|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 15:35:51 GMT -5
I unhid this board because I kept forgetting the url. XD Okay, few small things about this thread: It's locked like most of the About the Comic threads are, obviously. Mostly just to keep it tidy. Not all the minor background characters in AR have actual names, just working nicknames, so when you see a name in [brackets] that means it's just a working name (although considering how uncreative my working names are it should be obvious anyhow.) I'm gonna try and make sure all these posts have images of the character they're about, unlike in the LOP Character thread. Because if LOP's confusing, then AR is REALLY confusing. On the stats: I don't hold with any of that "blood type determines personality" bunk the Japanese like to invoke. The blood types the characters have are there because sometimes it's interesting to know these things. If you look, Spike's blood type would indicate that she's "cool, controlled and rational." Which she's not, rather clearly. Also, some of these brief histories might have minor spoilers, but only minor ones. I try to be more vague than in the LOP histories.
|
|
|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 15:45:35 GMT -5
-Spike is spastic and somewhat unstable. The reason for this is partly that she feels too powerfully, too much, and in too many different ways at once for her to understand, much less handle, her emotions. Lately she's been having some rather unsettling dreams, which doesn't help at all. [glow=red,2,300]Stats[/glow] Age: 13 Height: 5' Weight: 100 lbs Hair: blonde Eyes: Blue Skintone: Light Blood Type: AB- Other Identifying Features: None [glow=red,2,300]Brief History[/glow][/center][/size] Spike was born on the military space station Artemis Six to [spikemom] and [spikedad], the fourth of five children. For much of her early life she was bullied viciously by her peers, in part because her father, [spikedad], was the station head, and also because she was naturally shy, bookish and quiet. By the time she reached the age of eleven, it was clear to her parents that Spike needed to be sent to one of the schools that took shy and repressed cases-- until one day she suddenly snapped, attacking one of the other station children and instigating a brawl in the cafeteria. From that point on Spike was impossible to control and lashed out physically for the slightest offense. [spikedad] still can't say today whether he was relieved or aghast to have to send his daughter to Awertsik instead of one of the other schools.
|
|
|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 15:58:00 GMT -5
-Cepheus is impatient and easily irritated. Despite this, he warms to people rather quickly. He's apparently a trouble child, and speaks of his exploits in a cavalier and uncaring fashion. Cepheus is also a music junkie and has several T-shirts dedicated to his favorite band, an orchestral metal band called "Avernus." [glow=red,2,300]Stats[/glow] Age: 14 Height: 5' 7" Weight: 130 lbs Hair: blonde Eyes: Blue and purple/pink Skintone: Light Blood Type: B- Other Identifying Features: Cepheus can has kitty eyes! [glow=red,2,300]Brief History[/glow][/center][/size] Cepheus was born on Earth to [Cephmom] and Ursa Corona. His parents divorced when he was very young and his mother went off-grid, leaving Ursa to support and care for the boy alone. This was made more difficult by the fact that Cepheus was afflicted by a frightening condition that was only diagnosed several years later. During that time, Ursa fell in love with and married [cephstepmom], one of Cepheus's doctors. Since then they have had several daughters, and Cepheus is currently the oldest of "four and a half" children (his words, used because [cephstepmom] is pregnant at the beginning of the story.) Throughout most of his childhood (especially after his condition was diagnosed and he received treatment) Cepheus has been prone to being destructive and has also presented little regard for authority. The incident that resulted in his being sent to Awertsik involved the destruction of General Corona's yacht (which was apparently a gift). No one was hurt, but it was understandably the last straw.
