[CHAR] The Dark Beyond: Adventures in Candyland (Prequel)

[Estylwen]

HiveMind Facility

The Louvre

Cosette

Cosette de Villiers

Cosette de Villiers | 10 | Female

Augmentation: None

Personality: Sweet and child-like, Cosettle has a big heart and big eyes to soak in the world. She is mainly quiet while having spells of hyperactivity, especially when her older sister promises they'll play together. She is not known for being a rowdy child, and does not normally get into trouble. However, she is easily influenced by her siblings, which has caused her to fall into a lot of trouble, with her mother particularly, growing up.

Defining Trait: Innocent

Backstory: With her father busy with work, life was tough. Her mother soothed some of the loneliness, but she eventually became a bit of a recluse, playing 'archeologist' with her dolls in her room because... no one was gonna be there to play with her. Not her father, at least.

One of the few things that would get her to smile would be when her older sister (she didn't understand what 'half-sister' meant) or her older brother would give her time. This was a bit of a double-edged sword, as sometimes they would want to bully her a little and cause her to run to mom for aid. On other occasions, her older sister would be up to no good and need an extra set of eyes, and an extra secret keeper. Cosette was good at that, as long as she got to be with her family.

With talk of a family trip, Cosette had more energy than usual, talking about nothing for hours excitedly with her mother and siblings.

Skills: She can hold a flashlight steady, she knows how to sneak and navigate through the dark quietly, and she knows how to listen to her siblings.

Inventory: A Hello Kitty flashlight.

[Days]

Aurélie de Villiers, oldest daughter

Aurélie de Villiers

Name: Aurélie Fleur de Villiers (nicknames: Auri, Ellie)

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Appearance: Aurélie has ashen blonde, wavy hair, the same as her mother. Her eyes are hazel, lighter than her father's. Her freckles are also very much her mother's, but her brilliant mind comes from her father. She loves dressing up, and dressing well and isn't afraid to show a little skin (though Thierry would have his opinions). 5'4". Soft hourglass figure.

Has piercings in her ears, and a tattoo behind her right ear. Likes getting manicures, and often has different styles on her nails, though they're not long, because that would get in the way of her job.

Occupation: Coffee barista at Au Vuex Paris d’Arcole, going to Sorbonne Université after the summer

Personality: Aurélie isn't one to hug you, but if you mention you are cold, she will arrange a blanket for you and deny that it had been her. Her memory is wicked good, and she always remembers everyone's birthdays or small details. Ever mentioned that you liked a specific album? You'll get it for your birthday. She shows her love in odd ways if she loves at all. She is no-nonsense, and not afraid to say what she thinks. Something that is a must when working in a Parisian café. This works differently with her half-siblings, though she never uses the 'half' part. They are her world, and she'd drop-kick anyone who even looked at them wrong. She's the sister you call when someone's bullying you, and she would come and teach the kid a lesson. Slightly terrifying, slightly sweet but only if you know her well.

Defining Trait: Forthright

Backstory: Aurélie is a parisian in heart and soul. She was born there and belongs there. Maybe that was why she didn't move with her mother back to the Netherlands when she left France, as if the woman knew her child would be one with the city. Not that her mother was necessarily a responsible person. She grew up with her father, Thierry, who married a woman named Sabrina when Aurélie was still a toddler. When she was about 1,5, she got a brother, and 7 years later, a sister. By then, Aurélie proved to be a challenging child to raise, always pushing the limits of Thierry, falling between the gaps of a too-busy father and a mother in another country. Her saving grace was Sabrina, who treated Aurélie as her own. Despite her father being a compassionate man, she and Thierry never really saw eye to eye, and this only got worse the older, and rebellious Aurélie got. She was his first, and for a long time, only daughter, which caused friction despite her having been a daddy's girl when she was young. However, when it comes to her brother and sister, Aurélie would be found moving mountains for them. She regularly hung out with her brother, and she always made time in her day for her younger sister, who to Aurélie, meant the whole world. She does love her father, and slowly but surely, she was growing more into a grown woman than a rebellious teenager.

