Whoo! Been a while since I posted last. (okay fine, a few days at most.) Here’s a selection of characters that belong to friends of mine.
Abigail
Goes by ‘Abby’ most of the time. A Scottish swordswoman for hire who died in the 1500’s, and whose soul was trapped in a sword blade by a sorcerer/jealous ex. She existed as an artifact in this private collection or that museum or forgotten in that other vault for centuries until a curly British thief (Tristan) saw a pretty, valuable sword in the private collection of a dickish German collector and… uh… ‘liberated’ it, only to discover upon getting it home that the blade was possessed. After the initial Scottish/English rivalry, Abby figured out Tristan was a good man, and he and his friends John and Penny helped break the curse to free her from the sword. They assumed that was the end of Abby, that she’d move on to the afterlife, leaving them to mourn, but she showed up weeks later, alive and well. Evidently she’d been a Bee in life, and releasing her soul from the blade had allowed her to return to her body and resurrect as usual. She is now involved with both Tristan and John, although she remains unaffiliated with any faction.
Arafael
Arafael, an Illuminati Bee agent, is a blood mage of considerable skill, and also Geary’s favorite agent for cleaning up gross, messy, or weird problems. Quick on her feet, creative in the face of bizarre, slimy circumstances, and unfortunately very experienced with everything from burrito-based cultists to school lunch menus going VERY wrong, Arafael gets called in a LOT, and bemoans her lack of anything resembling time off.
John Hawkens
Mentioned previously in this thread, John Hawkens is a former Orochi agent who got Bee’d, saw too much, learned too much about what Orochi was involved in, and defected, running to the Illuminati for protection. Tristan was made Hawkens’ handler, and under Tristan’s (gentle, patient, but exceedingly anxious) guidance, Hawkens became a full-fledged field agent for the Illuminati, and the two men became fast friends… and Hawkens developed a
massive crush on his handler. While Tristan primarily identifies as straight… he’s discovering that his preferences might be a little blurrier than he originally thought…
Paksara “Pax” Philips
Young but tough as nails, Pax is a Templar paladin who was chosen by Gaia at age 19, and suffers from a perpetual case of ‘aren’t you a little young for this?’. She was the first person Alex encountered when she was looking for answers about vampires, and ultimately was the one to recruit her to the Templars.
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