Oatmeal has not been at SASO very long. She doesnāt know all the protocols or how to interpret different peopleās eyebrow movements and, at the moment, she would be hard pressed to name even one of the many uplifting sayings SASO has posted around the office (hey, she canāt be blamed, fear does that to her!). So, no, she doesnāt know who exactly is suddenly walking towards them but she knows this person must be evil because both Puddle and Fishās scents go sour and they arenāt scared, not exactly, but they are definitely gearing up for a confrontation.
She tries to look as intimidating as she can be while currently pale as a sheet and being blocked by a rather short and scrawny Agent Fish and a slightly taller but still scrawny Agent Puddle. She thinks she sort of pulls off an āI have their backā vibe by glaring and letting her eyes flash gold for a second. If the person happens to be just a civilian, they will just assume itās a trick of the light.
The person appears human but is clearly not a civilian, judging from the way her eyes meet Oatmealās own without the slightly bit of surprise or confusion before flicking back to the other agents. She has a pleasant smile on her face. Almost friendly. She even smells friendly.
āPuddle and Fish!ā the woman greets. Definitely not a civilian. Oatmeal isnāt sure what Puddle and Fishās real names are, but she doesnāt think they are based on a body of water and a aquarian creature. (Their stationary says Petals and Andavs but those canāt be real either.) āWhat brings you here?ā
Puddle opens her mouth, doubtless to say something nasty because of the two of them, Puddle has the worse temper, but Fish puts on her best fake smile (which admittedly, is not very good) and actsā¦somewhat semi-natural.
āHello, AANNO,ā she says. Her eyes are nearly crinkled shut. āItās actually our day off so if you donāt--ā
āOh, thatās great!ā The woman replies. āI know those days off are hard to come by.ā
Itās not really a dig at SASO, but both Puddle and Fish glare as if it is. Oatmealās glare is a half a second late. Mostly because she has been working at SASO for four months and her days off have been rather rare and far between. And four of those rare days off, she was called in for āEmergencies.ā (Only two of those would she deem actual emergencies. One time was just a mandatory Headquarter cleaning day since apparently the Janitor is generally too busy making flower crowns to bother actually cleaning. Even the Vice President of SASO was seen dusting the cabinets.)
āWhat are you doing here?ā Fish says. āI thought fun was against AANNO protocol.ā
āYou guys,ā AANNO says fondly as if Fish were joking. āAlthough, Iām not here entirely for fun. A bit of recruitment too, I have to admit.ā For the first time, a touch of⦠competition enters her scent. āMission X is meeting me here.ā
Oatmeal doesnāt know what that means. To her, Mission X is just one of the many things on SASOās whiteboard āTO DOā list that is mostly dominated by a very large drawing of a goose reminding people to BE BRAVE.
Apparently, Agents Puddle and Fish know what that is though. Because both of them twist their mouths into their identical scowls of displeasure, which AANNO doesnāt notice because her eyes have slid to the left and locked on something.
āThere she is now!ā she says. āGotta go. Lovely seeing you!ā
Luckily she leaves before either Puddle or Fish can respond because if their scents are anything to go by, it would not have been pleasant.
āWhat-ā Oatmeal starts but Puddle spins and gives her a part worried/part angry look.
āCheck your pockets,ā she demands as Fish nods beside her. āMake sure she didnāt somehow sneak her card in there.ā
āShe does that,ā Fish says. āAll the time. Sneaky little-ā
āI donāt think she got close enough to give me her card,ā Oatmeal offers, hastily patting herself down anyway when Fish moves forward as if to do it herself.
āI wouldnāt be so sure,ā Puddle replies. āIām not entirely sure she doesnāt have some sort of secret card throwing abilities.ā
āOr card mind-transportation,ā Fish adds.
āSheās sneaky.ā
āSneaky and evil.ā
Oatmeal blinks. She really hadnāt seemed that badā¦
Her thoughts must show on her face because in an instant Puddle is pointing at her and-
āSee! Sheās got you. Hooked into thinking she is not a ruthless maniac intent on shutting SASO down!ā
āShe is evil,ā Fish says. āKeep that in mind. She is evil and AANNO is way too good to be true and if Mission X starts working for them, it will be the biggest disaster of this generation.ā
āSo Mission X is a person?ā Oatmeal tries.
āKitsune,ā Puddle answers, glancing back towards the direction AANNO-log wandered off in. āAKA immortal. AKA if she joined AANNO instead of SASO, it would be a literal disaster.ā
āBiggest one of this generation,ā Fish repeats.
āExactly,ā Puddle replies. āSo stay on your guard. She is always trying to recruit our new agents, stealing them away to work for her precious nondescript agency of death.ā
Oatmeal blinks. This does sound serious.
