Uninanimates Characters
Just a few characters in this verse I’ve developed since creating it. I’ve wrote some drabbles for most, but also I’m kind of too picky to like them. I’m still not sure where this project is going, but I think I would like to make these characters interact.
Reginald
Has existed, passed down in the same family for years. Quite obnoxious. Keeps bragging about his war stories. A hit with the kids in the family but the adults get tired of it. They love him, though, and no one would dream of getting him exorcised. Also a huge liar. Never even fought in the revolutionary war. Wasn’t even killed in a duel. Was robbed, and bashed in the back of the head with his own unused dueling pistol.
Inferno
Once went by Fern. A little girl shoved into the fire by a frankly desperate and cold hearted mother in the early part of the 20th century. Now they’re- a monster. A thing that runs the streets punishing those who hurt children. They also have a gang of child uninanimates under their protection. Inferno, too, is protected. The priests sort of have an agreement to stand back and let them do their job. Anyone who tries to stand in their way may find themselves having to contend with the mob.
Otis
Otis was always an aspiring actor. He might have had a decent career with his pleasant face and grasp of emotions- if not for that freak accident. Now he has steady work- in Canada, selling cereal. He’s part of a commercial campaign with a CGI spoon- something involving him being mad that the spoon gets to taste the cereal and not him. And, it’s pretty much the only work he can get, as a living fork. At least in Canada he can have his own bank account and apartment.
Antonia
More of a cryptid, really. There’s this legend about this pilot with terminal cancer who was found dead in her hangar with injuries from being crushed under an airplane wheel. The offending vehicle was itself gone. The popular story is that she rigged the thing to roll on top of her and then became it. But others say that it was just stolen by a murderer. If Antonina is the plane, it would be nice to ask her about it, but no one’s been able to talk to her for years. It’s said Antonia’s gone all over the world, and sightings of a bright orange biplane are a popular talking point.
Donna Flynn
They thought Flynn was dead. The low level mob henchwoman was poisoned so that she had no chance of coming back. They chucked her body unceremoniously in a river bound up in an old rug. But at the bottom of the river, Flynn regained consciousness- just long enough to drown. When she came back, it was with murder on her mind. She cut a swash through the ranks of the mob, creating her own crew of loyal followers. These days, Flynn is the boss. She’s a complicated lady, pulling the strings of the mob, the cops and the clergy. She also works in step with Inferno and their child gang.
Rick
A victim of several systems. Rick’s car became his tomb and then his prison. His family were hit both with the cost of insuring a vehicle uninanimate, and fixing him so he wasn’t in so much constant pain. That’s when they contacted a transportation company with a charitable program. They would pay for Rick’s repairs, in exchange to the ownership of Rick’s vessel- and therefore Rick himself. They fixed him all up and gave him a paint job and then sent him to a far off city to work as a taxi. Rick is paid in only the promise that he won’t be exorcised so long as he behaves, and a small fraction of his fares which, he’s told, goes to support his family.
Windsor Pratt
A rare case in which uninanimate testimony did no good in his own murder. Pratt was found alone in his hotel room, strangled with the tie that now contained his consciousness, in a fairly compromising position. As much as Pratt tried to protest that his death was neither a suicide or an accident, the investigators just assumed that he was lying out of embarrassment. Pratt hadn’t seen his attacker’s face anyway, and CSI could find no signs of struggle. Despite being a powerful CEO, Pratt was born and did most of his business outside of the magic bean. He hadn’t willed himself to anyone, and his family hated him, so he became an unclaimed uninanimate without his company or a penny to his name. Having lost literally everything, he’s just about driven to madness, determined to catch his killer.
Benjamin
Ben was made uninanimate as a baby, though he hardly remembers it. He’s a stuffed toy that’s sealed into a very realistic chassis. Every year, his parents commission him a new chassis that has the proportions and look that a child his age should have. Money is no object for them, so Ben gets the best of the best. Even the best of the best is fragile, though, and Riley can’t participate in sports or horseplay without fear of damaging his very expensive body. His parents hover over him, terrified.
