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| Adoptable Characters [message #186] |
Mon, 23 July 2012 10:41  |
Tikatu
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Rules for adoptables
We are building up a group of characters that are pre-approved for new players to use in the role play. These are for new players only, and any players who select one must submit a writing sample to the mods. If a potential player has fanfiction available, we'll look at that in lieu of a writing sample. New players can name the character, give names to any family members or friends, and can tweak the appearance of the character. The exception to this will be any already established characters whose players have dropped out. No new character can be used to undermine any currently established romantic pairs.
When a character has been claimed, his/her profile will be moved to the proper thread on the Player's Information forum.
   My IR:TNP OTP!
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| Re: Adoptable Characters [message #187 is a reply to message #186] |
Mon, 23 July 2012 10:49  |
Tikatu
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Name: William ("Will") Abbott.
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Date of birth: Sept 8, 2032
Nationality: American
* Physical Appearance
Height: 6'4"
Build: Slim, but toned.
Hair Colour: Dark auburn
Hair Length: Short
Hair Style: Very curly
Eye Colour: Green
Glasses/contact lenses: No.
Unique marks: A small birthmark on his left cheek. No, not that cheek..
Anything else: A smattering of freckles on face and arms; also he power naps five or six times a day for about 20 minutes each time, so he can stay up late to get things done without interruptions. He can sleep just about anywhere.
Personality
Quiet: he prefers to listen. He seems to instinctively know the right questions to ask to get someone to open up, but doesn't talk much about himself or his family. He isn't often spontaneous, but when he is, he accepts the consequences if it goes wrong. Highly intelligent, he can absorb and process information easily, enabling him to make decisions quickly. When it comes to trivia games, he more than holds his own. He was on the swim teams in high school, and at the Naval Academy. He has a wicked sense of humor and if a practical joke is played on him, he'll laugh it off. He enjoys learning new things. When working, he is methodical, but works to get it done right, and quickly.
General Information
Likes: Avid reader. Likes swimming, scuba diving, sailing; enjoys music, especially jazz and blues
Dislikes: He dislikes people who don't follow through or who don't do what they say they will; is not always the most patient of people; doesn't like jogging (thinks it's a waste of time)
Favourite food(s): Steak mostly, but enjoys trying other dishes.
Least favourite food(s): Artichokes, bell peppers and liver
Favourite colour(s): Denim blue and black
Best qualities: A good listener, intelligent, polite, generally tactful; has a good sense of humor; not afraid to get dirty
Worst qualities: He hates having to apologize, even when he realizes he needs to. He'll do so, but will quietly chide himself first, for getting himself into a situation where he has to. Fortunately, he doesn't take long to do this, and it's usually with actions, rather than words. He waits until he has no clean clothes left before he washes any, despite his military training.. He can be impatient with people, if he feels they aren't keeping their word.
Hobbies: Water sports/activities, hands-on working on cars, planes and jets, both rebuilding and maintaining them
Talents: Plays harmonica; can carry a tune; also whistles beautifully; has been known to completely dismantle and rebuild a car engine in one day; he's done it three times since he was a teenager to three completely different vehicles. He learned several magic tricks when he was a kid, and has not forgotten them, though he hasn't done them in a while. He has a quirk where he tends to drop the "g" on any verb ending with "ing" when he is stressed, excited, overwhelmed, angry, etc.
Clothing style: Neat and comfortable
* Education
Will graduated from the US Naval Academy with degrees in mechanical engineering and systems engineering. During his senior year, he also studied computer science in the academy's Trident Scholar Program.
* Occupation
Will was in the Navy for ten years. During that time, he commanded a team of mechanics, working alongside them on the jets, and on various systems aboard the ship. He took a leave of absence, due to a family emergency that lasted for 18 months. He decided not to return, got a discharge, and currently works for his father in the San Francisco branch of repair shops. He could become the new mechanic, able to work on auto, boat, and jet engines and systems. He could also work on other systems, helping to maintain, upgrade and possibly help reprogram/rebuild them.