āAnd if you do find a card from her,ā Fish says as they resume their walk towards the entrance. āMake sure to rip it up. Iām 95% certain there is some kind of spell embedded into the ink.ā
āItās really the only explanation for why people keep leaving,ā Puddle says. āAANNO is a fundamentally terrible agency.ā
Oatmeal nods dutifully in agreement even as she wonders if working for AANNO would get her out of this Haunted House situationā¦
Fish is very well versed in almost all of Puddleās faces. She knows the āI am seriously regretting this decisionā face and the āIām about to kill someone if I donāt get foodā face and the āMan, we really did use too much chilli powderā face. She even knows the āWell, we are about to die surrounded by Class 4 Merjons and I am displeased about itā face.
So, when Fish finally admits that Puddle is right, that in fact, SASO does not have the best record when it comes to their hiring policies, she turns and expects to see Puddleās self-satisfied victory smirk, complete with a slight raise of the chin and a left eye that is just a tad crinkled at the corner.
She does not expect to see the āDisasterā face. Puddleās disaster face is very similar to her disappointed face and not entirely different from her āI wish I had brought a bigger gunā face, but Fish recognizes the accompanying twitch of her right earlobe and-
āWhat is it?ā Fish asks, glancing around and moving to pull Oatmeal behind her. āWhatās wrong?ā
Puddle doesnāt even say anything, just motions to a point behind Fishās shoulder.
So Fish turns, fingers still itching for a weapon of some kind, and at first she doesnāt see it but then-
Oh no.
Itās ANNO.
Anno-log, formerly known as Trainee Stamper, formerly known as Beth, was a SASO employee for a grand total of two days. She spent those two days questioning SASOās overall command structure, raising her eyebrows at the random clutter piled in the corners of most rooms, and glaring at the muffins. Actually, she glared at many things (including the ping pong table, the entire room dedicated to cat toys, and, of course, the many pictures hanging of agents participating in Flower Crown Wednesdays) but her eyes of death turned particularly potent when directed towards the break room around breakfast time.
After two days, Anno had turned in her two weeks notice (which was a pleasant surprise because most quitting SASO agents either just stopped showing up or showed up one last time with the express purpose of stealing and/or destroying everything) but then it became clear that no one at SASO seemed to know what to do with an actual two-week notice and so Stamper gave one last horrified headshake and left.
That should have been the end of it. People left SASO for a wide variety of reasons, ranging from complaints about the low pay to concerns about the myriad of undocumented near-death experiences, but SASO wasnāt an organization to hold a grudge. It wasnāt nearly organized enough for that.
But, then⦠then Stamper had started AANNO.
And AANNO is? Well AANNO stands for An Actually Aptly Named Nondescript Organization and is everything that SASO probably should be. It is a Top Secret Organization dedicated to saving Planet Earth and itās many different inhabitants from death, destruction, and mild discomfort using any means necessary. Itās organized and polished and rumor has it, that all AANNO employees actually get paid every two weeks. Like a real company.
Also, like a real company, AANNO has rules and regulations and business cards and, Fish canāt exactly confirm this, but apparently AANNO headquarters not only has a state of the art security system, but all agents are actually given their own desk. With real desk chairs rather than oversized exercise balls. There is also a rumor that there was a legitimate supply closet but that is literally too good to be true.
(It also stings that Stamper managed to create AANNO in about a year, whereas SASO has been around for about 40 years (give or take a few breaks in the middle) and still doesnāt have official company stationery.)
So, Stamper became AANNO-log and AANNO became SASOās biggest rival and Puddleās Smirk of Victory became her Disaster Face.
And then the whole night gets worse because AANNO-log sees them. And comes over. And Fish obviously doesnāt know AANNO-log like she knows Puddle but she knows a āSurface-Polite, but Really Judging Youā Smile when she sees it.
Having now reminded Fish that this whole thing was her idea, Puddleās next task is to attempt to calm her down. Or at least to get her to a level in which they will actually be allowed to enter the Haunted House. Because at the moment, Fish is loudly extolling her own genius, gleefully pulling Oatmeal along by the hand and pointing out different architectural features of the house (which, for the record, Puddle told her in the first place and it figures that the one time Fish actually listened to her rants about architecture was when it was about a Haunted house), and occasionally releasing Oatmeal to shake the hand of random passerbys who have finished the House in some form of strange congratulation.
All of whom seemed suitably scared.
In fact, Puddle would go a bit further and say that a few of them seem too scared. Sure, there are a few groups of teenagers who are laughing at their own fear and an older couple who are loudly complaining about what a waste of money it was, butā¦
But plenty of people seem scared. There are two young boys clinging to each other, pale and shaky, blinking out into the night and jumping at any sort of sound. Puddle watches as they both scream when the most muscular man that Puddle has ever seen in her life rushes past them sobbing in what has to be unadulterated fear.
There also appears to be a couple possibly mid-divorce because as the man tells his husband: āHow dare you think that is appropriate for our child, Steven! She is going to be scarred for life!ā
Puddle doesnāt immediately disagree. The five year old between them is staring blankly in front of her as if nothing will ever be okay again.
Puddle feels her insides squirm. On her official SASO-Scare Level test, she had actually scored just above Five Year Old Girl. Which was acceptable, as it was at least higher than Middle-Aged Man and 70 year old Alien-class Rijha which were the bare minimum, butā¦
āWhere did you hear about this again?ā she asks her partner as they settle in to stand in line.
