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I have a habit of making these posts GARGANTUAN, so in an effort to keep them short this time, I'll try to stick to bullet points, especially since I don't have anyone new this term. Woe.

Refer to the previous one if you'd rather have the The Size Of A Small Novel version.

Kaidan Alenko // Age 34 // Bisexual // Vancouverite // Mass Effect

Teacher. Roommate of bitten_notshy, awkward friend of allie_vamp.
Hails from five minutes into Mass Effect 2, right after Shepard gets blown out into space and allegedly dies, shortly after Kaidan's close friend Ashley gets killed on Virmire. Which happened because Shepard decided to save his life over Ashley's. There are... some lingering issues. Never mind the part where he had a slight crush on Ash and was starting to develop something for Shepard in the weeks after Ash's death.
Is a Space Marine who has gone through some gene therapy to make him stronger, faster and more durable; has extensive weapons training and a kind of gravity-manipulating power called biotics. He's also a tech expert, making him something of a triple-threat.
Is a veteran of the Eden Prime War and a Hero of the Battle of the Citadel.
Is currently a Lieutenant Commander. Will in the future climb up the ranks to Major, and be the second human being to reach the rank of Council Spectre, the highest position a special operative can achieve in his galaxy.
But right now he's been sidelined to Fandom by his bosses at the Systems Alliance, because he's one of a handful of people in the galaxy who knows an ancient race of synthetic cuttlefish-like aliens (Reapers) is waiting to invade the universe and kill everyone, the same way they've been doing for millenia. The Council thinks that idea is ridiculous, so everyone who claims to know about it is being shut up. Not that Kaidan's going to mention that much - he's a Company Man through and through. Even if he does think it's ridiculous and will be doing his own part to make sure people are at least prepared.
Is kind of awkward and stilted. Thinks a lot about his feelings, but doesn't always quite know how to put them into words. Is absolutely terrified of being considered 'a whiner'. Believes very strongly in his principles and can be considered a bit of a stick in the mud at times, though he keeps the attitude down a little at Fandom.
Has an Ukrainian last name, Brazilian features, born in Singapore and grew up in Canada. I love the Mass Effect universe.
Character development.

Nathan Dayspring Askani'son Summers // Age You Don't Wanna Know // You Gonna Ask Him? // Askani // Marvel

Townie.
Mayor of ol' Fandom Town! Who currently lives nearby on the mainland with mouthy_merc and young Janice Summers, the mutant child he stole from her parents during a crossover event that one time. Yep.
Also manages Wellspring Arms & Meditation Center, though he mostly just does the hiring these days. Wellspring only sells guns if you can prove you're really equipped to handle them, but will sell you non-firearms in a pinch.
Six-foot-sevenish, half-metal, scar over one eye and the other flashes when he talks... Cable's not someone you're going to easily forget once you've met him.
Came here after his previous island kasploded on him. So far has managed not to let the same thing happen to Fandom. So far. His track record isn't that great. And neither has his life been, really, but whose has?

Liara T'Soni // Age 45 // Omnisexual // Thessian // Mass Effect

Student. Friend of pulseof_life and genesishero, oft-confused by solarhippie.
An asari from the planet of Thessia, Liara has blue skin, no visible ears, and a cartilage crest instead of hair. Her species only has one sex, and is biologically equipped to have children with people of any species or gender - using their partner's neurosystem to randomize genes in what is otherwise basically a clone of the asari.
As a result, she only barely grasps the basics of human sexual politics. Sorry, Karolina.
Is a bookish nerd with a great love of archaeology in particular, and no real knack for talking to people. She does her best, and she's learning how to communicate with humans on a human level, but it's slow going and awkward, and sometimes she gets exasperated by having to try all the time. Most of the time, she just gets flustered.
Don't let the shy and demure thing fool you, though. At her age she's already a dangerous biotic, and if you hit the wrong buttons, she'll happily shed the shyness for just long enough to break several of your bones.
Is a pureblood asari - which is considered kind of a no-no in asari culture, and she already has her fair share of experience in the art of 'being shunned by her peers'.
Doesn't actually have eyebrows. Those are just birthmarks. No, seriously.
Isn't from Kaidan's timeline (her Shepard is female, his is male) but will, in a little over fifty years, join her Shepard during the Eden Prime War, bring her Shepard back from the dead, and then go on to become the most powerful information broker in the galaxy. "Give me five minutes and I can start a war." Beware the nice ones indeed...
Character development.

