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Player name: Kim
Contact: aproclivity@plurk
Referral: you or maybe me?
Current characters: Alex Reagan
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Character Name: Julia Bellamy
Character Age: 30
Canon: TMA OCish?
Canon Point: A few weeks after she murdered the president and saved the world from the Slaughter’s ritual.
History/World: Oh hey, this is an offshoot of TMA world, where Julia Bellamy has been working at the Usher Foundation for a year before Sarah, the head of the Foundation called in her and two others, saying that she had visions and that Julia, Harry and Bianca were supposed to gather these artifacts and save the world. Which was fine, but Julia just wanted to get well paid. She really didn’t want to save the world, but honestly she kind of had no other choice, considering the fact that Usher is one of the few places where her werewolf self could work without it being a big thing because everyone else there was so batshit insane. Especially vision-having Sarah.
The first vision that Sarah had was of a carousel that was in downtown DC. Julia, Bianca and Harry investigated the carousel first during the day and then at night. When they returned for their night investigation, they ended up fighting a tiny ass demon bell. That was violent as hell and shattered Julia’s ankle, but they managed to get the thing into the box that contained it--from escaping at least anyway--it was still inside and very very angry.
The next quest that Sarah sent them on in her visions of saving the world was to a park where Julia and Harry were taxed with retrieving a stolen artifact: a pendant of Osirius. The problem was that the pendant was on a big fuckoff goose that they ended up needing to fight. Which you know, fighting an eldritch goose isn’t particularly a great thing to have happen. In the end, Julia manages to detach the cord holding the pendant on, and the goose flies off and leaves Julia and Harry with it.
Harry has a blood feud with geese now, and Julia brought him a fancy ass net so that the next thing that they had to catch they would have one.
Sarah’s third vision quest sent the three of them to Fredricksville, VA where she set up a private tour of Ellwood House on the grounds of the National Military Park, which contains several of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. It’s there that the Civil War was probably saved, as Stonewall Jackson was shot three times and later died from his wounds. What was significant about that is that near the family cemetery at Ellwood house, behind the herb garden, is the place where they buried Stonewall Jackson’s severed arm.
Thanks to the detecting power of Sting Jr (the avatar detecting letter opener) the three of them were already aware of the fact that whatever was going down that night was based around Stonewall Jackson’s severed arm. While the party separated to interview the different people who were on the tour, Julia ended up trying to interview a goth couple. Feeling exceptionally old, Jules ended up getting pissed off with this tiny goth children and told the girl that her makeup was smudged, and the girl ran off to the bathroom with her boyfriend in tow. After reconvening, the party went out to what was supposed to be the driving part of the tour, and realized that the goth kids were still missing. Bianca went ahead with the rest of the tour group, while Harry and Julia stayed behind to investigate.
And investigate they did. The goth kids were at the grave of Stonewall Jackson’s severed arm and they were trying to bring it back to life. A battle started then, with them both trying to prevent the kids from their spell, as well as fighting down the eldritch mini creatures that the goth kids were using Osirius to invoke. In the end, Harry could control the abominations, and Julia invoked Osirius herself with: “Osirius I invoke thee! Stop being such a fucking dick!” That of course lead to nothing good because pissing off god is dumb, and because of it, Julia needed to fight an undead jackal.
In the end, Harry and Julia stopped the kids from doing what they seemed to want to do for the most part. That was until the reanimated arm of Stonewall Jackson came back to life. At first, the two of them fought it, but then with Harry’s ability to do magic and Julia’s feeling bad, the reanimated arm of Stonewall Jackson (henceforth called ‘Handy’) told them that it didn’t know anything of the plans and it wasn’t evil. So, Handy came home with Julia and she brought him one of those cat backpacks with the clear plastic bit so he could “see” outside.
All and all, not a bad weekend, but Mondays are always going to be hell. This particular Monday, however, was one that was going to go down in the history books. At the standard debrief with Sarah, there came an announcement that the President of the United States was there to see them. Turns out that Fiona was manipulating Sarah the whole time into gathering the artifacts for her ritual, and that she was an avatar of the Slaughter who was going to enact a ritual to cause the end of the world.
