Player nickname: Chloe Player LJ:swevene Way to contact you: Email: cfraese at gmail dot com AIM: oraclevsreality Other:swevene Are you at least 15?: Y Current Characters: Randolph Lyall/cravats
Character: Georgia Mason Fandom: The Newsflesh Trilogy Character Notes: History: -Born in 2017, three years after the event known as the Rising began, when an untested cure for the common cold was released into the atmosphere and mingled with a manmade cancer cure producing the virus known as Kellis-Amberlee, which promptly started raising the dead. Every single mammal that weighs forty pounds or more is infected with the dormant form of the virus, which activates at death or on contact with the live form of the virus, reanimating the dead or taking over the body of the living and turning them into a shambling zombie.
-Orphaned during the Rising and adopted by the well-known Mason family along with Shaun, a boy of approximately same age though unrelated. They were raised as siblings, though their parents used them more as mascots
-Began blogging professionally at the age of eighteen, classifying herself as a ‘Newsie’, a blogger devoted to reporting the news as untarnished by opinion as possible. There are several blogger classifications- Irwin (journalists who go out and poke zombies for fun), Stewart (journalists who provide their opinions flavoured with facts), Fictionals (bloggers who primarily write stories or poetry), and Aunties (bloggers who post about crafts, cooking, parenting, etc.). Her brother Shaun is an Irwin, as is her mother.
-Currently she and her brother are members of the San Francisco-based blogging site Bridge Supporters, though they've entered a bid to follow the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Peter Ryman as his official bloggers
Personality: Georgia prides herself on being a hardnosed, take-no-prisoners journalist. Her role models include people like Harlan Ellison, Edward R. Murrow, and Walter Cronkite. She values truth above all else, except maybe her brother. As a Newsie, she is always interested in a possible story and won’t let much stop her from following a lead.
As devoted to truth and free journalism as she is, however, she has consideration for the feelings of those involved in her stories-- as she says, she got a dose of journalistic ethics along with her asshole pills when they handed them out to reporters. When she takes up the job of blogging Peter Ryman's presidential campaign with her brother and their friend Buffy, she agrees to keep Ryman's wife Emily out of the campaign for her and their children's safety in spite of Emily's value to the story.
She isn't afraid of making people angry. She can be sarcastic and cynical, even with those who are technically above her in station, and she has no issues with threatening people with a journalistic expose if they try to block her in a way that she sees as unjust. She frequently comes off as prickly, and she doesn't attempt to be any other way.
Georgia is also cautious, a byproduct of living in a world where not only do the dead rise up, but anyone could become a zombie-- just add live virus. Or death-- everyone is infected by the virus, it simply doesn't activate until death or contact with live virus from someone who has already converted. She won't do anything particularly stupid in search for a story, unlike her brother (or so she feels). However, when a story is important enough, she's willing to risk her life for it. She also hates letting anyone see her weaknesses.
Speaking of her brother, Shaun is the most important thing in Georgia's life, although his calling as a zombie-poking Irwin means she believes she'll have to bury him someday. She also thinks that when that someday comes, she won't be far behind him. They have always been together, although they're not blood relatives, both of them adopted and although they're close enough in age to call each other twins, they're not. Their intimacy raises eyebrows-- they are willing and even prefer to sleep in the same room, or adjoining rooms- it comes out in the second book that they are, in fact, in a sexual relationship, though Georgia’s narration of the first book never reveals it. They provide a balance for each other, with Georgia's snarkiness, drive, and passion for truth balancing out Shaun's more laidback demeanour and talent for showmanship.
Other: Georgia has Retinal KA, a condition where live Kellis-Amberlee virus has settled in her eyes. This causes extreme light sensitivity because her pupils are constantly dilated, meaning she always wears sunglasses. However, it also grants her extreme good low-light vision and means she never has to blink, thanks to the virus producing a film over her eyes. She also can’t cry. Additional Links:
First Person Journal Entry: We sent in our application to the Ryman campaign today. It feels like it’s been a long time since we heard about the blogger position, but I know it hasn’t- Buffy still looks like she’s been hit by a Mason-shaped tornado. We had to push her pretty hard to get her through all the licensing hoops, but she’s now a class A-15 blogger. Not that she’ll ever use it if she can help it.
It’ll be worth it if we get the position, and I think we have a pretty good chance. We have a solid portfolio and decent ratings for a team of beta bloggers on our side- Shaun and Buffy bring in the viewers and I bring in the facts. It’s a team that works. It probably doesn’t hurt that we’ve got the Mason Name, too, but I’d like to think that we’re not riding on Mom and Dad’s coat tails.
If we get this, we can make the jump from Bridge Supporters to our own site. That’s counting my chickens before they’re hatched, though. We need to get the position first.
Wish us luck.
Third Person: Georgia popped the lid on her can of coke and turned her chair around, facing the soft glow of her computer monitors. She had a lot of work to get done tonight- two articles that still needed editing and another one to write because it was coming up on deadline. For a beta blogger, consistency and output was important- if people couldn’t count on new content from you, they weren’t going to visit your page.
Writer’s block was always frustrating. She’d been fortunate enough not to suffer from it- most people would say she had too much to say, rather than too little, which suited her just fine and everyone else a lot less. Fortunately, she wasn’t in the habit of suiting other people. She could hear the rapid-fire tapping of keys from the next room over- Shaun was notoriously hard on keyboards. He had to replace his twice as often as Georgia did. It was soothing and frustrating at the same time. The click of keys told her he was probably doing something useful for once, which was nice, but if he was busy, she wasn’t going to go interrupt him and procrastinate a little longer on what she needed to get done.
