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Art trade for me - the first in forever! My OC Sour looking adorable on skates with her pupper Peaches. He’s so friggn’ cute!

an art trade! this is Sour, and she belongs to a friend. I saw that she likes roller skating and i couldnt resist drawing her, haha.

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Sour

Full Name: Sour-Lime Skittles Race: Human Gender: Female Age: 29 Height: 5'7" Weight: 327 lbs Hair: Green Eyes: Red

Other physical characteristics: Wears round, dark-green (almost black) rimmed glasses, hair is always in some kind of "up" do, but it actually reaches just past her shoulders and is quite thick. Her body-shape, albeit rotund, does not really affect what she wears, but her sense of fashion reflects her nature, which is sassy, fluffy, bright and vivacious all the way. Favourite colours include lime greens, lemon yellows, and peach.

Miscellaneous information: Contrary to her name, she's the sweetest thing ever. A rubenesque cutie, who's more than a little myopic (nearsighted) without her glasses. She comes off slightly vapid, but mostly that's because she's so bubbly and enthusiastic. Works the reception for a small claims insurance company, serving customers on phones and via email, who often become flustered and/or enraged simply by her efficient, bubbly, and unrufflable manner. They usually call to abuse whoever answers first and end up just being dumbstruck, with or without desired results.

She has a pet Japanese Chin called "Peaches", who is actually a "he" and wears a peach ribbon/collar round his neck. She unfortunately named him before she realised what his gender was. And despite the ambiguity about said gender - Peaches who is rather confused which he should be sometimes, as are several male canines - they both adore each other to the point of being sickeningly cute to onlookers.

Sour enjoys going to the beach, rollerskating, playing the hostess, and baking sweet food.

Background/history: TBA.

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Victoria

Full Name: Victoria Abeline Parker Race: Human Gender: Female Age: 15 Height: 5' Hair: Silky shiny dark brown. Eyes: Dark brown.

Other physical characteristics: Her face is a very smooth skinned oval with pouty lips and thick eyelashes. Still possessing a natural childish beauty, she clings to it and uses it. Favours pastel colours and long and pretty dresses. Although the style of the time for most females is to have short hair or long that is bound up, Victoria rebels against this fashion and prefers to leave hers unbound. Except when she goes to school, then it is usually fashioned in two pigtail braids.

Miscellaneous information: Era: circa 1915 / early 1900's.

Victoria has been brought up on wealth and power and incessantly indulged in her every possible fantasy by rich parents. This has led her to believe that she always deserves what she wants and if she doesn't get it there will be hell to pay. She is an expert in manipulating those who are taken by her facade of demure sweetness.

Melodramatic, vindictive, shallow and narcissistic. Victoria will lap up the chance to be in the spotlight even if it means stepping on other people's fingers to do so. A very typical aristocratic girl who likes pretty things and loathes the ugly, including dirty dirty boys. Her tastes in clothing and decor and so on run a gamut of the elaborately expensive and beautiful. She hates being wrong and will try very hard to prove that her way is the right way even when it is not.

Intelligent with and aptitude for the written and spoken word, horseriding, and playing the piano. Victoria enjoys past-times such as reading and writing, high tea in the garden, and belittling people as much as possible. She has all the politeness and sly underhandedness of being raised in an aristocratic society, but has no idea how the world really works.

Due to her station, the children at school treat her with either servant-like worship or disdain and cruelty (which she returns in equal or even greater measure). People of her own station are equally shallow and vindictive and she has never had any real friends. Living such a sheltered and wealthy life, she still has a lot of growing up to do.

Background/history: Victoria's parents were arranged to be married by their respective families for the equal qualities of greater wealth and power. She grew up on an estate just out of one of the largest and most prosperous cities in the district and has never moved and never wanted for anything, except maybe a real genuine friend or two and some serious humbling by life.

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Muse

Full Name: Muse Race: Spirit Gender: Androgynous Age: Unknown Height: 4'8" (human form) Weight: NA Hair: Bright red (favourite) Eyes: Bright green (favourite)

Other physical characteristics: Muse has no true shape of its own, instead it takes on any form that its imagination can come up with, animal - mineral - vegetable. However, although it is neither male nor female, its favourite form is that of a human girl with shoulder-length wild bright red hair (often tied up some way), chocolate brown skin, and bright green eyes. The style of hair and clothing change as often as it likes, but it is usually boyish in nature. Although it takes on a girl's form, it is very much a tomboy both physically (lanky angular body) and mentally.

