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DSI Character Guides (Semi-IC)

New Roan
03-12-2004, 03:18
((DSI= Divine Stellar Imperium))

The Royal Family

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Alexander Edvardovich 'Tyrol' Razlin-Black
Rank: Prince (full title: Princeps et Primus)
Position: Complete master of the government and state of the DSI
Age: 47 (so, not even middle-aged for a Roanian)
Height: 6'2"
Weight: He's not saying. Don't ask. He doesn't like being asked. It makes him angry.
Species: Human
Family: His wife died 14 years before the present. He has two children, Grand Duke Darien Alexandovich Razlin-Black and Duchess Malissa Alexanovna Razlina-Black.
Lover: Something is happening between him and his first minister...
Best-friend: Simon Darquis (friend being a relative term. A more exact translation would be 'person who's been around me for most of my life and who I've never gotten around to killing')
Favourite colour: Blue
Approval rating: 110%
Hobby: Chess.
Likes: Stabbing people. Counting his cash. Passing judgement.
Pet-peeve: Pirates. He hates pirates. And foreigners. And aliens. And humans. And elves. And... actually, pretty much everything that walks, crawls, flies, swims, or does anything in God's clean universe. Except cats. He likes cats. They get along with him.
The quotable Alexander: I don't know what's wrong with you people, but fire will solve your problems. How so? Like this. Sergeant? Fire when ready.

On love: Love is like a sharp sword. It's nice to have, and bad to be given.

On love, 3 seconds later when Alysanndra was staring at him: Unless you want it, that is.

Simon: I don't think that actually works, Sasha...

Alexander: Shut up.

On power: ...you sit there. In your little dress, with your little handbag, and your little hat, and dare tell me how to run this nation? Oh, yes... let's all help everybody! Yippee!...imbecile. Power isn't about being used, it is about not being used. I can do many things. The question is, should I?

It's one small step from doing things because they should be done, to doing things because I think they should be done. This interview is over. Do try not to hurt the scorpions when you land in their pit.
Great Secret: Happily murdered his way to the diadem when he was only 19. Still feels no guilt. Spends much of his private time giggling at the look on his elder brother's face.

Sadly, Alexander has turned out to be a much better ruler than Vladivoslav could ever have hoped to be. What with the crippling insanity and all that.
Theme-song: Marche Slav, Tzchaikovsky

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Darien Alexandovich Razlin-Black
Rank: Captain
Position: Grand Duke; Heir to the throne
Species: Human
Age: 27
Height: 6'1"
Family: His mother died 14 years before the present. His father is Prince Alexander Black, and he has a younger sister, Countess Malissa Alexanovna Razlina-Black. Is currently taking care of a young girl, Rachael Farin (if he's extended his name to her is unknown as of yet).
Lover: Currently N/A; has started dating Admiral Anastasia
Best Friend: In so far as he has any friends, it's the men (and women) under his command. Of them, he's closest to his 1st Lieutenant
Favourite colour: Blood-Red
Approval rating: N/A
Hobby: He's fairly dedicated to his work. I suppose vaping foreigners would count?
Likes: Chocolate, sugary sweets, anything like that.
Pet-peeve: The press; being called 'daddy'
The quotable Darien: Lieutenant? You have your orders. If he isn't dead by the time I bite into this delicious piece of warm chocolate... so creamy... *cough* just shoot him.
Great Secret: If you offer him enough sweets, he'll find other matters to attend to besides your death. Oh, and, he's actually a kind soul underneath it all... if you can get beneath the layers and layers of cynicism.
Theme song:

Notes on female characters: In the past, I've received for one reason or another all sorts of requests for information regarding the 'measurements' of my female characters. Go fig. Rather than have that...

