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Infopost: The Postening
It's that time of year again! I'm gonna dust off all SORTS of old infopost blips and make sure you shiny new oldbies know which gaggle belongs to me! I'm helpy like that.
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. Bob the ghost has given him some training in simple magic stuff, but has since backed up his skull and meandered off to chill with Harry Dresden back home again.
- Roommates with Delirium, the anthropomorphic personification of insanity, is pretty cool with this arrangement, actually.
- A senior now! I... I don't know how that happened.
- But yeah, besides that, just a normal kid.
Student: Vette
Vette is...
- Comes from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Because I've been playing that game for far too many years now and really it's a wonder I didn't app someone forever ago as it is.
- Is blue. Is a Twi'lek. Is from roughly the same era as Theron and Lana are, and wouldn't know either of them.
- Comes from about five years pre-SWtOR canon, has been running around with Twi'lek relic hunters and living on Nar Shaddaa for a few years.
- Has quite the resume behind her, including slave, pirate, thief, and assassin, if the price is right. She's no stranger to prison, and prison is no stranger to having her break out of it.
- Yeah, she can break into pretty much anything, and slice (hack) into whatever the heck she wants. It's a whole plot point. It's the whole reason she becomes your companion in SWtOR in the first place.
- She's playful, cunning, and occasionally ruthless, likes anti-authority behaviour and protecting the weak, haaaates kiss-ups, bullying, and hurting the innocent, and can eventually be won over by shoving cultural artifacts, luxury items, and anything you're not actually supposed to have at her by way of gifts.
- She works Thursdays at the Scrapyard for Hera, when I remember, and Friday at Wellspring Arms for Cable, also when I remember.
- Is dating Prince Sidon, they're kinda disgusting together and I love it.
- Is roommates with Nina and besties with Prompto, and between the three of them, they're totally in a vicious gang, honest, for real. They do terrible things like tape inflatable unicorns to buses.
- If she ever gets her hands on a really, really big gun, run.
Townie: Sparkle
Sparkle is...
- From Judith Thompson's play, Habitat, which is very Canadian and whichonly a handful of you probably actually know. I must've shoved at about half of you by now.
- 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 and Hernando Fuentes, is collecting all the pretty men! Has also given kissing a girl a try, yes, she was wearing cherry chapstick. It was not terrible.
- 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 years and years now. He also went to school 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 former Demon Marcus employee, Alluka, has named Milady.
- 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. He's working on that. If I ever get off my butt it'll come to a head pretty soon, actually. Hnn, lookit me go!
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, but he's steadily outgrowing 'roustabout sleemo' mode and starting to lean into 'space dad' pretty hard.
- He's taking a break from teaching this semesterbecause my brain melted, but he still has his Friday meditation and/or lightsaber practice sessions on the regular.
- 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. It's a work in progress.
- 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.
- He's the Sunday guy at Luke's diner, which mostly means he babysits the staff while they make Too Many Pancakes.
- He's starting to stumble across a small world of close friends and found family on the island, including but not limited to Summer, Kitty, Kaidan, Jack... This is all Very New to him and he's 400% convinced he's going to kriff it up, but he's trying.
- He's also prone to taking Teens Who Need Training under his wing, apparently, as he's done for Tip, is kinda so-so doing with Lana when neither of them squints at it too hard, and is very much about to start doing for Rey.
- 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 from that whole 'roustabout' thing.
- 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: 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 Iris (formerly known as 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.
- The engagement situation is kinda in Complicated On Facebook mode at the moment. They're working on some stuff.
- 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.
- ... Then we broke it AGAIN and BIGGER. Now he's one of maybe three people in his reality who remembers anything going wrong starting with Nibelheim, and he has no idea what to do with this.
- 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!
Townie: Fjord
Fjord is...
- It's pronounced 'Ford.'
- Comes from the second campaign in Critical Role. Yeah, he's another one of those liveplay D&D game characters, WE ARE TAKING OVER NOW.
