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Meme: Bodyswap [25 Mar 2013|05:38pm]
Fighting Selene was always personal. The things she'd done to Nova Roma, the mindgames, the manipulation of religion... and you just don't mess with a man's country in the first place.

Or a woman's country; Corey fully admitted Cait had fought just as fiercely and just as personally. And they'd won the day. But he felt really groggy, and...worse. Much worse. He didn't feel the earth beneath his feet. Well, it was there, but it wasn't pulsating with life the way it should have been. It wasn't right. It was just... something to stand on.

He didn't see Cait anywhere.. and he didn't remember there being a mirror over on there. Still... he could barely worry about that, so panicked was he about apparently losing his abilities? And why did the moisture in the air feel so heavy just because he'd gone mutation-deaf?
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Did We Play to Become Only Pawns in the Game? [09 Jan 2013|04:59pm]
Corey was visiting Marlow. He'd brought food. Eventually, he headed over alone to one of the other rooms with his bag and knocked.
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meme part 1 [07 Oct 2012|09:22pm]
1. What is your full name? Do you have a nickname?
Cornelius Drake Corey. Antaeus. Dirtboy

2. How old are you? When is your birthday? 19 (yeah, everybody cower for a minute. I'm an adult) Earth Day.

3. Where were you born? Where do you live now? Are you patriotic? Nova Roma. New Orleans, USA. You Betcha.

4. Who are/were your parents? (Names, occupations, personalities, etc.) Bobby Drake and Amara Aquila Drake. both are retired adventurers, Dad's an accountant.

5. Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like? Cait is Cait. She's remarkably on top of things. Rufus is Rufus, 'gainst whom no lock will hold nor fasten'd portal bar.

6. What is your occupation? Activist artiste. Seriously, I'm a professional now.

7. How tall are you? How much do you weigh? 5'6, and i forget.

8. What color is your hair? What color are your eyes? Brown!

9. What is your race? Human mutant.

10. To which social class do you belong? That's complicated.

11. Do you consider yourself to be attractive? Do others? I am aesthetically satisfactory.

12. What is your style of dress? Appropriate to the occasion, but I prefer barefoot and dirty.

13. Do you have any scars? Tattoos? Birthmarks? Other unique physical features? Various minor injury scars and the ability to call upon the Earth herself. no big deal or anything.

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

15. Are you right- or left-handed? left, but a bit of an acquired ambidextrous thing going on.

16. What does your voice sound like? tenor.

17. What kind of vocabulary do you use? Reasonable? I codeswitch a little but not much.

18. List three quirks or other defining characteristics. I cannot //possibly/ limit my quirks to three, but I am amazing at sand castles, do great Italo-Brazillian fusion cooking,

19. How often do you bathe? Do you wear perfumes? I bathe with perfect regularity no matter what Cait tells you.

20. What kind of facial expression do you commonly wear (dour glare, wry smile, etc)?
I figure I smile a lot.
21. Do you use body language? How? Yes. ::shrug:::

22. Do you have a commonly used saying? ....Do curse words count?


Childhood

23. What is your earliest memory? Mud!

24. How much schooling have you had? Did you enjoy it? The standard, and it was fine, esp., with no insult to Xavier's, once I transferred to an arts school.

25. Where did you learn most of your knowledge and skill? Family.

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

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

28. When and with whom was your first kiss?

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

30. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor? Does that affect you? We may not be famous as some families, but the gens Aquila was busy /bringing down the Tarquins/ long before most people's religions were founded. Just saying, man. Just saying.

Influences

31. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far? Lot of candidates, but let's go with the project I'm working on right now.

32. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
See above.
33. What is your greatest regret?
Heck with that.
34. What is the most embarrassing or shameful thing ever to happen to you?
Tough call. Other people's pants being thrown on top of me is up there.

35. Do you have any secrets? If so, what are they?-
Am I the only one who sees some cognitive dissonance here?

36. What is the most evil thing you have ever done?
Eat sun-grown chocolate, of course. ::smiles::


37. When was the time you were the most frightened?
Anytime the underworld is involved, it gets a touch creepy.

38. Have you ever traveled outside of your country? If so, to where?
:::laughs::: I /am/ outside my country, albeit dual citizenship.


Beliefs

39. What is your alignment? Neutral Dork, I've been told.

40. Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic? Optimistic.

41. Do you believe in a god? If so, which one and why?
I have confidence in Argo to always try to do the right thing.

Or, if you mean the other sense of the term, well, yes. Lots. Duh.


