Well, since it's a competition for two out of three Spy slots, I think I'll leave that for fans of the show. I.e., if I lose, wasted time; if I win, I take a spot from a fan who probably wanted it more than me. But just for the heck of it, I think I'll make a Student, and see how long she lasts...
Name:
Briar Rose Chardbury
Gender:
Female
Age:
10
Sexuality:
Dreadfully sorry, I'm afraid boys still have cooties. Besides, everyone at school is
much too old for me.
Ethnicity:
British
Extra Curricular:
Science and Technology Club, Nature Club. Electives: Zoology, Anatomy, Art (jewelry making).
Personality:
Briar Rose is highly intelligent, though she often seems to have the attention span of a gnat. Her mind is constantly leaping from one thing to another. Her notebooks and papers are always in a complete state of disarray, yet somehow she is able to actually find things (unless someone "tidies up" for her!). She quickly loses herself in reading, writing, and tinkering with inventions and research projects in varying stages of partial completion. She is easily intimidated, since most everyone is bigger, stronger, and meaner than she is. Hahaha, like totally.
Biography:
Briar Rose was conceived by her mother in an affair, and she does not know who her real father is. Her nominal father (Undersecretary of Defense for the UK, and an heir to a seat on the House of Lords) hates her, but keeps up appearances in public to protect the family from scandal. Her parents fight constantly, so she retreats into worlds of scholarship and invention. She raced ahead of children her own age in her schoolwork (which she views as an inconvenience to be dispensed with quickly so she can move on to more interesting things). As soon as she started doing high-school level work, her "father," Theodoric Chadbury, has enrolled her into Hollowcreste, the boarding school he went to as a boy, an elitist school filled with privileged rich brats and social climbers. He was a top predator there in his day, and he knows full well that it will make Briar Rose--and by extension her mother--utterly miserable. Since she is constantly used as a reminder of her mother's infidelity, Briar Rose blames herself for her parents' fighting, and is coming to the conclusion that they'd be happier without her.
Skills:
Technical drawing, mathematics (algebra and geometry, plus a smattering of calculus and trigonometry on an approximately high school level), general biological investigation (sample collection, basic analysis using the tools she has, i.e., she can do a litmus test, a dissection, examine plant tissue under her microscope, but can't sequence a genome), a broad but not deep "general scientific knowledge." She knows more about biology and general mechanics (low-tech-ish machinery) than physics or astronomy, but she is familiar with an eclectic range of basic concepts.
Equipment:
Canvas and leather hiker's backpack she uses as a book bag. Usually contains a ruggedized, Steampunk-modded laptop computer, a seemingly random collection of notebooks and papers inscribed with oddly whimsical "technical" drawings of various inventions and ideas in different stages of completion, and notes written in neat feminine handwriting. Drafting tools, measuring tape, tweezers, a set of sample boxes and small Pyrex vials, litmus paper, a Leatherman multi-tool, hand lens, compass, a textbook on ecology, and a "pocket" field guide to wildlife and plants in Montana. A girl's
bike with a handlebar basket and rear pannier and saddlebags containing a bike repair multi-tool, spare chain and tire tube, foot-powered tire pump, tire patch kit, bike lock, water bottle and lunch box. She has a lens that converts her smartphone camera into a microscope.
Favorite Outfit:
(pictured above)
Tweed jacket, white dress shirt and tie, pleated wool skirt, white stockings, and black Mary Janes. If it's not too warm, she also wears a six-foot knit scarf striped in autumnal tones.
Dorm Room:
