Character Guide
A
"who's who" of
Quasispace
Season One
Alair:
Alair was orphaned in a high-tech future and "adopted" by a
multi-galactic corporation after her psionic talents started to
develop. She's
since grown in a rather unusual environment, well-trained for handling
board
meetings or pursuing criminals with extreme prejudice, but with little
in the
way of normal contact or relationships. About 5'10, brown hair, green
eyes.
She's always eager to learn about something she hasn't been exposed to.
Her
occasional naivety is a rather sensitive issue, however, and she's
extremely
reluctant to ever come out and admit that she doesn't have the faintest
idea
what someone's talking about. Put into such a corner she'll bluff her
way
through as best she can while trying to figure it out. Riffing-wise,
she's
more likely to be bothered by OOCness than any other sort of inherent
wrongness
in the 'fic itself. She's also a huge fangirl when it comes to certain
'video
game celebrities' (especially Terry Bogard). She enjoys poking holes at
authorial logic, munchkinism, making tragic attempts at puns, even
worse
attempts at hentai riffs, and she's always the sort who stands up and
yells at
the minor characters to turn around when the knife-wielding maniac is
sneaking
up behind them. Not really a heel character but may be goaded into
action.
black dub:
black
dub is a very confused young black male. He's manic-depressive and
violent, sometimes. He's usually found in black blue jeans, a white
t-shirt and sneakers. Despite this nonassuming look, he's a ninja. Not
an overly good one and not an overly bad one. Just average. He gets the
job done. Even better, he's got mild costume-changing abilities. The
most notable ones are his Saiyan Warrior costume, wherein he can fire
off huge blasts of ki at great cost to himself. Also, his jet-black
Ninja Gaiden style costume where his ninja powers are much more
prevalent.
He's
hentai. Not Thief hentai, but solidly hentai. He hates dickgirls and
yaoi, is indifferent to hardcore/straight hentai and prefers yuri. He
hates fanboy Japanese with a passion and will hurt whoever uses it in
his presence. He's a writer, and a book fiend, so he'll make
intelligent grammar riffs, gripe about crappy plotting and remark on
uneducated character-bashing/plot points. He's sarcastic. That's the
only real way to describe him. He's sarcastic and clever.
Brandt
Delacroix/Thief (Chimera):
He is Brandt Lazarus Delacroix, a painfully shy Catholic orphan of
gentle demeanor and unrealistically optimistic world view. Yet he was
chosen by an Evil Gov'mint Projekt to recieve bizarre genetic and
surgical alterations that have crafted him into a psychic of immense
power... able to warp reality, gaze through the walls of existance and
even pass through them with concious effort. Unfortunately it cost him
his sanity. Within this delicate, blue-eyed, ebon-haired, very short,
pretty boy of fifteen is the mind of a murderous sexual predator who
goes by the name of Thief.
Brandt's riffing style is odd... he's a bit of an obsessive compulsive,
so he tries to get EVERY repeating oddity in the fic. Coupled with
serious fanboy leanings for any 'nerdy' fantasy/sci-fi books, songs,
animes, musicals, and movies, he tends to mention seriously obscure,
specific qoutes from them. Further, he tends to make insane, obscure
(sometimes clever) puns and non-jokes, and can undergo insane logic
riffs, possibly due to 'side effects' of his MPD. Sometimes he
'projects' riffs of people he misses from other fics. Think of Felix
from the Odd Couple, Jeremy from Sports Night, etc.
Thief's riffing is more straightforward. Thief is vicious and punishes
percieved lack of fic-quality (quality in this case meaning lots of
sweaty sex and violence) with wild sarcasm, angry dark riffs, and the
worst perversions imaginable. Most of his fellow riffers are easy
targets too, which he attacks without conscience. Extreme inanity or
boredom from the fic can cause Thief to go on a murderous rampage. For
some reason nobody wants to think about too much, Thief suffers from
Redhairedalibiphobia, which is the fear of Shirley Temple or anything
implying her.
Since his incarceration in a series of Quasispace theaters, Brandt has
formed several alliances and friendships. Psychics do that, you know.
He likes Dragomorph and trusts Cosmos, among others. Also he seems to
have bonded well with t.ogre... though t. better have a damn good
explaination for torturing Brandt in ep 102 when they meet next!
Thief has also formed alliances and friendships. He has a great deal of
affection for SDR and liked Kaophyre in her evil form. Also for some
reason he sometimes seems to have a Bart/Milhouse style relationship
with Krinn, maybe because he promised he'd let Krinn play the cop from
Reservoir Dogs.
Currently Brandt/Thief is wearing a tattered, blood-spattered formal
shirt, sneakers, a plastic wrap-cum-tartan kilt, and a red silk cape
(which is far too big for him). A small, plain silver crucifix hangs
over his heart and his reading glasses are hooked into his waistband.
