AOL Characters

These are the characters that I played on AOL from 1999 - 2003. There were tons more, but these are the only ones that I truly remember, years later.

Cinnia Vera Kapvilski

My very first character. Cin was … complicated. And keep in mind that she was played in Rhy'Din on AOL, so any sue-ism is probably mild in comparison to those around her. She's an immortal, perpetually looking around the age of eighteen, and has a ZOMGTRAGIC past. Y'see, she is / was married to this other immortal, but he abused her and so she ran away with her wee little three-year-old daughter. Then she met this guy (Bahamut Zero, who was a perfectly normal human, and I am so not fucking with you on that) and they were happy and engaged and then her ex showed up and was all "OMG NO HAPPINESS FOR YOU" and kidnapped her and Bahamut was all "grrrrrrrr!" and went to save her and saved her and kicked the ex's ass (despite the ex being an immortal and Bahamut being a perfectly normal human. *cough*) and then he and Cinnia got married and were happy and had twins. Then even more of her tragic past came out and Bahamut was all "fuck this, you're seriously way too tragic for me, I'm leaving. kthnxbai." and he walked out on her, her now-five-year-old daughter and their infant twins. And that was around when I stopped playing her because I was having a hard time keeping her tragic past straight.

Bailey Jodie Longcampt

Bailey was an interesting character, I'll give her that. She was an immortal like Cinnia (hell, nearly 3/4 of the population in Rhy'Din was some kind of immortal) and she could do maaaagic. Pretty damned boundless magic, too. I think she was actually my most boring character, because she had no plot whatsoever except random one-shot plots as she stagnated at Sgt. in the OCS.

Isabelle Deidre VonCamp

Izzy was a lot like Bailey, actually. Immortal, could do magic, really fucking damn boring. She had no plot beyond the fact that she was married to an NPC that I could never talk anyone into picking up. I think I dropped both Izzy and Bailey around the same time because they were just so damned boring.

Kara va Neko

Kara was me getting back to the angst. She was fourteen and a runaway. Her mom was dead and her dad was an evil bastard who wanted to use her magic (SHUT UP, this was RHY'DIN) for his nefarious purposes so she ran away and ended up at the OCS. At least she wasn't an immortal, just your typical Amazingly Literate Runaway Kid.

Serafienna Temalenared

She was a pretty damned awesome character, if I do say so myself. One of my first non-sues. She was actually a character based on a race in a series of books that I'm working on (which are kinda stagnating, but shu'up), so it was nice having a wholly unique character. She had boundaries, she wasn't immortal (just from a long-lived race), a good archer, and she had issues but not ZOMGISSUES. She comes from a race of beings who don't give a damn about humans and shoot-first-ask-questions-later but she herself is very big on the "don't kill except in defense or for food" thing, which got frowns from her people.

James Cummings

James was fucking awesome, man. She had issues but in the fun way. Her parents wanted a son, so when they ended up with a daughter, they just gave her the boy's name they'd planned to use. She was a pyrokinetic who was also schizophrenic — she heard voices, and they told her to do things. Like burn down her family's home with her parents sleeping inside. Sadly, nobody in the Order really wanted to play with someone who might suddenly turn them into a crispy critter (damn closed-minded people) so she saw very little play and was, sadly, eventually dropped because she was so unused.

Veronica

My very first cold-hearted (literally) bitch character. I was actually happy with her, despite the fact that she was so hard to play, what with me not being good at cold-hearted bitches. A vampire who doesn't give a damn about anyone but herself, she actually had a pretty short run because, well, it's damned hard to play a character in a game as big as OCS when they're not interested in making friends, and you needed to have conversations and other such activities to rise in the ranks.

