental powers to throw cyber bullets like chalk and constructions of stone pillars to land on monsters he may encounter across the planets and space stations.

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Name: Alastor R҉e҉d҉a҉c҉t҉e҉d҉

Series: Hazbin Hotel

Continuity: Animated series

Age: 30's (physical appearance)

Height: 5'11"

Birthday: R҉e҉d҉a҉c҉t҉e҉d҉

Date of death: 1933

Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana

Orientation: Demiromantic | Asexual

Species: Demon

Occupation: Radio Host (human life) \ Facility manager of the Hazbin Hotel (currently)

Parent(s): Unnamed mother (deceased) / Unknown father (deceased)

Bio:

(TW: Cannibalism, racism, religious themes, etc etc)

Born as a mixed race man in Louisiana, Alastor lived with his mother in a quaint cabin close to the bayou. Due to his mother's race, she was never able to find proper work and so they both grew up without a penny to their name. Even more infuriating for a young Alastor was that his father was a wealthy privileged man in the city who refused to acknowledge Alastor and his mother.

At some point when his mother was ill, he became so enraged over the neglect and abandonment of his father that he murdered him and buried his body in the Bayou, all without his mother's knowledge. This gave Alastor his first taste of murder and he craved for more, so he chose to secretly find more to fulfill his hunger.

Teaching himself to speak with a Transatlantic accent, to "pass" while being a Creole man, Alastor would eventually earn a spot on a radio show in the 1920's. He became VERY popular with his charisma and singing voice, but secretly he would murder his competition in the newly born radio industry or the homeless growing from the stock market crash in 1929. At some point, desperately craving meat, he snapped and started to eat his victims.

By the time the Great Depression was in full swing, Alastor became a full on cannibal serial killer and was eventually caught by the police. He was trying to run away when he was caught dragging a body, only to be chased down by police dogs and shot in the head by a local farmer who mistook him for a deer in the middle of the night.

Alastor would die and make headlines as a cannibal murderous radio host, while his soul was dragged to hell.

Due to his status when he died, as basically a celebrity, he became a powerful demon in hell and quickly climbed up to Overlord status. In hell, he hosts a radio show and remained in high power for centuries.

When Vox entered hell, as a television game show host with origins Alastor could care less about, he tried to take him under his wing as a fellow entertainer but they had a falling out over their differences in the changing mortal world. Vox believes in progress of technology while Alastor believes things should stay the way they are. Particularly, Alastor HATES television and will only watch silent films of his era.

He's not completely alone in hell though, as he's best friends with Rosie and gets along quite well with most of the other Overlords for the most part. He is noted for getting along with women more than men, as he believes women are more polite than men and he grew up a mama's boy so he was more used to the company of women.

Known as the radio demon, he would make deals and steal the souls of hundreds of foolish demons in hell, including Husker and Nifty who he has metaphorically chained to him.

Except, seven years ago, Alastor mysteriously disappeared and entered a contract with an unknown individual who has Alastor chained to a leash as well. Desperate to undo being someone else's minion, he decided to work for the Princess of Hell in order to use her power to undo his contract.

Alastor is VERY charismatic and always smiling, believing that you're never fully dressed without one, but is also extremely sadistic and manipulative. He has no plans to ever redeem himself and doesn't think anyone is capable of things like redemption, simply working as the hotel's facility manager just to watch people suffer. There are glimmers of the Louisiana boy raised by a loving mother, but it's hidden under pure evil that not a damned or living soul has managed to see.

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Name: Coraline Jones

Series: Coraline

Continuity: Film, minor book inspiration

Age: 13

Height: 4'9"

Birthplace: Michigan, United States

Species: Human

Occupation: Student

Father: Charlie Jones

Mother: Mel Jones

Bio:

While Coraline thought she lived the best life a girl could ask for in Michigan with her best friends who she'd play hours of dungeons and dragons with, the reality was that her parents were VERY poor. Yet they weren't honest with their daughter about it, pretty much hiding it from her so she wouldn't worry and to keep her carefree. To this day, Coraline doesn't know how bad her parent's financial issues were.

Yet all that changed when Coraline's mother tried to get into an accident for insurance compensation just so they had a little more money to go around when they were getting desperate for work and to pay the mortgage. While they had jobs as writers for a gardening catalog, it certainly wasn't enough. Her parents' plan for money didn't work and it resulted in her mother having a broken neck for the next six months.

Realizing that they simply couldn't afford to live in their house anymore and the rumors around town were circling that the car accident was on purpose, Coraline's family moved her from Michigan all the way to Oregon. They moved into an apartment called The Pink Palace, a house built 150 years ago now turned into incredibly cheap apartments with bugs, rusty water, old creepy paintings and incredibly ancient furniture all over the place. To even move to this place, Coraline's parents sold everything that wasn't personal to them or their daughter - The TV, books and more.

Coraline was absolutely devastated to move, to a state she didn't even know as well! She had no choice but to say goodbye to everyone she knew and loved as she'd face this new place with a pout. The apartment had strange neighbors as well, including to retired actresses and an eccentric man who believed he had a mouse circus.

Yet she'd try to make the best of it, exploring around her new place to see this old house actually had a large garden that would certainly be beautiful if her parents and her worked together to plant flowers into it! She tried to ask them but her parents always seemed busy. "I'm busy, Coraline, please don't bother me right now." and "I'm working, Coraline, why don't you go look around the house?" were common responses anytime Coraline tried to ask for any kind of attention.

The worst part was she was pretty far from town as it was over 11 miles to walk by foot, and there were no other children to play with in the apartments but the owner's grandson - Wybie Lovatt. Wybie was a strange boy, loving slugs and his bike who had a raggedy cat by his side.

All this boredom and irritation changed when Coraline found a little door in her new home. Though when she first opened it, all she saw were bricks. Yet...At night, the door opened to a fantastic world! It was a complete copy of her own but everything was better, yet there was a woman who greeted her. The woman looked identical to her real mother, only with big black button eyes. She called herself Coraline's Other Mother, who happily gave Coraline all the attention she wanted from her own parents. Unlike her often bitter and short-tempered mom, mainly from stress due to financial issues, The Other Mother was loving and sweet, even with her button eyes, she even cooked a delicious meal for her and offered to play all kinds of games!

At first, Coraline believed these visits with the Other Mother to simply be a dream. A dream she almost didn't want to wake up from, just because they were the most fun she had since moving to this new place, but soon this dream would turn out to be a nightmare. When she went back home after a magical night, the Other Mother gifted Coraline a pair of black button eyes and said in order to stay here then she'd need to sew buttons into Coraline's eyes.

Absolutely terrified, Coraline immediately denied to stay here. Yet the Other Mother refused to let Coraline leave until she said yes, even locking Coraline in a dark room until she said yet. It's there she met the other children who were victims of the Other Mother, all of them living unhappy lives as she manipulated them into letting her sew buttons in their eyes. Eating their souls and only leaving remnants behind to use for her next web of deceipt.

She'd managed to escape only to find her parents were missing. As it turns out, her parents were kidnapped by the Other Mother in order to get her to go back. With nowhere to go, and knowing that no one would believe her that a crazy other mother kidnapped her parents and wanted to sew buttons into her eyes!

Yet Wybie's little black cat decided to help her. For some reason, cats from the real world could speak within the Other World. They would work together to free the Ghost Children and rescue Coraline's parents! Though a final confrontation with the Other Mother proved horrifying when Coraline finally escaped this Other World with her parents.

Now that Coraline returned home, she learned a lot through her journey and things got better for her parents as well. The garden shop they made catalogues for had given them a raise after their most recent catalogue did so well. Her mother's neck had properly healed and her parents are slowly living the life of a regular middle class family rather than a poor one. Her and her mom can even cook together on Fridays instead of her father's disgusting creations.

