+1 snarky peacekeeper

[lex_paciferat]

Hey all! I'm Ammy, who some of you might remember from my previous ventures as Dr. Jonathan Crane and Irving Adenauer at ryansgulch or Antonov at sanctums. After being ruthlessly enabled (I'm looking at you, conifer) I'm trying my hand here with a setting-native OC, Quintus Falxvale.

Quintus is a Peacekeeper with about a decade's experience in policing the districts. He's recently been hired on to manage security at the Training Center, which means making sure those hidden cameras are in order, keeping people from killing each other at inappropriate times, and fielding media requests for information. Basically, if your character is caught making trouble in that area, they might very well end up having a chat with him. :)

He's also been living in the Capitol and doing surveillance-type things for about five years now, so if any of you capitolites might want some handwaved CR, run-ins, etc. with him then do feel free to hit me up.

Personality-wise, he's sarcastic as hell, kind of a workaholic, and has a crappy view of society on account of getting an axe to the face on a previous assignment. You can read more about his backstory here and his permissions can be found here.

Feel free to add me on plurk at escherichia for plotting purposes (or if you'd just like to witness my nerding about science, rambling about Batman characters, etc.)

Looking forward to playing with you!

Comments

[whatisay]

Oh my God. This is so exciting! Hello Ammy, I'm Lisa and I play Jason Compson (Sound and the Fury AU), Punchy (Intimates), Venus and Black Tom (Marvel Comics) and Bayard Sartoris (The Unvanquished). Pleasure to meet you, and I'm sure Quintus will be seeing a lot of Jason, because those rascally Tributes won't stay in line.

[lex_paciferat]

Oh hey I've seen some of Jason's jerkass threads with Emily before XDD Nice to meet you! I am excited for things too. :)

[milieus]

Hello and welcome back! I'm Ali (one of the mods) and I play a bunch of people, most relevant is this one: Jennifer Blackwood. She's a Capitolite chief escort type (job title is Tribute Comfort and Card Administrator) and she has an office in the center so she and Quintus would definitely cross paths. I just added you on plurk, can't wait to talk and plot with you!

[lex_paciferat]

Hi! And oooh yes, in that case they definitely would. :) I shall be looking forward to the plotting.

[earthborn]

Hello, welcome back to the jungle.

It is possibly worth noting that Shepard spends a lot of her downtime between dying in an arena and an arena's crowning maintaining a pillow fort in the main lobby for the express purpose of being a little shit and hiding from cameras and exacting snack food tithes from people who she heckles.

taking it seriously would be admitting defeat. But still. He should probably be aware of the pillow fort.

[lex_paciferat]

Oh my god that is hilarious XDD I can just imagine some of his office staff being like, look at this show of resistance, and he's like, guys, I have much more important things to do than deal with some idiot in a pillow fort.

Good to know, thank you XD

[earthborn]

She started doing it for the lulz and to comfort a child, but now it's Tradition and We Mustn't Stop Traditions

[conifer]

I didn't think I enabled you that ruthlessly =p man I'm so excited to be in a game with you again <3

[lex_paciferat]

IT WAS SO RUTHLESS well more like you got my imagination going and then I couldn't stop XDD

Yesss we must do all the things. :333

[conifer]

I plant the seeds and watch them grow XD

[allyorfoe]

Oh man, it'll be cool to have a peacekeeper in here! It's nice to meet you. I'm Ema, this loser here is the only person that I play, the Warden from Dragon Age.

I'm sure our characters will have a run in at some point, in some time, because Tabris is an adult child and defaults to throwing destructive temper tantrums when she's mad. So uh. That'll be fun.

[lex_paciferat]

Haha oh boy XD Yeah, I'm getting the feeling that he's going to be basically a beleaguered parent here and that just cracks me up. :)

[contrarianlibrarian]

Nice to meet you, Ammy! I'm Erin and I play a Panem AU China Sorrows (Skulduggery Pleasant) and Firo Prochainezo from Baccano! China's an Escort and Firo's a loudmouth with a temper, so he'll probably have opportunity to encounter them both.

I went ahead and added you on plurk (and I am laughing hard at your name, fellow science nerd), if that's all right.