* Health
No allergies or phobias; is in excellent health
Family
Will is single. His parents (Leonard and Joanna) are still alive. He has two siblings, both younger - a sister, Jenny (30), who is married with three children, and a brother, Mitchell (28)
Biography
Will was born in Carefree, Arizona and learned to fluently speak both English and Spanish before he even started school. He learned to read and write by the time he was four (when he was able to start school), and this, plus his ability to learn things easily, caused the school to have him skip the second grade. While in school, he learned French and German. His father owns a string of auto and boat body/repair shops in two states (Arizona and California), and Will spent a few hours after school and weekends - starting when he was fourteen - working at the one closest to home. Prior to that, he'd worked with his father on their own cars. During the summers, the entire family would vacation at a place where they could indulge in water sports, as both parents grew up around water, and the kids inherited their love for water based activities. (FYI, Arizona has the second highest number of boat sales in the country - the contiguous 48 states.) Will, his father and his sister all learned scuba diving during one vacation in Florida, where they have a second home.
He graduated high school as salutatorian, only .001 points behind the valedictorian, his high school sweetheart. Since he was only sixteen, he was unable to enter the Naval Academy right away (minimum age is 17), and used that year to take online courses in computers, continue working for his father, and indulge in his hobbies. When he did enter the academy, both his intelligence and his high work ethic enabled him to receive two separate degrees, and he left with the rank of lieutenant and an additional language learned - Russian. He was also able to enter the academy's Trident Scholar Program (see below) during his senior year, enabling him to do in depth research in mechanical engineering. He spent his entire time in the Navy aboard one aircraft carrier, where he planned to remain until he retired.
But his brother got hooked on a new narcotic, and caused the entire family a great deal of trouble. Will resigned from the Navy to help his family try to straighten his brother out. They were successful with Mitchell, but his parents' health suffered. It took another six months for them to recover, helped by the month long Mediterranean cruise the three siblings sent them on. During their vacation, Will took over for his father, and even managed to make some improvements in procedures, without ruffling any feathers. When his parents returned, his father was impressed with how well Will took care of the business. He'd opened a branch in San Francisco three years before, but it was only breaking even. So he offered Will management of it. Will accepted the offer enthusiastically, and within two years it had become very popular.
Entrance to story
Will has managed the San Francisco branch of his father's repair shop so well, it practically runs itself. He has trained a few people to be able to take over for him, or take over if his father decides to establish another shop. But he misses the "hands on" approach. One day, browsing through want ads on the internet, he sees one for a mechanic for Tracy Industries. Since he has acquired a taste for travel through the Navy, and never got to go to Australia, he decides to send in an application.
My IR:TNP OTP!
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| Re: Adoptable Characters [message #188 is a reply to message #187] |
Mon, 23 July 2012 10:53 |
Tikatu
Messages: 813
Registered: April 2012
Location: South Carolina
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* Basic Info
Name: (Name to be chosen by player--must be set up according to Spanish or Hispanic naming conventions)
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Date of birth: March 22, 2037
Nationality: Spanish, but holds U.S. citizenship through her father
* Physical Appearance
Height: 5' 2"
Build: muscular, tending toward plumpness without proper exercise
Hair Colour: black
Hair Length: short
Hair Style: curly, but not tight curls. Almost ringlets.
Eye Colour: dark brown
Glasses/contact lenses: no
Unique marks: tattoo of a stylized sun on back, just at the left shoulder, one of a stylized moon same placement on the right shoulder. Has a stud in her left nostril
Anything else: quite busty for her size -- it gives her a top-heavy appearance. She has considered reduction surgery.
Personality
Very emotionally intense. When she's down, she's sullen. When she's happy, she's exuberant. When she's angry, she's ferocious. Very protective of who she considers "family", be they co-workers, friends or blood kin. Has "wide-eyed innocent" down as well as Gordon does, but sometimes, it's for real. Very flirty, but not loose.
