Race's Girl
11-15-2005, 12:22 PM
Note: The Healy Team is a spin-off fanfic of the show Roseanne
ALEX
Age: 21
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Alex is of average height, thin but not muscular, with light brown hair and hazel eyes. He wears a brown loose-fitting shirt and blue jeans and dark green sneakers; his clothes are nothing too conspicuous, not camouflage colored, and are just Scout-like enough to make any Boy Scout jokes cutting! He has a tendency to be scruffy as an effort to offset that clean-cut “Scouting” image.
While Alex is friendly and easy to be around, he is not a confident type of person and doesn’t make close friends easily. He is bright and thinks quickly and decisively in dangerous situations but doesn’t have the confidence to put them forward within the group as viable options. He is also sensitive about his image and standing within the group and can take insults too personally. He hates any jokes about Boy Scouts — and although he has very long fuse, if he is provoked long or often enough, everyone else should run for cover! He is also close to Mark.
ANDREA (ANDI)
Age: 20
Alignment: Neutral Good
Andi is a willowy Hispanic girl with wavy hair of a dark coffee color and doe-like brown eyes; she wears a pink midriff showing T-shirt, blue jeans and pink sneakers and a pink Alice band on her head.
Andi is a very sweet girl, shy, timid and pessimistic at first but capable of bursts of high spirits and enthusiasm when Becky gives her a lead by some more assertive personality. She is very loyal and will always follow Becky’s advice even when convinced the the team is headed straight for disaster. (Does she have a secret crush on the cute guy?) She covers up for her deep-down shyness by playing the showman with her comedy act.
ANTOINE (TWAN)
Age: 22
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Good tendencies)
Antoine (or “Twan,” as he is called for short) has large brown twinkling eyes, and a wide grinning mouth, usually open; he has a dark walnut complexion and close-shaved hair. He is dressed in a red shirt, blue jeans and brown combat boots and a red baseball cap on his head.
Twan is a flamboyant personality, the Han Solo type: act first, think later. As one of the youngest Healy Team members, he is likely to assume an air of authority but as he is lacking in foresight and responsibility, the other junior members would rather follow Mark or Becky — though sometimes they are not given the chance.
REBECCA (BECKY)
Age: 27
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Becky is the second-in-command of the Healy Team and Mark’s wife, about 5' 6" (1.68m) in height and with a rather petite figure. She has blonde hair that hangs just above her shoulders, blue eyes and wears a flower patnered blouse tied at her midriff, blue jeans and lilac sneakers.
A born genius, Becky is also the team's gagdet master and invents all the teams gadgets from utility belts to bungie belts. She tends to be rather fresh when arguing with the bad guys.
CARTER
Age: 16
Alignment: Neutral Good
Carter, a “cracker” from Atlanta, Georgia, is of average height (5' 10") (1.78m), lean and athletic (but not excessively so) with light brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin that tans surprisingly easily. Carter wears a dark blue roll neck sweater, a denim jacket, blue jeans and blue sneakers. His backpack has various pouches attached to the belts à la Batman for lockpicks, tools, odds and ends as well as a larger pouch about the size of a large fanny-pack or a medium game-bag.
Care-free, easy going and laid-back, Carter has a surprisingly vast knowledge of villians, art, karate and sports. He’s also into rock-music. He hates conflict with Mark and Becky and will try to avoid trouble altogether or attempt to defuse tense situations through humor with mixed results. He will reluctantly fight if he’s forced to.
CONNER
Age: 23
Alignment: Neutral Good
Conner is a stocky guy, not fat, but well-suited for wrestling and shotput. He’s about 5' 6" (1.68m) tall. He keeps his red hair fairly short, about collar length but somehow it always manages to be messy. His eyes are green. He wears an off white T-shirt with 'Life sucks' on it in blue, green combat pants and black combat boots. He also has a large silver brooch with an orange carnelian stone set into it on his T-shirt and has a fanny pack around his waist. This is just a normal pouch in which he can put coins or any of Becky’s gadgets or small, interesting objects they find on their adventures.
