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[Shayne]

Good morning from the sun!

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Hiho, Shayne again. As you can see I pretty much entirely play men or masculine non-binary people, and I exclusively write m//. I tend to prefer writing about mature content, pathos, world-building, hard sci-fi, drama, soap opera-type shit. I also enjoy a lot of legal and medical realism (can you T e l l) and creating our own cultures, and really filling out the universe so that it is lived-in.

That being said, I did join this website because I assumed "mature" meant, like, non-juvenile. Smut is A-OK with me but I do not enjoy ERP for its own sake. Nothing wrong with it, but I am interested in writing stories first. That being said, if it does come down to smut [I prefer a ratio of like 60/40 or lower, with plots being really intensely detailed and lots of moving parts], I am fine with kink. The themes that usually show up are D/s, service, praise, dirty talk, etc.

All the characters I write for below belong to their own prime 'verses, but I am also good with writing AU versions of them. Jim and Hiram both come with ready-made plots (infiltrating the Orion Syndicate vs. ICC). Hale also has a plot, it involves mental manipulation though so it's dub-con. He's not being evil with it per se, like it's a natural ability that he can't really help. But, ya. Consent be an issue.

If any of my characters jump out at you please feel free to hit me up! I have hella muse for all of them - with the exception of Hale, which is more of an idea I'm throwing around, so I may or may not get 100% into it if I can't find the proper voice and plot structures. But if you want to RP with him we can totally toss some shit together. DM me if any of this is your jam, yoyoyo. Peas out.

Characters

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STAR TREK (AOS)

KIRK , JAMES

Name James Tiberius Kirk
Age 27
Species Human
Gender Cisgender male
Sexuality Pansexual
Face Claim Chris Pine

Personality Jim is incredibly gregarious and sharp. Putting too fine a point on it would only create bloodshed. He lives for the adrenaline, the heart-thumping glory of it all, and is highly impulsive and instinctual. A typical ESTP-A 8w7. Jim is a certified genius, and Winona Kirk is still debating whether or not he's a genuine psychopath. Diagnosed with ASPD and PTSD in early adulthood. Chatterful as a magpie, engaging, flirtatious and superficially glib -> all words used to describe James Kirk. Lesser known are incredibly tactical, analytical - always looking for a way to maneuver the situation before him to his own benefit. On the flip side, Jim can be surprisingly vulnerable in earnest in specific circumstances.

History Jim grew up on Tarsus IV with Sam after Winona dumped him on the planet to go gallivanting around the galaxy - following the death of George. Jim befriended Kevin Riley almost immediately. Half-Black, half-Irish, it was Kevin who taught him about civil rights within the Federation and Rigel systems and who introduced him to proper music and real poetry. During this time the famine was beginning to take hold, engineered by Anton Karidian in order to enact his experimental policies of eugenics.

Karidian began organizing "community work forces" made of local Tarsians to enforce curfews, shake-down business, and slowly corral "undesirables" into cordoned-off zones intended as "population distribution." After Kevin was murdered by one of these "work forces," undeniably because he was of mixed race, Jim immediately understood what was happening; after all, Kevin had seen the writing on the wall long before-hand and it had been his intentional education that alerted Jim to the severity of the situation.

Jim managed to escape into the wilderness along with twelve other children, where they formed the Children's Army and sought to destroy Karidian's weapon depots, smuggle contraband to the Resistance, act as "mail boxes" for sensitive information, and distribute propaganda leaflets opposing the colony's government and encouraging citizens to rise up against Kardian's oppressive tyranny. When he was finally rescued, he was dumped into a Federation holding cell half-feral.

His mother, who worked for Section 31, decided to put him to work as a cryptolinguist where he spent a majority of his remaining youth on Earth decoding signals for the clandestine organization. His mother then "encouraged" him to enter Starfleet Academy so that he could better serve her purposes and begin real infiltration operations in the Treshan-system.

 

[Shayne]

STAR TREK (DS9)

SOLACE , ALAN

Name Alan Solace
Age 31
Species Betazoid (xB)
Gender Cisgender male
Sexuality Homosexual
Face claim Aidan Turner

Appearance 6'3" 115 lbs, Alan is tall and rake-thin, with a lighter mass than the average humanoid due to Betazed's lower gravity. He has thick, cording rope-marked scars along the backs of his palms and winding down his jaw, cheeks and neck. His left eyebrow has a slash through it, where the hair grows too-light. He states these are from his time in college on a stunt crew, during a shuttle accident. His eyes manage to be both bright and inky black at the same time. Dark-featured, with thick, curly natural ringlets of black interspersed with wisps of grey even in his youth, lending him a more distinguished aura. When he smiles, inconsistent at best, it sheds years off him. Alan has several tattoos hidden under clothing, mostly on his arms. Mostly in geometric shapes and watercolors. He has a sundial-shaped scar on his chest, above his heart, that looks pressed-in. On his right arm above the elbow he has the number XXXV in bold, black ink. On the left, he has a honeycomb tattoo to match the bee. It contains thirty-five clusters.

Personality Alan was abandoned at an early age and raised by humans in one of Javik's homeless encampments for the first few years of his life. The Aurelian responsible for taking him in, Tallah, called him Alan, a misinterpretation of the name printed on the blanket he was found with (Elynn). With few ties to Betazed, he adopted the last name Solace of his own choosing when he immigrated to the Federation proper. Culturally, Alan is more-or-less human, and speaks plain idiomatic Standard sprinkled with Timazi.

