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asoothingvoicePlayer Information:
Name: July
Age: 23
Contact: JulyFlame on Plurk
Game Cast: Jor-El
Character Information:
Name: Bianca Reyes
Canon: DCU
Canon Point: After the events of Blue Beetle #31
Age: It's never said, because COMICS, but she's probably in her early 40s.
Reference: Bianca on the DC Wikia.
Setting:Welcome to El Paso, Texas. It's a city of just over half a million people- in a metro area of around two million- right on the US-Mexico border, smack dab on the western-most tip of Texas (enough so that some neighborhoods and streets are in New Mexico instead, and you can look into Ciduad Juarez most days depending on where you're standing), and despite its size, the fact that it's about three hundred miles away from the next closest large American city means it gets forgotten about pretty much everywhere else.
Juarez is heavily controlled- and fought over- by Mexican drug cartels and filled with corrupt police. The cartel lords themselves tend to live in expensive houses in El Paso, which is much less crime-filled than its sister city across the Rio Grande.
For all the problems that Juarez has, and despite its size, El Paso is a pretty quiet city. As big as it is, it's still got a small town feel to it nearly wherever you go. Being a predominantly hispanic town, la familia is important, and so are friends. A lot of families, once they establish themselves in El Paso, tend to stick around, and families grow.
That isn't to say there aren't problems there, of course. Crime happens, fights happen, drama happens. But El Paso and El Pasoans takes care of their own; it's instinct.
All in all, it was to all appearances a fairly normal city right up until it got its very own superhero: Blue Beetle.
Appearances tell different stories, of course. Peel back the normal overcoat and you'll find a city peppered in individuals who dabble in magic or possess magic based power; enough for there to be a whole posse of them, in fact. Dumb kids magically creating demons to get back at people. A woman willing to use people who control magic and supplement it with technology to carve a place of power out for herself in a world of crime dominated by men. A teenaged boy with alien technology lodged against his spine. A city with at least one family of completely normal people willing to fight back against an alien invasion with illegal assault weapons and a stick.
Magic? Aliens? A superhero?
This El Paso is just one of many, on an Earth that is part of a multiverse consisting of fifty-two different universes, each connected and similar, but bearing their own differences. One thing that is a frequent commonality between them, however, is Earth, and the superheroes who protect it.
This universe, specifically, has hundreds upon hundreds of superheroes, across several generations, time, and space; many of them are members of teams, groups, families that all work together for the common cause of helping others and doing something to make a difference. Aliens are out there. Magic exists. There are planets out there that hold giant batteries, ones constructed to be living death traps, still others that are home to people who declare themselves gods, and one that has left only the last of its dominant race and chunks of green glowing rock behind as evidence it was ever there.
The Earth’s been threatened hundreds, if not thousands of times, by people on the planet and others from space. Between alien superheroes making Earth their home and various invasions, the various nations of Earth are quickly willing to be diplomatic with those races that actually show up on the radar and appear congenial- unfortunately, the apparent congeniality is not always the actual case.
That kid with the alien technology in his spine, for example? The tech came from the Reach, an alien race that once went head to head with the Oans due to the Reach’s imperialistic ways, which led to them conquering and subduing many different planets before the Guardians and Reach fought to a standstill before both sides agreed to a treaty where the Reach would stop expanding throughout the universe and the Guardians would in turn leave them be.
Of course, it turns out, the Reach weren’t following along with this accord, and instead were using their technology to infiltrate planets to conquer them from within, rather than from without- the scarab attached to Jaime Reyes’ spine was intended to help them take over the Earth, but their plan went awry in several ways, eventually resulting in the Reach’s attempted invasion tailspsinning in on El Paso- of all possible places on Earth to begin an invasion- the leader of the force becoming obsessed with Jaime and the scarab due to the infiltrator unit and its host breaking away from its intended programming and the Reach’s plans entirely.
Instead of their planned gradual takeover of Earth happening, the Reach ended up causing an outright firefight in the middle of Downtown El Paso, the Reach against the Posse, La Dama and her men, and the Reyes family; all combined managing to hold their own until Justice League International members that had worked with Ted Kord, the previous Blue Beetle- arrived, all of this happening just because of one person- Jaime Reyes, who, on the Reach mothership at the same time as this attack, managed to transmit their plans and intent to every monitor on Earth, insuring that the Reach’s plans were ruined, the world saved from being invaded and destroyed (yet again) and still managing to escape in just the nick of time thanks to Booster Gold.
