OOC: info post!

[dishesonthetoprack]

I actually have updates this time around, now that I'm finally done with Annie's catchup! (Did I switch journals just to make one more post with someone new, at least? Sure did.)


Annie January
Townie | 24 | The Boys | defenderofdesmoines

just a sweet, well-meaning young woman from Des Moines, Iowa.

also she has superpowers, used to be known as the superhero Starlight, and is one of the most famous people in her own universe.

where Annie is from, superheroes (often called Supes, which, yes, is homophonous with "soups") are celebrities, on top of being working superheroes. Up until very recently, Annie split her time between New York and Fandom and worked on the most well-known Supe team in her world, The Seven (basically the Justice League.) However, after her world's version of Superman lost his marbles, murdered a friend of Annie's, and went full fucking Trump, she quit. Now, she's mostly hiding out in Fandom and hoping Homelander can keep a lid on it long enough for her to get married, please.



I'm just posting these gifs because Sam really likes her sweater.

speaking of -- she's engaged to knife_bender, with whom she also lives in MHA #2. Wedding is October 15th and you're all invited!

works at the Devil's Nest on Thursdays, and is real fond of her blender.

Annie's powerset is mostly centered around her ability to manipulate electrical power and turn it into UV light. As long as she has a source of electricity, she can absorb that power and fire it out of her hands in big, gold, concussive blasts. These blasts are not only blinding, but very hot, as well, and have quite a bit of force behind them. When she uses her light powers, the irises of her eyes illuminate bright yellow and give off an electrical surging kind of noise.

she can also use her powers on a much smaller scale, and selectively siphon energy from specific sources -- she's great if you need to knock out a security camera, or if you just can't find the remote to turn off the TV.

she is also very strong, and able to lift somewhere between 800 and 3000 pounds. I dunno, I found someone who figured it out mathematically, but the fandom wiki has a much higher number, so I just sort of go with the writers and say Annie is as strong as she needs to be for the plot.

she has bulletproof skin, to the degree that it takes diamond-edged tools to make her bleed, and .50 caliber bullets just give her welts.

as of very recently, she's learned that if she has access to enough power, she can actually overload herself to the point that she can fly.




god Soldier Boy is hot



Irene Adler
Townie | 33 | Sherlock | begmetwice

British, with a West London accent if you have an ear to distinguish as much.

always visibly very put together, with clearly-expensive taste. More often than not, if I link what Irene's wearing, it's because I want you to notice the price tag as much as the actual garment.

coming to us post-her-one-episode-of-canon, which in my loosey-goosey-I-brought-back-a-character-with-a-flimsy-backstory-from-six-years-ago terms means the following: Irene became as wealthy as she clearly is by amassing loads of blackmail material about her client base, which was entirely comprised of the rich, powerful, and often famous. She faked her death when it seemed like people were getting way too close to unseating her, but then she unfaked it, fell in love with Benedict Cumberbatch's weirdest version of his face for some reason, got a little too cute for her own good, and then had to be rescued from a very not fake beheading. She's hiding out in Fandom, and Irene Adler has been "dead" in her universe for nearly a decade.

canonically on par, intellectually and observationally, with Sherlock Holmes. She's very perceptive, and very good at deductive reasoning and narrowing down outcomes. What this means for you, in terms of interactions, is that if it's in your narrative, I generally accept it as fair game for Irene to pick up on. If she ever oversteps or you feel at all like it's even verging on metagaming, feel free to give me a nudge and I'm more than happy to walk her back!

so the thing about that "client base" I mentioned. Irene had one of those because in her former life, she was a very sought-after dominatrix. Sought-after enough that we're canonically introduced to her because she threatens to be a huge scandal to the British Royal Family thanks to being involved with a young, female member of the family. (It's Kate. Given the time it was shot, it is absolutely implied to be Kate. Irene and I both would have loved for it to be Meghan, though.)

thus, it was a natural enough transition for her to take over Dite's, the local sex store. She lives above the shop, too.

identifies as a lesbian, but probably fits under the broader umbrella of "queer."

has inconvenient feelings for special_rabbit, but she's completely in denial about it being anything other than a natural attraction to a set of pretty eyes and pretty biceps.

very frank and generally tries to be pretty warm and nonthreatening when it comes to sex and kink and such. Let me know if there's ever anything in particular you'd like help with when pinging into Dite's! I am generally up for just about anything (and Irene certainly is.)


Scott Lang
Townie | 45ish | Ant-Man (MCU) | dishesonthetoprack (and omg I didn't even realize it should be 'plates' until just now.)

incredibly friendly. Actually as friendly as he comes across.

and also very smart! He went to MIT, like everyone else in the MCU! He has a Master's!

he's also an ex-con, because you know. Sometimes smart people get into burglary scrapes like anyone else.

these days, though, he's less into the ex-con thing, and more into the thing where this old mad scientist gave him a suit that allows Scott to change his size at will. The Ant-Man suit allows him to communicate with ants, punch with the strength of an ant, and lift things a hundred times his own bodyweight, like ants can. Let's say 'ant' again.

totally possible Hank does not actually know Scott has the suit, still. No one tell him. He might have had Luis mail it to him. (It's okay, though.)

works at the Magic Box on Thursdays, and yeah, he's pretty sure Jeff isn't eating the baked goods he's leaving, but he also doesn't want to chance that he is and then stop and make him mad.

father to a very sweet, off-island nine year-old, Cassie, whom he will not shut up about if you give him the chance. He visits her on the weekends and when I need an excuse for where he is 'cause I'm AFK

Scott's from just after Captain America: Civil War, which I believe means he's just ahead of Bucky and Steve, but lagging quite a bit behind everyone who knows what a Thanos is.


