(work in progress)

BASICS.
name: lady diana forbes.
d.o.b.: december 12th, 1977.
age: forty-one.
nationality: american. technically a second-generation scottish immigrant, but...c'mon. does it really count? she has dual citizenship anyway.
ethnicity: caucasian.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english, italian, russian, spanish.
occupation: "acquisitions expert," a.k.a burglar for the russian mob in NYC moonlighting as a treasure huntress (ages 22 to 39), "honorary archaeologist" with d&f fortunes. (age 39 onward)

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: blue.
hair color + style: dark brown, dyed blue-black in her twenties; often styled into loose waves/curls over her shoulders, but pulled into ponytails or messy buns when exploring ruins.
height: 5 feet, 4 inches.
distinguishing features: a lineart tattoo of a naked woman riding a white tiger (a drunken mistake, but a great story), a long scar trailing from her left shoulder and down across her collarbone, and a relatively new scar along her cheekbone from a final confrontation with rafe adler.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: richard and cecily forbes.
siblings: one younger brother by three years named bruce forbes.
significant other: javier "javi" espinoza.
children: tbd.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral but tends to do the right thing...most of the time.
mbti: intj-a, the commander.
disorders: major depressive disorder, chronic alcoholism.
likes: money, not dying, proving other people wrong, hard liquor.
dislikes: people who insist they're right when she knows for a fact they're most certainly not, getting shot at, getting trapped in ruins with no easy way to escape (not to the point of being claustrophobia though)
phobias: thalassophobia (fear of the open ocean) atelophobia (fear of not being good enough.)
hobbies: piano, driving, and some fencing as a teen.

BIOGRAPHY.
while her parents were both from scotland, diana grew up in upstate new york, attending the best private boarding schools money could buy. as a child she was also encouraged to take up a few hobbies to fill her free time, those of which included playing piano, target practice (at diana's insistence), and some fencing in her adolescent years. her focus gravitated toward marksmanship, as diana didn't see much use in knowing swordplay in her future career...or ever.

she was always among the most intelligent of her classmates, but never was quite valedictorian. her GPA was always just enough to satisfy her mother but not enough to put herself on a pedestal. diana valued her solitude when she was younger, and only had enough friends in the past to count them on one hand. diana graduated with A's and a B or two, and almost got her bachelor’s degree in archaeology from columbia university; dropping out with only one more semester to go. during her time there, she met raphael, aka rafe adler and had the misfortune of having several classes together with him over the course of her time at columbia and becoming friendly with one another. however, this friendship would become a pretty close business partnership later on after she dropped out and chose to make her foray into becoming a glorified burglar.

from then on, diana made her own luck. her father confided in her that he had connections in the black market that she could begin freelancing with, and sent her on her way from there. she did some odd jobs here and there, but her main client was a young rafe adler, who had finished his degree and sought her help for some expeditions he embarked on before inheriting his family’s corporation. but while diana had a pretty vast knowledge of most history, she did not know much about the golden age of piracy in the early 1700s and ergo rafe couldn’t count on her for help in finding henry avery's treasure. instead, he found a man named nathan drake and his brother who both seemed to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject.

a couple months later, diana gets a phone call from rafe begging for her assistance in an abandoned monastery in northern scotland. this was when she first met nathan drake, when she was unknowingly brought in to replace his brother after he had been shot in prison. the three of them stayed in scotland combing the cathedral for several weeks, turning up no new clues while rafe only became more and more frustrated. nathan and diana both had enough of rafe’s obsessive behavior before too long and bailed on him before any of them ended up doing something stupid. rather than let the experience drive a wedge between them, nathan and diana formed what would become a lifelong friendship.

after a few years of working on her own and proving her intelligence and skill, one of the syndicates pulling the strings in new york city scooped her up for their own. she became their "acquisitions expert"—their nickname for a burglar—for a while. once she had worked for the syndicate long enough, her boss entrusted her with a new type of assignment: eliminate and up-and-coming drug lord in south america who had begun encroaching on some of her employer’s operations in the area. her instructions were vague: make sure their entire operation stops completely, and do whatever you need to do to make that happen.

long story short, diana bluffs her way into consulting with the police in bolivia to stop a drug cartel and through that meets javier espinoza. he is also consulting, but he is a legitimate contractor; a mercenary whose company was recently contracted to assist in stopping the cartel at the time. through some as-yet unwritten months of two of them butting heads and eventually growing to like each other, they get over their differences and formulate a convoluted plan to both kill this vague-unnamed drug lord and steal his money with some friends of javier’s. (i know this is a stupid idea and sounds like i've watched that one netflix movie too many times but they’re my ocs and i’m embracing the cringe here so be glad that they don’t have random unnecessary superpowers or something. i also suck at thinking of plots, so this is like a placeholder for now.)

and now, since i’m not being a merciless god to her, diana actually gets to be with javier for more than a year or two before i kill him off! in fact, i let them grow old together now! ain’t that great?

originally, mr. espinoza was not supposed to survive to see the age of thirty-one, but tina has decided that diana has suffered enough, and the one good thing diana will have in her life is someone who has and always will truly love her, so javier is diana's endgame love interest. tina's kinda sappy like that.