āWhat?ā Fish had been too busy doing lunges to listen to her.
āWho told you about this?ā Puddle tries.
āOh,ā Fish replies, shrugging one shoulder. āCupcake.ā
Puddle frowns. The news that the office Imp, Cupcake, notorious for semi-innocuous pranks such as file switching and screw loosening, is responsible for their current location is not particularly comforting. Puddle has no doubt that Cupcake wouldnāt hesitate for a moment to send them into an incredibly dangerous situation just for the fun of it. Cupcake is tricky like that. Also, Puddle is 95% sure that Cupcake is the one who keeps stealing their pens.
āThat⦠are we sure this is a good idea?ā Puddle tries. Someone bursts out of the Exit, only to stop and throw up immediately. āCupcake isā¦ā Evil is the word sheās looking for.
āAn employee of SASO,ā Fish finishes. āMeaning she must be trustworthy.ā
āShe was almost fired like four times.ā The last time had been after an entire library shelf collapsed. Page Turner, the SASO librarian, almost killed her.
āPsh, almost doesnāt count.ā
āIt does count,ā Puddle argues. āIt really does. Especially when⦠well, how good are SASOās standards, anyway? When you really think about it?ā
She knows sheās right on this one. SASOās track record is notoriously awful. Theyāve had infiltrations and turncoats and betrayal and just last month, it was discovered that one of the personnel in charge of the rare-and-must-be-constantly-pampered species zone was actually a vampire seeking to discover the secret of flight.
She sees Fish struggle for a bit, perhaps trying to make some sort of counter argument and when it is clear that there is no counter argument, Puddle smirks and looks away and-
Cali, better known as Agent Steel-Cut Oatmeal, currently regrets every single decision in her life that has led her to this moment.
She regrets the decision to walk in the woods on a beautiful winter day last year that led to being bitten by a werewolf; she regrets the decision to actually research this phenomena rather than just writing it off as āone of those thingsā; she regrets finding out about The Top Secret Agency of Strange Occurrences and more than anything, she regrets getting a job at aforementioned agency.
She even regrets getting her haircut short, which is ridiculous because her short hair looks awesome, but that is how deeply this regret runs. And getting her haircut caused her to be approximately fifteen minutes late in returning from her lunch break, which put her in contact with Agents Puddle and Fish, who areĀ always fifteen minutes late returning from their lunch break (sometimes more) and that led to her biggest, deepest regret.
You see, being late meant when the two SASO agents burst through the door, got a call, and needed to write down coordinates and neither of them had a pen, she was right there. She had watched their frantic fumbling and outturning of their pockets and had offered them one. Not just any pen, either. A clickey-top pen. It was almost new and full of smooth black ink and she had offered it to the panicking agents without thinking about it.
She should have at least thought about it.
Instead, she had given over the pen and Puddle had scrawled the digits on her hand and the two had run out the door (briefly in opposite directions before correcting themselves) and the next day, she had the nastiest of shocks waiting for her at her desk. Ā
A ticket. A ticket for the annual Police Haunted House of Hellbound Horror, widely known to be the most terrifying haunted house in the quad-county district, accompanied by a heartfelt note of thanks and a promise to pick her up on the way to the House and-
Oatmeal had tried to get out of this seventeen different ways in the past ten days. She had claimed illness, she had claimed she had to work, she had even claimed that she was, in fact, dead (that last one had taken some freaking work) but to no avail. Puddle and Fish had waved their hands at her protests, thanked her repeatedly, assured her that this would be a truly fantastic - and relaxing! - night of fun and frivolity and come to pick her up at exactly 7pm on this fine Wednesday evening, despite her clear instructions that her funeral was the previous day.
As the car pulls off the road and into the field briefly designated a parking lot, Oatmeal considers playing her last trump card, her last hope, the one thing in the world that may actually get her out of what is sure to be the worst night of her young life:
Telling the truth.
And the truth is that Steel-cut Oatmeal, a werewolf of legendary abilities with a wide array of different weapons and recently voted to have the best winged eyeliner in the office, is utterly terrified of Haunted Houses.
Yes, she knows they are fake. Yes, she knows that she is all but invincible now that she has undergone lunar upgrades. And, yes, she is well aware that her day job involves tracking down real monsters and bringing them to justice. None of these facts change the primary fact that Oatmeal does not like haunted houses and does not want to go to the particular house and would very much like to get over her embarrassment and just tell Puddle and Fish this Important Fact and go home.
Then again, itās entirely possible sheāll have to go in anyway. The entire SASO Office is well aware that Puddle and Fish are the agents most likely to force Del-Cubed to attempt to watch scary movies despite her intense and highly-publicised phobia so maybe it wouldnāt help at all.
Hence, the regret. The deep-abiding life regret.
