Tasma Darwin Jones

Tas

Nineteen

Female

Bi-curious, but that little secret isn't out.

Several small scrapes across her forehead and the right side of her jaw; large open gash along her right ribs; dislocated right knee.

Pros: Team player, adventurous, confident, persistent.
Cons: Sarcastic, impulsive, inpatient.

Tasma was born on 22 April 2001 in Gympie, Queensland, Austrailia to single mother and archaeologist Matilda Jones. The young girl routinely occupied her mother on digs where her passion for medicine stemmed. She was determined to help heal people before they ended up as only bones in the soil. In high school, Tas joined track and became fully involved with the relay team, eventually earning a scholarship to USC, the University of the Sunshine Coast where she studies nursing.

Tas didn't really know her father until she turned eighteen. It was on her birthday that she was contacted by Jeremy Huntsworth, a curator for the Oakland Museum of California. He had offered an open invitation for his daughter to visit at anytime. It wasn't until last month that she had finally accepted. After a successful meeting, Tasma boarded the plane back home to school.

Only child to mother Matilda Jones and father Jeremy Hunstworth.

Very new to nursing school, so skills are lackluster. Knows the basics.
Zoey Deutch | 20B2AA
'I Hope' by Gabby Barrett

Hoshi Hatano

Hatashi

24

Female

Bisexual

A broken left arm, bruised ribs, but otherwise mostly minor bruising and scrapes resulting from the crash

Within the public eye, many know Hoshi as a straightforward, rash woman full of energy. A wildcard on the race track, Hoshi is the type to take unnecessary risks that always seem to pay off in the end. In reality, however, this is more or less a farce that Hoshi puts up in front of others. The true Hoshi is someone who is sensitive at heart, easily showing frustration over a simple mistake that she'll beat herself up over until she fixes it. To Hoshi, there isn't just "doing your best", there's "doing better than your best". Taxing on her mental health, surely, but Hoshi refuses to see anything but the checkerboard finish line.

Twenty-four years ago, Hoshi was born an only child to thrill-seeking parents who loved to race. Before she could even walk or talk, Hoshi was watching knock-off NASCAR rips with terrible subtitles and watching her father race his motorcycle. She dreamed of being one of those on the track, and when she encountered a group of fellow auto geeks in middle school, that dream became reality with her father's assistance. With the help of her father (and a few beers), Hoshi and her friends were taken on as protégés by her father's team owner, Masuda Akinori, who would help them learn the ins and out of the hobby as long as they listened and took it seriously.

As the years went on, Hoshi would eventually join her father on the track in a father-daughter racing duo. After a few early victories (but no championship wins) won by her competitive nature to defy huge risks, it seemed Hoshi was becoming the star of the show, being noticed by important sponsors and the racing community as a whole. In fact, it was one such sponsor that Hoshi had been visiting in San Francisco, California before her flights—one to give an interview to a group of reporters in Syndney, Australia, and from there to Melbourne to race at the GP circuit on Phillips Island.

Hester Benoit

N/A

33

Female

Lesbian

She came to the flight with a noticeable cut on her right arm that never healed properly; it had always left a discolored mark on her skin. With the crash, the cut has been reopened. Scarring on her back and legs.

They say someone in Hester's profession eventually becomes cynical but to her credit it has yet to hit her. Sure, she's seen a lot of bad in her small corner of the world, but she still believes, perhaps naively so, that people are ultimately good at heart. Though she believes in the good of others, she's hardly one who practices what she believes. In her career she was honest to a fault which made her good at what she did but prevented her from advancing anywhere close to where she wanted to be. Despite her relationship status, Hester isn't married to the job; she's not married at all despite her secret romantic pursuits. Hester is someone who enjoys going to singles events at a bar or using dating apps despite the string of bad luck that's been her experience. Back home, she has something of a positive reputation in the community for her honesty and open-book approach and appearance at local events. Of course, even the most sterling of reputations only needs one bad mark for everyone to turn on you, as Hester well knows. She might be honest, one of the few honest ones out there, but she's not perfect and she's got her secrets.

