Brainstorming for Umbridgeverse!

[electrocynic]

Who wants to storm some brains? You guys? YOU GUYS!

This is where you can all throw things out there in order to set up a past for your characters in this wild, new frontier.

A few admin positions are set (Peter and Ender Wiggin are part of the organising committee of the resistance, Umbridge with the... well, with Umbridge, Anakin Skywalker is dead, Bo is one of her main leather-clad henchwomen, Deadpool is a slightly less leather-clad henchwoman... Zoe Winchester's in detention...) and there are Umbridge's rules (no co-ed rooms, no public affection, enforced personal space of four inches (NO TOUCHING), random dorm inspections, and there's a curfew) as well as an official Umbridge radio channel (bringing you daily motivational messages as well as information) and an underground paper.

Remember: Magic needs to be kept on the down low unless you're a member of the Umbridge posse! Unsupervised magic is verboden, folks!

Now, get your OCD-laden storm of brains on.

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My Character is doing this!

[electrocynic]

For people to go 'I am intrigued and wish to subscribe to your newsletter'.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[wrongkindofsith]

Hokay, so Cara is sexily goon squading while sekritly working for the resistance instead, which means she will be getting her scary, scary Mord'Sith on.

After spending over half her life being very, very good at torturing people and bending them to her will for the sake of a crazed tyrant, including ferreting out traitors in the ranks, when she ended up in Fandom and realised that Richard had made even more of a terrible mistake by sending her away and she was facing the prospect of more of the same under Umbridge, she pretty much went 'fuck that noise' and decided to use her mad skills to do the exact opposite.

So basically, she goes around making sure the plebs are properly intimidated, while in actualfax running interference and doing her best to cover for slip ups and people who don't know when to choose their battles and keep their freaking heads down. If someone manages to get themselves caught doing un-Umbridgely things, she can "teach them the error of their ways" or "discover they know nothing useful" by administering a interrogation/beating that'll leave them impressively bruised, battered and bloody, but actually far less painful than it looks like.

She's keeping mum about a) the fact she can capture magic that's cast against her and use it on it's owner in order to have an ace if she ever needs to exit stage left in a hurry (I'm open to playing with that) and b) that she can revive the recently deceased(within plot dictated limits) with the Breath of Life, you know, in case anyone needs to have faked their death for any reason.

And she has absolutely no qualms about killing people, so if anyone wants their loyalists character to suffer/have suffered an unfortunate "accident" because they got too close to the truth, she can do that.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[trigons_child]

An Anakin-less Raven is a sad sad thing. She never learned to shield herself and control her powers better, so between being overwhelmed by the emotions around her and her father constantly whispering in her ear, she went stark raving mad. (She's still struggling for control so she's been Imperio'd to keep her in line.) Essentially she's addicted to emotions and loves to screw with people with her powers so she can nom on their feelings. Mmmmmm.

Anyone want to be past/current victims? :)

Re: My Character is doing this!

[wannabehunter]

A student back when Umbridge was just a temporary substitute, Jo can remember the good, old days when Zoe was still principal and the only thing you really had to worry about was gremlin bites.

She's been in the underground for as long as there's been an underground and dreams of they day they finally smash those freaky kitten plates.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[bitten_notshy]

Jack acted as a double-agent for the resistance when he was a student, and was good enough at it not to get killed. After he graduated, he did the sensible thing and went home immediately. Viva la revolucion, and all, but he also wanted to live to fight another day.

Timelines being what they are, he still got bitten by a werewolf 18 months or so after graduation. He back came to the island in the desperate hope someone would have a cure. He forgot to calculate for a time difference between his world and Fandom, arrived during the full moon ... and was promptly snapped up and put in detention. He's relatively sane and together for a detainee -- he's been through worse -- but that may not last long.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[not_a_whiner]

Kaidan... got to Fandom and immediately got his ass manipulated (and maybe Imperio'd, but he doesn't remember that). He's on one of Umbridge's goon squads and does regular patrols for, say, people trying to flee the island.

Funnily enough, time with Umbridge has not been kind to his survivor's guilt and other assorted issues in the wake of Shepard's death, and he hasn't reported back to the Alliance in weeks.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Matt and Jack are going to be part of the resistance. Matt's powers will be a secret to the public at large but not to the members of resistance.

