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HE WON'T LOVE YOU LIKE I WOULD.
He won't do you right. Sometime, during the marriage of biology and technology, a genetic marker was discovered lurking in the human DNA. The sequence to this marker, colloquially named as the Kerns-Norman gene (KN1, for its first iteration), allowed for certain genetic alterations that resulted in sterile, but highly durable, human beings - nerves were able be, in a word, rewired, and improved upon. With this development, the science for prostheses marched apace, biomechanics rising along with it. Artificial eyes, limbs, organs - you name it, it was developed, tested, patented, sold. This brought along an underground industry of curators - doctors and bodymod enthusiasts illegally alter humans into art pieces to sell. In the advent of this industry, human cloning was perfected as well. And so the first generation of mice were created - artificial human beings designed through cloning and genetic alterations to have their KN gene amplified. While legally utilized to test new pharmaceuticals and medical equipment for regulatory and patent approval, these mice were also bred in captivity to be sold to patrons with very specific interests. Often, these artificial beings are altered with a signature "look" - open ribcages with the organs encased in flexglass, fingertips replaced with painted crystals, artificial orifices installed in unlikely places for particular tastes. It is alleged that most mice do not have a lifespan of longer than five years, past their maturity in culture labs. At present, a quasi-regulatory body sanctions for the breeding and selling of mice in certain districts; escaped mice are terminated if discovered outside of their preassigned trade districts, or returned to their housing labs if found within the boundaries of their districts. The criminal aspect of such an industry, however, is difficult to escape, and the men and women who run and control the districts tend to treat their culture labs as factories. As each district is managed by a family or a group of associates, culture labs are referred to by the appellation given to them by the criminal element in control of their boundaries. As such, districts [ ] and [ ] are referred to as House Gloriana and House Hapsburg, respectively. Another thing: mice do not burn quickly. They have an extremely high tolerance for pain, and a much higher tolerance for combustion. They do, however, drown fairly easily, and it is advised not to leave them unsupervised during grooming periods.
TERMS COMMONLY USED Mouse — a homo alterius that has been modified with artifices and/or cosmetic surgery Albatross — a KN gene carrier who is otherwise unaffected by its traits; considered ideal handlers of mice due to their mutual inability to breed with each other. THE HOUSES HOUSE GLORIANA (brand: a dove wearing a crown) — For the innocent-looking types; house Gloriana produces in cultivated angel looks. Mice are bred predominantly to be fair all over, from hair to eye color, and are trained to be docile even when under duress or extreme pressure; playing on the desires of those who looking for a "pure" image to wreck or exalt is the niche that Gloriana occupies. House Gloriana is the stronghold of the Church, despite appearances to the contrary with regards to public sentiment. Most mice from Gloriana have pierced maidenheads or kingheads, and the house brand burned over their left-side fourth rib. HOUSE HAPSBURG (brand: a snakehead with a knotted tongue) — For the morbidly perverse types; house Hapsburg specializes in selling highly durable mice, capable of withstanding extreme full contact activities. As a safety feature, most Hapsburg mice have an external spine that limits any sensory input that might trigger a spike in heart rate, in turn triggering a fight-or-flight reflex. Hapsburg's clientele tend to be more discerning than the average ones, and thorough inspections and testings are common in the designated "white rooms" in Hapsburg compounds. Hapsburg mice wear the house brand on the inside of their right cheek. HOUSE BATHORY (brand: a rearing dragon) — the organ mill; house Bathory supplies escorts for the exorbitantly wealthy, mainly for show. These mice are occasionally bought for permanent use as well. Due to this, each member of house Bathory is cloned a very limited number of times and kept in cold storage to meet profitable supply/demand. Mice of house Bathory are often covered in intricate marks through a process of scarification and fitted with flexiglass windows to view their main use: organ farms. Some mice have great lengths of intestines, others housing an odd number of kidneys, others with two sets of lungs crammed between stretched ribcages to accommodate proper growth. Once a mouse has outlived its use/profitability/no longer is able to host a proper environment for the growth of organs, it is usually auctioned off. House Bathory remains one of the main suppliers of meat to the upper class. HOUSE STUART (brand: a rose) — ???

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TAVA PRYOR, HOUSE FLORENS

— KN carrier, inactive
— born within the district, raised within the labs; culture template for house florens since he turned ten, and is one of the oldest originals in the compound
— has been cloned several times, each iteration more sickly/weak, still insists on remaining unaltered
— maybe eighteen, maybe twenty-eight; he isn't sure if he's the original one anymore (his iterations live with him to better mimic him)
— has a mutated eye he keeps covered; the bright orange color is jarring
— an in-house favorite; not for sale, and his relative fame as a favorite carves a niche for his iterations
— house florens specializes in "single-use only" mice

Edited 2016-05-14 02:56 (UTC)

aight so the albatross/KN carriers, do they have genetic alterations? or are they just normal people who happen to watch over the mice because of their incompatibility?

