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CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Tara Adams | Radio Rebel
Character Canon: Radio Rebel
History: Tara is an ordinary high schooler who secretly runs the popular podcast “Radio Rebel” in the old style of hosted Radio DJs with some commentary but mostly music. Nobody connects the two as Tara can barely string a sentence together in public, and Radio Rebel is a smooth confident hostess. Her new stepfather, in charge of a local radio station, discovered her secret and moved to have her host a radio show at his network.
This pushed Rebel further into the spotlight, and Tara into a weird place of needing to grow to match her alter ego. Her identity being secret was more publicity stunt at first, but grew necessary as some of Rebel’s on-air antics drew the ire of Tara’s totalitarian principal. A tug-of-war started between Rebel’s attempts to save her status and viewership, while defying the edicts and designs of the school.
Underneath this there’s Tara’s rivalry with school mean girl Stacy. Who finds Rebel’s attempts to defy the status quo a direct assault on her social order values. Stacy works to determine Rebel’s true identity and maintain her lock on school social status and prom queen. Who works as an assisting hand and toadie to the Principal and her attacks on fun and individuality. The two villains do not have the same agenda, as Stacy is interested in having the high school experience. Tara however realizes Stacy is, overall, just like everyone else. And forgives her getting a bit evil along the way.
The ending climax happens at the school’sprom morp (anti-prom Rebel set’s up to offset the school canceling Prom to try and lure out Rebel’s identity. Tara has grown to the point she finally revealed her identity, got the boy, and forgave her nemesis. And the school grew so attached to her, that they protected her from being expelled by all claiming to be Radio Rebel to the evil principal. Tara grew to accept herself, all of herself, as one person. Gaining the confidence she only showed as Rebel in her day to day life.
AU History: Tara grew up an uninteresting member of Union City. Upper middle class, her father a ranger and her mother worked in clothing retail. Her father vanished a few years ago, never really to be found. Her mother remarried a few months ago. She never made a big splash, too socially incapable to do much during school. She’s a skilled engineer but her social issues make it hard for her to really do anything with her skills. After she finished her needed education she took a job in data archiving in the Signal Tower. They store everything from Ranger incident reports to Council minutes. She’s a quiet awkward thing that barely talks even to people that have worked with her since she started there a year ago.
However, the access to the tower has given her a way into the Signal Tower communications arrays, and her status as ‘uninteresting’ has made her machinations unnoticed by the security there. It’s allowed her to create her own pirate broadcast as the ‘Radio Rebel’ who was, at first, simply a voice for interesting and new creative things in art and current events. This shifted slightly as politics took more of a center in the city thanks to no longer being alone in this world.
She finally was approached, discreetly, by an actual radio station in Union to take over one of their broadcasts. Which she finally decided to do. It was agreed by all her anonymity was a priority, so even on a non-pirate broadcast her identity is hidden from most of the station staff. Plus, just looking at her makes you certain she’s fairly uninteresting as it is.
Canon Personality: Tara is a girl ruled by her own insecurities, to the point where there are pretty much two modes for her. Two sides of her that are based on if she’s being observed or not.
Shy little Tara is so certain she’ll say or do the wrong thing that she doesn’t. Say anything, or do anything. She can’t stand up for herself, she can barely string five words into a sentence. She is so worried about how she’s seen that she’s invisible. That she’ll say or do the wrong thing, she’ll screw up, or be an awkward klutz… which… she ends up doing. Every fear festered to the point that even a handful of people is a crowd, and a crowd terrifies her. This fear stifles her voice, a voice screaming to be heard and express the real her. The one she can only express via podcast in her bedroom (and later via radio booth).
Enter Radio Rebel, this is Tara’s voice when nobody is looking. The real her, who she wishes she could be in front of people. Without the pressures of people around she doesn’t drown in her own insecurities. She loves the things she can’t do herself, she loves music, and art, dance, any way a person can express the real them. They can be weird, or silly, or odd, but if they are the genuine them Tara loves it innately. And of course, her love of individuality and freedom means that tyranny and the status quo are her enemies.
Tara, as Radio Rebel, will always support freedom even if it could get her in trouble. In ways that Tara can’t because… Tara’s shy, and scared. She does see the hypocrisy of it, that she’s too scared to follow her own advice. That she rallies people to express themselves when she still can’t, not without a quiet room alone and nobody looking at her. She slowly grows confident that she can be Rebel, without the booth and secrecy. To embrace her own awesomeness, to accept she deserves to embrace it.
Eventually she blends the two together, standing up for herself as Tara and going for what she wants. Not worrying so much that people won’t accept her as she wishes she was. Defending her friends, seeking out a relationship with the boy she likes. And not being afraid of anything. The last step outing herself to the school, but finding out the one person that mattered already knew her secret… and didn’t say anything because he figured she’d tell him eventually.