Alan can come across as dour and haughty, but he's a consummate professional, with a sharp mind and keen senses. Nevertheless he presents a peculiar juxtaposition of guarded and gregarious, a social and even silly being at times contrasted by formality and logic. His telepathic score hits off the charts with PFT north of 180, but he's never received any formal training and most telepaths find his mind splintered and tempestuous, like glass shards.

Familiar with ke-tarya shaval, akshava and anbo-jyutsu, proficient with a knife, but his brilliance shines more behind a computer. He can pull apart a phaser and turn it into a grenade, knows three languages (Yrevish [& Yreakriol], Timazi and Nayah-though he is only an intermediate speaker), and can perform advanced first-aid in a pinch. He's prone to sarcasm and dark jokes, especially when stressed, and demonstrates a tendency toward stereotypies, from rocking back and forth or swaying side to side or flicking his fingers from the center of his palms. He has a prolific green thumb and keeps his belongings tidy and organized. Video games and dinner with friends rank highly on his internal favored activities list.

One of life's natural diplomats, this reflects in Alan's approach to law enforcement, and he is willing to be lenient depending on the situation. Some things just matter more than others. Alan does his best to try and bridge the gap between himself and others, even those who on their surface appear completely lacking in reason. Community integration is Alan's favored method of justice, and he believes strongly in rehabilitation before retribution, which he views as self-gratifying.

Alan values candor, and tries to approach life honestly, less a product of Betazoid culture and more the way he has always operated with greater prescience than the average telepath, having manifested his telepathic abilities very early on in response to his environment-but will lie if it prevents others from coming to harm or to avoid unnecessarily hurting their feelings.

Education It comes as a surprise to most who learn this about him that Alan had once been deeply entrenched in the academic world and that he holds a Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley in quantum physics. Alan veered sharply left after his doctorate, for reasons that remain elusive-as most things with Alan are oft to remain. Security was an unusual fit, a gravitation born from many years on Javik and encountering broken system after broken system after broken person; the chance to participate and cultivate a better environment than the one he'd normalized was a powerful motivator.

He applied to Starfleet Academy's peacekeeping armada and was snapped up almost instantly thanks to his test results and alongside a fair share of letters of recommendation, research and volunteer work. He dissertation-bridging physics with neuroscience, focused on quantum decoherence, entanglement and the many-body problem and the stability of quantum systems as they're contained within the realm of psionics and the mindscape. As a Starfleet officer, Alan is the equivalent of a civilian detective, with a strong bent in computer analysis.

He's a desk jockey and comfortable with that role, but is fully certified to join field missions and away teams if necessary. He practices at the firing range regularly, and won a marksmanship title at the Academy's 180th intramural tournament. This reflects a period of time on Timay that he does not often discuss.

History The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Alan doesn't know his parents or why he was abandoned on Javik, but according to the Betazed archeological archives, this is immensely unusual for his kind. He's attempted to trace his history before with little success. Growing up on Timay, impoverished and starving, there were limited options for Alan. He found shelter and sanctuary with the Naj, a Timazi gang with a heavy H3 presence in the Treshan-system. It took a long time for him to scrape himself up out of the dirt, but by happenstance, he caught the attention of a university professor from Earth who elected to have his aptitude tested formally.

Dr. Amaryan, the quarter-Klingon economics professor responsible for uplifting him from purgatory, would eventually become his lover as well as his teacher. An unusual-borderline scandalous-arrangement, but Alan kept his mouth shut and his head down. At some point he broke off from Columbia and transferred out to Berkeley, in a move that came as a shock to his academic advisers at the time and was considered to be very unorthodox.

In Thy light shall we see light
Alan was on Earth during the Dominion War, at Columbia University doing his second year of his undergraduate degree in physics when martial law was declared in 2375 after the Breen attacked Earth. Being in New York City at the time, Alan was at the dead center of the orbital bombardment of the region and Columbia went into full lockdown, while everyone panicked and ran terrified. Holed up in a classroom with people he'd barely spoken to during his tenure there, Alan took on a leadership role and directed his classmates to barricade the area and construct home-made shields to lay low on the ground to try and prevent themselves from being crushed by falling debris. They could do nothing except lay there and listen to the screaming. When the blasts hit Morningside, all they could do was lay there in silence.

No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Not-even months later, they announced Betazed's occupation. There was nothing that Alan had experienced up until that point that prepared him for the bombs dropped in his mind, over and over again-one million. Two. Three. Ten. Twenty. Fifty. Pin-drop explosions of suffering and screaming that ring out into the stars on a sharpened spike.

Alan stayed glued to the television. It changed nothing. The expectation that it would not affect him because he had no claim to Betazed or its people could not be more wrong. He was permanently, irrevocably altered by the events of the war. This in combination with the stress and suffocation occurring simultaneously in his personal and professional lives caused the cracks to appear gradually. The culmination was clear when he broke with Columbia altogether and fled to the other side of the country.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
Starfleet came after Berkeley. Everyone expected Alan to become a scientist, to pursue teaching, but instead he applied to Starfleet Academy and joined the Security track. He was fast-tracked to junior lieutenant in short order and posted to the USS Turing. Most of Alan's time in Starfleet was routine. It was administrative and clerical, with brief points of agony and joy and wonder.

He became very close to a group of children liberated from the Satiz-Irath-system as a result of the outcome of the CACSI protocols at the time permitting Federation interference on Laile, and the Turing was responsible for transporting a small cluster of LR combatants to Chicago on Earth. He returned to Laile on the USS Alteri to establish a permanent Federation clinic there, and worked with the treatment team from the Federation Rehabilitation Council to secure the groups receiving de-programming and integration therapy.

