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Níl Gach Uile Fhánaí Caillte

(Not all who wander are lost)

Created on 2007-03-18 22:23:25 (#12527837), last updated 2009-11-09

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Basic Info

Name:	Melissa Talmadge
Birthdate:	1985-09-13
Location:	New York, New York, United States

Contact:

capturedworlds@livejournal.com

Bio

Introduction

Right, basic stuff first? I'm a vegan and I try to not get preachy about it, really, but I am more than happy to tell you why and it is something that's really important to me, so. You know. Accept it. From a small town in Virginia called Glade Springs, which is near Abingdon and Bristol, and not too far from Roanoke and Blacksburg. My dad's a neurosurgeon and my mom's a lawyer, and I grew up on my grandparent's farm, all very extended-family-ish, because my parents thought it was good for me to have a continuous presence in the house. It was a nice way to grow up, but when college time came around, I didn't go to VA Tech or UVA--I came up here to NYU, and I'm not sure I've been fully forgiven for that. But the city had so much going on with it, so much to learn, to see and to do, that I couldn't help but fall in love at first sight.

I graduated from NYU in 2007 with a double major in photography and journalism and a minor in mythical studies, and now I'm an intern at National Geographic, working freelance as well for a couple of papers here in the City. My goal is to be a featured photographer for National Geographic, but right now I mostly make coffee and sit in on the creative team meetings to listen. It's not a bad gig, at all. I'm making connections, learning the business, and they've even taken a look at my portfolio. The papers pay pretty well for what I come up with, too, which is just building that.

In my free time (Ha!), I run the NY Street Team for this musician named Devin. If you don't know of him, you're missing out. He's the best. I run his website and newsgroup and fanclub stuff, too, because he's pretty hopeless with computers. *g*

Most of the time, though, I'm usually out and about with my camera. New York's amazing for photography. There's such a rich diversity, and sometimes, more often than you might think, you find something or someone truly unique special. Those are good days.

OOC: FPK Only

Melissa is an original creation from my Sidhe of Bri Leith series of novels/WIPs. One of those who showed up as a minor character in the first and then wouldn't shut up. *g*

She's sort of shy, but one of those people who covers it by chattering when nervous. She's also very intense, feels highly passionately about things, and will start a debate with anyone if she cares enough. She doesn't preach or push, but she has very strong opinions that she is not afraid to express.

She thinks she is, and appears to be, human, but she has Fae blood in her from way back, part of her Irish heritage, nurtured in the mists of the Appalachian mountains. She's unaware of this heritage, though, and the gifts that come from it tend to fluster her more than make her think there's something more. She has what might have been called at one time "the Sight." She can tell when people are "different" (i.e., vampires, aliens, fae, evolved humans, what have you) and recognizes power when she's around it. She's highly empathic--people and places resonate with emotions past and present with her, and she's able to look at a place and tell what happened there, if it left a strong enough emotional imprint. The future, however, she can't tell. Probabilities, sometimes, paths people could take, but nothing definite, and more impressions. She also has a bad habit of slipping through worlds, walking around a corner for instance and being in Faerie instead of New York, or even getting her consciousness tugged into the past. Mostly this happens in dreams, but as she gets older it's happening more and more in her waking hours. She has some connection to the Morrigan, which she fights, tackling that inner rage and bloodlust and battle cry into an extreme pacifist attitude and the ultimate "good girl" behavior instead. The Morrigan bits are still being worked out in her canon story arc, so that is subject to change as I figure out how the pieces fit better. *g*

OOC Information: Alternate RP Universes

recreating_eden: It's early 2009, and Melissa has survived the deadly virus released by Adam Monroe. With her family and friends mostly gone, she traveled to Corvallis, Oregon, to work with the only familiar face left in a world decimated by plague--Nathan Petrelli. Although she doesn't believe Adam could have done this intentionally, she doesn't know him, and Nathan's a face she trusts, so she works with him, Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh to try and make a place where people can come to rebuild, somewhere safe that's an alternative to Adam's rule in Eden. In the meantime she struggles to master her ability (tweaked from her Fae one in her own canon to fit Heroes 'verse), to use it to help Nathan, and to try and build a life for herself out of the shattered world they've been left with.

OOC Information: Communities

recreating_eden

whack_a_muse

muses_inthesack

museimagination

muses_gonewild

faerietalemuse

Disclaimer: This is the journal of a fictional character, created for prompt writing and RP purposes. Melissa is an original character and all copyrights are maintained by ladyofbrileith. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Melissa is represented here by Amber Tamblyn, who is in no way associated with this project.

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