15 FACTS ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER MEME

[thebloodseal]

15 FACTS ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER MEME

1. Post 15 (or so) facts about your character
2. They can be canon, about how they've developed on the Fleet, their previous game stays, whatever
3. That's it, that's the meme
4. GET TO KNOW EACH OTHERS' CHARACTERS BETTER

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ALPHONSE ELRIC

[thebloodseal]

1. Al has an older brother named Edward. Ed is the most important person in the world to him, and Ed feels the same way.
2. In his human body, Al greatly resembles his mother Tricia, except she had chestnut hair and green eyes while his hair and eyes are gold.
3. Oh yes, "had"- Al's mother died when he wasn't even 10 years old.
4. His and Ed's attempt to resurrect her via alchemy is the reason he's stuck as a soul bound to armor. The attempt backfired horribly.
5. Al's father, Hohenheim, left the family when Al was little more than an infant, so he doesn't remember him well, though he bears no grudge against him for leaving like Ed does.
6. Al is difficult to anger.
7. However, one of the things that can anger him is someone wishing they had a body like him, because he has no problem telling them how difficult and mentally taxing being a living suit of armor is.
8. He's close to being immortal- but erasing the blood seal on his neck will cause his soul to move on, and eventually his body will reject his soul so it can seek his real body.
9. Al's body is still alive and functioning on another plane, if you will- and Ed helps nourish it when he sleeps and eats.
10. However, it's still in bad shape, and when he gets it back he'll require a lot of work to be able to function normally again.
11. Al wants to learn alkahestry, a form of alchemy from the neighbouring country of Xing, in part because it originated for medicinal purposes, and he likes the idea of an alchemy that's used as a tool for healing instead of war.
12. Al has seen a lot of fighting in his young life. The neighbouring country of Ishbal rebelled when he was a child, and the Ishbalan people were exterminated. His country is a military dictatorship that likes to exterminate its enemies in general.
13. Al feels self-conscious about his large size a lot, and it's part of the reason he's so open about being a living suit of armor, because being spoken to and treated like a human keeps him grounded.
14. He keeps a list of foods he wants to try when he gets his real body back. Have fun eating flavored protein instead when I canon-update you, Al!
15. Al is skilled in alchemy- basically a science that involves the deconstruction and reconstruction of matter into new forms. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. He's actually better in some ways than Ed, who's considered a child prodigy himself, because Al tries to cause minimal destruction and doesn't make gaudy or flashy things like Ed does.

SIMON TAM

[pompous_today]

1. Simon is from the year 2517.
2. He's also quite young for a doctor- he's in his late twenties at most.
3. This is because Simon is very, very smart. He accelerated in school and is basically a genius.
4. Simon doesn't feel right if he's not professionally dressed and well-groomed, or as well as he can be considering what he can scrape together here. Consequently, when he's not clean-shaven or his clothes are messy, it's a sign that he's not feeling well.
5. His time on the Fleet has made him rather cynical. He thought he'd seen the depths of depravity back home, and then he got made into a reality TV contestant...
6. It bothers him knowing that the audience probably sees him as a precious woobie and enjoys watching his pain.
7. Being separated from his sister, River, has been hard on him. She was kidnapped, experimented on and driven insane, and so a lot of his time was taken up by caring for her. Consequently, he feels lost without her.
8. Simon actually considers flavored protein a bit of an improvement over the flavorless mush the crew was often stuck with back home.
9. He would still willingly participate in a rebellion against Atroma should the occasion arise, though.
10. He gets along fairly well with all of his crewmates and respects Robin's leadership.
11. Simon likes to be around Cole in part because he reminds him a bit of River, and he hopes his presence helps Cole.
12. Despite his parents disowning him, Simon longs for the warmth and stability of a loving family sometimes, and he knows he might never get that feeling again.
13. Simon deeply mistrusts Atroma due to his own government's abuse of his sister. He would not put anything at all past them.
14. He can seem cold and closed-off, but he's really just guarded and longs for close friendships.
15. Simon is very, very good at what he does- he was considered one of the best doctors in the verse before everything in his life went to hell.

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[killedwithlove]

It helps.

Cayde-6

[lostthebet]

1. is a Hunter class (sneaky sneaky rogue type)
2. has a gambling addiction
3. wears the cloak of his deceased buddy Andal Brask
4. used to be human
5. has had his system reformatted or 'wiped' 6 times
6. ran through the Crucible 'as if it were game'
7. makes bets with Ikora (Warlock Vanguard)
8. butts heads with Zavala (Titan Vanguard)
9. butts heads with Eris Morn ( ... not sure what you'd call her)
10. once had a crush on a lesbian
11. has ridiculously pretty penmanship
12. keeps stashes of weapons, money, and other such sundries scattered throughout ... well, probably his known galaxy.
13. sometimes binge-watches a favorite ancient-earth television series that was 'cancelled too early'
14. also booby-traps his stashes (not 100% effective)
15. 'not nearly as funny as he thinks' (as per Eris Morn)

RICHARD CASTLE

[thebestseller]

1. Castle is a famous mystery author back home.
2. However, canon is rather vague on whether or not his writing is decent or simply mindless pulpy fun.
3. Castle has one child, a daughter named Alexis, whom he raised by himself after his ex-wife willingly signed over custody. Despite seeming like a ditzy manchild, Castle is actually a very responsible father.
4. Castle is a master at pretending to be clueless to hide his sharp intelligence.
5. His canonpoint is after he'd ingested some poison (but before he knew whether or not he'd get an antidote), so he thinks he might be dead back home. However, he hasn't told anyone yet.
6. Castle is engaged to be married back home after 6 years of UST with the lovely Kate Beckett. He wants nothing more than to get back home and plan his wedding, damnit, if he survives.
7. Because he's used to being famous and having a fandom, Castle has no problem mugging for the camera- and he knows how to play an audience thanks to his mom being a famous theater star.
8. Back home, Castle has an arrangement where he shadows the NYPD and helps them solve homicides. He misses that and feels rather bored on the Fleet sometimes.
9. Castle never knew his father growing up, and he's OK with that fact.
10. Castle loves to know peoples' stories, because he believes everyone has one, and is not above being a nosy pain in the ass to find things out.
11. He's totally written Drift Fleet fanfiction and will anonymously upload it to the network sometime.
12. He wants to read whatever fanfiction the fans are writing, too.
13. In general, Castle tends to see his stay at the Fleet as an extended vacation. One he didn't ask for, but a vacation nonetheless.
14. His birth name was Richard Alexander Rodgers, but he changed it legally to Richard Edgar Castle, the Edgar being for Edgar Allen Poe.
15. He thinks being on a crew with an actual robot is the coolest thing ever.

JENNIFER KELLER

[forsometimenow]

1. Jennifer, in her own words, skipped 3 grades in school, graduated high school at 15 and finished a bachelor's degree before she was 18. She became head of Atlantis' medical department at the ripe old age of twenty-six. In other words, she's REALLY REALLY SMART, PEOPLE.
2. However, because she accelerated in school, she was too young to relate to most of her classmates and too smart to relate to people her own age and missed out on a lot of normal teenage social activities, so she's a bit socially stunted and very aware of it.
3. She is also not very pop culture savvy and feels very self-conscious about that.
4. Jennifer continually overlooks the fact that her looks at probably at least part of her audience appeal.
5. Jennifer was painfully shy when she was a little girl, and hasn't 100% gotten over it as an adult (see above re: being socially stunted which does not help). She also feels self-conscious about this.
6. She doesn't have much of a family- and with her mother dead, her dad is the only family she has left. She misses him terribly.
7. Jennifer really just wants a place to belong, and she'd found it back home on Atlantis. She's not thrilled about the fact that she had to essentially start the "get to Know People" process all over again here and has avoided Being Social a lot.
8. Back home, she's dating Rodney McKay, one of the world's foremost astrophysicists. She's embarrassed to talk about him sometimes if only because Rodney tends to sound like a dick (because, well, he IS a dick sometimes) and she feels like that can overshadow his better qualities and the way he makes her feel special and loved.
9. Beverly is her closest friend on the Fleet, and she'd honestly feel lost without her.
10. Jennifer has a strong code of medical ethics and has only come close to refusing treatment to a patient once or twice in canon.
11. That said, if someone from Atroma was bleeding at her feet, she'd be hard-pressed to stick to said ethics. (Ultimately she'd choose to save them if only because her conscience would bug her.)
12. She resents her captivity but loves the ship she's on and enjoys the company of her crew for the most part. Except Rick. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU RICK.
13. One of the few things she likes about the Fleet is being around other science fiction-y people, because she can say things like "I once had a mass of tentacles growing out of my body" and hear "I know that feel" in reply.
14. She once met Bill Nye in canon and cut him off at the beginning of a friendship speech. Really.
15. If she could ask Atroma one thing, she'd want to know "why me of all people?"

AHSOKA TANO

[resnipstance]

I'm gonna make a top level and then post facts in reply to it as I think of them

one: alien physiology 101

[resnipstance]

Ahsoka's horns are called montrals! They are sensitive to vibrations in the air, much like Toph's feet are sensitive to vibrations in the ground. Her species use them as form of passive echolocation to sense where things are in relation to themselves, enabling them to move easily in the dark and have better-than-average spatial awareness. This is also in addition to her Force-sensing abilities.

Her head-tails (the little bits hanging down from the horns around her face) are called lekku! Singular, lek. There is nothing special about them in particular. Various sources say they are semi-prehensile, but I've seen no such evidence of this in the series, so I mostly tend to skate over it.

Togruta horns and headtails normally do not begin to grow very much until adolescence. Ahsoka's only just started growing around 3-4 years ago, so they're not very long yet.

[geonomy]

1. Clay graduated from the University of California at 22 with a degree in astronomy with high grades in all of his subjects. He has a passion for learning new things, even things he's not really interested in, and with all he's learned in his life, he's incredibly smart.
2. He not only loves to learn, but also to teach! He volunteered as a tutor for mathematics, science, and astronomy while he was still in school, from the basics to the more advanced problems, and he loved the job. If his heart wasn't dead set on being an astronaut, then he'd be a teacher. This means anyone in the fleet is more than welcome to learn from him when it comes to learning new things, too!
3. His mother died in a car crash when he was 13, and the visor he constantly wears belonged to her. It's the only memento he has of her on the fleet, so he keeps it close to him at all times. The bandage on his nose came from the same car crash.
4. His father left the family and took most of their money when he was 6, and the last letter Clay ever received from him was when he was 8. We don't talk about his dad. He also has no siblings, but does have an aunt who he thinks of fondly.
5. Clay is pop music trash, but he also has a huge love for electronic music. And rock, and indie, and... well, suffice it to say, he has a huge playlist at home that he yearns to have back on the fleet.
6. He used to be a quiet, timid and shy wallflower when he was a kid, until he became best friends with Apollo, who was loud, social and boisterous. As time went on, the two seemed to feed on each other's personalities: Clay becoming more loud and social, while Apollo became quieter and a bit more withdrawn, until they balanced out quite well. Clay has Apollo to thank for being the person he is today, and he misses him terribly on the fleet. A lot of his mannerisms come from Apollo as well.
7. He has a scar on his chest from when he was stabbed back at home, but he doesn't remember it happening, and so he has no idea where the scar came from. It looks like it's been healing, so it's not as bad as it was when he first showed up. Still, seeing it makes him uneasy, so he tries not to take his shirt off unless he has to (you know, for ratings).
8. Although Clay's official art and many of his icons show him with his official GYAXA jacket, he doesn't actually have this on the fleet! He'd given it to Apollo for safe keeping before everything went down, and so it's still on Earth. Instead, he wears a jacket that looks somewhat similar, but is still different.
9. Clay is half-Korean, though he doesn't know much of the language due to not using it much as he grew up. He did meet with quite a bit of adversity due to it, but he's white-passing enough to not have it as bad as others might have.
10. He is also bisexual, though the only person he ever admitted this to was Apollo. He's dated one girl and one guy while at home, and on the fleet, he's dating Allen Walker, whom he's very much in love with!
11. Clay's been taking notes on and samples from every planet and waystation they've ever been to, and he'd love to discuss his observations with other people who might have noticed some things. He's also been making star charts as best as he can without proper equipment, though now that they have a Communications guy, he can add some more detail to them. He's been trying to figure out where in the universe they might be and where they could be headed, and he works well into the night on this and also captain-related things, enough to have him conk out right at his desk or pilot's seat sometimes. His other goal for the samples is to show that there's sustainable life out there and to eventually show everything to the people from Earth.
12. He knows about most of your canons. He just figures that the multiverse is so vast, there's no reason why they shouldn't exist! He hasn't told a soul about his knowledge of this, and he's mastered the art of acting like he's meeting someone for the first time as if he hasn't watched a whole show about them/read a whole book about them/etc. No fourth-walling from this guy!
13. He's a bit of a health nut, having to follow such a lifestyle to be an astronaut and not wanting to stray from it. He eats healthy foods (though he'll indulge in less sometimes), doesn't do drugs/smoke/drink/etc, and exercises a lot. The latter gives him a very nice build, as he can canonly pick up the dead weight of another very built guy and the guy's astronaut suit that weighed more than 200 lbs with one arm, all while wearing his own astronaut suit which weighed about the same. He's preeeeetty strong for a guy without powers.
14. Hiccup left him a flight suit when he dropped! As soon as they get to a planet, you better believe he's going to be trying it out. Clay loves to fly, and once he masters using the suit, he'll be using it a lot to get around.
15. Clay loves being the captain of the Vanquish. He loves his crew enough to consider them a small family even when someone's new. He's very invested on making sure his ship is comfortable for his crew and that they all feel good and safe around each other. He takes his job seriously, takes his crew seriously, loves every single one of them, and loves being out in space, even though being held captive wasn't his first choice on how he'd get out there in the first place.

Bonus: He loves space.

Koushirou

[techknowlogical]

1. Koushirou is adopted; his adoptive father and biological father were very distant cousins, and he has no other living family. His adoptive parents had a child that died shortly before they adopted him, so he is an only child. His parents spoil him like crazy.
2. During his first adventure in the Digital World Koushirou was given a magical artifact called a crest. Each crest represents the bearer's strongest trait, which has to be mastered before the crest will activate; Koushirou's is Knowledge, encompassing everything from curiosity to problem-solving.
3. Koushirou is very shy and uncertain when it comes to dealing with other people, mostly because he's afraid of making a bad impression or offending someone. Since he isn't all that good at reading people, especially if he doesn't know them, that just makes the task of social interaction even more stressful.
4. He loves anything and everything computer-related and is very skilled with them.
5. He has serious insomnia and may go a few days without sleeping at all. All the caffeine he drinks probably doesn't help with that.
6. If Koushirou is focused on a task he's really focused and may not notice even immediate danger. His friends often have to play lookout while he's solving a problem in the field.
7. Despite his shyness Koushirou is quietly extremely sassy, though he rarely shows it because he usually doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
8. He is very introverted and being surrounded by a lot of people exhausts him, but he does love to be around people he likes.
9. Koushirou is very difficult to scare; aside from initial surprise he's generally pretty fearless even in life or death situations.
10. He does have a temper, it just takes a whole lot of work to set it off and he calms down very quickly.
11. If he's dealing with someone who is difficult to upset or offend, he can actually get along with them really well right off the bat.
12. He's generally against violence if he has the choice and only resorts to fighting when absolutely necessary.
13. He's really bad with other languages, and speaks only his native Japanese and a few assorted words of English and Russian. Most of his communication with the other Chosen around the world relies on online translators.
14. So far, Koushirou has kept a lot to himself while on the Fleet, but he's slowly starting to get used to his crewmates enough to start showing more personality. The event and being stuck with so many people, however, has been causing him to withdraw a bit once again.
15. Someone stop him from drinking so much tea and coffee he's tiny and doesn't need his growth stunted.

Will fill out more as I think of them.

[killedwithlove]

1. Cole is a spirit of Compassion who has been forced to live the life of a tortured, abused and ultimately murdered young mage, called Cole.

2. Despite all the horror he has experienced, Cole is a genuinely kind, giving being. He really just wants everyone to be the happiest they cane be, without suffering.

3. Cole has no idea what love is. Mage!Cole never knew love that didn't end in death and this Cole knows that caring means people go away. He craves emotional intimacy, but it's completely alien to him.

Allen Walker

[save_the_souls]

1. While Allen appears about physically 16-17, he's actually around 23 years of age thanks to his time in Paradisa and the Fleet! He doesn't know his exact age or birthday, but he uses December 25th as his birthday since that's when he got adopted and it's easy to remember.

2. Allen grew up around circuses. His father was a traveling entertainer, and Allen would often help out with his acts (often clown stuff). Thanks to that, he's very acrobatic, flexible and can do tricks like juggling. Unfortunately, he did not inherit his father's comedic skills.

3. Allen is indicated to have several symptoms that go along with PTSD due to several events in his life. He's prone to flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and other symptoms. His claim that he's allergic to alcohol? Is actually due to this than a traditional allergy. Ditto to his current refusal to eat meat. All in all he keeps it in check fairly well these days, but he's still prone to its effects.

4. Allen grew up in extreme poverty, and was regularly in debt during his training years thanks to his Master/Teacher's terrible spending habits. Because of this, he's extremely vigilant in making sure he never has to deal with that level of poverty or debt again.

5. Originally Allen was a redhead! His hair changed to white when his powers first activated. He's definitely not an albino.

6. As far as he knows, his birth parents abandoned him. These days his entire thought process towards them is "yeah well fuck you too".

7. Allen is a huge fan of movies. His favorite genres are horror and action flicks. Same goes for video games.

8. Due to his powers, Allen has an enormous appetite. His augment helps with this so he won't cause any ship to starve, so he only eats...about 2-3x as much as an average person, depending on how frequently he used his powers.

9. He would probably be classified as bi or pansexual, but he doesn't label himself as anything. He's dated men and women, but is currently in a serious relationship with Clay Terran.

10. He almost always wears gloves due to his left hand, even when he eats. Choosing to not wear gloves around a character is a rather strong show of trust on his part.

11. He dislikes nicknames, especially those that are less flattering in nature. He will always correct someone who gives him a nickname he doesn't like. If he lets someone call him a nickname, it's a big deal. Calling him "Red" will get you punched.

12. His favorite food is Mitarashi Dango, but he also really likes salty or spicy food. Indian food is probably his favorite overall cuisine. But really, food in general makes him happy.

13. Allen is ambidextrous.

14. He is a Noah, which means he's host to some spirit/"memories" that may or may not be demonic. His Noah in particular is Nea, the self-proclaimed Noah of Destruction (no one else calls you this Nea!!). Since every other Noah he ever met was a sociopathic murderer....he was less than thrilled about this revelation and has been trying to find a way to stop his Noah side from fully forming.

15. That thing on his face is a scar. Really, it's not a tattoo.

Stefan (Alesci) Salvatore

[stefanged]

1) Stefan is technically a reincarnation! Technically, because reincarnations in his previous game worked on the premise that as you gained more memories + items + mannerisms of your past life, you would LOSE the life you'd gained. It's why he flip flops between surnames, but there's a good rule of thumb: Do you know Elena Gilbert? If yes, he will go by Salvatore. If not, he will go by Alesci.

2) Which leads us to the fear Stefan carries around 24/7: he's not ready to give up everything that Alesci stands for. Not even remotely close.

3) Regardless - both of his lives were crazy smart. He holds degrees from Harvard, Princeton, and numerous other universities in the US since he figured why not? Canon didn't specify most of Salvatore's degrees; Alesci holds a BS in Biology and a minor in Religion/Religious Studies.

4) Canonically, Stefan was addicted to human blood because he's a Ripper, a type of vampire who rips their victims to shreds (and then tries to piece them back together once the guilt kicks in). Alesci doesn't REMEMBER this; therefore, he is now addicted to black tea with milk.

5) Stefan practices Sunni Islam, and used to work as an interfaith activist in college. He also worked at a church during his previous game; it's why he currently runs the interfaith center on the Iskaulit.

6) He's also big into writing: Stefan's kept a consistent diary for over a century and a half now. It's not uncommon to see him carry a notebook and a pen and jot down thoughts about life, his lab, and even a to-do list for various things. (His current diary, no joke, is more important to him than the comm device.)

7) Stefan has a rose tattoo on his right shoulder. It was a present from his past life.

8) He isn't much for TV or video games; the only kind of reality TV he watches is The Amazing Race. Instead, he reads a ton of books (some better than others). His favorite's a long-running series about teenage demigods.

9) Sexuality-wise, Stefan considers himself painfully straight, but if pressed, would say he's celibate and therefore off the market. (He can't explain his relationship with Alex Russo, beyond her being his witch & very important to him.)

10) Alesci had two loving doctor parents and two siblings, an older brother [Damon Ibrahim] and a younger sister [Olette Ayesha]. He also has a sister-in-law, and a niece, Inara Alesci. (There is extended family, such as his cousin Bilal Mansour / Bartholomew Allen II, but he's far more likely to bring up his nuclear family when talking to Fleet members.) Salvatore, on the other hand, had a much more dysfunctional family.

11) Fluent in three languages - English, Arabic, and Italian. He knows enough Farsi to get by, and actually understands Hindi from the Bollywood movies he watched in college.

12) He actually likes being first mate of the Paisley: it lets Alex off the hook for paperwork, and it gives him a great excuse to parent the other members of the crew. He considers the Paisley kids his ohana (even Loki, he guesses), and doesn't mind hanging out and doing random things with them!

13) The obvious - Stefan's a vampire. Salvatore got turned when his father shot him; Alesci got turned when he was hit by a car in Tokyo. In the case of the latter, Alesci didn't realize he'd been turned until it was almost too late.

14) When it comes to music, Alesci is an accidental hipster: he barely listens to the radio, so he relies on things like Spotify to listen to bands similar to his favorites. They all ended up being SUPER OBSCURE. (Whoops.) Salvatore's a bit more mainstream, and has a weakness for Bon Jovi because he spent most of the 80's partying with the dude.

15) Although he doesn't watch a ton of TV, Stefan's a classic movie buff through and through. He's a huge fan of most of Audrey Hepburn's works, as well as most of Hitchcock's work (and even a few more recent "classics," in his mind, like Forrest Gump). He's sorry, he'll never get the appeal for Space Jam. Ever.

