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starsrshiney · 5 years

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Because I have like zero self control at times, I’ve written up some Smash Bros style Palutena’s Guidance skits for if my OCs were part of the Smash Bros lineup.

Pit: Who’s this guy?

Palutena: That’s Ronald Shiner, though he typically goes by the name Stars

.Pit: Does he also go by copycat?

Palutena: Huh?

Pit: He has a bow that shoots arrows of light. He’s totally copying me!

Palutena: He’s actually shooting arrows of wood aura. They don’t change direction like your arrows, but if you do get hit, you’ll be sporting a flower for a while.

Pit: Aw man, flowers hurt. . .

Palutena: He also uses his aura to boost his melee attacks, and getting hit with those will make the flower last longer on you.

Pit: So, avoid the green glow while I have a flower on my head, got it.

Pit: That’s some pretty liquid looking ice

.Palutena: Its actually water. Anniey has enough kinetic control over water to make it all flow in harmony, achieving laminar flow.

Pit: Laminar flow?

Palutena: Her water looks pretty while it moves. And it hurts when it hits as well.

Pit: Yeah, no kidding!

Palutena: She’s also no one trick pony. Her wand shoots light, though its less versatile than her control over water. Be careful of it either way.

Pit: Okay, this is just unfair.

Palutena: What is, Pit?

Pit: This guy has no wings, no magical way of achieving flight, and he still moves in the air better than I do!

Palutena: Lechaxim is really acrobatically skilled. Maybe I should start including that in your training.

Pit: He’s a Soconian, right? What element does he use?

Palutena: He’s a dark element.

Pit: Dark?!

Palutena: It mostly means he can manipulate shadows. He uses this in his grabs, grabbing people farther than his physical reach by solidifying the shadows of his opponent’s clothes.

Pit: The shadows of what now?

Palutena: Thankfully he’s a lightweight, so it shouldn’t be too hard to send him flying out of his control.

Pit: Lady Palutena, this guy’s hammer is bigger than my head!

Palutena: It is unreasonably large, isn’t it? Mahn always loves challenging himself, but purposefully hindering himself against the opponents of Smash. . .

Pit: I’ll teach him not to underestimate us!

Palutena: You shouldn’t underestimate him either. Like other heavyweights, he’s slow but hits hard. His final smash launches any land he’s not standing on straight upwards, taking anyone above with him.

Pit: Any land?

Palutena: Thankfully, that’s about the only time he uses his element.

Pit: I’m getting some really scary vibes from this Soconian

Palutena: Keep a cool head, Pit. Sali-

Sal: It’s just Sal.

Pit: HEY! This is a private conversation!

Sal: And your goddess was about to spill a private name.

Palutena: How’d you even get into our telepathy anyway.

Sal: You were about to say my full name.

Pit: That’s. . . not an explanation.

Palutena: I’m starting to see those vibes you were talking about earlier Pit.

Palutena: Anyway, Sal is an extremely close range fighter. As long as you don’t throw a freezie at her, you’ll be good if you keep your distance.

Pit: This guy doesn’t look like he wants to be here.

Viridi: Of all the Soconians that made it in here, Von is the least qualified to be here.

Palutena: He is the least physically trained out of his team.

Pit: But not even all the Smash fighters are truly trained in fighting, right?

Palutena: And even the least trained ones have something to fear.

Viridi: I’m worried about the impact those potions he throws has on the environment.

Palutena: Pit should probably worry about Von’s fire more. The more hits it lands, the hotter it gets, changing its color. He’s at his most powerful when he’s sporting white flames.

Viridi: Landing hits on him lowers his flame’s heat though, so start smacking him and don’t stop!

Pit: I was expecting Jimi’s guns to be a bit more. . . hurty.

Palutena: Jimi’s pistols run less off of gunpowder and more on metal magic. He has thirteen of them, and they range in strength from annoying slingshot to exploding squirrel.

Pit: Oh, so he’s using mid power guns on us then? That’s awful sporting.

Palutena: Well, even Samus had to tone down the power of her missiles and charge blasts for Smash.

Pit: . . . Do you think he’d pull out his stronger ones?

Palutena: If you let him get the smash ball, yes. He’ll shoot with all his pistols if he gets that kind of power.

Pit: Yikes.

Palutena: He excels at mid-projectile range juggling, so either keep far away or get real close to deal with him.

Pit: Didn’t we already have a guy with a fire sword?

Viridi: Two actually. Though this guy seems closer to Roy than Mega Man.

Palutena: That’s Takuma Wei, generally known as Takky.

Pit: Tacky? Is he going to cut multi color shapes into me?

Viridi: Now that’s something I’d like to see happen.

Palutena: He’s a decently trained swordsman, and trying to hit him with fire will just power up his sword. Unlike other sword wielders though, his counter only works if someone attacks him with a weapon.

Viridi: He can also launch the fire off his sword and then reignite it later, so he has a bit more range than you’d think.

Pit: This fighter is. . . loud.

Palutena: Jasmine’s like that. You’d think the middle of the fight is the last place you’d want to grab attention at, and yet. . .

Pit: She’s probably got something up her sleeve. . . if that dress even has sleeves.

Palutena: She’s a dual electricity and metal element soconian, so she has twice the tricks a normal soconian would have.

Palutena: She uses her metal aura to craft bolts for her crossbow, and then uses those bolts as lightning rods for her electricity. She also uses her electricity defensively, shocking anyone who gets too close.

Pit: So I should keep my distance and not get shot?

Palutena: That’s a good way to live life in general, yes.

Pit: This guy takes the phrase ‘speak softly and carry a big axe’ too literally.

Viridi: The phrase is ‘carry a big stick,’ Pit. But otherwise, yeah.

Palutena: That’s Aaron Itrie, Jasmine’s twin brother. He’s a dual element metal and electricity user, though unlike his sister he prefers to focus on the metal more than the electricity.

Pit: Really? Because that axe looks pretty sparky to me.

Palutena: That’s all he does with his electricity though. Keep an eye out for his metal aura to see how tricky he can be.

Pit: That’s the last thing I need, a tricky heavyweight. . .

Pit: Well this guy looks unarmed.

Palutena: Didn’t we already have this talk Pit? Besides, there is rarely such a thing as an unarmed soconian.

Viridi: Briar probably isn’t going to be pulling something out of a storage crystal though. He’s trained himself in multiple martial arts, so those hands and feet are weapons on their own.

Palutena: He’s also an earth element, able to destabilize the ground around him while keeping his own personal space flat.

Pit: This is another case of “keep my distance” isn’t it?

Palutena: I still have that boot camp ready to put you through.

Pit: And I’m still keeping my weapons.

Pit: OH THIS IS JUST NOT FAIR. How is she flying?!

Palutena: Soconians have a saying- If its born in Esennenlus, it’ll try to fly at some point in its life.

Viridi: And since Crystal is a certified Wind Mage, she spends a lot of her time flying.

Pit: She doesn’t even have wings!

Palutena: You’ll be glad to know she can be grounded - it’s hard to concentrate on flying while you’re hurt after all.

Viridi: But at the same time, the focus she’s not using on keeping airborne goes into the wind she attacks with. You’ll want to knock her out when she’s less mobile but before she gets too powerful.

Pit: Are we sure she’s meant to be fighting?

Palutena: Yes we’re sure. Rose may seem to be a few tools short of a toolkit, but she is something else on the battlefield.

Palutena: That staff of hers only looks like its made of wood thanks to an illusion crystal in the middle of it. The crystal recharges whenever Rose uses her light magic on it, so you won’t be seeing its true appearance any time soon.

Pit: Light magic? Is that what she’s doing with the top of the staff?

Palutena: Light element soconians can turn light solid, a trick Rose uses to change her staff into a spear, polearm, scythe, and the like. Keep an eye on the top of her staff to see what kind of attacks she’s likely to use.

#let me tell you about mah ocs #in Smash Bros Palutena's Guidance style

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lushscreamqueen · 3 years

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THE EVIL MIND on The Schlocky Horror Picture Show

July 27, 2008

OPENING: Hello, good evening and welcome to the Schlocky Horror Picture Show, I'm your host, Nigel Honeybone. but of course, you already knew I was going to say that. I know what you're thinking, there just aren't enough great British horror films of the 1930s concerning clairvoyants, right? Well, prepare to be enlightened, as the diminutive but very visible Claude Rains plays a con-artist clairvoyant who gains the power to actually predict the future, yet is unable to prevent it from happening. The Clairvoyant also happens to be the alternate title to tonight's atmospheric classic, The Evil Mind, but you knew I was going to say that, too... BREAK: Atmosphere so thick you could cut it with a knife! But they don't like to give me anything sharp, you know...anyway, we'll be right back with The Schlocky Horror Picture Show after these community annoyances... MIDDLE: Welcome back to the Schlocky Horror Picture Show, and me, Nigel Honeybone. Don't worry, I'm not going to carry on with the clairvoyance jokes, but of course you knew I was going to say that...I'm sorry, I just can't seem to stop... Anyway, what drew audiences to The Evil Mind, a Gainsborough Picture, was it's stars. So, who is really the greatest Scream Queen of all time? Is it Barbara Steele or Ingrid Pitt, who starred in many classic horror movies of the sixties? Or could it be the lovely Elsa Lancaster who portrayed the ultimate female fantastic creation in Bride of Frankenstein, or screamers like Carolyn Munroe, Leanna Quigley, or Sybil Danning? Who can claim so many horror projects in their busiest years? Well, all these women are worthy names to toss around, but for many the individual to remember for real Queen status remains a Canadian actress from Alberta named Fay Wray. In 1933, Fay Wray was being threatened on movie screens by more than just King Kong. Next in The Vampire Bat by, surprisingly enough, a bat, and then in The Mystery Of The Wax Museum, threatened by...um, wax...and so on...as she faultlessly played hapless heroines in horrendous hazards. For the second and third time, she also had to endure Lionel Atwill's formidable villainy. Consequently, the year 1933 was to be Fay's busiest, as eleven different movies took to the screen with her name in the cast. Fay Wray died in her Manhattan apartment in 2004 from natural causes, close to a month before celebrating her 97th birthday, and she's looking well. The immortal paramour of the apes, Fay Wray had been approached by director Peter Jackson about appearing in his remake of King Kong, but declined with an unarguable finality. Some actors will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid working in New Zealand. Claude Rains returned to his homeland after his recent success in Hollywood with The Invisible Man. I've always enjoyed the great acting of Claude Rains, and found his over-acting most amusing. It wasn't until after this film that Rains went on to become a great dramatic actor, appearing in Casablanca, and many greater starring roles. Rains never needed cue cards, he always remembered his many long lines to perfection, something considered a remarkable feat in Hollywood of today. I'm not even going mention his zillions of early television appearances. No... Other pleasing appearances include a relatively unknown cast of now recognisable character actors including Donald Clathrop, Jack Raine, and Frank Cellier. Ronald Shiner can be glimpsed during a crowd scene, D.J. Williams is a member of the jury and a fifteen year old Graham Moffatt appears as a page. Moffatt later found fame as a prominent stock company member of the Will Hay comedies as Albert. And of course Athole Stewart, who seemed to play nothing but lords, knights, squires, captains, colonels, governers. He seemed to be the ultimate authority figure of his time. Sir Michael Elias Balcon was a British film producer known for his work with Ealing Studios. When he was invited to head Ealing in 1938, he readily agreed. Under his benevolent leadership and surrounded by a reliable team of directors, writers, technicians and actors,

Ealing became the most famous British studio in the world, despite turning out no more than six feature films a year. Quality over quantity seems to be a tradition. The great anthology film Dead Of Night, Went The Day Well, and of course the Ealing comedies were released during his time there. In over 230 films he worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Basil Dearden, Michael Relph, me, and many other British greats of the film world. He was made a Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire Of The yada yada yada in 1948. After World War Two, his style of 'nice' films were on the way out, so Ealing Studios started going down the tubes during the 1950s, and Balcon's creative control at other companies waned considerably. The last film on which he worked as executive producer was Tom Jones in 1963, after which he continued to encourage young directors, funding low-budget experimental work, in other words, pretentious rubbish. I shouldn't really say that, but I mean, he is dead after all, and it's not like any of those up-and-coming directors are ever going to give me a job, are they? Anyway, enough of my complaining (it's not as if anyone listens, do they?), let's just get back to the future with The Clairvoyant...I mean, The Evil Mind, the first film to give away it's own plot, on purpose! CLOSING: Now that didn't hurt much, did it? If nothing else, this certainly was...a...film. It's not clairvoyance so much as, say, Deju Vu in reverse. No, wait. that would be Uv Ujed...Uvu Jed? Uh, oh, I think I've invoked the name of an ancient one, and I think I'd like to leave before he gets here... So please join me next week when I have the opportunity to sterilize you with fear during another terror-filled excursion to the dark side of the Public Domain on...The Schlocky Horror Picture Show. Toodles!

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upwiththegood · 3 years

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21st May Photograph quiz

Carrying on in the usual format with our ever popular photograph quiz of pubs old and new. Please don't forget to read the associated questions to enter for a prize and get your entries in early to Peter Fenton on the back of a fag packet

Such an easy one but who's lorry drivers used to use this as their social club headquarters. My grandfather used to go out with that young lady on the bike. and she's just about to miss her train. Too many clues methinks.

Well a particularly hard one this time, as this once famous and regular road house has now changed into another famous eatery. What was it called and would it be allowed these days because of the woke brigade. Nothing to do with Ronald Shiner's similarly named hostelry in East Sussex.

Way out in the sticks but they do a nice pint of Timothy Taylors and the last public house where i met an old friend of mine, Sam Beams. The car park is to the left in this photograph and it's just been reopened for business according to another friend

All over the place this time and you'd really have to go a wandering with a knapsack on your back to visit all these four in one day. This one is on a green and opposite a hall where the Maidstone Young Farmers used to hold regular functions and a lot of fun was had.

Where's that young Katie Page, the butchers daughter from up Union Street and whatever happened to RHGGGG, the red hot guaranteed goer from Grafty Green.

Nobody nose

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kaorei-endgame · 7 years

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Revengecast S03E12 - Endurance

Listen Up!

In this episode of Revengecast, we’re really rushed to publicize that Evan Minto is going to be doing a special episode of #YFI with us this Thursday night (so get us your questions to [email protected]!) which is to say: I do an even worse job leveling the audio than I normally do and I know what you’re saying “an ounce of mic discipline is worth a pound of single-band compressor+hard limiterx4 then normalize” but if I learned how to do that, like Homer Simpson and the wine-making course, I fear I’d lose the space in my brain where my encyclopedic knowledge of MMO loot tables lives??

Iiiiiiit’s Revengecast, the only podcast about the only show where bullets shoot you so hard in the ova you can’t have babies no more. And if you’re worried I just ripped the major punch of the episode wide open… Well I kinda did…

But luckily this episode is FULL of punches. Like when Jack punches Danny, or like the two Niko [Robin] (i guess we’re calling her that?) lands on directly on Emily’s gun-shot ovas to convince her to “man up” (her words not mine okay???) and stop pussyfooting around the memory of her father, “the great warrior,” Ronald Takeda (okay so I don’t remember if she actually said “man up” but she definitely said that).

But enough about Niko and her bizarre and ill-fitting insertion into the otherwise rigid and unimpeachable Revenge chronology, we’re “Note-lan” a few things all over this island!!! Like wondering why Danny is bumming around at Voulez sporting a fresh shiner and also going to the stowaway and acquiring a fresh shiner and also stalking and/or menacing Sarah Catamantello(-Paddingtonbeara) at her trash hovel-cum-illegal day care-cum-apartment inside a literal construction site instead of standing by his gut-shot (and subsequently gut-punched) wife. As Bruce Willis probably said in that movie–how wude!

You know what else is rude? Hitting people on the head with bricks, Patrick! Now, by this point we all know Danny is a fuck, but now we hate Patrick again too?? I swear we just started liking the guy!

Well, you know what they say, “you can’t force love OR hate,” but I certainly never would’ve imagined that sweet, innocent Patrick, the first (cast-off) child of Victoria Grayson (née Harper) would be capable of sinking to such dastardly deeds.

You know what I would expect? Victoria to rub it in! And boy oh boy, does she ever! Like in two separate scenes because in the first one she’s just like “haha you got shot, also have a pastry, also the pastries are a consolation gift for your newfound inability to bear hale and hearty scions of your lineage” and in the second one she’s like “haha you got shot, also no pastries this time, also still no babies, also you’re pooooor” (not really seeing how that one lines up, but, well, you know). I would also expect Margaux to flip-flop several times about a course of action but I think this is the finest episode to date, wherein two people both convince her to doubt her instincts, to NOT doubt her instincts, and then to doubt her instincts once more. Hooeee, that’s a ratio sliced finer than brie cheese!

Danny’s on the ropes, Emily’s on the ropes, Nolan’s on Hoarder’s for his crippling jacket edition, and you know there’s a dark (and possibly sensual) object lurking within the warm, fluffy interior of that innocuous stuffed animal. All this, and the return of everyone’s favorite quiz show “Cookie or Candy Bar or Dog Breed” all in the scant span of 131 minutes? Woah nelly! Call us Cobblin’ Carol, because we must’ve needed a shoehorn to pack it all in!!!

ANYWAY. FORTNITE IS A VIDEOGAME SO IF YOU DON’T WANNA HEAR ABOUT IT SKIP TO 15:00.

ALSO I SORTA SPOIL SOMETHING FROM LAST SEASON’S GAME OF THRONES SO SKIP FROM 17:00 TO 20:00

LOOK JUST GENERALLY KEEP YOUR EARS UP I GUESS BUT AT THIS POINT WHO EVEN CARES ABOUT GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS THAT SHOW, as Graziella said three times after we watched the last episode, IS LITERALLY WRITTEN BY FOUR-YEAR-OLDS.

!?DetenteCastDetenteCastDetenteCast?!

(send us your questions!)

Topics for Consideration: The Siberian Husky Rescue Dog Rescue D.O.G. (the p is silent) Sub Zero’s Cousin-Brother, Scorpion A Fundamental Misunderstanding in the Italian Localization of Look Who’s Talking FLESH IS GROSS BlueSpine by Cronenberg Eat Your Profiterole, Brian

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Revengecast S03E12 – Endurance was originally published on Fast Karate for the Gentleman

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letterboxd-loggd · 3 years

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They Drive by Night (1938) Arthur B. Woods

April 24th 2021

#they drive by night #1938 #arthur b. woods #emlyn williams #anna konstam #ernest thesiger #allan jeayes #ronald shiner #julie barrie #yolande terrell

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scrda2018 · 6 years

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Florida

I shall open this month's column with a puzzle, as told to me by my 12 yr old grandson:

What loses a head in the morning, but gets one back at night?

I shall let you ponder that, answer to follow later in the column. This will perhaps ensure your reading this column this month.

I heard from my old "senior man" in 115 earlier this month, Billy Parrish, one helluva cop, a mentor to me and I will never forget my couple of years with him riding the roads of Wyandanch. Get well old friend, enjoy your new 'LAPTOP"...

Hello to Freddy Mazzella, our old Sergeant & your neighbor.

All those "115 in pursuit northbound on Straight Path, active file 1 with occupants" ... with the blood pumping through our veins. Anyone who has had one of these will understand the "rush"

Onto business, through the "printed word" of the Retired Police Association of NY State, names from the past appear as having made a financial contribution to the organization, quantity not important, many of you will have worked with these fellow pensioners in the past and hopefully will be happy to see their names. Hope it rekindles some happy moments:

John W Streeter, John Askew (another 115er), Daniel Mulhearn, John Stanton, Daniel Luccari, George Walling, Suzanne Boyd, John Doucette, Robert Doyle, James Byrne, Ray Gutowski, Patrick Alu, John Rodriguez, Henry Hambel, Bob Turano, Paul Stasky, Robert Mylott, MichaelStoeckert, Thomas Murphy, Joe Centorelli, Barry Charles, Terrence Fanning, John Rondinelli, Mark Maieli, George Trksak (a/k/a "Deadeye"), MaryAnne Villardi-Feonstein, Steve Cleary, John Delaney, John Gordon, James O'Connor, James Kevins, Ronald Ruppe, Tony Puzzo, Nicholas Sgaglione, Peter Falcetta, Sebastian Demarco, Michael Belkin, Howard Sedell, Bob Gorsky, Charles Colan, George Doerning, Charles Robertson, John McGarvey.

The answer to the puzzle is a "pillow" ... now go tell that to your grandkids.

Frank Sciortino, Robert Kellenberger, Arthur Brewer, Daniel Desantis, Kathleen Bonney, Keith Bettinger.

As I write these names for you to realize these pals are still with us, you should make contact just to say ...

I realize the being retired almost 32 years makes one out of touch, I do not recognize most of these names.

The offer to take over this column is still there.

I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane and take some happiness, in knowing that these are still with us

“Just” learned of the passing of Freddy Eaton,over this past weekend. I worked with him in the 3rd Sqd mid 70's he was well liked and very competent. He ran a moving business and hired many of the guys to help out when needed. As I remember. he was an avid ice hockey player and good golfer. Unfortunately he made the local papers recently when suffering from dementia, he got "lost" for about two days but was found in a nearby location. Rest in Peace brother..

Let us remember our soldiers and first responders protecting us.

Respectfully submitted,

Tony Puzzo

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Fishing in a lake across from his house, my grandson Bryce 15 years, caught 2 bass one 7 lb., one 5 lb, threw both back, caught on shiners...right after having dinner with us, they must gotten a whiff of Gramma's sauce...LOL

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immymotherzdaughter-blog · 7 years

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MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER MARRIED A PILOT FROM ONE OF THE WORLD WARS...HE DIED RIGHT AFTER HE HELD ME AS AN INFANT, FROM MY MOM'S RECOLLECTION...AND THEN HE WENT ON TO A BETTER PLAIN. FIRST OF MANY IN OUR FAMILY TO BE SOLDIERS AT ARMS, WHERE THEY WERE ALL NEEDED...THEY WERE THERE. MY GRANDFATHER BARELY SURVIVED WORLD WAR II, BEING WOUNDED AND LEFT FOR DEAD AMONG MANY LIVING AND DEAD SOLDIERS IN THE BATTLE FIELD. 2 SOLDIERS PASSED BY, ONE SAID WE MUST RETREAT, HE IS GONE ANYWAY. THE OTHER SOLDER SAID, NO MAN LEFT BEHIND. THEY TOOK HIM TO THE MORGUE AS HE HAD NEVER WOKE UP ON THE HAUL BACK TO SAFETY. THE MORGUE LEADER, ASKED WHY THEY BROUGHT HIM THERE...HE WAS STILL ALIVE, HE NEEDS TO BE IN THE MASH UNIT...WHERE HE RECOVERED AND BECAME THE FATHER OF MY MOTHER ROSIE. MY MOTHER MET MY FATHER AS THEY WERE NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE STREET FROM ONE ANOTHER, SHE IN JUNIOR HIGH, HE IN HIGH SCHOOL, FIXING TO GRADUATE AND HEAD FOR THE AIR FORCE. SHE DUG AT HIS HEART IN SO MANY WAYS, EVEN LEAVING CARING MESSAGES WITH MY FATHER'S FATHER...SHE WASHED LAUNDRY, CLEANED, MADE DINNER. SHE WAS IN LOVE BEFORE THAT WAS EVEN ALOUD IN HER DAYS. MY FATHER HAS LOVED AND DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO MY MOTHER FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE TOGETHER. I LOVED WHEN THEY DANCED, GOT TOGETHER WITH FAMILY, MY MOM AND HER SENSE OF HUMOR...SHE TOLD THE DIRTY JOKES.

BACK TO MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER. SHE HAD A MAGNIFICENT HOME TO GROW UP IN AND MANY GREAT MENTORS TO FOLLOW. MY GRANDFATHER LOVED THE SHINER DANCES. I GOT TO DANCE WITH HIM AND MY FATHER. I MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT 11 OR 12. THAT'S THE TIME LISA, DENA, SCOTTIE AND I GOT IN TROUBLE AND WERE TOLD TO GO TO DIFFERENT ROOMS. WE POSITIONED OURSELVES SO THAT WE COULD STILL SHOOT OFF OUR HOT WHEELS CARS...AND THEN SHE CAUGHT US DOING THAT AND MADE US CLOSE THE DOORS. WE ALWAYS HAD THE UTMOST RESPECT FOR OUR MAGNIFICENT WOMAN ROLE MODEL. MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS A RARE GEM, ALONG WITH HER SISTER, AUNT MOLLIE. I MISS YOU AUNT MOLLIE. I HAVE LOST CONTACT AND DON'T KNOW IF SHE IS STILL ON THIS EARTH RIGHT NOW. I MUST ASK DEBBIE TOMORROW.

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S PROPERTY WAS ABOUT 2 ACRES OF LAND. SHE HAD A BARN, CHICKENS, A SHEEP ) I WILL ASK MIKE HER NAME(. I BELIEVE HER BARN WAS HAUNTED. ONLY LATER IN LIFE DID I BEGIN HAVING THE DREAMS...WHO AM I KIDDING...NIGHTMARES OF AN ENTITY...PULLING ME IN ONE PARTICULAR SPOT IN THE HOME...UPSTAIRS, THROUGH A CRAWL SPACE TO GET TO THE ATTICS LOWER LEVEL STORAGE AND BEAMS. THE PULL IS SO MAGNETIC THAT I CANNOT GO IN EVER. BUT SOMETIMES I HAVE BEEN SO CLOSE, I THOUGHT THE DARK SQUARE WOULD SWALLOW ME UP. MANY VARIATIONS OF THIS DREAM HAVE BLOSSOMED IN THE DARKNESS AS THEY ARE...CREATURES RAPING AND TORCHERING ME ON TOP OF A VAN. AN ENTITY PUSHING ON MY CHEST AND I COULD NOT BREATH...AND THEN...A BRIGHT GLOWING LIGHT, LIKE YOU SEE WITH TINKERBELL ENTERING THE ROOM AND SCARED AWAY THE ENTITY, AND DID IT ONE MORE TIME AND I NEVER HAD THAT NIGHTMARE AGAIN. IT WAS MY MOTHER OF COURSE. THE SAME AS THE NIGHT, MIKE CALLED TO TELL ME MOM WAS GONE. I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING AND PLEADED FOR HIM FOR THAT TO BE TRUE. BUT IT WAS FOR NOT. HE WOULD NEVER JOKE ABOUT SUCH A THING. I SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER FOR NEARLY TWO HOURS, WAKING OUR YOUNG BOYS AND FRIGHTENING THEM. I HOPE THEY WERE YOUNG ENOUGH NOT TO REMEMBER. I WENT TO THE BATHROOM TO SPLASH WATER ON MY FACE. MARTY SAID AS I OPENED THE DOOR TO EXIT THE BATHROOM, HE SAW MY MOM BEHIND ME, WITH ME. I BELIEVE HIM. I FELT HER PRESENCE EVEN AFTER WE PUT HER TO REST. I KNOW MY FAMILY WHO HAVE PASSED STILL VISIT THOSE THAT THEY CARED ABOUT IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER...A VISUAL, A DOVE...A THOUGHT, THEY ARE THERE WITH US ALWAYS AND FOREVER. PUSHING US TO BE BETTER HUMAN BEINGS THAT WE KNOW WE ARE CAPABLE OF BEING.

I HAVE MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S FEW TRINKETS FROM HER HOME OF INFINITE MEMORIES. (REMEMBER THE JAW BREAKER) MIKE AND I WERE HONORED ;ENOUGH TO SEE HER PROPERTY ONE LAST TIME AND COLLECT SOME MEMORABILIA. I CHOSE SOME OLD BOTTLES THAT WERE IN THE BARN PROBABLY USED FOR MEDICINE AND SUCH. I ALSO WAS BLESSED ENOUGH TO GET A HORSESHOE. ALTHOUGH, I HAVE YET TO PUT IT UP. SO MANY OBJECTS CARRY SO MUCH WEIGHT...AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT IRON'S WEIGHT, BUT THE EMOTIONAL, LOOK INTO THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL HEAVY PLATFORM. YOU CAN'T BREATH ISSUES. THAT'S WHEN YOU SEEK SOME COUNSELING WHEREVER YOU CAN GET IT...A COLLEGE, 4TH YEAR THERAPIST...THEY ARE FRESH AND EASY TO TALK TO, IF YOU LIKE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF (OBVIOUSLY I DO). HEE HEE HEE!

ONE MEMORY THAT IS THE GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF MEMORIES WAS A REACCURING THEME FOR MY LITTLE BROTHER SCOTT AND I WOULD TAKE OUR MATTEL OR HOTWHEEL CARS AND RACE THEM ACROSS THE FLOOR WHICH HAPPENED TO BE AT A 10 TO 20 DEGREE ANGLE (AS THE YEARS WENT BY),AND RACE THEM WHEN GREAT GRANDMOTHER WAS UNDOUBTEDLY COOKING, AND GIVING US LIFE LESSONS. SHE TAUGHT US TO BE OKAY WITH OUR FAMILY AND TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. SHE TAUGHT US LONGEVITY OF HEART WILL CONQUER ALL. SHE TAUGHT US THAT FAMILY IS EVERYTHING. SHE TAUGHT US ABOUT OUR HIGHER POWER. I LOVED HER GRAND CHURCH SHE BELONGED TO. FOR ME...IT WAS LIKE COMING HOME. I WAS SO MOVED AT THAT EARLY AGE AND NOT KNOWING WHY AT THE TIME...THERE WAS THIS SENSE OF PEACE AND PURPOSE. THERE ARE SO MANY TRADITIONS THAT I HAVE LEARED OVER THE YEARS FROM ALL MY ELDERS. I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MY ANCESTORS I WAS TOO YOUNG TO KNOW OR ONE'S BEFORE I WAS EVEN BORN. ANCESTRY.COM. I KNOW MY FATHER'S SIDE...A TANSLEY TOWN IN THE COUNTRY ENGLAND. MY UNCLES WERE GOOD ABOUT KEEPING THE TIES. I NEED TO LOOK UP DELORES TANSLEY, RONALD TANSLEY, CHRISTY TANSLEY, GIRLS MAY BE MARRIED. WHERE IS MY UNCLE RONNIE. I WISH TO SEE HIM IF I CAN.

