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Welcome to Nowhere

@Argetlam350

DIMITRI

(Interacting with Bartholomew)

Dimitri sipped his tea for a bit while contemplating his next move. He was supposed to be looking for work today. Mundane, non-artistic work. He might as well apply here at the coffee shop for all that it was worth to him. He only really needed money to maintain his lifestyle. Eating was a once a year game between himself, and the most heinous sort of criminal thug that he could find. (One thing that his real mother and his dad had always agreed on was that-only eat those who are harmful to other humans.) So his expenses consisted of mainly art supplies, cell phone bills, wardrobe upkeep, keeping his truck in working order, and buying drinks for pretty girls. Just the important things. But he just couldn't see himself working in a place like this. He really did get advice from Circe to try the library. But he was also being blackmailed into attending a party tonight. So he should probably go get a costume.

He got up, threw his cup away, and decisively walked out the door. About three minutes or so went by when the decisive man came right back into the cafe. His truck wasn't starting, and whatever was preventing it exceeded his knowledge of engines.

"Excuse me" He cleared his throat and asked the people inside if they could point him in the direction of a mechanic. Of course, he was using the term to refer to a garage where a mechanic would work at. But as it happened, a number of fingers went up singled out a bearded, lone wolf type reading a paper in out of the booths. It figured. He looked like a mechanic. Nothing in particular made that so. It was just that his look fit very well with what Dee expected a mechanic to look like.

So he walked up to the fellow, and once again using his indoor voice, said humbly "Hi. I'm Dimitri. And I take it you're a mechanic?"

Welcome to Nowhere

@Argetlam350 Dee is at CC, so I'll get a post giving him a reason to interact with Tholo. Exhausted right now. So, give me maybe 24 hrs.

Welcome to Nowhere

I am seriously considering having Dee show up to the costume party dressed as Spider-Man.

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Peace

Welcome to Nowhere

* * * YESTERDAY * * *

Dimitri pulled up in his black Ford pick-up to the house whose address his sister Circe had given him and sent him pics of. He had been away at college and got into an exchange program three years ago. He had graduated a year ago. But it took him months to leave Paris and come back to the States. His dad had been the one to convince him, saying he'd fit right in in the new neighborhood. The family had relocated to Erehwon shortly after he went to France.

No sooner did he leave his vehicle and close the door than his step-mother arrived with a car full of groceries. Thea rolled the window down and after a quick greeting, asked for some assistance with the bags. He quickly agreed and took as many grocery bags as he could carry.

"Abby! Your brother's home!" Thea called out as they walked in and went to the kitchen. They put the bags on the floor, and made idle chatter about his time away and their time in this small town. It was slowly established that she loved it here, Abigail still refused to give the town a chance, and Dimitri was expected to get a real job quickly if he intended in staying at the house.

"As long as I can paint when I'm home." He shrugged.

"Of course you can. The attic is all yours while your here. Just no sneaking in any models in the middle of the night."

"Well," he smiled. "As long as sneak them out by morning, you'll never even know the rule was broken."

Thea whacked him with a bag of marshmallows in response.

"Honestly Dee, why you took Art History is beyond me! Your father and I told you that you'd need something to fall back on."

"That's why I minored in philosophy." He shot back with youthful assurance.

"Yes. And I'm sure they're hiring philosophers by the busload. Especially here in a small town."

"Hey, just because it's a small town does not mean there aren't curious souls wondering why they're here." Noticing his step-mother's frown, he changed to a more serious note. "Worst case scenario, I can go work at a café or deliver pizzas for a while. But Circe gave me a tip the last time she called. The local library might have some old books that need translated from French and Greek..."

It had taken a few minutes before a ruckus sounded upstairs. Shortly thereafter a wild teenager appeared in the kitchen, rummaged through the groceries and tore into a bag of chips like they were an elixer of everlasting youth and beauty. Once the bag was mostly demolished, she finally acknowledged Dimitri.

"Hey, Dickface, how was Europe?"

He just repeated the words mockingly, making a silly face, and slurring his speech to sound like a village idiot.

She rolled her eyes, but in a way that wasn't all that harsh. While Dimitri turned to Thea and said with obvious sarcasm. "Nice attitude! Where'd she pick that up at?

"Oh, I don't know," Thea continued putting groceries away while she spoke. "It might have something to do with the fact her father's always away on some top secret mission and her brother up and left us to go galavanting across Paris."

