This event is to create 31 characters, one for every day in May (although it looks like, due to my depression, that said event will bleed into early June) , 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). Please donate here. 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.
Please enjoy, and please donate.
Name: Molly Haines
Location: Memphis, TN
Occupation: Performance Artist
Molly Haines needed to create. She needed to comment on the world around her, connect with the masses. She strove to communicate the way the world was broken.
She was not very good at it. And her lack of success frustrated her.
Molly struggled for years presenting her work, feeling humiliated at the odd jobs she had to take to keep her head above water.
But then there was the incident. She doesn’t remember much save for making her way back home and bright multicolored lights and the smell of rotting strawberries and nicotine. She remembers waking up in a military hospital....and being surrounded by a curious mist.
A mist that allowed her to manipulate the emotions of those around her.
It allowed her to leave the place before they tried any experimentation on her. It allowed her to get things she needed without worrying about money. It allowed her to get a satisfying revenge on those employers and co-workers who treated her badly.
And it’s going to allow her to reach her audience with her message...whether they want to or not.
Name: Wilhemina Joanna Carter
Location: In-Between Worlds
Occupation: Procurer of Stuff
One of the Great Secrets of the Universe is that there are many different versions of the world. Every time there is a major shift in history, another divergence happens that creates an Earth that can be as different as to be a different planet altogether. There are versions of Earth which have created entirely new kinds of tech, new materials and new advances in science.
And if you know Will O’The Wisp, you can get your hands on some of this other-worldly stuff.
According to Wilhemina Joanna Carter, she was born ‘out of continuity,’ not tethered to any one Earth. This allowed her to travel between the different realities of the ‘MegaDimensional Matrix’ freely. She spent her teen years exploring the different versions of Earth and discovered something...
Every version of Earth has something another version needs.
So as she grew into her 20‘s, she began her own business. Wilhemina can be contacted through the Dark Web and can get you anything for a rather large fee...although that fee can be discounted in exchange for a favor, like hijacking a refrigerated tractor trailer truck and filling it with ice for her (There’s one Earth that’s going through a severe drought, you see, and she can get a good price for potable water...)
Some people opine that Will O’The Wisp is a criminal, but she would argue otherwise. To her, she’s a businesswoman who is providing a very specific service no one else can. And that suits her fine!
Next: When only the Ace of Blades is left, what will she do?
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