AU Deviation: Tara is going to be back toward the beginning of this journey. But overall she’ll be the same. Her stances and the things she’s vitally attached to will be a mix of the canon individuality and creative elements, and to match the setting supporting freedoms of Pokemon and People to be themselves and generally speaking against the less… friendly laws of Union.
Her voice against the establishment generally centers around the Council as a concept. She prefers the people hold power over themselves if possible, and dislikes such a small group having such a large sway over the people. She speaks out against tradition, and promotes creative ways to bypass these old ways, push the envelope where she can.
Canon Abilities: Tara is a fairly ordinary high schooler, she has some computer and radio understanding, but how much isn’t really gone into. And she’s an avid fan of music, but not musically skilled herself.
Enlightened Abilities: Engineer - Dark/Electric
Tara’s typing is based on her quiet and shy nature as Tara (Dark), and her vibrant vocal nature as Radio Rebel and her skills at radio waves and communication (Electric).
Tara is pretty incapable as a trainer, having now skill commanding or controlling Pokemon herself and nothing in the way of functional skills as a combatant herself. She lacks confidence, and pretty much every Pokemon in the world can see that. Only her starter gives her the time of day.
And as an Enlightened nothing she can do feeds directly into combat or field skills. She can influence how visible she is, making her go unnoticed or ignored through use of her darker nature. This is about the only thing she can do in public, and sometimes she does it by accident. She can also power electrical devices by herself, but only if she’s comfortable. Meaning, like most of her skills, they don’t work around other people at this time. Once she’s a bit more confident and comfortable in herself maybe she can do this trick in front of people. What she can power scales with her level, at the moment she can’t power anything larger than a handheld electronic device. Her Warp Band never runs out of charge, not that she leaves Union.
The ability she’ll eventually discover, but has no skill with yet, is she can enhance or people with her radio broadcasts. Those that really dig her vibe will get an advantage in Enlightened Abilities, Pokemon Encounter, or Training for that week. I’m not sure how that would work mechanically but since she can’t do it yet that can be worried about later.
Where her skills mostly run is as an Engineer, making things alone in a shop is easy enough. She gets nervous around people, makes her work suffer if she has an audience or is interrupted. This is why she doesn’t work in engineering. Radio and signal equipment are the easiest thing for her to work on, and her work has a slightly more consistent range and signal strenght than normal models. Also most of her work is more efficient on electrical energy conservation.
Her starting item is a modified Warp Band which on top of having an extra 12 hours of battery life outside of Union it has a dozen modifications on scrambling the user’s location, modulating the user’s voice, and a secondary pirate identity of “Radio Rebel.”
Starter Pokémon: Eevee that she calls "Cami V"
Notes/Special Considerations: It is important to the character functioning that Rebel and Tara not be connected outside of as a direct need for plot reasons. That the higher ups of Union don’t know, and that everyday people can’t guess this by random happenstance.
To help foster this separation Tara and Rebel have separate journals. Tara has![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sheisntshy while Radio Rebel resides in innerawesomeness.
SAMPLES
Tara will answer each question twice, both to give enough answer to make them work as samples and because Tara’s answers and Rebel’s answers aren’t 100% the same.
-What do you feel your role in your city is?
-What do you seek for humanity’s future?
-To what lengths would you go to rescue your allies if they were lost in the wilderness?
-What aspects and traits do you respect most in your individual fellow man?
-A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense. How do you respond and whom do you defend?
-You plunge into the depths of ruins of an ancient civilization. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom?
-When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why?
-What do you do to ensure we never again awaken the wrath of the gods upon humanity?
-What strengths make you most qualified for your role within your city?
-No Enlightened chooses their abilities - and not all are Enlightened. What type abilities would you most desire to manifest and why?
Name: Rakath
Contact Information: Private message the character journal,
Time Zone: EST
Characters Played: None
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Tara Adams | Radio Rebel
Character Canon: Radio Rebel
History: Tara is an ordinary high schooler who secretly runs the popular podcast “Radio Rebel” in the old style of hosted Radio DJs with some commentary but mostly music. Nobody connects the two as Tara can barely string a sentence together in public, and Radio Rebel is a smooth confident hostess. Her new stepfather, in charge of a local radio station, discovered her secret and moved to have her host a radio show at his network.
This pushed Rebel further into the spotlight, and Tara into a weird place of needing to grow to match her alter ego. Her identity being secret was more publicity stunt at first, but grew necessary as some of Rebel’s on-air antics drew the ire of Tara’s totalitarian principal. A tug-of-war started between Rebel’s attempts to save her status and viewership, while defying the edicts and designs of the school.
