Here's one character I'm almost finished with, in case you're interested in playing as her.
Name: Elizabeth “Lizzie” Sinclair Age: 31 Gender: Female Profession: Colonial Affairs Junior Administrator for the Mars Colony Nationality: British, Commonwealth Birth Planet: Earth (But she spent most of her adult life on Mars) Appearance: Elizabeth is a petite brunette with sharp blue eyes that carry a sense of mischief and intellect. She is by all accounts attractive, and she often wears a smirk that seems to be a precursor for a witty retort. She stands at 5’4”, and is in pretty fit shape for a government official. Elizabeth’s hair is often done up in a loose bun, and she teeters between looking professional and being comfortable. The result is her own unique style, which gives off the impression that she really doesn’t care what anyone else thinks, but has still managed to have quite a successful career despite it. Strengths: Primary – Elizabeth is highly intelligent and resourceful, having managed to rise from total obscurity into a prestigious post in the Commonwealth’s governing administration on Mars.
Secondary – Elizabeth has a silver tongue; she is gifted in the art of conversation, and can almost always win someone over to her side with enough time and exposure.
Weaknesses: Primary – Elizabeth has zero combat training, other than very basic self-defense lessons taught to her by her father as a child. As a result, she is near useless in a combat zone, and must rely much more heavily on her charisma than her martial ability.
Secondary – She has the tendency to bite off more than she can chew: whenever opportunity comes knocking, she takes it, regardless of if she has the time or skill to handle it. Usually she’s able to feign stability, though there have been times where this has come back to haunt her.
Personality: Elizabeth is disarmingly genuine, to the point where most people forget that they’re talking to a bureaucrat. She insists that people call her Lizzie or Liz, and remains optimistic even at the darkest of times. She is the unique mix of ambitious and kind: willing to do anything both to further herself and help all those around her. Additionally, she has a sharp wit, and is one of the first ones to crack a joke when it is needed. Most of the time, she simply doesn’t let things get to her – when they do, Elizabeth becomes quiet and detached, but rarely ever lashes out. History: Elizabeth was born in Canterbury, England, to a nurse (her mother) and a police officer (her father). As a child she seemed to have a natural charisma, and made friends with everyone even as she excelled and thrived in an academic setting. She was an exemplary student in college, graduating third in her class at Oxford, and was offered a job as an administrative aide immediately after graduation. After about two years, she was offered a promotion in the Mars colony and took it, boarding a shuttle and leaving her family and her planet. Upon reaching Mars, she found that the largest human colony was beset with a myriad of issues. The birth rate was off the charts following the successes of the Bessel Station’s sustainability initiative, securing the stability of food for the colony. The population was growing at an alarming rate, and the infrastructure simply could not accommodate it. Elizabeth set to work fixing that. She dedicated the next five years of her life to getting things done from a position of obscurity, before being praised personally by the Colonial Governor of Hampton (The Commonwealth colony on Mars) and promoted yet again, this time as a junior administrator for the Global Coalition, in the upper echelons of the colonial political sphere. From this position, she had the ability to develop relationships with some of the most powerful people in the solar system – including the Governor, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, and Francois Moreau, the Executive Director of Colonial Affairs for the Global Coalition. It was he who asked her to join the expedition to the Willman Lab, as he felt that her resourcefulness and administrative talents may be of great use in the case of a potential colonial catastrophe.
Family: Elizabeth has a brother, Aaron, who is four years her junior and is currently an associate at a law firm on Earth. Both of her parents are still alive, and are retired and in their sixties living in England.
ALSO: To all, I'll be away for some of this weekend, in a place where it will be difficult to access the internet. Therefore I may be around to respond to OOC stuff, and maybe add to the opening post lore a bit, but I won't be putting up the IC until sunday.
That being said, I will be putting up the IC on sunday night. This is a fact. This will happen. Get pumped.
No, that's not how it works. You can either drop it or leave.
and you didn't drop it?
Whereas you both were being pretty unreasonable at the beginning, @BurningCold has long since tried to make peace and move on. I asked you to move this shit out of the OOC, you chose to ignore me, now you can leave.
@Lucidnonsense Valid point, that doesn't make any sense! I'll edit it. Thanks for calling me out on that.
@BurningCold Yes, if you feel like you can handle the stress of having two characters at once! As a Doctor, Anton will be kinda central to the plot here. Anyway, he's accepted!
@Lucidnonsense Nope! I meant galaxy. The solar system is inside of the Milky Way galaxy, so when I'm comparing one galaxy to another, it would be pointless to compare two different, unmeasurable areas. (I just saw your post now even though it was a while ago)
@CrazyShadowy Everything looks good, I just have one small nit-pick. There isn't such a thing as the Martian Alliance -- none of the planets have declared independence, and are still segregated along the political lines of Earth (Except for the Bessel Station, which is primarily translational). So your character would be a part of the EU instead. Otherwise, you're accepted!
If he can rein in his condescending attitude ill drop it.
No, that's not how it works. You can either drop it or leave.
@BurningCold I know you didn't mean to come off that way, but if someone's telling you they felt you came off that way, then you most likely did. That's just something to consider and work on.
@User@BurningCold Everyone chill. User, all of BurningCold's complaints were 100% valid. They are the same ones I had with the CS when I read it. BurningCold, like I said earlier, tone is very important -- even though you were right, there were probably better ways to get the message across.
User, since you fixed most of the issues I'm just going to go ahead and accept Skully. Is he going to be your primary, or was Charles going to be?
Also, to all: The only reason I haven't put the IC up yet is because I'm still writing up the Dossiers and sending them to folks. Some of you have already got them, others are still waiting. I'll try to finish that by tonight. As for the weapons section of the Technology area, I'm still a bit out of ideas and could use suggestions.
@User BurningCold is right, there are way too many errors to totally understand the CS. The content that I was able to understand was good, though, and you just need to edit for errors and sentence structure before I can accept it. Once again, Google Docs is a great (and free) word processor with a built-in spell checker, and Microsoft Word is always an option if you already have it installed.
