Have you ever messed with one of those silly 12-character memes and gotten a "what if character X got character Y pregnant?" question, and then wondered what would have happened if that child was actually born?The intrepid weirdos of a certain Fanfiction.net forum did. And this is the RP (found here) they created based on that idea.You might want to run now.Now has its own Shout Out page.
Isaac's own (human) maternal grandfather almost excluded him from the family because of his half-penguin heritage.
Ancestral Weapon: Kyle's weapon was passed down from Ramirez to Connor MacLeod/Russel Nash to him, Xavier's .38 once belonged to his mother, Word Of God says that Kurgan Junior's broadsword was once her father's (though how she got it and how she knows, we have no idea) and (according to Word Of God) Inochitori's knife is the same knife Madotsuki used.
Animal Eye Spy: Xavier can do this with animals associated with death.
Anticlimax Boss: Kurgan Junior was killed before the plot even started to become interesting.
Attempted Rape: What The Bully, Xavier's dark side, intended to do to Yuuka before he was overtaken.
Siren tried seducing a very unwilling Wilson until Rowan mentally snapped and came in to break it up, threatening to kill Siren and possibly Wilson as well.
Author Appeal: Most (if not all) of the characters, to some slight degree, are appealing to their creators in their own way.
Big Applesauce: Interestingly subverted; it started out in New York City and some important things have happened there, but they do end up leaving to go to other places where other, more important things have happened.
Big Brother Instinct: Kyle certainly has one towards some of the younger Mistakes. Well, Madigan and Bernie, at least; not so much Dorian. He even says this himself:
Everything's Better with Half-Penguins: Sort of. Isaac's heritage has caused him to be in a few troubling situations in the past, especially when it came to public schooling.
Jezebel's armor was based on that of Samus Aran, and some of her personality is similar to Megamind. Her Robot Buddy, Ted, also seems to act similarly to Minion.
Eye Scream: Madigan tries sewing buttons onto people's eyes when her "other self" takes over.
She also did this to herself when she cut the button off her eye to get rid of the aforementioned "other self".
Faux Affably Evil: Rowan seems like a nice guy—a bit touchy-feely, and kind of sounds like he's planning to molest you, but he's not too bad. Then you hear him talking about his "project" and pulling out a scalpel...
Fiery Redhead: Cass and Piper are both like this (though the latter's hair color is actually orange).
For Science!: This is usually Chester's motivation.
Much like all of the alien experiments that he created, Dr. Jumbaa Jookiba seems to have created Siren just to see if he could do it.
This might also be the case with the mad scientists who interfered with the lives of the parents of Piper, Bernie and Augustin. (Oddly enough, the latter character is the only one out of the three of them to have one of said scientists as his own biological father.)
This was probably part of Dr. Insano's motivation when he tried cloning himself and he accidentally created Zetta instead.
Kowalski's main motivation in life, and also as to why he was working on his invention before it backfired and emitted the radiation that caused Hayley to become pregnant with Isaac.
Four Temperament Ensemble: The entire group falls into the different categories with considerable ease:
Heroic Bastard: Given that Thaddeus' mother was in a relationship at the time of his conception, he probably counts as this.
Homage: Quite a few, but most noticably with Kurgan Junior's scenes as they seem to reflect those of her father, The Kurgan...Even if they sometimes don't make sense.
Human Mom, Non-human Dad: Played straight with Dusk, Isaac, Marianela and Tempest; inverted with Piper, Chester, Madigan, Angelo, Jezebel, Jennifer, Wilson and Eve.
Insistent Terminology: Dorian is not a robot, he is "a perfect biological mixture between a youkai and an Aperture Science Personality Construct". For Piper's version of this, see I Am Not Weasel.
Intangible Man: Both Faeton and Anurto can become intangible.
Interspecies Romance: Jennifer's father is human, her mother isn't, but they both seem to maintain a healthy relationship.
Heather's parents aren't exactly romantically involved. Their relationship, for the most part, is an OddInterspeciesVitriolicHeterosexual Life Partnership. Then, of course, her mouse dad started to develop another level of feelings for her cricket dad, and... Well, to put it simply, they did some things that led to them arguing the next day, which led to the wish being made that eventually brought Heather into being.