"Mom, it's called studying abroad-" he started to mount a defense but was abruptly cut off by his step-sibling.

"Only one?"

He laughed but played at being hurt. "Geez, are you guys even a little happy to see me at all?"

Abigail held out her hand and made a "so-so" gesture, but Thea went and hugged him and said that of course they were.

It looked like this was home now. At least for a while. It was too bad Circe wasn't there. And Dad was missing. Of course he worried about them both. But, unfortunately, he had to deal with that alone.

* * * LAST NIGHT * * *

If Paris had taught Dee anything, it was that a good woman could take a man's mind off his troubles in minutes. And a bad woman could do it in seconds. So he had gone out to see if he could find a bad woman.

Looking around he found a place called the Tipsy Dragon. It wasn't exactly what he had in mind. But he found a girl there. A young, lovely girl with the body of a succubus, and the face of an angel. A girl whom he absolutely HAD to paint. He told her so. And she laughed.

"No, I mean it. I MUST paint you. It can be however you feel comfortable. In any kind of style, but you are simply RADIANT! It will overwhelm the eyes to see your attitude, and complexity brought in to the light on canvas."

"You don't even know me." She continued to be amused. "How can you say that I am complex? I could be exceedingly simple, you know?"

"No, you couldn't." Dee spoke with all the certainty of an expert. The girl, who looked as if she wasn't even really 21 yet, raised an eyebrow. But he went on to explain. "You see if you were a simple girl, you would have been intimidated when you realized that talking about painting your portrait wasn't just some interesting pick-up strategy. And if you were EXCEEDINGLY simple... Well, then you would have been interested before you realized that."

She stared at him. Finding his boldness ridiculous. And she was smiling.

"How do I even know you're really an artist?" She said.

"I'll show you." He smiled, went to the bar, and came back with three mixed drinks, a glass of light beer and several napkins. The shots were red, green, and blue. And he proceeded to twist up some of the napkins to use by dipping into the drinks and "painting" onto the stack. When he was finished he turned the stack of soggy napkins to face her. She was unimpressed by the blobs of color she saw until he lifted the stack to reveal the bottom napkin. It was a proper representation of The Scream by Munch.

"Alright." She said, clearly impressed. "My name's Annette."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Annette." He took her hand, raised it in his, and kissed it. "My name is Dimitri, but you can call me Dee."

Annette grinned, and raised an eyebrow. But they said nothing now. They just prepared to leave together. And thus did the artist succeed in finding ample distraction for an evening.

* * * TODAY * * *

Dee opened his eyes, and was startled to find that the sun was up. Not good. He jumped to his feet, and getting dressed, went over to the window to look out front. His step-mom's car was gone. Good. She was at work. And his step-sister was probably on her to school. No need to sneak the girl out after all.

He went down to the kitchen where he made some eggs, bacon, and toast. He was planning to bring breakfast up to Annette, but she came down dressed, not hungry, and ready to part ways. Probably for good.

"Well, I'll call you. We can get together, and I can finish painting you."

Annette made that expression with her lips that humans make when they are trying to not hurt another human's feelings but finding it difficult to actually not do if they want to be honest.

"Look, Dee, I had fun last night. But it wasn't anything more than that."

Dimitri suddenly realized he was burning breakfast, and turned the stove off, and flipped everything on to a plate. When he turned around he was a clearly a little unnerved. Paris it seemed, had spoiled him.

"Alright. There's no need to exchange numbers, or anything. But you really aren't going to keep modeling for me?"

She shook her head.

"You're a talented painter. You don't need me to." And with that she left.

He turned to walk back up to the attic, when he was nearly startled out of his glamour by Abigail standing there in the doorway.

"Heeeeeeeyyy!" Dee did his best to sound extra innocent, and loving. "It's my favorite sibling!"

He quickly grabbed the food, and presented it to her. "Look: I made you breakfast."

"Nice try, Dimwit, but it's going to take more than burnt toast to buy your way out of this one." The teen was relentless. She was beginning to remind him of the evil step-sisters from those human legends.

"Awww, c'mon Abby! What do you want from me?!" He threw his arms up in exasperation as he spoke.

"Take me here. Let me do what ever I want. Don't bring me home until I'm ready." She threw an orange paper on the table with details of a costume party happening tonight. After a small while of internal diliberationn he agreed. After he agreed, she finished the meal and left to go to school.

