Character Profile - Tameron McLoon.
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tigeranneBack in 2015, I decided to make a set of questions, to determine how much and what I knew about my various OCs. I have a lot of characters, from several stories, so keeping some sort of file-system of their details struck me as a good idea. It turned out to be the sort of kick my brain hard-drive needed to revive a lot of old characters, that I honestly thought were buried and gone. Nope, they were still there.
Most of the character profiles is under restricted access, more because they reveal how utterly sadistic I can be when creating a backstory, than because I'm worried about plagiarism. There are some characters that aren't all that... well, dark for the lack of a better word, and who are known to a larger (as in more than three people) audience. This is one of them: The one and only Tameron.
1: What is your character's full name?
Tameron Cameron McLoon.
Cameron was her mother's maiden name. She's named after her mother, Tracey, who was "T. Cameron" growing up.
2: What is their gender?
She's a regular cis-woman. Well, the part of her identity that is human, anyway. She also identifies as cat, wolf and dolphin, and she's not sure females of those species are women.
3: Is the character a protagonist, antagonist, or something else entirely?
She's a pseudo-antagonist, more of a nuisance than a threat.
4: What is their birthdate, if known?
15th of June, 1994.
(On her blog, she'll always be 22. Her blog's not canon, though.)
5: What are their colours, hair type, height and build? Hairy?!?!
Tameron is sort of tall and lanky. She's 170-72cm, with long legs and sticks for arms. There's not an athletic bone in her, and a high metabolism is the only reason she's as thin as she is. Her skin is in the "fair" category, that gets very red in direct sunlight. She's got naturally dish-water blonde, wavy hair, which she dyes pink, and her eyes are a hazel brown. Oh, and she doesn't shave her rather fuzzy legs. Her leg-hair is very blonde, though.
6: Any distinguishing features? Tattoos, interesting scars or piercings?
Apart from a strong chin, most noticable in profile, there's nothing too unusual about Tameron's natural appearance. She's been remedying this by dying her hair bright, unnatural colours for several years. Tameron's too much of a wimp to get a tattoo, but she claims to be allergic to ink as the reason for being a "blank." She's got a labret and left eye-brow piercings.
7: How do they dress, accessorize and wear their hair?
Tameron is a former EMO, who's never really grown out of the passive-agressive statement t-shirt stage. She dresses like a typical Milennial Instagram edge-lord, in oversized hoodies, brightly patterned leggings, glitter and pastels. Black or minty-green "problem" glasses complete the look. She's got part of her hair cropped very short in an undercut, and it's usually dyed pink. One of the very few things Tameron puts any effort into, is to keep the leopard pattern dyed into the short part of her hair look fresh and crisp. She even dyes her arm-pits and... bikini area. (But not her legs, yet.) While she's not exactly gothic, she almost exclusively wears black lipstic, usually in combination with brightly coloured eye-shadow.
8: What is their personality like? Introverted or Extroverted? Polite or rude? Do they have a sense of humor?
There's no way to put this nicely. Tameron is rude, blunt, agressive, vindictive and petty, with a victim-complex far beyond what's reasonable. She has no sense of humor, she just likes saying "LOL" and "LMAO" sarcastically. People who know her suspect her of having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. She may also just be an asshole.
Tameron swears a lot, and subscribes to the belief that a filthy mouth is the sign of a compassionate, non-judgemental person. She doesn't trust people who rarely or never swear. Her favourite profanity is "frack" or "fracking," which is a much eviller activity than having sex. It's important to her that people don't think she censors herself.
9: Are they popular or well-liked? How do they treat people around them?
Thanks to being an absolute nightmare to be around, Tameron has only three or four people who like her.* The fourth one still hasn't decided whether being Tameron's friend is even worth it.
Tameron is often mistaken for a "Social Justice Warrior," but she really isn't. Being an SJW would mean that she cared at least somewhat for groups of people she's not part of, when she actually only cares about herself, and what offends her personally.
Even among people she cares about, Tameron goes out of her way to analyse everything about them as critically as possible, hoping to get a chance to "educate" them. She will never admit to being wrong. Even if she is, and ends up apologizing, it's always some evil third-party to blame for her mistake.
With people she doesn't care for, Tameron pulls no brakes at all. She'll rip them a new one, and make a huge spectacle of it. Then, she'll go home and rant about it on all her social media accounts. She barely has friends online either, but occasionally her posts get reblogged, by someone not too critical of their sources. This sporadic validation affirms to her that she's right.
*Her parents are not among them. They still love their child, but they can't swear in a court of law that they like her, anymore.
10: Do they have any special strenghts, talents or abilities that set them apart from most other people? Is there anything they are unusually good at, or has special knowledge about?
She's got a very limited ability to feel ashamed. That probably counts as a strenght.
11: Is something in particular making their life difficult, like a disability or some kind of lurking danger?