The car slams into a stop and-
āThis is a bad idea,ā Agent Fish says even as she opens the door. Oatmeal nods from the backseat. It is a bad idea. āThe very definition of a bad idea. The pinnacle. The Apex predator of bad ideas.ā
Hope soars in Oatmeal. If she can convince Fish that they should just go home then-
āFish,ā Agent Puddle says. āThis was your idea.ā
Oatmeal groans.
āOh, right,ā Agent Fish says. āThis is going to be great!ā
āHell yeah!ā Agent Puddle says and they high five and maybe if she just hides out in the car, the two wonāt notice that sheās not coming with them. She slinks lower in her seat, bending her legs more and more and sheās almost completely out of sight now, sheās gonna get away with this, sheās can do it and-
There is a sharp rap against her window and when she looks up, Agent Fish is grinning at her.
For the SASO Fic. I'd like to enter (under my teenshmolf url/blog). Here's my info: Preferred Name (Neils), Pronoun (She), Ethnicity (Whichever is fine!), D&D alignment (Neutral Good according to an online test), What I want to be (anything! Whichever you guys choose is cool by me). Thanks so much for doing this! It seems really fun :)
Name: Neils
Codename: Unleashed
Backstory:
Look, you gotta have goals in life, and Neils? Sheās got āem. Well, she has one. She wants to pet all the dogs. Hah. Funny right? Thatās something so many people say so often. But you donāt understand, Neils is out to pet ALL THE DOGS. In order to do this, she made a plan. First, using a variety of tricks, none of which were particularly legal, she made billions of dollars. Then, she had herself turned into a vampire because to pull this off, sheāll need immortality. Finally, she spent thirty three years and almost half of her substantial fortune developing dog tracking software that will both find nearby dogs and keep track of the ones which sheās already pet. From here, itās easy. Travel the globe, systematically, petting all the dogs. Sheās living the dream.
Current Motivations:
Neilsā goal is always the same: Pet the dogs. However, sheās found in her now fifteen years of professional dog petting that the hardest dogs to get to are service dogs. She needs to make sure they arenāt on duty, she needs to have express permission from owners, and she needs to do all of this during the night since vampires arenāt all the great with sunlight. This Police-funded Haunted House seems like the perfect place to grab a few off duty police-dogs relaxing for the evening, though!
Assorted Facts:
She thinks that after finishing up with dogs, sheās going to go onto to other animals. Probably, horses next.
Always bathes with a rubber duck. ALWAYS.
Dislikes the color orange but only because she feels it is constantly fading or growing into another color. Cannot really describe this but orange is always moving and she just cannot approve.
Twidget hails from Planet Padenhil, where her model of android (ASDIC) is quite a common household appliance, designed to help with a large variety of everything (at last count she can complete over 16,000 tasks- including making toast instantly. Let that sink in). Carrie lived the first decade of her life happily following protocol, Ā saving at least a third of her paychecks, and doing yoga almost daily.
And then.
Well, Twidget was working in a factory producing childrenās toys when she saw it. For months she had been tasked with making xylophones, but there was a large shipment ordered and someone asked if she could step in andā
Seals. She had stepped into help make seal stuffed animals.
Twidget discovered seals and from there she spiraled into other sea creatures and she knew instantly she had to travel to Planet Earth. To see these majestic beings in person. She wrote lengthy letters to her friends and manufacturers, promised to keep in touch, and then headed out, ready for her life of adventure!
Current Motivations:
There are a few problems with Twidgetās thirst for adventure. One: as a designated Helper-Bot who could be expected to assist in common cleaning projects, she was built very low to the ground and on very short legs. This makes travel difficult. Travel is also made difficult by the fact that she is very, very afraid of heights and, after arriving on earth, has refused to fly ever again. And then thereās the communication issue. See, the thing is the Carrie Berrie can only speak one speech pattern: BLEEP BLEEP. Some people claim that in fact she is saying a large array of words, just condensed into a single speech pattern, but, no one really believes that. And it doesnāt exactly help with international travel, even if it were true. Which itās not.
It would probably be a bit of a stretch to say that Twidget works for SASO as she has the tendency to wander off into boats and come back three months later with geological samples and postcards for everyone. But, she can otherwise be found at one of the SASO offices, helping out and offering incredibly good advice for someone who can only say one word.
Assorted Facts:
So no one can really understand her, but Twidget actually often speaks in puns. Awful puns. Horrifically terrible puns. They make her giggle (which also comes out as a BLEEP BLEEP sound.)
As a machine, can create print-out of emojis to supplement her speech patterns, but can only do this by copying and pasting from Google. Has been put in charge of the weekly emoji horoscopes.
Has put together a drum set consisting of ice buckets from around the world. Is actually quite skilled.Ā
for SASO! name: Tea, pronouns: she, ethnicity: human. d&d character alignment: don't care- whatever works with your story! (OMG YOU TWO ARE MADE OF AWESOME)
Name: Tea
Codename: Drop Cap
Backstory:
Tea had worked at SASO for almost five years when SASO finally declared that they were moving their headquarters from their current storage unit (which lacked air conditioning, heating, and indoor plumbing) to a ānew, state of the art facility.ā These facility turned out to be an old frat house. Despite the questionable stains, the rodent problem, and the SOMETHING, SASO moved in and was thrilled with their new home.