Hester Benoit was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to a government worker father and a museum curator mother. The oldest of two children, the Benoit family never quite recovered after Hester's younger brother was tragically killed in an incident. The official police report marked it as 'accident' but that's the official story when an innocent kid gets a bullet in crossfire. Her parents grieved but the marriage became strained and Hester was the glue that kept her parents from divorcing. The death of her younger brother chnged Hester's life: She decided to become a police officer with the then-idea of ensuring that no one else should have to go through what her family did.

Hester had grand plans to make detective or even perhaps advance to the federal level, but she started in evidence and community outreach before finally getting a partner and a beat of her own. Things were good for Hester, a solid arrest record, a decent conviction rate, but her own amber-colored demon reared its ugly head one unfortunate night. She was responding to a domestic disturbance call. The way she told it to the internal affairs people was that she was drawn on first but the papers and the news only saw one thing: 'BATON ROUGE COP UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR UNJUST LETHAL FORCE'.

Her superior had to take her gun and badge while the investigation was ongoing. He told Hester to lay low, that she did it by the book, take time off. She took it literally and got as far away from Baton Rouge as she could. It wasn't much of a vacation but the booze tasted better down under. After a call from her chief, she had nothing else to do but go home and face the music, if the weight of her actions didn't kill her first.

Carter Benoit, Father
Dixie Benoit, Mother

Zawe Ashton | F3FA0B
Hester loves jelly beans more than most people. Her desk at the station always had a full bowl of jelly beans, except for the cinnamon red ones which are her least favorite.

Hester's drink of choice is bourbon.

She speaks with a slight cajun accent.

Her favorite song is Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down

name

Dr. Richard Moss

nicknames

N/A

age

Fifty-Six

gender

Male

sexuality

"Confirmed Bachelor"

current injuries

An appropriate number of abrasions from literally falling out of the sky, bruised ribs, and a moderate-to-severe concussion.

appearance details

• Hair: Grey | Naturally Curly | Gelled back in a slick, professional 1950s-style.
• Eyes: Grey
• Height: 6'1"
• Body Type: Thin
• Scars, Tattoos and/or Piercings: No tattoos or piercings, vaccination scars and callouses only.

personality traits

A personality like sandpaper given flesh, Richard is abrasive: he knows it, his family knew it, his friends (few though they may be) supposedly tolerate it, and at this point it is a keystone of his entire being. The galling thing is that he can turn it off – has an impeccable bedside manner at work – but chooses not to for anyone he talks to regularly. He is direct, but doesn't hide behind the excuse of 'brutally honest'. He is both brutal and honest, and is thick-skinned enough to immediately take a liking to those who are the same with him.

Shucking that hard shell of a persona he bears to the outside world, one might find... an infinite number of similar layers. It's prickles all the way down. He is proud, not to the point of sin, but takes an excessive pride in his work and his achievements, even more so in those he's taken under his wing. If he has a 'soft side', it shows when he reluctantly falls for a sad or sappy story, even though he swears up and down he hasn't, and in how he treats people who have done their thousand hours of trading barbs back and forth: with a sliver of vulnerability. If he truly lacked empathy, he wouldn't have chosen his career path; it is just well-hidden.

biography

British-born and Renfrewshire-raised, Richard is far past the point where his childhood estrangements and youthful preoccupation with anarchy in the UK has any effect on his present or future. He clawed his way out of the pit of underachievement, attended a renowned university to study medicine, and since then has continued climbing: social ladders, housing ladders, career ladders – all the way up until he was set to be comfortable for the rest of his life and then some.

To hear him tell it, sentimentality is the fatal flaw that put him on that damn plane in the first place. Originally, he was only due to stay a few days in California for a medical conference on Intensive Care Medicine. Taking a few extra days and a flight to visit his niece in the Land Down Under, where she studies on his dime, was optional. The only remaining family member he can tolerate (and vice versa), even Richard doesn't know if he'd like her so much if she didn't desperately want to follow in his footsteps. Family has never been a priority for him.

family

Lillian Moss née Kilpatrick Estranged Mother
Thomas Moss Estranged (and Dead) Father
Thomas Moss II Estranged Brother
Alexandra Moss Reluctantly-Tolerated Sister
Charlotte Moss Niece

misc.

FC: Peter Capaldi
Hex: b2323d
A Town Called Malice – The Jam