Brian Klem (The General):
Brian
is from our world and was literally thrust into Dream City by a plot
device. He's 5'6", 150 lbs and eleven years old. He wields a 'Gothic
Bastard Sword' and drives a modified A-wing he calls 'Genesis.' He
doesn't reveal much of his past, *coughmarysuecough* and earns a living
by looting evil international corporations. Since videogames are pretty
Marxist in this respect, business is good. ^_^
His living expenses
are fairly small, as he has everything he needs right in his a-wing.
Brian can usually be found there, either reading or playing videogames.
He wears a tuxedo with black pants,sneakers,a black bow tie, white
jacket, and a white undershirt with a Monty Python logo on on the left
breast.
Brian is a three parts honorable, scholarly, and
hentai-like. He's a pretty nice guy, (expecially compared to most of
the people in Dream City) and he often goes out of his his way to help
those in need (rich, poor, white, black, etc). This often leads him
into conflict with people of a more violent nature such as Lance and t.
ogre, and he will come to the defense of a hentai who's being attacked.
(except Thief. Thief he'll attack) When he makes friends, he'll do all
he can to protect them.
Being the intellectal type, Brian spends
alot of time complaining about how things don't make since, and them
explaing why. (He'll try to keep it short, though) Brian often makes a
lot of "smart" jokes, and even his references can be full of historical
figures. Brian has no qualms about making hentai riffs, but since he's
a more of a romantic hentai, such riffs aren't as disurbing as most.
Somehow, someway, he actually *likes* being in the theater. Of course,
it's pretty easy to find a hentai fic to churn his insides.
Charandra
(Mazoku):
Charandra found out when she was ten that she was the
reincarnation of an insane fire priestess who was trying her damn best
to become
a goddess before she was defeated by a bunch of adventurers. This
explains a lot
about her personality. In terms of appearance, she's a 5'2" 13 year-old
girl with brown hair in a pageboy cut. She's usually wearing loose
jeans,
leather boots with 3-inch heels, too much jewelry to count, and a white
t-shirt
with words that change depending on her mood. Think a modern-day Lina
Inverse in
terms of personality, but with an even more twisted sense of humor. She
has more
magic than she knows what to do with, but can't control it worth heck.
So she
can fireball you, but she might just set herself on fire, too. Or more
likely,
she'll set an alternate universe version of the person on fire. Her
riffs are
generally very obscure and/or video game-themed. Or, well, yaoi-themed,
but only
if someone else starts riffing that way first. She has a minor
obsession with
masks and their innate powers. Did I mention she twitches every time
elves are
brought up?
Cosmos:
Cosmos is a twenty-something woman,
about 5'10, with blue eyes and black hair. Her preferred outfit is a
T-shirt and blue jeans, although her current pair is a fair bit shorter
than she likes, courtesy of Thief. She usually has on a
pair of sunglasses, even when in the darkened theater and has
repeatedly acquired and reacquired a trenchcoat since she arrived in
the theater. No special powers associated with the coat, other than it
keeps her warm. She runs a small, not entirely successful bookstore
called Wardenclyffe Tower in Dream City and still has her satchel from
her uncompleted delivery run. The satchel appears to be connected to
some sort of book-specific hammerspace, since she can pull a book for
any occasion from it. This may or may not be related to her unconscious
and uncontrollable ability to warp reality; the results of which have
occasionally been useful but generally tend to be simply ironic. She
wields a paintball gun with a full color assortment and tends to go
after grammar errors, continuity flaws, affronts to established canon
and OOC behavior. She has a distinctly dark streak in her humor that's
been getting darker since she arrived in the theater. While she isn't
actually a prude, the company she's been keeping and some of the fics
she's been forced to watch have put her a bit on edge.
Cosmos is sensitive to the energies created by dimensional portals and
accidently stumbled into Quasispace when her curiosity got the better
of her and prompted her to enter the area around a malfunctioning TTD.
She's generally a logical, forgiving person and that fact has prevented
her from holding a grudge against Kao (since Kao was under the
influence of evil soda) or t.ogre (given his face turn). Robbie seems
to be a different matter, since he's neither redeemed himself nor given
her a good reason for forcing her to watch bad fanfiction. She'll
probably get tired of clobbering him... eventually. Otherwise, she's
grimly determined to get herself and her fellow riffers out of this
place.
DarkHorse
Pterid:
Diminutive, and mildly cute, scaly winged/betailed entity with
a middle-class British accent and fashion sense (if 'sense' is the
word)
extending to poor imitations of '60s Star Trek gear and a Dave
Gilmour-esque
trench. DarkHorse has plans (which he can't talk about) so he has to
earn money (for that thing he can't talk about) to hire some people for
(you get the idea). That's about all anyone's been able to get out of
him. Worshipper of prog rock icons, with a dry and cynical nature,
he'll milk
any joke dry, sick or otherwise.