When Harry goades Fiona, they find out that she’s a necromancer and she summons zombies into the Usher Foundation building itself. Bianca becomes bitten and dies (oh noes!) and then rises as a zombie, and Julia shoots her, and tries to keep the zombies distracted while Harry, Sarah and Daisy get out. Harry comes back with a bad ass gun and drives the car into the building so Julia has back up and more ammo.
The two of them take Bianca’s fuckall outfitted with weapons car and the company credit card and spent $17k on outfitting themselves for stopping the Ritual which was going to take place in seven days on Halloween night in Gettysburg.
After getting back together with Sarah, the three of them went to Gettysburg the night before Halloween and prepared. In the end, they loaded up a fire truck with holy water, and while Julia scouted ahead as a wolf, Harry and Sarah drove the fire truck into the presidential motorcade of two suvs and a limo, crushing one limo in the process.
When Fiona escaped, Julia jumped on her back and held her head in her jaws trying to kill her while she summoned spell after spell and zombies. Julia, Harry and Sarah all were struck by lightning more than once but eventually Harry and Sarah managed to kill the secret service golems and the zombies and the reanimated Stonewall Jackson (who was still separated from his arm at this point). Harry breaks the spell that Fiona had on Handy who remembered them at last and Julia first ripped out Fiona’s voice box and then shot her in the head, the three of them saving the world for a little while (thanks Jon).
Fiona’s death was charted up to be an animal attack and they left no evidence at the scene so Julia, Harry and Sarah got off scot free with only trauma and two weeks vacation to show for it.
Pre campaign stuff:
Julia Bellamy was a goth kid who used to hang out in Sleepy Hollow cemetery and she met a weird boy who was gathering grave moss to do an experiment on bringing things back to life. The two of them became best friends who used to sneak into the city in order to visit goth clubs and pretend to be older than the sixteen-year-olds that they were.
It was coming home from the city that Julia’s life ended and began again: while walking home from the MetroNorth late at night, a drunk driver hit Julia and ran, leaving her dead on the street. David, Julia’s best friend panicked and brought her back to life. She was healed, other than a broken arm and when David woke up (bringing people back from the dead always cost him parts of his own life) Julia was there, and the two became inseparable.
They got an apartment in the City as the two of them went to Columbia, and Julia studied art because she wanted to and the law because her father said she’d had to in order for him to keep paying her bills. David was living with her as he studied to be a therapist, and after they graduated from undergrad, he was getting his phD in psychology and Julia was doing law school. But then one day, David brought someone back from the dead who he felt deserved it, and it put them on the radar of the Company.
The Company is your standard nefarious organization that trades in magic and the like. So, they kidnapped both Julia and David, and used Julia as a hostage to insure David’s good behavior while they experimented on her. As the weeks spread into months, things went from bad to worse. During that time, Julia had been talking to the man who was in the cell next to her. One night, just before the full moon, he took her hand in the middle of the night. He made her promise to revenge him, and then he gave her the wolf that lived inside of him.
There are a finite amount of werewolves in the world, from all across it. The relationship between the wolf and the human is a symbiotic one, and the way that it’s spread is by the old human giving the wolf to the new one. As the old man died, Julia could feel the power swelling in her.
That night, Julia broke out of her restraints, and she killed everyone in the facility that she could find until she got to David. David was dead, and there was nothing that she could do about it but try and live. So, in the end, Julia just went on with her life and got a job using her art degree in the Usher Foundation.
Personality: Julia appears to the outside world to be petty and fickle. She changes things often, and seemingly on a whim. Going through people and habits and desires on a regular cycle, it might seem that she's just flighty. Perhaps there is an aspect of flightiness to it, in the way that she quickly moves from hobby to hobby or person to person. One day, she is incredibly into poetry, for example, but then a week later, she just rolls her eyes when it's mentioned. The same goes with people. From one moment to the next, she's completely in love with someone, and then she's just bored with them. However, more often than not it's a calculated thing; it's a way for people to not know her well enough to get close to her. She's a wall builder.
