Application: Holly Heights
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fang2_d2OOC INFORMATION
Player: Leca
Age: 32
Personal Journal: leca
Contact Info: lecanis @ aim, plurk, email
Other Characters: n/a
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Fang
Age: 16
Canon: Maximum Ride
Canon Point: Nevermore, near the end, during fight with Dylan
Species: Bird-human hybrid; “Avian American”
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual. His main love interest in the novels is female, and everyone else he temporarily shows an interest in during the course of the series is also female. He also responds to a comment on his blog saying he isn’t gay.
History: Fang’s early life was something straight out of nightmares: he spent his first years being experimented upon by mad-scientist types. The place in which he lived was called “The School”, but bore little resemblance to a place of learning. Fang and other experiments like himself lived in dog cages, and specimens whose DNA modifications turned out less stable than his died in front of his eyes on a regular basis.
Like many of the children at the School, Fang didn’t know anything about where he came from before that, and he never learned who his parents were or had any contact with them. The “family” that he came to know as his own were known as “the Flock”, and consisted of a group of birdkids like himself: Max, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. Fang was the second oldest member of the group, and considered the right-wing-man of the leader Max.
When the Flock was taken away from the School by a scientist named Jeb, their lives improved for a while. Jeb took them away to a place where they could live in peace, and they lived in a happy home together with their savior for a while. When Jeb disappeared, it was believed by the Flock that he had died, and Max stepped into a somewhat parental role with the other members. While Jeb did eventually show up again, he was never considered entirely trustworthy after that, and never resumed his role with the Flock.
When Fang was fourteen, a lot of things changed. An attack by other genetically altered beings - known as “Erasers” and part-wolf - caused the Flock to have to leave their home, and they took off running. Or flying, as it were. This would begin a series of adventures that spans eight novels, through which Fang plays a significant role.
Fang starts out very quiet, so much so that people often forget that he’s around. However, as the story goes on and the Flock tries to solve various mysteries about both their current situation and their origins, he begins to take more and more active roles. It started fairly simply: he started a blog about the birdkids and their lives, garnering attention mostly from young people and trying to stir up support for their cause.
Later, when Max allowed an Eraser who had previously been an enemy to stay with the Flock after helping them, Fang decided that he couldn’t live with that situation and took Iggy and Gasman and left. This brief split of the Flock was a hard time for everyone involved, and didn’t last long. When Max and her remaining followers were in danger, Fang both mobilized kids to help them through his blog and headed off to help them himself. He and his part of the Flock were delayed, but the blog readers proved to be an asset in the fight that followed.
This wasn’t to be the only time Fang fled his little ragtag adoptive family. A budding romantic relationship between himself and Max led to the other member’s of the Flock feeling left out and lacking leadership, and the two teenagers wound up taking off on their own again. Of course, as before, danger brought the Flock back together.
But danger could separate them as well. When the youngest member of the group, Angel, pronounced that Fang would be the first to die, it was very unsettling. And when he did die - briefly - , it became even more of an issue. Even though he was brought back to life, it proved that he was always going to be in danger, and a danger to those around him. At the time, he didn’t know why. A newcomer to the Flock - a cloned birdkid named Dylan who had been created to be Max’s “perfect other half” - wound up giving Fang the last push that he needed to take action anew. This time, that action was setting off to become leader of his own group of enhanced kids.
Fang’s “gang” started out with a few kids who he met through his blog, and grew to include a clone of Max. It didn’t last long, and didn’t end well. The clone, who now called herself Maya, wound up dying, and two other member’s of Fang’s group wound up betraying him because they would rather protect themselves than do anything about a threat to humanity. Fang wound up heading back to the Flock, desperate to find Max and help her despite all the complicated issues between them.
He got there through hitchhiking and walking, unable to fly because of injuries sustained in a fight against yet another incarnation of the Erasers. Soon afterward, he was off with the Flock to help rescue Angel, who had been presumed dead but was discovered to have been taken by the scientists again instead.
