Life Hacks/Characters

Here is a reference for the characters in the story as they are initially. If I haven't fleshed things out well enough feel free to refine the character more. If you're making significant changes/additions to the character please run them by me first. --Elerneron (talk) 17:22, 7 October 2016 (CEST)

The Cole Family

History

Rich knocked up his girlfriend Inga in high school. He did the "right thing" and married her. Luckily both families were relatively well-off and they were both able to attend college while raising young Brittany. Inga got a degree in business, and Rich got a degree in IT.

Rich went to work, but Inga was pregnant again, so decided to wait a while before looking for a job. She was frustrated with having to become a "homemaker", but kept it to herself. After the twins were born, she started working part-time. She got pregnant again just about the time she was in line for a promotion, and is certain her pregnancy was the reason she was passed over. Bastian was born even though they were using condoms at the time.

With the failure of the condoms, she started putting out less and less. One fateful night, Rich had a liaison with a stripper named Shauna (illegally working at 15 years old). He regretted the act immediately, and rededicated himself to his marriage. He was contacted by Shauna a few months later to tell him she was pregnant. He tried to do the right thing by supporting Shauna financially, but couldn't bring himself to leave his frigid wife. He soon discovered that she was pregnant as well (much to her chagrin).

Angel and Rahne were born within two months of one another. Inga decided to focus on her career more seriously, and started taking birth control. Regardless, she got pregnant again with Veronica. At that point she divorced Rich after an argument about getting her tubes tied. After the divorce she got them tied. Rich eventually hooked up with Shauna and they had another child together. Rich has custody of his children every other weekend.

Mother's Side

Inga

Ingrid Guinevere Hanson-Cole is a driven career woman. She loves her children, but family is second to her career.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Brittany

Brittany Ann Cole is a freshman college student. She is friendly and popular, and loves her family. She lives on campus, but returns as frequently as she can to see her family.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Xander

Alexander James Cole (gender-swap: Alexandra Jane Cole) is an ugly duckling that is not going to grow into a swan. He got the raw end of the genetic lottery when it comes to physical attributes. In a family of beautiful people he feels completely isolated. Xander is somewhat bi-sexual, but with a strong preference for girls. In potential homosexual couplings he is a "top", and prefers to be the one in control.

Charity

Charity Jane Cole is a popular "mean girl" in school. She has always been overly critical of her twin, and the practice paid off in high school. She doesn't realize that the root of her animosity is a hidden sexual desire for her twin.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Bastian

Sebastian Hannibal Cole is an active, outgoing child prone to getting in trouble. He doesn't actively seek trouble, but he finds it none-the-less while simply trying to amuse himself.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Angel

Angelica Rose Cole is a sweet little girl. She acts a bit younger than she is, and seems in no hurry to grow up. She has a massive collection of stuffed animals.

Angelica's world seems to revolve around the approval of her mother, father, and older siblings Brittany and Xander. She has distanced herself from her older sister Charity somewhat since she senses her mother and Brittany disapprove of her interacting with Charity too much since they were caught touching each other's privates 4 years ago, and Charity is also always fighting with Xander, so between the two she takes the side of the sibling who will not earn her disapproving glances from Brittany. She is not obsessive over gaining their approval, but it is all she understands as a means by witch to approach the world.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: 80%
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): Base = +40, Conditional average = +20, Variance = +10 to +30
• Breakdown

Roni

Veronica Renee Cole is a little tomboy. She doesn't care for dolls or stuffed animals, and would much rather be playing sports, or racing slotcars. She finds underwear uncomfortable, and is always getting in trouble for not wearing them.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: 40%
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): Base = +20. Average of conditional modifiers = +3 Variance = +60 to -40
• Breakdown

Father's Side

Rich

Richard Allen Cole is a dedicated father and family man. He values responsibility and integrity very highly.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Shauna

Shauna Electra Lovett is a beautiful sensual woman of African and Cuban descent. She is a bit flirty, and somewhat absent-minded leading to the mistaken impression that she is an airhead bimbo. She is actually quite intelligent, but will sometime play the bimbo part to manipulate things to her advantage.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Rahne

Rahne (pronounce like the word rain) Song Lovett is a precocious preteen. She is aware of her growing sexuality and uses it to her advantage, though she is still developing this skill and can sometimes be a bit too obvious.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Kizzie

Mackinsey Lynn Lovett is your basic happy todder. She is currently getting into everything, being in the "terrible twos" stage of development. She is an outgoing, and very trusting toddler with a lot of love to give and an upbeat, curious disposition. She is called "Kizzie" because that's how she says Kinsey, which was the nickname she was originally given by her parents.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

The Wells Family

History

Patricia is the child of Irish Catholic immigrants. Her childhood was very strict and regulated, especially sexually. She wasn't even allowed to date until she was sixteen, and from the age of sixteen to eighteen she was only allowed on chaperoned dates. When she was seventeen, her parents had their second child, her sister Siobhan. Contrary to most stereotypes of an Irish Catholic household, she does not have a tremendous number of siblings. This is due to the fact that her father was, in fact, a self-hating homosexual; though no one alive is aware of this fact. Her mother was sex-deprived, and the frustration made her more severe with her children than she would otherwise have been.