I See Dead People: Kyle can do this. He thinks it's the drugs, though.
I Take Offense to That Last One: Upon seeing Piper for the first time, Mathew called her unclean, monstrous, unholy and flea-bitten. Guess which one she said wasn't true?
I Want Grandkids: Given that supernatural beings trace lineage by mentor, this puts a whole new spin on Conquest heckling Thaddeus to get an apprentice.
I Was Beaten By A Girl: While not physically beaten per se, Ellen did manage to out-drink Kyle at one point, something that the latter felt humiliated with the next morning. Although this was based more on the fact that he was out-drunk at all, the fact that Ellen did this just makes it worse for him.
Lolicon: Played disturbingly straight with Dusk's parents. However, given how vague his father has been about the details on his mother, it's safe to say that he doesn't know about this.
Also averted in a really weird way...Wilson said that he loved Madigan, but it's not actually true. His roleplayer said that it was a stupid prank done for laughs, but everyone else thought he wasbeing serious about it.
Long Lost Relative: Piper was quite shocked when Jim told her that Salvation was her half-brother.
Kyle didn't react too well to finding out that Xavier was his half-brother. His reaction included much profanity, and attempted murder.
Kyle was also surprised when he heard from his Disappeared Dad, "Russel".
When Bernie's father revealed that Kurgan Junior was technically his step-sister, not only was Bernie shocked, but about half of the group was as well. Kurgan Junior didn't believe it either when she was told about it.
Lovable Coward: Dusk, Tempest and Danger (the latter is not a mistake, though).
Love at First Sight: Ted immediately started crushing on Delta when he first saw her.
Similarly, Rowan became instantly, er, interested in Wilson.
Love Dodecahedron: Kainashi seems very attached to Rowan, but Rowan is much more interested in Wilson. Jezebel might also arguably like Wilson, but she might also like Thaddeus, whom may like her back. Wilson also had that disturbinglyOut-of-Character Moment where he said he liked Madigan (which his roleplayer said was a joke, but since there still seems to be no decent in-canon explanation for said confession...), but Siren ships her with Bernie (which seems to aggravate him). Wilson and Augustin both seemed to show some interest in Ellen Junior, but then she and Kyle ended up becoming an Official Couple. Augustin seemed a bit upset with hearing that, but then Cass came along and he started to take some interest in her (or at least Mathew thinks so, and he seems to be right).
And that's without bringing up Siren's love for everyone.
While not a parent to her, there was a mad scientist who managed to get (read: almost force) Piper's parents together (one by the name of Dr. Insano, who just so happens to be Zetta's mad scientist father). Something similar happened when the alternate-universe, mad scientist counterpart of Bernie's father managed to find a way to make his parents get together...without his father's consent.
Ellen's father counts, given what she witnessed towards the end of the scrying session after watching her father kidnap her mother.
Magic Versus Science: Thaddeus is obviously on the side involving magic, some of the others are on the side involving science, and both Jezebel and Bernie are for both.
Maligned Mixed Marriage: KJ's mom (African-American) and Bernie's dad (British caucasian) are Happily Married, but they have reportedly dealt with a few problems that others have had concerning their marriage. It's not been mentioned with any character within the roleplay itself, and given theother kindsof relationships that have been in this, it's not nearly as unusual as some of the other things going on, so even if it does get brought up, nobody will probably be that bothered by it.
May-December Romance: Thaddeus's father was in his mid thirties while his mother was in her late twenties when he was born.
Dusk's parents would be a disturbingly exaggerated version of this (his mother was not a teenager yet, and his father is goodness knows how old). Dusk doesn't know about this, either.
The age difference between Bernie's parents was about the same as that of Thaddeus' parents. However, there wasn't any actual romance involved in it. At least not on his father's part.
Meaningful Name: Siren is, fittingly, a beautiful girl (sort of) who can charm most anyone with her voice.
Kainashi, too, after he and Rowan ended up sharing a room in Thaddeus's house.