David
Corrigan (Callahan):
David is a Caucasian male, with blond hair, brown eyes, and a hooked
nose. He stands 5'9" and weighs around the area of 167 pounds. He works
as a postman for the IDLPS, the Inter-Dimensional Letter and Parcel
Service. Hailing for a relatively unknown dimension, his bodily
proportions always seem slightly out of sync with his surroundings: his
hair is just a little too blond, his mouth is a little too wide, and
his teeth have a slight askew geometry. He is a great fan of fight
scenes and doesn't care quite so much about plot, but will drive
illogical minutiae into the ground. He dresses in the normal IDLPS
uniform, which consists of a gray button down, a white tie, white khaki
pants, black penny loafers, white gloves, and a baseball cap bearing
the IDLPS logo. He carries with him several bizarre and at first glance
useless weapons, including Lovecraftian cathode tubes, a ball of
flubber, and a collection of KISS action figures. Last but not least,
he's a dendrophiliac and an obsessive fan of Luna Sea.
Demonicuss
Krinn:
(Old, dead) Demonicuss Krinn:
A demon-blooded human (demonling, for short), he stands 5'7", with
brown hair, blue eyes, wears glasses with a slight blue tint, and
prefers to wear his "Spooky Dracula Getup", consisting of black pants,
white shirt, and black cape. He's believed to be basically unkillable
and can mutate himself a la The Thing. In fact his control over his
cellular structure is near perfect, able to come back from insane
damage in a short time. Regrettably, being in the theater pushes his
nigh-immortality to the limits, as he gets hurt. A lot. And often.
Badly. Most of the time by the other riffers and the Mads he's annoyed
someway, somehow. Sadly, while his body can regenerate from any injury
almost instantly, his clothing takes a lot longer to reform,
occasionally resulting in the embarrassing "Naked Krinn". Personality
wise, he's your typical jackass/wiseman/joker, with a highly varied
riffing style. Or rather was, as apparently he couldn't deal with
simultaneously getting eaten by a griffin, caught in a supernova, and
captured by a pissed off tentacled monster with a grudge. Was mourned
by Brandt and the gang in Ep. 103 in a most appropriate (and slightly
embarrassing) manner.
Nnirk Ssucinomed:
Looking a lot like Krinn, only dressed in a stylish black suit, red
silk shirt, and black cape. Nnirk claims to be the son of a crackwhore
who turned to diabolism and demon summoning to rise to power. Upon
finding his world's equivalent to Torture Theater, a quick scry
revealed to him the Quasi-Gang, and he decided that traveling the
Multiverse to torture them would be an interesting thing to do.
Actually, Nnirk is the "Evil Side" of Demonicuss Krinn, formed by the
remnants of the digested remains that Virgil excreted. Nnirk is evil
because he was created out of griffin shit, although he isn't telling
anyone that. Riffwise, Nnirk is darkly sarcastic, intellectual, and
hentai, often keeping an eye towards the ladies.
Good Krinn:
While all that was evil (or at least really annoying) went into Nnirk,
all that was good went into the bloodstains on Brandt's shirt.
Absorbing the general goodness that seems to radiate from Brandt, the
result was a reanimated 'Good' Krinn, who looks like Krinn clad in
white. Since he came into being as a result of Brandt's inherent
niceness (and let's be grateful that Thief had no part of this), Good
Krinn is so sweet and cute and loveable and kind and goddamn wonderful
that even Brandt gets a little annoyed with him. As being good, Good
Krinn
only makes 'clean riffs' along with Brandt, and scolds the other riffers when they get perverted or sick.
(New, not dead) Demonicuss Krinn:
Much the same as the old Krinn, except the riffers are now fairly
certain he's entirely unkillable. Krinn has gone through an incredible
amount of punishment, from car accidents, to decapitations, to exposure
in radioactive gas, to a stint in the Blood War, to surviving an
incident involving a hungry griffin, an exploding space station caught
in a supernova and a pissed off tentacled demon, to being split into
his Good and Evil halves, and always bounces back good as new. Sadly,
he still hasn't found clothing as durable as he is, but he's
comfortable with his body, so it's all good (at least as far as he's
concerned, others may hold different opinions). Personality wise, he's
your typical jackass/wiseman/joker, with a highly varied riffing style.
Dragomorph:
A bipedal female rabbit with dragon wings and a tail. Stands about
three feet tall and wears only a t-shirt with the words "Bunny Power"
on it, but that's okay because, in typical cartoon fashion, she's not
anatomically correct anyway. She arrived in Dream City to go into show
business, but decided that being a freelancer jack-of-all-trades was
infinitely preferable to fluffy bunny cartoons and weird fetish pornos.