He locked up, and went to his truck not long after. Time to find new diatractions, before he remembered to worry about things. Time to check out this town in depth. And for that, he would start at the Coffee Central.

Welcome to Nowhere

Dee/Dimitri Calazans

Full Name: Dimitri Calazans

Nicknames/Alias/AKA: Dee

Age: 25

Gender: Male

DOB: Hatched beneath the Burrower's Moon, 1993

Occupation: "In between jobs"

Race: Arachne

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Dark Blue

Height and Build: 5'7", lean, and muscular.

Other Appearance: His true form has four smaller, completely pitch-black eyes forming a semicircle above his main pair of eyes (which appear larger, and also are fully black). He has rather fat looking chelicerae, that extend slightly past his chin. His arms, hands and back are covered with a reddish semi-exoskeleton covered with small hairs that match his all too often disheveled mane.

History:

Dee's Most Recent Journal Entry

3rd day of the Jumper's Moon, 2018

I stayed with my mother, and sisters when dad first left us. My siblings, and I were five years old at the time. He said he had to go make certain we all remained safe. I said I hated him, and that I hoped he never came back. I was lying to us both, and lucky for me he knew it.

Mom was a traditionalist. Superstitious, and distrustful of other species. She didn't hate humans per se, but she wouldn't have understood how to be friendly with them either. I guess after a few thousand years you get set in your ways. I learned a lot from her though. She taught us all the old lore she knew. She taught us how to survive. And she encouraged my sisters to look after me, the way a human parent might encourage their male spawn to look after their female siblings.

Then when we were almost 14, dad showed up again. He asked us if we wanted to come live among the humans with him since it was almost time for us to go out, and lead our own lives, anyway. Mom encouraged us. She said she never got this chance, and with the world changing these days, it could aid our survival. Circe, and I went. Mara, and Vesta stayed behind.

And for the rest of our legally underage lives, Circe, and I lived with our dad, Thea, his human wife, and Abigail, her daughter from a previous marriage. We both found the humans completely weird at first. And hiding what we were was just Exhausting. But we got used to it all within the first year and a half. Even Dad never shared his true nature with them. And as far as they knew, he worked for a government contracted security firm.

Dad told us that this is how vampires, and several other species live, and thrive. And that He learned about it as a Guardian. And that being a Guardian is how he met mom. We got some crazy stories when Thea and Abigail weren't around. I thought it was cool. But Circe fell in love with the idea. Our girls always love to be where the action is, I guess.

She was training in Nowhere, studying to be a Guardian, when dad disappeared for real. I think she got somebody who was training her at the Gringore Auxiliaries to give up some sensitive information, because she stopped freaking out disturbingly quickly. Like someone had just hit a switch. Bam! Calm and deadly mode: on.

I was coming down there to get her for a trip to see mom, and find out if she knew anything about it when I got a call from her. She told me mom couldn't help us, but she had a lead. But she said I had to stay in town with Thea, and Abigail to make certain they remained safe while she was gone. I said I loved her, and that I hoped she came back with him soon. I wasn't lying this time, and luckily for us both, she knew it.

Family/Relationships:
Arete: Mother. Lives in isolation in the woods of Pennsylvania.
Tadros Calazans: Father. Guardian. Current whereabouts unknown.
Thea Calazans: Human step mother. 41. Lives in Erehwon. Teaches at Cherry Crest Elementary School.
Abigail Calazans: Human step sister. 15. Student at Erehwon High School.
Circe Calazans: Sister. 25. Former Guardian Auxiliary. Currently on a personal quest to find her missing father.
Mara: Sister. 25. Curremt whereabouts unknown.
Vesta: Sister. 25. Current whereabouts unknown.

Other/Extra:

Theme Song

The Old Calender

Arete taught her children the Old Arachne Calender of this realm. It comes from an ancient tradition that seems to originate in the Middle East and Mediterranean and correspond roughly to the zodiacal "months".

Aries is The Lover's Moon
Taurus is The Weaver's Moon
Gemini is The Jumper's Moon
Cancer is The Trickster's Moon
Leo is The Climber's Moon
Virgo is The Dancer's Moon
Libra is The Alchemist's Moon
Scorpio is The Flyer's Moon
Sagittarius is The Hatchlng's Moon
Capricorn is The Killer's Moon
Aquarius is The Burrower's Moon
Pisces is The Mimic's Moon

Welcome to Nowhere

@Emma understood!

