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Winter Fest - Victorian Ball

Iann believes velveteen corduroy trousers, satin shirt, heeled boots, and a long coat could conceptually cover ‘Victorian Ball’.  Good enough, right?  

After all, when attending something alongside party-goers who literally lived through the era, it seemed pointless for a 20th century boy to attempt much authenticity. Just a mild flavour would do.

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Iann Cardero, 4th year Interdisciplinary Science BSc and Swim Championship winner 2017-2019 || age: 25

Iann was born and raised in Seattle, WA, and never bothered to travel far from the city.  Raised by his single mother and her huge family in Beacon Hill, he is the oldest (and favourite, he’s sure of it) firstborn son.  

Iann started competitively swimming in high school and was all set to go to U of Washington on a scholarship, but a drunk driving (oh, and also disorderly conduct) misdemeanour knocked that dream out of his swimtrunks.  After taking a couple years off to ‘find himself’ (aka party and weed), Iann finally moved to Soapberry and enrolled in SBSU four years ago. He joined the swim team, assumed the role of assistant coach, and took the Championships away from rival U of W.

He’s completing his BSc in Interdisciplinary Science mostly because he doesn’t care about the academics and it seemed the ‘easiest’ route to please his mama.  Since bringing the Championship to SBSU, Iann’s now riding high on his laurels.  

His only goal is to somehow make swimming his life and invent the perfect painless ingrown-hair-free leg-wax.   

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Post pictures of your character’s parents/guardians. Include important information about them if you like!

Their histories are written up here !

Mala Cardero* (died in 2012) - Iann’s mother.   This is how Iann most remembers her: young and vibrant and with a huge mass of big curly hair.  She was usually more grim with Iann but Mala did have (genuine) fun every now and again.  Usually when joking around with the Aunts before or after a party, when the women all felt comfortable and unified.  The only other way Iann remembers her is when she was in palliative care.  He’d rather not remember her frail and weak, arguing with him about making sure he did her make-up right.

Aunt Lily* (supposedly died?!?!) - One of Iann’s many Aunts and he wouldn’t admit it but she was his favourite.  Not just because he thought she was magical.  But simply because she paid attention to him and liked spending time with him, teaching and cultivating his weirdo-ass with a patience not many other people had (understandably, because Iann was a handful).  She looked after him when Mala simply had no energy to deal with him.

I’d say Iann’s guardians also extended to other various Aunts in the brothel, but Aunt Lily was his main tutor and confidante during his formative years (between 11-17 years old).

* not their real names. Iann doesn’t know their real names

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Choose a beloved cartoon of your younger years: who is your character most like in it?

Iann’s archetype doesn’t really lend itself for children’s cartoons unless I count like…Oscar the Grouch. XD  And The Real Ghostbusters (aka my OG childhood cartoon) is too much a gimme because Iann’s like an amalgam of them all, even Janine.    

So I decided to go with Yakko from Anamaniacs!  

As his name suggests, Yakko is the most talkative of the trio. He’s witty and has a way with words, and uses this to his advantage, often annoying people to their wits end with his rambling or tricking them with his quick-thinking. 

He knows his limits and, while he will tease some people, he knows what to say and when to employ diplomatic charm to calm them down - or at least try to. 

Despite being zany, he sticks to a high moral code and never torments anyone unless they’re asking for it, or have provoked him or his siblings.  He deeply cares for his siblings.

Yakko tends to reference a lot of innuendo in his dialogue.

(Which very loosely makes Dot = Cassie and Wakko = Miguel XDD Accurate.)

@cassiegermaine​, @bumblingbrujo​

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"I got a package here for Mr. Cardero." A young girl approached the Stonefruit Inn reception with a brown box. Inside, a used machete, its blade cleaned and sharpened, is found. There is no note attached to it.

"Do you want --?”  Iann was pulling out his pen to give a signature, but the girl hustled out quickly, as if the package was a subpoena.

Iann shared a glance with Pixi. 

“You’ll be in the alleyway,” Pixi nodded, picking up the phone to make sure the rest of the staff steered clear of the alley behind the Inn.

Iann took the package outside to a small shed/storage space full of wood and sidewalk salt bags.  This was common procedure by now, when mysterious anonymous packages were delivered to Iann. Just in case anything went...wrong.

Donning heavy duty gloves, goggles, and a mask, Iann carefully opened the package to reveal...

“My machete...?” Iann straightened from his wary crouch, lifting the goggles after poking the weapon a bit.  It was what he relied on to defend himself in the pocket blighted worlds, and he was sure he’d lost it...somewhere.  He couldn’t even remember.

“Fuck me.”  Iann was about to pick it up, but instead he just left it in the box, and heavily sat on the pile of logs, staring at it.  He felt as dull as it looked sharpened.

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What does your character’s voice sound like? Does it differ from your fc? What about their singing voice?

Killing all birds with one stone in this video, plus bonus @strangerein

Iann sounds exactly like Pedro Pascal.  Same low timbre, West Coast cadences (PNW and Cali), stammering, and definitely same high-energy.

THE LAUGHTERS (there are many) ARE SO IANN.

Singing starts around the 6:15 mark and is exactly Iann.  He can carry a tune for singing in the car, the shower, and for karaoke.

Also bonus that this is Iann with his friends - super-physical with deadpan teasing.

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The Sorting Hat: Ravenclaw Primary, Slytherin Secondary

Ravenclaw Primary:

The gradual editing process of the Ravenclaw’s system as they mature and see more of the world leads to the many different states that are fluid and may often coexist and contain intermediate states.

It’s common for Ravenclaws to care about experiencing the world in its entirety. If you’re working with incomplete information, how can you know that the system you constructed fits the entire world, and not just your own?

There are Ravenclaws whose most important truth is that there is no universal objective truth, but that finding individual, subjective truth is just as important of a goal. You have Ravenclaws who are hugely capable of and demanding of tolerance.

Ravenclaws tend to distrust in their innate, “gut instinct” view on thing, but that doesn’t mean that Ravenclaws don’t have those gut instincts; they just don’t prioritize them.

Slytherin Secondary:

A Slytherin Secondary adapts to the situation, going with the flow and making use of advantages as they come (sometimes leading them to appear lucky where they are actually better described as opportunistic).

This maneuverability adds to the Slytherin reputation for cunning – but from the Slytherin’s perspective, those opportunities were there for other people to see, too, and taking advantage of them is resourceful.

It doesn’t feel deceitful to a Slytherin to change to fit the needs of their environment– to be kind with this person, forceful with this one, erudite to the next. This adaptability can be applied to manipulation, influence, and power, but a Slytherin secondary can just as easily focus their efforts on maintaining friendships, making people happy, encouraging positive social change, or streamlining communication.

Slytherin’s success depends majorly on what problem it is they have to solve. Slytherins make up their plan of attack in the moment. Their actions, visage, and choices are specific to that situation. They are better at some spaces than others, and without input that they can properly react to they will tend to find themselves out of their depths until they can find new inputs.

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Does your character think they are good at sex? Elaborate as much as you like!

// Iann doesn’t really care! 

He’s terrible at casual sex - he’s detached and bored and is boring, and Iann knows it.  He approaches sex as an exciting, emotional exploration, starting from the ground-up with a person he loves. Whether or not that’s a compatible process for the partner is for them to decide, mwahaha.