I wasn’t tagged by , but I was significantly mentioned…

 The rules are:

1. Post all rules
2. Write 8 facts about your character
3. Tag 8 people
4. Write the name of the character with its owner.

 The character under discussion is Tyche…



    1.    Tyche is loosely based off a character designed by my ex-wife, although she has evolved considerably since then. The main elements that have carried over from the original RPG version of the character to the prose version are: she is mildly precognitive and she loves animals. Her original character name (Motta Jorge) will also appear in an upcoming story, although it will not be related to her in any way; it’s just my way of acknowledging the character’s roots.

   2.    Tyche has undergone more significant costume and body changes than any of my other characters, largely owing to the fact that I had a steep learning curve to overcome. No one was sorry to see her original 3D model disappear, although I still want to find a way to make her original costume work, if only for nostalgia’s sake. Her hair was awful, though.



   3.    Tyche is a very muscular woman; more muscular than any normal woman could likely become without chemical aid. I never make a big deal about this, but I assume that Tyche, as an extremely talented and well-trained physician, knows what supplements she can and cannot use safely… and has probably experimented some in order to create a cycle that is safe for her beyond what normal athletes manage.



   4.    Tyche has several admirers within the Faerie Court, including the dwarfish Cnú Deireóil (one of Lugh’s most powerful lieutenants), and an as-yet unnamed prince who she rescued from mortal control. Although the prince repaid her original service with advice and a boon, he maintains that she is owed still more. She also knows the true name, given in the voice and with the breath of the fae who it belongs to, of a lesser free-willed faerie named Amalyse Fairwinds. This may be important in the not-too-distant future.



   5.    Over the years, Tyche has teamed up with ’s Lady Quantum, ’s Ms. Blitzen, ’s Warbuster, ’s Hailey Storm, ’s Amelia Daniel, ’s Mirage McCormik, and ’s Dark Siren. Those are just the ones that I can remember right off the top of my head, and there may have been others. I specifically did not include ’s Dal-Lii because Tyche was out of commission by the time the green alien came into the picture.



   6.    Tyche owns a brownstone apartment building that she has converted into her home, a veterinary clinic, and a doctor’s office. She has the equipment and skill necessary to run a full emergency triage center and can, in a pinch, perform surgery on site. Given her expertise in both human and animal medicine, Tyche is one of the few doctors in the world qualified to give medical care to some of the more unusual metahumans.



   7.    Tyche has grown from modest roots into one of the wealthiest women in the world. She is, in fact, so wealthy that her monetary value increases annually even without her paying any attention to it.



   8.    A nearly man-sized, combat-evolved sea otter lives in Tyche’s basement. He pays rent by performing basic maintenance and cleaning. Every now and again, patients in the Caring Hands Clinic hear him happily chittering away, saying things like, “Eureka!” and “I improved it!” This is usually a good indication that it’s time to seek cover.

 And... eight more people and characters?

Sheesh!

1. 's Esau Abraham, since everyone seems to have forgotten about him...
2. 's Dal-Lii
3. 's Sophia Storm
4. 's Sabrina Swift
5. 's FX
6. 's Samaira
7. 's Starflame
8. 's Mega Mime

Quick note: *Almost* all the art was produced by yours truly, , with a few notable exceptions...

The picture of Tyche and Little Vicky with the cat was an early iteration of Tyche made by .
The top right picture in the many faces of Tyche was a gift from .
The center picture in the many faces of Tyche was a gift from .
The center right picture in the many faces of Tyche was a gift from .

A profound thank you to each of these artists who've taken an interest in my character.

I was tagged by ; hope this brightens your day a little, buddy.

 The rules are:

1. Post all rules
2. Write 8 facts about your character
3. Tag 8 people
4. Write the name of the character with its owner.

 I was asked about Hilde Jotunsdottir…

    1.       Hilde is one of very few of my characters who is capable of physically changing her appearance without the use of prosthetics. Specifically, Hilde, who is already a large woman at six feet tall and heavily muscled, can grow into a seven-foot-eight-inch giantess.

    2.       Hilde’s giant form is actually her natural body; her ‘small’ form was engineered by her friend, Aristotle, in order to help her blend into mainstream society.

