Subject: Permission Repost
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Posted on: 2010-07-20 16:34:00 UTC
It's not been bumped off the first page yet, but it's buried under so many gigantic threads it may as well have fallen down the Mariana Trench.
Agents:
Name: Summerblaze (Summer)
Species: Human
Home Continuum: Valdemar
Department: Department of Mary-Sues
Background: The offspring of a Sue and a Darkwind!Possession-Stu, Summer was created with virtually no personality, and pretty much ignored except for sicky-sweet bits of fluff. The PPC interrupted the fic when she was about five years old, but not having any charges on her except for parentage, they took her back to the PPC Nursery (after a jaunt through the science center, where they attempted therapy to remove as much Glitter as possible). She was "adopted" by another Tayledras agent, and essentially grew up in the PPC HQ. Due to her parentage, she has a mild case of MSS, but not quite as bad as a full-blown Rehabilitated!Sue.
Skills: Mind-to-mind communication with her bondbird, mental shielding, (momentary) physical shielding, small fireballs
Weapons: Tayledras climbing pick; longbow
Appearance: Her parents may have been Suvians, but the author at least paid attention to genetics. Her hair is black (at certain times of the month it becomes "glossy, raven locks" and/or "onyx tresses") and waist-length; on missions, she generally ties it into a pony-tail or braid. Her skin is golden-brown, the laws of Narrative Comedy having been lenient for once, as even in canon the Tayledras are simply described as "golden-skinned." She is fairly tall and athletic, although without Suvian influences her figure is about as average as it gets. She is perfectly fine with this, and wouldn't have it any other way.
Name: James Ochre Yellow (Jamie, Oke)
Species: Human (Ex-Piper's Child)
Home Continuum: Keys to the Kingdoms (The Lower House)
Department: DoM-S
Background: A Piper's Child of unknown ancestry, Jaime was running from an Overseer after stealing a pair of wings when he fell into HQ. No one's really sure how; it was put down to a plothole. An accident with a Mage!Sue caused the wings (he'd worked /hard/ to steal those. He wasn't just gonna leave 'em in a closet) to attach themselves permanently to his back, which, while occasionally convenient, can also be incredibly annoying, as they have a mind of their own and tend to snap out at inopportune times. (The process of turning a magical construct into a pair of flesh-and-blood appendages was also excruciatingly painful, and remains a source of spontaneous agony. Mammals were not meant to possess six limbs, and the Word World occasionally decides to recognize this fact.)
Skills: Flight
Weapons: Whatever heavy object is nearest; decent hand at just about everything, but not particularly good at any one thing.
Appearance: James is quite clearly of mixed blood. His longish hair is sandy brown and usually messy; occasionally he ties it into a stubby ponytail when it starts to get in the way. His eyes are medium brown, and his skin is tan; in short, his coloring is what one might expect of a European, but his build is more like the stereotypical Asian, and his almond-shaped eyes and nonexistent epicanthic fold only emphasize the look. He is a rather mature-looking fifteen, easily mistaken for a college student.
Writing sample:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1648576/ My page in the Pit, although it's mostly serious stuff, and since I haven't posted there in ages my writing style's changed. I'm working on a sample with these two, but I figure as of now, might as well post what I've got, eh?
First badfic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6094334/1/TheLifeofRosannaHathaway_Potter I don't normally read this fandom, but it's such a god-awful frightfest that I couldn't resist. Warning: The whole thing is written in bold/italic. THE. WHOLE. THING.
Because this came up in the first post, I'd assumed that there had been more than one batch of Piper's Children, given the number of them in the House. Also, with regards to parentage, James isn't necessarily half-Asian, half-European. I didn't figure out an exact ratio, but it's not impossible for a European to have a stereotypically Asian build, and Asian genes tend to be dominant over European ones in mixed-race offspring. There was Asian influence in Britain at some point in history, though I forget when; it's almost entirely faded now, but he's from a time period when it would have been much stronger.
Also, until I come up with a better idea, I've decided that he's the descendant--grand or great-grandchild, most likely--of a European merchant who married an Asian woman who he met on his travels. It's not entirely implausible or uncommon; Indo-European trade has an extremely long history. It's not going to affect the writing in any way whatsoever, but it's nice to have it.