Birthdate: July 19th
Age: 16

Born: Urbana
Lives: Urbana
Speaks: English

Physical
Eyes: Pale gray
Hair: Platinum blond, near white
Skin: Alabaster
Height: 5’5″
Weight: 110lbs
Odd traits: Backside is a mess of scar from his years on the street, ‘paying’ for his food.

Major: Does not apply
Minor, if any: -

Primarily paired with: Seneca Okoro

Birthdate: July 10th
Age: 19

Born: Sendai, Japan
Lives: Off campus, Urbana
Speaks: Japanese, slightly butchered English

Physical
Eyes: Dark red
Hair: Red, not the rusty-kind.
Skin: Light almond
Height: 5’10″
Weight: 150lbs
Odd traits: Knee and back scar due to a fire and cheerleading accident.

Major: Physical Therapy
Minor, if any: Not so much a minor as all she does in her free time, cheerleading

Primarily paired with: Alexi Cartiff

Birthdate: February 14th
Age: 21

Born: Hannover, Germany
Lives: Campus dorm
Speaks: German, English

Physical
Eyes: Sharp green
Hair: Black with (depending on her mood) blue or green streaks
Skin: Slightly tanned
Height: 6’0″
Weight: 180lbs
Odd traits: Back is a mess of scars.

Major: Bilingual Education
Minor, if any: Used to study massage therapy.

Primarily paired with: Luca Storm

Now however, they have begun to pour back within and it feels good. I wish they all would come back but some are still missing. No amount of searching and reaching out has yet to bring them back but I refuse to lose hope. I know they will come.

Some, of course, I know have left us permanently and I do mourn their passing but hold strong. Hoping that this will not happen again.

Here, have a look in my books. Those that do come back are lined out of one book, their names transferred to the other.

Cylean Silber – This one. Ah this one I do miss terribly and I am quite worried about his whereabouts. One of two most talented pianist, after his last concert he merely went missing. One moment he was in his changing room, the next he simply was gone. This was far too long ago, months have bled into years. However, my security team has told me that they have managed to find his signal, locate him through his chip. The only issue is that he is nearly half-way across the globe. A small team has been sent out to retrieve home. I hope we are not too long.

Edward Jones – Having been teaching in a nearby university, an old, dated letter from his adoptive sister has found its way back to him and his train should be coming in so very soon. From there, it will only be a few hours more before he is back and within, I would imagine that his family will be quite happy to see him back. Now if we could find his sister.

Eiji Kusanagi, Yamah Kusanagi – These twins, which way do I take as far as they are concerned? They are back, yes. I suppose they should be in my other books, but their lives keep on teetering on the edge and no amount of medical help seems to do it. All they have managed to do for them is set them up in their own room, a checkup once or twice a day. I myself cannot bear to go into their room, the sound of machines makes me ill and to see them lying so still as if they had no breath left to take doubly so.

Evan Morgan, Nave Morgan – A pair that had left to study in a nearby university, much the same Edward was teaching in, I believe a letter was sent to them recently to give them warning that their mate had returned home. They should be on their way soon. As soon as they step past these doors, their names will go into the proper book.

Maveryn Laruwien, Richard L. D’Angelo – Father and son. Indrah himself, older brother to Maveryn, came back earlier than expected thus his name is in the other book. The man’s wife however, Elvaleryn, is still missing but we were given news that she was also on her way home. Maveryn and Richard are on their way back. They had been in Antarctica, unbelievable this. I fear for Richard’s well-being however as latest news spoke of severe collaring, something along the lines of what was done for Chaos before Nicole did come back. Hopefully the presence of Owen will be enough to calm him.

Kojiro Fukai – In a way, this one has never left these walls. He merely stepped into a dimension where there was nothing. A dimension of blackness that had no time. Once he stepped within, he had no means of knowing how much time has gone by, the only way for him to know would be for someone to fetch him. Or simply for someone to step into the apartment where the door awaits. I do understand his reasons however. Had he not stepped into that dimension, he very simply would have lost his mind and I believe we would have lost a few to that on the way.

Jessika Sile – One of three children born to one mother but not the only one missing. I very well know where she is, but if she has no desire to be found, why tell? Cruel perhaps is what you would call me for this but I am not the one they call Fate. It is out of my hands. If she is to come back, she will.

