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OOC: Infopost! The "We Have A Newbie And I Said I Would Do This" Edition!
Because I haven't done a comprehensive list of my characters in infopost form since I picked up Norman, brought back Reno, and put down Algren, here they all are, conveniently in sparknotes point-form for easy reference. Of course I'll answer any question about any of them if ever people are unclear about anything!
Student: Peridot
Peridot is...
- An angry little slice of pie.
- From the Cartoon Network animated series, Steven Universe.
- About three feet tall. Green. Has triangular hair. Yes, the hair factors into her height. Yes, she's too short to ride the big kid rides at the fair. It's canon.
- Not technically a girl, as magical immortal space rocks really don't technically have a gender, but she's from a matriarchal society that primarily uses feminine pronouns.
- She's a Gem. Literally. That little triangular stone in the middle of her forehead is actually HER. The body you see around it is a hard-light projection that allows her to interact with the world. The body can be destroyed-- she'll simply re-build it, if given time to do so. The gem, on the other hand, really should never be damaged. Unfortunate things happen to Gems whose gems are damaged.
- Works Wednesdays at the library.
- Is actually a technician back on Homeworld, with a couple thousand years (yes, Earth years) of experience. She can totally pimp out your cell phone to float or project holographic images or make toast, if you want her to.
- Has METAL POWERS. Which you think would be badass Magneto shit, but she just discovered she has them, so her upper limit at the moment is stuff like floating forks around or making garbage can lids fly so that she can sit on them to reach high places.
- Saved the world this one time? It involved building a giant drill. She thinks this makes her a big deal.
- Is also PRETTY SURE they want her shattered back on Homeworld, so Earth is stuck with her for a while.
- Oh, and she has a pet! Her pet is a pumpkin. The pumpkin's name is Pumpkin. Pumpkin is basically a dog who is a gourd. It (Peridot refers to it as a she) is a very good pumpkin.
Student: Norman Babcock
Norman is...
- From Laika's stop-motion animated feature film, ParaNorman.
- Just a normal kid, more or less. He's got kind of sticky-outy ears and hair that refuses to do anything but stand on end. He likes hoodies, and sneakers, and riding his bike around.
- His eyes seem to be kind of faceted, though, like gemstones. Not something you'd probably notice unless you were staring right at them, but they are very distinct.
- He's also got a bit of an obsession with zombie paraphernalia. His half of his dorm room is covered in zombie posters. His toothbrush is a zombie. His slippers are zombies. His favorite movies and comic books? Also zombies.
- Oh, and he sees dead people. Everywhere. They can get pretty chatty, too.
- It's possible he enjoys their company more than the company of most living people. But then, most ghosts don't call him a freak, and only one ghost has ever actually actively tried to kill him, so...
- He can also communicate with zombies. And occasionally gets visions of things that happened in the past that are about to become a really big deal here in the present.
- And he works at the Magic Box on Tuesdays, and is trying to learn as much as he can about magic while he's there. Given what people in his family line are capable of under duress, there's a good probability that he'd be able to use it pretty powerfully if he knew what he was doing.
- But yeah, besides that, just a normal kid.
Teacher: Reno
Reno is...
- One of those Final Fantasy VII characters, from well, well, well post all-available canon. He's done a bit of reality hopping since, spent some time in FFX's world and a much earlier version of his own world, but he always keeps ending up on Fandom Island.
- No really, I had him in-game before I ever played any of these other nerds.
- He's tall-ish and super lanky, has red hair that borders on the impossible (but is totally naturally that shade), and, unless the narrative states otherwise, he's always wearing a black suit. Sloppily.
- In canon, he's basically a member of his government's secret police. They do the ugly stuff that nobody else wants to dirty their hands doing. And he's quite okay with that. Hell, it's a point of pride.
- He wields a stun baton with deadly accuracy, and has these little spheres that are pretty common back home that let him use magic-- his magic of choice is lightning/fire based.
- He's also really, really fast. Blink and you miss it fast. Canon isn't actually strictly clear on what happened to give him that ability, but with FH Reno it's a nifty mix of some super soldier treatment shenanigans back home and being taught some pretty handy tricks by Ghanima back in his student years.
- He's currently teaching a workshop on Attitude over at the school on Fridays. It isn't entirely an excuse to come live on the island to pester one of his old rookies. But maybe it's at least partly one.
- Also, he says 'yo' a lot after things he says, yo. It's an English adaptation of a speech tic he has in Japanese that didn't carry over in translation, due to there really being no clean translation to what he actually says. I stick to yo primarily these days, even though in Japanese it's 'yoto' or 'zoto.'
