So this is Penny again and sorry I've been incommunicado lately; I got pushed down an escalator on Monday by a jerk who apparently couldn't accept that a woman using a walking stick didn't want to move fast on moving steps, so I've been high on painkillers, and then Sydney got hit by a massive storm. FUN.
Anyway, I now have four instead of two because I'm special, so here's my new two and a brief reminder of the previous two:
Mel Ashton | outofash teaches history at the university. He is a fae. Specifically, he is a dryad, and he gets really irritated that everyone thinks dryads are all women. (Dryads are mostly women. Mel was a lot more androgynous when he was younger. Now he's just grumpypants.) He actually came through the last Rift and has been living on Earth since then, and over the years has accumulated a bunch of Bonded folk that all, well, died, and his most recent one died a year or so ago, so now he's stuck between "but I am tired of everyone I love dying" and "BUT I REALLY WANT TO BE BONDED TO SOMEONE AGAIN", so that's fun. He owns a bit of property in Vancouver (a couple of apartment blocks and two houses) and pretends to be his own landlord. He's good at double-lifing it. He's currently unaffiliated because he doesn't trust the Clan yet.
Adelaide Dixon | rosesarerho, a shaman. She's from a very wealthy family who have ties in the jewellery and horseracing fields, and she's been studying physical therapy at the university for the past four years. She started late, when she was 22, because she was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was seventeen, and it took her a while to get a handle on the medications and therapy. It's actual schizophrenia, not shamanism being mistaken for schizophrenia - she has both. She's pretty friendly, perpetually cheerful except on bad days, and she volunteers massages to her classmates because she likes helping people; her biggest magical strength is pain management. She's not as good with potions and such, but if you see her in person for a massage, she's brilliant. She's also unaffiliated, but mostly because she hasn't had the chance to make up her mind yet.
Archie Reyes | praemunitio, a Spellcaster specialising in Defence. He also owns and operates a jewellery store called The Heart of the Earth, where he makes custom-designed pieces for mundanes and magical types alike. He's the guy to go to if you need a pretty piece of jewellery just because, or if you need a piece of jewellery that just so happens to have a hefty defence spell set into it. As magic goes, he's pretty strong with his particular specialisation and Spellcasting has been in the family for generations, so no surprises there. He's Alliance, but he'll sell to anyone who needs Defence magic, because there's really not any way his particular items can be used in a bad way.
Sofia Shapiro | nothingremains, a Spellcaster specialising in teleportation. She's Eirena's older sister by, like, ten months, and is incredibly protective of her bb sister, so watch yourself. She comes from an old Consortium family and is completely failing to live up to their expectations, but their expectations suck so she doesn't really give a damn. She's brusque and doesn't trust easy, but she's always on the level; she's one of those people who doesn't do dishonesty very well out of preference rather than inability to lie. She runs the Black Cat Cafe and also does a neat side business in the black market; she's technically Consortium, but she's the sort of fairly stick-to-the-rules sort who the Alliance is comfortable trading with when they want something that they can't get according to Alliance rules, because if she says "yes, I got this without killing anyone" then you can trust she got it without killing anyone. Ethical black marketeering. Ish.
So yes. Those are my four. I've talked a bit with some of you about storylines and then I fell off the face of the earth >< Sorry about that.