    3.       While many people have speculated that Hilde has jumped through time based on her advanced technology and often incomplete and inaccurate knowledge of past, present, and future events and norms, the truth is that she comes from a separate dimension that is significantly further along in its timestream than Dream Haven.

    4.       Hilde still doesn’t understand how dishonest advertising can be used to sell movies and not make everyone upset. She also doesn’t understand about midichlorians.

    5.       Hilde’s costume is one of the few that, in changing, has become less protective than it was when she began; she’s sacrificed a lot of her armor’s structural integrity (and gotten rid of her helmet altogether) in order to make herself appear more approachable. She figures, not unreasonably, that her armor is mostly for show, anyways, since she is pretty much completely immune to any sort of man-portable weapon in existence even before she gets her armor and protective force fields involved.

    6.       Hilde’s favorite television show is True Blood. She doesn’t care at all about the characters or the story; she just likes Jace Everett’s Bad Things.

    7.       Hilde is currently gainfully employed by Neko as Yumi’s bodyguard and personal torturer… er… trainer. Hilde met Yumi when the latter visited the Caring Hands clinic and ran into her, and they formed a fast and easy friendship.

    8.       Hilde is fluent in Japanese and English, although she occasionally mixes in words and phrases that don’t appear to belong to either language.

Now, here’s the people Hilde would like to know more about:

    1.       ’s Pumpkin Queen
    2.       ’s Mandy
    3.       ’s Amy DiCaprio
    4.       ’s Derpy
    5.       ’s Madison
    6.       ’s Anvil
    7.       ’s Candi the Weremoose… I mean Mouse
    8.       ’s Tetsuko

Heretic/Hilde Jotunsdottir belongs to .
Yumiko Nakamoto/Tora the Tigress belongs to and is used without apology.

All artwork created and produced by and with the exception of   by , used with permission.

I was tagged by

The rules are:

1. Post all rules
2. Write 8 facts about your character
3. Tag 8 people
4. Write the name of the character with its owner.

Is there a way to mark a journal as NSFW? Because, seriously… this is a journal with Donnybrook in it...

...and she makes hardened criminals weep in frustrated envy of the way she contorts the language to her whims. Lifetime career marine D.I.s flee in terror when she opens her mouth. Seriously: she talks dirty and you have been warned. A lot.

Seriously? You guys wanna hear about me? Were you dropped on your head repeatedly before you became a scutterstain on your Mama’s reused tampon? Did you get dribbled like a basketball to see how high you could bounce off the leaky toiletwad that passes for your skull? Well, fine. Suck your saggy tits in and lemme teach you some shit you won’t find out about in whatever pussyfart school you went to when you were learning to be the sorry excuse for a walking turd you are now.

    1)      Donnybrook’s civilian name is Candi MacHugh. More specifically, she’s Candi-with-an-‘I’ MacHugh, mainly so I had an excuse for her being mad at the world all the time, no matter what was going on. Donnybrook will answer to either Donny or Candi, but calling her Candi if you aren’t a close friend is perilous endeavor and likely to result in, at a minimum, a mauled ego.

Seriously? Thanks, Mom. Fucking parents-of-the-goddamn-year give me a name like a five-dollar hooker and it’s a surprise that I want the whole world to give a rimjob to a live grenade?

    2)      Donny currently works at East Lake High School chaperoning and advising the plethora of metahuman students who attend. She has made a truly remarkable effort to curb her use of foul language while working with students, and this has not improved her sanguine temper; students at East Lake often call her “Madame Abrasive,” but never to her face. Despite having no superhuman powers, even the most powerful of students at East Lake fear being on the wrong side of a tongue-lashing administered by the petite officer.

I was told I had to be couth for the student’s tender fu—frigging ears or they might melt into a slimy pile of goo or something. I’m not allowed to tell you to kiss my ass; instead I have to tell you fellate a donkey.

What Donny really ought to have looked like before she got tapped to work at East Lake...

    3)      Donnybrook is very young for an MRT officer, currently in her early-twenties. When she’s not at East Lake monitoring metahuman hooligans or apprehending metahuman criminals run amok, she attends school part time at Dream Haven University. She has associate’s degrees in police procedure, sports medicine, and physical education, and is working on a bachelor’s degree in law enforcement. She is also taking classes for anger management and the legal use of force. In her spare time (ha!), Donny practices her martial arts and weapon skills.