It didn't take long for Alan to snag lieutenant, earning a reputation as someone capable of enforcing Federation laws fairly and impartially while retaining a sense of warmth and appreciation for the people he encountered-offenders and victims alike. He himself well knew that the line between both was fluid and dynamic, and most people did not stay on one side of it forever. People vacillated, people maneuvered through the stages, and sometimes that resulted in harm.

In 2385, Alan was PCS'd to the USS Huanan, an assignment fraught with tedium, but he learned how to play kal-toh and stand on his head. It's the only thing Alan will discuss about his time on board, describing it as wildly ordinary, but there is a classified medical entry from that time that sparsely indicates Alan was given a high dose of Lexorin and treated inpatient for 25 days. As of 2388:003 it was discovered by the Apollo's executive officer that during Alan's time aboard the Huanan he was briefly assimilated by the Borg Collective. The circumstances regarding this remain highly classified.

 

[Shayne]

STAR TREK (ANY)

1/2 MAITLAND , HIRAM

Name Hiram Layil Maitland
Species Human (Runi)
Gender Cisgender Male
Age 35
Face Claim Craig Horner

Biography​

Appearance 5'11", Tall, weedy and unassuming with a runner’s physique, Hiram’s fluffy brown hair and slender shoulders do not belie any degree of strength. But as one well knows, appearances are often deceiving. Hiram’s frame brims with concealed power and musculature that comes from hitting the heavy-bag and sprinting track almost daily. While the rest of his features are plain, his hishuri-brightened eyes, artificial and eerie, set him apart when he looks at you - vivid, otherworldly blue. In addition to this, due to his disorder, he presents with horizontal nystagmus which can be quite jarring to those who aren’t accustomed to it, often appearing as if reading invisible lines of text.

He’s quick to smile, and to convey the full range of emotional expression that is expected from a human, but those who are observant can tell it’s often manufactured for their benefit. Hiram’s Starfleet uniform is always tidy, neat and polished within regulation specifications. Hiram has one tattoo of Escher’s impossible cube on his right bicep, and three lines scarred into his left bicep undissolvable by current Federation technology, along with a few raised circles-presumably these indicate a rank, position and blood type as well as personal identification in the case of death or grievous injury.

Personality Hiram presents a very curated, very stable face to the world and it is not often that he deviates from this in a significant way. He is an excellent and attentive clinician and often picks up on cues that others miss, particularly when it comes to behaviors and emotions-something which serves him well in his role with the Palais de Concorde’s Interstellar Criminal Court.

It’s when you really get to know him on a much deeper, more personal level that some structural pattern inconsistencies hinting at a prior catastrophic instability begin to emerge. Fortunately Hiram is keen and self-aware, and is able to regulate himself very easily, as he largely lacks emotional interoception altogether. As a bonus, he is ultra-handy to have around in a crisis, and can tolerate a vast quantity of chaos.

Composed, compassionate, diplomatic, grounded. It is nearly impossible to faze Hiram, given his personal and professional experiences, and he can have a conversation with just about anyone about any topic. Most people consider him a good friend and a capable colleague, though he has courted some controversy given his high-profile status and tenure as a forensic evaluator at the Palais, this is mostly due to sensationalist rags rather than true moral compromise.

He has training in self-defense and hand-to-hand combat (a form called Davryn [“contact”] from Laile) and in a variety of disruptor pistols and rifles, tactical planning, military strategy, defensive driving, helm systems and a working understanding of computer systems and engineering components from various crafts common to Satiz-Irath.

Shallow/blunted affect, formal, secretive, indifferent to praise or criticism. Those who know Hiram for long enough recognize that he can be insincere, utilitarian and lacking in felt (affective) empathy. While Hiram is not a dangerous individual, he exudes a vibe that most people who get close to him find “disarming.” Hiram has also been known to lie and manipulate when the situation requires it, which is individual to his assessment in the moment, but generally he is pro-social and prioritizes acting with kindness.

Relationships Hiram is gay, and has only had a few relationships prior (Ashki'de, an Andorian he met at Northside and Rael, a Vulcan he met at McKinley). Because of Hiram’s surface nature, his romantic endeavors have not been very successful, as they typically only progress to a certain point before a prospective partner finds a wall they cannot breach and moves on. He is still good friends with Rael. Hiram also grew close to Christopher Darnielle, the documentarian who filmed and edited I Swear By Apollo. The two are still in contact.

Interests Hiram has a variety of hobbies including music (he played drums for the previously-illustrious Centralia), reading (specifically anatomical and pharmaceutical texts such as Harrison’s and PDR), vinyl records, gardening, board games, jigsaw puzzles (often numbering well over a thousand pieces), running and cooking.

He owns a large Maine Coon named Phyllis Diller or Phil for short, as well as a tortoise named Sonny. Hiram’s other abiding interest is martial arts and he practices with a sharpened lightweight alloy metal spear that he keeps in pristine condition in the trunk by his bed. He enjoys an old Earth sport known as paintball, although he does not play this with other people, and has a private holo-program for it.

Languages (In order of learning) speaks Runi, Federation Standard, K'iche and beginner’s Vulcan. Hiram has a slight Runi accent, which is typically smoothed over by his Universal Translator.

