The Sound of Her Wings

Just had to catch the bandwagon before it leaves town.

Two things are true about Didi. She is a 16-year-old Goth girl from New York whose family died a few months ago in an accident -- and she's the immortal anthropomorphic embodiment of Life and Death itself. Confusing? Not if you're her.

See, in Sandman, Death -- one of the seven Endless, and if I try to explain that this post will become a novel, so here, have a Wiki page -- spends one day a century as a mortal so she understands the price humans pay. In the 20th century, her day was a summer day in New York City, which she spent as Didi. She got through it, fell into a fountain to die and go back to being all quasi-omnipotent ... and got transported to Fandom in 2009 instead.

The school has its ways of attracting students.

• She knows everyone really well. Not in the Layla Miller way, she's specifically not precognitive, but she has a sixth sense for things like who likes honey in their coffee.
  
• Friendly, perky, and even bubbly, she loves everyone unconditionally. Yes, even if you're grumpy.
  
• Even as a human, she has a minor reality-warping power that makes things go her way. For example, it's a running joke in canon that no one asks her to pay for anything. She doesn't abuse it, and it's questionable how much she even consciously knows it's a power; think of it as Didi being charming to the nth degree.
  
• She usually has a squiggle under one eye to represent the eye of Horus. It's a cosmetic thing she does with eyeliner -- it washes off. She always wears black, unless I specifically say something else in my narrative.
  
• Her powers are channeled through her sigil, a silver ankh, and she's almost never seen without one. But the important thing is Didi, not the symbol -- she'll be tetchy and at a disadvantage if the ankh is lost, but she can buy another one.
  
• If you're from the DC universe and have heard of/interacted with the Endless, you have my permission to know who Didi is. She won't be keeping it secret anyhow.
  
• She's only one aspect of Death. There's still a "Death 1.0" in her world, and things still are born and die as always.
  
• There's a last name on her IDs and stuff, since Didi came complete with backstory in canon, but I don't know the name and Didi would probably have to peek to remember it anyhow. Incidentally, her first name is pronounced dee-dee, not die-die.
  
• The PB is a Suicide Girl. I won't shut up about this because a)it amuses me and b)it helps explain why some of the icons are a little on the clothing-light side.

Everyone else in age order:

Tara Maclay (life_inshadow):

• 15 and an incoming sophomore.
  
• Sweet, a little geeky, and shyyyyyy. Like a shy, shy, shy thing. Which is shy. She stammers when she's nervous, though I try not to overdo it in her pings.
  
• Is a Wiccan. In the Buffyverse, this means the writers got tired of typing the word "witch" she uses magic in an ethical way. She's not an especially strong witch just yet, but she's getting more powerful as she studies.
  
• Reads auras. Canon makes it pretty clear she can't see if someone is supernatural or not, but she can get a general emotional read and tell if something is wrong (e.g., Riina showed up for her in Tahiri's aura as a dark, staticy presence that didn't belong there). If you think your character would have a noticeably funky aura, let me know and I'll work with it.
  
• Comes from an emotionally abusive family. She's not likely to talk about this, in part because she still sort of thinks she deserved it.
  
• In theory, she's a lesbian, and she'll tell you this if the subject comes up. In practice she's very never-been-kissed and in no special rush to change that.
  
• So pre-canon that the first season of canon in her universe won't even start for another couple months. Whee.

Jack Priest (bitten_notshy):

• 17 and an incoming senior.
  
• From Elizabeth Bear's new Amsterdam, a book about a late Victorian/Edwardian world where magic and vampires are real and Europe only has coastal colonies in the Americas.
  
• Is incredibly outgoing, loves to talk to people and to flirt, and basically wants everyone to be his friend. But that shouldn't be mistaken for weakness: Jack has an iron will, does exactly as he pleases, and can become vicious if someone angers him or threatens someone he cares about.
  