When she finally went to college, and was exposed to the real world, she quickly discarded her strict upbringing for a more enlightened perspective. She became an ardent atheist bordering on anti-theism. She also did a LOT of college experimentation over a brief period of time, but the guilt produced by her upbringing pushed through her new-found logical view of the world to curtail her actions greatly. She met her husband-to-be, an Army Ranger in college. They had a long distance relationship for a while, and her discipline from her childhood actually made it work. After she earned her Bachelor's Degree in Communications she married her sweetheart. They moved to his home town where she got a job with the local radio station.

Her husband was away for long periods of time, generally acting as a military consultant with the locals in the Middle East. Dante was born during one of his absences, and Patricia devoured everything she could on the rearing of children. This was the start of her fear of germs, obsessive cleaning, and adoption of a vegan lifestyle. Her husband did not adopt veganism with his wife and child. Not long after Dante was born, Patricia's parents were killed in a collision with a fleeing criminal. Siobhan was sent to live with her sister at the age of eight years old.

Four years after Dante was born, his sister Ellen was born. A little less than a year later, Patricia's husband was killed in Iraq. The death of her husband cemented her dedication to raising her children well, exasperating her obsession with cleanliness and nutrition. She began to fear for her children's physical safety at that time, and decided to curtail any extreme physical activities that had too great a risk of physical injury. Siobhan was twelve at the time, but fortunately for her was not a terribly active child.

Trish

Patricia Shannon O'Connell-Wells is a dedicated and overprotective widowed single mother. She reserves the nickname Trish to family and close friends. She is a very progressive mother; and prefers to answer her children's questions honestly rather than use the tired old lies that people have used in the past to obfuscate complex subjects to their children. She is raising her children vegan, under the (somewhat mistaken) impression that it is the healthiest lifestyle. Unfortunately, with a vegan lifestyle it is complicated and challenging to get the proper levels of nutrition; and her children are actually a bit undernourished. She obsessively cleans her house, and does everything she can to limit her children's exposure to germs. This has backfired once again as the children have a weaker immune system from not having been exposed to many microorganisms. She is very opposed to violence, and does what she can to limit any kind of rough play with her children. This makes football an unacceptable sport, but baseball and basketball are just acceptable. Trish is a passionate woman, but has put that side of her life on hold to dedicate herself fully to rearing her children. Because of this there is a sexual dynamo hiding just under the surface.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: 80% minus 70% (modifies with circumstance)
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): Base = -50 Average of conditional modifiers = +5 Variance = +100 to -40
• Breakdown

Siobhan

Siobhan (Celtic name pronounced SHI-vahn) Caitlin O'Connell. Siobhan is Patricia's sister. She was relatively young when their parents died, and was raised predominantly by her sister and her husband.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: Special. (behavior suggests 100%, will become effectively 10% after first consensual sex act.)
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): Special. (40 trust binary cut-off. Almost any sex act is doable with trust of 40 or more.)
• Breakdown

Dante

Dante Edgar Wells (gender-swap: Danica Esther Wells) is a wimpy kid who is a bit smothered by his mother's over-protection. He also is starving for a father figure in his life. He barely remembers his father, having been four years old when he died. He want's to engage in "normal" boy activities, but his mother and his health severely curtails such things. He has developed some effeminate traits from his mother, and is very embarrassed when these are pointed out.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: 20%
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Ellie

Ellen Rachael Wells is a sweet five year old girl. She is very much a girly-girl. Her mother's manner of rearing her has created an early need to be clean, neat, and pretty. She abhors being at all dirty or untidy. She refuses to go to the park with her brother when he goes to play, and instead spends her time at with her aunt while he and her mother are at the park.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: 5%
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): Base = -95.
• Breakdown

The Richards Family

History

Hank was raised is an intolerant household. He was taught to hate all non-white races, that a woman's place was serving a man, and that a man could never show weakness. Hank was a little more liberal than his father, but not by much. He entered the police force to get his father's approval. Hank married his wife right out of the police academy, and they were soon expecting a child. He was furious that it was a girl, but figured he could get a son next time.

