This is Talia. Her story is insanely long, so I won't post it all here. Talia is the first character I ever played; I've been developing her for four years, and she's become a very deep, intricate character. She's the one who's most like me, which is why I take on her identity so much. She's a Healer, mother of three (Deirdre Khaine, Tiana Khaine, and William Khaine Jr. - Tiana and Will are twins), and wife of Lord William A. Khaine. She's not a warrior, but being married to a warlord, she does carry around a short sword (and knows how to use it!) as well as knowing how to use the deeper aspects of her Healing talent for self-defense.
This is Deirdre. She's come through a lot of renovations, and there are currently 2 different versions of her. One is Talia's rogue daughter; she left shortly after Talia and Will married, to give them private time, and never came back. She loves Will; calls him her step-daddy.
The other version is from Seattle. She's a Healer, but her power is completely involuntary, so she avoids touching people as much as possible. Also, while she's healing she reads minds, also completely involuntarily. She's very quiet and shy, and tends to keep to herself, though she's completely loyal when she gets to be true friends with someone.
Telsha isn't your normal cross-breed character. She was actually engineered in a lab, where they did tests on her, trying to produce a perfect fighter. Not only does she have the teeth, claws, and muscle structure of a cat, she looks completely harmless, and has quite a bit of sex-appeal, of which she's completely unaware. She ran away from the lab, and is still on the run.
Katriana Lupine is also not a normal cross-breed, because she's not a cross breed at all. She's a member of a species that can shape shift from wolf to "human" at will (she's NOT a werewolf). Her clan, the Lupines of Darkenmoor, was brutally murdered by hunters who thought her species were monsters. She escaped and found her way to a small bar and grill; met, married, and lost the love of her life (wolves mate for life), Dracon Ferox.
Missy's my least-played, least-developed character, but since I created her, I figured I'd put her up here. ^_^ She's the typical fairy-tale girl; a princess raised by peasants. My challenge in playing her is to bring out the human side of the fairy-tale princess.
The real people in the pictures: Talia, Deirdre, and Katriana - Kate Winslet; Telsha - a girl from Cats; and Missy - Sarah McLachlan.