Collin is your normal, fairly well-adjusted, ever-so-slightly stuck-up smart guy. He’s the kind of guy who would go out for wrestling and track just because he loves to hear the cheers of the crowd. His preference is for individual events because they feed his love of being the center of attention...making him not so great as a team player. He will wear his blakc leather jacket whenever possible because of the attention he thinks it brings him. Frankly, he just loves being in the spotlight. He does reasonably well in his duties — nothing exemplary but he’s not stupid. Apparently he doesn’t think of Becky’s ideas as a “good enough” type of spotlight. Conner’s the type of guy who just tends to be LOUD. He likes his music a bit too loud, the volume of his voice can easily overpower a conversation, his first car was a ’68 Mustang with no muffler, he’s known to shout “YES!” when a mission gets underway and he can’t resist drumming on large, hollow objects like garbage cans as he walks by, just for the fun of making noise. In fact, until joining the Healy Team and being forced to learn silence could be a way of preserving his life when being pursued, the only time he gets quiet is when his temper starts to boil. He has a fairly long fuse so his temper rarely explodes but when he starts to grow angry, he will begin to speak in very low, deliberate, dangerous tones. Usually this is warning enough but whatever it is persists in angering him to the point of losing it, he will resort to physical violence. His wrestling motto, “Hit hard, hit fast, take ’em down,” applies when he loses his temper, too. Conner has a strong and dominating personality, but he is not leadership material. As stated before, through his focus on individual sports, he is not quite used to being a team player and though he would make a good spokesman, the other responsibilities of leadership — making the tough decisions for everyone, coming up with group strategies, keeping up the others’ morale, managing personality conflicts, etc. — are unfamilar to him. He would do it if he had to. That doesn’t mean he’d be good at it.
DARREN
Age: 22
Alignment: Neutral Good
Darren is built slightly athletically.
Darren is a trombone player in a jazz band. He has some slight athletic potential, but never having been interested; posesses extraordinary musical talent but never has been willing to put the effort into it, has a very bright mind but is lazy to the extreme: he’s your classic slacker bando. Having already been interested in kicking some bad guy butt before being joining the Healy Team, his initial reaction to his sudden transportation is one of delight... until he realizes how hard he’s going to have to work just to eat and how often he’s going to have to go without his usual level of comfort.
Seeing how he fancies himself a leader (or at least, a good “advisor”), being always full of suggestions, in many ways, he takes the role Mark fufils most of the time. Though his ideas are sometimes taken seriously (they are often good), he is in every sense a leader... most people just don’t connect with him. The big difference is that his defensiveness is not at Mark’s level; indeed, he is all too ready to trust... and explode verbally when he believes that trust has been exploited. (He has a very exacting standard for truthfulness, even if he himself doesn’t always follow it.)
DAVID (DR DIABLO)
Age: 26
Alignment: The Bad Guy
David is a rather short, slight young man with longish, brown-black hair and dark brown almond-shaped eyes, rather a triangular face, a pointed nose, and somewhat waspish, one-sided smirk. He wears a white lab coat with a green checked shirt, beige pants and brown combat boots and mask over his face so no-one sees his face. Voice, oboe-ish in quality, just a bit nasal and flat.
David is awfully clever but not quite so clever as he thinks himself — as he is more than a bit conceited. As well as being Mark’s borther and formerly married to Becky’s sister Darlene and endlessly ingenious, he has a tendency to devise Rube-Goldberg sorts of plans, sometimes effective but more often backfiring horribly. He is over-inquisitive, has a tendency to talk too much, a bad habit of spouting quotations and a fatal tendency to say JUST the wrong thing. In short, he’s a lot like a Super-Villain, except A) he’s on the side of Good, B) he’s not nearly as powerful and C) he doesn’t laugh maniacally. Usually.
GERTRUDE (TRUDY)
Age: 19
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Trudy (don’t dare to call her Gertrude) is a stout girl with fiery red hair, round faced, freckled, and blue-eyed. She is dressed in a pink midriff showing vest top, cropped blue jenas and white sneakers.
Trudy is a total tomboy. She is loud, headstrong and rambunctious. She reminds Becky a cross between Darlene and her borther D.J.
HOLLY
Age: 26
Alignment: Neutral
Holly is of above average height, for a female, 5'8" (1.73m) or so whip-thin and athletic. Holly has straight black hair, beautiful, large black eyes and medium dark skin. She would be attractive if she weren’t scowling most of the time. She wears a red midriff showing T-shirt, khaki pants, blue sneakers and black wristbands. A largish shoulder-bag on a broad strap rounds out the ensemble.
Holly tends to be sullen and withdrawn. She is happiest when she’s on her own, running (sprints or marathon) or working on pottery. She has an average knowledge of her Apache heritage but doesn’t really like “all that Indian stuff” and gets irked when people apply any “Indian” stereotype to her. She’s a lonely, angry girl.
ISHA
Age: 24
Alignment: Lawful Neutral (Good tendencies)
Isha (pronounced EE-sha) has an oval-shaped face, an aquiline nose, large black eyes, severe eyebrows and hair braided in rows à la Egyptienne. She is dressed in a blue midriff showing sleeveless top, dark blue mini skirt, green tights and black knee high boots.