Bran Stark

[summerschild]

1. Before his fall, Bran used to climb everything. Trees, walls, towers, you name it. He was a natural monkey, much to his mother's displeasure.
2. Like one time, he actually fell asleep up in a tree, right after promising that he'd stop.
3. When he was seven there were multiple attempts on his life after he accidentally discovered a huge royal secret. The first left him paralyzed from the waist down, when he was thrown from a high tower window. He was in a coma for months, and not expected to live.
4. He loves stories about heroes and monsters - the scarier, the better. His Old Nan used to tell them to him while he was bedridden.
5. He has a very large wolf named Summer, whom he raised from a pup himself.
6. Bran is a skinchanger, which mean he can enter the minds of animals and be them for awhile. More specifically, he's a warg, or a skinchanger who enters the minds of wolves or canines. Bran regularly enters Summer's mind in canon, and not having him in DF is a bit traumatic. He can also enter the minds of humans, though this is a strict taboo, and he has only done it once on accident.
7. He is infatuated with a sixteen-year-old female friend back home. She's super cool and catches frogs in nets, but then she makes him eat them.
8. He also has prophetic dreams, usually with some cryptic symbolism. This is called the greensight.
9. He's the second youngest of six siblings in a noble family. They were all raised in a big Northern castle called Winterfell, surrounded by cozy furs and things.
10. The oldest of these siblings, Robb, was the declared King in the North prior to his death, making Bran the Prince.
11. As Prince he briefly ruled over Winterfell and helped peasants with their farms and stuff, before it was taken from him in a siege.
12. His favorite things he's learned about while in the Fleet are orange soda and sharks.
13. In book canon he's a redhead like his mother and two of his siblings, but his series casting is too adorable not to use.
14. Don't let his solemnity fool you, he can be a total petulant brat. He gets so frustrated with his situation at one point in canon that he starts howling like a wolf at people.
15. Since the only clothes he brought with him from home were his filthy doublet and tights, Bran mostly wears Fleet-issued pajamas and T-shirts from a waystation. He likes one he has with Bugs Bunny on it, even though he doesn't understand what bugs have to do with a rabbit.

[huaaaaagh]

FIFTEEN FACTS FOR KITO HERE WE GO

1) Kirito is not his name at all! Surprise to no one who's seen his tag. It's a shortened version of his real name, KIRIgaya KazuTO. It's the handle he uses online. Why does he not share this? It's basically just habit to go by Kirito when he's in a weird new place, now.

2) Actually, amongst his friends, he's called Kirito a lot IRL, too. His girlfriend is especially guilty of it. He used to correct people, since it's kind of bad form, but he's basically given up on it now.

3) Everyone calls him Kirito because all of his friends are from Sword Art Online, which is the video game he was literally trapped in for two years. Like, seriously, could-not-log-out trapped. It was a big deal. It's lucky for him he didn't pick the name xxHotStud69xx.

4) Actually, Kirigaya is probably not his original last name, either. Kirito is adopted- his biological parents died in an accident when he was a year old, and so his aunt and uncle took him and raised him as their own. Since he took their family name, and his family is related on his mother's side, it's possible that his biological family had a different surname entirely. IT IS A MYSTERY, THOUGH. (He doesn't actually care, since he hasn't tried to change it.)

5) After escaping SAO and basically waking up from a two-year coma, he underwent some serious physical therapy to get back in a shape where he could move about freely. He's basically back to normal now, but it stunted his growth enough that he's still pretty scrawny. Doesn't help that he never eats enough.

6) Kirito is a computer whiz. He's been building computers from spare parts since he was little. Like, six years old little. At age ten he hacked into the family registry and unsealed his own records, which is why he knows he's adopted. It's kind of absurd.

7) He has a daughter! ...Kind of. In SAO, he and his girlfriend found a little girl who turned out to be a very advanced AI named Yui. She basically adopted them as her parents, and they're surprisingly chill about it. People sometimes tease them, but they're very proud of their robot child.

8) He's mostly over it now, but he had a bit of dysphoria regarding perceived-body and actual-body when he woke up from SAO. In-game, he never grew, but he was 14 when he started playing, so waking up to find his body two years older than he was used to was super weird.

9) You can win him over almost immediately with good food. Boy has a sweet tooth and a huge weakness for good flavour. I'm pretty sure he fell for Asuna half because she was a master chef.

10) He sort of subverts his own harem-anime trope by a) recognizing when someone's got a confession going on and b) nipping the romance angle in the bud right at the get-go. As a result, his circle of friends has a lot of girls but only one romantic interest. It actually weirds him out a bit that he has so many male chums in DF. Where did all this testoterone come from!?

11) Basically everyone agrees that Kirito's special talents and abilities are all related to the digital world- in a game he's an unstoppable berserker, but in real life, he's about as ordinary as you can get. Guys, he could have told you that. Why do you think he spends so much time in the digital world?

12) He digs motorcycles! In an era where most vehicles are quiet and electric-based, he rides around town in a gas-guzzler a friend sold to him for cheap. Everyone complains about the noise (and the smell a bit) so he's embarrassed about not getting something else, but he kind of loves it anyway. (He thinks he's so cool.)

13) He started wearing black a lot so that he wouldn't stand out, since in SAO everyone in flashy clothes get noticed (and therefore challenged in some way). It backfired spectacularly when he earned a reputation as the Black Swordsman, and suddenly everyone knew who he was. Sigh. He just can't break the habit, though.

14) Kirito has absurdly fast reflexes. His unique skill in SAO, Dual-Wielding, was granted to only the one out of ten thousand people with the fastest reaction time. It basically saved his life.

15) He kind of hates Christmas. If you sing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to him he'll probably cry. *

* Not confirmed. Just bloody likely.

Alex Russo

[delincuente]

1. She was born in 1992 in the backseat of a New York taxi.
2. Her father is Italian and her mother is Mexican, but she wasn't raised with a large appreciation of either culture. She only speaks a couple words of Spanish, and almost refused to let her mother throw her a quincé.
3. She has two brothers and she acts like she hates them, but once she accidentally erased them from existence and completely lost her shit.
4. Back home she was literally always in trouble. She had her own bean bag in the principal's office, and nap supplies hidden in the detention room. Most of her troublemaking involved absurd pranks, e.g. "Volleyballs filled with jelly".
5. She once turned her parents into guinea pigs so that they wouldn't see her awful report card. But she's totally sorry now.
6. Before Drift Fleet, Alex spent three years in Paradisa. It was deeply traumatic to her on many levels, and still plays a huge part in her daily life here on the Fleet.
7. She is physically still sixteen, but is actually twenty.
8. She realized she was bisexual late in her Paradisa stay - so far she's had one serious relationship in-game, and it was with a girl.
9. She's an artist! She hasn't been able to do much lately because of the lack of art supplies in space, but back in Paradisa she had a big studio in her room for her paintings. Once she gets her hands on some more supplies she wants to put together a studio on the Iskaulit.
10. Her taste in media is notoriously awful. In canon, her favorite band is a death metal group who dress as Vikings and throw raw meat into the audience. Her favorite movies are really awful slasher flicks or monster B-movies. And she can't get enough of celebrities and reality TV.
11. She is a wizard, and her magic works a bit differently from a lot of other users'. She improvs her spells and can do just about anything, as long as the spell "works" (ie, rhymes). Most of it is wand-based - hand magic does exist, but it's a lot simpler and nonverbal.
12. She would literally stay in bed all day if she was able to - sleeping is her favorite activity aside from watching TV and eating tacos.
13. She's 5'8'', and when she dresses up she wears heels that make her almost 6'0''. Of course, she doesn't actually dress up a whole lot in the Fleet. She prefers pajamas and ponytails.
14. Her high school education was spotty at best, what with her persistent truancy, so she has a tendency to completely make up incorrect historical facts when explaining Earth to people. In fact, you probably just shouldn't believe anything she says about her home planet.
15. She chopped off her hair with safety scissors about eight months ago and hasn't had a proper haircut ever since. Someone get this girl to a real salon.

[recopy]

oh god this is gonna be so long rip me

1. Megaman hasn't always been a computer program! Twelve years ago he was actually a human boy named Hub Hikari, and had an identical twin brother named Lan. Hub was technically the older sibling by a handful of seconds.

2. Unfortunately Hub was also diagnosed with a rare in-universe heart condition called HBD--and, being too young for most medications or any kind of surgery, he died before his first birthday. The Megaman you know right now is Hub's uploaded soul given a second lease on life. (It's...a long story..........)