Underneath this there’s Tara’s rivalry with school mean girl Stacy. Who finds Rebel’s attempts to defy the status quo a direct assault on her social order values. Stacy works to determine Rebel’s true identity and maintain her lock on school social status and prom queen. Who works as an assisting hand and toadie to the Principal and her attacks on fun and individuality. The two villains do not have the same agenda, as Stacy is interested in having the high school experience. Tara however realizes Stacy is, overall, just like everyone else. And forgives her getting a bit evil along the way.
The ending climax happens at the school’s
AU History: Tara grew up an uninteresting member of Union City. Upper middle class, her father a ranger and her mother worked in clothing retail. Her father vanished a few years ago, never really to be found. Her mother remarried a few months ago. She never made a big splash, too socially incapable to do much during school. She’s a skilled engineer but her social issues make it hard for her to really do anything with her skills. After she finished her needed education she took a job in data archiving in the Signal Tower. They store everything from Ranger incident reports to Council minutes. She’s a quiet awkward thing that barely talks even to people that have worked with her since she started there a year ago.
However, the access to the tower has given her a way into the Signal Tower communications arrays, and her status as ‘uninteresting’ has made her machinations unnoticed by the security there. It’s allowed her to create her own pirate broadcast as the ‘Radio Rebel’ who was, at first, simply a voice for interesting and new creative things in art and current events. This shifted slightly as politics took more of a center in the city thanks to no longer being alone in this world.
She finally was approached, discreetly, by an actual radio station in Union to take over one of their broadcasts. Which she finally decided to do. It was agreed by all her anonymity was a priority, so even on a non-pirate broadcast her identity is hidden from most of the station staff. Plus, just looking at her makes you certain she’s fairly uninteresting as it is.
Canon Personality: Tara is a girl ruled by her own insecurities, to the point where there are pretty much two modes for her. Two sides of her that are based on if she’s being observed or not.
Shy little Tara is so certain she’ll say or do the wrong thing that she doesn’t. Say anything, or do anything. She can’t stand up for herself, she can barely string five words into a sentence. She is so worried about how she’s seen that she’s invisible. That she’ll say or do the wrong thing, she’ll screw up, or be an awkward klutz… which… she ends up doing. Every fear festered to the point that even a handful of people is a crowd, and a crowd terrifies her. This fear stifles her voice, a voice screaming to be heard and express the real her. The one she can only express via podcast in her bedroom (and later via radio booth).
Enter Radio Rebel, this is Tara’s voice when nobody is looking. The real her, who she wishes she could be in front of people. Without the pressures of people around she doesn’t drown in her own insecurities. She loves the things she can’t do herself, she loves music, and art, dance, any way a person can express the real them. They can be weird, or silly, or odd, but if they are the genuine them Tara loves it innately. And of course, her love of individuality and freedom means that tyranny and the status quo are her enemies.
Tara, as Radio Rebel, will always support freedom even if it could get her in trouble. In ways that Tara can’t because… Tara’s shy, and scared. She does see the hypocrisy of it, that she’s too scared to follow her own advice. That she rallies people to express themselves when she still can’t, not without a quiet room alone and nobody looking at her. She slowly grows confident that she can be Rebel, without the booth and secrecy. To embrace her own awesomeness, to accept she deserves to embrace it.
Eventually she blends the two together, standing up for herself as Tara and going for what she wants. Not worrying so much that people won’t accept her as she wishes she was. Defending her friends, seeking out a relationship with the boy she likes. And not being afraid of anything. The last step outing herself to the school, but finding out the one person that mattered already knew her secret… and didn’t say anything because he figured she’d tell him eventually.
AU Deviation: Tara is going to be back toward the beginning of this journey. But overall she’ll be the same. Her stances and the things she’s vitally attached to will be a mix of the canon individuality and creative elements, and to match the setting supporting freedoms of Pokemon and People to be themselves and generally speaking against the less… friendly laws of Union.
Her voice against the establishment generally centers around the Council as a concept. She prefers the people hold power over themselves if possible, and dislikes such a small group having such a large sway over the people. She speaks out against tradition, and promotes creative ways to bypass these old ways, push the envelope where she can.
Canon Abilities: Tara is a fairly ordinary high schooler, she has some computer and radio understanding, but how much isn’t really gone into. And she’s an avid fan of music, but not musically skilled herself.
Enlightened Abilities: Engineer - Dark/Electric
Tara’s typing is based on her quiet and shy nature as Tara (Dark), and her vibrant vocal nature as Radio Rebel and her skills at radio waves and communication (Electric).
Tara is pretty incapable as a trainer, having now skill commanding or controlling Pokemon herself and nothing in the way of functional skills as a combatant herself. She lacks confidence, and pretty much every Pokemon in the world can see that. Only her starter gives her the time of day.