Miscellaneous information: Muse is a trickster spirit, who loves playing with people and morphing into different forms. Most of its tricks are harmless and humorous because Muse thrives and survives on laughter. It is a master of illusion, a player of practical jokes, and loves to steal things and put them in the last place the owner would bother to look.

Background/history: Muse is one half of a whole being, with it's sibling "Animus" being it's opposite twin that makes up the whole.

In their long life together as one, they experienced much discord and fought almost constantly. One day after a particularly heated hodown, Animus had enough and split itself from Muse, disappearing into the aether.

However, Muse seems to be little bothered by this because it is able to go about it's daily tricks and tom-foolery without the despondent Animus to hold it back.

Muse is often told this by wiser folks than itself that what was whole should not be parted and it must find a way to reconcile with it's sibling. It never listens though.

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Animus

Full Name: Animus Race: Spirit Gender: Androgynous Age: Unknown Height: 4'5" (human form) Weight: NA Hair: Dark grey(favourite) Eyes: Yellow orbs (favourite)

Other physical characteristics: Like it's twin, Muse, Animus has no true shape of its own, instead it takes on any form that its imagination can come up with, animal - mineral - vegetable. However, although it is neither male nor female, it tends to favour the form of a human boy with silver skin, yellow eyes, and dark grey hair. It only changes for practical reasons, such as when it doesn't want to be found.

Miscellaneous information: Animus is a spirit, void of any joyful emotion. It thrives on misery and therefore will attempt to cause as much pain as it can to someone so it may feed.

Background/history: Animus is one half of a whole being, with it's sibling "Muse" being it's opposite twin that makes up the whole.

In their long life together as one, they experienced much discord and fought almost constantly. One day after a particularly heated hodown, Animus had enough and split itself from Muse, disappearing into the aether.

Animus roams the aether and earthly planes, evading it's sibling because it knows that if they are joined again, it will be imprisoned.

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Sala

Race: Unknown/Alien Gender: Female Age: unknown Height: 5'6" (Human form) Hair: Ebony/blueblack - upper/mid-back length. Eyes: Ebony.

Other physical characteristics: Her skin is a pale green and is very smooth and shiny, textured similarly to that of a snake but without the scales. A band of pale yellow skin runs from the underside of her hands, up her arms, and down the sides of her body and starts to fade at her thighs. She has four circular scars on either side of her spine in the middle of her back, from where a set of prehensile appendages used to be before she had them cut off.

Her hair, once long, has been cut short in a casual boyish style with the fringe cut sharply at the front and two long bangs tied by bands on either side of her head. It is the same ebony blue-black as her eyes.

Her sense of fashion is smart and modern, and somewhat futuristic. She prefers to wear black, sometimes with electric blue, white, or bright yellow. She will never ever wear something red or pink, insisting that the colours contrast far too much with her skin, making her look like a Christmas tree.

Miscellaneous information: Sala is a moody creature, possibly because of a lack of sleep and the constant dreams which disturb her. She is quiet and reserved with potential to be firey if rubbed up the wrong way. Her affinity with water, especially the ocean, is incredibly strong. She has a small ability to manipulate water, pushing or pulling it at her will.

Background/history: Sala's origins are hazy to her still, and what recollections she has been able to glean have come to her in the form of dreams involving fearsome shadows and nightmares in an underwater realm that is definitely not of the earth. She has struggled to find clues about her homeland and how and why she is where she is, but answers still elude her. She has tried many techniques to find the answers, but there is a block that keeps her from going too deep, and any attempt to break it has resulted in terrifying fits of rage and hatred.

Strange sightings and elemental events have also tossed in the idea that she is not the only extraterrestrial being on this planet and that her accident was not so "accidental" after all.

One thing she is sure of, is that she is not nor ever has been human. In her efforts to somehow fit in human society, she had the appendages on her back cut off. It was a painful process that has left her four permanent scars and a desire to never experience such blinding physical agony ever again.

Even after this procedure she is still outcast by most due to her green and yellow skin, though she tries to play it up and pretend that she is an "artist" who specialises in body paint. She even learned how to do this kind of painting in order to make her own skin seem pale and white and more "human". Unfortunately the long-term effects of the paint irritated her and created painful rashes.

Sala lives with a young woman named Emmerley ("Emm" for short), they are strong friends and Emm shares the burden of Sala's true form, standing by her and helping her to find answers.

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Emm

Race: Human Gender: Female Age: 19 Height: 5'5" Hair: Just above shoulder-length, usually messy, pale/hot pink. Eyes: Hazel.

