Malcolm and Jasper Engel
| Name | Malcolm Engel |
| Gender | Male, he/him, bi |
| Homeworld | Twoarth (heavily The End influenced), born at Alabaster in Talon City |
| Species | ....huuuuuman? Half Human anyway |
| Totem | Virus, the
Come On, I'm Not Infectious Any More totem, highly adaptable and apparently fun to be with, but evil to the core
+2, +2, -3, 0, -1, -2, 0, +2, 5kk - modified^ |
| Nut | Ghost Pepper Macadamia, so sweet and smooth until you realize your soul is leaving your body |
| Class | Junior in 2028 |
| Smarts | 6 > 8 |
| Bod/Feet | 3 > 5 |
| RWP | 4 > 2^ |
| Luck | 3 |
| Drive | 2 > 2^ |
| Looks | 5 > 5^ |
| Cool | 4 |
| Bonk | 3 > 5 |
| Powers |
Genrehopping - Mal can blip away from Twoarth and visit very distant locations via the Outside. These include Paragon, Pern, Repurposed Earth, The End itself, Zekira (both versions), Planet Twenty, the World/Void, and basically wherever dragons reach as well. He can take another human-sized person with him, though if others with this ability including dragons are there, he can tap their energy too and expand the volume of his power. This is almost effortless for him, and he always makes it home unscathed somehow (perhaps he is actually a Reality Shifter too?). Believe it or not this is his dad's influence, Engel is after all multidimensional. Create And Destroy - Do you need a spoon or a napkin or an intergalactic space cruiser? You got it. He has a specific hammerspace that leads to mom's Outside, and since her Outside is also the Void, between, the Nexus, Hyperspace, he can tap it all to find discarded memories of those items in great quantity. Misota has had to instruct him very very soundly on its use, because look you cannot just make a nuclear bomb out of nothing in public Mal. |
| Clusters | Contracts And Legalese +4 You wouldn't think a kid would have this much know-how about whether that contract you're signing is going to be up front about how much of your soul is distributed, and yet here we are. He doesn't make a big deal of it, but he is definitely always scheming and working out ways that he's not going to be blamed for anything that goes wrong once you sign here... |
| Skills |
Organizational Operations +4 He's very sly and easily manipulates people, and there's always something he's planning in the back of his mind that requires people to be in the right place at the right time for them to go off. When he consciously works on this you will know your place and you'll do what he instructs, his commands have weight. Groups and teams get +2 to all skill checks when he's in charge Trouble Follows Him Like A Puppy With A Stick Of Dynamite +3 Just because he isn't getting into trouble, doesn't mean you won't get into trouble for being around him. In fact it's highly likely. This only applies to people he's not somehow related to or involved with directly through either side of his family. But girl or boyfriends, gangs, study partners, maybe business connections too, there's always going to be a chance that something will go wrong. Not usually badly wrong, but definitely 'gets eyed and maybe audited' wrong. Yes, he absolutely will use this against enemies Prompt And Prepped +3 For someone who seems as chill as his brother, Mal always has his shit together. He knows what time the train's leaving for Talon, how long it'll take to get his hair dry and his paperwork ready, he's never actually been late to class even if everyone assumes he will be given he's never out the door until it's a few seconds to the bell. Of course he cheats and just pops through a dimension, that's his thing |
| Knacks | Will Probably Have Kids Before He's Graduated +3 He is charming and pretty and very, very rich. The real question is will he also have an assortment of STDs by then too? |
| Period | Class/Instructor/Grade |
| 1 | Nexus Geohistory / T.Kshau / Excellent |
| 2 | Royalty and Regular Folks / Sean / Excellent |
| 3 | Business Math / Sila'Casar / Decent |
| 4 | Careers: Diplomatic Envoy (Interdimensional) / Vaelan / Excellent |
| 5 | Teleportation Practice / Retali8r / Superb |
| 6 | Personal Space Creation / Bunyi / Superb |
| 7 | Make Your Own Planet / Ninhursag / Excellent |
| 8 | Coddling Codexes / Kale-Baah / Superb |
| Pets | ? |
| Parents? | Mother Misota (in her Paragon / Heroic human The Endings guise) Father Jeff Engel of Twoarth/Skinside |
| Siblings? | Half brother Jasper, other half-siblings all over the multiverse |
| Image From | Drawn by Lethe, adopted from Meerestier on Deviantart |
| Dragon | Chili Revazeth |
| Bonded At | Ty's Tastee 2025 Giveaway |
| Name | Jasper Engel |
| Gender | Male, he/him, probably less than straight |
| Homeworld | Twoarth, born at Alabaster in Talon City |
| Species | Human, engineered |
| Totem | Sloth, the Jesus Keep Your Shirt On totem, middleman operator supreme, smugglers, fences, used car salesmen +3, -2, -1, +1, -2, -1, -1, 0, +5kk - modified^ |
| Nut | Not really a nut so much as a hefty wafting weed nug |
| Class | Junior in 2028 |
| Smarts | 5 > 8 |
| Bod/Feet | 5 > 3 |
| RWP | 3 > 2 |
| Luck | 2 > 3 |
| Drive | 2 > 2^ |
| Looks | 4 > 3 |
| Cool | 6 > 6^ |
| Bonk | 5 |
| Powers |
Dragon Mastery - Though his dad is not of the Alabaster Weyrhold realm, most of Jasper's ability is in the manipulation and gentle command of things that are otherwise impossible to control. Anything from flitters and alisgryphs to gigantic space worms, if someone calls them a 'dragon' he can communicate with them and get them on 'his side' somehow. More often than not he's surrounded by other people's dragons and pets, though he's not malicious in this he's always happy to shoo them back to their proper place. This does however mean that he has become a focal point for their attention. Whether this is good or bad is kind of up to the dragons. Easily Augmented - Mandragora's DNA is very well suited to using implanted technology to remotely work or to interchange new body parts. Jasper doesn't need to have any of those parts on him, but he can still use them. Yeah, think on that... In proximity to people with augmentations, he can usurp their functionality and basically command their implants. He does not do this lightly, this is something he's had a lot of intense ethical discussion about already and he won't misuse it. Probably. |
| Clusters | Know A Guy Who Knows A Guy +4 All the connections that Alabaster does have are his to command. At least that's how he sees it. Various family members, the entirety of the Sanger group, if they work for or associate with Alabaster in some way, Jasper is going to be able to convince them to help you out. And now you owe him that help if he calls on you for it too |
| Skills |
Mix N Match +4 Whether it's clothing styles, music to mashup, or couples and groups for the school parties, Jasper makes it work. On first glance you might think 'those colors clash' but then you get closer and see subtle commonalities or complementary features. Sounds and music that don't 'go together' definitely do when he's the DJ. He can rely on his bro to make sure that everyone cooperates while they're being shoved together, and the results are always *chef's kiss* He's Pretty Chill Until He Isn't +3 It takes a world of effort to get Jasper actually angry. But if he is angry at you, you will know it. He can bring down the entire Alabaster quarry on your ass if you screw up under his watch, or if he thinks you are a shitstain in general. It's pretty guaranteed that if he thinks you are a shitstain, you are. He can also point a mob or lawyers at your company, he doesn't have to get his hands dirty at all, just like dad hardly ever does. But he himself will punch Nazis and Retros right in their fuckin face if he sees them, no warning needed and no apology ever coming Can Be As Late As He Wants And Not Get In Trouble +3 Unlike Mal, Jasper does stroll in half an hour after the bell and absolutely reeking of weed, but he has his homework done already for next week and can answer your quiz problems without even consulting the book. While this is frustrating and does drop his citizenship grades from perfect, he's never going to get written up or even questioned about it, not even by dad |
| Knacks | Who Keeps Giving Him Smokes? +3 are those just cloves or is that actually weed? Is that filtered? My god kid you need to cut back you'll need those augmented lungs by the time you're 20. What do you mean "what makes you think I didn't have them already"? |
| Period | Class/Instructor/Grade |
| 1 | Netiquette / Charybdis / Excellent |
| 2 | Nano Culture and Cyborgs / Mandragora / Excellent |
| 3 | Betting and Odds / Haital / Superb |
| 4 | Dragon Riding And Tactics / H'lis / Superb |
| 5 | Practical Augmentation Control / Defrag / Superb |
| 6 | Bollywood and Flashmobs / Eriksson / Excellent |
| 7 | Cyberdecks And You / Blitz / Excellent |
| 8 | Colonization and Conflict / Trickster / Decent |
| Pets | All of the draconic creatures around him, really |
| Parents? | Mother Mandragora (spliced from samples taken while she was being renovated by the Doc) Father Jeff Engel of Twoarth/Skinside |
| Siblings? | Half brother Malcolm, several half-siblings mostly Endings |
| Image From | Drawn by Lethe, adopted from Websurfer626 on Deviantart |
| Dragon | Dill Kurilth |
| Bonded At | Ty's Tastee 2025 Giveaway |
By the time they were in their Junior year, both Engel kids were well known by virtually anyone who was anyone. Mal attended meetings with their dad voluntarily, to keep up with the methodology, to make sure he knew what expressions to display or how to look like he was interested when he was really just consulting someone telepathically or on a hidden keyboard. Jasper was more apt to hang with other kids from the Flashmobs class, they all seemed to have the same vibe about springing a new idea fully formed while they were 'just window shopping at the mall'. That his ability to endlessly produce ilicit or semi-legal substances for his friends to partake that has nothing to do with his popularity outside of said class.