Until the mail started coming. Letters. Hundreds of letters a year, all addressed to āTea and Sunflowers,ā all begging for advice on topics that not even SASO was prepared to answer: how do I unleash my inner dragon when meditating?; how do you think the Moons of Venus will interact with Orion next Tuesday?; I think my eurythmy teacher is sleeping with my husband, what should I do? Online research showed that āTea and Sunflowersā used to be a magazine though no other information could be found. At a loss for what to do and feeling some type of moral responsibility to answer these questions, SASO called on people to respond to these letters.
Tea stepped up.
Current Motivations:
After 10 years, many things at SASO have changed. Official headquarters have moved to a larger building (with room for important facilities such as a weapons room, library, and kitten playroom), but the Chicago office remains in the old frat house and they continue to receive mail from people asking a variety of strange questions. Tea is now head of the āTea and Sunflowersā Department, dedicated full-time to making sure that every person around the world feels that T&S still cares about them.
Assorted Facts:
Has only found a single copy of the infamous āTea and Sunflowersā magazine. Itās the only copy anyone has ever found. She pours over it for at least an hour a day and every so often shouts that it MUST be the only one. IT JUST MUST. (but then how did the readership get so large? Why does it say volume 114? no, no there has to be more. I have toā) The next day she can be seen scouring the internet/local libraries once more.
Hires almost exclusively Ivy-league graduates and then tells them that these letters are a form of secret code that must be treated with top priority at all times.
Often arrives at work in a fuzzy robe, FUZZIER slippers, and the FUZZIEST earmuffs. Since she is the department head, no one says anything but it is rather strange.
Ooohhhhhh! Saso looks like fun, name: Ness, pronouns: she/he/they/it/whatever, ethnicity: Mecklenburger (North Germany), DxD: if you can fit that somewhere on the scale, everything is cute on first encounter, might get shot on sight by the second, though, would like to be: no alien, no robot, fur is cool though, squick: making fun of people is not endearing, Fun Fact: there's always a basic multitool around somewhere, I might be hoarding them but no one will ever proof anything
Name: Ness
Codename: Jump Drive
Backstory:
Ness started working as a mechanic as all mechanics do: She was working in coffee shop when a old man came in with a broken down car. She just so happened to have a multi-tool on hand and somehow managed to fix the car. That old man told pretty mDuch the entire town and suddenly people were showing up at the coffee shop at all ours wanted mechanical work done. Ness didnāt really know how cars worked at first but she figured things out and then bought one book and then another and then, well, turns out machines arenāt actually that difficult after allā¦
Current Motivations:
See, the thing is, the machinery necessary to engage in trans-galactic travel is incredibly difficult to come by on Planet Earth and itās even harder to find someone who knows how to fix all this machinery. So, Nessā Car Shop Ā is the one stop mechanic for everyone: SASO, AANNO, BGA (Bad Guyās Anonymous), and any other aliens swinging by for a visit. She enforces neutrality with an iron fist and a large amount of weapons that will fire upon her command. End Result: No one messes around in the Shop. No one.
Assorted Facts:
Often found playing video games (usually Mass Effect) instead of working on peopleās orders. No one risks complaining.
The Shop is often full of small, fluffy animals that Ness nurses back to health and then allows people to adopt.
Rumor has it that if you can provide her with a tool she does not already have, then she will do all your work for free. This cannot be confirmed as no one has managed to find a tool she doesnāt already have.
Name youād like to be called: Daira Preferred Pronouns: she/her Ethnicity: white/Midwestern Dungeons and Dragons Character Alignment: Neutral good Whether you would like to be a: Human, Alien, Monster, Robot, Animal, Good Guy, Bad Guy, etc: doesn't really matter but being an metamorphmagus would be cool
Name: Daira
Codename: Pancake Victor
Backstory:
Daira does not understand why no one believes her when she claims that she attended a school designed for witches and wizards in the UK and, actually, there are plenty of other people who can change physical appearance on command. Thatās what being a Metamorphmagus is, after all. After tiring of trying to explain to SASO that this school was real, she resigned and went to work at AANNO, which she was discovered was no better. It would appear, that people simply wonāt believe her when she tells them about ā [NAME REDACTED SINCE IT IS RIDICULOUS AND DOES NOT EXIST.]
Current Motivations:
Daira is now working as a lifeguard at AANNOās Employee Pool while going through their Agent Training program since AANNO claimed she wasnāt yet qualified to work directly with the supernatural as she had no magic experience (BUT LIKE SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE, SHE STUDIED MAGIC FOR SEVEN YEARS?!?! AND SHE CAN CHANGE APPEARANCE AT WILL?!?) Generally enjoys her job but cannot wait to get out there and actually start fighting crime and evilness. Like⦠really canāt wait. Might not exactly wait for much longerā¦.
