I had to do a bit of research for this for my fic The Voluntary (*coughselfpromotioncough*).
The Sharing has it's large outer group. If you want to check it out you can just come to a meeting. When you come you fill out a form with information like your name, address, etc. etc. If you return for a second meeting you're assigned a full member who is kind of like your Big Brother (think of how fraternities work). He shows you around, gets you excited about full membership, and makes sure that you are having a great time.
After a certain number of meetings (in MM4 Back to Before Tobias says it's three, but I would think it would be a few more than that) you are required to either 1) become a full member or 2) quit.
If you decide to become a full member you are taken into a room where someone (ie Chapman) would explain the Yeerks to you in very convoluted terms, making it seem like giving up your freedom for a hostile alien takeover is no biggie. At that point you either agree and become voluntary or fight and become involuntary.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
The Human:
Name- Tiamate Morgan
Age- 20
Gender- Female
Description- On appearance, she is average. Average height, average weight, average bust, average everything. She does her best to blend in with the crowd when she can, which she's fairly good at doing because she's so non-discript.
She's mildly tan and can pull off a bikini if she wants.
Personality-She's stubborn, strong-willed, argumentative, and arrogant She's a bit of a night-owl. She's fairly active and usually dependable and extremely short-tempered. She has a short attention span. She is almost always tired and grumpy. She also has a thing for languages.
History-Having grown up in -insert where Animorphs live here- she still knows her way around the place. However, due to some estate issues, she's finally managed to move back.
See, when she was about fifteen, she started acting out. This happened to coinside with the time that her father began traveling with work again. As it was, her worried mother spoke with her father about enrolling her in an afterschool activity or something. So, her father took her to check out the Sharing, to spend some quality "father, daughter" time together.
A few weeks later they became full members. Her father got some lowly Yeerk, while she was sub-visser Twenty-Nine.
Fastforward two years to when the sub-visser finds out that her father's Yeerk is trying to get Yeerks to rally against Visser Three. He took out her father in a fire that destroyed their house.
Three weeks later her mother announces that they're moving up North. A year later she died in a car crash.
A week ago, she finally got a call--and a bill--from her lawyer Naomi. She said that the estate had finally cleared. So, Tia packed up and moved back, deciding that now that the smoke had cleared, she might look into some classes at a small college. That is assuming Norpo will help her with...just about everything.
That's still up in the air.
The Yeerk:
Name-Norpo 697
Personality-He's sweet, caring, smart, and a little Narsasistic. He'd be just as happy spending his time on the couch than anything else. He's slow to action, argumentative, not very strong-willed, dependable, and easily swayed by his host.
Description (Sorry, this is actually important in his case...)-He's average length and weight for a Yeerk, with a long scar running across his back from where his current host attempted to cut him in half and then tried to save him. She's never told him why, and he's never pushed the subject.
History-Norpo is a Yeerk who spent most of his time being a good worker for the Yeerk Empire. That was until his sister--a Yeerk named Hapro--began yelling at him.
His sister would go on and on about how what the Yeerks were doing was evil; how he should stop simply obeying orders and open his eyes, ect.
Finally, if only to stop her pestering, he attended one of the meetings of a group of Yeerks who believed the Andalites were right when it came to saying the Yeerks were evil. The Empire needed to be stopped!
Norpo joined right then and there.
Now, a few years after gaining his host from some sub-visser who didn't want to deal with moving out of state, he sometimes wonders if it was a good decision. Staying with his host, that is.
The Human:
Name- Aurora Nailo
Age- 17
Gender- Female
Description- Aurora has light brown hair that falls just below her shoulders. Her eyes are light gray, the color of ash. She has tanned skin, with a smattering of freckles, and is of average height and build. She usually wears faded blue jeans and an oversized hoodie, hiding her figure due to image insecurities.
Personality- Aurora is very quiet and shy. Every time she does voice her opinion she quickly backs down, fearing opposition and critique. She tries to blend in with the crowd and avoid making waves. When she does feel comfortable to open up to someone she is surprisingly sarcastic.
History- Aurora suffers from middle-child syndrome. Her older sister is beautiful, confident and popular. Her younger brother is adorable and outgoing. Falling somewhere in the middle, she spent her elementary and middle-school years getting into trouble and acting out. When that didn't draw the attention she wanted she became withdrawn and shy. Now a junior in high school Aurora does as much as possible to avoid attention.
