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Name: DigitalSocrates
Age: 29
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Other Characters Played: Bisi the Tenno
Most Recent AC Link: http://tushanshu-ooc.dreamwidth.org/457229.html?thread=18814733#cmt18814733
Character Information:
Name: The Stalk aka Enriette
Canon: Saga (Image Comics)
Canon Point: After death at the hands of Prince Robot
Age: Mid 30s
Type of Character: Canon OC (Headcanon will be in Blue)
Reference:
Saga
The Stalk
Enriette grew up on the planet Demimonde with her older brother Halvor. The planet is poor, as in most places outside of Wreath and Landfall, but is of particular note for notable landmarks (Like the Smiling Cave) and for the population of exotic, giant, and dangerous creatures it is home to, as well as the fact that it's fricken half of a planet. As the planet industrialized and the war between Landfall and Wreath expanded, the local monster population dwindled as locals farmed them for parts to sell to the galactic market.
Enriette met Billy and Sophie when they were all children, when their mother brought them to Demimonde on a circuit of the galaxy's wonders. The three stayed in contact after Billy and Sophie left, becoming long distance friends.
Unlike her brother, Enriette was unsatisfied with scraping by on her backwater planet. She moved to the city as a teenager, starting as a serving girl in a dive bar in the ghetto. The pay was shit, but she caught the eye of an underworld thug (not by accident). She wormed her way into his criminal circle, eventually throwing him under the bus to work her way up the hierarchy. She was an unapologetic black widow, sleeping and murdering her way up the chain. Within five years she was running her own region, smuggling black market monster parts, drugs and guns across the city. She was spending money as fast as she was making it (sometimes faster), including the commission of her skull ship, which was made from a beast she and Halvor hunted down on a safari for illicit parts. Halvor liked the money but hated the business, and wanted out after he proposed to his sweetheart. The Stalk's wedding gift to Halvor was a sizable nest egg to get his farm up and running, and was mostly sincere and only slightly to show off her power and wealth.
As her debts began to pile up, however, she started to make enemies, which only got worse as she started to skim from the cartels for her own personal finances. The wind was starting to turn south, and it was time to leave after a failed attempt on her life. She got in her ship and never came back to the dome she insisted she hated, but would forever regard with bittersweet regret.
She looked up Billy, who had recently joined the Freelancers in the footsteps of his sister. They hit it off as both partners and lovers, and the two of them were unstoppable, quickly making a name for themselves across the galaxy. Sophie, as The Brand, was already making headway, and the three would cooperate often and stayed friends. Eventually Billy and Enriette were scouted by the Brio Talent Agency, becoming the notorious Freelancers The Stalk and The Will. Around this time, The Stalk and The Will were experiencing relationship issues. The Stalk took to the work easily, but she always saw it as a means to an end. The Will had thinner skin, and their relationship suffered as he became more cold and distraught while The Stalk continued to be flippant and unconcerned with the same issues The Will did. In particular, The Will was upset by the idea that The Stalk might eventually want children, despite their careers as mercenaries and thugs for hire. They started working separately, The Will taking on his own partner, Lying Cat.
The argument came to a head during the Dortminster assignment, where The Will objected to The Stalk sleeping around to complete the assignment. The issues stayed unresolved by virtue of her running into Prince Robot IV while on the Marko/Alanis case, which ended in her death.
Setting Concepts:
The Landfall Coalition: The Coalition is one of the two factions of the War. The Coalition is led by the winged humanoid peoples of Landfall, as well as the Robot Kingdom that lives on a dwarf planet in the same system as Landfall, whom Landfall successfully bid for service over Wreathe. The Coalition relies primarily on advanced technology for warfare.
The Narrative: The Narrative is the other major faction of the War, led by the people native to Landfall's moon, Wreathe, called 'Moonies' by the Coalition. Wreathe people are often highly skilled at magic rather than technology.