Other physical characteristics: Emm is an active young woman, she likes to jog and box for exercise, so she has a nice physically athletic build. Her skin is quite fair and she loves shades of pink lipstick. She likes to dye her hair in varying shades of pink (pale or hot shades are a favourite), but doesn't care much for styling it, and has a perpetually messy "bed" head. She also has a simple black tattoo of an upside down crescent moon on her left upper arm/shoulder, and wears very little jewellery.

Miscellaneous information: A young, caring and enthusiastic humanitarian, Emm has chosen her career path in veterinary and animal foster care. She works for the resident animal shelter looking after the orphaned, the old, injured, and sick. She has a big heart and can't help but grow slightly attached to her charges, but her comprehension of every living creature's mortality as well as how illness and ailments affect the quality of life makes her job easier on her sometimes.

She is talented with calming agitated creatures, and will not abide animal cruelty. Although she understands the necessity for people to consume some animal products, she chooses the path of a vegan, and is actively involved with some of the more "sensible" animal rights movements around the world.

Background/history: Emm's father died in a working accident when she was very young. Her mother was quite unhinged after that event and retreated to the physical temporary comforts of hard drugs and alcohol. She grew dangerously violent towards her daughter both physically and emotionally, which eventually brought the authorities down on her through the machinations of Emm's Aunt Margaret. Emm was eventually fostered out and rescued by her Aunt at age 10, where she learned over the years, the love and care she now doles out in copious measure to her friends and her work. After a rocky ride through school she decided to go to college and study animal husbandry and other veterinarian vocations, and eventually found her way to the shelter where she helps the abandoned, mistreated, and other animals that seem to constantly flow through the gates. She and her mother never reconciled their relationship, even when she died from cancer in Emm's sixteenth year.

The emotional impact that relationship with her mother caused took it's toll on Emm. And eventually she decided (with the help of a couple of persuasive friends) to ship herself off to a relaxation and rehab facility for a couple of weeks, on the coast some kilometers north out of town. Early one balmy evening while on a rejuvenating jog along the beach, Emm found a strange young woman lying damaged and unconscious on the shoreline. Unable to awaken her or find any kind of identification on her, she took her back home, where she hoped to help the woman recover.

She found she had more than she bargained for when Sala broke into consciousness, many mysteries have been shared, many attempts to help Sala regain her memory have been foiled, and many household items destroyed in the process ever since. But Emm and Sala have formed an almost unbreakable friendship. Emm will do whatever it takes to get her friend well, and help protect Sala from the darkness that clouds her past.

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Porcelain

Gender: Female Age: 128 Race: Unavisi (Havener) Height: 5'9" Eye colour: Violet Skin colour: Light blue Hair colour: Lavender Horn: 5 inches - Smooth with a pearly sheen in lavender/pink Markings: yellow stripes on her face, arms, legs and fingertips.

Personality: Porcelain is a boisterous and outgoing kind of girl, social and a real sweetheart at times, she tries to get along with everyone. She loves to joke around and be in the spotlight, making everyone laugh, and just have fun. There isn't a lot that gets under this girl's skin, she takes things with a grain of salt mostly and it can be quite irritating to some who want her to be serious.

Lain hides her feelings behind laughter and entertainment. If she likes someone, she'll do what she can to make them happy. If she doesn't like them, she'll avoid them wherever possible. And when things get tough, she'll most often try to take her mind off it via physical exercise instead of solving the problem at hand.

She doesn't really like to sit still and has an abundance of energy that is often questioned where the hell it comes from. She's a dreamer and a showoff and sometimes she needs someone to bring her head out of the clouds and back down to Terra.

Occupation: Performer (acrobat, juggler, fire dancer/breather, contortionist). Family: TBA Martial Status: Single.

Appearance: Lain is a very lithe and fit teenage unavisi, her muscular structure is wiry and well defined for all the physical rigor she puts her body through in her training and occupation. She has more of a square and boyish frame with narrow hips, it would look almost lanky if she wasn't so fit.

Her light blue skin is soft and smooth with yellow markings that wrap around her arms, legs, and fingertips. Her lavender-coloured hair reaches the middle of her back and is somewhat thin and straight, mostly kept tied back in a loose ponytail or braid. The same goes for her tail, which reaches her ankles but is also kept in a ponytail or braid.

She wears brightly coloured form-fitting clothing that is flexible, loosley decorated with a tabard or overthrow for extra flair. She may also wear light but baggy pants (think Arabian Nights harem-style) and a simple wrap over her chest. Footwear is also flexible, often sock-like in nature, otherwise she may prefer to go bare-foot.