For Bruce... Well I think he's going to have to be in detention with some sort of spell that keeps him either ridiculously cheerful or mellow so he can't transform into the Hulk.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[endsthegame]

Two Wiggins for the price of one!

Ender and Peter both turned their ridiculous 100% intent focusing ability on busting not just themselves, but everyone else out of Umbridge's hold-- Ender saving Peter from Imperio'ing shortly into his stay here.

Neither of them have been able to reach their home dimension in years, which has done a fair bit to motivate Peter to turn his crazy-ass focus onto the resistance. They both do a fair bit in organizing and planning attacks and coordinating safehouses (so if you want a rationale for your character to have managed to go underground, feel free to call the guys in) and resources.

Peter doesn't care much about the lives of the loyalists. Ender's more discerning, and is about to start securing people he considers 'redeemable' in anticipation of a potential final push.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[fewer_explosions]

Liara arrived at Fandom and promptly ran into a rather menacing goon squad. She tried to take them out with biotics. They threw her in Detention.

She's been there since, awkwardly trying to make people feel better like the dork she is.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[hatesmoststuff.livejournal.com]

April was so not down with the authority thing, but the Resistance never appealed to her as a survival strategy, so she managed to stay pretty neutral for a while. Then someone tried Imperioing her, and because it didn't work -- April has some pretty crazy willpower -- she was suspected of hiding powers and got her ass thrown in detention.

Thing is, she's bored, but not really miserable there. She's thinking of starting a band.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy got caught using her powers to help someone in the Resistance. When the Resistance person was attacked, Cassidy threw up the strongest shield she could to allow their escape. The clash of power caused Cassidy to be knocked unconscious and when she woke up again, she was in the Detention facility.

(I am not against her having gotten a little hurt/beat up because of her actions. Cassidy is always the one I try to keep safe and not hurt. I think I want to change that up a little. :D)

Re: My Character is doing this!

[life_inshadow]

Tara was caught using her magic early on, and made to write "I will not do magic" on her arm with a magic quill. This happened enough that she's got some impressive scarring on all four limbs.

It is widely assumed among loyalists she's been broken into loyalty herself. She hasn't, quite, but she's unstable and hanging on to her role in the resistance by a thread. She could really go either way if she was pushed hard enough.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

With Anakin dead, Rory's still a Gilmore and never a Skywalker. There's no Juliet and no New Baby Christopher, and while Rory did eventually sublimate her grief and rage into her studies and left for Yale, she -- per canon -- dropped out after about two years. Not for yacht-stealing, but because she couldn't just move on like everything was fine when this was going on. She came back to the island, got her ass handed to her physically (mmm, Cruciatus anyone?) and managed to escape. She now works with the resistance, with the hopes of avenging her boyfriend's death (cue dramatic music) and maybe eventually getting off the damn island again someday.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[demonbelthazor]

After Phoebe got tossed into detention, Bel switched to Team Loyalist, but not really. He's acting like he's fallen back on his toadying ways but he's really working for the Resistance.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie's been stuck in detention since the day she told Umbridge exactly what was running through her pink-tinted mind, verbatim, in front of a crowd. She laid out every secret she could reach for (though none of it was probably very shocking; Umbridge's motivations aren't exactly nuanced, from what I can tell) and Umbridge reacted per normal: by accusing her of lying and throwing her in detention.

She's been there for awhile. And without any outlet for her powers, Sookie's been trapped in her own mind and the echoes of everyone in there with her for a long time. She's lost real touch with reality, mostly spending her time in happier memories of days past.

Since her abilities work inside detention, please let me know if your detention-bound character would be open to Sookie casually reading your mind -- her shields are way broken, but I can always figure a work-around for her -- and/or whether you'd like to work with her abilities in any way. She'll be able to project images into people's brains, still, so she can literally help you go to your happy place to get through the days, etc. Naturally she can't communicate psychically with anyone outside detention, but within the walls, she's your go-to unstable telepath.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[suitably_heroic]

Atton's pretty new to Fandom, but he's been introduced to Imperio. Multiple times.

Problem is that it doesn't really stick.

I'm not sure where I'm going to go with him yet - he'll get out and get out into the world, but he's not about to stick his neck out for any resistance. At the same time, he's got no love for Umbridge either (even if the Imperio had stuck-- he's a deserter. It's just who he is.) and so he mostly wanders the island, occasionally helping out the resistance, mostly just trying to get the hell out of dodge...