Most people don't know that deep down Julia is actually a very angry person. She can seem like she jokingly is, that she doesn't mean it when she says something. It's the sort of thing that she's very good at, hating someone with a smile and something that is almost akin to being a friend with someone, and often, this is a relationship that she has with people. Most people never go beyond that level of relationship, the superficial ones that seems real to someone else. The only person who has ever broken her walls and successfully managed to keep her from building them up again was David. But that's the sort of thing that happens when someone brings you back from the dead.
To other people, she can seem aloof and uncaring. There's an element of truth to that; it's hard for her to care about someone other than herself and David. She has a hard time identifying with other people, just because they are so different from her. It's not that she doesn't care if they live or die, or anything that sociopathic, but because she doesn't want to let anyone inside who might hurt her. The perceived betrayal of her father to her mother, by how she died because he wasn't around when she needed him makes her not want to depend on anyone. If Julia lets someone in, then they could hurt her, and that's not something she's going to allow to happen to her. Because of that lack of connection, she feels very little regret when she needs to betray someone. There's some, yes, but there's very little of it. The same goes with manipulation. All of the relationships in her life tend to be superficial or just slightly deeper than that. Even when she has sex with someone, it's because of a physical need rather than any sort of emotional one. Most of her relationships are about her needs, because everyone else is unimportant.
Well, everyone but David. Julia consider3e David almost an extension of herself rather than a friend or different person. He's not family, as it's not a concept that Julia identifies with in any way - which isn't a surprise given her interesting upbringing. David, for her, was closer than any friend or lover could be. He cared for her enough to bring her back from the dead, after all, and that's not the sort of person who would ever leave you for anything. David was the only person who has seen her with her guard down; even when she was practically being taken apart by the people they were held by, she kept up that wall between them. It didn't fall again until the two of them were out of there, and out of New York. Julia would literally kill for David, and has. Because of that, he's the only person who ever really knew how she feels, and a big part of that is experience, because sometimes she doesn't have words for what she feels.
Despite the closeness between herself and David, Julia didn’t consider herself to be in love with him, and she doesn't really get jealous of the other people in his life, even with relationships. There's no one who would be able to counteract their bond, she felt, and there's a reason that the two of them slided into bed with the other when things got bad. It's not sex, it's sleep and comfort and above all else, it's safety.
Since that first day, Julia has been incredibly overprotective of David, despite her ability to get along with his partners. If they seemed like they could be a threat, then Julia would just casually remove it. All of her work is to make sure he's okay, and she'll drag him along with her, even if he isn't entirely on board with it. That's just the intensely practical side of her coming through: if he needs saving, she'll do it. Not just for him, but for herself as well. His safety is her own, because she cannot feel safe without him. That's one of the reasons that Julia is an incredibly pragmatic person. She will do whatever needs doing, be it the above manipulation of people, stealing, hurting someone - anything in order to ensure the safety of the two of them. It was something that had already been there her whole life: stealing and manipulating to eat and be independent. Well, independent save for David. Knowing that there was no one else in the world who could do what he did (at least thinking that she knew that, anyway) she knew that it was just a matter of time before he got on someone's radar. So, she planned ways for them to disappear. Julia's smart that way.
While she's smart, Julia is also very lazy about that intelligence. She doesn't really want to have to do much work with it, things like studying. When she was a child, going all the way through law school, she was told that she could be amazing if she would just apply herself. That made her apply herself less, of course, because she's so contrary to what people want/expect of her. She actually tried in college and law school, but only because of the practicality: if she got kicked out, then both her and David would be screwed. Julia didn't do that, at all. She just couldn't.
Items: One cat backpack with the plastic bubble.
The Reanimated Arm of Stonewall Jackson. (Handy)
Powers/skills: Julia is a werewolf. She can control how she shifts, but needs to shift during the full moon. This gives her increased strength, and advanced senses.
