Captain Tristan Black - Valiant

During World War II, the Strategic Scientific Reserve ran a multitude of projects searching for the answer to defeating Hydra and their Nazi allies. Project Thunderchild was the British division's answer to Project Rebirth. Dr. Lachlan Black, a brilliant scientist and engineer, built the perfect soldier, the perfect son, to aid the allies in their fight against the Nazis. A truly living mechanical being whose soul lives in the heart of the Eidilon Matrix that powers him, Tristan led a small group of soldiers through the North African theater and up into Europe. Friends and occasional allies to the Howling Commandos, Tristan and his team, Excalibur, were an elite squad that was tasked with targeting Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, Johann Shmidt's greatest ally in Hydra and an old enemy of Lachlan Black's.

Excalibur caught up with Kroenen's forces as they rallied to send reinforcements to assist with Shmidt's move for global domination. During the fight, the zeppelin that Tristan was fighting Kroenen on was badly damaged. He forced his personal mechanic, Isolde Black (Lachlan's biological daughter and Tristan's lover) aboard a smaller craft on the zeppelin along with the team's pilot, Eric Koenig, and ordered Koenig to leave while he attempted to finish off Kroenen once and for all. The zeppelin crashed deep in the Alps. Though they were successful in cutting off Kroenen's troops from reaching Shmidt, with the enemy fire they were taking, the team was forced to leave Tristan behind and were unable to locate him in subsequent rescue missions.

Tristan lay buried beneath the wreckage of Kroenen's zeppelin and snow and stone from the mountain for over 70 years until an expeditionary team happened upon the wreckage and SHIELD recovered him and brought him in for repairs and reactivation. Now leader of a new team, The Avengers, Tristan is a beacon of hope in the gathering storm.


Mikihito Hikaru - Sakura

Born into the Ao Kiku clan of ninja, Miku was raised with a certain moral flexibility; however one thing was perfectly clear - The Hand, an evil, demon worshipping ninja clan of assassins, were their enemy first and forever. Ao Kiku and The Hand maintained a shadow war that lasted for generations as Ao Kiku attempted to stifle The Hand's efforts at every turn.

When Miku was 18, that all changed. The Hand launched a comprehensive and coordinated strike on every branch of Ao Kiku they could find; a bloody war in the streets that wiped out nearly all of the family, leaving those alive to scatter and regroup elsewhere to try and rebuild.

Grief-stricken and vengeful, Miku cut a swath of destruction through The Hand's ranks, catching the attention of a very powerful man with dark plans of his own. The Mandarin offered Miku the resources he would need to eradicate The Hand once and for all, if in return Miku would first serve him and help The Mandarin to take control of Madripoor. Miku, blinded by his desire for revenge, agreed and became the Azure Dragon, assassin and trusted lieutenant to The Mandrain whom he served faithfully for three years.

As the pair at last launched their assault on Madripoor and victory was in their grasp, Iron Fist attempted to intercede. He bested Miku in single combat after Miku was already injured during the revolt, and mistook him for a member of The Hand. Iron Fist was no so lucky in his fight with The Mandarin, but as his master was about to strike the fatal blow, Miku rose up to Iron Fist's aid and the two were able to bury the Mandarin under a building in the course of their fight. Afterwards, Miku allowed himself to be taken into custody and was bounced from agency to agency as multiple countries around the world demanded jurisdiction; however, Agents Phil Coulson and Clint Barton intercepted Miku during his time with Interpol and offered him a chance for redemption.

For the past three years, Miku has served in SHIELD as Barton's partner, loyally and unwaveringly. Though Miku is still seeking justice for what happened to his family, he now also looks for a way to clear the stain of his actions from their name.


Nym Koenig - SENTINEL

Native of the Bronx, and grandchild of Eric Koenig, Nym was left orphaned after her mother died when she was only 14. She was left to raise her 7 year old sister as their father sunk into an alcohol fueled depression until he was finally killed in a drunk driving accident when Nym was 18. Nym became her sister's legal guardian and fought to repair the damage her father's neglect had done to the bank accounts and the family's auto shop.

Nym, a prodigy with computers and engineering, turned her skills to producing and selling several cutting edge pieces of software and managed to save the house and shop. She attracted the attention of another engineer later as she released several designs free of patents, believing in shared technology. Together the pair founded King Technologies, a now billion dollar research and development company, in New York City. For some time, Nym enjoyed a life where she got to pursue her passion and raise her younger sister in peace.

When the Kingpint began taking over the Bronx however, all that changed. The S.E.N.T.I.N.E.L. armor was built to beat back the iron hold of control that Kingpin had over the Bronx, culminating in a showdown with Kingpin's hired assassin, Bullseye. After conditions began to improve, Nym thought to retire the suit and focus on revitalizing the neighborhood, but she had caught the attention of Justine Hammer, smarter than her father and ten times as cruel. Hammer used Nym's former lover, Skandar, to infiltrate the private base Nym was using and stole enough data for them to build their own version of power armor. Justin Hammer lurks as a threat on the horizon that Nym can't ignore.

Hesitant to join the team when approached by Director Fury, Nym eventually agreed, persuaded partly by her grandfather's involvement in the formation of SHIELD years before. Proud to stand alongside Valiant as Eric Koenig once did, Nym holds the integrity of the Avengers near and dear to her heart.

riandarcy recently posted an entry about how to prepare and motivate yourself to get to and keep going to the gym as one of the nerd-elite. (Well, she just said nerd. But in my mind she's definitely one of the elite :)

A Shy Nerd's Guide to Surviving the Gym is utterly fantastic to read whether you're thinking about going, already going, or couldn't give a fuck about the gym.