One way in which Aurora distracts herself is by joining organizations. She edits both the school newspaper and yearbook. She joined The Sharing on a whim after seeing posters up at school, wondering if there were any behind the scene tasks that she could take on while continuing to avoid social interaction.
The Human:
Name-Michael Leicester
Age-25
Gender-Male
Description/History-Mike's pale, thin and on the tall side, 5'9" with a lanky build of someone who works more with numbers than with lifting weights. He grew up in Liverpool but moved to California to attend graduate school. He had just completed his Master's degree in chemistry when signed up for The Sharing to help him cope with his addictive personality. The Sharing helped him recover from drugs (yes, druggies can complete degrees in chemistry) at the cost of his personal freedom. He has messy black hair and brown eyes, usually wearing jeans and lots of black, just not in the goth sort of way. When he met Corliss his attire began to become much more businesslike, white business shirt sort of look. But that's only during his part time stint as a PR/advertising person for The Sharing. While Michael is initially regarded as a valuable host for his scientific knowledge and connections in academia, his influence on his Yeerk makes him a definite annoyance to the Empire.
Personality-A rational but misguided person, Mike tried to set his life in order and ended up making the single best and worst decision of his life, one that took away a bit of his freedom and threw him headfirst into an intergalactic war, but allowed him to try and help the planet firsthand. At heart Mike is selfless, but it took the impending end of the world for him to really realize that.
The Yeerk:
Name-Corliss 382
Personality/History-Corliss is Mike's foil, he's just as intelligent but without the penchant for addiction. He has a good sense of humor, and is very loyal to his friends and those siblings who choose to associate with him. His loyalty to the Empire since coming to Earth has been questionable, however, being involved with the Peace Faction and in increasingly un-peaceful ways. Prior to coming to Earth he was a loyal Imperial for many years, he was always bothered by the discomfort and outright hate his hosts felt toward his people, but he continued to serve the Empire nevertheless.
The Human:
Name-Tara LaFauci
Age-24
Gender-female
Description-5'5", medium height, caucasian with brown eyes and brown curly hair that's shoulder length and tends to be messy. She's usually wearing jeans and a t-shirt, almost always obscured by a black jacket in which lots of things can be concealed. Black army boots.
Personality/History-Tara is an outgoing and pretty stalwart person, and only joined The Sharing because she thought it'd look good on her college applications. Turned out she got a lot more than she bargained for. That was several years ago, and although she wanted to study geology in college, she never quite got there. Her involvement with The Sharing and the subsequent grudging friendship with her Yeerk, Myitt 195, forced her to pretty much sever ties with society. Her family had been taken by the Empire, which gave her sort of a reason to fight, but she and Myitt initially didn't get along. It was only until Myitt began to realize she didn't want to risk her life for the sake of a government that enslaved other sentient beings that their relationship turned into a truce and an eventual mutual cooperation kind of thing.
The Yeerk:
Name-Myitt 195
Personality/History-Myitt's outlook on life requires a good sense of humor to be able to laugh at the inevitable. She's sarcastic and quite blunt, but she knows how to be a loyal friend to those her paranoia allows her to trust. She, like her brother Corliss 382, was born on the Yeerk homeworld in Generation 680 (around 1961) in a pool located far on the other side of the planet from most of the Andalite outposts at the time. It was also one of the pools selected by the fleeing Yeerk force to be siphoned up into waiting ships, to be whisked off into the universe. Although she was not much more than a grub at the time, she still harbors an inherent dislike of the Andalite race, particularly since they still refuse to help the rebel forces even though they face a common enemy. She moved through the ranks and acquired Gedd and Hork-Bajir hosts, before being stationed on Earth. Tara was her first human host, and as mentioned above they initially didn't get along--but Myitt's softhearted core and lifelong aversion to having someone screaming in her head, in addition to having a few close siblings share the same feeling, led her down the slow and uneasy process of giving up her success and becoming a traitor to the Empire. In her former life she served at different times as a ship mechanic and engineer, specializing in engine design and repair. If she could retire from the war she'd probably teach mathematics, or just find a beach in Hawaii with some booze.
The Human:
Name-Tyronne Hoghug
Age-14
Gender-Male
Description-He's of average height and average build. He has black hair that covers his left eye. He has black eyes that are slightly brown-ish. He almost always wears a white T-shirt, and black pants that fall below the ankles.
Personality-He's stubborn, slightly selfish, and can be a bit ignorant to other people's feelings. He's never afraid of stating his opinion. In almost any situation, he's calm, and can see the clear line from A to Z. Some may call him ruthless or heartless. More than anything else, he cares about having power.