Isha is very much like a female Mark, authoritative, articulate and capable. She is strongly “grounded” and keeps her eye on accomplishing the task in hand. Her great fault is that she has a low tolerance for weakness in others and tends to be hard on those who screw up, becoming devastatingly snarky and sarcastic. She also finds it excessively hard to accept blame when things go wrong even if it was her fault. It is unfortunate that these characteristics become most obvious at those times when the Healy Team are most under pressure.
JOEY
Age: 24
Alignment: Neutral Good
Joey is about 5' 9" (1.75m) tall and has brown, shortish, spiky hair and green-blue eyes. His costume is a red T-shirt, black jenas and red high top sneakers. He also wears also a gray checked jacket with a star brooch on it.
He is a rather happy-go-lucky kind of guy but has high morals and doesn’t like to see wrongs go unpunished.
JOHN
Age: 20
Alignment: Neutral Good
John has short blond hair, blue-green eyes and is about 6' 1" (1.85m) high. John’s costume consists of a light orange polo neck sweater, blue jeans and brown combat boots. He carries a packpack on his back with some of Becky’s gadgets and is her assistant sometimes.
John is the captain of his College baseball team and a good leader type of guy. He’s mature and very responsible in what he does, strong and almost certainly the first in front of any challenge.
KANE
Age: 23
Alignment: Lawful Good
Kanejiro, or Kane (which he prefers because it sounds cool) is about 5' 10" (1.78m), and lean, with a fighter’s natural grace of movement. He has, as one might guess, Asian features (think a very young George Takei); he usually has his mouth set in a half-grin or wears a neutral, studious expression and he has long black hair drawn back into a ponytail. His garb is a white T-shirt with a picture of a Samurai on it, khaki pants and brown combat boots with and forearm, shoulder, elbow, knee, groin and shin-guards; he also has a black leather jacket with a simple Chinese dragon etched into the front and back.
Determined, occasionally playful, competitive and a “take-charge and organize” kinda guy. Embraces any challenge that comes his way, but is constantly wondering, á la James T. Kirk (but with far less melodrama) whether he’s up to it; failure really cheeses him off and makes him redouble his efforts to overcome whatever obstacles that are in his way. He tries not to be suspicious of strangers and kicking some bad guy butt make him excited (as in, he wants to kick their posteriors). He cannot stand not being busy. He’ll occasionally come off as pushy and driven, but that would probably change a bit as he adjusts to the situation.
LAURA
Age: 19
Alignment: Neutral Good
Laura is a black girl from Harlem, New York with Jamaican roots. Despite being a bit overweight, she’s a fairly pretty girl with big brown eyes and braided hair. Laura’s costume consists of a pink midriff showing 'Girls sooo do not reek' T-shirt, blue cropped jeans and black combat boots.
Laura is a hard-working girl who already knows what she wants out of life: to help people as a doctor. Mature and thoughtful, she’s an overly serious girl and isn’t good at cutting loose and having fun or mixing with the rest of the Healy Team. Although her poor social skills can make her come across as snobby to other youths, she isn’t at least not intentionally. She hates being talked down to or treated like a child and doesn’t like it when she can’t contribute anything to a situation.
LUKE
Age: 22
Alignment: Neutral Good
Luke is a very young, stocky lad, 5' 3 (1.60m) tall. His hair is a fair blond colour and quite short; he has blue eyes. His costume is a light blue shirt over a black T-shirt, dark brown pants and gray sneakers.
Luke has a bit of a temper and tends to get angry quite quickly when teased.
MARK
Age: 28
Alignment: Neutral Good
Mark is the leader of the Healy Team and Becky’s husband. He is very handsome with dark brown hair, and stands at about 5' 11" (1.80m) high. Mark’s costume is made up of a blue denim jacket, red shirt, blue jans and black 'Kicker's' shoes.
Mark is a mature young man and enjoys having fun but he’s also a man who knows when it is time to get serious.
PATRICIA
Age: 25
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Patricia has short black hair that comes just down to her neck and pretty brown eyes; she is tall at about 5' 9" (1.75 m) high and a very athletic build. Her costume is quite simple, a black sleeveless top, a denim mini skirt and a pair of black knee high boots.
Patricia is a “typical rich girl”; she can be nasty at times but has a magnetic personality that people are drawn to. Just don’t upset her (or call her “Patty”). She has an authoritative voice but not bossy; tough yet gentle, she will always try her best.
PETER
Age: 27
Alignment: Lawful Good
Peter is a big, bulky cart-horse of a young man (6' even (1.83m), he plays tackle Mark whne they are playing football). He has wide, ingenuous light hazel eyes, straight, red hair with a fringe, a big nose, high cheek-bones, rather thin lips and a semi-permanent grin of amiable surprise. He wears a gray shirt, gray pants and brown combat boots.