From an outside perspective, the main danger to her wellbeing is herself. Her complete lack of empathy for most people in existance, combined with her inability to understand (or care) what is and isn't an appropriate response, have made it almost impossible for her to have meaningful relationships. She's not great at predicting the possible fall-out of her more extreme actions, and repeatedly gets in trouble. Worst of all, she's mostly incapable of being happy, because of her need to interpret everything as negatively as possible.
From Tameron's own point of view, she's one of the very few sane and intelligent people in the world. She thinks everything and everyone is out to get her, either out of jealousy of her brains and bravery, or just because they hate women. Tameron, who identifies as a Fourth-Wave Feminist,* believes in The Patriarchy as a literal world-wide conspiracy to enslave women and revoke their legal recognition as humans. It's also The Patriarchy that constantly forces vegetables on people, because they want women to be very skinny. Tameron is unfortunately deathly allergic to all vegetables except French Fries,** so The Patriarchy is literally trying to murder her every day of the year.
Even in the liberal higher institutions of learning, Tameron isn't safe from Pat Riarchy. There's especially one unnamed professor who's taken a serious disliking to her, for constantly calling out how ignorant and problematic he is. The busdrivers are also giving her stink-eye each time she boards, just because she's a cat with the natural need to scratch.
*The "Fourth Wave" exists almost entirely online, as they have problems organising. They have no common goals, and generally don't get along with each other, because of differences in opinion. The only thing that identifies them as a group, is that they identify as feminists, but don't accept neither the Second or Third waves as "correct" and "real" feminism. This is where you'll find the "You're not feminist if you're not vegan," "You're not feminist if you are vegan," and TERF populations.
**Potato chips (or crisps as they're also known) don't count. They aren't made from real potatos in 2018???? This is the current year!
12: What sort of social background do they come from? For example, are they part of a specific culture? Is their family wealthy or poor? Did they grow up in a town or city, in the countryside, the suburbs or elsewhere?
Tameron is the second child out of four, and the oldest daughter in the family. She was born and still lives in the fictional town of Bellstone, North Carolina, which has a population of about 15 000 in all. The family home is situated a bit outside the downtown area, in a neighbourhood with at least three farms. Her family is relatively well-to-do middle class, so Tameron has grown up with more privilege than she cares to admit. Although she hates her hometown, and would like to move down to Raleigh - or better yet, Seattle or Portland - she has no intention of moving out of her parents' house until she has her Master's degree in whatever Nano-Aggression Science is. She's very proud of having invented it, though. The fact that she's currently in a community college, for the fourth year in a row, suggests it could be a while.
13: How do they get along with their family, whether biological or self-chosen?
Short answer: Very badly.
Longer answer: Tameron and her middle sister, Tanice, are on fairly good terms. Both of them are horribly embarrassed by their parents, other siblings and extended family.
Tanice is only three years younger than Tameron, but she's almost chronically regressed into "LittleSpace," where she acts like a small child. Her "mental age" is fluid between two and six. Tameron actively encourages Tanice's eccentricities, because they make their homelife more controversial and interesting. Having a "baby sister" allows Tameron to claim Virtue Points for being the caregiver (NOT in an incestuous way! Ew.) of a small child who's depending on her. At the same time, the "child" is a genius, with an adult intelligence level, and relatively easy to look after. Tameron relishes any opportunity to brutally educate anyone who makes critical remarks about Tanice's clothing, hair-styles and accessories. Well, relishes it as long as the critics are relatively old and frail, or so young that she knows she can beat them up in an emergency. She almost allows herself to have fun, whenever she takes Tanice out to get new clothes or toys. Sometimes, she wheels her around in a stroller they fashioned from an old wheelchair bought off of e-bay. It's a good way of attracting new progressive acquaintances. Tanice is apparently able to act her chronological age long enough at the time, to be able to do fairly well in college.
Torrey, the only brother in the family, is three years older than Tameron. He's already married, and lives in a small house nearby, with his wife, Courtney, and their two children. Both Torrey and Courtney are so ordinary, Tameron can't even tell that they have any personalities. She's also got problems describing what her brother looks like, on one occasion stating that "He's got hair on his head, and it has some kind of colour. His eyes are above his nose, which is long and in the middle of his face, with nostrils." Courtney and Torrey have a toddler daughter, named Daisy, and a baby son named Finn. Tameron was really disappointed that Courtney's latest parasite was a male. She insists on calling him "Chastity," and trying to sneak him soy milk, which she has heard can feminize boys.
The youngest of all the children is Tanya, five years Tameron's junior. Tanya is a blonde sheeple of the Patriarchy, and Tameron has had little success in breaking her conditioning. Just because Tanya is blonde, polite and brainwashed to smile a lot, she's somehow their parents' favourite child. She reinforces toxic ideals of puritanism and prudery, by choosing to be sexually abstinent at the age of 17. Living with a reactionary future 50s housewife is very oppressive to Tameron, who can't really make up her mind whether it would be a relief or a horrible embarrassment if Tanya married young and moved out. Tameron is convinced that Tanya's future concists of marriage to a significantly older Republican, with whom she'll have at least six children and a SUV.