Oh, and would you look at this! I found this lovely CS just sitting here:

Dee

Appearance:

Full Name: Dimitri Calazans

Nicknames/Alias/AKA: Dee

Age: 25

Gender: Male

DOB: Hatched beneath the Burrower's Moon (Aquarius), 1993

Occupation: In Between Jobs

Race: Arachne

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Blue

Height and Build: Five feet tall, lean, and muscular.

Other Appearance: His true form has four smaller, completely pitch-black eyes forming a semicircle above his main pair of eyes (which appear larger, and also are fully black). He has very large chelicerae, that extend down to his chest. He is covered with a reddish psuedo-exoskeleton covered with small dark hairs. And he has a small, tail-like abdomen hanging down behind his legs, as well as two extra pairs of arms (features which he keeps hidden from those who can see through glamours by often wearing a long coat).

(Note to GM: I thought that a full exoskeleton brought up to humanoid scale would be far too OP. I hope that the liberties I have taken with his true form are acceptable. If not, just let me know and I will change it. But I want you to know that I have no intentions of trying to exploit the multiple pairs of arms thing, it just seemed too appropriate to the race for me to exclude it. Also, the eye pattern, reddish coloring, and large chelicerae are based on the Dysderidae family of spiders.)

History:

Dee's Most Recent Journal Entry

3rd day of the Jumper's Moon, 2018

I stayed with my mother, and sisters when dad first left us. My siblings and I were five years old at the time. He said he had to go make certain we all remained safe. I said I hated him, and that I hoped he never came back. I was lying to us both, and lucky for me he knew it.

Mom was a traditionalist. Superstitious, and distrustful of other species. She didn't hate humans per se, but she wouldn't have understood how to be friendly with them either. I guess after a few thousand years you get set in your ways. I learned a lot from her though. She taught us all the old lore she knew. She taught us how to survive. And she encouraged my sister's to look after me, the way a human parent might encourage their male spawn to look after their female siblings.

Then when we were almost 14, dad showed up again. He asked us if we wanted to come live among the humans with him since it was almost time for us to go out, and lead our own lives, anyway. Mom encouraged us. She said she never got this chance, and with the world changing these days, it could aid our survival. Circe, and I went. Mara, and Vesta stayed behind.

And for the rest of our legally underage lives, Circe, and I lived with our dad, Thea, his human wife, and Abigail, her daughter from a previous marriage. We both found the humans completely weird at first. And hiding what we were was just Exhausting. But we got used to it all within the first year and a half. Even Dad never shared his true nature with them. And as far as they knew, he worked for a government contracted security firm.

Dad told us that this is how vampires, and several other species live, and thrive. And that He learned about it as a Guardian. And that being a Guardian is how he met mom. We got some crazy stories when Thea and Abigail weren't around. I thought it was cool. But Circe fell in love with the idea. Our girls always love to be where the action is, I guess.

She was training in Nowhere, studying to be a Guardian, when dad disappeared for real. I think she got somebody who was training her at the Gringore Auxiliaries to give up some sensitive information, because she stopped freaking out disturbingly quickly. Like someone had just hit a switch. Bam! Calm and deadly mode: on.

I was coming down there to get her for a trip to see mom, and find out if she knew anything about it when I got a call from her. She told me mom couldn't help us, but she had a lead. But she said I had to stay in town with Thea, and Abigail to make certain they remained safe while she was gone. I said I loved her, and that I hoped she came back with him soon. I wasn't lying this time, and luckily for us both, she knew it.

Family/Relationships:
Arete: Mother. Lives in isolation in the woods of Pennsylvania.
Tadros Calazans: Father. Guardian. Current whereabouts unknown.
Thea Calazans: Human step mother. 41. Lives in Erehwon. Teaches at Cherry Crest Elementary School.
Abigail Calazans: Human step sister. 15. Student at Erehwon High School.
Circe Calazans: Sister. 25. Former Guardian Auxiliary. Currently on a personal quest to find her missing father.
Mara: Sister. 25. Curremt whereabouts unknown.
Vesta: Sister. 25. Current whereabouts unknown.

Other/Extra:

Theme Song

Welcome to Nowhere

This looks extremely fun. I think I am going to make a cs for an Arachne character.