<div align="center"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Joslyn's Characters</strong></span></span></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Julie Tanaka: Grigori Pilot Trainee</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Misc Comments</strong>: I enjoy a little bit of everything—intrigue, action, exploring interpersonal relationships among the characters, etc. Romance is also good—Julie is a lesbian though she has no sexual experience yet<br/><br/><hr/><strong>FILE NUMBER</strong>: <br/><strong>CLASSIFICATION</strong>: Grigori Pilot Trainee<br/><strong>DEPARTMENT</strong>: Administration, the Grigori Program<br/><strong>WAVE DESIGNATION</strong>: Third Wave<br/><strong>CALL SIGN</strong>: Wallflower<br/><br/><strong>NAME</strong>: Julie Tanaka<br/><strong>DOB</strong>: 15 December 2080<br/><strong>BLOOD TYPE</strong>: A positive<br/><strong>HEIGHT</strong>: 158 cm<br/><strong>WEIGHT</strong>: 51 kg<br/><strong>EYE COLOR</strong>: Brown<br/><strong>HAIR COLOR</strong>: Brunette<br/><strong>RACIAL ORIGIN</strong>: Asian<br/><strong>ETHNICITY</strong>: Japanese American<br/><strong>CITIZENSHIP</strong>: North American Union<br/><strong>LANGUAGE FLUENCY</strong>: English<br/><br/><strong>BACKGROUND</strong>: Julie was born in one of the refugee camps on the outskirts of Boston. She has few memories of her parents, who died when she was very young. Along with her younger sister Michelle, Julie scraped by under the care of various members of the community. She was a bright and inquisitive girl who tried to learn as much as she could from the adults around her. In 2091 Julie was administered a test by the NAU Department of Experimental Technologies (DET), along with many other refugee children in the Boston area. She achieved an abnormally high score for someone in her age group who had no formal education. Shortly after the testing DET attempted to track her down, but unfortunately before they were able to do so the Incursion of ’91 began. During this event the North American Union lost control of much of eastern Massachusetts due to a massive swarm of demon spawn. Because no full demons were involved, ADAMS declined to intervene. Supplies and troops airlifted into Boston allowed the city to hold, and after sixteen days major combat operations were declared successful.<br/><br/>At the start of the Incursion, Julie was pinned underneath some rubble within a ruined building. She was often near complete panic, but Michelle talked to her constantly to calm her. Once a day for nearly two weeks her sister left in search for food and water. Julie asked her to just worry about herself, but this plea fell on deaf ears. Michelle left on the thirteenth day and did not return—she was killed by one of the demon spawn, though her body was never found.<br/><br/>In the aftermath Julie was claimed by DET and placed in one of their boarding schools. After some initial difficulty due to the psychological trauma she had suffered, her progress was phenomenal—by age fifteen all the gaps in her education had been filled, and she was even skipped ahead a year. At age sixteen she was ordered by DET to test for synch and scored a nineteen percent, causing her to be immediately drafted as a Grigori Pilot Trainee.<br/><br/><strong>TRAINING AND PILOTING HISTORY</strong>: In her two years with the program, Julie has proven to be a promising candidate with remarkably consistent results—save the incident listed below under Synch History. She has a particular aptitude for bladed TT weapons, which she can use in both offensive and defensive styles.<br/><br/><strong>PILOTING CLEARANCE</strong>: Julie has trained on both Unit 01-Samyaza and Unit 03-Sariel with promising results. She has not yet attempted synch with Unit 02-Penemue, but there are no definitive counter-indications.<br/><br/><strong>SYNCHRONIZATION HISTORY</strong>: Highest: 27% Lowest: 10% Average: 24%. A graph of her synch over time rises in an almost a straight line from 19% two years ago to 27% in her most recent test. The one exception was a score of 10% which occurred on 28/12/98. Her then psychologist Dr. Adams insisted that Julie stop using her recorder (see Pysch Notes below), which caused her extreme emotional distress and led to the anomalously low synch. Dr. Adams was immediately removed from Julie’s treatment and the problem has not recurred.<br/><br/><strong>FIDELITY HISTORY</strong>:<br/><br/><strong>PUBLIC RELATIONS INVOLVEMENT</strong>: Infrequent. Due to her cheerful disposition and photogenic qualities Julie has been told that she is useful for propaganda purposes, and she is usually cooperative. However, she prefers to spend all her free time away from pilot training helping in the Research department.