A city isn’t really home to a superhero until it’s experienced at least one alien invasion, after all, right?
Thankfully, though, despite the prominence (and preeminence granted to) the superheroes and their villains, it’s still a world where normal people get by, live, and contribute to the greater fabric of events- the words Jaime uses from his dad, when explaining why he has to do what he is going to do reiterates that: “We don't choose the life we're born into, but we can choose what to do with it.”
For every superhero, they have family and friends behind them, and beyond them is a greater network of people, all of whom still make their own contributions to the world- in a war against aliens, while there might have been superheroes leading the cause, for each single hero, there were still hundreds and hundreds more soldiers and the thousands of people behind them, working with the heroes to save the world.
It’s that kind of universe.
Personality: Bianca is a loving, generous mother, who greatly cares for her family and friends, and isn't afraid of supporting them even when things are hard, much like much of the rest of her family.
Bianca is compassionate and filled with inner strength- this isn’t evident just because of her connection with her family, but because of the work she does. As a nurse in a hospital, and one who at least some of the time works in the ER, Bianca frequently deals with people who have all sorts of injuries, and all sorts of illnesses, but maintains professional composure and cares for the patients she helps with, despite the hecticness and mental fatigue that can come with such a job on a day to day basis.
That said, between her and her husband, Bianca is the firebrand of the pair, where Alberto is much calmer in temperament. Insamuch as they take the roles, Bianca usually plays the ‘bad cop’ to her husband’s ‘good cop’, the one in charge of shouting at their children, laying down the law, and generally setting the limits for what they can and can’t do, though they share in it.
While more than willing to be friendly, Bianca isn’t afraid of confronting and chewing out others; for example, when Guy Gardner shows up at the Reyes house, she welcomes him in since he wants to talk to Jaime-- who immediately attacks him. Bianca immediately begins to lecture Jaime on the misuse of superpowers, and then proceeds to cow Guy after catching him preparing to punch her son with a giant green fist constructed with his ring. She also wasn’t afraid of dealing with Peacemaker when he regained consciousness in the hospital she worked- confused, violent, and unwell, but still able to cause harm- partially because she injected him with enough sedatives to knock him out in seconds, and partially because that’s just the sort of person she is.
Her temper usually manifests in short and brief bursts, because for all the shouting and yelling, she loves her family, and cares about them deeply, but when she becomes seriously so, she is a forced to be reckoned with, and once she decides on something, that’s it.
Like her son, Bianca has a very concrete sense of what is right and wrong, and is willing to stand up for what is right against those who are doing right, and is capable of adding in twists of ingenuity along the way. There aren’t very many ‘normal’ people out there willing to take up the fight against an alien invasion, or willing to call out bad guys for kidnapping ill and dying men from their care- and even after being slapped to the ground for doing so, use an MRI machine as a weapon.
On the turtle, Bianca will, at first, be really unhappy about this. Angrily and apparently so. She’s not one for the waiting game- if any one of the Reyes family is, it’s certainly not her, it’s her husband- but with limited options available to her, she will dig in and entrench herself firmly in the medical community present in Keeliai to put her abilities to their best use, and do whatever she can -within reason, and sometimes even defying that- to help out so she can go home; even more so when she discovers her son is there and has been for some time. She’s no costumed superhero, but for the Reyes family, it’s not the clothing that counts, but what’s inside.
Appearance:
Abilities: Medicine! As a nurse, Bianca is experienced in hands-on medicine and helping with basic treatment. This means her skill and knowledge set as relating to her work includes (but isn't limited to) knowledge of human anatomy, taking vitals, performing CPR, drawing blood, basic and advanced first aid, suturing, setting IVs, delivering shots, how to do basic labwork, knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their appropriate dosages and how they interact, and paperwork.
She also knows how to use and aim a gun, at least comfortably enough that she isn’t afraid of wielding an assault weapon.
Besides that, she is fluent in both English and Spanish.
She also knows how to terribly misuse an MRI machine to help save the day.
Inventory: The clothes (blue-green scrubs and white sneakers good for walking constantly in) on her back, her hospital name tag, and a flipstyle cell phone.
Suite: Between being from El Paso, which is a desert city that’s built right up against a mountain (and in some parts, onto), and being an earnest, if stubborn person, Bianca probably would find the one-floor suites in Earth the best fit. Besides, it’s like adobe! El Paso has buildings like that.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
Her home was destroyed. Everything was gone. Even though, like ‘Berto said, they were still alive and no one was seriously hurt, everything was gone. All their clothing, their things, their possessions. The whole house was wreckage, and everything inside was probably ruined, if it wasn’t outright destroyed in the blast that Paco and Traci- how did that sneak up on her? When did Jaime get a girlfriend? When did her hijo grow up? She could still remember when Jaime was made up of scraped knees and elbows and he found girls gross.- saved everyone from.
