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starr-fall-knight-rise · 4 years

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HASO “Leading the Witness.”

Alright guys, this is going on longer than I thought and way more detailed as well but its been interesting. Also I am sorry for the late update, my boss has me rolling quarters at work so I am trying to do that and write this in between.

Thank you to my discord member Eddi for the testing logs he wrote and that I am using as evidence in this story. He deserves all the credit for the well thought out and executed test logs.

WARNING: Graphic depictions of blood, gore, bodily mutilation and mentions of suicide. The Steel eye project development is very graphic, so if you wish to read, please skip the test logs, which will be bolded.

The room spun around him, and he took a few long, deep breaths hoping that it would stop.

He wast sure he could survive another few hours of this.

He wasn’t sure at all

He was sweating, and his body throbbed all over. Clammy hands gripped the sides of his chair as he sat straight backed in his seat. A line of cold sweat dripped down the back of his neck. Blood had long since drained from his face, and he wondered if he looked as sick as he felt half expecting the bailiff to walk over with a bucket or something. A part of him fancied he could feel every eye in the room staring at him. The prosecution was still talking, but he could barely hear them as his head spun around and around in circles, ears ringing.

The lights pulsed.

He jerked out of it as a hand came to rest on his shoulder. He looked up, confused for a moment as he tried to figure out where he was, the room was partially tilted and it took him a moment to realise that he was slumped slightly to the side. Waffles had her head in his lap whimpering very softly.

“Adam, adam are you ok, do you need to step out.”

He lifted his head and turned to look at Admiral Kelly, who now sat beside him, a hand on his shoulder.

His ears were still ringing but not enough to realise that the court had stopped.

The lead judge had held up a hand to the prosecution and was looking directly at him.

Well… at least now the blood was rushing back to his head, and he could feel his ears burning, “Is everything alright, council?” The judge asked, “Does your witness need to step out.”

The lawyers turned to look at him, hints of both concern and concealed annoyance on their faces.

They looked at him expectantly.

He cleared his throat awkwardly, “No your honor. My apologies.”

His voice was surprisingly strong for someone who felt like he was about to pass out. The judge didn’t seem too annoyed at him, and looked on with some measure of concern. They whispered something to the nearby bailiff and then motioned the council to continue.

Admiral Kelly didn’t move seats keeping one hand on his shoulder. The bailiff walked over after things had started up again and sat next to them for a moment, “If you need to step out.” He whispered, “Take the side door to your right and someone will let you back in.”

He nodded, “Ill be alright, but…. Thank you.”

The man nodded and stood returning to the front of the room.

“As you can see, their first attempts at creating a proper drug cocktail to dull the pain of direct neural interface, was a complete disaster. Dr. Gladstone, assuming you were forced to use drugs instead of subdermal implants, how would you have gone about this? What is the proper procedure dictated by ethical state law.”

“Drug trials can take months to years, we test them on animals, rats monkeys and even inject them into synthetically grown human tissues and tube grown organs before we even test on animals. Each phase of testing can take up to eighteen months in clinical trials, and if the drug proves to be wrong we start over again.”

“Have you ever done phased drug testing on human subjects.”

“No, certainly not.”

“But of course they continued. May the prosecution present Experimental log 32 for For consideration by the court.”

Experimental log #32:

Over the past experiments we have been testing multiple drug mixtures to try and reduce the pain induced by the Direct neural interface our most recent tests have involved morphine much to our resident doctors discouragement it is one of the few drugs we have found capable of suppressing the pain induced by the direct neural interface. This test involves the use of an automatic dispenser controlled by the pain sensors in the arm.

The subject, as before has been sedated for the implantation of the test augmetic. This time however the drug reservoir has a direct link to the bloodstream.

-recording break-

The subject seems to be stable and moving around without much interference, although slightly lethargic and a little dopy due to the drugs.

We made sure to remove the augmetic well before the drug reservoir ran out. This seems to be successful and stable Several more tests are to be made to confirm this before moving on to the next stage.

“Dr, do you happen to know the laws in relation to the regulation and use of morphine during testing?”

The doctor nodded, “Morphine is heavily regulated even on the research level owing to its additive properties. Only doctors are allowed to prescribe it, and even then, the morphine dosages are regulated and reviewed by an internal board of directors. There is a cutoff point for the amount of morphine allowed for personal use,and the amount of morphine allowed for medical use. This cap can be broken if the board of directors determines the patient is terminal and in extreme pain.”

“How about for research purposes.”

“You can’t research with morphine, and you certainly cannot give it to a patient with no prior history of injury, or other medical conditions.”

“Thank you doctor, the prosecution wishes to present experimental log 34 to consideration.”

Experiential log #34:

Our continued experimentation has lead to the conclusion that stronger chemicals may be required to reduce the pain, one subjects auto-dispensary caused an overdose When the subject spent some time prodding and poking at the implant site it caused excruciating pain that was responded to by the auto dispensary by flooding the body with over 500milligrams of morphine. A stronger painkiller would mean lower doses are required thus avoiding an overdose. Despite our team's medical advisors continuing protests.

Prosecution turned to the judges, “You see here your honor that instead of considering the ethical questionability of their actions, they determined to use more morphine despite the overdose and even extend the use to even more potent drugs. These are not the actions of scientists who were considering ethics, or even the value of human life.”

“Objection your honor on conjecture about the thoughts of my client.”

The judge waved a hand, “It may pass.”

The defence took a seat.

The prosecution adjusted her tie, “Three people died as a result of these tests your honor. Marvin Dess, William Moseratt and Angela Vilgrin. Not once were the tests paused or delayed. Instead, they moved onto the next phase of testing.”

Adam was starting to feel a little better now. He wasn’t sweating so much and he had finally managed to even out his breathing.

“The prosecution would like to present experimental log 28.”

Experimental log #28

Calibration of the arm mounted augmetic seemed to proceed without error or difficulty, The drugs delivered through the internal reservoir developed by Dr. Nkosi renders the subject inured against the supposed pain induced by the augmetic. The primary tests we will be administering are of the use of high strength servo motors to power the augmeitc, reducing its weight and increasing the power behind the subjects rapid motions.

-Recording break-

The Reaction of the servo motors and torsion cables was far too extreme delivering significant damage and trauma to the subject, Further testing will have to be done and fine tuning of the suits will be needed.

Adam knew what was coming and tried to close his eyes and block out the sounds as the next visual log was projected before him.

Audio-visual log transcript:

The subject appears bleary and unresponsive. The augmentic is mounted on their right arm, supposedly their dominant one according to the research notes. The subject is drawn to attention by the scientist administering light taping on their cheek. Upon raising their arm the subject appears a little shocked at the size of the augmetic and the fact it is connected directly to an external power source, questioning the scientist on this who confirms it is just an experimental version. The augmetic appears to only be active on the elbow joint. The scientist appears to be requesting the subject extend his arm in an attempt to punch an invisible foe. Upon doing so the augmetic appears to cause an extreme reaction of force, resulting in not only damage to the subjects musculature, but outright stripping the subjects muscle tissues away from the bones, the pins seem to be functioning as anchor points as the subjects skin and muscles are removed from the skeletal structure. Functionally stripping the flesh away from the skeleton in a manner that can only be described as ‘glove like’. It appears that this area also contained the drug delivery interface as part way through the emergency removal of the upper section of the augmetic, the subject seemed to come out of the semi stupor and begin to register the damage done to themselves, screaming and becoming violent. It was only after the subject was re-drugged with the remaining contents of the drug reservoir that they calmed down.

His attempts to block out the sound do not stop him from hearing the hydraulic hiss, the tight whirr, and the horrific cracking popping noise as flesh is torn from bone. The screaming echoed around in his head. His heart was beating at a million miles an hour. Sweat poured down his back and neck and in between his shoulder blades. Flashes of red sky cut before his vision, the sound of gunfire and the smell of ash.

Admiral kelly squeezed his shoulder hard bringing him back. The dog was halfway in his lap her head pressed against him, and the Bailiff from earlier was on his other side steadying him as his body seemed prone to leaning to one side.

He took a few very deep breaths.

A few of the judges were watching him, but they didn’t stop the proceedings this time. Most of them just looked like they wanted an excuse to look away.

“Your honors, this is not the last log in the series. Even after the catastrophic failure, they continue to implant the steel ee pieces onto test subjects without prior testing in a controlled environment. I believe we have been making realistic ballistic dummies for the past thousand years. I am sure there is something that could have been done.”

Adam was fading.

The lights were growing up in his vision, turning everything around him white.

The defence stood, “THe defence calls for recess, your honors.”

There was a pause, “Recess granted. You have thirty minutes.”

The room burst into a flurry of murmurs and movement. Admiral Kelly leaned forward hands on his arms, “Adam, you should get up, walk around a bit.”

He nodded and stood feeling the world tip around him as he did. With one hand he gripped heavily onto the back of the pews and staggered forward out of the room. Waffles followed after him whining and whimpering. He waved admiral Kelly off him as he wobbled his way down the hall and burst through the outside door and into open air. He took a deep long breath and leaned against the wall trying to choke down the bile that welled into his throat.

“You alright here buddy.”

Blinking owlishly, he turned to the side to see a man leaning against the wall on the other side of the door.

“You don’t look so good, Cigarette?” He asked offering a pack of the things towards him.

Adam waved a hand, “I don’t smoke but, thanks anyway.”

The man shrugged and lit up puffing a billow of smoke into the air, “You know breathing exercises.”

Adam blinked and nodded, “Yeah.”

“Don't forget to do them. It will help.”

Adam rubbed a hand across his forehead breathing slowly.

“You seem to know a lot about this. Am i that easy to see through?”

The man shook his head “I was a soldier during the panasian war, I know what PTSD looks like.”

“My father fought in the Panasian war.”

The man nodded, “Better get back inside while you still have some color, boy.”

He did as told. He didn’t know the man but something about his calm demeanor and understanding was nice, and he stepped back inside patting waffles on the head as he walked back towards the courtroom.

He sat down before anyone else was there just yet and rested his head in his hands breathing slowly and evenly. The room slowly filled up again, and before he really knew it, things were back in session.

“The prosecution would like to present Experimental log 31”

He closed his eyes and began to count slowly breathing in and out, in and out.”

Experimental log #31

This test is the first among the replacement for servo motors for hydraulics The system was far slower and makes use of a combination of fast extension pistons and slower extension ones for combination. The test is the same as before a simple arm extension in the guise of a punch. However the augmetic will also include the shoulder. We have increased the dosage of the painkiller as so to prevent the increased implantation volume from inducing a negative reaction in the subject. -Recording break-

The reaction from the hydraulics was stronger than expected, and the delay and stack up of orders has caused significant issues. A halt override taken directly from the nerve system needs to be implemented.

He squeezed his eyes tight shut

Audio-visual log transcript:

The subject appears to be only semi responsive, appearing to function at a 12 on the GCS, Only held there by the active responsiveness of their motor function. This appears to fade somewhat when the subject is given physical stimuli by the scientist in the form of a light slap on the cheek. Bringing the subject back to consciousness. The subject is then encouraged to make the punching action as prior experiments. The subject does so, the fast reaction of the piston seems to achieve the scientist's goal, However the long extension piston appeared to continue extending. This continued, dragging the subjects arm outwards, dislocating the subjects shoulder, then elbow as well as wrist. The subject appeared to be distressed at this, however not unduly in pain. The scientist having stepped back to observe the outcome of events. The extension of the piston continued beyond tolerable human limits. The piston continues to extend despite the protests of the subject and attempts at removing it. The extension continued forcefully separating the subjects limbs at both the elbow and shoulder joint, ripping tendon and muscle as well as ligament structures, fully separating the limb in to two parts and away from the body. It is at this point the subject began to scream in terror and panic till the researcher sedated the subject.

A door opened at the back of the courtroom as a few more people stepped out. Adam sat there on the bench, his head tilted back and staring at the ceiling breathing even and slowly as light and color swirled around them. He could what speaking, but didn’t really hear what was being said.

He just had to keep himself together.

“....Log 35 to the court.”

Experimental log #35

Continued experimentation indicates that a combination of servo motors, torsion cables and hydraulics are likely to result in the desired effect. Since the previous experiments a stop override has been implemented in to the systems. This prevents the hydraulics from continuing to extend despite the users body having ceased movement. This should result in the desired movement structures. We are moving on from the single arm testing considering the current functionality and strength amplification satisfactory. The current test is simply to get the two lower limb implants to function in tandem with walking. We have had to once again increase the level of drugs in the users system to prevent the reaction to the pain induced by the interfacing devices.

-Recording break-

While the system is capable of walking, the addition of hydraulics have caused the system to be heavier and more cumbersome than intended. Additional servo motors and possible leaf springs for artificial support tendons will have to be added to prevent the augmetics from lagging behind their users.

“Objection your honor…. The court has seen enough….. This is simply…”

“Objection denied council. The evidence stands. If you must you may leave the room.”

“But members of the audience…”

“Can step out if they need to.”

Audio-visual Log transcript:

The subject once again appears to be somewhat unresponsive. This ceases when the scientist provides a physical interaction with the subject, tapping them on the shoulder. The subject appears to be somewhat disoriented. Upon being prompted to walk the subject beings to walk without much in the way of impediment, though seeming to tug at the augments as if they are holding the subject back. The subject is then prompted to move at a might higher speed. Running if possible. The subject manages this for two steps before the continued pulling against the augmetic and movement against the interface needles appears to pull the subject’s leg free, removing large sections of the subjects muscle tissues and nerves along with it. The subject seems to be disturbed, if not in pain. Likely due to the drug reservoir and input mounted on the subjects arm. The subject however seems to be announcing that they can no longer move their legs as the researcher requested. The subject is then sedated and recording ends.

Adam is being held up again by Admiral kelly his body tilting widely sideways and he is having trouble finding the orientation of the room.”

“.... experimental log 38 as a demonstration of the scientists moving development far too quickly.”

Experimental Log #38

Increased response time in the legs combined with the introduction of support springs within the armour have reduced that movement restrictions of the armour and made it much harder for the user to ‘pull away’ from the armor, this combined with several additional straps and metal binding to keep the users legs attached directly to the augmetics have solved several of the most recent problems. The newest set of experiments are moving on to vertical movement, focusing on the subjects ability to jump and move around obstacle strewn environments.

-Recording break-

It appears the engineers did not calibrate the hydraulics and other systems to function as shock absorbers, but rather only as force amplification devices. Meaning that impact shock is taken fully by the users body, This would normally not be an issue, however with the additional force and weight provided by the augmetic seems to cause issues upon landing.

Audio-visual Log transcript:

The subject is suffering the same symptoms as prior subjects, low levels of function and unresponsiveness. Once the subject is roused from the stupor via an open handed impact to the cheek, delivered by the researcher, they are directed to attempt an obstacle course. The subject seems to have little trouble with the primary obstacles, clearing them with little effort, however their recovery from each obstacle appears to be ungainly and improper. The subject is then presented with a three meter high wall and instructed to go over it. Rather than scaling it as expected the subject simply jumped over the wall, exhibiting far more mobility and control than prior subjects in experiments. However upon landing the subjects legs appear to buckle and collapse under them, folding at several points that do not have joints. Indicating shattering of the bones. The subject seems unphased by the injury, Pointing it out to the researcher and asking if that is normal. This indicates that the drugs being used are of a high enough dosage and strength to suppress not only extreme pain but the shock reaction of the body.

He can feel another person holding him up from the other side, but mutters that he is ok when anyone asks. E just keeps counting and breathing counting and breathing knowing that it has to be over soon. He just needs to hold himself together

Experimental log #42

The final tests regarding midriff functionality have been completed, with shockingly low failure or complications compared to prior testing phases, we are putting this down to our own excellent ongoing improvements of the system. This final text is a sequential system test where a single subject will be required to use each individual part in sequence to ensure that no errors are likely to occur during the whole body testing or further complications are likely to occur.

-break in recording-

The subject suffered no ill effects due to the armour itself. However the subject seemed to become agitated and seemed to be suffering ill effects until they were returned to the augmetics. So long as prolonged exposure to the augmetics is not an ongoing factor we do not see an issue with this.

“These testings had immense costs and horrific side effects to those who participated. Many of these men and women seen here are not functional or alive to testify in court as to what happened, however, the prosecution would like to call Admiral Vir to the stand as a representative of those who could not be here today, and s a member of the steel eye operation himself to ive the court a little idea about what this experiment did to people even when fully operational.”

Adam was still feeling light headed but even then he still knew what this was. This is what he was here for. Thi was the moment he had come to be a part of, the moment that he was here to help all those soldiers and test subjects used by steel eye.

Admiral Kelly stood with him as he made it to his feet, but he brushed off her hand and walked towards the witness stand. The judge stopped him on his way up.

“Are you well enough to testify Admiral?”

“This is why I came, your honor. Even if I had to crawl through a field of glass to get here.”

The courtroom murmured as he was sworn in, and he sat down feeling the eyes of the entire room on him.

He was still sweating and light headed.

“State your name for the record.”

“Adam Allen Vir.”

“And what is your position in the UNSC.”

“I am Fleet admiral of the UNSC space armada on loan to the GA.”

“And what branch?”

“Originally the air division. I trained at the Aerial combat academy as a fighter and shuttle pilot before being a member of the crew on the enterprise.”

“And how did you end up on Anin.”

“The Enterprise was being decommissioned for some wok, so I offered to go to Anin and be part of the war effort against the Drev.”

“And as a fighter pilot, you didn’t see much time on the ground.”

“No ma’am, I was primarily air support at that time.”

His voice was strong and hard, and the longer he talked the straighter he sat. he had to do this for them. He would NOT fall apart now.

“How did you end up on the ground forces then, Admiral.”

“Volcanic activity, ma’am, they call it the dark season when ash chokes the ai miles into the sky. It isn’t safe to land a ship or fly a jet in such conditions, so my vehicle was grounded. By that time the war was going badly and they needed every man they could get.”

“Were you trained for ground combat, Admiral.”

“Yes at the academy we were trained in ground combat though not as extensively.”

“And you lost your leg to a Drev.”

He reached down hand to his leg remembering the screaming of a red sky above, “Yes, I did.”

“What happened after that?”

“I ended up in a triage tent in out forward operating base. There was no medicine because all our supplies had been used up.”

“Would you say that you were delirious during that time.”

The defence stood quickly “Objection your honor. Leading the witness.”

“Dismissed, council.” The judge said, waving a hand.

“There were no painkillers, ma’am, so maybe. If not delirious than I was at least not in a right state of mind. I remember floating halfway in between being conscious and unconscious. I was in so much pain its…. Had to describe.” His voice wavered before he had it back on track shoring it up and strengthening it with memories of the men and women waiting back at the rehabilitation center.

“And at this time you were approached by Admiral Ablemen about the steel eye project?”

“Yes ma’am.”

“And did he detail any specifics.”

He paused thought for a moment trying to remember back into memories that he really didn’t want to foster, “Not…. really. It's hard to remember but I…. I remember him saying that we could help him win the war. I remember him saying that when I woke up I would be a new man. He gave us the choice to go home or serve the UNSC one last time.”