Ryan Sile, Tebryn Abaeir – Second of three children, third one blessedly found and finally home, as well as a cousin. Ryan’s life has been tangled with Tebryn’s own, perhaps a good thing that family stay together? To a point. Both now are working in that place downtown that I would wish for nothing more than to see shut down but it is out of my hands. Into the hands of Mikhail who has returned but recently himself. I find myself worried for Tebryn more than Ryan since the former has fallen into the clutches of that twisted boyfriend of his. Well, boyfriend, turned ex, turned boyfriend.

Kee’leyiric Elrendir – While his father was saved from the life of slavery he had stumbled into, I am afraid to admit, and do hate having to admit it, that Kyle is still out there, much in the same position Kai’ had been up to this point. We cannot exactly pinpoint where he is, which makes getting him out of that situation rather complex. Soon however, soon I hope the tracker will give sign of life.

Louis Lanoblesse – I never expected him to leave. So far away even! He looked so happy when things had finally settled between he and his young lover, when they had a child. But he left. Way out there, to British Columbia. A letter has reached him recently however, this I know. Perhaps one can hope that he and his heaven-match will find one another again and come back home. Their daughter needs their presence.

Moyra Freeborn – Terror is what made this one flee. When her daughter brought forth news of a pregnancy through less than welcome means, terror settled in deep and she fled. Barely covering her tracks, I imagine that she merely needed to get away. Finding her isn’t so complex, it is convincing her to come back that might be. Just a town away, living a quiet, mostly peaceful if not terribly lonely life.

River – He changes surnames too often for me to be able to keep track and that is saying something. I was told that he left following something of a rather bad fight. Straight to Australia where he spends his days surfing both in and out of competitions. Of course he has been just about mauled by a shark on more than one occasion but last news had him on a hospital bed in something of a coma. Perhaps he will eventually come home.

Simon Veritas - There was little keeping this one within my walls. Once his interest seemed to have faded off into the distance, to be honest I don’t know what tore these two apart, but to be away from an abusive childhood friend, this one has set up a magic shop just beyond the downtown area of the town. Powders, herbs, jars with odd things in them. He lives on the second floor of his ship.

Rupert Thompson, Timothy Steinz – I do so wish these two had not fought, but I am rather happy to say that one of them is finally being transferred back within. Not so happy as to his condition. Timothy has been in a vegetative state and coma for the better part of a year, his doctors claim he will never wake but I refuse to believe this. His lover however, has been in the hands of the gang he had so desperately sought to tear to pieces for about as long, if not longer, than Timothy himself has been comatose. There is too little that can be done.

Shiyuri Hastur – I do not know the reason behind this one’s departure. Now she lives in a small studio a few steps away from the hospital she spends most of her days, and nights at. Moving from one room to the next, helping patients who need it more than others and refusing to give herself a moment to breathe. It is unhealthy for her to keep working this way.

Siana Storm - Another one who left without saying much of a word. Of course, she left when her boyfriend enrolled but somehow I don’t imagine that is the reason for it. Nowadays, all I see of her are those few, rare glimpses where she walks a young girl of about seven to and from school. The little girl much to old to be her own flesh and blood, it leaves me baffled as to who she might just be.

Tiarith En’dra - An incident that could have been avoided and I feel terrible about it. The details are not important, all that matters is that this one has been living the life of a recluse far, far away from everything. An island lost in the middle of nowhere with few means of getting there other than by water. She needs to come home.

Then, of course, there are those who are back, those who have never left but still are hoping for the return of their significant others.

Kyioshi Preadon – His days are spent in his apartment, caring for his wounded son. How young Jared was wounded is something that escapes me and no one seems to understand it. If anything, it does keep his mind off of the fact that he is somewhat terribly lonely. Another thing perhaps to keep him occupied is the fact that there is a tube in the lab, with a child growing, a grand-daughter for him and his mate, should he return.

The Vinter-Borough boys; Lukaas, Mikaas, Nikolaas and Tobiaas - Unexpected their departure, but a few weeks after they had come back. Called right back off, this once without warning, shipped off and if news could be given, they sent none. Now however, they are back, slowly settling in. It might be a short while before they go out of their apartments, before they do anything that will require them to move.

Damáiste Domhain - Another terrible accident. This one is simply in the regenerator for the sake that he does not seem to heal. The chamber is merely keeping him alive for now. Most do not understand why I refuse for them to unplug him, I believe that his chosen mate will come back and that his presence will help him heal.

Malice Kín, Tagri Kín – I wish both siblings would do as well as the other. In the case of Malice, he has spent the better part of the past months, if not more, in a little white cell. He has no need to be collared, no need to be set in a jacket. He merely rocks. His sister however, has closed in on herself but not quite as bad as her brother. While she spends most of her time in the library, at times, she does go outside, for fresh air. Loneliness is still visible however.