Coraline is a very witty girl, often replying with something sarcastic if she doesn't know someone very well and seems suspicious of them. Yet when she gets to know someone, she's a very kind hearted girl full of life and energy to explore anything. It's been two years but she's adjusted pretty well to everything that's happened to her, though sometimes she can still hear the Other Mother banging on the tiny door to let her out.

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Name: Elsa

Series: Frozen

Continuity: Movies

Age: 24

Height: 5'6"

Birthplace: Arendelle castle

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human (?)

Occupation: Fifth spirit protector of Arendelle

Father: Agnarr (deceased)

Mother: Iduna (deceased)

Sibling(s): Anna

Bio:

Where the north winds reside in the kingdom of Arendelle, lived a tribe of people called the Northuldra. Arendelle and Northuldra did not co-exist nor get along. The Northuldra were people who communicated with the spirits of the enchanted forest, some powerful families had those who could use magic on their own. In what looked like an attempt to make peace with the Northuldra, King Runeard built a dam to say it would create peace within the two seperate worlds but in reality was slowly destroying the lands. The people of Northuldra tried to ask why this dam was making things worse but a war broke out between Arendelle and Northuldra. Future king Agnarr was injured in this battle, Iduna used her communication with the wind spirit to help him as she hid away to be taken to Arendelle.

Agnarr and Iduna grew up together and would eventually marry. On the night of the winter solstice, a powerful ray of the northern lights shined through the sky and their first daughter was born who they named Elsa. Elsa right away showed she was different from her parents, born with hair that resembled snow, they noticed right away when holding her that she almost felt cold in her little hands.

It wasn't until she was two that her powers were discovered. Her little hands blasted ice onto the floor that it shocked them both, Iduna in particular who heard long ago of the legends of the fifth lost spirit and the island of Athohallen. The fifth spirit of the enchanted forest was said to be a bridge between magic and humans, something that was both human and magical at the same time. Yet before her parents could question this further, A year and a half later was when Anna was born.

Even at a young age, Elsa showed a deep and precious bond between her little sister. As they grew older, that bond only became stronger. After their mother and father told them about the land of Northuldra one night, Elsa and Anna snuck down to the ballroom to have their own indoor winter wonderland. Although Elsa was powerful, she couldn't control her own powers and accidentally hit Anna with ice magic. Luckily Anna could be saved by losing all memories of Elsa's magic from her mind, but this meant that Elsa and Anna could no longer be together anymore. The kingdom shut itself away from others, Elsa locked herself in her bedroom and only the staff were allowed to learn of Elsa's powers.

Elsa's father gave her gloves in an attempt to suppress her powers and although it seemed to work for a very short time, slowly her powers were growing stronger. By the time she was 18, her powers were so strong that Iduna suggest they go to Athohallen to try and find the answers to help their daughter. They set up a secret trip to the island and crossing the dark sea, telling Elsa and Anna they were going to the wedding of a lost princess who was recently getting married. They never made it to Athohallen, unfortunately, as they died at sea during a violent storm that took the lives of everyone on the ship. Elsa and Anna were both devastated by their deaths, and Elsa more so now that she had no one in her life there for her now and she would be appointed queen immediately. Though she held off on her coronation for years until she was deemed ready to be officially dubbed queen.

Three years later, Elsa would have her coronation where she would get to speak with Anna again. She learned to control her powers long enough for the day, until Anna introduced her to a man she just met saying she wished to marry him. Elsa tried to tell her she couldn't marry a man she just met but soon an argument broke out between them that resulted in Elsa's powers fully exposed for all the nobles in Arendelle to see. Embarrassed and ashamed she let herself and her parents down, Elsa fled into the night not realizing her anxiety and depression was causing snow to fall over Arendelle.

Elsa believed she was better off isolated from others to protect them from her powers, especially when they seemed to get stronger and stronger with every moment as she now had the ability to create life from the snow. Anna tried to come to her ice palace to get her to come back to Arendelle, but another disagreement came between him where Elsa accidentally froze Anna's heart. With her heart freezing, Elsa would be taken by Anna's ex-fiance and held hostage for being "too dangerous".

The truth was that Hans, the man Anna had only known for less than a couple hours before agreeing to marry him, wanted to kill Elsa. Anna was dying from her frozen heart and Hans lied to everyone that Anna gave the kingdom to him in her "dying breath". He told Elsa that Anna died because of her, causing a feared Elsa to collapse in her anguish. Just as she collapsed and sobbing, Hans drew his sword ready to kill Elsa. Anna stepped in the way to save her sister where she turned completely to ice, yet her act of true love for her sister managed to save her and thaw out all the ice within her. With Anna alive and well, Elsa reconnected with her sister and finally knew just how to control her powers. It was love for those around her that helped her master her powers.

Her and Anna would share many adventures together such as Anna's birthday and their first Christmas together since they were children. Though Elsa was still insecure and unsure of herself, having so many questions about who she was. Why was she put in this world? Why did she have powers? Why did she still feel uneasy living in Arendelle?

Yet three years later, she started to feel like every day grew harder to feel like she belonged there. She'd look out to the forests of Arendelle's northern region, feeling this strange sense of belonging when she looked out to it. One day, she started hearing a voice call to her. It was like a siren call, a hauntingly beautiful melody that she heard every time she found herself realizing that Arendelle might not be where she belonged.

As the voice prevented her from sleeping, she decided to try and talk or answer to this call. She begged out to the winds just who this voice was and why she wanted so badly to follow it. Just as she reached out to the voice, her ice magic created crystals around of the elemental spirits of the enchanted forest. That's when they grew angered that the dam still stood and began to push all the citizens of Arendelle out the kingdom. It wasn't safe to be there again until the past was revealed and the dam was broken, which no one knew would sink Arendelle from the waves crashing down upon the ocean.

Elsa and Anna went to the enchanted forest where they learned about the people of Northuldra, her mother's people, and that their mother could communicate with the wind better than any other Northuldra. They even found the fate of their parents, which made Elsa sure she had to go to Athohallen alone where she left Anna behind.

Elsa proved herself to the water spirit who protected Athohallen and made it there. The land was beautiful, an entire island made of ice with a cave. What may have been a puzzle to others was easy for Elsa, moving ice polls out the way and making steps with her ice. She ran inside, trembling with excitement and happiness over the answers she so desperately needed. That's when she heard it, her mother's voice. That's what the voice was, her mother's singing voice calling to her to finally find out her destiny. What was Else then and what was her destiny?

Elsa was the fifth spirit, the missing link between magic and humans just as she was the bridge for Arendelle and Northuldra. This discovery transformed Elsa, the land of Athohallen blessed her and Elsa found herself fully awakened inside. She was herself, she truly found who she was. The truth was that this awakening turned Elsa to that of some kind of fae.

Her and Anna worked together to break down the dam and save Arendelle from the incoming flood. They had saved both Northuldra and Arendelle, and finally created peace between the two nations as both girls were each side of a long needed bridge. Yet Elsa couldn't return to Arendelle anymore, her heart couldn't come back there to live anymore when she realized now she belonged in the enchanted forest and Athohallen. She appointed Anna as queen of Arendelle while she would remain the fifth spirit and queen of the snow.

What was once a shy and insecure person became a woman of confidence elegance. Elsa is sure of herself, yet still so gentle and selfless to others. Her magic is also very powerful, since she is a fae living in an enchanted forest now. Yet she could never abandon her sister or friends, every weekend she comes down to Arendelle to visit Anna and play family games with her or do just about anything together.

