Zeitgeist: A Historical Mind Screw in Space Discussion

This is the discussion thread for my Sci-Fi survival RP. Everyone who knows about the RP is already in the skype group. That said, If you have an interest in the RP, there may be a spot open for you, so send me a message and let me know.

As everyone knows, this RP is about a group of young people trapped on an abandoned space station. The hook is that each of the characters is from a different era of time.

Everyone in the RP, please fill out this sheet and post it here.

• Name:
• Age:
• Country of Origin:
• Year of Origin:
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Backstory:
• Special Skills:
• Favorite Food:

The Group:

• Jorje Martin, 1800
• Jaqueline-Maria de Marbignion, 1794
• Rudolph von Rozen, 1937
• Elena Maclelan, 2115
• Fei Yen, 728 AD
• Shiro, 1827

edited 19th Jun '14 12:29:47 PM by Saturn

• Name: Jorje Martin
• Age: 17
• Country of Origin: Great Britain
• Year of Origin: 1800
• Appearance: Jorje is a tall, whiplike Spanish boy. He has blond hair and blue eyes, and would probably look big and strong if he was ever fed well. His features are hawkish, high and narrow and drawn back to some point high on his head. He wears varying shades of russet brown, a heavy coat with a flat cap made of crappy fabric over a plain white shirt and pants made of the same handspun cloth, and a black scarf sewn by his mother.
• Personality: Jorje has a bit of an aggressive veneer to his personality. He likes to set goals as they're needed, get people to get that done, and move onto the next task. He understands what motivates people: encouragement and esteem, yes, but fear and pain works best, even if he doesn't like doing it. Jorje runs a little hot all the time, and gets frustrated easily when people don't listen to what he has to say. When he isn't actively working or engaged in a task, Jorje likes to build model cars or watches—do very intricate, delicate work with his hands, basically.
• Backstory: Jorje is the third generation of a family of Spanish immigrants. He grew up in London after his grandparents heard there were jobs to be had in Great Britain; this didn't go as planned. They got their job, yes, but they also got stuck with those terrible jobs with no way to get home, living a life much the same as they had in Spain. This was the atmosphere Jorje grew up in—one of failure and resentment. He took to the job at the factory overseeing the younger workers quickly and easily, beating the daylights out of anyone who tried to slack off and making sure everyone was doing something. He found solace building models of the cars and engines that had gripped the nation, finding a quiet corner in a park or something to escape the affectation as cruel factory overseer for an hour or so.
• Special Skills: Jorje is skilled with his hands; he just sort of has an innate feel for how things are put together, even if his approach to assembly is too deliberate and fastidious to ever be practical. He's also very good in a fight, though he isn't good at killing. Instead, he knows exactly how to injure someone to cause the most pain without anything being permanent. He can operate and maintain basic factory machinery of the middle of the Industrial Revolution, but is by no means skilled in doing so.
• Favorite Food: Sourdough Bread

edited 18th Jun '14 3:35:45 PM by Taco

• Name: Jaqueline-Maria de Marbignion
• Age: 19
• Country of Origin: France
• Year of Origin: 1794
• Appearance: "Plebians should know their place."
• Personality: Jaqueline is a young woman turned cynical and selfish by what has happened during the revolution but she is still fiercly passionate about her interests and very determined to survive, hopefully with enough money to resume her lavish lifestyle.
• Backstory: Jaqueline was born the only child to a Baron living in France, by a town called Marbignion near Paris and was raised to be a prim and proper lady, though she was always a tomboy and had an interest for the sword, even going so far as to duel at the age of 16 but then the Revolution happened and her parents were executed by Robespierres men for fighting against the revolutionaries. Jaqueline had luckily been sent away to relatives in Tolouse, but the revolutionaries came for her there as well, making her fight her way out and flee once again, making her move from place to place, constantly on the run.
• Special Skills: Jaqueline is an expert fencer despite her young age and having constantly be on the run have made her quite good at sneaking and perceptive. She is also educated in economics, history, reading and writing, natural sciences, riding, diplomacy, courtesy, sewing, dancing, music and art, the finer things in life.
• Favorite Food: Roasted phaesant, stuffed with a variety of mushrooms and fruit imported from the colonies and covered by a sauce made from the finest ingredients. To drink a glass of red wine from the best wineyards and afterwards a cup of coffee and a slice of cake.

edited 18th Jun '14 4:06:22 PM by clawthewolf

• Name: Rudolph von Rozen

• Age: 17

• Country of Origin: Nazi Germany

• Year of Origin:1937

• Appearance: For the fuhrer!

• Personality: A relatively sheltered lifestyle led to a sheltered boy, who did not know pain or hunger or sickness growing up, even among the poverty stricken streets of 1930's Germany. As a result he is quick to trust others, very naive and unwary of how the world works. His belief that the new Fuhrer is right is commendable, for one so unaware of politics as he.

• Backstory: Rudolph was born into a relatively well off family near the end of WWI. He grew up sheltered from the poverty and sickness that ran through the streets of the Broken Germany. As he grew, so did the New Fuhrer's rise to power, and he believed in this new leader wholeheartedly, so much so that he when he was old enough he began attending Nazi Rallies and speeches, eager to hear the word of his new Leader. It was on his way to one such occasion that he seemingly vanished without a trace...

• Special Skills: The Nazi Regime demands that all boys eighteen years old be admitted into military service. As such Rudolph's family decided it would be prudent for the boy to get a headstart on his conditioning, as such Rudolph is the picture of physical fitness. However, he considers his main pride to be in his baking skills.