3. Megaman's programmer (and dad) is Dr. Yuuichirou Hikari. This guy also happens to be one of the top computer scientists in the country, and invented the dynamic life-like AI programming that all NetNavis in Megaman's world share today. Dr. Hikari works in SciLabs, a government facility that provides for aforementioned top computer scientists of the country.

4. Megaman spent roughly the first 10 years of his life confined to SciLab facilities, due to the circumstances surrounding his programming. He learned the ropes of being a functional Navi by helping the resident scientists with labwork from the programming end of things, and in turn he was also subjected to an extensive amount of testing. It wasn't all that bad, though--since Dr. Hikari headed the majority of these tests, and was generally the highest-ranking scientist around, it was always ensured that Megaman was safe and comfortable in the process. Thanks to this, Megaman has come out of this upbringing with a high respect for scientists and the scientific method in general.

5. He couldn't stay holed up in SciLabs forever, though, and eventually he was gifted to Lan as a personal NetNavi for his 10th birthday--yes, the same Lan that's also his twin brother. Lan was not informed of the fact that he ever had a deceased twin brother at the time, though--that revelation came up later. (It's another long, awkward story.) Despite their differences they became fast friends, though, and they're still best friends today.

6. Like any other Navi, Megaman has a functionally eidetic memory--he doesn't forget things so much as set them to varying classes of priority, and any information stowed away is perfectly retrievable later (with varying amounts of effort). Thanks to this, he never forgets faces and is your go-to guy for memorizing numbers or other such sequences.

7. Thanks to the format of his memory mentioned above, Megaman also still sort of remembers the brief amount of time he spent alive as Hub--and, because of this, he's retained a lot of subconscious human tics that just don't happen with normal Navis, since those tics are functionally useless otherwise. He yawns after he wakes up from things like standby, and he still feels that sort of burn associated with crying when he gets sad--even if tears can't actually be a thing. Little things like this render Megaman amazingly human-like to most fellow humans and disconcertingly almost-too-human to most fellow NetNavis.

8. Navis do sleep, in a sense--it's called standby, and it's actually a process built in to help with memory processing, as a means to sort and consolidate the massive quantity of new information input that a Navi takes in daily. Though it's not required daily in the same sense that it'd be for humans, it's generally recommended that a Navi gets in at least four hours of standby every couple of days--should they go too long without, they'll gradually start mixing up memories and information alongside being generally disoriented, a lot like humans. Navis don't dream when they're on standby, though. ...Usually. (Megaman has had a few, on occasion. They're still very weird, and don't happen often.)

9. Speaking of sleep--Megaman has never once used his bunker bed on the Golden. Instead, at some late point of the night, he can be found sitting upright in a chair in the engineer's room with his eyes closed. That's him on standby. LAYING DOWN IN BED WITH THIS BACKPACK AND ALL THIS ARMOR IS UNCOMFORTABLE OKAY.... He also leaves the lights on in the room when he does this, though, mostly because the utter darkness of space still kind of wigs him out--the cyber world is literally never that dark and he's still adjusting :( But yes, current crewmates are free to acknowledge that this is a thing.

10. Speaking of armor--that blue uniform you see in Megaman's icons is basically what he's still wearing 24-7 in the fleet, helmet included. Most of it is actually part of his android frame, and only certain parts easily come off: gloves, boots, and helmet--not including the earpieces, which are a permanent fixture (he doesn't actually have ears lmao). This makes it very difficult to indulge in actual clothes, and so he generally doesn't try. His backpack contains all of his built-in combat protocols and ~50MB of Battle Chip qeueing storage which is now a hilariously small quantity of data space if you think about it LAUGHS....

11. In this android body his hair also has the same texture as real human hair. --And the same physics, too, which means that Megaman's hair is currently an extremely messy affair. The hat hair is so real. (This...may be part of the reason why he keeps his helmet on almost all the time.) Having literally never needed to in the cyber world, combing it is a notion that has yet to actually occur to him. Maybe someday...

12. Sometimes he does wonder what his preferences would have been as a human. What Hub's favorite subject in class would have been, what Hub would have wanted to do when he grew up, what sports Hub would enjoy the most, what foods Hub would have liked best... Megaman figures he might have liked curry, at least, since Lan loves it so much. (In reality he'd think it's way too spicy to be palatable tho).

13. Normally, Navis can have backup iterations of themselves stored safely away by their Operators, to be updated periodically much the same way you might backup and update a computer; this way, should a Navi ever be deleted on the Net, their personality data and most recently backed-up memories could still be retrieved. Megaman has never had the luxury of a backup, however. Dr. Hikari has made many attempts, but all of them only ever seem to carry over the template shell programming--and not the soul.

14. He loves rock music--it's an appreciation he shares with Lan, and if given the opportunity he would absolutely be that guy blaring rock music through the speakers in his room as he works.....at a polite and reasonable volume that doesn't bother fellow residents, of course. Branching from this is a boyish admiration for the coolness of guitars; he would totally nerd out at one if ever exposed to a guitar in person, and the desire to learn how to play it would be real. HIS NAME IS ROCKMAN IN JAPANESE FOR A REASON.....

15. Megaman does not like ghosts. He just...abjectly hates the idea of them, especially as they're usually presented in the horror genre of fiction. He doesn't really like even talking about them, and actively suggesting there's a ghost about in the vicinity is a surefire way to spook him a bit. Horror movies with ghosts...more like no thank u he's out >:( (The incredible irony of this ghost phobia may also be a bit lost on him)

Nightingale

[experiencepoints]

1. Nightingale isn't her real name! Her real name is Aiya, but she prefers the name her team gave her, Gray Nightingale, or just Nightingale.

2. Nightingale is about 5'1, and very sensitive about this fact. She likes wearing shoes with heels to try to boost that height, but it's... honestly not very helpful.

3. Her daily wear is always one of her two team uniforms, depending on how warm it is that day. Usually defaults to the one on the right unless it's cold as crap out. So yeah, she's always looking like she's cosplaying a magical girl.

4. She is an amnesiac! Her previous game involved everyone losing all of their memories before they arrive, and Nightingale arrived in DF with only about half her memories back.

5. That previous game also involved near-constant terrible things happening, so now she's pretty jumpy, and basically has PTSD about it.

6. She's terrified of water after an unfortunate incident where she drowned and accidentally drowned a teammate's feelings with her (long story). On a related note, she can't swim.

7. At her home, she was actually a rich girl. Her parents were pretty goddamn wealthy on virtue of being the most ridiculously strong adventurers around.

8. On that note, her parents were really emotionally abusive, so she's almost entirely emotionally stunted and bases her entire sense of self-worth on how much she can help people. Which means if she likes someone, she'll be focusing a lot of effort on trying to please them and will do basically whatever she's said.

9. She's from a world that runs on SNES-era JRPG mechanics, and behaves accordingly! Her world doesn't have permanent death, and she has an innate sense of stats and classes and things, along with a hyperspace inventory. But she gets really mad when people call her world a video game.

10. Her favorite color is purple, and will love basically anything that is also purple, because she associates it with her team.

11. She has no hobbies. Like, none. She passes most of her time cooking and sleeping, or trying to do things to feel useful, but she just doesn't have fun for herself. She used to enjoy fighting monsters, but that doesn't really happen anymore.

12. She is an incredibly skilled cook, though! And she likes feeding people, so if you ask, she'll generally make you amazing good things.

13. Despite that, she herself is very skinny, and if you can somehow ever see her without clothes, she looks honestly malnourished. She has a tendency to just forget to eat.

14. She is a powerful mage and extremely good at fighting, using a standard RPG mage spell list- Fire, ice, lightning, status effects, and so on. She's still missing about half her spell list, due to her previous game. (As a mage, her strength stat is also absolutely abysmal. Do not ask her to lift things.)