Despite her name meaning 'the golden one', she wasn't necessarily the golden child. Though, she was and still is really good in her studies, barely having to make any effort. Aside from her part-time job as a barista, her other passions are being a plant mom, pilates and photography. In her home, she has a small balcony littered with plants, where she likes to sit and read her books as Paris lived below her. And with her camera, she regularly goes out to take photographs. One of her photos went viral not long ago, causing her a deal where she did an item called 'Faces of Paris'. Maybe there's a Louvre girl in her, after all. She works because she wants to, not because she has to because her parent's money did get her places.

The latest thing she did to shorten Thierry's lifespan was buying a motorcycle to get around Paris.

Skills: Makes the best coffee in Paris (by own admission, and that of her brother), photography, self-defence, first aid.

Inventory: Her backpack, e-reader, earbuds, power bank to charge her devices, her iPhone, small etui with mascara, lipstick, and brow pencil always on hand, her photo camera, extra lenses and SDcards, a small medkit with bandaids (hello kitty for Cosette) and other small stuff because Theo had a tendency of hurting himself, and Cosette was her little baby.

Theo de Villiers, middle son

Theo de Villiers

Name: Theodore Noel de Villiers (nicknames: Theo)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance: Outgrew his dad, and he's proud of it. He's 6'2", with dark brown hair, and the dark brown eyes of his father. He's the most frequently used of their in-home gym, and he's fit. Often keeps his facial hair, full but short. Is almost never seen without his leather jacket, though in the summer he goes without.

Occupation: Student Lycée terminale, in his last year of high school. Has no part-time job.

Personality: Theo is what you could call a social butterfly. Or well, that's what he was when he was younger, now he's more of a socialite. He has good, swift talk, often found making jokes and not taking everything too seriously. He's a flirt, too, and is well aware of his good looks. The man definitely could be a good salesman or a lobbyist, but he is not interested in working right now. Though, at times if his father brings him to work, he definitely knows how to talk up the crowd, making his father proud. He can and does strike a talk with everyone he sees, whether that be cracking a joke with his father's boss's boss or the homeless man down the street.

He's a momma's boy at heart, and isn't one to shy away from his parents because it isn't 'cool'. Now that he's older and more independent, he seeks them out, having learned that they're too busy to seek him out.

Defining Trait: Social

Backstory: As Thierry's and Sabrina's first child, and son, he grew up quite happy and loved, and enjoyed the company of his older sister. However, more and more he got left to his own devices, or together with his sister. With them being a year and something apart, they were often left to the same fate. Forgotten at school, or waiting for their parents to find out which one of them had enough time to pick them up. This had them growing close. Then, when he was 7, he got a sister, and he immediately felt responsible for her as a big brother.

He's not like his older sister, kicking against shins, but instead does his own thing. He admires his father a lot, despite not really seeing him, and loves doing something with his mother. Lately, he'd taken to picking her up from work during lunchtime to have a quick meal together. In his free time, he usually hangs out with his big friend group, and he loves parties. Loves going to them, and loves throwing them, oftentimes coming home late and slightly inebriated. Theo's not a bad drunk, but a happy one. When he was still finding his limit, Aurélie was the one rubbing his back and nursing him back to health.

His schoolwork leaves something to be desired, but he never got in trouble and he always made it out on the other hand. Sometimes with some vigorous tutoring from Aurélie.

He likes to spend money, likes to dress well, and likes to have the latest gadgets. He zooms around Paris on his scooter, but his sister's motorcycle is something he is eying for when he becomes 18.

He has a situationship with a girl, but Theo's not a lovey-dovey person. Committing is scary.

Skills: Smooth talker, physically strong, spent a couple of years doing Taikwando before he got bored.

Inventory: A backpack, his headphones, iPad, iPhone, power bank, pocket knife, protein bars (gotta get them gains!)

[Lexisheeps]

Thierry

Name: Thierry Claude de Villiers
Age: 39
Gender: cis male
Appearance: Short dark brown hair, suspicious brown eyes, 5'11", average active fit, 190lbs, clean-cut

Actor: Matt Boomer

Source: ??? Google Search

Augmentation: N/A Has no desire for this.

Personality: Overly cautious through years of experience. In his youth, he was foolhardy. His rash behavior is what caused him to fall and bust his left knee during a mission at The Temple of Karnak. Now he believes that patience really is a virtue and potentially life saving, but his temper still peaks depending on the situation. Despite having a temper, he's very empathetic and affectionate. His devotion and passionate nature will land him a new marriage towards someone many dismiss for abrasively callous at first glance... in about 4 years.

