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A huge part of the canon is the setting, so I’ve put the history section first~.
Your name: Emily
Your LJ: tatooine
Your email: emily.rose@comcast.net
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Character's name: Jomy Marquis Shin
Character's LJ: hatesyourmom
Character's canon: Toward the Terra
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Thousands of years in the future, humanity has destroyed the planet Earth and fled to the stars, establishing the “Superior Domination System” overseen by the “Mother Network,” a series of computers built to regulate society and curb human vices.
Jomy Marquis Shin couldn’t care less about the fact that he lives in a computer-dominated dystopia… until he takes the SD System’s “Adulthood Exam” on his fourteenth birthday and those computers realize that he’s a ridiculously strong latent psychic - a “Mu” - and start trying to kill him. Despite wanting nothing more than to live a normal life, Jomy discovers that the computer government won’t stop trying to screw with his head and off him. Reluctantly, he accepts that he can’t return to his family and friends, and that only he can protect and lead the rest of the Mu to their promised land, the blue planet “Terra” they saw in a vision.
At first, Jomy makes a pretty lousy leader. He and the Mu spend years travelling the galaxy in an ancient ship, trying to find Terra and intermittently making peace overtures to humanity. Eventually, however, Jomy is convinced to end their journey. He leads the Mu to make a new life for themselves on an out-of-the-way planet, hoping that Mother and the human forces will stop hunting them if they settle far enough away. On the red planet Nazca, Jomy stops hiding in his room all the time and becomes a beloved, if still indecisive, leader, trying to make all his Mu happy. Unfortunately, after years of eking out a hard living on dusty Nazca (and learning how to have babies that don’t come from test tubes, hooray!), the SD System’s “perfect human” Keith Anyan discovers the Mu, blows up Nazca with a superlaser, and kills off Jomy’s sickly albino mentor.
Jomy decides that he, Mu, and all humanity can only survive if the Mother Network is destroyed and the SD System ends, so he puts everyone who didn’t die a horrible death back on the starship and they all warp away. Newly determined, he leads the homeless Mu and their ship in an offensive against the massive armies of humanity, capturing planets on the way to Terra and the heart of the Mother Network. In this offensive, Jomy becomes more serious and ruthless man, putting aside his earlier light-heartedness and pursuing his goal with single-minded dedication to fulfill his promise to the Mu and free humanity from the Superior Domination System. His fight eventually brings him to Earth, only to discover that Earth is the blue planet Terra that the Mu have been looking for for more than three centuries, and that it’s still an uninhabitable, toxic wreck.
After a massive show-down above the planet, Jomy manages to arrange a meeting with Keith Anyan, now the supreme ruler of humanity, to discuss the terms of a peace agreement between humanity and the newly militant Mu. He demands to see the central AI hub of the Mother Network, the terminal Grand Mother, deep below the Earth’s surface. In front of Grand Mother, Keith is asked to choose whether the Mu should live or die, and chooses to reject the Mu and have a genre-defying sword fight with Jomy. Keith changes his mind about five minutes later, but too late: both men take a sword to the gut as Grand Mother implements a complete Mu eradication program, and the Mu and humanity must work together to save planet Earth from being blown up in her last, vengeful moments. Jomy and Keith die together, having freed humanity from the computers and made the universe a better place.
Jomy is being taken after his death. It should be noted that, although he’s in his mid-thirties at the end of the show, he doesn’t physically age past his teens.
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
The series is as much a bildungsroman as it is a space opera; Jomy’s character changes dramatically over the twenty-odd years of the series. At first, he’s impetuous, bratty, self-centered, and completely lacking control of his powers and emotions. But after he makes a promise to lead and protect the Mu on their way to Terra, he begins to change. He spends years being uncertain, torn between rival factions, struggling to please everyone, and unsure of how to effectively guide his band of outcasts.
