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CHUCK HANSEN
STACKER: As for you, well you're easy: you're an egotistical jerk with daddy issues, a simple puzzle I solved on day one. But you are your father's son.
Stronger - Pacific Rim main theme - There's Your Dad

First up: the new boy! I'll try and keep this short and sweet. Chuck Hansen is a 15-year-old sophomore hailing from Pacific Rim, that crazy robots vs. dinosaurs movie that jaegerbomber and notajaegerbomb also hail from. To be precise, Chuck's from that sweet spot six years after Raleigh (more or less) and six years before Herc; in Raleigh's time he's a kid, in Herc's time he's, uh, well. Spoilers.

Six years prior to this point in Chuck's life, crazy-ass giant monsters called Kaiju started appearing in the middle of the Pacific. They, of course, immediately commenced tearing shit up. In one of these early attacks, Chuck's mother died after Herc had to make a decision between her life and Chuck's. This will be important later. Anyway, after a few attempts to just nuke these creatures off the face of the earth, humanity decided that maybe they needed a slightly less city-destroying approach to these giant monsters. Enter the Jaeger Program, AKA 'LET'S BUILD GIANT-ASS ROBOTS TO WHALE ON THEIR GIANT-ASS MONSTERS.'

The scientists quickly discovered that one person alone couldn't survive piloting a giant robot, so they developed the Pons system, which enabled two people to Drift together - which is to say, establish a neural link between each other - and both control one of the giant robot's hemispheres. Yeah. Let's just roll with that. Giant robots were built, pilots were assigned, it all went well for a while until the monsters got smarter and more pilots started dying.

By Chuck's time, this is already going on. See, his father - thanks, jaegerbomber - made some not so awesome parenting choices when he decided to enlist in the Jaeger program as a pilot. Chuck got stuck being raised in a hangar bay by an absent parent. It didn't help either that Chuck dealt with his survivor's guilt by blaming Herc for his mom's death. He signed up for the Jaeger program himself as soon as he could, and... that's where we're at, basically. This Chuck's gone through two of the necessary three trimesters of Jaeger training-- and as such, he's well on his way to being the youngest Ranger ever.

Unfortunately he's also kind of a dickhead, which is why Herc's had to step in and employ some more mad parenting skills by sending Chuck far away to get over his attitude problems.

Good luck with that.

Personality-wise, Chuck is... summed up pretty well by Stacker in the quote at the top. Another way of looking at it would be to call him 'Arthur Pendragon if his sense of duty both pertained to the entire Pacific region and, at the same time, to nothing more than the practice of using giant robots to punch giant lizards in the face'. He's a jackass, he's got daddy issues up the wazoo, the only thing he really cares about is becoming the best Jaeger pilot ever and killing as many Kaiju as he possibly can. At the same time, though, he'll save your ass in a fight any day, he's more than willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good, and he's an excellent freaking brawler.

He's Australian, albeit an Aussie who's mode of speaking is essentially 'Australian by ways of very very British'. Still, you'll probably recognize the accent. Jaeger pilots are considered rock stars, and he definitely behaves like one - to a sometimes insufferable degree, when you pair it with his inability to tolerate weakness.

He's in tip-top shape for a fifteen year old, knows how to fight, walks with an extreme swagger (because this is me) and basically doesn't care for your face.

Especially not yours, Rayleigh.








ATTON RAND


ATTON: Don't remember. Truth is, I still don't listen to my conscience even when it's shouting. I think there's times I'd rather be completely deaf than hear it.
No Leaf Clover - Broken Crown - Search and Destroy

• From Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. Say that one ten times fast.
  
• Ex-Republic soldier turned ex-Sith assassin from a few thousand years before all the other Star Wars characters.
  
• Which means that if you're sekritly a cannibal or whatever, he can probably tell there's something going on.
  
• But doesn't give enough of a shit to care. In fact, he'd prefer to just drink and play cards and be left in peace.
  
• It also doesn't help that he's Force sensitive and he'd really rather not be, so he hides it.
  
• But still gets a ton of Bad Feelings.
  
• Has a huge trigger about mind reading and telepathy, and has taken a lot of steps to make sure you can't get into his head.
  
• So if you're a mind reader unless you probe very deeply, all you'll get is base emotions and him playing cards in his mind.
  
• Will be a Jedi one day, but if you told anyone about that now, they'd probably die laughing.
  
• If held at gunpoint, might admit to finding notconflicted and myownface sort of tolerable.
  
• Will tell you he's almost 18 but really he's almost 23. Also, his name's not really Atton. Whoops.
  
• Shares room 503 with craftyladyparts.
  
• Fucking hates everything and has a metric fuckton of issues.
  

LIARA T'SONI


or, more appropriately


LIARA: I would prefer longer studies and fewer explosions.
Shepard of the Galaxy - The Scientist - Into the Dark

• From Mass Effect, western gaming's biggest space opera to date. PLAY IT.
  
• Wee itty bitty asari (she's only 46!) who got vacuumed up and spat out in Fandom.
  
• Her species hadn't even met humans yet!
  
• Her mom is a super-elegant diplomat who enjoys great respect across the galaxy.
  
• Liara is a fumbly, flaily book nerd who'd prefer to spend her life alone doing excavations of Prothean technology
  
• You can see where the issues come in.
  
• Her species is monosexed so technically she isn't female, just asari.
  
• Which hasn't kept solarhippie from being very, very into that. They're dating now. It's cute.
  
• Liara is a biotic, which means she can manipulate gravity. When she does, she glows blue, as does anything else affected by the mass effect field she generates.
  
• She's super-sweet and super-flaily and one day she's going to be a Shadow Broker controlling millions of lives and threatening to flay people alive with their mind. Hello!
  
• Lives in room 303 all by herself.
  