Defining Trait: Diligent

Backstory: Started working for The Louvre straight out of High School, originally as a Tour Guide for the museum. Once he graduated college, he went from standard Tour Guide, to Louvre Field Archeologist. Once he busted his left knee during a Temple of Karnak run, The Louvre made room for him as a Field Director. Field Directors were still archeologists, but instead of going out on the field themselves, they send various Louvre agents on runs instead. He's one of only a handful of Field Directors who has actually served The Louvre as an agent himself- making him a much needed link.

While his work ethic is amazing, spectacular even, his home life is chaotic. Not because he doesn't love his three children, because he does very much, but because he fails at time management. Thierry can easily spend long hours lost in his study reading about such and such civilization. He's often trying to transcribe the various crude doodles that have been found on ancient walls. If he's not doing that, he'll be distributing field work to various Louvre agents- or reading an agent's work notes.

He's currently in the midst of falling out of love with wife, Sabrina, if he ever was truly in love with her. Despite this, he's still grasping for threads to hang on to. Love of his life or not, she still is the mother of two of his children and a very loving adoptive mother to his eldest daughter. So loveless marriage or not, he's willing to try to make it work for his children's sake.

Long before acquiring his office job, Thierry has earned the nickname, Monsieur, for certain fashion choices he's made out on the field. While most men would rather wear tactical military grade gear, Thierry is often seen sporting a three piece suit... A true classy Frenchman. Unlike Sabrina who was born into money, Thierry comes from a modest middle class family.

Skills: Linguistics, MMA, weaponry

Inventory: Utility Watch made from a Pequignet wrist watch: ROYALE SAPHIR PHANTOM. It holds 20 individual physical objects, but has byte size and physical size limitation. Meant for smaller usage items ex: guns, ammo, rations and temp storage for artifacts.

Nick

Name: Nicholas James Bergman
Age: 16
Gender: cis male
Appearance: Dirty blonde, bright blue eyes, heart shaped face, Caucasian, 5'6", 110lbs, small build, active slim

This guy tho:

And this one too!

Augmentation: N/A

Personality: Nick is a junkyard dog at first glance and most people don't bother looking beyond that first chance. Piss him off? He'll happily hand you your ass for free. While he might come off as nothing more than a cantankerous little shit, he's actually a deep well of lovingly charismatic emotion. He's terrified of losing others, so he chooses to push people away rather than lose out on a good thing. Nothing in this life lasts forever and so he'd rather not have it. Where others fail, he thrives in solitude.

Defining Trait: bitter

Backstory: Currently wandering around Egypt (like he owns the place) as a Rogue Agent. Rogue Agents are on the field archeologists that aren't working for any society. They are considered (by many society agents) to be worse than just freelanced enthusiasts; they have a knack for getting in the way and fucking shit up due to their inexperience and lack of proper field training. They are heavily frowned upon as they are basically considered "Tourists with Guns".

Was a mamma's boy through and through, even now that his mother has since passed away from Breast Cancer, he still wears her cherished cameo locket. His father died in a car crash, on their way to go see mom in the hospital. His mother eventually remarried, but died three years later. Nick hates his stepfather with a fiery passion- and likewise. To this day he's convinced that the man only wanted the insurance money. Money that he, nor his little brother, Aaron, ever saw.

Years of fighting with his stepfather, school authority figures, and everybody else for that matter, Nick's found himself in and out of homes and juvenile detention centers across the country. After making some significant behavioral changes in regular therapy sessions after his diagnosis of Oppositional Defiance Disorder, a judge granted him one last chance at attending school.

With his grades up, or at least at passing level, a certain type of fate happened during an otherwise routine field trip to Egypt. It started off as a simple desire to escape noisy peers and examine the hieroglyphs, but Nick soon found himself firing a shotgun at reluctantly dead mummies. That was a year ago. He's since managed to become a person of interest for The Louvre, or rather... a pain in the ass for Thierry, through the help of an Egyptian Field Agent, Ramses Saamir Andrew. Aaron is still living with their Uncle in Maine, and has no idea Nick is MIA from his boarding school.