Tameron is pretty sure her mother is at least bordering on evil, and is shilling for the Pay Tree Arkie. Tracey works out, so the P-word will think she's attractive, and wastes a lot of water cleaning off her womanly perspirations afterwards. She's not very good at hiding her contempt towards her oldest daughter, who she constantly tries to trick into suiciding on vegetables. Neither does she accept any of Tameron's self-diagnosed conditions like lactose intolerance (Just because Tameron can drink chocolate milk, doesn't mean plain milk won't make her sick!) or having an IQ of 160 (Diagnosed professionally with an on-line test). Tracey, on her side, is wondering where she went wrong, to have had two of her children ending up being kooks, with one being utterly batshit crazy.
Tameron's father, Tyler, is a blob with no opinions of his own. Sure, he has opinions, but he's just thinking and feeling what he's been told to, not critically examining things for himself. Tameron has good reason to suspect he's actually a Republican, because he shares a striking facial similarity to House Speaker Paul Ryan. In fact, he's a disgraceful presence to be seen in public with, because people sometimes come over and start screeching at him for "his" politics. They're right to do that, of course, but Tameron loathes the idea that people think she's somehow associated with such oppression.
There's also a cousin named Kayla, who was Tameron's friend until she married a rutabaga and became a shill for marital slavery. Kayla and her vegetable husband have two daughters, named Olivia (3) and Isla (1).*
*I didn't know those were the names of the Farrington grandmothers when I named the girls, but it's a funny coincidence so I'm not changing them.
14: Which of the other characters are their closest friends?
Tameron has rather few friends. She tends to cut all ties to someone if she decides they're problematic, and that she needs to avoid them for her own safety.
The closest she has to a "best" friend is a young woman named Brooke Walker, an "eccentric arteest" type, who does slam poetry and thinks everything is very deep.
Then there's Madison Turner, who's pretty much a more left-wing version of the typical conspiracy theorist. Madison has that cliché washed-out green hair, and does her human duty by re-blogging every shocking and disturbing story she encounters on social media.
Alexis Carter-Phillips is considered to be a friend of Tameron's, but as a student at a "real" college, who has a thing for sources and documented research, she's clearly a bit classist and abelist. Tameron mainly tolerates her because she's overweight, so she probably won't be pushing vegetables on Tameron, and is safe to be around.
Tameron and Madison share an online friend called Ariel, or "magicfoxiefaerie2131." Ariel is fox-kin and faerie-kin. She's never shared a selfie, because her parents have apparently taken all her clothes away, to punish her for being a fox. They claim that if she needs clothes, she isn't one, according to Ariel. This is a very common way for parents to punish otherkin children, according to Madison. Ariel also isn't allowed to post naked pictures of herself online, or leave the house wearing only her blanket. Alexis isn't convinced Ariel is for real.
The last and least of the friends is Jillian. Tameron befriended her because she had dyed her hair blue, but she soon found out that Jillian was just some girl with blue hair, rather than a true progressive non-conformist.
15: Are any of the other characters their enemies? Why?
Pretty much everyone is an enemy, in Tameron's book. Some people deserve special mention, though.
The worst person in the whole world (among the ones she's actually encountered) is Professor Dennis Keith Fisher, who constantly interrupts Tameron when she speaks out in class. He has claimed that women who refuse to wax their body hair (anti-waxers) are responsible for outbreaks of epidemic illnesses, and doesn't know that the EX-chromosomes become the ovaries during female puberty. When Tameron stood up to him, he reported her and had her put on probation for "flashing her classmates and lecturer." Clearly his fragile masculinity couldn't handle the sight of non-conforming female genitals (she dyes, remember), and felt his authority being threatened.
The second most dangerous person Tameron knows, is Raelynn Carmichael, a redneck girl from a nearby farm. Raelynn thinks she's a writer, and publishes stuff online that is so stupid it's probably contageous. She's accused Madison of pretending that there are dangerous people everywhere, and basically playing a game where she's a brave hero without risking anything. In addition, Raelynn owes Tameron about $500, for all the wrong things she's said that Tameron has had to correct. Education is a paid profession, nobody should expect Tameron to do it for free, even if they "didn't ask her to, in the first place!"
16: What do they look for in a romantic partner? Do they have a special “type” they always go for?
Tameron has three exes, each and every one turned out to be deranged and brainwashed in the end.
She's currently dating Dax Buchanan. He's in many ways a perfect boyfriend, because he's a dog in a human body, rather than a human male. His canine loyalty, in combination with a sexually compatible physical appearance, more than makes up for the times he rummages through trash for scraps of food. The only problem in their relationship is that he's kin with Naruto, who Tameron can't stand. This means that whenever she has sex with Dax, she has sex with Naruto as well, because they're one and the same.