General Information
Likes: the sea, both playing and watching soccer, follows home town team, Gimnàstic de Tarragona and Spain's national team, La Furia Roja, watching soap operas, crime scene television, and horror movies.
Dislikes: cold weather, the mountains
Favourite food(s): Spanish and Mexican dishes, cheeseburgers, Brie, crusty French bread, salad, grilled chicken, tortilla chips
Least favourite food(s): potatoes in all forms, soups, salmon, ham, pineapple, Chinese food, curry, guacamole, most Italian food.
Favourite colour(s): Red, yellow, blue, green, turquoise, black, white. Hates pastels. Likes to wear her soccer teams' colors
Best qualities: Attentive to detail, puts people at ease, can talk to anyone, honest to a fault, doesn't hold grudges, follows orders easily,
Worst qualities: Overly emotional, easily angered, often tactless
Hobbies: Dance (Spanish flamenco), swimming, sailing, sunning herself, crewel
Talents: Speaks Catalan, Spanish, and fluent, if accented, English, cooking (especially Spanish food),
Clothing style: comfortable but neat, on the sporty side.
* Education
5 years of nursing school education (3 to get the diploma, 2 more to get the Bachelor's) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Graduated with both a Diploma de Escuela Universitaria or DEU, which granted her Spanish nursing registration, and a BSN.
Occupation
Worked as a public health nurse in Barcelona's main hospital; worked in the Emergency Department at Valley Regional Medical Center, Brownsville, TX
* Health
Allergic to both strawberries and pineapple.
Family
Mother is Spanish, Father is American. She has three siblings, an older brother and two younger sisters. Parents divorced when they were young and Mom took the girls to Tarragona, Spain, where she was originally from. She still has a grandparent, aunts, uncles and cousins there. Has just come out of a five-year relationship which ended badly.
Biography
Our character was born in Austin, TX, from an American man who married a woman from Tarragon, Spain. They met while the American was on vacation in Spain. The marriage lasted 10 years, then her father was caught cheating on her mother, and the pair was divorced. The character was 7 at the time, and her mother moved them back to Spain so she would have family support to raise her girls. The oldest child, a boy, stayed with his father.
The character did well in school, and went on to university, studying nursing and gaining both her DEU and a BSN. Because of a glut in the nursing profession in Spain, she went back to the States to work, settling in Brownsville, and reuniting with her father and older brother. It was from here that she spent her summers working with Doctors Without Borders. Her next-younger sister contracted breast cancer, and she returned to Spain to help care for her. (The sister recovered fully.) She met a young man, (Name here), who she began to date. They were engaged to marry, but he broke it off when courted by an older woman of better financial means. Between this and a lack of work for nurses, she decided to look for a more stable job elsewhere.
Entry to the story
She decides to look for a stable job, and answers the ad the Tracys put out for a nurse to replace Nikki. Her work with Doctors Without Borders is what makes her stand out.
My IR:TNP OTP!
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| Re: Adoptable Characters [message #189 is a reply to message #188] |
Mon, 23 July 2012 11:32 |
Tikatu
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Location: South Carolina
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* Basic Info
Name: (to be chosen by player)
Gender: female
Age: 28
Date of birth: July 21, 2041
Nationality: American
* Physical Appearance
Height: 5' 5"
Build: Slender, almost willowy
Hair Colour: platinum blond
Hair Length: mid-back
Hair Style: fine, straight hair that she usually wears in a French braid
Eye Colour: cobalt blue
Glasses/contact lenses: reading glasses for close up work
Unique marks: each ear pierced three times, twice in the lobe and one in the cartilage, deep dimples when she smiles, freckled arms and face
Anything else: player can add anything else needed
Personality
Upbeat, sociable, will chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime, sometimes comes across as an airhead with lots of nervous energy
General Information
Likes: skiing (water, downhill, and cross-country), snowboarding, hiking, thrill rides, parasailing, rock climbing, horseback riding, tap dancing, volleyball, ice skating (particularly speed skating)
Dislikes: reading books, sitting still for anything but work, cleaning bathrooms, staying indoors for long periods, living in the city
Favourite food(s): tofu, soy milk, soy cheeses, vegetables, juice blends, homemade breads she's vegan with a bit of health food nut, secretly loves seafood
Least favourite food(s): red meat, eggs, dairy (though she will use them in recipes), poultry, fish, processed foods, mustard, mayo
Favourite colour(s): earth-tones and jewel-tones
Best qualities: energetic, sociable, puts others at their ease, hard-working, eager to please
Worst qualities: pushy and sometimes stubborn about her beliefs on nutrition, exercise, medicine and religion, isn't always tactful
Hobbies: baking bread, playing poker, stargazing, tarot reading
Talents: plays hammered dulcimer, sings, tap dances
Clothing style: neat and sporty, hates skirts, pumps and hose.