Dragomorph has the potential for finding logic in literally everything,
even though in the course of finding said logic it defies conventional
sense. She specializes in most riffs, but tends to enjoy warping
characters and making loads of Monty Python and video game related
jokes, and really sucks at perverted riffs. She's also very sensitive
about her height and self-worth and will either FRY anybody who makes
fun of her with her fire breath or will burst into tears. Being related
to rabbits, she is quite fluent in the language of "Wuffle."
Dragomorph was lured into Quasispace under the false pretense that she
would at last be auditioning for a serious role. She has taken
something of a shining to Brandt, yet for the most part remains
indifferent to Thief thus far. She tends to unintentionally drive
Cosmos and Robbie crazy with her logic, though (particularly Cosmos).
eonsinger:
He's tall and fairly slight of build, with
brown hair and eyes. Tends
to wear a bright blue t-shirt over a dark red turtleneck, and long
black cargo
pants with huge pockets, the end of a pyrophone sticking out of one.
Wields a
microphone with threatening spikes, attached to a length of audio wire.
A
freelance musician who's just moved to Dream City from a sleepy town in
Vermont,
and is having poor luck looking for gigs. Living in the Midway ghetto,
he's had
to learn Yang style T'ai Chi to defend himself, mixed with his own
unique
improbable musical nonsense. He has a screwed-up sense of humor, tends
to make
rather crude jokes, horrible puns, write filk and bad poetry, and sing
at odd
moments. As one of the people who initiated the disaster in episode
101, he
tends to suffer from considerable resentment from the other riffers.
Ice
Fenix:
A ball of
combustion, hentai to the fifth power. He lives in Dream City with his
roommate,
slacker, and pot smoking award winner Mormon and Mormon's pet goat,
Nagahide. An
initiate member of the MMKult, Ice is something of a skeptic in the
group.
Jake Elias (Penfold):
A
young man in his early to mid 20's. 5'10" with an average build, brown
hair and blue eyes. Keeps two runestones tied around his left wrist,
and a couple in a belt pouch. Usually has a Bowie knife with him. As
far as anyone can tell, his hometown can change locations. Jake is
GURPS-style magic user and can use Rune Magic, a few Healing and
Information spells, and more cantrips than can possibly be healthy,
especially if he's forced to come up with quick rhymes.
Jake uses
logic and grammer riffs, modified by his
magical-town-not-on-any-map-naivete. May make a few obscure references,
but his knowledge of recent pop culture is nonexistent. He is just as
well informed about the news of the day as anyone else, though. Jake
usually tolerates hentai, but he's freaked out by S&M and angered
by rapefics. The more violent the scene, the more pronounced his
reaction becomes in either case.
Kenneth/K (idiotbox):
A gawky Cantonese Yorkshireman with black hair who, though
its difficult to tell, appears to be in his late teens/early twenties.
Usually wears faded black jeans, plain mono t-shirts and capped boots.
K is a T-1000 and is well versed in RPG science and lore. Not very good
at defending himself, mind.
K, as befits a Hull man, has a classic Northern sense of humour with a
misanthropic black streak, although in the theatre, he's pretty much a
jack of all riffs. He tends to swing towards obscure music (and we're
not just talking one-hit wonders here) and sci-fi fantasy e.g. RPGs,
southern gothic, Philip K Dick and the like. Its fortunate that he's
highly durable as he often says and does things which get him punked
thoroughly. Also behaves like Papa Lazarou around women.
Kaophyre
Tamadashi Serai:
A dark-haired, pale, sunglass-wearing, 5'9" 15
year old girl with a penchant for swords, Mountain Dew, and Canadian
boys. Wears
a lot of leather and jeans, with a hammerspace-capable jacket. Has a
six foot
bamboo staff and oversized silver finish Glock 19s, in addition to
impressive
Tae Kwon Do-based martial arts skills. Her riffs tend towards sarcasm,
dark
humor, mad hentai-ness, song referencing; Geek humor is far from
unheard of from
her. Despite her hentai nature she's frequently known to defend women's
rights
in the Theater and take offense at sexist commentary, which is all too
common.
She also has a full-blown mental and physical addiction to Canadian
Smarties (to
go with her addiction of Canadian boys) and is a devoted member of the
MMKult.
Lainer:
Lainer stands just under six feet tall with naturally blue hair tied
back into a pony tail. His usual attire (i.e. the only thing he would
ever wear even under threats of death and/or being forced to beat
Yokosuka Wars) is a dark blue sweater, day-glo neon green slacks and
trench coat, and off-white dress shoes. His coat itself is of some
interest as it is one of those nifty reality warping models.
