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0. Is this a Player Character (your character) or a Non-Player Character run by you?
Edmund is a Non-Player Character (run by Thesseli). Madeleine is his companion, an NPC.
1. What does your character look like? Your companions?
Edmund looks like…well, Edmund. With short ivory horns and a forked tail. He dresses quite stylishly.
Madeleine is about 5’3, with red hair and gray-blue eyes. (Her physical appearance is based on the character of Caroline Hailey from the TV series ‘Homefront’ from the early 1990’s.) Her usual expression is one of amused disgust.
2. What is your character’s actual age and age of appearance? Your companions?
Edmund is about 650 years old in Earth terms; he looks about 30. (He may reach 4000 if he doesn’t get too mouthy.) Madeleine is 27.
3. What is your character’s species and universe of origin?
Edmund is originally from the AD&D universe—first edition. He is half human and half devil (or Baatezu, as they call themselves); for the most part, he looks human. He is the result of a visit to that universe by Thesseli and Kerr, during which Thess borrowed the body of a female devil called Glasya. Kerr got to stay in his own body—he’s Edmund’s biological father. After being rescued from his home universe by the White Guardian, Edmund was sent to Earth four times via reincarnation—for reasons best known to the Guardian. During his human lives he has no memory of his prior existence. Between these lives (four of them, for each of the four series), he works for the Guardian in a minor capacity in the records department. He has recently been promoted—he was chosen to become an operative for the CIA.
Madeleine is human, and is from Earth in the year 1917. She’s from the same universe Bailey and Harlan are from. Her first appearance was in a zine called Cunning Plots, in the story entitled ‘King and Country’. (I’d written that story for the fanzine, but also as a way to introduce her into Starbucket.) She’s English, upper class, and rich. She volunteered as a nurse at the beginning of the war, and was working in the field hospital near where Edmund (in BA IV) was stationed. This is where they first met.
4. What is the name of your character’s ship or vehicle?
Edmund's timeship is called Darwin’s Mirror. It’s not a TARDIS, but it can move forward, backward, and sideways in time. He's not exactly sure how everything on it works, but he can pilot it.
5. Does your character have any particular colors associated with him/her? How about companions?
Edmund—black. Madeleine—red (her hair--it's really red).
6. List some adjectives that describe your character’s personality. Likewise for companions.
Edmund: sarcastic, clever, witty, judgmental. Madeleine: perceptive, abrasive, unpredictable, provoking.
7. What is your character good at? Bad at? What particular areas of expertise? What about companions?
Edmund is good at talking his way into and out of bad situations. His talents include witty comebacks, thinking on his feet, and coming up with cunning plans. He’s not as good at predicting the long-range effects of those plans, however. And he can’t hold his liquor.
Madeleine is a great dancer. She is also excellent at reading people—facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, etc. From this follows another skill, which is knowing just what to say to someone to push that person’s buttons. This is one of her favorite things, not only with people she doesn’t like (and there are a lot of those) but also with people she does.
8. What special magical/metapsychic/surly/etc. powers does your character have? Your companions?
Madeleine has no special powers. Edmund has a number of them, thanks to his unique ancestry. In his home universe there was a lot of magic, and his people were some of the most powerful practitioners—if he had stayed in his home universe he would have risen very high in their power structure. Outside of that universe, his magical abilities vary with the type and quantity of magical energy available, and also with the local laws of physics (and metaphysics). Some places have an abundance of magical energy, some have very little. What he can do is dependent on where he is. However, there are three things he can do in any universe he visits: sense magical energy, teleport, and understand any spoken language. And now that he's in his true form, there's one thing he can't do... Because he is a mixture of two very different species (with different chromosome numbers), he is unable to father children.
9. What weapons does your character usually use? Companions?
Edmund likes pistols and swords. Madeleine usually doesn’t carry a weapon, but can use a pistol when she needs to.
10. What are your character’s usual attack methods? Companions?
Edmund goes for sneak attacks. Madeleine’s style is to provoke an opponent into a foolish or hotheaded reaction, to get them angry enough to make a mistake.
11. What, if any, relatives and friends are there that might show up in a story?
Any relative of Bailey’s is a relative of Edmund’s, even though Bailey isn’t biologically related to him at all! Madeleine’s husband Harry was a pilot, a Canadian, killed in the line of duty earlier in the war. (Their marriage was neither arranged nor approved of by her peers, but her parents were quite tolerant.)
12. Is there any prior history that we should know about your character? Companions?
Madeleine grew up privileged, and rich enough to get away with a lot more than most others could. Because she was perceptive and insightful, even at a very young age, she figured out early on that her world was far from perfect…and there was a lot that she didn’t like. Since she couldn’t shut herself away from it all, her response was to push it away instead.
Captain Edmund Blackadder met Chief Nurse Madeleine King several weeks before his unit was wiped out in Nov. 1917.
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