Family (parents, adoptive) John Maitland, Nathalie Maitland. Split their time between Chicago, Paris and Guatemala, where Nathalie is from. (ex) Rael, a Vulcan psychologist and TII+ advocate, raised by Orions aboard the OSS Khadri. They remain close friends. (pets) Phyllis “Phil” Diller (calico cat), Mr. Sunshine “Sonny” (tortoise). Both live with his parents, in Chicago.

Education (3-5) Early childhood, basic combat training, Laile Resistance (Trainee)
(3-5) Early childhood, generalized education, Laile Resistance (Trainee)
(5-10) Adolescence, advanced individualized training, Laile Resistance (Trainee)
(10-11) Mechanic, DTV/LOV, Laile Resistance (Attendant)
(12) Pilot, low orbital aircraft, Laile Resistance (Attendant)
(12) Commanding officer, shuttlecraft LRV Navas (Specialist)

Highschool Diploma - Northside Preparatory School, Chicago
Bachelor of Social Work - Hyde University, Chicago
Medical Degree - Hyde University, Chicago
Pediatric Intern - McKinley Station
Forensics Fellowship - Comer Children’s Hospital - Special Forensics Unit

Postings

Comer Children’s Hospital - Special Forensics Unit - DDR Program
Forensic Evaluator, Pediatrician - Palais de Concorde Office of the Prosecutor
Fact Finder, Expert Witness - Palais de Concorde Office of the Prosecutor
CACSI Program Director - Palais de Concorde Federation Rehabilitation Council

History Hiram has a bachelor’s degree in social work from Hyde University of Chicago (formerly the University of Chicago), and obtained his M.D. at Hyde Medical School. As a forensics fellow working at Comer, Hiram’s daily routine was massively disrupted by the Victims Participation and Reparations Section of the Interstellar Criminal Court (via Federation v. Polis) when the leader of the Laile Resistance – Ratan Polis – was remanded to Federation custody during the arrest of its high-level officials.

As one of over a hundred victims consenting to participate - the majority children and young adults - Hiram (Witness # 12) testified on-and-off for the entire duration of the proceedings (approximately 2 years) on behalf of the Office of the Prosecutor, Neilan Sherer. He also faced Polis in open court, who according to Insterstellar Law, had the right to cross-examine his accuser directly. This trial is also the subject of a documentary, ISwear By Apollo by Christopher Darnielle, which received significant traction on Holoflix. Hiram’s testimony was followed as one of the few Federation-aligned adults willing to cooperate with the journalists.

Its success is attributed to Hiram’s high degree of verbal competence, his (then-current) employment with Comer’s Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration program (which he also attended as a child) and his professional standing.

 

[Shayne]

STAR TREK (ANY)

2/2 MAITLAND, HIRAM

Medical Records

Emergency contact John Maitland
Next-of-kin John Maitland, Nathalie Maitland
Dependent/s N/A (please ensure my tortoise is cared for)

DNR status
Acquiesce to the considerations and demands of my next-of-kin.

Do you have any history of heart disease or cancer in your family?
Unknown.

Do you now or have you ever used any addictive substances?
I was physically dependent on hishuri and doqqu’.

Have you ever been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection or bloodborne pathogen?
Yes, an IDV of unknown origin. I completed total cellular replacement therapy at McKinley.

Are you on any form of contraception/prophylactic?
Prep.

Do you have any allergies?
No.

Medications
Topiramate (50mg bid hs)
Retinax V (5mg bid hs)
Phrenic nerve pacer (Synapse implant)
BiPAP (prn)
NRB mask (prn)

Hishuri

Native Name: tropane alkaloid/hishuri
Origin: Laile
Street Name(s): Hishuri, shur (his-‘sure-,ee)
Description: Blue/white powder
Dosage Method: Inhalation
Desired Effect: complete bodily paralysis, closed eye visuals, empathogen/entactogen, telepathic enhancement, hallucinations.
Story Relevance: Hishuri is often used to deleterious effect via Synaptic Proximity Pairing, which occurs in combination with psychological imprinting and high doses – this results in complete suppression of free will by the affected party.
Long-term Use Effects: Dependence. Respiratory failure, heart failure, anticholinergic adverse effects (anaphylaxis, somnolence, dyspnea, seizures, tachycardia, arrhythmia), Medullary Dysregulation Syndrome.

HISHURI NOTES | Hiram has a constellation of symptoms described by Dr. Tala Riel at McKinley’s pediatric short stay unit and Comer Children’s Hospital as Tropane Alkaloid-Induced Medullary Dysregulation Syndrome (MDS) or Riel’s Syndrome which is characterized by three primary presentations: damage to the respiratory center of the brain, damage to the eyes, and severe sleep disturbances.

Medical Records​

2356

TALA EMJIN-RIEL, MCKINLEY STATION | Pt administered physostigmine and entered into an induced coma to facilitate total withdrawal from tropane alkaloid hishuri. Pt exp. respiratory failure & anticholinergic syndrome.

TALA EMJIN-RIEL, MCKINLEY STATION | Pt released from neurological rehabilitation unit after completing substantial physical and occupational therapy. Pt underwent total cellular replacement therapy for IDV of unknown origin.

TALA EMJIN-RIEL, MCKINLEY STATION | Pt presents with permanent damage to the medullary respiratory center of the brain responsible for generating rhythmic pulses and transmitting them along the phrenic nerve to the diaphragm.

TALA EMJIN-RIEL, MCKINLEY STATION | Pt shows evidence of bilateral heterochromic iridocyclitis, and significant anterior stromal atrophy, which accounts for the changes in his eye color. Recommend regular eye check-ups to monitor vision field loss.