Immediately following Angels rescue, more trouble ensued for the Flock. The Erasers, including a newly-cloned version of an old acquaintance, came knocking, along with their old ‘friend’ Jeb. And the news that Jeb brought with him was shocking: not only was Fang supposed to die, he was being targeted because his DNA held the key to immortality. This didn’t mean that Fang himself was necessarily immortal, but his lifespan was unknown and his DNA was infinitely regenerative. The scientific community was in an uproar, and everyone wanted their hands on Fang. Jeb claimed to want to kill Fang to save him from years of experimentation, from being put into a vegetative state and kept alive that way indefinitely.
The Flock, of course, wasn’t simply going to accept that Fang had to die. They fought as they had always fought, and with the help of their newest member Dylan, managed to persevere over the Erasers. When that was accomplished, however, Dylan turned to attack Fang himself, also tasked with the job of taking him out and determined to do so.
It’s from this point that Fang will come into Holly Heights, his last memory being of Dylan’s hands around his throat, Max trying to protect him, and death likely just a moment away.
Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/MNMcv.jpg
Personality: For much of his life, Fang was a very quiet boy, tending to fade into the background. Even after leaving the School and escaping the scientists, he let the more talkative members of his Flock carry conversations while he made the occasional snarky comment or tease. As the second oldest of his group, he tended to think of himself as somewhat responsible for the younger members.
Early on, Fang learned that people aside from his Flock were not to be trusted, and he wasn’t quick to socialize with anyone else. Eventually, however, he began to believe that the Flock could benefit from the help of outsiders, as long as there was a way to control the information that got out about them. Thus began the blog, and Fang’s increased dependence on it (and his readers) showed an underlying desire for a support network and to move outside his own secret little world. This newfound ability to trust others doesn’t extend to adults, only kids.
Fang’s personal values are at times quite noble. Despite his sometimes rudeness, he wants to help others, and would sacrifice himself not only for his Flock, but often for others in need. When the question of whether to leave the human race to die while saving themselves or do what they could to help everyone came up, Fang came down quite firmly on the side of helping others. This caused a rift in his gang and led up to a betrayal, but Fang didn’t change his mind.
Like most individuals with strong beliefs, however, Fang also suffers from a certain amount of guilt. He’s made some very serious mistakes over the course of his young life, some of which come with body counts. He says himself that he has regrets when he’s faced with the death of Ari, who had been an enemy and nearly killed Fang, but ultimately chose to help the Flock and died during that endeavor. Fang’s distrust of and refusal to be around Ari caused a rift which for a while separated his little adoptive family.
Fang’s regrets also extend to his relationships with individuals. Like most people who see themselves as “strong” or “capable”, every situation in which he has felt helpless or been unable to save a friend in danger weighs on him heavily. He has been at least partially responsible for most of the situation in which the Flock has split up, and has treated others harshly at times when he felt hurt himself.
While he is trying to overcome these things, changes in behavior patterns and thought processes take time, and he has a tendency to be disheartened by his failures and to take his anger at situations out on others, at times. Even, or perhaps especially, on those he loves. He’s a pretty classic example of a teenager with issues who has a good heart hidden somewhere underneath them.
Abilites: As an avian-human hybrid, Fang has quite a few advantages over humans. He has wings, can fly at outrageous speeds, and maneuver well both on the ground and in the air. He has enhanced vision, like hawk eyes. He’s both stronger and faster than a human being, and can deliver blows with crushing force. Accelerated healing is another perk of his genetic alteration, and most injuries get better within a couple of days. Even more than others of his kind, Fang specifically is very hard to kill, and has recovered from injuries that should have been fatal more than once.
A more recent power development is the ability to camouflage himself, as long as he doesn’t move. While sitting directly in front of others who are actually looking right at him, he can disappear. The effect goes away as soon as he moves, however.
In anticipation of an apocalypse that would leave most of the world underwater, Fang’s kind were also created with an ability to breathe underwater, which is also a recent manifestation and something he would still be getting used to.
Without his special bird-kid powers, Fang would still have access to the basic fighting ability that he’s both trained and developed through experience. He’s also quite streetwise, used to having to survive in less than ideal living conditions, and able to take care of himself. His education is somewhat spotty, and has a lot of gaps, but he’s been doing a lot of self-study recently. He’s used to trying to puzzle his way through complicated schemes and the motivations of others.