BASICS.
name: lord javier espinoza.
d.o.b.: march 28th, 1979.
age: forty.
nationality: american.
ethnicity: latinx.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: spanish, english, greek, and some russian.
occupation: ex-marine turned mercenary, turned treasure hunter, turned commander of the small mercenary company he jointly operates with his wife, diana forbes, that works as security for d&f fortunes' dig sites.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: brown.
hair color + style: dark brown and very curly if allowed to grow out a little.
height: 5 feet, 8 inches.
distinguishing features: a lineart tattoo of himself riding a dragon (to mirror diana's tattoo), three gun shot scars; one in his right shoulder, one right below the side of his ribs on his left side, and one on his abdomen; a scar running straight down across the corner of both lips; a slight limp in his knee from a near-fatal injury he sustained in nepal in 2009.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: santiago and benita espinoza.
siblings: three sisters, gabriela (eldest), maría (younger), adriana (youngest)
significant other: diana forbes.
children: definitely, but since she's only recently toyed with the idea of maybe officially resurrecting him, tina hasn't thought about any specific names/ages/anything about them. but they'd definitely exist.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: isfp-t, the adventurer.
disorders: TBD until tina can definitively decide what his backstory will be.
likes: money, his wife, his father-in-law, being able to technically call himself "lord."
dislikes: his mother-in-law.
phobias: it's not a phobia, but he doesn't like being in large crowds.
hobbies: sketching.

BIOGRAPHY.
excuse the lack of a real backstory until now, tina's still in the middle of ironing out the details about javier and just ditching jim bishop as a character. (or at least a lot of the stuff about jim that's been detailed so far.)

here's a short blurb about him before meeting diana:

as for javi's childhood, his GPA was always a little bit above average, but nothing that universities would find particularly exceptional. his intelligence was geared less toward memorization and more toward real-world applications. he had an interest in history and mythology, but only so he had random knowledge to share at parties, not so he could become a university professor or archaeologist. he graduated high school and immediately followed in his older sister's footsteps by enlisting in the marines, but he only did it because it seemed to be his only good career option at the time. after his mandatory service was over, tina's just going to say that he spent some time working for a paramilitary group for a little while, which was how diana first met him.

tina's already said this a bit in diana's bio, but here's how this all went down from javi's perspective: javi was contracted with the police in bolivia to track down and arrest a vague, as-of-yet unnamed drug lord. he had spent a few years consulting for this operation, and suddenly this woman pops up out of nowhere saying she works for the fbi and has been tasked with the same goal as javier.

he could tell she didn't know what the hell she was talking about, and noticed she was simply observing his and his team's information, not providing any useful help of her own. once he managed to get the location of this vague-unnamed cartel leader, diana proposed letting her in on the operation and turning it into a money heist rather than a normal drug bust. javier liked to call himself a "good guy," but diana's suggestion was too good to pass up, especially when he had it on pretty good authority that this guy had at least one hundred million dollars hidden away in his compound. he rounded up an old team of his from his marine days, and with diana's help they infiltrated the compound and took all the money for themselves.

this all happened over the course of a few months, so it's not like what tina had before were it was the love at first sight trope. that was out of character for both of them, and tina was just too lazy to develop the relationship before writing a bunch of stuff where they were already a couple.

there are a lot of details here that tina hasn't ironed out completely, so expect changes on this page frequently. what's new is that tina's just committed to never killing off javier because it's just a little too mean, even for tina's standards.

NOTES.
javier was present, but less drunk than diana was when she decided to get her tiger-woman tattoo. he remembers far more about the situation than she does, and after filling diana in on the details has been expressly forbidden to speak of that night to anyone else, lest he be ready to sleep on the couch for the next year.

BASICS.
name(s): morrigan of kovir.
d.o.b.: it's complicated.
apparent age: mid-thirties.
actual age: ca. the witcher games, morrigan is in her mid-sixties.
nationality: it's complicated...again.
species: human.
sexual orientation: bisexual, but does not normally pursue relationships.
languages: common speech, some elder speech as part of her studies.
occupation: former court mage, now healer and herbalist in velen.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: amber, glow a bit when she's casting spells.
hair color + style: dark brown, often braided over one shoulder, or into a bun at the nape of her neck.
height: 5 feet, 10 inches.
distinguishing features: a deep black crystal pendant around her neck.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: once again, it's complicated.
siblings: none she can remember.
significant other: stryker of cintra.
children: n/a.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: isfj.
disorders: imposter syndrome, and some depression with a dash of anxiety.
likes: learning, reading, solitude, touissant, redanian accents.
dislikes: necrophages, giant spiders, politics, redanian attitudes toward magic and magic users.
phobias: none. she just hates spiders.

BIOGRAPHY.
the first thing morrigan can remember is waking up face-down on the ground an old crypt whose walls were lined with countless skulls, and had braziers enclosed another miscellaneous humanoid bones. After wandering the crypt and trying to wake herself up, morrigan heard the voice of a stranger saying to her, "welcome to the tower of the gull, child."

this stranger would introduce herself as rectoress tissaia de vries.

morrigan's studies at aretuza were not terribly interesting; just days of repeatedly lifting stones, reading minds, memorizing incantations...everything an aspiring sorceress should learn, and morrigan was consistently average enough to succeed. however, her final transformation turned her from a frightened young woman to a confident, powerful court mage for the kingdoms of kovir and poviss.

she served king baldwin thyssen of kovir for several years before he was overthrown by the usurpers idi and rhyd, who proclaimed themselves kings of kovir and poviss respectively. morrigan remained serving the thyssen family until balwin's son, esterad, had earned enough support to reclaim his throne for himself. the sorceress hid in exile in talgar with the queen and prince, doing everything in her power to help the thyssens be able to seize power once again when esterad was ready and able.

morrigan consinued serving the house of thyssen until the battle of sodden hill. she joined the handful of mages down south to hold back nilfgaard, and was thought to have perished during the fight. she narrowly escaped death, portal-ing herself to safety before yennefer of vengerberg's firestorm consumed the battlefield.

she emerged in one of the corners of her laboratory in kovir, only to be greeted by a handful of castle guardsmen. in her absence, esterad's wife, queen zuleyka, had replaced her with silé de tansarville and wanted morrigan dead or banished from kovir and poviss entirely. morrigan, still exhausted from the battle, was nearly killed by the guardsmen, but emerged victorious. she quickly gathered the few items of value, sentimental and otherwise, and packed them into a satchel before fleeing for kaer morhen.

