intro >> adam austin

[arhythmitist]

I DON'T EVEN KNOW ANYMORE all I know is that I missed playing Adam and seeing him stranded on an island could be fantastic.

Anyway, this is Adam. He's a sound technician (read: he holds heavy mics on sets and occasionally gets people coffee) from Los Angeles who was planning on having a lovely vacation in Australia. He traveled alone, sat in coach after nearly throwing up over the price of an upgrade and played mahjong for most of the flight. I apologize if you sat near him. He gets very vocal when he's winning.

Adam has a history with mental health issues, but he's off his medication now and relatively well-adjusted to daily life. That being said, he's got a slue of coping devices. As loud and vibrant as he is, his reactions can seem shallow. He feels very deeply for people but masks that with BEING FUCKING LOUD AND RIDICULOUS! When he was younger and more earnest, he scared everyone off. Clingy to the extreme, it's just best that he keeps up his persona.

Um, what else, what else. He's got a billion useless random facts at his disposal, only now maybe some of them aren't so useless! He's fascinated with animals, vegan (TEMPORARILY, SOB), hates religion, something of a polyglot and probably the most supportive person you will ever meet. Adam also rivals Mari in the Bad Ideas Department, so... never take his plans seriously.

He loves you all, really. Let him love you.

Intro >> Vincent Alexander

[waniandmoon]

Hello~!

This is Vincent! He is a quiet librarian who wasn't even supposed to be on this particular flight but a surprise snowstorm (woo Canadian winter-spring) held up his original flight out of The Great White North, and is also why he's overdressed for the weather. It was (will be?) his very unremarkable birthday on Tuesday, the tickets to Australia were a bribe gift from his father, so basically this is the worst birthday present ever.

Vincent is a nice guy, if rather shy and awkward. He will try to be helpful insomuch as he can. His only really relevant skills are first aid, and maybe a bit of cooking and mending.

He also has a ridiculously detailed inventory so, uh, if anyone wants to take advantage of that and go through his things, let me know?

ETA: If you saw him at the airport before they left, he was probably reading or texting someone on his phone. He probably looked a bit nervous, restless, especially going through security. He's just paranoid because of all the stories of power-happy TSA people, don't mind him and his pile of unseasonably warm clothing.

intro >> annie cook

[spickandspan]

Meet Bryanna Andromeda Cook (Annie for short!), who is an entirely new character from me!

She's one of Marnie's producers. Annie, along with her younger brother Alex, her mother Krystal, and Marnie, was going to Sydney to launch her book "On Production and Prada". She's lived the hard knock life (heee), with her parents divorcing pretty early on. Annie and Alex were left with Krystal. Krystal has always been the kookie sort. Her attempts to support the children involved a gig as a horoscope writer for an obscure publication. Annie had to compensate by playing the mother role, basically running the house and rearing her brother all on her own.

As a result, Annie's high-strung and paranoid. Everything needs to be spick and span, in every possible way. Her demeanor - once she's gotten over the shock - will be forever stiff, painfully awkward, occasionally twitchy, and intermittently abrasive. She's of the mindset that everything must be solved or fixed, even when there are no problems or messes in the first place. Annie will definitely attempt to take charge (at least of Marnie and her family) and figure out a means of surviving. (Again, once she's moved on from her anxiety/asthma attack. This asthmatic needs her inhaler every three minutes.)

Pretty volatile, this one. There's no telling when her reaction will be to blow up or seethe in a corner. But she will be determined enough to pull through. Maybe.

Skills-wise, she's an on-off vegetarian and a botany-enthusiast, so she'll probably be decent with ID-ing edible plants and concocting tasteful salads. She's gone camping occasionally (and hated it), so she'll have a few camping facts. Ultimately useless camping facts. That she will voice out anyway. Just to drive home a point.

At the airport, she was giddy and restless. She probably kept fixing her brother's clothes and smoothing out imaginary wrinkles. On the plane itself, she was with her brother and mother. She didn't sleep. And she screamed all the way through the crash.