The War: Landfall and Wreathe have always been at odds, but open warfare between the two planets was too dangerous to the inhabitants of either stellar body, so the two extremely wealthy empires began a massive proxy war that spread throughout the entire galaxy. Rare is a planet that isn't involved in the war in some way, or affiliated with one side.
Freelancers: Freelancers are a rare exception in that they are neutral parties that can be hired out for various mercenary jobs, from intimidation to assassination. They have no affiliation with Landfall or Wreath, and are generally hired through intermediate Freelancer agents like Brio Talent Agency.
Personality:
The Stalk is pretty down-to-earth for a career criminal and mercenary. While she's a stone-cold murderer if the job calls for it, she's not psychotic. She apologizes to Alana on Cleave after she stabs Marko with her tongue barb, and even tries to offer her solace by telling her that Marko has been guilty of rather horrible things in the past. It's a lot easier to kill someone if you can justify them deserving it.
The Stalk maintains a healthy divide between what work she does and what kind of person she is. Ultimately what she wants is to settle down in a nice corner of the galaxy in a nice house with a family. Freelancing has always just been the only way to accomplish that in a galaxy drowning in war... at least, with all the comforts she feels entitled to. She wasn't going to have the same miserable life her parents did, raising kids in crime and poverty.
That isn't to say she doesn't enjoy the benefits of being a space mercenary where they exist. Lots of disposable income, complete freedom, becoming an entirely new person for every assignment. And you don't become an interstellar assassin without being at least a little bit of an adrenaline junky. There's an inherent pleasure in approaching a job and using only your own wits to ruin a politician with a trumped up scandal or to murder a rapist. Not every job she took could be firmly placed in the morally good ones, but she fondly remembers the ones that were. That, and the ones that paid really well.
The Stalk was inspired to wanderlust as a child when Billy and Sophie visited Demimonde, and she spends a lot of time just being a tourist. Another great thing about being a freelancer is the freedom of movement through both Wreath and Landfall space. However, she's not the best with money and often spends it as soon as she's got it, a byproduct of growing up poor. It's gotten her into trouble a few times, which has led to her taking a few jobs she was even more distasteful of than usual. The Dortminster job was one of these. The Stalk's use of sex during jobs had been a continuing point of contention between The Stalk and The Will as they got more serious about their relationship. The Stalk had halfheartedly promised not to take any jobs that would involve it, which flew out the window when she was suddenly short on cash and the agent had a hot job for her.
She hadn't really been prepared for the aftermath with The Will, but was too stubborn and prideful to apologize for it, and also The Will hadn't approached the matter in the most sensitive way to begin with, so she got extra mad at him for being presumptive and possessive. The whole thing was a mess, with both parties refusing to try to talk things through.
Outside of relationships, which are hard, The Stalk has pretty realistic ideas about what she's capable of. She has a healthy fear of things that she should be realistically scared of - like monsters she's seen tear a man's spine out through his urethra. She pays lip service to superstitions (this is a world where magic is real), but she's skeptical by default. She always prefers to come into the game with all the cards, planning (or *ahem* Stalking) her prey before she moves in for the kill. She always likes to present herself as weak and non-threatening; she's made a career of exploiting people that underestimate her.
The Stalk has many friends but very few close ones, which include The Will and The Brand. You make sure not to get too buddy-buddy with people in The Stalk's business. Being a person who habitually screws people over, she's naturally paranoid to other people pulling the same thing on her. That said, she's a very social person who loves being the center of attention. She loves parties and bars and clubs, and she is not above getting totally wasted even in public spaces while weaving (slightly exaggerated) tales of her exploits. She's not shy about any of the graphic details either.
The Stalk is a huge gossip, both because she loves hearing gossip but also because gossip can be really useful, both for gaining status but also for jobs. You never know when you need to call in a favor or undermine someone else.