BASICS.
name(s): stryker of cintra.
d.o.b.: a long time ago.
apparent age: late-thirties.
actual age: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (about the same age as morrigan, actually.)
nationality: who cares?
species: human.
sexual orientation: heterosexual.
languages: common speech.
occupation: witcher.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: amber.
hair color + style: salt-and-pepper, normally left loose but pulled into ponytails during hunts.
height: 6 feet, 2 inches.
distinguishing features: two swords on his back.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: dead.
siblings: dead.
significant other: morrigan of kovir.
children: n/a.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral.
mbti: istj.
disorders: tba.
likes: living on the road with morrigan.
dislikes: portals, but morrigan ends up forcing him to tolerate them, since she's lazy as hell.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
tba, tina's reworking this page.

BASICS.
name: lyana trevelyan.
d.o.b.: 34 BBY.
age: mid/late 30s during the original trilogy.
affiliation: the rebel alliance; formerly the jedi order.
species: human.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: basic, droidspeak.
occupation: rebel general; formerly a smuggler.
weapon of choice: saberstaff with indigo blades.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: icy blue.
hair color + style: deep black, normally cut to shoulder-length.
height: 5 feet, 8 inches.
distinguishing features: ...a cybernetic arm. (long story)

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: unknown.
siblings: unknown.
significant other: antares voss.
children: mara voss.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: intj.
disorders: PTSD.
likes: annoying antares (even after getting him to defect), sabacc.
dislikes: tatooine, flying TIE fighters.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
tba; tina is reworking this page.

BASICS.
name: antares voss.
d.o.b.: 35 BBY.
age: mid/late 30s during the original trilogy.
affiliation: the rebel alliance; formerly the galactic empire.
species: human.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: basic, droidspeak.
occupation: rebel spy; formerly an imperial spy.
weapon of choice: blasters and dual vibroblades.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: green.
hair color + style: dark brown, cut and styled cleanly.
height: 6 feet, 2 inches.
distinguishing features: he's like, really clean-cut all the time. ant's beard is perfectly manicured.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: unknown.
siblings: unknown.
significant other: lyana trevelyan.
children: mara voss.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral.
mbti: istj.
disorders: tba.
likes: sparring.
dislikes: flying TIE fighters because it's impossible to see anything until it's too late sometimes.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
tba; tina is reworking this page.

BASICS.
name: mara voss.
d.o.b.: 2 ABY.
age: early 30s during the sequel trilogy.
affiliation: the resistance.
species: human.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: basic, droidspeak.
occupation: smuggler, resistance sleeper agent.
weapon of choice: lyana's saberstaff, reconfigured to be convertible into two sabers.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: green.
hair color + style: deep black, braided or pulled into a bun at the nape of her neck.
height: 5 feet, 6 inches.
distinguishing features: her mother's saberstaff is always slung over her torso.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: unknown.
siblings: unknown.
significant other: poe dameron.
children: tba.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral.
mbti: intj.
disorders: tba.
likes: poe, flying starfighters
dislikes: poe, tatooine flying TIE fighters.
phobias: none she is aware of.

BIOGRAPHY.
tba; tina is reworking this page.

this is literally tina just pulling an everybody-lives-AU on tess.

BASICS.
name: tess.
d.o.b.: march 23rd 1993.
age: forty-ish. she's lost count.
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: jackson county.
sexual orientation: heterosexual.
languages: english.
occupation: survivor.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: brown.
hair color + style: brunette, barely touches her shoulders.
height: 5 feet, 7 inches.
distinguishing features: misc. scars gained while on the road.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: deceased.
siblings: one younger brother named cole. (deceased)
significant other: blake , joel miller (formerly; no strings attached)
children: one miscarried child over a decade before the events of tlou pt. one.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral.
mbti: intj-a, the architect.
disorders: ptsd, paranoia.
likes: blake, joel, ellie, not being dead.
dislikes: other people.
phobias: monophobia. (specifically dying alone, or turning after being bitten and not having the guts to end it herself)

BIOGRAPHY.
tess lived at home in phoenix when the cordyceps brain infectioin (CBI) hit in september of 2013. she and her brother were evacuated to the quarantine zone, where they remained for six months before food and water shortages began to take their toll on the QZ. rather than just leave with no plan, tess decided to track down their parents, who were out of town on outbreak day.

over the course of the next few years, tess and cole came across another group of survivors in northern arizona, where tess met her future spouse, blake. they ran with that group, slowly moving north through utah until the group was overrun with infected in one of the abandoned homes they were staying in. only tess, cole, and blake survived. the trio, having accepted that tess and her brother's parents were likely dead by that point, began to roam the west aimlessly for the next couple years, their main motivation being to avoid herds of infected.

ovwhile north of the los angeles quarantine zone, they picked up tess's parents trail once more, finding that the parents had also gone to the same town in california and seemed to leave in favor of going to colorado. the trio pursued that lead, eventually finding tess's and cole's parents, along with their aunt and uncle staying in a settlement in an old lake resort town. the trio stayed there, relatively comfortable, until a couple years later when food seemed to be scarce. no one was starving, but blake began to suspect that the town's leadership was hiding something from their people. long story short, tess and blake discovered that that winter, the town's hunters were being instructed to hunt down any survivors they came across, which were then butchered and fed to the rest of the town without anyone but the hunters and their commander, david, knowing. when tess and blake discovered this, david escorted them out of town under the pretense of a supply run. instead of gathering supplies, david planned to execute them before they told the rest of the camp. he successfully killed cole before tess and blake fled, but the couple was separated in a nearby neighborhood overrun by infected. after the ordeal, tess made it to the radio tower rendezvous point but blake never showed.

having no idea what to do next, tess began making her way south again, bringing her to the austin QZ, where she met and partnered up with joel and tommy miller. she stuck around with them until the austin quarantine zone fractured into firefly/scavenger rule, which caused tommy to leave with the fireflies. after a few years scavenging pittsburgh-style, joel and tess eventually ended up in boston.

