Cheryl Bugg

Application for planar_crossroads

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:11:57 GMT

Player Name: Eek
Personal Journal: eeknsqueekn
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!

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Visualocities

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:38:10 GMT

( Eggs, Bitch. )

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Statistics Post for anemoi

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:57:41 GMT

Items: None
Weapons: None
Natural Abilities: Flight, wall cling, ant's strength.

Memory progress:

Memory Gain By Percent:

[May]

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Application for anemoi

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:45:35 GMT

Name: Eek
Personal Journal: eeknsqueekn
Contact Info:
AIM: ickychips
Plurk: eeknsqueekn

Character Name: Cheryl Bugg
Character Series: Hellboy movieverse (OC)
Background: http://hellboy.wikia.com/wiki/Hellboy_II:_The_Golden_Army
Angels, demons, abominable horrors from beyond the stars, evil sorcerers, witches, the walking dead... all these and more lie just below the surface of their world. Typical humans are completely oblivious to all of this, thanks to the efforts of organizations like the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Numbering among these hidden secrets are the rumors for giant ant colonies far below the deserts of California, Baja and northern Mexico. Cheryl, as she arbitrarily decided to call herself by pointing at a magazine article, was found floating in an underground pool in Carlsbad caverns several years ago. She had been dutifully working at the BPRD ever since.
Point in Canon: Post-Hellboy 2
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, and is rather good at flower-arranging and other forms of creative design, although she doesn't believe what she creates is very good.
Being as she is, a giant ant, she has a very strong instinct to try to belong to something. The BPRD and its underground tunnels were a fine surrogate hive for her, and in Sirocco she'd almost immediately seek out something just as large, comforting, and stable to belong to. 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".
She isn't trained to fight, although she's extremely strong, strong enough to throw around small cars. She can also fly and climb along walls, and consistently modifies her living spaces to include a second level of alcoves for her to nestle into.
Cheryl is also somewhat of a prude. Ironically this comes from the fact that she's actually an ant queen who ran away from her mating flight 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.
Lastly, Cheryl is adorable. That seems like a subjective thing to say, but BPRD tests empirically confirmed her to be the cutest thing in New Jersey... though admittedly that honor wouldn't take much. It IS New Jersey, after all.
Note: Cheryl is incapable of speaking any human languages, and communicates with a series of beeps and squeaks that somehow everyone gleans the information from. (Think R2-D2) The translation to her dialogue will always be provided in action brackets.
Sample Entry: http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/40483.html?view=770083&posted=1#cmt770083

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