Atton Rand // Age 21 17 // Straight // Alderaanian // Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Student; shares a room with craftyladyparts, keeps up a sometimes-tense snarky friendship with notconflicted, forms a third of the Insane Idiot Boys of Fandom brigade with makemyownway and myownface.
A former Republic Army soldier turned Sith assassin-slash-torturer turned general layabout, Atton describes himself as being primarily a deserter. He's currently in hiding from the Sith, and pretending to be a seventeen-year-old high school student at Fandom seemed like a strategic decision.
Sia and Sparkle know about the not-seventeen and former-Republic-Army part. Nobody knows about the former Sith part. Atton intends to keep it that way.
Doesn't drink nearly as much as he pretends he does. Actually, a great deal of Atton's womanizing-hard-drinking-teenage-idiot act is faked in order to cover up his backstory and the fact that he's actually incredibly cunning, observant and competent, but also...
... to keep empaths and telepaths out of his head. He's Force-sensitive and trained for it. Telepaths will either not notice anything's up (if they're not really paying attention to his thoughts), find that he's playing cards in his head, counting odd noises in the room, etcetera (if they make an effort), or make him notice and piss him off considerably (if they push hard enough). Like so. One of the practical results is that he can lie his ass off, even to Jedi. For the empaths, he puts up a smokescreen of lust and anger and other basic emotions, making sure they don't pick up on the subtleties. He'd rather have them think he's staring at their tits than have them realize he's lying his ass off while he's doing so.
Atton's pretty much as close to True Neutral as you're going to get at this point in his life - to the point where he's the only character in the game who starts off with his alignment meter firmly in the middle. Considering the Force-sensitive part, that means he walks a wobbly path between the Dark Side and the Light Side. In Fandom's environment, he mostly tilts towards the Light part (though there's a reason he shares a last name with Ayn Rand), but that doesn't mean he can't occasionally slip into Ax Crazy territory... (Sorry, Sparkle's cat.)
Hopefully it'll never get this bad at Fandom.
In combat, he's an excellent shot, and a Determinator in ways that I frankly want to blame on the Force sensitive part. The more wounded he is, the better he becomes at ~~making saving throws~~ escaping further damage, and he can get right back up to fight after being nigh-lethally wounded, as long as there's still even a hint of hope left.
He hates Jedi for many reasons, including their unwillingness to step in during the Mandalorian Wars... and the fact that he's Force-sensitive himself, something he really doesn't want to address. Sadly for him, he's also one of the Lost Jedi and destined to become one of the Disciples of the Jedi Exile, the group of misfits and fuck-ups that would go on to rebuild the Jedi Order. Yeah, Fandom Jedi, you owe this guy.
TL;dr: quoth Atton, "When I open my mouth, I'm usually lying anyway."

Peter Wiggin // Age 16 // Straight // North Carolinan // Ender's Game

Student. Evil overlord of dollpocalypse, eye-roller-at regretiz4suckas, eye-roll-receiver of whenshewasnice, brother of endsthegame and a_demosthenes.
When Peter was about twelve years old, he decided the world would be better off if he conquered it. So he dragged his sister into a years-long blogging campaign that gathered him significant power in terms of having his advice taken seriously and collecting a great deal of important informants. Under the pseudonym of Locke, he manipulated world events for some time.
And then he accidentally pissed off this psychopathic child genius called Achilles Flandres after sabotaging Achilles' plan to kidnap and use the world's greatest child geniuses to take over the planet. He's out of the closet as Locke now, and functioning as a political consultant to the government of Haiti while he rebuilds his network and continues to pull strings.
From his dorm room on Fandom, yes, because he's pissed off enough people that there's a real risk of him being assassinated. At sixteen.
As Locke, he's a benevolent, peace-seeking diplomat who champions human rights and always cautions towards compromise. As Peter, he's a borderline sociopath who really doesn't care about your feelings unless they directly affect his. He'll become more like Locke over time, but wow, he so isn't there yet.
His own brand of the Wiggin Family Intelligence gives him a real knack for finding out what it is people hate and fear most, and playing off that to get what he wants. Beware if he decides he wants something from you.
Second-generation Polish immigrant. Technically his last name is Wieczorek, but his dad changed it. His dad's Catholic, his mom's Mormon, but due to the climate they've had to hide it and caused a lot of emotional trauma in their kids in the process, because Card has Issues and will retcon his own books depending on how he feels about secularism that year.
Result: Has significant Issues with his siblings - his sister ran away from him, tired of him manipulating her all the time, and went off to join his much more compassionate brother. Said brother was always compared favorably to Peter-- and wound up saving the world, earning the love of billions. Yeah, Peter's resentful. Also has significant issues with his parents as a result, though they're getting less bad now that everything's out in the open about him.
Because Card loves his Dramatic Irony, Peter's going to go down in history as the greatest leader humankind has ever known, who promoted the ideals of peace and unity and set an undeniable example about the human ability to live in harmony... whereas his brother is going down in history as the worst monster that's ever lived.
Yeah.

Len // Age 26 // Bisexual eternal bachelorette // Dutcher than God // Real Life

In my Fandom life, I'm part of your administration. In my real life, I'm a broadcast journalism major and gaming journalist.
And a beer enthusiast. Mmm, beer.
I play a metric TONNE of video games, and it's only getting worse. Beware. I imagine I'll have an all-video-game-character cast list by 2014...
You can contact me at ScaryWlsh or ShootingUnicorns on AIM. If I'm slow in responding to you, I'm probably playing a metric tonne of video games and alt-tabbing back and forth, sorry!
If you'd rather take the slow path, you can mail me at prince.of.bitca@gmail.com!
Since I live in the CET timezone (EST+6) you can basically rely on me to always be up for SP, so don't be afraid to ping me even if it's the middle of the night or the post has been up for hours - I'll pick it up in the morning.
I also play Ender (endsthegame), Mitchell (chose_humanity), Kerrigan (on_her_korhal) and Arthur (bitch_prince) off in alumni-land. Arthur's leaving the game whenever I can finally get off my ass to write up his final plot. Kerrigan's waiting on more canon (goddammit, Blizzard, release Heart of the Swarm already so I can finally get a move on. You've been sitting on this game for years). Mitchell makes the odd cameo IG and bangs Bo, because he's awesome like that. And Ender... well, Ender has his own big plot going on off in alumni-land with momslilassassin. He'll be back in contact sometime next month.
If you want to read more about them, I refer you back up to the Gargantuan Post of Doom.
And that's it. Now have a picture.