* Education
Grades K-4 through 3rd grade, Mt. Holly School, Mt. Holly VT; grades 4-8, homeschooled; grades 9-12 , Black River High School, Ludlow VT, B.Sci. In Computer Engineering Technology from Vermont Technical College
Occupation
Currently a hardware designer for Gazelle Automations, New York City. Has been with them for 5 years.
* Health
Because she is vegan, she tends toward anemia, so leafy greens are a big part of her diet. She prefers a naturopathic approach to medicine. Her stands on medicine means she has not been vaccinated since childhood. She broke her left forearm just on the growth plate as a child; as a result, it is slightly shorter than her right.
Family
Father, estranged, remarried. Mother, single, still living in Vermont. Married older brother, also estranged. Possible nieces and nephews. Close to an uncle and aunt from New Jersey.
Biography
This character was born and raised in Mt. Holly, a small town in Vermont. She was diagnosed early in life with ADHD, but her mother disagreed with the diagnosis and refused to medicate her, preferring instead to use other methods--including natural supplements--to help her daughter cope with her energy and lack of focus. She also removed her from the public school system and began to homeschool her. She was partially successful; he daughter learned to focus on a task, to almost the exclusion of all else, but when not working, she still had a surplus of nervous energy to be dealt with. This was channeled into sports, dance, and music. Homeschooling went well, and she passed the high school exit exams as well as her college entrance tests with high scores. This enabled her to apply for scholarships that would cover her college tuition.
Her mother's increasing insistence on using only natural methods began to wear on her father, who was more laid back and traditional. Finally, an affair on her mother's part caused him to leave when the candidate was 12. She never learned of her mother's infidelity, and never forgave her father for what she believed was a betrayal. They are estranged to this day. A maternal aunt and uncle helped them out, and recommended her for a job at Gazelle Automation when she graduated from college.
Entry to the story
Tired of life in the city, she sees the advertisement online and figures it would be an opportunity to get out to the country, so she applies. Working for Jeff's old friend gives her an edge over the competition.
My IR:TNP OTP!
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| Re: Adoptable Characters [message #1231 is a reply to message #189] |
Thu, 26 July 2012 00:26 |
Tikatu
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Location: South Carolina
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Note: This character is currently being used as an NPC, but I thought she could possibly be adopted.
Name: Jenny Annaleise Finch
Gender: Female
Age: 33
Date of birth: 16 August 2035
Nationality: New Zealand/Australia
* Physical Appearance
Height: 5 foot 3 inches
Build: average
Hair Colour: black
Hair Length: Shoulder length
Hair Style: curly
Eye Colour: blue
Glasses/contact lenses: Uses glasses. Doesn't like the idea of contact lenses.
Unique marks: Scar from burn on left arm.
Anything else: Is right-handed.
Personality
Easy-going, warm-hearted, generous, delights in making others happy
General Information
Likes: surprising people with treats, particularly cooking.
Dislikes: Swimming, though can swim. Has a horror of spiders, scorpions and sharks.