After the Mu are chased off Nazca, however, Jomy crystallizes into, basically, the perfect kid hero leader of the embattled psychic rebellion. He abandons his earlier indecision and becomes more forceful. He’s loving, inspirational, strong-willed, brave, determined, unhesitating, and fearless, and gentle at heart even though he’s too driven and busy for excessive sentimentality. For the sake of protecting his people, Jomy becomes more ruthless, willing to kill, to use children to wipe out space fleets, and to torture, even though he hates and regrets how he’s changed and what he has to do to reach Terra and save civilization.
Even at the end of his development, Jomy retains some childish aspects: optimism, passion, idealism. One of Terra’s defining themes is the contrast of childhood and adulthood. Jomy is physically fourteen through the entire series (though chronologically he’s in his mid-thirties by the show’s finale) and after “failing” his Adulthood Exam, flies off with the Mu, never accepting an adult’s role in normal society… but at the same time, his rejection of the rest of humanity’s childish dependence on the Mother Network makes him one of the most grown-up characters. Anti-villain Keith Anyan, on the other hand, is a haggard-looking thirty-something by the end of the series and has climbed to the top of “adult” society, but lives taking orders from Mother. Jomy, fitting his position in this duo, retains the energy and determination associated with the role of a boy hero. His optimism gives him the strength to push on toward his Promised Land, believing, despite so much evidence to the contrary, that humanity is fundamentally good, and that humans and Mu could together take down their crazy computer overlords and live without totally wrecking the planet Earth again.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
He should have been dead.
He remembered lying miles below Terra’s surface, the whole planet shuddering, Keith lying beside him, and blood on the white marble. He remembered, too, knowing that Tony and the humans had come together to save that world… To learn that their Terra - no, that the whole universe! - had been destroyed, just when he thought he’d led everyone somewhere they could live in peace…
What kind of beings were the Ohm, to destroy humanity’s birthplace? To slaughter billions of beings on the verge of a new way of life, before they could restore beautiful Terra…? It had been one thing to face the human armies of the Superior Domination system. The Mu were humanity’s children; he could understand their sadness, their fear, their anger, everything that drove them to chase the Shangri-La to the ends of the galaxy. Would he ever be able to understand the Ohm? To reason with them? If they came to a negotiation table, would he want to reason with them, knowing what they’d done to his people and their promised land? To Terra.
He pressed his tear-streaked face to the great windows of the observation deck, gazing out into the shifting reds of the Bleed. Somewhere above humanity’s home, Physis was gone, and Tony, and all the Mu he’d brought across the galaxy. He should have been dead, but he was alive, and everyone who he’d wanted to enjoy the new world was gone.
“We can’t change the past,” he murmured to the vortex. Somewhere beyond the Bleed, there was an infinite number of shining blue worlds. Those Terras could still be saved. They would still be saved. “But we can shape the future.”
He turned from the glass and back to the ship. It was a solid vessel with a good crew. Unlike the fragile Mu, many of the people onboard were warriors: trained, hardy, used to rough conditions and the psychological strain of prolonged combat, and all of them had a reason to fight. He didn’t know them or all of their stories well now, but he’d learn to understand them, and try to guide them as Blue had guided him, once upon a time. He’d been on this journey before - pulling a small band of castaways across a sea of stars. They’d reached their goal then, and they would reach it now, because his last words to Keith were as true here as they had been on Terra:
When all else was gone, there was hope.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
As a Mu, Jomy has a pretty standard suite of psychic powers: telepathy/empathy, telekinesis, teleportation, use of psionic energy for blasts or shielding, flying, breathing in space, travelling in a “spirit form” or entering dreams, and borrowing energy from other psychics.
He also has terrible control over his own psychic broadcasting (even though his own people think that broadcasting his feelings strongly is rude!). When he’s particularly emotional, every psychic around knows it, and when he’s happy he radiates what a crew member calls a biiiiiiig psychic hug. He can’t read a machine’s intentions or the thoughts of a mind trained against psychics. He’s also prone to being stabbed/shot/electrocuted/tentacled/assaulted by telepathic squirrels when he’s not paying attention; this happens on a depressingly regular basis.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
He plays soccer!