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS MADE SURE WE WERE FED, CLOTHED, ENTERTAINED, SUBDUED WHEN WE NEEDED IT, WARM AT NIGHT, SECURE, WANTED, ADMIRED & LOVED, UNCONDITIONALLY. SHE WAS FIRM WHEN WE NEEDED IT, BUT SHE WAS AS SWEET AS CANDY ALL THE OTHER TIMES. SPEAKING OF CANDY...I HAD A NARLY BATTLE WITH A LARGE JAWBREAKER THAT GOT STUCK BETWEEN MY CHEEK AND MY GUMS AND I SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER, I HAD TO BE ATLEAST 8 YEARS OLD. BUT IT HEART LIKE A MTHFKR. MY GRANDMA HELD ME WHILE MY MOM TOOK PICTURES...JUST LIKE MOM TO CASH IN ON MY TRAUMA. WHAT A BLESSED MOTHER SHE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE IN Y HEART. SHE WAS ONE HELL OF A LADY AND MATRIARCH OF HER AND THREE SISTERS. THEY ALL BANDED TOGETHER AND SOMETIMES PLAYED TRICKS ON ONE ANOTHER, BUT THROUGH THE YEARS I WITNESSED THE BOND THOSE LADIES WILL ALWAYS AND FOREVER HAVE. IF THERE WAS ANYONE WHO I ADMIRED MORE AT THAT TIME IN MY LIFE WAS MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER. SHE HAD THE SWEETEST VOICE...BUT SHE WAS STERN WHEN SHE NEEDED TO BE. SHE IS MY ULTIMATE IDOL. DADDIO, YOU WERE ALWAYYS AND WILL FOREVER BE MY ROCK. DARREN AND MARTY AND BRIAN AND ERIC AND ZOO ANIMALS ARE MY ROCKS NOW. I GOT A REGULAR ROCK GARDEN. HEE HEE HEE

I REMEMBER HER PUTTING US TO BED AT NIGHT, AFTER A MEAL, WE TOOK BATHS IN HER OLD 4 LEGGED BATHTUB. I LOVED THE SMELL OF HER AND HER HOUSE AND HER BED. AS A TEENAGER I TOOK SHOWERS IN HER BATHROOM AND I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. THE SOAP, THE WATER, THE SHOWER HEAD, THE TILES, HER SPECIAL LOTIONS AND MODEST DECORATIONS. I WONDER NOW HOW A STRONG A WOMAN MUST BE TO LEAVE BEHIND HER LOVE SO EARLY IN LIFE AND STILL FILL ALL OF OUR LIVES WITH SO MUCH LIVING WITH LOVE AND DEVOTION.

AFTER SHE WENT INTO THE REST HOME, AUNT MOLLY ASKED FAMILY TO COME OUT AND GO THROUGH ALL HER MATERIAL MEMORIES. THE ONE I REMEMBER MOST IS NOW IN MY POSSESSION. IT WAS THE ONE PICTURE ON HER WALL ABOVE HER TV...A CHUBBY LITTLE 8 MONTH OLD BABY GIRL. MY AUNT MADE SURE I GOT THAT PICTURE. THANK YOU MY SWEET AUNT ALICE. YOU MADE THE BARBIE DOLL MATCHING BLANKET AND PILLOW THAT I HAVE TO THIS DAY. JUST CAN'T SEEM TO PART WITH IT.

...AND YOU KNOW WHAT...I DON'T HAVE TO!!

LIKE MY FATHER'S DESK...IT WENT BY SHIP OVERSEAS AND BACK AND AGAIN AROUND THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AND NOW HAS LANDED IN MY HOME. FULL OF LIFE IT SITS AND STURDY AS A KING ON HIS THRONE. WHO WANTS TO GIVE UP A PIECE OF WOOD WITH ALL THAT HISTORY. I MAY BE TRYING TO CREATE OR CONTINUE A TRADITION. I BELIEVE THE EARTH AND ALL ITS OFFSPRING CREATE MORE THAN JUST A PHYSICAL PRESENCE, BUT A SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL AND ANCESTRAL CHARGE.

MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER COMES TO MIND AGAIN. I WAS BLESSED TO SAY GOODBYE AT HER FUNERAL. MY AUNT STAYED FARTHER BACK IN THE PEWS BUT SHE WAS THERE TOO, AND I RESPECTED HER AND CHERISHED OUR MOMENT IN TIME TO PAY OUR RESPECTS TO SOMEONE WHO MEANT A GREAT DEAL TO US. I SAT WITH AUNT MOLLIE. I STAYED WITH AUNT MOLLY IN HER HOME AND WE GOT TO SLEEP IN THE SAME BED. SHE IS MY BLOOD, ALTHOUGH GENERATIONS AND TIME AND DISTANCE APART, SHE IS MY BLOOD.

MY MAMA IS AN AMAZING PERSON...LIVING WITH LONELINESS AND MISSING MY FATHER DESPARATELY THAT SHE FOUND OTHER VICES TO SUSTAIN HER AND GIVE HER PLEASURE. SHE LOVED HER A GOOD GAME OF BINGO. SHE LOVED TO GAMBLE. SHE LOVED SHOPPING. SHE HAD VERY GOOD TASTE.

I HOPE THAT I CAN ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND BE HALF THE WOMAN IN THIS DAY AND AGE THAT MY ANCESTORS WERE. THEY HAD A HARD LIFE, SO OURS WOULD BE BETTER. MANY WOMEN SACRIFICED THEIR WHOLE BEING, EVEN THEIR OWN LIVES TO CONQUER THE BATTLES A WOMAN HAD TO FACE YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS AGO. THEY WERE AS TOUGH AS MEN, WITH A LITTLE GRACE AND SPECIAL TALENTS THAT A MAN CAN ONLY DREAM OF AND WITNESS. YES...I AM TALKING ABOUT GIVING BIRTH. I MUST BE AS DELIGHTFUL AND MIRACULOUS FOR A MAN TO WATCH HIS OFFSPRING ARRIVE IN THIS WORLD, AS IT IS FOR A WOMAN TO GIVE THAT BEING LIFE FOR NINE MONTHS AND THEN GIVE BIRTH TO OUR HIGHER POWER'S CREATION IN HIS IMAGE.

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(At least) 10 “Rules” or Behaviors for each member of Team Stars

Let me tell you about mah OCs.

No, really

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MAH OCS

This is a long one. 5.3k words, and its basically a list. You’ll notice some repeats (intro/extroversion, when they graduated and what they studied, sexual orientation, languages they can speak etc) as you read along. You’ll probably notice details get less detailed the further you move from the top of the list as well. Details in [brackets] basically only apply to 1.1/1.1.1/versions of the characters that participate in dimension travel.

Stars (Ronald Sterling Shiner)

1. He’s an extrovert. He does enjoy socializing and being with people. He tends to avoid talking about his life before running away beyond general basics though. He’s more interested in talking about the present than the past. a. He doesn’t like talking about his past in Emplien, particularly his school life. His experiences in the school archery team is a big exception to this.

2. He’s good at reading people’s facial cues and body language, to the point where his team calls him a person-reader/people-reader, or a living lie detector. Even if he doesn’t call you on it, he probably knows if you’re lying.

3. Romantic topics make him uncomfortable, due to Carmo and her co-conspirators actions during high school. He will generally excuse himself or make himself be elsewhere if the subject comes up. When forced to talk about it, he’ll generally be negative to the concept of romance, doubting it exists beyond being an idealization.

4. Sexuality in general doesn’t make him uncomfortable, though he still doesn’t usually participate in conversations about it unless he’s in a good enough mood. The subject of himself in a sexual situation, however, makes him very uncomfortable. This is due to him resisting the effects of Cross’ “History’s Strongest Lust Potion” for so long. The ‘fantasies’ that the potion had him come up with featuring his teammates became increasingly violent the longer he resisted. a. Relatedly, he’s a Kinsey 3. He is not Full Ace from this mental trauma, though he adopts some behaviors of it. He tries not to express it, but he does acknowledge his attractions to himself. i. Though part of THAT is due to only recognizing attraction after being acquainted with a person.

5. He is perfectionistic, particularly regarding paperwork. The more frustrated he is with getting paperwork done, the more strongly he’ll resist help with it. This has led to multiple cases of him being physically dragged out of his office so other teammates (Anniey, Von, Chax, and Crystal) could get through the piles of papers.

6. He is particularly proud of his archery skills. He’ll take anyone mentioning how good of a shot they are as a challenge. [This doesn’t apply to dimensional travels, especially in cultures that value archery, unless the culture recognizes him first.]

7. He doesn’t like people touching his hair, particularly the crown of his head. He has a brick red spot there in his otherwise maroon hair, which was used as ‘target practice’ by other kids in elementary school times.

8. His sense of modesty is more cultural than personal, which sometimes clashes with other cultures’ senses of modesty. He doesn’t have a problem with group showers and the like or being underdressed in personal space. He does have reactions to people being underdressed in situations he wouldn’t be (See: Shikirei getting ready for the bath in their room instead of the bathroom.)

