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Nov. 1st, 2012 09:44 pmPlayer Name: Eek
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Other Characters Played: None
Character Name: Cheryl Bugg
Canon OC
Personality:Cheryl is far from what most would consider a giant ant monster to act like. She's upbeat, chipper, fastidious, somewhat parochial in her mindset, extremely hard-working, and remarkably efficient at her tasks. She loves candy, fruit, and all things sugary. She also has a fondness for flowers.
She's a natural at design, be it over a canvas, in an arrangement of blossoms or making a dress for someone. She doesn't believe what she creates is very good, mostly because the Colony had no concept of "art" as we know it, but this outsider's viewpoint actually makes her very good at observing and emulating a style because she has no bias about it.
Being as she is a giant ant, she has a very strong impulse to further harmony and cooperation, to the point where her little ant-brain has trouble even processing the concept of "healthy competition." This also comes with a strong desire to belong to something, which is why she chose a guild immediately. She also has a profound instinctual desire to never rock the boat, and she tends to avoids confrontations at all costs, unless whoever it is is disturbing the harmony of her "hive" or harming someone. Then woe betide the poor bastard, and we hope he can dodge well.
Cheryl is also somewhat of a prude. Ironically this comes from the fact that she's actually an ant queen and subconsciously adopted this as a personal defense mechanism to avoid the issue, but even without her memories the impulse to cringe at the humans' seeming obsession with sex would be there.
History: Cheryl is a young queen ant, who was born in a subterranean cavern somewhere under the New Mexico desert. Monstrous ant colonies are more common than one thinks, and while workers and soldiers have their own duties Cheryl's role in the natural scheme of things to be a good little bug and submit to the drones when her mating flight came.
Which is the insect equivalent to a young co-ed submitting to steroid-laden football jocks on a PCP binge. No one ever said nature was nice.
She fled the moment she was set upon the chase, and managed to outrun her pursuers, but got terribly lost and washed into an underground river. She washed ashore in Carlsbad Caverns a day later and was found by spelunkers.
Cheryl has been topside for four years now. Learning the ins and outs of humantech was daunting but not insurmountable, and her fastidious nature made her a natural organizing official.
Setting Info: Hers was a typical Earth-like world with hidden supernatural monster elements. Obviously they are hidden from the populous at large, but still there, and quietly living their lives.
Abilities/Powers:
Flight:
Cheryl can fly, but her wings are a little small for long flights. Quick ascents are made by a combination of buzzing from wall to ceiling to ledge and crawling her way up.
Ant's Strength:
Cheryl is an ant, obviously, and as such she can lift fourty times her weight. This is equivalent to the weight of a Volkswagen beetle.
Pheromones:
Not really an "ability" per se, but Cheryl has a tendency to smell like a tryst in an english garden, no matter how much she tries to mask it. The combination of sex and flowers makes for a pleasant scent, and while intelligent insects will be the most receptive even humans don't mind it...
Intelligible/Unintelligible:
Cheryl doesn't have a mouth, and as such can't speak "humanspeak" but through a combination of beeps, squeaks and body language instead. However, the meaning behind them always seems to come through; think R2-D2. Everyone understood the little trashcan except the viewer. (I can credit a translation field if Crossroads has one.) As such, her dialogue will always be in "beepispeak" with the translation and subtext in third-person in bracketed OOC text. Readers should be able to tell it from narrative in context.
Intended Guild: The Seekers of Artistic Expression. Cheryl loves to create and design things; a talent that would have been mostly wasted had she stayed underground.
Notes/Other Info: None.
Sample Post: Kibeep!
Personal Journal:
eeknsqueeknOther Characters Played: None
Character Name: Cheryl Bugg
Canon OC
Personality:Cheryl is far from what most would consider a giant ant monster to act like. She's upbeat, chipper, fastidious, somewhat parochial in her mindset, extremely hard-working, and remarkably efficient at her tasks. She loves candy, fruit, and all things sugary. She also has a fondness for flowers.
She's a natural at design, be it over a canvas, in an arrangement of blossoms or making a dress for someone. She doesn't believe what she creates is very good, mostly because the Colony had no concept of "art" as we know it, but this outsider's viewpoint actually makes her very good at observing and emulating a style because she has no bias about it.
Being as she is a giant ant, she has a very strong impulse to further harmony and cooperation, to the point where her little ant-brain has trouble even processing the concept of "healthy competition." This also comes with a strong desire to belong to something, which is why she chose a guild immediately. She also has a profound instinctual desire to never rock the boat, and she tends to avoids confrontations at all costs, unless whoever it is is disturbing the harmony of her "hive" or harming someone. Then woe betide the poor bastard, and we hope he can dodge well.
Cheryl is also somewhat of a prude. Ironically this comes from the fact that she's actually an ant queen and subconsciously adopted this as a personal defense mechanism to avoid the issue, but even without her memories the impulse to cringe at the humans' seeming obsession with sex would be there.
History: Cheryl is a young queen ant, who was born in a subterranean cavern somewhere under the New Mexico desert. Monstrous ant colonies are more common than one thinks, and while workers and soldiers have their own duties Cheryl's role in the natural scheme of things to be a good little bug and submit to the drones when her mating flight came.
Which is the insect equivalent to a young co-ed submitting to steroid-laden football jocks on a PCP binge. No one ever said nature was nice.
She fled the moment she was set upon the chase, and managed to outrun her pursuers, but got terribly lost and washed into an underground river. She washed ashore in Carlsbad Caverns a day later and was found by spelunkers.
Cheryl has been topside for four years now. Learning the ins and outs of humantech was daunting but not insurmountable, and her fastidious nature made her a natural organizing official.
Setting Info: Hers was a typical Earth-like world with hidden supernatural monster elements. Obviously they are hidden from the populous at large, but still there, and quietly living their lives.
Abilities/Powers:
Flight:
Cheryl can fly, but her wings are a little small for long flights. Quick ascents are made by a combination of buzzing from wall to ceiling to ledge and crawling her way up.
Ant's Strength:
Cheryl is an ant, obviously, and as such she can lift fourty times her weight. This is equivalent to the weight of a Volkswagen beetle.
Pheromones:
Not really an "ability" per se, but Cheryl has a tendency to smell like a tryst in an english garden, no matter how much she tries to mask it. The combination of sex and flowers makes for a pleasant scent, and while intelligent insects will be the most receptive even humans don't mind it...
Intelligible/Unintelligible:
Cheryl doesn't have a mouth, and as such can't speak "humanspeak" but through a combination of beeps, squeaks and body language instead. However, the meaning behind them always seems to come through; think R2-D2. Everyone understood the little trashcan except the viewer. (I can credit a translation field if Crossroads has one.) As such, her dialogue will always be in "beepispeak" with the translation and subtext in third-person in bracketed OOC text. Readers should be able to tell it from narrative in context.
Intended Guild: The Seekers of Artistic Expression. Cheryl loves to create and design things; a talent that would have been mostly wasted had she stayed underground.
Notes/Other Info: None.
Sample Post: Kibeep!
