THE 31 CHARACTERS 31 DAYS CHALLENGE DAY TWENTY THREE

This event is to create 31 characters, one for every day in May, that will be featured in an upcoming project I’m working on tentatively called Strikeforce Liberty.   It is to raise money for RAINN (The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).  If you donate here, you will have the option to sponsor a character or give me a name to create a character for.  In these times, where the Alt-Right is attacking a woman’s right to her own body, we need to support organizations like this.

If you are a Domicile of Dread Patreon, you’ll get a short podcast discussing the creation process for each character.  I made one of these podcasts available to the general public here.  If you’d like to hear all of these podcasts, get other exclusive goodies like reviews and essays, and can spare at least a dollar a month to support my efforts to Make The World Stranger, go here to sign up.

Special thanks to Diana Prince, best known to horror fans as Darcy, The Mail Girl on Shudder’s The Last Drive-In with Joe-Bob Briggs.  In a fit of inspiration, I asked her if I could use her name for one of the characters and....well, here we are!  If you’ve got Shudder, please tune in tomorrow for the last episode of Season One (which I expect is going to feature one of my all-time favorites, Prom Night II: Hello, Mary Lou.  There’s hints she might even cosplay as the great Mary Lou Maloney, which gives me strange thoughts...lol).  And follow her at @kinky_horror on Twitter to learn what’s going on!  If The Maybe-Not-So-Good-Doctor ever appears in visual media, it’s Diana who should play her....

Please enjoy, and please donate.

DR. MERCY

Name: Diana Prince
Location: Amarillo, TX
Occupation: Medical Visionary...at least that’s what she says....

Nobody understood Diana Prince’s vision.  In medical school, she was uniformly mocked by her fellow students and ultimately expelled for violating the rules in her quest for scientific and medical truth.

But there were outcasts before who achieved glory, modern Promethi who were proved right in the long run.  Diana was determined to be one of them.

She reached out to various questionable types to finance her research, agreeing to provide medical services to them in exchange.  She focused on the unexpected benefits of these arrangements--a surprising access to willing test subjects hoping to become parahuman (or unwilling ones foisted on her as punishment), materials that wouldn’t be considered safe for experimentation, utter privacy....

And there was some of the experimentation she did on herself.  There were the cybernetic hands that made her instruments a part of her.  There were nanofluids running through her veins that gave her an incredibly accelerated healing factor.  She is always looking to improve on her physical form so that she will finally show humanity the true path to being Perfect....