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- sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. albatrosses are considered anomalous because while they themselves aren't affected by the KN marker's effects (they don't CRYSTALLIZE INTO GLASS when exposed to extreme hot temperatures, their pain receptors work just fine, they're pretty much human save for eye pigment discoloration), they can pass the gene on to a non-carrier. there are KNs who choose to make it known that they're KN2s (2nd gen carriers, usually with the gene inactive), while some are happy enough living like a normal. if they do get alterations, it's usually small, like glow-in-the-dark eyes, improved hearing, stone lodes anchored on the collarbone - but generally there's a fifty percent chance the person you'd be speaking to might be a carrier whether they realize or not.

- they are entirely sterile if mating with an HA, though. they cancel each other out, and some of the more extreme houses tend to have albatross as regular patrons because of zero disease/preggo risk. on the other hand, they can get non-carriers pregnant/sick, like with everybody else. mice are just sterile when paired with non-mice, period, hence they have to be grown/bred these days. (side note: they mature really fast and tend to be born in pairs or more for half the time a human pregnancy takes; if they're the next evolutionary step up, if left unchecked they can outbreed and outnumber normals easily.)

!!!!!

sweeeeet tyty friend!!

ok jk another question, what's the difference between active and inactive in KN carriers? What does that mean for the carrier?

Edited 2016-05-13 14:42 (UTC)

okay so there are 2 kinds of KNs:

active - those who used to pass as "normal" with the KN screening tests but have since matured into the gene; rule of thumb is a spreading discoloration with natural eye pigments; sterility occurs anywhere from six months to a decade, depending on how late into one's life the gene activates.
inactive - those who fail the KN screening tests but do not exhibit the traits (like deadened pain receptors, etc), and otherwise do not show any of the symptoms of an active gene; are also referred to as dormants, and only have discoloration on one eye.

and then you have the mice, who are either actives who have met all the hallmarks of the KN marker, or the artificially grown clones of said actives; a series (or individually referred to as iterations, not clones) will always originate from an active who serves as a template for "improvements", like bodymods and etc. these originals are often highly guarded if their iterations have a high survivability/commercial value, and are often kept under lock and key in house labs as part of quality control.

THIS IS OBV VERY ILLEGAL BECAUSE THAT'S FORCED DETAINMENT/KIDNAPPING i feel obligated to say this, but there Are actives who choose to volunteer as the lab mouse specialty, so...

Fffffffffff this sounds amazing, thanks v much 8333

JEHANNE, HOUSE HAPSBURG

— KN carrier(s), active
— District born, abducted at a young age (see jen's character's history)
— not the first iteration, but due to hostilities toward each other there is only one iteration and one template ever alive at the same time, both kept separated
— despite not being an albatross she is used as a guardian/handler for her brother who is known to escape
— they do not have a great relationship because of this
— pretty brainwashed, she is conditioned to view her position as handler for her brother's 'original' as a sign of her importance in the house
— despite this has considered killing him if given the chance to get away with it without anyone knowing
— age ??
— alterations ?? for combat

Edited (SO MANY EDITS I'M SORRY) 2016-05-13 23:18 (UTC)

forgive me if this is a stupid question but

is there a difference between "KN carrier (active)" and "mouse"?

also would the different houses ever intermingle?

ok so there are three types of people?

normal people, albatross, mice, yes?

so what combos can breed and what type of offspring do they produce.

basically, yeah! so the pair-ups are:

- normal + albatross = yes, 50% possibility of a KN carrier offspring
- mice + mice = yes, 100% KN carrier offspring

- normal + normal = well, yes
- albatross + albatross = yes, 100% KN carrier offspring

- normal + mice = no
- albatross + mice = no

KNs are like pregnancy tests: you either ARE or ARE NOT a carrier, which is why albatrosses are sometimes accosted and/or discriminated against by those who see mice as inhuman/abominations

Edited 2016-05-14 03:11 (UTC)

nothing's a dumb question boo

- KN carrier is a blanket term for anyone who has the genetic marker; basically the mice and the albatrosses fall under this term. mice specifically points out those who have crossed the sterility line, though in common use they also refer to the mice iterations as well; most mice have alterations, both for cosmetic and practical purposes, since their bodies have an extremely low rejection rate re: implants, and they recover very quickly from injury/damages (to a certain extent; they can't grow limbs back but they can be reattached or replaced very easily). albatrosses are the ones who can still procreate with others EXCEPT for mice, and pass for "normal", because of some fluke with nature that makes their KNs cancel each other out.