“In your opinion, would you have said yes had you been more conscious.”

“Objection based on conjecture your honor.”

“Objection accepted.”

Adam paused and the mn let him continue, “Wat DO you remember about what happened to you.”

“I…. remember pain and….. Anger. I was never really all there during the steel eye project. I remember feeling invincible, like I could do anything but at the same time, hazy. I remember getting orders and going out, and then nothing after that.”

“Did they tell you there would be rugs involved.”

“No ma’am.”

“And after the war was over, what happened. How did all of this affect you?”

He paused and struggled to speak for a moment, opening his mouth and then closing, “I…. have never been so hopeless in my entire life. I tried to get help with the Veterans association but my claim was denied. I…. went through withdrawals…. Horrible horrible drug withdrawals where I. I was in so much pain, I just….”He paused then lifted his head to look up at th courtroom making eye contact with them. His voice was as strong as ever “I wanted to die, and I would have done it if I hadn’t had a good support system in my family. After a few months my brother got me in contact with a group of people who got ahold of my service dog, and I was able to heal.”

“Does what happened still affect you”

“Yes Ma’am.”

“In what ways.”

“I still have long term PTSD, and while it is controlled and I am no longer on medication, I still have bad days. Days where I can’t move or think, days where the quietest nosies send me into a panic.”

“Were you ever compensated for your injuries, Admiral.”

He paused again and shook his head, “No ma’am, I never received help.”

“Thank you admiral, you may be seated.”

He stood, his head was clear and his hands were dry. He stepped down from the podium with his chin raised and his back straight returning to his seat. He had done it. He had done what he needed to do and the only thing that was lft was to survive the rest of the trail.

He could do that.

He survived operation steel eye didn’t he?

So he could certainly survive this.

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Eleven songs that Mary Steele recorded between October 1919 and ca. May 1921 were released on discs. This collection includes seven of those along with two sides by her sometimes accompanists, the Antoniou Brothers. She was one of only only four women to have recorded in the Turkish language (the only one who wasn’t Greek, it turns out), the second woman to have recorded in Arabic, and the only Woman and in Albanian in the U.S during the 1910s and 20s. Phrases in both Armenian and Kurdish turn up in her recordings. Because of her broad linguistic capabilities and her Anglicized name, she baffled me for years - who was she? where was she from? - and I would not have known anything substantial about her had I not been contacted by her great-grandnephew Rob Steel. He has done a lot of research on her, providing a basis from which I could do some more investigation. What follows is an amalgamation of what we have learned. Mary Steele was born in Mersin, Turkey February 21, 1887, the sixth of eight children. Steele’s father was Hanna Luke Boulad, born July 15, 1856 in Aintab (now Gaziantep) in southern Turkey who came from a Melkite Catholic family. While attending a Presbyterian missionary college in Mersin he met Mary’s mother Freda, a fellow student, who had been born in Aleppo, Syria August 31, 1860. They were married and had their first child Phoebe in 1875 in Gaziantep. Over the next 25 years, Hanna took various teaching jobs back and forth from one city to the next, spending a few years in Mersin, a few in Gaziantep, then Tarsus, then back to Gaziantep, then Mersin, back to Gazientep, back to Mersin, then finally, by 1900, to Beirut by which time they had eight children, all boys except Phoebe, the oldest, and Mary, who was then 13. At the urging of a missionary neighbor in Beirut, an American Consul named Dr. Metheny, they sent their two eldest sons, Saul and Alex, to the U.S. In 1901, they sent two more sons William and John. By 1902, Freda Boulad was disconsolate at the breakup of her family, so, with sponsorship from the Presbyterian church, Hanna sold his possessions and packed up the family of including his wife, two small boys,15-year-old Mary, her older sister Phoebe, and Phoebe’s husband and two children, and they sailed from Beirut to Marseille to Philadelphia, arriving August 13, 1902. The family settled in south Philadelphia. By 1910 56 year old Hanna had left behind the life of a scholar and was working as an upholsterer, living on Glenmore Ave. with his wife, a 27 year old son Joseph (also in upholstering), his wife Christine and their two children, and an 11 year old son Benjamin (working in a soap factory). The family name Boulad (meaning, roughly, “strong” in Arabic) had been changed at the port to Steele, and Hanna was called John. His gifts for language were utilized periodically, including, according to family lore, consultation with Egyptologist Dr. Howard Carter (best known at the discoverer of Tutankhamen’s grave), but he resigned himself, unhappily it seems, to American life. While most of the family stayed settled in the working-class south Philly suburbs of Glenolden and Collingdale for decades, Mary Steele traveled. Family documents refer to her having been married at 14, but the first marriage we’re fairly sure of is to one William Gladstone Richardson in January 1912 in either Iowa City or Chicago, depending on which document can believed. Richardson was Mary’s age, 25 at the time, and a native of Farina IL. They apparently had a child and were still married and living together in St. Louis, Missouri in 1920. Richardson he died in 1958, now buried in Ronan, Montana. Steele seems to have spent the better part of 30 years living the life of a performer on the road. She turned up in in New York City at the age of 32 for six recording sessions for the Victor company from October 2 through December 24, 1919. Accompanied by a portly pair of cymbalom- and clarinet-playing Greek brothers from Samos (an island that remained a semi-independent Ottoman territory until it was repatriated to Greece in 1913 during the First Balkan War), she initially recorded four songs in Arabic. The first disc was given a write-up blurb in Victor’s Arabic catalog of the time: “The first selection ‘My Rose’ tells of a youth’s ardent admiration for his sweetheart whose beauty he compares to the rose. In the song on the reverse of the record, ‘Father I Want to Get Married,” a girl confesses to her father her love for a blind man and she tells him that even his misfortune will not detain her from marrying him. The composer, Mme S. Mary, a new Victor artist, sings these Syrian melodies to the accompaniment of cymbal and clarinet.” A few days later, the Antoniou Brothers made four instrumental sides which were released as part of Victor’s Greek series, two of which include Steele playing percussion (and on one of which she can be heard shouting encouragement to the players in the background). The trio returned to the studio every couple weeks over the next two months, cutting four songs in Greek and Albanian over and over again. Victor’s recordists must have thought they had something special in Steele as a performer to let her cut the song “Cuchawaki (The Gamblers)” a total of fifteen times, “Ismenyes” twelve times, and “Ardhi Koha A Bekuar” eleven times during a period when most immigrant musicians got only one or two takes to complete a performance for release. Only the latter of those three songs, translated from Albanian as “Hurrah for the Nation” was ever issued with “Flamuri (The Flag)” (completed in three takes) as its flip, likely as an attempt to salvage something salable from the sessions. The disc sold poorly, which is unsurprising given that the Albanian-speaking population of the U.S. numbered only a few thousand at the time. (Notably, Victor only ever issued four other discs in Albanian, all recorded in 1917-18 by Giuseppe Mauro with accompaniment by the house orchestra before trying one last time in 1924 when they issued five songs by Adreas Pappas-Athanas Mone.) Around March of 1921, she recorded again, this time with a new band for Columbia at their Woolworth Building studios. In two sessions, she knocked out five songs in a combination of Turkish and Arabic in one or two takes. One of the songs was issued as the flip side of a song by Marika Papagika (one of the rare instances of Papagika singing in Turkish). After her session in May 1921, she never recorded again. The 1930 census found Steele living with a Greek man named Stelianos Grigorlides at the New Jackson Hotel in Chicago’s Greektown, giving her occupation as “dancer” and her language spoken other than English as “Armenian.” May 1931, she married an Athenian named George Zamanos in New York City, but it didn’t last. By 1935, at the age of 48, she heeded the family call and moved to Jacksonville, Florida to take care of her then-widowed mother Freda. Her brother John (b. 1886) died that year; Alex (b. 1882) had died in 1915. While she was there, she filed her Declaration of Intent to naturalize as a U.S. citizen, having lived as an alien in this country for 35 years. She gave her race and nationality as “Armenian.” We can only speculate that as a Christian from Turkey, having lived among Greeks and Armenians in nightclubs, theaters, and coffeehouses for decades, her identification with those groups was stronger, or potentially easier for mainstream America to comprehend, than with her Arab family. Or perhaps her mother was Armenian? By 1940, Mary Steele had resettled closer to her remaining family in south Philadelphia at 2535 67th St. living with an Armenian rug cleaner named Harry Hachrian, who was listed as a lodger in a house she owned. She gave her marital status as “widow,” but in March 1944 she filed a summons for divorce against George Zamanos in Nevada, apparently the last place she knew that he’d lived. She apparently died in 1948, about age 60. Her younger brother Joseph, born Sept. 6, 1895 in Gaziantep, also wound up working in show-biz as Ingrid Bergman’s business manager. In 1959, he published a memoir titled Ingrid Bergman: An Intimate Portrait. He died in 1980.

#78rpm #78 rpm #immigrant #Arab #Greek #Turkish #Armenian

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balioc · 4 years

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BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2019 EDITION

This list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind, etc. Also no children’s picture books.

1. In a Time of Treason, David Keck

2. A King In Cobwebs, David Keck

3. War In Human Civilization, Azar Gat

4. The Kingdom of Copper, S. A. Chakraborty

5. The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Winifred Fallers Sullivan

6. The Winter of the Witch, Katherine Arden

7. Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis

8. Perelandra, C. S. Lewis

9. The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis

10. Underlord, Will Wight

11. The Devil-Wives of Li Fong, E. Hoffman Price

12. How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immerwahr

13. The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie

14. The Rage of Dragons, Evan Winter

15. The Bird King, G. Willow Wilson

16. A Betrayal In Winter, Daniel Abraham

17. An Autumn War, Daniel Abraham

18. The Price of Spring, Daniel Abraham

19. Chartism, Thomas Carlyle

20. Impro: Improvisation and the Theater, Keith Johnstone

21. A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

22. Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett

23. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Stats, James C. Scott

24. The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons

25. Ship of Smoke and Steel, Django Wexler

26. Pan, Knut Hamsun

27. The Unbound Empire, Melissa Caruso

28. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure, Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

29. Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri

30. Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson

31. A Brightness Long Ago, Guy Gavriel Kay

32. The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia McKillip

33. Heir of Sea and Fire, Patricia McKillip

34. Harpist In the Wind, Patricia McKillip

35. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Francis Fukuyama

36. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire

37. The Witchwood Crown, Tad Williams

38. Empire of Grass, Tad Williams

39. Ten Restaurants That Changed America, Paul Freedman

40. The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

41. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith

42. Wyrms, Orson Scott Card

43. Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman

44. The Axe and the Throne, M. D. Ireman

45. The Sun King, Nancy Mitford

46. The Demons of King Solomon, various (ed. Aaron J. French)

47. Towards a New Socialism, W. Paul Cockshott & Allin F. Cottrell

48. The Oracle Glass, Judith Merkle Riley

49. The Orphans of Raspay, Lois McMaster Bujold

50. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness In the West, Cormac McCarthy

51. Lent, Jo Walton

52. Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone

53. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah

54. The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead

55. The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism, Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski

56. Turning Darkness Into Light, Marie Brennan

57. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell

58. The Initiate Brother, Sean Russell

59. Gatherer of Clouds, Sean Russell

60. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, Mary Eberstadt

61. The New Achilles, Christian Cameron

62. World Without End, Sean Russell

63. Sea Without a Shore, Sean Russell

64. Uncrowned, Will Wight

65. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation, Tim Hannigan

66. The Vagrant, Peter Newman

67. Jade War, Fonda Lee

68. The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith

69. The Hod King, Josiah Bancroft

70. The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons

71. Cold Iron, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]

72. Dark Forge, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]

73. Emily of New Moon, Lucy Maude Montgomery

74. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Ben Mcintyre

75. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow

76. Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, David Bowles

77. Flowers In the Mirror, Li Ruzhen

78. Bright Steel, Miles Cameron [Christian Cameron]

79. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman

80. That Hideous Strength, C. S. Lewis

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Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2019: 19

Works consumed in 2019 by women: 24

Works consumed in 2019 by men: 55

Works consumed in 2018 by both men and women: 1

Balioc’s Choice Award, fiction division: Lent

>>>> Honorable mention: A Betrayal in Winter et al

Balioc’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

>>>> Honorable mention: War In Human Civilization

Cultural Heritage Award For “Holy Crap This Will Fuck You Up”: The Great Divorce

Cultural Heritage Award For “This Will Not Fuck You Up Nearly as Much as the Author Thinks It Will, or Maybe I Was Just In a Cranky Un-Receptive Frame of Mind”: That Hideous Strength

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A year of progress, I think. This is probably About Enough Reading. More nonfiction than before, although not enough (and too many things that I wanted to be Really Enlightening turned out to be duds). More literary classics too. A lot of modern genre fiction that was pretty-good-but-definitely-not-great.

#yearly reading list

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thanksforthedinosaur · 5 years

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october 2019

1. soapie - bird house 2. couple n - nonsense day 3. mylk - splash 4. sanaas - ripple sundae 5. nanahira - nyan loves you 6. project skylate - onigiri 7. synthion - stellar 8. maeshima soshi - the terminal 9. tokiwa - memoirs 10. reno - drown in love 11. nayuta - flu fluffy 12. imeiden - love again 13. limonène - rigel 14. chroma - 愛を喜ぶ街 15. taichi mukai - icbu 16. hikaru station - fated 17. lucky kilimanjaro - 初恋 18. daoko - はじめましての気持ちを 19. room97 - atelier 20. city your city - micro summer 21. shachi - my feelings 22. heize - hith hiding 23. 4s4ki - kakerumono 24. パソコン音楽クラブ - time to renew 25. iri - summer end 26. jasmine sokko - 嘘 27. oohyo - with the star 28. perfume - flash 29. iz*one - vampire 30. nana mizuki - final commander 31. dirty androids - intergalactic 32. desired - emotions 33. consciousthoughts - when it feels unreal 34. lena raine - eyes in the darkness 35. [.que] - petal dance 36. serph - upcycler 37. omniboi - vanilla 38. dusky - l.i. 39. a beacon school - it's late 40. geotheory - 3am lust loft 41. tinlicker - fractal 42. satin jackets - shadow of you 43. navvi - dopamine 44. dominic pierce - panasonic shockwave 45. transviolet - sunshine 46. lo - safari 47. terror jr - loved by you 48. slayyyter - touch my body 49. charli xcx - february 2017 50. muna - pink light 51. eva - truthfully 52. bat for lashes - jasmine 53. mallrat - charlie 54. brothertiger - on the farthest island 55. aseul - fade away 56. kero kero bonito - when the fires come 57. lana del rey - cinnamon girl 58. king princess - ain't together 59. tegan and sara - hey, i'm just like you 60. frankie cosmos - cosmic shop 61. hater - it's a mess 62. kate teague - gilly 63. soccer mommy - lucy 64. no vacation - days 65. long beard - getting by 66. jay som - peace out 67. men i trust - all night 68. lucy dacus - dancing in the dark 69. chastity belt - apart 70. (sandy) alex g - cow 71. hovvdy - ruin (my ride) 72. girl in red - i need to be alone. 73. bandanna - fire escape 74. flor - white noise 75. william doyle - design guide 76. cones - inner voice 77. belle & sebastian - safety valve 78. erthlings - bridges 79. faye webster - pigeon 80. jessica pratt - crossing 81. pieta brown - bring me 82. andrea von kampen - teton 83. yola - love is light 84. lula wiles - hometown 85. molly tuttle - when you're ready 86. caroline spence - long haul 87. dori freeman - that's how i feel 88. the highwomen - loose change 89. better oblivion community center - little trouble 90. the early november - ave maria 91. team dresch - your hands my pockets 92. blushh - all my friends 93. shunkan - bedroom dweller 94. cursive - barricades 95. bethlehem steel - empty room 96. dowsing - future me 97. cattle - i don't mind 98. hitsujibungaku - ロマンス 99. polkadot stingray - 阿吽 100. lucie,too - heart wave 101. mikanzil - pallet 102. tricot - あふれる 103. nabowa - dusk 104. paranoid void - blind blue 105. kemono - コーヒータウン 106. carmody - the lost and leaving 107. akua - heaven 108. halima - ford cardinal 109. sinead harnett - pulling away 110. gavin turek - 2am 111. hylen - don't know 112. lolo zouaï - chevy impala 113. tei shi - even if it hurts 114. savannah cristina - one night only 115. layfullstop - sos 116. rayana jay - breakfast in bed 117. nieah - y.a.m.e. 118. tierra whack - unemployed 119. mia gladstone - grow 120. zilo - into the sun 121. mahalia - simmer 122. lava la rue - biscuit 123. sampa the great - freedom 124. noname - song 32 125. little simz - venom 126. friday night plans - prism 127. lil nas x - panini 128. ecco2k - 1:1 129. thaiboy digital - bentley 130. vacationer - flourish 131. tesk - the remedy 132. prgmat - lucid dream 133. jrd. - cosmos 134. mt. fujitive - sundown 135. omaure - thinking place 136. saib - clair 137. ukiyo - 45rpm 138. nokiaa - love and fear 139. kuranes - love and all that jazz 140. dust and moonlight - in love with a view (you) 141. aqualina - love letters 142. ocha - love letters 143. fcj - love/lost 144. sigh city - love bump 145. odeeno - love in d 146. tsubame - last time

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DBl3w0lHNjFhUT61hr667?si=PdDiwJcfQJip51EUrnX8fQ

#aka no matter how many times i'm reborn i'll keep falling in love with you #mae makes playlists #mine

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thehomemadehooligan · 4 years

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For Randomization Purposes

10k || Nat Zang || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

98067BO990674 [Bo] || Henry Cavill || Alien || OC || Non-Binary

Aashi Stone || Naomi Scott || Demon || OC || Third Female

Aayan Shaw || Jackson Rathbone || Demon || OC || Male

Abilene Wagner || Natalie Portman || Mauvais Dentes || OC || Third Female

Ace Spade || Taron Egerton || Humanised Card || OC || Male

Adam Banks || Vincent Larusso, Hayden Christensen, Joel Kinnaman || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Adam Elliot || Leland Chapman || Werewolf || OC || Male

Adam Groff || Connor Swindells || Human || Canon || Male

Addison Valiant || Abbey Cowen || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Addison Veles || Wilmer Valderama || Human || OC || Male

Ae Chihu || Wooshin || Zoanthrope || OC || Third Male

Affric Road || Gustaf Skarsgard || Cambion || OC || Male

Agron || Dan Feuerriegel || Human || Canon || Male

Aiden Wright || Dean O’Gorman || Human || OC || Third Male

Aimery Dagonet || Jordan Connor || Incubus || OC || Male

Ainsley Mansfield || Christian Kane || Human || OC || Male

Airam Brennan || India Eisley || Evil Twin || Canon || Third Female

Akkeri Kom Podakru || Alex Høgh Andersen || Human || OC || Male

Alan Morrison || Eoin Macken || Human || OC || Optional

Alana Meridian || Ksenia Solo || Merfolk || OC || Third Female

Alaric Saltzman || Matthew Davis || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Alastair York || Jai Courtney || Human || OC || Male