Unfortunatly it never works correctly and typically screws Lainer over
by giving him the same physics as a video game character (Instantly
killing him if he touches mushrooms, forcing him to speak in textboxes,
turning two dimensional, and the like). His coat also has a hammerspace
feature, but it's just as screwy; usually dispensing completely useless
items that look like they came from either KB Toys backstock or a
highway gift shop. This doesn't bother Lainer much, but anyone else
that tries to use it will pull out something that is a twisted version
of what they wanted (For example, someone trying to pull a .45 Colt
Magnum out will instead pull out Lando Calrissian wearing a Tom Selleck
mask.).
Lainer spent most of his pre-quasispace time being bumped from temp job
to temp job. He was originaly paid to be the Mad in ep 103, but the
plan backfired and he ended up half naked and trapped in a cage for
most of the episode. After that incident he has been getting
progressivly... "unhinged".
Lainer is, more or less, a parody of all those "I've got a trench coat!
I am so bad ass!" types that have polluted pop culture since the
eighties. Lainer doesn't really have any problem with being in the theater, and
will only become mad at a fic if it screws up a pop referance or
something else equily trite. He will typically referance american
cartoons of the past thrity years, daytime tv, and video games. He is
indiffernt to hentai riffs, although he would very rarely make one
himself, and is genuenly aggrivated by logic and sense riffs. He also
has a habit of standing up for something that everyone else hates.
Mainly because it's *really* annoying.
Lance
Walker (Shade):
A 5'11 fox-man from the Star Fox node, who ended up in Dream City
because of a freak accident while trying to avoid a few bounty hunters
that were after him for undisclosed reasons. His eyes are dark green,
and he's usually dressed in a black shirt with a white stripe around
the collar, a green flight jacket, green gloves, black jeans just loose
enough not to hinder his movement, and grey steel boots. He makes his
living as a mercenary/assassin, and has been doing quite well despite
competition from his 'friendly rival', Kaophyre. Past hardships in his
life have left him with a rather biter attitide towards everything in
general, although he rarely appears angry, normally going into an
eerily calm and detached state when truly enraged, where he'll usually
calmly, almost casually dismember you beyond recognition. Past problems
have also left him with a few... issues. Such as the fact that whenever
he hears a pun he goes into an insane, mindless, homocidal
Riot-of-The-Blood-like rage, which'll go on until the offending punner
is either dead, or has 'momentarily' escaped his wrath. This little
problem has also lead to him vowing to kill t. ogre at any cost for a
truely unforgivable pun.
He first became involved with Quasispace while hunting down t. ogre,
when he followed him into Torture Theater, and was subsequently
captured by Searcher. During his stay he built up grudges against
almost everyone else there, especcially t. ogre and Brandt. He has
since dissapeared since the first accidental teleportation. Whereever
he is, odds are that he's biding his time, waiting for another chance
to take t. ogre's life, and end his 'life's mission'. You can also be
assured that he's gone quite mad. Well, moreso then usual...
His riffing style mostly consists of (really) dark, sarcastic, and
bitter riffs, along with the occasional preverted one. Since ep 101,
his mind, and thus his logic have been warped slightly, so that may
also have an effect on his riffs in the theater.
Max:
Not much is know about but we do know that he:
-is an anime fanboy. Makes anime riffs, and uses Otakuspeak.
-is an extremely devoted Rei Ayanami fanboy.
-carries a bar clamp as a pseudo-weapon. Is utterly inept with any other weapon.
-believes Oniko is literally EVA's Shinji Ikari.
-will unabashedly make logic and grammar nitpicks.
-hates OOC.
-doesn't care for/about hentai riffs.
Oniko
Hakubi:
For all intents and purposes, Oniko looks like an 18 to 25-year old
Shinji Ikari with Angel's haircut, with the stray locks of hair pulled
behind his ears. Despite this, he still manages to look halfway
masculine. His outfit of choice involves blue jeans, a gray T-shirt
with a random saying or slogan, sneakers, a black UAC baseball cap and
either a hooded black jacket or a denim jacket. Oniko is pretty
immature for his indeterminate age, and as such, his riffing tends to
veer into the strange, obscure, silly and/or perverted, with a heavy
leaning towards yuri and shoujo-ai; but as Lainer once put it: "He's
not a pervert, he just does it for the attention." Ironically, Oniko's
probably one of the bigger feminists in Quasispace. Other quirks
include rampant Fourth Wall-breaking, massive over-selling, an active
role in the MMKult (he's an elder member), a near-unlimited supply of
Shiranui brand fans, a burning hatred of Xenogears and its fans and his
"family" of nubile ninja girls that follow him around for no good
reason.
Robert
Kelly (Robbie):
A teenager, about six foot two inches tall, with messy black hair and
glasses. Usually wears a baggy black t-shirt, black jeans and black
hiking boots. He's slightly overweight, but he's rapidly losing the
fat, especially with what he's currently going through.