- some houses do, some don't. house florens is selective with the houses they associate with by necessity; house hapsburg caters to the elite (and often has the attitude to match) but is generally friendly with the other houses; house gloriana is open to everyone except for house bathory; house bathory is open to everyone except house stuart; house stuart just plain hates all the other houses and doesn't like intermingling.

ALVARY, HOUSE GLORIANA

— mouse, but not a lab one; rather he works at the labs as a technician, which is highly uncommon in the industry
— is owed a life debt by one of the Gloriana associates so is mostly exempt from the usual "duties" of mice, letting him focus on his work; it doesn't make people treat him much better, though
— has a daughter named marya, who he had with his then-girlfriend when they were both still teenagers; left him when she found out he was KN inactive, during the newborn screening tests for their baby; activated not long after, during his early twenties, and his and his baby's quality of life has degraded since
— trying to save up for his daughter's comfort and future, because she's sick and bedridden, but too young for an induced activation of her KN genes which might help her get better
— would really rather not work inside the lab houses, honestly, but it's the lab or the white rooms
— refuses to be cloned, but it's a fight he's starting to lose because of his standing on the hierarchy of the house
— some other stuff

Edited (i changed my mind) 2016-05-14 07:17 (UTC)

ISAAC TAMERON, HOUSE GLORIANA

— KN carrier, inactive
— born within the district to a high ranking albatross scientist and her normal husband
— has never been cloned
— 29
— has a subtly disfigured eye, like this
— highly trusted due to his mother's status and his impeccable record.
— has a mother complex, he glorified her until she died of cancer; is obsessed with creating the perfect mother, one that won't die
— uses his status and lab to conduct private experiments; gets sadistic pleasure out of disfiguring and harming the mice; the house is officially unaware of his experiements, unofficially remains to be seen

Edited 2016-05-15 22:39 (UTC)

CARAN HENNIS, HOUSE GLORIANA

— Mouse
— Very much the "cultivated angel" look
— Probably not first generation
— Sort of a floor model example of what can be done with mice
— Incredibly pale, light hair, with am opening down his spine that can fold out into fleshy sort of wings? (yeah, like I said, angel) The wings are of course non functional
— Doesn't particularly mind being a mouse, because he doesn't know that there's anything else to be
— Generally kind of a complacent personality
— idk let me think of some more stuff and come back to this...

Edited 2016-05-14 14:12 (UTC)

MIKAL PRINCE, House Hapsburg

— mouse
— clone of andyr prince
— kept in-house for three years, a favorite
— built to take a real beating, his clients like to see him suffer. he's built up a tolerance though, so every single time they needed to do more to make him feel it
— managed to escape three years in, and is so, so mad at the world
— on the run, his only goal is to burn down the industry, make it suffer as much as he has
— hates the world, hates people, hates everything
— especially hates andyr and jehanne
— is totally down to help mice escape, though he's tempted to just kill them to end their pain
— he's really fucked up, basically

Edited 2016-05-14 05:12 (UTC)

