Hello, everyone~

[simondsareforever]

 I'm Sean. I found this place scouring Dreamwidth for interesting original character games. The idea of a society governed by the rules of a deck of cards had appealed to me before (though my idea for it admittedly was an Illuminati-alike), so when I saw this I pretty much had to apply. 

I bring to you a (the, until we get another one) Three of Diamonds, Simon Joshua Thompson. His arrival in the Deck can best be described as a combination of boredom, happenstance, and dumb luck six months ago, but he's doing his best to make a go of it in a world he didn't know for sure existed, but is still more entertaining than the one he left behind.

He's a good, fun-loving sort with a tiiiiny bit of an authority and formality problem (no, he wasn't drunk when he became a Diamond, he really thought it would be a good idea, I swear!), and a whole lot of trying to find his place in the world for the first real time in his life. 

He's also about to start Ambassadoring to the Hearts, so there's that. He'll get a day job at some point once he figures out what to do with his BA in English. :(

I wrote a whole, WHOLE lot of words about it, most of which you can find here: simondsareforever.dreamwidth.org/327.html . Yes, I know there's a way to shorten that somehow, but I'm new to Dreamwidth (and wasn't very LJ/IJ literate when RPing THERE, either), so please bear with me as I make an idiot of myself for a bit in the beginning.

I look forward to writing with you all, making far, far more puns than any man should, and coming up with ludicrous, LUDICROUS challenge ideas in my spare time that will never be used. Nice to meet you all!

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[fiddlerjohnny]

Hiiii. I'm Ana and I already said hi to you in chat but you know, hi again!

I've currently got. Uhm. Five characters.

This one is Johnny, he's a Four of Hearts with no inclination to move further up. Originally from Georgia, he came to the Deck about elevenish years ago with no memory of his former life and only the clothes on his back and a damn shiny fiddle. (I thought The Devil Went Down to Georgia provided an interesting idea for a character okay.) Mostly he flirts, plays music, travels around off-Deck whenever the whim strikes, and drinks. Pretty gregarious, it's possible Simon will get to know him.

Up next is Justin (alwaysmessedup), a two of Hearts. He came to the Deck well over a year ago now, but was originally in the Spades, recruited by the then-Ace of Spades to be his lackey, basically, for his skill at picking pockets. Lots of hardcore physical training later, Justin still sucks at weaponry and got stabbed in the hand by Victor (EJ's boy up there). Apparently that was the last straw for him and he escaped to the Hearts briefly before leaving the Deck for a while and making his way in the world. Or trying to. Just came back like a week or two ago because large men with guns were on his trail. Generally has an authority problem and pretty much says whatever's on his mind.

Then there's Julien (I have a thing for "J" guy names, okay) (theacethatmatters). Up until like. Two days ago. He was the Ace of Spades and had been for like...fourteen years or something ridic like that. He has quite a winning personality (don't mind the people laughing hysterically, they don't know what they're talking about) and is quite skilled with blades. Basically came to the Deck determined to become Ace of Spades and got there in probably something like record time. Used to be the right hand man for the previous Queen of Spades until she dumped him, basically, and left the Deck and he was heartbroken (or something) and tried to kill the previous King of Spades. It didn't go well, he carried on with a slap on the wrist, but just now got in trouble for picking a fight with the Queen of Diamonds. (Long story about how that happened. Long, long story that I won't bore you with here). Upshot is that as punishment he was stripped of his title and knocked down to Nine, sent to the dungeons for about a month, and will have to do a lot of groveling for forgiveness from the Diamonds, among other things, after he's allowed back among people again. So Simon isn't likely to meet him any time soon, but he's probably heard stories.

Elani (the_songbird) is the Jack of Clubs. She's very sociable and friendly, though she's kind of been run off her feet lately because of the whole Face Card thing and the Deck kind of being in an uproar. Likes singing, dancing, and periodically sitting on Castle walls to watch the world go by. Teaches Eileen (the Ace of Clubs) in music and dance. Is dating Alasdair (one of Muzy's). Uh. Was born on the Deck and...I don't know if she'd know Simon already, but she'd be happy to meet him.

Lastly is Diane (a_sudden_change). She's another agent investigating the Deck (though she's in the Spades) along with Jack and Peter (one of Muzy's also). She's from the CIA and is basically here apparently because the US gov't wanted in on the operation. She's pretty disgusted, personally, by a lot of things the Deck treats as a matter of course (like people dying in weapons challenges and nobody except the person's family seeming at all bothered by watching someone die in front of them). Also the part where you can enter the Deck from just about anywhere on the planet and step out of it just about anywhere you want to. She's got visions of armed troops popping up on the White House lawn or something. However, for the most part, she's also fairly sociable as a person and likes to flirt, even if she's thinking in the back of her mind about how somebody really needs to carpetbomb the Deck.

And I think that's it.