Teacher/Townie: Kanan Jarrus
Kanan is...
- From all that shiny new Star Wars canon that Disney's been putting out lately, in particular the novel A New Dawn and the comic series Kanan: The Last Padawan. He still has several years and a lot of growing up to do before he hits Star Wars Rebels canon, so he's more like 'shitty Jedi annoying older brother' than 'Jedi Dad' at this point.
- He teaches 'Laying Low for Beginners' on Thursdays at the school, because he has a lot of experience with that sort of thing, believe it or not. He's also working Sunday shifts at Luke's Diner.
- He's a recovering alcoholic who has spent basically the better part of the past decade of his life drowning in a mire of PTSD, denial, and regret. He still defaults to running away from problems rather than facing them, because running has a far lower chance of getting him and everyone he cares about killed.
- He's always got a blaster on his hip, usually has some manner of armor on over his arm and shoulder, and, at least on the island, usually has a lightsaber on his other hip. When he's feeling unsafe or in his home galaxy, he disassembles the lightsaber and hides the pieces in various places on his person.
- Doesn't like being called 'kid.' Even though he's a wee early-twenties secret Jedi trainee punk drifter ex-smuggler roustabout sleemo with poodoo for brains.
- Hera Syndulla, the lovely green Twi'lek lady who runs the junkyard and shares hisbed apartment, stands a pretty good chance of cleaning up his act, though.
- Even if it means turning him into a rebel who fights against the evil Empire that has taken over his galaxy and killed basically anybody who ever mattered to him in his life.
- As least his Lisa Frank dalmatian, Stance is cute?
- The dog is named after a dead clone, I'm sorry.
Townie: Sparkle
Sparkle is...
- From Judith Thompson's play, Habitat, which is very Canadian and which only a handful of you probably actually know.
- Fandom High alumnus, scrappy gay Canadian former group home punk.
- The only baseline human you're going to see in this list. I like 'em with powers, I guess.
- Has been living with Atton Rand and kissing Leto Atreides, along with pretty much any other pretty guy who swings that way. He does have a thing for older men, though, especially after a brief stint teaching. Sorry, students.
- Has complicated 'my mentor is a cannibal, his name FUCKING RHYMES and he's offered to adopt me like four years too late to really do me any good' feelings.
- He's been running the Demon Marcus - the clothing store in town - for about three years now. He also went to school recently to learn costume design, because on an island like this, it really can't hurt. He opens Demon Marcus on Sundays, and often sells clothes at a discount to people who aren't used to modern Maryland clothing needs.
- He's a proud fish owner, with one dude betta that his Demon Marcus employee, Alluka, has named Milady.
- He's also employed at the Pick Your Poison, by Ino, who goes by Iris, who has kind of taken him on as a tentative rookie of her own. His shifts there are on Wednesdays.
- He's spending a lot of his summer on Coruscant, a planet in the Star Wars corner of the multiverse, with his roomie Atton, who is a Jedi from a longer than usual long time ago.
- Oh, also he's still a wanted man in Ontario for all the breaking and entering and assault and arson he's committed over the years. Oops.
Townie: Jonothon Starsmore
[FREAKING AWESOME gif by this guy over here!]
Jono is...
- From like twenty years of assorted Marvel comics with an X in the title, including but not limited to Generation X, X-Men, Weapon X, Wolverine and the X-Men, X-Men: Legacy, and New Warriors, followed by more Generation X.
- Cranky mutant Brit with only half a face and no chest. On fire. Telepathic. Whether he's wrapped himself up to hide the flames or not will generally be reflected in narrative and I'll try, when I can, to also reflect it in his icons. If you're ever not sure, feel free to poke me and ask.
- Because he has no mouth and very few internal organs, he speaks exclusively in telepathy. His telepathic speech is put between a pair of slashes, //Like this.// In the comics he gets a special-shaped speech bubble, sometimes with a different font and with his text in blue, but there's no way in hell I'm coding all of that just for a conversation.
- Has a few versions of his own screwed-up mind bopping around in his head thanks to canon's inability to respect that maybe Jono just wants to be Jono for a while. Is still generally at odds with all of them.
- Married to Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Yes, that guy. Look, it makes sense to them, even if the rest of the world would probably squint hard and smack him upside the head repeatedly for it if they knew even half of what was going on there.
- He still squints at himself about it from time to time. But, eh, this arrangement works out best for basically everybody, honest.
- A sort of unofficially adopted Papa to Alluka, one of the students over at the school. He dreads the day she graduates.
- He's a graduate of Fandom High as well, and has been teaching off and on for several years now. He's currently 'off,' but he tries to keep himself busy by running back to his own reality to teach mutant kids in New York from time to time.