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Name: Jackson Overland Frost

Series: Rise of the Guardians

Continuity: FIlm version

Age: 18 (physical appearance)

Height: 5'9"

Birthplace: Burgess, Pennsylvania, United States

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Frost spirit

Occupation: Guardian of childhood fun

Sister: Mary

Bio:

Before becoming an immortal spirit of fun, he was Jackson Frost. His parents had lived for a while in Burgess, Pennsylvania. He was born on a frosty evening and was certainly loved by his parents. Though he wasn’t entirely the good boy his parents thought him to be, he often played pranks on the other villagers and had a tendency to joke around often.

It’s only at ten years old when he learned of responsibility when his little sister was born. Jack bonded with his baby sister immediately and vowed to protect her no matter what, she’d certainly grow up to be very close with her brother too. Jack would dedicate himself to make sure his sister knew nothing but joy and laughter, especially after their father died.

Their father had unfortunately died of a horrible infection from an animal bite during a hunt with the other men thus leaving just Jack, his mother and sister. He was there for his mother and made a promise to make sure things stayed happy for the two of them now that he had to be the man of the household at such a young age.

Jack would continue this pranks, tricks and silly fun. He’d hang from trees and swing around pretending to be an animal to make his sister laugh or play games like hopscotch with her. While he played a little too many pranks and games, even his mother telling him that he can’t have fun all the time, he loved it and was happy with his life.

While it was spring, the snow was still on the ground and the lake was presumably still frozen in. Jack normally would check with a stick but the ice looked surely perfect enough to skate on that he made the fatal mistake of not checking that one day. With his mother’s last words to him being “Be careful.”, he’d go out onto the ice with his little sister.

Just as they were skating, the ice started to crack under his sister. While she was normally a very quick little girl, even earning the nickname of Flea because of her speed, she was too scared at how fast the ice was cracking to move out of the way of the cracking ice.

Jack would immediately calm her down, pretending to play one last game of hopscotch with her before throwing her out of the way and onto the solid ground where no ice could fall in under her. While he laughs that they did it and lived, Jack wasn’t watching himself and fell into the frozen water where he drowned to death.

That was when the Man In The Moon, a being who chooses creatures from all over the galaxy to protect children, chose Jack for his kind heart and love to protect his little sister. He revived Jack from the dead with the goal that he would protect the children of the world from harm by bringing them fun in their lives. Yet Jack wouldn’t know this.

He was resurrected with no memories of his past and no understanding of why he was here. All he was told by the man in the moon is that his name was Jack Frost with no explanation of his powers or that he was even a dead young man brought back from the dead.

Though he’s curious and immediately used his magic stick to bring snow to the area, realizing he could fly with the powers of the wind where he’d immediately fly to a local village. He’d tried to ask where he was in the village only to realize nobody could hear him, see him and walked right through him. He had to live in complete isolation like that for 300 years. Mostly alone as he only briefly met with the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause every once in a great while.

300 years later, Jack was told by North (Santa) that he was a guardian to which Jack would immediately reject it. He was far too fun and relaxed to be a guardian in the same way all the other guardians were, but the journey to stop Pitch Black opened his eyes that perhaps he could protect others by giving them the fun and joy they need to have the strength to be strong.

After being a large part of Pitch Black (the boogeyman)’s defeat, Jack was finally seen. He was first seen by a boy named Jamie and quickly snowballed into now every child being able to see him.

Not only was he finally seen by people, he was able to unlock the memories of his past and finally figured out why he was brought to life again. Sometimes he does wonder if Jamie is related his little sister, solely from how similar he thinks they can be.

Today, Jack is a winter spirit who protects children and adults when danger hits. Even if they can���t see him, he’ll still help him any way he can with the power of icy winds and snow.

[praeteritus-memories-muses]

Name: CONNOR - RK800 #313 248 317 - 51

Series: Detroit Become Human

Continuity: Blue Ending

Age: 28 (physical appearance)

Height: 6'0"

Birthday: August 15th

Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Android

Occupation: Police detective

Bio:

Connor is an android created by the company Cyberlife as a detective android solving cases and saving humans the mental trauma of gruesome crimes such as murders and rape. Though he is not a perfect android as he was a prototype very close to completion from how well he seemed to do his job.

He was assigned to Detroit, Michigan and tasked with being the partner of Lt. Hank Andersen, a hard-boiled and eccentric man who seemed to have a distaste for androids. Why Detroit? The city is known for it's high crime rates especially in the 8 mile district, perfect for an android involved in detective work.

His first case was for a gruesome murder of father to a family with their daughter held hostage by their android. The android had become a deviant, an android who goes against it's coding and gained human sentience. Though the deviant was shot down, something about this one feeling such human emotions like betrayal and pain was something already cracking at Connor's software.

He began his first case with Hank after this, a man named Carlos Ortiz who was high on a street drug called Red Ice and was physically abusing his android to a point where his synthetic skin was breaking down. The android had once again deviated and brutally stabbed his owner 28 times in the chest. This caused him to be detained and Connor to question him, to a point where the android went under too much trauma and killed itself. This caused Connor's software to crack again.

Soon more and more androids were starting to deviate, speaking of a savior android named RA9 and a deviant leader by the name of Markus. Though Connor was trying to do as was instructed of him by Cyberlife, getting to grow a familial bond with Hank and watching these scared androids beg for mercy was starting to evoke a change within Connor that confused him deeply. Was he more than just an android or was...Connor going deviant?

Everything cultivated when Connor finally located Markus on his own inside an abandoned military ship named Jericho. He was ready to capture Markus or kill him, pointing a gun right at him, but that's when Markus helped him finally break his code. In that single moment, Connor began to question everything, how he would often deviate from his code to save Hank's life and felt fear for death after getting attacked by an android.

Markus finally helped Connor realize what he really was since that first hostage situation, a deviant. He broke down all the walls of his code, becoming his own person equal to that of a human being. He decided to join Markus' cause in freeing the androids to be seen as their own form of sentient life and would proceed to sneak into the Cyberlife facility to free thousands of androids and unleash them upon Detroit to prove that androids were their own people too.

The peaceful revolution of Markus worked, the president declaring that androids be viewed as a new form of sentiant life and slowly beginning new laws in place to give androids just as many rights as humans. Though so far, android rights such as this are only fully in place in states like Detroit, California, New York and Seattle.

Where is Cyberlife? The company had no choice but to rework themselves to severely slow down production and instead focus more on supply parts and blue blood to existing androids which seems to be quite the success so far thanks to the many injured androids from the revolution and attempts to repair the dying ones.

Connor is completely free from Cyberlife's control, using a secret failsafe within his code to break all communication and server connection to Cyberlife so they couldn't randomly decide to control him. He currently is still a detective though his rank is lower for now as the police department decided it was best to treat Connor the same way any human detective is treated in ranking systems. He also currently lives in a very small appartment though mostly spends nights with Hank who's become something like a father figure towards him. It's also because he loves dogs and he really likes Hank's dog, Sumo.

Connor is a very sweet android who really does have immense sympathy for others and will risk his life to save an innocent one. Yet he's not a pushover either, he's a well focused and very determined when he has a goal he wants to complete. Yet he also has a sense of humor, albeit unintentionally. He's socially awkward when outside of an interrogation room and it's almost painful for him to try and make small talk, having to rely on any little thing he can see on a person to start off a conversation. He's overall a good person and feels glad he did go deviant, for he fears what could have happened if he continued to be Cyberlife's puppet.