Assorted Facts:
Since acclimating to āMuggleā culture (and, really, why do you keep saying that?? What does that mean???) has developed a bit of a shopping addiction. When not at AANNO HQ, can most often be found at the mall.
Hanging in her room is ALWAYS a calendar from the year before. Updates this calendar, just always incorrectly. Refuses to explain why.
Write checks for every purchase. Once wrote a check for a stick of gum.
Name: Lumi or some derivative thereof. Pronoun: He/him (male) Ethnicity: Some sort of energy creature like a raiju or thunderbird or something that can shift. DnD Alignment: Chaotic Neutral. Good/Bad Guy, etc: no preference. No real squicks.
Name: Lumi
Codename: Lightcaster
Backstory:
Lumi was just a regular college bro, drinking from red solo cups, debating whether or not people actually exist, and majoring in electrical engineering aka āletās invent awesome shit.ā Really, he was attempting to create some kind of warm snow so he could snowboard without dealing with the cold weather, where there was a lab accident that resulted in him getting electrocuted while eating a bagel and wearing a backwards hat. Little did he know this was actually the secret formula to get turned into ancient being known as a thunderbird. Now he has the power to control electricity whenever he wants, though heās still working out the flying bit that seems to be implied by his nameā¦
Current Motivations:
Without a doubt, the BEST part about being a shapeshifting thunderbird is that as he gets stronger, his power demands a physical manifestation and with a little bit of meditation and focus, he can get it to appear as badass tattoos without bothering with a needle at all. Seeking to give this power to all (because everyone deserves reprogrammable non-needle tattoos), he now spends most of his time at his college laboratory, seeking to recreate this power. But along the way, he keeps making up more and more powerful weapons and, look, he needs money so he might be something of a supplier now⦠and not to the good guys⦠oh well.
Assorted Facts:
Continues to attend classes, even though he has now been in college for going on seven years. What can he say? This is a pretty sweet lab set-up heās got here, and heās got the moneyā¦
Is afraid of bubbles. All kinds. Bubble baths and bubbles in soda and bubbles blown by small children. Will freak out if he sees them.
Could have gone into professional chess but felt too bad for the pawns. Couldnāt keep sacrificing them just to save his king. Had to give it up.
Mel, He/him, White,D&D alignment is Chaotic Evil, Honestly make me whatever you want. (I am CURIOUS on what this turns out to be. LOL) and I don't really have any squicks that I can think of? Like, I think the only thing that would get to me is like, deep wounds? AND SPIDERS. NOPE TO SPIDERS. just NOPE.
Name: Mel
Codename: Deadlift
Backstory:
Mel always assumed he was your typical human. Then he turned twelve. And, like a typical human being, that meant hitting his growth spurt. Except, Mel quickly realized that he was not your typical human. Unfortunately, this realization came because his growth spurt involved his own bones literally breaking over the strain of suddenly being expected to support pounds and pounds of raw muscle. This was a rather unpleasant experience and resulted in forced bed-rest for almost two years. But, then he emerged, stronger, faster, and officially classified as a Species IUPENIM (Incredibly UnPredictable Entity with Near-Impossible Magnitude).
Current Motivations:
After his transformation into what he terms āa non-green, devilishly handsome Hulk,ā Mel found himself in the unique position to bypass āMinionā status completely and jump right into being a full-fledged Henchman. Of course, following orders never sat well with him and so he quickly quit that job and became one of the youngest ever Criminal Masterminds. No one is quite sure what his goals are, but heās big and strong and has a following. Heās not on SASO or AANNOās Top Ten most wanted yet, but give him a few years and heāll be a force to be reckoned with. He canāt wait.
Assorted Facts:
Pays a large portion of his minions in cupcakes, pies, and other baked goods. Just, really, a very good baker and highly enjoys it.
Although most criminal masterminds hire experts, is entirely in charge of his own music, even when involved in high speed car chases.
While on bedrest, became oddly addicted to morning talk shows, such as Kelly and Michael. Still watches to this day. HE LIKES THE INTERVIEWS, OKAY? LET HIM LIVE.Ā
You can call me Mar, she/her, white, chaotic neutral, I'll let you peeps decide what to make me, just no bugs/insects/wormy things. They really creep me out. Can't think of any squicks that would be relevant here (accept for the bugs thing)
Name: Mar
Codename: Explanatory Hypothesis
Backstory:
Mar was thirteen years old when she first looked outside on a clear spring day and saw what must have been an alien spaceship. And, no, she was not crazy. This was not some distant blinking light that was actually a missile test. This was a GIANT SPACESHIP with the license plate number ā7FR 8GIQAā and was driven by what appeared to be a giant chinchila. Of course, no one believed her but she has made it her lifeās mission to prove that THE SUPERNATURAL EXISTS, PEOPLE. THEY ARE AMONG US!!
Current Motivations:
Put simply, Mar is here investigating because this particular Haunted House is too scary to be fake. She considers herself to be something of a connoisseur of Haunted Houses. She has spreadsheets and highlighted review pages and- well, everything points to the fact that this haunted house doesnāt line up. Sheās not saying that this is going to be her big break, the break sheās been waiting 10 years for, the proof she needs to change it allā butā¦.
