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Most Dysfunctional Circle Ever

Came up with this one when I was in a black mood, about the same time I started thinking about Infernal Exalted -- which should be pretty obvious. They almost certainly don't exist in the same continuity as Jen's Circle.

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Midsummer 2003. July - August.

My latest concept is to assign each character a theme song from Audioslave's self-titled debut album. Why not? Still need to come up with good ideas for names.

The group's overall theme song is "Show Me How To Live."\\ Cheyne and Sancha's "love" theme is probably "Getaway Car," "Cochise," or "Shadow on the Sun."

Cheyne Lasko (we say: CHAY-nee or CHAY-neh, not CHAIN)\\ bravo (this doesn't feel quite right)\\ theme song: "Exploder"\\ antipaladin\\ "Forsaken"

A wiry young woman, in her early 20s. Might be as young as 19, depending on how her timeline works out. She has dark, rough-cut hair, maybe some generic black/brown color, maybe something evocative like "the color of clotted blood." Bright orange eyes. Has a huge Slave Mark tattoo covering her entire back.

Cheyne is fueled by hate. All of her emotions have been replaced by different shades of anger. This is mainly due to the unspeakable torments she endured in Malfeas while being forged into an Infernal Exalted. She is in fact the Scarlet Empress' youngest daughter (the one sacrificed to the Yozis, natch). Cheyne hates Dragon-Blooded like nothing else.

Although she hurts herself on a regular basis, Cheyne is not a masochist. Pain is a source of power for her, not a source of pleasure or sexual gratification. Cheyne may in fact be a virgin, which might be useful to emphasize her perverse "purity." She is the anti- Yieng.

Sancha Ninetails\\ explorer\\ theme song: "Gasoline"\\ daredevil (not really... need a better term for it)\\ Changing Moon

A somewhat vulpine, auburn haired man, apparently in his late 20s. I have not yet figured out his Tell completely; it probably involves a tail. His fox form definitely has two tails.

Sancha is a kitsune. As such, he is a trickster and a sneak, with an occasionally malicious bent. He is urbane and agreeable and probably even a little dapper, but with a feral edge hiding just under the suface. He may or may not have originally come from the Blessed Isle; he did a stint with the Silver Pact, but I think there's a good chance he no longer considers himself beholden to that group.

Sancha loves danger. He almost has a subconscious deathwish. He is probably older than he looks.

Truth\\ visionary\\ theme song: "Set It Off"\\ revolutionary\\ Zenith

STILL NEEDS A GOOD NAME (Asija, Kazimeras, Joachim?)\\ conniver (this doesn't feel exactly right, either)\\ theme song: "Hypnotize"\\ manipulator(the devil!)\\ Zenith? Eclipse?

Truth is like Lyta but less insane. Well, insane in a different way, at least. He's a nod to BaronSamedi's idea that a Zenith should be like (Rage Against the Machine vocalist) Zack de la Rocha.

The manipulator kills Truth when he starts to be inconvenient. He later gets his comeuppance when he tries to get rid of Cheyne in the same way.

Sancha is in love with Cheyne, sort of. He thinks she is beautiful, in the same way that certain people think that sharks and other top predators are beautiful. Sancha is too edgy to not be sucked in like a moth to a flame. Cheyne does not really reciprocate, but does have some kind of regard for him. True Love won't be saving the day here, but the two of them have a fairly intense emotional relationship that may become important later on.

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