FAKE OCs

[lunasariel]

• Villains:
  • Mark Hunter: one of my favorite villains. Originally brought on to partner Ted as so to round of the department, he quickly develops into a scarily obsessive psycho. He is to Ryo as J.J. is to Dee, but his methods are far less benign, being more of the flavor of stalking and overt harassment at work until Ryo clocks him with a metal paperweight. His homicidal tendencies are soon revealed, however, and he is left for dead by a vengeful Dee.
  • Chief Armstrong: Traffic chief, for some weird reason. Mark Hunter has been dropped, with Marty reinstated as Ted's partner, and Chief Armstrong has taken his place as Ryo's obsessive psychotic stalker, once Berkely comes to his senses and hooks up with Diana. Added onto the usual grab bag of off-putting characteristics is Armstrong's obsequious, oozing sense of utter self-importance. He sees himself as God's gift to mankind and cannot imagine why anything with a pulse would be less than thrilled to receive crude overtures from his fabulous self, and takes it as a personal insult and challenge when anybody he turns the charm on doesn't immediately melt into a bubbling puddle of lust at his feet.
  • Jaimie Chen: Ryo's girlfriend in college. After his parents died, Ryo got his liberal arts degree from UCLA (hey, he hadn't changed *that* much). Jaimie is a lot like Ryo, in that she is half Asian, but looks completely American, except for one minor feature; in her case, her straight, black hair. A poli sci major, she and Ryo dated for the four years they were both at UCLA. Ryo had plans to propose to her, but aborted them when he found out that she was involved in a number of recent hate crimes against the local gay community, including firebombing the UCLA chapter of the GSA and attacking a gay pride parade, which resulted in the deaths of two people, and pressuring him to help her. They meet up, seemingly by coincidence, during the whole Brooks mess (see below). Jaimie, not knowing that Ryo is gay, begs him to take her back, professing that he is the only man she has ever loved. It turns out that she is on Senator Brooks' staff, and has been secretly ordered to organize an armed "protest" against Dee and Ryo's upcomming marriage.
    • BACKGROUND INFO: The groundbreaking case Palmer v. Alabama, comparable to Brown v. Board of Education, has just legalized same-sex marriage (a Constitutional amendment to the same tune is expected), and a number of weddings, Dee and Ryo's included were planned for the historic day it goes into effect. The names of those being married, unofficially dubbed "flagship couples," had been kept secret, for their own protection.

Friends:

• Abigail "Abby" Smalls: Ryo's elderly neighbor. She and her husband, Albert, were one of the U.S.'s first legal interracial couples, being married in California in 1948. Albert died about a year before the Palmer v. Alabama arc, and Abby is outspoken in her support of her neighbor and his fiancé. She treats Ryo and Bikky like a son and grandson, respectively (although she has several children of her own, all grown and with children of their own), and is a frequent visitor to the (soon to be official) MacLean-Laytner household.
• Jillian, Jenna, Juliet, Jaqueline "Jackie", and Jasmine Adams: JJ's sisters, in order of age. Jenna and Juliet are twins, and JJ falls between the twins and Jackie. The Adams family (no pun intended) is a very close and supportive, as well as occasionally over-enthusiastic, one. The six Adams children are friends as well as siblings, and they all share in one way or another) JJ's exhuberence and zest for life.

Middle names: I've been working on a one-shot for a while now, in which the characters dare each other to reveal their middle names, with occasionally humiliating results.

• Warren Smith: Gordon. Sorry, I just couldn't resist naming him after Commissioner Jim Gordon of Gotham City.
• Randy MacLean: Ryo. I turns out that "Ryo" is his legal middle name, even though it's usually referred to simply as his "second name."
• Dee Laytner: None. He didn't even have an official last name until he took a variant of Jess' on, and he didn't want to mess around with middle names as well. Although, when pressured, he said he wouldn't mind "Max."
• Drake Parker: Matthew. I think I got this from some other authoress (Grumpy Demon?), but it fits, so here it is.
• Jemmy "JJ" Adams: John. His family is old money (they claim to be descended from the *original* John Adams), and they tend to pass on things like names.
• Ted O'Neil: Patrick. I'm going with whoever put it forward first (Grumpy Demon again?) and making him Irish. Just don't call him "Paddy" if you want to keep all your teeth.
• Diana Spacey: Daphne. No Scooby-Doo jokes, please, or she'll kick your ass all over the place. Let's see that scarf-wearing twit from the cartoon do that!
• Berkley Rose: Aloysius (al-ew-WISH-us). Yes, it's a real name. No, his parents were not psychotic. Yes, it is traditional. And yes, he hates it with a firey burning passion.