now, to save time and not recap tlou pt. one, my excuse for tess surviving is that she didn't get bitten, and instead her reason to stay behind as a distraction was that she began to realize that ellie's bite was scarred over, and in that moment that gave her hope that maybe, just maybe, there could be a cure. and maybe, things could finally get better for the world. this is what makes her tell joel to take ellie to see tommy and find more fireflies.

instead of joel and ellie seeing tess's body, they don't see her at all. she managed to fight her way out of boston and make it all the way to jackson on her own to meet joel and ellie...before she found out that blake was alive and had already been there for years.

tess, having gotten to jackson a couple months before joel and ellie, asked tommy if she could say but bad blood between the two of them put her on very thin ice. she had to work her ass off to get tommy to trust her, and at the same time had to navigate over a decade of "i thought you were dead/why didn't you look for me" with blake. after some Drama™, tess is finally considered a real citizen of the compound, and moves in with blake to try to continue a relationship with him after many years apart.

joel and ellie arrive at the hydroelectric dam later on, while tess and blake are on guard duty. oddly enough, joel and tess weren't some kind of inseparable pair so there's really no drama. it's just everyone being pissed that tess never talked about blake or her brother after colorado. tess almost joins ellie and joel again, but once there's mention of the firefly lab being in colorado, she outright refuses to go. she figures if she goes down there, she'll end up wrapped up in david's shit again and now that she has blake back she won't risk her neck just for revenge. she doesn't consider david worth the time.

this whole side for blake is a WIP, so ignore the shitty banner up here for now!
tina's also having a helluva time getting this psd to work for a banner of blake's fc and...it ain't working...

BASICS.
name: blake.
d.o.b.: december 25th, 1992.
age: forty-ish. who's really counting anymore?
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: jackson county; fireflies ( formerly )
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english.
occupation: survivor.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: blue.
hair color + style: salt-and-peppery, long-ish since befriending tommy miller.
height: 5 feet, 10 inches.
distinguishing features: misc. scars gained while on the road.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: assumed deceased.
siblings: one older brother named daniel. (deceased)
significant other: tess. tommy and maria tried to get him to date some of the other survivors in jackson, but he wasn't really into it.
children: one miscarried child over a decade before the events of tlou pt. one. blake discovered its grave shortly after The Ordeal™ in colorado.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: infp-a, the mediator.
disorders: ptsd.
likes: his wife, helping other survivors.
dislikes: other people.
phobias: none, other than dying prematurely.

BIOGRAPHY.
blake was a med student living in northern arizona when the cordyceps brain infection hit in 2013. the fallout of the infection didn't hit their community for a few weeks, but blake was watching the news obsessively, trying to figure out what the hell was going on and if there was any way to treat the infection. (spoiler alert: he was being a little too optimistic.)

blake's brother, dan, had a friend whose parents owned a cabin in the woods, so they all hunkered down there, occasionally sending a couple people out for supplies. that first winter after outbreak day, cole met dan while out hunting. they'd agreed to split a buck between their groups, but right when dan shot the deer down, tess tackled him after misreading the situation. the two struggled and dan nearly strangled tess, which would have killed her if blake hadn't stepped in. concerned that she might have been injured more severely, blake insisted that she and her brother go back to the cabin so he could check up on her.

i don't want to recap everything that happened, since you can look at tess's bio. instead, i'm going to skip forward to when blake and tess are separated.

blake made it out of david's resort, arriving at the agreed upon rendezvous point (the nearby radio tower) a week after being driven out. unknown to him, tess had only left the day before. however, he did find a small grave dug out in a patch of dirt near the tower with a small cross made of twigs. he couldn't know for certain, but since it was recently put there blake came to the realization that tess had been pregnant, and the whole ordeal with david's resort had made her lose the baby. (to be fair, tess wasn't 100% sure she was pregnant, so she hadn't told him as a way not to get his hopes up.)

he waited at the radio tower for a few more days, but tess never came back. since then, he never found a body, infected or otherwise, so he always held out a little hope that she was still out there.

blake made his way back west toward los angeles without much of a plan, or any attempt to get there quickly. he settled down for a bit outside the quarantine zone out there and made friends with a couple fireflies within the zone, men who called themselves tommy and eugene. blake soon joined the fireflies as a field medic, stationed out where he was already settled north of los angeles. after a few years of that, tommy and eugene were leaving the fireflies and asked blake if he wanted to join them in finding someplace to settle down and build a town. he accepted.

blake, tommy, and eugene all ended up in jackson county, where tommy met maria. the settlement had only started out as a neighborhood that had been fortified and cleared out, so the trio helped clear out the rest of the town and build up the barricade surrounding the settlement. since then blake stayed in jackson county and regularly ran the patrol routes with tommy and eugene to help keep the town safe and fed.

blake was on lookout when a familiar-looking woman arrived and set up a tent within a pickup truck parked on an overlook with a view of the settlement. she stayed up there for a couple days, and blake never saw any reason to believe it was an ambush, so he rode out with tommy one morning to offer this strange woman shelter.

but surprise! this strange woman was blake's wife!

this is literally tina just pulling an everybody-lives-AU on tess.

