Post by topher lane on Jul 7, 2009 13:39:25 GMT -7
TOPHER LANE
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topher is a graduate student at the local university, finishing up his master's degree after spending most of his tuition on an education at new york university. there he met one cora west, with whom he is best friends for fucking ever, and also very, very reluctantly in love with. and don't think that she's left behind; nope, about two weeks after he left for montreal with his younger brother max to keep him company, cora showed up with a role in a locally shot zombie film. she also had in tow one andy doyle, cora's arch nemesis and (as fate would have it) a good friend of topher's. see, topher has this sort of quirky charm, like a dog with three legs or a lady with an eyepatch. he's irresistibly weird and nice because he can. topher also loves the friends he has, but consequently is really scared of any sort of change. he also puts the fierce in "fiercely loyal." even though he's got the body of your average nerd, he'd be more than willing to allow a fight to escalate physically if, say, a friend's honor is at stake. as far as friends go, he doesn't necessarily have a shit-ton of ’em, but he likes to keep the good ones very close. he also has a fair amount of friends-by-association, because he totally believes in that “the friend of my friend is my friend” thing, even though it doesn’t go by that at all. for enemies topher's kind of a walking punching bag. this hasn't really changed since high school. if he gets into a fight without his plastic wolverine claws, he will probably lose. so, easy pickings for the ~*~manly men~*~ of you out there. of course, another great way to make bad with topher is to do something not assholish to his friends or especially his siblings. he’s lookin’ at you, mona proust. and unless you have any sort of past relationship in mind, topher’s covered as far as the ladies go.
CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS
kenneth adams. mentor (character request here).
natalia devereaux. frienemies, with emphasis on enemies.
andy doyle. good friend / potential victimizer.
max lane. little brother / roomie.
lois lane. little sister (character request here).
sebastian lane. little-er brother / protective of.
sonja maly. slight mutual annoyance.
mona proust. the devil.
carlisle scarborough. best friend / bromance extraordinaire.
cora west. best friend / twoo wuv.
SONJA MALY
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sonja's an aspiring actress, although she tends to spend her time actively avoiding any search for work. she's sunny and enthusiastic, sometimes overwhelmingly so. on the flip side, she's can just as easily be aggressive and confrontational, depending on the situation you find her in (snapping "fuck you!" to strangers is hardly out of the question). she sometimes babbles in conversation, making social interactions rather more difficult to navigate than they necessarily have to be. sonja can also be a bit of a snoop, unnecessarily interfering in other people's problems or lives as a way of avoiding focusing on her work or her own difficulties. her quirks come off as quite a shock to those who don't know her well - especially her clients at the yoga studio, who only see her demonstrating poise, flexibility, and calm, which apparently go straight out the window when she leaves the building. she lives in a hotel, after accidentally taking the wrong flight and ending up very far from vancouver, her original destination. luckily (or not, in the case of her stepfather and mother) some of her family lives in town; her half-sister, lily, works at starbucks not too far from her apartment and attends mcgill for fashion design. with friends sonja definitely needs her lady crew. seeing as she almost completely lacks ambition, she probably needs a girl that's a lot more organized and in possession of a heapload of drive. she'll probably be acquainted with quite a few of her clients taking yoga classes. some of the guys she doesn't really make a love connection with stick around as casual friends, too. those who find themselves easily irritated by sonja's innate nosiness tend to be her biggest enemies. some of her other characteristics are annoying - the mood swing thing comes to mind - but that one probably trumps all. and loves pretty much is covered by on max lane – not that she wouldn’t mind a few pasts or some guy hitting on her at the yoga studio.
CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS
max lane. twoo wuv.
topher lane. annoyance by association.
chloé lemon. frenemy.
mona proust. client / average friend.
carlisle scarborough. ex on bad terms.
cora west. good friend.
lily york. close friend / younger half-sister.