|
|
|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 16:25:22 GMT -5
-Orian vacillates between shy and overly forthcoming, freely admitting to being "not normal" but reticent about his actual background. He doesn't seem to understand the world he's been thrust into as well as Cepheus does, and thus latches on to the other young man, albiet tentatively. Orian is clearly self-conscious about his difference and his unfamiliarity with the world at large. [glow=red,2,300]Stats[/glow] Age: 13 Height: 5' 7" Weight: 126 lbs Hair: Black, shines blue Eyes: Black, with an undercurrent of deep green Skintone: Sickly Pale Blood Type: O+ Other Identifying Features: A large black and red tattoo spread across his back. [glow=red,2,300]Brief History[/glow][/center][/size] Orian grew up in the new-age cult called "The Children of Kk'Gosh'kna," a society that based itself around the precepts "The universe is mad" and "Death is all around us, and thus we must embrace it." It centered daily life around the appeasement of a creature called "Kk'gosh'kna," a monster that supposedly was kept happy (and thus somewhat calm) through human suffering, which was produced by throwing selected members to genetically modified creatures called "chupacabres" to be torn apart. Further, many members, especially high priests, were physically modified to further emulate the creature itself, and most children (Orian included) underwent minor modifications to make them more pleasing to the mad god. Though as a small child he was aware of the human sacrifices, Orian didn't particularly think about them until one day his mother was chosen (children were typically not chosen as they would be less aware of what was happening.) When his father began to display signs of his deep inner rage, he too was chosen. Then Orian's brother. Then his sisters. Orian became the ward of the head priest of Kk'gosh'kna, who told him he should be proud his family proved so pleasing to the death-god's lust. By this time, about the age of nine, Orian was confused, angry and frustrated. The head priest began to groom him for the position as his successor, but the day before he was to be consecrated (by a process that would have involved modifying Orian's body into a form considered more suited to the priesthood), a now nearly thirteen year old Orian found and stole the head priest's only working emergency space cruiser, tearing into space with it and promptly crashing it into the first manmade construct he could find, getting himself arrested. A very long and gut wrenching three months later, Orian found himself on a military transport to Awertsik. While the military has made enormous gains in the destruction of the cult, several of the cult leaders remain at large, including the priest that first chose Orian as his successor. (Yes, this means that Orian lied to Cepheus in chapter one, page four, panel two. Give him a break, the social worker types probably told him to.)
|
|
|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 16:32:54 GMT -5
-Hydra often finds himself placed as Spike's "more normal" foil, despite his only being slightly more grounded. He easily lets her drag him into confrontations, and what the two have might best be described as a mutually abusive friendship. He also suffers from intense sexual frustration, although typically he keeps this to himself fairly well (it might explain why he likes fighting with Spike so much, though). [glow=red,2,300]Stats[/glow] Age: 14 Height: 5' 8" Weight: 138 lbs Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Skintone: Tanned Blood Type: A+ Other Identifying Features: Way, way too sharp teeth. [glow=red,2,300]Brief History[/glow][/center][/size] Hydra was born on the military space station Aries Three to [hydramom] and [hydradad], the second of three children. He is more typical of Awertsik's students in that he has a long record of getting into fights and other general trouble. Hydra met Spike on the transport to Awertsik, wherein they first began their long-running feud (which was apparently started by one of them telling the other that they looked familiar somehow.)
|
|
|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 16:39:48 GMT -5
-Galurax is the commanding officer of the Awertsiku Military Base. He is patient as possible with his wards, although one can't really blame him for locking himself in his office some days, since the "school" is where all the military's trouble children are sent. Galurax has a certain air of mystery to him, since he's abnormally huge and can take a bullet to the forehead with little more than irritation. [glow=red,2,300]Stats[/glow] Age: Classified Height: 6' 11" Weight: 245 lbs Hair: Dark Brown Eyes: Red Skintone: Light Blood Type: Classified Other Identifying Features: Classified [glow=red,2,300]Brief History[/glow][/center][/size] Galurax's history is classified. XD
|
|
|
Post by Golden Dragon Girl on May 25, 2009 17:06:19 GMT -5
-Lukas is Spike's cousin, Hydra's roommate. He's a cheerful and friendly lad who chafes at protocol. [glow=red,2,300]Stats[/glow] Age: 13 Height: 5' 4" Weight: 130 lbs Hair: Blonde Eyes: Yellow Skintone: Light Blood Type: A + Other Identifying Features: None [glow=red,2,300]Brief History[/glow][/center][/size] Lukas was born on the military Space Station Artemis Six and grew up alongside his cousin Spike, although they were not especially close as cousins go. Lukas is so good at not following orders that he was sent to Awertsik.
|
|