Character Creation Chain

The Infinite Monkey

Classified by the great naturalist Barnes Garwin as cercopithecida infinitus, the Infinite (or Infinity) Monkey made itself known to him during an expedition to the Mauve Peaks of Swazanzibar.

With its sad brown eyes of heart-rending depth, the Infinite Monkey stands a little over two feet to the shoulder. Terribly hard to find due to its habit of climbing the inside of trees, it was widely speculated that the species was extinct. Known for its terrible shyness and beautiful song, spotting the enigmatic Infinity Monkey is a sign of almost infinite luck. Its best known feature is, perhaps, its delightful pseudochromatic coat which renders it all but invisible to the naked eye.

The specimen that Garwin encountered was widely believed to be the last of the species. As such, Garwin shot and skinned it, selling its pelt to fund an expedition to Allambaro to study the elusive Cogniscant Sassafrass.

The Insider Barton Stellier
 
The Insider Barton Stellier

Was a criminal with connections to every majoy crime boss and petty theif in the city. He prided himself on having the best, most reliable information around. And his information was highly sought after from all kinds off people. Druggies looking to make a score, hitmen looking for their target, desperate people looking for someone to pull a job and even a cop from time to time looking to take down a real baddie. Barton only did deals with the fuzz to keep his pretty record spotless and his family out of trouble. His family consisted of his mother living on Long Island and his little sister who moved out to L.A last year. He wasn't close to his family because the closer he was to people the more they were in danger. Not than many would jepordize losing his connections by threating him anyway. He was slick and skeezy and good at his job.

Tina Stellier
 
Tina Stellier

One of triplets, the others being and Tenner Stellar and Tinier Stella, Tina Stellier invented the non-drip star-drive now in common usage aboard refuse barges, sewage shuttles and one or two of the more adventurous solarsurfboards. Her sister and brother have never treated her, admittedly mostly worthless, inventions seriously and have taken to calling her StellierDrive the SmellierDrive.

Tock Marx
 
Tock Marx is a grease monkey by trade, working on the big sub-lights of the intergalaxial longhaulers that pass through Squat (named for all the entertainment you can find there), a waystation on the Earth-Norda II route. With a name like Tock, it was inevitable that he'd get a nickname lik Tick, but he doesn't mind so much. He's a relaxed soul, and lives for tinkering on the big drives, or, in his spare time, streamlining the little asteroid hoppers he and his workmates race on their days off.

Dusk
 
Dusk
Despite their best attempts to include him in their games and talk, the other children could not change the way he was. Even their choice of nickname, meant well, marked him out as different, as other. Dusk, the time of the setting sun, of twilight, the time he was most often seen, the time when the sun's rays could not harm him.
And of course, as often happens, his nickname suggested much about him, so that even his parents began to call him Dusk.
He was pale, and of necessity cautious, and his laugh, though frequent, was never full throated. It quivered in the higher reaches of his vocal range as though the sound was a surprise to him when he heard it.
But no one mocked him for it, though they might have. Which is why his tears were true and genuine when he returned from one of his solitary walks to find his village burning, and a distorted array of corpses littered around his home.
 
Shuna Foral

Shuna was born into a lower class family, but her talents with magic quickly gained her the notice of the military, especially since they were currently at war. She was tested and was granted a place in the prestigious Royal Magic Corps, but despite the honour she gained for herself and her family, she disagreed with the war and began to question why they were fighting.

Astelline Shiray
 
Hooray, hooray it's Astelline Shiray! The crowd chant as their heroine takes to the field. Captain and rock hard midfielder for the Mimas Mining zero-g five-a-side football team she has found herself in a real tight spot recently as she's been "asked" to throw a game my the local mafia in exchange for her best friend's life. She thought hard and long about it and decided that friends come and go yet a reputation can be immortalised!!

Now don't get too personal:

Talysia
 
How could I resist?:)

Talysia

The original Lady of Autumn. A simple dressmaker, she gained her title by her unusual appearance - her autumn-coloured hair. After the land was invaded and subjugated, she and several others were forced to flee their homeland in what would eventually be part of an unusual prophecy. She had no way of knowing the role she would play in ending the war.

(Well, Talysia is one of my characters, and her tale gets more interesting after a certain event in my story.)

