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HO-32

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Captain Brightlight
Charge
Contact
Burnout
Spotlight
Livewire
Dusty

Captain Brightlight

Long suffering and newly appointed post captain. Has several anxiety disorders and bad taste in men. Closeted nerd who is convinced everyone hates him. Smells like lavender and cigarette smoke (this came to me in the most vivid dream I have ever had).

Captain Brightlight is the commanding officer of Northern Grid Outpost HO-32. Somewhat aloof (though never fully settled) he carries himself with an anxiety quietly simmering under his surface that always waits for precisely the wrong moment to burst forth. He sees himself as the universe's favourite punching bag, preferring that angle over accepting the reality that cruelty is indiscriminate and he is just uniquely unlucky in bearing the brunt of so much of it. He's perfectly reasonable and polite in most situations but finds it markedly hard to warm up to new people (a trait no doubt caused by his extensive trust issues). Stripped away from his shell, Brightlight is a class-A nerd. He's a useless well of information on everything from mecha cartoons to 80s metal bands to lepidoptery, and by god if he's doing his best to hide it from his teammates.

Charge

Junior engineer. Has the most annoying voice on the planet. Unironically cringe (and loves it). In all likelihood has iron deficiency anaemia. Half-unseelie.

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Contact

Communications officer. Theoretical "straight man" of the trio (despite the whole "being a lesbian" thing). Probably autistic (haven't decided).

Burnout

Chief engineer. Dubious cook. Keeps Charge in line with a firm but loving hand. Makes me think of a Triumph Bonneville and/or 1975 smash motown hit "You Sexy Thing" by Hot Chocolate.

Spotlight

Medical and maintenance officer. ACTUAL cook. Likes handicrafts. Sometimes gets on the younger team members nerves in the way a slightly overbearing older relative might. Used to be a member of some kind of secret organisation, but she won't say what.

Livewire

Contact's preteen niece. I don't know why she's there. She doesn't know why she's there. Please will someone help her with her physics homework.

Dusty

Dust mite dog!

HO-34

Wattson

Post captain. Constantly teetering on the edge of sanity due to central command giving her far too much to worry about.

Surge

Chief engineer. Does most of the heavy lifting.

Nightlight

Medical officer and secondary engineer. Brightlight's cousin. They're severely understaffed up here.

Relay

Communications officer. A little timid. Wears a beret.

Reflect

Reece info!?!?

IO-23

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Spark
Ljus
Short
Circuit
Diode

Spark

Post captain. Blue blooded snob and possible sociopath. Gay coded villain pulled from my best dieselpunk fantasy. Made Brightlight's academy life a living hell because he wanted something entertaining to fill the time while he was bribing his way through exams and bypassing regulations. Actual instance of a napoleon complex.

Captain Spark of IO-32 is a name that means vastly different things depending on who you ask. To his betters he's a paragon in his field, toeing the line to the letter in public and appearing as perfect as any Command officer could aspire to be. To his team he's a tyrant with a napoleon complex who thinks he's the center of the universe. To his victims he's a silver-tongued narcissist, unforgiveably manipulative and rotten to the core

Always acting in part with malicious intent, his escapades have spelled ruination for many an aspiring grid officer (helped along some by his fawning entourage who hang on his every word). He's born from wealth and high status and lives up to his family's reputation for ruthlessness in the worst ways imaginable; he'll ruin your career over the smallest slight with a nonchalant smile, and he never plays fair. If the saying goes that "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" then he's practically putting out roots of his own that are stronger and more potent than anything the otherworld has encountered thus far.

Ljus

Senior Medical officer. Ancestral Vaettir. Metalhead. Doesn't exactly have what one might call a bedside manner, but that could be through attrition or just years of dealing with Spark's bullshit.

Short

Secondary engineer. Gets given Diode's busywork and has to actually do it (because otherwise it will not get done). Circuit's non-identical twin.

Circuit

Communications officer. Clem. Broadcasts a pirate radio from his quarters with a jank setup. Unabashedly a whore. Short's non-identical twin.

Diode

Main engineer. Specialises in microelectronics and anything finicky and leaves the rest to Short. Outwardly spiteful and antisocial, but he and Ljus do hang out to drink sometimes. Has two sisters that show up occasionally (they do not get along).

IO-57

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Photon
Lumen
Sunny
Backfire

Photon

Lumen

Sunny

Backfire

HO-81-M

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Forrest
Blackout
Dynamo

Forrest

Post captain. Birthright means he sheds a trail of leaves wherever he goes. He is very self conscious of this. Nobody has told him that the leaf production increases under stress.

Blackout

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Dynamo

they/she lesbian with horrible adhd. Hearing impaired. Talks a little too loud.

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Brigadier Bigbeam
Phosphorous
Flashlight

Brigadier Bigbeam

One of the big bosses of central command. A grade A asshole and an awful husband. Burnout topped him once in his youth and he lives in the shadow of that moment.

Phosphorous

Shortens to Phos or Phosphor. Central command's favourite choice of comms messenger to bother HO-32. Has some kind of mean girl flirting thing going on between her and Contact.

Flashlight

Brightlight's overachieving brother. The only genuine heterosexual in the lineup. Nice, if toxic. Has some kind of roon related PTSD and is terrified of being confined in dark spaces.

The Others

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Fiachra
Moira
Eep
Ray
Neon
Joule
Blaze
Velocity
Conn
Lir and Aiobh

Fiachra

Bastard son and notably scorned unseelie royalty. Will do anything in his power to sow discord and chaos and generally likes being a dick for his own amusement. Hates roons like nobody's business and seems to have some power to manipulate temperature. The chaos demon nobody warned Brightlight about.

Moira

Charge's mother. Fiery and full on but loves her son so dearly. Can only visit him in dreams, for the time being.

Eep

Ray

Neon

Joule

Blaze

Royal guard. Mean girl to end all mean girls.

Velocity

Royal guard. "Pink girl with muscles. I'm sure I have something somewhere." and I did! Thank you brain. Her old description used to say something about her "keeping the lampies equivalent of sugar gliders".

Conn

Fiachra's brother. Dead as of several hundred years ago.

Lir and Aiobh

Fiachra's parents.

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CHARACTERS

HO-32

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Captain Brightlight

Charge

Contact

Burnout

Spotlight

Livewire

Dusty

HO-34

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Wattson

Surge

Nightlight

Relay

Reflect

IO-23

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Spark

Ljus

Short

Circuit

Diode

IO-57

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Photon

Lumen

Sunny

Backfire

HO-81-M

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Forrest

Blackout

Dynamo

Central Command

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Brigadier Bigbeam

Phosphorous

Flashlight

The Others

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Fiachra

Moira

Eep

Ray

Neon

Joule

Blaze

Velocity

Conn

Lir and Aiobh