[lex_paciferat]

Sure! (Glad you appreciate it lol XD I took a lot of microbio classes in undergrad so I seem to have a bacteria theme going with my personal account names lately XD)

[dead_black_eyes]

I don't know if you were here when I joined, but welcome! I'm Lexil and I play Linden Lockhearst, a Panem AU of Death Note's L. He's a District 6 Victor from the 63rd Hunger Games, and is currently a Mentor. He's spent the last decade drifting in and out of crippling drug and alcohol dependency and is currently trying to get and stay clean, so he's spending more time in the training center to field for Sponsors (which is difficult because his personality is kind of abrasive, especially during withdrawal.)

I'm totally up for some handwaved CR, since he's been a Mentor for over 10 years and should have some Capitol ties.

[lex_paciferat]

Hi! Well, it's my first time in this particular game, so. :)

Oh man. Quintus' brother actually died horribly in the 62nd games, so the PTSD and addictions of some of the Mentors doesn't surprise him at all. While Quintus himself hasn't been around the Training Center all that long yet, he did some other security work in the Capitol and personally had a short period after moving here some five years ago where he tried out the hedonistic party culture and decided he hated it XD Soooo yeah. There's some opportunities for them to have met, if you'd like that.

[dead_black_eyes]

I would love that. I added you on plurk last night so let me throw you a PP on there and we can figure out some details, if that's cool! :D

[ghostlyclink]

More Capitolites c:

Hello there, I'm Stacey playing both Cassandra from Dragon aga and this AUed into the Capitol professional rich lady, Sadie Doyle. She's in her 30s and, about a decade back, actually ran into so trouble with peacekeepers in the districts while being a spoiled 20 year old making poor life choices. I friended you on plurk, if you're up for it I'd love to chat there sometime this weekend and work out a tie with something around that, as well as them seeing each other in and around the Capitol since then.

any way, tl;dr aside, welcome!!

[lex_paciferat]

Ooh yes another capitolite come to me. Yeah, do go ahead and pp me this weekend if you'd like since I'd love to plot. :)

[burningdaylight]

'ello! The name's Monface and I play Luke from The Walking Dead game. Welllcome!

[lex_paciferat]

Hi! Nice to meet you! :)

[designatedfreak]

Hello! I'm Stephanie and I just play this lady here, Max (Dark Angel). She's up in D2 with all the hot men (idek)

I read your app and I have to say that you have really brought in a compelling character that I can't wait to see around.

[lex_paciferat]

He's from D2 originally does he count /smacked

Oh gosh, that is really sweet of you to say. :3 Thank you so much.

[designatedfreak]

He so counts

Max is a good girl who never shakes the boat

What revolution in her home world??

Hopefully they can grab some CR

[capitolprivilege]

Yes hello excellent. He sounds amazing and I would love to work something out. Stephen Reagan's been an Escort for D6 for the past seven or eight years, barring a two-year hiatus that ended a year ago. Even if they hadn't met, Quintus would know that Stephen has been very vapid most of his life, that he parties hard, that the Reagans are so rich their money has a salary, and that Stephen has a reputation for wasting his potential. He's the one Reagan without political ambition.

Also, he'd know that last year, Stephen was implicated in a nasty incident. Some Tributes were arrested, and other Tributes tried to break them out, and some ~horrible ungrateful Tributes~ ~tricked~ Stephen into ~accidentally~ helping them. Stephen had a wrist cuff that marked him as a traitor for months. That's the biggest scandal right now.

Stephen's brother, Cyrus, is in President Snow's cabinet. So there's that too.

[lex_paciferat]

Haha "tricked" XD If there's any questionableness to the story there I can definitely see Quintus wanting to keep an eye on him. Quintus does have a pretty good nose for bullshit.

I do have an open post now or we could log something or whatever you might want to do. :)

(And dude, if there's more political events and such from before I apped that Quintus should know about, do fill me in. I'd love for him to be able to reference some of that.)