<br/><br/><strong>PSYCHOLOGICAL NOTES</strong>: Despite her history Julie comes across as fairly affable, though due to fear of being hurt she normally holds the people around her at a distance. When faced with danger or tragedy she becomes cold and determined. At almost all times Julie has her “recorder” on her person—this is a three decades out-of-date comm unit she found during her childhood in the refugee camps. At least once a day she uses it to record a message to Michelle, which she later stores in her personal files. Most of these messages concern ordinary day-to-day events, though sometimes they are more personal.<br/><br/>Three of the four pysch experts who have worked extensively with the her insist that Michelle is a fiction Julie created to cope with the terror of this event—Julie finds this irritating but has ultimately decided she does not care what these people think. The messages she records are not truly meant for Michelle, as Julie considers the existence of an afterlife to be unlikely. The recordings are just a form of stress relief for her own benefit—her conversations with Michelle were the only thing that kept Julie sane during the Incursion.<br/><br/>The other issue of note is the Julie’s insistence on treating vengeful attitudes towards the demons critically. She feels that revenge is always a destructive impulse regardless of the context—she acknowledges that she resents demons, but insists she is only willing to destroy them because it is necessary to save lives. While she has embraced her role as a pilot, she also misses her training with DET, which she found more intellectually stimulating. Back then her life’s ambition was to discover a technology that would turn the war decisively in favor of humanity—she still hopes to play some small part helping R&amp;D in the future.</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Ann Tyler: Strategic Analyst</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Misc Comments</strong>: I admittedly don’t really have a clear vision how Ann should develop yet—maybe she will continue to adapt to her newfound stability and fight off her issues with depression, or maybe tragedy will strike in some fashion depending on what the GM may decide. Hopefully she will get some interesting role to play in the plot as it unfolds.<br/><br/><strong>FILE NUMBER</strong>: <br/><strong>CLASSIFICATION</strong>: Strategic Analyst<br/><strong>DEPARTMENT</strong>: Administration<br/><br/><strong>NAME</strong>: Annabelle "Ann" Tyler<br/><strong>DOB</strong>: February 2nd, 2057.<br/><strong>BLOOD TYPE</strong>: O positive<br/><strong>HEIGHT</strong>: 175 cm<br/><strong>WEIGHT</strong>: 66 kg<br/><strong>EYE COLOR</strong>: Blue<br/><strong>HAIR COLOR</strong>: Blond<br/><strong>RACE</strong>: White<br/><strong>ETHNICITY</strong>: American<br/><strong>CITIZENSHIP</strong>: North American Union<br/><strong>LANGUAGE FLUENCY</strong>: English, Spanish<br/><br/><strong>BACKGROUND</strong>: Ann is from Worcester, Massachusetts in the NAU. She is the youngest of five siblings in a working class family, and her parents (now retired) were both employed at a factory which constructs small arms for the NAU armed forces. Ann was an athletic and very tomboyish girl, reasonably bright but disinterested in academics. Her teenage obsession was to be a Grigori pilot, but her parents refused to allow her to test for synch. She was finally able to do so herself at age eighteen, but was rated at only four percent natural synch.<br/><br/>Given her lackluster grades and lack of financial resources, her only options were to go full-time at the factory—she had already been working there after school—or enlist in the army. To her parents’ dismay she chose the latter. Over the next sixteen years as an infantry soldier she fought the demon spawn and witnessed the horrors perpetrated by them first hand. The units she served in suffered heavy casualties. Ann began to struggle with depression and almost completely lost hope for humanity’s survival, but kept fighting out of anger and sheer stubbornness. By virtue of her valor, sharp tactical instincts, and the sheer luck of surviving for so long, she was eventually promoted all the way to platoon sergeant.<br/><br/>Ann’s last battle on the front lines was the Incursion of ’91 in her home state. Unbeknownst to both women, Ann was the soldier who dug the then ten year-old Julie Tanaka out from the rubble she was trapped under. However, Julie was just one of many malnourished and traumatized survivors Ann saw that day, and Julie does not remember much from the time after her sister disappeared.