BASICS.
name: tess.
d.o.b.: march 23rd 1993.
age: forty-ish. she's lost count.
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: jackson county.
sexual orientation: heterosexual.
languages: english.
occupation: survivor.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: brown.
hair color + style: brunette, barely touches her shoulders.
height: 5 feet, 7 inches.
distinguishing features: misc. scars gained while on the road.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: deceased.
siblings: one younger brother named cole. (deceased)
significant other: blake , joel miller (formerly; no strings attached)
children: one miscarried child over a decade before the events of tlou pt. one.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral.
mbti: intj-a, the architect.
disorders: ptsd, paranoia.
likes: blake, joel, ellie, not being dead.
dislikes: other people.
phobias: monophobia. (specifically dying alone, or turning after being bitten and not having the guts to end it herself)

BIOGRAPHY.
tess lived at home in phoenix when the cordyceps brain infectioin (CBI) hit in september of 2013. she and her brother were evacuated to the quarantine zone, where they remained for six months before food and water shortages began to take their toll on the QZ. rather than just leave with no plan, tess decided to track down their parents, who were out of town on outbreak day.

over the course of the next few years, tess and cole came across another group of survivors in northern arizona, where tess met her future spouse, blake. they ran with that group, slowly moving north through utah until the group was overrun with infected in one of the abandoned homes they were staying in. only tess, cole, and blake survived. the trio, having accepted that tess and her brother's parents were likely dead by that point, began to roam the west aimlessly for the next couple years, their main motivation being to avoid herds of infected.

ovwhile north of the los angeles quarantine zone, they picked up tess's parents trail once more, finding that the parents had also gone to the same town in california and seemed to leave in favor of going to colorado. the trio pursued that lead, eventually finding tess's and cole's parents, along with their aunt and uncle staying in a settlement in an old lake resort town. the trio stayed there, relatively comfortable, until a couple years later when food seemed to be scarce. no one was starving, but blake began to suspect that the town's leadership was hiding something from their people. long story short, tess and blake discovered that that winter, the town's hunters were being instructed to hunt down any survivors they came across, which were then butchered and fed to the rest of the town without anyone but the hunters and their commander, david, knowing. when tess and blake discovered this, david escorted them out of town under the pretense of a supply run. instead of gathering supplies, david planned to execute them before they told the rest of the camp. he successfully killed cole before tess and blake fled, but the couple was separated in a nearby neighborhood overrun by infected. after the ordeal, tess made it to the radio tower rendezvous point but blake never showed.

having no idea what to do next, tess began making her way south again, bringing her to the austin QZ, where she met and partnered up with joel and tommy miller. she stuck around with them until the austin quarantine zone fractured into firefly/scavenger rule, which caused tommy to leave with the fireflies. after a few years scavenging pittsburgh-style, joel and tess eventually ended up in boston.

now, to save time and not recap tlou pt. one, my excuse for tess surviving is that she didn't get bitten, and instead her reason to stay behind as a distraction was that she began to realize that ellie's bite was scarred over, and in that moment that gave her hope that maybe, just maybe, there could be a cure. and maybe, things could finally get better for the world. this is what makes her tell joel to take ellie to see tommy and find more fireflies.

instead of joel and ellie seeing tess's body, they don't see her at all. she managed to fight her way out of boston and make it all the way to jackson on her own to meet joel and ellie...before she found out that blake was alive and had already been there for years.

tess, having gotten to jackson a couple months before joel and ellie, asked tommy if she could say but bad blood between the two of them put her on very thin ice. she had to work her ass off to get tommy to trust her, and at the same time had to navigate over a decade of "i thought you were dead/why didn't you look for me" with blake. after some Drama™, tess is finally considered a real citizen of the compound, and moves in with blake to try to continue a relationship with him after many years apart.

joel and ellie arrive at the hydroelectric dam later on, while tess and blake are on guard duty. oddly enough, joel and tess weren't some kind of inseparable pair so there's really no drama. it's just everyone being pissed that tess never talked about blake or her brother after colorado. tess almost joins ellie and joel again, but once there's mention of the firefly lab being in colorado, she outright refuses to go. she figures if she goes down there, she'll end up wrapped up in david's shit again and now that she has blake back she won't risk her neck just for revenge. she doesn't consider david worth the time.

this whole side for blake is a WIP, so ignore the shitty banner up here for now!
tina's also having a helluva time getting this psd to work for a banner of blake's fc and...it ain't working...

BASICS.
name: blake.
d.o.b.: december 25th, 1992.
age: forty-ish. who's really counting anymore?
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: jackson county; fireflies ( formerly )
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english.
occupation: survivor.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: blue.
hair color + style: salt-and-peppery, long-ish since befriending tommy miller.
height: 5 feet, 10 inches.
distinguishing features: misc. scars gained while on the road.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: assumed deceased.
siblings: one older brother named daniel. (deceased)
significant other: tess. tommy and maria tried to get him to date some of the other survivors in jackson, but he wasn't really into it.
children: one miscarried child over a decade before the events of tlou pt. one. blake discovered its grave shortly after The Ordeal™ in colorado.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: infp-a, the mediator.
disorders: ptsd.
likes: his wife, helping other survivors.
dislikes: other people.
phobias: none, other than dying prematurely.

BIOGRAPHY.
blake was a med student living in northern arizona when the cordyceps brain infection hit in 2013. the fallout of the infection didn't hit their community for a few weeks, but blake was watching the news obsessively, trying to figure out what the hell was going on and if there was any way to treat the infection. (spoiler alert: he was being a little too optimistic.)

blake's brother, dan, had a friend whose parents owned a cabin in the woods, so they all hunkered down there, occasionally sending a couple people out for supplies. that first winter after outbreak day, cole met dan while out hunting. they'd agreed to split a buck between their groups, but right when dan shot the deer down, tess tackled him after misreading the situation. the two struggled and dan nearly strangled tess, which would have killed her if blake hadn't stepped in. concerned that she might have been injured more severely, blake insisted that she and her brother go back to the cabin so he could check up on her.

i don't want to recap everything that happened, since you can look at tess's bio. instead, i'm going to skip forward to when blake and tess are separated.

blake made it out of david's resort, arriving at the agreed upon rendezvous point (the nearby radio tower) a week after being driven out. unknown to him, tess had only left the day before. however, he did find a small grave dug out in a patch of dirt near the tower with a small cross made of twigs. he couldn't know for certain, but since it was recently put there blake came to the realization that tess had been pregnant, and the whole ordeal with david's resort had made her lose the baby. (to be fair, tess wasn't 100% sure she was pregnant, so she hadn't told him as a way not to get his hopes up.)