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Player name: Kim
Contact: aproclivity@plurk
Referral: you or maybe me?
Current characters: Alex Reagan
THEM
Character Name: Julia Bellamy
Character Age: 30
Canon: TMA OCish?
Canon Point: A few weeks after she murdered the president and saved the world from the Slaughter’s ritual.
History/World: Oh hey, this is an offshoot of TMA world, where Julia Bellamy has been working at the Usher Foundation for a year before Sarah, the head of the Foundation called in her and two others, saying that she had visions and that Julia, Harry and Bianca were supposed to gather these artifacts and save the world. Which was fine, but Julia just wanted to get well paid. She really didn’t want to save the world, but honestly she kind of had no other choice, considering the fact that Usher is one of the few places where her werewolf self could work without it being a big thing because everyone else there was so batshit insane. Especially vision-having Sarah.
The first vision that Sarah had was of a carousel that was in downtown DC. Julia, Bianca and Harry investigated the carousel first during the day and then at night. When they returned for their night investigation, they ended up fighting a tiny ass demon bell. That was violent as hell and shattered Julia’s ankle, but they managed to get the thing into the box that contained it--from escaping at least anyway--it was still inside and very very angry.
The next quest that Sarah sent them on in her visions of saving the world was to a park where Julia and Harry were taxed with retrieving a stolen artifact: a pendant of Osirius. The problem was that the pendant was on a big fuckoff goose that they ended up needing to fight. Which you know, fighting an eldritch goose isn’t particularly a great thing to have happen. In the end, Julia manages to detach the cord holding the pendant on, and the goose flies off and leaves Julia and Harry with it.
Harry has a blood feud with geese now, and Julia brought him a fancy ass net so that the next thing that they had to catch they would have one.
Sarah’s third vision quest sent the three of them to Fredricksville, VA where she set up a private tour of Ellwood House on the grounds of the National Military Park, which contains several of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. It’s there that the Civil War was probably saved, as Stonewall Jackson was shot three times and later died from his wounds. What was significant about that is that near the family cemetery at Ellwood house, behind the herb garden, is the place where they buried Stonewall Jackson’s severed arm.
Thanks to the detecting power of Sting Jr (the avatar detecting letter opener) the three of them were already aware of the fact that whatever was going down that night was based around Stonewall Jackson’s severed arm. While the party separated to interview the different people who were on the tour, Julia ended up trying to interview a goth couple. Feeling exceptionally old, Jules ended up getting pissed off with this tiny goth children and told the girl that her makeup was smudged, and the girl ran off to the bathroom with her boyfriend in tow. After reconvening, the party went out to what was supposed to be the driving part of the tour, and realized that the goth kids were still missing. Bianca went ahead with the rest of the tour group, while Harry and Julia stayed behind to investigate.
And investigate they did. The goth kids were at the grave of Stonewall Jackson’s severed arm and they were trying to bring it back to life. A battle started then, with them both trying to prevent the kids from their spell, as well as fighting down the eldritch mini creatures that the goth kids were using Osirius to invoke. In the end, Harry could control the abominations, and Julia invoked Osirius herself with: “Osirius I invoke thee! Stop being such a fucking dick!” That of course lead to nothing good because pissing off god is dumb, and because of it, Julia needed to fight an undead jackal.
In the end, Harry and Julia stopped the kids from doing what they seemed to want to do for the most part. That was until the reanimated arm of Stonewall Jackson came back to life. At first, the two of them fought it, but then with Harry’s ability to do magic and Julia’s feeling bad, the reanimated arm of Stonewall Jackson (henceforth called ‘Handy’) told them that it didn’t know anything of the plans and it wasn’t evil. So, Handy came home with Julia and she brought him one of those cat backpacks with the clear plastic bit so he could “see” outside.
All and all, not a bad weekend, but Mondays are always going to be hell. This particular Monday, however, was one that was going to go down in the history books. At the standard debrief with Sarah, there came an announcement that the President of the United States was there to see them. Turns out that Fiona was manipulating Sarah the whole time into gathering the artifacts for her ritual, and that she was an avatar of the Slaughter who was going to enact a ritual to cause the end of the world.