Peter has a very sweet, humble and rather gullible nature — the type that brings out the maternal instinct in others, even other guys. Though not stupid, he knows he is also not particularly clever and he tends to allow others to make decisions for him. He is inclined to rate loyalty and obedience far higher than independence of thought or action and he is convinced that his own friends, family, country (and God) are the very best that could possibly be. He will probably end up in the Marines when Mark wants him to — all the more so, as he genuinely enjoys fighting, though he fights without rancor or bitterness.
RICKY
Age: 17
Alignment: Smart guy
Ricky is a good-looking American Indian guy of medium build with short spiky hair.
Ricky is a cool guy, extremely laid-back though he can be strong or forceful when needed. He is very into music and probably would have been a singer had he not joined the Healy Team. He tends to dislike both overly confident people and nerds.
TABITHA
Age: 26
Alignment: Neutral Good
Tabitha is olive-skinned with a long thick mane of dark hair. She is short and small-boned but curvy.
Tabitha is intelligent and sociable but a bit cynical and a little egocentric. Her friendship with Becky forces her to accept that geniuses can't all be men wearing glasses or sounding like geeks: she can also be nurturing, gentle and quiet without giving up her edge.
TANDY
Age: 11
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Good tendencies)
Tandy is a slim, pretty little girl, very brown from constant exposure to the sun. Her straight chestnut hair frames an oval face, with hazel eyes, upturned nose and cupid’s-bow lips. She wears a green midriff showing T-shirt, a denim skirt under a pair of blue jeans and pink sneakers. She wears a dark gray “Al Capone” hat with a teal hat-band set with a red feather.
Tandy is a spoiled, self-absorbed, flighty, trendy, indulged, egotistical brat with a capital B-R-A-T. She loves her laptop, cell phone, pager, PDA, digital camera, the Beach, the Mall, talking in an excessively chatty and continuous way, her clique of girl-friends from school, her scooter (or is it skates this week?), the Beach, role-playing in chat rooms, the latest flava-of-tha-week teen pop or rap star, the beach… Tandy is flighty and given to posing..
TERRY
Age: 26
Alignment: Neutral
Terry is 5' 8" (1.73m) in height, thin, though not frail with big feet and hands (for his size) and unremarkable features except for his pale blue eyes. His brown hair bleaches under long exposure to sunlight; conversely if he stays out of the sun for long periods, it gets very dark, almost black. Terry’s a half-baked armchair historian but is more interested in reading, drawing, painting and writing (he owns all of Thunderbirds books for example and reads everything that he can about Atlantis, Bigfoot and the Goat-Man; he has a collection of action adventure comic books. He is half-convinced that Lovecraft was writing non-fiction and developed his late father’s “Innsmouth Look” and was ecstatic when he joined the Healy Team.) He likes Kung-Fu movies, Indy comics (he has an Amy Racecar T-shirt) and episodes of the Simpsons. Terry tends to have his head in the clouds and has always taken a lot of guttermouth from his siblings over his wacky ideas. His responses have ranged from “Hey, Troy was found on the strength of a mountain” to hammering someone’s head into the blacktop after being hit by a thrown garbage-can. Terry’s not particularly violent but does not tolerate being physically pushed around and tends to push back. Terry has mixed feelings about being in the Healy Team: while Mark does validate his preoccupation with myths, pseudo-science and crypto-zoology, upon joining the team, his first reaction to meeting Mark and Becky was to want to “kick that Dr Diablo dude's big bibble butt.” “That Dr Diablo dude may be your bro but he killed my old nam, Mark.?” he says when Mark tells him that he and Dr Diablo are brothers. He’d rather not look like an extra from Stingray any longer than he has to. However, he does somewhat appreciate the irony of someone who has studied the a jetback backpack, a bungie belt and a pair of scanner sunglasses abruptly joining their ranks as a fellow-crypto.
WENDY
Age: 20
Alignment: Neutral
Wendy (or more properly Gwendolyn) has a round face, prominent cheekbones and green eyes — the ethnic type is Celtic (more specifically Welsh?). She is dressed in a green blouse tied at the midriff, blue jeans and off-white sneakers with a yellow Alice band in her copper-colored hair.
Wendy is a bit of a hippie, laid-back and mellow, a bit of a flake — the oatcakes and crystal meditation type. She is probably more at ease in the team with the rest of the gang as she believes strongly in the whole kick some bad guy butt thing and is content in accepting the decrees of Fate believing that it will all work out properly in the end. She is the most serene and happiest of the Healy Team.