[capitolprivilege]

LET'S SEE. The BIG one was the assassination of high-up Peacekeeper Hisang "Penny" Jiao. She was insane and sadistic and capricious and free to do basically whatever she wanted, and didn't bother to hide any of it. A Tribute assassinated her, and a bunch of other Tributes were rounded up as suspects. They were tortured and given ugly, nasty brands on their faces to mark them as troublemakers. Still more Tributes attempted rescue. Some succeeded, some didn't, but all were rounded up eventually and dumped back into the Arena. The brands are gone now, but they lasted through two whole Arenas.

What happened with Stephen was that he allowed the Initiate and Terezi to crash in Jove Manor, a really ridiculous mansion just outside the Capitol. He had supplies collected and left in an easy-to-find place. His excuse was that he got an official-looking notice from Peacekeepers saying that they were going to requisition supplies from the Reagans and to collect them and leave them in an easy-to-find place. It was plausible enough that he was slapped with a cuff for being stupid, and the whole thing has been treated as more embarrassing than treasonous, but by all means, Quintus, suspect. c: Stephen's toed the line for months since then, but he's been slipping back into being friendly with Tributes.

That's the big political event, though. There was a disease outbreak several months prior, but that was handled.

[lex_paciferat]

Oooooh oh man Quintus' feelings would be all over the map on that one--on the one hand, he'd be pissed off that someone in his ranks was apparently stupid enough to garner that much hatred, since their job should be to keep shit from starting, while on the other hand he'd firmly believe the torture and punishment of the Tributes was warranted in order to discourage further troublemaking.

And aww man disease outbreak I'm sad that I missed that XD Infectious disease is one of the things I just scientifically love.

Thanks so much for the info! Anything else about the other Peacekeepers here or whatever that I should know about?

[capitolprivilege]

Yes! You should know what Eva Salazar pulled. She was a forty-something-year-old Victor with a hell of a grudge. She seduced a peacekeeper, Wallander (it was complicated) and then kidnapped his daughter so that she could get into the Capitol grid and cause a blackout that lasted....two hours? I think? Anyway, it was preceded by a broadcast urging the listeners to take revenge on the Capitol and Capitolites while the surveillance was down and everything was chaos. Order was restored, but it wasn't pretty.

Lastly, I mentioned the disease plot. When District 3 heard that people from the Capitol were coming down with illnesses like tuberculosis and typhoid, they closed their borders. The Capitol wasn't pleased, so District 3 got firebombed. It's been wiped out.

[lex_paciferat]

That is actually super interesting because with that in mind, it makes perfect sense that the powers-that-be would want to hire in someone like Quintus to a major security position--he's a paranoid single dude who is barely in touch with his family. XD He'd probably be disgusted at that entire situation.

Good to know about D3 as well. Thanks again!

[capitolprivilege]

No problem!! If I think of anything else, I'll let you know. ♥

[talltaleteller]

Oh man, that is a sweet backstory!

Hi! I'm Lampy, and I play Felicity Yoshida (a Panem AU of a foam suit monster badguy from Voltasaur Sentai Kyoryuger), a teenager from District 2 whose Peacekeeper father just got transferred to the Capitol. She writes bad Games fanfic in her spare time! I also play Haruto Soma (wizardplease, from Kamen Rider Wizard).

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Quintus gets up to, and I hope we get the chance to play together!

[lex_paciferat]

Thank you! :3 And LOL Games fanfic that sounds wonderfully hideous XD

[futilecycle]

I meant to say this forever ago but EYYY WELCOME TO THE GAMES, AMMY! :D I'm World (world_rescue on plurk) and you already know me, hah. Sorry it took me forever to welcome you, it's my last undergrad sem and midterms and papers have been in full force.

But, how exciting! Soon Sigma is going to have a job in security as well (though more in the way of active security), so we'll have to have a chat once that's all confirmed!

Can't wait to play with you! :)

[lex_paciferat]

OMG HI I did not realize that was you :) And yes I totally understand--part of the reason I apped in the first place was because I was on break and actually had time to write things XD

Oooh yes excellent :3 I'd love for Quintus to have co-workers in whatever fashion.

[futilecycle]

Of course it is me, who else would have such a painfully nerdy username? ;)

But yes, really looking forward to it!! :D I shall play with you soon. See you around!