History-A troublemaker, he originally joined the Sharing because his teacher suggested it might help. When he found out what the Sharing was really about, he instantly joined, because of his greed for power. He is now a voluntary controller, and works together with his yeerk partner to kill any suspected traitors.
The Yeerk:
Name-Estril 8755
Personality-Estril is a smart and cunning yeerk. He's also power-hungry, which makes him a perfect math for Tyronne. He would love nothing more than to be a visser, and strives everyday to be promoted.
History-As any yeerk knows, the double digits in his name represents he is one of two yeerks born from the same grub. He is the prime, and his twin yeerk is the lesser. His first host was a Gedd which the new yeerks used for training to control a host. His own first host was a hork-bajir. He helped in invading the hork-bajir planet. However, his host died in a battle and he barely made it out alive. He returned to the yeerk pool and was transported to earth where he awaited a new host. When given Tyronne as a host, they instantly clicked, and together hunt down any suspected traitors..
The Human:
Name - Kaitlyn Lacetta
Age - 15
Gender - Female
Description - Kaitlyn is very short for her age. She has medium blonde shoulder-length hair and soft, light brown eyes. She almost never wears make up. She usually wears jeans, T-shirts, and sweatshirts.
Personality - She is rather friendly, though very quiet. People think of her as, "Shy and cute." She's very compliant, not out of respect, but mostly because she is afraid of punishment, one of the main reasons she was drawn so easily into The Sharing.
History - Kaitlyn joined The Sharing at age twelve, hoping to make new friends. She was more than thrilled by the level of kindness she was treated with by her guide, Shannon, and other friends, and thriving on their kindness and happiness, immediately requested full membership. When they explained what was to happen to her, she refused, but eventually surrendered and allowed them to infest her with no complaints, for fear that they would hurt her or someone she cared for.
The Yeerk:
Name - Illrid 665
Personality - Illrid is unfriendly and irritable. She does not speak with her host very often. When she does, it's usually only to tell her to be quiet.
History - With an average rank and only a young female human host, used only as a tool for recruiting new Sharing members, Illrid has become quite impatient. She hates the Peace Faction with a passion and wants nothing more than to succeed and prove that she is worthy of something much better. Still, she is ignored.
Thank you! *hugs*
The Human:
Name- Denise Matticelli
Age- 21
Gender- Female
Description- Tall, slender, willowy, a definite dancer's physique. Is very good looking in an exotic sort of way. Has very long and straight jet black hair, deeply tanned skin, light green eyes, and barely there freckles. Is of Polynesian and Italian descent. Is usually seen wearing casual type clothing; namely jeans, tank tops, sandals, and hoodies. Shops mainly at thrift stores due to her very limited budget. Also has a small tattoo of a lotus flower on her upper back and above it Chinese text that says "To dance is to live".
Personality- Denise has a reputation for being very fiery, independent, and extremely strong willed. Many that know her say she's also incredibly stubborn, argumentative, and set in her own ways. She is a very ambitious go-getter type person and won't take no for an answer or let things stand in her way. When she's mad she's MAD and it's usually a good idea to duck and cover. Is not afraid to talk to people or socialize, but often prefers to concentrate on her dancing instead which is her passion. Denise is also quite opinionated and will speak her mind, regardless of whether feelings get stepped on or not. Possesses a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She has had an on and off problem with alcohol since high school and refuses to admit that she needs any help because of it. Doesn't smoke though because she finds it nasty and disgusting.
History- For as long as she could remember, Denise had always been captivated with the arts of dancing. As a little girl, she begged her parents mercilessly for dance lessons and begrudgingly they gave in, enrolling her in tap and jazz classes.
Denise excelled at dancing and often took part in school performances throughout elementary, junior high, and high school. She was quite talented and immediately upon graduating high school, she embarked on her dream of becoming a professional dancer.
Ignoring her parent's advice about attending college and having something to fall back on, Denise was so adamant about dancing that she immediately devoted all her efforts to auditions and try outs for whatever was available. But despite her good looks and dancing skill, Denise wasn't prepared for the fierce competition, and faced constant rejection. But given her stubbornness and passion, she refused to give up and even resorted to alcohol to get her through the tough times.
Unfortunately, this lead to frequent visits to rehab and of course the fact that she had very little money to support herself, which meant she had to take crummy low-paying jobs to pay the rent, all the while keeping up her heated pursuit of a professional dancing career.
