Jean-Louise Reece

notafailure @ 2012-10-09T16:07:00

2012-10-09T20:18:41Z

Basics

1. What is your full name? Do you have a nickname? Jean-Louise Reece. Jeannie to Uncle Carl and Aunt Skeeter, 'Scout' sometimes to dad. If I had to go into The Superbiz, I'd be Molecula.

2. How old are you? When is your birthday? 19. 25 May

3. Where were you born? Where do you live now? Are you patriotic? Denver. Space. Only Slightly.

4. Who are/were your parents? (Names, occupations, personalities, etc.)
Owen Reece and Marsha Rosenberg Reece. chronically unemployed or underemployed.

5. Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?
No

6. What is your occupation?
Entrepreneur

7. How tall are you? How much do you weigh? 5'5, too much

8. What color is your hair? What color are your eyes? Dark.

9. What is your race? Human, with some altered bits.

10. To which social class do you belong? Lower-middle, by American standards, but obviously, I'm moving on up.

11. Do you consider yourself to be attractive? Do others? No, and stop talking about it.

12. What is your style of dress? Workable.

13. Do you have any scars? Tattoos? Birthmarks? Other unique physical features? Lots. Hereditary.

14. Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses? headaches. lots.

15. Are you right- or left-handed? Left

16. What does your voice sound like? Contralto

17. What kind of vocabulary do you use? Literate, at least.

18. List three quirks or other defining characteristics. I specialize in making 'junk food' because we often couldn't afford fresh stuff at home unless dad knew how to create it, and generally otherwise made bad nutrition choices.

19. How often do you bathe? Do you wear perfumes? Whenever convenient and no.

20. What kind of facial expression do you commonly wear (dour glare, wry smile, etc)? dour's a good word, I guess.

21. Do you use body language? How? ::shrug::

22. Do you have a commonly used saying? I am not a sitcom character.

Childhood

23. What is your earliest memory? Mom braiding my hair.

24. How much schooling have you had? Did you enjoy it? K-12. I liked it fine.

25. Where did you learn most of your knowledge and skill? Dad, PBS, and the library.

26. How would you describe your childhood in general? Fine

27. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Filthy Stinking Rich

28. When and with whom was your first kiss? I'll get back to you on that one.

29. Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity? Yes. Shut up.

30. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor? Does that affect you? Dad's got a history.

Influences

31. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far? Going into business.

32. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Saving up enough for my ship, even if it's lousy.

33. What is your greatest regret? Not being able to wave a hand and fix everything.

34. What is the most embarrassing or shameful thing ever to happen to you? don't get me started

35. Do you have any secrets? If so, what are they?- What a stupid question.

36. What is the most evil thing you have ever done? You /really/ want me thinking about evil?

37. When was the time you were the most frightened? every damn layoff.

38. Have you ever traveled outside of your country? If so, to where? I'm in Space.

Beliefs

39. What is your alignment? I am not a Dungeons and Dragons character.

40. Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic? the glass is kicked over.

41. Do you believe in a god? If so, which one and why? that's complicated

42. Do you believe in an afterlife? i hear there are some.

43. What is your greatest fear? starvation.

44. What makes you angry? Sad? Happy? Why? The world.

45. Do you think people are basically good or basically evil? Hell if I know.

46. What are your views on politics? Religion? Sex? I wanted off the planet for a reason, I like being jewish to a certain degree, and not in the cards anytime soon, but a girl can windowshop.

47. What are your views on gambling, lying, theft, and killing? Yes, no, no, and probably not.

48. How far will you go to defend your beliefs? ::rolls eyes::

49. How much do you value money? See 43, put two and two together.

50. In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do? Couldn't say.

51. Do you believe in self-sacrifice for the greater good? in theoretical extremity.

52. Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love? who knows.

53. Are you superstitious? a little.

54. How much do you respect the beliefs and opinions of others? ::shrug::

55. How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings? reasonably.

56. Do you have any biases or prejudices? Sure.

Test Scene

2012-09-23T07:24:35Z

Jean-Louise had just had a lucrative couple of days on the homeworld of the Badoon Sisterhood. Such rare spacefarers were an excellent market for 'exotic' staples. Now she was back on the road. Space. Whatever.

When suddenly the ship stalled.

She rustled around in the back of the tiny cargo transport. The trouble was, in order to fix it, she had to figure out what was wrong first. She hated that. She could make all the new wires in the world, but if she didn't know where they <i>went</i>.....

notafailure @ 2012-09-23T01:05:00

2012-09-23T05:09:05Z

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Kate

Character Name: Jean-Louise Reece
Character LJ (if applicable): notafailure
Physical description (face, build, weight): 5'5, dark haired, various minor birthmarks such as very thin, fine scars on her face.
Age: 19
Birthday: 25 May
PB: (If using one.) Linda Cardellini
Codename: (if using one) Molecula.
Abilities: Molecular telekinesis with disgusting levesl of potential
Weaknesses and flaws: Anxiety disorder, low self-esteem, chronic headaches, difficulty working with living material (Jean-Louise would point out that she has no problem with organic molecules. Carbon isn't the tough part. It's things connected to something breathing that are the tough part.)
Character location/Home: Mobile
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Business
Team: (if on one): potentially Guardians of the Galaxy
Relatives (living/dead?): Owen Reece, father, living. Marsha Rosenberg Reece, Mother, living.
Backstory:
Owen and Marsha tried to retire and have normal jobs. They tried again and again, but Owen just couldn't hold down a normal job, and Marsha was always busy keeping him stable, so whenever the Reeces weren't doing a few relatively harmless jobs of the old sort, they tended to live in or near poverty.
Jean-Louise -- because everyone loves being named after Jr. High summer reading; she was just grateful she wasn't Skeeter after Aunt Mary -- made it through all of this, and worked on her abilities with her dad when they manifested -- she wasn't leaving home to go to school. She made herself a solemn vow, 'some real Scarlett O'Hara type stuff: she'd find a way to make sure her parents had real, steady support, never have to take a loan from Aunt Mary and Uncle Carl, never have to worry about how they were going to pay the bills. She studied hard, but college.... college was too much, would take too long just to get through and pay off. So she went to work right away. She started out by having Daddy do the hyperspace trick and bringing her to a reasonably safe planet with a lot of lemons, sugar, and pitchers of water. Jean-Louise sold fresh-squeezed earth lemonade for the kind of equivalent barter Americans would have given for caviar. This was the best she knew how to do. Once she had enough, she traded for more things, eventually getting her own tiny ship and slowly teaching herself to fly it. She still visits her parents often, because she gets lonely.

How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: petty interstellar merchant.
What are you planning to do with this character? Guardians of the galaxy.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: Sulky 'ugly' space adventures.
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