Favourite food(s): Chocolate and ice cream
Least favourite food(s): Cauliflower and broccoli. Seafood.
Favourite colour(s): burgundy and scarlet
Best qualities: Kind, loyal, patient, but won't stand for nonsense.
Worst qualities: Often appears immature, rather hesitant to make new friends, lets her ideals get in the way of reality, e.g., wants an exciting, glamorous job, elegant clothes, house in expensive location
Hobbies: Collecting stamps. Likes to do needlework and cross-stitch, can knit and sew but prefers to buy her own clothes, also enjoys tennis and loves watching rugby union.
Talents: Very good at cake decorating and chocolate making. Can balance a basketball on her head.
Clothing style: casual or neat, generally wears blouses and jeans for most occasions, except for formal, when she prefers to wear a long dress.
* Education
Year 12, (was hoping to do uni at one stage, but didn't know what career she wanted to pursue)
Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery)
Did a life-style course in chocolate making, (only a few days to complete, did in holidays)
Certificate IV in gourmet cookery.
* Occupation
She worked in different capacities as a waitress, receptionist, cook, and supervisor, as well as doing voluntary work in these organisations: State Emergency Service, local fire brigade, soup kitchen, and Meals on Wheels.
* Health
Good, apart from occasional burns.
Family
Father, Gregory Finch, died of cancer in 2054
Mother, Sandra Finch, works in a confectionery store.
Sister, Wendy Fricker (works as cleaner) married to Murphy Fricker 2061 (works in a clothing factory as manager). No children.
Has no close friends. Used to have a friend, Amanda Cook, who died of sudden appendicitis.
Has a pet carpet snake, named Hiss, which during her pre-IR years catches rats and mice. If IR objects, she knows whom she can give the carpet snake to, but she would like to keep it if possible.
Biography
Born in 2035. Sister born three years later. At the age of nine Jenny and her family moved to Western Australia. On completing her schooling, Jenny got a job as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant (17). While there, she joined the State Emergency Service as a volunteer, getting involved in such activities as radios, tracker dogs, and cliff rescue. Also did senior first aid course.
Then there was a staff turnover 5 months after she turned 18. Jenny got a job as a waitress in another restaurant.
At the age of 19, her father died of lung cancer induced by smoking. Jenny was so upset she gave up her job to recuperate, but finances protested and Jenny landed a job as a cleaner, which she did for six months. She then took a part-time job as hotel worker while she studied to be a gourmet chef.
She finished her courses at the age of 26, and her sister got married the same year. Jenny decided to change jobs, being thoroughly sick of her job at the hotel by this point, and took a job working as a cook in a government-run Children's Home, working there until the age of 29.
While working, she also took on voluntary work for a soup kitchen for over a year (age 30), and then switched to doing Meals on Wheels, which she kept up for a few months after leaving the cook job and becoming a paid receptionist for the Red Cross, which she held for nearly a year (age 31).
She then took a job as a hotel supervisor for someone on maternity leave for six months. When she left, she took a job as receptionist at the Australian Missing Persons Bureau, where she took information about missing people and forwarded to relevant personnel. She worked there for five months, found the job depressing, and got a job doing government aid work. During this time, there was the tsunami that IR went to, and Jenny traveled there later to assist the people who had lost there homes to rebuild them.
She has had enough of government work, wants to work for IR, but doesn't know how to get a job with them, so decides to work as a domestic cook/housekeeper.
Entrance
Jeff Tracy sees his mother struggling to cope with housework, and realizes that she and Kyrano and Lisa are not getting any younger. He calls a family conference and with advice from the elder members, sends out an advertisement for a housekeeper. Jenny, who is looking for jobs, sees the ad and applies.
My IR:TNP OTP!