Albrecht Holmes || Tom Hiddleston || Human || OC || Male

Albus Severus Potter || Joe Keery, Timothee Chalamet || Wizard || Canon || Gender Optional

Alby Escamillia || Bob Morley || Centaur || OC || Male

Alcides Villar || Manny Montana || Quinametzin || OC || Male

Alec Hardison || Aldis Hodge || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Aleda Kingsleigh || Dove Cameron || Wonderlandian || OC || Third Female

Aleister Druitt || Brett Dalton || Human || OC || Male

Aleksander Lubomirski || Bartosz Gelner || Human || Canon || Male

Alex Avanyu || Avan Jogia || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Third Male

Alex Fierro || Avan Jogia, Naomi Scott || Demi-God || Canon || Fluid

Alex Murphy Jr || Richard Harmon || Human || Twin OC || Male

Alex Rider || Alexander Ludwig || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Alex Taylor || Richard Harmon || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Alex Wright || Richard Harmon || Spirit Influenced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Alexander Harris || Nicholas Brendan || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Alexander Lightwood || Matt Daddario || Nephilim || Canon || Gender Optional

Alexander Luthor || Michael Rosenbaum || Meteor-Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Alexander Trager || Kim Coates || Human || Canon || Male

Alf Tungri || Will Peltz || Human || OC || Male Pref

Alfred Andrews || KJ Apa || Human || Canon || Male

Alfred Pennyworth || Sean Pertwee || Human || Canon || Male

Ali Ababwa || Avan Jogia || Human || OC || Male Pref

Alice Rula || Madeline Brewer || Human || OC || Third Female

Aline Penhallow || Arden Cho || Nephilim || Canon || Gender Optional

Alix Kirkland || Daniel Sharman || Elemental || OC || Third Male

Allanon || Manu Bennett || Druid || Canon || Male Pref

Almanzo Cezoram || Hale Appleman || Enhanced Human || OC || Gender Optional

Alon Crisanto || Tom Holland || Human || OC || Male

Alter Lynch || Devon Sawa || Human || OC || Male

Amanda Brotzman || Hannah Marks || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Amara Paul || Mila Kunis || Human || OC || Third Female

Amari Casey || Carly Chaikin || Enhanced Human || OC || Gender Optional

Amberle Elessedil || Poppy Drayton || Elf || Canon || Gender Optional

Ambrose Spellman || Chance Perdommo || Witch || Canon || Gender Optional

America Chavez || Becky G || Transdimensional Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Amity || Elizabeth Gillies || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Anand Morrígu || Sean Maguire || Celtic God || Semi Canon || Male

Anastasia Cloe || Eiza Gonzalez || Witch || OC || Third Female

Anatoly Sorrows || Cam Gigandet || Half-Cat Experiment || OC || Male

Anchor Westergaard || Eddie Redmayne || Magical Human || OC || Male Pref

Anders Fontaine || Chris O'Donnell || Human || OC || Male

Anders Johnson || Dean O'Gorman || Reincarnated Norse God || Canon || Gender Optional

Andie Mulford || Kat McNamara || Human || OC || Third Female

Andreas Vasilescu || Luke Camilleri || Werewolf || Canon || Male

Andrew Alister || Breandan Fehr || Human || Canon || Male

Andrew-Mark Raven || Jacob Elordi || Mutant || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Angel Eyes || DJ Cotrona || Demi-God || OC || Male

Angela Landers || Tatiana Maslany || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Angelica Green || Alyvia Alyn Lind || Human || Canon || Female

Anjisnu || || Kim Coates || || Monster Under The Bed || || OC || || Male

Anna '010' Venom || Akira Reid || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Anna Lightwood || Ruby Rose || Nephilim || Canon || Female

Annabeth Shrivatsa || Dichen Lachman || Metahuman || OC || Third Female

Anthony Stark || Robert Downey Jr, Rob Raco || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Anthony Stonem || Nicholas Hoult || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Anthony Topaz || Keiynan Lonsdale || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Antoinette Topaz || Vanessa Morgan || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Antonio Oliver || Luke Pasqualino || Human || OC || Male Pref

Anya Price || Gina Rodriquez || Human || OC || Third Female

April Hare || Theo James || Wonderlandian || OC || Third Male

Aramis D'Artagnan || Rhona Mitra || Human || OC || Third Female

Arawen Annwn || Stuart Reardon || Celtic God || Semi Canon || Male

Archibald Andrews || KJ Apa || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Archimedes Pendragon || Dom Sherwood || Human || OC || Male Pref

Ardal Cody || Kendall Schmidt || Immortal || OC || Male

Ariadna-Aitana Renata || Stephanie Beatriz || Fury || OC || Third Female

Ariane Német || Hunter Schafer || Human || OC || Trans Female

Arika Longan || Harry Shum Jr || Fae || OC || Male

Arrow Kom Boudalankru || Tatiana Maslany || Human || OC || Third Female

Arsena Larken || Zendaya Coleman || Hyena Shifter || OC || Third Female

Arthur Gremellion || Daniel Gillies || Human || OC || Male

Arthur Leech || Joseph Gordon-Levitt || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Arthur Pendragon || Bradley James, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau || Destined Human || Canon || Male Pref

Ash Houndsworth || Sean Teale || Human || OC || Male

Asher Hornik || Neven Crisorio || Human || OC || Third Male

Asnee Ambrocio || Choi Min Ki || Dragon || OC || Male

Astrid Ginger || Katharine Isabelle || Human || OC || Third Female

Atreyu Charles || Manny Jacinto || Human || OC || Male Pref

Atticus Bane || Will Tudor || Human || OC || Male

Atticus Philo || Grey Damon || Vampire || OC || Male

August Nancy || Anna Rossiel || Human || OC || Male Pref

Augustus Cornwallis || Keiynan Lonsdale || Human || OC || Male

Aurora Jones || India Eisley || Human || OC || Third Female

Austin DiSantos || Ludi Lin || Human || OC || Male

Avery Durin || Aaron Paul || Werewolf || OC || Male Pref

Avi Callahan-Constantine || Timothy Olyphant || Human || OC || Male Pref

Axe Kom Boudalankru || Aidan Turner || Human || OC || Male

Axel Miller || Jonathan Scarfe || Ex-Vampire || Canon || Male

Azmodeus || Landon Liboiron || Demon Prince || Semi Canon || Male

Baby Grant || Garrett Hedlund || Human || OC || Male

Babylas French || Tom Holland || Half Beast || OC || Male Pref

Balance Grant || Charlie Hunnam || Human || OC || Male

Baldroy Sinclair || Cameron Monaghan || Human || OC || Male Pref

Bambi Darling || Summer Bishil || Android Human Hybrid || OC || Third Female

Bane Dorrance || Tom Hardy || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male

Barbara Holland || Shannon Purser || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Barbara O'Rinn || Samara Weaving, Caty Lotz || Human || OC || Third Female

Barclay Kirby || Zane Holtz || Human || OC || Male

Barnabé Klausen || Bradley Soileau || Half Grimm, Half Wesen || OC || Male Pref

Barren Guilderson || Iwan Rheon || Human || OC || Male Pref

Bartholomew Henry Allen II || Richard Harmon || Speedster || Canon || Gender Optional

Bartimeaus Blaise || Ben Barnes || Living Flame || OC || Third Male

Bartleby Putnam || Aaron Taylor-Johnson || Human || OC || Male

Baxter Adamson || Finn Roberts || Human || OC || Male Pref

Baxter Norsewood || Sam Steele || Vampire || OC || Gender Optional

Bayani Crisanto || Brandon Perea || Human || OC || Male

Beatrice Porter || Rachel Skarsten || Ghost/Succubus || OC || Third Female

Beatty Cres || Bill Skarsgard || Cambion || OC || Male

Becci Doherty || Lucy Hale || Human || OC || Third Female

Bekah Brightborn || Claire Holt || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Bela Talbot || Lauren Cohen || Human || Canon || Third Pref

Bellami Blake || Shay Mitchell || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Bellamy Blake || Bob Morley || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Belle Amanita || Freeman Agyeman || Oracle || OC || Third Female

Beloved Grant || Garrett Hedlund || Human || OC || Male

Ben Bartlett || Jensen Ackles || Human || OC || Male

Ben Fringe || Matt Daddario || Human || OC || Male

Ben Hargeeves || Justin H Min || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Ben Kilmartin || Jacob Elordi || Human || OC || Male

Benjamin French || Mitchell Hope || Half Beast || Canon || Gender Optional

Benjamin Heritage || Kellan Lutz || Human || OC || Third Male

Benjamin Roque || Victor Webster || Human || OC || Male Pref

Benji Boothby || Gregg Sulkin || Human || OC || Male

Benni Vilker || Mahesh Jadu || Human || OC || Male

Bentley Williams || Tom Payne || Human || OC || Male

Bertram [Ram] Ledin || Ville Valo || Human || OC || Male

Beth Of Crims || Adelaide Kane || Wonderlandian || OC || Third Female

Bianca Trix || Lena Scissorhands || Human || OC || Third Female

Big Grant || Travis Fimmel || Human || OC || Male

Bika Kom Azgeda || Michael Eklund || Human || OC || Male

Billie Hargrove || Cara Delevingne, Laura Vanderwoot || Human || Canon || Optional

Billy Bennett || Liam James || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Billy Butcher || Karl Urban || Human || Canon || Male

Billy De Lauro || Cody Christian || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Billy Hargrove || Dacre Montgomery, Jensen Ackles || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Billy-Ray Sanguine || Michael Fassbender || Mage || Canon || Male

Bishop Smith || Jack Falahee || Human || OC || Male

Black Hat || Karl Urban || Vampire || Canon || Male

Blade Hood || Grace Phipps || Wonderlandian || OC || Third Female

Blasius Caelia || Joe Manganiello || Human || OC || Male

Bliss || Matt Daddario || Godling || Canon || Male Pref

Bodaway Loss Chayton || Booboo Stewart || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Male

Boghest Grimm || DJ Cotrona || Hellhound || OC || Male

Boolean Goodkin || Stephen Lund || Human || OC || Male Pref

Bosse Ljung || Anson Mount || Human || OC || Male

Bothain Gladstone || Skeet Ulrich || Human || OC || Male

Bowyn Coke || Ian Bohen || Human || OC || Male

Boyd Crowder || Walton Goggins || Human || Canon || Male

Brad Coleman || Jaren Brandt Bartlett || Human || Canon || Male

Brencis Fists || Jeanté Godlock || Human || OC || Third Female

Brennan Mulwray || Victor Webster || Child Of Genomex || Canon || Male

Brian O'Connor || Paul Walker || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Briar Eglantine || Evan Ross || Nymph || OC || Gender Optional

Bridget Barker || Natalie Dormer || Human || OC || Third Female

Brigid Nic Dagda || Kaya Scodelario || Human || OC || Third Female

Brigita Coutts || Scarlett Johannsen || Human || OC || Third Female

Brochan Ceardach || Machine Gun Kelly || Human || OC || Male

Brodie Reston || Jordan Connor || Human || OC || Male

Brody Mayweather || Tom Holland || Human || OC || Male

Buzz Bracken || Josh Hutcherson || Human || OC || Male Pref

Caden Lovell || Keiynan Lonsdale || Human || OC || Third Male

Caine Dunbar || Jonathan Rhys Meyers || Hellhound || OC || Male

Cairns West || Alexander Skarsgard || Cambion || OC || Male

Cairo Ryers || Cody Saintgnue || Kitsune || OC || Third Male

Caitlin Ghoul || Devery Jacobs || Ghoul || OC || Third Female

Caleb Danvers || Steven Strait || Witch || Canon || Male Pref

Calista Jane Hook || Kat McNamara || Human And Fairy Hybrid || Canon || Third Pref

Callahan Hope || Ian Somerhalder || Human || OC || Male Pref

Calleigh Rousseau || Sammi Hanratty || Human || OC || Third Female

Calliope August || Aaron Jakubenko || Merfolk || OC || Male Pref

Camelot Addy || Kyle Harris || Human || OC || Male Pref

Cameron Thompson || Max Thieriot || Human || OC || Male

Camilla Rustici || Giorgia Whigham || Human || OC || Third Female

Cappello Hertz || Machine Gun Kelly || Human || OC || Male Pref

Carl Gallagher || Ethan Cutkosky || Human || Canon || Male

Carl Grimes || Chandler Riggs || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Carlisle Benwist || Nick Sagar || Human || OC || Male Pref

Carlos Alvarez || Oscar Jaenada || Human || Canon || Male

Carlton Lassiter || Timothy Ormundson || Human || Canon || Male

Carnegie South || Finn Jones || Human || OC || Male Pref

Carol Danvers || Brie Larson || Human Kree Hybrid || Canon || Gender Optional

Caroline Matheson || Dascha Polanco || Human || OC || Third Female

Carrie Fox || Karrueche Tran || Human || OC || Third Female

Carsen Kubrick || Brad Pitt || Human || OC || Male

Casimiro Riqui || David Castaneda || Incubus || OC || Gender Optional

Caspar Way || Gus Kensworthy || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Caspian Lance || Keiynan Lonsdale || Werewolf || OC || Male

Cassady Rosati || Jon Kortajarena || Human || OC || Male Pref

Cassandra Skye || Maisie Williams || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Castle Baxter || Jon Bernthal || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Catherine Blue || Brianna Hildebrand || Human || OC || Third Female

Catroina Kirk || Chloe Grace Moretz, Thomas Doherty, Others || Enhanced Human || OC || Gender Optional

Cearbhall Ó Maolmhuaidh || Lucas Till || Human || OC || Male

Cearul|Ciaran|Lorcan Riordan|Morrigan || Michael Fassbender, Toby Hemmingway, Garrett Hedlund || Human || Canon || Male

Cecil DeWitt || Francois Arnaud || Ghost || OC || Male Pref

Cerise Hood || Marie Avgeropoulos || Half Wolf || Canon || Third Female

Chariclo Arganthone Cupid || Dove Cameron || Fairytale || Canon || Third Female

Charlene Bradbury || Felicia Day || Human || Canon || Third Female

Charles Hansen || Rob Kazinsky || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Charles Smith || Hart Denton || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Charles Xavier || James McAvoy || Mutant || Canon || Gender Optional

Charlotte Baxter || Vanessa Morgan || Human || OC || Third Female

Charlotte Stephenson || Willa Holland || Human || OC || Third Female

Chase Collins || Sebastian Stan || Witch || Canon || Gender Optional

Chase Stein || Dom Sherwood || Untapped Metahuman || Canon || Gender Optional

Cheka Kom Trikru || Blair Redford || Human || OC || Male

Cherie Lewis || Emilia Clarke || Selkie || OC || Third Female

Cherokee Cash || Colin O'Donaghue || Human || OC || Male

Cherry Berry || Laura Morano, Thesgtwins || Human || OC || Third Female

Cheryl Blossom || Madelaine Petsch || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Cheshire Liddell || Sebastian Stan || Wonderlandian || Semi Canon || Male

Chess Cat || Harry Shum Jr || Wonderlandian || OC || Male Pref

Chestnut Barrow || Zayn Malik || Human || OC || Male

Chevrolet Arthur || Jason Statham || Human || OC || Male

Chloe Clair || Claudia Lee || Fae || OC || Third Female

Choco Domino || Keira Knightley || Human || OC || Third Female

Choi Trio || Jeonghan || Mutant || OC || Third Male

Christian Barton || Luke Mitchell || Human || OC || Male Pref

Christian Corwin || Rob Raco || Human || OC || Male Pref

Christoph Henderson || Henry Cavill || Human || OC || Third Pref

Christopher Argent || JR Bourne || Human || Canon || Male

Christopher Rook || Colin Ford || Nephilim || Canon || Male

Chryso Brach || Hart Denton || Maned Wolf Beast || OC || Male

Chuck Marks || Joe Manganiello || Human || OC || Male

Chul Bora || T. O. P || Human || OC || Male

Ciaran Byrne || Skeet Ulrich || Werewolf || OC || Male

Ciel Quinn || Hale Appleman || Master Of The Mystic Arts || OC || Male Pref

Clancy Wick || Mischa Janiec || Human || OC || Male

Clarence Helstrom || Tyler Blackburn || Human || OC || Male

Clark Griffin || Austin Butler || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Clarke Griffin || Eliza Taylor || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Clinton Barton || Jeremy Renner, Luke Mitchell || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Clove Sageseed || Jonathan Whitesell || Nymph || OC || Male Pref

Cody Pine || Logan Lerman || Human || OC || Male

Cole Higgins || Monty Geer || Human || Canon || Male

Comanche Cash || Dave Franco || Human || OC || Male

Connor Angel || Vincent Kartheiser, Chandler Riggs || Half Vampire || Canon || Gender Optional

Connor MacManus || Sean Patrick Flanery || Human || Canon || Male

Conrí Faolán || Cole Sprouse || Werewolf || OC || Male

Cooper Lachlan || Dacre Montgomery || Human || OC || Male Pref

Cooper Rose || Konstantinos Laios || Cupid || OC || Male

Coover Ash || Pablo Schreiber || Human || OC || Male

Copper Kom Yujleda || Kristin Stewart || Human || OC || Third Female

Corbin Kom Ingranronakru || Shane West || Human || OC || Male

Cordelia Midford || Allison Scagliotti || Human || OC || Third Female

Corleone O'Ray || Dylan Sprouse || Human || OC || Male Pref

Corvus Inlustris || Matt Lanter || Raven Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Costin Comescu || Scott Eastwood || Human || OC || Male

Cotton Thistle || Hansol Vernon Chwe || Fairy || OC || Third Male

Court Silver || Richard Harmon || Vampire || OC || Third Male

Crawford Leather || Charlie Weber || Human || OC || Male

Crazy Jane || Diane Guerrero || Metahuman || Canon || Gender Optional

Crina Demetria || Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford || Slayer || OC || Gender Optional

Crowley || David Tennant || Demon || Canon || Male Pref

Cyneric Ashworth || Nick Bateman || Human || OC || Male

D'avin Jaqobis || Luke Macfarlane || Geneticlly Modfied Human || Canon || Male

Daciana Larken || Tammin Sursok || Hyena Shifter || OC || Third Female

Dagwood Ryden || Daniel Di Tomasso || Human || OC || Male

Dai Ignotus || Frank Grillo || Wizard || OC || Male

Dain Domitan || Tommy Flanagan || Human || OC || Male

Dale Barbara || Mike Vogel || Human || Canon || Male

Dale Bisset || Matt Barr || Human || OC || Male

Dalia Kom Azgeda || Sophie Turner || Human || OC || Third Female

Damascus Lorne || Charlotte Best || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Damon Salavatore || Ian Somerhalder || Vampire || Canon || Male Pref

Daniel Addams || Christian Kane || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Daniel Hale || Tyler Hoechlin || Werewolf || Twin OC || Male

Daniel LaRusso || Nat Wolff || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Daniel Messer || Carmine Giovinazzo || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Daniel Williams || Scott Caan || Human || Canon || Male