2357

MAIDA, COMER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SPECIAL FORENSICS UNIT | Pt diagnosed with somnambulation, restless legs syndrome, & severe central sleep apnea.
MAIDA, COMER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SPECIAL FORENSICS UNIT | Hiram received surgery for a phrenic nerve pacer and alignment following ARDS. Synapse implant successful.
MAIDA, COMER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SPECIAL FORENSICS UNIT | Pt diagnosed with cluster headaches. Pt diagnosed with Conduct Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

2361

HAROLD CALNIN, COMER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL | Pt has completed Comer Children’s Hospital Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) program. He is connected with his family and community, attending Grade 11 at Northside Preparatory College, and is optimistic about his recovery.

2369

ALLISON REYES-SANDERS, FEDERATION REHABILITATION COUNCIL | Pt successfully undergone entheogen-facilitated combination forensic narrative exposure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy as an adolescent and does not currently meet the diagnostic criteria for Conduct Disorder [312.81 (F91.1)] or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [309.81 (F43.10)]. Pt is in remission. Patient does not exhibit current cognitive malign as a result of his experiences. He has been determined fit to deploy with the FRC provided he attends regular maintenance check-ins.

 

[Shayne]

X-MEN (616)

LEHNSHERR , ERIK

Occupation Radio Repairman, Physics Major (Quantum Mechanics)
Location Cambridge, MA
Age 32
Gender Cisgender male
Sexuality Homosexual
Face Claim Michael Aloni

Abilities Erik can manipulate subatomic particles, and travel through space and time, making him one of the most - if not the most - powerful human beings on the planet. His abilities first manifested with metal, as the most conductive element - electrons were the most intuitive to him, but he's gained full control over all aspects of the material world in the years since. Erik's eyesight is also unique in that he sees things at the atomic level, comprised of their parts instead of their whole. Erik's entire neurophysiology is built upon these precepts, and the few times he's been subjected to a suppressant rendered him blind and flailing.

Appearance Erik has auburn hair, darker olive skin, and the same vivid green eyes as most of the Eisenhardt clan. Like his mother, he has a thick smattering of freckles across the bridge of his nose. Due to an injury of his right hand, he wears a complex turnbuckle brace keeping his fingers straightened out thanks to Volkmann's Contracture. Erik is very tall, around 6'4", but quite thin for his frame due to his youth under famine conditions. As he grows older, he's made a conscious effort to eat healthily and work out in an attempt to modify the issue. Outwardly, Erik is very limited in facial expressions and cadence - often striking a pure monotone. He is prone to stereotypical movements, and has a bit of an odd gait.

Personality Somewhat tragically, Erik is an indelibly soft-hearted, gentle man required to become hardened in order to survive the extreme circumstances he endured as a youth - to such a degree that most would simply never think to ascribe these traits to him. Nevertheless, this piece of him was never truly extinguished, and he retains a reverence of life and a fierce protective instinct as a result.

Erik is a semi-observant Conservative Jew (Sephardi, Greek) - his father was a cantor, and he attempts to keep this piece of him alive by continuing his religious studies in adulthood. Erik is fond of animals and children. These same experiences have informed his views on mutant sovereignty, and Erik believes strongly that the marginalized people of 1954 will never truly be safe, free and happy unless they can form a self-determining community. He is big on mutual aid and community, and grows tomatoes for the local co-op.

Of the time, most would describe Erik as a radical and certainly a mutant Separatist. Periodically, Erik has been known to suffer from hallucinations and delusions, most typically associated to the trauma he endured at Auschwitz. He poses little danger to others during these episodes, but they are very distressing for him.

History Erik’s born on Yom Kippur and isn’t that a laugh. Happy Yom Kippur, everybody. Except literally, because Edie falls in love the second he’s placed in her arms, because that’s just the kind of woman she is. She loves with her whole being, and they’re poor and generations-stuffed into a single house but their house is warm and full of firelit candles and laughter and dancing.

It’s home and it’s full of love. Edie briefly works as a secretary but quits by the time Ruthie’s born to manage the household, which is in and of itself a fulltime job. Iakov supports them via long hours at his father’s old jewelry shop. Erik cuts his teeth early on in the backrooms, fascinated by metal before he can put a name to why. Every piece has a feeling; a history etched in its lines and grooves.

By the time he’s eleven he’s the tallest person in the house, a fact he proudly reiterates to everyone who will listen (Ruthie is annoyed, because she’s sensible, but Erik just blames it on being a girl-hey, he’s eleven, not a rocket scientist). Iakov tells him good! You’re tall enough to get a job! with a pinch to the cheek. So he does, and puts his mechanical aptitude to good use at the university’s radio broadcasting lab.

He’s also old enough to know what’s happening and his parents don’t shield him from the truth when they’re forced to move out of their house and into an even smaller, untenable apartment smashed up against dozens of others. Officers barrel into the studio and force Erik's superior at the radio to report “the facts,” reassurances and pacifying lies, so Erik and his group of friends break into restaurants and hijack the printing presses to distribute illegal poetry and prayers.

They’re not careful and they’re caught. A blazoned stamp of red on his arm for the trouble. It’s likely a coincidence but shortly after that, their block is deported and he quickly learns that it’s not just the metal around him he can control. It’s his mind itself, smooth and compartmentalized like watertight doors from Olympic-sized ships.