His riffing stlye is slightly laconic and deadpan, usually referencing
music, anime and manga, literary references and comics. He doesn't mind
hentai riffs unless they're really sick, and doesn't stand for dark
riffs.
He used to own a G-Con 2, but t.ogre took that in Episode 102 just
before the space station blew, when he was coaxed into helping him
operate the Torture Theater. Robbie still has Bokken no Kusanagi, and
isn't afraid to use it, even though he doesn't know it's actually a
"Iai-To" samurai sword, the Bokken secretly housing a 19 inch katakana
blade.
He was with the Quasispacers at the start, having answered a job with
Brandt in Dream City to warm the seats of some antique chairs. then he
ended up helping t.ogre work a Torture Theater in the Earth's orbit,
before finding himself inside a smoky bar.
S.D.
Ryukage:
Short for 'Shadow Dragon', but more commonly known as SDR (Shady to her
friends), she's a half-drow/half-dragon - essentially, her natural form
is a dark-skinned and dark-haired elf with dragon wings - of
about...well, 14 years old at the moment, though she looks closer to,
say, 20. Knows Ice Fenix, is a veteran MiSTer (with Mystery Octagon
Theater and ImproFicRoast) and sidekick-Mad (with the MMK.) She's
somewhere between 5'6" and 5'10", with black hair to mid-back, dark
skin, pointy elf-ears, violet eyes, and black dragon-wings. She has
magic, and carries around a tachi called the Masamune. (Not *that*
Masamune, another one.) Tendency to make slash jokes, dark jokes, and
quotes. Occasionally changes into a random anime/manga/video game/book
character to make a riff. She tends to only hold it for at most three
riffs (or three paragraphs of a skit), but during that time, for all
intents and purposes, she /is/ that person. (Common characters would
include the ones in her moveslist and Yao-chan, who's essentially SDR's
Yaoi Mistress of the Hentai Dojo side come out to play. Feel free to be
as overblown with this as you like, as long as she doesn't dissolve
into squealing-preteen-crappy-typist-Mary-Sueist-yaoi-fangirl. ^^)
After a single session in Quasispace, she's developed something
approaching an alliance with Oniko, and an unholy alliance of evil
hentai with Thief (she wears her Thief Fan Club badge with /pride/!)
although the relationship is a rocky one. Warped sense of humor. Has
several people renting out space in her head. Gets homicidal at the
mention of Looney Tunes. You *don't* want to know why.
Sailor
M (Meagan):
This happy-go-lucky, looney senshi comes from an alternate universe
where Sailor Senshi are numerous enough to form a whole international
network. Although it should be pointed out that they are in fact *not*
all like M. Her ability to wander between dimentions if she's not
paying attention (ie. most of the time) causes most chagrin since her
home universe doesn't have that technology yet. They're working on it
though, mostly because they can't bear to be represented in the
Multiverse by the most insane (according to about 80% of tests)
inhabitant.
M's riffing style will consist largely of strings of exclamations,
loosely going from the subject matter to either: "Bishie!!!",
"Beatles!!!", "Kawaii!!" or "giant flying purple weasels!!!". Also refs
to Beatles songs, kid's Anime, pointing out cute guys in the fic
(wether or not there are any guys at all in said fic), and, just when
you least expect it, a happy but coherent and logical rant about why
something like *that* could never, ever happen.
Searcher
(Thomas Wilde):
Not a MiSTer, but a Mad. He dresses in white and gray
Armani, wielding a quarterstaff. He's the evil twin of the well-known
Wanderer.
If Wanderer's an anti-hero, he's an anti-villain, sort of the way Lex
Luthor or
Dr. Doom can be very nice, upstanding citizens as long as everything is
going
their way. Skilled in the use of Telekidnapping Retrieval Systems
(TKRS) and
Temporal Telemetry Destabilizers (TTD), he has a suspicious degree of
skill and
knowledge about how to be a Mad Scientist, and most resources he might
require
are a single phone call away. Also a highly skilled lurker. His exact
whereabouts are unknown since Ep. 101, but he appears to still be
pursuing the riffers as of Ep. 103.
Sherlock:
A 5'11', 170-pound, 37-Earth-year old feliomorph (for lack of a better
word) from the planet Arusia III. He has thick fur, pointed ears on the
top of his head, a human-esque face, a long tail with a tuft at the
end, sharp teeth and claws, and the build of a man. Sherlock hs the
ability to read a human's mind (and communicate with animals), but
usually chooses to let everyone keep their privacy. He is a master of a
martial arts that uses Ice Magic. The magic can be reflected back at
him with mirrors and becomes weak with prolonged use. He can be
distracted by any type of raw meat. In the light of the full moon, he
turns into a savage, bloodthirsty beast which can be soothed and
controlled using music.