JOEL BUCKLEY
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joel recently arrived in montreal after a long torturous road trip across canada, working his way from place to place after deciding to settle in montreal (mostly for the hockey, which he was going to settle in at toronto for, but… too close to the border). so why would a guy with a stable job teaching trigonometry at a private school in boston and a beautiful fiancée suddenly bail for canada? with his wedding date approaching, joel suddenly felt the world closing in on him and the things that he’d always wanted to do but was always too responsible to go for (such as starting a full-time microbrewery) slipping away. joel suddenly felt pinned down to a new life with his new wife and couldn’t take it anymore. said wife being a private investigator, he thought it might be prudent to get out of the country she knew pretty well. so here he is, in montreal. being a tourist, it’s been hard to obtain a real job. this, along with his situation and generally temperamental attitude, has made him a bit of a sourpuss. this makes it a little difficult to warm him up to potential friends, but some can manage. In his short time here, being a strictly english-speaking tourist in itself hasn’t endeared him to many of the natives. in fact, somebody shat on his bicycle! what the hell! anyway, joel’s not looking for any real loves, and he’s even a little hesitant to start any no-strings attached relationships seeing as, in spite of everything, he’s feelin’ the guilt pressing in on him.
CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS
andy doyle. sworn enemy.
max lane. hater.
topher lane. hater.
chloé lemon. best friend.
gia moretti. ex-fiancée.
FRANKIE MCMILLAN
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frankie just seem a little off – okay, a lot off – but most just think she’s adorably quirky like an indie movie character or something. from her sugary sweet personality (after all, she is related to cora west, so a characteristic of kindness isn’t all that weird), it’s hard to glean that she’s actually deeply miserable. that is, when she isn’t under the influence of some tasty illegal drug (“if it grows in the ground, it can’t be that bad!”). then she’s good. but when she isn’t, the fact that she signed up for the army in honor of her dead father (who, as it turned out, only signed up because a recruiter took advantage of his shit-faced-ness), that she couldn’t take the idea of the things she was programming killing people… killing kids… that she turned her back on it all, including a fabulously beefy boyfriend to run away to canada… it all creeps up on her. so she just tries to forget it artificially. and for the most part, it’s working – she’s high enough times that the people at the best buy she works at can’t tell when she’s not. no matter what sort of chemical state she’s in, though, she tends to have an obnoxiously big heart about everything. for example, the only pet she has is a pet rock named oswald because when she isn’t being paid attention to by animals, she feels rejected and think they don’t like her. though her niceness is stemmed from deep-rooted insecurity, it earns her some good friends. but it doesn’t impress everybody, after all, her enemies tend not to like the permanent case of drug use. love isn’t that prominent for her – the right guys tend to want to fix her (and she will have none of that) and the wrong ones know her vulnerability a little too well for comfort.
CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS
andy doyle. best friend / roomie.
topher lane. thinks he’s ugly.
mona proust. big meanie.
cora west. good friend / cousin.
lily york. close friend.
NEIL FARADAY
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[/font][/color][/size]neil’s a student of mcgill university, but just barely. after getting rejected once the admissions department received his dismal school marks and ignored the perfect scores on his gcse examinations (that’s the brit equivalent to the sat or the act – and yes, he’s british), neil went to the school and appealed. and seeing as neil’s the luckiest bastard on the planet, he actually got in. not that he’s since done much to prove he deserves it. although he makes good grades, he tends to hand all of the semester’s work on the final day and, by some miracle (again proof he’s the luckiest bastard on the planet) the professors tend to accept it and reward him with grades slightly better than he deserves. this isn’t to say he’s stupid; neil’s intelligent, that’s for sure, but he prefers an education outside of the classroom. after all, he learned how to ride a unicycle from his older sister and how to write with both hands (at once!) by his own discipline. in addition to those little nuggets of joy, he also juggles, yo-yos, is fluent in both pig latin and russian, can do a one-handed cartwheel, can escape from a straitjacket, and makes a variety of delicious pancakes. he’s just that oddly multitalented. his talent and charm (which probably accounts for his popularity with the professors, rather than plain-old luck [but he asserts he has it anyway]) has earned him quite a few friends and slightly less of the jealous-type enemies. and as far as loves go, he’s a bit wide open, since, y’know, he’s my brandest, newest character. ;]
CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS
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