After liberation, he’s one of the lucky few that manages to snag an exit visa. He’s young and despite his injury he’s skilled. They could use him on a kibbutz. It's a long, hard slog. Farm-life is romantic in the stories, and hell on the back. So that’s where he goes, for three years, with others of “his kind." The Sonderkommando, social lepers who daren’t show their faces in public. He loses himself in manual labor and the hot, searing sun he imagines is healing him, burning away the remnants.

It’s Tisha B'av when they force a STEN between his fingers, appropriated from dismantled resistance groups - hidden in dismantled parts buried in the soft-soil of flower pots - and tell him to fall in. Summer is always a time of mourning for our people. Instead, he falls-out. Memories fractured and splintered-in kaleidoscopes and exhaled fugue-haze on the way to America. The music never stops, the drinks keep coming and dance is in jerky, whirlwind-motion.

Why do you exist here? It begins to suffocate. around every corner eyes are on him like epithets and he can’t return to the farms, the wide-open countryside closes in on him like rubble. Yerida, they tell him derisively. I’m already down, he doesn’t reply. He boards the ship the next day. Dlaczego tu jesteś?

X-MEN (616)
Sayid al-Zaman

PSALM 136 (original universe)

MIZANA , HALE

Occupation Instructor of Climate Sciences
Location North America, San Francisco, Earth
Age 3,023
Species Ennosidas
Sexuality Pansexual
Gender Nonbinary, the Ennosidas have a different conception of gender than humans, as they reproduce similarly to the octopus. As Hale has a hectocotylus in his natural form, he adapts the male vernacular for himself in his human form. Unlike the octopus though, the Ennosidas do not die after mating.
Place of birth Tehran, Iran, Earth

INSPIRATIONS

Sufficient unto me are the children of my peers,
For in their love I have proviant and wine.
Sufficient unto me is the harvest of the fields,
And the harvest festival,
A festival recurring
I have the children of my peers,
And in their love I have proviant and wine.
Sufficient unto me is the harvest of the fields,
And the harvest festival.
I shall not fear you, o returning snows,
For when you come,
I shall have wine and a burning coal.
― The Bridge, Khalil Hawi

APPEARANCE

Face claim Kal Naga
Shared? YES

Hale is tall and broad-shouldered, with a mischievous smile and eyes brown mixed with hints of red and amber. Drawing you in, pulling you closer. He lights up a room, magnetic-spark, but he is stern and strong and that intimidates people. Though he walks with confidence, he does not disturb, and does not disrupt or interfere. He won't push past, or lay a hand upon you, unless it is emergent.

FAMILY
Father Sayid Mizana, clan leader
Mother Fatima Mizana, clan archivist
Sister Yasmin Mizana, deceased

PERSONALITY
The element of water best describes Hale. Deep, mysterious, inviting. He enjoys collecting trinkets and baubles and decorating his spaces thusly. He is a disciplined spirit, but when his ire is invoked, he can be vengeful. In his true form, even monstrous.

PHYSIOLOGY
Hale belongs to an ancient earthen species known as the Ennosidas. These are sentient sea creatures with structures similar to a squid or octopus, with nervous systems in their limbs, and equal intelligence. Unlike the octopus, they are not solitary and instead group up and build communities amongst themselves. Their customs are varied depending on where these communities crop up.

Hale's community have adopted most local Persian customs when on land, to fit in and go unnoticed, though they do not share in the religious beliefs of the region. They have their own religious beliefs. The Ennosidas have the ability to breathe underwater, through their skin. Said skin is comprised of chromatophores, and they can chameleon themselves to their environment as well.

The Ennosidas have the ability of vocal persuasion, which is suggestibility by voice. It isn't necessarily a "command" one "must" follow but rather, people are simply drawn to them, enjoy them, wish to be near them, find them fascinating and beautiful, things of that nature. The very stereotypical "siren." They are shapeshifters and mental manipulators by nature.

EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION
Hale was outcasted from his community because he wished to learn more of the surface-dwellers, which was forbidden to his kind by his clan's leader, his own father. He defied his father, and was consequentially exiled. Since, he has wandered the world and attained a variety of different distinctions. He possesses a doctorate in environmental science.

HISTORY
Oh, too much to tell in one sitting. In his recent history, he ran a private study of the Earth's atmosphere out of a skyrise called Harper, when an earthquake disrupted its foundations and he was trapped for a few days. Since then, he has developed claustrophobia.

 

[Shayne]

THE RUNI | LAILE

CUSTOM SPECIES

Information
One of the primary civilizations in SATIZ-IRATH, the inhabitants of Laile are the descendents of one of the first human expeditions to leave Earth 600 years ago using shuttles that traveled via supercavitation.

The first Runi generation-ships were propelled via supercavitation. Supercavitation utilizes a cavitation bubble to reduce the friction drag on an object to enable high speeds. The shape of the object’s nose initiates this bubble. The bubble extends past the aft (back) end of the object, which prevents contact from air or water along its sides.

Other advances in Runi spaceflight include hybrid marine and aerospace crafts utilizing electromagnetic fields which create quantum vacuums. This allowed the early prototypes to ignore aerodynamic and hydrodynamic forces, including the craft’s inertial mass. Shuttles that do not have soliton cores and are unintended for stellar travel still essentially operate under these basic principles.

Today they are called the RUNI and differ minutely from humans in their appearance, biology and coloring.