ANDYR PRINCE, HOUSE HAPSBURG

— KN carrier, active
— twin brother of Jehanne, separated at young age when she was captured
— definitely the original template of his series, has the inside of his eyelid tattooed from youth to make sure, it's yet to be found by the doctors
— 24 years old
— both eyes discolored now, looks about like this but more imbalanced, like if you took this and replaced the brown with purple. not identical in each eye. And the purple is more vivid against the blue. Blue being the natural color.
— wants to kill the fuck out of his sister
— repeatedly attempts to escape the compound basically at every slight chance he's given bc he's obsessively tenacious like that, but if he spots Jehanne on his way out, he'll run straight for her instead and try to kill her. Usually this gives the guards time to show up and tase him. This is why Jehanne is made his handler, because he wants to kill her more than he wants to escape. Andyr knows this and doesn't care.
— unaware that Jehanne is a mouse, he's under the impression she's the original.
— Jehanne and Andyr lived with a single ex-military father as kids, Jehanne was captured and taken to House Hapsburg very young, and it made his father ridic paranoid about losing Andyr as well
— their mother had the KN gene, not their father. Andyr's activated early in life, about a year after Jehanne was taken
— Obsessed with wanting to keep Andyr safe, and going on a rescue mission to get Jehanne back, their father trained Andyr in combat like fuq. He'd gotten strength and speed augmentations as soon as he was able.
— At 17, Andyr and his father went to save Jehanne. They got all the way to her (accidentally the clone, instead of the original, oops), and as they were escaping with her, Jehanne shot their father, and captured Andyr for template detainment. This is why he wants to kill her like crazy.
— definitely has killed a fair amount of people in the compound, once he got hold of a gun from a guard and it was b a d
— really doesn't like mice, especially his own, the entire culture disgusts him, and he doesn't see them as people. However, like Alvary, he can come to like the ones he gets to know. And if one is getting the shit kicked out of them in front of him, he will feel bad about it, but probably not stop it. (Unless it's happening because of him, hi Mikal)
— as Andyr's series tends to have very high survival rates and pain tolerance, as well as being very pretty (if you don't let them look like a murder hobo, like Andyr does), and that's about the only reason they keep him. because he makes so much gd money.
— one cute teenage boy crush occurred before he went on the mission with his father, mainly bc i want this to have happened, and it's like his only positive romantic experience ever. now he looks like this all the time.
— reacts incredibly hostile towards any kind of hitting on him or sexualizing of him, all like i am not ur fucking sex toy, get the fuck away from me, even if it's completely innocent flirting
— in the times he has actually managed to escape into the districts, before eventually being captured by Jehanne again, he'd met seemingly nice people who offered him shelter, and then ended up turning him in for reward. since then, he's super paranoid and generally doesn't trust anyone, especially nice people.
— sometimes buyers like to bone the original, and the first time that happened, Andyr bit the person's ear off, then spit it at Jehanne as he was wrestled into submission. Now, they're very wary of letting him be rented out, but with a nice enough deal, they'll completely bind (or drug) him up before allowing it.
— has to be sedated or bound up to have his hair cut, or he'll stab the hairdresser and anyone else he can get to with the sheers
— Andyr is typically kept in a bedroom cell towards the back of the building (so not just anyone sees him, you sort of have to be exploring or get the tour), that looks like this. The wall that the POV of that picture is from is lined with bulletproof, soundproof glass, mainly to keep the rest of the House safe from him, as he will, and has, gone through the halls making a bloodbath if he gets free. There's also weights and work out equipment and a punching bag in the room, because he likes to train like hell (he's stuck in there usually 18 hours a day), and they figure it's easier to let him wear himself out and have less pent up energy when they need to take him out, then worry about whatever extra strength/skill he builds up. When he gets in trouble, he's sent to ISO.
— i'm sorry, i always make these tl;dr

Edited 2016-05-14 21:42 (UTC)

sry another question - so the originals, like andyr is. if they aren't sterile yet, are they like bred, or just cloned to make the mice?

MALAKYE KANE, House Gloriana

— A mouse, created in secret outside of the lab
— The third of his 'series', though the series is unofficial
— Both previous 'Malakyes' are dead. Their memories live on in him
— As far as he's concerned, there is only one Malakye, with three different bodies
— He was created by Abraham Kane, a scientist who once worked for House Gloriana
— He was intended to replace Kane's biological son, who died in infancy
— He was created without the knowledge of Kane's superiors, and in his original body, was as 'human' as possible - no alterations, no enhancements, a child to replace a child
— His 'parents' handled their grief differently. While his 'father' adored him, his 'mother' resented both him, and his father for his creation. After years of worsening strain, she was the one who revealed his existence to House Gloriana
— To prevent his capture, his father took him away, and the two of them lived for years in hiding
— Eventually, their home was discovered by Gloriana agents intent on taking the child. In the ensuing struggle, Malakye was shot in the back, an injury that shattered his spine and left him critically ill. In an effort to save him, his father surrendered, and allowed Malakye to be taken
— Rather than waste time on a damaged mouse, House Gloriana cloned him, creating a new body for Malakye and transferring his memories into it. He awoke to find his body renewed, but he remembered both his injury and his death, leaving him traumatised and terrified of his captors. They refused to tell him what had happened to his father
— Now owned by Gloriana's scientists, Malakye found himself subject to their experiments. His eyes were enhanced with avian genetics to make them see further, his ears augmented to hear high and low frequencies, his memory centre enhanced for perfect recall. He was paraded before buyers, with his final enhancements also put on sale; they could choose what would be done to him, and when
— They never got that far. While being moved to a different lab, Malakye caught sight of one scientist in particular. He realised House Gloriana had taken his father and forced him back to work
— He pretended to have seen nothing, and submitted to more experiments; his strength and speed were enhanced, and he learned that a buyer was on the books. Malakye never discovered who they were; instead, he picked his moment, and on a routine pass through the labs, he attacked his handlers, lashing out and killing several of them at the first attempt. He reached his father and tried to run with him, only to be set upon by security. This time, Malakye's father was the one to finish it; he cut his son's throat, leaving the second Malakye to bleed out on the stark white floor of the lab. He would rather Malakye die free, than live as a slave
— When Malakye awoke again, years had passed. His former enhancements were still in place, and his memories were as perfect as ever. The first thing he saw was the advertisement the House had sent all around the world, offering their newest line; Malakye, a pleasure model, each one customisable and guaranteed for at least five years. His father had escaped, and joined an organisation hostile to House Gloriana and their interests. He was, they told him, the hook on which his father would dangle.
— His story is unfinished. What comes next might just be up to him.