Before long, she had fallen out of contact with her parents and old friends because she was busy working part-time and auditioning. The biggest mistake being her willingness to 'dance' for a seedy strip club downtown, such was her determinedness to become a dancer. Even though she hates her job with a passion which only escalates her drinking problem further, Denise sees this as her only chance at possibly making it after a long string of failures.
Having hit rock bottom with her 'dancing career', her loneliness, and alcoholism; Denise began seeking serious help for her problems despite her initial reluctance and the little income she had; seeing therapists and numerous guidance counselors. They all recommended an accepting, friendly, and supportive organization called The Sharing to help her in her times of need. Figuring she had nothing else to lose, Denise has decided to give it a whirl, even though it really doesn't seem like her kind of thing.
The Human:
Name- Afareen Ovasi
Age- 50
Gender- Female
Description- short and slender, with dark skin and big somber brown eyes. Her graying black hair is usually tied in a long braid down her back.
Personality-Afareen is very calm and serene, level-headed and quick to forgive.
History- Before she became a Controller Afareen was a mother and wife in the outskirts of Tehran, Iran. She became infested while attending a meeting of the Iranian version of The Sharing, which aimed to promote positive relations between Iranian and American citizens in the country. Caroline was infested by Proliss, who had been active with the YPM with her previous host.
The Yeerk:
Name- Proliss 569 of the Rep Niar Pool
Personality- A relatively young Yeerk, Proliss is an ambitious often excitable Yeerk who is constantly looking for something new and interesting. She's extremely bubbly, an odd contrast with her current host, and sometimes annoyingly so. She can also be a bit bossy at times and enjoys having people work under her.
History- Proliss rose in rank fairly quickly in her young years. She excelled at her training and was awarded with a Hork-Bajir host and the rank of Sub-Visser 49. All of her plans for serving the Empire were quickly thrown to the side, however, when she found herself working directly under Visser Three. Aghast at his methods of authority and disregard for Yeerk life, she joined the YPM as a form of protest. Her beloved Hork-Bajir host was killed in a battle and she barely escaped with her life. A fellow YPM member saved her and transported her to a pool that was away from the main of the battles, in the Earth's middle east. Here she obtained Afareen as a host. Proliss was not content to remain in Iran, away from the battlegrounds, and wait patiently for orders. Afareen was willing to do anything to protect her family, and so rather than draw the Yeerks to them Proliss snuck out of Iran and became a refugee. She rejoined with the YPM in the USA where she remained for three years until she took up a position at the off-world base.
((...ok...I am having a very hard time understanding rp rules))
Its contents were some kind of hybrid between porridge and watery, soggy Cheerios.Ew. I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth.))
The sun came up over the Rocky Mountains, with the little ship parked on a broad, flat plain caked with white. Some kind of salt flat? It's almost an alien landscape...
"Eh, I only let her kill when I have to," Norpo replied as Tia checked the sites on the thing. Satisfied, she stuck it in the back of her pants before following Myitt off the ship and then off the roof. Her landing was about as soft as Myitt's. However, the pile of cardboard had sunk enough that getting out of the Dumpster was going to be a bit more difficult. Rather than stating this, she motioned for Michael to lower Aurora down to her, rather than risk making more noise. They'd figure out how to get out later.((whoa hold on. Michael is supposed to be younger than Aurora, so wouldn't that mean, Michael is also lighter?))
Norpo followed them in his bug fighter.((*Coughs* Um...morfowt, is there another Norpo that I'm unaware of? I mean, it's plausable, since Iniss isn't the only Iniss out there, but still...))
(( fyi, I'll be gone for a few days. Evacuating from Hurricane Ike. Feel free to take over Aurora until I return, so long as you don't kill her off or anything!))((I may or may not control Aurora for a few posts. it depends on how fast this rp moves along, and how soon Terenia comes back, and if it'd be acceptable...))
((Oyah... I'm still involved in this. Just waiting for morf to finish whatever his character's up to, before I send my character off after you guys. :P))
((I'm still thinking of my next move...will post again as soon as I can adequately think of something lol))like traycon said, get on a ship and come with me, otherwise I'll just have my character leave without you.
((Just a little aside in case morf wants someone to try and contact ^__^))((say what?))
((Hey morfowt, hows the tracking mission going? :) ))((you must've missed one of my posts then, cuz we're already in the same solar system))
((Hey morfowt, hows the tracking mission going? :) ))((you must've missed one of my posts then, cuz we're already in the same solar system))