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Jul. 4th, 2012 04:48 pmPlayer Info:
Nickname: Sen
Age:28
Personal LJ/DW:n/a
Method of Contact:Either at notyourchambermaid @ plurk or character journal
Characters Played:n/a
Character Info:
Name:The Archive ("Ivy")
Age:13
Canon:The Dresden Files
Pull Point:After Harry Dresden contacts her in Changes
Background Info:
History:Whose history? There are two histories to be told here: one of the Archive and one of Ivy herself.
The Archive is a magical construct of untold powers. It's passed down mother to daughter, and when one Archive dies, the daughter receives the power and knowledge passed down for untold generations. While the Archive is powerful magically (Ivy is seen taking out several Red Court vampires around age 9 without even finding it any trouble), the biggest power the Archive has is knowledge. She has a perfect knowledge of anything ever written down. This knowledge and magical power puts any Archive, a human with this construct passed down inside of her, on equal footing with any of the strongest magical beings on this planet.
But where does Ivy fit in? Her story as the Archive is different. Usually the Archive is passed down from an old woman to an adult woman, and the power of life and experiences keeps the new Archive from going insane. However, Ivy's grandmother lost her life early to a car accident, and her mother gained the power of the Archive at a too young age, barely in her twenties. She resented her grandmother for it, and when her daughter was born, resented her daughter for the full life she would live before she would be forced to take the power of thr Archive. So her mother decided not to live this life anymore and killed herself, passing the power on to a baby girl who grew up knowing exactly what her mother was thinking before she died.
Ivy's story is a lonely one starting here. She grew up not able to take part in normal childish things as she had the destiny of the Archive to live. Her bodyguard, Kincaid, was kind enough to her, but would kill anyone threatening her at a moment's notice. No friends, no family... just her and Kincaid. That is, until one wizard named Harry Dresden had a duel with a Red Court vampire to settle the war between the wizards and vampires and she was called upon to be an impartial judge. Dresden treated her with kindness, like she was just any little girl, and in fact gave her a nickname. "Ivy," from the last part of her title. Dresden, in fact, treated her like a friend in Death Masks.
Ivy is next seen in Small Favor. Dresden required a neutral party to oversee a meeting between him and a group of fallen angels named the Denarians. He chose the Archive, claiming a working relationship with the girl. She's about twelve in this book, and takes the offer gladly. They meet the Denarians in an aquarium, where the fallen angels naturally turn on them, lock the place down magically, and manage to knock Ivy out and steal her away. While they would have lost her until the magical field they used fell due to the amount of power needed to sustain it, they used the biggest things of Ivy against her to reveal her position: her feelings for both her bodyguard Kincaid, her only family, as well as for Harry Dresden, her only friend. Even then, even with most of her magical power locked away from her, she managed to keep the Denarians at bay. To which the Denarians proceeded to play dirty and use gas to knock the tiny child out. While in their care, they tortured her, tried to break her will and make her desperate to make it end. They wanted her to accept a fallen angel into her mind and become one of them. They wanted the magical ability and the limitless knowledge of the Archive for their own.
So of course Harry Dresden ruined that party and rescued her.
She's only seen briefly in Changes. Dresden needed help finding a little girl very important to him: his own daughter he never knew by the only woman he had loved during the series and lost due to the Red Court half changing Susan Rodriguez into a vampire. While Ivy-the-girl wanted to help him desperately, Ivy-the-Archive was unable to. The Archive was created neutral, and no part of her will to help her friend help save his daughter's life would override that neutrality. But she was able to point him in the right direction, and give him as much help as she could.
Personality:For the most part, the Archive is very prim and proper. She doesn't drive because she's too young (and because her feet don't reach the pedals). Of course she could drive better than most professional drivers, but she sticks to the laws. She's not short, she's in the seventy sixth percentile of her age group. If she catches you cheating during a duel, using a weapon that wasn't agreed on or using outside help, she will kill you. No questions asked.
But underneath that scary intelligence and proper behavior is still a kid. She gets scared when faced with a fallen angel, and tries to wisecrack her way out like her friend, Harry Dresden, would. She likes cute things, like Dresden's huge cat Mister and sea otters at the aquarium. When things aren't fair she tries to make them so the best the Archive lets her.
Most of all? She's loyal. If anyone was to try to hurt Kincaid or Dresden with her around, she would be out of hiding to kick ass. These are her friends. Her family, the man that raised her. Her friend, the man that treated her kindly and gave her an actual name. The Denarians used this against her, threatening to kill Kincaid and actually almost shooting Dresden in the head before she unveiled herself and stopped the bullet from reaching him.