Danihel Ranger || Alexander Calvert || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Dante Fischer || Dylan O'Brien || Human || OC || Male

Daria Sabriel || Jaimie Alexander || Amazon || OC || Third Female

Darien Hale || Tyler Hoechlin || Werewolf || Twin OC || Male

Darius Sabriel || Samuel Larsen || Semi Amazon || OC || Male Pref

Darko Pover || Dom Sherwood || Human || OC || Male Pref

Darling Charming || Eliza Taylor || Fairytale || Canon || Gender Optional

Darya Ryden || Meghan Ory || Human || OC || Third Female

Daryl Dixon || Norman Reedus || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Dastan || Jake Gyllenhaal || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male

David || Kiefer Sutherland || Human || Canon || Male

David Woodley || DJ Cotrona || Human || OC || Male

Dax Kendall || Utkarsh Ambudkar || Human || OC || Male

Daya Kitchell || Zendaya Coleman || Human || OC || Female

Deacon Frost || Stephen Dorff || Vampire || Canon || Male

Dean Winchester || Jensen Ackles || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Death Of The Endless || Summer Glau || Endless || Canon || Fluid

Deckard Chelios || Joe Manganiello || Human || OC || Male Pref

Deckard Shaw || Jason Statham || Human || Canon || Male

Declan Hale || Tyler Hoechlin || Werewolf || Twin OC || Male

Declan Harp || Jason Momoa || Human || Canon || Male

Deekyn Vivian || Patricia Allison || Witch || OC || Third Female

Delgado Clover || Jordan Connor || Human || OC || Male Pref

Delirium Of The Endless || Hayley Williams || Endless || Canon || Fluid

Delta || Clive Standen || Enhanced Human || OC || Male Pref

Dennis Toombs || Greyston Holt || Human || OC || Male Pref

Deonisia || Karen Gillan || Eldritch Being || OC || Third Female

Derek Hale || Tyler Hoechlin || Werewolf || Canon || Gender Optional

Des Carter || Frank Grillo || Ghost || OC || Male Pref

Desire Of The Endless || Ruby Rose || Endless || Canon || Fluid

Diana Derrick || Brooke Williams || Human || OC || Third Female

Diana Prince || Gal Gadot || Amazon || Canon || Gender Optional

Diego Hargreeves || David Castañeda, Benjamin Wadsworth || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male

Dirk Gently || Samuel Barnett || Anomalous Entity || Canon || Gender Optional

Dixie Enger || Caitlin Stasey || Human || OC || Third Female

Dmitry Kelso || Jay Ryan || Werewolf || OC || Male Pref

Dominic Prentís || Cody Saintgnue || Human || OC || Male

Dominick Bryant || Connor Haddadin || Human || OC || Male Pref

Donovan Torrence || Max Martini || Human || OC || Male

Dorian Ambrose || Dacre Montgomery || Human || OC || Male

Dot Baum || Becky G || Human || OC || Third Female

Dougal Reston || Joe Manganiello || Human || OC || Male

Dove Finch || Andy Biersack, Tom Hiddleston || Enhanced Human || OC || Gender Optional

Draco Malfoy || Tom Felton, Miles Heizer || Wizard || Canon || Gender Optional

Drak Kom Trishanakru || Alexander Dreymon || Human || OC || Male Pref

Draki Astarot || Troye Sivan || Dark Shadow Dragon Elf || OC || Male

Drusus Vritra || Santiago Segura || Incubus || OC || Male

Dsimu Runihura || Michael Fassbender || Cursed Demon || OC || Male

Dubhlagh Of Dunbroch || Matt Daddario || Human || OC || Male Pref

Durant Fischer || Dylan O'Brien || Human || OC || Male

Dusica Djura || Kat Dennings || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Dutch Deadwood || Anson Mount || Human || OC || Male

Dwalin Fundinson || Graham MacTavish || Dwarf || Canon || Male

Dyson Thornwood || Kris Holden-Reid || Werewolf || Canon || Male

E. Aster Bunnymund || Norman Reedus, Shawn Mendes || Guardian || Canon || Gender Optional

Edric Lange || Anthony Mackie || Dragon || OC || Male

Edward Brock || Tom Hardy || Symbiote Enhanced Human || Canon || Male Pref

Edward Lupin || Noah Centineo || Wizard || Canon || Male Pref

Eight || Bob Morley And Varies || Genetically Engineered Human || OC || Third Male

Eira Candace || Alycia Debnam-Carey || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Eirlys Kom Azgeda || Kit Harington || Human || OC || Male Pref

El Lakota || Sebastian Gregory || Human || OC || Male Pref

Eleonora Glover || Milla Jojovich || Human || OC || Third Female

Eli Cardashyan || Gregory Kasyan || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Elian Barros || David Castaneda || Human || OC || Male

Elijah Mikaelson || Daniel Gillies || Original || Canon || Male Pref

Elio Perlman || Timothee Chalamet || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Eliot Waugh || Hale Appleman || Magician || Canon || Gender Optional

Elise Gerard || Troian Bellisario || Hyena Shifter || OC || Third Female

Elizabeth Cooper || Lili Reinhart || Human || Cisbent Canon || Non-Binary

Ella Daniel || Nicola Peltz || Human || OC || Third Female

Elodie Irvine || Emma Watson || Human || OC || Third Female

Elodie Kerstoph || Abbey Lee || Carggite || OC || Third Female

Elsa || Kathryn Winnick, Dove Cameron || Magical Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Elsie Newman || Brittany Curran || Human || OC || Third

Emerson Topper || Zach McGowan || Human || OC || Male

Emery || Miss Psycho Cat/Minja Cvetković || Human || OC || Third Female

Emily-Hope Raegan || Carlson Young || Human || OC || Third Female

Emmaline Austin || Scout Taylor Compton || Human || OC || Third Female

Emmeline Fayette || Katie McGrath || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Emmet Osprey || Tyley Posey || Human || OC || Male Pref

Emmett Cullen || Jared Abrahamson || Vampire || Canon || Male Pref

Emory Harker || Cole Sprouse || Familiar || OC || Third Male

Enzo Ferris || Brock O’Hurn || Minotaur || Semi Canon || Male

Erasyl Maier || Alex Watson || Witch || OC || Male

Erik Lehnsherr || Michael Fassbender || Mutant || Canon || Male Pref

Erin Strife || Ash Stymest, Cher Lloyd || Greek God || Semi Canon || Fluid

Erinna Wyley || Gaia Mandadori || Witch || OC || Third Female

Ethan Connors || Derek Theler || Human || OC || Male Pref

Etienne McKenna || Alex O’Loughlin/Brock Kelly || Witch || OC || Male

Eugene Fitzherbert || Jared Padalecki || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Eula Bolton || Tessa Thompson || Human || OC || Third

Evan Billingham || Daniel Gillies || Human || OC || Male

Evan Williams || Dan Stevens || Human || OC || Male Pref

Evangeline Mordrake || Scarlett Johansson || Human || OC || Female Pref

Everly Weiss || Max Schnieder || Human || OC || Male Pref

Evgeni Shankarov || Paul Wesley || Human || OC || Male Pref

Evgeniy Kirova || Danila Kozlovsky || Human || OC || Male

Evie Grimhilde || Sofia Carson || Magical Human || Canon || Third Pref

Fabien Mariani || Bob Morley || Witch || OC || Male Pref

Faith Firenze || Zoey Deutch || Mutant || OC || Third Female

Faith Lehane || Eliza Dushku || Slayer || Canon || Gender Optional

Faith Zora || Arielle Kebel || Witch || OC || Third Female

Falco LaPointe || Francois Arnaud || Human || OC || Male

Faolan Finn || Shawn Mendes || Human || OC || Male Pref

Faraday Jones || Chris Pratt || Human || OC || Male

Farmer Quentin || Vin Diesel || Human || OC || Male

Father Gothel || Kim Coates || Witch || Genderbent Canon || Male

Feivel Voelkel || Dan Feuerriegel || Human || OC || Male

Felicity Fawkes || Lindsey Morgan || Human || OC || Third Female

Felix Frank || Connor Jessup || Human || OC || Optional

Felix Mosley || Jade Hassouné || Wonderlandian || OC || Gender Optional

Fergus Carter || Cole Sprouse || Human || OC || Male

Filarion Gaelin || Chanyeol || Elf || OC || Third Male

Fili || Dean O'Gorman || Dwarf || Canon || Male Pref

Filip Telford || Tommy Flanagan || Human || Canon || Male

Finn Collins || Thomas McDonell || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Finnian Liebrecht || Charlie Carver || Human || OC || Male Pref

Finnlee Camdyn || Hart Denton || Human || OC || Male

Fionn Collins || Nina Dobrev || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Fionnlagh Of Dunbroch || Matt Daddario || Human || OC || Third Male

Fioralba Kapua || Jungkook || Forest Elf || OC || Male Pref

Fitzwarren Luck || Lucas Till || Immortal || OC || Third Male

Five Hargreeves || Aiden Gallagher, Jackson Rathbone || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male

Fletcher Herangi/Searanke || KJ Apa || Human || OC || Male Pref

Fleurette Arany || Eliza Dushku || Human || OC || Third Female

Flint Gladstone || Rob Raco || Human || OC || Male

Flynn Addams || Norman Reedus || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Foma Comescu || Armie Hammer || Human || OC || Male

Ford Waters || Jon Bernthal || Human || OC || Male

Forsyth Pendleton Jones || Dylan Sprouse || Human || Twin OC || Male

Forsythe Pendleton Jones II || Skeet Ulrich/Cole Sprouse || Human || Canon || Male

Forsythe Pendleton Jones III || Cole Sprouse || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Forsythia Pendleton Jones || Hannah Marks || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Forty Quinn || James Scully || Human || Canon || Male

Foster || Jade Hassouné || Fae || Twin OC || Third Male

Four || Billy || Ben Hardy || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Fox Asterphilos || Michael Fassbender || Human || OC || Third Male

Fox Tempest || Harry Shum Jr || Kitsune || OC || Third Male

Francesca Grafton || Ruby Rose || Human || OC || Third Female

Frank Castle || Jon Bernthal || Human || Canon || Male

Frank Martin || Jason Statham || Human || Canon || Male

Frank Moore || Griffin Gluck || Human || OC || Optional

Frankie Holliewood || Channing Tatum || Human || OC || Optional

Frazer Parkes || Zane Holtz || Human || OC || Third Male

Frederick Fogarty || Drew Ray Tanner || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Frederick McClair || Luke Pasqualino || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Freya Mikaelson || Riley Voelkel || Original || Canon || Gender Optional

Friday Ginger || Bradley Cooper || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Fulton Reed || Elden Henson || Human || Canon || Male

Gabriel Cattaneo || Justin Baldoni || Human || OC || Male Pref

Gabriel Poe || Emjay Anthony || Human || OC || Male

Garfield Logan || Ryan Potter || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Garnet Porter || Danielle Harris || Demon || OC || Third Female

Garrett Burroughs || Amadeus Serafini || Medium || OC || Male Pref

Garven Kao-Pi || Chella Man || Witch || OC || Trans Male

Gary Unwin || Taron Egerton || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Geo Kom Ingranronakru || Christian Kane || Human || OC || Male Pref

George Kitchell || Machine Gun Kelly || Human || OC || Male

George Tyson || Christian Navarro || Human || OC || Male Pref

Georgia Garth || Kiana Madeira || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Georgia Holmes || Kaya Scodalario || Human || OC || Third Female

Geralt of Rivia || Henry Cavill || Witcher || Canon || Male Pref

Gideon Kirkland || Nate Buzolic || Elemental || OC || Male Pref

Gil LeGume || Dylan Playfair || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Gil Mavick || Joe Jonas || Human || OC || Male

Ginger Breadhouse || Vanessa Morgan || Candy Witch || Canon || Third Female

Gladis Baldwin || Ellen Page || Human || OC || Female

Gladys Jones || Morena Baccarin || Human || Semi Canon || Female

Glenn Dixon || Robert Buckley || Human || OC || Male

Glenn Macallan || Shawn Mendes || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Godiva Malone || Stephanie Bennett || Half Angel || OC || Third Female

Grace Zora || Claire Holt || Witch || OC || Third Female

Gregory House || Hugh Laurie || Human || Canon || Male

Greyson Rutherford || Robbie Kay || Shadow Elemental || OC || Male

Griffin || Jamie Bell || Jumper || Canon || Male

Gryphon Trent || Chris Hemsworth || Human || OC || Male

Guadalupe Lito || Miguel Ángel Silvestre || Human || OC || Male Pref

Guðleifr Mychajlovich || Luke Guldan || Upir || OC || Male

Gus Speedle || Jesse Metcalfe || Human || OC || Male Pref

Gwen Penny || Hayden Panettiere || Human || OC || Third Female

Ha Minsu || Yongguk || Human || OC || Male

Hades || Cheyenne Jackson, Machine Gun Kelly || God || Canon || Male

Haf Kom Podakru || Clive Standen || Human || OC || Male

Han Seong-Jin || Seo In Guk || Human || OC || Male

Han Seoul-Oh || Sung Kang, Jung Ji Hoon || Human || Canon || Male

Hannibal King || Ryan Reynolds || Ex-Vampire || Canon || Male Pref

Hans Westergaard || Max Martini || Human || Canon || Male

Harley Keener || Ty Simpkins, Nolan Gerard Funk || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Harley Quinzel || Hart Denton || Enhanced Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Harold Theopolis Osborn || Alex Høgh Andersen || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Harper Wilson || Ashley Rickards || Neko || OC || Third Female

Harriet Hook || Emeraude Toubia || Human And Fairy Hybrid || Canon || Third Female

Harry Dresden || Paul Blackthorne || Wizard || Canon || Male

Harry Potter || Daniel Radcliffe || Wizard || Canon || Gender Optional

Harry Winston || Ryan Hurst || Human || Canon || Male

Hartley Badeau || JR Bourne || Human || OC || Male

Hartwig Hansen || Tom Mison || Human || OC || Male Pref

Harvey Kinkle || Ross Lynch || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Hayley Gold || Alberto Rosende || Human || OC || Male

Hazel Haven || Kyle Gallner || Human || OC || Male Pref

Heather Holloway || Francesca Reale || Human || Canon || Female

Hecate || Tiio Horn || Goddess || Semi Canon || Third Female

Helena Graham || Jaime Murray || Human || OC || Third Female

Henrik Mikaelson || Richard Harmon || Original || Canon || Gender Optional

Henry Greyson || Brenton Thwaites || Human || OC || Male Pref

Henry Holliday || Matt Daddario || Human || OC || Male

Henry McCoy || Nicholas Hoult || Mutant || Canon || Gender Optional

Hera Henshaw || Aigail Breslin || Enhanced Human || OC || Third

Hercules Hansen || Max Martini || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Herman Kozik || Kenny Johnson || Human || Canon || Male

Heronymous Addams || Sharlto Copley || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Hev'n N Hel || Nick Eversman, Nick Hadad || The Angel And Devil On Your Shoulders || OC || Genderless - Male Presenting

Hiram Lodge || Mark Consuelas || Human || Canon || Male

Hope Zora || Penelope Mitchell || Witch || OC || Third Female

Horatio Mantle || Ross Butler || Human || Twin OC || Male

Hugh Beauchene || Tom Welling, Ian Nelson, Tyler Hoechlin || Mage || OC || Gender Optional

Hung Tae-Hee || TOP || Wechuge || OC || Male

Hush Kom Azgeda || Tasya Teles || Human || Twin OC || Third Female

Hyde Jackson || Lucas Till || Warlock || OC || Male Pref

I Gusti Ketut Silas Putra || Avan Jogia || Human || OC || Male

Iakona Leilani || Dacre Montgomery || Vampire || OC || Third Male

Ian Gallagher || Cameron Monaghan || Human || Canon || Male

Ianto Mumbles || Idris Elba || African God || Semi Canon || Male

Iefan Mumbles || Idris Elba || African God || Semi Canon || Male

Illyiad Barakan || Johnny Strong || Half Kitsune Half Fox Shifter || OC || Male

Ilya Kuryakin || Armie Hammer || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Indigo Basile || Will Tudor || Immortal || OC || Male

InDo Montoya || Cole Sprouse || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Isaac Lahey || Daniel Sharman || Werewolf || Canon || Gender Optional

Isabelle Lightwood || Emeraude Toubia || Nephilim || Canon || Third Pref

Isias Apgar || Kim Coates || Werewolf || OC || Male

Isobel Druid || Billie Lourd || Witch || OC || Third Female

Issac Lawson || Luke Evans || Human || OC || Male

Ivo Ramsey || Keegan Allen || Human || OC || Male Pref

Izzy Swango || Matt Ryan || Runic Witch || OC || Male Pref

J Buchanen || Norman Reedus || Vampire || Canon || Male

Jace Lightood-Herondale || Dom Sherwood || Nephilim || Canon || Gender Optional

Jacenty Jimmy Malone || Landon Liboiron/Tom Sturridge || Human || OC || Male

Jacinda Wocky || Lucy Hale || Wonderlandian || OC || Third Female

Jack Chase || Sebastian Stan || Human || OC || Male

Jack Frost || Troye Sivan, Sean Patrick Flanery || Guardian || Canon || Gender Optional

Jack Knave || Dom Sherwood || Wonderlandian || OC || Third Male

Jack Morton || Jake Manley || Werewolf || Canon || Male Pref

Jack O'Neill || Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Welch || Human || Canon || Male

Jack Sparrow || Johnny Depp || Immortal || Canon || Male

Jacob Finnegan || Ian Bohen || Human || OC || Male

Jacob Spencer Stone || Christian Kane || Human || Canon || Male

Jade Jordan || Hailee Steinfeld || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Jade Tonnick || Kristin Stewart || Human || OC || Third Female

Jake Peralta || Andy Samberg || Human || Canon || Male

Jake Stingman || Christian Kane || Human || OC || Male

Jakoby Ellis || Anson Mount || Lion Shifter || OC || Male

James Barnes || Sebastian Stan || Genetically Engineered Human || Canon || Male Pref

James Howlett || Hugh Jackman || Mutant || Canon || Male Pref

James Kirk || Chris Pine || Human || Canon || Male Pref

James Moonstar || Blair Redford || Human || OC || Male Pref

James Moriarty || Andrew Scott || Human || Twin OC || Male

Jane Hopper || Millie Bobby Brown, Lily Collins, Emmy Rossum || Enhanced Human || Canon || Female

Janet McCullogh || Emma Roberts || Human || OC || Third Female

Janie Mulford || Madelaine Petsch || Human || OC || Third Female

Janis Mckinney || Zoe Kravitz || Human || OC || Third Female

Jannick Boden || Robert Sheehan || Enhanced Human || Twin OC || Male Pref

Jareth Quinn || David Bowie, Brett Dalton || Goblin King || Canon || Male

Jarl Tyrus Jones || Bill Skarsgard || Human || OC || Third Male

Jarvis Huish || Jake Abel || Sighted Human Turned Werewolf || OC || Male Pref

Jason Dean || Christian Slater || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Jason Schuchard || Jordan Connor || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Jason Stackhouse || Ryan Kwanten || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Jason Todd || Bob Morley || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Jason Van Horn || Jon Hamm || Human || Canon || Male