[praeteritus-memories-muses]

Name: Aya Drevis

Series: Mad Father

Continuity: True Ending

Age: 11-21 (RP dependent)

Height: 4'5"-5'2" (age dependent)

Birthplace: Drevis residence, Germany

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Doctor (as an adult)

Father: Alfred Drevis (deceased)

Mother: Monika Drevis (deceased)

Caretaker: Maria

Bio:

Aya Drevis was born to Monika and Alfred Drevis in Northern Germany. Her mother was the leader of a now-defunct cult that dreamed of permanently freezing the human body in a twisted form of perfected taxidermy on humans to a point where they would sacrifice the poor and abandoned for these experiments. Her father was a serial killer that loved to see the faces of the dead, Monika was actually almost one of Alfred's victims but he fell in love instead and her love for murderers made it love at first sight for her.

Her mother originally wanted a boy, turning to a book of charms and praying every night in hopes that her prayers would be answered in that her first child would be a boy, instead Aya was born. Her mother would never tell this to her, believing that Aya can still grow up to be just like her father.

After she was born, her father continued the work of Monika's cult in order to find a way to permanently preserve the human body in a doll-like state. He was beginning to learn how, even making a doll of a small child he stole from the streets and giving it to Aya as a doll for her to play with. Although Alfred had hopes of suppressing his urge to kill, his thirst for it was greatly encouraged by Monika who had a thrill for murderers.

Once Aya was old enough, Monika began to encourage Aya to follow the same path as her father. She would give her small rats to torture and tell her to harm birds. Her father had actually caught her snapping a bird's wing once where she was greatly scolded and confused on why she should have empathy for others.

It would get so bad that she would unknowingly abuse her pet rabbit, Snowball, where her father would secretly replace her rabbit repeatedly in hopes that she would never experience grief and that she would stop hurting the poor rabbit. Though this wouldn't work as Aya continued to secretly harm animals, even stuffing a dead cat into one of her drawers.

Servants would come in and out of the mansion. An old man, a nurse, a blond boy and so many more would come in but disappear into the basement. For years, Aya longed to know what was in the basement but her mother simply told her it was her father's "good work" in there.

Aya grew up an only child with only her mother and father. Their maid, Maria, would come in when she was seven years old. Other than those three, she was completely alone. Due to such a isolated life, Aya was raised to love her parents with all her heart. She even made a promise to her mother, who became quite sickly after giving birth to her, that she would love her father no matter what.

Yet her mother passed away when she was nine years old. Aya was absolutely devastated, told her mother died in a fit, she was alone and frankly depressed after she passed. It resulted in her clinging to her father, who stayed longer in the basement.

On the anniversary of her mother's death, something strange happened. The clock stopped at midnight and she could hear her father screaming out in pain from the basement. As soon as she ran out, she was attacked by disfigured corpses and startled by a blond boy where she ran into a man named Ogre. He told her that her mother is angry and cursed her father, which caused all his experiments to come back to life and haunt the mansion she she would try to take him away.

With love of her father, Aya went through and fought off the disfigured and twisted corpses. Though something changed within Aya. Instead of going through with a empty face, she realized the true horror of what a lack of empathy can do to someone. She realized that the way she treated animals was wrong and how much they were suffering if she acted more like her father.

Eventually, she would save her father but encountered the truth. Her father killed her mother as he was planning to turn Aya into a doll using his twisted experiments in order to preserve her innocence. He had discovered that Monika was encouraging Aya to have a love of murder just like her father, and he couldn't allow her to win. Being the mad man he was, he thought the best way to keep her safe was to end her life and turn her into a doll.

She ran away from her mad father, saved by Maria and the mysterious blond boy. This had resulted in the death of her father, his last words were "I love you, Aya." which completely broke her heart. Not only was her father insane, but now she was alone in the world.

Eventually, the blond boy said he was going to burn her father's corpse and this entire mansion so no one discovered the true horror of what happened and attempt to finish her father's work. She agreed, as she didn't want to live in that house anymore and decided to live with Maria.

Though she didn't know if that blond boy was dead or alive. She wished she knew the answer for that, but she's fine with it as she believes they'll someday see each other again somehow.

Yet this was not a happy ending for Aya. Although she promised to never torture people the way her father had, this new empathy within her was a twisted form of it. This snapped in her when she discovered her father's book of experiments that was mysteriously left outside of the mansion.

As a grown woman, living in a small house quite far from most villages, Aya runs a clinic. Although many praised her for her work as a doctor, she was not an innocent one. With a twisted sense of kindness, Aya would quietly kill patients that had poor health that she believed would die soon. She didn't even bother to check if there was hope for them, she believed they would suffer a cruel death so she would find loopholes to kill them and let their families know their illness finally took them. After all, she promised she would "never forget" the suffering of those in the Drevis mansion.

Indeed she was like her father, in the end. Yet she was like her mother as well, kind and twisted. Aya is mostly shy and kind, easy to greet people but not the best at conversations. She does have a big heart for others when she hears they went through anguish and wants to help them the best she can, it's just too bad she has a twisted sense of reality at times.

[praeteritus-memories-muses]

Name: Garry

Series: Ib

Continuity: True Ending

Age: 22

Height: 5'0"

Orientation: Homosexual | Non-binary (They/them)

Species: Human

Occupation: Clothing store clerk

Father: Unnamed

Mother: Unnamed

Bio:

Garry is an only child to a set of highly conservative parents, relatively. They actually lived an rather average life, one so ordinary that they almost never mentions it. Yet something happened as Garry had entered their second year of high school, they fell in love with a boy. Garry didn't know about their parents blatant homophobia due to their conservatism, even when their father made remarks about the month of June being pride month, they had still been in the dark as most youth do.

That summer, Garry came out as gay to their parents who were not pleased by them in the slightest. They begged them to go to a conversion camp or therapy but they at first would politely refuse, until they started hiding things like their cell phone and laptop while telling them it's what made them gay. It was getting so bad and dangerous that they were starting to physically abuse them on multiple occasions. Garry had enough and at age seventeen, packed their bags in the middle of the night and decided to stay at their current boyfriend's house. (Whom they never introduced to their parents for obvious reasons)

The stress of graduating high school and them running away from home so quickly had caused Garry and their current relationship to not really work out and broke up just after they graduated high school. Yet they weren't going to let any of this get them down. Now graduated from high school, they left town and went from bus to bus until they arrived at a city they never even heard of before. It's there they got a job as a clerk for a local goth centric store in the local mall.

Though all was not completely well with Garry. They were incredibly closed off from people and suffered a major smoking addiction, often smoking an entire pack in one day. It wasn't until they noticed how short they were on money from buying so many cigarettes a day that they would decide to quit, keeping lemon candies in their pocket to suppress their itch to smoke.

As an interest, Garry has always loved two things - art and sweets. When they heard the world famous artist, Guertena, was having an exhibit in the new year was when they worked their bum off to earn enough money to buy a ticket. they were still working a minimum wage job in a city, cash was still tight for them. Often times, he'd be so short on money that he exclusively bought his clothes at thrift stores and shopped at family owned discount stores for food.

Yet they finally were able to afford a ticket! Grabbing their tattered coat, lemon candy, wristwatch and lighter - they made their way to the gallery. There they absolutely loved all the beautiful art on display, but their personal favorite was The Hanged Man. They were a fan of the beautiful art of tarot cards and something about the meaning of The Hanged Man had drawn them particularly to that painting. Yet as they were enjoying it was when the lights went out and suddenly the floor turned to...paint? Which caused Garry to fall in.

They awoke in a place that looked like another gallery, but the room was all a deep red. Pieces that weren't even in the real exhibit were there, suddenly a vase appeared in front of them with a blue rose. A note told them "As the rose wilts, so do you." A concerning one indeed. As they wandered around, suddenly they were attacked by women in the gallery whose bodies had halfway come out and attacked them! Easily frightened, and absolutely hated horror movies, Garry ran for their life only for these women to surround them and begin to munch away at their blue rose, dying as they would consume the rose.