Edited 2016-05-14 13:50 (UTC)

ahhh nvm i think i'm going to roll something else!!

Edited 2016-05-14 20:31 (UTC)

HOUSE BATHORY (brand: a rearing dragon) — the organ mill; house Bathory supplies escorts for the exorbitantly wealthy, mainly for show. These mice are occasionally bought for permanent use as well. Due to this, each member of house Bathory is cloned a very limited number of times and kept in cold storage to meet profitable supply/demand. Mice of house Bathory are often covered in intricate marks through a process of scarification and fitted with flexiglass windows to view their main use: organ farms. Some mice have great lengths of intestines, others housing an odd number of kidneys, others with two sets of lungs crammed between stretched ribcages to accommodate proper growth. Once a mouse has outlived its use/profitability/no longer is able to host a proper environment for the growth of organs, it is usually auctioned off. House Bathory remains one of the main suppliers of meat to the upper class. Mice of this house wear their brands on the bottom of their heel.

Edited 2016-05-14 18:21 (UTC)

ROSE "ROSIE POSIE" ÁLVAREZ, HOUSE GLORIANA

— KN carrier, active ( mouse )
— original template born in Hapsburg, uncertain of what number of iteration she is
— template activation and experimentation on all clones thereafter was a collaborative effort between Gloriana and Hapsburg
— clones memories never transferred, only one at a time until gotten right, original clones died under various circumstances ( usually too much pain and duress )
— enhanced with pale pink/blonde hair and eyes to match
— made durable by Hapsburg with Gloriana aesthetics ( fair, seems fragile, angelic, etc. ) in mind to create a better experience for wrecking "pure"
— has the signature spine of the Hapsburg house
— final clone endured unending internal pain through chemical injections
— pain was focused in spine and in her head from age twelve to sixteen with the goal of turning it off at seventeen by Gloriana once possessed, making her grateful and obedient for ending the pain and thus easier to control
— once ready, final clone was taken possession of by Gloriana, as per deal with Hapsburg
— previous iterations never made it out of experimentation phase to leave the labs
— deal dictates only one iteration at a time, controlled by Gloriana with production by Hapsburg only allowed
— deal may or may not be fully honored by either sides
— final iteration ( number 12 ) given full memory dump of all preceding iterations in secret
— no one, but the one who dumped her memories, is aware she remembers all of it

Edited 2016-05-15 07:44 (UTC)

KNOX BRAXTON, HOUSE BATHORY
— mouse
— covered in artistic scars ( think this ), not too flowery, and more of a brag on what he can endure. through the seethrough casing on his chest there are two hearts with two different blood types, engorged veins making him ideal for blood transfusions. because of this, he's pretty valuable.
— relatively new as far as clones go, maybe only a couple months grand total
— from a first time KN carrier he calls his "brother", though he's never met him and the sentiment probably isn't shared. knox looks up to him and dreams about meeting him one day.
— that's his only family, memories implanted in him of his KN carrier that say he's an orphan, but with a name for himself.
— kind of disgustingly optimistic at first, a full supporter of the cloning system. he thinks the organ farm of his body is really helping people, and feels good because of it.
— ~this changes~
— "fell in love" with some mouse boy or something like that, was caught having sex and both were tortured for the offense of tainting goods. knox was kept alive for his usefulness. he has no idea whether the boy is alive or not but the whole situation left him extremely bitter and vengeful, naturally.
— more things to follow, revolution!!! and escorts. probably death/isolation.