She loves to wear gold jewellery of all kinds, things studded with colourful gems are her favourite. However, she tends to mostly keep it tight and close to the skin for practical reasons. Danglies are pretty, but dangerous if they snag on something.

Background: TBA

Relationships:

Lychee - Por gets most of her performing equipment made by Lychee.

Papaya - Por has a great deal of respect for this handsome Una and his skill at Sword Dancing.

Rumberry - Technically, Rum is teaching Por how to dance, but more often goofing off which of course sets her off as well. They are rather a spectacle together, playing tricks and stealing the limelight in crowds, and joking around.

Velvet - Porcelain is a regular patron of Velvet's beautiful silks. They love getting together to design costumes for Por's performances, though there are sometimes disasterous outcomes when mixing firedancing with silk.

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Talina

Full name: Talina Schmidt Race: Human Gender: Female Age: 32 Height: 171cm Weight: 62kg Hair: Long white-blonde Eyes: Grey

Other physical characteristics: Waist-length thick white-blonde hair that is kept in a braid.

Miscellaneous information: Talina is captain of a sky-bound vessle (somewhat like a zepplin and a pirateship intermingled), who freelances her transport to travellers and merchants, or anyone who needs passage that's on the way to her more important destinations. Anyone is fine, as long as they can pay the fare.

Her sense of fashion is somewhat military in nature with elements and accessories of the victorian era mixed in. Being on an airship will mean she at least has a pair of goggles about her person to handle the wind, and probably some kind of navigational devices too (compass, spyglass, etc). It gets cold up in the big blue, so she sometimes wears a scarf and gloves too.

She favours two pistols made of walnut, ivory and iron; and has a red sash around her waist. Her occupational antics give her a good workout most of the time, so she is on the lean and strong side with a boyish figure.

She also has an average-sized domestic grey tabby cat that goes everywhere with her. A strange creature who seems to enjoy travel and doesn't mind the absence of solid ground. His name is Thomas.

Background/history: Talina was born in the sky. Her mother and father had been travelling from their remote little township to the big city, where her mother was to be admitted to the hospital for the birthing. Except that being the impatient female she is, Talina would not wait for their arrival. So she was brought squalling into the world by a young doctor who was returning from one of his housecalls at the time.

She grew up healthy and happy enough, and had all she could wish for as the daughter of hobby shop owner. He made her flying machines and taught her how to pilot them and navigate when in the sky. When Talina was 11, her mother passed away from Tuberculosis, she was devastated.

Finishing her schooling as early as she could, she and her father sold up shop and left home to seek adventure and money as they had been struggling financially for some time. At 15 she saw the world for what it truly seemed, when pirates boarded the merchant ship they'd been travelling in. Her father was thrown overboard when he refused to give up posessions they did not have.

Since then Talina has been a pirate in her own right, but restricted herself to smuggling and the like and would never harm another person unless provoked. However, she has very little tolerance for greedy folks like those who murdered her father, and she is quite handy with her pistols.

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Remi

Full Name: Remington "Remi" Maxwell Feurey Race: Human Gender: Male Age: 37 Height: 184cm Weight: 108kg Hair: Dark brown, of varying short lengths. Eyes: Blue

Other physical characteristics:

Miscellaneous information:

Mechanic, hired muscle. Is deeply smitten with Talina.

Background/history:

Met Talina on a raid on her ship, it was love at first sight for him to the point where he actually turned around a smashed his own captain in the face with a heavy spanner and joined Talina's crew. His previous captain has since made every effort to pursue Fury and have his revenge, but he has yet to succeed. Fury thinks it's a huge joke.

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Cetus

Name: Cetus Gender: Male Age: 187 (26) Race: Firstborn (Skyborn) Height: 6'2" Eye colour: Pale yellow Skin colour: Dark blue Hair colour: Midnight blue-black Horns: burnt-yellow; two small horns that sit close together on the upper-middle area of his forehead. Markings: none. Scales: thin layers the same colour as his skin (albeit with a glossier look) on his shoulders, forearms, thighs, shins and at the base of his tail. Occupation: does not work currently. Family: Martial Status: single.

Appearance: Tall and somewhat strong, but not a lot of muscle definition, considered fighting fit according to Everhigh standards. Has jaw-length cropped hair that is usually left to do whatever it wants. His tail reaches just below mid-calf level and has a fine tuft of midnight hair at the tip. His taste in fashion is expensive but not elaborate, he prefers fine quality garments and cuts with few adornments and embellishments.