Planet​

Government: The Confederacy of Laile
Environment: H-class (less than 20% surface water - similar to Vulcan or Rigel V)
Population: 90 million
Capital: Dhavri, Irune
Continents: Irune, Mayliz

The Laile Resistance (LR)​

Established: 10010 CGE
Group: RUNI
Leaders: RATAN POLIS, Kaejih Maedaz (POW), Sanew Hishij (DEC).
Headquarters: Meili, Irune
Size: 13,200 (10220 CGE)
Allies: Regional militia groups
Opponents: Iro Provisional Militia, Iro Corporate Congress, Laile Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of SATIZ-IRATH, Protocol for the Cessation of Armed Conflict in Satiz-Irath (CACSI)

THE SATIZ-IRATH STAR SYSTEM IS IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY, 5.025 PARSECS (16 LIGHT-YEARS) FROM EARTH. A PARSEC IS APPROXIMATELY 3 LIGHT YEARS, SO 5 X 3 = 15. HOWEVER, CORRECT INTERSTELLAR NOTATION IS KNOWN BY THE ACRONYM CISR - COMMON INTERSTELLAR REDSHIFT - FOR THE DISTANCE OF AN OBJECT. CISR IS INTELLIGIBLE BY A WIDE VARIETY OF ALIEN NUMERIC SYSTEMS AND DOES NOT RELY ON VARIABLES RELATIVE TO SPECIFIC STAR SYSTEMS (SUCH AS THE SUN).

A non-Federation race (and with little interest in joining the Federation), they made their home in the habitable star-system of SATIZ-IRATH. Their culture has diverged significantly from humanity, as has their genetic structure - more closely resembling Orions than humans. Their world, LAILE, is M3 (Mass Differential 3). which has resulted in adaptations to their musculoskeletal system to withstand the high-atmo.

LAILE is M3. This means the field of gravity on Laile is 3x stronger than Earth’s. The first expedition to land there required technological adaptation to survive, but over the past 600 years they have begun to evolve a much denser skeletal system (through intentional genetic engineering as well as intermixing with the local Animan Orion [M4] population) and more robust cardiac efficiency.

Technology exists to allow those from M1 and G-class (such as Earth) planets to visit those who diverge significantly more easily, in the form of temperature regulator chips embedded under the skin and gravity equalizer bracelets. These all operate under the principle of inertia negation, which reduces the wearer’s mass to their-normal whilst on the surface of a highly pressurized atmosphere. Planets like Ajilasi Prime (M4) would kill a person who was not wearing a bracelet in short order, as they would very quickly develop the symptoms of crush syndrome.

Some people undergo neuromuscular augmentation therapy if they plan on living and working permanently on a disparate MD-world. A mass differential is measured by the variances in newtons per kilogram (N/kg) of a planet’s gravity field which is solved by weight divided by mass (mass is solved by volume x density.) Earth’s gravity field is 10 N/kg, IRO’s gravity field is 20 N/kg, LAILE is 30 N/kg et cetera (these are rounded numbers).

Another factor of their deviations from us is the proliferation of the tropane alkaloid anticholinergic drug hishuri that pervades the environment of Laile. The shur, as it is known, causes brilliant blue eyes in long-term users alongside the potential to develop neurological conditions such as Riel’s Syndrome - named for Tala Riel, the McKinley specialist who discovered it.

Also known as Medullary Dysregulation Syndrome or MDS. This causes profound changes to the Runi’s vision and breathing, categorized by 3 symptom clusters: agonal breathing, bilateral heterochromic iridocyclitis and stromal apathy, and sleep disturbances. Many also report seizures and cluster headaches. Those who become dependent on hishuri often require Synapse implants to function - these regulate baser functions of breathing and sleeping. The use of hishuri came at a time when the planet was under brutal siege, and every single man, woman and child was required to fight.

For a time their identities were rooted in war and struggle, which eventually took a turn for the worse - one Runi, RATAN POLIS, was unsatisfied when Laile unified and believed it was a sign of weakness. Recruiting from pools of the poor and destitute, orphans and abandoned-ones, he founded the Laile Resistance (LR).

(RATAN POLIS)

RATAN POLIS was arrested in 2383 during a visit to Kolar – the Orions handed him over for a significant sum - and during the Interstellar Criminal Court’s landmark Federation v. Polis case, he was sentenced to Aoraki Penal Commune in New Zealand, a Special Forensic Unit for violent offenders of his caliber.

Culture Much of Laile is locked in struggle, a desert world with poor surface resources but rich oil deposits, the Iro Corporate Congress (comprised of the Aven people) have waged war against the primary inhabitants for many years. This has created something of a warrior ethos for the older stratos of Runi, but most young Runi are disillusioned by and therefore abrasive about these things. Within the last half of the 2380s-early 90s, a subculture of Runi has emerged focused on political activism, pacifism, mutual aid and protesting, originating within Kada musical spheres.

Technology The Runi are warp capable. They use soliton drives (described below). They have a lower level of orbital technology, primarily hoppers that require maintenance over time as they’re broken-down and second-hand. They use Active Denial Rifles as their primary form of weapon, some units in the Laile Resistance use ion spears. The primary currency on Laile is the cuprate diamond strip, which is a rare material used to create superconductors and reinforce soliton drives.

“Look, Tarish says it’s coffee. Well, coffee-ish. With enough caffeine to kickstart a cemetery. I am 100% behind this beverage,” he’s saying. “OK, so an FTL drive - it’s not traditional faster-than-light, either, which was my huge gripe with this, for the record. It uses these things called solitons, which are a wave that maintain shape and energy while moving at constant velocity - it’s the shit Lentz posited, that hyper-fast soliton solutions exist within general relativity, and these solitons are maintained integrally by cuprate diamond crystallization - literal superluminal motion enabling objects within the ‘wave’ to be shielded from tidal forces.”