- Is a half-orc warlock. A hexblade, which means he's got a pact weapon that binds him to his patron, who is some sort of serpentine multi-eyed eldritch monstrosity from the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean. In spite of this, he tries to be good. Kinda falls short sometimes. You can blame that on his totally balls wisdom stat.
- He never knew his parents, grew up in an orphanage, was bullied for being the oddly-proportioned green kid with tusks (which he used to file off but has been re-growing for some time thanks to some encouragement from Fenris, his roommate), and somewhere in there he did a good deal of sailing on merchant ships along the Menagerie Coast.
- He's making his appearance pre-campaign. Level two! Level two! This means he doesn't know most of the Mighty Nein with the exception of Jester, who he doesn't know well, and Beauregard, who is also living on the island. They have nooo idea what they're in for.
- He's fairly stoic, occasionally viciously pragmatic, wouldn't know how to flirt if his life depended on it, more compassionate than he really lets on, and also terribly allergic to cats.
- And yeah, if you have any magical weapons or artifacts, don't let him touch them? They might eat eaten. It's a whole thing.
- He speaks in a deep voice with a Texan accent. Most of the time. That's also a whole thing.
- He works Thursdays at the forge for Amaya, and Friday nights at Caritas. Has been known to teach on occasion. Wonders what the hell the school board was thinking to let that happen.
Expat: 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, also an expat, though she's off in her own world doing Hunterly stuff these days.
- He's a graduate of Fandom High as well, and has been teaching off and on for several years now. He's currently 'off,' when it comes to the island, but is teaching in his own New York at the Jean Grey School, or Xavier School, or whatever it is they're calling it this week..
Meeeeeee
I am...
- Hi, I'm Shannon from Eastern Canada, I use he/him pronouns (yes, this is new, no you're not going crazy) and I reside deep within the animation mines.
- Most of what I've worked on over the years 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.
- Also, Care Bears?
- So I'm personally responsible for ruining your childhood, probably.
- I can be reached on the FH Discord pretty much whenever (hit me up if you need an invite!), and on GChat or by e-mail all of the time at shannon.perry3d @ gmail.com after proper removal of spaces and suchlike.
- My availability is 'whenever I can sneak pings while I should be working,' evenings, and weekends, at least until this current contract at the studio ends and I'm left wondering what to do with myself. My bedtime might be earlier than most Americans, though, since I live in the future.
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. Bob the ghost has given him some training in simple magic stuff, but has since backed up his skull and meandered off to chill with Harry Dresden back home again.
- Roommates with Delirium, the anthropomorphic personification of insanity, is pretty cool with this arrangement, actually.
- A senior now! I... I don't know how that happened.
- But yeah, besides that, just a normal kid.
Student: Vette
Vette is...
- Comes from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Because I've been playing that game for far too many years now and really it's a wonder I didn't app someone forever ago as it is.
- Is blue. Is a Twi'lek. Is from roughly the same era as Theron and Lana are, and wouldn't know either of them.
- Comes from about five years pre-SWtOR canon, has been running around with Twi'lek relic hunters and living on Nar Shaddaa for a few years.
- Has quite the resume behind her, including slave, pirate, thief, and assassin, if the price is right. She's no stranger to prison, and prison is no stranger to having her break out of it.
- Yeah, she can break into pretty much anything, and slice (hack) into whatever the heck she wants. It's a whole plot point. It's the whole reason she becomes your companion in SWtOR in the first place.
- She's playful, cunning, and occasionally ruthless, likes anti-authority behaviour and protecting the weak, haaaates kiss-ups, bullying, and hurting the innocent, and can eventually be won over by shoving cultural artifacts, luxury items, and anything you're not actually supposed to have at her by way of gifts.
- She works Thursdays at the Scrapyard for Hera, when I remember, and Friday at Wellspring Arms for Cable, also when I remember.
- Is dating Prince Sidon, they're kinda disgusting together and I love it.
- Is roommates with Nina and besties with Prompto, and between the three of them, they're totally in a vicious gang, honest, for real. They do terrible things like tape inflatable unicorns to buses.
- If she ever gets her hands on a really, really big gun, run.
Townie: Sparkle
Sparkle is...