Background/Info: Cetus fancies himself a fighter and is of the esteemed opinion that he could beat and be the best in the Everhigh military, but had yet to prove himself. He had ambitions to become part of the military with the intention of making it better in his eyes and the eyes of his people. He is a good fighter in terms of their standards, but how that pans out in Haven is another matter, however.

He is self-centered, impatient and reacts badly to anything he sees as a personal insult. Arguments will usually end with him attempting to throw a punch. He is utterly smitten with Maia and attempts to woo her at every opportunity, and woe to any other Firstborn or Una who tries to do the same.

Coming to Haven is very much a culture shock to Cetus, having had no choice or desire to be there, he is eager to get back home. He looks down on the inhabitants in spite of all they have in common, their hospitality, knowledge and abilities and their genuinely amicable reception to the newcomers. He feels they are rustic and uncouth. The only creatures he has any amount of respect for are his own kind and the dragons.

He likes to give the impression that he doesn't think magic is important or useful, but that is just a facade to cover his jealousy of those who can use it, especially to fight with. Hard work and consistency are not in his vocabulary.

Determined to get to the bottom of why they turned up in the first place, he sneaks around and makes grudging limited contact with the inhabitants in order to ween any knowledge from them. Terra forbid he ever meets the soul responsible for this fiasco. He is adamant that they can find a way back and so far refuses to adapt to life in Haven. It would take some very special Una or event to make him come round.

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Noah

Name: Noah Jeffrey Adam Coleman Gender: Male Age: 28 Hair: Sandy blonde, thin and long to his chin. Eyes: Watery blue

Other physical characteristics and misc info: A bit on the thin side, he gets a decent amount of exercise so can be considered 'fit enough' but not 'strong' as such. Certainly he would not come out on the upside of a tavern brawl or anything like that. His alcohol tolerance is minimal and he tends to be more than chipper after just one glass of merlot, and he is a giggly drunk. He has a high dairy intolerance and will result in a rash of hives or worse gastronomic mishaps if there is even the slightest of dairy product in his food or drink.

Favours classy fashion, a bit of a metrosexual and conscious of his appearance. He is always clean and well-dressed in ironed trousers and a collared shirt.

Background/history: Noah is a barista who works at 'Cinco' cafe in 'trendy' part of town. He's a good conversationalist and coffee maker with a winning smile and sociable demeanour that charms his customers. He's also quite a talented pianist and every now and then when the work is slow or the clientele demands it, he will play a few songs for them.

He lives alone in a tiny apartment across town and tends to cycle or take public transport everywhere. Having never been able to afford to buy a car he didn't see the point in getting his license and is happy with the choice.

He spends his free time writing songs or constructing model aeroplanes and painting them, which he then hangs from the ceiling of his study or puts on any shelf space he can find. The apartment is a cluttered little hole, located in the basement floor with a delightful view of the sidewalk from his very tiny kitchen window. The apartment's very small windows and don't let a lot of light in with the architectural jungle around him. However he manages to light the place up nicely with an assortment of lights and lamps fitted with 'enviro-bulbs'.

To find peace from his 'colourful' and often noisy neighbours or his own clamouring thoughts, Noah climbs the rickety ten-level staircase (the lift fails for him every time) to the roof to a small garden sanctuary and a lovely view of the park with the other side of the city beyond it. It is here that a lot of his inspiration for songs comes to him, many involving flying or being a bird, or meeting a bird of some sort.

Noah is relatively happy, he calls his mother once a week, writes to his sister in Prague and hangs out with a couple of friends whenever they have time to catch up. He has yet to get the hang of computers or mobile-phones while the digital age whirls around him. He tends to daydream a lot about meeting a girl, but when it comes to talking to them he is less than competent.

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Tissa

Full Name: Tisane "Tissa" Applegrove

Race: Human Gender: Female Age: 16 Height: 155cm Weight: 58kg Hair: Short, black & blue Eyes: Hazel.

Other physical characteristics: Somewhat deaf, Tisane has a keen sense of sight and smell. She is fair-skinned with some freckles and dyes the ends of her black hair varying shades of blue.

Miscellaneous information: A shy, young witch who lives with her parents in a suburban town, "Tissa" became interested in magick after her older sister invited her to participate in a New Year ritual once. She was staying with them for the night and they had planned the ritual but not expected Tissa to be there. However instead of cancelling or excluding her, they decided to invite her into the circle. Words, food, wine and company, it was a pleasant experience and Tissa enjoyed the creativity that went into it.