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Malissa Alexanovna Razlina-Black
Rank: Countess
Position: Guild Exec.
Age: 22
Height: 5'6
Species:
Measurements: 36-34-36
Cup-size C
Family: Her mother died 14 years before the present. Her father is Prince Alexander Black, and she has an older brother, Darien Alexandovich Razlin-Black.
Lover: Currently N/A; neither looking nor interested at present.
Best-friend: Lucille Darquis
Favourite colour: Pink
Hobby: Golf.
Likes: Making men feel inadequate.
Pet-peeve: Over-interference in her affairs and the Guild's affairs by the government. Oh, and smugglers.
The quotable Malissa: *makes beeping sound* Sorry, sir... the connection is breaking up! *hangs up the phone* Men.
Great Secret: Really doesn't want much more than to find a good enough man to marry. Unfortunately, her definition of good-enough is 'As smart as me, as capable as me, and a ruler of a nation. He also has to be handsome and kind and rich'. She's unlikely to compromise on the first two, so the third is probably out of the question.

The Government

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Alysanndra Ellestrea
Rank: Prime Minister
Position: First Councillor of the Prince
Age: 150
Height: 5'7"
Species: Elf (?)
Measurements: 36-34-36
Cup-Size B
Family: Her parents died when she was 50 and her husband, Devian, was killed 14 years before the present.
Best-friend: Simon Darquis
Lover: Possibly Alexander... both of them are moving slowly.
Favourite colour: Grey
Approval rating: 77%
Hobby: Chess, knitting
Likes: Many, many things.
Pet-peeve: Depression, anger... having to have people killed...
The quotable Alysanndra: Alexander, that's enough.You're frightening them.
Great Secret: She wants to become human, so she can die.
New Roan
04-12-2004, 06:20
The Cabinet

Indirah Jehru
Minister to the Prince on Cultural Matters

Lee Yan'cho
Minister to the Prince on Foreign Affairs and External Trade

Charles Stryke
Minister to the Prince for Internal Security and the Judiciary

Edmund Hyacinth
Lord Marshal of the Imperial Military

Ferdinand Kyzan
Lord Chancellor and Minister to the Prince for Internal Trade

Alexei 'X' Merkenoff
Head of Intelligence

The Military

89th Airborne Defense Squadron (Imperial Homeland Regiment)

Squadron Members:

Squad Captain: Grand Duke Darien Alexanovich Black (Rarely on active duty)

1st Lieutenant: James Archwood

Second Lieutenants: Alice Kazin, Ivan Ralengov

Wingmen: Elrond, Sen, Ricardo, Edvard, Alexia, Louis, Caroline

Squadron Motto: Wings of Steel and Fire

The 89th is the elite air squadron of the Stellar Military. Charged with the defence of the Imperial Homeworld, it is responsible only to Admiral Razinsky and above her, the Prince. Entrance is primarily by merit, as not even Alexander would play havoc with Novaya Zemlya's defence through patronage.

It's worth noting, therefore, that the Grand Duke is exceptionally good at what he does. Combine that with his 'look, it's a foreign starship... now it's an expanding cloud of gas and wreckage!' temperament, and it's no wonder that people do their best to stay on the Squadron's good side. Especially since the Imperial Military Justice process can best be described as 'desultory'.
New Roan
04-12-2004, 07:08
For the upper ranks of the military, uniform is an un-necessary extra. Verchan wears a traditional uniform, with a selection of the various medals he's won over the years. Vader wears a modern, crisp outfit with rank bars. And Anastasia? Meh.

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Anastasia Faddeinov Ralinsky
Rank: Baroness
Position: Admiral, 1st Fleet (probation; previous admiral -and most of his staff- died 3 years before present, and she made full use of DSI's meritocratic rules to ensure that she was promoted)
Age: 29, making her the youngest admiral in the Imperium's history.
Height: 5'6"
Species: Human
Measurements: 36-34-36
Cup-Size C
Family: She doesn't talk much about them.
Best friend: She gets along fairly well with everyone, except Vader.
Favourite colour: Robin's Egg
Hobby: Fishing
Likes: Quiet.
Pet-peeve: Vader, loud noises, the unwanted advances of her staff/Darien (when he's on a sugar high. Which is actually a fairly frequent occurence. He's very sorry when he comes down from it.).
The quotable Anastasia: Squad Captain Darien Black, I order you to go and stand in the corner!
Great Secret: Anastasia's only real objections to the advances from Darien is that he probably doesn't really mean them. She'd be flattered if she turned out to be the only human being on the planet apart from himself that he has any fondness for, not least because of the awesome power that becoming his lover would eventually give her (like all Imperials, the very sound of the word 'power' makes her weak at the knees).