Other:
SAMPLES
First Person: [He wavers for quite some time about how to attempt communication. He hasn’t entirely gotten over his awkwardness with people, and the idea of just displaying himself on video to a bunch of strangers is not a pleasant one. He’s been there, done that. Fame is overrated.
Instead, he chooses text.]
Yo.
I guess there’s a lot of WTF that goes around here, so my one more voice isn’t going to make much difference. It’s not everyday that people just pop into some other world, though I’d say my life is weirder than most.
I can probably find the answers to my questions better looking around than this, but whatevs. I’ll introduce myself, anyway.
I’m Fang. At home I guess I’m known for being a blogger. Hit me up if you want to talk sometime, I have a feeling I’m going to need all the help I can get to stay sane in a place like this.
Third Person: He’s at the top of the tree again. It’s not something that he sets out to do; it just seems to happen. One minute he’ll be standing on the ground, looking up, and the next he’s climbing.
The climb itself is easy. Even though he’s no longer super-powered, Fang is still long-limbed, young, and reasonably athletic. He hauls himself up branch after branch without being winded by the effort, then sits as high up as he can get before the branches start cracking under his weight.
It’s not like flying. Not even when the wind stirs around his shoes, or causes his hair to press against his face. But it’s closer, as close as he can get, at the moment. It’s better than standing on the ground and stretching his hands up toward the sky, though he’s tried that too.
When he’s finally distracted from communing with the wind, it’s by someone looking up worriedly. A stranger, an adult, who seems to think that he’s going to fall and break his neck and really should come down. Some idiot who thinks they have a right to tell him what to do, even if they don’t know him.
He should be grateful for the concern, he’s pretty sure that’s how you’re supposed to react. Instead, he slinks back against the trunk of the tree - forgetting he can no longer disappear - closes his eyes, and blocks the voice out.
OTHER
Housing Request?: Don’t have one!
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Sure did.
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: Sure, why not?
Player: Leca
Age: 32
Personal Journal: leca
Contact Info: lecanis @ aim, plurk, email
Other Characters: n/a
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Fang
Age: 16
Canon: Maximum Ride
Canon Point: Nevermore, near the end, during fight with Dylan
Species: Bird-human hybrid; “Avian American”
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual. His main love interest in the novels is female, and everyone else he temporarily shows an interest in during the course of the series is also female. He also responds to a comment on his blog saying he isn’t gay.
History: Fang’s early life was something straight out of nightmares: he spent his first years being experimented upon by mad-scientist types. The place in which he lived was called “The School”, but bore little resemblance to a place of learning. Fang and other experiments like himself lived in dog cages, and specimens whose DNA modifications turned out less stable than his died in front of his eyes on a regular basis.
Like many of the children at the School, Fang didn’t know anything about where he came from before that, and he never learned who his parents were or had any contact with them. The “family” that he came to know as his own were known as “the Flock”, and consisted of a group of birdkids like himself: Max, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. Fang was the second oldest member of the group, and considered the right-wing-man of the leader Max.
When the Flock was taken away from the School by a scientist named Jeb, their lives improved for a while. Jeb took them away to a place where they could live in peace, and they lived in a happy home together with their savior for a while. When Jeb disappeared, it was believed by the Flock that he had died, and Max stepped into a somewhat parental role with the other members. While Jeb did eventually show up again, he was never considered entirely trustworthy after that, and never resumed his role with the Flock.
When Fang was fourteen, a lot of things changed. An attack by other genetically altered beings - known as “Erasers” and part-wolf - caused the Flock to have to leave their home, and they took off running. Or flying, as it were. This would begin a series of adventures that spans eight novels, through which Fang plays a significant role.
Fang starts out very quiet, so much so that people often forget that he’s around. However, as the story goes on and the Flock tries to solve various mysteries about both their current situation and their origins, he begins to take more and more active roles. It started fairly simply: he started a blog about the birdkids and their lives, garnering attention mostly from young people and trying to stir up support for their cause.