he waited at the radio tower for a few more days, but tess never came back. since then, he never found a body, infected or otherwise, so he always held out a little hope that she was still out there.

blake made his way back west toward los angeles without much of a plan, or any attempt to get there quickly. he settled down for a bit outside the quarantine zone out there and made friends with a couple fireflies within the zone, men who called themselves tommy and eugene. blake soon joined the fireflies as a field medic, stationed out where he was already settled north of los angeles. after a few years of that, tommy and eugene were leaving the fireflies and asked blake if he wanted to join them in finding someplace to settle down and build a town. he accepted.

blake, tommy, and eugene all ended up in jackson county, where tommy met maria. the settlement had only started out as a neighborhood that had been fortified and cleared out, so the trio helped clear out the rest of the town and build up the barricade surrounding the settlement. since then blake stayed in jackson county and regularly ran the patrol routes with tommy and eugene to help keep the town safe and fed.

blake was on lookout when a familiar-looking woman arrived and set up a tent within a pickup truck parked on an overlook with a view of the settlement. she stayed up there for a couple days, and blake never saw any reason to believe it was an ambush, so he rode out with tommy one morning to offer this strange woman shelter.

but surprise! this strange woman was blake's wife!

ellie is about as self-inserty as i get. she's literally just an outlander ripoff set in red dead redemption 2.

BASICS.
name: ellie williams.
d.o.b.: october 23rd, "1874."
age: 25-ish.
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: dutch van der linde's gang. ( formerly )
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english.
occupation: outlaw.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: hazel.
hair color + style: brunette, barely touches her shoulders; often pulled into a ponytail, bun, or half-updo to get it out of her face.
height: 5 feet, 5 inches.
distinguishing features: ...she has dimples when she smiles?

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: technically don't exist yet.
siblings: technically doesn't exist yet.
significant other: silas carter bohannon.
children: tbd.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: istj-a, the logistician.
disorders: prone to anxiety.
likes: writing, solitude.
dislikes: other people.
phobias: acrophobia.

BIOGRAPHY.
i'mma be real with y'all: ellie's just a self-insert. it started out with shipping her with arthur because of course, high-honor arthur is an angel.

but then tina found hell on wheels on netflix, and scruffy anson mount happened, so...yeah. she's really just my "writing an outlander ripoff but with outlaws instead of scots" outlet.

the first thing ellie remembers is charles asking her if she was okay. he seemed alright, and she had nowhere else to go so she ended up joining the van der lindes by default. she didn't think of herself as being good at the same kind of petty robbery that the other young women at camp did, so ellie kept to herself and swindled her way into taking over making the stew every day to spare everyone pearson's shitty cooking.

the real story doesn't start until she and silas meet.

okay, to be honest, i haven't done too much actual writing about this, but whatever. i'm not posting any real fics about ellie or silas, i just wanna talk about them because i'm a sucker for the western "emotionally constipated outlaw with a heart of gold gets sweet on a relatively-innocent-but-not-innocent damsel" trope okay?

i kind of binged hell on wheels really fast, and out of that came a new oc for ellie to bang fall in love with instead of getting shipped with arthur. that way i'm being at least a LITTLE original.

BASICS.
name: silas carter bohannon.
d.o.b.: december 25th, 1870.
age: 29.
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: dutch van der linde's gang. ( formerly )
sexual orientation: heterosexual.
languages: english.
occupation: outlaw.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: blue.
hair color + style: brown with a few grey hairs, barely long enough for ellie to put it in a little ponytail with some flyaways. it's very flattering.
height: 5 feet, 10 inches.
distinguishing features: his voice is a little higher pitched than you'd expect.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: elizabeth carter and cullen bohannon. (he looks just like his pappy!)
siblings: one younger sister named saoirse bohannon.
significant other: ellie williams.
children: one son so far named cullen bohannon jr.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: true neutral.
mbti: istp, the craftsman.
disorders: none.
likes: money, ellie's cooking.
dislikes: other people.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
............okay, so far he's just there as eye-candy and for ellie to save a horse and ride instead. beyond that i just put in some generic sad-boy stuff to really get into the western genre.

silas is one of those rich kids whose teen angst kind of definde him for a while. he never got along with his father, and once he was old enough to strike out on his own, silas was gone. he eventually found himself working as a bounty hunter for several years to make his money until he met dutch van der linde in blackwater a few years later. at the time, dutch seemed like he had it all figured out, and if silas wanted in, all he had to do was join up and help raise money for the group to go somewhere called 'tahiti.' having no real goal in mind for himself beyond keeping food on the table, silas agreed.

the rest is just silas just doing a lot of the same stuff out on the road that arthur does, really. he's got his own horse so he goes out, cases possible places to rob, hunts, et cetera, but now he has a home base he can come back to and a cute girl who keeps chatting him up. as long as he helps out with some of the chores and donates some of his earnings to the camp, he has a place to go and people he can kind of count on.

the odd part though, is that despite only being part of the gang for maybe a month or two before the blackwater fiasco, he didn't cut and run when he could (and probably should) have. as far as anyone knew he didn't have a real stake in the gang...but since then he seemed to cozy up a bit to miss williams, the woman that charles had rescued out in the plains a couple weeks before silas joined up.

i had a bad idea where i watched hell on wheels too much and said "what if cullen bohannon was silas' father?" and then got way too into beth as a full-fledged character as i was making that idea work.