VALARIE STOCHER, HOUSE BÁTHORY

— KN carrier, active
— The original template, created out of a series of experiments under the eye of house Báthory to perfect live organ farming. His series is one of few who create a comfortable environment for the growth of various organs (hearts and livers in particular).
— Has since had a number of iterations placed in cold storage as dormant organ farms for this use (though each clone progressively becomes less and less capable of maintaining its own systems. Some become undead "meat lockers" and put into stasis and are essentially stripped of everything but the necessities and "the goods.")
— These iterations are also sold off at a very steep price at some of the most prestigious to-dos out there. It's a big affair when one leaves the house.
— Is very much for show and is often taken out by people who have more money than they know what to do with. He attends very high class parties as an escort and knows how to play the part well.
— Equipped with a window that spans just under his arms down to his abdomen, housing a shortened small and large intestine and a surplus of livers and hearts for growth & culturing. Said organ systems "picked" from him upon maturity are then sold for a significant profit. However, the constant removal is necessary as Valarie's body will not stop producing these organs over and over again (therefore the flexiglass is to monitor growth and whether or not he needs "pruning.")
— His organs have been known to find their way onto the dinner plates of very wealthy patrons.
— Basically he's a cash cow.
— He has a past history of wrecking his own livers from drinking so much.
— Now he drinks a little less.
— Like a glass less.
— Also has a past history of wrecking his heart/lungs from smoking a lot of science fiction drugs/cigarettes
— This has been stopped somewhat.
— Self-destructive in the past, now he's a little less self-destructive basically.
— Can be a little monster when he wants to be, but plays the role of arm candy very well.
— Has no equipment downstairs.

that's all i got for now sorry.

Edited 2016-05-15 07:17 (UTC)

ok bear with me because i love this all but i'm not good at processing (wonderfully) detailed information ('8

would there be a possibility of mice being designed in the interests of providing a very unassuming looking murderer. say, take this cute face here and altering her clones to have ridic physical strength, specifically to carry out planned assassinations effectively and with minimal suspicion (despite them all looking the same) and then terminate themselves once the task is done etc

this would be very much something that happens in the deepest darkest places in the districts \o/!!!

s/he would be living off grid, though, because KNs are supposed to be registered so this might be something you'd be interested to explore!

Edited 2016-05-16 07:47 (UTC)

ESME HAMMOND, HOUSE BÁTHORY

— KN carrier, active
— offered himself to the house upon the activation of his gene; his motivations for doing so are sketchy and unclear, no one gets much of a reason beyond the fact that he supposedly owes a debt to his family, who are looked after by the house in return
— his parents died when he was less than a year old, has lived with his aunt, uncle and cousins ever since and has always been treated as an unnecessary burden
— had a troubled childhood and early teens (uncle openly disliked him, cousins bullied or ignored him, aunt occasionally offered very measly olive branches that esme never took), with a reputation for picking fights
— mellowed unexpectedly around the age of sixteen, retreating into himself somewhat and becoming far quieter, gentler, though again, if there's a reason for this, esme keeps it close to his chest, and either way, it didn't last
— snapped again around the age of twenty one, shortly before his gene activated; it seems that something happened between him and his family that carved a heck of a lot of guilt into him. feels incredibly responsibile for his family's well being and status, despite the fact that they've never done anything openly kind or good for him
— joined báthory just before his twenty second birthday
— grows hearts, predominantly, with slightly mixed results that fall just on the side of being regularly good enough for him to be kept around. fitted with a hexagonal glass plate across the chest for easy monitoring. can grow up to six or seven at a time, of mixed sizes and health, general aim is for him to grow three proper, full sized ones
— has been cloned numerous times, though his clones never seem to survive past a single cycle of growing hearts and appear to be dependent on all the hearts they grow, wasting away quicker and quicker with every heart removed
— is a consummate piece of shit; rude, sarcastic, tactless and cold. still picks fights, but usually for the benefit of his house. usually when his fights are paid to happen. is often loaned out for escort services, but only to those who're willing to deal with a handful — they pay for esme to be challenging
— marketed as someone who can be broken down, but will fight tooth and nail the whole way
— side effect of having his own hearts harvested, esme suffers intense periods of depression and melancholy. prone to hysterical crying fits and destructive behaviour that is usually only tempered by someone else's patience and some physical contact; is routinely furious throughout his emotional breakdowns, adding to the instability of his moods.
— has an extremely strong attachment to val because of the above reason, so far refuses to let anyone else see him like that. shows his attachment in unusual ways, however, mostly by being even more terrible than usual, half the time. dresses his need to seek refuge with val as not wanting to get into more trouble by trashing his room again (or by trying to rip his one remaining heart out; that was a one time incident that's still liable to happen again, but would not be tolerated)

LOVING THE SOUND OF THIS o ^ o

follow on questions: could mara be an ex-wherever, having belonged to a house and then eventually fucked some things up, murdered a bunch of her own clones and hightailed it out into these deepest darkest places in the districts to conduct her hideous business elsewhere, and would she be able to v lowkey stay in touch with people she used to know in the houses

(provided they have any interest in speaking to her murderous butt again)

