Part the first - Ally in a 40s cocktail dress, dress and pose shamelessly stolen from Rita Hayworth (I don't claim to be anything but a hack). This comes from our SR4 game - Ally got invited by her Matrix buddy Bogart to a Matrix club called Play it Again, Sam (seeing a theme here?), which turned out to have a dress code. So she let the bouncer change her icon to match, and this was the result.

Part the second - the funniest mental image generated in Earthdawn last night: Isak (think cleaner-cut Trent Reznor in his long-haired days) and Sphal (a seveneight-foot tall rock man) running around flapping big capes like wings and making bat-squeak noises. And thus we learn yet another reason nobody invites Nethermancers to parties.

I am totally enjoying writing Asher in RR. I think some of this is because somewhere over the last several months, I've settled into him in a way I hadn't before. He was the first character I ever seriously wrote, and in the begining, his characterization was all over the place. Honestly, I cringe a little just thinking about some of the early posts I did for S_F. RR!Asher...is really what he was intended to be, honestly. The right ratio of asshole to decent human being, at the right times. Only took me, what, a year and a half XD;? I hope Anya doesn't take that long.

And I could ramble about Asher's characterization and personality for paragraphs and paragraphs (as, uh, a few people here know), but for now, have a little Asher and Ally snippet - first time they met, oh so many years ago. I meant to write more of it, but as you can tell by the post date there... no, not gonna happen. S_F-verse, but RR-verse is more or less the same, except they're each two years older, and LA doesn't get nearly as cold as Midgar.

Movie-wise, we saw Children of Men tonight, and I will be a dissenting voice, it seems, and say it was good, but not amazing. The world/setting were well fleshed out (although there was a certain amount of hand-waving in the history that bugged me in what was a rather cyberpunk movie. Cyberpunk thrives on the absence of the hand-waving found in most sci-fi). Unfortunately, the plot was a little simplistic (I guessed pretty much all the ending a third of the way in) which meant the 'this could be us' message was a little heavy-handed. Still, worth at least one watch, if only for the setting.

Choose twelve of your original characters in any particular order. (NO PEEKING AT THE QUESTIONS AT THIS STAGE!) Then, answer the questions that follow.

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Yeah, I've got too many S_F characters (people owe me posts, damnit), and I really desperately need to do something with some of these guys.

This list is more for me than anything, but I figured someone out there might enjoy it, and hell, I'm happy for suggestions for homes for any of them, or anyone who wants to play around with them with me or whatever.

Issac and Raphael: They have their own post of description from last fall, and are my current frustrations - they have personality, some backstory, but all I ever get out of them is little snippets of conversation. I was hoping if I let them sit around long enough, plot-things would happen on their own, but it's been eight months, and...nothing. Argh.

Mira and Alex: Haven't actually met, but they're from the same universe so they get grouped together. Dunno if anyone remembers me going on about how the Sprawl would be a great RP setting, but, uh, I got bored and came up with characters for it. Yes. A game that doesn't exist. Alex is half-Greek, and used to be a mercenary. Now he's a bouncer with an alcohol problem (which is why he's not a merc any more). Mira was a molecular engineer working for Maas, but decided that she needed more excitement in her life, and left with a lot of confidential research data, which she sold for a great deal of money. She's currently working as a console jockey and won't take shit from anyone. Either Mexican or Indian (never decided), and Mira isn't her real name.

Malcolm: Some variety of storm-mage; I never got around to really defining his powers. Lives in the modern world or some close variation, in England. Probably wanted to be writer or something, but ended up in a shitty managerial position in a big company somewhere. Hates his job, hates his life, finds his powers more of a nuisance than anything else - bitter and cynical, pretty much. Also has that Neil Gaiman/Tim Burton-sort of crazy hair.

Unamed Water Mage: Incredibly short-tempered, and possibly also a ship's pilot. Born out of the observation that it's usually just the fire mages who are short tempered; she hates it when anyone points this out to her.

Unamed Lab Tech: The only one of these who has a definate home - I was considering offering up a lab slave research assistant to Dr. Petras over in City of Mako - hopelessly naive, totally enamoured with science, and thinks Hojo is absolutely brilliant, not knowing what a crazy asshole he is. She's proably a bit stereotypically nerdy, but CoM could probably use some people who aren't either perpetually grumpy or totally spastic and high on something.

So I didn't end up playing any KH, because I sat around re-reading the last year and a half or so of my life instead. It encompasses all of the DRAMA! (people reading that long know what I mean), and a lot of funny quotes from me, like how Vergil (and Virgil) is a two-timing whore, and Michelle is like Hojo, but pretty. My life is so amusing sometimes. As is my Genetics prof - I need to do a post of amusing quotes from her at some point.

In the meantime, more Shinra's Finest babble! Because I love that game (can you tell?). It's almost kind of comforting how easy it is for me to slip back into them. I wrote Ally for the first time in about four months last night, and I managed to toss off more in half an hour than I've managed for most of the other characters I play lately. And on a related tangent, Spyderco has the most awesome boxes for their knives - dark green-grey with black spider webs and a little silver spider. I think Asher's knives will probably end up being Spydercos (actually, they're a matched pair of Shinra military-issue combat knives he bought on the black market, but talking about looks here). Mmm pointy things.

Gah, Turks are love. And candybars, the finding and then eating of which cheered me up greatly. Oh, and I meant to mention this earlier, but Eva is wicked fun to write. And I stand by her comment that purple velvet was never in.

Because it has come around my friendslist again, and I am bored, and actually have characters other people know about now.

Ask any of my current or former roleplay characters any question you would like them to answer. I will answer in character.

This means Asher, Ally, my four NPCs (who've only been mentioned in passing in the game, but I know I've babbled about them to at least a few people) Sam, Naomi, Damien, and Jey, Julian, for the maybe two people who know him, and not really RP characters, but I'll add them in anyway for good measure, Isaac and Raphael.

...Yeah, I've only ever RPed as original characters XD; Go on, give me somethign to do.

...AKA, RP stuff. I sense nobody outside the RP really cares about my lovely little characters, but in case you do - the '20 things about you' meme for Asher and Ally, plus a picture of Asher by me that doesn't suck, and is actually pretty close to what Asher-in-my-head looks like. And you can see some of his piercings, which will probably get their own little sketches later.

Also, finally got around to reading through some of the Midgar threads, and Jack is so much love XD

Anybody in the area interested in being a zombie? I've already volunteered, but I figure I'd spread the word.

I've got my driver's test tomorrow, but I'm only really worried about being late, because my mother is hopeless when it comes to these things. Anthony's car is nice to drive - he came over and we played video games and I drove some.

Randomly, I finally figured out who my mental image of Asher reminds me of - he's kind of like a younger Leon Kennedy with different coloration, and more piercings. And kind of a different personality, but it's the looks that was bugging me XD