BASICS.
name: elizabeth carter-bohannon.
d.o.b.: september 23rd, 1831.
age: 68 ca. rdr2 ; mid/late thirties ca. HoW.
nationality: american.
species: human.
affiliation: the union pacific railroad.
sexual orientation: heterosexual.
languages: english.
occupation: retired accountant.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: blue.
hair color + style: brown.
height: 5 feet, 10 inches.
distinguishing features: a gunshot wound in her shoulder that she patched up herself during the war.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: deceased.
siblings: none.
significant other: cullen bohannon.
children: saoirse bohannon, silas bohannon.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: lawful good.
mbti: istj, the logistician.
disorders: none.
likes: shooting, reading.
dislikes: most men; her husband and son are excluded from this rule.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
elizabeth was orphaned at a young age, and was very quickly married off after her uncle took custody of her. that first marriage was short-lived, as her husband at the time was severely alcoholic and eventually succumbed to tuberculosis...not that beth cares much. in fact, she was relieved.

it meant she could make her own way in life.

she spent several years working as a governess to make ends meet, but soon grew weary of the fathers of her charges getting a little to familiar with her as the young, beautiful caretaker of their children. early on in the civil war, she volunteered to be a nurse for a change of pace. she didn't know quite what being a nurse entailed, but quickly found it far more fulfilling than tutoring and entertaining other peoples' children.

the beth that entered the war and the beth that left were almost polar opposites. she had become jaded, and while she was grateful to have chosen to volunteer, she didn't get through the war without some baggage.

shortly after the war ended, she found employment with the union pacific railroad as an accountant. beth was in charge of calculating payroll and passing it on to the foremen of the railroad, which is how she met the man that would eventually become her second husband, cullen bohannon.

miss val lives in my brain rent free nowadays, especially in my 'broken angels' timeline so expect a lot of content with her!

BASICS.
name: valerie "val" ortega.
d.o.b.: february 23rd, 2052.
age: 25. ("deceased" ca. 2077)
nationality: american, night city resident.
affiliation: freelance.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english, spanish.
role: solo/netrunner. (mercenary)

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
faceclaim: ana de armas.
eye color: kiroshi optics; black with white 'halftone' pattern irises.
hair color + style: green + space buns with overgrown fringe during the game, however she canonically changes her hair at least once every week.
height: 5 feet, 3 inches.
distinguishing features: cyberware + various lotus-inspired tattoos on her upper body.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: daniela "d" ortega (deceased) and alexei "reaper" sokolov (deadbeat)
siblings: none.
significant other: jackie welles (deceased), johnny silverhand ("alive" - biochip construct)
children: none.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: chaotic neutral.
mbti: tbd.
disorders: tbd.
likes: samurai, eurodollars.
dislikes: capitalism, megacorporations (especially arasaka)
phobias: monophobia.

BIOGRAPHY. (wip for now!)
PRE-GAME: val basically grew up in lizzie's bar as her mother was a data broker/fixer who had set up her operation through the bar. everything valerie learned about netrunning she learned from her mother, daniela, and this was the reason valerie got into the mercenary business as she got older. shortly after daniela passed away when val was 17, valerie, in her grief rode the NCART all over the city until she ended up in heywood. mama welles took her in for a while, and thus began valerie's nigh-unbreakable friendship with jackie welles.

GAME: tina will detail this later, but valerie trusted johnny entirely during the game and every choice was made with his wellbeing in mind. and because valerie's kind of an asshole, she romanced both judy alvarez and river ward, and eventually chose to give johnny her body in the Temperance ending. she realized she wouldn't really make much of herself after everything, but at least she could give johnny a second chance.

POST-GAME (aka Broken Angels): several years following the Temperance ending, johnny is tired of looking in the mirror every day and seeing val's face and sets out to recover her engram from cyberspace and possibly recover his original body from arasaka if he can. before he can recover his body, the couple spend some time mirroring their first few weeks together, this time with valerie as the construct in johnny's head...all in valerie's original body. through some stuff tina hasn't written/plotted yet, they each get their own body once more and finally get to spend some time as a couple before they eventually break up, realizing that they aren't made for the traditional "marry, pop out some kids, then die" relationship. johnny fucks off and wanders about on his own for a while and valerie, with some help from rogue amendiares, sets herself up as a fixer running out of lizzie's bar in kabuki...just like her mother before her.

vasiliy's (my nomad's) bio is coming soon!!

meet vasiliy's roommate!

BASICS.
name: tamsin phillips.
twitch channel: bubbleyumgames.
d.o.b.: october 19th, 2051.
age: 26 during the game.
nationality: american, night city resident.
affiliation: vasiliy petrov; johnny silverhand's engram by extension.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english.
role: media (streamer/influencer) + netrunner on the side.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
faceclaim: katherine langford.
eye color: naturally hazel, eventually gets lifelike kiroshi optics.
hair color + style: brunette; wore neon wigs on her streams until she could afford tech hair implants.
height: 5 feet, 7 inches.
distinguishing features: a distinct lack of cyberware throughout most of the game.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: fuck 'em.
siblings: fuck 'em too.
significant other: river ward (during the game), damon rand (another oc, long after the game)
children: possible; would happen far in the future, though.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral.
mbti: intj.
disorders: depression, anxiety, impostor syndrome.
likes: samurai, us cracks, kerry eurodyne (even before getting to meet him)
dislikes: corpo assholes (damon rand sometimes excluded)
phobias: acrophobia.

BIOGRAPHY. (wip for now!)
PRE-GAME: tamsin was the first to respond to vas's ad for a roommate, and has been running her twitch (or whatever night city has) channel from inside vas's armory to pay her half of the rent. the walls are already lined with foam so it's got built-in soundproofing! she'll also help him when he needs a netrunner for a gig.

GAME: tamsin helped vas and river rescue the latter's nephew from edgewood farm by hacking anthony harris's website to find the IP address for the farm.

POST-GAME: once i figure out my ending for vasiliy there will be more details here.

