Everyone I Ever Was and Everyone I Ever Will Be

Bradley Cooper
Logan, from Jia's Charms

Logan is a charmer. Growing up in an abusive household, he learned young how to hide any emotion that could be used to hurt him. As an adult, he's used to putting up a convincing front in order to manipulate people. So it knocks him for a loop when, on what's supposed to be his Last Job, he begins to actually care about some of the people he's supposed to be manipulating.


Don't have him cast as anyone else yet, but he's adorable and I like him, so I'm sure he'll be popping up somewhere later on. Probably in the Greek Pantheon series, since that one's developing into a Hugely Epic Cast type of thing. :-)

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((I haven't forgotten about this meme, really))

Today's entry is in honor of the fact that this character really started talking to me again this weekend, and now he and another character in Pale Moon will have their very own prequel! Not sure how long it's going to be yet-- probably novella length, if that-- but I'll be putting it up as a freebie download once I'm done with it as an introduction to the universe.


Naveen Andrews
Alan Bishop, from Pale Moon

Part of the cleanup crew at Abigail's. He keeps odd hours, which Elspeth puts up with given the whole 'vampire' thing. Nobody's exactly sure how old he is, or when he was Turned. He doesn't say much, thinking that keeping to himself will get people to leave him alone. Instead, it seems to flip a "I can change him and he will love me forever!" switch in some of the clientele.


Also cast as:

Xavierre, from Stealing Time
He took on a job as a Guard as a favor to his best friend. While something like that works out in a small, nonviolent village, being assigned the same post on a spaceship where everybody hates everybody else and there's a murderer lurking somewhere on board doesn't go so well. He does the best he can, but truth is he'd rather be in Temple or flirting with his longtime friend, Maia.

Poseidon, from the Greek Pantheon series
He's long suspected that Zeus rigged the contest that left him in charge of Olympus, while Hades was sent to the Underworld and he himself was basically banished to the ocean. He just doesn't care much, because he prefers to be far away from there. Given the minor river Gods always vying for more territory, the nymphs' constant practical jokes, and Circe insisting on continuing to turn random sailors into animals no matter how many times he's lectured her about it, he's got his hands full. He didn't even know about the first War until a few weeks after it was over. Unfortunately for his peace of mind, he's not going to be able to stay out of it this time around.

Amanda Seyfried
Daphne, from the Greek Pantheon series

For most of her life, she's been happy. The daughter of a river god, she's wanted for nothing, able to roam most anywhere she likes. She met the love of her life, and though they have to keep things very private (due to not wanting the attention/meddling from everyone else on Olympus) she doesn't mind. Everything's perfect.

And then Apollo notices her.

Samantha Ferris
Hera, from the Greek Pantheon series

Hera is the Goddess of marriage and childbirth, but her own marriage is miserable, and she spends quite a bit of time going after her husband's children. The last time she went after the true source of her problems, Zeus hung her in the sky. A part of her is certain that if it weren't for her son Hephaestus's interference, she'd still be there.

After the first War, things are fairly calm for a while . . . Zeus apologizes and promises to change; she believes him. Then Eris 'accidentally' lets slip that he's been sneaking down to the mortal realm in disguise, up to his old games.

Hera knows that she has to confront Zeus again, but this time she's going to enlist help. Still, some old habits die hard, and Aphrodite's going to have her work cut out for her keeping Zeus's latest child and her mother safe.

And here we have the first (of many) instances of me cybercasting somebody in more than one role because I love them just that much.




Daniel Craig
Hephaestus, from the Greek Pantheon series

Hephaestus was largely left alone on Olympus until the first war between the Gods. Zeus quickly put an end to the small rebellion, and hung Hera from her wrists in the sky as a warning to the others who'd gone against him. For over a day she remained there, screaming for help, but none of the others dared to go against a furious Zeus to try and get her down.

Finally, Hephaestus acted.

Zeus flung him from Olympus for his betrayal, and the landing permanently disabled his legs. Since then, the quiet God has become a recluse, trying his best to stay away from the others and their fights. But he's not going to be able to avoid the politics of his home forever.

Also cast as:

The Lieutenant, in the sequel to Jia's Charms:
Lieut is stuck doing the quintessential One Last Job for an employer he despises. Going to Empyrean to salvage what he can from the wreck of one of his employer's wave ships is supposed to be a straightforward task. Then he meets the leader of the planet's colonists, who's determined to not let him get a thing from that ship that her people can use, and things start getting more complicated. Add in a spy amongst his crew with a secret mission, and things go from complicated to deadly.

Mihkael, in Karavan:
He knows only one thing for certain-- he and his companion Serra have to run. Any other details, like who they are and who they're running from, are gone. He and Serra join Karavan because among the crew are the few people they've allowed themselves to trust, and staying on board means being constantly on the move while they try to figure out what their pasts hold.

Vasya, in Memories of Her Singing:
He's one of the higher-ups in an organization dedicated to overthrowing the current regime. Which is news to the Queen, since he's supposedly been friends with her for most of her life. . .

Doll Divine

You can make dolls! Out of your characters! I will never be productive again!

For instance, here is Maia from Stealing Time as a fire spirit.




I'm totally gonna be at this for a while. Many more ((Greek Pantheon, Stealing Time, Karavan, And This is Fate)) under the cut!!

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Persephone, you and Hades have a pretty established relationship in Greek Pantheon canon. My take on it is one of the many things I was looking forward to writing when I did up the outline for this project a couple of years ago. So mind telling me why you don't seem interested in him at all? And Iris, if you could quit flirting with Hades long enough to listen to me here, I really did have this planned out . . .

Here we go again.

So Alexa Davalos has been cast as Andromeda-- which is great to me; I loved her in Defiance.

My lazy-Saturday question to you guys is, who would you add to the cast if you could? Who's your Aphrodite or Hera or Ares? :-)