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The League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons:

DIRECTIONS:

1. Choose five to seven characters.

2. They may be from books, movies, comics, TV shows, games, and real life–but no traditional superheroes.

3. They may be from any place in the universe, any time. They do not have to be from the same time/place as the orginal League.

4. You must identify the recruiter, the villain, and the leader, and there must be at least one female.

5. Optional, you may identify their main mode of transportation.

THE LEAGUE:

1. Commander Samuel Vimes, Blackboard Monitor extraordinaire in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series

Strengths: Prodding buttock and taking names

Weaknesses: Poor diplomatic skills beyond the “Ankh-Morpork Handshake”

2. Thursday Next, heroine of The Eyre Affair and sequels

Strengths: Vast literary knowledge, “bookjumping” ability, and pet Dodo named Pickwick.

Weaknesses: Must be occasionally aided by Granny and/or Dad.

3. Aziraphale, angel, and Anthony J. Crowley, demon. Counted together because every great league must have one aspect that is simply slashtastic.

Strengths:

(Aziraphale) Creatively pronounceable name, fanatacal obsession with books, flaming sword, and pretense of being gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

(Crowley) Ruthlessness, inventiveness, tolerance for alcohol, and snarky wit.

Weaknesses:

(Aziraphale) confused Witchfinder Generals.

(Crowley) Holy water.

4. Rachel, from K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs series

Strengths: Ability to morph into the animal of her choice, unquenchable anger, capacity for violence, and ability to pick out a GAP sweater a mile away.

Weaknesses: Dependence on spandex clothing for decency, hair-trigger temper, and most likely dead and/or insane by the end of the series

5. Heidy Tandy, goddess of the Harry Potter fandom

Strenghts: Capable of organizing conventions, delivering babies, ruling Fandoms, clearing skyscrapers in a single bound, achieving world peace, curing world hunger and every affliction known to man, and developing a renewable, clean, lucrative energy source ALL BEFORE BREAKFAST.

Weaknesses: Penchant for pickles and ice cream, together.

6. The Professor, Gilligan’s Island

Strengths: Ability to make a radio transmitter from coconuts

Weaknesses: Can’t fix the &$*(% boat

7. Boris Grishenko, from Goldeneye

Strengths: Technological super-savvy. Replaced Jason Fox on the list because of his adoreable Russian accent and the fact he was played by Alan Cumming.

Weaknesses: Invincible! Or not. Obsessive-compulsive habits, liquid nitrogen.

THE RECRUITER: Havelock Vetinari

Strengths: Sarcasm, linguistic proficiency, 1337 Assassin skillz, probable dead sexyness in youth, and a mind like a corkscrew

Weaknesses: If he had them, they’d’ve been exploited by now.

THE VILLAIN: Mary-Sues

Also Considered: Inigo Montoya, Captain Jack Sparrow, Jason Fox, Rincewind, Susan Sto Helit, Granny Weatherwax, Pippin (because without Boris, we needed someone with a really cute accent), and the Weasley twins.

::looks through panel notes::

Man, I loved this convention. Less-than-threes for everyone I met there!

::begins assembling uber-review::

You are… ‘Damn, he smells good!!!’ I really don’t see how an old sweaty pirate COULD smell good, but then again, it IS Captain Jack Sparrow we’re talking about. What’s not to like?

What random made up thought from Pirates of the Caribbean are you?

Erm…. no. That is not Sirius Black. Ask yourself how far hair grows in thirteen years, buckoes. Wah.

But Ron’s sweater amuses me beyond belief, so it’s all good.

I hereby announce that my new ship is Giant Squid/Whomping Willow. Theirloveissotentacular. It’s the new Harry/Draco.

But then again, the sheer perfection of Snevans leaves me breathless. Sam, you are my entire pantheon of gods.

Working on a sort of moorish gypsy look for OoP auror Kingsley Shacklebolt, I suddenly realized I was drawing him in Nightcrawler’s stripey, flared pants. And one day while shopping, I found myself looking for something resembling an image in my mind, which I later realized was the same pair of pants. Psychological issues surrounding possible obsession with Nightcrawler’s pants will not be further analyzed.

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH MAGS AND STEPH ARE GONEEEEEEE!!!!!!! ::cries::

But I still have my Lishbat. ::clutches:: Until tomorrow, anyway. ::sob::

Whee, we’re home! We got in at 2:30 AM last night, because we were making such good time that we decided that stopping at a hotel wouldn’t be worth it. Then we slept a lot and then woke up and took 50 thousand showers until we felt hygenic enough to face the world, and all was merry.

The ride home was uberfun, though we pined massively for all our t00by friends we finally met in person at Nimbus. I’ll post more about all the aspects of the con, but now Mags and Steph are about to leave, so the last thing I want to do is play on the computer.

Mega-loff from all at Nimbus! Many of you really were there in spirit. Mon’s name came up at least once every five minutes, especially in the Art Session Ali and the gang threw together. Whee! More later.

This is Alicey hacking into Priscilla’s blog (assisted by Priscilla). She is an evil t00b for taking all these dreadful pictures of me. Arrrrr.

Ladies and gentlemen, the time is now 6:35 AM, Eastern Standard Time, and I have not yet been to sleep. This is the true meaning of Convention.

And now, if only Steph would roll over so that she is no longer sprawled over occupying the entire bed, I could turn in myself. Wah.