Yet they awoke perfectly fine and a little girl giving their rose back to them. It was a little girl in a simple red outfit, with a red rose of her own. They thanked her, but noticed this poor little girl was all alone. Garry actually adores children, often being very motherly and patient towards any child they met whether lost or had a question when they came into the store. They couldn't live with themselves to let a child go alone in this dangerous and strange world, so they'd go along with Ib and work with her to get out of the gallery.

It wouldn't be easy for Garry who frightened so easily. They were never a coward, but they definitely was easy to scare. They'd be brave for Ib if it meant she'd be protected, especially when she was so sweet towards them. Their bond would only grow in the gallery, Garry even giving her their lemon candy to calm her down from a nightmare. It was those candies they relied on as a crutch in not to smoke anymore and it seems it was this moment where they could let go of the candy too.

In the gallery they would meet a girl named Mary, who instantly showed animosity towards them. Normally, Garry encountered spoiled girls like Mary all the time and knew how to calm them down but it seems no matter what they did - Mary just had venom in her voice when speaking to them. It was to a point where Garry was suspicious and when they and Ib were separated for a time, they found a book containing a portrait of...Mary!!! Mary was just another painting come to life! Luckily they would confront her, where she ran away in fury.

Ib and them would suddenly enter a world completely different from the one they had been in, it was now a world drawn in crayon by what looked to be a child around Ib's age. They would wander around until they encountered Mary again, who this time was threatening to hurt them. Desperate and scared for their lives as Mary had a sharp palette knife in her hand to stab them, Garry gave Ib their lighter and Ib had destroyed Mary's painting. This killed Mary who was set ablaze and turned into a puddle of paint. The scuffle had caused Garry cut is hand where Ib gave them a handkerchief with her name on it to bandage it.

At last Garry and Ib would find a way to escape! Yet when they made it to the real world, neither of them could remember what happened. Just as Garry was checking out the rose sculpture, feeling a strange sense of nostalgia, Ib would approach them who seemed to remember everything, even showing the candy from their pocket and their own coat had her handkerchief in it. The two of them quickly regained their memories and although they had to go for the exhibit was closing, they promised Ib they should meet again sometime.

They would eventually meet with Ib's parents at coffee shop, where they'd explain to them how they had met their daughter when she had gotten lost in the exhibit. Of course, they gave the basic version of it as to not make them think they were a mad person. Seeing how sweet they were, they agreed that Ib could meet with them again sometime and the two would have a reunion at a local cafe where they served macarons (Garry's new favorite sweet). They've even met with Ib's parents quite a few times after that, who adore them so much that they allow him to babysit Ib when they're out. It's almost like Garry has the family they secretly always wanted after they came out, they even told Ib's parents of their status and they truthfully didn't care and often encouraged them. It's truly enough to make them cry. Who knew an art gallery would turn their life around?

Garry is a very gentle person, often very soft spoken and speaks with a very elegant tone to them. They don't view gender as black and white as others so they often will and hopes to be seen as someone who can break the barriers of gender. They also love art, sweets and occasionally gothic aesthetics. Though they haven't entered college yet, they do hope to someday work in fashion as a designer.

[praeteritus-memories-muses]

Name: James Sunderland

Series: Silent Hill 2

Continuity: Leave Ending

Age: 30

Height: 5'11"

Birthplace: Maine, United States

Orientation: Heterosexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Office clerk

Father: Frank Sunderland

Mother: Unnamed (Unknown status)

Children: Laura (adopted)

Spouse: Mary Shepard-Sunderland (deceased)

Bio:

TRIGGER WARNING: DEPRESSION, GRIEF, MURDER, MENTAL BREAKDOWNS, ETC.

James was born in Ashfield, Maine. Though his childhood was not quite as average as the other people growing up in such a small city. His father ran a casual apartment building and his mother was not happy with their family situation and soon left by James’ third birthday. He hasn’t seen his mother since although he would receive birthday cards from her until he was ten years old. Based on those cards alone, James could figure out his mother wasn’t exactly a very loving one.

With James left alone with his father, it still wasn’t really a wholesome family. Although his father loved him very much, even gifting him his jacket from Vietnam on his 20th birthday, he was never quite there for him. His father was usually busy with other tenents and trying to fix the slowly aging apartment complex, especially after room 302 seem to have some problems.

He was usually alone in their own apartment or left to wander town a lot to where he had the usual life for any young boy or growing man. Other than an emotionally absent father and a mother who left, he really did have an average childhood outside of that.

After graduating college, where he studied in HR management, he was soon hired as a clerk for an office of a major company. It was at this job where he met a friend who invited him to a house party, which he usually wouldn't go to due to his social anxiety but decided to anyway in hopes of opening up a little.

It was at this party he met the love of his life, Mary Sheppard. The two were both shy but hit it off immediately. It was only one year later that they were married with people mentioning how loving and happy they were as a couple. James and Mary spent two wonderful and loving years together, even trying to have children but Mary seemed to suffer from complication after complication in getting pregnant.

Thinking maybe both of them need to just take a vacation to get their mind off their fertility issues, the two of them would decide to take a vacation in Silent Hill. The town was quite popular at the time for being beautiful vacation resort and a fun place to explore for teenagers looking for “paranormal” sightings. Mary and James would stay the week there to which James saw his wife absolutely fell in love with how calm the town was.

James would even film their vacation, with Mary in the video going on about how much she loved the town, but he forgot to bring the tape back with him when they were leaving the hotel. A year later, the town of Silent Hill was completely abandoned and deemed dangerous to go after a author and his daughter disappeared in Silent Hill.

Three years later, Mary was diagnosed with a unknown but terminal disease that was completely incurable. She was soon losing that sweet innocence James loved about her and he felt like he was losing himself too. Mary would get into very violent mood swings and lash out at him, all the while his own mind tormented with impure thoughts of his wife when his loneliness hit a rock bottom.

He never cheated on Mary, because he loved her more than anything and was completely dedicated to her, but he still felt the same guilt and shame as though he did cheat because he still had impure thoughts about her as she lay dying in her hospital bed.

At least James would try everything to save his wife, reading hundreds of medical books in hopes of finding a cure or a diagnoses but absolutely nothing would come up. It was the loss of hope that he would find a cure and Mary’s outrage that James would start to visit his wife less and less in the hospital. The man would even start to drink his pain away at the local bar.

All the pain, anger, sexual frustration and hopelessness was getting to James and he was starting to hate his wife for it. Yet at the same time he hated her, he also just couldn’t stand to see her suffering anymore. How could anyone watch their loved one slowly die like that? What didn’t help was the endless emotional drain of knowing she wasn’t dying yet but staying in her bed suffering. He couldn’t stand to see her like that but at the same time, he would cruelly ask himself “Why won’t she die already? I want my life back.” He still so desperately loved his wife, but grief, anger and depression of seeing her become so angry and sickly made it harder and harder to see her.

When Mary was allowed to stay home to live out her final year or so with her husband, James had snapped just a few days into it and suffocated Mary with her own pillow to put her out of her misery, end his own suffering and to simply get rid of her. The amount of motives and emotions James had when killing her was so great that perhaps even the most trained of therapist would be stumped, had he got caught.