When Harry goades Fiona, they find out that she’s a necromancer and she summons zombies into the Usher Foundation building itself. Bianca becomes bitten and dies (oh noes!) and then rises as a zombie, and Julia shoots her, and tries to keep the zombies distracted while Harry, Sarah and Daisy get out. Harry comes back with a bad ass gun and drives the car into the building so Julia has back up and more ammo.
The two of them take Bianca’s fuckall outfitted with weapons car and the company credit card and spent $17k on outfitting themselves for stopping the Ritual which was going to take place in seven days on Halloween night in Gettysburg.
After getting back together with Sarah, the three of them went to Gettysburg the night before Halloween and prepared. In the end, they loaded up a fire truck with holy water, and while Julia scouted ahead as a wolf, Harry and Sarah drove the fire truck into the presidential motorcade of two suvs and a limo, crushing one limo in the process.
When Fiona escaped, Julia jumped on her back and held her head in her jaws trying to kill her while she summoned spell after spell and zombies. Julia, Harry and Sarah all were struck by lightning more than once but eventually Harry and Sarah managed to kill the secret service golems and the zombies and the reanimated Stonewall Jackson (who was still separated from his arm at this point). Harry breaks the spell that Fiona had on Handy who remembered them at last and Julia first ripped out Fiona’s voice box and then shot her in the head, the three of them saving the world for a little while (thanks Jon).
Fiona’s death was charted up to be an animal attack and they left no evidence at the scene so Julia, Harry and Sarah got off scot free with only trauma and two weeks vacation to show for it.
Pre campaign stuff:
Julia Bellamy was a goth kid who used to hang out in Sleepy Hollow cemetery and she met a weird boy who was gathering grave moss to do an experiment on bringing things back to life. The two of them became best friends who used to sneak into the city in order to visit goth clubs and pretend to be older than the sixteen-year-olds that they were.
It was coming home from the city that Julia’s life ended and began again: while walking home from the MetroNorth late at night, a drunk driver hit Julia and ran, leaving her dead on the street. David, Julia’s best friend panicked and brought her back to life. She was healed, other than a broken arm and when David woke up (bringing people back from the dead always cost him parts of his own life) Julia was there, and the two became inseparable.
They got an apartment in the City as the two of them went to Columbia, and Julia studied art because she wanted to and the law because her father said she’d had to in order for him to keep paying her bills. David was living with her as he studied to be a therapist, and after they graduated from undergrad, he was getting his phD in psychology and Julia was doing law school. But then one day, David brought someone back from the dead who he felt deserved it, and it put them on the radar of the Company.
The Company is your standard nefarious organization that trades in magic and the like. So, they kidnapped both Julia and David, and used Julia as a hostage to insure David’s good behavior while they experimented on her. As the weeks spread into months, things went from bad to worse. During that time, Julia had been talking to the man who was in the cell next to her. One night, just before the full moon, he took her hand in the middle of the night. He made her promise to revenge him, and then he gave her the wolf that lived inside of him.
There are a finite amount of werewolves in the world, from all across it. The relationship between the wolf and the human is a symbiotic one, and the way that it’s spread is by the old human giving the wolf to the new one. As the old man died, Julia could feel the power swelling in her.
That night, Julia broke out of her restraints, and she killed everyone in the facility that she could find until she got to David. David was dead, and there was nothing that she could do about it but try and live. So, in the end, Julia just went on with her life and got a job using her art degree in the Usher Foundation.
Personality: Julia appears to the outside world to be petty and fickle. She changes things often, and seemingly on a whim. Going through people and habits and desires on a regular cycle, it might seem that she's just flighty. Perhaps there is an aspect of flightiness to it, in the way that she quickly moves from hobby to hobby or person to person. One day, she is incredibly into poetry, for example, but then a week later, she just rolls her eyes when it's mentioned. The same goes with people. From one moment to the next, she's completely in love with someone, and then she's just bored with them. However, more often than not it's a calculated thing; it's a way for people to not know her well enough to get close to her. She's a wall builder.
