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This is another fake person, a character for "Fireflies on the Bay," a Sarasota branch of the LARP Changeling: The Dreaming. Mimicking Laura's idea, all public posts are available in character as Minnie's LJ. All friends posts are her private journal only available OOC.

So, let's see, description:
She has red (crayola-red) hair with matching eyes that she usually hides behind sunglasses, claw-like fingernails that she usually paints dark blue, curling blue horns that spread out over her hair, and big, blue, leathery gargoyle wings that, when not in use, she drapes over her shoulders like a cape. The wings are visible to humans, too, so she usually hides them under a heavy coat. In general, she just avoids going out during the day, because she does not like to draw mundane attention to herself.
At first impression, she is quiet and keeps to herself, but once someone earns her trust, their business becomes her business, and their problems become her problems. She would probably fancy herself as a guardian, and cannot stand to see those with power torture, influence, bully, or mess with those who are without power, specifically humans. She hates bullies more than anything else, and has no problem protecting a stranger... once. If they're a dick about it, she won't bother again.

Biography of Minnie Flavisham, Seelie Troll
Age 12, 1994: Moved, with parents, three brothers (Mick, Donny, and Peter), and one sister (Daisy), from hometown in Connecticut to another town in upstate New York, because her older brother (Mick) had gotten into disciplinary problems and was expelled from school. Started attending junior high school. Found it difficult to adapt to new school, and was teased by other kids. Always acted introverted and shy, and did not make many friends.
Age 14, 1996: Was enjoying a walk through the woods by herself, when it started raining. Just as she was trying to figure out the fastest way back home, she was attacked. Suddenly she chrysalized into an enormous blue troll, and threw her attacker over 30 feet, into the nearby lake. She did not have time to be confused about this new-found strenth, because almost immediately, her eyes started burning and itching uncontrollably, and there was a terrible pain coming from the muscles in her upper back. She fell to the ground and started screaming as two leathery gargoyle wings ripped themselves out of her skin, giving her a total wingspan of about ten feet. Then she collapsed on the path, her own blood pooling around her, and wept without moving, until she finally lost consciousness.
When she woke up, she was on her side, in a soft bed, in a room she did not recognize. A large, 21-year-old troll's face was about six inches away from hers, and his hand was on her forehead. Without thinking, she screamed and punched him in the face. He fell backwards, more out of shock than pain, and then started laughing and stood up. He was a towering ten feet tall. Immediately embarassed at what she had done, Minnie started spitting out apologies and excuses to the huge, blue man, but he shook his head and said that he was the one who should be sorry, and they went back and forth like that until eventually, she was laughing too. The troll's name was Saul, and they have been friends ever since.
The room where she had woken up had been in the attic of a local freehold, owned by a 30-year-old sidhe named Micheal Latterly, of House Liam, who had felt her chrysalis and had been the one to find her in the woods. He, of course, couldn't carry her back by himself, which is why he had called Saul. While in the freehold Minnie also met Rose, a 13-year-old Ghille Dhu who, as it turns out, went to Minnie's school, one grade below her. They too became fast friends.
Minnie obviously couldn't hide her wings from her large, privacy-challenged family, so she asked Micheal to help her to explain the situation to them. As it turns out, both Minnie's father and her brother Mick were troll kinain, and so her father had very little trouble accepting what had happened, and forced her mother and siblings into accepting it, too. While he was in thier household, Micheal told Minnie and her parents that he saw the youngest child, Daisy, could also very well go through a similar change one day, but he wasn't positive. So, while not everyone in the household necessarily agreed with what was going on, no one talked about it, either, and every day after school Minnie would go to the freehold to be able to interact and learn from other people like her.
She quickly learned that she could fold her wings over her shoulders and fasten them like a cape, and also that when she was angry or very excited about something, her red eyes would glow.
Age 15-17, 1997-2000: As a result of always wearing a heavy coat and sunglasses in school, Minnie was afraid that she would be picked on even more, but the very first day that one of the bullies pushed her roughly out of the way while walking through the hall, she grabbed his wrist, twisted his arm around his back, and shoved him against the locker. She hadn't planned this; it just happened, and she was just as surprised as everyone else. Of course, she got into trouble with the principal for this, but from then on, if anyone tried to mess with her (or anyone else that she felt didn't deserve it), she would respond with violence. She saw herself as the vigilante of the school, the champion of the weak. The school, however, saw her as having a disciplinary problem, and forced her to meet with the school councelor once a week. Fortunately, the school concelor, Mr. Claire, was a Piskie, so she was able to be completely honest with him during their sessions.
Saul became an important role-model to Minnie, and, almost as much as she would go to the freehold, she would also go to his house, where he taught her how to fight "like a troll should." When he discovered that she could enter the Dreaming on her own, he would often train with her there, too. When she was seventeen, Minnie successfully disarmed Saul and beat him for the first time. Nowadays the results of their matches usually end about 50-50.
Age 18-22, 2000-2004: Despite her "disciplinary problems," Minnie still managed to get good grades and get a full scholarship to Fordham University, in New York City. She majored in English, with a minor in philosophy.
When she was 18 she lost her virginity to an Egyptian Eshu around her same age, named Jack Kumar. He was the first man to be confident enough to attempt to seduce her, an eight-foot troll woman with glowing red eyes, but the next morning, of course, he was gone. (She had sex with two other men after this, albeit not at the same time, that she had real relationships with, but eventually they each became freaked out by the concept that their girlfriend could snap them in half, and broke it off. This was after Jack but before Kishi.)
About six months after she moved to the city, Saul also came and bought an apartment a few blocks away from hers. He claimed it had nothing to do with her. He had just crossed over into being a grump, and said he wanted a change in scenery.
Minnie continued to stay in touch with her Changeling friends from upstate New York. She was planning to be sworn into House Liam, but when she was 21, the day before it was supposed to happen, her only close personal contact to the House, Micheal, became Undone. After she'd lost her friend, she was no longer attracted to the idea of joining his house, but she still to this day upholds the same values as Liam.
Her new friends once she moved to the city: Jimmy and Tito, twin brother Boggans; Kishi, a playful (male) bat Pooka; Dakota, a shifty Satyr who owns a Manhattan nightclub called "Deep Dreams" where Minnie was a regular, a great deal of other Trolls (particularly Saxon, Tula and Hollywood) and a few Sidhe.
Age 22, 2004: Minnie worked as an intern from 2003-2004 at the New York Public Library, and when she got her BA, she got a full-time job as an archivist for the same library. This was an ideal position for her, because she got to stay in the spacious attic, going through books and files, unseen by anyone but a few coworkers.
Out of her new friends, she spent the most time with Kishi, and the two of them would look for new, safe places to fly together, and have contests to see what each of them could do without being spotted. The more time they spent together, the fonder they became of each other, until Minnie believed that she could possibly be in love with her friend. Kishi, however, made the first move, when he was 21 and she was 22. It was consumated, and from that time, they were in a very strange, but very affectionate relationship for over six months.
Age 23, 2005: One night, Minnie found out that Kishi had been cheating on her with someone else: another Pookah. She promptly broke one of his wings and told him that she'd kill both him and his "falcon-whore" if he ever tried to contact her (minnie) again. Even though she didn't mean it, he never did try.

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