Terien Dalmar
 
Terien Dalmar is gunhand on the October Venturis, a vix-class airship captained by the famed Jersi Roche. The Venturis is a mercenary boat, and Roche currently flies the flags of the Five Lakes Protectorate, flying against the Skalderwald-Yarnbeck Union. Quick with the steel, Terien has made a name for herself not only amongst the motley crew of the Venturis, but throughout the Protectorate. In fact, she's caught the eye of none other then General Maren val Tor, commander of the airfleet, which has caused her no end of trouble - seeing as how she's been trying to keep her affair with Captain Roche on the quiet...

Mas'daq
 
Moronicles

The slang name for testicles as used by Miss Frottage, the fearsome Head of Biology at the Inglewood College for Gels. So-called because of their apparent tendency to make any male with a pulse act like a slavering neanderthal halfwit when in the presence of one of the older gels. Especially during hockey practice.

Dr Fustian, the Head of Classics at nearby St Fumbles Boys School disagrees, believing that Moronicles is actually a lesser known hero of the Trojan War, edited out of the first edition of The Iliad after Homer discovered that Moronicles had originally suggested windows in the Trojan horse so that the concealed Greek warriors would have a nice view of Troy's architecturally impressive flying buttresses whilst they were waiting for the off.

Anguished Dave
 
That's a great one!

Anguished Dave

Anguished Dave has problems. Given the nickname by his drinking buddies, Dave always has something or other to complain about, although they're usually trivial things. His friends nod and mutter sympathetic comments, not really listening to him, so when he finally says something of importance they don't listen. Over a pint, he complains that he's been seeing strange lights in the sky at night, and they've been getting closer and closer each time. His friends all smile and nod, not even considering the fact that Anguished Dave might actually be right this time...

Lady Constanzia Tregannon
 
Lady Constanzia Tregannon

An almost complete pencil drawing of a young, elegant, but fictional woman. Second cousin, twice removed of Queen Bernice III - the current ruler of Bogdodden. She can't wait to be finished, cut out, and blu-tacked to the strangely named wall of her creator.

Alazarath Aimwood
 
Alazareth Aimwood

...failed the auditions for The Ramones for having too long a name.

Darkling Johnnie
 
Darkling Johnnie is a nightshade, one of the new breeds of feykind, the pixies whose traditional habitats - woods and fields, streams, rivers, sunny glades - have been replaced by tracts of featureless urban wasteland. Nightshades are pesky devils, their one aim in life to make those out by moonlight nervous and paranoid. If you've ever been walking at night, and thought you heard footsteps behind you, or saw a shadow move from the corner of your eye, likely it was Darkling Johnnie, or one of his kind, trying to strike a little fear into your heart.

Pain and Pleasure
 
She named her puppies Rough and Tumble but within a week they'd acquired their nicknames of Pain and Pleasure. Rough (Pain) was already trying to dominate the home and had a nasty habit of nipping people's heels. Tumble (Pleasure) was just a real darling and an absolute pleasure to own. Little did She know that Pleasure was the reincarnation of Erzsebet Bathory and had already gained an almost supernatural hold over Pain. Pleasure had a plan to take over the world and it began in the home.

Moonbeam Daffodil Smith
 
Moonbeam Daffodil Smith is often mistaken for the daughter of hippies, and as such is quite often the recipient of understandable sympathy. In truth her parents were very staid and upright folks; she was not named in a burst of flower power, but for her grandfathers - John Moonbeam and Davey Daffodil, both heroes of World War Two. Every Remembrance Day, MD dons her grandfathers' medals and marches, with pride in her every step.

Dally o' Danigol
 
Dally o' Danigol

... from Donegal. Between him and his brother, Dilly (both giants among men, known far and wide as The Master Builder and his Mate for the massive roundtop wagons they create), they have already destroyed much of the west coast of Ireland with their squabbles and fights over which is the Master and which the Mate. They are currently on a journey to Zanzibar, where the question will be settled once and for all and the title of World Master Builder will finally be conferred. However as, secretly, neither wishes to be either winner or loser, they're taking the long way round - by Alaska and Melbourne.

Meltdown Mamma
 
Meltdown Mamma was the name of the owner of the only hairdresser in town. Now most people thought it was because she could calm any irate customer and there were a few of those. Just because it was the only hairdresser, didn't mean it was any good.
However Meltdown Mamma had recieved her name many years before, when she had actually been the owner of a well know brothel. However she had left that life behind her, or so she thought until someone came back into he life and brought all her dark secrets with him......

Roland Sinclair
 
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