She sighed and opened up the first document. Time to get this show on the road.
Georgia Mason | Newsflesh | Unreserved
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Email: cfraese at gmail dot com
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Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: Randolph Lyall/
Character: Georgia Mason
Fandom: The Newsflesh Trilogy
Character Notes:
History: -Born in 2017, three years after the event known as the Rising began, when an untested cure for the common cold was released into the atmosphere and mingled with a manmade cancer cure producing the virus known as Kellis-Amberlee, which promptly started raising the dead. Every single mammal that weighs forty pounds or more is infected with the dormant form of the virus, which activates at death or on contact with the live form of the virus, reanimating the dead or taking over the body of the living and turning them into a shambling zombie.
-Orphaned during the Rising and adopted by the well-known Mason family along with Shaun, a boy of approximately same age though unrelated. They were raised as siblings, though their parents used them more as mascots
-Began blogging professionally at the age of eighteen, classifying herself as a ‘Newsie’, a blogger devoted to reporting the news as untarnished by opinion as possible. There are several blogger classifications- Irwin (journalists who go out and poke zombies for fun), Stewart (journalists who provide their opinions flavoured with facts), Fictionals (bloggers who primarily write stories or poetry), and Aunties (bloggers who post about crafts, cooking, parenting, etc.). Her brother Shaun is an Irwin, as is her mother.
-Currently she and her brother are members of the San Francisco-based blogging site Bridge Supporters, though they've entered a bid to follow the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Peter Ryman as his official bloggers
Personality: Georgia prides herself on being a hardnosed, take-no-prisoners journalist. Her role models include people like Harlan Ellison, Edward R. Murrow, and Walter Cronkite. She values truth above all else, except maybe her brother. As a Newsie, she is always interested in a possible story and won’t let much stop her from following a lead.
As devoted to truth and free journalism as she is, however, she has consideration for the feelings of those involved in her stories-- as she says, she got a dose of journalistic ethics along with her asshole pills when they handed them out to reporters. When she takes up the job of blogging Peter Ryman's presidential campaign with her brother and their friend Buffy, she agrees to keep Ryman's wife Emily out of the campaign for her and their children's safety in spite of Emily's value to the story.
She isn't afraid of making people angry. She can be sarcastic and cynical, even with those who are technically above her in station, and she has no issues with threatening people with a journalistic expose if they try to block her in a way that she sees as unjust. She frequently comes off as prickly, and she doesn't attempt to be any other way.
Georgia is also cautious, a byproduct of living in a world where not only do the dead rise up, but anyone could become a zombie-- just add live virus. Or death-- everyone is infected by the virus, it simply doesn't activate until death or contact with live virus from someone who has already converted. She won't do anything particularly stupid in search for a story, unlike her brother (or so she feels). However, when a story is important enough, she's willing to risk her life for it. She also hates letting anyone see her weaknesses.
Speaking of her brother, Shaun is the most important thing in Georgia's life, although his calling as a zombie-poking Irwin means she believes she'll have to bury him someday. She also thinks that when that someday comes, she won't be far behind him. They have always been together, although they're not blood relatives, both of them adopted and although they're close enough in age to call each other twins, they're not. Their intimacy raises eyebrows-- they are willing and even prefer to sleep in the same room, or adjoining rooms- it comes out in the second book that they are, in fact, in a sexual relationship, though Georgia’s narration of the first book never reveals it. They provide a balance for each other, with Georgia's snarkiness, drive, and passion for truth balancing out Shaun's more laidback demeanour and talent for showmanship.
Other: Georgia has Retinal KA, a condition where live Kellis-Amberlee virus has settled in her eyes. This causes extreme light sensitivity because her pupils are constantly dilated, meaning she always wears sunglasses. However, it also grants her extreme good low-light vision and means she never has to blink, thanks to the virus producing a film over her eyes. She also can’t cry.
Additional Links:
First Person Journal Entry: We sent in our application to the Ryman campaign today. It feels like it’s been a long time since we heard about the blogger position, but I know it hasn’t- Buffy still looks like she’s been hit by a Mason-shaped tornado. We had to push her pretty hard to get her through all the licensing hoops, but she’s now a class A-15 blogger. Not that she’ll ever use it if she can help it.
It’ll be worth it if we get the position, and I think we have a pretty good chance. We have a solid portfolio and decent ratings for a team of beta bloggers on our side- Shaun and Buffy bring in the viewers and I bring in the facts. It’s a team that works. It probably doesn’t hurt that we’ve got the Mason Name, too, but I’d like to think that we’re not riding on Mom and Dad’s coat tails.
If we get this, we can make the jump from Bridge Supporters to our own site. That’s counting my chickens before they’re hatched, though. We need to get the position first.
Wish us luck.
Third Person: Georgia popped the lid on her can of coke and turned her chair around, facing the soft glow of her computer monitors. She had a lot of work to get done tonight- two articles that still needed editing and another one to write because it was coming up on deadline. For a beta blogger, consistency and output was important- if people couldn’t count on new content from you, they weren’t going to visit your page.
Writer’s block was always frustrating. She’d been fortunate enough not to suffer from it- most people would say she had too much to say, rather than too little, which suited her just fine and everyone else a lot less. Fortunately, she wasn’t in the habit of suiting other people.
She could hear the rapid-fire tapping of keys from the next room over- Shaun was notoriously hard on keyboards. He had to replace his twice as often as Georgia did. It was soothing and frustrating at the same time. The click of keys told her he was probably doing something useful for once, which was nice, but if he was busy, she wasn’t going to go interrupt him and procrastinate a little longer on what she needed to get done.
She sighed and opened up the first document. Time to get this show on the road.