Info-Post Bandwagon Straggler, The Non-Wiggin Edition

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Which is a whole lot less rambly and incoherent than the Wiggin edition because none of these guys are from Orson Scott Card's anything.


The Dutch Crusader: Dolf Wega

1. Makes me terribly nervous because the book he's from is pretty much the most famous piece of Dutch children's literature of the past century.
2. Is 15 years old, 16 by the end of the month
3. Is from Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek by legendary Dutch children's book author Thea Beckman; the book was translated as Crusade in Jeans, and was turned into an English language movie under the titles Crusade in Jeans and Crusade: March Through Time.
4. The movie is different from the book in that it conflates some plot points, turns two of the best characters from the book into one love interest (with the odd bit of '...huh' when they give loads of lines by Dolf's male best friend to the girl love interest. Oh, that movie). Dolf is from the book, but has been time-updated to the movie's 2006 setting 'cause book Dolf is all '70s and stuff.
5. Is from the Netherlands, but talked a bunch of scientists into zapping him to the past for a day because he's a history geek. He got stuck in the wrong place at the right time (1212), wound up in the middle of the Children's Crusade, talked the guys leading it into letting him take charge of feeding and protecting the kids of the Crusade (Dolf talking people into stuff by being hopelessly earnest and determined is kind of a running theme. As is the facepalming of many medieval castmembers in his wake.) and finally saved all the kids from their leaders who turned out to be trying to sell them to a bunch of slavers from North Africa.
6. Is hopelessly earnest and determined with a firm moral conviction like only the Dutch can produce. Has soapbox, will travel.
7. Which tends to obscure the fact that he's actually kind of traumatized because this book really doesn't believe in infant immortality. Vast understatement.
8. Is a totally normal baseline human who can be read by everyone.
9. Spends a depressing amount of time nearly getting himself burned at the stake in canon.
10. Sleeps with a stainless steel bread knife under his pillow, enjoys football, history books, learning foreign languages past and present, and trolling right-wing forums on the internet. Co-leads the Magic/Support Reserves as Support Dude.
11. Is dating the lovely Cally AKA onlymistaken.
12. Is clearly from the best country ever.

The Irish Vampire: John Mitchell

1. Is from the BBC series Being Human
2. Is an Irishman born in 1893 who was turned into a vampire during the First World War.
3. Is the reason why 'Dammit, Mitchell!' has become a bit of a meme. He fucks up. A lot.
4. Has kind of lost his sense of boundaries over the decades, and will befriend anyone from age four to age one thousand, Eric.
5. Considers the befriending slightly less of a priority lately, though, as in the wake of the death of his sire Herrick he's been forced to step up and become Vampire King of Bristol. He's using the position to try and get all the vampires in the Bristol area to quit drinking blood. In the process, he's starting to cross a few moral boundaries, which brings us both back to 'Dammit, Mitchell!' and...
6. ...to why he's currently in charge of the Mystery Sign Theatre, the local movie theatre, instead of teaching which is really more his calling. There are currently some job openings, folks.
7. His particular brand of vampirism does not involve flying or anything like that, but he has to be invited in, doesn't reflect on silver surfaces, and is a bit stronger and sturdier than you'd expect. His need for blood is entirely psychological, which means that with force of will he can keep himself from biting anyone. However, blood substitutes don't work for him. At all.
8. Is totally a nice guy, if distracted at the moment, and doesn't spend a lot of time on island at present as most of his attention is on Bristol. This will change in the near future. Dun dun dun duuun....
9. We don't talk about the end of Season 3.

The Time-Travelling Mutant: Cable

1. Full name technically Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani'son Summers. Say that ten times fast. Cable's just his codename. He tends to use it in public, though 'Mayor Summers' also works.
2. Lives in town with mouthy_merc and an adorable three-year-old future mutant Messiah-slash-Anti-Christ called Jan Summers. It's bizarre but it works.
3. Is the Mayor of Fandom Town, and owner of Wellspring Arms, the local arms dealership which won't sell you any guns unless you have a really good reason. Ping me OOC if you think you have one. Invasions also count.
4. Is six foot seven, heavily muscled, half made of organic metal, with three scars over one eye and another one that occasionally flashes with light. He does not blend in easily.
5. Has the mutant power of shooting big guns telekinesis and telepathy, though both are severely limited by his need to keep the organic metal from rising up and killing him. That means he's nigh-impossible to read for any telepaths in the audience, but won't be using his telepathy a lot. If it does ever come up, I'll ping you - no need to give me the can-he-or-can't-he's. Unless you just want to.
6. Can and will kill you if you try to hurt that kid. Fair warning.
7. Oh, and he's from the Marvel universe, by ways of Cable and Deadpool, still the best comic that company ever put out. /biased

And the alumni: Arthur Pendragon and Sarah Kerrigan.

1. Arthur Pendragon: is 20, is that Arthur Pendragon from BBC's Merlin, is not king yet, has severe issues with and about his magic-hating father, king Uther Pendragon, has a bitchy attitude but is a good sort at heart.


2. And he's been well-they-don't-use-the-word-dating-in-his-time-period bigdamndestiny since their time in Fandom.
3. He much prefers being back in Camelot, even if those issues with his dad have been shifting from 'trying to live up to his expectations' to 'disagreeing quitely with many of his methods and attitudes'. Being Arthur, he has issues about that, too.
4. We don't talk about Season 3.
5. Sarah Kerrigan: is 28-but-doesn't-age-anymore, is from Blizzard's StarCraft series of games, is a human-zerg hybrid which means she looks terrifying, is returning to her home universe of Koprulu to continue trying to eat the universe in a plotty, currently-low-key kind of way.
6. Used to be human and not evil and taught at Fandom back then, but all of her old friends from those days are either dead, gone, or River, who was turned into a zerg hybrid along with her. Her recent return to Fandom netted her a icecoldfrost, who she bound to her with some nasty telepathic tricks Emma doesn't know she used.
7. Is pretty evil right now, yes. And the Bitch Queen of the Universe. And in her normal form is green, wears bone armor (and bone heels!), has Medusa hair and a set of lovely bone wings she can kill you with.
8. Is in for an interesting year once StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm comes out and I can start catching her up on StarCraft 2 canon...

Aaaand now I'm done.