Thank God no one was hurt.
Bianca held Milagro tighter while Paco pulled his car in closer. She was already beginning to be too big to be held for long, and that, combined with her son’s surprise girlfriend, was suddenly daunting. Her children were growing up.
Jaime had grown up to become a superhero, and now the aliens who wanted to take over Earth were targeting him, were trying to hurt herson, her family.
As she moved to sit in Paco’s car, up against ‘Berto, Milagro in their laps, she could only think that whatever happened next, she was going to deal with it, alongside ‘Berto. Whatever Jaime was doing out there, it was making an impression, and she wasn’t going to let her son down by letting the Reach use them against her son.
No one was allowed to do this to her family.
Network:
[A Hispanic woman- olive-brown skin, glossy black hair- wearing scrubs appears, the background a suite in Earth, somewhere. She looks pretty much the definition of really, really unhappy, and like she's ready to give people hell about it. She takes a moment to collect herself.
There's nothing normal about this, but it doesn't mean she's just going to give in. Her son's a superhero. She lived through an alien invasion. One of the last things she did actually helped Jaime and another superhero- Dr. Mid-Nite- save people.
The 'give everyone hell' quotient lowers, just a bit. If the Kedan- who looked a bit too similar to the aliens who blew up her house, and threatened her family for comfort- were to be believed, then there were other people who were in the same situation, kidnapped to help them.]
Are there any hospitals or medical clinics here?
My name is Bianca Reyes, I just arrived.
I'm a nurse by profession, and if it's anything like home [apart from the fact that they're apparently desperate enough to rely on a nurse to do the work of a superhero, which is making Dr. Mid-Nite's suggestion at the hospital a lot less amusing now.] there's probably a shortage.
[There're never enough nurses. The work is demanding enough that not having enough nurses just furthers the shortage by means of making the work that much more intense.]
If I'm going to be stuck here and they're making us work, I'm going to do something I'm good at and can actually help people with.
And if anyone knows, I'd like to know why the hell we're here.
Name: July
Age: 23
Contact: JulyFlame on Plurk
Game Cast: Jor-El
Character Information:
Name: Bianca Reyes
Canon: DCU
Canon Point: After the events of Blue Beetle #31
Age: It's never said, because COMICS, but she's probably in her early 40s.
Reference: Bianca on the DC Wikia.
Setting:Welcome to El Paso, Texas. It's a city of just over half a million people- in a metro area of around two million- right on the US-Mexico border, smack dab on the western-most tip of Texas (enough so that some neighborhoods and streets are in New Mexico instead, and you can look into Ciduad Juarez most days depending on where you're standing), and despite its size, the fact that it's about three hundred miles away from the next closest large American city means it gets forgotten about pretty much everywhere else.
Juarez is heavily controlled- and fought over- by Mexican drug cartels and filled with corrupt police. The cartel lords themselves tend to live in expensive houses in El Paso, which is much less crime-filled than its sister city across the Rio Grande.
For all the problems that Juarez has, and despite its size, El Paso is a pretty quiet city. As big as it is, it's still got a small town feel to it nearly wherever you go. Being a predominantly hispanic town, la familia is important, and so are friends. A lot of families, once they establish themselves in El Paso, tend to stick around, and families grow.
That isn't to say there aren't problems there, of course. Crime happens, fights happen, drama happens. But El Paso and El Pasoans takes care of their own; it's instinct.
All in all, it was to all appearances a fairly normal city right up until it got its very own superhero: Blue Beetle.
Appearances tell different stories, of course. Peel back the normal overcoat and you'll find a city peppered in individuals who dabble in magic or possess magic based power; enough for there to be a whole posse of them, in fact. Dumb kids magically creating demons to get back at people. A woman willing to use people who control magic and supplement it with technology to carve a place of power out for herself in a world of crime dominated by men. A teenaged boy with alien technology lodged against his spine. A city with at least one family of completely normal people willing to fight back against an alien invasion with illegal assault weapons and a stick.
Magic? Aliens? A superhero?
This El Paso is just one of many, on an Earth that is part of a multiverse consisting of fifty-two different universes, each connected and similar, but bearing their own differences. One thing that is a frequent commonality between them, however, is Earth, and the superheroes who protect it.