I want to sincerely invite anyone who thinks I need to be making better use of my time to get gang-raped by a flock of angry sheep. Or cats, since I understand that the fur on their dicks rubs like fuckin’ sandpaper when it comes out.

    4)      Despite rumors to the contrary, Donnybrook’s brain damage did not actually give her Tourette’s Syndrome; Donny is capable of putting a leash on her tongue when she has to, although it’s a significant effort. This is part of the reason she was assigned to act as the MRT liaison in East Lake High School: interacting with young people absolutely requires her to maintain iron discipline over her tongue at all times. What her brain damage did do was to take her already short temper and make her even more prone to overreacting in a negative fashion.

You can blow a rusty trumpet on my ass. I don’t react fucking ‘negatively,’ I react in a shit-stomping, skull-fuckingly proactive manner.

    5)      About the only character I’m aware of that can match or best Donny, profanity for profanity and vulgarity for vulgarity, is ’s Sydney, from his Grrl Power webcomic… and she’s generally much more temperate in her speech patterns. In order to pen Donnybrook’s lines, I actually have to exercise my google-fu and dive deep into Urban Dictionary. While there is a certain poetry to Donny’s profanity and a kind of vitality to her vulgarity, my background did not include a course in how to send sailors running from bars with nothing more than the words I could conjure out of thin air. I like to say that Donny was kicked out of the marines for her foul mouth before the marines were taught to talk pretty.

That’s a fuckin’ lie. I was discharged without prejudice for beating seven kinds of shit out of that incompetent, baby-molesting, kiddie-raper douche of a Lieutenant. I would’ve gotten a commendation and a promotion, but apparently the Corps frowns on lowly privates kicking their inferior officers in the privates. That, and it took me awhile to find all seven kinds of shit, since they’d only catalogues six kinds before that day.

Donnybrook can look pretty, as long as she doesn't talk. As Detective Kramer learned, much to his chagrin.

    6)      Several people have suggested or offered to correct Donnybrook’s brain damage. I will never agree to this in the long term, although I might allow it as a temporary fix for the sake of a story. There are a plethora of reasons for this, but the central, underlying reason is that Donny is partly pure wicked fun and partly stress relief for me. She gets to express sentiments that I, personally, would never feel comfortable expressing aloud. In-world reasons range from the idea that brain surgery—even high-tech or alien brain surgery—is hazardous, to the idea that her vile temper and acid tongue are an integral part of her personality, and stripping them from her might make her ineffective in her chosen profession even if it didn’t render her a vegetable.

I finally got a reason to learn another language. Did you know fuckin’ English only has so many ways to swear? I’m betting Russian or Gaelic can give the prissy bitch-Queen’s English a real reach-around.

    7)      Donnybrook has very few friends—

Fuck you! I have enough friends already!

…ahem. What I was about to say was that, despite her tendency to pick a fight even with her closest allies, Donny is extremely loyal to the people that she considers to be her friends. Those people include pretty much anyone who has been in the MRT for longer than six months, Principal Leonard, Comet Girl, Candy (the wererat), and Della.

…Yeah, okay. That’s fair enough. Fuck.

    8)      Donnybrook is best tactician in the MRT, even better than virtuosos like Zed and Oskar. She has no interest in strategy, however, nor has she any patience for strategic concerns, which ultimately limits her effectiveness. She excels at identifying and exploiting psychological and emotional vulnerabilities in her opponents.

Big-picture pussies can lick my clit and put a permanent smile on my face. Like there’s anything fucking noble about getting the shit stomped out of you for some objective that some asswipe who’s never seen fire wants to get done.

 Okay, eight tags...
Well, let's see... some of the ones I want to know about have already been done. That's the problem with coming to the party late, I guess...

1.  's Karen Larson, because I like muscle girls.
2.  's Mirage McCormik, because she's a strong girl in a new place.
3.  's Kendra Brooks, because she's the strong woman that rides herd on LQ.
4.  's Shield Maiden, because overcoming your upbringing takes a special kind of strength.
5.  's Misha "Pooky" Trineva, because cute and strong is sexy.
6.  's Dark Siren, because EMT and vigilante superhero is one tough chica!
7.  's Ellen James, because you gotta be strong to love a superhero.
8.  's Sarah Richardson, because did I mention I like strong women?