Alexandra Tawnie Marietta

Hands-down, my favorite character ever. She was sweet, loveable. She rose through the OCS ranks quickly, and it was actually when she was made Colonel of the Mystic Talisman that I met Britt, who's been a best friend since. The Mystic Talisman Command Staff (Britt was Commander, Dee as General, and me as Colonel) was just made of kick-ass awesome for the three weeks it lasted. Although both Britt and Dee included in their command reports every week that they wanted Alex to remain in the Legion, even though it would cost her a promotion to General (and Alex had the same exact sentiment in her weekly reports, which were copied to the game's command staff), she was eventually promoted to General of the Arrow's Flight: the position had opened and they wanted someone competent to fill it, even though it meant going against my wishes, as well as Britt's and Dee's (and, of course, the wishes of the characters, lmao). And, you know. That's what Alex was. Competent. Hard-working. She was just so much fun to play, too, because even though she was sweet and caring, she still had a wicked sense of humor. Sadly, her run as a character was cut short. She was dating this guy, and they had the cutest relationship in the history of the RP world, sorry other cute couples, and they even got engaged. Unfortunately, the mun of the fiance thought that feelings between our characters extended to feelings between the two of us, so he thought I was in love with him, as well. He started harassing me through the game, and he kept trying to find out things about me: where I lived, where I went to school, things like that. Luckily, at this time, I was going by an online alias (Cassie), so he couldn't find me easily. But, the harassment was getting to crazy levels: he would find out my other AOL SNs and IM me there to harass me, and even if I blocked his SN on all of mine, he would create new ones to harass me from. I finally had to do the horrible thing and cut off all of my current characters (the others at the time weren't major ones), and having to do that with Alex just killed me, but I had to get rid of everything that he could use to track me: SNs, characters, etc. I still get a bit on-edge whenever I get an IM from a name I don't recognize.

Harmony Frost

Honestly, I don't really remember too much about Harmony. I remember that she was a Vampire Slayer and she tracked Buffy down to the OCS, and this is what kicked off the below-mentioned SL. Other than that … I really don't remember anything about her. Eh-heh. PB: Heather Graham

Camryn Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Anya, Cordelia Chase

I'm lumping them all together because they were all played together in an SL that I had with Britt and eventually Kristen, too. Camryn was the daughter of Buffy and Angel (who, through the magic of SOAP-OPERA-AGING became a teenager [along with her twin brother Nate] when her mom and Buffy's friends were still in their, like, twenties). I actually don't remember much about the SL, but I do remember that Britt and Kristen continued the SL after I stopped playing and did a lot with it that I probably wouldn't have, so … yeah. PB: Kirsten Storms (Camryn); Alyson Hannigan (Willow), Emma Caulfield (Anya), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia)

Carissa Hawthorne

She, like Alex, was a lightning-in-a-bottle character. An amazing once-in-a-lifetime character who was just … perfect. Ris was vivacious, bubbly, friendly, and a total sweetie. The youngest child and only daughter of a wealthy European aristocratic-ish family (from an island nation that I made up, lol), she was constantly shadowed by her bodyguard, because she'd been kidnapped from her bedroom at the age of twelve. She was just … one of my favorite characters to play, and she still is. PB: Izabella Miko

Eric Hawthorne

Eric is one of Carissa's older brothers (there are four Hawthorne kids, Matthew, Max, Eric, and Carissa, in age-order). He joined Ris in Rhy'Din after a few months. Eric is the Vice President of Hawthorne Enterprises, the family company (eldest brother Matthew is the president; Max was pre-med, then in medical school, and is currently a medical intern). When I started playing him, he was coming about a year off having been left at the altar by his fiancee, Melissa. He started out as a flirt, but then I let his angsty side out. He met and fell in love with his sister's best friend, Virginia Westin, and their relationship has been all kinds of angst and twisted-y-ness. PB: Ray Romo

Anya Grigorev / Phoenix

Deedlit had invited me to join her private SL, Agents of War, a sort of sequel to a previous SL she'd been in. The character I picked up was the Russian operative, Anya Grigorev, codename Phoenix, the awesome hacker chick. She had a love / hate / everything-in-betwen realationship with Latino operative and weapon-man Charlie, codename Bullet. Oh, god, the Phoenix / Bullet relationship was just glorious, and Phoenix was a wonderful character just on her own. The youngest Agent in the group, she had stuff to prove to the others, so she would fluctuate between nearly throwing Bullet to the ground to ravish him and yelling at him about how they were supposed to be working. She had a wonderful temper and was prone to throwing anything that wasn't either a.) bolted down, or b.) in some way necessary for her computer to function. She had a habit of cursing and insulting people in Russian, and she and Bullet could go from "I hate you, hold still so I can kill you" to "oh God I'm going to rip off your clothes right now and ravish you madly" to "get the fuck out of my face right now" in one point five seconds. Deedlit gave me permission when the game fell apart to take all the SL info and character info and write a book on the AoW if I wanted, and I'm still sitting on all of that information, wanting to take my time with it and not fuck things up. PB: Claire Danes