He tends to make fun of stupid jokes, acronyms, mocks Pop Stars
blatantly, rip up the screen ferociously if Brittany Spears is ever
mentioned in a story, and makes fun of any abbreviations present. He is
obsessed with certain anime, and if they're ever used in a fanfic, he
goes into a temporary rage, as they are being defiled. Does not
intentionally make hentai riffs. Tries to make a pun or wisecrack every
once in a while, but is not prone to them.
t.ogre:
A 6'5", 300 pound man with long auburn hair and a red goatee with
grey bits, who if we didn't know better might seem a relative of Kevin
Nash. Formerly was seen wearing outlandish colored t-shirts (like neon
orange), denim overalls and Doc Martens. At the end of Episode 102,
t.ogre had a (tentacle-fluid splattered) white cape with the holy
Anti-Hentai symbol emblazoned in the center of it. Since his
disappearance at the end of Episode 102, apparently has made a face
turn and changed his gimmick, now wearing the Anti-Hentai cape, dark
t-shirts, roll-down boots and a kilt. His riff style is pretty open,
with an affinity for intellectual riffing and puns, and an extreme
dislike of Jericho and Rock-based bits. Will make jokes about himself
wearing a skirt, but will smack anyone else who does. Thus far, has no
compunction about clobbering any other character with a steel chair...
except Brandt, for whom he seems to have developed a strange
anti-hentai nearing-middle-age single masculine male paternal instinct.
As well, he still doesn't exactly understand why Lance wants to kill
him.
Viper
the Hedgehog:
An out-of-control, wacky, offensive, loud, cheery, and completely
insane fifteen year old red hedgehog, standing at 4'5". Wearing nothing
but a pair of black and white 'Y2Sonic' style sneakers and white
gloves, he has dark-blue eyes, and fashionable red quills to boot.
Viper is one of those
"This-thing-is-fucking-terrible-but-I'm-already-too-insane-to-care-WAI!"
type riffers. Apart from being a hedgehog, he does have *one* other
peculiar ability: he is able to morph into any character that appeared
on any Sega-made system, as well as pull any object from them. Hence
the term 'Segamorph.' Can't do many Dreamcast ones, for some reason.
This power has never been used to cause any harm. Instead, it's usually
used to create hilarity, extreme annoyance, or just to cure boredom
streaks...but you never know. His riffs are all over the chart,
including but not limited to: puns, game logic riffs, smartass
comments, song excerpts, and perverted riffs. Liked by a few fellow
riffers, confusing or annoying to the rest. Large fan of the MMK, yet
for some reason unknown, refuses to join the MMKult. Highly attached to
7-Up. Usually can be found around Darkhorse, Krinn, Oniko, or Brandt.
Zandar Randell:
A slim man in his
early twenties, Zandar is most easily distinguished by his white and
metallic body armour. A remnant of a long-destroyed deep-space utopia
from THE FUTURE, he's currently embroiled in yet another war...except
when he gets yanked into Quasispace. A recalcitrant molecular
constructor and the ability to (probably) cheat death make up somewhat
for the fact that he's never actually been trained in combat. Calm is
what he does best; he'll draw impossible conclusions from the most
mind-bending logic or hentai scenes, as long as it's in the fic and not
in the theatre. He also likes to make old computer game and RPG
references, and isn't averse to the occasional pun.
Season Two
OUR VILLIANS
Esurient Mammon Penumbra, Esq.
AKA Mr P, AKA "Junior"
Esurient is the embodiment of need in the human soul, the anti-Nirvana.
As such he often appears as a figure made of shadow. He runs a
megacorporation named UVULA, the culimination of souless Capitalism
gone mad.
Esurient also likes to pretend to be Cosmos' perfect man, a charming and handsome bloke named Walden, for reasons unknown.
Willias Meurte
Perhaps the sanest person on the cast despite being literally
unkillable (or more accurately he refuses to stay dead once killed),
Meurte is Esurient's unforunate right hand man. He seems not to enjoy
his job most of the time.
Professor Bruxridge
His true name is unknown, the cast usually refers to him as Bruxridge
simply for convenience. Bruxridge is a very prolific method actor who
methodizes to such an extreme that he can take on whatever skills he
needs, and so fills an astronomical number of positions in Esurient's
organization.
Phil
The Phils. There's uncountable Phils, all plain-looking balding men
in overalls and checkered shirts. They do maintenance, all the while
searching for The One.
THE LOST
These are presented here simply in case they're referred to, and won't show up again unless old authors resurface.
t.ogre
A good and decent man, t. was a wrestler before all this started. He
protected the just and the innocent to the end, and was looked up to by
the "survivors", but was lost in the Quasispace.
Krinn/Nnirk
A demonling but despite that a decent creature, bonded with Brandt.