Your name: Emily
Your LJ: tatooine
Your email: emily.rose@comcast.net
Your AIM, MSN, or Yahoo handle: WalkTheGalaxy
Character's name: Jomy Marquis Shin
Character's LJ: hatesyourmom
Character's canon: Toward the Terra
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Thousands of years in the future, humanity has destroyed the planet Earth and fled to the stars, establishing the “Superior Domination System” overseen by the “Mother Network,” a series of computers built to regulate society and curb human vices.
Jomy Marquis Shin couldn’t care less about the fact that he lives in a computer-dominated dystopia… until he takes the SD System’s “Adulthood Exam” on his fourteenth birthday and those computers realize that he’s a ridiculously strong latent psychic - a “Mu” - and start trying to kill him. Despite wanting nothing more than to live a normal life, Jomy discovers that the computer government won’t stop trying to screw with his head and off him. Reluctantly, he accepts that he can’t return to his family and friends, and that only he can protect and lead the rest of the Mu to their promised land, the blue planet “Terra” they saw in a vision.
At first, Jomy makes a pretty lousy leader. He and the Mu spend years travelling the galaxy in an ancient ship, trying to find Terra and intermittently making peace overtures to humanity. Eventually, however, Jomy is convinced to end their journey. He leads the Mu to make a new life for themselves on an out-of-the-way planet, hoping that Mother and the human forces will stop hunting them if they settle far enough away. On the red planet Nazca, Jomy stops hiding in his room all the time and becomes a beloved, if still indecisive, leader, trying to make all his Mu happy. Unfortunately, after years of eking out a hard living on dusty Nazca (and learning how to have babies that don’t come from test tubes, hooray!), the SD System’s “perfect human” Keith Anyan discovers the Mu, blows up Nazca with a superlaser, and kills off Jomy’s sickly albino mentor.
Jomy decides that he, Mu, and all humanity can only survive if the Mother Network is destroyed and the SD System ends, so he puts everyone who didn’t die a horrible death back on the starship and they all warp away. Newly determined, he leads the homeless Mu and their ship in an offensive against the massive armies of humanity, capturing planets on the way to Terra and the heart of the Mother Network. In this offensive, Jomy becomes more serious and ruthless man, putting aside his earlier light-heartedness and pursuing his goal with single-minded dedication to fulfill his promise to the Mu and free humanity from the Superior Domination System. His fight eventually brings him to Earth, only to discover that Earth is the blue planet Terra that the Mu have been looking for for more than three centuries, and that it’s still an uninhabitable, toxic wreck.
After a massive show-down above the planet, Jomy manages to arrange a meeting with Keith Anyan, now the supreme ruler of humanity, to discuss the terms of a peace agreement between humanity and the newly militant Mu. He demands to see the central AI hub of the Mother Network, the terminal Grand Mother, deep below the Earth’s surface. In front of Grand Mother, Keith is asked to choose whether the Mu should live or die, and chooses to reject the Mu and have a genre-defying sword fight with Jomy. Keith changes his mind about five minutes later, but too late: both men take a sword to the gut as Grand Mother implements a complete Mu eradication program, and the Mu and humanity must work together to save planet Earth from being blown up in her last, vengeful moments. Jomy and Keith die together, having freed humanity from the computers and made the universe a better place.
Jomy is being taken after his death. It should be noted that, although he’s in his mid-thirties at the end of the show, he doesn’t physically age past his teens.
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
The series is as much a bildungsroman as it is a space opera; Jomy’s character changes dramatically over the twenty-odd years of the series. At first, he’s impetuous, bratty, self-centered, and completely lacking control of his powers and emotions. But after he makes a promise to lead and protect the Mu on their way to Terra, he begins to change. He spends years being uncertain, torn between rival factions, struggling to please everyone, and unsure of how to effectively guide his band of outcasts.