This universe, specifically, has hundreds upon hundreds of superheroes, across several generations, time, and space; many of them are members of teams, groups, families that all work together for the common cause of helping others and doing something to make a difference. Aliens are out there. Magic exists. There are planets out there that hold giant batteries, ones constructed to be living death traps, still others that are home to people who declare themselves gods, and one that has left only the last of its dominant race and chunks of green glowing rock behind as evidence it was ever there.
The Earth’s been threatened hundreds, if not thousands of times, by people on the planet and others from space. Between alien superheroes making Earth their home and various invasions, the various nations of Earth are quickly willing to be diplomatic with those races that actually show up on the radar and appear congenial- unfortunately, the apparent congeniality is not always the actual case.
That kid with the alien technology in his spine, for example? The tech came from the Reach, an alien race that once went head to head with the Oans due to the Reach’s imperialistic ways, which led to them conquering and subduing many different planets before the Guardians and Reach fought to a standstill before both sides agreed to a treaty where the Reach would stop expanding throughout the universe and the Guardians would in turn leave them be.
Of course, it turns out, the Reach weren’t following along with this accord, and instead were using their technology to infiltrate planets to conquer them from within, rather than from without- the scarab attached to Jaime Reyes’ spine was intended to help them take over the Earth, but their plan went awry in several ways, eventually resulting in the Reach’s attempted invasion tailspsinning in on El Paso- of all possible places on Earth to begin an invasion- the leader of the force becoming obsessed with Jaime and the scarab due to the infiltrator unit and its host breaking away from its intended programming and the Reach’s plans entirely.
Instead of their planned gradual takeover of Earth happening, the Reach ended up causing an outright firefight in the middle of Downtown El Paso, the Reach against the Posse, La Dama and her men, and the Reyes family; all combined managing to hold their own until Justice League International members that had worked with Ted Kord, the previous Blue Beetle- arrived, all of this happening just because of one person- Jaime Reyes, who, on the Reach mothership at the same time as this attack, managed to transmit their plans and intent to every monitor on Earth, insuring that the Reach’s plans were ruined, the world saved from being invaded and destroyed (yet again) and still managing to escape in just the nick of time thanks to Booster Gold.
A city isn’t really home to a superhero until it’s experienced at least one alien invasion, after all, right?
Thankfully, though, despite the prominence (and preeminence granted to) the superheroes and their villains, it’s still a world where normal people get by, live, and contribute to the greater fabric of events- the words Jaime uses from his dad, when explaining why he has to do what he is going to do reiterates that: “We don't choose the life we're born into, but we can choose what to do with it.”
For every superhero, they have family and friends behind them, and beyond them is a greater network of people, all of whom still make their own contributions to the world- in a war against aliens, while there might have been superheroes leading the cause, for each single hero, there were still hundreds and hundreds more soldiers and the thousands of people behind them, working with the heroes to save the world.
It’s that kind of universe.
Personality: Bianca is a loving, generous mother, who greatly cares for her family and friends, and isn't afraid of supporting them even when things are hard, much like much of the rest of her family.
Bianca is compassionate and filled with inner strength- this isn’t evident just because of her connection with her family, but because of the work she does. As a nurse in a hospital, and one who at least some of the time works in the ER, Bianca frequently deals with people who have all sorts of injuries, and all sorts of illnesses, but maintains professional composure and cares for the patients she helps with, despite the hecticness and mental fatigue that can come with such a job on a day to day basis.
That said, between her and her husband, Bianca is the firebrand of the pair, where Alberto is much calmer in temperament. Insamuch as they take the roles, Bianca usually plays the ‘bad cop’ to her husband’s ‘good cop’, the one in charge of shouting at their children, laying down the law, and generally setting the limits for what they can and can’t do, though they share in it.
While more than willing to be friendly, Bianca isn’t afraid of confronting and chewing out others; for example, when Guy Gardner shows up at the Reyes house, she welcomes him in since he wants to talk to Jaime-- who immediately attacks him. Bianca immediately begins to lecture Jaime on the misuse of superpowers, and then proceeds to cow Guy after catching him preparing to punch her son with a giant green fist constructed with his ring. She also wasn’t afraid of dealing with Peacemaker when he regained consciousness in the hospital she worked- confused, violent, and unwell, but still able to cause harm- partially because she injected him with enough sedatives to knock him out in seconds, and partially because that’s just the sort of person she is.
Her temper usually manifests in short and brief bursts, because for all the shouting and yelling, she loves her family, and cares about them deeply, but when she becomes seriously so, she is a forced to be reckoned with, and once she decides on something, that’s it.