Krinn was just pulling his two ying-yang halves together when he fell
into Quasispace.
DHP
Darkhorse Petrid seemingly escaped on a jetpack when things were going bad. Lucky duck.
Lance
A man with a serious hate-on for t. and Brandt, who was willing to make
a Faustian deal with Esurient in order to hurt them (and to preserve
his own life). He, too, disappeared into Quasispace.
UNIT001, AKA the Chickentank
An evil AI construct housed in a heavily modified M1A1 Abrams tank
Thief drew from an alternate dimension, UNIT001's indestructable hull
was used as a bludgeoning weapon against UVULA headquarters. At faster
than lightspeed. We're pretty sure he's dead.
The Magical Wrench Fairy
Missing, presumed unbelieved in.
S.D. Ryukage
Thief and Ryukage had a whirlwind romance, that lead to a whirlwind
betrayal. Thief nearly gave his life to protect her from UVULA killers,
and she may be the one person he wishes he could see again.
TIMECOPS
The one apparent force for law and order in the many universes joined
by the glue of quasispace, the TIMECOPS are unfortunately also deeply
corrupt (they are financed by UVULA), and more unfortunately yet, are
all basically stone-stupid fanservice ladies. The three most
troublesome members, Kate, Jaclyn, and Farrah were all lost to the
Quasispace.
The Others
Some of them our heroes loved, some of them they hated. There were
a great number of them and they all deserved their time in the
spotlight, and they will be missed.
THE HEROES
Cosmos
A single woman in her mid-20s who ran a store for rare books back
home, she was unceremoniously kidnapped for usage in hideous fic
experiments. She's usually sensible and reasonable, but each fic has
further eroded her patience and her goodwill, leaving her with a
considerable temper. Exacerbating this is a strange and surreal power
she has neither control over or knowledge of. Whenever she's in dire
need of a specific object, that object has a habit of conveniently
being at hand.
RIFFING STYLE: Grammarical, literary
Brandt Delacroix, AKA Thief
Brandt Delacroix is a teenaged, formerly kept at a Catholic
orphanage. His is (was) a gentle soul, caring and polite, sexually
repressed and with a strong nerd streak. His gentle soul matched by a
whisp-thin frame and delicate features. However, a myserious agent
appeared at the orphanage and recruited him for a program involving
powerful drugs and cranial surgery, altering the way his brain works.
This program supercharged his psychic abilities to near godlike
proportions, but not without side-effects. He now has Dissassociative
Identity Disorder, a split-personality. His other half is Thief, a
crazed sexually charged Charles Manson fan. He can switch between them
with virtually no warning, and has no knowledge of his "better half".
RIFFING STYLE: Nerdy and obscure and a bit OC/angry and pervy. Both halves love to sing.
Malcolm Weinecke Likander (MAL in scriptform)
Sixteen years old, tall, blonde, Malcolm was kidnapped by Esurient out
of a sense of self-preservation. A child megagenius who graduated from
M.I.T. before the age of ten, Malcolm's IQ is so far off the charts
that, like, the charts... don't... know anything about it. A phenom who
can understand any magic or technology or combination thereof to which
he's exposed, he tries as much as he can to be nice to the normal
people around him, even if they're all barely evolved chimps to him. Or
so he sometimes thinks. His pride has gotten him into this situation
and he seems convinced it'll get him back out. In the meantime he
tries, TRIES, to keep his cool during fics which he could've torn to
shreds when he was three years old.
RIFFING STYLE: Logic, internal inconsistancies, factual, trying not to
loose his sanity (what of it he possesses), roots for the villian every
time
Rebecca Ananke
In her early twenties, Rebecca (BECCA in the scriptform) is a
mysterious and... strange woman with little to no ability to explain
just how she arrived in the theater, or what's going on. She seems to
have the mild and personality of a very young child... if, admittedly,
a fairly well-behaved one. Her talent 'back in the world" was painting
and drawing, something she does compusively. With or on anything at
hand. It helps her to express herself. She spookily can speak in
emoticons, a power perhaps linked to her artistic talents. She's often
recruited by the Mads and Phils for small chores due to her overly
helpful nature.
RIFFING STYLE: Incomprehension sprinkled with startling wisdom, offbeat lunacy and nonsequitors, "the wildcard riffer".
Zayn Rudhale
Another twenty-something, this is a man who is best described as
attractively nondescript. He is an actor with a prolific career as a
non-speaking extra. Movies, TV, video games, comic books- he's been in
them all, milling around in the background, waiting for the bus, eating
dinner, etc. He wound up in the theater after answering a truly
unfortunate ad for extras at a UVULA company party.
RIFFING STYLE: He will often point out his roles in a fic and share behind the scenes gossip. Specializes in pop culture riffs.