Appearance:
pic is NSFW
Abilities:
The Stalk has eight long-limbed arms each with a humanoid hand, and the dexterity to use all of them simultaneously. Her eight eyes give her better vision than most humans, and she can see at a fair distance with naturally telescoping lenses. She has a barb in her mouth that she can fire with enough force to stab through unarmored flesh, and enough skill to use it fatally. Finally, her skin is tougher than a humans' is, enough that a stunning energy weapon would do little if any harm - but nothing so significant that a single energy blast from Prince Robot IV couldn't cleanly cut through her chest.
Inventory:
Phone, Weapon Harness, Lance, Shotgun, Pistol, Axe, ship keys, machette
Soul Gem:
Pink stone set in her Tiara.
Writing Samples:
Third Person: http://tushanshu-ooc.dreamwidth.org/462495.html?thread=19035551#cmt19035551
Network:
Radio
So what's the progress on building working spaceships, exactly?
From what I've gathered there's a fair number of you all who are either super fucking genius engineers or at least come from places at least as advanced as my world, weird cave-people excluded. And yet most of 'us' (I use this term hesitantly, so don't get super friendly just because of it) have just decided to kick it on the floating giant turtle.
It just seems pretty... passive, is my point. Why are we trying so hard to make this place home? Especially since apparently we just left a city powered by magical stones that's at least ten times better. I'm a little salty still, what with having arrived after the turtle thing broke port. I'd like to file a complaint with the manager, which I know won't happen because the manager either doesn't exist or is some kind of amorphous asshole. It's a hypothetical complaint.
Additional Information - Canon OCs:
Character Premise: She was a notorious Freelancer and The Will's sort of ex girlfriend. She was hired by The Narrative to find Alana and Marko, and even critically injured Marko in the attempt, but she was murdered by Prince Robot IV before she could finish the job.
Canon Relationships?: Friends with The Brand and in a rocky relationship with The Will. Almost killed Marko. Was going to kill Alana but was chased off by Cleave ghosts. Hired by Vez from Wreathe to kill Marko and Alana and to bring them Hazel. Sister to Halvor.
Name: DigitalSocrates
Age: 29
Contact:
Other Characters Played: Bisi the Tenno
Most Recent AC Link: http://tushanshu-ooc.dreamwidth.org/457229.html?thread=18814733#cmt18814733
Character Information:
Name: The Stalk aka Enriette
Canon: Saga (Image Comics)
Canon Point: After death at the hands of Prince Robot
Age: Mid 30s
Type of Character: Canon OC (Headcanon will be in Blue)
Reference:
Saga
The Stalk
Enriette grew up on the planet Demimonde with her older brother Halvor. The planet is poor, as in most places outside of Wreath and Landfall, but is of particular note for notable landmarks (Like the Smiling Cave) and for the population of exotic, giant, and dangerous creatures it is home to, as well as the fact that it's fricken half of a planet. As the planet industrialized and the war between Landfall and Wreath expanded, the local monster population dwindled as locals farmed them for parts to sell to the galactic market.
Enriette met Billy and Sophie when they were all children, when their mother brought them to Demimonde on a circuit of the galaxy's wonders. The three stayed in contact after Billy and Sophie left, becoming long distance friends.
Unlike her brother, Enriette was unsatisfied with scraping by on her backwater planet. She moved to the city as a teenager, starting as a serving girl in a dive bar in the ghetto. The pay was shit, but she caught the eye of an underworld thug (not by accident). She wormed her way into his criminal circle, eventually throwing him under the bus to work her way up the hierarchy. She was an unapologetic black widow, sleeping and murdering her way up the chain. Within five years she was running her own region, smuggling black market monster parts, drugs and guns across the city. She was spending money as fast as she was making it (sometimes faster), including the commission of her skull ship, which was made from a beast she and Halvor hunted down on a safari for illicit parts. Halvor liked the money but hated the business, and wanted out after he proposed to his sweetheart. The Stalk's wedding gift to Halvor was a sizable nest egg to get his farm up and running, and was mostly sincere and only slightly to show off her power and wealth.