Like her son, Bianca has a very concrete sense of what is right and wrong, and is willing to stand up for what is right against those who are doing right, and is capable of adding in twists of ingenuity along the way. There aren’t very many ‘normal’ people out there willing to take up the fight against an alien invasion, or willing to call out bad guys for kidnapping ill and dying men from their care- and even after being slapped to the ground for doing so, use an MRI machine as a weapon.
On the turtle, Bianca will, at first, be really unhappy about this. Angrily and apparently so. She’s not one for the waiting game- if any one of the Reyes family is, it’s certainly not her, it’s her husband- but with limited options available to her, she will dig in and entrench herself firmly in the medical community present in Keeliai to put her abilities to their best use, and do whatever she can -within reason, and sometimes even defying that- to help out so she can go home; even more so when she discovers her son is there and has been for some time. She’s no costumed superhero, but for the Reyes family, it’s not the clothing that counts, but what’s inside.
Appearance:
Abilities: Medicine! As a nurse, Bianca is experienced in hands-on medicine and helping with basic treatment. This means her skill and knowledge set as relating to her work includes (but isn't limited to) knowledge of human anatomy, taking vitals, performing CPR, drawing blood, basic and advanced first aid, suturing, setting IVs, delivering shots, how to do basic labwork, knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their appropriate dosages and how they interact, and paperwork.
She also knows how to use and aim a gun, at least comfortably enough that she isn’t afraid of wielding an assault weapon.
Besides that, she is fluent in both English and Spanish.
She also knows how to terribly misuse an MRI machine to help save the day.
Inventory: The clothes (blue-green scrubs and white sneakers good for walking constantly in) on her back, her hospital name tag, and a flipstyle cell phone.
Suite: Between being from El Paso, which is a desert city that’s built right up against a mountain (and in some parts, onto), and being an earnest, if stubborn person, Bianca probably would find the one-floor suites in Earth the best fit. Besides, it’s like adobe! El Paso has buildings like that.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
Her home was destroyed. Everything was gone. Even though, like ‘Berto said, they were still alive and no one was seriously hurt, everything was gone. All their clothing, their things, their possessions. The whole house was wreckage, and everything inside was probably ruined, if it wasn’t outright destroyed in the blast that Paco and Traci- how did that sneak up on her? When did Jaime get a girlfriend? When did her hijo grow up? She could still remember when Jaime was made up of scraped knees and elbows and he found girls gross.- saved everyone from.
Thank God no one was hurt.
Bianca held Milagro tighter while Paco pulled his car in closer. She was already beginning to be too big to be held for long, and that, combined with her son’s surprise girlfriend, was suddenly daunting. Her children were growing up.
Jaime had grown up to become a superhero, and now the aliens who wanted to take over Earth were targeting him, were trying to hurt herson, her family.
As she moved to sit in Paco’s car, up against ‘Berto, Milagro in their laps, she could only think that whatever happened next, she was going to deal with it, alongside ‘Berto. Whatever Jaime was doing out there, it was making an impression, and she wasn’t going to let her son down by letting the Reach use them against her son.
No one was allowed to do this to her family.
Network:
[A Hispanic woman- olive-brown skin, glossy black hair- wearing scrubs appears, the background a suite in Earth, somewhere. She looks pretty much the definition of really, really unhappy, and like she's ready to give people hell about it. She takes a moment to collect herself.
There's nothing normal about this, but it doesn't mean she's just going to give in. Her son's a superhero. She lived through an alien invasion. One of the last things she did actually helped Jaime and another superhero- Dr. Mid-Nite- save people.
The 'give everyone hell' quotient lowers, just a bit. If the Kedan- who looked a bit too similar to the aliens who blew up her house, and threatened her family for comfort- were to be believed, then there were other people who were in the same situation, kidnapped to help them.]
Are there any hospitals or medical clinics here?
My name is Bianca Reyes, I just arrived.
I'm a nurse by profession, and if it's anything like home [apart from the fact that they're apparently desperate enough to rely on a nurse to do the work of a superhero, which is making Dr. Mid-Nite's suggestion at the hospital a lot less amusing now.] there's probably a shortage.
[There're never enough nurses. The work is demanding enough that not having enough nurses just furthers the shortage by means of making the work that much more intense.]
If I'm going to be stuck here and they're making us work, I'm going to do something I'm good at and can actually help people with.
And if anyone knows, I'd like to know why the hell we're here.