Jasper Harry Hook || Thomas Doherty || Human And Fairy Hybrid || Canon || Gender Optional

Jasper Jordan || Devon Bostick || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Jasper Whitlock || Jackson Rathbone || Vampire || Canon || Male Pref

Javan Bengal || Michael Fassbender || Tiger Shifter || OC || Male

Jax Lakota || Jesse Sullivan || Human || OC || Third Female

Jax Lewis || Noel Fisher || Human || OC || Male Pref

Jaxon Harley || Ricky Whittle || Human || OC || Male Pref

Jay Abanazar || Booboo Stewart || Half Genie || Canon || Male Pref

Jazz Hills || Nick Jonas || Human || OC || Third Male

Jean Moreau || Eliza Dushku || Witch || OC || Third Female

Jefferson || Sebastian Stan || Portal Jumper || Canon || Male

Jennifer Jenkins || Megan Fox || Human || OC || Third Female

Jensen Ames || Jason Statham || Human || Canon || Male

Jensen Slick || Stephen Dorff || Human || OC || Male

Jeremiah Fenrirson || Michael Fassbender || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Jeremiah Lucas || Sam Heughan || Human || OC || Male

Jeremy Gilbert || Steven R McQueen || Hunter || Canon || Gender Optional

Jesse Custer || Dominic Cooper || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male

Jesse Katsopolis || John Stamos || Human || Canon || Male

Jessica Gambino || China Anne McClain || Human || OC || Third Female

Jett McCreighton-Hill || Cole Sprouse || Incubus || OC || Male

Ji Ah Nix || Justin H Min || Human || OC || Male Pref

Jill Praetor || Stella Maeve || Witch || OC || Third Female

Jillian Holtzmann || Kate McKinnon || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Jim Moriarty || Andrew Scott || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Jimi Mars || Odiseas Georgiadis || Human || OC || Male

Joaquin DeSantos || Rob Raco || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Joe Addams || Joseph Gordon-Levitt || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Joe McAlister || Colin Ford || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Joel Bissainthe || Andy Biersack || Vampire || OC || Male

Joel Gregory || Benedict Cumberbatch || Human || OC || Male

Joel Shmishlyaev || Ash Stymest || Vampire || OC || Male

Johann Stein || Richard Harmon || Human || OC || Male

John Andras Jaqobis || Aaron Ashmore || Human || Canon || Male

John Avanyu || Karl Urban || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Male

John Bender || Judd Nelson || Human || Canon || Male Pref

John Constantine || Matt Ryan || Magician || Canon || Male Pref

John Henry Holliday || Tim Rozon || Immortal || Canon || Male

John Law || Vincent Ventresca || Invisible Man || OC || Male

John Mbege || Keiynan Lonsdale || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

John Mitchell || Aidan Turner || Vampire || Canon || Male Pref

John Murphy || Richard Harmon || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

John Sheppard || Joe Flanagan || Human || Canon || Male

John Silvini || Ryan Reynolds || Human || OC || Male

John Vaako Grimm || Karl Urban || Martian Enhanced Human Turned Necromonger || Canon || Male

John Watson || Martin Freeman || Human || Canon || Male

Johnnie Cooper || Tom Ellis || Human || OC || Male Pref

Jon Snow || Kit Harington || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Jonah Howard || Joseph Gordon-Levitt || Human || OC || Third Male

Jonathan Byers || Charlie Heaton || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Jones Templeton || Brock Kelly || Human || OC || Male Pref

Jorah Ruiz || Oscar Isaac || Human || OC || Male

Jordan Howard || Joseph Gordon-Levitt || Human || OC || Male

Jory Kulkarni || Tyler Hoechlin || Vampire || OC || Third Male

Josh Wheeler || Colin Ford || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Jostus Kom Sankru || Brock O’Hurn || Human || OC || Male

Juan Carlos Ortiz || Theo Rossi || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Julian Alfred Pankratz || Joey Batey || Cursed Human || Canon || Optional

Julio Richter || Diego Boneta || Mutant || Canon || Male Pref

June/Au Moone || Dane Dehaan, Cara Delevingne || Metahuman Possessed Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Juno Smith || Ariana Grande || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Jupiter Danvers || Andy Biersack || Incubus || OC || Male

Jussie Tamberelli || Sachin Sahel || Healer || OC || Male Pref

Kacey Patton || Dylan Sprouse || Witch || OC || Third Male

Kade Arcino || Zachary Quinto || Human || OC || Male

Kady Hooper || Maya Hawke || Witch || OC || Third Female

Kaede Oshiro || Sehun || Demon || OC || Male

Kai Anderson || Evan Peters || Human || Canon || Male

Kaleb Westphall || Daniel Sharman || Witch || Canon || Gender Optional

Kali Prasad || Linnea Berthelsen || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Kapena Carpenter || Hale Appleman || Human || OC || Third Male

Kara Kaa || Eiza Gonzalez || Snake Shifter || OC || Third Female

Kari Caerphilly || Adam Brody || Human || OC || Male Pref

Karolina Dean || Virginia Gardener || Majesdanian || Canon || Gender Optional

Kassandra Šimon || Blake Lively || Human || OC || Third Female

Katherine Kole-Kirby || Kay Victoria || Human || OC || Female

Kaya Carter-Reston || Dove Cameron || Human || OC || Third Female

Kayla Doll || Emily Browning || Experiment || OC || Third Female

Kaylee Sanderson || Gal Gadot || Human || OC || Third Female

Keelan Cavanagh || Tom Hardy || Human || OC || Male

Keladry Veralidaine || JR Bourne || Werewolf || OC || Male

Kelleena Crighton || Hannah John-Kamen || Human || OC || Third Female

Kelly Benton || Darya Goncharova || Human || OC || Third Female

Kelly Pryor || Brandon Larracuente || Human || OC || Male

Kendrick Alighero || Jon Bernthal || Human || OC || Male

Kenickie Murdoch || Dom Sherwood || Human || Canon || Male

Kensington Banning || Will Tudor || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Kenzo Malikov || Kim Heechul || Fae || OC || Third Male

Kerianne Graves || Marie Avgeropoulos || Human || OC || Third Female

Kevin Keller || Casey Cott || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Kiara Angelika || Teagan Croft || Oracle || OC || Female

Kieran Of The Wild Hunt || Nils Kuiper || Fae || Canon || Male

Kieran Tilo || KJ Apa || Human || OC || Male

Kili || Aidan Turner || Dwarf || Canon || Gender Optional

Killian Salvatore || Scott Caan || Human || OC || Male

Kimball Danelsen || John Harlan Kim || Human || OC || Male Pref

Kimberly Hart || Naomi Scott || Power Ranger || Canon || Gender Optional

Kimril || Richard Armitage || Dragon || OC || Male

Kincaid Jericko || Victor Webster || Mage || OC || Male

King Rí || Joseph Morgan || Vampire || OC || Male Pref

Kingsley Hopkirk || Kris Holden-Ried || Wizard || OC || Gender Optional

Kintsu Kuroi || Jhope || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Kit Pryde || Dylan Sprayberry || Mutant || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Kito Jewel || Kit Harrington || Human || OC || Male

Kitra Katriel || Paris Berelc || Human || OC || Third Female

Kittridge Banning || Dom Sherwood || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Kitty Cheshire || Alyssa Claire Joynson || Wonderlandian || Canon || Third Female

Kol Mikaelson || Nate Buzolic || Original || Canon || Gender Optional

Kolman Johannsen || Dylan McDermott || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Kon-El Kent || Robbie Amell || Half Kryptonite Clone || Canon || Male

Konstantinos Cruz || Colton Haynes || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Kostia Kom Trikru || Adelaide Kane, Emilia Clarke, Nyane Lebajoa, Hannah John-Kamen || Human, Ghost || Canon || Gender Optional

Kostin Kom Trikru || Kit Harington, Lucky Blue Smith, Jordan Calloway || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male

Kris Jacob Cobalt || Alex Høgh Andersen || Werewolf || OC || Male

Kristoff || Chris Hemsworth || Human || Canon || Male

Ku Yejun || Jaejoong || Human || OC || Male

Kuba Kowalski || Antoni Porowski || Incubus || OC || Male Pref

Kurgan Reina || Daniel Gillies || Vampire || OC || Male Pref

Kyda Kom Trishanakru || Josefin Asplund || Human || OC || Third Female

Kyle Bathory || Jake Manley || Human || OC || Third Male

Kyra JB Badd || Alexa Davalos || Human || Canon || Third Female

Kyrylo Lytvynenko || Jamie Campbell-Bower || Upir || OC || Male

L Lawliet || Ken'ichi Matsuyama || Human || Canon || Male

Lacey Rainer || Jason Ralph || Telekinetic God-Gifted Assassin || OC || Male Pref

Lachlan Camdyn || Reilly Dolman || Human || OC || Male

Ladislaus Anikita Celje || Liam James || Familiar || OC || Gender Optional

Ladon Ormarr || Charlie Heaton || Dragon || OC || Male

Lagi Pikari || Taika Waititi || Human || OC || Optional

Lán Sé Límíng || G-Dragon || Demon || OC || Male

Lara Croft || Alicia Vikander, Tom Hardy || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Lara Montgomery || Shelley Hennig || Human || OC || Third Female

Larry Trainor || Matt Bomer || Metahuman || Canon || Male

Lauren Garroway || Jade Tailor || Witch || OC || Third Female

Laurie Gwinnett || Anne Hathaway || Human || OC || Third Female

Laveau McQueen || Richard Harmon || Witch || OC || Male Pref

Lavrenty Comescu || Jack O'Connell || Human || OC || Male

Lawrence Addington || Jude Law || God-Gifted Human || OC || Male

LC-4397 || Brock O’Hurn || Transgenic || OC || Male Pref

Lee Christmas || Jason Statham || Human || Canon || Male

Leigh Trace || Christian Slater || Human || OC || Male

Leith Camdyn || Will Tudor || Human || OC || Male

Lennox Peabody || Torrance Coombs || Human || OC || Male

Leo Moreau || Christopher Larkin || Human || OC || Male Pref

Leon Coutts || Jeremy Renner || Human || OC || Male

Leon Strong || Johnny Strong || Human || Canon || Male

Leonard McCoy || Karl Urban || Human || Canon || Male

Leonard Snart || Wentworth Miller || Human || Canon || Male

Levi Livingston || Jackson Rathbone || Human || OC || Third Male

Lex Kom Trikru || Greyston Holt || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male

Lex Miller || Jack Gillett || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Lexa Kom Trikru || Alycia Debnam-Carey || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Lexington Wallander III || Travis Fimmel || Human || OC || Male

Li Lán-Lěi || Dianne Doan || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Liam Dunbar || Dylan Sprayberry || Werewolf || Canon || Gender Optional

Liander Tybalt || Harry Shum Jr || Human || OC || Male

Liberty Tazzno || Mollee Gray || Human || OC || Third Female

Light Yagami || Tatsuya Fujiwara || Sinigami Powered Human || Canon || Male

Lilah Sanderson || Danielle Campbell || Witch || OC || Third Female

Lilit-Niya || Amber Heard || Goddess || Canon || Fluid

Lily [Sparkle] Soleil || Virginia Gardener || Warlock || OC || Third Female

Lily Highsmith || Crystal Reed || Nephilim || OC || Third Female

Lincoln Fawkes || Thomas McDonell || Human || OC || Male

Link || Austin Butler || Hylian || Canon || Male Pref

Lionel Reginus || Jason Momoa || Human || OC || Male

Lip || Jared Padalecki || Kelpie || OC || Male

Lisbet Darling || Jennifer Lawrence || Human || OC || Third Female

Lissa Anderson || Jessica Lu || Human || OC || Third Female

Logan Cale || Michael Weatherly || Human || Canon || Male

Loki Laufeyson || Cole Sprouse, Tom Hiddleston || Norse God || Canon || Fluid

Lola Locorant || Eiza Gonzalez || Human || OC || Third Female

London Clark || Chris Evans || Human || OC || Male

Lorelai Vierra || Lana Parilla || Witch || OC || Third Female

Loren Knowles || Shannon Kook || Human || OC || Male Pref

Lorene of Haak || Lady Gaga || Witcher || OC || Third Female

Lorenzo St. John || Michael Malarky || Vampire || Canon || Male

Lorna Lexington || Emma Dumont || Human || OC || Third Female

Lou LaBelle-Ferretti || Tasya Teles || Human || OC || Third Female

Louisa Giroux || Danielle Campbell || Hyena Shifter || OC || Third Female

Loukianos Kohler || John Pyper-Ferguson || Human || OC || Male Pref

Loullabelle Jones || Allison Scagliotti || Human || OC || Third Female

Lowell Forbes || Scott Speedman || Human || OC || Male

Lucien Collins || Tom Ellis || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Lucien Judith || Michael Johnston || Human || OC || Male Pref

Lucifer Morningstar || Tom Ellis || Fallen Angel || Canon || Gender Optional

Lucilla Nike || Charlize Theron || Enchantress || OC || Third Female

Lucius Philo || Kellan Lutz || Vampire || OC || Male

Lucy Winterford || Maia Mitchell || Witch || OC || Third Female

Luke Castellan || Jake Abel || Demi-God || Canon || Male Pref

Luke Collins || Zak Henri || Human || OC || Male Pref

Luke Crain || Oliver Cohen-Jackson || Human || Canon || Male

Luke Dusk || Mark Pellegrino || Human || OC || Male Pref

Luna Berry || Vanessa Morano, Thesgtwins || Human || OC || Third Female

Lykaios Godfrey || Bill Skarsgard || Werewolf || Twin OC || Male

Lyn Llewellyn || Ross Lynch || Elemental || OC || Third Male

Lyria Of Leah || Vanessa Morgan || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Lyric Royal || Michael B Jordan & Zendaya Coleman || Fae || OC || Optional

Lyssie Mulford || Madelaine Petsch || Human || OC || Third Female

M’Ari Walker || Ksenia Solo || Human || OC || Third Female

Macie Dixon || Brie Larsen || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Mack Wilson || David Giuntoli || Human || OC || Male

Mackey Garth || TJ Thyne || Human || OC || Male Pref

Maddison Moreau || Sarah Hyland || Warlock || OC || Third Female

Maddison Trevor || Bella Thorne || Human || OC || Third Female

Madelhari Mim || Miles Heizer || Mage || OC || Third Male

Madeline Brewster || Idda Van Munster || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Madrigan Hatter || Landon Liboiron || Wonderlandian || OC || Male Pref

Mae Coombs || Lili Reinhart || Human || OC || Third Female

Maeve Aella || Phoebe Tonkin || Amazon || OC || Third Female

Magalie Johannsen || Christina Ricci || Human || OC || Third Female

Magnus Bane || Harry Shum Jr || Warlock || Canon || Gender Optional

Magpie TwoSpirit || Ruby Rose || Fae || OC || Third Female

Magret Spector || Vanessa Morgan || Human || OC || Third Female

Magrette Marburg || Ksenia Solo || Human || OC || Third Female

Mail Jeevas || Luhan || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Makaio Timoti || Wentworth Miller || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Makena Kysely || Colton Haynes || Dragon || OC || Male

Malachai || Nicholas Hoult || Vampire || OC || Male

Malachai Parker || Chris Wood || Syphoner || Canon || Male Pref

Malarky Malone || Chloe Bennet || Half Angel || OC || Third Female

Malcolm Reynolds || Nathan Fillion || Human || Canon || Male

Maleficent || Jonathan Rhys Meyers || Faerie || Genderbent Canon || Male

Mallory Booth || Emmy Rossum || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Mangjol Ji-Tae || Minhyuk Btob || Human || OC || Male

Marc Anciel || Ross Lynch || Human || OC || Gender Optional

Marc Wilder || Avan Jogia || Neko || OC || Gender Optional

Marcheline Andrews || Kat McNamara || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Marcus Addams || Kim Coates || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Marcus Lopez Arguello || Benjamin Wadsworth || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Margo Kom Sankru || Natalie Dormer || Human || OC || Third Female

Maria Esperanza Salazar || María Gabriela De Faría || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Marishka Tepes || Kiara Glasco || Vampire || OC || Female

Marisol Louiston || Ana De Armas || Mutant || OC || Third Female

Mark Hobb || Jensen Ackles || Dire Wolf Beast || OC || Male

Mark Hunter || Christian Slater || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Marley McCaffrey || Skeet Ulrich || Human || OC || Male Pref

Marmaduke Mason || Cody Kiersley || Human || Canon || Male

Martin Rowdy || Michael Eklund || Anomalous Entity || Canon || Male

Maryam Qazi || Sofia Boutella || Human || OC || Third Female

Marzio Altamura || Jimmy Quaintance || Human || OC || Male

Mathew Brightley || Asa Butterfield, Cillian Murphy || Human || OC || Male Pref

Mathew Martin || Tom Holland || Banshee Triplet || OC || Male

Mathew Milburn || Chris Wood || Human || OC || Male

Matilda Zolnerowich || Sygin || Human || OC || Third Female

Matt Murdock || Charlie Cox || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Maven King || Diego Barrueco || Raven Shifter || OC || Male

Max Pearce || David Castro || Human || OC || Male

Maxine Mayfield || Sadie Sink, Kat McNamara, Natasha Lyonne || Human || Canon || Female

Mayte Enscorpion || Matt Cedeno || Human || OC || Male

Mazikeen || Lesley Ann-Brandt || Demon || Canon || Third Female

McFarlane Carter-Reston || Skeet Ulrich || Human || OC || Male

Mekhi Kennedy || Bill Skarsgard || Cambion || OC || Male

Melchiorre Auriemma || Rob Raco || Enhanced Human || OC || Male Pref

Meliorn || Jade Hassouné || Fae || Canon || Gender Optional

Melville Putnam || Jackson Rathbone || Human || OC || Male

Merida || Rachelle LeFevre, Kat McNamara, Sadie Sink || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Merlin Emrys || Colin Morgan || Warlock || Canon || Gender Optional

Merrick Finn || Dylan O'Brien || Firestarter || OC || Gender Optional

Mi Se-Yeon || Jimin || Sprite || OC || Third Male

Michael Guerin || Brendan Fehr || Alien || Canon || Male Pref

Michael Wheeler || Finn Wolfhard, Ezra Miller, Orlando Bloom || Human || Canon || Male

Michelle Jones || Zendaya Coleman || Human || Canon || Third Pref

Michelle Reilly || Sonequa Martin-Green || Human || OC || Third Female

Mick Finn || Callum Blue || Firestarter || OC || Male

Mick Sweeney || Pablo Schreiber || Human || OC || Male

Midnight Iris || Jordan Patrick Smith || Werewolf || OC || Male

Mieczyslaw Stilinski || Dylan O'Brien || Magical Human With A Hint Of Fox || Canon || Gender Optional