ZOË MALAK, HOUSE HAPSBURG

— KN carrier : active
— really damn old series
— original template signed up when KN programs were just beginning to become a thing
— belonged to a district that has since fallen
— absorbed into hapsburg
— original long gone, only clones left for hapsburg to claim
— clone at the time of absorption considered the "template" for the new hapsburg series of malaks
— originally little alterations and mostly a lab rat for pharmaceutical purposes, now remade to fit hapsburg standards and no longer utilized for pharmaceutical purposes
— memories selectively retained with most from before hapsburg missing
— has produced numerous clones and iterations, no longer sure how many are out there or what they all do
— this one resides at hapsburg exclusively
— typically used to assist in experiments, occassionally experimented on herself
— regular participant in cage matches where clients pay to watch hapsburg mice beat the shit out of each other
— matches sometimes go to the death, depending on the value of the mice involved
— zoë's matches tend to be more towards the death as her series is prolific, malaks are highly expendable
— with each time she's "brought" back in pieces she grows more tired and more accepting of things. generally approaches everything with a been there, done that, seen it all sort of attitude.
— disregards own life frequently, sees self as not really a person anymore
— can be kind of bitchy because of this
— clients don't pay to fuck her, they pay to be fucked up by her more often than not
— tired as all hell, but seems to be no signs of retiring the malak series, so she continues to do every duty asked of her
— she isn't sure how many of her series are currently alive and where currently. she doesn't really care either.

Edited 2016-05-16 16:23 (UTC)

BELLEN, HOUSE HAPSBURG

— KN carrier : active
— 22
— Captured along with his wife by Hapsburg agents. Her life and well-being is held over him to control his behavior, though his wife is long gone, sold far away
— Augmented for strength, and durability, he's also kind of the catch all for more extreme experiments.
— He has no idea if he's the original or not, as they've kept his memories pieced together so he remembers his wife. Spoilers, he's not the original.
— Because of his augments he can readily take and give abuse, so he is rented out mostly as a kink/fetish mouse.
— Also made to fight in the cage fights.
— He's not at all happy about his situation? But he is very resigned to it. He sees no alternative or way of creating change in his life. His continued cooperation is more and more just because he has no other life and less and less about his spouse.
— Very affectionate and cuddly, quite a softhearted individual. He has covered over all of this with a wall of unfeeling, he just blocks out emotions as much as he possibly can.
— Real name is Brendon Laovich, renamed to Bellen, called Bell by those who know him.

Edited 2016-05-17 03:21 (UTC)

CLIX, HOUSE HASPBURG

— name is actually the roman numerals for 159...
— ...because she's the 159th iteration of the same clone that's been around since basically the beginning of everything
— kind of a pet project of the Houses to see just how much can they do; each House hosts an iteration and then sends the genetic material recovered to the next House after its inevitable demise
— some time thirty iterations back or so a critical mistake (or was it?) made it so she doesn't psychically age past a certain point, locking her in her current appearance
— deceptively frail; actually better built than a bomb shelter and strong enough to break someone in half; a longtime favorite of fighting circuits, where she's been thrown at on several iterations
— enhanced senses, sees beyond "visible light" (infrared, ultraviolet), barely needs to eat (but loves to), near photographic memory
— has extensive work on her lungs, heart (heart "and a half" actually) and nervous system
— stupidly susceptible to stimuli; the only reason she hasn't gone blind and deaf yet is that she also heals inhumanly fast
— what nobody realized was that the ridiculous amount of modifications and enhancements also made her incredibly intelligent; after years of planing, this current iteration managed not only to escape, but to kill the leading scientists of her program and destroy all the remaining genetic data on her
— that was two years ago
— ever since has been on a killing spree, rescuing mice when she can but generally just bombing the hell out of facilites and laboratories alike
— creepy child vibes? creepy child vibes
— suffers hallucinations of "past lives" and past iterations coming to bother, torture or just talk to her
— understandably pissed off about a lot of things, yet manages to be a rude wiseass most of the time
— slooooooowly and painfully losing her mind, kinda. it's had to tell, because there's no other mice with so many iterations going on; she has scrambled memories of her past lives
— 5' 2'' of troubles, basically

Edited (codeeee and changed pb) 2016-05-18 21:39 (UTC)

EMILIA JOHN, PATRON

— probably 30, probably 60, age is a mystery
— known to visit the houses at least once a month, pays generously for her time spent
— thoroughly enjoys whipping people's faces off thoroughly
— has some favorites; the younger/newer the iteration, the more likely she is to straight up buy them
— bought a mouse once. left her dead in the doorway not 24 hours later.
— OBVIOUSLY NOT A GOOD PERSON WHY WOULD YOU EVEN
— but sometimes she's "nice" and only wrecks a mouse O N C E
— idk she's just terrible

