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Annie January
Townie | 24 | The Boys |

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

also she has superpowers and is one of the most famous people in her own universe, because she splits her time between Fandom and New York in order to serve on the leading superhero team in her world, The Seven (very much an analog of the Justice League.)

where Annie is from, superheroes (often called Supes, which, yes, is homophonous with "soups") are celebrities, on top of being working superheroes. She has beauty products that come out under her name, she has a reality show about her life and is hosting a competition show in the vein of American Idol, she goes on Kimmel as her super-self to sit down for interviews, et cetera.

Annie's powerset – she's Starlight when she's uniform – is mostly centered around her ability to manipulate power and turn it into UV light. As long as she has a source of electricity, she can absorb that electrical 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 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.

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

engaged to

knife_bender, with whom she also lives in MHA #2. They are disgusting and I love them, thank you there will be no questions.

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 - please let me know if you'd be up for such a thing, but also please see note below!

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, whom he straight-up will not even recognize as a teenager, sorry.

quick note re: all you lovely folks with students who have generously offered up your virginal students for vampire-eating: I'm so sorry, I'm gonna have to be kind of OOC here for my own comfort level, but Laszlo will not be hypnotizing, munching on, or otherwise interacting in any ishy way with students. It just makes me too uncomfortable on an OOC level to think of an apparently-middle-aged-man effectively seducing and preying upon teenagers, even if Laszlo would love nothing more than to feast upon all your untouched bodies and then skip town.

Irene Adler
Townie | 33 | Sherlock |

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extremely British, with a 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 more because I want you to notice the price tag than the particular 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 in Fandom as sort of a witness protection kind of deal, 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!

right, so the thing about that "client base" I mentioned. Irene had one of those because in her former life, Irene 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 Kate. Would have loved for it to be Megan, 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.

canonically identifies herself as as lesbian, but probably fits better under the broader umbrella of "queer."

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.)

Erin
Adult Person, Supposedly | 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.

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

I habitually don't watch the last season of TV shows because I don't want them to end. It took me like, three years to finish Parks and Recreation. Right now I'm stalling out on finishing The Americans, ever.

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