Dee's family:

• Senator Adam Brooks: Dee's biological father, and a grade-A scumbag. A Republican who's all for "family values," "America for the Americans," etc. He fathered Dee through one of his frequent whoring trips, and when the mother threatened to go public, he had her killed and the kid dumped. When his ratings slump dramatically due to his vicious and bloodthirsty hatred of all that is not WASP, he decided that being joyfully reunited with his long-lost kidnapped son was just the thing he needed to get him in the Primaries. He is adamant about his son having the perfect image, in this case a devil-may care crackerjack, one of New York's finest, more concerned with actual justice than all that damn tedious paperwork. He goes slightly ballistic when he learns of Dee's and Ryo's relationship, and it just goes downhill from there. Actually, this has progressed quite a bit. He appears three days before Dee's wedding, and the gang manages to trick him into attending. And this is just after a virulent speech he gave condemning gay marriage; so this is everybody's (although it was an incensed JJ's idea) way of getting back at him.
• Marilyn Brooks: the good Senator's wife, and a sterile shrew. Dead.
• Samuel Brooks: Dee's apparent real name. After the whole business, he chose to stay Dee Laytner.

Ryo's father's family (MacLeans): I'm working on a rather involved family reunion piece, vaguely build on my own experiences in Oklahoma. After Ryo discovers what really happened to his parents, he attends his first MacLean get-together in years, to set things straight, after all but being banned when his parents appeared to be drug lords. Basically, there are two camps: the uptight ultra-conservative majority, headed by Great-Aunt Bethany, who were already mad at Frank for his choice of spouses and who only hated him further after his apparent connection with the drug world, and then the liberals and general misfits, headed by Ryo's formidable Aunt Elena.