17: Do they follow any religion - organized or otherwise, or believe in powers beyond nature?
Oh no, religion would mean having to follow rules and expectations, and stuff! She's not into that. On the other hand, she's not a complete non-believer. She does believe in mysterious ancient forces and magical woman-powers, and is absolutely certain that it's possible for physically human individuals to have the soul of a cat or a wolf, or both.
18: What do they like doing in their free time? Is their taste in culture and entertainment high- or low-brow? Are they part of a special life-style?
Tameron sees herself as very multi-talented, and has tried pretty much every art there is apart from dance. She consider dancing to be a sport, which are all very ableist and misogynistic, because men are better at them than women! #bansports2018
Her most favourite way of expressing herself is as a novelist. She's got a rather distinct style, which includes copious amounts of sarcasm, explaining the obvious in minute details, and interrupting the narrative to speak condescendingly to the readers. Her punctuation is also... creative. All her protagonists are rather scary outcasts, who appear to suffer from numerous mental issues. Tameron has started at least three ongoing "epics." In order of publication, they are:
Detroit Beloveds. Tameron describes this story as an "Urban YA Dark Romance." It's set in Detroit, a city Tameron has absolutely no familiarity with. In the novel, the city is more or less a post-apocalyptic wasteland, cut off from civilization by miles of wilderness on each side. Rather than being in Michigan, near the Canadian border, it seems to be located in the lower Mid-West. For some reason, it's always icy cold with fog and a drizzle. She's also imagining it as at least five times its actual size, as it takes days to navigate through it. There are several main characters, most of which are entirely interchangable. (Even Tameron forgets who's who, a couple of times.) The novel would probably have benefited from having only half of its overall cast. There's a vague plot about somehow trying to leave the city, but it's so all over the place it's hard to say what the story is actually about. Overall, this is Tameron's most cheerful and light-hearted novel.
Poison Pregnant. This started out as a side-plot in Detroit Beloveds, but Tameron decided it had promise as a work of its own. Compared to her first novel, this one is seriously dark and twisted, even for Tameron. There is a bit more of red thread, mainly revolving around the horrors of pregnancy. Pernicity Rothgar, the central protagonist, is a detective or agent, working for a rival force to the official police. She has a day(?) job as a pole-dancer, so she can practice doing impossible acrobatics on top of sky-scrapers, and Kung-Fu everyone who tries to mess with her. Her mission is to save a pre-teen girl from a respectable family, who wants to use her as breeding stock as soon as she reaches puberty. There's also the tragedy of her friend, who is already pregnant, whose baby daddy she suspects is really an infamous (previously) teenaged serial killer whose father was also a serial killer. Tameron positively delights in grusome accounts of child-birth and pregnancy complications. Around the bloody umbillical chord of the plot, there is also a vast, rambling darkness of all sorts of depravity Tameron can imagine "pretty" families being guilty of. Oh, and sex. Lots of it.
Underground Supremacy. Neither of her first two novels had quite the scope Tameron wanted. But then again, she could just start a third novel, right? It shares a universe with Poison Pregnant, and features Pernicity's half-twin sister (Different mothers, same father, born on the same day.) Leona Mickinley(sic). The rest of the main cast concists of William Octane "Ock" Diesel, Sprynx Spratkaloiika - Ock's debatably human girlfriend, Eisley Jean Haynes and Tameron's favourite character - Hawthorne Gibraltar. There is basically no real plot, and the narrative follows each and every character all the way into the bathroom, with frequent shifts in PoV. Leona has been an assassin since the age of 11, and started dealing drugs a couple of years before that. Ock is trying to beat his meth habit, and avoid being caught by the popos while driving around naked with no license. Sprynx plans to hunt down the rest of her relatives, so she can exact her revenge on them for the childhood she spent under the floorboards in the livingroom. Eisley tries to live a relevant urban life in their small backwater hometown. Hawthorne just... suffers a lot, to give the readers the feeelz. (He started making appearances in Poison Pregnant too, after his introduction.) There are several hundred supporting (but not necessarily supportive) characters, and everyone is somehow connected enigmatically to almost everyone else. Nothing is what it seems the first time around. Ret-cons are frequent, hand-waved with people just being untrustworthy, or having had some really good reason to lie in the first place. Also, there is sex. There is so much sex that Tameron has run out of ways to describe it, and has to copy and paste together bits of previous trysts.
19: If they could do anything they wanted in life, what would it be? Is there one particular dream or nightmare that drives them forward?
Anything she wanted? Tameron would obviously want to be Supreme World Leader with a life-time duration. And also President of the United States, if that wasn't already covered under Supreme Leader. At the same time she would like to pursue her PhD in Nano-Agression Science, and have it made a compulsory class in all high schools and colleges. Still, she wouldn't let any of this get in her way of being the feministest author who had ever punched a keyboard.