And as an Enlightened nothing she can do feeds directly into combat or field skills. She can influence how visible she is, making her go unnoticed or ignored through use of her darker nature. This is about the only thing she can do in public, and sometimes she does it by accident. She can also power electrical devices by herself, but only if she’s comfortable. Meaning, like most of her skills, they don’t work around other people at this time. Once she’s a bit more confident and comfortable in herself maybe she can do this trick in front of people. What she can power scales with her level, at the moment she can’t power anything larger than a handheld electronic device. Her Warp Band never runs out of charge, not that she leaves Union.
The ability she’ll eventually discover, but has no skill with yet, is she can enhance or people with her radio broadcasts. Those that really dig her vibe will get an advantage in Enlightened Abilities, Pokemon Encounter, or Training for that week. I’m not sure how that would work mechanically but since she can’t do it yet that can be worried about later.
Where her skills mostly run is as an Engineer, making things alone in a shop is easy enough. She gets nervous around people, makes her work suffer if she has an audience or is interrupted. This is why she doesn’t work in engineering. Radio and signal equipment are the easiest thing for her to work on, and her work has a slightly more consistent range and signal strenght than normal models. Also most of her work is more efficient on electrical energy conservation.
Her starting item is a modified Warp Band which on top of having an extra 12 hours of battery life outside of Union it has a dozen modifications on scrambling the user’s location, modulating the user’s voice, and a secondary pirate identity of “Radio Rebel.”
Starter Pokémon: Eevee that she calls "Cami V"
Notes/Special Considerations: It is important to the character functioning that Rebel and Tara not be connected outside of as a direct need for plot reasons. That the higher ups of Union don’t know, and that everyday people can’t guess this by random happenstance.
To help foster this separation Tara and Rebel have separate journals. Tara has
sheisntshy while Radio Rebel resides in innerawesomeness.SAMPLES
Tara will answer each question twice, both to give enough answer to make them work as samples and because Tara’s answers and Rebel’s answers aren’t 100% the same.
-What do you feel your role in your city is?
“The city? I don’t really- I mean- fit in- I don’t…”
“I’m here to keep the city honest. People think they do the right thing, if nobody questions why that is. What the people need, sometimes, is a friendly question to open their eyes to the truth of themselves and everything around them.”
-What do you seek for humanity’s future?
“...happiness?”
“Freedom. Not just for humanity, but the Pokemon need it too. To be themselves! To just let who they are be defined by the only voice that matters, their own.”
-To what lengths would you go to rescue your allies if they were lost in the wilderness?
“...I couldn’t- I mean, my dad vanished and I’m not really… good at this.”
“I can’t exactly do much, my place is here in the city, but I would make sure everyone knows to be on the look out. Spread the word and let see if I couldn’t get a signal to them, make sure they can know they aren’t forgotten and we want them home.”
-What aspects and traits do you respect most in your individual fellow man?
"I... um... respect everyone..?"
"Honesty. You can’t go wrong with someone who is the genuine them. Unlike people that hide, and scheme, and lie, a person who just presents themselves can’t be judged harshly for what makes them unique.”
-A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense. How do you respond and whom do you defend?
“I- um… go get help…”
“Are we in the wilds? Did the human fear that the wild pokemon was going for one of their friends? I can’t just say one way or another who is wrong cause they could both be wrong, or neither of them. I would hope to talk them both out of fighting if that was a possibility, but I’m not exactly good with getting Pokemon to listen to what I’m throwing out there.”
-You plunge into the depths of ruins of an ancient civilization. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom?
“I- I would never do anything l-like that…”
“Hmm… I would say wisdom, or, no. I totally have a better answer, culture. Find some music, or some art, anything that told me a bit about that civilization’s heart.”
-When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why?
“Running away?”
“Understanding it. You can research, sure, and befriending it would be great, but both of those are just second place to knowing it. Seeing the real thing there, and not getting distracted by what’s on the outside.”
-What do you do to ensure we never again awaken the wrath of the gods upon humanity?
“...Th-that could happen again? I don’t think I could do anything… except stay out of the way.”
“I don’t think the old Gods were bad guys, so I’m sure if they see the real me they will accept me for who I am. What else is there to do? If we’re all good, good will happen right?”
-What strengths make you most qualified for your role within your city?
“...That I don’t have to… deal with people..?”
“Not sure, I’m just a voice that I hope resonates with someone. If I get just one person to be a bit more genuine to themselves, I’ve done it. I’m not the best, I’m not perfect, but I open up and pour my heart out and some people take it with them and make themselves better for it. If that’s my strength, that’s my strength.”
-No Enlightened chooses their abilities - and not all are Enlightened. What type abilities would you most desire to manifest and why?
“I… the one that makes me happy?”
“What does it matter? Work with what you have, turn what you love into who you are and make yourself heard! Manifest your own destiny and bring about the real you, the one that’s always been waiting below the surface.”