9. While he does fake it sometimes to get out of awkward situations, he genuinely can be dense. He does better with putting together pieces of information to figure out what’s going on than he is at gathering information.

10. He generally doesn’t take offense to things said about him, unless you insult his archery. He generally gets angrier when you insult his loved ones in front of him.

11. He is exceptionally loyal to his loved ones, and he unconsciously inspires that same kind of loyalty.

12. He can play a mean game of poker (what is a poker face to someone who reads body language?) and he likes watching the night sky. And while not AS religious as Anniey, he does tend to read from the Holy Madaran Book while recovering from exercise.

13. His 2-year extra education focused on business and psychology, though since he tested out of history, he was able to sneak in crystal glyphing lessons. He graduated in the year 917 a. He’s only just barely not a novice at glyphing and doesn’t experiment like Crystal and Jasmine.

14. Despite bi/trilinguism being common in Socon, Stars can’t speak any language besides Socon Common. He claims his tongue trips over itself when he tries. Sometimes he’ll claim his second fluent language is body language, though he’s learned not to say this in front of Chax.

a. That being said, he can interpret Ionese (Portuguese,) Vascolean (Italian,) and Otturi (Swedish) from growing up (family for the first two, Von’s family for the last one) even though he can’t speak them.

Anniey (Annabel Mayra Shiner)

1. She enjoys being with and talking to people. The only thing she’ll avoid discussion about is her arm or, relatedly, how she always wears long sleeves.

2. She does try to be a calming influence on people. This intent gets lost sometimes, as she does have a quicker than normal temper.

3. Anniey is the most powerful mage of the team. She does, in fact, have the elemental control you would expect of a mage, though she has more power than control. The fact that pipes burst toward people she’s angry/annoyed at is more about lack of control of her temper than it is about her powers (Lack of control would be pipes bursting randomly, but her bursts always seem to target the one who angers her.)

4. While she’s comfortable with her arm scar by herself, she still doesn’t like it being revealed to other people. This discomfort pretty much extends from the reveal until the other person has had time to digest the situation. If they didn’t react very badly, she doesn’t mind talking about it to them. a. She claims to be over what happened to her arm. It’s obvious she isn’t once someone else sees the arm scar though. b. List of people who know about her arm: Her family, mansion staff that was working when it happened, high ranking mansion staff, medical staff that helped her, Von’s family, an ex-boyfriend, some fellow priestesses, female members of the team. [Chris, Ling, Qiu, Ling’s trackers.]

5. She loves to matchmake, though unless she’s asked for help, she keeps it in her head or in conversation rather than action. Friends asking for their friends counts to her.

6. She’s strictly androromantic/androsexual (Kinsey 0). She tried dating girls in high school, it didn’t work for her.

7. She is strongly religious, particularly about Nilofer’s doctrines. She keeps a copy of the Holy Nilofan book in her storage crystal. As expected of a priestess.

8. As long as her right arm (the one with the scar) is covered, she’s open to wearing most anything. She has a few outfits that she reserves specifically for making Stars implode into overprotective “NO”s. a. Stars and Anniey are siblings. They are not above heckling each other.

9. While in the AlChemistry lab, she focuses on healing salves (for open wounds, burns, etc.,) rejuvenation potions (like 5-hour energy, but better,) scar reduction creams and the like.

10. She is not completely helpless without her powers. If she’s in an area without water, she has a light energy wand. Without any magic power, she can throw the hardest punch of the team’s mages.

11. Anniey knows basic greetings in many languages and tends to know when someone is being polite or trying to insult her, regardless of language. Aside from Common, she can speak fluent Vascolean (Italian) and Ionese (Portuguese,) and conversational Otturi (Swedish.)

12. Anniey is one of the team extroverts.

13. Since she wasn’t being pressured into being the company heir, Anniey spent her childhood flitting from one hobby to the next. She also graduated without the optional two years of extra education in the year 918.

Chax (Lechaxim Phantas Shadrix)

1. If an adjective in any manner suggests shyness, modesty, or shame, it doesn’t describe Chax. He is a very open book. The only things he won’t talk about are his first girlfriend or his family that isn’t his dad. a. Corollary: Though he is very comfortable with his body, he isn’t an exhibitionist. He’ll push the limits of acceptable, not completely ignore them. That being said, he does sometimes feel like the “limits of acceptability” are BS.

2. It’s not his preferred mode of operation, but he is fully capable of being polite and/or formal, including dressing formally.

3. He very much enjoys getting reactions out of people. But he does not intentionally set out to make people feel genuine disgust or discomfort.

4. Spending most of his elementary school life at home sick, he is very concerned about cleanliness and sicknesses. Cleanliness and personal health are higher priorities than pleasure to him, though this part of him isn’t obvious with is attitude. a. He doesn’t mind “messy” very much. He cares more for dirty/grimy/slimy/etc. than just dealing with displaced objects like clothes or paper. b. He has multiple sheet/pillowcase sets, that he changes and washes daily.

5. His “track record” would make people think he’s a Kinsey 4, but he’s really a 2. While he does talk up his escapades to get reactions, he doesn’t outright lie about them. a. Relatedly, while he does have a large number of sexual encounters and a high libido, he is not hypersexual in the medical definition. b. He also takes every precaution he can with his encounters- verifying they’re single, subtly verifying if they have (an) STI(s) or not, having his own condoms and (30%) medical birth control when applicable. i. While stronger male medical birth control exists, going higher than 30% has a chance of permanently damaging sperm production. Therefore, Chax stops at 30%.

6. His feelings about romance are summed up as “It’ll happen when it happens, but I’m not going to hold myself back waiting for it.” a. Though he absolutely refuses to be “the other man” for anyone. It happened once and he teamed up with the partner to yell at the idiot.

7. He spends more time than he should doing aerobics and gymnastic exercises. This is how he has little to no body fat despite being one of the biggest eaters of the team. a. It’s not to be touched on in canon, but there can be hints about him having an exercise disorder. b. The lack of fat also means he doesn’t float well in water. He’s a strong swimmer but can’t passively float due to his muscle-to-fat ratio.

8. He is very observant. He picks up on things quickly, though he’s slow at putting facts together to get meaning.

9. He’ll deny it, but he is generous. He’ll leave gifts for people where he knows they’ll find it.

10. He has more control than power with his element. He can’t control many shadows, but what he does control can take many shapes, and shift between them seamlessly.

11. He can speak Vascolean (Italian), though he also knows some Gaelic phrases and pick up lines in many languages.

12. Chax is the type of extrovert that is extremely draining for most introverts to be around for long periods of time.

13. By the time he was finished with standard education, he had enough general/ business/ AlChemistry credits in school to be considered a year ahead. He took another year to get the standard extra two. He graduated in the year 920, putting him with non-lateborn peers. a. In the AlChemistry lab, he specializes in making sunscreen. He gets sunburn VERY quickly without it.

Mahn (Herman Roderick Pages)

1. Despite Chax-amplified perceptions, he is generally not grumpy 24/7. This took a small while for Stars to realize, because when they were a trio Mahn was the sole introvert with two extros.

2. Speaking of perceptions, he is not as prudish as his fights with Chax and avoidance of conversations of the subject of sex make him out to be. He has more of a romantic’s attitude towards the subject. a. Relatedly, Demi-Kinsey 1.

3. Mahn likes to constantly challenge himself. He uses large blocks of earth for weightlifting, as the weights they have in the gym are too light for him. This is also why he keeps his hair long and wears bulky trench coats- it makes fights harder and more challenging for him. Consequently, his muscles are too large to move his body quickly. (Think powerlifter rather than bodybuilder)

4. Mahn has more power than control over earth. He makes large holes or pillars in the ground, often larger than he intended.

5. He tries to not be a metaphorical bull in a china shop.

6. He is quicker to action than he is to speak. He also tends to prefer non-vocal communication when he can help it.

7. Lechaxim aside, he is rather slow to anger. He’s also slow to show most other emotions.

8. He does want to become better in the kitchen than he is, but he blows up kitchen appliances with the same frequency that Stars blows up AlChemistry labs. This is to say; it will happen if he steps into the place.