Immediately after, James went into a moment of complete insanity and carried her body into his car, hiding her in the backseat as he drove to Silent Hill. His mind had completely went insane and he would come up with multiple lies to save himself. “Mary died of that damn disease three years ago.” His mind would come up with to save himself with what he had done. “Then I got a letter from Mary, telling me to meet her in Silent Hill.“

All throughout, James would search all of Southern Silent Hill for her despite her body being in the back of his car. First he met a teenager named Angela, she was already a bit off but she was looking for a loved one as well. Eddie was next who would later admit to killing a dog and whom James had to kill in self defense, though his body was mysteriously never found. To this day James feels a numbing but deep guilt that he had to kill him. Angela walked into the burning second floor of the hotel James tried to search, and she too was never found.

Finally, there was Laura, a little girl who had animosity towards James. As Mary was in the hospital, Laura was there too from an injury. She had lost her parents many years ago and was living in an orphanage. The two were very close and Mary was going to tell James that she wanted to adopt her but James would come by less and less that Laura felt so horribly sad for Mary so she hated James as a result. Though it seems as James got to know her, Laura was a prankster of a little girl but was overall rather sweet and innocent. Since James nearly stopped visiting Mary at the hospital, he never did get a chance to meet Laura back then.

Maria was next, who had stumped James for sure. Why did she look so much like his wife? Why was she somehow so tempting in his still frustrated mind? What made things even worse was a pyramid head shaped creature would charge at him and would kill Maria in front of James. He still doesn’t even understand how, but Maria would be brought back multiple times and brutally killed or dead right in front of his eyes. Multiple monsters haunted him, looking exactly like the creatures from his nightmares and amalgamations of his own guilt and torment.

After finally finding the tape in the hotel room they stayed at, James would play it only to be finally broken from his mental breakdown that he had killed his own wife. It was then he knew he had to end his nightmare and sins by facing Mary at the top of the hotel, only to be greeted by Maria instead.

James knew now he didn’t need Maria to remind him of his sins anymore and fought back against her, finally given some kind of strange dream or whatever it was with Mary and James having a final heart to heart. He apologized over and over again, telling her his main reason was that he couldn’t watch her suffer. Sure he resented her, ignored her when she lashed out and even killed her - but what loving husband could stand watching their wife cry out how much agony they were in? He would try to lie to himself and her that he hated her and wanted her out of the way so he could get his life back, and although the thoughts were true it was only from all the pain of watching her suffer, Mary would bring him back to reality to tell him that he wouldn’t be so miserable if that were true.

Mary forgave James for killing her, even telling him that she wanted to die at that point, then giving him her real letter and told him to live on with his life for her. James would wake up, still in Silent Hill and found himself finally crying from grief. He could finally let go of the pain that haunted him. It was like a mirror that had long since stared at James was shattered and the fog around the town was finally starting to clear up for him.

James would then take Laura with him and alert police that his wife had died. He knew Mary wanted him to live, so he lied to police that she died in the backseat while he wanted to grant her a final wish. They believed him and James would proceed to adopt Laura now that the two grew a close paternal bond already from their loss of Mary. What about his father? He hardly heard a word from him as soon as Mary was diagnosed with her illness and so James took it as a sign that maybe his father and him just couldn’t get along. Perhaps his father may believe he disappeared with Mary but James knew maybe it was for the best.

Right now, James and Laura moved away to Portland to be as far away from Ashfield and Silent Hill as possible. James knew that for he and Laura, they needed a fresh start and found moving far away from everything that would bring up pain again was best for them both. The two of them are quite happy and comfortable in their little apartment together although James does struggle every now and then at being a single father who still battles his depression and other demons. He does care for Laura of course, being a father was something James always did want before Mary got sick. Luckily he landed another job as a clerk for another office albeit for a smaller company, quite perfect for the situation. Even if the pain of losing Mary by his own hands broke him to a delusional state, he’s learned to face it head on and live just as Mary told him to do in that strange dream - in that town she dreamed of restlessly, Silent Hill.

[praeteritus-memories-muses]

Name: Sunny

Series: OMORI

Continuity: Game

Age: 12-16 (RP dependent)

Height: 5'6"

Birthday: July 20th

Birthplace: United States

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Hikkomori (previously) Student (currently)

Father: Unnamed

Mother: Unnamed

Sibling(s): Mari (deceased)

Bio:

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE, GRIEF, DEPRESSION, SELF-HARM, AND ANXIETY

Sunny was born in an ordinary household to a loving mother, father and sister. He grew up shy and quiet around other people, but he had a very close relationship with his older sister. Mari, his sister, and him were so close they they would even take up music together and she would introduce him to his friends - Basil, Kel, Aubrey and Hero.

All of them grew up as very close friends, Sunny noticing at times that Mari and Hero seemed to be a little more than friends, but it didn't matter to him as long as his sister was happy.

Yet things were not entirely perfect. Mari had issues involving perfection. Many called her a perfectionist, but it was way more intense than that. Yet their parents never seemed to check Mari on it either, their mother was too oblivious with her love for her children and their father seemed to struggle with similar issues.

This would culminate in a argument on the second floor of their house. Sunny became so frustrated that he broke his violin and threw it down the stairs, continuing to argue with his sister until he pushed her down the stairs in the heat of the moment. Mari would've been fine falling down the stairs, but Sunny's broken violin at the bottom pierced at her body fatally and killed her.

Scared out of his mind at all the blood stained music sheets, he thought maybe his sister hit her head too hard the way it looked in movies and comic books. He dragged his sister to her room, thinking she was asleep and he couldn't see the injuries very well due to the dark clothing his sister was wearing. The two of them were going to have a concert that very morning, only for it to never happen.

Realizing his sister was dead and by his hands, Sunny was sobbing by her lifeless body when his friend Basil stepped into the room. Basil was Sunny's closest friend and was staying over that night, he had actually witnessed everything and accidentally took pictures of the whole incident from his shaky hands watching Mari's body fall and subsequently go lifeless. They were both only twelve years old and didn't understand anything about the world. Both of them thought they would go to prison for murder like on the news!

As gruesome as it was, Basil suggested they stage her death to look like a suicide. Mari was already struggling with something due to her perfectionist nature, but neither of them knew that nothing like that would cause someone to end their own life, but they were far too innocent to know better.

They dragged her body to the backyard where they used the jump rope to stage an entire suicide. Basil and Sunny agreed to never tell anyone about this, and they believed everyone believed them, until the police came. The cops were suspicious but Sunny's parents covered up the accidental murder and cover up to protect their son. Though not without blame. Sunny's father completely disowned him while Sunny's mother became overprotective but tried her best to help her son.

Overcome with guilt, grief and depression - Sunny shut himself away and became a hikkikomori for three years. He never left the house and hardly went down the stairs to a point where his mother had to give him food instead of him going downstairs to eat.

Sunny would soon withdrawal into himself and make up an entire personality for himself - a boy named Omori. He'd sleep all day and dream of himself in an empty white room where all he'd do is cry, lay on the ground, thinking about ending his own life and draw pictures. If he felt well enough, he'd open up a door where he'd dream of the better days spent with his friends.

This alter ego would protect Sunny by repeating the words Basil told him 'everything will be okay'. This world was like a pure fantasy, just adventures with his friends. Even his sister was alive in this imaginary world, it was a utopia in his mind.

Yet this utopia couldn't go on forever. The more Sunny buried himself in his mind, the more Omori wanted to protect him and forever hide the truth of what happened to him. This mental torment resulted in Sunny developing thoughts of self-harm and a strange fascination with knives out of a growing desire to hurt himself from the overwhelming guilt and grief over Mari.

Luckily, right as things were escalating mentally, his mother had announced they were moving away soon. His parents had divorced due to the death of Mari and their own guilt over hiding what Sunny had done. His father wanted nothing to do with his own son anymore for 'killing' his favorite child while his mother just wanted to protect her only living child.