• Has no special powers whatsoever, beyond the best education a thousand-year-old vampire detective could provide in the 1890s. He'll tell you this is more useful than powers.
  
• Cheerfully bisexual and polyamorous. He's in love with said thousand-year-old vampire, but he doesn't see why this should stop him from having a Rose, a Tony, an Emma, and, probably, anyone else who strikes his fancy. That said, he tends to want friends with benefits more than random hook-ups, and he knows his dance card is full at the moment.
  
• Jewish enough to keep more or less Kosher, though he's not especially religious otherwise.
  
• Short, at 5'5". He should be mocked for this more often.

Romeo Montague (withoutverona):

• 18 and a Class of '09 graduate
  
• Comes specifically from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, which means he's the heir to what amounts to a mobster dynasty and grew up in the Californian beach town of Verona.
  
• Will not normally tell you about Juliet, banishment, etc., unless he trusts you and it seems relevant. He's vaguely ashamed of it all, plus it was two years ago. But it still informs his reactions every time he has to say goodbye.
  
• Has what amounts to a Shakespearean "accent," but code-switches pretty fluently at this point. He'll never sound entirely modern (and characters are welcome to notice that, of course), but after 18 months in Fandom, the thees only come out when he's very upset or half-asleep.
  
• Has been dating Yurika Dojima for about a year and a half despite this little hiccup where he got married to someone else.
  
• Is now in her Tokyo to follow her around like a lost puppy take business classes.
  
• Will always think Verona is home, and plans to return there in a few years.
  
• Important bit: If you ask him about Tybalt, expect an earful of Elizabethan cursing to the effect that the rat-catcher should just stay dead. He's sorry he killed the guy, but that doesn't mean he likes him at all. Also, if you're going to ask Romeo about Tybalt before Tybalt knows what happens to him in Romeo's timeline, please check in with feline_royalty first.

Angela Chase (chasingangela):

• 20 and a Class of '07 graduate
  
• Insanely sensitive (which you would think Fandom would beat out of her, yet, somehow, it hasn't)
  
• Lives in New York in 1999 with her fiance, Martin Blank, and their baby daughter Abby.
  
• Student at the University of New York, studying creative writing.
  
• Pretty much a normal girl, and she doesn't turn up much, so there's not a lot to say here.

Tyler Durden (tyler_back):

• 28. From Delaware. Never had a stuffed tiger.
  
• Comes from a merged Fight Club movie/book canon -- mostly movieverse, but with the book's ending, and with him at age 14-15 for most of the plot. (Not, incidentally, a choice I'd make now, but it seemed reasonable at the time.)
  
• Was born Jack Moore in 1990 (yes, there's time travel woowoo, just go with it). About five people know that name; he's been Tyler a looooooooong time, now.
  
• Seems flat, pleasant, almost meek most of the time, with a dry sense of humor; is very alpha when he can be bothered.
  
• Has an alternate personality thanks to Dissociative Identity Disorder. It's managed with drugs and lifestyle techniques, but it's not something that has a true "cure." Dark!Tyler comes out when he's really stressed (most recently, in the aftermath of the vampire AU) and is recognizable from the icons, not to mention the total personality shift.
  
• Is a self-taught expert on pretty much anything destructive; fighting, for one, and if you ever want someone who can blow things up with the contents of a 7-Eleven, Tyler's your guy.
  
• Runs Fandom Fight Club with Ghanima Atreides, and is very proud of it, thank you.
  
• Has a long-running nonexclusive-in-theory thing with Tony Stark. They refuse to say they're a couple. I don't question this.

• 30 (But 31 in, like, two weeks), lives outside D.C., and has a boring editorial job.
  
• Is on EST, works 8-4, and is usually online then and from about 7-11 on weekdays, and erratically on weekends.
  
• Charter member of Club "If I Ping Her, I'll Bother Her" and chair of the "Not That Good at AIM Small Talk" subcommittee. But I do not actually bite, and I'm usually up for whatever plotty or cracky ideas people throw at me.