Later, when Max allowed an Eraser who had previously been an enemy to stay with the Flock after helping them, Fang decided that he couldn’t live with that situation and took Iggy and Gasman and left. This brief split of the Flock was a hard time for everyone involved, and didn’t last long. When Max and her remaining followers were in danger, Fang both mobilized kids to help them through his blog and headed off to help them himself. He and his part of the Flock were delayed, but the blog readers proved to be an asset in the fight that followed.
This wasn’t to be the only time Fang fled his little ragtag adoptive family. A budding romantic relationship between himself and Max led to the other member’s of the Flock feeling left out and lacking leadership, and the two teenagers wound up taking off on their own again. Of course, as before, danger brought the Flock back together.
But danger could separate them as well. When the youngest member of the group, Angel, pronounced that Fang would be the first to die, it was very unsettling. And when he did die - briefly - , it became even more of an issue. Even though he was brought back to life, it proved that he was always going to be in danger, and a danger to those around him. At the time, he didn’t know why. A newcomer to the Flock - a cloned birdkid named Dylan who had been created to be Max’s “perfect other half” - wound up giving Fang the last push that he needed to take action anew. This time, that action was setting off to become leader of his own group of enhanced kids.
Fang’s “gang” started out with a few kids who he met through his blog, and grew to include a clone of Max. It didn’t last long, and didn’t end well. The clone, who now called herself Maya, wound up dying, and two other member’s of Fang’s group wound up betraying him because they would rather protect themselves than do anything about a threat to humanity. Fang wound up heading back to the Flock, desperate to find Max and help her despite all the complicated issues between them.
He got there through hitchhiking and walking, unable to fly because of injuries sustained in a fight against yet another incarnation of the Erasers. Soon afterward, he was off with the Flock to help rescue Angel, who had been presumed dead but was discovered to have been taken by the scientists again instead.
Immediately following Angels rescue, more trouble ensued for the Flock. The Erasers, including a newly-cloned version of an old acquaintance, came knocking, along with their old ‘friend’ Jeb. And the news that Jeb brought with him was shocking: not only was Fang supposed to die, he was being targeted because his DNA held the key to immortality. This didn’t mean that Fang himself was necessarily immortal, but his lifespan was unknown and his DNA was infinitely regenerative. The scientific community was in an uproar, and everyone wanted their hands on Fang. Jeb claimed to want to kill Fang to save him from years of experimentation, from being put into a vegetative state and kept alive that way indefinitely.
The Flock, of course, wasn’t simply going to accept that Fang had to die. They fought as they had always fought, and with the help of their newest member Dylan, managed to persevere over the Erasers. When that was accomplished, however, Dylan turned to attack Fang himself, also tasked with the job of taking him out and determined to do so.
It’s from this point that Fang will come into Holly Heights, his last memory being of Dylan’s hands around his throat, Max trying to protect him, and death likely just a moment away.
Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/MNMcv.jpg
Personality: For much of his life, Fang was a very quiet boy, tending to fade into the background. Even after leaving the School and escaping the scientists, he let the more talkative members of his Flock carry conversations while he made the occasional snarky comment or tease. As the second oldest of his group, he tended to think of himself as somewhat responsible for the younger members.
Early on, Fang learned that people aside from his Flock were not to be trusted, and he wasn’t quick to socialize with anyone else. Eventually, however, he began to believe that the Flock could benefit from the help of outsiders, as long as there was a way to control the information that got out about them. Thus began the blog, and Fang’s increased dependence on it (and his readers) showed an underlying desire for a support network and to move outside his own secret little world. This newfound ability to trust others doesn’t extend to adults, only kids.
Fang’s personal values are at times quite noble. Despite his sometimes rudeness, he wants to help others, and would sacrifice himself not only for his Flock, but often for others in need. When the question of whether to leave the human race to die while saving themselves or do what they could to help everyone came up, Fang came down quite firmly on the side of helping others. This caused a rift in his gang and led up to a betrayal, but Fang didn’t change his mind.