After the Mu are chased off Nazca, however, Jomy crystallizes into, basically, the perfect kid hero leader of the embattled psychic rebellion. He abandons his earlier indecision and becomes more forceful. He’s loving, inspirational, strong-willed, brave, determined, unhesitating, and fearless, and gentle at heart even though he’s too driven and busy for excessive sentimentality. For the sake of protecting his people, Jomy becomes more ruthless, willing to kill, to use children to wipe out space fleets, and to torture, even though he hates and regrets how he’s changed and what he has to do to reach Terra and save civilization.
Even at the end of his development, Jomy retains some childish aspects: optimism, passion, idealism. One of Terra’s defining themes is the contrast of childhood and adulthood. Jomy is physically fourteen through the entire series (though chronologically he’s in his mid-thirties by the show’s finale) and after “failing” his Adulthood Exam, flies off with the Mu, never accepting an adult’s role in normal society… but at the same time, his rejection of the rest of humanity’s childish dependence on the Mother Network makes him one of the most grown-up characters. Anti-villain Keith Anyan, on the other hand, is a haggard-looking thirty-something by the end of the series and has climbed to the top of “adult” society, but lives taking orders from Mother. Jomy, fitting his position in this duo, retains the energy and determination associated with the role of a boy hero. His optimism gives him the strength to push on toward his Promised Land, believing, despite so much evidence to the contrary, that humanity is fundamentally good, and that humans and Mu could together take down their crazy computer overlords and live without totally wrecking the planet Earth again.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
He should have been dead.
He remembered lying miles below Terra’s surface, the whole planet shuddering, Keith lying beside him, and blood on the white marble. He remembered, too, knowing that Tony and the humans had come together to save that world… To learn that their Terra - no, that the whole universe! - had been destroyed, just when he thought he’d led everyone somewhere they could live in peace…
What kind of beings were the Ohm, to destroy humanity’s birthplace? To slaughter billions of beings on the verge of a new way of life, before they could restore beautiful Terra…? It had been one thing to face the human armies of the Superior Domination system. The Mu were humanity’s children; he could understand their sadness, their fear, their anger, everything that drove them to chase the Shangri-La to the ends of the galaxy. Would he ever be able to understand the Ohm? To reason with them? If they came to a negotiation table, would he want to reason with them, knowing what they’d done to his people and their promised land? To Terra.
He pressed his tear-streaked face to the great windows of the observation deck, gazing out into the shifting reds of the Bleed. Somewhere above humanity’s home, Physis was gone, and Tony, and all the Mu he’d brought across the galaxy. He should have been dead, but he was alive, and everyone who he’d wanted to enjoy the new world was gone.
“We can’t change the past,” he murmured to the vortex. Somewhere beyond the Bleed, there was an infinite number of shining blue worlds. Those Terras could still be saved. They would still be saved. “But we can shape the future.”
He turned from the glass and back to the ship. It was a solid vessel with a good crew. Unlike the fragile Mu, many of the people onboard were warriors: trained, hardy, used to rough conditions and the psychological strain of prolonged combat, and all of them had a reason to fight. He didn’t know them or all of their stories well now, but he’d learn to understand them, and try to guide them as Blue had guided him, once upon a time. He’d been on this journey before - pulling a small band of castaways across a sea of stars. They’d reached their goal then, and they would reach it now, because his last words to Keith were as true here as they had been on Terra:
When all else was gone, there was hope.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
As a Mu, Jomy has a pretty standard suite of psychic powers: telepathy/empathy, telekinesis, teleportation, use of psionic energy for blasts or shielding, flying, breathing in space, travelling in a “spirit form” or entering dreams, and borrowing energy from other psychics.
He also has terrible control over his own psychic broadcasting (even though his own people think that broadcasting his feelings strongly is rude!). When he’s particularly emotional, every psychic around knows it, and when he’s happy he radiates what a crew member calls a biiiiiiig psychic hug. He can’t read a machine’s intentions or the thoughts of a mind trained against psychics. He’s also prone to being stabbed/shot/electrocuted/tentacled/assaulted by telepathic squirrels when he’s not paying attention; this happens on a depressingly regular basis.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
He plays soccer!