• Contrary to my type, does not have an abnormal quantity of issues.
  
• Besides the fact that she's read everything in the library now. Oops.
  

TAMSIN



TAMSIN: Tomato juice, celery, vodka... looks like lunch to me!
Bad Reputation - Drain the Blood - Ride of the Valkyries

• From Lost Girl, a canon she shares with nookiepowered and regretiz4suckas.
  
• Is a Valkyrie Fae who's way too old for you. Has a habit of dying and coming back to life. Currently on her penultimate lifetime.
  
• Total hardass who works at the trooper station as a detective and will not take your shit, Ralph, Tiny.
  
• Likes to drink, likes to beat people up, likes to hang around in leather and eyeliner and roll her eyes a lot.
  
• Is really here to keep an eye on Bo for the Morrigan, but obviously she's not saying.
  
• Nor will she admit to being either Fae or a Valkyrie unless she has really, really good reasons to do so.
  
• Lives in a house she broke into somewhere on the newer side of the island. Classy.
  
• Won't care much about your life if you're human. Won't care much if you're not, either.
  
• But somewhere underneath that tough-as-nails Dark Fae exterior she's got a good heart. Just don't expect her to admit it.
  
• Being a Valkyrie means she has the power to invoke great fear and doubt in people. If she's using her power, her face goes all skull-like, so trust me, you'll be able to tell.
  
• Always has some weapons on her, because you never know.
  

RON SWANSON



RON: Well, I'm usually not one for speeches. So goodbye.
Eat Steak - The Bacon Song - Guns Don't Kill Ducklings

• From Parks and Recreation, a canon he shares with hatesmoststuff
  
• Likes breakfast foods, meat, dark-haired women, solitude, hunting.
  
• Hates hugs, puppies, the government.
  
• Is the mayor of Fandom Town.
  
• As such, endeavours to do as little as possible, even if that means evil corporations invade with robots. It's the free market at work.
  
• You wish you were as manly as Ron Swanson.
  
• But he is willing to make you into a Swanson.
  
• Provided you are willing to follow a few simple steps.
  
• He owns the local arms store and lives above it.
  
• That is all you need to know about Ron Swanson.
  
• He enjoys his privacy.
  

KAIDAN ALENKO



KAIDAN: Messed up kid that I was... never would have dreamed of the life I've had.
Normandy - Never Forget You - M4 Pt 2

• Also from Mass Effect. Play the game. Canonmates: sciencesalarian, playsforkepesh, psychoticbiotic and the incumbent fly_so_serious.
  
• Hails from the same time period as Sam, sometime before (and AU-y) from Jack, and well ahead of Liara, Mordin and Joker.
  
• Lost two of his best friends - John Shepard and Ashley Williams - over a year and a half ago. He's finally starting to get over it.
  
• Which is going to come back and bite him in the ass pretty soon.
  
• He's a Systems Alliance marine stationed here to keep an eye on the island while he recovers. He runs a lot of missions these days.
  
• Is a dorky-ass Canadian who's occasionally too judgy or too stiff or just generally in need of loosening up, though he's gotten better about it with the help of his buddies allie_vamp, bitten_notshy and 6buckstohisname.
  
• Still doesn't really consider himself a teacher and flails accordingly.
  
• He tries, though. He tries. It's that big ol' duty complex he has going on.
  
• Like Liara, he's a biotic. However, human biotics are relatively rare, which means he's faced his fair share of prejudice in his youth.
  
• At one point he may or may not have killed one of his instructors for pushing another student too hard.
  
• He's over that now, because he's Kaidan and he tries to square himself with his own shit.
  
• Which after years of playing issuey assholes is kind of interesting for me, I gotta say.
  

THE REST AND ME

ALUMNI/EXPATS
Peter Wiggin

• Blue Days
  
• "I'm going to save humanity from its own colostomy!"
  
• Hegemon of Earth
  
• Not that that means much these days
  
• Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and beyond, in the limbo between the books Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets at present
  
• whenshewasnice, endsthegame, momslilassassin, dollpocalypse, regretiz4suckas
  
• Doesn't care about your feelings.
  
• Newly expat.
  

Ender Wiggin

• My Boy Builds Coffins
  
• "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
  
• Former governor of Shakespeare Colony. About to embark on a long-term space-hopping journey.
  
• Why? Partly because of his issues. Partly because he needs to find a planet where he can revive the species he killed.
  
• Former Fandom High students a_demosthenes (his sister) and momslilassassin (his partner) are along for the ride.
  
• Distant, doesn't connect the way normal people connect, usually happy to be nothing more than the magical advice-giver in other people's stories.
  
• Brother to lockestheway; hence also from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
  
• They made a movie about him recently. It wasn't very good.
  
• Teaches at Fandom in the summers.
  
• Graduate.
  

Sarah Kerrigan

• Ghost Assassin
  
• "Mengsk will pay."
  
• One-time Fandom High teacher, betrayed and turned into a Zerg Queen.
  
• Now about to try to take over the universe again alongside moonbrain_tam, who she ripped from her family and infested in turn.
  
• AKA that exit plot I'm still trying to get around to.
  
• You wouldn't want to meet her in a dark alley, trust me.
  
• Total badass with - of course - enormous issues.
  
• Therapeutically works those out through killing people.
  
• Yep.
  

Len

• True North
  
• "Ohhhh fuck it."
  
• Fandom High admin
  
• Part-time local television reporter; part-time gaming journalist; part-time short film director
  
• Full-time staying-at-home-trying-to-graduate-already chicken mom and Saint Bernard herder
  
• Goes through video games the way some people go through books
  
• prince dot of dot bitca at gmail dot com
  
• scarywlsh on AIM
  
• Likes the dudes with the issues
  
• The ladies too
  
• Boogie.