- He runs the music shop in town, the Groovy Tunes. He can most often be found there on Sundays.
Townie: Zack Fair
Zack is...
- From the Final Fantasy VII Compilation, and he has the giant kickass sword and magical powers to prove it.
- Proof that I'm a terrible person.
- Yet another student-turned-expat-turned-townie, because I'm bad at letting go of my kids.
- At one point he was going to be engaged to Yamanaka Ino, and instead wound up having the shit kicked out of him by a crazy silver-haired mama's boy and was subsequently kept in a giant tube and experimented on for several years by a psychotic mad scientist with a donkey laugh and a receding hairline. I have a lot of feelings about this.
- Is back on the island, living upstairs of the Boards-turned-new-Groovy-Tunes, along with Ino. It's complicated.
- We sort of broke his entire reality to get him back to the island, instead of the rather less happy ending that he'd get otherwise, oooooops. On the plus side, the weird trickle-down effect of 'what ifs' that comes from yanking out a cornerstone of the FFVII timeline has been fascinating to chew on.
- He's basically living proof that the universe's favourite game is 'Kick the Puppy.' Canon was hard on this boy.
- He runs the Furnado Animal Shelter in town, and can be found there on Tuesdays. There are plenty of job openings there; if you're interested in working with puppies, for a puppy, hit me up!
- And that 'was going to be engaged' thing? That's since been remedied. He proposed to Ino just a few weeks ago.
Meeeeeee
I am...
- Hi, I'm Shannon from Eastern Canada, and I reside deep within the animation mines.
- I'm on another one of those projects that's still on a heavy NDA, but I want to scream from the rooftops about it. I can say that it is very, very cute.
- Most of what I've worked on before this thing can be found on internet lists with titles like 'Animated Atrocities,' and 'Top 10 Worst Shows of the 2010s,' which is how I know I've finally made it in life.
- I'm personally responsible for ruining your childhood, probably.
- I have too many birds. They keep trying to make more birds. Please somebody save me from birds.
- I might have made myself cry no fewer than ten times just looking for gifs for this infopost. I love characters I can be mean to, but sometimes canon is WAY meaner.
- I can be reached on Twitter most of the time at Shammens, and on GChat or by e-mail all of the time at shannon.perry3d @ gmail.com after proper removal of spaces and suchlike.
- My availabiltiy is 'whenever I can sneak pings while I should be working,' evenings, and weekends. My bedtime might be earlier than most Americans, though, since I live in the future.
Student: Peridot
Peridot is...
- An angry little slice of pie.
- From the Cartoon Network animated series, Steven Universe.
- About three feet tall. Green. Has triangular hair. Yes, the hair factors into her height. Yes, she's too short to ride the big kid rides at the fair. It's canon.
- Not technically a girl, as magical immortal space rocks really don't technically have a gender, but she's from a matriarchal society that primarily uses feminine pronouns.
- She's a Gem. Literally. That little triangular stone in the middle of her forehead is actually HER. The body you see around it is a hard-light projection that allows her to interact with the world. The body can be destroyed-- she'll simply re-build it, if given time to do so. The gem, on the other hand, really should never be damaged. Unfortunate things happen to Gems whose gems are damaged.
- Works Wednesdays at the library.
- Is actually a technician back on Homeworld, with a couple thousand years (yes, Earth years) of experience. She can totally pimp out your cell phone to float or project holographic images or make toast, if you want her to.
- Has METAL POWERS. Which you think would be badass Magneto shit, but she just discovered she has them, so her upper limit at the moment is stuff like floating forks around or making garbage can lids fly so that she can sit on them to reach high places.
- Saved the world this one time? It involved building a giant drill. She thinks this makes her a big deal.
- Is also PRETTY SURE they want her shattered back on Homeworld, so Earth is stuck with her for a while.
- Oh, and she has a pet! Her pet is a pumpkin. The pumpkin's name is Pumpkin. Pumpkin is basically a dog who is a gourd. It (Peridot refers to it as a she) is a very good pumpkin.
Student: Norman Babcock
Norman is...
- From Laika's stop-motion animated feature film, ParaNorman.
- Just a normal kid, more or less. He's got kind of sticky-outy ears and hair that refuses to do anything but stand on end. He likes hoodies, and sneakers, and riding his bike around.
- His eyes seem to be kind of faceted, though, like gemstones. Not something you'd probably notice unless you were staring right at them, but they are very distinct.
- He's also got a bit of an obsession with zombie paraphernalia. His half of his dorm room is covered in zombie posters. His toothbrush is a zombie. His slippers are zombies. His favorite movies and comic books? Also zombies.