Re: My Character is doing this!

[hasadestiny]

Poor Lex got himself Imperio'ed right out the gate, so his activities mostly involve swanking around in his badass coat and being a good little foot-soldier for Her Glorious Pinkness.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe just couldn't not push against Umbridge and her people -- just like when Umbridge was in Fandom originally, actually.

She kept having visions of things happening, revealing the emotions of people, and doing her best to keep throwing wrenches into the plans of Umbridge's people. and it finally got too much to deal with for Umbridge. Umbridge wanted to kill her, but at the last minute decided that keeping her alive and in Detention would be a really good way to get Bel to behave and keep him from killing her people.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

At first Naomi tried to play both sides while she was a student, with her allegiance having always been to the resistance.

She managed to keep up the double act until her junior year when she got caught. She was subsequently interrogated/tortured for information, which she managed not to give but before she could be imperioed into submission, she was able to escape underground to continue helping the movement.

Re: My Character is doing this!

[nottrivial]

Alec is Resistance, but in a super-serious, intensely detached from human connection sort of way that's been going on ever since his bestie got his ass Imperioed. He completely blames himself, in classic Alec fashion, and on top of that his parabatai connection means that he can actually feel that Jace is being mind-controlled, as a nice little reminder of what he perceives as his own fuck-up. Poor bb.

My Character is looking for ____

[electrocynic]

For people who need others to complete their plotty plotty plots. That plot.

Re: My Character is looking for ____

[not_tylerdurden]

Yeah, so Calvin being Calvin was pretty much uncontrollable, irrepressible etc, until Umbridge, or someone on her goon squad did the Worst. Possible. Thing. and cut up Hobbes into bitty plush tiger pieces. Which resulted in Calvin losing what little contact he had with reality and he's kinda crazy and broken.

Basically what I need is for someone in detention to have taken pity on the poor lad and have sewn Hobbes back together for him. Actual sewing skills not necessarily required.

My Character is dead!

[electrocynic]

This goes for past and present characters! Come up with a backstory, ladies and gents. Go to town on this!

Re: My Character is dead!

[wannabehunter]

Seely never learnt to stop poking the crazy on the radio and he got himself killed as an object lesson pretty damn quickly. It was showy, painful, and horrible. The squirrels poured one out for him after.

Zack Addy got himself Imperio'ed into lackeyship, until one day he managed to "accidentally" cause a lab explosion and take himself out. :(

In a case of fled, rather than dead, Ares bugged out soon after Umbridge took over, since the island wasn't fun anymore, and took anyone who wanted to go with pretty much just to spite her (plus he needed some spare hands to spruce up his temples).

Gwen Cooper came at roughly the same time she did in the real universe, joined the resistance, and in true Torchwood Three fashion was eventually killed an a tragic, heroic, and possibly worthless manner.

General Island Stuff!

[electrocynic]

For all that stuff about how Business X is now Business Y, and totally Resistance-friendly, etc etc.

Re: General Island Stuff!

[life_inshadow]

I was thinking that it seems like the Magic Box is now the kind of New Age shop you might find in any college town -- it's all about the zodiac, incense and tapestries, and very little about actual magic.

There are still some things with real power in the building, but they're both cloaked with magic and physically hidden. You have to be fairly powerful in the Resistance to even know they're there, let alone gain access.

That said, I'm open to other suggestions and/or tweaking this idea!

Spare Parts!

[electrocynic]

Ideas! Ideas for sale! Step right up for some piping hot ideas!

Re: Spare Parts!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Just spitballing here for Jamie:

In another well-known Marvel AU, Jamie was genetically altered and twisted to create the "Madri" which was a bunch of hatred-spouting religious madmen devoted to Apocalypse.

Thought it might be interesting to have a bunch of Umbridge worshipping duplicates with a mentally destroyed Jamie holed up in a certain tower somewhere.

Madri would be moddable of course.

OOC [Umbridge Brainstorm]

[electrocynic]

Re: OOC [Umbridge Brainstorm]

[trigons_child]

Question -- will Loyalists be allowed into detention to taunt the captives there? Someone has to bring them food and such after all. Or are they entirely cut off?