ALEX
Age: 21
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Alex is of average height, thin but not muscular, with light brown hair and hazel eyes. He wears a brown loose-fitting shirt and blue jeans and dark green sneakers; his clothes are nothing too conspicuous, not camouflage colored, and are just Scout-like enough to make any Boy Scout jokes cutting! He has a tendency to be scruffy as an effort to offset that clean-cut “Scouting” image.
While Alex is friendly and easy to be around, he is not a confident type of person and doesn’t make close friends easily. He is bright and thinks quickly and decisively in dangerous situations but doesn’t have the confidence to put them forward within the group as viable options. He is also sensitive about his image and standing within the group and can take insults too personally. He hates any jokes about Boy Scouts — and although he has very long fuse, if he is provoked long or often enough, everyone else should run for cover! He is also close to Mark.
ANDREA (ANDI)
Age: 20
Alignment: Neutral Good
Andi is a willowy Hispanic girl with wavy hair of a dark coffee color and doe-like brown eyes; she wears a pink midriff showing T-shirt, blue jeans and pink sneakers and a pink Alice band on her head.
Andi is a very sweet girl, shy, timid and pessimistic at first but capable of bursts of high spirits and enthusiasm when Becky gives her a lead by some more assertive personality. She is very loyal and will always follow Becky’s advice even when convinced the the team is headed straight for disaster. (Does she have a secret crush on the cute guy?) She covers up for her deep-down shyness by playing the showman with her comedy act.
ANTOINE (TWAN)
Age: 22
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Good tendencies)
Antoine (or “Twan,” as he is called for short) has large brown twinkling eyes, and a wide grinning mouth, usually open; he has a dark walnut complexion and close-shaved hair. He is dressed in a red shirt, blue jeans and brown combat boots and a red baseball cap on his head.
Twan is a flamboyant personality, the Han Solo type: act first, think later. As one of the youngest Healy Team members, he is likely to assume an air of authority but as he is lacking in foresight and responsibility, the other junior members would rather follow Mark or Becky — though sometimes they are not given the chance.
REBECCA (BECKY)
Age: 27
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Becky is the second-in-command of the Healy Team and Mark’s wife, about 5' 6" (1.68m) in height and with a rather petite figure. She has blonde hair that hangs just above her shoulders, blue eyes and wears a flower patnered blouse tied at her midriff, blue jeans and lilac sneakers.
A born genius, Becky is also the team's gagdet master and invents all the teams gadgets from utility belts to bungie belts. She tends to be rather fresh when arguing with the bad guys.
CARTER
Age: 16
Alignment: Neutral Good
Carter, a “cracker” from Atlanta, Georgia, is of average height (5' 10") (1.78m), lean and athletic (but not excessively so) with light brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin that tans surprisingly easily. Carter wears a dark blue roll neck sweater, a denim jacket, blue jeans and blue sneakers. His backpack has various pouches attached to the belts à la Batman for lockpicks, tools, odds and ends as well as a larger pouch about the size of a large fanny-pack or a medium game-bag.
Care-free, easy going and laid-back, Carter has a surprisingly vast knowledge of villians, art, karate and sports. He’s also into rock-music. He hates conflict with Mark and Becky and will try to avoid trouble altogether or attempt to defuse tense situations through humor with mixed results. He will reluctantly fight if he’s forced to.
CONNER
Age: 23
Alignment: Neutral Good
Conner is a stocky guy, not fat, but well-suited for wrestling and shotput. He’s about 5' 6" (1.68m) tall. He keeps his red hair fairly short, about collar length but somehow it always manages to be messy. His eyes are green. He wears an off white T-shirt with 'Life sucks' on it in blue, green combat pants and black combat boots. He also has a large silver brooch with an orange carnelian stone set into it on his T-shirt and has a fanny pack around his waist. This is just a normal pouch in which he can put coins or any of Becky’s gadgets or small, interesting objects they find on their adventures.