Nary Sile – Finally home after a mission that took too long, waiting patiently under the watchful eye of her sister. Her time is spent, currently, in the medical room that has been dubbed as hers as she heals up naturally. If she were to be told of her son’s whereabouts, there is no saying that her recovery would keep going so well.

Touki Subeta – Recently returned, this one has been hiding in the apartment that was set as his since. What little I have managed to get out of the one who put him through the medical once over, is that he seems to have been cornered. ‘Why’ is my question. Why cornered and why is he reacting this way? It certainly wasn’t the first time, and most likely wasn’t the last. Why is this one so different?

Diao Shiroshinrei – While I know she never left, all I know is that I have seen her wandering the halls aimlessly. It bothers me to think that she does not know what to do with herself. She looks like a ghost of her former self, not something that is comforting.

Xenith Maxima-Lars – Much as Kyioshi, this one has spent the better part of the recent while caring for her child, her daughter. Sasha having had in mind to go cold turkey on blood and settle for the herbal mix. It took some time but she is finally stabilizing. The other thing keeping this one from leaving is much the same as it is Kyioshi, that very same tube. A child growing, a grand-daughter.

That does seem to be it for now.. I hope to have more names in my returned book than in my missing one soon.

Beyond these, the borns are as different as they should be, one’s realm of birth cannot be confused with another due to their coloring.

Color-slides were all done using Photoshop (and the ever useful gradient tool), and the example dolls as you will see in a moment, came from here, so credit for the dolls as a whole go to the Dollmaker’s creator. I only used my color-slides as base in the color tab and saved the result.

Spring-born:
Eyes: Are usually in bright colors. Blue, green, amethyst or even magenta.

Hair: All shades of blond, minus platinum.

Skin: Ranging from cream to sun-kissed.

Attitude: Their attitude is the same as the season could be considered to be: warm and welcoming. Spring-born are open and warm to all that meet them, even when they are in Quade Village. They are friendly and outgoing, welcoming visitors and strangers from other villages in their realm easily. Trusting, they do not pass judgment based solely on looks and are usually seen as Chiera’s pacifists.

Here as some examples of how the inhabitants may look:

Summer-born:
Eyes: Dark green, ambers and dark/hot browns

Hair: Browns and black

Skin: Ranging from tan to mocha

Attitude: Summer-born are often considered to be feisty, first and foremost. Strong willed and at times arrogant, their determination is something that is rarely seen in other realms. Otherwise with more than enough energy to spare, they are hard workers and have been known to prefer working to earn their living though there always are exceptions to the rule, as always.

Here as some examples of how the inhabitants may look:

Autumn-born:
Eyes: Ranging from yellow, golden to brown

Hair: Red, bronze and gold

Skin: From fair to light tan

Attitude: There is no single word to really describe Autumn-born. Their overall attitude is so diversified that it would do them no justice to find but one word. They are mostly considered to be ‘changing’ as is the season. Warm and welcoming, cool and distant, arrogant and feisty, the Autumn-born could be considered as being a little bit of all other realms put together.

Here as some examples of how the inhabitants may look:

Winter-born:
Eyes: Pale shades: green, blue, lavender and midway gray

Hair: Usually white, some light blue or platinum blond

Skin: Simply pallid to frost white

Attitude: Often considered cold, perhaps aloof would be a better term for Winter-born. Though they are not all so cold as to turn their back on someone in need, they will not go out of their way to reach out and make some friends. Some, of course, are friendlier than others, not to say they are unfriendly but merely tend to keep to themselves. If there is work to be done, they would rather work by themselves instead of in crowd but they will form close-knit groups when given time and the right people.

Here as some examples of how the inhabitants may look:

• Registered Nurse
• Parents wanted a daughter
• Looks womanly enough to pass off as everything but a man

Mimi is usually mistaken for a women because of how womanly he looks. Doctors seem to claim that in the womb, he had a twin sister, but she died and merged into him, changing his traits to match hers, as if they were one and only person. Sadly so, Myriam is definitely male for what’s between his legs, and he wouldn’t dream of being a woman.

His parents desperately were hoping for a baby girl, and so when you baby boy Mimi was born, they gave him a girl’s name, dressed him in pink, and raised him as a girl. During teenage years, this became a problem, because Mimi just wasn’t like every ‘girl’ in his class. Despite that his voice was the proper pitch, he didn’t have the same parts as other girls in his class did. That he learned with his first boyfriend since, after all, girls are supposed to date boys.