Laszlo Cravensworth
Townie | Immortal | What We Do in the Shadows | fortworeasons

vampire. Probably turned into one somewhere around 1650ish.

he's not really open about it, per se, but he's also not hiding it especially well.

vampire, in this case, means the following:

• only comes out at night (because catching on fire is bad)
  
• he has visible fangs
  
• he has to drink blood in order to survive, and has been alternating between terrorizing the mainland and trying to get used to TruBlood. (Using the microwave to heat it up is for sure the hardest part for him.)
  
• he can fly – both as himself, and as a bat. (He precedes all bat transformations by yelling, "Bat!")
  
• unique to Laszlo is the ability to talk to animals – he can hold a whole conversation with your dog, cat, ferret, etc.
  
• he can hypnotize you - let me know if that's something you'd be interested in!

he also dresses like it's about 1880, but that's less to do with vampirism and more to do with I think he liked the clothes around that time?

he's a (pansexual) married man, but that ain't gonna stop him from hitting on everyone.

kind of a vampire Forrest Gump – he was Jack the Ripper, he turned Elvis Presley into a vampire, he sank the Titanic, he originally composed 'Kokomo' – the list goes on.

works as a bartender at Caritas on Thursdays, which means if you want an IC drink on Thursdays you must deal with me no matter what mwahahaha.

sounds extremely British. Also kinda old-fashioned, as the plot calls for it.

always has an NPC camera man and boom operator with him, because he's being filmed for a documentary about vampires. Yes, still.

totally from a different universe from guillermothegreat, not that it matters because Laszlo is the kind of dick who wouldn't recognize a teenage Gizmo if he tripped over him anyway.


Erin
Tired Person | 35 | Michigan

often on Discord, always reachable by email if that fails for some reason!

I own/manage/run a tiny arcade with my husband, which means I'm often pinging from a really loud environment and I might be asked to step away and help take the glass off something at a moment's notice. SP is the name of the game all summer long and on the weekends.

the tiny town I live in is like a town in a Hallmark movie. We have a harvest festival and a Christmas tree lighting ceremony and lots of parades. (We're definitely more Pawnee than Stars Hollow, though.)

I also play in a pinball league on Wednesday nights, despite hating competition, lol.

during the school year, I substitute teach, and that's a lot more predictable. I go back in late September and I'm kinda already counting the days.

I'll watch almost any TV show recommended to me if you tell me there's male nudity featured at some point. I'm a woman of simple needs.

though that being said, Severance is by far the best thing I've seen in probably five years and nary a naked man to be seen, disappointingly. Something to work on for season 2, I guess.

Comments

[knife_bender]

Me @ that sweater.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Maybe the jacket helps?

[somethingwithturquoise]

I'll have you know, when that scene came up, I got so excited that I shouted out "OH HEY IT'S THAT SWEATER" and then had to figure out how to explain to the BF how one single OOC exchange made it infamous in my brain a totally normal amount.

(He said it wasn't that bad, and I'm all bruh)

[defenderofdesmoines]

First of all: that is the normal reaction.

The Sweater is going to show up IC at some point. Like, it has to. I can ignore ripped white cropped jeans. I can ignore a weirdly fuzzy sweater. I can begrudgingly ignore that very strange, very blocky camel-colored blazer from early in the season.

But what in the hell is this orange knit top?? Like, my new thing is obsessing over how her sleeves probably get all wadded up in that denim jacket. No way is that comfortable.

[doctorgingerspice]

Also it looks like it’d get snagged on something if you even *looked* at it sideways. One wrong move and the entire sweater is coming unraveled!

[defenderofdesmoines]

Yeah dude! And she's hanging with her new, shoestring-budgeted crew in that scene! They don't have Vought's resources if your top unravels while crimefighting, Annie!!!

[hasaknightjob]

I can't possibly imagine how having an ear for accents would ever come in handy. Pfffft.

[begmetwice]

Honestly I've thought about sending Irene into Caritas on a Thursday to peer suspiciously at Laszlo if only because Matt Berry's (actually real) accent sounds so fake to my ear.

Maybe one of these days I'll be bored enough on a Thursday to do this. Maybe.

[hasaknightjob]

Also I appreciate you reminding me I need to watch this week's episode still. I know what I'm doing tonight!

[knife_bender]

*kicks open door to conversation* This weeks episode so stupid silly in a good way it about killed me.

[hasaknightjob]

There have been SO MANY JOKES this season that nearly killed me laughing. Like actual pause the playback and choke myself laughing. So I look forward to finding out how I'm nearly going to die this week!