Skills: street fighting, and endurance training

Inventory: N/A or whatever he gets his hands on through theft

Ramses

Name: Ramses Saamir Andrew
Age: 30
Gender: cis male
Appearance:

Source: ??? DuckDuck go image search

Augmentation: [redacted] ??? If you ask him, he'll tell you that he has none. Rumor has it that he actually has two of them. But maybe he started the rumors for shits and giggles...

Personality: If Ramses wasn't an archeologist with a steady job, you'd easily think he was a college bro; a typical frat boy. Always up for a good party, he's woken up the next morning with a hangover, that even he doesn't know how many times. He figures that since his day job is so emotionally and mentally demanding, that throwing back a few every now and then is just fine.

Some see him as a high functioning drunk. Which... as long as he doesn't find himself fired, is just fine with him. Because not having a degree in the current almost-collapsed Egyptian economy? After yet another war? Yeah, no thank you. Being a field operative for the Museum is better than being a government solider any day.

While it's true that he's always up for a good party, he's totally fine playing the quiet role as well. He's a true ambivert. Listening in on other people's feelings is a strong point of his. He's bold, but with a kind heart. It's this kindness that will lead him to being friends with Nick, despite issues the two have in the beginning. Once he realizes that Nick just can't emotionally handle dealing with people, he makes himself scarce, allowing Nick to feel comfortable reaching out to him in the end...

Defining Trait: Reserved

Backstory: Currently an on the field archeologist for The Egyptian Museum. Based in Cairo most of the time.

It will be sheer dumb luck when he first comes across a rogue field archeologist, Nicholas Bergman, during a Temple of Karnak run. Damn kid will fall 30 feet, but manages to grab some foundation roping and survive. Despite helping this idiot get to safety, Nick immediately hates his guts and he felt not much better of the, dumbass. A lot will change over the coming years, however, and will consider the Bergman brothers to be quite the alliance for the Cairo Museum.

Remaining file is [redacted].

Skills: The Egyptian Museum utilizes Ramses' computer skills as giving him a job title of Field Hacker. He can shoot a target down just as easy as hack your company's security software. Not only is he well versed in modern software programming, he's fluent in hieroglyphs.

Inventory: Stolen technology from the field during runs, when not on home turf.

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Sabrina

Sabrina Lennox-de Villers

Age:
38
Gender:
Female
Appearance:


Occupation: Sabrina is a forensic archaeologist for the Louvre. Works with her husband, Thierry, researching/locating artifacts and lost civilizations.

Personality: Sabrina is a very driven woman. With so few women in the archaeology field, Sabrina has had to fight tooth and nail for her position of Head Forsenic for the Louvre.

Defining Trait: Creative

Backstory:
Sabrina and her brother, Sebastian, are the only two remaining members of the Lennox family. Their family has had a history of being tied to power both political and mystical. At a young age, Sabrina found her calling in sketching. She could create the most amazing pictures in minutes with a blank sheet of paper and a piece of charcoal.

The Lennox family is one with great wealth with Sebastian currently running the family trade business. Sabrina, being much younger, was allowed more freedom to choose her path in life. By the time she turned sixteen, she was properly fluent in various languages such as French, German, Latin, Mandarin, and Greek. Driven by both her family's affinity to historical artifacts and her love of creating something out of seemingly nothing, Sabrina joined up with the Louvre as an intern after graduating with her Master's degree in History and Myths. She worked her way up through the ranks, along the way meeting her husband, Thierry.

Currently, Sabrina has three children with Thierry. Her adopted (although she doesn't use that term) daughter, Aurelie, is their eldest followed by her son, Theodore, and Cozette, their youngest.

Skills:
Sabrina has a wide knowledge of both historical and mythical stories and artifacts. She can put a skeleton back together in under five minutes if she has all the proper bones, including phalanges and teeth. She does have martial arts skills, although she prefers a gun. Sabrina also isn't afraid to use torture techniques to get information.

Inventory: Her red leather-bound sketch pad with charcoal sticks. Her cross-body brown canvas bag, not only does it hold a flashlight, and extra sketch pencils, but also her 9mm pistol, a set of daggers, and enough kid snacks to fill a vending machine.