Collin is your normal, fairly well-adjusted, ever-so-slightly stuck-up smart guy. He’s the kind of guy who would go out for wrestling and track just because he loves to hear the cheers of the crowd. His preference is for individual events because they feed his love of being the center of attention...making him not so great as a team player. He will wear his blakc leather jacket whenever possible because of the attention he thinks it brings him. Frankly, he just loves being in the spotlight. He does reasonably well in his duties — nothing exemplary but he’s not stupid. Apparently he doesn’t think of Becky’s ideas as a “good enough” type of spotlight. Conner’s the type of guy who just tends to be LOUD. He likes his music a bit too loud, the volume of his voice can easily overpower a conversation, his first car was a ’68 Mustang with no muffler, he’s known to shout “YES!” when a mission gets underway and he can’t resist drumming on large, hollow objects like garbage cans as he walks by, just for the fun of making noise. In fact, until joining the Healy Team and being forced to learn silence could be a way of preserving his life when being pursued, the only time he gets quiet is when his temper starts to boil. He has a fairly long fuse so his temper rarely explodes but when he starts to grow angry, he will begin to speak in very low, deliberate, dangerous tones. Usually this is warning enough but whatever it is persists in angering him to the point of losing it, he will resort to physical violence. His wrestling motto, “Hit hard, hit fast, take ’em down,” applies when he loses his temper, too. Conner has a strong and dominating personality, but he is not leadership material. As stated before, through his focus on individual sports, he is not quite used to being a team player and though he would make a good spokesman, the other responsibilities of leadership — making the tough decisions for everyone, coming up with group strategies, keeping up the others’ morale, managing personality conflicts, etc. — are unfamilar to him. He would do it if he had to. That doesn’t mean he’d be good at it.
DARREN
Age: 22
Alignment: Neutral Good
Darren is built slightly athletically.
Darren is a trombone player in a jazz band. He has some slight athletic potential, but never having been interested; posesses extraordinary musical talent but never has been willing to put the effort into it, has a very bright mind but is lazy to the extreme: he’s your classic slacker bando. Having already been interested in kicking some bad guy butt before being joining the Healy Team, his initial reaction to his sudden transportation is one of delight... until he realizes how hard he’s going to have to work just to eat and how often he’s going to have to go without his usual level of comfort.
Seeing how he fancies himself a leader (or at least, a good “advisor”), being always full of suggestions, in many ways, he takes the role Mark fufils most of the time. Though his ideas are sometimes taken seriously (they are often good), he is in every sense a leader... most people just don’t connect with him. The big difference is that his defensiveness is not at Mark’s level; indeed, he is all too ready to trust... and explode verbally when he believes that trust has been exploited. (He has a very exacting standard for truthfulness, even if he himself doesn’t always follow it.)
DAVID (DR DIABLO)
Age: 26
Alignment: The Bad Guy
David is a rather short, slight young man with longish, brown-black hair and dark brown almond-shaped eyes, rather a triangular face, a pointed nose, and somewhat waspish, one-sided smirk. He wears a white lab coat with a green checked shirt, beige pants and brown combat boots and mask over his face so no-one sees his face. Voice, oboe-ish in quality, just a bit nasal and flat.
David is awfully clever but not quite so clever as he thinks himself — as he is more than a bit conceited. As well as being Mark’s borther and formerly married to Becky’s sister Darlene and endlessly ingenious, he has a tendency to devise Rube-Goldberg sorts of plans, sometimes effective but more often backfiring horribly. He is over-inquisitive, has a tendency to talk too much, a bad habit of spouting quotations and a fatal tendency to say JUST the wrong thing. In short, he’s a lot like a Super-Villain, except A) he’s on the side of Good, B) he’s not nearly as powerful and C) he doesn’t laugh maniacally. Usually.
GERTRUDE (TRUDY)
Age: 19
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Trudy (don’t dare to call her Gertrude) is a stout girl with fiery red hair, round faced, freckled, and blue-eyed. She is dressed in a pink midriff showing vest top, cropped blue jenas and white sneakers.
Trudy is a total tomboy. She is loud, headstrong and rambunctious. She reminds Becky a cross between Darlene and her borther D.J.
HOLLY
Age: 26
Alignment: Neutral
Holly is of above average height, for a female, 5'8" (1.73m) or so whip-thin and athletic. Holly has straight black hair, beautiful, large black eyes and medium dark skin. She would be attractive if she weren’t scowling most of the time. She wears a red midriff showing T-shirt, khaki pants, blue sneakers and black wristbands. A largish shoulder-bag on a broad strap rounds out the ensemble.
Holly tends to be sullen and withdrawn. She is happiest when she’s on her own, running (sprints or marathon) or working on pottery. She has an average knowledge of her Apache heritage but doesn’t really like “all that Indian stuff” and gets irked when people apply any “Indian” stereotype to her. She’s a lonely, angry girl.
ISHA
Age: 24
Alignment: Lawful Neutral (Good tendencies)
Isha (pronounced EE-sha) has an oval-shaped face, an aquiline nose, large black eyes, severe eyebrows and hair braided in rows à la Egyptienne. She is dressed in a blue midriff showing sleeveless top, dark blue mini skirt, green tights and black knee high boots.