42. Do you believe in an afterlife? Elysium, Tartaros, and Asphodel.

43. What is your greatest fear? well, I'm none too keen on jellyfish, but the end of the world'll really do it.

44. What makes you angry? Sad? Happy? Why? Slash and burn agriculture, more salsh and burn agriculture, and food. I think these are pretty self-explanatory.

45. Do you think people are basically good or basically evil?
I think they're basically people.

46. What are your views on politics? Religion? Sex?
I hold with a reformed election system, I'm a Nova Roman Traditionalist, and I'm waiting for the right girl.

47. What are your views on gambling, lying, theft, and killing?
Gambling's fine in firm moderation. Coney Island for the part of the brain concerned with the wallet. The rest are bad ideas.

48. How far will you go to defend your beliefs?
I once took a plane to russia with some charts...

49. How much do you value money?
it's handy

50. In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do?
Why would I want to calculate that?

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

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

53. Are you superstitious?
Don't get me started on that word.

54. How much do you respect the beliefs and opinions of others?
Well enough, within reason.

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

56. Do you have any biases or prejudices?
Sure, but I'd hardly be the best to evaluate them.
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AU: Testamentum Ultimatum Cornelii Draci. [05 Jun 2011|09:54pm]
Security recording translated from Latin.

"I'll do my best to give them a hard time when they come for me at last, but I don't think I'm going to get out of this. I'm in plastic. They're keeping me in fucking plastic. I bet it isn't even recyclable plastic. I can't feel the ground anywhere. So let me tell you guys a few things when you kick their asses and find this. I love you all. Nova Roma. Xavier's. The Champions. The arts center. Grandfather William and Grandma Madeline. All of you. You've made it a great life. Everybody just divide up my art howeveryou want. I want Cait to have my recipe books, except the yellow one, that goes to Harmony. And Argo should have my lyre -- and Argo... Argo, dude, don't come after me if I'm dead. Do I look like the kind of guy who goes to Tartaros? No. Either I'm in Elysium and I'd slug you for interrupting me, or I'm in Asphodel and... I'll be getting by; I'll try to come back as a tree or something; don't do anything stupid. Heh. It's funny. I must have watched 'They Killed Sister Dorothy' a thousand times. I wonder if they'll ever make a movie called 'They Killed Corey Drake'? If they ever do, somebody make sure the use good lighting. I don't want to be associated with an aesthetic nightmare or something. Sounds like they're coming. Hope I'm wrong, but if not, don't forget the coins at my funeral, okay? Love you."
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OOC: Dear Santa [12 Nov 2009|03:15am]
I have been pretty good this year, on average, and for the Feast of the Unconquered Sun, I would like the following.

1. Environmental awareness on Earth and goodwill to men.
2. More sheep for the Santa Catarina Cooperative. Also a couple of llamas.
3. Also my own llama if at all possible. Hey, can't blame a guy for trying.
4. Lots of really good clay.
5. Tickets to next year's Goatstock.
6. More shade-grown chocolate. Always more shade-grown chocolate.
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OOC: Religious overview [11 Nov 2009|10:59am]
Corey is a Nova Roman Traditionalist. Call him a neo-pagan and he will bury you. And then teach you better Latin. Supporter of drink offerings as opposed to the messier sacrifices; personal observances for Faunus and the Earth Mother.

Kristoff is that particular brand of agnosticism that one would expect from a scientist well-versed in sorcery. Spiritual entities and the potential immortality of the soul, certainly, but the one partial 'divinity' in his life is more than enough, thank you; he doesn't need a religion.

Mel has been raised semi-practicing Catholic.

Giovanna's family retains certain Catholic aesthetics, as it were. Lent is an excellent exercise in self-discipline, et cetera. All she'd say about God is that either He's on Our Side, or He damn well should be. Other than that, well, Magneto kind of counts, in her family.

Moira, of course, believes in her relatives and neighbors. Earthside, she doesn't totally reject out of hand the idea of 'Mummy's Providence,' but churches make her a little nervous. She's heard such scary things, and they make Da irritable.
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[12 May 2009|11:20pm]
There were several ways, really, that gens Aquila get-togethers were better than Drake family reunions. The view as one relaxed was one. Cornelius Drake sat on an isolated beach in an ornate chair he'd sculpted from the sand, eating a chocolate bar -- 100% shade grown, benefiting tamarin habitats, thank you -- and reading a book, over which he occasionally looked out onto the water.

"Having fun?" he eventually called out.
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