- From Judith Thompson's play, Habitat, which is very Canadian and which
- 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 and Hernando Fuentes, is collecting all the pretty men! Has also given kissing a girl a try, yes, she was wearing cherry chapstick. It was not terrible.
- 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 years and years now. He also went to school 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 former Demon Marcus employee, Alluka, has named Milady.
- 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. He's working on that. If I ever get off my butt it'll come to a head pretty soon, actually. Hnn, lookit me go!
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, but he's steadily outgrowing 'roustabout sleemo' mode and starting to lean into 'space dad' pretty hard.
- He's taking a break from teaching this semester
- 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. It's a work in progress.
- 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.
- He's the Sunday guy at Luke's diner, which mostly means he babysits the staff while they make Too Many Pancakes.
- He's starting to stumble across a small world of close friends and found family on the island, including but not limited to Summer, Kitty, Kaidan, Jack... This is all Very New to him and he's 400% convinced he's going to kriff it up, but he's trying.
- He's also prone to taking Teens Who Need Training under his wing, apparently, as he's done for Tip, is kinda so-so doing with Lana when neither of them squints at it too hard, and is very much about to start doing for Rey.
- 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: 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 Iris (formerly known as 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.
- The engagement situation is kinda in Complicated On Facebook mode at the moment. They're working on some stuff.
- 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.
- ... Then we broke it AGAIN and BIGGER. Now he's one of maybe three people in his reality who remembers anything going wrong starting with Nibelheim, and he has no idea what to do with this.
- 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!
Townie: Fjord
Fjord is...
- It's pronounced 'Ford.'
- Comes from the second campaign in Critical Role. Yeah, he's another one of those liveplay D&D game characters, WE ARE TAKING OVER NOW.
- Is a half-orc warlock. A hexblade, which means he's got a pact weapon that binds him to his patron, who is some sort of serpentine multi-eyed eldritch monstrosity from the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean. In spite of this, he tries to be good. Kinda falls short sometimes. You can blame that on his totally balls wisdom stat.
- He never knew his parents, grew up in an orphanage, was bullied for being the oddly-proportioned green kid with tusks (which he used to file off but has been re-growing for some time thanks to some encouragement from Fenris, his roommate), and somewhere in there he did a good deal of sailing on merchant ships along the Menagerie Coast.
- He's making his appearance pre-campaign. Level two! Level two! This means he doesn't know most of the Mighty Nein with the exception of Jester, who he doesn't know well, and Beauregard, who is also living on the island. They have nooo idea what they're in for.
- He's fairly stoic, occasionally viciously pragmatic, wouldn't know how to flirt if his life depended on it, more compassionate than he really lets on, and also terribly allergic to cats.
- And yeah, if you have any magical weapons or artifacts, don't let him touch them? They might eat eaten. It's a whole thing.
- He speaks in a deep voice with a Texan accent. Most of the time. That's also a whole thing.
- He works Thursdays at the forge for Amaya, and Friday nights at Caritas. Has been known to teach on occasion. Wonders what the hell the school board was thinking to let that happen.
Expat: 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, also an expat, though she's off in her own world doing Hunterly stuff these days.
- He's a graduate of Fandom High as well, and has been teaching off and on for several years now. He's currently 'off,' when it comes to the island, but is teaching in his own New York at the Jean Grey School, or Xavier School, or whatever it is they're calling it this week..
Meeeeeee
I am...
- Hi, I'm Shannon from Eastern Canada, I use he/him pronouns (yes, this is new, no you're not going crazy) and I reside deep within the animation mines.
- Most of what I've worked on over the years 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.
- Also, Care Bears?
- So I'm personally responsible for ruining your childhood, probably.
- I can be reached on the FH Discord pretty much whenever (hit me up if you need an invite!), and on GChat or by e-mail all of the time at shannon.perry3d @ gmail.com after proper removal of spaces and suchlike.
- My availability is 'whenever I can sneak pings while I should be working,' evenings, and weekends, at least until this current contract at the studio ends and I'm left wondering what to do with myself. My bedtime might be earlier than most Americans, though, since I live in the future.
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