A little alcohol in his later high school years lead to a bit of fooling around, and when clothes came off, and Mimi came face to face with parts he was so very familiar with, his world started to shatter. He managed to transfer schools without the knowledge of his parents, starting living his life as a man instead of a woman, or at least to the best of his ability he did while he still lived under his parents’ roof.

His rather strong liking to boy and men never changed from his ‘woman’ years and he remained in the gay ‘mindset’ rather than being straight since ‘other’ girls had never interested him. In some way, one has to wonder if they parents had ever really thought that far ahead into things… probably not.

In his new school, Myriam, who mostly went by his middle name of Jaime, settled into something of a steady relationship and discovered the pleasure of male to male sexual adventures and fantasies.

Once out of high school and amazingly enough still with the same man, he went to university with hopes of becoming a nurse for reasons that were somewhat beyond him considering he has something of a fear of blood. Mild as it is, it still is present and he has to try and overcome it every time he has to work with it. A small part of him wonders if he wouldn’t be happier as a scientist or something else entirely but he’s unsure of what he’ll do with his life at this point.

His primary reason for wanting to be a nurse was because he loved being able to visit patients and see them smile when he did something for them. He loves being able to help children who suffer from cancer and are constantly in the hospital because it makes him feel better. He does have a habit of getting attached to the patients he takes care of, which makes things difficult when a child comes to pass away or is finally released from the hospital, though the latter is subject to celebration more than tears.

Mimi currently lives with his high-school sweetheart/boyfriend though they work completely opposite shifts and haven’t actually had much time together in some time. When they do have time they do their best to make up for it but their relationship is beginning to be strained, no matter what they do about it. There haven’t been any sparks yet so as to make said relationship shatter, but one never knows what could happen.

I ache. My feet, legs and back hurt because we worked on the leaves today, picked up. We have eighteen extra large bags full, ready to be picked up, and we still have leaves on the yard, but those’ll be going through the mower once I plug it up (battery powered mower and all). Now, onto Akeem.

Some facts:

• Half-breed
• Seer despite being blind
• Constantly abused by the Pharaoh of the time, but taken care of, usually, by the Pharaoh’s first born son

Akeem is half man half sphinx, an unusual mix of breeds and the only one of his kind living in that area of Egypt. He was found, cliche as it might just be, in a basket, floating on the Nile, towards the palace. Is the term palace the one to be used in ancient Egypt? I can’t remember and at the moment I’m enough out of it to barely actually care to look it up.

Ever since his young age, Akeem has been under the watchful eye and care of Javed, first son to the Pharaoh and heir to the throne (if his twin brother doesn’t manage to kill him first, but that’s for another time). When he gets beaten for being unable to actually see what the Pharaoh wants him to see (he is a seer after all, but visions don’t come as he wills them, they come when they want to), he tends to turn to his childhood friend for comfort.

The young boy can see things through touch, visions usually concerning the person he touches. That would be how, his ability to see the future, came to be known, too. He’d tripped on something, awkwardly landed on his friend and companion and saw images. He saw images of his friend and an outsider coming about.

The only thing he has never managed to see, in his visions, is the true face of the one who seems to be out to protect him from the harm of the world. All he can see, or imagine at that point, is a voice and a warmth. Images he sees when touching that very man are usually blurry or said man is always out of his sight.

Let’s go beyond that, a few facts about darling Robin Baltimore, BoaF style:

• Blind since birth
• Married at eighteen with his high school sweetheart
• Has a three years old daughter (though she looks nothing like him)

Robin was born second to his brother Zaahir in Manchester, England. When he was six, and his brother ten, their parents both died and they were taken in by a distant aunt that was never actually really there, so Zaa raised Robin mostly by himself.

Despite the early loss of their parents and Robin’s disability, he managed to get through school well enough, of course in a special course and tutors at home. In his first year in high school, he met up a sweet girl whom he married when they were both eighteen and is now the proud father of an adorable little three years old or so he believes. Anyone who looks at little Sonya can tell rather easily that she’s not his, not that anyone will tell him, it would break his heart.

Or would have, in any case. Going beyond his disabilities, Robin studied in languages and became a well-known translator for a worldwide agency who technically ‘rents’ him, set him up with contracts for set time frames and when that is done, he comes home and waits for another contract. He does work often enough, usually has to move however and his wife has been most supporting in moving with him every single time.

Robin owns a beautiful harlequin Great Dane he’s named Topaz. She’s actually his eye seeing dog, a feat rarely seen considering his is the first dog of that breed to be accepted into the program. Topaz being quite the size, and Robin so petite, he is very much so dwarfed next to her, which does amuse a few, but Topaz would protect her caretaker with everything she has and always keeps him safe, even beyond the daily work of eye-seeing-dog vs. blind man.

