Batch of Nine

@ castiel's vessel

Okay sweet!
I read them both(: and the one above where you say they come get the bad batch sounds good!

@ Properly Improper
If you start working out your character in terms of personality, life and such, as we discuss the vaccination in more detail and decide what it actually does to them, we can then start applying symptoms and effects to the characters.

Woo, finally got my character together. Sorry it took me so long!

Holly Moreland — Currently 27, Holly made the decision to marry and start a family at a young age in case her window of opportunity ran out. She has a four-year-old daughter named Ruby. Her husband wants another child, but Holly's health issues have been creeping up again and she's scared she won't be healthy enough to carry the child.

Her husband is a software developer and makes good money, allowing Holly to be a stay-at-home mom. She'd always wanted to be a teacher and harbors some degree of bitterness because she hasn't been able to become one, but would rather be a mother. She's patient, nurturing and kind, and tries to see the best in people.

Once we discuss the vaccine and the effects it has on everyone, I'll add more. Let me know if there's anything else I should include!

@ chibs telford
@ Properly Improper

So I've been looking at the vaccinations we generally get as a child (here) to try and work out when the vaccine should be given and I'm thinking that it should be between the ages of 5 and 7 years and the vaccination itself could be a childhood booster given to only medically healthy children to help protect their immune system in general rather than just protecting against certain illness like most vaccinations are. That would mean that this story would have to start several years in the future in terms of when the vaccination would have come out, so maybe it could be the first year given that the nine have their injections. The non medically healthy children wouldn't get the booster because there's no point seeing as they have a weak immune system already if they're continuously getting ill. They'd get checked out as a teenager/adult and receive the teenage/adult booster if they're medically healthy. The jab wouldn't completely stop them getting ill but it'd lower the risk significantly. What do you guys think?

@ castiel's vessel
No problems here.

@ castiel's vessel
@ chibs telford

Sorry if I don't post in the thread as much as I should be! Finals are a little brutal right now!

I have no problem with that!
Also, I'll post my character ASAP! :)

@ chibs telford
@ Properly Improper

Alright, great! Now that we have that done, I think we should discuss the effects starting from childhood to teenage years until adult years. I don't think my character will be posted until we've done that because he's going to basically be shaped by his effects so therefore knowing what they are is vital to his personality.

Cassidy Leadworth

Cass is a twenty-six year old Hollywood actress. As of late, her health has been acting weird, but she doesn't want anyone to know. She is at the height of her career, and also has a loving family life at home with her long term boyfriend, which makes her afraid to admit that something is wrong, in case she loses some part of her currently good life. She is friendly, naive, and a bit of a push over. She cares a little too much in any given situation, which could lead to trouble.

Once we figure out more about the effects, I can add more! :) I thought it'd be cool to have someone who is in the eye of the media for this story. Maybe she could think she's untouchable by the government, and that puts everyone in danger later on? I don't know, I just thought it might be cool for this story!

@ Properly Improper
So she's living in Hollywood, right?

@ castiel's vessel

Yeah!

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford
Alright, so she'll be the only one not in the UK unless Holly doesn't live in the UK?

And, does anyone have any ideas to put forward for what effects could befall them as a child? Because then we could build on them to make them more severe when they become a teenager/adult if we don't want their effects to change too much. But the effects would have to link with their main effects (e.g. one has their senses heightened, one is unable to control their emotions to a point where being grounded as a teenager sent them into a frenzy that they couldn't physically stop, etc.) but I don't want to use the word "power" or whatever to describe the main effect because they won't be powers.

@ castiel's vessel
I was going to have Holly live in the UK, yeah.

I was thinking Holly's would have to be somewhat debilitating if it prompted her into marrying and having a child earlier than she would've liked to, but I'm not sure. I was definitely thinking she'd have gotten sicker more frequently as a child and that the common cold would put her on bed rest for an unrealistic amount of time, but I'm not sure what else to overlap that with.

Maybe her emotional instincts become incredibly heightened? Like, when she goes through a spurt, she can "sense" someone who's upset or angry or happy. Obviously, if she senses someone who's upset or depressed, she can "feel" it too. Like how they say twins are connected…or is that too power-y?

@ castiel's vessel

Cass is going to have been born and live in the UK until she was around 10, that way she would have been there for the vaccination. I think Cass's effects will have something to do with a splitting headache. Where her headache kicks in and she just doesn't really have control over the things she does anymore, does reckless things, or buys something really expensive, but she doesn't remember the things she does afterwards.

@ chibs telford
No, that's fine! So she can have periods of normalcy but when she has her spurts, she can feel other people's emotions? Is that what you mean?

@ Properly Improper
So essentially the bad injection gave her the long-term effect of splitting headaches and during "bad" headaches, she sort of blanks out and has no idea what she's doing and doesn't remember doing it when the "bad" headache has passed?

I'm thinking that my guy is unable to control his emotions at times. His name's Carwyn Dythen and he's twenty five. The effects had started as a child with having been violently sick for the following two weeks after the injection. Then after that period passed, his temper would flare at pretty much anything and he couldn't control it and would sob to his mother afterwards about how he couldn't stop and he was scared. His family then moved back across the border into Wales and sent him to a special unit for children with behaviour problems but he became so violent after a teacher ripped up his work for drawing a penis that his physically attacked her at the age of ten and was sent to be assessed. All it was found to be was anger management issues and he had appointments every fortnight in regards to it, so when he started high school at eleven his teachers already knew of his issues and tried not to provoke him or allow any of the other students to. He faced several suspensions for fighting, had an exclusion for an altercation in a class full of students and almost got expelled but his anger management helper got it cut down to a prolonged exclusion. When he was fourteen, he got grounded for a petty reason and went into such a frenzy that he ended up wrist and bruising his knuckles by attacking the wall. The same excuse for all of his violent has been that he couldn't physically stop, and although both parents were at their wit's end, they believed him. It was the officials that didn't. He still lives with his parents and is unable to hold down a job because of how violence. He has a girlfriend who often provokes him which often leads to midnight A&E trips where he's dislocated his knuckle by punching walls and objects instead of her.

I have no picture yet but I'll get one soon. His main emotion he loses control with is anger but it does apply to all of them, and he can go times when he doesn't lose his temper.

@ castiel's vessel
Yep, that's exactly what I was thinking.

And I love your character!

@ castiel's vessel

Yeah, that's what I was thinking! Is that good?

I love your character! :)

@ castiel's vessel

Yeah, that's what I was thinking! Is that good?

I love your character! :)

@ chibs telford
@ Properly Improper

Alright they're both great. Now that our main three are out the way, we each need to get the character profile of one other affected person. I don't think we need profiles for the one dead, the one already found and the one with no effects. And while we're doing that, let's discuss the reasons behind the section of government wanting to find them initially (like when the found the first two).

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

Can you guys check out the effects I put for your characters in the first post and let me know whether you want to add any more in. Once they're fine, it'll be easier for us to do the other character's bio including their effects. I'll be getting my other infected character posted tonight so then once all three are in, we can start discussing the section of government and which people we need to have bios for within that, and then we can discuss what's going to happen.

Looks good to me! I'll try to get my second character done ASAP. I've got a mountain of homework to get done this weekend.