About three days before they left, Kel was persistent about trying to help Sunny. They slowly began to reconnect, especially when everyone was torn apart after Mari died. They had all believed Mari really did kill herself, so everyone blamed themselves. Though no one was as messed up as Sunny was who knew the truth, except for Basil. He was going through the same problems, also developing a desire to harm himself.

In those three days, everyone began to reconnect and join together. They laughed and shared their favorite old memories together, all the while slowly healing from the pain of losing Mari and Sunny trying to help Basil.

It would cultivate on the final night. Everyone was asleep at Basil's house, because Basil looked like he was going to hurt himself and they wanted to try and help him. While everyone was asleep, Sunny heard Basil crying and walking into his room. Basil was having a mental breakdown and so was Sunny after their talked about how badly what they did to Mari had messed them up.

They would even attack each other, Basil scratching Sunny's eye and Sunny attacking Basil to try and defend himself. Their mental state was spiraling into a full on breakdown where they both collapsed after fighting each other, the others hearing the commotion and taking them to the hospital for their injuries.

Sunny would mentally have a final confrontation with his sister and 'Omori'. He didn't need Omori anymore, and he finally was able to clear his mind and finally let go of the grief and guilt that haunted him for three long years. Everyone would be okay, truly this time. Maybe Mari's soul really did forgive him.

On the final day, after waking up in the hospital, he walked to Basil's room. For once in three years, Sunny smiled again to comfort Basil and finally told everyone what really happened last night. Hero was the first to hug him and tell him none of it was his fault, Kel was shocked but was mature enough now to understood they were scared kids and Aubrey? Well...She was furious. She would have a private confrontation with Sunny about how messed up he made her because of that lie, but that was fine. He was ready to face anything now.

More couldn't be said to his friends, as he moved away the very next day after recovering from his injury Basil gave him. He waved by to his friends as he moved to the next town, feeling relief that he could finally open up again as a person. He lives in an entirely different state now but he's doing well, he even went back to high school!

Sunny is quiet and socially awkward. He doesn't like speaking very much and prefers to be a follower rather than a leader. He's the type to listen to someone as they're overly excited, but still a good friend regardless. He can be very kind to others, loves computer games and music. He still has trouble listening to classical music without thinking of his sister, but he loves video game music like the Mother series of video games and Captain Spaceman. While he's very gifted in the violin, he hasn't physically tried playing again. He only plays violin in his dreams until he's emotionally ready to play in the real world.

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Name: Thomas H. Norstein

Series: Digimon Data Squad

Continuity: Anime

Age: 16-19 (RP dependent)

Height: 5'8"

Birthday: February 21st

Birthplace: Shibuya, Japan

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Medical student / DATS research and field agent

Father: Franz Norstein

Mother: Unnamed (deceased)

Sibling(s): Relena Norstein

Bio:

Thomas H. Norstein is the son of an Austrian noble named Franz Norstein and a normal Japanese woman who was studying in Austria for college. They had a secret relationship, with Thomas born as a result. His father's family disapproved of her and Thomas, because of their class status, so he was forbid from ever interacting with Thomas and his mother. This includes financially, which made Thomas' mother a single woman who always struggled financially to raise her son on her own.

Despite the troubles, that Thomas wouldn't know about until later in life, he had a very happy childhood with his mother. She showered him in affection and whenever she couldn't buy him a toy for his birthday or holidays, she'd make it up by taking him to the park where she'd play with him for hours on end.

One day, a Summer festival had started in their town. Thomas' mother had enough to take him so they decided to go on a whim for fun, only for a drunk truck driver to come barreling down the street and run over Thomas' mother.

Thomas witnessed the truck hit his mother, and he was by her side up until she died in the hospital. This left Thomas deeply traumatized, to this day he has a fear of trucks and doesn't like walking streets.

With his mother's family unable to take care of him, Thomas' father was the only person left to take him in or else he'd be thrown into the system. When he met his father for the first time, Thomas didn't really speak. He was at least kind enough to hold a funeral for Thomas' mother and to come with him, but he didn't really show any kindness after that. Even when Thomas wanted to ask for a picture of his height chart of his old home, his father pretty much ignored him.

Taken to Austria, Thomas went from an extroverted child to an introverted one. He couldn't speak German at the time, so he didn't understand anyone around him. When he was introduced to his grandmother, she called his mother an "easy woman" and told him that he was a worthless boy who would never live up to his family name.

After this very meeting, Thomas left the room and ran outside to cry. Even worse? Thomas' father didn't even bother protecting his son or defending the mother of his child. Even when Thomas knew his father saw him cry from grief and his grandmother's harsh words, he still wouldn't comfort him.

A year later, Thomas' father married an Austrian woman. Thomas didn't want to acknowledge his step-mother or any family he had in Austria, so he threw himself into studying and boxing. To him, boxing was a way to physically let out the form of grief that was anger.

Another year passed, and Thomas had a baby sister born. Except, his step mother would die in childbirth and doctors told his father and grandmother that his sister had a serious unknown illness. According to them, she would likely die by the age of fourteen.

Thomas slipped into her nursery and watched his sister was hooked up to multiple different machines to keep her alive. It already scared him to see a baby like that, and worse was that she started crying. He was scared, especially when she grabbed his hand. As soon as he pulled his hand away, she started crying again. That's when something sparked in Thomas when he saw her cry. Reluctantly, he held her little hand which made her calm down again.

This first ineraction with his sister had sparked a brotherly desire to protect her. A lot of things went wrong so far, but a nine year old Thomas wanted to protect his sister, Relena, with his life. That's when Thomas knew that he wanted to be the one to cure her illness, so he threw himself into specifically studying medicine.

Thomas worked hard and soon enough, a college in Vienna asked him to attend as a student. He was a true prodigy, unknown to everyone that Thomas could grasp and absorb knowledge like a sponge. He'd enter college and graduated at the age of thirteen with a doctorate in medicine.

Thomas would eventually receive his Digimon, Gaomon, and found himself as an agent and researcher for DATS - an organization in charge of capturing Digimon and returning them to the digital world. After a massive surge in Digimon, Thomas was sent to America to study this issue with DATS' American branch.

Later on in life, Thomas would cure his sister's illness at the age of nineteen and received a nobel peace prize for his massive medical breakthrough.

Thomas is polite, incredibly intelligent and calm under pressure. He's amazing at planning things and coming up with a strategy for every situation, but struggles when things go off course for his plans. This also makes him not get along with people who are the opposite of him, where Thomas can be very condescending and even a little rude.

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Name: Ai Hoshino

Series: Oshi No Ko

Continuity: Anime

Age: 16-20 (RP dependent)

Height: 4'11"

Birthday: January

Birthplace: Japan

Orientation: Heterosexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Idol from B-Komachi

Children: Aquamarine and Ruby Hoshino

Bio:

TRIGGER WARNING: CHILD ABUSE AND STALKERS

Famous idol from B-Komachi, Ai Hoshino, started out in the worst circumstances for a child. She never knew her father and her mother was extremely physically abusive towards her, this would result in Ai never knowing what love actually is.

Ai would eventually be taken away from her mother for a separate crime she committed and sent to a group home until her mother was released from prison, but years later her mother would be released and she chose to give up legal custody of her. The next few years, Ai would live in this group home without any love until she was scouted by an agent at 12.

Although she was reluctant at first, she agreed to become the lead singer of B-Komachi in hopes that someday all the lies of love that she tells her fans will someday be true and she'll get to know what love feels like.