ADR stands for Active Denial Rifle (or ADP, for the smaller hand-pistol variant), and it is a ubiquitous directed energy weapon that uses microwaves to burn a subject’s skin via the princple of dialectric heating. Most state and non-state parties (law enforcement, military or otherwise) in Satiz-Irath use variations of this weapon, as it provides unparalleled control. This weapon can either be lethal (causing heating past the point of human tolerance) or non-lethal (causing first or second-degree burns) depending on the power of the beam and the length of time it is fired.

 

[Shayne]

STAR TREK (DS9)

KIRALA , AQUILO

name (Born) Aquilo "Ailo" Cardes | (Current) Aquilo Kirala, M.D., Ph.D. Ailo rhymes with halo.
age 51/3678

species/culture Trill (Joined), however the host Ailo was raised on Earth in Brazil and prior to Joining lacked a full comprehension of Trill culture. Of all the Trill aboard the USS Tevive, Ailo was considered the most appropriate for the Kirala symbiont.

symbiont The Kirala symbiont is approximately 3600 years old, and has had 54 prior hosts.

occupation Forensic Psychiatrist - Special Forensics Unit of Comer Children's Hospital - Federation Security Council
location Chicago, Earth

inspiration "i still have inside me the mad searchfor E M E R G E N C Y / / E X I T S , for soft places, for the nakednessof the land, for the escape into weakness and hope ,i still have within me the lust to search for living waterwith quiet talk to the rock or with frenzied blows ."

“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew."

"The
life
so short , the
craft
so long to learn . ”



alma mater fusp - paulista school of medicine
family gael cardes (father), yona carlin (mother)
languages portuguese , english , lingala , spanish , hebrew , genzari // a vast number due to the Kirala symbiont, however Ailo typically only recalls these on a momentary basis when something gets flung out of the ether.
fun personality shit esfp, leo, 7w8

hobbies card games , magic tricks , classical guitar , gardening , cooking , napping , exploring , hiking , graffiti , sculpture ( clay ) , drag make - up & & fashion , pottery , chili pepper eating competitions , music festivals , psychedelic mushrooms , puns , literature , reality tv , telenovelas , soap operas , romance novels , chick flicks , writing bad “die hard” fanfiction of his self - insert eduardo , the list goes on and on !

fashion well-tailored button-downs, dress slacks, leather shoes, dark colors , hawaiian shirts , gauche tourist-print , aviator sunglasses , silly hats , scarves , flowing skirts , mismatched socks , driving gloves

hometown vidigal, rio, brazil

abilities aquilo is a neutrino-based telepath, and has a unique capacity to 'absorb' the experiences of those around him, which are interpreted by his brain as no different than his own. it is this which resulted in his Joining to the kirala symbiont when the USS Tevive crash-landed on Heilo IX.

personality benefits / strengths | aquilo’s resilience as a being is his biggest strength . most brains are only equipped to process a single lifetime . his has processed thousands , possibly millions of iterations of life . his mind can be somewhat fractured-kintsugi , but his abiding strength is in genuine love , hope , compassion , communication , and good-will for others . he is cheerful and sociable , and simply fun to be around . his moods are often infectious and he strives to soothe those around him .

restrictions / drawbacks | physically disabled , requires cane to walk , severe chronic pain , physically dependent on substances ( particularly kratom and nicotine ) , prone to bias & misinterpretation with his abilities ( he is only human ) verges into trickster territory , confusing , disarming , acerbic and sarcastic at times , does not meet the diagnostic criteria for any trauma and stressor disorder however he does have unique ” T-CERs “ ( telepathic - conditioned emotional responses ) that he has tracked throughout his life and believes may be his own version of how his hippocampus and amygdala cope with trauma .

they tried to kill us , we survived , lets eat food/drink | ailo’s tastes indicate a well-traveled youth, at least on earth . he likes everything from deep fried crickets to staple foods from childhood like pães de queijo , chicken and waffles to hummus and shawarma to goat meat stew to pho, lassi and air mata kucing . his mother’s upbringing in netanya is reflected by his abiding love of almost all kinds of seafood . many memories of rapped knuckles and reproving glares have turned him away from pork , though this isn’t precisely conscious.

pizza topping | anchovies
color | yellow
music genre | pop / dance , rave
season | spring
curse word | bom pa caralho!
scent | soap, matches, petrichor

CACSI currently works as a forensic psychiatrist out of the federation security council's political affairs office in chicago-mckinley's comer children's hospital - special forensics unit -- typically dealing with adolescents involved in severe criminal offenses, armed conflict, cults, etc. for now, he is involved in the CACSI program headed by hiram maitland . aquilo was recruited due to his success on the ground in satiz-irath delivering mental healthcare to a wide variety of pediatric residential patients catered to juvenile delinquency , sexual health , homelessness , gang violence & & drug addiction .

history raised in vidigal , homeschooled due to his abilities , eventually learned to control them / regulate himself and struck out for satiz-irath where he has built a career over the past few decades . en route to laile from iro , the IPM shot down the USS tevive (a primarily trill vessel) on its way to deliver supplies , and the trill commanding officer was severely, grievously injured . the kirala symbiont would not survive the trip back to trill , and of all its occupants , aquilo was deemed the most suitable to take on the host due to his mental capacity and prior experiences sorting and orienting vast quantities of 'life-information.' spent 2 years at the symbiosis commission afterward . ailo's physical injury was endured during this experience .