Don't mess with Ivy, man. She will kick your ass.
Game Specific:
Arcana: Justice
Justification: That's Ivy and the Archive in general. Impartial judge, rational... but still a kid and still capable of irrationality and bias.
Samples:
First Person Sample: [When the broadcast started, the little angelic look of a Caucasian blonde girl looking at the camera with far too intelligent eyes was the image that came through. Her voice was calm, proper, but an undercurrent of fear was palpable]
While it's a shock that this device is still functional on my person, it's certainly useful. I'm looking for one of two men, both of which may be looking for a person of my description. One is a man by the name if Kincaid, and he will most certainly respond to his name and my description. The other... [She swallowed here. The idea of not being able to get in contact with Kincaid worried at her.] The other will not have a mobile phone and will not be able to use one. If Kincaid is unavailable, a tall man with a large staff by the name of Harry Dresden will know what it means. Just tell him... Ivy's looking for him. And not to contact me through the usual channels.
In the meantime, I notice there is a school with a dormitory here. Are they taking new students?
Third Person Sample: The sudden loss of the Archive always made her uneasy and almost nauseous. That was a part of her as long as her memory as this little girl went back. She had never thought what it would be like if she was simply a normal little girl with a normal mortal memory of the vast knowledge of the ancient Archive. Certainly, it made it easy in school as even that memory was more than enough to put her in college courses and not even struggle too much there, but it was disconcerting to not have the knowledge of the written world immediately poured into her memory.
The biggest problem came at the unknown hour. The Dark Hour, so it was called. Her memory as the Archive knew nothing about how this came about, why, what the Shadows were, and why her magic had no chance of beating them. The way to fight the Shadows, their Personae, also gnawed at her. Why was a facade like a Persona something that could fight these monsters, and yet her own magic could not? Why did they take on a form from mythology like that if they were from the captive's own minds? Why did they even exist? This were questions she should have immediate answers to, and found herself reaching for thin air.
Oh shoot! Ivy suddenly realized the homework left on her table back at her dorm hadn't been finished. Calculus was something she may enjoy more than other classes, but she still needed to actually do the homework to keep her grades up to her satisfaction. Ivy nodded to her team and rushed back to the dorm, hoping she would finish before her assigned bedtime.
Nickname: Sen
Age:28
Personal LJ/DW:n/a
Method of Contact:Either at notyourchambermaid @ plurk or character journal
Characters Played:n/a
Character Info:
Name:The Archive ("Ivy")
Age:13
Canon:The Dresden Files
Pull Point:After Harry Dresden contacts her in Changes
Background Info:
History:Whose history? There are two histories to be told here: one of the Archive and one of Ivy herself.
The Archive is a magical construct of untold powers. It's passed down mother to daughter, and when one Archive dies, the daughter receives the power and knowledge passed down for untold generations. While the Archive is powerful magically (Ivy is seen taking out several Red Court vampires around age 9 without even finding it any trouble), the biggest power the Archive has is knowledge. She has a perfect knowledge of anything ever written down. This knowledge and magical power puts any Archive, a human with this construct passed down inside of her, on equal footing with any of the strongest magical beings on this planet.
But where does Ivy fit in? Her story as the Archive is different. Usually the Archive is passed down from an old woman to an adult woman, and the power of life and experiences keeps the new Archive from going insane. However, Ivy's grandmother lost her life early to a car accident, and her mother gained the power of the Archive at a too young age, barely in her twenties. She resented her grandmother for it, and when her daughter was born, resented her daughter for the full life she would live before she would be forced to take the power of thr Archive. So her mother decided not to live this life anymore and killed herself, passing the power on to a baby girl who grew up knowing exactly what her mother was thinking before she died.
Ivy's story is a lonely one starting here. She grew up not able to take part in normal childish things as she had the destiny of the Archive to live. Her bodyguard, Kincaid, was kind enough to her, but would kill anyone threatening her at a moment's notice. No friends, no family... just her and Kincaid. That is, until one wizard named Harry Dresden had a duel with a Red Court vampire to settle the war between the wizards and vampires and she was called upon to be an impartial judge. Dresden treated her with kindness, like she was just any little girl, and in fact gave her a nickname. "Ivy," from the last part of her title. Dresden, in fact, treated her like a friend in Death Masks.