15. She is gay as hell. So very incredibly gay. She kind of crushes on girls easily, especially strong girls or ones who could just kick her ass. (And has a special thing for girls who aren't quite entirely human, apparently.)

BONUS ROUND

[experiencepoints]

Couple of extra facts I ran out of room for in there.

- As soon as she gets nervous or alarmed, her brain-to-mouth filter just shuts off entirely and she tends to start babbling.

- She has two nasty scars through her left leg and elbow, where she was shot through both. These are generally always kept hidden by her uniform.

- She's got a terrible weakness for sappy romance stories about ~true love~, but she will deny it forever. (She also really wants a relationship, but she's self-aware enough to realize she's way too much of an emotional mess for one.)

- If you show her any caring or affection, she will automatically basically love you forever. But she also will assume it's just being polite and doesn't think of anyone as thinking of her as a friend until they explicitly say it.

Nami

[mikangirl]

1) She has a rough scar on the back of her left shoulder. Oda drew it briefly in the manga before it mysteriously vanished (apparently the men are allowed to scar, but the women aren't HOKAY). It's sort of a combination of "I stabbed this old tattoo of mine multiple times and then had it removed surgically", so it's not a pretty one. Mostly it gets covered up as she wears a tanktop and white shirt a lot of the time.

2) Speaking of tattoos and one that might have been covered by that same shirt, she has a mikan-and-pinwheel design on her left shoulder. You can see that in half her icons at least. It's to remind her of home and family.

3) She grew up in a small island village on a mikan orchard, but grew interested in navigation very early on. She drew her first topographically accurate map of her island when she was ten years old. Largely she learned by stealing navigation books from town. Her family was very poor.

4) Her family is not her blood family; she was found in a warzone by Bellemere, a marine, who got her and another young girl to safety and took them in as her own. Despite that, she very much loves them both.

5) It turns out she is a prodigious navigator and cartographer from very early on, a fact that has been noted and taken advantage of by three crews now. Two of those crews took her by force. The Straw Hats are the only crew she recognises, and were instrumental in freeing her from the other two.

6) She's also got an uncanny knack of reading the weather, which is an invaluable skill as a navigator, predicting it with great accuracy, even in situations where it should be impossible.

7) Frustrated at being one of the weaker members of her crew (and apparently in need of protection as a result), she combined that knowledge of weather and sky island technology into a weapon, which can create anything from violent thunderstorms and wind to tiny hot showers and room heating. Said weapon is MIA since coming to Drift Fleet, which pisses her off immensely.

8) Nami's mother was shot in front of her at the age of 10 by pirates (who then proceeded to kidnap Nami and raise/abuse/use her talent for the next eight years. hooray.) The villagers tried to stop this and many were cut down, and the rest were basically enslaved. It was a banner day in her idyllic little village, and scarring both literally and figuratively. She was branded a pirate at the age of 10.

9) Those pirates struck a deal with Nami that if she paid them 100 million beri, they would free her village. Thus prompted eight years of learning how to steal and con and manipulate, and she's pretty amazing at those too, now. She's adamant, though, that she only steals from pirates. (Your valuables are safe unless you piss her off, basically.)

10) Her alcohol tolerance is monstrous. The only time she's been shown being even tipsy in the manga was after drinking about her own body weight in alcohol, and even then she was clear-headed. She enjoys drinking, but she can also quite happily go without and has no dependence on it. It's just... nice to have in places like this. :|

11) Despite her traumatic childhood, Nami is a well-balanced girl who's very happy with where she is now; she makes friends easily, and despite sounding like a bitch half the time is extremely compassionate, especially when it comes to anyone who might remind her of herself.

12) She's not afraid to manipulate the hell out of people if she feels it's necessary, though. She's very canny and intelligent and extremely difficult to con. You can't con a conman.

13) ... unless you bring money into it. Nami's a magpie when it comes to shiny things. Most of her common sense goes out the window when you introduce, say, a treasure chest to the equation.

14) Her sexuality never comes up in canon. Nami, like her crew, seems to have more important things to do. I tend to play her as demisexual with interests on both sides of the fence. She's not a casual sex kinda gal.

15) She's not very tolerant of stupidity, and has little patience when it comes to people who whine instead of attempting to fix things. She draws a sword on a little girl in the movies because the girl cries about her life and says the Straw Hats might as well kill her, so. Don't be an "alas, my life is pain" kind of person, it sets her teeth on edge.

Marhi Ohsi

[notkittenaround]

1. Marhi is from a matriarchal culture where mostly girls are born.
2. The game has an event where a special, weekly spawn boss takes the face of the person who landed the killing blow last time. Marhi was once that person! So a couple of hundred people versus a fake Marhi in a mega boss fight happened.
3. Marhi is a billionaire with a very big house... because she's a great fisher.
4. She got the name Metallic Gold Magpie by showing up in her previous game dressed in bling.
5. Her most powerful limit break involves doing a dance with a fairy to revive and heal the party.
6. She has legendarily tacky, neon tastes in clothing and housing.
7. Her chocobo is named 'Kweh.' She is bad at naming things.
8. I am bad at facts.

[electrostatics]

uhhh

1. Elecman likes music?? Like REALLY likes music. In a really methodical way. He's good at following patterns and schematics so playing along with sheet music is very soothing for him. He sort of absorbed this from his operator, who is really into music...like really into it.

2. Elecman has also developed a few tics from his operator that aren't strictly necessary for a navi to have. More 'human' gestures like rubbing his arms or the back of his neck when nervous are ones passed down from his operator.

3. Nothing soothes him more than having everything laid out nice and neat and methodically. Jigsaws, sliding puzzles, rubik's cubes and other things of that stripe are things he's likely to try and lay his hands on sooner or later in order to give him a method of calming himself down.

4. Elecman is...a little bit highly strung. He's nervous mostly because he calculates what can go wrong and likes to try and see every angle possible before he approaches a situation. If he can't quite reach a level or preparation satisfactory to him, he tends to get nervous, and when he's nervous he's snappy and constantly on edge.

5. Elecman is...really easily provoked if you know which levers to press. He's not quite as easily provoked as his buddy Fireman (who is as hotheaded as his name suggests...) and he can be pretty patient with the right people, but it takes him effort and sometimes he just wants to take a swing at the world FUCK THE CONSEQUENCES

6. Elecman's often-mentioned operator is Count Jack Electel (with his more commonly known name being Count Elec). He's the black sheep of his rich family. His childhood was unfun and has resulted in a lot of Elecman's more independent personality traits.

7. Elecman thinks being mean is fun. Insulting him back doesn't do much unless you press the right buttons, because he'll just keep going. He's going to win.

8. Speaking of winning, Elecman is intensely competitive. Puns, fights, maintenance; if he can make a competition out of it and is sufficiently challenged, he'll rise to the occasion.

9. Elecman has a 'civilian' form that allows him to fit in with and use human-sized facilities as needed. He hasn't used it yet; the only time he's deployed it is in one of the calibration rooms, and that was a subconscious projection.

10. He can float/fly in netnavi form. He's rather grumpy about having to be subject to the laws of physics and gravity now that he's physical.

11. He's actually pretty lonely, but he does a great job of not showing this or admitting to this ever if he can possibly help it. He misses his friends.

12. He can sing, but he prefers not to do it; it's kind of a private thing for him and his operator to share.

13. Elecman is incredibly dedicated to his work. Though he knows to take breaks if he really needs it, works in progress will itch at him until they're completed. If you give him a job, it'll get completed.

14. He occasionally wishes his pylons were a little less exaggerated. He occasionally has trouble with doorframes on the fleet.