But also by the time they were halfway through their Junior year, they very much were getting Those Looks by every dragon rider the campus could offer. Mandragora had certainly let her big queen Qutteth sniff them both when they were little. And yes they had been little kids once upon a time. Even though plentiful offers of 'did you want us to vat-grow them up a bit' or 'hey there's this pocket dimension you could speed things up in' had been thrown around by virtually anyone - including Misota and Other Engels - Jeff actually enjoyed the crap out of helping raise these two little terrors. His last foray into proper fatherhood was apparently some 20 years before them, given Kyle of this dimension had been attending Talon City University by the time his little brothers were out of diapers.
They know they have lots and lots of actual or sorta-relatives everywhere. Malcolm would take Jasper's hand and they would vanish from their security-heavy playground, only to return with toys from Zekira or a flitter egg from Pern just as their panicked keepers were getting ready to tell their dad they'd been lost somehow. And while not every 'not quite dad' is as friendly as theirs (particularly to others of his nature) if there is one of the Engels on a world, by the time this pair were eleven they had met at least a dozen of them. They both really enjoy talking to the stoat-Dad, being from Twoarth means they both understand implicitly there are other-Dads out there without being told.
Jasper discovered substances that make you go brrrrr at an all-too-early age, and though Mal certainly has had his share, he leaves that angle to his bro. Jasper also seems to think that adding an instantly-available stadium-grade sound system to a flash mob in the park on a lazy Saturday afternoon is fantastic, and Mal is very clearly willing to provide. Sometimes, Mal can be seen to be 'fuzzy around the edges' - this is when he's enjoying the Outside, he claims that the static tv-screen appearance of the place (where his mother is 'from', rather than her chosen haunt of the Void if she's hanging with 'uncle' Leviathan) is calming, he can spot tiny bits of memory-items there. If he has ever forgotten the moment he spotted any given fractured piece of a thing, yeah, no, he hasn't. He knows not just how to retrieve those things, he knows where they came from.
They grew into healthy (ish) handsome young men, though not as 'celebrated' as some might expect on the rare occasion that their father would bring them out into public. Of course that was almost always a PR move on Jeff's part, spawning endless speculation about their origins. No one in their right mind would have put Jasper's appearance together with the heavily augmented Mandragora even though she was almost always by this Engel's side on ventures in public. And pretty much no one knew who could have mothered them - it was generally assumed by the public that they were fraternal twins or something. Misota gets a bit of a chuckle out of that, as she watches from the static on the tv.
Being from a more conventional mother, Jasper gently nudges his bro back to the current reality now and then.
It was more or less at a nudge to his slightly-blurry side, when Malcolm realized that two dragons were now following them back to Twoarth.
"Yo, Angy Boi," Mal tossed his head at the red and white one, "you hungy or what?"
That self-same dragon Revazeth collected his wits and gave a scathing, spicy-hot response that Jasper wasn't privy to.
Mostly because the weed-blurry kid had his own green and white dragon to tend to. And no he did not offer Kurilth drugs. It seemed he didn't really need to, the tangy mind of the spotted-and-solid dragon always left a little vinegar behind.
They would go back to their Talon Alabaster Tower, roosting in the south penthouse, watching the rest of the dragons of Alabaster's local team come and go. Eventually they would join in, matching every single ounce of attitude those dragons seemed to display, on the wing.
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| Dragon |
Name: Revazeth |
| Dragon |
Name: Kurilth |