Name: Darryl van Anders

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Rank: Tech

Looks: Darryl is everything you’d expect from your average techie – pale, pasty and built like a straw house held up by paperclips. And he’s sort of okay with that. His face is made up of very delicate features; round, ice-blue puppy eyes, a pixie nose and cheekbones fine enough to cut glass. Freckles dust his cheeks, nose and back, and he has a birthmark (that kind of looks like a dragon if you squint really hard) on the inside of his left hip.

Darryl’s wardrobe consists of nerdy apparel and women’s jeans, due to the fact that his waist is too small for most men’s sizes. After joining the military, he wasn’t allowed to wear any of his knight hoodies or N7 t-shirts or even his Star Fleet uniform…but what they don’t know about his TARDIS boxers won’t hurt anyone. Darryl is a born and bred ginger, with gentle curls that sit somewhere between carrot and fire engine red. He has perfect teeth and 20-20 vision thanks to Mummy Dearest, and no muscles to speak of. A constant source of both panic and irritation for him is that he’s pathetically short for a boy of his age, especially considering his European background. Standing at only 5’ 5” he can never reach the top shelf.

Personality: Darryl is the equivalent of a 5 year old boy trapped in a teenage body. The phrase “curiosity killed the cat” means absolutely nothing to him – if he’s intrigued by something, he will stick his pointy little nose in it, a trait that has landed him in trouble more than once. Darryl possesses a childlike naivety and trust that has made him incredibly easy to manipulate, whether for his talents or material possessions. Despite having had many false friends (all of whom left him after they grew bored), he retains a cheerful disposition and outlook, completely convinced that the relationships had simply ‘reached their end’. 

A complete sucker for fantasy, Darryl is obsessed with what would be considered ‘nerd culture’. His personal hobbies revolve around comic books, video games, tv series and his ‘pet projects’, most of which involve either modifying games or trying to build things from them. His level of obsession could definitely be considered unhealthy – considering a lot of his social cues, behaviour and world view tends to shape itself around the games he plays. When working on a project Darryl often becomes completely absorbed in his work, ignoring the outside world as well as his own needs. It’s not uncommon to find him passed out at his desk with a half-finished invention or program written. When it comes to people, Darryl tends to cling to those he likes and often tries to involve them in nearly every aspect of his life. He gets particularly excitable when he’s talking about his inventions or programs, or of course, his games. At that point he’s able to chatter incessantly about his tech jargon, often at speeds which seem to defy human hearing. 

When it comes to relationships of a more intimate nature, those who weren’t scared off by his personality often found that Darryl was completely clueless when it came to romance unless it involved dialogue wheels. Short of point blank confessions, Darryl doesn’t pick up easily on social cues (non-romantic ones either), frustrating some of the people around him. As such his friendships are often tinged with awkward moments, and never last for more than they can really stand. Despite all of his shortcomings, Darryl is an extremely intelligent person, with a near photographic memory and an attention to detail that never fails to surprise. Every problem is a puzzle to him, one that he absolutely has to solve. While his skills focus mainly on programming and engineering, Darryl also has a background in biotechnology and genetics, thanks to his childhood dream of one day creating Pokemon. 

History: As a child, Darryl grew up with his mother, his father having left before he was born. His mother was an excellent caregiver and provider, working real estate in the day, and coming home early to spend time with him. As such he grew up slightly…over protected, having most of his needs taken care of by his mother, and rarely spending time with other children his age. However, thanks to his mother’s one-on-one attention, Darryl excelled academically in school, earning him a scholarship to a prestigious private academy. There, amongst other children from relatively-sheltered backgrounds, he was pressed to focus on his grades. Numerous tests were conducted on IQ and logic skills, pattern recognition and memory function. After four solid years Darryl graduated in the top 1% of the cohort, and after a 6 month bridging program, was allowed to advance straight to university. 

Being dropped into university life barely averaging on 16 was both a terrifying and exciting experience for Darryl. Unfortunately, the students there were not very welcoming – most of them seeing him as pretentious, or simply as extra competition. Eventually, some of them came to realize just how much of a pushover their newcomer was, and Darryl suddenly found himself immensely popular amongst his classmates. While he wasn’t allowed to stay in the dormitories on campus (being too young), he did find himself invited over quite often for study groups. In the years that he was there, his class shot up to become one of the most successful in the school, a feat that surprised even his professor. Despite being late for his final exam (one of his friends had slipped some alcohol into his drink the night before, it was hilarious in hindsight), Darryl still managed to pass with astounding results, landing himself on the Dean’s List.

Upon graduating, he spent a lot of time toying with the idea of becoming a video game programmer – his dream job since picking up his very first console controller. And then his friend introduced him to an old game called Mass Effect. After an unhealthily long marathon of the series, a multitude of tears shed, and several in depth mods that may as well have created a new base game, his decidedly poor impulse control lead him to sign up for the military under the tech department. Completely convinced that the experience would be as exciting and honourable as his in-game counterpart’s, Darryl was not prepared in the least for the intense training he was put through. Having been used to work under pressure, however, he surpassed most of his peers in the final cut, and despite having to be bullied into most of his assignments, quickly grew a reputation as one of the best techs on base. 

When the 5X.3 team was being put together, Darryl was all but thrown at them as a human resource, given barely any knowledge of what he was getting into. When the first experiments were drawn up, Darryl was vehemently against the idea (despite the fact that real life superheroes would be cool), warning of the numerous inconsistencies and variables that made such an undertaking not only dangerous for the subjects, but potentially the rest of the world. After being threatened into silence, he was forced to take part in most of the coding for the test programs, trying to sort out the unwanted strands of DNA that made the subjects unstable. After the first two attempts failed, Darryl became adamant to get more involved – not so that he could be a part of it, but rather so that he could ensure that there would be no more fatalities. While the next two experiments showed improved results, their ultimate failure only drove him even further towards his cause. When the fifth group lasted with adequate stability, he finally wiped his hands clean – and slept for four straight days.

Other: Taking after his fictional idol, Iron Man, Darryl is currently attempting to program a virtual intelligence similar to JARVIS. At the moment all it can do is tell really bad knock-knock jokes, notify him of facebook messages (with the Power Rangers watch theme) and send dictated emails to other military personnel. Unfortunately its word recognition system still needs a lot of work. 

Darryl is extremely squeamish. He had to force down a lot of this fear when working on the Avatar Control, but still threw up on occasion. 

He can’t cook anything except instant noodles (which he still occasionally burns). He tends to survive on stale cereal and sugary things because of a really really bad sweet tooth. 

Darryl’s fave song is Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk ;u

Name: Ti Quicks

Gender: Female

Age:18

Element: Ice- She seems cold all the time and mostly blends in with winter coldness. She usually keeps herself cool in hot days. For some reason she finds it awesome to make a icee without buying one. She can control iciclies and make them... sing, as she says it.

Looks: (I just looked this picture up.)

Personality: She is very ambitious and is a rebel. Ti thinks she's right all the time, with a side of following else's rules. She has a weakness for animals, especially a mouse. She loves to draw and is mostly spotted drawing some ponies. 

History:Wont tell.

Other: She has a pet mouse named, Silence. And she is bi.

(Sorry if it is very short....)

((Am I allowed to have another character, and if so, where do the civilians come in?))