15. His favourite colour is yellow. (As might be expected).

PEGGY CARTER

[mucked]

o1. Before her military + espionage career, Peggy attended St Martin-In-The-Fields High School for Girls. It's one of the oldest girls' schools in the UK. Although a Christian school, it accepts girls of all faiths. Its motto is 'Caritate et disciplina', meaning with love and learning.

o2. Well before she lived in NYC and worked with its S.S.R. office, Peggy has had reason to spend time in (and as good as memorize) New York City's sewer system.

o3. Once upon a time, and during one of her undercover assignments, Peggy rescued Doctor Erskine while masquerading as a servant at Castle Kauffman.

o4. During the early years of the war, she put in time at Bletchley Park as a code-breaker.

o5. She can speak and read English, Russian, and German fluently. She's not bad with French, either.

o6. Peggy prefers a gin and tonic, but will accept a glass of just about anything if the mood and circumstance is right. Runners-up for her favourites include brandy, scotch whiskey, and bourbon when among friends.

o7. She's got a scarred over bullet wound on her right shoulder.

o8. Her upbringing was mild and middle-class. A nice part of London, certainly, and before the war she never wanted for much -- despite the economic downturn of the decade. Her parents were named Harrison and Amanda.

o9. Since joining the fleet, she's had to confront a great many difficult subjects: of familiar faces living long beyond their lifespan, of a lost lover returned to life, and fresh enemies. She hasn't yet realized that the future is (perhaps) just a little out of her league (power-wise).

10. For the moment, she'd rather ignore the prospect of other worlds. She hasn't yet come to grips with the possibility that she's not the only her around.

11. Once, Dum Dum Dugan suggested she be named 'Miss Union Jack' -- Peggy didn't agree.

12. Her combat style relies more upon brute force than finesse or elegant technique. Peggy is a brawler, and likes to throw a fist or two. Additionally, she use whatever's nearby as a weapon. For example, a stapler.

13. In the fleet, she still carries with her an empty vial that once housed the remaining sample of Steve Rogers's blood: a painful reminder of a painful goodbye.

14. She has a hard time playing well with others -- not because she doesn't respect collaboration or teamwork (after all, she enjoyed a lot of that during the war) but because her life since has shown her, repeatedly, that an association with her tends to get others hurt or killed. So she frequently requires reminding that she doesn't have to carry the world's weight alone.

15. Frequently wears red, white, and blue. Kinda like someone else, hm?

SANSA STARK

[steeledskin]

o1. Technically, her name ought to be Sansa Lannister. After all, she's married to Tyrion Lannister. However, seeing as they're both (separately) on the run for a crime they didn't commit, and the marriage was never consummated, Sansa is more than prepared to prepared to lie about this fact until the end of days.

o2. In fact! Were it not for Bran being in the fleet, she wouldn't have given either of the above names to anyone. Instead, at this point, she's been calling herself 'Alayne Stone' for months -- masquerading as the natural born daughter of Petyr Baelish, the man who once loved her mother and who smuggled Sansa from the capital.

o3. To her mind (until reuniting with Bran here), Sansa was the last remaining Stark. As far as she'd been coached, she was the sole living heir to Winterfell.

o4. She is well-accomplished in the gentler arts of her world: sewing, embroidery, singing, dancing, as well as harp-playing.

o5. Sansa is one of the few individuals in all of Westeros who knows the true identity of Joffrey's murderer.

o6. Her memory is sharp enough to (years later) recreate her family's castle when she rebuilds it, in miniature and in snow, while living in the Vale.

o7. Sansa once saved a man's life using only her wits and words. This happened when Joffrey, intent on executing a drunken knight for his late arrival to the joust, was instead convinced to let the knight live as a fool and jester instead. Sansa assured him it was bad luck for Joffrey to have a man killed on his name-day, and that a life of humiliation would be a far more fitting punishment.

o8. She has become something of an reluctant mother-figure to a young sickly boy named Robert Arryn (affectionately called 'Sweetrobin'). Robert remains unaware that Sansa is, in fact, his cousin.

o9. Distance and time away from her family, her home, and her culture have forced Sansa to reconsider the value inherent to a Nothern life. In her case, absence did indeed make the heart grow fonder. She went from resenting her home to -- much later -- yearning for it.

10. She loved (and perhaps still loves) stories, songs, and fantasies. Although she now recognizes them to be a far far cry from reality. Her favourite stories are those involving Florian and Jonquil.

11. At first blush, she comes across as a small-voiced and dull sort of creature. This is partly on purpose -- Sansa doesn't like drawing attention to herself, and is likely to say whatever's necessary in order to deflect suspicion or interest. She'll lie as easily as she breathes, if not always so elegantly.

12. She loves lemon cakes. Lemon cakes are her favourite.

13. For the time being, her hair is dyed a dark brownish-black. As the dye fades and her roots grow out, the natural coppery colour of her hair will grow more and more apparent -- and with it, her resemblance to her mother's side of the family.

14. Her augment is associated with 'personnel' here in the fleet. She doesn't yet know this, or even understand what that might mean.

15. Did I mention she REALLY likes lemon cakes?

HARUKA TENOH

[actsmagnificent]

1. Despite her signature hobby being motor sports (and the number of times she takes people for rides), Haruka is too young at the start of canon to have a Japanese driver's license.
2. She knows how to play piano.
3. Being misgendered only bothers her when the other person intends it as an insult.
4. That said, she never once flat-out says "I am a woman". Just "I don't remember ever saying I was a guy."
5. Haruka is good at everything. Everything. Even things she doesn't want to be good at, like hawking wares as a substitute fish vendor.
6. She apparently likes to read, since she talks about a book she read as a kid and we see her with books a bunch of times.
7. The best way you can get her to respect you is to punch her in the gut.
8. She owns a car that doesn't actually exist - her usual ride is a yellow version of the car from You Only Live Twice, except the convertible version of that car never made it to the commercial market. Haruka drives James Bond's car, guys.
9. She is absolutely obsessed with the wind. Specifically, becoming the wind, but she also likes ocean breezes. Read into that what you will.
10. Along with Michiru and another of her fellow Soldiers of the Outer Solar System, she's raising a child back home who calls her "Haruka-papa". Said child has the power to destroy the known universe. They're a cute family.
11. According to Michiru, Haruka "doesn't like popular men".
12. Her favorite food is salad and her least favorite food is natto (fermented Japanese soybeans).
13. Her birthday is January 27, which makes her an Aquarius.
14. Depending on when in middle school they became Sailor Soldiers, Haruka and Michiru may be newer to the gig than Sailor Venus. This does not stop them from acting like they know absolutely everything.
15. Haruka and Michiru are not cousins.

Vima Sunrider

[tobeajedi]

1. Vima's life from age three to four was full of DAD IS A FORCE GHOST and WAR and WOULD-BE STEPDAD KILLED HIS OWN BROTHER. Everything from then to her current canonpoint was a decade of build-up for Mom You Never Have Time For Me, but all offscreen.
   
2. Vima and her mom were basically exiled from appearing in the EU again because of some weird copyright nonsense about the name 'Sunrider', which stopped them from using her in the Knights of the Old Republic games. On the one hand this is a terrible shame because we could have had adult Knight Vima, but I'm also highly skeptical considering the character they made to fill her plot role was fairly pompous and I sure hope "has a stick up her butt and irritates her teammates" wasn't the personality they had in mind for Vima.
   
3. She's a hard worker and likes doing things. Bored Vima is generally a recipe for trouble.
   
4. As a little girl, she had blondey blonde hair.
   
5. That Ulic Qel-Droma guy she keeps alluding to in her narration? He's the would-be stepdad who killed his own brother when she was four. When she was fourteen she decided the Force wanted him to train her. (Star Wars is really into redemption arcs.)
   
6. In fact, at one point she teases him about the whole FELL TO THE DARK SIDE AND STARTED AN INTERSTELLAR WAR business. And somehow gets away with it.
   
7. Vima was kind of collectively raised by her mom and a bunch of other Jedi, so she's fairly self-sufficient, knowledgeable, and used to doing her own thing.
   