Ivy is next seen in Small Favor. Dresden required a neutral party to oversee a meeting between him and a group of fallen angels named the Denarians. He chose the Archive, claiming a working relationship with the girl. She's about twelve in this book, and takes the offer gladly. They meet the Denarians in an aquarium, where the fallen angels naturally turn on them, lock the place down magically, and manage to knock Ivy out and steal her away. While they would have lost her until the magical field they used fell due to the amount of power needed to sustain it, they used the biggest things of Ivy against her to reveal her position: her feelings for both her bodyguard Kincaid, her only family, as well as for Harry Dresden, her only friend. Even then, even with most of her magical power locked away from her, she managed to keep the Denarians at bay. To which the Denarians proceeded to play dirty and use gas to knock the tiny child out. While in their care, they tortured her, tried to break her will and make her desperate to make it end. They wanted her to accept a fallen angel into her mind and become one of them. They wanted the magical ability and the limitless knowledge of the Archive for their own.
So of course Harry Dresden ruined that party and rescued her.
She's only seen briefly in Changes. Dresden needed help finding a little girl very important to him: his own daughter he never knew by the only woman he had loved during the series and lost due to the Red Court half changing Susan Rodriguez into a vampire. While Ivy-the-girl wanted to help him desperately, Ivy-the-Archive was unable to. The Archive was created neutral, and no part of her will to help her friend help save his daughter's life would override that neutrality. But she was able to point him in the right direction, and give him as much help as she could.
Personality:For the most part, the Archive is very prim and proper. She doesn't drive because she's too young (and because her feet don't reach the pedals). Of course she could drive better than most professional drivers, but she sticks to the laws. She's not short, she's in the seventy sixth percentile of her age group. If she catches you cheating during a duel, using a weapon that wasn't agreed on or using outside help, she will kill you. No questions asked.
But underneath that scary intelligence and proper behavior is still a kid. She gets scared when faced with a fallen angel, and tries to wisecrack her way out like her friend, Harry Dresden, would. She likes cute things, like Dresden's huge cat Mister and sea otters at the aquarium. When things aren't fair she tries to make them so the best the Archive lets her.
Most of all? She's loyal. If anyone was to try to hurt Kincaid or Dresden with her around, she would be out of hiding to kick ass. These are her friends. Her family, the man that raised her. Her friend, the man that treated her kindly and gave her an actual name. The Denarians used this against her, threatening to kill Kincaid and actually almost shooting Dresden in the head before she unveiled herself and stopped the bullet from reaching him.
Don't mess with Ivy, man. She will kick your ass.
Game Specific:
Arcana: Justice
Justification: That's Ivy and the Archive in general. Impartial judge, rational... but still a kid and still capable of irrationality and bias.
Samples:
First Person Sample: [When the broadcast started, the little angelic look of a Caucasian blonde girl looking at the camera with far too intelligent eyes was the image that came through. Her voice was calm, proper, but an undercurrent of fear was palpable]
While it's a shock that this device is still functional on my person, it's certainly useful. I'm looking for one of two men, both of which may be looking for a person of my description. One is a man by the name if Kincaid, and he will most certainly respond to his name and my description. The other... [She swallowed here. The idea of not being able to get in contact with Kincaid worried at her.] The other will not have a mobile phone and will not be able to use one. If Kincaid is unavailable, a tall man with a large staff by the name of Harry Dresden will know what it means. Just tell him... Ivy's looking for him. And not to contact me through the usual channels.
In the meantime, I notice there is a school with a dormitory here. Are they taking new students?
Third Person Sample: The sudden loss of the Archive always made her uneasy and almost nauseous. That was a part of her as long as her memory as this little girl went back. She had never thought what it would be like if she was simply a normal little girl with a normal mortal memory of the vast knowledge of the ancient Archive. Certainly, it made it easy in school as even that memory was more than enough to put her in college courses and not even struggle too much there, but it was disconcerting to not have the knowledge of the written world immediately poured into her memory.
The biggest problem came at the unknown hour. The Dark Hour, so it was called. Her memory as the Archive knew nothing about how this came about, why, what the Shadows were, and why her magic had no chance of beating them. The way to fight the Shadows, their Personae, also gnawed at her. Why was a facade like a Persona something that could fight these monsters, and yet her own magic could not? Why did they take on a form from mythology like that if they were from the captive's own minds? Why did they even exist? This were questions she should have immediate answers to, and found herself reaching for thin air.
Oh shoot! Ivy suddenly realized the homework left on her table back at her dorm hadn't been finished. Calculus was something she may enjoy more than other classes, but she still needed to actually do the homework to keep her grades up to her satisfaction. Ivy nodded to her team and rushed back to the dorm, hoping she would finish before her assigned bedtime.