• Frank MacLean: Ryo's father, who made himself Public Enemy Number One in The Family's eyes by marrying a Japanese woman, and who further blackened his name by being apparently involved in smuggling coke. He doesn't come up, except as a point of contention between Ryo and his relatives, all of whom tell him that he is "just like his father." This is a compliment from some, an insult from others.
• Elena Rodgers: although not technically an OC, she definitely bears mentioning. As Frank's younger sister and closest (both geographically and emotionally) sibling, she took Ryo in after Frank and Hitomi died, and treats him as her own son. A *very* liberal "hotshot camerawoman" and rather a firecracker to boot, she has been leading a semi-quiet palace revolution for years. She adores Ryo, and while initially suspecting Dee of ulterior motives, she has come to like and respect him immensely, a feeling that Dee returns.
• Rick Rodgers: Elena's soft-spoken and long-suffering husband, as well as a techie to her camerawoman. He sometimes holds Elena back from doing something she might regret later. While seemingly mild-mannered, he has excellent people skills, and can be very manipulative if he so chooses. He loves Elena immensely, but appears intimidated by her family, staying quiet until his diplomatic skills are called upon.
• Bethany MacLean: the (almost) undisputed matriarch and tyrant of the extensive MacLean clan. She is old as a T-Rex, and about as nice. She hates everyone from commies to faggots to negros to half-breeds and everybody in between, especially if they don't immediately accept her as undisputed ruler. Basically anybody who isn't white, Protestant, straight, conservative, and generally all-American. Needless to say, she dislikes Ryo (she has issued an edict stating that he is to be called only by his American name, Randall, which was taken to heart by all but Elena's party) and detests Dee, Bikky, and Carol. Especially Dee, who has no problem getting into shouting matches with little old ladies.
• Charlotte Feldman: Great-Aunt Bethany's right-hand woman, Charlotte takes meds for schizophrenia which can cause her to become suddenly violent and/or just plain crazy and rules her family with an iron fist. Unendingly sanctimonious and "moral," her hatred for Ryo is on a much more personal level, and she seems determined to drive him out, to the point where her actions could be called hate crimes. She actively works to keep him away from her children, seeming to fear that he'll give them some horrible disease. The "power behind the throne," Charlotte is suspected of setting Arthur, Leroy, and Marcus on Ryo and Dee and is definitely not above using her children to get at her arch nemesis. Ryo puts up with her "only because she's family" and tries to respond to her base and vicious attacks with poise and sophistication.
• Michael Feldman: Charlotte's wishy-washy husband, totally within her power. A minor character.
• Madeline "Maddy" Feldman: Charlotte's perfect, beautiful, preppy, empty-headed daughter, although recently she has been showing signs of real character. It has been put forward that her current attitude is simply a by-product of her mother's baleful influence. While Charlotte screams and throws things at those she dislikes, Maddy has perfected an icy glare to rival the best and that slight tilt of the head and narrowing the eyes that can make a person feel like scum in seconds. Whatever else she may be, she obviously loves her siblings very much, and can take over the role of mother, should Charlotte have one of her "episodes."
• Simon Feldman: The middle Feldman child is just entering his teenage years, and has a bit of a white knight complex about his sisters. None of Maddy's boyfriends are ever good enough for her in his eyes, and anybody who picks on Sarah can expect at the very least some intense glaring. He is well into his growth spurt, and now almost rivals his lanky father in height, although his intense personality makes him seem much larger.
• Sarah Feldman: the youngest and kindest of the infamous Feldmans, six-year-old Sarah adores Ryo and is, oddly enough, one of Elena's party. She manages to maintain an openness of mind, despite her mother's rantings, and immediately accepts Dee, although she threatens to beat him up if he ever makes Ryo cry. She and Carol hit it off especially, but she loves everyone (almost) and (almost) everyone loves her back.
• Arthur "Killer" MacLean ("Huey"), Leroy "Crusher" MacLean (Dewey), and Marcus"Crash" Maclean ("Louie"): The three cousins who tried to gun down Ryo and Dee, possibly on Charlotte's or Great-Aunt Bethany's orders. Proud Deep Southerners, they profess a great hatred for furriners, fags, and all them other weirdos in New York City. Ryo jokingly gave them the nicknames Huey, Dewey, and Louie as a teenager, as they always work together and are usually up to no good. They prefer to be referred to as Killer, Crusher, and Crash respectively. Arthur appears to have the most brains of the three, which isn't saying a lot. At least one of them (most likely all of them) owns a shotgun, and possibly more.
• Madonna "Donny" Black: Her full name is Madonna Black, but she insists on being referred to as "Donny". Deeply, deeply proud of her last name, the same as her beloved Sirius Black. She enjoys shocking her extended family with her black clothing, dyed black hair, fantasy-themed jewelry, Wiccanism, and her obsessive knowledge of fantasy. Vaguely threatening, vaguely androgynous, and totally beautiful, she is a Gothic princess to Maddy's country club chic. Definitely one of Elena's party, her continued, if not always flaming, animosity with Maddy Feldman is often at least a minor plot point. Perhaps 16 or 17. She is addicted to yaoi manga and anime, and the merits or demerits of various manga-ka or publishing houses have recently become an argument topic between her and Ryo.
• James Black: another of Elena's party. Donny's identical twin brother. Mostly a background character, although he is developing. As he is now, he is merely a pale and quiet boy who clearly respects Ryo and comes to idolize Dee. Accidentally came out of the closet when he was caught stealing his sister's yaoi.
• Bob & Marian Black: Donna and James' parents. Based out of San Francisco, Bob was Frank and Elena's elder brother, and is also an art dealer. Marian is an "abstract artist" (read: artistic loony) and has a bad habit of painting or drawing on walls that don't necessarily belong to her. They fully encourage weirdness in their children.

Ryo's mother's family (Matsumori): secretly a clan of ninjas.

• Hitomi Matsumori: Ryo's ill-fated mother, known in the U.S. as Helen. She had been training her son in her family's ancestral arts until her death, when he went to the family estate just outside Tokyo, where he completed most of his training in record time. He refused to take the final steps which would lead him down the path of a full fledged ninja; namely, killing. He point-blank refused his first assassination job, and returned to the U.S. to become a police officer.
• Sakura Matsumori: one of Ryo's cousins, presumably in her early teens. Her death marked the resurgence of the old Ryoushi battles.
• Satoshi Matsumori: the head of the Matsumori clan. Much like Great-Aunt Bethany: old as dirt, wrinkled as a prune, scary as hell, and demanding unswerving loyalty from all his numerous relations and descendants. However, unlike the MacLean tyrant, the Matsumori seem universally pleased with their leader, and their devotion is voluntary. In his heyday, formed a legendary demon-slaying team with the mytsterious Miyagi-sensei (a doctor based out of Tokyo, who committed suicide when Muraki Kazutaka-sensei framed him for the professional mistreatment and murder of 16-year-old Kurosaki Hisoka) and Shiro-san (a Knight of the Cross; see Jim Butcher's Dresden Files for a more complete biography). The recent and disturbing deaths of these two famous warriors has been a great cause of concern for the head of the Matsumori clan.