KONSTANTIN, HOUSE ASSISI

— KN carrier, active
— Freeborn to a single father (a fisherman). Mother was abducted with her whereabouts unknown when Konstantin and his sister were very, very young (7 and 4 respectively)
— Father sold his son at the age of 14 (and the rights to his genetic material) to the start of House Assisi when funds were low to support the family. Sister was also inactive. Father incredibly protective of her, less so of his son.
— "If you are really my son, you will survive this and return to us." were his exact words.
— Needless to say, Konstantin has not been able to return home after many initial attempts as a teenager. He runs to the sea.
— Beginning iterations had gone through phases including various birds and cats (a quetzal or an ocelot were favored designs, but never quite "did it") until one assistant had suggested splicing with some kind of marine life, which hadn't been done successfully without fully crippling the subject.
— Tested a few iterations with a variety of fish (for looks) and a number of incredibly aggressive sharks (for mannerisms) before coming up with a combination.
— Settled for the bright colors of a betta fish combined with a tiger shark. Both breeds are incredibly aggressive and occasionally "fight" Konstantin's normally very calm brain.
— Is constantly uncooperative and therefore is often times starved to the point of intense aggravation (pacing like a tiger, lashing out, biting handlers, etc.)
— Occasionally muzzled to prevent biting other "cage mates" during display.
— Sports a colorful series of scales along shoulders, back, arms, legs, and ribs. Also has gills slit into his ribs that come out of dormancy when met with water.
— Also has rly sharp teeth
— And an oral fixation

Edited 2016-05-19 05:35 (UTC)

MIRAY, HOUSE GLORIANA

— mouse
— the most recent iteration of a line that has carried on for at least ten years; designed specifically to incubate new mice at a more expedient rate
— original iterations died quickly, their modifications inadequate to support the extended periods of pregnancy
— currently the only such iteration in use at gloriana, but once they perfect her, there will be many such mice
— has no memory of her previous iterations, what would be the point???
— is impregnated via artificial insemination, gives birth via c-section; has no idea if her vagina even properly works for sex as she's never had it and she's unconscious every time she's impregnated
— modified to not have a clitoris, she is not meant for sexual gratification. doesn't even know if she can feel it, honestly
— three months pregnant, two months to recover, three months pregnant again, ad nauseum until she can no longer carry a fetus to term. currently in the second week of recovery after her last pregnancy; has overheard talk of minor complications. her next insemination will likely be her last, and then she will be terminated to make way for the next iteration
— the oldest any iteration of her series has gotten; is beginning to show wear physically
— grew attached to the fetuses she carried at first, and became depressed when they were taken from her, has by now resigned herself to it, and rarely becomes attached to anything or anyone
— is confined to house gloriana at all times, though she may wander as she likes, for the most part, and is often found anywhere she can sit and read (gloriana-approved books, naturally)
— would like to see the world outside of the house, but lmao, not likely and she knows it
— she's got no patience for any mouse who mopes, though she's not cruel about it; this is just the way things are. deal with it
— more later?????? idk danzy does any of this even make sense

CASSIUS HAUSER, HOUSE HAPSBURG

— One of House Hapsburg's inner circle, a handler who specialises in training 'difficult' Mice
— Not a Hapsburg, but strongly loyal to them, having joined them as a teen
— Rose to make his fortune within the house, and proceeded to invest much of it back in
— Has a long and tempestuous association with Olivia Hapsburg
— Handles Mice who struggle with submission. Known for his ruthless methods, in particular for his use of enforced bondage against unwilling Mice
— Has a pair of stocks installed in his room, in which he is known to imprison Mice for long periods when they disobey
— Smokes habitually
— Has a penchant for sadomasochism, and enjoys testing the endurance of others - whether Mice or otherwise
— His genitals are pierced, courtesy of Olivia during one of their shared sessions
— Sexual preference is unclear; appears bisexual in that he'll take anyone to bed with him, but can seem asexual if his interest is not caught
— It's believed he will eventually marry Olivia and become part of Hapsburg's family by marriage
— Thoroughly enjoys his work; he has been allowed to run wild with every one of his vices, and indulges them without apology
— Is completely at home with the system; he thinks of KN carriers as less than human and puts little value on them
— Does however enjoy the fighting rings, and often trains his Mice to compete in them. He is heavily competitive; his Mice will win, or endure a full night in his stocks
— Likes to 'break' stubborn Mice. Will 'reward' docile Mice by treating them gently
— Is charming on the surface, and sadistic beneath it
— Presents himself neatly, with trimmed hair, clean-shaven face, and tailored suits made to measure
— A cool exterior with poison underneath

Edited 2016-06-18 02:34 (UTC)

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