Mikaela Whistler || Wentworth Miller || Human || OC || Femme

Mike Plisskin || Colin Ford || Werewolf || OC || Third Male

Mike Quire || Aaron Yoo || Mutant || OC || Male Pref

Mikhailo Milkovich || Noel Fisher || Human || Canon || Male

Miles Jordan || Ansel Elgort || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Miles O’Shaughnessy || Robert Sheehan || White Witch || OC || Male Pref

Miller Petroff || Mike Vogel || Human || OC || Male Pref

Milos Toplaski || Tommy Flanagan || Werewolf || OC || Male

Mindy Macready || Chloe Grace Moretz || Human || Canon || Third Pref

Minka Vodnik || Olivia Wilde || Human || OC || Third Female

Mira Bellami || Victoria Justice || Human || OC || Third Female

Mirai, The Queen of Roses, Tamer of Wyverns || Nyane Lebajoa || Magical Human || OC || Third

Misty Lombardo || Adelaide Kane || Human || OC || Third Female

Molly Bright || Jade Weber || Human || OC || Third Female

Molly Parks || Cara Delevingne || Human || OC || Third Female

Monroe Klump || Nick Robinson || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Monroe Lorenzo || Michael Malarky || Human || OC || Male Pref

Morgan Julius || Landon Liboiron || Human || OC || Third Male

Morpheus || Hale Appleman || Endless || Canon || Gender Optional

Morrigan Wallace || Lena Headey || Celtic Goddess || Semi Canon || Gender Optional

Morrison Wallace || Tommy Flanagan || Celtic God || Semi Canon || Male

Murphy MacManus || Norman Reedus || Human || Canon || Male

Murtagh Reston || Thomas Doherty || Human || OC || Male

Nadia Udinov || Elizabeth Olsen || Enhanced Human || OC || Female Pref

Nalini Horowitz || Alex Saxon || Human || OC || Male Pref

Nancy Caine || Anna Kendrick || Human || OC || Third Female

Nancy Wheeler || Natalia Dyer || Human || Cisbent Canon || Trans Female

Natalia Miller || Ashleigh Murray || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Nathan Miller || Jarod Joseph || Human || Canon || Male

Nathan Young || Robert Sheehan || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male Pref

Nathaniel Barton || Grant Gustin || Human || OC || Third Male

Nathaniel Marburg || Stephen James || Human || OC || Male

Nathaniel Spooner || Toby Hemmingway || Neko || OC || Third Male

Natshana Kom Trishanakru || Chai Hansen || Human || Twin OC || Male Pref

Navajo Cash || Chris Pine || Human || OC || Male

Nell Reba-Barnes || Steve Howey || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Neptune Hollins || Noah Centineo || Greek God || Semi Canon || Male

Nia Bradbury || Andy Biersack || Witch || OC || Male

Nic Janson || Troye Sivan || Human || OC || Third Male

Nicholas Scratch || Gavin Leatherwood || Witch || Canon || Male Pref

Nick Agave || Dom Sherwood || Human || OC || Third Male

Nick Gant || Chris Evans || Psychic - Mover || Canon || Male Pref

Nick St North || Joel Kinnaman || Guardian || OC || Male

Nick Tevetino || Stephen Lund || Human || OC || Male

Nico DiAngelo || David Mazouz || Demi-God || Canon || Male Pref

Nico Minoru || Lyrica Okano || Magical Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Nicolai Duchamps || Joseph Gordon-Levitt || Upir || OC || Male

Nik Ellis || KJ Apa || Human || OC || Third Male

Nikita Byrne || Kit Harington || Human || OC || Third Male

Niklaus Mikaelson || Joseph Morgan || Original || Canon || Gender Optional

Nikol Lynch || Jessica Alba || Human || OC || Third Female

Nile Gwynnne || Nate Buzolic || Demon Spawn || OC || Male

Noah Bello || Ben Barnes || Human || OC || Male

Noah Johnson || Mitchell Hope || Human || OC || Male Pref

Noah Preston || Max Riemelt || Human || OC || Male Pref

Noah/Noelle Rowling || Max Irons & Katheryn Newton || Human || OC || Fluid

Nolan James || Norman Reedus || Human || OC || Third Male

Nori Herschel || Jude Karda || Human || OC || Fluid

Note Scofield || Tom Holland || Human || OC || Third Male

Nouri Narrington || Caleb Landry Jones || Werewolf || OC || Male Pref

Nova || Adam Lambert || Siren Necromancer || OC || Male

Nysse Hamilton || Dayana Melgares || Human || OC || Third Female

Nyx Greymark || Nyané Lebajoa || Witch || OC || Third Female

Oaklee Zaharis || Marie Avgeropoulos || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Oddmund Bodilson || Brett Dalton || Human || OC || Third Male

Oliva MacCallion || Imogen Poots || Human || OC || Third Female

Oliver Delfino || KJ Apa || Human || Twin OC || Male

Oliver McQueen || Charlie Hunnam || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Oliver Pike || Milo Ventimiglia || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Oliver Sofer || Armie Hammer || Human || Canon || Male

Oliver Vidal || Billy Porter || Human || OC || Male Pref

One || Ryan Reynolds || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Ong Minjae || Sehun || Human || OC || Third Male

Onyx Frost-Haddock || Cole Sprouse || Half-Guardian || OC || Male Pref

Orin Suelita || DJ Cotrona || Warlock || OC || Third Male

Orion Hunter || Jai Courtney || Immortal || Semi Canon || Male

Orla Wyley || Freya Allan || Witch || OC || Third Female

Orti Palma-Picarzo || Rob Raco || Incubus || OC || Male Pref

Osbaldo Avanyu || Oscar Jaenada || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Male

Otis Keen || Cody Christian || Human || OC || Male

Owen Anton || Devon Sawa || Human || OC || Male Pref

Owen Grady || Chris Pratt || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Owen Palomino || Sean Patrick Flanery || Horse Shifter || OC || Male

Owen Shaw || Luke Evans || Human || Canon || Male

Padraig Doyle || Andrew Scott || Human || OC || Male

Palmer Isley || KJ Apa || Enhanced Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Pamela Isley || Natalie Dormer, Madelaine Petsch || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Parker || Beth Riesgraf || Human || Canon || Third Pref

Patricia Hay || Crystal Reed || Human || OC || Female Pref

Patricia LLewelyn || Scout Taylor Compton || Vampire || OC || Female Pref

Patrick Grimsby || Ian Bohen || Empath || OC || Male

Paul Rumancek || Landon Liboiron || Werewolf || Twin OC || Male Pref

Paul Tristan || Nick Jonas || Human || OC || Male

Paul Trubel || Miles Heizer || Human || OC || Male Pref

Paula Cavanaugh || Alisha Wainwright || Human || OC || Third Female

Pearl Hayes || Jennifer Laurence || Human || OC || Third Female

Pegasus Simon || Joe Manganiello || Human || OC || Third Male

Peilani Salvatore || Jason Momoa || Human || OC || Third Male

Penelope Mira || Lee Sun-Mi || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Percival Albion || Tom Hopper || Human || Canon || Male

Percy Jackson || Cole Sprouse || Demi-God || Canon || Male Pref

Pern Sorrows || Colin Morgan || Half-Cat Experiment || OC || Male

Perry Avanyu || Drew Fuller || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Male Pref

Persphone || Dom Sherwood || God || Semi Canon || Third Male

Peter Burke || Tim DeKay || Human || Canon || Male

Peter Hale || Ian Bohen || Werewolf || Canon || Male Pref

Peter Parker || Tom Holland || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Peter Quill || Chris Pratt || Half-Celestial || Canon || Male Pref

Peter Rumancek || Landon Liboiron || Werewolf || Canon || Male Pref

Petra Yolga || Taylor Hickson || Human || Canon || Third Pref

Peyton Bennett || Dove Cameron || Human || OC || Third Female

Phelix Sinclair || Alexander Skarsgard || Human || OC || Male Pref

Philip Coulson || Clark Gregg || Human || Canon || Male

Philip Pearson || Reilly Dolman || Traveler || Canon || Gender Optional

Philip Trembuey || Reilly Dolman || Human || OC || Third Male

Phoenix Arthur || Charlie Hunnam || Werewolf || OC || Third Male

Pierre Toulouse || Gaspard Ulliel || Human || OC || Male Pref

Pietro Maximoff || Aaron Taylor-Johnson || Mutant || Canon || Gender Optional

Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin || Danila Kozlovsky || Mutant || Canon || Male Pref

Piper Otis || Emma Mackey || Human || OC || Third Female

Pippa French || Brianna Hildebrand || Human || OC || Third Female

Pitch Black || Jude Law || Nightmare King || Canon || Male Pref

Polly Rice || Quintessa Swindel || Human || OC || Third Female

Prali Kus || Sendhil Ramamurthy || Human || OC || Male Pref

Priscilla Clements || Sarah Jeffery || Human || OC || Third

Priscilla-Jean Henrietta O'Hare || Ruth Negga || Human || Canon || Third Female

Proinsias Cassidy || Joe Gilgun || Vampire || Canon || Male

Prudence McCreary || Ruby Rose || Human || Twin OC || Third Female

Prudence Night || Tati Gabrielle || Witch || Canon || Gender Optional

PSY 217 || Richard Harmon || Transgenic || OC || Male

Pubert Addams || David Mazouz || Mostly Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Puglsey Addams || Cole Sprouse || Mostly Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Quade Reeves || Froy Gutierrez || Human || OC || Male Pref

Queenie Scarlett || Bailey Jay || Human || OC || Third Female

Quentin Coldwater || Jason Ralph || Magician || Canon || Gender Optional

Quentin Cruikshanks || Zane Holtz || Human || OC || Male Pref

Quentin Quire || Machine Gun Kelly || Mutant || Canon || Gender Optional

Quinlan Cruikshanks || Zane Holtz || Human || OC || Male Pref

Quinn Dolan || Richard Harmon || Enhanced Human || OC || Male Pref

Racel Tabytha || Christopher Gorham || Human || OC || Male Pref

Rachel Summers || KJ Apa || Mutant || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Radley Finch || Stephen James || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Radovan Zivkovic || Tom Hardy || Werewolf || OC || Male

Ragnar Lothbrok || Travis Fimmel || Human || Canon || Male

Rainier Bright || Osric Chau || Siren || OC || Gender Optional

Raiven Reyes || Avan Jogia || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Raleigh Beckett || Charlie Hunnam || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Randall Carpio || Adam DiMarco || Werewolf || Canon || Male Pref

Ransom Drysdale || Chris Evans || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Raphael Santiago || David Castro || Vampire || Canon || Male Pref

Rapunzel || Jensen Ackles || Magical Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Raven Reyes || Lindsey Morgan || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Ravi Enrico || Robert Sheehan || Incubus || OC || Gender Optional

Raylan Bernice || Michael Vlamis || Human || OC || Male

Raylan Givens || Timothy Olyphant || Human || Canon || Male

Rayner Pope || Seth Gabel || Witch || OC || Male

Reese Arany || John Stamos || Human || OC || Male

Reginald Mantle || Charles Melton || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Regis Rexford || Daniel Sharman || Human || OC || Male

Reid Garwin || Toby Hemmingway || Witch || Canon || Male Pref

Reileen Kawahara || Dichen Lachman || Envoy || Canon || Third Female

Remington Goldwyn-Mayer || Michael Fassbender || Human || OC || Male

Remus Godfrey || Bill Skarsgard || Upir || Twin OC || Male

Renfri of Creydon || Emma Appleton || Mutant || Canon || Optional

Renfri Pankratz || Dove Cameron || Cursed Human Part Elf || OC || Third Female

Rey Bolivar || David Castro || Human || OC || Male Pref

Ria Rosston || Cher Lloyd || Human || OC || Third Female

Richard Amore || Adam Levine || Human || OC || Male Pref

Richard B Riddick || Vin Diesel || Furyan || Canon || Male

Richard Brooks || Andrew Scott || Human || Twin OC || Male Pref

Richard Gecko || Zane Holtz || Culebra || Canon || Male Pref

Richard Harbrooke || Andrew Lincoln, Timothee Chalamet, Robert Sheehan || Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Rick Hobb || DJ Cotrona || Human || OC || Male Pref

Rick Lincoln || Luke MacFarlane || Human || Canon || Male

Riko Velli || Niko Pepaj || Human || OC || Male

Riley Barrick || Luke Bilyk || Human || OC || Male Pref

Rina Dust || Kat McNamara || Fairy || OC || Third Female

Rippert Finley || Arthur Darvill || Human || OC || Male Pref

River Green || Ezra Miller || Sprite || OC || Fluid

Roan Kom Azgeda || Zach McGowan || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Robert Altabani || Jason Statham || Human || Canon || Male

Robert Brown || Scott Foley || Human || Canon || Male

Robert Cooper || Will Tudor || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Robert Drake || Shawn Ashmore || Mutant || Canon || Male Pref

Robert Eames || Tom Hardy || Human || Canon || Male

Robert King || Gabriel Macht || Human || OC || Male

Robert Lockshood || Taron Egerton || Human || OC || Male Pref

Robert Mercer || Mark Wahlberg || Human || Canon || Male

Robert Svane || Michael Eklund || Revenant || Canon || Male Pref

Roberto Vega || Jai Courtney || Human || OC || Male

Robin Buckley || Maya Hawke || Human || Canon || Female

Robin Carter || Luanna Perez || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Robin Downes || Cole Sprouse || Siren || OC || Male

Robin Locksley || Colin Ford || Human || OC || Trans Male

Rocket Jameson || Alberto Rosende || Human || OC || Male

Roman Godfrey || Bill Skarsgard || Upir || Canon || Male Pref

Roman Mercer || Avan Jogia || Medium || Canon || Gender Optional

Ron Anderson || Austin Abrams || Human || Canon || Male

Rook Corvinus || Benjamin Wadsworth || Hybrid || OC || Male Pref

Rook Smith || Thomas Doherty || Raven King || OC || Male Pref

Rory Reagan || Richard Madden || Human || OC || Male

Rosalee Lette || Taylor Momsen || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Rosalia Santiago || Eiza Gonzalez || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Rosalva Carman || Emeraude Toubia || Human || OC || Third Female

Rosamel Soma || Will Tudor || Breeder || OC || Third Male

Rose Parker || Sasha Lane || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Rosie Dainty || Sarah Hyland || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Rostro Connaver || Brett Dier || Human || OC || Male Pref

Rowan Kom Azgeda || Olga Kurylenko || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Royce Gendry || Boyd Holbrook || Human || OC || Male

Ruairí Gunnrarr || Sean Patrick Flanery || Human || OC || Male Pref

Ruby Henderson || Adelaide Kane || Royal Alpha || OC || Third Female

Rune Kom Azgeda || Jason Momoa || Human || OC || Male

Rusty Ryan || Brad Pitt || Human || Canon || Male

Ruth Fisher || Barbara Palvin || Human || OC || Third

Ruth Hornik || Sarah Paulson || Human || OC || Third Female

Ryan Atwood || Ben MacKenzie || Human || Canon || Male

Rycroft Philostrate || Orlando Bloon || Half-Fae || Canon || Male Pref

Ryl/Lyra Connors || Caleb Landry Jones, Holland Roden || Twin-Too Technopath || OC || Fluid

Saber Gilmore || Curran Walters || Human || OC || Male Pref

Saiya Erembour || Kiernan Shipka || Human || OC || Third Female

Sam & Seb Shankarov || Joel Kinnaman || Human || OC || Male

Sam Beem || Jordan Connor || Human || OC || Male

Samael Abigor || Tom Hardy || Demon || OC || Male

Samantha Lee Fisher || Kiersey Clemons || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Sameen Shaw || Sarah Shahi || Human || Canon || Third Female

Samira Ramirez Avanyu || Rihanna || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Third Female

Samoset Ramirez Avanyu || Theo Rossi || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Male Pref

Santa Muerte || Riae Suicide || Culebra || OC || Third Female

Santanico Pandemonium || Eiza Gonzalez || Culebra || Canon || Third Pref

Saoirse Terpsichore Conlon || Emeraude Toubia || Human || OC || Third Female

Sara Pezzini || Yancy Butler || Host Of The Witchblade || Canon || Third Pref

Sassafras Caitsidhe || Asa Butterfield || Demon Cat Familiar || OC || Third Male

Sawyer Murray || Bex Taylor-Klaus || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Saya Kuroki || Lana Condor || Human || Canon || Third Pref

Schrödinger Cat || Vanness Wu || Wonderlandian || OC || Male Pref

Scorpius Malfoy || Troye Sivan || Wizard || Canon || Gender Optional

Scott Canterbury || Nate Buzolic || Human || OC || Third Male

Scott Lang || Paul Rudd || Human || Canon || Optional

Scott McCall || Tyler Posey || Werewolf || Canon || Gender Optional

Scott Summers || Tye Sheridan || Mutant || Canon || Gender Optional

Sean Gallagher || Dane Dehaan || Human || OC || Male

Seasmus Zelazny Harper || Gordon Michael Woolvett || Human || Canon || Male

Sebastian De Poitiers || Torrance Coombs || Human || Canon || Male

Sebastian Michaelis || Jared Leto || Demon || Canon || Male

Sebastian Moran || Michael Fassbender || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Sebastian Morgenstern || Will Tudor || Nephilim || Canon || Male Pref

Sebastian Reid || Toby Hemmingway || Nephilim || OC || Male Pref

Sébastienne Morgenstern || Dove Cameron || Demon Blooded Nephilim || Genderbent Canon || Third Female

Seireadan Conlon || Bill Skarsgard || Human || Canon || Male

Senka Grant || Izabella Miko || Human || OC || Third Female

Serafin Bratomil Leonidus || Jamie Campbell Bower || Vampire || OC || Male

Seth Capricorn || Jeffrey Dean Morgan || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Seth Gecko || DJ Cotrona || Human || Canon || Male

Seth Pearce || Jordan Connor || Human || Canon || Male

Seven || Blaine || Corey Hawkins || Human || Canon || Male

Severin Moran || Michael Fassbender || Human || Twin OC || Male Pref

Shalimar Fox || Victoria Pratt || Child Of Genomex || Canon || Gender Optional

Shalimar Rose || Emeraude Toubia || Human || OC || Third Female

Shane Kilmartin || Noah Centineo || Human || OC || Male

Shane Richardson || Colin Farrell || Human || OC || Male

Shannon Ricks || Bradley Cooper || Human || OC || Male

Shawn Spencer || James Roday || Human || Canon || Male

Shelby Kiyaya || Jason Momoa || Human || OC || Male

Sherlock Holmes || Benedict Cumberbatch || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Sherrinford Holmes || Benedict Cumberbatch || Human || Twin OC || Male Pref

Sherry Nichols || Elle Fanning || Human || OC || Third Female

Shuri Of Wakanda || Letitia Wright || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Sicario Montoya || David Castañeda || Enhanced Human || Twin OC || Male