Like most individuals with strong beliefs, however, Fang also suffers from a certain amount of guilt. He’s made some very serious mistakes over the course of his young life, some of which come with body counts. He says himself that he has regrets when he’s faced with the death of Ari, who had been an enemy and nearly killed Fang, but ultimately chose to help the Flock and died during that endeavor. Fang’s distrust of and refusal to be around Ari caused a rift which for a while separated his little adoptive family.
Fang’s regrets also extend to his relationships with individuals. Like most people who see themselves as “strong” or “capable”, every situation in which he has felt helpless or been unable to save a friend in danger weighs on him heavily. He has been at least partially responsible for most of the situation in which the Flock has split up, and has treated others harshly at times when he felt hurt himself.
While he is trying to overcome these things, changes in behavior patterns and thought processes take time, and he has a tendency to be disheartened by his failures and to take his anger at situations out on others, at times. Even, or perhaps especially, on those he loves. He’s a pretty classic example of a teenager with issues who has a good heart hidden somewhere underneath them.
Abilites: As an avian-human hybrid, Fang has quite a few advantages over humans. He has wings, can fly at outrageous speeds, and maneuver well both on the ground and in the air. He has enhanced vision, like hawk eyes. He’s both stronger and faster than a human being, and can deliver blows with crushing force. Accelerated healing is another perk of his genetic alteration, and most injuries get better within a couple of days. Even more than others of his kind, Fang specifically is very hard to kill, and has recovered from injuries that should have been fatal more than once.
A more recent power development is the ability to camouflage himself, as long as he doesn’t move. While sitting directly in front of others who are actually looking right at him, he can disappear. The effect goes away as soon as he moves, however.
In anticipation of an apocalypse that would leave most of the world underwater, Fang’s kind were also created with an ability to breathe underwater, which is also a recent manifestation and something he would still be getting used to.
Without his special bird-kid powers, Fang would still have access to the basic fighting ability that he’s both trained and developed through experience. He’s also quite streetwise, used to having to survive in less than ideal living conditions, and able to take care of himself. His education is somewhat spotty, and has a lot of gaps, but he’s been doing a lot of self-study recently. He’s used to trying to puzzle his way through complicated schemes and the motivations of others.
Other:
SAMPLES
First Person: [He wavers for quite some time about how to attempt communication. He hasn’t entirely gotten over his awkwardness with people, and the idea of just displaying himself on video to a bunch of strangers is not a pleasant one. He’s been there, done that. Fame is overrated.
Instead, he chooses text.]
Yo.
I guess there’s a lot of WTF that goes around here, so my one more voice isn’t going to make much difference. It’s not everyday that people just pop into some other world, though I’d say my life is weirder than most.
I can probably find the answers to my questions better looking around than this, but whatevs. I’ll introduce myself, anyway.
I’m Fang. At home I guess I’m known for being a blogger. Hit me up if you want to talk sometime, I have a feeling I’m going to need all the help I can get to stay sane in a place like this.
Third Person: He’s at the top of the tree again. It’s not something that he sets out to do; it just seems to happen. One minute he’ll be standing on the ground, looking up, and the next he’s climbing.
The climb itself is easy. Even though he’s no longer super-powered, Fang is still long-limbed, young, and reasonably athletic. He hauls himself up branch after branch without being winded by the effort, then sits as high up as he can get before the branches start cracking under his weight.
It’s not like flying. Not even when the wind stirs around his shoes, or causes his hair to press against his face. But it’s closer, as close as he can get, at the moment. It’s better than standing on the ground and stretching his hands up toward the sky, though he’s tried that too.
When he’s finally distracted from communing with the wind, it’s by someone looking up worriedly. A stranger, an adult, who seems to think that he’s going to fall and break his neck and really should come down. Some idiot who thinks they have a right to tell him what to do, even if they don’t know him.
He should be grateful for the concern, he’s pretty sure that’s how you’re supposed to react. Instead, he slinks back against the trunk of the tree - forgetting he can no longer disappear - closes his eyes, and blocks the voice out.
OTHER
Housing Request?: Don’t have one!
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Sure did.
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: Sure, why not?