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Player

Player Name: Blue
Other Characters (if any): Daisy, Ruby

Character

Character Name: Alice Dyer
Character Age: 33/34ish, based on what info we have
Canon: The Magnus Protocol
Canon Point: Vaguely Episode 10
CRAU (if any): N/A
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History: We know very little about Alice's history so far, admittedly. She assumedly grew up in the North of England and at some point started her transition. She went to Nottingham University where she met Samama Khalid and dated him for a few years, a relationship that ended sometime after their graduation; their split was amicable enough that they kept in touch for a time before drifting into more distant friends who mostly kept up via social media. After university both of her parents died, something that Sam helped her through and that likely left her looking out for her younger brother, Luke, as he finished school. She still regularly gives Luke money to keep him afloat whilst he's working with his band.

At some point after all this she started working at the Office of Incident Assessment and Response (OIAR), a decrepit government agency that deals in categorising reports of paranormal happenings gathered from all over the internet and beyond. Alice has been working nights there for going on ten years as of the start of the podcast, and recommended Sam for the job he took there after she caught him vague-posting about losing his last job due to a mental break. In the couple of months since his hiring, Alice has tried her best to make Sam stop poking his nose into places that are going to get it cut off, to little avail. Ultimately this led to her saying 'screw it' and joining him in an investigation of the burned down Magnus Institute in Manchester, where as far as she knows she and Sam took a bad fall into a manky hole and died.

We can kind of speculate that Alice has, in fact, had a messed up supernatural experience at some point that led her to the OIAR in the first place (possibly related to her parents deaths/up to and including the possibility she was also involved in the Magnus Institute's activities the same way Sam was) but as of right now it's still speculation.

Personality: Alice is best described as the kind of person who always thinks she's the funniest one in the room and is going to make sure you know it. She's got a very chaotic, online sense of humour that you either love or hate, but even though by default she will inflict this on anyone and everyone, if someone actually tells her to cut it out and be serious for a bit, she will (sometimes, anyway). When she's not deflecting all serious emotion with humour, she can actually be pretty sensible and even insightful, dishing out what's generally sound advice even if it doesn't always get listened to. But she does also have a bit of a mean streak and a tendency to push up against boundaries a little too hard, often causing both the other party and herself discomfort in the process. Her emotional masochism is a repeated occurrence.

She's irreverent towards almost everything, especially authority, and at least puts on a front of not being affected by the work they do in the OIAR, but it's clear she knows just how badly it can affect people, and it's likely that most people who get hired there have gone through some horrible experience of their own. She's not anywhere near as content with her situation as she acts, hiding behind a front that masks much more complicated emotions about being unfulfilled/stuck in a job she hates and feeling lonely/isolated. She also clearly knows more than she's letting on, something that only becomes more obvious the more other people poke further. Acting as if she doesn't care and like she doesn't pay attention only goes so far; when the pressure gets too much, the front does start to crack and when pushed her affection for people close to her (namely Sam) wins out, even if just so she can keep them from getting in over their head.

Initial Game Plan: Alice is going to want to sort out work so she can get an actual place to live that isn't the inn, and then start developing a social life now she's been forcefully shoved into being a morning person again. She's the type to try and forcefully ignore actual plot happenings but that's not going to last forever.
RP Interests: Alice is really fun to bounce off characters who react strongly in one way or another to her stupid humour, whether by giving it right back or being frustrated/exhausted/etc. by it, because either way she will just keep going. Friends, frenemies, people she can just be kind of a snarky shit at, CR of all kinds! She is, ~~as far as we know so far~~ in comparison to a lot of people here, Just Some Gal, so the more weird multiverse stuff she has to deal with the better. Getting her to drop the front and show some more real emotion would also be nice.
Preferred Job: Either she's going to look for an admin job or she's going to go all in on the comedy thing as an entertainer.
NSFW-friendly?: Yes in theory! She's pining for her ex, but who knows what'll happen. Worth noting also that she's a trans woman who I'm figuring is on HRT but nothing else.