Isha is very much like a female Mark, authoritative, articulate and capable. She is strongly “grounded” and keeps her eye on accomplishing the task in hand. Her great fault is that she has a low tolerance for weakness in others and tends to be hard on those who screw up, becoming devastatingly snarky and sarcastic. She also finds it excessively hard to accept blame when things go wrong even if it was her fault. It is unfortunate that these characteristics become most obvious at those times when the Healy Team are most under pressure.
JOEY
Age: 24
Alignment: Neutral Good
Joey is about 5' 9" (1.75m) tall and has brown, shortish, spiky hair and green-blue eyes. His costume is a red T-shirt, black jenas and red high top sneakers. He also wears also a gray checked jacket with a star brooch on it.
He is a rather happy-go-lucky kind of guy but has high morals and doesn’t like to see wrongs go unpunished.
JOHN
Age: 20
Alignment: Neutral Good
John has short blond hair, blue-green eyes and is about 6' 1" (1.85m) high. John’s costume consists of a light orange polo neck sweater, blue jeans and brown combat boots. He carries a packpack on his back with some of Becky’s gadgets and is her assistant sometimes.
John is the captain of his College baseball team and a good leader type of guy. He’s mature and very responsible in what he does, strong and almost certainly the first in front of any challenge.
KANE
Age: 23
Alignment: Lawful Good
Kanejiro, or Kane (which he prefers because it sounds cool) is about 5' 10" (1.78m), and lean, with a fighter’s natural grace of movement. He has, as one might guess, Asian features (think a very young George Takei); he usually has his mouth set in a half-grin or wears a neutral, studious expression and he has long black hair drawn back into a ponytail. His garb is a white T-shirt with a picture of a Samurai on it, khaki pants and brown combat boots with and forearm, shoulder, elbow, knee, groin and shin-guards; he also has a black leather jacket with a simple Chinese dragon etched into the front and back.
Determined, occasionally playful, competitive and a “take-charge and organize” kinda guy. Embraces any challenge that comes his way, but is constantly wondering, á la James T. Kirk (but with far less melodrama) whether he’s up to it; failure really cheeses him off and makes him redouble his efforts to overcome whatever obstacles that are in his way. He tries not to be suspicious of strangers and kicking some bad guy butt make him excited (as in, he wants to kick their posteriors). He cannot stand not being busy. He’ll occasionally come off as pushy and driven, but that would probably change a bit as he adjusts to the situation.
LAURA
Age: 19
Alignment: Neutral Good
Laura is a black girl from Harlem, New York with Jamaican roots. Despite being a bit overweight, she’s a fairly pretty girl with big brown eyes and braided hair. Laura’s costume consists of a pink midriff showing 'Girls sooo do not reek' T-shirt, blue cropped jeans and black combat boots.
Laura is a hard-working girl who already knows what she wants out of life: to help people as a doctor. Mature and thoughtful, she’s an overly serious girl and isn’t good at cutting loose and having fun or mixing with the rest of the Healy Team. Although her poor social skills can make her come across as snobby to other youths, she isn’t at least not intentionally. She hates being talked down to or treated like a child and doesn’t like it when she can’t contribute anything to a situation.
LUKE
Age: 22
Alignment: Neutral Good
Luke is a very young, stocky lad, 5' 3 (1.60m) tall. His hair is a fair blond colour and quite short; he has blue eyes. His costume is a light blue shirt over a black T-shirt, dark brown pants and gray sneakers.
Luke has a bit of a temper and tends to get angry quite quickly when teased.
MARK
Age: 28
Alignment: Neutral Good
Mark is the leader of the Healy Team and Becky’s husband. He is very handsome with dark brown hair, and stands at about 5' 11" (1.80m) high. Mark’s costume is made up of a blue denim jacket, red shirt, blue jans and black 'Kicker's' shoes.
Mark is a mature young man and enjoys having fun but he’s also a man who knows when it is time to get serious.
PATRICIA
Age: 25
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Patricia has short black hair that comes just down to her neck and pretty brown eyes; she is tall at about 5' 9" (1.75 m) high and a very athletic build. Her costume is quite simple, a black sleeveless top, a denim mini skirt and a pair of black knee high boots.
Patricia is a “typical rich girl”; she can be nasty at times but has a magnetic personality that people are drawn to. Just don’t upset her (or call her “Patty”). She has an authoritative voice but not bossy; tough yet gentle, she will always try her best.
PETER
Age: 27
Alignment: Lawful Good
Peter is a big, bulky cart-horse of a young man (6' even (1.83m), he plays tackle Mark whne they are playing football). He has wide, ingenuous light hazel eyes, straight, red hair with a fringe, a big nose, high cheek-bones, rather thin lips and a semi-permanent grin of amiable surprise. He wears a gray shirt, gray pants and brown combat boots.