During one of his latest assignments, he ended up in part playing nurse and caretaker for a short while as the one person he was working with had a tendency for getting sucked into his work. During that very week, something rather unexpected happened which left Robin drowning in guilt until he was able to go beyond that, until his body actually started craving more.

When you haven’t had a healthy sexual relationship with your wife since the birth of your daughter, and a knowledgeable partner (even if male) comes along (even if by accident) and brings you some sort of pleasure, at the tender age of twenty two (hormones much?), wouldn’t you end up asking for more if the pleasure was more than you’d actually experienced to this day? I know I would… at least after I got beyond the guilt of what I’d done.

It is, after all, what Robin did do, quite beyond his understanding since he’s always believed himself as straight as can be. Of course, during his high school years he’d wondered at being bisexual but had never experimented, unlike his brother.

And because I do mention him here and there: Zaahir is a big flirt who likes to experiment and knows he likes both men and women.

And for today’s blitz: Hannah Križ, DoW style.

• Currently 34
• Was mother to one but lost the child to war
• Born in Czechoslovakia

Hannah became a mother when she was just barely sixteen, if her son was still alive to this day, he would have been eighteen. But when he turned just that, sixteen, he enrolled to go to war and was killed on his first mission.

She had been working for the government and in some way through them for the military for some years now already and his death only pushed her to focusing on her work. Only person who might be even more a workaholic than she is would be her ‘childhood’ friend Phillip.

They’ve known one another for quite the number of years (number that shall be determined next I discuss with my companion XP) and usually do end up working together on projects. When the war really broke out, they ended up being shipped together to work on a base where they were eventually picked up by a medical ship.

Currently pregnant, and that through some rather unexpected means (who would have expected that a night of overdrinking after a celebration would lead to this? Especially considering she was supposed to be unable to carry), she does try to keep it to herself but it is getting difficult to hide it. Being pregnant in a time of war is the last thing she was hoping for, not that she will give up the child.

But since the world as a whole has fallen to an unsettling darkness without electricty or means of communication, there are other things for her to worry about and she does tend to work herself into exhaustion. Soon enough her labcoat just won’t cover the growing tummy and the truth will have to come out, how things settle once that does is untold at the moment, though some is planned out.

As far as the whole crew/group that ended up together in hopes of preparing a countermeasure to try and stop the war, when the dark fell, they made their way to an abandoned ski resort where they’re planning to stay for the time being, there is enough wood to last them when the winter will come and plenty of food and animals nearby should they run out.

Aaaand.. I seem to be running out of things to say though my watch is just abobut to beep me the end of my fifteen minutes blitz, so I shouldn’t complain. Ta now!

So the basics:

• Yin was born before Yang, they are actually over sixteen hours apart and technically a ‘day’ apart, they were born on different days
• Their coloring, though unusual, is very natural if only because they are not fully humans
• Currently enrolled in a private school in Rochester, New York

Yin and Yang are as close as any twins can be, they share a room, usually share a bed when things go bad and are closer to one another than they are their parents. The boys were put up for adoption about a month after they were born due to their mother just not being able to handle them. Don’t get me wrong, they weren’t noisy, they weren’t screamers, their mother just suffered from postpartum depression. She couldn’t stand the thought of actually touching them, and their father was working full time so he was barely home. It was the mother’s own father who decided it was best for the boys to have other parents.

It would perhaps explain why the twins are closer to one another than they are their adoptive parents, to add to it, is also the fact that when they were ten, for reasons that they were not told, they were shipped back off to adoption for another set of parents to find.

Both musically inclined, they are very fond of water and love to spend time outside when it rains. Add thunder and/or lightning to it however and they will be hiding somewhere where the sound cannot get to them. That, again is something without much of an explanation and something they don’t really want to discuss.

Rumors can pretty often be heard at their school since the twins have no qualms about holding hands or feeding one another at lunch time, amongst other ‘intimate’ actions that most teenagers their age will believe only belongs to lovers. Even the school has, at times, tried to pull them apart from putting them into separate classes but that hasn’t stopped them from being so close to one another. They were, however, booted out of the dorms when, after having been put in separate rooms, they started up a ruckus.

It isn’t something that bothers them since they get to sleep at home, the only thing that comes from it all, is that they have to be up at ungodly hours for the nearly two-hour train/subway ride to get to school, and they get home late from school for the very same reasons.