OOC: who even are these people?

[defenderofdesmoines]

I have no newbies, but you know what I love? Wasting time and looking at gifs.




Annie January (or Starlight) | defenderofdesmoines | 23 years old | Townie | The Boys

very much the sweet, naïve (working on that part!), nice (like, impossibly nice) Midwestern girl-next-door that she looks like.

except she also has superpowers, and is a legit superhero.

in her world, superheroes (also called Supes colloquially, or 'the super-abled' if you're being PC about it) are celebrities -- it's basically exactly like our world, except imagine that the Avengers are real. They're still making movies and action figures and stuff, yes, but also Marvel as a corporation routinely sends The Hulk and Scarlet Witch out to do autograph signings and to promote their corporate credit card.

currently going through canon -- she's right around episode 1.04 right now, but we're going to do both seasons of canon, wrapping up in June, because season 2 really does some fun, confusing shit with time.

which means that while she totally lives here on the island part-time (and will eventually find a better balance than what she's swinging now), she spends most of her week in her version of New York, living in a big tower with the rest of her super-team, The Seven.

she is also very famous back home, and runs around in hoodies and sunglasses a lot these days. She has lunchboxes and beauty products and dolls and Band-Aids with her image on them. HMU if you want some Starlight-branded stuff ICly.

she was also sexually assaulted by one of her teammates about two weeks ago, and the fallout from that is still on-going.

dating knife_bender, who does not know about the above-mentioned assault and surely nothing will ever come of his finding out, obviously.

powers-wise, she has a few things going for her:

1. the big thing is that she can pull electrical power from things around her, and shoot big hot blasts of UV light out of the palms of her hands.
   
2. this, yes, is why her superhero name is Starlight.
   
3. she is also super-strong, and can lift around 800 lbs.
   
4. and finally, her skin -- like most heroes in her universe -- is bulletproof, which means you can generally beat the hell out of her for awhile before she'll even show bruising.

Faye Valentine | flourish_or_perish | 23 years old | Townie | Cowboy Bebop

taken from mid-canon - right before 'Jupiter Jazz'

she's actually 77 years old, despite appearances, because she was cryogenically frozen and only woke up three years ago.

so also in a way she's only three, since she has three years' worth of memories

works at Wellspring Arms on Tuesdays

and is co-teaching that bounty hunting class (guess which one of your teachers is more competent. Go on, guess.)

she's a thief; let me know if you want her to steal some of your stuff

she's also way into herself

and will sleep with anyone but is a little weirder about feelings.

very short-tempered, with poor impulse control and a total refusal to take responsibility for her own actions.

her hair is very dark purple, which can be hard to tell in the icons (sorry!), her eyes are green, and she is mostly legs and boobs.

so feel free to assume that she is always dressed in something revealing; you aren't modding, it's the truth.

her face is Daniella Pineda, because someday if TV is ever produced again, she'll be playing Faye in the live-action adaptation.

smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and will try anything you put in front of her.

and she's also a touch trigger-happy, and carries around a pistol sometimes.

she also has a ship parked in the junkyard



Lydia Deetz | utterly_alone | 16 years old | Student | Beetlejuice

from the 1988 film

not the outstanding musical, nor the cartoon that seems to have universally confused everyone my age when they finally saw the source material

dresses in all black, often with a veil or lace gloves or other incredibly dramatic, amazing accessories

speaks in a monotone, because you know, drama and sadness

she can see ghosts!

her best friends are ghosts, actually

coming to us post-canon, which means that if you want to know her whole deal, you just have to watch an awesome, fairly short movie with some amazing practical effects.

but the short version is that she moved into a house that some friendly ghosts were haunting, her stepmother decorated the place terribly, the ghosts hated it and tried to drive them out, but then they had to commit a bio-exorcism with the help of a sometimes-referred-to-as-a-demon poltergeist named Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice.)



Erin | 29 years old* | Anxious Person | Real Life

*this is my sixth year being 29, for the record

I live in Michigan, which means I'm on Eastern time and am also often very cold.

I am a substitute teacher, which means that I 'wear a lot of hats' and my days can be kind of unpredictable. I get up and start playing at dark o'clock in the morning before I go to school, and then I'm pretty wiped out by the time evening hits.

I'm in the Discord a lot, unless my school wifi blocks it that day. If you're talking to me in there and I seem to be ignoring you, send an email, I probably literally can't see your messages!

I have a husband who gets off work around 8 PM most nights, and has Sundays and Mondays off. I tend to be scarce/slower when he's around because for some reason the man I married rudely wants me to look at him instead of a laptop screen when he's talking.

I have a weird obsession with old media on YouTube, and have a whole plethora of clips that I am liable to pull out and throw at you if we're talking. I'm especially fond of the Wendy's Hot Drinks training video, this very catchy and horrible skateboarding clown video that features almost no skateboarding, this very weird video about how to train hummingbirds to eat from your hand, and, perhaps best of all, this montage of 80s dating videos.

Comments

[knife_bender]

I'm glad we're both on farmer time.

[defenderofdesmoines]

IT WORKS OUT EXTREMELY WELL. My college self is horrified at how I go to bed at like, 10 at the latest, though.

[sharp_man]

Can I just say that apart from all the general ickiness of that new outfit for Starlight, it is *not* flattering to her? She needs to kick the ass of wardrobe.

Also, hello state neighbor! (I'm in Ohio.)

[defenderofdesmoines]

Honestly it fits her terribly. It's like they made the suit for a completely different body type (which is kind of the point.) Thankfully, it is only temporary (spoilers.)

And hello state neighbor! I wasn't sure if you were still in Ohio, omg -- I remember when we met up with superjoanjett and several other players who have since departed the game circa 2014. (We were for sure the weirdest people in that Panera. No question.)

[sharp_man]

Oh, right! I never remember who was there, but yep, I'm still in Cleveland! (Excuse you, we were the *awesomest* people in that Panera.)

[bookbeltof_love]

NINA WANTS ALL THE STARLIGHT MERCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like, sure, Liam has a kickass shirt for her but ALL THE MERCH, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[defenderofdesmoines]

SHE WILL GET IT! There is already a Junior Seven Kuddle Buddy doll coming her way (and no, the show doesn't actually have an example of a Starlight one, but that's the Queen Maeve version and I want one), and she's also totally getting all of the various Starlight beauty products and facewashes and glittery lotions and whatnot.

AND THE CEREAL. WHICH I MADE UP BUT SHE DESERVES A CEREAL, OKAY.

[bookbeltof_love]

Is the cereal called Starlight’s Starbites??????? Is there a name????? Are the pieces shaped like stars??????? SHE DEFINITELY DESERVES A CEREAL OMG.

Nina will loooove all the thinks but goodness I want a doll like that too lol omg that’s adorable!

[defenderofdesmoines]

I was vaguely considering calling them Shooting Stars and I have envisioned it to be similar to Lucky Charms or AlphaBits with star-shaped marshmallows!!

One of her teammates canonically has a cereal, but Frosted A-Trains look to mostly have a lot in common with Frosted Cheerios, lol.

[bookbeltof_love]

I loooove it! :D The marshmallows were always the best part of cereals like that!!!!

I’m also really sad the A-Train cereal is not tiny trains. That would’ve been adorable.