Sigla Kom Podakru || Kathryn Winnick || Human || OC || Third Female

Sigourney Algernon || Francois Arnaud || Human || OC || Male

Silas Kyle || Charles Melton || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Silver Loretta || Chelsea Zhang || Human || OC || Third Female

Sim Chunho || Kiseop || Human || OC || Male

Simon Bellamy || Iwan Rheon || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Simon Cooper || Grant Gustin || Human || OC || Male Pref

Simon Jogia || Rami Malek || Human || OC || Male Pref

Simon Lewis || Alberto Rosende || Vampire || Canon || Gender Optional

Simone Sumner || Olivia Holt || Human || OC || Female Pref

Sinclair Lorentz || Aidan Turner || Dragon || OC || Male

Sindri Vidarr || Dane Dehaan, Dawid Auguscik || Runic Witch || OC || Male

Siobhan Mbege || China Anne McClain || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Siobhan Murphy || Lyndsy Fonseca || Human || Genderbent Canon || Gender Optional

Sion Brass || Wentworth Miller || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Sioux Cash || Jeremy Renner || Human || OC || Male

Six || Dave Franco || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Skulduggery Pleasant || Matt Bomer || Mage || Canon || Male

Skylling Vance || Dylan O'Brien || Fae || OC || Third Male

Sol Whitecrest || Nadia Hilker || Forest Mage || OC || Male Pref

Soloman Grant || Jason Issacs || Human || OC || Male

Sonnie Smythe || Dane Dehaan || Human || OC || Third Male

Sophie Brightborn || Kat McNamara || Witch || OC || Third Female

Sorrell Hartfield || Chloe Bennet || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Soubi Agatsuma || T. O. P || Fighter || Canon || Male

Spencer Harley || Kellan Lutz || Human || OC || Male

Spencer Sloane || Toby Wallace || Enhanced Human || OC || Male Pref

Spring Heeled Jack || Jordan Connor || Spring Heeled Jack || Semi Canon || Male

Sruthan Conlon || Colin Ford || Human || OC || Male

St. John Allerdyce || Aaron Stanford || Mutant || Canon || Gender Optional

Stan Rotor || Machine Gun Kelly || Human || OC || Male

Stefano Harrington || Joe Keery, Jay Ryan, Danielle Campbell, Eliza Dushku || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Steffen Dumah Vigo || Aaron Stanford || Fallen Angel || OC || Male

Stellan Adair || Cody Fern || Human || OC || Male Pref

Stephen Strange || Benedict Cumberbatch || Sorcerer || Canon || Male

Steve Hopper || Zac Efron || Human || OC || Male Pref

Steve Jinks || Aaron Ashmore || Human || Canon || Male

Steve McGarrett || Alex O’Loughlin || Human || Canon || Male

Steve Winchell || Patrick Gibson || Human || Canon || Male

Steven Rogers || Chris Evans || Super Soldier || Canon || Gender Optional

Stewart Addams || Ewan McGregor || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male

Stirling Argent || Joel Kinnaman || Human || OC || Male

Stuart Twombly-Stilinski || Dylan O'Brien || Magical Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Suk Hyun-Woo || Jin Young || Human || OC || Male

Suk Jung-Hee || Kim Jaejoong || Human || OC || Male Pref

Suk Pyong-Ho || Hong Bin || Human || OC || Male

Suleyman Matheson || Richard Armitage || Human || OC || Male Pref

Sullivan Harper || Norman Reedus || Human || OC || Male

Sunshine Magnum || Ash Stymest || Human || OC || Third Male

Takeshi Kovacs || Joel Kinnaman, Will Yun Lee || Envoy || Canon || Male Pref

Takuya Rain || Jung Ji Hoon || Shapeshifter || OC || Male Pref

Talia Trent || Arden Cho || Human || OC || Third Female

Taliesin Bell || Stirling Knight || Fairy || OC || Male Pref

Tamara Thompson || Sophie Turner || Human || Semi Canon || Female

Tara Blackfeather || Taylor Momsen || Witch || OC || Third Female

Tara Maclay || Amber Benson || Witch || Canon || Female

Tara Orlov || Ksenia Solo || Fae || OC || Female Pref

Tara Thompson || Eleanor Tomlinson || Human || OC || Female

Tate [003] Harrington || Chandler Riggs || Enhanced Human || OC || Gender Optional

Teagan Topaz || Jade Thirlwell || Human || OC || Third Female

Teasaidh Addams || Aidan Turner || Wolf Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Templeton Peck || Bradley Cooper || Human || Canon || Male

Terry Jasper || Dwayne Johnson || Human || OC || Male

Themis Cosmo || KJ Apa || Enhanced Human || OC || Male Pref

Theo Abbott || Evan Crooks || Human || Canon || Male

Theo Putnam || Lachlan Watson || Human || Canon || Trans Male

Theo Raeken || Cody Christian || Chimera || Canon || Male Pref

Theodora Crain || Kate Siegel || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Theodore Altman || Alexander Ludwig || Kree-Skrull Hybrid || Canon || Male Pref

Theodore Bagwell || Robert Knepper || Human || Canon || Male

Theodore Williams || Adam G. Sevani || Human || OC || Male Pref

Thomas Addams || Jensen Ackles || Wolf Shifter || OC || Third Male

Thomas Charles Zia || Tyler Posey || Human || OC || Male Pref

Thomas Teller || Travis Fimmel || Human || Semi Canon || Male

Thor Odinson || Chris Hemsworth || Norse God || Canon || Male Pref

Three || Javier || Manuel Garcia-Rulfo || Human || Canon || Male

Tiger O’Hanigan || Sebastian Stan || Human || OC || Male

Tihomir Bosko || James Marsters || Dragon || OC || Male

Tilda Rothschild || Amanda Seyfried || Human || OC || Third Female

Tim Gutterson || Jacob Pitts || Human || Canon || Male

Timechenko Thorin || Brock O'Hurn || Godling || OC || Male

Timothy Drake || Cole Sprouse || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Timpson Jenkins || Cody Saintgnue || Human || OC || Male Pref

Tinkerbell || Dove Cameron || Fairy || Canon || Third Female

TK Bell || Emilia Clarke || Human || OC || Third Female

Tobias Bourne || Colin Ford || Human || OC || Male

Tobias Morei || Pedro Aurelian || Vampire || OC || Male

Toby Cavanaugh || Keegan Allen || Human || Canon || Male Pref

Todd Brotzman || Elijah Wood || Human || Canon || Male

Tolmas Nichols-Dix || David Castro || Empath || OC || Third Male

Tomi Glover || Viggo Mortensen || Human || OC || Male Pref

Tommie Hart || Joey Batey || Human || OC || Male

Tommy Conway || Jensen Ackles || Human || OC || Male Pref

Tony Monroe || Jon Hamm || Human || OC || Male

Tony Parker || Dom Sherwood || Human || OC || Male Pref

Tori Markham || Maggie Q || Human || OC || Third Female

Torrance Green || Parker Hurley || Mutant || OC || Male Pref

Trace Georgia || Shiloh Fernandez || Human || OC || Male Pref

Tracy Rose || David Gandy || Human || OC || Male

Travis Buchanen || Norman Reedus || Winged Human || Canon || Male Pref

Trent Malcolm || Dave Franco || Human || OC || Male

Trevor Holden || Jared Abrahamson || Traveler || Canon || Male

Treyu Kom Sankru || Charlie Hunnam || Natblida || OC || Male

Tribute Jones || Thomas Doherty || Human || OC || Male

Tristan Duffy || Finn Wittrock || Vampire || OC || Male Pref

Tristan Gaheris || Bradley James || Human || OC || Male Pref

Trudyeau I Tania || Clive Standen || Fae Royalty || Semi Canon || Male

Turbo Pokaski || Cody Kearsley || Human || Canon || Male

Turner Keystone || Orlando Bloon || Human || OC || Male Pref

Ty Fontaine || Stephen Amell || Human || OC || Male

Ty Swindel || Justin Hartley || Human || Canon || Male

Uma Scylla || China Anne McClain || Sea Witch || Canon || Third Female

Unity Candor || Dom Sherwood || Human || OC || Male

Unwin Palencia || Frank Grillo || Human || OC || Male

Urban Candor || Theo James || Human || OC || Male

Uriah Reyes || Peter Gadiot || Human || OC || Male Pref

Ursel Cameron || Dustin Milligan || Human || OC || Male Pref

Valentine Morgenstern || Nikolai Coster-Waldau, Ryan Kwanten || Nephilim || Canon || Male

Vanya Hargreeves || Ellen Page || Enhanced Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Vanya Kalantarova || Theo Rossi || Werewolf || OC || Third Male

Vasily Kalanatrova || Ksenia Solo || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Velma Chandler || AnnaLynne McCord || Human || OC || Third

Veniamin Kuznetsov || Zane Holtz || Witch || OC || Male

Venus Van Dam || Walton Goggins || Human || Canon || Trans Female

Verity || Ekilateral || Vampire || OC || Third Female

Verity James || Cole Sprouse || Shifter - Aardwolf || OC || Third Male

Verna Piette || Victoria Campbell || Human || OC || Third Female

Verona Lodge || Michael Trevino || Human || Genderbent Canon || Male Pref

Veronica Lodge || Camilla Mendes || Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Veronika Sinclair || Anna Paquin || Human || OC || Third Female

Vex || Paul Amos || Mesmer || Canon || Male

Victor James || Justin Timberlake || Human || OC || Male Pref

Victor Mancha || Alberto Rosende || Cyborg || Canon || Male Pref

Vignette Stonemoss || Cara Delevingne || Fae || Canon || Third Female

Vihyr Of Undvik || Katheryn Winnick || Witcher || OC || Third

Viktoriya Nadedja || Ivanna Anatoliyivna Sakhno || Human || OC || Third Female

Vilko Rosenfeld || Tyler Hoechlin || Human || OC || Third Male

Virginia Schuchard || Lana Condor || Enhanced Human || OC || Female Pref

Vivien Tancredi || Taissa Farmiga || Witch || OC || Third Female

Vivienne Curlish || Juno Temple || Human || OC || Third Female

Vix Englewood || Olivia Taylor Dudley || Witch || OC || Third Female

Vlad Tepes || Luke Evans || Vampire || Canon || Male

Vogel Rowdy || Osric Chau || Anomalous Entity || Canon || Male Pref

Wade Wilson || Ryan Reynolds || Mutant || Canon || Male

Walden Sommers || Dylan Sprayberry || Human || OC || Male Pref

Walker Simon || Adam Levine || Werewolf || OC || Male

Warren Avanyu || Steven Strait || Yee Naaldlooshi || OC || Male Pref

Warren Fafner || David Gandy || Warlock || OC || Male Pref

Warren Peace || Steven Strait || Metahuman || Canon || Male Pref

Waverly Earp || Dominique Provost-Chalkley || Half Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Wednesday Addams || Camila Mendes || Mostly Human || Canon || Gender Optional

Weiryn Cernonnus || Adam Copeland || Celtic God || Semi Canon || Male

Wekesa Brandt || Tom Hardy || Human || OC || Third Male

Wells Hawkins || Ryan Philippe || Human || OC || Male

Wells Llewellyn || Ross Lynch || Elemental || OC || Male Pref

Wendell Fusilier || Aubrey Joseph || Enhanced Human || OC || Male

Wesley March || Avan Jogia || Human || OC || Third Male

William Adiyodi || Arjun Gupta || Traveler/Magician || Canon || Male

William Barton || Brandon Flynn || Human || OC || Male Pref

William Byers || Noah Schnapp, Jeremy Irvine, James McAvoy || Enhanced Human || Canon || Male

William Gaius Gwaine Emrys || Will Tudor || Magical Human || OC || Male Pref

William Herondale || Andy Biersack || Nephilim || Canon || Male

Willie Lewis || Luke Tennie || Human || Canon || Male

Willow Queen || Katie McGrath || Human || OC || Third Female

Willow Sprite || Natalia Dyer || Fae || OC || Third Female

Winnifred Walter || Ellen Page || Werewolf || OC || Third Female

Winston Amberjack || Dom Sherwood || Human || OC || Fluid

Witchita Nichols-Dix || Jared Padalecki || Empath || OC || Third Male

Woda Kom Floukru || Joe Manganiello || Human || OC || Male Pref

Wolfgang Bogdanow || Max Riemelt || Sensate || Canon || Male

Wyatt Halliwell || Wes Ramsey || Twice Blessed Witch/White-Lighter || Canon || Male

Wysteria || Aaron Stanford || Fae || OC || Third Male

X5-494 || Jensen Ackles || Transgenic || Canon || Gender Optional

Xalvador Diaz || David Castro || Immortal || OC || Male Pref

Xavier Nichols-Dix || Bill Skarsgard || Empath || OC || Third Male

Xavier Tanner || Richard Harmon || Winged Human || OC || Third Male

Xerxes Jiminez || Marco Pigossi || Human || OC || Male Pref

Ya Min-Ki || Kan F. Cuz || Human || OC || Male

Yancy Turner || Patrick Gibson || Human || OC || Male Pref

Yara Stacey || Eve Gordan || Human || OC || Third Female

Yardley Preston || Armie Hammer || Human || OC || Male

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Yukio Hamada || Shiori Kutsuna || Mutant || Canon || Third Female

Yuuma Peters || William Mosely || Human || OC || Male Pref

Yvette Bonnuit || Izabella Miko || Human || OC || Third Female

Zac Nicwood || Joseph Morgan || Human || OC || Third Male

Zaki Zion || Aubrey Joseph || Shadow Person || OC || Gender Optional

Zana Trembuey || Eliza Taylor || Human || OC || Third Female

Zane Gallo || Andrew Lee Potts || Human || OC || Male Pref

Zara Plaice || Fishball Suicide || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Zarina || Clara Paget, Madison Davenport || Fairy || Canon || Third Female

Zarina Tintagel || Holliday Grainger || Human || OC || Third Female

Zebediah Avenue || Chris Hemsworth || Griffin || OC || Male

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Zeke Benton || Manu Bennet || Shifter || OC || Male Pref

Zenith Icarii || Ksenia Solo & Rob Raco || Magical Winged Ghoul || OC || Gender Optional

Zero || Luca Hollestelle || Enhanced Human || OC || Third Female

Zhu Bái || Park Soo Young || Human || OC || Third Female

Zhu Jiāháo || Leo || Human || OC || Male

Zhu Zhēn || Niel || Human || OC || Male Pref

Zico Lisbon || Gregg Sulkin || Human || OC || Male

Zinaida Kuznetsova || Dove Cameron || Witch || OC || Third Female

Zucca Amato || Chace Crawford || Human || OC || Male Pref

Zuka Florentine || Luke Evans || Witch || OC || Male Pref

Zyla Folsom || Zendaya Coleman || Human || OC || Third Female

Zyriak Ohmsford || Machine Gun Kelly || Human || OC || Male

Zyta Ohmsford || Alycia Debnam-Carey || Human || OC || Third Female

Zyvcko Ohmsford || Machine Gun Kelly || Human || OC || Male

#list #randomizer

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UC 48.37 - Grand Final, Edinburgh vs Teddy Hall

Nine months. Eighteen hours of televised quizzing. More than two thousand two hundred increasingly complicated questions, like Russian dolls on a Mobius strip. Twenty-eight teams. Only two remain. Those are some statistics, but what of the people. These numbers tell part of the story, but they omit the crucial humanity that make this show unlike any other; the high fives and the fist-bumps, the hearts in the mouths and on the sleeves, the hopes and dreams that bloomed and ballooned, the lampooned and the festooned (a bit of a tacky end to the sentence, I know, but I was on a roll. You can count yourself lucky I didn’t try and get marooned in there, too).

For the first time in thirty-five years, Scotland has an institution in the Grand Final. Edinburgh, having fallen to the Champions Elect at the semi final stage in each of the past two series, finally made it one step further by beating Durham, who had earlier bested them in the quarter finals. They had previously swept aside Sidney Sussex in their opening match, before beating UCL on the final starter of their second round match, with captain Max Fitz-James sealing the victory.

It was Fitz-James who was the key to Edinburgh’s chances going in, with his twenty-six starters twelve clear of their next best buzzer, local lad Robbie Campbell Hewson, although RCH came up with some huge answers at vital times in their semi final. Fitz-James however, also leads the team, and the tournament (and is possibly the all time leader) in Negs, with ten incorrect interruptions to his name. He was also the go-to-guy for guesses, with a further fifteen non-penalized buzzes in his fingers. If he could get the balance right between reckless abandon and the pulling of rabbits from hats then his side might well have a chance. And they would go in knowing that caution would not serve them well given the man in the opposite captain’s chair.

Freddy Leo, described by the Times this week as "having drawn comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo” (which, while perhaps not unlike analogies I myself may have drawn, coming from a national media which only ever covers the final, smacks of the kind of laziness eschewed by someone describing the Marvel Cinematic Universe as being ‘somewhat of a cultural juggernaut’ only in the leadup to the release of Avengers: Endgame), has amassed forty-one starters in one fewer game than Fitz-James, so the Frenchman will have gone in one hundred percent ready to flex those buzzer fingers at even the merest whiff of a guess, being fully aware that if he hesitated just the slightest moment, his German counterpart would be there to steal the points. Leo had already seen off this series’ other Big Bee (because they buzz so much, get it?) in his own semi-final, with Teddy Hall beating Darwin College despite Jason Golfinos’ best efforts and eight starter questions. He’s also shown that he has steel and nerve, with a comeback from a hundred points down against Bristol University (Bristanbul, maybe, for football fans) perhaps the grittiest performance in recent years.

But even he could not be a team by himself, with Agastya Pesharody and Marcelline Bresson popping up at important moments in their semi final victory. Completing their quartet was Lizzie Fry, and were they to win they would become only the second side in the Paxman Era (beginning in 1995) to do so having been less than 75% male.

Anyway, let’s not bother with the rules, here’s your first starter for ten.

As predicted, it was Fitz-James who was first out of the blocks, but not unsurprisingly, his speculative buzz of Maypole Dancing (not Maple dancing, as I’d originally thought he’d said) put Edinburgh in the not-unfamiliar territory of negative points. Fry, who would double her total for the series with three in the final (truly a player for the big occasion, rather like Cristiano Ronaldo in that sense) opened her account with Morris Dancing. One bonus on paperclips followed, with Leo dismissing the Netherlands as the country who had worn such items in their lapels because he knows that if they had, then the Dutch Bresson would have said so already. A sign of a team that trusts and is in sync with one another.

Leo claims his forty-second decimal of the series on the next starter, with his arm-cocked buzzer-stab technique deployed with trademark verve. Bonuses on the ever-relevant subject of ‘Persistent Courtship in the Nineteenth Century (specifically in novels)’ serve them better than paperclips, although Leo is perhaps fortunate to get the points on the first of these, forgetting to add the author of Far From the Madding Crowd to his answer (though to be honest requiring both seems pretty needless, given that the two pieces of information would never come uncoupled in the mind of a University Challenge finalist. They would know both or neither in this context). The third he pulls from the ether after a period of intense concentration, startling even his teammates with his sudden remembrance of David Copperfield’s Peggotty. Teddy Hall are forty-five points clear.