• Favorite Food: Dinkelbrot, a kind of yeasted bread of German origin.

• Name: Elena Maclelan

• Age: 18

• Country of Origin: Ireland

• Year of Origin: 2115

• Appearance: http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2298926 (basis) Specific details include a mechanical prosthetic starting at her left elbow, an old 1 inch by 1 inch computer chip in place of the pendant, hair let down and shoulder length, with about two streaks died blue on the right side.

• Personality: Nice and compassionate, but quite frankly, lazy. Largely oblivious to the events of her time do to not really caring. She never did think about what she was going to do in life. But once again, she’s nice, friendly, et cetera.

• Backstory: A girl of normal life in the future. Her family was a bit big on sports, and she even played soccer for a while. However it quickly lost her interest. She just had no desire for it. When she was thirteen she lost her left forearm in accident. Ever since she has had a mechanical prosthetic. The arm’s mechanical beauty inspired her, and ever since she started getting more and more into tech and machinery.

• Special Skills: Slightly athletic due to her time as sports. Her best ability though is her skill with machinery and computers. She is good at understanding how machines work, being able to repair and such with relative ease. She also has good understanding of programming and hacking.

• Favorite Food: Pizza.

edited 18th Jun '14 8:34:03 PM by SolusLupus

• Name: Fei Yen
• Age: 17
• Country of Origin: China
• Year of Origin: 728 AD
• Appearance: Fei is a young lady of a height of 158 cm, with pale skin and the usual factions of her Chinese heritage. The one point she differs starkly against her peers are her big, vibrant jade green eyes, inherited from a Tocharian grandmother. Her hair is silky and smooth, sheer black in color and long enough to reach halfway down her back. She has quite a slender athletic build, though packed with nimble muscles. Her feet and hands both are calloused from a life of acrobatics and martial arts training. By the time she was taken, she was wearing a long robe secured by a cloth belt, long pants, simple shoes and a simple leather cord with a jade pendant.
• Personality: Hard working, a bit restrained, respectful and a bit ambitious. A girl who has been under orders her entire life, she has grown used to having an authority over her. Her style of life led to a somewhat selfless outlook on life, though when able to cut loose and be herself, she embraces it fully. She's quite diligent and disciplined, able to tune out distractions to do her best at the task at hand. Though when performing or fighting if things go well she can grow very excited and overjoyed, showing a less restrained side of her personality that then gets swept under the rough in embarrassment.
• Backstory: Fei is the second daughter and third child of an impoverished merchant who sold her at age three to a troupe of Chinese Variety Artists who performed around the realm and even regularly in the Imperial Capital. She was then raised by the troupe since her earliest memories, to work as an acrobat and martial artist in their performances. Her teacher came from a Shaolin Temple, who collaborated annually with the circus to make performances and offerings to the Emperor. This man decided to leave the strict life at the temple to instead become a performer full time and Fei among other youths were trained since childhood to push their bodies to the fullest. Such was her life most of her youth, training after training, with great moments coming when she was allowed to go out on performances or in martial arts sparring which she showed aptitude in. However, despite her talent the owner of the circus took notice also in her budding beauty and her unusual eyes... and then started to make arrangements to sell her to a bordello for a hefty sum. In the last two years of her life before being abducted, she started a different kind of education under the circus owner, his maids and a madame from a lesser house. These were cultural lessons necessary not groom her into more than an ignorant acrobat from the circus, into a true lady that could be respected. Half the day she kept at her acrobatics as a fall out plan, though the rest she learned to read and write, poetry, manners, singing, dancing, how to dress and how to behave to become a much more attractive prospect for one of the bordellos.
• Special Skills: Acrobatics, contortionism, Shaolin Kung Fu, Climbing, knowledge in poetry, writing, manners, singing, dancing.
• Favorite Food: Chilled Melon and Sweet and Sour Pork with rice and vegetables.

• Name: Shiro (Doesn't know his surname)
• Age: 23
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Year of Origin: 1827
• Appearance: Like so, but with slightly more beat up clothes◊
• Personality: Shiro is rather stubborn in the face of adversity and is slow to admit defeat, even when the odds are stacked high against him. Despite being an average swordsman, Shiro is insanely proud of what skill he has and fancies himself a better swordsman than he actually is and thus tends to be fairly rude when speaking to those he sees as inferior (mainly peasants, despite not being much higher on the social ladder himself).
• Backstory: Born to a pair of deposed nobles, Shiro spent most of his early childhood living with his father in near vagrancy (his mother died in childbirth). In a fit of desperation, Shiro's father turned to banditry and ended up like most bandits, dead. Now an Orphan, Shiro spent most of his childhood stealing food as well as scavenging for scraps when that didn't work out for him. After a few years of scavenging and stealing what he needed, Shiro decided that he'd take up arms and try to convince people that he was a Samurai. After looting a suitable pair of swords from an abandoned battlefield, Shiro unintentionally ended up dueling a much older and better trained Samurai after claiming to be a Samurai himself. This resulted in Shiro losing his right eye and forced him to take up a mercenary lifestyle, serving as a bodyguard for low ranking nobles and merchants as well as fighting in a few small scale skirmishes.
• Special Skills: As befitting a Rōnin, Shiro has experience in fighting and isn't too bad in a fight with the katana and wakizashi he carries as well as being a moderately capable fistfighter. Since he spent most of his childhood scrounging for food in cities and the wilderness, Shiro also has mild knowledge of how to scavenge for food as well as how to make somewhat edible meals out of what he finds.
• Favorite Food: Onigiri (rice balls)

RP will start tonight when I get home from work, around 11 PM EST.