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Yuri Verchan
Rank: Marquess
Position: Admiral, 2nd Fleet
Age: 120 (only another fourty years until retirement!)
Height: 5'9"
Species: Human
Family: He has a wife, and, presumably, children.
Best-friend: His 1st Lieutenant (and Chief of Staff), Hawkings
Favourite colour: Teal
Hobby: Nothing he enjoys so much as a good game of cricket.
Likes: Peace, not getting shot at.
Pet-peeve: Getting shot at.
The quotable Verchan: You will never receive another promotion so long as I live.
Great Secret: He hates his job. Really, really, hates his job. It's not like it was when he was a captain, when all the DSI Navy had to worry about was unspeakable horrors slathering in from beyond the edge of the galaxy. Now, what with an unspoken civil war being waged in many territories between DSI forces and... ah, but you'll just need to wait...

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Ivan Vladimovich 'Vader' Vaderski-Dorngov
Rank: Count
Position: Admiral, 3rd Fleet
Age: 100
Height: 6'
Species: Human
Family: None.
Best-friend: None.
Favourite colour: None.
Hobby: None.
Likes: None.
Pet-peeve: Pirates. People who get in the way of his goals.
The quotable Vader: "Like I promised, I will not be killing anyone. Sergeant? Fire on my command."
Great Secret: He dreams of taking out Alexander and declaring himself Emperor, then launching a galactic war of unspeakable bloodshed and horror. You know, as you do
Gorgamin
04-12-2004, 08:37
Umm...hi! I'm fairly new to NationStates, and I was wondering how you come up with the names for your characters. I sometimes have difficulty coming up with good names. Do you have any suggestions that might help me?
New Roan
04-12-2004, 08:54
I get them in a dream. No, really... the characters come first. I then sit down, occasionally with a cocktail of illicit materials, and decide what name works for each. Alexander Black is a case in point.

I needed a main 'villain'. Alexander is a name that is all too frequently reserved for heroes, so I chose that for my Prince. Black... it's dramatic, it's simple... it works (The Razlin part came in for this incarnation when I decided to go with a primarily Slavonic influence). And it's hard, now, to imagine any other name for him. I think in his current incarnation I've found a perfect type for him. While our society might view him to be evil, the DSI is a nation constantly at war against foes both internal and external.

Hard times need a hard leader.

To pick a different character, 'Vader' came to me quite literally in a dream. I needed someone who was really evil and nasty, and I was thinking about it when I fell asleep. The name Vader was my first instinct, but it sounded derivative, when in reality my character could probably outdo even Palpatine in the evil sweepstakes. I kept Vader, made it a nickname (Russians love that), and extended it to Vaderski-Dorngov. The first name and patronymic were after-thoughts.

Any other questions?
New Roan
05-12-2004, 01:55
The Ecclesiarchy

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Dmitri IV
Rank: None.
Position: Grand Inquisitor Matthias IV
Age: 155
Height: 5'9
Species: Half-elf
Family: None
Lover: None
Best-friend: None
Favourite colour: None
Approval rating: 0%
Care-factor:0.0000%
Hobby: None
Likes: A place for everyone, and everyone in his place.
Pet-peeve: Heresy in all its evil forms; GOOs
The quotable Matthias IV: For the crime of being a heretic. Guilty. For the crime of treason. Guilty. For the crime of being human... guilty.