As her debts began to pile up, however, she started to make enemies, which only got worse as she started to skim from the cartels for her own personal finances. The wind was starting to turn south, and it was time to leave after a failed attempt on her life. She got in her ship and never came back to the dome she insisted she hated, but would forever regard with bittersweet regret.
She looked up Billy, who had recently joined the Freelancers in the footsteps of his sister. They hit it off as both partners and lovers, and the two of them were unstoppable, quickly making a name for themselves across the galaxy. Sophie, as The Brand, was already making headway, and the three would cooperate often and stayed friends. Eventually Billy and Enriette were scouted by the Brio Talent Agency, becoming the notorious Freelancers The Stalk and The Will. Around this time, The Stalk and The Will were experiencing relationship issues. The Stalk took to the work easily, but she always saw it as a means to an end. The Will had thinner skin, and their relationship suffered as he became more cold and distraught while The Stalk continued to be flippant and unconcerned with the same issues The Will did. In particular, The Will was upset by the idea that The Stalk might eventually want children, despite their careers as mercenaries and thugs for hire. They started working separately, The Will taking on his own partner, Lying Cat.
The argument came to a head during the Dortminster assignment, where The Will objected to The Stalk sleeping around to complete the assignment. The issues stayed unresolved by virtue of her running into Prince Robot IV while on the Marko/Alanis case, which ended in her death.
Setting Concepts:
The Landfall Coalition: The Coalition is one of the two factions of the War. The Coalition is led by the winged humanoid peoples of Landfall, as well as the Robot Kingdom that lives on a dwarf planet in the same system as Landfall, whom Landfall successfully bid for service over Wreathe. The Coalition relies primarily on advanced technology for warfare.
The Narrative: The Narrative is the other major faction of the War, led by the people native to Landfall's moon, Wreathe, called 'Moonies' by the Coalition. Wreathe people are often highly skilled at magic rather than technology.
The War: Landfall and Wreathe have always been at odds, but open warfare between the two planets was too dangerous to the inhabitants of either stellar body, so the two extremely wealthy empires began a massive proxy war that spread throughout the entire galaxy. Rare is a planet that isn't involved in the war in some way, or affiliated with one side.
Freelancers: Freelancers are a rare exception in that they are neutral parties that can be hired out for various mercenary jobs, from intimidation to assassination. They have no affiliation with Landfall or Wreath, and are generally hired through intermediate Freelancer agents like Brio Talent Agency.
Personality:
The Stalk is pretty down-to-earth for a career criminal and mercenary. While she's a stone-cold murderer if the job calls for it, she's not psychotic. She apologizes to Alana on Cleave after she stabs Marko with her tongue barb, and even tries to offer her solace by telling her that Marko has been guilty of rather horrible things in the past. It's a lot easier to kill someone if you can justify them deserving it.
The Stalk maintains a healthy divide between what work she does and what kind of person she is. Ultimately what she wants is to settle down in a nice corner of the galaxy in a nice house with a family. Freelancing has always just been the only way to accomplish that in a galaxy drowning in war... at least, with all the comforts she feels entitled to. She wasn't going to have the same miserable life her parents did, raising kids in crime and poverty.
That isn't to say she doesn't enjoy the benefits of being a space mercenary where they exist. Lots of disposable income, complete freedom, becoming an entirely new person for every assignment. And you don't become an interstellar assassin without being at least a little bit of an adrenaline junky. There's an inherent pleasure in approaching a job and using only your own wits to ruin a politician with a trumped up scandal or to murder a rapist. Not every job she took could be firmly placed in the morally good ones, but she fondly remembers the ones that were. That, and the ones that paid really well.
The Stalk was inspired to wanderlust as a child when Billy and Sophie visited Demimonde, and she spends a lot of time just being a tourist. Another great thing about being a freelancer is the freedom of movement through both Wreath and Landfall space. However, she's not the best with money and often spends it as soon as she's got it, a byproduct of growing up poor. It's gotten her into trouble a few times, which has led to her taking a few jobs she was even more distasteful of than usual. The Dortminster job was one of these. The Stalk's use of sex during jobs had been a continuing point of contention between The Stalk and The Will as they got more serious about their relationship. The Stalk had halfheartedly promised not to take any jobs that would involve it, which flew out the window when she was suddenly short on cash and the agent had a hot job for her.
