Do you remember asking for profiles for the RBQF impro, using the form we stol- er, borrowed from Octogon Rumble? I don't know if you still want them, but here's mine.
Name: Cosmos
Sex: Female
Physical Age: Mid-twenties
True Age: Unknown
Also Goes By: Cosmos. That's the problem with only having one name.
Residence: The top two stories of the building that houses her bookstore: Wardenclyffe Tower
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 160
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black, mid-back length.
Primary Goal(s):
To pay the bills at the end of the month.
To live as close to a normal life as is possible in Dream City.
Secondary Goal(s):
To build up some sort of nest egg, so she doesn't have to worry about the bills at the end of the month.
To fill as many of her customer's special orders as possible.
To find out exactly what causes all the weird stuff that happens around her.
Strengths/Abilities:
-Very good marksman. Although she tends to favor a paintball gun (paint can be chemically cleaned from books, bullet holes can't) she could be highly lethal depending on what sort of weapon she picks up, any projectile will do, really. Even with the paintball gun, she can be highly distracting to incapacitating.
-Serviceable knife-fighter and fairly comfortable with hand-to-hand. She can defend herself, but close combat isn't her first choice.
-Sensitive to any sort of dimensional disturbance, allowing her to detect anything within about a mile of her and home in on the disturbance.
-When Cosmos is under extreme stress, there's a fairly good chance a portal will open to somewhere else and produce an object that is often of use to her in the situation she's in. How much use it is varies, however.
Weaknesses/Quirks:
-Is attracted to dimensional disturbances, often approaching them in the face of better judgment.
-Is reluctant to become involved in a conflict unless lives are on the line. She will do the right thing and help out her friends, but there will be a lot of grumbling involved.
-Loves her building. Any attack or damage to Wardenclyffe Tower, actual or intended, will send her hunting for blood.
-Hates censorship and book-burning in all it's forms. Very passionate about free speech.
-Her sense of humor can best be described as dry wit. She takes a certain cynical amusement in life in general and her life in particular.
Likes:
Books
Wardenclyffe Tower
Iced Coffee
The sound rain makes on the roof
Soundtracks
Her rooftop garden
Steady customers
Dislikes:
Lingering, damp cold
Censorship
Reality Television
Lounge Singers
Background:
Cosmos doesn't actually remember anything prior to arriving in Dream City. Considering where she lives, and the usual backgrounds of people who show up in that city without memories, she's a little paranoid about her past. But as time passes and no one shows up claiming that she's their clone, evil twin, destined warrior, or the product of an advance but unscrupulous genetic engineering program, she's relaxed a bit. She still doesn't want to talk about her past, though. If she's any of the above, she doesn't want to know.
Quite frankly, she isn't any of the above. She didn't strictly exist before she appeared in Dream City, she's basically a cosmic typo. She doesn't have any great destiny; a fact she would no doubt be relieved to know.
Cosmos is the voice of reason crying out in the wilderness, which means that she tends to lead a rather frustrated life. She also has a bit of a big sister complex, meaning she will do her best to help the people around her even if they don't directly ask her to, especially if they're younger than her. She can be a source of unexpected obscure knowledge... living in a bookstore will do that to a person.
Fellow Authors, please ask me before you:
-Depict Cosmos as a coward. Combat is not her first choice, and she sees nothing wrong with running away if she's clearly outmatched, but she will not abandon other characters. In a hopeless situation, she will either try to talk the other characters into a strategic retreat or, failing that, knock them over the head and drag them to safety. If neither of these avenues are open, she will stand and fight. She will, however, loudly and repeatedly state the foolhardiness of doing so.
-Depict Cosmos as a complete prude. She's a normal twenty-something woman when she's not locked in a theater being forced to watch deranged sex with deranged people.
Fellow Authors, please do not:
-Write something with me in it and not let me see it.
Posted on May 4, 2003, 7:07 PM from IP address 12.82.83.167