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Sir Simon Octavus Darquis II
Rank: Baronet, pro-tem until his father dies. Then he becomes Archduke of Genavda IV.
Position: High Inquisitor (no, being a churchman isn't required. Nor, strangely, is being celibate.)
Age: 45
Height: 6'2"
Species: Human
Family: His father is Archduke Leopold Darquis III of Genavda, and his mother is presumed to be deceased. He has a young cousin, Lucille.
Lover: Hrmm... it's Tuesday, right? Then that would be Ann.
Best-friend: Alexander Black (Yes, that is sad.)
Favourite colour: Purple.
Hobby: Don Giovanni, anyone?
Likes: Women. He just can't keep any.
Pet-peeve: Depressed people; Alexander's habit of blaming him when something goes wrong while he's in the room; women who decide that they need a level of commitment higher than that of the average cat.
The quotable Simon:

on Alexander: Oh, me and Sasha go way back. I help him, he slaps me on the back of the head, it's a good relationship.

On women: Hey, that's not fair, Alys! I have nothing but the highest respect for women as people!

Alys: Then how do you explain the 45 swimsuit calendars on your door?

Simon: Um...

Alys: 'Naked Elf-chicks?' 'The Girls of Osten III'?

Simon: You gotta look past that.

On Religion: There are only 750 Gods, and I...

Alexander: 751.

Simon: What! Again?!

Gods so far mentioned

Rayul: God of mercy and love, assuager of wrath
The Archangel Michael: Patron of the DSI, 'god' of soldiers
Kali: Destroyer
New Roan
05-12-2004, 07:57
The FreeRunners

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Karzonov (first name unknown)
Position: Captain, StarThief
Age: 89
Height: 6'3"
Species: Human
Family: The closest thing he has to a family is his crew.
Best-friend: First Navigational Officer Mailkebeth
Lover: He is rumoured to have briefly had an assignation with a young woman in the FreePort. If that's carried on now is unknown
Favourite colour: Gold.
Hobby: Unknown.
Likes: Gold, silver, drachmas, dollars, roubles, shekels, obsidian, etc.
Pet-peeve: Being shot at.
The quotable Karzonov: Well, we have two choices. Stay here, fight, and die... or run like scared little girls back to the FreePort.

Mailkebeth: So, shall I order Ramlyn to set a course back home?

Karzonov: What do you think?

Mailkebeth: I think I'll be having the ship readied for combat.

Karzonov: Good elf.
Great Secret: He seems to be constantly forced, against his will, to stand up for the little man against the DSI's government. Or so it seems. In actual fact, he enjoys his position as a latter-day Robin Hood.

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Carolyn 'Carin' (last name unknown)
Position: Commander, StarThief
Age: 39
Height: 5'7"
Species: Human
Measurements: 35-33-35
Cup-Size D
Family: None
Best friend: Radar Technician Ann
Lover: Joe, Engineer, Crazed Marines
Favourite colour: Silver
Hobby: Three-card Monty
Likes: See entry for Karzonov, add bubble-gum.
Pet-peeve: Her robes. Though they are convenient. She sometimes wears them even when on board ship.
The quotable Carolyn: I could very easily plaster your head to the ceiling using just this piece of bubble-gum
Great Secret: Was exiled from Genavda IV for an event still referred to only as 'the incident in Ralington'.


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Mailkebeth Arian
Position: First Nav. Officer, also has subordinate command (beneath Carolyn) over Communications, engineering, and lots of other things.
Age: Roughly 200
Height: 6'1
Species: Elf
Family: None
Best friend: Captain Karzonov
Lover: Hrmmm...
Favourite colour: Grey
Hobby: spear-fishing
Likes: not getting shot at, money.
Pet-peeve: getting shot at
The quotable Mailkebeth: I had hair when we teleported down! I had hair three seconds ago!

Karzonov: So you did.
Great Secret: It's a toupee. Okay, so it's not that great a secret.
New Exodus
16-12-2004, 10:19
Wow, I recognize so many of the influences that went into these characters...