<br/><br/>The conflict preceding that rescue had been an unusually brutal one. Even Ann had to admit to herself she was burnt out, and she did not protest when the army psychologist she saw recommended that she be moved to a desk job. Fortunately she came to the attention of ADAMS, as there was a desire to find a strategic analyst who had extensive experience with small unit military tactics in order to better coordinate the Grigori with conventional forces.<br/><br/>Six years ago Ann met Samantha Johnston, the wealthy widow of slain Grigori pilot Andrew “Snifter” Johnston and mother of his three children. Ann and Samantha fell for each other and soon began dating. Not long after their second anniversary they were married.<br/><br/><strong>EMPLOYEE HISTORY</strong>: Ann has proven to be a hardworking and inventive member of the bridge crew. Not surprisingly she has sharp instincts for how to best utilize local union and ADAMS Defense Forces. She is often the first to know if a position is in danger of being overrun, or if a unit’s engagement style is too cautious. She also knows how to use these forces to lead the enemy into ambushes or away from soft targets. Her most noteworthy accomplishment to date was during the Battle of Anchorage, where she directed a mobile artillery company to harass the demon Vassago until it rashly broke away from the swarm it was leading to chase them down. This later lead to the demon being flanked and destroyed by Samyaza, with only half the artillery company lost—this was noteworthy considering that most conventional forces making contact with a demon are utterly annihilated.<br/><br/>Upon joining ADAMS Ann accepted a commission as an officer. She was recently promoted to the rank of captain, effectively filling the position formerly held by Major Collins.<br/><br/><strong>PSYCHOLOGICAL NOTES</strong>: <br/><br/>Ann is generally a serious-minded military professional, and very focused on her work. She is not above an occasional smart-ass remark, however. Back when she was in the infantry she could be a lot more crude and there was precious little feminine about her, but she has softened quite a bit since then. She even gone so far as the grow her hair long for the first time since she was a child, though at work she keeps it in a severe-looking bun. Other than a few lines around her eyes and gray hairs, Ann does not show her age much at all. Even at forty-one she is still very fit. She enjoys running and is successful as an amateur kickboxer. Beyond that, she spends most of her free-time with her spouse. <br/><br/>Over the course of her life Ann has had many of her views challenged. She once considered the refugees around Boston to be beneath consideration, but seeing how they suffered in the aftermath of the Incursion changed her mind. As a child she believed that the heroic Grigori pilots would save the world. Her rejection from the Program soured her considerably, and her military experiences left her convinced nothing could save the world and that the pilots had it easy. In her new position she has tried to push these feelings aside with some success, though she still struggles with them. She has never really felt it right to bring children into such a horrible world, but she now has three step-children and eleven nieces and nephews to worry about.<br/><br/>Ann does not care for the idle rich and considers them an unacceptable burden on society. She really did not wish to fall for Samantha, who outside of hosting charity dinners has never worked a day in her life. Like her late husband she is from old money (Andrew got his callsign from telling another pilot how he “best enjoyed a snifter of fine brandy to unwind”). But Samantha was very sweet, and clever, and of course very easy on the eyes. They have a playful relationship and tease each other a bit. Samantha is the only person who can get away with calling Ann “Annabelle,” and likewise being called “Sam” is something she will only tolerate from her spouse.<br/><br/>Ann has a close relationship with Samantha’s eight year-old twin girls Candice and Tiffany, who were still infants when their father died and consider her their parent as much as their birth mother. Things are more awkward with nineteen year-old Stephen, who resents her presence and the pressure she puts on him to apply himself in college instead of just coasting through like he has been.</div></div>