Assorted Facts:
Dyes her hair different colors depending on what she is currently investigating. Red is monsters; purple is ghosts or spirits; green is aliens. Right now? Sheās got all three in there, baby, she doesnāt know whatās going to go down at this Haunted House, but dammit, sheās going to be prepared.
Started a website dedicated to her findings. It doesnāt have much traffic yet, but it will get there⦠it will. ANY DAY NOW.
Enjoys very experimental baking. To date, has caused four fires. One while making ice creamā¦Ā
Hello! :) for SASO Name: E.T. Pronouns: she/her Ethnicity: biracial black/white but skin tone is v light D&D: chaotic neutral Creature: w/e you want Squicks: none Just a thing about me: willing to debate politics w/ anyone tbh don't even let me start
Name: E.T.
Codename: Poly-Sci
Backstory:
E.T. started her supernatural career as a minion, because she didnāt have too much time to dedicate to actually trying to take over the world. She had debates to get into - from politics to media to just about anything. She was content, occasionally helping some of the Big Bads cause a little chaos while also frequently on the internet, earning a name for herself as an Anonymous Political Analyst. Of course, this was not to lastā¦
Current Motivations:
E.T. was out on a mission (which involved dressing up as a giraffe and pretending to break loose in a zoo to cause maximum panic while a villain set free a large variety of snakes) when she first heard the whisper of a āMinionā movie from a young child at the zoo. Intrigued, she went and saw it and- well, she hated it so much that she could no longer stand to even be known as a minion in her professional life. She retired immediately and has yet to find another full time job. Though, for now, this Haunted House is pretty good moneyā¦
Assorted Facts:
Favorite venue to get into a political debate is whilst gaming. Has been known to start fighting her own teammates if they are being particularly obstinate.
Tried to lead a minion revolt when she decided to leave the profession but most believed that they could successfully ignore the movie franchise.
Due to a previous on-the-job-accident, has the tattoo of a bear across her left cheek. Donāt ask.
[my] Name: Noah (feel free to pick another for the fic) >> Preferred Pronouns: He/Him/His or Singular They/Them/Their >> Ethnicity: White, creature who is sometimes human! >> D&D Character Alignment: Chaotic Good >> Human/Animal/Alien (otherwise - whatever serves your fic!) >> Squicks: Nope! >><< P.S. reblogged under mah fandom blog sourskittles-and-snark, but this here is mah main blog ^.^
Name: Noah
Codename: Xerox
Backstory:
While most supernatural powers donāt develop until puberty, Noahās parents had the unfortunate discovery that Noah was born ready to use his power. And his power? The ability to duplicate himself into an animal. Multiple times. This means that at any given time, their baby was a baby, a kitten, a puppy, and WHATEVER ELSE NOAH DECIDED TO BE ALL AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME USUALLY IN ONE FUCKING ROOM. It was madness. Eventually, his parents made the decision to simply stop teaching him animals altogether after he chose to transform into a deadly rattlesnake.
Current Motivations:
Noah doesnāt blame his parents for their decision to stop teaching him about the animal kingdom, but that doesnāt mean he accepts it. Now a zoology major, with a focus in marine biology, he spends his days studying animals, both by reading books and by just turning into them. Heās told plenty of people about his superpower, but no one really believes him. Oh well, that just means he gets to get into even more shenanigans with less guiltā¦
Assorted Facts:
Almost always split into a dog. In fact, all his friends think he just has a dog. They donāt question how exactly this dog knows so many different tricks. Some of which do not require a verbal command apparently.
Second most common duplicate is a penguin. No reason, just really likes penguins.
For some reason, he cannot swim as a person, so he always duplicates when he has to swim places. Is very annoyed by this but after almost drowning and having to save himself multiple times, has accepted this.
OMG this looks AWESOME!!! Cant wait to see how that will turn out ^^ Iām sorry if iām a little late, didnāt have time to write you guys before :D So if thereās still some place, hereās my details! Hmm you can call me Soledad. Iām a She but Iām rough around the edges so you could go with a He if thatās what you need!! Iām a savage red-hair freckled lady of Irish descent (so caucasian) who could drink a lot of people under the table ^^ I guess you could also say my motto in life is āmotivated by lazinessā which means i do a lot of stuffs so i donāt get to do them again or find shortcut to a lot of work so itās easier/quickly done ;) As for D&D, I donāt have any sorry!! I guess a monster would be nice or an android but whatever you need is fine ;) Thanks so much for doing this!! Itās super fun and is bound to be amazing!! Like everything you and Andavs do :D
Thanks!!!