Siren suspects that Bernie's father, Reginald, is gay. Given who he mostly resembles (and Siren mistakes him for), it's safe to say that it's not the first time that he's had that happen to him, either.
Yuuka's dad was the one who gave birth to her. What makes her different from the rest is that her other parent is a woman.
Multicolored Hair: Inochitori (half brown, half turquoise), Avalon (rose colored with black stripes), Danger (dark purple with black stripes), Jezebel (brown with blonde streaks), Mathew (black and orange tiger stripes), and Faeton (black with white stripes).
Piper could arguably apply, considering her Furry Female Mane is orange while the rest of her fur is brown (with a couple of orange patches, but they aren't usually visible). Your Mileage May Vary on that, of course.
Murder the Hypotenuse: Rowan plans on doing this to Wilson's toothbrush, an object that the latter seems to pay much more attention to than...most anyone else, really. Which would technically make this an odd justified case.
We know that Siren was almost successful in seducing Piper's father and that she stopped it, but we don't know much about it aside from that. According to what Kyle and Xavier found out about it, the details are probably better left unsaid.
Later, Kyle Macleod and Ellen "Newt" Ripley Junior.
And even later, Xavier Draven and Yuuka Kralie.
Older than They Look: Dorian looks about thirteen, but he's really somewhere between his late sixties and early seventies.
Siren suggested that it might have been the case with Bernie in a pathetic attempt to justify her sudden interest in him, to which he immediately tells her that he really is only fourteen.
Kurgan Junior is a less obvious version; she appears to be in her late teens or early twenties, but she's technically twenty-six.
Master II is one-hundred years old and he doesn't look like it at all.
Nana-tsuki may look about twenty-six, but he's actually over four-hundred years old.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Rowan tries disguising himself by turning his coat inside-out, wearing gloves, sunglasses, speaking with a fake British accent and calling himself Keith.
Xavier's mother also dropped him off in the Shadowlands and fled into the night.
Bernie's mother left him with his father. (Not that either of them mind.)
Zetta's father (well, one of them) traded her off to the other parent.
It was arguably what happened with Kurgan Junior's mom, but as it turned out a Mad Scientist separated the two of them and dropped her mother off in a completely different time, leaving KJ by herself in her own time.
Parental Favoritism: Faeton's father prefers her over her brother, Anurto, much to her dislike.
Psychic Powers: Xavier has quite a few different psychic abilities.
Through testing his own experiments on himself, Chester managed to gain the ability to use Telepathy. However, he cannot use this power for very long elseways he'll be weakened.
Faeton has a form of Telekinesis that she inherited from her father.
Quizzical Tilt: Augustin and Mathew are prone to doing these.
Madigan's done this twice; first at the coffee shop, then later at Thaddeus's house, which was shortly followed up with a Big "WHAT?!" upon finding out that Bernie and Kurgan Junior were long-lost step-siblings.
Dusk did this once when he heard that Rowan wanted to borrow something from Wilson while the latter was sleeping.
The gang's suspicions on how close Wilson really is with his toothbrush.
Thaddeus' roleplayer seems to have a thing for mentioning squids with bat-wings.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: He never specifically drops the title, but Bernie has made it clear that Madigan is not his girlfriend.
Gender-flipped between Piper and Dusk towards the beginning of the roleplay.
Shipper on Deck: Siren seems to like shipping Bernie with Madigan. Thaddeus and Mathew might be having similar thoughts, but it's not entirely clear if they are or not (not even to their roleplayer).
Ship Sinking: Whatever chance that there was for Rowan to hook up with Wilson was demolished after Rowan caught Wilson with Siren and then tried to kill him.
Before Ellen began dating Kyle, Augustin expressed interest in her. However, Augustin ended up with Cass.
Ship Tease: Well, with a cast this big, there's plenty, intended or otherwise.
Shotacon: Averted when Siren tries making advances on Bernie and he's clearly not comfortable with it.
Shown Their Work: Augustin's roleplayer has done research on mice and rats in order to know more about both and know more about some of the physical aspects that he would inherit.
Similarly, Mathew's roleplayer has done his research on wolves for Mathew, badgers for Tumnus, and mice for Cass.