Especially as someone who just this last year really started to make an effort again to get back into shape and had these exact same concerns and worries going into it, it was lovely to see someone round all that up and go "Hey, look, it's not that bad." but do it in such a way where it doesn't feel like a pity party.

Seriously, check the post out. You won't be sorry you did.

Toss up. The one movie that I have to see no matter what is White Christmas. I could watch that thing over and over and I have. I adore it.

My guilty pleasure that I will watch if it's playing on the tv somewhere is that awful film The Cutting Edge. I'm ashamed to admit it, but if it's on I can't seem to turn it off.

I haven't updated in a while. This should not surprise you.

Gonna be taking a mini-vacay this weekend to attend rabid_x's mom's wedding. Yay!

Have been addicted to Tumblr.

Livejournal subscription expired... thinking about just leaving this up as a free account and switching to DW or something. I have an account over there - might be time to brush it off.

Also, finally got confirmation of my beta account for AO3 coming through - gotta set that up.

Reading a ton of Heroes fic of late. Let me say, I don't care how sexy the rest of the fic is, if you refer to a kiss and use the term "wet appendage" to describe someone slipping in some tongue? I'm out. That killed the mood so fast it wasn't even funny.

Might have to take a crack at some Syler fic. Gonna have to order the rest of the DVDs and have a marathon. You'll be the first to know ;)

Later!

Stolen from emocezi

"SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, post to your LJ/DW and paste this as a note. Then, put +'s next to the films you've seen, add them up, and use your number as the header"

( Funny, I don't feel like a shut-in, and yet...Collapse )

Alright, so... updates time. Because I'm lame and I don't post for weeks on end. We're doin' this list style.

-Gonna be doing some craziness with my hair this weekend. Gotta lighten the blonde up first and then I'm going to be putting steaks of either purple and red or purple and blue in it under the top layer. Leaning towards purple and red but I'll make the final decision when we go to pick up the dye and supplies at lunch today.

-I'm on Tumblr now and I freaking love the site, love cruising people's blogs and seeing the crazy pics and reblogging. The thing is, fucking Tumblr FREEZES every two seconds when I try to make a post or reblog anything. I can look, I just can't, apparently, USE the service. It's pissing me off.

-The Star Trek Big Bang fic is coming along pretty good; I gotta sit down next weekend and put some serious hours into pounding out the serious business though. Still haven't found a beta for it - in addition to my usual, I was hoping to get someone who was more familiar with the fandom to do one, but so far none of my inquiries on the Beta Post have been answered and no one's contacted me via my post either. Still, it's early on, so there's still time.

-I sneezed with a piece of Chex cereal in my mouth a minute ago and seem to have snorted some of it. Nasal cavity still burning.

-We're finally going to go see X-Men: FC this tomorrow so I'm pumped for that. Alot of people that I've talked to about it and reviewers that I tend to agree with have given it really good marks. Even if it's got the wrong Summers in it, I can dig it.

-Pixie and Half-Orc are coming down from Cincy tonight so we can hang out and be dorks and I imagine there will probably be some (lighter than usual) drinking and silliness.

-Tonight I am also trying my hand at whipping together my first layer cake. I make good cake. I make good buttercream. I should be able to handle stacking one cake on top of another. I hope.

-And since my Tumblr is being a bitch, enjoy the couple of pictures here that I was trying to use in posts there. Let's just call this and this a celebration of Friday!

I think these are the major updates.... yeah. Catch ya' later! Have a good weekend, my lovelies!

I'm such a fucking slacker today.

I really should be working more on my Star Trek Big Bang fic. I'm at 6,800+ words, so I've only got roughly 13,000+ words to go before I meet the requirements. But now Strong Bad has eaten my brain.

And Strong Bad led to Peasant's Quest.

So now I'm looking at Japenese models, a tumblr feed that features girls in jeans (quite nice), and playing Peasant's Quest.

So much for productivity. But my icon is pretty awesome.

Clearly, I've lost my damn mind.

I'm actually and truly considering signing up for my first Big Bang. And the kicker is it's in a fandom that I haven't written ANYTHING in before.

That girl!Kirk fic that I was mentioning in the Star Trek AOS Fandom? Yeah, it went from what probably should have been 3,000 words tops to already exceeding 4,000 words and I haven't even gotten past the lengthy fish-out-of-water set up yet. No where near the meat of the fic.

And I have all these plans. And I know the premise sounds cracky, but it's totally not turning out that way. So yeah, Big Bang. What the hell am I getting myself into?

Should be: Finishing my fic for losers_pwn
Am: Working on a Star Trek AOS genderswap fic where Kirk is temporarily turned into a girl and enjoys messing with Bones' head.

Yeah... sometimes when the fic bunny hits...

This morning, before 8:00 am I had picked up a lovely white chocolate mocha (I blame emocezi for mentioning her vanilla bean latte to me last night), stopped to get gas before it crested $4.00/gallon, picked up cigarettes, and got my car washed because birds had been using it as their john last night and we're finally supposed to have a couple days without rain.

That, I think, pretty much covers all the productivity I could have for the day. Oh wait, plus tonight is gym night so there'll be that. Which means I couldn't possibly be expected to do anything else. Except look at Tumblr.


Also, I love my new ironic lj tag.