8. That upbringing also left her with a strong desire to have people pay attention to her, because Jedi are busy people. I imagine her childhood was full of good-natured kindness but also not a lot of deep emotional bonds.
   
9. Her mom is Nomi Sunrider, who's the current Grand Master of the Jedi Order. MOM WHY DO YOU NEVER HAVE TIME FOR ME.
   
10. She once "borrowed" a mining pod and tagged along with a sun-mining crew because she was bored and nobody was paying attention to her. She almost fell into the star while doing this.
    
11. She was monumentally pissed off at having her lightsaber confiscated or whatever by the Fleet. Of everything that being brought here entails, that bit irritates her the most, or at least second-most.
    
12. In spite of her occasional brattiness, Vima really buckles down once someone actually dedicates time and effort into teaching her; Ulic said she was the most dedicated student he'd ever seen.
    
13. Her mom's Force specialty is Battle Meditation, which can strengthen your own side and dishearten your enemies; a powerful and rare ability. Vima's knack with the Force is strongly similar--she's really perceptive about people and as her replacement in KOTOR also has B.M., Vima will probably be able to do it in the future herself.
    
14. She doesn't really have a homeworld. She was born on a planet called H'rratth but the family left when she was a toddler. The closest other place she had to a home was Ossus, which was torched during the war.
    
15. She comes from before the days when Jedi were supposed to strive for total serenity or barred from friendships and romantic attachments--her mom and Ulic were openly dating, Ulic trained alongside his brother, and the Jedi thing was usually passed down through families. (In spite of KOTOR trying to paste prequel-era ethos into the KOTOR games which took place less than half a century later. That itself was corrected in their tie-in comics. Blah blah continuity.)
    

bird dave strider

[feathery]

1. Davesprite is eighteen, going on ninteen in December. He spent almost four and a half months in a bad end timeline, which totaled out to nearly eleven months for him with time travel. Then he has roughly a year of CRAU and now several months in Drift.


2. He is a doomed offshoot of a guy named Dave Strider. While his life has always been pretty unfortunate (thanks, bro), everything really went to hell when he was thirteen. We're talking best friend dying, girl he had a crush on probably dying, him leaving his sister in a dead-end timeline without knowing if it would kill her or not, and him consigning himself to no longer mattering in the alpha or "real" timeline, since there was another Dave to take care of things. This, needless to say, Fucked Him Up.


3. He has a sister named Rose Lalonde, who he misses a lot. He made the critical error of flirting with her and calling his mom hot when they were younger, because they didn't know they were related. He is Not Ok With This.


4. He probably never went to school as a kid. Davesprite wasn't exactly born on the grid; he was, in fact, cloned in a lab and dumped on Earth via meteor (HOMESTUCK). And, all things considered, his older brother (who was actually his genetic father) probably couldn't be assed to send him. His bro mostly made sure he didn't stick a sword in a power socket and regularly ambushed Davesprite to teach him how to fight. He really only learned how to be an actual human through trial and error (which ranged from obtaining food to doing laundry) (HOMESTUCK). So, he was raised more by movies and the internet than he was by another person. Why this.


5. Do you have CR with Davesprite? Do you NOT have CR with Davesprite, but exist alongside him in game? Congratulations, he is probably willing to die for you. He has a bad habit of sacrificing his life, especially for people he's loyal to, without really giving it a second thought.


6. But the prospect of no longer existing scares the shit out of him! He's just pretty sure all signs in his life point to him being forgotten or rejected or overwritten in favor of Real Dave, so that sucks.


7. He has abysmal self-esteem and is, as you may have guessed, hella depressed by his problems. He just tries to cover it up with bullshit.


8. This is exacerbated by the time his moral compass checked out for a month in his last game. This radically affected his worldview—he sees shit in much more complex shades of gray now—but it also made him pretty sure he's a fucking terrible person.


9. He could probably crush on most people in his age range who gives him the time of day (and, y'know, actually seem interested in him), because he is fucking desperate for affection and positive reinforcement to the point that it's just sad. Personality be damned, just like him, plz. Too bad he fucks things up for himself, because he thinks he is an awful romance option. What is happiness, he just doesn't know.


10. He is part crow and part game code. This wasn't always the case; he used to be a normal human kid (as far as normal human kids go in Homestuck), but ended up a biological disaster in an attempt to keep his friends from dying. He has no idea how he is physically possible and assumes he exists entirely at the behest of magic. It has its uses, he guesses.


11. He's like 6'0", but a fucking toothpick. Being a birdy sprite-thing doesn't help, since however he biologically exists, it means he's way lighter than he would normally be. He's probably like...only 2/3 of regular Dave weight or something.


12. He has red eyes. He is not an albino and doesn't actually need his ever-present sunglasses for anything.


13. He is freakishly good with numbers and ripping people off. An alt version of himself became a multibillionaire this way. This makes him fucking boss with business models and things like counting cards; he just rarely uses it for anything that isn't fucking stupid.


14. He is terrified of leadership, holy fuck. Being captain of the Wonderduck freaks him out so badly and it isn't even a serious authority role. He hates being in positions where he can let other people down or, worse, get them killed.


15. His drink of choice is apple juice. He loves apple juice. Bring him apple juice and he is yours forever.

james 'probably magnificent guaranteed amazing' potter

[misterprongs]

1. James is the single child of older parents and is, therefore, a bit of a spoiled brat. That being said, he was raised well, and generally very generally treats everyone the way they would like to be treated. Unless your name is Snape. And in that case, he's a git, who cares?
2. His parents pass away shortly after he graduates from Hogwarts, from simple old age. At his current canon point, though, they're alive!
3. James is about 97% sure he was going to marry Miss Lily Evans when he was 12. It was a harmless crush at first (she's super pretty!!!) but he has legitimate romantic feelings for her. Their relationship has gotten a lot better since he's decided to pull his head out of his ass after the unfortunate 'let's flip Snape upside down' incident.
4. His favorite subject is transfiguration and he is (obviously) quite good at it. It's very useful for mischief making.
5. James considers his three idiots (the Marauders) closer than brothers. As an only child, James has always been a bit envious of people with siblings, and so he's decided to just adopt them instead of bothering at his parents for more.
6. James is extraordinarily protective of all of his friends, but particularly Sirius. His best friend has a habit of getting himself into situations without thinking, and James (reluctantly so) has to be the one to get him out of it. Like thinking it's funny to get Snape killed by a werewolf. Great??
7. His favorite color is a toss-up between Gryffindor red and emerald green.
8. He is the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and he is a Chaser! He loves the more active role -- and while he could probably be an amazing Seeker, he'd get bored searching around all game. He does not have the same amount of patience his son does.
9. James, to this day, has no fucking idea why Dumbledore thought it was a good idea to give James Potter the power of Head Boy, but he's enjoying himself thusfar. Or was, before he came to the Fleet.
10. He plans on being an Auror and joining the fight immediately after graduation. And dying like a year later oops.
11. There is nothing that infuriates him more than stuck-up purebloods thinking they're better than everyone else just because of a birth certificate. James prides himself on being somewhat of a git to those who truly deserve it, not because they're of a "lower status" than he is, or whatever other garbage.
12. The Sorting Hat took approximately .00005 seconds to sort him into Gryffindor, because there is nothing James holds closer to his heart than being a badass lion.
13. The Marauder's Map was his idea in part, but Remus and Sirius probably did most of the work, while James and Peter did the legwork to map out exactly where to go. (The insulting anyone who tries to open it without the password was definitely all him, though. Fuck you, Snape, you slimy git.)
14. James is guilty of many things, but he never skips a class. He is a perfect student and very intelligent, though James is that kid in a classroom that knows all the answers with minimal effort. People only like him because he's charming.
15. That being said, James is definitely guilty of staying out after hours in order to take flying tours of the grounds. Someone has to make sure the thestrals are behaving, right?