It wasn't long after having their daughter, Wilhelmina, that his wife was pregnant again. When he found out the second child his wife was pregnant with was also going to be a daughter, he began to grow distant and he and his wife began to argue more. He began to drink heavily after work. One day he came home drunk, and his wife decided she had had enough and began getting on his case. He wound up knocking her down the stairs, causing her to break her neck and die. Hank managed to hide his involvement in his wife's death, and his unborn second daughter with her. He chose to start raising his daughter as a boy.

Hank

Henry Caleb Richards is a misogynistic police officer. He used to have better control over his regressive views and managed to keep it out of his day to day life, accepting that the rest of the world had different opinions from him, but that started to change after he killed his wife. The guilt and shame of the murder wound up triggering a psychotic break that has been causing him to slowly unravel for the 7 years since this incident. Included in this, he began obsessing over how he was never going to get a son now and was stuck with just his daughter. At the same time, another part of him began fearing for his daughter, seeing the vulnerability of girls as the reason why his wife and unborn daughter died. To satisfy both of these fears at once, he decided to start raising his daughter as a boy. Recently, since she has gotten good at following the role he has forced on her along with his psychosis worsening, he has actually forgotten that she is a girl and legitimately thinks that "Billie" is a boy.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Billie

Wilhelmina Roberta Richards (gender-swap: William Robert Richards) is a gender-confused girl.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: 100%
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

The Holiday Family

History

The Holiday family traces its roots back through Ireland and England to Scotland where the name was originally spelled many different ways. The Holidays are tangentially related to John Henry "Doc" Holliday, but they are not in his direct family line. They are aware of all of this because Chris is an avid amateur genealogist, and has done the research. He has a framed Halliday Coat of Arms and Scottish Tartan hanging on the wall in their living room, as well as displaying Halliday memorabilia throughout the house. The Halliday line is predominantly protestant, but Chris's family line descends from a member of the family that converted to Catholicism in Ireland.

Chris's father wanted to name a child Christmas for a long time, but for four children his wife would hear none of it. She finally relented on the fifth child, allowing Chris's father the joy of introducing his son as Christmas Holiday. Chris was teased about it some in school, but overall got more positive attention from his name than negative. This lead to him wanting to name his children to play off of their last name as well.

Chris met his wife-to-be Lynnette in college. He was studying psychology while she was studying literature. The two hit it off, and when they eventually started talking about children found that they both wanted a large family. Lynn also was ecstatic over the idea to give their children meaningful names based on their last name. They were married about midway through school at the age of 20. They had Summer that year, and moved to a house outside of Campus. Both parents worked nights to stay in college and raise their family while still tithing regularly to the Church and attending service. They had Winny the year they graduated with four year degrees.

Lynn started working as a professional proof-reader while taking care of the children while Chris entered medical school on his way to becoming a psychiatrist. They had March his first year in medical school. The next year Lynn's work garnered her a regular job with a publishing company where she was permitted to work from home, and the identical twins Autumn and Spring were born. Jan was born the year after that. The "Irish twins" Febby and April were born in Chris's last year of medical school.

Chris then moved on to his residency at a psychiatric hospital. May was born the first year of his residency, August the second. The next year Lynn was promoted to editor, and they had to move to Manhattan. Chris transferred his residency and they moved their massive family outside of the city, with Lynn commuting to work each morning. June was born in the third year of Chris's residency, and Lloyd on his final year.

They spent another eight months in New York, during which time July was born. Chris stayed on at the psychiatric hospital of his residency during those eight months, then they decided to move. The publishing company Lynn worked for was doing poorly with the decline of traditional publishing, and the couple was getting tired of the crime and high cost of living. Chris secured a position in a smaller town with a psychiatric doctor's group; and they moved the family. Such a large family needed a large home, and Chris took a gamble and purchased an defunct public library and paid for what renovation they could afford to make it into a home. The family moved in and worked nights and weekends to finish the library's transformation into a home. Octo, Nove, Decy, and Hally were born over the next six years. With the birth of Hally is became apparent that Lynn was unlikely to be able to carry another child to term.

(Author note: Thought up this concept of Catholic parents that wanted a huge family and had an odd sense of humor when naming their children. I wanted to get this out there for discussion. None of this is final. If anyone has any thoughts please add them to the discussion page.)