@soledadgeek
Name: Soledad
Codename: On Tap
Backstory:
Throughout history, there have always been neutral zones where Forces for Good, Forces for Evil, and Forces who āJust Want Everyone To Chill, Like Seriouslyā have been able to meet up without fear for their safety. In the current era, that place is the Moonrise bar. A dank, dark, hole in the wall with enough magical enhancements to fit everyone comfortably. Unfortunately, the question of who got to run Moonrise was a huge debate that resulted in more than a couple fist fights, a few knife fights, and an international incident involving Portugal and Russia that hasnāt been fully resolved. Finally, it was decided that an android would be created, designed by all three factions, and designated to keep the peace at Moonrise. This android is known as Ā On Tap (Tap for short, though that is often elongated into several syllables when folks are drunk. Which they often are at Moonrise.)
Current Motivations:
As the owner of Moonrise Pub, Tap wants the things all bar-owners want: Fewer bar fights, cleaner bathrooms, someone to actually order the Macallan ā46 that she feels she will never be able to sell. (For the record, she wonāt. No one in the supernatural community has that kind of money.) Failing that, she would like Hugh Jackman to answer the multitude of fanmail sheās sent himā¦
Assorted Facts:
Due to a slight manufactoring error, Tap cannot actually processes wine or beer and must stick to hard liquor. It makes the drinking challenges all the more fun (for her. The person who is foolish enough to challenge her often ends up giving up alcohol for at least a week.)
Feeds the cats that live in the alley of her bar regularly. Rumor has it that if you mess with Tap, the cats will kill you. One person has gone missing with no explanation after pushing her⦠Of course, the lack of explanation could be that no one bothered to look into it.
Soundtrack at Moonrise oscillates wildly between all different types of music (from T-Swift to The Decembrists to the latest Broadway Musicals). Regulars know not to complain.
Name youād like to be called: Larissa (Lari works fine!). Preferred Pronouns: She/her. Ethnicity: white. Dungeons and Dragons Character Alignment: I'm thinking chaotic good? Whether you would like to be a: werewolf or other supernatural creature that isn't an alien, please! :) No squicks I can think of.
Name: Larissa (Lari)
Codename: 2008 Reasons
Backstory:
As a werewolf, Lari was always going to be a part of the supernatural world, though at first she assumed she would be working on the Evil side. Her pack was famous for running all the criminal activity in Alfalfa County, OK and it was assumed she would join the fold. However, as she grew up, she realized that her pack seemed to be based on a lot of negativity and, although she didnāt particularly want to believe in the best in everyone, she just did. Hence, a career change.
Current Motivations:
Lari is never going to be a happy go-lucky SASO agent and she is also unwilling to follow the rules of AANNO, so she has carved out a space for herself as something of a āfreelancer do-gooder.ā Grumpily, she stalks through cities, helping elderly folk across the street, stopping bank robberies and then making sure that people who order āextra srirachaā on their sandwiches actually GET enough sriracha. She had previously vowed to never accept money for her kind deeds to atone for the years of her life spent threatening the citizens of her small town, but people keep SNEAKING TWENTIES INTO HER POCKETS ANYWAY. Goddammit.
Assorted Facts:
Enjoys aggressively telling terrible puns to people and then glaring at them until they laugh.
Does still allow herself to download movies illegally. Itās the one aspect of her past that she is unwilling to give up.
Rides a hot pink moped as that is deemed the most nonthreatening vehicle current in existence. She hopes this counterbalances the black trench coat she still wears.
Name: Pliffy (Pliffania De La Loobianella, hates her full name). Pronouns: she, her. Ethnicity: Humanoid, Red-headed. D&D alignment: Chaotic Neutral. If I can be a vampire of some sort that's cool. Red headed vampire-> doubles the soullessness xD. This project is awesome, I hope I'm not too late ^^
Name: Pliffania De La Loobianella (Pliffy)
Codename: The Double Negative
Backstory:
The biggest thing people complained about after becoming a vampire was the loss of their soul. āI just felt empty inside at first,ā some say. Or āI missed being able to connect with people.ā Of course, Pliffy didnāt have that problem because, as an ancient member of the red-headed, soulless Loobianella clan, she was born without a soul to begin with. So her decision to become a vampire was relatively simple. Never have to technically grow up? Check. Never have to bother studying for exams anymore? Double-check. Never have to eat disgusting fruit again? Triple Check. Hopefully get badass new name to make up for her original monstrosity? FUCKING DONE. WHEREāS THE DOTTED LINE.
Current Motivations:
Of course, Pliffy probably should have done a bit more research. Because upon agreeing to be a vampire, she was also under the impression that vampire could turn into bats and fly. Unfortunately, that was not the case. In fact, vampire are quite slow movers in all respects. Still determined, Pliffy now is famous in the underworld circle for kidnapping flying creatures and forcing them to do her bidding⦠Not even hummingbirds are safe, but well⦠sheās doubly soulless! What did you expect?
Assorted Facts:
In terms of feeding, will only feed from those wearing all white socks. No one knows why or how she can even tellā¦
As a day job, travels the world participating in snow sculpture contests. Often wins.
Vehemently denies that the reason she is obsessed with flight is because she cannot drive. And by āvehemently denies,ā we means āKILLS ANYONE WHO MENTIONS THIS, SOCKS BE DAMNEDā