A Defiant 'Verse OOC and Sign Ups
POSTED BY: Defiant2thelast
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 19:34
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Name: Delshadi “Shade” Whitmore (del-SHAH-dee)
Age: 26
Sex: Female
Social Control Number: 042,123,4,8997
Role: Muscle
Gear: Flat brimmed black hat, knee-length coat, endless supply of green tank tops, and mismatched pistols. Also often accessorized with various bruises.
Assets: Resilient, loyal, determined and resourceful, high tolerance to alcohol, good hand to hand instincts and excellent shot
Complications: Violent, hot-tempered, doesn’t tend to flex the brain-muscle as often as any others, stubborn
Physical Description: With warm brown eyes and unruly brown hair, Shade would probably pass as quite pretty if she put the effort into it. No one has ever been quite brave – or stupid – enough to suggest it to HER, though. Long dark hair, wiry and strong, very fit. Tallish, but not tall, there’s always a little spark of looking-for-a-fight in her eyes. Sports various scars, a few visible when she’s wearing a tank top. Has several tattoos, including a pale sword on her upper right arm, point down; a simple mandala on her inner left wrist, and a few chinese characters up her spine, (champion, valiant, and truth, top to bottom).
Personality: Shade has a soft spot for the underdog, and a passion for defending the defenseless, but it’s not obvious unless you get to know her. She seems brusque and cocky, impatient with self-indulgent nonsense, and certainly never quite what you could call “ladylike”. Too often, she seems to go looking for a fight, usually with a sense of ‘this is going to be fun’. Too often she comes home with bruises and other injuries – but she always comes home, and through sheer determination rather than any magical fighting skill or martial arts, she usually does more damage than she takes. She’s fiercely loyal to her boss – until the day the boss crosses “that line” and then all bets are off. Most of the time, she’s fairly easy going, a sort of slightly beyond tomboy, ‘drinking buddy’ sort of person.
Background:
About ten or eleven years ago, a somewhat scrawny teenager got off a transport, and disappeared into a crowd. That was the last time anyone saw Venice Casey. Her father put up only the most cursory search, and then forgot about her. The ‘Verse forgot about her.
Shade worked on various vessels and for various private parties over the years. Her first jobs were grunt work, but she did them, and happy for the chance at real work. Her nature led her to one too many altercations, and one enterprising old shepherd introduced her to ‘boxing’. It was really more a basic punching bag workout, and it gave her the chance to work out her aggression and learn to throw a better punch at the same time. She stepped up to guns on accident – a shoot out lead to a dead-but-armed-crewman, and from there an armed and pissed off young woman. Only thing she’s never sold is that one gun – Egg, after the Chinese man that had previously owned it.
She got a reputation for being a bad girl – not the fun kind, the ouchie kind. Eventually, she was hiring on as security, goon, even cargo handler, whatever job title they chose to give her, the real job was always about how fast and well she could shoot – and how much muscle she could dish out. More than once her femininity helped her get a job – they never expected the GIRL to kick ass – but Shade never paid much attention to it, beyond when she could use it as an excuse for a fight.
Work helps her keep her more self-destructive tendencies in check, occasionally even giving her a purpose. It rarely lasts. Neither does the money after each job – leading her back to the start finding a new one.
It’s suspect she harbors some sort of personal tragedy, but Shade’s not the sort to whine about it. There’s more fun to be had by living life, and what’s happened in the past can’t be changed.
(Note: Deslhadi is Iranian, and means “Cheerful, Happy Little Heart”)
Full backstory available upon request, but it’s
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WOW!
I'd like to come back when I've been away to characters like that everytime. Accepted without a doubt, and I'm sure no one can dissagree it's an absoloutly brilliant character sheet.
Anyway, I've had RL problems and internet problems, but I'm back.
Lincolnz: I'll have an explosion in my pants pocket when I get a text message now
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wow.
I love it!!
I vote yes anyway :)
Great to have another girl onboard, but even better to have an arse-kickin fight-startin tomboy babe!
I had worried a little that our crew would be overall a little to meek and mild, and here you come!
Every interesting ship needs a "Jayne". Glad to meet one :)
Any ideas on where we could pick you up?
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We have the best crew. :D
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"Big.. big mug."
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Quote:
Originally posted by LincolnZ:
We have the best crew. :D
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"Big.. big mug."
This x1000
Lincolnz: I'll have an explosion in my pants pocket when I get a text message now
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She's recently "left her position" (re: had a fight with someone and been booted) and has been spending her last paycheck in the local bars gathering a new collection of bruises and leaving a string of dazed and broken men in her path.
She's looking for a new post before she goes "too far", so if there's still word on the cortex you got a position, she'll present herself for an interview.
If you've spent some time here (and I gather you have, if not a LONG time), chances are you may have either seen her in a fight, or overheard the commotion.
She has a tendency (like Mal's going to a Alliance bar on Uni Day) to sort of encourage inappropriate men so she has an excuse to kick their asses. She's already been banned from at least two bars.
So... I can start whenever you want.
and wow, talk about smiles and blushes - I didn't really expect such a nice reaction to what felt a little like a dashed together CS.
I may change her description (coloring only) once I find a face - that's my goal this morning, finding her a face. Limiting it to the slightly ethnic looking dark hair and eyes is kinda making it more of a challenge (I keep finding semi-decent light colored people, but no really suitable dark ones). I'll keep looking!
And thanks ^.^
oh - and I'll hang out in the chatroom today, much as I can, so if I'm there but don't answer, I'll be checking it again soon :)
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If you knew what sort of RP a few of us started on you'd understand our excitement at having another great writer/character on board. :D
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"Big.. big mug."
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ok, I so hope that was ok - I so don't want to jump the gun or step on toes jumping in too soon.
Just kinded flowed, seemed general enough where it lets off to be flexible, but I can change or remove if needed.
You know you want it - http://www.shadesiren.com
You know you need it - http://www.oberonrpg.com
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I found a picture I'm happy with. Tossed in a background from Serenity part one, so she wasn't just against a white background. If you squint, you can kinda tell it's a blue sun logo on something in the background.
ok, I made two, but I mostly had to share cuz I changed her T-Shirt. The original had a man on his knees offering someone standing a kitten, from a basket of kittens on the ground between them.
I changed it to a man begging for his life over a bag full of money. Note the gun under the edge of her hair, and the double-slashed C on the bag of money.
Yeah, I was looking for something to do today...
I'm not much good with Sigs, but it seems Defiant makes those shiny ones you guys have? *bats her eyelashes hopefully*
I found this useful, sharing if anyone wants a copy - https://home.comcast.net/~shadesiren/Defiant_Bios.doc
You know you want it - http://www.shadesiren.com
You know you need it - http://www.oberonrpg.com
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Sweet post. Introductions are always the most awkward part too. At least in my experience. Could be interesting showing up at the very last second before we leave.
Also, you forgot Bucket in your bio sheet.
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"Big.. big mug."
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