She hadn't really been prepared for the aftermath with The Will, but was too stubborn and prideful to apologize for it, and also The Will hadn't approached the matter in the most sensitive way to begin with, so she got extra mad at him for being presumptive and possessive. The whole thing was a mess, with both parties refusing to try to talk things through.
Outside of relationships, which are hard, The Stalk has pretty realistic ideas about what she's capable of. She has a healthy fear of things that she should be realistically scared of - like monsters she's seen tear a man's spine out through his urethra. She pays lip service to superstitions (this is a world where magic is real), but she's skeptical by default. She always prefers to come into the game with all the cards, planning (or *ahem* Stalking) her prey before she moves in for the kill. She always likes to present herself as weak and non-threatening; she's made a career of exploiting people that underestimate her.
The Stalk has many friends but very few close ones, which include The Will and The Brand. You make sure not to get too buddy-buddy with people in The Stalk's business. Being a person who habitually screws people over, she's naturally paranoid to other people pulling the same thing on her. That said, she's a very social person who loves being the center of attention. She loves parties and bars and clubs, and she is not above getting totally wasted even in public spaces while weaving (slightly exaggerated) tales of her exploits. She's not shy about any of the graphic details either.
The Stalk is a huge gossip, both because she loves hearing gossip but also because gossip can be really useful, both for gaining status but also for jobs. You never know when you need to call in a favor or undermine someone else.
Appearance:
pic is NSFW
Abilities:
The Stalk has eight long-limbed arms each with a humanoid hand, and the dexterity to use all of them simultaneously. Her eight eyes give her better vision than most humans, and she can see at a fair distance with naturally telescoping lenses. She has a barb in her mouth that she can fire with enough force to stab through unarmored flesh, and enough skill to use it fatally. Finally, her skin is tougher than a humans' is, enough that a stunning energy weapon would do little if any harm - but nothing so significant that a single energy blast from Prince Robot IV couldn't cleanly cut through her chest.
Inventory:
Phone, Weapon Harness, Lance, Shotgun, Pistol, Axe, ship keys, machette
Soul Gem:
Pink stone set in her Tiara.
Writing Samples:
Third Person: http://tushanshu-ooc.dreamwidth.org/462495.html?thread=19035551#cmt19035551
Network:
Radio
So what's the progress on building working spaceships, exactly?
From what I've gathered there's a fair number of you all who are either super fucking genius engineers or at least come from places at least as advanced as my world, weird cave-people excluded. And yet most of 'us' (I use this term hesitantly, so don't get super friendly just because of it) have just decided to kick it on the floating giant turtle.
It just seems pretty... passive, is my point. Why are we trying so hard to make this place home? Especially since apparently we just left a city powered by magical stones that's at least ten times better. I'm a little salty still, what with having arrived after the turtle thing broke port. I'd like to file a complaint with the manager, which I know won't happen because the manager either doesn't exist or is some kind of amorphous asshole. It's a hypothetical complaint.
Additional Information - Canon OCs:
Character Premise: She was a notorious Freelancer and The Will's sort of ex girlfriend. She was hired by The Narrative to find Alana and Marko, and even critically injured Marko in the attempt, but she was murdered by Prince Robot IV before she could finish the job.
Canon Relationships?: Friends with The Brand and in a rocky relationship with The Will. Almost killed Marko. Was going to kill Alana but was chased off by Cleave ghosts. Hired by Vez from Wreathe to kill Marko and Alana and to bring them Hazel. Sister to Halvor.
![skull ship](http://<a href="http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/imagecomics/images/8/8f/Demimonde_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150618155134">){kind=link}