9. He recognizes that Stars thinks a few steps ahead of most other people in the team. He generally never questions Stars’ orders, unless it seems like something he wouldn’t actually say.

10. Mahn is far more closed mouthed about his pre-Team life than Stars. However, he has mentioned that he does send some of his earnings to his family, and that he has a good relationship with them.

11. Aside from Common, he knows Ailan (Hawaiian) and Okraobin (Amharic.)

12. His overcoats have many small pockets on the inside for small ice-energy crystals. This is how he can still wear them even when the weather is summery.

13. His hobbies include powerlifting, small crafts, and reading either romance or mystery novels.

14. He graduated in the year 920 with two extra years of smithing education.

Sal (̛͢͟͡S̷̶̨̡a̵̷̢̛l̷̸̴͢͏i̴̸͢͞ǹ̷̴̵a̸̸҉ ̧͢͝͏̸?̵̡͟?̛͞͞?̴̨́̕ ͘͏͠ M̸̀͢͝͠a̧̛n̷͠d̴̡͝͠ȩ͜͝҉̸r̨͘s͟͏̕)̢̀̕͠͡

1. Sal is one of the quickest to anger members of the team, if not the quickest. However, she also shows the most improvement in her anger management. Constant chasing of Chax with knives aside.

2. She has a rather large collection of knives, with no two looking exactly the same.

3. Sal has decent power and control over her element. Her aura is effective at chilling water vapor in the air back to water, which she can freeze and control.

4. She values having things go in orderly fashion.

5. She was trained to repress most feelings, including attraction. Being with the team has helped her relearn most of them. Re: attraction, she shows a slight-but-noticeable preference for males (Kinsey 2.)

6. She doesn’t have any memory of her family before becoming part of Boirom Assassin Guild, beyond her last name. She doesn’t have any desire to find them, though she does keep her family name.

7. She refuses to give her full name out for any reason, including her full first name. As far as anyone needs to know, she is Sal.

8. Being a valued assassin for Boirom before defecting, she knows most of their techniques and set ups. She recognizes when they’re walking into even their most subtle traps. a. Boirom’s teaching don’t cover languages, making her the person on the team who is the most genuinely lost if someone speaks in something that isn’t Common

9. She mostly chases Chax with her knives out of habit at this point. Loathe as she is to admit it, she can’t bring herself to seriously hurt anyone in the team, unless it’s to save them from being even more hurt.

10. She outright never questions Stars, beyond clarifications. Anniey has called her an enabler of his bad habits multiple times.

11. She collects glass lizards and has pick up coloring books as a hobby.

12. She’s an introvert that gets tired of socialization really quickly. Stars and Takky, oddly, don’t drain her as much as other people.

13. She was “homeschooled” by the Boirom Assassination Guild, but has a diploma officially stating she took two extra years of weapon smithing and graduated in the year 918.

Von (Vincent Diciasette Golla)

1. While talking to people does exhaust him after a while, he doesn’t use his introversion as a reason to avoid people. Rather, avoids people because he doesn’t think they’ll take him seriously with his stutter.

2. He is also legitimately shy and timid, especially around new people and quickly advancing events. His shyness and timidity are separate from his introversion.

a. Anniey is a slow-drain person for him. Stars less so, but still less draining than most other people, especially other extroverts.

3. His shyness and timidity are connected to his modesty, however. He wears a sleeveless rash guard while swimming and tends to avoid the shower rooms unless he’s sure he’ll be alone. The slime incident was mortifying for him.

4. He gets annoyed at being called a cinnamon roll. Especially when people try to guard him from things he already knows.

5. He is the mage of the team with the most control over his element and least elemental power (which, being mage level, is still impressive.) He’s also the weakest physically, as he tends to skip martial training with Briar.

6. He is a genius AlChemistrist. He has open invitations to most AlChemistry guilds in the world and does work with them via Farcall and mail. He stays with the team because he didn’t particularly like living as a lone AlChemistrist, plus it lets him field test some unique solutions. a. Von finished school in the year 919 but did the equivalent of two extra years of AlChemistry Training as extra credit through the years.

7. He can determine elemental compositions of materials by the color of the flame they produce when lit, as well as feeling how the fire burns it. How accurate he is depends on how complex the material he’s burning is, though he does try to separate or otherwise narrow down what possible elements could be in a substance before subjecting them to the burn test.

8. He can adjust his aura to be as close to his skin as he likes. He uses this to groom his body hair by burning it. The guys of the team are used to the smell of burning hair when they enter the shower room. a. If left unchecked, Von can get extremely fluffy with his body hair.

9. His stutter changes frequency with how uncomfortable he feels. Even at his most comfortable though, it is still there. The only exception is when he sings, as singing uses a different part of his brain compared to talking. a. Also, he tends to sing to himself in Otturi (Swedish.) i. He’s fluent in Otturi (Swedish,) and conversational in Vascolean (Italian) and Ionese (Portuguese.)

10. He is primarily gynosexual, with fleeting-to-none attractions to guys (Kinsey 1.)

11. He keeps a small set of binoculars in his storage crystal, as he has a side hobby of bird watching.

Jimi (Jimi Pasticcio Ratpi)

1. His temper snaps about as quickly as Anniey or Sal’s, but he’s probably the least dangerous easy to anger person- he doesn’t pull out his weapons like Sal or burst stuff with magic like Anniey. He tends to just yell.

a. He’s the type of extrovert that gets snappier if he hasn’t socialized enough, which leads to loops of scaring peeps away when he needs to talk, and then getting angry about it.

2. His temper also tends to make him think people are challenging him, particularly if they’re talking about swimming, cooking, or shooting/accuracy. a. Stars and Jimi spent the first week of their acquaintance arguing over bows vs pistols and their accuracy. It’s a time they both laugh at in hindsight.

3. If he wants to cook, he’s going to cook. Only Crystal can argue with him on this, as they have roughly the same skill level in the kitchen.

4. Despite nearly always wearing newsboy caps, Jimi is particularly fussy about taking care of his hair. a. His hair is deceptively fluffy.

5. He has twelve magic pistols in his vest-shadow network. #1 is kiddy slingshot strength, and the power scales up until it hits #12 (which causes critters to explode.) They (except for maybe #1) only come out of his vest when he decides something is going to be shot. He’s not going to just keep one of them out as a “threat.” a. He also keeps an emergency, non-magic pistol in his regular storage crystal. b. Saying dual-gun fighting styles are a fiction-only concept will cause him to break into a rant.

6. He’s one of the “handymen” of the team when something in the HQ breaks, being both a metal element and having repair experience from Northern Boating School. If it’s a water pipe, he’s not shy about telling Anniey that she needs to Stop.

7. When he’s not being snappy, he does have actual leadership skills. Jimi’s the first person outside the Core Five that Stars would choose as a lead if the team’s split up.

8. Even without the tendency to snap, he’s the “tell it to you straight” person of the team. He does make an effort to be tactful about it when he’s not angry.

9. He learned Modern Taroshanese (Japanese) from school, but grew up speaking Common and Ibesh (Spanish)

10. Bi, but leans more towards guys rather than gals (Kinsey 4)

11. Jimi opted out of extra education, graduating from Northern Boat School in year 919.

Takky (Takuma Jun Wei)

1. He’s sexy and he knows it. Mostly because it’s the first thing anyone would say to him walking up. It was ego fuel for a while, but by the time he joined the miniguild it grew old.

2. He’s not expert level, but he is trained in a few sword wielding styles, particularly using large swords.

3. It’s fairly easy to inflate his ego, but he does try to keep it in check. Unlike Jimi though, it’s pretty hard to actually hurt his ego. He can laugh off a lot.

4. He’s competitive, but friendly about it.

5. Despite being a close-quarters fighter with a sword, he doesn’t have any scars on his skin. He’s as confused as anyone else about this.

6. One of the team’s extroverts.

7. He loses his storage crystal quite often. It also slips out of his grip when he tries to use it. He’ll even lose it if its attached to a ring base!