- Oh, and he sees dead people. Everywhere. They can get pretty chatty, too.
- It's possible he enjoys their company more than the company of most living people. But then, most ghosts don't call him a freak, and only one ghost has ever actually actively tried to kill him, so...
- He can also communicate with zombies. And occasionally gets visions of things that happened in the past that are about to become a really big deal here in the present.
- And he works at the Magic Box on Tuesdays, and is trying to learn as much as he can about magic while he's there. Given what people in his family line are capable of under duress, there's a good probability that he'd be able to use it pretty powerfully if he knew what he was doing.
- But yeah, besides that, just a normal kid.
Teacher: Reno
Reno is...
- One of those Final Fantasy VII characters, from well, well, well post all-available canon. He's done a bit of reality hopping since, spent some time in FFX's world and a much earlier version of his own world, but he always keeps ending up on Fandom Island.
- No really, I had him in-game before I ever played any of these other nerds.
- He's tall-ish and super lanky, has red hair that borders on the impossible (but is totally naturally that shade), and, unless the narrative states otherwise, he's always wearing a black suit. Sloppily.
- In canon, he's basically a member of his government's secret police. They do the ugly stuff that nobody else wants to dirty their hands doing. And he's quite okay with that. Hell, it's a point of pride.
- He wields a stun baton with deadly accuracy, and has these little spheres that are pretty common back home that let him use magic-- his magic of choice is lightning/fire based.
- He's also really, really fast. Blink and you miss it fast. Canon isn't actually strictly clear on what happened to give him that ability, but with FH Reno it's a nifty mix of some super soldier treatment shenanigans back home and being taught some pretty handy tricks by Ghanima back in his student years.
- He's currently teaching a workshop on Attitude over at the school on Fridays. It isn't entirely an excuse to come live on the island to pester one of his old rookies. But maybe it's at least partly one.
- Also, he says 'yo' a lot after things he says, yo. It's an English adaptation of a speech tic he has in Japanese that didn't carry over in translation, due to there really being no clean translation to what he actually says. I stick to yo primarily these days, even though in Japanese it's 'yoto' or 'zoto.'
Teacher/Townie: Kanan Jarrus
Kanan is...
- From all that shiny new Star Wars canon that Disney's been putting out lately, in particular the novel A New Dawn and the comic series Kanan: The Last Padawan. He still has several years and a lot of growing up to do before he hits Star Wars Rebels canon, so he's more like 'shitty Jedi annoying older brother' than 'Jedi Dad' at this point.
- He teaches 'Laying Low for Beginners' on Thursdays at the school, because he has a lot of experience with that sort of thing, believe it or not. He's also working Sunday shifts at Luke's Diner.
- He's a recovering alcoholic who has spent basically the better part of the past decade of his life drowning in a mire of PTSD, denial, and regret. He still defaults to running away from problems rather than facing them, because running has a far lower chance of getting him and everyone he cares about killed.
- He's always got a blaster on his hip, usually has some manner of armor on over his arm and shoulder, and, at least on the island, usually has a lightsaber on his other hip. When he's feeling unsafe or in his home galaxy, he disassembles the lightsaber and hides the pieces in various places on his person.
- Doesn't like being called 'kid.' Even though he's a wee early-twenties secret Jedi trainee punk drifter ex-smuggler roustabout sleemo with poodoo for brains.
- Hera Syndulla, the lovely green Twi'lek lady who runs the junkyard and shares his
- Even if it means turning him into a rebel who fights against the evil Empire that has taken over his galaxy and killed basically anybody who ever mattered to him in his life.
- As least his Lisa Frank dalmatian, Stance is cute?
- The dog is named after a dead clone, I'm sorry.
Townie: Sparkle
Sparkle is...
- From Judith Thompson's play, Habitat, which is very Canadian and which only a handful of you probably actually know.
- Fandom High alumnus, scrappy gay Canadian former group home punk.
- The only baseline human you're going to see in this list. I like 'em with powers, I guess.
- Has been living with Atton Rand and kissing Leto Atreides, along with pretty much any other pretty guy who swings that way. He does have a thing for older men, though, especially after a brief stint teaching. Sorry, students.
- Has complicated 'my mentor is a cannibal, his name FUCKING RHYMES and he's offered to adopt me like four years too late to really do me any good' feelings.
- He's been running the Demon Marcus - the clothing store in town - for about three years now. He also went to school recently to learn costume design, because on an island like this, it really can't hurt. He opens Demon Marcus on Sundays, and often sells clothes at a discount to people who aren't used to modern Maryland clothing needs.