20: U wot M8?
That's, disgusting and,,,,,,,,,, misogynist???????
Most of the character profiles is under restricted access, more because they reveal how utterly sadistic I can be when creating a backstory, than because I'm worried about plagiarism. There are some characters that aren't all that... well, dark for the lack of a better word, and who are known to a larger (as in more than three people) audience. This is one of them: The one and only Tameron.
1: What is your character's full name?
Tameron Cameron McLoon.
Cameron was her mother's maiden name. She's named after her mother, Tracey, who was "T. Cameron" growing up.
2: What is their gender?
She's a regular cis-woman. Well, the part of her identity that is human, anyway. She also identifies as cat, wolf and dolphin, and she's not sure females of those species are women.
3: Is the character a protagonist, antagonist, or something else entirely?
She's a pseudo-antagonist, more of a nuisance than a threat.
4: What is their birthdate, if known?
15th of June, 1994.
(On her blog, she'll always be 22. Her blog's not canon, though.)
5: What are their colours, hair type, height and build? Hairy?!?!
Tameron is sort of tall and lanky. She's 170-72cm, with long legs and sticks for arms. There's not an athletic bone in her, and a high metabolism is the only reason she's as thin as she is. Her skin is in the "fair" category, that gets very red in direct sunlight. She's got naturally dish-water blonde, wavy hair, which she dyes pink, and her eyes are a hazel brown. Oh, and she doesn't shave her rather fuzzy legs. Her leg-hair is very blonde, though.
6: Any distinguishing features? Tattoos, interesting scars or piercings?
Apart from a strong chin, most noticable in profile, there's nothing too unusual about Tameron's natural appearance. She's been remedying this by dying her hair bright, unnatural colours for several years. Tameron's too much of a wimp to get a tattoo, but she claims to be allergic to ink as the reason for being a "blank." She's got a labret and left eye-brow piercings.
7: How do they dress, accessorize and wear their hair?
Tameron is a former EMO, who's never really grown out of the passive-agressive statement t-shirt stage. She dresses like a typical Milennial Instagram edge-lord, in oversized hoodies, brightly patterned leggings, glitter and pastels. Black or minty-green "problem" glasses complete the look. She's got part of her hair cropped very short in an undercut, and it's usually dyed pink. One of the very few things Tameron puts any effort into, is to keep the leopard pattern dyed into the short part of her hair look fresh and crisp. She even dyes her arm-pits and... bikini area. (But not her legs, yet.) While she's not exactly gothic, she almost exclusively wears black lipstic, usually in combination with brightly coloured eye-shadow.
8: What is their personality like? Introverted or Extroverted? Polite or rude? Do they have a sense of humor?
There's no way to put this nicely. Tameron is rude, blunt, agressive, vindictive and petty, with a victim-complex far beyond what's reasonable. She has no sense of humor, she just likes saying "LOL" and "LMAO" sarcastically. People who know her suspect her of having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. She may also just be an asshole.
Tameron swears a lot, and subscribes to the belief that a filthy mouth is the sign of a compassionate, non-judgemental person. She doesn't trust people who rarely or never swear. Her favourite profanity is "frack" or "fracking," which is a much eviller activity than having sex. It's important to her that people don't think she censors herself.
9: Are they popular or well-liked? How do they treat people around them?
Thanks to being an absolute nightmare to be around, Tameron has only three or four people who like her.* The fourth one still hasn't decided whether being Tameron's friend is even worth it.
Tameron is often mistaken for a "Social Justice Warrior," but she really isn't. Being an SJW would mean that she cared at least somewhat for groups of people she's not part of, when she actually only cares about herself, and what offends her personally.
Even among people she cares about, Tameron goes out of her way to analyse everything about them as critically as possible, hoping to get a chance to "educate" them. She will never admit to being wrong. Even if she is, and ends up apologizing, it's always some evil third-party to blame for her mistake.
With people she doesn't care for, Tameron pulls no brakes at all. She'll rip them a new one, and make a huge spectacle of it. Then, she'll go home and rant about it on all her social media accounts. She barely has friends online either, but occasionally her posts get reblogged, by someone not too critical of their sources. This sporadic validation affirms to her that she's right.
*Her parents are not among them. They still love their child, but they can't swear in a court of law that they like her, anymore.
10: Do they have any special strenghts, talents or abilities that set them apart from most other people? Is there anything they are unusually good at, or has special knowledge about?
She's got a very limited ability to feel ashamed. That probably counts as a strenght.
11: Is something in particular making their life difficult, like a disability or some kind of lurking danger?
From an outside perspective, the main danger to her wellbeing is herself. Her complete lack of empathy for most people in existance, combined with her inability to understand (or care) what is and isn't an appropriate response, have made it almost impossible for her to have meaningful relationships. She's not great at predicting the possible fall-out of her more extreme actions, and repeatedly gets in trouble. Worst of all, she's mostly incapable of being happy, because of her need to interpret everything as negatively as possible.