Berkley's family: After the good Commissioner Rose finally regains his mind and marries Diana Spacey, both not only maintain their levels of activity in justice, but surround their children with police and FBI agents since their birth. Kate and Lizzie were often brought to their father's precinct or their mother's office in place of daycare or nannies, and the boys of the 27th, Ryo and Dee especially, became frequent babysitters. Because of this, both girls are comfortable around peace officers, weapons, and the other nasty side-effects of crime. It is no coincidence that both their daughters are named after two of the most powerful queens in history.

• Catherine (Kate) Rose: Berkley's eldest child, Katie has been around the best cops and the FBI all her life, instilling her with a deep, unshakable sense of right and wrong. She is especially vigilant on gay pride; even the most virulent homophobes in her expensive uptown high school know better than to be hatin' when she can hear. Ryo and Dee were her most regular babysitters when she was little, and now they are her mentors and her friends.
• Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rose: Berkley and Diana's second child, still in her toddler-hood.

Incarceration Arc: vaguely based in the Jaimie Chen arc mentioned earlier. The premise here is that the news of Palmer v. Alabama, which in turn sparked the strong movement for a Constituional amendment protecting same-sex marriage, caused a very nasty reaction from the right-wingers, which all came to a head when the President declared a "state of moral emergency," enacted martial law, rounded up all GLBT citizens, and put them in massive camps, a lá the Japanese internment camps of the 1940s. The prisoners are sent to this camp or that by virture of their last name, not their location. Despite massive protests, a large portion of the 27th precinct is arrested and hauled away. Commissioner Rose, as one of the social elite, was put in a "low-security camp" which amounts to a guarded country club. The other, however, do not fare as well. Dee is hauled off to one of the most heavily-guarded camps in California, JJ to the frozen wastes of North Dakota, Drake (who had come out of the closet only days before) to a vicous Texas camp, and Ryo to the comparative closeness of New Jersey. Bikky is sent to a rigid, uptight couple, Mr. and Mrs. DuFours, who are intent on "reforming" him. He and Carol still manage to attend many protests and demonstrations, eventually getting involved in a gruella movement to free the prisoners, despite Ryo's continued admonishments to stay out of trouble. To maintain a semblence of justice, the prisoners are allowed visitors, and Bikky, along with many others, visit Ryo, while Mother flies out to San Francisco to be near Dee. While in the camps, the "detainees" are urged to "repent" and "reform".

• Jill Muller: Ryo's bunkmate. Jill, who is eight months pregnant, had been living happily with her girlfriend, Audrey Larson, in Hawaii until the Purge. The stress, constant hardship, and extreme climate change cause her to give birth early. Although the delivery is difficult, and made more so by the fact that the camp's medical facilities are primitive and the doctors savages, Dr. Meyer manages to deliver a healthy baby boy, who is named Robert Muller-Larson. Robbie becomes the poster child (no pun intended) of the ani-internment movement, and riots are held across the nation when officials try to take Robbie from Jill and put him in a foster home. Jill is allowed to keep her child, and the publicity surrounding the riots is how Audrey finds out that she has a son.
• Dr. Andrew Meyer: A bisexual M.D. His wife died young, and he has recentlly gotten involved with a young man known only as "Tim." He is very worried about Tim's safety, now that the Purge is in effect, despite evidence that Tim might not have been who, or what, he claimed.
• Audrey Larson: By a strange quirk of fate, Dee's bunkmate. Audrey was a Marine before being thrown into the camp, and her tough-as-nails attitude allows her to bear up well when she is separated from her longtime, very pregnant girlfriend.