Shrinking Violet: Dusk (though now he doesn't act quite as shy as before), Tempest, Anurto, Zetta and Danger (the latter of which is not a "mistake").
Xavier's looks are identical to those of his father, Eric Draven.
The Master II resembles actor Anthony Ainley whom played The Master in the classic episodes of Doctor Who. However, he doesn't have a beard like his father.
Bernie looks an awful lot like a younger, blond version of his dad, Reginald Stewart.
Dusk looks so similar to his dad, Oogie Boogie, that some of the roleplayers have assumed that he's also dead/undead and has burlap skin. His roleplayer is a bit irked by said assumptions.
Tell Me About My Father: Part of why some of the "mistakes" were at the Shady Abortion Clinic, though Dusk's reason for being there was a gender-flipped case.
Ellen Junior eventually found out about her father and what happened to him.
Delon and Fawn would also like to know more about their fathers (and Fawn wants to know more about her Missing Mom as well).
The Alcoholic: Kyle is this. As is Rowan, who is considerably more lighthearted about it.
The Apprentice: Bernie, now that he's studying under Thaddeus.
Faeton was her father's apprentice, for a while.
The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: When Dusk was listing off certain events that Delta missed, he mentioned that Kyle and Xavier were long lost half-brothers, "Keith" was someone they recruited to drive Kyle's bike back from the bar, Kyle's father talked to someone who sent a group of Husks after them, and that Wilson wet his pants (Piper shortly afterwards explained that he just had a drink spilled on him at the bar). Okay...Why was that last one important?
The Load: Wilson Wilson. He's half-Jedi, his wounds can heal themselves within twenty-four hours, but he is cowardly and hesitant, so he doesn't seem to live up to his full potential. Some of the other characters are trying to change this.
Yuuka, though she hates herself for it. In her defense, she is a fairly average teenager who doesn't have any sort of unique powers or strengths like some of the others.
The Mean Brit: Not really played straight at first; Rowan pretended to be one for a while, but he isn't really British, and Bernie, who really is British (well, half), isn't mean. However, it is played straight with Dorian, who is both British and a tremendous pain in the ass.
The Nicknamer: Kyle. He rarely calls anyone by their actual name.
Wilson has been (jokingly) called his roleplayer's unfavorite due to the severe lack of attention and Character Development that he gives him in comparison to the rest of his characters.
This has now been confirmed as true; he even admitted that he should've given him to someone else.
Token Evil Teammate: Rowan. He didn't so much execute a Heel Face Turn as decide that betraying the heroes would be harmful to his health.
Token Human: For the longest time, Jim, the owner of the Shady Abortion Clinic, was the only average human out of all of the roleplay characters. In a way, he still could be seen as such.
Piper and Kyle have been trying to get Wilson to do this so he can stop being The Load. So far there's been some success.
Trademark Favorite Food: Rowan loves Skittles (and Skittle vodka), Avalon loves apple pies, Heather loves cinnamon sticks, Delon likes pizza and Faygo, and Kyle has an on/off love affair with french fries.
Twin Telepathy: Faeton and Anurto have something like this.
U-Z
Unexplained Recovery: Kurgan Junior sliced open Wilson's throat at one point and yet shortly afterwards he seemed completely fine and nobody even seemed to comment on it. Of course, Word Of God said that he can recover from certain injuries within twenty-four hours, but his sudden recovery happened within a span of mere minutes!
Vague Age: Jim is obviously older than most of the Mistakes, but his age has never been truly defined, and his roleplayer would like it to stay that way.
Wicked Stepmother: Averted and inverted with Bernie's stepmom. She's nicer to him than his real mom was...and she's also nicer than she was to her own Child by Rape; Kurgan Junior (then again she never got the chance to connect with her own child).
Zetta was "born" looking about eleven or twelve, and now she's about sixteen or seventeen. Technically, she's really five.
Brynja looks about thirty years old, but she's actually fifteen.
Heather is a less-than-obvious example; she was "born" with the looks and the mentality of a three year old, and has now aged four and a half years to make her seven and a half.
) they created based on that idea.You might want to run now.Now has its own Shout Out page.
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