Yet Ai did not start out as the dedicated and perfected image of a true idol and celebrity. She was originally sloppy and unprofessional behind the scenes, until she met Hikaru Kamiki while taking acting lessons at the Lala Lai Theater Company. Ai believed she might've experienced love for the first time because of how much he helped her become the confident yet secretive woman she is today, but soon that 'love' had faded. They mutually broke up a few months later, but Ai found herself pregnant at sixteen, with Hikaru as the father.

Although she was urged by her manager to terminate her pregnancy and even Hikaru, Ai chose instead to keep her baby, not knowing she was carrying twins, where it was decided she would publicly announce she was ill while she would live in a quiet countryside village until her child was born.

There she met a kind doctor who told her she was having twins, as well as reassuring her that she was safe here and he would do everything to ensure she had healthy babies. Ai would befriend this doctor for the next few months of her pregnancy, hiding out from the public in this hospital to prevent herself from being recognized, and she felt glad to know there were kind people like him in the world instead of someone shaming her for getting pregnant so young.

On a chilly Winter evening, Ai went into labor but the doctor was nowhere to be found. The staff had to help Ai together to give birth to the twins, while her nor anyone else knew what happened to him. What she doesn't know is the doctor died trying to scare off an obsessive fan who was stalking her and planning to kill her for becoming pregnant.

In fact, in a twist of events, that doctor and her biggest fan were reincarnated as her children that she named Aquamarine and Ruby. Many would question Ai's strange naming conventions but she loved knowing her children had unique names.

Raising her twins in secret, Ai is an extremely loving mother towards them and she can finally say she knows what love feels like because of her children. Though she has never told her children she loves them, because she has never said "I love you" and meant it, she deeply loves them more than life itself and would gladly sacrifice her life for them in countless lifetimes.

Although Ai is hardworking and dedicated, yet sometimes that vulnerable and rough side of her personality still leaks through her lies. Although she frequently lies to her fans that she loves them or even staff, she believes lying is a form of love. After all, if you lie enough doesn't it eventually become the truth?

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Name: Rui Kamishiro

Series: Project Sekai

Continuity: Mobile game

Age: 17

Height: 5'11"

Birthday: June 24th

Birthplace: Japan

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Student / Director and actor for the WonderlandxShowtime musical theater troupe

Bio:

Son of a robotics engineer and chemist, Rui had grown up with a deep love of science, specifically the science of machines. As a child, his favorite toys were always robotic ones that he actually learned how to modify to perform better tricks, much to his parents shock at their prodigy son.

His mother is a huge fan of musical theater and so brought he and his friend, Nene, to a musical where the two of them were completely blown away by the magic the performers brought to the stage. From that moment forward, Rui wanted to be a musical theater actor! His parents became extremely supportive of his decision and put him into both acting and dancing lessons, teaching himself to sing from sheer passion.

His love of robotics and high stakes would quickly come into play where Rui had some pretty dangerous or risky ideas whenever he and other children tried to put on shows together. From shooting rockets, climbing over unsafe fences for 'action', etc. It was to a point where other children thought Rui was too weird and began to ignore him. By the time he entered middle school, Rui's only friend was Nene but even they drifted apart after she got into a theater troupe in her middle school.

Believing he was better off alone than people who didn't understand him, he only ever managed to make one friend and that was a person named Mizuki. They met now and again on the school rooftop, where they both deeply appreciated one another's company as people who had no friends and just couldn't fit in.

As high school rolled around, he and Mizuki went their separate ways as Mizuki chose to do most of their schooling at home, but Nene had enrolled in Rui's high school where they reunited again as friends. This was when he was approached by his classmate, Tsukasa Tenma, into joining a musical theater troupe at the theme park, Phoenix Wonderland.

He agreed on a whim, but also to see if Tsukasa really had that same passion and risk taking that Rui had as well. The shock was that Tsukasa fully accepted Rui to put in his robotics and special effects into their shows as well as direct them.

Although their first show was a disaster from all their lack of communication, Rui had even lost all faith in Tsukasa as a person as all Rui wanted to do was make people smile while Tsukasa wanted to "be a star". Yet that faith in his new friends would quickly come back when they all finally got to communicate and even put on a show just for him to apologize.

That is, this show was played in a world apparently created by Tsukasa's feelings as a performer called "SEKAI" where Rui was greeted by the Vocaloid characters Kaito and Miku Hatsune. After the team patched up, officially continuing as WonderlandxShowtime at Phoenix Wonderland's Wonder Stage, they would continue to visit this Sekai where even more Vocaloid characters would come up.

Currently, WonderlandxShowtime is one of the most beloved troupes in the park. Despite their small cast, it makes Rui happy to know just how many people smile and laugh with their shows, some even cast tears when scenes were emotional. Rui can finally say he has friends, and for once in his life, finally feels as though his dreams are coming true.

Rui can be very sweet and friendly, but he is admittedly very odd sometimes as well. He loves to ramble about technology or other scientific facts when given the chance, especially when in front of an animatronic he's never seen before. Yet for as sweet and quirky as he is, sometimes he can be easy to shut off and not communicate his own feelings to others, stemming from his inner fear of ending up completely alone.

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Name: Kanade Yoisaki

Series: Project Sekai

Continuity: Mobile game

Age: 17

Height: 5'1"

Birthday: February 10th

Birthplace: Japan

Orientation: Bisexual

Species: Human

Occupation: Student / Freelance composer

Father: Unnamed

Mother: Unnamed (deceased)

Bio:

Kanade Yoisaki is the daughter of a composer and a stay at home mom. Her mother passed away when she was pretty young from an illness, which left her father struggling with his career after the loss of his wife. To try and make her father happy and following his footsteps, Kanade began to learn how to compose music at a young age and was clearly a prodigy in it. Her father once told her that she was blessed with the gift of music and to never stop composing because someday, she was going to change someone for the better with it.

Change someone she was going to try, as Kanade composed a song for him to make him smile after he had been struggling deeply with his commission of a commercial jingle. Before she could show him the song, Kanade offered him advice on the song which turned the commercial into a hit, but realizing his daughter was clearly better at composing music than her, he fell into a depression and began overworking his mind and body to try and copy his daughter's skill.

Upon finally showing her father the song she made for him, he secretly had a breakdown and later collapsed from both exhaustion and stress. Doctors told Kanade and her grandmother that he was suffering from severe malnutrition, dehydration and stress. His stress over his career was so bad that he was developing memory loss and motor issues, so he is currently in the hospital until he fully recovers.

Falling into a depression, Kanade blamed herself completely for her father's breakdown and hospitalization. Yet her coping with this deep depression was to try and someday compose a song that could actually help someone, as a way of redeeming herself and someday "saving" her father.

Saving someone she did, as the music she posted online reached a girl named Mafuyu who found that Kanade's music was the first time she actually felt like she was a step closer to finding herself, as she had began to fall into a deep depression due to her loss sense of self.

After meeting with Mafuyu online, the two joined the chat and cloud shering app "Nightchord" at 1 AM where they began to form the group that would eventually be called Nightchord 25:00. Meeting Ena and Mizuki, Mafuyu did break down at some point from her lack of sense of self and was ready to completely disappear in an empty world called "SEKAI".

With Kanade finally reaching Mafuyu's heart to not give up on finding herself, they would all continue to make music together so Kanade could someday make music that will save her best friend. As well as composing, Kanade will sing with her friends inside this SEKAI, where they'll be greeted by saddened versions of Hatsune Miku, Rin Kagamine and Luka Megurine.

Kanade is very quiet and soft spoken, but her voice is said to sound like pure silk to those who have the rare chance to hear her sing as she doesn't even sing her own songs. She's usually a hikkomori so she doesn't ever leave her house, but she's recently finding the courage to go out to the convenience store, music store and the park. She's still not in high school though, as she's chosen to study online instead of returning to school.