BASICS.
name: circe.
d.o.b.: 450 BCE.
age: 2437 ca. 2023.
affiliation: assassin brotherhood (intermittent); the avengers (current)
species: hybrid. (human/isu)
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: various.
occupation: assassin (formerly), avenger (current)
weapons of choice: modified hidden blades (see link), spear of leonidas, Widow's Bites, and Widow's Shock Batons.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: brown.
hair color + style: dark brown, normally kept shoulder-length.
height: 5 feet, 4 inches.
distinguishing features: missing her left ring finger. (sacrificed when she first joined the Assassins)

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: helios (father, isu) + cyrene (mother, human)
siblings: various (deceased)
significant other: kassandra (wife, deceased), james buchanan barnes (husband)
children: TBD, but unlikely.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: infj-a, the advocate.
disorders: c-ptsd.
likes: TBD.
dislikes: TBD.
phobias: TBD.

BIOGRAPHY.
born to the isu helios and an athenian courtesan in 450 BCE, circe has become intimately familiar with death — both her own and others' — over the centuries. she's been shot, stabbed, poisoned, beaten ... but she keeps coming back. for the last 1000+ years, circe has allied herself with the hidden ones every few generations to mask her immortality but has tirelessly fought against the order of the ancients at every opportunity, regardless of her "official" involvement with the assassins.

and it was no different when world war two began. under the guise of being an SIS liaison to the american armed forces, circe conducted countless missions on her own and later with bucky barnes against HYDRA, the newest and most dangerous faction of the templar order at the time. after the war she remained with the SSR, working behind the scenes with peggy carter to establish SHIELD. at least, until a super-serum dose went wrong in 1948, killing circe and ending her career with SHIELD prematurely.

long story short, in the decades leading up to the mcu's phase two, circe continued her work with the assassins but routinely found herself fighting (and dying to) the winter soldier until she re-joined SHIELD in the mid-2000s. after SHIELD's destruction in 2014, she sheltered a newly-un-brainwashed bucky and did her best to help him recover his memories until the events of captain america: civil war.

(tina's still reworking this page, so expect updates on slow work days!)

BASICS.
name: alexandra rogers (née parsons)
d.o.b.: 1991.
age: 33 ca. 2023.
affiliation: the avengers.
species: human.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: english. (and several coding languages, if that counts!)
occupation: avenger.
weapon of choice: custom SHIELD-issue glock (fires taser shots like natasha's Widow's Bites), AI shroud (erases all footage of her from surveillance feeds), jailbroken/hacked SHIELD-issue smart contact lenses (she totally ripped off stark here, but her AI is just EDI from mass effect)

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: hazel.
hair color + style: mousy brown, long, and ALWAYS with bangs to hide her forehead.
height: 5 feet, 8 inches.
distinguishing features: her bangs. she literally always has bangs, like she came outta the womb with bangs.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: neil parsons (father) + lisa
siblings: unknown.
significant other: steve rogers.
children: margaret "peggy" rogers.

PERSONALITY.
alignment: neutral good.
mbti: infj-t, the advocate.
disorders: tba.
likes: sparring.
dislikes: flying TIE fighters because it's impossible to see anything until it's too late sometimes.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
PHASE ONE: alex had just finished her second year of an internship at stark industries before the the battle of new york, where she was briefly brainwashed by the mind stone into opening the chitauri portal with erik selvig. after loki was apprehended and she was freed from the mind stone's control, alex took a long-term leave of absence to recover...until she chaperoned her younger sister's summer trip to D.C. and alex crossed paths with steve rogers (again) at his own exhibit at the smithsonian museum.

soon after, alex chose to quit her job at stark industries and instead joined SHIELD as steve's and natasha's analyst.

PHASE TWO: here's where it all hits the fan. alex had just moved in with steve in D.C. to continue her career with SHIELD, but the HYDRA conspiracy within the agency forced her to sabotage project insight alongside steve and natasha...ergo cutting her career short. her best bet at safety, unfortunately, was returning to work for tony stark and posing as an IT technician, where in reality she was using her skills and stark's resources at avengers tower to track down every remaining HYDRA cell...as well as bucky barnes and circe.

PHASE THREE: after the lagos incident, alex refused to sign the sokovia accords and fought tooth and nail to keep bucky out of prison. she found herself on the run permanently, resurfacing only when thanos's quest for the infinity stones brought him to earth.

during the Blip, she and steve parted ways for a few years after their difference in opinion drove a wedge between them. steve preferred to delay finding ways to reverse the Snap in order to help the survivors rebuild, but alex refused to give up trying to bring the lost back. while she tirelessly brainstormed ways to reverse the Snap, alex partnered with natasha romanoff to find and rehabilitate the remaining black widows across the globe. just over a year before avengers: endgame, alex and steve reconciled and finally married and started their family.

PHASE FOUR: with steve retired and helping raise their daughter alex chose to continue avenging to 'atone' for not fixing the Blip sooner. (girl help she has HELLA survivor's guilt!) specific involvement in TFATWS hasn't been ironed out yet, though.

BASICS.
name: ashildr ivansdottir.
d.o.b.: early 1000s on midgard.
age: approx. 1000.
affiliation: asgardians + the avengers.
species: human.
sexual orientation: bisexual.
languages: basic, droidspeak.
occupation: smuggler, resistance sleeper agent.
weapon of choice: lyana's saberstaff, reconfigured to be convertible into two sabers.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
eye color: amber.
hair color + style: platinum blonde, long and straight.
height: 6 feet, 2 inches.
distinguishing features: the white/green motif of her wardrobe...and her height.

RELATIONSHIPS.
parents: deceased.
siblings: deceased.
significant other: loki laufeyson.
children: estrid + sten (twins, deceased).

PERSONALITY.
alignment: lawful good.
mbti: intj.
disorders: tba.
likes: loki.
dislikes: loki.
phobias: none.

BIOGRAPHY.
ash's real story begins when frigga used the eternal flame to resurrect her. well, to be honest, ashildr doesn't remember anything before that. with this rebirth came her unique ability to see through any lie...which makes her marriage to loki interesting to say the least.