Chris

Christmas Joseph Holiday is a family man and dedicated Catholic. 37 years old.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Lynn

Lynnette Gertrude Ford-Holiday is a dedicated mother. 37 years old.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Summer

Summer Angelica Holiday. 16 years old. Daughter 1

As the oldest daughter, she is expected to practically serve as a surrogate mother to her younger siblings. Hardly has a social life for always needing to be on hand to babysit.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Winny

Winter Beatrice Holiday. 15 years old. Daughter 2

A bit of a tom-boy and into Soccer and Track and Field. Likes sports because they are her only good excuse to get out of the house for a while and avoid babysitting duty.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

March

March Charles Holiday. 14 years old. Son 1

Childhood friend of Xander and frequent visitor to the Cole household. Thinks of Xander's house as his sanctuary due to him having a large enough family for March to feel comfortable, but not so large as to produce the kind of chaos he experiences at home.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Autumn

Autumn Diana Holiday. 13 years old. Daughter 3

The calm but dominant "older" twin. She fosters a close bond with her twin sister that is a little closer than normal family members, as opposed to the rest of the family bonds in this oversize family witch are just a little closer than friends and acquaintances.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Spring

Spring Edith Holiday. 13 years old. Daughter 4

The more energetic and impulsive "younger" twin. She is usually the one to suggest what the twins do, but she knows her sister always has the final say.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Jan

January Felicia Holiday. 12 years old. Daughter 5

Jan is an affectionate young girl. Is a real daddy's girl, but treats her older brother March as something of a surrogate father since he had his pubescent growth spurt as she sees him as more accessible. This is beginning to develop into a slight crush.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Febby

February Guenevere Holiday. 11 years old. Daughter 6

Lacking proper guidance in how to deal with bullying at school, Febby has fallen into something of a depression that has mostly gone unnoticed by her family members. Has become a little violent with her younger and close age (the twins and younger) siblings.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

April

April Hellen Holiday. 11 years old. Daughter 7

A bit of a social butterfly, April has a sizable circle of school friends that she invites over to her house frequently.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

May

May Iona Holiday. 10 years old. Daughter 8

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

August

August Jackson Holiday. 9 years old. Son 2

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

June

June Kelly Holiday. 8 years old. Daughter 9

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Lloyd

September Lloyd Holiday. 7 years old. Son 3

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

July

July Mary Holiday. 6 years old. Daughter 10

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Octo

October Nathan Holiday. 5 years old. Son 4

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Nove

November Ophelia Holiday. 3 years old. Daughter 11

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Decy

December Patrick Holiday. 2 years old. Son 5

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Hally

Halloween Queen Holiday. 0 years old. Daughter 12

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

Others

Maria

Maria "Mary" Thompsett is a police officer.

Sexual Resistance to Xander. (Start of story)

• Body shame: ?
• Net modifier balance (Taboos and interest): ?
• Breakdown

"Life" Players

Old Players

Loki

Loki (real name unknown) is a player of the game "Life" in the host universe of the simulation encompassing the story universe. He is a bit mischievous and irreverent, but still polite and civil. He is highly intelligent, but has a bit of a twisted sense of humor. He is easily bored, and can readily loose interest in what he's doing for something more interesting if things get too routine.

B£@©k ®∅z3

B£@©k ®∅z3 (Black Rose)(real name unknown) is a hacker of the game "Life" in the host universe of the simulation encompassing the story universe. She is an anarchist and loves spreading chaos. She has a severe aversion to authority bordering on the pathological. She is a bit callous when it comes to inconveniencing other players; but would never hurt them in "real life". She doesn't consider the lifies of Xander's universe to be people at all, treating them like the bits of code that they are to her.

Black Rose didn't actually start as a hacker of Life but as a player. He original user name and avatar was Sammael the right hand of the moderator Jehovah. After an big falling out she turned hacker and screwed with the other players, earned a ban, came back under the user name Satan, caused even more chaos, was banned again, came back under the user name Abaddon, caused more chaos, was banned again, came back under the user name Beelzebub, caused more chaos, was banned again, came back under the user name Belial, caused more chaos, was banned again, came back under the user name Lucifer, caused more chaos, was banned again, then finally took the name B£@©k ®∅z3, and started only joining the game through back doors and hacking. She currently has no user account, but continues to screw with the game.

Newer Players

PrettyPrincess1478

PrettyPrincess1478 (real name unknown) is a player of the game "Life" in the host universe encompassing the story universe. She is fun-loving, and somewhat childish. She is energetic and can be a little flighty. She seems to have few, if any, moral compunctions in the game universe; often doing things that would normally be disturbing or even disgusting "for the points".

Real Life Parallels

Like all aspect of our universe, the story universe should have modified versions of any real people you want to reference. Any people who have been given an alternate in the story should be listed below:

• Bill Gates = Gil Bates
• Steve Jobs = Jeeves Stob
• Arnold Schwarzenegger = Gerald Swartzhauzer