Her sister has other friends and other beliefs now, however Tissa is still quite interested and follows her own path alone. She has an affinity for the natural world, particularly birds and forests. She loves walking through the woods and identifying and talking to different animals, birds and plants.

Tissa keeps her practice a secret however, because she is still fearful of how her family and friends might react. In spite of this, she doesn't mind the subterfuge, it helps her feel like a little piece of herself is special, safe and free and gives her inspiration to live each day with vigour.

She enjoys cooking, crafting and camping outdoors.

Background/history:

Tissa is the youngest of four children, two older sisters and one older brother. They have all left home except for her, while she is still finishing high school and has no idea what to do with herself. She has an aptitude for stories and film and has had many positive experiences and creations in her film making class. She is considering it a career to explore.

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Miss Teri

Full Name: Terisa Hope Race: Human Gender: Female Age: 27 Height: 165cm Weight: 59kg Hair: Changes a lot. Eyes: Blue, wears contact lenses in a variety of colours and styles.

Other physical characteristics: Goth girl fashion, hair changes colours and lengths (extensions) from time to time. Mostly shades of green, blue, and deep reds (sometimes mixed). Tongue (barbell) and labret (hoop) piercings. Ankh tattoo on underside of left wrist, light scarring also on left wrist and forearm.

Miscellaneous information: If it suits her flair for sexy fashion, she'll wear it. Teri is a goth/punk/rock fashion and (especially) fetish-loving extrodinaire. She highly enjoys dressing up for the show and will go to the supermarket even in all-out garb, much to the astonishment and entertainment of the locals.

Teri loves the nightlife, drinking and partying at her favourite club "Gaspardo's" on the weekends. When not showing herself off for the money, she works the cosmetics section of an upmarket department store where she can dress all corporate Goth and play make-up with ensnared passers-by. Her charm is such that she usually isn't lacking in these unwitting volunteers.

Her quirky appearance and enigmatic nature makes her a delightful light in the lives of shoppers and co-workers alike.

Goes by the alias “Miss Teri”.

Background/history: Average academic achievements in school were less than pleasing to Teri's demanding parents, but she didn't mind much even though they caused her a deal of grief over it. With aspirations from an early age to become a runway fashion model, Teri found herself distraught when she was told she was "too short" for the job.

But instead of letting herself be discouraged, she has since marketed herself to more local clients with greater success. She also tried to become a flight attendant at one stage, but found the demands of travel too much for her. Her photography sessions eventually inspired her to take a beauty therapy and makeup artistry course, these skills have since landed her in her current occupation.

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Little Ghost

Real Name: Penelope (Penny) Watson

Race: Human (deceased) Gender: Female Age: 10 Height: 4' 9" Hair: White, whispy, floaty, and unkempt. Eyes: Black

Other physical characteristics: Her living body is that of a dark-haired ten-year-old girl. Plump stomach and rosy cheeked.

Miscellaneous information:

Era: 1990's

Background/history: Grew up in suburbia as an only child. Relatively well liked by other kids in the neighborhood and at school. Diligent but stubborn, adventurous and curious, enjoyed running games, bike riding and swimming.

In her 10th year the family took a vacation as they usually do. One day at the beach, Penny was swimming in the water near where her father was fishing. Her mother was up on the beach relaxing and reading her book.

Her father, Owen, had a huge fish on the line that he was trying to reel in and the surf was getting stronger but he was distracted. Penny was unaware of the danger and thought the gigantic waves were something to enjoy and laugh at as she played in the water. The rip caught her and pulled her out. She wasn’t strong enough to swim back.

She called for help but not loud enough the first time. When her father heard her, she'd been taken a fair way out to sea. He dove in to get her but by the time they reached the shore and an ambulance was called, she had swallowed too much water and drowned.

Owen has not forgiven himself for being quick enough to help her. His wife holds it against him as well, for a while they stayed together but it was clear that the resentment she held became poisonous to their relationship and drove them apart.

Penny couldn't understand what had happened at first, and after the event she found herself back at her home witnessing the deterioration of her parents bonds. She is trying to work out a way to help them forgive themselves and each other, all the while being chased by frightening dark shadows that mean to pull her away from the world.

Her only comfort and companion is an over-sized ghost fish, which is the one her father was reeling in the day of her death. He is a reincarnated soul who remembers the afterlife but remained behind to be her guide and guardian until her task is done.