Roleplay's D-List

✣- physical disability/disadvantage (Bast): Lacks opposable thumbs

✬- something minor they enjoy (Bast): Warm pipes/vents.

✦- Fatal Flaw (Matt): A tendency to try and mug for the cameras or play to the "audience" when he should be paying attention to what's going on around him.

❋- Belief they have (Matt): That it's possible to win and that eventually this will all be over and he can move on with his life/career.

✫- Pet Peeve (Bast): People who clean up after themselves and remember to put all the food away.

✭- Obscure interest (Bast): Metronomes. Very hypnotic.

⋆ : Minor personality flaw or quirk

✢ : Physical advantage

✣ : Physical disability/disadvantage

✦ : Fatal flaw

✧ : Mental or emotional strength

❋ : Belief they have

✩ : Belief they've questioned/struggled with

✪ : Critique they have about others

✫ : Pet peeve

✬ : Something minor they enjoy

✭ : An obscure interest

✮ : A moral standard

✯ : Way they could see themselves dying

✰ : Weird thing they want to try or have tried

★ : A socially unacceptable thought they've had

✱ : Someone or something who or that has played a part in a fantasy or daydream

Bast wasn't sure how she'd come to be responsible for an entire colony of foodthings. At first it had simply been a case of her refusing to eat them, but then they'd somehow caught on to that and started doing favors for her, so it felt right to do favors for them and now she was helping to patrol the halls to make sure that no Whitecoats found the set of rooms that the foodthings had claimed for themselves.

Away from the strict control of the Whitecoats the foodthings had thrived. They were even beginning to develop individual characteristics. Some were still the basic pattern of fluffy and yellow, but others were growing in actual feathers in a variety of colors and patterns. Some had longer legs. Others had sharper beaks. Bast didn't really care, except that it made them easier to tell apart. It was also something the Whitecoats wouldn't have liked and that made it even better as far as she was concerned. The foodthings seemed to manage pretty well on their own, but it was safer for Bast to be seen and she'd gotten good at luring unsuspecting humans away from the colony. It earned her scritches and treats from the humans and alerts to trouble in other parts of the facility from the foodthings. All in all it was a very satisfactory arrangement.

BOTTOMONE

((Still toying with visuals for Matt. It's a tossup between the above pic by mister-dragonspit and the one below by yanyu.))

The cafeteria was empty. Probably not much of a surprise, given the quality of the food. Matt grabbed a tray and found a seat at one of the tables nearest a camera. He hoped he wasn't missing something important like an immunity challenge or a rewards round. He ate the bland meatstuff without grimacing too much- didn't want to look like a sissy in front of the audience- and vowed that one of his first side projects would be to locate a cache of real food. There had to be hidden drops or secret challenges or something that would give him something better to eat than "reconstituted animal-based proteins" or whatever the little server robot had called this stuff.

Matt kept his smile firmly in place and even managed-mostly- not to limp. This last round of "testing" had been particularly brutal, but he'd won through in the end. Maybe he could play the audience for a sympathy angle... although appearing weak wasn't always a good sign on shows like this. He'd decide on that later. For now all he wanted to do was make it to the cafeteria for a well-deserved meal and maybe a chance to get a feel for some of his fellow contestants.

Name: Matt Black Age: 21 Occupation: Test subject Actor Appearance: middling-tall, a little soft around the middle, mixed heritage (good for playing multiple ethnic roles), dark shaggy hair (no ponytail) and eyes.

Matt is from Burnaby, BC and is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University. He’s appeared as an extra on shows like Intelligence and Cold Squad. He currently believes he’s on a Survivor-esque series with a scifi twist called Surviving Aperture. Absolutely nothing can convince him this isn’t true. He thinks this will be his big break into “proper” American television.

Matt is very upbeat, even when he isn’t “playing to the audience.” It’s hard to get him down and he doesn’t stay down for long. Because of his beliefs he never takes the dangers of Aperture seriously, but thus far he’s managed to sail through everything with hardly a scratch. He has a laundry list of skills he claims to have mastered, but his main talent seems to be pure damn luck. He’s gradually getting better at solving test chambers, but he’s nowhere near as good as he claims to be.

He’s easy to get along with and seems to be a good-hearted person, but sometimes it’s hard to tell how much of what he projects is really him and how much is him acting (not that he’s great at that, either). He chose “Black” as a last name to make his first sound cooler. Not sure yet what his original surname was.