8. He keeps a soccer ball and a kite in his storage crystal, alongside everything else.

9. He knows Modern Taroshanese (Japanese) and Classic Taroshanese (Chinese (Cantonese))

10. Bi and doesn’t have a preference toward either side (Kinsey 3)

11. He only took one year of extra education (smithing,) leaving his school at the same time Mahn did (year 920.)

Jasmine (Jasmine Négliger Itrie)

1. Jasmine has a stuffed doll of herself that she hugs while sleeping.

2. All her initial plans start with the goal of glorifying herself. Once enough time passes for the ‘I need to make myself look good’ idea to shift into ‘If this doesn’t get done, I’ll look bad’ she’ll start acting with her true intelligence and cleverness levels.

a. Comedy/Parody AU Jasmine, about to ruin someone’s career after looking like a fool herself: “Let’s get dangerous!”

3. Jasmine’s two year extra education was focused on crystal glyphing and general education, graduating in 919.

a. Jasmine usually only glyphs for herself, unless she’s sure she can get something out of making a crystal for someone else.

4. Jasmine respects that she lost to Stars in her first attempt to take his miniguild/position/fame and puts doing what she’s assigned over her repeat attempts at taking over. a. By the time the miniguild disbands to become the R.E.D. Delta Squad, Jasmine becomes unsure if she even wants the position anymore, as she’s not sure she could have made it to Emplien on her own merits. The attempts feel more like a hobby than anything else.

5. She’ll refuse outside help when it comes to taking over the leadership. It wouldn’t be hers if someone (she didn’t hire) helped her get it.

a. Conveniently, this means she’s an early warning system for threats to the team, as outsiders tend to (wrongly) see her as an exploitable weak link.

6. She uses formal dresses as casual wear because she feels she must always present at her best. The closest thing she has to actual casual wear is her workout gear, because there’s presentation and then there’s getting yourself hurt.

7. She does a lot of hard work behind the scenes, only showing off her new skills when she feels she can make it look natural. High heel running (and the crystals that can turn her high heels into cleats) is a prime example of this, an effort she made before becoming part of Team Stars.

8. Jasmine seems like the type of extrovert who CAN’T function without a person near her. The extrovert part is true, but she can be rather sly when left to her own devices.

9. She is fluent in Vaolirili (French) and conversational in Classic Taroshanese (Chinese (Cantonese))

10. She’s primarily gynosexual, though she does have infrequent, fleeting but notable attraction to some men (Kinsey 5)

Aaron (Aaron Nommer Itrie)

1. He’s the only one of the three handymen of the team to not have been schooled at a Boat School. a. He got repair (and smithing) training when Jasmine signed the two of them up for the two extra years of education, graduating in the year 919.

2. Aaron almost never goes against what Jasmine is saying. Sometimes he even questions how he stood up to her in the middle of the ‘takeover the Team Stars Miniguild’ fight. (The answer is there’s only so much of a losing fight he’s willing to fight, both physically and verbally.)

3. He’s not sure how he went from ‘brother of the woman who tried to have us all hurt for her fame’ to ‘the Team’s gentle giant repairman,’ but it's honestly a lot easier to parse than Jasmine or Sal’s integration to the team.

4. He saves most of his money, in contrast to Jasmine’s outlandish spending. a. A lot of things about him contrast Jasmine.

5. While both twins start to feel anxious if separated for too long, Aaron does want to attend Sofinn’s College for Dual Elementals on his own someday. a. Working in the R.E.D. Squad earns him more than enough to do this, but he feels conflicted about leaving his sister, his teammates, and an already lucrative job.

6. He tends to have the softest voice in the room, unless significantly fed up.

7. Is probably the most noticeably introverted teammate, save perhaps Von.

8. When he’s sure he’s alone, he pulls out his cartography/map making projects.

9. His language skills are equal to Jasmine’s.

10. He’s bi, with no preference (Kinsey 3)

Briar (Briar Laikas Chron)

1. Briar very strongly believes in being able to fend for yourself with only your body, as element magic can run out and weapons can break. a. Von’s resistance to self defense training and Anniey’s refusal to learn to physically swim annoy him to no end.

2. A good chunk of the time( maybe one or two out of five?), he doesn’t feel as strongly about his side of the ‘A or B argument’ he’s having with Jimi as he lets on. He just likes the bonding time. a. Their rivalry is very friendly, starting from their first fight. Jimi’s (low power) pistols were almost equal to Briar’s fists.

3. While not to Chax’s-acrobatics levels, he is quite restless, often doing some martial art practice near subconsciously when not focused.

4. While generally not quick to anger, he WILL punch a bitch if they imply that he’s out-of-shape fat. a. His body exists on the endomorphic side of the scale and does hold on to fat easier, but he’s trained in multiple martial arts and WILL show it to you first hand.

5. Briar didn’t take the extra two years of optional schooling, graduating from Southern Boat School in the year 917. He spent the years travelling Socon and learning various martial arts on his own.

a. When coaching his teammates, he teaches them different arts and techniques depending on their already established fighting styles and musculature.

6. Alongside Jimi and Aaron, he’s one of the team handy men. He doesn’t have any metal-controlling to help him with the task, so it’s all tools and know-how from helping around Southern Boat School.

7. Is an introvert, though running Physical Training classes doesn’t seem to have any effect on his “social energy”

8. His non martial art hobbies include botany, loose leaf tea brewing, and board games.

9. He’s conversational in Ibesh (Spanish) and Ailan (Hawaiian)

10. He’s a Kinsey 6, and went through personal distress about it due to Socon’s Baby-Fever society. a. Like Stars, he only recognizes attraction if the person he’s attracted to is at least an acquaintance.

Crystal (Crystal Semele Snow)

1. Because Crystal often plays with her clothing ruffles with her wind, people around her feel a slight breeze.

2. She absolutely adores flying but doesn’t use it as her sole mode of transportation. She usually defaults to flying instead of running away from something though.

3. While she may not be as good as Von is when comparing their crafts, Crystal is a damn good Glypher. She’s yet to make a glyphed crystal explode with a force stronger than a party favor.

a. She graduated from her high school in the year 919 (as a lateborn) with two extra years of crystal glyphing education.

4. When she has the time and space, she tries to generate lightning from her wind control (inspired by lightning storms.) After learning about Anniey’s issues, she makes sure the space is FAR away from her, or any teammate.

5. She’s not one to start a raunchy conversation, but she’ll eagerly extend it as far as it can go.

6. She keeps in regular contact with her dads and younger sibling (adopted), and occasional contact with her bio parents and older (bio) sibling.

7. Extroverted.

8. She keeps a portfolio of family recipes in her crystal, alongside cooking and fashion magazines.

9. Her only non-Common language is Vaolirili (French)

10. She’s bi with a preference for womenfolk (Kinsey 4)

Rose (Rozi Rhonda Garotte)

1. Rose is oddly good at keeping secrets. She attributes this to ‘no one asks me for them.’

2. When left to her own devices, she can be seen folding ribbons into butterflies. This usually shocks people, since they’re used to her not being able to control her strength (She has ruined doorknobs and windows that way.)

3. She’s not the brightest bulb in the box, but she always means well.

4. She changed her last name to distance herself from her bio family, particularly her father. The name was chosen by an upperclassman, who mentioned it means ‘brave spear.’ Jury’s still out on how she got the middle name Rhonda though.

5. While she doesn’t talk about her past in general, she sometimes drops contextless thoughts that make people around her concerned.

6. Spirits tend to flock to her, and she trusts them to lead her out or away from trouble. She’s usually people’s first encounter with actual spirits.

7. Rose’s school didn’t offer the two years of extra education schools in other countries did, leaving her to graduate in the year 921 (as a lateborn).

8. Rose is the introvert who experiences the least amount of social drain around extroverts.

9. Her home life had her speaking Common and Okraobin (Amharic) almost equally.

10. Like Aaron, she’s bi with no preference one way or the other.

#writing #let me tell you about mah ocs #no really

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