Neither side manages to guess what is essentially a ‘guess a number’ question, before Malusa bursts into life and fires Edinburgh back above zero. Paxman delights in delivering the bonus description in the manner of a stand-up comedian, ‘questions on the periodic table *pause for effect* in Chinese’. Cue laughter. This doesn’t trouble the Scottish quartet, who rattle through the hat-trick with little more than a ‘hmm, is it bromine or iodine? Its probably bromine’ (reader, it was bromine).

Wearing a burgundy jacket (and hailing from Burgundy, France, but not, presumably, having drunk any burgundy wine beforehand), Fitz-James gets his evening going at the third attempt (having also guessed on the ‘guess a number question’) with the Picture starter, a Shakespearean Venn diagram. He would also take the second Picture starter (little bit of foreshadowing for you there). With two of the bonuses, Edinburgh are level. Deuce.

A second starter of the night goes to Leo, and when Fry picks up another Fitz-James fumble it looks as if the game might be starting to get away from Edinburgh. But Pesharody is unlucky in forgetting that his answer on the next starter required two parts, and isn’t allowed the time to grasp for the second when he realises. Campbell Hewson, Edinburgh’s vulture, takes his correct morsel and completes it. Alpha and Omega. Romping through another hat-trick, this time on Iron Maiden, put the Scots firmly back on track.

The music questions came in three parts, with four sets of three tunes relating to the colours of the horizontal bands on national flags (if you’re not with me we’re about halfway round the loop of that Russian Doll mobius I was on about earlier, and yes, I have no idea what I’m trying to infer by that phrase either). No one gets the starter, for which, as well as containing three difficult clues, the answer was Armenia (the kind of question that makes a Queen of she who makes it), but Edinburgh manage to decipher Estonia and take the lead for the first time in the contest.

Now it is Teddy Hall who seem lost, and Edinburgh who have all the luck, Fitz-James throwing away the correct Aggripina with misplaced resignation and the assertion that he is wrong. Malusa, who had only five starters to his name before the final, then takes his second of the night, and a full set on Elizabeth Catlett completes a hat-trick of hat-tricks on the bonuses. All of these trebles meant that they had opened up a fifty point lead.

At this stage of the game most teams would have been beaten by such a margin, but Teddy had come back from twice that already in this competition, and the next hat-trick is completed by Fry as she steals a third starter from under Fitz-James’ over-eager nose.

Pesharody makes up for his earlier mistake (like Cristiano Ronaldo when he scored a hat-trick (oh look, another hat-trick) in the second leg of Juventus’ Round of 16 match in this year’s Champion’s League versus Atletico Madrid, having scored what looked suspiciously like an own goal (although it was credited to Diego Godin) in the 2-0 reverse of the first leg) with yet another pick-up from an ill-considered Fitz-James guess. It almost looks as though his (Fitz-James’) second picture starter of the night won’t matter, as first Leo, and then Bresson (with the speed and conviction of five-time ballon d’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo) buzz in decisively to swing the lead back down to Oxford with only seconds remaining by the slimmest of margins.

There would only be time for one more starter. Nine months. Eighteen and a half hours of televised quizzing. More than two thousand two hundred increasingly complicated questions. Only time for one more...

Answer as soon as your name is called. What two digit number...

If Fitz-James had the gumption he could have gone for a one in ninety (note: ‘How many two digit numbers are there? would be a good starter question) wild guess, but he doesn’t. Wise.

...is equivalent to the Roman numerals that form the first three letters of the city that was the birthplace of...

This is such a classic University Challenge question that its almost like they planned for it to be the deciding question in the final.

...William Gladstone...

No one has the faintest.

...Beryl Bainbridge...

Some cogs start to whirr.

...And Wayne Rooney...

By now everyone knows it, but they’re frantically trying to convert LIV into a two digit number. Leo launches downwards, but Campbell Hewson has beaten him to it. Elbow perpendicular to the desk, with his hand curled and a few inches from his face as if he wants to lapse into the classical philosopher pose but knows it would be too meme-able, he frowns, but does not hesitate.

Fifty-four.

Fifty-four is correct.

They can be pretty sure they’ve won it now, but they add two more bonuses before the gong sounds to confirm them as University Challenge champions.

Final Score: Edinburgh 155 - 140 St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Max Fitz-James, Marco Malusa, Matt Booth, Robbie Campbell Hewson. The first non-Oxbridge institution to claim the trophy since 2013. The first Scottish winners of University Challenge since 1983. Congratulations, gents. You sent Proud Edmund’s army homeward, to think again.

What a match, and what a series it has been. Leo and Teddy Hall have to be immensely proud of their achievements, and were unfortunate that they came up against an Edinburgh side who had the quiz of their lives.

Novelist Sebastian Faulks came on to present Edinburgh with the trophy, and he echoed the sentiments of many viewers when he said he found the questions staggeringly difficult. Comedian Ed Gamble recently said that he’s watched almost every episode of Only Connect and never got a question right. To some, that might seem nonsensical, being as an observer so far away from the level of the players, but people watch football knowing full well that they would be unable to tonk one in from thirty yards (yes, like Cristiano Ronaldo), and the joy of University Challenge, like all sport, comes from the thrill of the competition, and from watching people who are exemplary at something being exemplary at it.

Until next time, goodbye.

#university challenge #bbc2 #st edmund hall #teddy hall #oxford #edinburgh #jeremy paxman

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Book Recommendations: Da Big List, Fiction Edition

Well, I said I’d do more book recs, so here we go...

(note that some of the series recs are out of date, with additional installments written since I previously updated the list)

-Devil's Cape by Rob Rogers is the single best work of superhero prose I have ever read. -The Six-Gun Tarot by R. S. Belcher, in which the unusual inhabitants of a Wild West town (a sheriff who can't die, a deputy who's the son of Coyote, a housewife who used to be an assassin, and more) fight an Eldritch Abomination. Has two sequels, The Shotgun Arcana and The Queen of Swords -"Craft Sequence" series (six books and counting, starting with either Three Parts Dead or Last First Snow, depending on whether you want to read 'em in publication or chronological order, respectively), by Max Gladstone. Set in a modern-esque fantasy world that runs on corporate necromancy and "applied theocracy", the first (in publication order) involves a junior associate in a necromancy firm having to investigate the murder of the god who powers a steampunk city. -The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, in which the half-goblin Unfavorite son of the Elven Emperor is unexpectedly raised to the throne after his father and half-brothers die in a zeppelin crash. -Daughter of the Sword by Steve Bein, in which a Tokyo policewoman catches a case that involves a Yakuza power struggle and a trio of magic swords, with extensive flashbacks (as in, they ultimately take up about half of the book) to the history of said swords. Has a sequel, Year of the Demon, in which the heroine goes up against a cult revolving around a mask tied to the swords. Also, more flashbacks. Now has a third sequel, Disciple of the Wind; there are also a couple of eNovellas, which I haven't read. -Eifelheim by Michael Flynn, in which a Renaissance-era village in Germany interact with a group of aliens whose ship crashed nearby. -Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, in which the last remnant of a space warship's AI seeks revenge on the ones who blew up the rest of her and...find out why they did it. Has two sequels, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy. -The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont, in which the creators of Doc Savage and The Shadow team-up with each other (and L. Ron Hubbard and someone else who is a minor spoiler) on an actual pulp adventure involving Nazi spies, a Chinese warlord, and something which is actually a BIG spoiler. Has a sequel, The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown, in which Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and L. Sprague De Camp investigate Tesla's final invention. -Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart, in which Master Li, a sage "with a slight flaw in his character", is hired by an immensely strong peasant named Number Ten Ox to investigate a mysterious plague afflicting his village in a "China that never was". Has two sequels, The Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen that are greatly inferior but still enjoyable. -The Kitty Norville books by Carrie Vaughn (15 books starting with Kitty and the Midnight Hour; the count includes a short-story collection and a side-novel starring a secondary character), about the host of a midnight radio show in Denver, who is also a newly turned werewolf. One night, instead of playing random music, she starts talking about the supernatural. Then vampires and other werewolves start calling in... -The Inspector Chen novels by Liz Williams (6 books starting with Snake Agent), about a police detective in a near future Singapore who investigates mysteries that require him to liaise with the Chinese versions of Hell and Heaven. -"Barsoom" series by Edgar Rice Burroughs (11 books, starting with A Princess of Mars): The ur-text of the Planetary Romance sub-genre, one of the definitional texts of soft SF. Rollicking adventures with epic characters in a marvelously imagined world. Long story short; a Civil War vet on the verge of death is astrally projected to not-yet-dead Mars, befriends a group of warlike natives, falls in love with the Princess of another, and turns the whole planet upside down in the name of love. Then he has kids... -"Lensman" series by E. E. "Doc" Smith (6 books; starting with either Triplanetary or Galactic Patrol, depending on your preferences): The granddaddy of all Space Operas, a triumphant example of power creep. The forces of Order and Chaos war for the fate of the universe, using the ultimate police force and an army of space pirates as proxies. -Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon: An exploration of the future evolution of mankind. Starting in the '30s with the then-current state of the "First Men" (that is to say, Homo sapiens sapiens) until the extinction of the "Last Men" millions of years hence. Redefines epic scope. -Star-Maker by Olaf Stapledon: A companion of sorts to Last and First Men, except with with the scope turned up to eleven, covering billions of years and the entire universe. -Slan by A. E. Van Vogt: Jommy Cross is a Slan, an evolved human possessed of superior physical and mental abilities. Years ago, the Slans took over the world, but their regime was overthrown and now the Slans are hunted. When Jommy's parents are killed, he must learn to survive in a world that hates and fears him...or does it? Jampacked with twists and turns, not to mention being the archetypical "mutant hunt" novel. -Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. Van Vogt: The best and brightest of man's scientific minds have been sent into space to explore strange new worlds, and then figure out how to keep the life-forms they encounter from killing them. A rip-roaring tale of of space exploration, alien monsters, and an omnicompetent protagonist. Not only was it a major influence on Star Trek, one episode is the basis for Alien. -"Demon Princes" series by Jack Vance (5 books starting with The Star King): Years ago, the five most dangerous criminals in the known universe joined together to murder or enslave the inhabitants of a small colony. Now the sole survivor is hunting them down one-by-one across the galaxy... The narrative is a great combination of action and mystery, and the setting is full of all manner of interesting worlds and civilizations. -"Planet of Adventure" series by Jack Vance (4 books, starting with City of the Chasch): An Earthman crash-lands on a planet inhabited by four alien species, and the humans they've enslaved, travels the world to find a way home. A marvelous exploration of the concept of Blue-And-Orange Morality. -"Sector General" series by James White (12 books, starting with Hospital Station): Life aboard a massive, multi-species hospital space station in a deeply idealistic 'verse with one of the most diverse bunch of aliens ever devised. The first six books are mostly collections of short stories featuring medical mysteries solved by Dr. Conway (the primary exception is the second book, which is mostly a novella set against the backdrop of an interstellar war and brilliantly inverts the "Hard Man Making Hard Decisions" trope), as he goes from being a trainee to one of the hospital's elite, while the latter six are novels featuring an assortment of characters. -"Cobra" series by Timothy Zahn (9 books and counting, starting with Cobra): A multi-generational tale of super-soldiers in war and peace, with a healthy helping of interstellar diplomacy. A really interesting take on MilSF, where out-of-the-box thinking takes center stage. -"Quadrail" series by Timothy Zahn (5 books, starting with Night Train To Rigel): Frank Compton, former agent of the human government, finds himself working for the mysterious aliens who run the local 'verse's sole form of interstellar travel; a train in space called the Quadrail. Intrigue, action, and plot twists abound, including one of the best Heel Face Turns I have ever encountered. -"Stainless Steel Rat" series by Harry Harrison (11 books, starting with The Stainless Steel Rat, and one short story, which can be found in the collection Stainless Steel Visions). In a far future where mankind has spread across the stars, crime has been eliminated. Well, that's what the authorities would like you to believe; in truth there are still a small handful of individuals maladjusted enough to commit crimes and smart enough to get away with them. James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" Digriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, may be the smartest of them all, a white collar thief and con artist who's almost pathological disregard for law and authority is balanced by a surprisingly strong moral code. Which is why when he is finally caught, the authorities put him to work catching criminals who lack those morals. This is classic SF comedy, with a surprising amount of pathos at points. -"The Parasol Protectorate" series by Gail Carriger (five books, starting with Soulless). A humorous and exciting tale of love, intrigue, mad scientists, and fashion in an alternate Victorian era where the British Empire's power derives from steampunk technology, werewolf soldiers, and vampire politicians. Has a sequel series, "The Custard Protocol" (3 books and counting, starting with Prudence) revolving around the daughter of the original protagonist. Has a YA prequel spinoff, "Finishing School" (4 books, starting with Ettiquette and Espionage) revolving around a teenager who is recruited by a boarding school that trains spies. There are, in addition, a manga adaptation of the first couple books. -Ports of Call by Jack Vance. Myron Tany has always dreamed of traveling the Gaean Reach. When his eccentric aunt acquires a spaceship, it seems his dream has come true...until she ends up marooning him on random planet. Fortunately, Myron is able to obtain a position as supercargo aboard the merchant ship Glicca. The story does not really have a plot per se, consisting primarily of a series of marvelous picaresque vignettes as Myron and his crew-mates travel to different worlds delivering cargo, trying to acquire additional cargo, and periodically running afoul of bizarre local customs. The book just kinda stops at one point, and resumes in a second book, entitled Lurulu. I'm not really describing this well, but they're both very fun, beautifully written books. -The Green and the Gray by Timothy Zahn. A night on the town for a young New York couple takes a turn for the weird when they are forced, at gunpoint, to take custody of a 12-year old girl. They soon find themselves enmeshed in a secret Cold War between two alien races that have secretly been living in the city for generations...a Cold War that is threatening to turn hot. -The Rook by Daniel O'Malley. A young woman awakens surrounded by corpses with no memory of who she is. In her pocket is a letter from her pre-amnesia self, one Myfanwy Thomas. It seems that Myfanwy was a senior bureaucrat for the covert organization in charge of controlling magic and other such weirdness in Britain, and that her amnesiac state is something that was done to her. Myfanwy must therefore investigate the mystery of precisely who that is, while simultaneously do a job about which she knows nothing, without letting anyone realize what's happened to her. Ha a sequel, Stiletto, though I cannot explain the plot without spoiling the previous book. -Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. A tale in which an elderly demon-hunting cleric and his paladin assistant team-up with a shape-shifting barbarian girl and husband and wife alchemists to prevent an undead villain unleash an ancient evil, while trying not get involved between the conflict between the tyrannical ruler of their city and a gentleman thief-turned-revolutionary. Did I mention that the cleric's spells invoke the name of Allah, the paladin is a dervish, the barbarian is a Bedouin, and the whole setting draws it's cues not from Tolkien but the Arabian Nights? -"White Trash Zombie" by Diana Rowland (6 books and counting, starting with My Life As a White Trash Zombie). Angel Crawford is an unemployed high school dropout in rural Louisiana with a deadbeat dad, an asshole boyfriend, a drug habit, and no future. After one particularly wild night of drinking and drugging, she gets into a devastating car accident...and wakes up in the hospital without a scratch on her to find that an unknown benefactor has arranged for her to have a job at the Coroner's Office. Which is good because she now has a hankering for brains... -Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom edited by John Joseph Adams. Exactly what is says on the tin, a collection of original stories set on Barsoom by an assortment of writers. As with any anthology, quality is a bit uneven; some of the stories are excellent Original Flavor pastiches, some are deconstructions or parodies, one or two are just bad. But all in all a great collection. -Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs edited by Mike Resnick and Robert T. Garcia. Same basic idea, but for the entire Burroughs oevure, including some of his non-SFnal work. -"Winter of the World" series by Michael Scott Rohan (two trilogies, the first starting with The Anvil of Ice, the second place taking place before the first and in another part of the world, and which I haven't been able to get my hands on ), an epic fantasy taking place against the backdrop of an Ice Age, in which a young man rises from slavery to become the most powerful smith-cum-magician the world has ever known, and together with some companions fights to defeat the sinister primal forces that wish to cover the world in glaciers forever. Much less generic than it sounds, even without going into the appendixes which reveal the real(ish) science behind quite a bit of the magic. -"Spiral Arm" series by Michael Flynn (4 books, starting with The January Dancer). Moderately Irish-flavored space opera, the first book tells the tale of of how a random space captain found a pre-human artifact, of the various hands said artifact passed into, and the conflicts that sprung up in it's wake. The second book turns the first's framing sequence into an epic of it's own, as a young bard hunts down the truth of her parentage. The series notably involves massive retcons with each volume, revealing that what we thought was going on was actually something else, but does so in a way that's compelling rather than irritating. -Dr. Jay Hosler is an entomologist who has written four edutational graphic novels for children (Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, Optical Allusions, and Last of the Sandwalkers). I've read three and they are amazing. In Clan Apis, a young honeybee desperately searches for her place in the hive, and ultimately finds an unorthodox solution. In The Sandwalk Adventures, an elderly Charles Darwin tries to convince a follicle mite living in his eyebrow that he's not God, by teaching him about evolution. In Last of the Sandwalkers (no relation)...honestly, the story contains so much epic awesomeness, I just want to list it, but it's all spoilers; suffice to say that the title character is A: a beetle, B: could give Sam Carter and Agatha Heterodyne a run for their money in the mad science department, and C: leads an expedition to explore the unknown and along the way discovers truths about her family and the nature of her people's civilization that some people really don't want her to (also you learn stuff about beetles). -Nightwise by R. S. Belcher. Years ago, Laytham Ballard was the Golden Boy of the occult underworld sub-culture. That was a LONG time ago, and no one would ever mistake Laytham for golden. But he's not so much of a bastard that he'll refuse the last request of one of his few remaining friends. What was supposed to be a simple revenge killing, however, turns out to be a lot more complicated and a lot more dangerous than Laytham ever imagined. Has a sequel, The Night Dahlia, which I have yet to read. -Brotherhood of the Wheel by R. S. Belcher. Jimmy Aussapile is an independent trucker, hauling cargo cross-country to support his pregnant wife and teenage daughter; he is also a member of a secret order descended from the Knights Templar that protects the highways of America from monsters both human and not. An encounter with a hitchhiking ghost finds him heading off on a quest, in which he joins forces with the heir apparent of monster-fighting outlaw biker gang who's military service unleashed some serious inner demons, and a State Trooper who's determination to solve a series of child abductions leads her to go rogue. Together, they must battle an ancient evil involving serial killers, human sacrifice, and Black-Eyed Kids. Note that it's loosely tied to Nightwise, in which Jimmy shows up in one scene as a minor side character; meanwhile, an off-hand reference to Laytham is made at one point in Brotherhood, and a minor plot thread in the later novel relates to a major plot thread in the earlier. They aren't even the same genre, with Nightwise being urban fantasy noir instead of horror. All in all, one doesn't have to have read one to enjoy the other,

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