Most people don't know that deep down Julia is actually a very angry person. She can seem like she jokingly is, that she doesn't mean it when she says something. It's the sort of thing that she's very good at, hating someone with a smile and something that is almost akin to being a friend with someone, and often, this is a relationship that she has with people. Most people never go beyond that level of relationship, the superficial ones that seems real to someone else. The only person who has ever broken her walls and successfully managed to keep her from building them up again was David. But that's the sort of thing that happens when someone brings you back from the dead.
To other people, she can seem aloof and uncaring. There's an element of truth to that; it's hard for her to care about someone other than herself and David. She has a hard time identifying with other people, just because they are so different from her. It's not that she doesn't care if they live or die, or anything that sociopathic, but because she doesn't want to let anyone inside who might hurt her. The perceived betrayal of her father to her mother, by how she died because he wasn't around when she needed him makes her not want to depend on anyone. If Julia lets someone in, then they could hurt her, and that's not something she's going to allow to happen to her. Because of that lack of connection, she feels very little regret when she needs to betray someone. There's some, yes, but there's very little of it. The same goes with manipulation. All of the relationships in her life tend to be superficial or just slightly deeper than that. Even when she has sex with someone, it's because of a physical need rather than any sort of emotional one. Most of her relationships are about her needs, because everyone else is unimportant.
Well, everyone but David. Julia consider3e David almost an extension of herself rather than a friend or different person. He's not family, as it's not a concept that Julia identifies with in any way - which isn't a surprise given her interesting upbringing. David, for her, was closer than any friend or lover could be. He cared for her enough to bring her back from the dead, after all, and that's not the sort of person who would ever leave you for anything. David was the only person who has seen her with her guard down; even when she was practically being taken apart by the people they were held by, she kept up that wall between them. It didn't fall again until the two of them were out of there, and out of New York. Julia would literally kill for David, and has. Because of that, he's the only person who ever really knew how she feels, and a big part of that is experience, because sometimes she doesn't have words for what she feels.
Despite the closeness between herself and David, Julia didn’t consider herself to be in love with him, and she doesn't really get jealous of the other people in his life, even with relationships. There's no one who would be able to counteract their bond, she felt, and there's a reason that the two of them slided into bed with the other when things got bad. It's not sex, it's sleep and comfort and above all else, it's safety.
Since that first day, Julia has been incredibly overprotective of David, despite her ability to get along with his partners. If they seemed like they could be a threat, then Julia would just casually remove it. All of her work is to make sure he's okay, and she'll drag him along with her, even if he isn't entirely on board with it. That's just the intensely practical side of her coming through: if he needs saving, she'll do it. Not just for him, but for herself as well. His safety is her own, because she cannot feel safe without him. That's one of the reasons that Julia is an incredibly pragmatic person. She will do whatever needs doing, be it the above manipulation of people, stealing, hurting someone - anything in order to ensure the safety of the two of them. It was something that had already been there her whole life: stealing and manipulating to eat and be independent. Well, independent save for David. Knowing that there was no one else in the world who could do what he did (at least thinking that she knew that, anyway) she knew that it was just a matter of time before he got on someone's radar. So, she planned ways for them to disappear. Julia's smart that way.
While she's smart, Julia is also very lazy about that intelligence. She doesn't really want to have to do much work with it, things like studying. When she was a child, going all the way through law school, she was told that she could be amazing if she would just apply herself. That made her apply herself less, of course, because she's so contrary to what people want/expect of her. She actually tried in college and law school, but only because of the practicality: if she got kicked out, then both her and David would be screwed. Julia didn't do that, at all. She just couldn't.
Items: One cat backpack with the plastic bubble.
The Reanimated Arm of Stonewall Jackson. (Handy)
Powers/skills: Julia is a werewolf. She can control how she shifts, but needs to shift during the full moon. This gives her increased strength, and advanced senses.
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