Timeskip Arc: a rather sprawling crossover, involving Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Lily and the Rose, as well as dashes of Master and Commander. The main premise here is that Frank and Hitomi MacLean, during the course of their work as art collectors/brokers/historians, come across a series of disturbing historical coincidences, captured in paintings, letters, official logs, and later, photographs, as well as many other media. These coincidences always involve two men...apparently *the same two men*, although they appear dozens of times, all over the world, from ancient Rome to the 1920s. A number of other characters, if you will, also repeat, here and there, but the MacLeans' main worry lies in the fact that one of the two "main characters" appears to be their young son, Ryo. As they dig deeper into certain confidential archives, they are confronted by Rupert Giles, a Watcher-in-training who mistakedly believes that they are on the trail of Saint Christophe. Although he was initially wrong, a few things he lets slip intrigue the MacLeans, especially art historian Hitomi, and they join the Watcher's Council on the search for the missing saint (see St. Christophe and Co. for a more complete description). However, their investigations are cut short by their untimely death. They left no specific instructions, so their research on the good saint and his comrades was turned over to Giles, who got on with his life, and their research on their son was locked away, for him to hopefully never discover, although Giles and Frank's sister Elena were left keys, which could be given to Ryo, to the vault in which their research was stored.
Time passes. Ryo grows up, moves to New York, meets Dee, and falls in love, in that order. On a seemingly routine drug bust, things go south, and a hitman fires on Ryo. The shot would have killed him, if Dee hadn't shoved Ryo out of the way, intent on saving his partner, even at the cost of his own life. Because of this, Christophe and Alain manifest, Dee is revealed as the Keeper of the Pendant (see Keeper of the Pendant and Order of St. Christophe), and the search he embarks upon with Ryo eventually leads him to Sunnydale, California, where all is (more or less) revealed.
Once it is known that the Pendant of St. Christophe has resurfaced, all sorts of people make a bid for it, including several separate factions of Ryo's mother's family (see Ryo's mother's family [Matsumori]), which forces him to reveal his ninja training to his stunned family and friends. Of course, the rest of the crew at the 27th precinct, as well as Bikky and Carol, don't intend to sit idly by while Ryo and Dee face death or worse on their own, so then *they* get added to the mix...
While exploring the powers of their newfound friends, they discover the research Ryo's parents left behind, and came to roughly the same conclusion. With Giles' help, they concoct a spell to allow them access to these past lives, as several of their past selves mention visitors from the future in diaries and letters. And, of course, time travel is just freakin' awesome.

• St. Christophe and Co.: For a detailed description, see any synopsis of the manga The Lily and the Rose by Dany&Dany. In short, Christophe Laurent is a young priest who simply wants to live quietly with his books, but ends up taking charge of an orphaned teenage ex-aristocrat with a disturbing talent for poisons, falling back in love with his childhood secret sweetheart, Alain Mauric (who is on the trail of the man who killed his prostitute mother, and has become a skilled liar, thief, manipulator, and murderer towards this goal), catches the eye of the lecherous and dastardly Cardinal Ducos, kills him (kills Ducos, that is), and springs Alain from the Bastille. The two of them flee Paris in early July 1792, during the very earliest days of the French Revolution, and manage to pick up Jean-Louis de Sevigny (the ex-aristocrat mentioned earlier) and an ex-maid, Claudette, on their way to the coast. They make their way to New Orleans, where Christophe and his new "family" carve out a nice little parish in the bayou. A couple of years later, Claudette, who, as it turns out, has been an undetected Slayer candidate all along, is Called when vampires attack a nearby plantation. The other three vow to help her hunt the undead. Over time, the power of Chritophe's faith in God combines with his personal life and deeds, and endows him with sainthood. His blood and tears burn unholy flesh, and he has been known to destroy lesser vampires by praying. However, he had already killed several vampires posing as prominent patrons of the Church, as well as come out of the closet, and had been excommunicated. Because of this, he is also called the Secret Saint or the Hidden Saint. This merry little band had been hunting vampires for less than ten years, when a vampire-controlled mob catches up to them. Claudette and Jean-Louis escape, but Christophe is mortally wounded. Alain takes Christophe to his mentor and friend, Father Henri Colbert, who proposes an experimental magical procedure that would preserve a dying person's (in this case, Christophe's) soul in the plain pewter pendant he wears. However, as the procedure is experimental, Colbert doesn't know exactly how to get him out again, and Alain, devastated at the thought of being parted from his lover, kills himself in order to join Christophe in the pendant. Father Colbert takes charge of the pendant, and quietly starts the Order of St. Christophe. The years pass, and the pendant is lost. Sister Maria Lane is ordained as a member of the Order, but has no idea as to the identity of the battered necklace she finds in the New York church she has just bought, intending to turn it into an orphanage...
• Order of St. Christophe: A small group of people who, one way or another, have stumbled accross Saint Christophe's secret, and are trying desperately to locate the Pendant, which will bring Christophe and Alain back to life, and hopefully give the humans a major edge agaist the undead. Includes various Church personnel, Watchers, career vampire hunters, and even some regular Joes.
  • Keeper of the Pendant: the person charged with keeping the Pendant of St. Christophe safe from those who would use it ill or destroy it, and theoretically with calling on the good Saint when danger looms, although nobody before Dee has been able to figure out how to do this.
• Rome timeline: In the oldest incarnation incarnation Ryo and Dee can discover, Dee is a famously lucky gladiator who, thanks to a drunken decree made by the current Emperor (whose bust shows a distinct resemblence to one Berkley Rose), is freed and wins a beautiful and exotic slave, recently captured on the Silk Road. The current Ryo and Dee are shocked to learn this, as this...scenario...has come up before in their current lives (read brit_columbia