From Tameron's own point of view, she's one of the very few sane and intelligent people in the world. She thinks everything and everyone is out to get her, either out of jealousy of her brains and bravery, or just because they hate women. Tameron, who identifies as a Fourth-Wave Feminist,* believes in The Patriarchy as a literal world-wide conspiracy to enslave women and revoke their legal recognition as humans. It's also The Patriarchy that constantly forces vegetables on people, because they want women to be very skinny. Tameron is unfortunately deathly allergic to all vegetables except French Fries,** so The Patriarchy is literally trying to murder her every day of the year.
Even in the liberal higher institutions of learning, Tameron isn't safe from Pat Riarchy. There's especially one unnamed professor who's taken a serious disliking to her, for constantly calling out how ignorant and problematic he is. The busdrivers are also giving her stink-eye each time she boards, just because she's a cat with the natural need to scratch.
*The "Fourth Wave" exists almost entirely online, as they have problems organising. They have no common goals, and generally don't get along with each other, because of differences in opinion. The only thing that identifies them as a group, is that they identify as feminists, but don't accept neither the Second or Third waves as "correct" and "real" feminism. This is where you'll find the "You're not feminist if you're not vegan," "You're not feminist if you are vegan," and TERF populations.
**Potato chips (or crisps as they're also known) don't count. They aren't made from real potatos in 2018???? This is the current year!
12: What sort of social background do they come from? For example, are they part of a specific culture? Is their family wealthy or poor? Did they grow up in a town or city, in the countryside, the suburbs or elsewhere?
Tameron is the second child out of four, and the oldest daughter in the family. She was born and still lives in the fictional town of Bellstone, North Carolina, which has a population of about 15 000 in all. The family home is situated a bit outside the downtown area, in a neighbourhood with at least three farms. Her family is relatively well-to-do middle class, so Tameron has grown up with more privilege than she cares to admit. Although she hates her hometown, and would like to move down to Raleigh - or better yet, Seattle or Portland - she has no intention of moving out of her parents' house until she has her Master's degree in whatever Nano-Aggression Science is. She's very proud of having invented it, though. The fact that she's currently in a community college, for the fourth year in a row, suggests it could be a while.
13: How do they get along with their family, whether biological or self-chosen?
Short answer: Very badly.
Longer answer: Tameron and her middle sister, Tanice, are on fairly good terms. Both of them are horribly embarrassed by their parents, other siblings and extended family.
Tanice is only three years younger than Tameron, but she's almost chronically regressed into "LittleSpace," where she acts like a small child. Her "mental age" is fluid between two and six. Tameron actively encourages Tanice's eccentricities, because they make their homelife more controversial and interesting. Having a "baby sister" allows Tameron to claim Virtue Points for being the caregiver (NOT in an incestuous way! Ew.) of a small child who's depending on her. At the same time, the "child" is a genius, with an adult intelligence level, and relatively easy to look after. Tameron relishes any opportunity to brutally educate anyone who makes critical remarks about Tanice's clothing, hair-styles and accessories. Well, relishes it as long as the critics are relatively old and frail, or so young that she knows she can beat them up in an emergency. She almost allows herself to have fun, whenever she takes Tanice out to get new clothes or toys. Sometimes, she wheels her around in a stroller they fashioned from an old wheelchair bought off of e-bay. It's a good way of attracting new progressive acquaintances. Tanice is apparently able to act her chronological age long enough at the time, to be able to do fairly well in college.
Torrey, the only brother in the family, is three years older than Tameron. He's already married, and lives in a small house nearby, with his wife, Courtney, and their two children. Both Torrey and Courtney are so ordinary, Tameron can't even tell that they have any personalities. She's also got problems describing what her brother looks like, on one occasion stating that "He's got hair on his head, and it has some kind of colour. His eyes are above his nose, which is long and in the middle of his face, with nostrils." Courtney and Torrey have a toddler daughter, named Daisy, and a baby son named Finn. Tameron was really disappointed that Courtney's latest parasite was a male. She insists on calling him "Chastity," and trying to sneak him soy milk, which she has heard can feminize boys.
The youngest of all the children is Tanya, five years Tameron's junior. Tanya is a blonde sheeple of the Patriarchy, and Tameron has had little success in breaking her conditioning. Just because Tanya is blonde, polite and brainwashed to smile a lot, she's somehow their parents' favourite child. She reinforces toxic ideals of puritanism and prudery, by choosing to be sexually abstinent at the age of 17. Living with a reactionary future 50s housewife is very oppressive to Tameron, who can't really make up her mind whether it would be a relief or a horrible embarrassment if Tanya married young and moved out. Tameron is convinced that Tanya's future concists of marriage to a significantly older Republican, with whom she'll have at least six children and a SUV.