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| Re: Adoptable Characters [message #2456 is a reply to message #186] |
Sat, 11 April 2015 20:10 |
Tikatu
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Registered: April 2012
Location: South Carolina
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By TracyFan4Ever
Basic Info
Name: Callie Louise Spencer
Gender: Female
Age: 26
Date of birth: August 13, 2042
Nationality: American (Born in Opp, Alabama)
Physical Appearance
Height: 5' 4"
Build: average
Hair Colour: dirty blonde
Hair Length: shoulder length
Hair Style: Straight, turns under at the ends, with bangs
Eye Colour: green
Glasses/contact lenses: none
Unique marks: mole on her neck
Personality
She tends to be shy, but when no one wants to say anything, she isn't afraid to speak up. Open minded. Open hearted. Not a goof off, totally dedicated to the job. Doesn't like others who goof off either. When it's break or lunch she loosens up, but on the job she's 100% serious.
General Information
Likes: playing basketball, listening to country and Southern rock, reads Harlequin romances and murder mysteries (Agatha Christie is a favorite), huge fan of wrestling, football and ice hockey
Dislikes: clutter and disorganization, braggarts.
Favourite food(s): Okra (an obsession, especially when it's home-grown)
Least favourite food(s): Asparagus, Artichoke, Brussel Sprouts
Favourite colour(s): Crimson Red and White (For a good reason coming up)
Best qualities: Helpful to others, dedicated to her job, caring about life
Worst qualities: Sometimes takes work too seriously, making her slightly naïve
Hobbies: knitting, sewing, cooking pure Southern dishes
Talents: brown belt in Tae Kwon Do
Clothing style: Tends to cross between chic and sporty, really can't stand to keep up with latest styles
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering while attending the University of Alabama (hence the favorite colors); went on to Master's Degrees in Bioengineering and Communications Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (but kept her Alabama pride). She completed astronaut training at the World Space Agency, which gave her capabilities to get to the International Space Station and do some work there when needed.
Occupation
Before joining International Rescue, she worked as an environmental engineer and a Hazardous Materials (HazMat) specialist for the WSA in Houston, Texas. She also served at the WSA bases in Moscow, Russia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she learned the languages (Russian and Portuguese, respectively). On call, she went to either Cape Canaveral in Florida or Edwards Air Force Base in California to check and made certain no chemicals from the Space Cruisers affect the nearby environment.
Health
Knee injury forced her to quit martial art training, she also is allergic to tree pollen and cat dander. She also suffers from herpetophobia (Fear of snakes). Whenever she sees a tornado on television, it makes her slightly nervous because she is reminded of a powerful tornado that levelled much of Opp when she was a child, but she won't let it affect her life.
Family
Her parents, Richard and Lorraine, and her two older brothers, Joseph and Brian, run a family business in Opp, Alabama; a rapidly growing steel mill started by her grandfather had started in 2004. Callie herself is single at the moment, the result of a bad relationship while away in college.
Biography
Callie Spencer was born in Opp, Alabama, at a time when her town was experiencing a growth of business and prosperity. Growing up, her family was very popular and easily identified with the steel industry. Callie, though, didn't enjoy this kind of life and wanted something different. She wasn't sure where she belonged, until Career Day at Opp Elementary School. She met someone who worked with the environment and engineering at the same time. She was so intrigued by that she made it her career choice. Her family supported her every step of the way, saying it was important for her to follow her own dreams, even if it means not doing the same thing as the others. She worked hard in high school and college, which led to her graduating Magna Cum Laude at MIT in Bioengineering. The World Space Agency (WSA) hired her upon getting her Master's Degree, and she worked for the WSA...until International Rescue sent out a call to her.
Entrance
After IR had saved astronauts on a Space Cruiser near Cape Canaveral, Callie was called in to investigate chemical interactions between the cruiser's fuel and IR's dicetyline. After being sidetracked, she received a letter from IR itself with the solution to the problem...and a request for her to come to its base. She learned she was not only needed for her scientific expertise, but also as a much-needed third space monitor at Thunderbird Five. Following some reservations, she took the job. Her cover job is Environmental Specialist at Tracy Industries in Honolulu, Hawaii.
My IR:TNP OTP!
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