Dolus «needs a last name, her planet needs a name also»

Dolus has been living on Earth for 4 years. She comes from a medium sized planet in a neighboring Star System. Her planet has mastered space travel and the art of freezing ones state while retaining memories perfectly, this enables them to travel extensively, but Earth has always been their farthest trip ( a few ships have visited in the past, but it took them much longer than the newest ship would take). Dolus was extremely lucky, her father is wealthy and one of the biggest stakeholders in the newest line of space ships. She has always been interested in inter-galactic politics, especially Earths. So in her final year of schooling her father got her a spot on the newest spaceship that was making it’s maiden trip to Earth. She was extremely excited and decided to take a grant and write papers specifically on Earth politics. What she didn’t realize, what few people from her planet didn’t realize, is that the information in every textbook about Earth were centuries out of date.

When Dolus arrived on Earth she was shocked and appalled at the state it was in. Because of her alien status, her Earth life wasn’t extremely difficult and allowed her to focus on exactly what was going wrong on Earth. She has published 3 books in her first year that were sent back to her home planet about Earth.

While she was doing her research she kept coming across a company that had heavy ties with the government, it had gone through numerous overhauls, usually when it was in trouble, but has somehow kept afloat and is now Earth’s leading pharmaceutical researcher/supplier. Bored with writing, Dolus decides to investigate the company on a more intimate level and becomes a sort of “self-employed private investigator, with a heavy interest in human rights”. Information is incredibly hard to get a hold of since Earth was afflicted with civil wars and things are either under such heavy lock that nobody has seen them or it’s so overly complex to obtain information legally that nobody tries. So Dolus uses underground sources to get information and after a year she gets info about the #’d test subjects, but since there is absolutely no official documents for them, they are impossible to find. Unless they were to state who they were explicitly, they are not traceable, but even the test subjects don’t clearly understand their origins, making finding them near impossible.  The only clue is a vague description of the effects the testing had: physical mutations (a tip from an ex-researcher, who now leads some resistance group).

So Dolus begins handing out contact info in the immediate area of the facility, to humans that  have mutations (because of radiation it’s not such an uncommon things). She knows that this is the worst way to go about it, but she has no other choice and after a few months she is surprised when someone knocks at her flat and asking about the strange cards she has been handing out.

THIS IS PROBABLY SO CONFUSING and terribly explained. It’s late, I shouldn’t write overly complex things so late. I’ll do a short description about her personality later… (she is one of my fav chars wah).

04 (Four??? He actually needs a name, or an alias, a few of them, but my mind is blank)

A constant trouble maker at the facility and of no researching benefits, the lab was was very happy to get rid of him  when the time came (and he was happy to leave). While he was being held there however, he passed time learning to juggle and became quite good at it. Once he left he joined some street performers and did acts with them to scrap up enough money for living. After six months he had acquired enough street knowledge to leave the little troupe and do his own thing. His own thing had nothing to do with performing, so he found himself frequenting clubs and getting into trouble. He met a variety of characters during this time, one of them being in the business of “special interest films”, as he put it. Four at this point was completely broke and took up the offer to be in a few of these films. He didn’t mind the extra attention he got at clubs he frequented, and the money was pretty decent. At one point though the films became the only point of conversation, and disgusted with himself, Four vowed to never appear in one again.

He abandoned his old haunts and got in with a new crowd whose definition of fun was to try every kind of recreational drug on the market. Once again Four found that he had no more money and very few options left. After a hard night he found himself being solicited by someone, suffering from a bought of nausea, he said yes to everything and quickly left. The next morning he found in his pocket a small card with an address stamped on the back and latin on the front. He hazily remember that it was a woman speaking to him the previous night and decided that’s a good enough reason to look for the mysterious address.

03 (doesn’t have another name)

Three was one of the very few subjects that had some positive test results, but they were completely over-taken by a range of mental illnesses and a third eye. However, he was held at the facility to have further tests done as well as observe the long-term effects of the drug. Since the drug was manufactured to improve human adaptability in space the positive effects (that appear in Three) are amplified on Earth. (increased strength/ability to retain muscle, very big lung capacity, and other effects. The most important, and the focus point of the research, was to alter genes to withstand (cosmic) radiation. It was the most crucial component because the drug would then have been useful of Earth as well). 

Because Three has never had contact with the outside world and has only known cold researchers and even colder caretakers all his life he has maintained an extraordinarily naive and sheltered view on everything. Even though he is close to 22 years old his mental level more closely resembles that of a 12 year old. He’s timid and spends a lot of time daydreaming (which is assumed, maybe he’s just staring vacantly into space). He had no desire to leave the facility until he meets a former test subject one day.

<least changed character award>

02 (Vie and Eiv)

Conjoined twins that were attached at the hip. Each had functioning legs and were separated at birth without much harm done to them. Eiv is mute and the reason for it is unclear, so Vie talks for her. They seem to share a sort of psychic connection (also disputable, many tests were done at the facility to investigate this connection). Both are incredibly smart. After being released they looked for a job. They found one on an airship of sorts (cruise-air-ship) that circles the Earth at a very high altitude. They are VIP waitresses and this gives them the opportunity to hear a lot of business talk between the higher ups of various companies, as well as talk between government officials. Occasionally talk crops up about a certain group of activists, or was it anarchists? Maybe a rivaling company? It’s very unclear, but the group seems to be giving them a hard time and Vie and Eiv take note of it. They don’t care much about politics and are mostly aloof and unemotional. The other waitresses suspect the only reason they have their jobs is that they are good-looking (in a way that only appeals to those aliens) and because they are twins.

09 (Nina)

Nina is a quiet girl. She lives in a cheap derelict apartment with some cats. Previously at the corporations research facility her skin mutation made her a excellent subject to test various skin products on and half the time they only irritated her and parts of skin were permanently damaged. When she was released Nina attempted to go to school but didn’t have enough previous education to make it very far. She gave up and worked in a factory making bottle caps for awhile. On her way home one evening she stopped to watch rioters outside a factory in the same area. She finds people interesting but has issues associating herself with them (hence the cats). So as she was standing at a distance watching them a person came up to her and handed her a card. It had obscure latin on one side (“veritatem revelare quaere respondebo” please excuse the google translator) and in tiny stamped letters on the other an address. Nina didn’t even know what latin was, she was barely literate in english, but the words stuck with her and she decided to visit the address.