Peter has a very sweet, humble and rather gullible nature — the type that brings out the maternal instinct in others, even other guys. Though not stupid, he knows he is also not particularly clever and he tends to allow others to make decisions for him. He is inclined to rate loyalty and obedience far higher than independence of thought or action and he is convinced that his own friends, family, country (and God) are the very best that could possibly be. He will probably end up in the Marines when Mark wants him to — all the more so, as he genuinely enjoys fighting, though he fights without rancor or bitterness.
RICKY
Age: 17
Alignment: Smart guy
Ricky is a good-looking American Indian guy of medium build with short spiky hair.
Ricky is a cool guy, extremely laid-back though he can be strong or forceful when needed. He is very into music and probably would have been a singer had he not joined the Healy Team. He tends to dislike both overly confident people and nerds.
TABITHA
Age: 26
Alignment: Neutral Good
Tabitha is olive-skinned with a long thick mane of dark hair. She is short and small-boned but curvy.
Tabitha is intelligent and sociable but a bit cynical and a little egocentric. Her friendship with Becky forces her to accept that geniuses can't all be men wearing glasses or sounding like geeks: she can also be nurturing, gentle and quiet without giving up her edge.
TANDY
Age: 11
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Good tendencies)
Tandy is a slim, pretty little girl, very brown from constant exposure to the sun. Her straight chestnut hair frames an oval face, with hazel eyes, upturned nose and cupid’s-bow lips. She wears a green midriff showing T-shirt, a denim skirt under a pair of blue jeans and pink sneakers. She wears a dark gray “Al Capone” hat with a teal hat-band set with a red feather.
Tandy is a spoiled, self-absorbed, flighty, trendy, indulged, egotistical brat with a capital B-R-A-T. She loves her laptop, cell phone, pager, PDA, digital camera, the Beach, the Mall, talking in an excessively chatty and continuous way, her clique of girl-friends from school, her scooter (or is it skates this week?), the Beach, role-playing in chat rooms, the latest flava-of-tha-week teen pop or rap star, the beach… Tandy is flighty and given to posing..
TERRY
Age: 26
Alignment: Neutral
Terry is 5' 8" (1.73m) in height, thin, though not frail with big feet and hands (for his size) and unremarkable features except for his pale blue eyes. His brown hair bleaches under long exposure to sunlight; conversely if he stays out of the sun for long periods, it gets very dark, almost black. Terry’s a half-baked armchair historian but is more interested in reading, drawing, painting and writing (he owns all of Thunderbirds books for example and reads everything that he can about Atlantis, Bigfoot and the Goat-Man; he has a collection of action adventure comic books. He is half-convinced that Lovecraft was writing non-fiction and developed his late father’s “Innsmouth Look” and was ecstatic when he joined the Healy Team.) He likes Kung-Fu movies, Indy comics (he has an Amy Racecar T-shirt) and episodes of the Simpsons. Terry tends to have his head in the clouds and has always taken a lot of guttermouth from his siblings over his wacky ideas. His responses have ranged from “Hey, Troy was found on the strength of a mountain” to hammering someone’s head into the blacktop after being hit by a thrown garbage-can. Terry’s not particularly violent but does not tolerate being physically pushed around and tends to push back. Terry has mixed feelings about being in the Healy Team: while Mark does validate his preoccupation with myths, pseudo-science and crypto-zoology, upon joining the team, his first reaction to meeting Mark and Becky was to want to “kick that Dr Diablo dude's big bibble butt.” “That Dr Diablo dude may be your bro but he killed my old nam, Mark.?” he says when Mark tells him that he and Dr Diablo are brothers. He’d rather not look like an extra from Stingray any longer than he has to. However, he does somewhat appreciate the irony of someone who has studied the a jetback backpack, a bungie belt and a pair of scanner sunglasses abruptly joining their ranks as a fellow-crypto.
WENDY
Age: 20
Alignment: Neutral
Wendy (or more properly Gwendolyn) has a round face, prominent cheekbones and green eyes — the ethnic type is Celtic (more specifically Welsh?). She is dressed in a green blouse tied at the midriff, blue jeans and off-white sneakers with a yellow Alice band in her copper-colored hair.
Wendy is a bit of a hippie, laid-back and mellow, a bit of a flake — the oatcakes and crystal meditation type. She is probably more at ease in the team with the rest of the gang as she believes strongly in the whole kick some bad guy butt thing and is content in accepting the decrees of Fate believing that it will all work out properly in the end. She is the most serene and happiest of the Healy Team.