Tameron is pretty sure her mother is at least bordering on evil, and is shilling for the Pay Tree Arkie. Tracey works out, so the P-word will think she's attractive, and wastes a lot of water cleaning off her womanly perspirations afterwards. She's not very good at hiding her contempt towards her oldest daughter, who she constantly tries to trick into suiciding on vegetables. Neither does she accept any of Tameron's self-diagnosed conditions like lactose intolerance (Just because Tameron can drink chocolate milk, doesn't mean plain milk won't make her sick!) or having an IQ of 160 (Diagnosed professionally with an on-line test). Tracey, on her side, is wondering where she went wrong, to have had two of her children ending up being kooks, with one being utterly batshit crazy.
Tameron's father, Tyler, is a blob with no opinions of his own. Sure, he has opinions, but he's just thinking and feeling what he's been told to, not critically examining things for himself. Tameron has good reason to suspect he's actually a Republican, because he shares a striking facial similarity to House Speaker Paul Ryan. In fact, he's a disgraceful presence to be seen in public with, because people sometimes come over and start screeching at him for "his" politics. They're right to do that, of course, but Tameron loathes the idea that people think she's somehow associated with such oppression.
There's also a cousin named Kayla, who was Tameron's friend until she married a rutabaga and became a shill for marital slavery. Kayla and her vegetable husband have two daughters, named Olivia (3) and Isla (1).*
*I didn't know those were the names of the Farrington grandmothers when I named the girls, but it's a funny coincidence so I'm not changing them.
14: Which of the other characters are their closest friends?
Tameron has rather few friends. She tends to cut all ties to someone if she decides they're problematic, and that she needs to avoid them for her own safety.
The closest she has to a "best" friend is a young woman named Brooke Walker, an "eccentric arteest" type, who does slam poetry and thinks everything is very deep.
Then there's Madison Turner, who's pretty much a more left-wing version of the typical conspiracy theorist. Madison has that cliché washed-out green hair, and does her human duty by re-blogging every shocking and disturbing story she encounters on social media.
Alexis Carter-Phillips is considered to be a friend of Tameron's, but as a student at a "real" college, who has a thing for sources and documented research, she's clearly a bit classist and abelist. Tameron mainly tolerates her because she's overweight, so she probably won't be pushing vegetables on Tameron, and is safe to be around.
Tameron and Madison share an online friend called Ariel, or "magicfoxiefaerie2131." Ariel is fox-kin and faerie-kin. She's never shared a selfie, because her parents have apparently taken all her clothes away, to punish her for being a fox. They claim that if she needs clothes, she isn't one, according to Ariel. This is a very common way for parents to punish otherkin children, according to Madison. Ariel also isn't allowed to post naked pictures of herself online, or leave the house wearing only her blanket. Alexis isn't convinced Ariel is for real.
The last and least of the friends is Jillian. Tameron befriended her because she had dyed her hair blue, but she soon found out that Jillian was just some girl with blue hair, rather than a true progressive non-conformist.
15: Are any of the other characters their enemies? Why?
Pretty much everyone is an enemy, in Tameron's book. Some people deserve special mention, though.
The worst person in the whole world (among the ones she's actually encountered) is Professor Dennis Keith Fisher, who constantly interrupts Tameron when she speaks out in class. He has claimed that women who refuse to wax their body hair (anti-waxers) are responsible for outbreaks of epidemic illnesses, and doesn't know that the EX-chromosomes become the ovaries during female puberty. When Tameron stood up to him, he reported her and had her put on probation for "flashing her classmates and lecturer." Clearly his fragile masculinity couldn't handle the sight of non-conforming female genitals (she dyes, remember), and felt his authority being threatened.
The second most dangerous person Tameron knows, is Raelynn Carmichael, a redneck girl from a nearby farm. Raelynn thinks she's a writer, and publishes stuff online that is so stupid it's probably contageous. She's accused Madison of pretending that there are dangerous people everywhere, and basically playing a game where she's a brave hero without risking anything. In addition, Raelynn owes Tameron about $500, for all the wrong things she's said that Tameron has had to correct. Education is a paid profession, nobody should expect Tameron to do it for free, even if they "didn't ask her to, in the first place!"
16: What do they look for in a romantic partner? Do they have a special “type” they always go for?
Tameron has three exes, each and every one turned out to be deranged and brainwashed in the end.
She's currently dating Dax Buchanan. He's in many ways a perfect boyfriend, because he's a dog in a human body, rather than a human male. His canine loyalty, in combination with a sexually compatible physical appearance, more than makes up for the times he rummages through trash for scraps of food. The only problem in their relationship is that he's kin with Naruto, who Tameron can't stand. This means that whenever she has sex with Dax, she has sex with Naruto as well, because they're one and the same.
17: Do they follow any religion - organized or otherwise, or believe in powers beyond nature?