- He's a proud fish owner, with one dude betta that his Demon Marcus employee, Alluka, has named Milady.
- He's also employed at the Pick Your Poison, by Ino, who goes by Iris, who has kind of taken him on as a tentative rookie of her own. His shifts there are on Wednesdays.
- He's spending a lot of his summer on Coruscant, a planet in the Star Wars corner of the multiverse, with his roomie Atton, who is a Jedi from a longer than usual long time ago.
- Oh, also he's still a wanted man in Ontario for all the breaking and entering and assault and arson he's committed over the years. Oops.
Townie: Jonothon Starsmore
[FREAKING AWESOME gif by this guy over here!]
Jono is...
- From like twenty years of assorted Marvel comics with an X in the title, including but not limited to Generation X, X-Men, Weapon X, Wolverine and the X-Men, X-Men: Legacy, and New Warriors, followed by more Generation X.
- Cranky mutant Brit with only half a face and no chest. On fire. Telepathic. Whether he's wrapped himself up to hide the flames or not will generally be reflected in narrative and I'll try, when I can, to also reflect it in his icons. If you're ever not sure, feel free to poke me and ask.
- Because he has no mouth and very few internal organs, he speaks exclusively in telepathy. His telepathic speech is put between a pair of slashes, //Like this.// In the comics he gets a special-shaped speech bubble, sometimes with a different font and with his text in blue, but there's no way in hell I'm coding all of that just for a conversation.
- Has a few versions of his own screwed-up mind bopping around in his head thanks to canon's inability to respect that maybe Jono just wants to be Jono for a while. Is still generally at odds with all of them.
- Married to Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Yes, that guy. Look, it makes sense to them, even if the rest of the world would probably squint hard and smack him upside the head repeatedly for it if they knew even half of what was going on there.
- He still squints at himself about it from time to time. But, eh, this arrangement works out best for basically everybody, honest.
- A sort of unofficially adopted Papa to Alluka, one of the students over at the school. He dreads the day she graduates.
- He's a graduate of Fandom High as well, and has been teaching off and on for several years now. He's currently 'off,' but he tries to keep himself busy by running back to his own reality to teach mutant kids in New York from time to time.
- He runs the music shop in town, the Groovy Tunes. He can most often be found there on Sundays.
Townie: Zack Fair
Zack is...
- From the Final Fantasy VII Compilation, and he has the giant kickass sword and magical powers to prove it.
- Proof that I'm a terrible person.
- Yet another student-turned-expat-turned-townie, because I'm bad at letting go of my kids.
- At one point he was going to be engaged to Yamanaka Ino, and instead wound up having the shit kicked out of him by a crazy silver-haired mama's boy and was subsequently kept in a giant tube and experimented on for several years by a psychotic mad scientist with a donkey laugh and a receding hairline. I have a lot of feelings about this.
- Is back on the island, living upstairs of the Boards-turned-new-Groovy-Tunes, along with Ino. It's complicated.
- We sort of broke his entire reality to get him back to the island, instead of the rather less happy ending that he'd get otherwise, oooooops. On the plus side, the weird trickle-down effect of 'what ifs' that comes from yanking out a cornerstone of the FFVII timeline has been fascinating to chew on.
- He's basically living proof that the universe's favourite game is 'Kick the Puppy.' Canon was hard on this boy.
- He runs the Furnado Animal Shelter in town, and can be found there on Tuesdays. There are plenty of job openings there; if you're interested in working with puppies, for a puppy, hit me up!
- And that 'was going to be engaged' thing? That's since been remedied. He proposed to Ino just a few weeks ago.
Meeeeeee
I am...
- Hi, I'm Shannon from Eastern Canada, and I reside deep within the animation mines.
- I'm on another one of those projects that's still on a heavy NDA, but I want to scream from the rooftops about it. I can say that it is very, very cute.
- Most of what I've worked on before this thing can be found on internet lists with titles like 'Animated Atrocities,' and 'Top 10 Worst Shows of the 2010s,' which is how I know I've finally made it in life.
- I'm personally responsible for ruining your childhood, probably.
- I have too many birds. They keep trying to make more birds. Please somebody save me from birds.
- I might have made myself cry no fewer than ten times just looking for gifs for this infopost. I love characters I can be mean to, but sometimes canon is WAY meaner.
- I can be reached on Twitter most of the time at Shammens, and on GChat or by e-mail all of the time at shannon.perry3d @ gmail.com after proper removal of spaces and suchlike.
- My availabiltiy is 'whenever I can sneak pings while I should be working,' evenings, and weekends. My bedtime might be earlier than most Americans, though, since I live in the future.
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