Oh no, religion would mean having to follow rules and expectations, and stuff! She's not into that. On the other hand, she's not a complete non-believer. She does believe in mysterious ancient forces and magical woman-powers, and is absolutely certain that it's possible for physically human individuals to have the soul of a cat or a wolf, or both.
18: What do they like doing in their free time? Is their taste in culture and entertainment high- or low-brow? Are they part of a special life-style?
Tameron sees herself as very multi-talented, and has tried pretty much every art there is apart from dance. She consider dancing to be a sport, which are all very ableist and misogynistic, because men are better at them than women! #bansports2018
Her most favourite way of expressing herself is as a novelist. She's got a rather distinct style, which includes copious amounts of sarcasm, explaining the obvious in minute details, and interrupting the narrative to speak condescendingly to the readers. Her punctuation is also... creative. All her protagonists are rather scary outcasts, who appear to suffer from numerous mental issues. Tameron has started at least three ongoing "epics." In order of publication, they are:
Detroit Beloveds. Tameron describes this story as an "Urban YA Dark Romance." It's set in Detroit, a city Tameron has absolutely no familiarity with. In the novel, the city is more or less a post-apocalyptic wasteland, cut off from civilization by miles of wilderness on each side. Rather than being in Michigan, near the Canadian border, it seems to be located in the lower Mid-West. For some reason, it's always icy cold with fog and a drizzle. She's also imagining it as at least five times its actual size, as it takes days to navigate through it. There are several main characters, most of which are entirely interchangable. (Even Tameron forgets who's who, a couple of times.) The novel would probably have benefited from having only half of its overall cast. There's a vague plot about somehow trying to leave the city, but it's so all over the place it's hard to say what the story is actually about. Overall, this is Tameron's most cheerful and light-hearted novel.
Poison Pregnant. This started out as a side-plot in Detroit Beloveds, but Tameron decided it had promise as a work of its own. Compared to her first novel, this one is seriously dark and twisted, even for Tameron. There is a bit more of red thread, mainly revolving around the horrors of pregnancy. Pernicity Rothgar, the central protagonist, is a detective or agent, working for a rival force to the official police. She has a day(?) job as a pole-dancer, so she can practice doing impossible acrobatics on top of sky-scrapers, and Kung-Fu everyone who tries to mess with her. Her mission is to save a pre-teen girl from a respectable family, who wants to use her as breeding stock as soon as she reaches puberty. There's also the tragedy of her friend, who is already pregnant, whose baby daddy she suspects is really an infamous (previously) teenaged serial killer whose father was also a serial killer. Tameron positively delights in grusome accounts of child-birth and pregnancy complications. Around the bloody umbillical chord of the plot, there is also a vast, rambling darkness of all sorts of depravity Tameron can imagine "pretty" families being guilty of. Oh, and sex. Lots of it.
Underground Supremacy. Neither of her first two novels had quite the scope Tameron wanted. But then again, she could just start a third novel, right? It shares a universe with Poison Pregnant, and features Pernicity's half-twin sister (Different mothers, same father, born on the same day.) Leona Mickinley(sic). The rest of the main cast concists of William Octane "Ock" Diesel, Sprynx Spratkaloiika - Ock's debatably human girlfriend, Eisley Jean Haynes and Tameron's favourite character - Hawthorne Gibraltar. There is basically no real plot, and the narrative follows each and every character all the way into the bathroom, with frequent shifts in PoV. Leona has been an assassin since the age of 11, and started dealing drugs a couple of years before that. Ock is trying to beat his meth habit, and avoid being caught by the popos while driving around naked with no license. Sprynx plans to hunt down the rest of her relatives, so she can exact her revenge on them for the childhood she spent under the floorboards in the livingroom. Eisley tries to live a relevant urban life in their small backwater hometown. Hawthorne just... suffers a lot, to give the readers the feeelz. (He started making appearances in Poison Pregnant too, after his introduction.) There are several hundred supporting (but not necessarily supportive) characters, and everyone is somehow connected enigmatically to almost everyone else. Nothing is what it seems the first time around. Ret-cons are frequent, hand-waved with people just being untrustworthy, or having had some really good reason to lie in the first place. Also, there is sex. There is so much sex that Tameron has run out of ways to describe it, and has to copy and paste together bits of previous trysts.
19: If they could do anything they wanted in life, what would it be? Is there one particular dream or nightmare that drives them forward?
Anything she wanted? Tameron would obviously want to be Supreme World Leader with a life-time duration. And also President of the United States, if that wasn't already covered under Supreme Leader. At the same time she would like to pursue her PhD in Nano-Agression Science, and have it made a compulsory class in all high schools and colleges. Still, she wouldn't let any of this get in her way of being the feministest author who had ever punched a keyboard.
20: U wot M8?
That's, disgusting and,,,,,,,,,, misogynist???????
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