The Researchers


_{The Modern Angels}




User: [Aeolynn]

Name: Ryan Pennsbrooke called "Alta, meaning tall" by the tribe

Age: 29

Description: 6'5" with long black hair and soft blue eyes, gentle and very innocent. Ryan is lanky, skinny, and fairly average looking. He normally wears dark jeans and a black shirt. His job as a researcher is looking for new species of animals but he pays for his own trips to Brazil because he has not gone to school for his field.

Personality: Quiet, conservative and observant. Ryan is one of those people that are always alone, always silent.

Abilities: Self defense, can speak many dialects as well as German, Spanish and Japanese.

Special Fact: He has studied the basic arts of defense from a certain tribe and is capable of defending himself.

History: Born and raised in New Mexico, mother and father divorced, moved to Texas when he was 20 and began his life studying the specimens of Texas. Sometime later he began to sail to Columbia every year, from there to Brazil.

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User: [kay-chan]

Name: Dr. Laura Tanner

Age: 33

Description: About 5'11", leggy for a field ecologist. She's pretty tone from tramping through forests and setting up most of the manual labor for field experiments. She has blonde hair, although it was originally a brown color, from her time spent in the sun. It is shoulder-length and usually kept up in a simple ponytail, out of her eyes. She has bright green eyes that squint a lot in the sun. Most of Tanner's clothes are what you would call 'work appropriate,' meaning most of them have been dunked in streams and dragged through the forest. She has one nice outfit that she would maybe wear to a wedding or similarly important event, and a nice pair of clothes that are supposed to be for lectures, but that she hardly ever wears. Her skin is a little dark to match her sun-bleached hair, although she's avoided wrinkles so far by using moisturizing sunscreen. The most makeup she wears is maybe mascara, when giving a very important lecture.

Personality: She is a quiet individual when alone, preferring to read a book over listen to music. When Dr. Tanning is in a group, however, she can become much more assertive and talkative in an effort to get people to be active instead of look around blankly. She can follow directions quite well and is pretty humble and accepting, knowing that she doesn't know everything. Tanning likes to communicate, but only professionally; she doesn't share much of her personal life.

Abilities: Fast note-taking, quick analytical response to situations, and high intelligence in her field. In fact, high intelligence in many situations.

Special Fact: Learning new languages when in a different environment, under stress, is a skill... but she can't learn a language in a classroom.

History: She recently got a PhD in ecology and is a practicing field ecologist, working towards a masters in social anthropology. She alternately teaches classes and takes sabbaticals to study species ecology.

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User: [Ravendust]

Name: Annah Tsukino

Age: 23

Description: Annah is about 5'5" and has flowing black hair that she keeps tied in a tight braid and out of her face. She's got slanted, brilliant green eyes, that are brought out by the oddly light complection of her skin. She has a light spray of freckles across her cheeks and nose, and along her shoulderblades. She generally wears long pants that cling to her figure- more as a protection against insects and small creatures that can climb up through the base of her pants than for any sort of style. She wears mostly dark t-shirts and occasionally wears armwarmers- again not for fashion or for being cold, but to protect herself from things found out in nature.

Personality: Annah is an outgoing, talkative individual in most situations, though she prefers smaller groups over extrememly large ones. When she is sad or being overly thoughtful, Annah is usually quiet and sticks out of sight to avoid living contact.

Abillities: Annah is a fantastic artist, and half the time in place of a camera she has her pencil and sketchpad out. She loves to draw people doing everyday things, and loves also to draw things in their natural beauty.

Special Fact: As a child she travelled the world with her family who worked in the research field as well, and she has a natural ability to understand the feelings of animals, more or less because she has always been surrounded by animals...

History: Her parents and older brother were killed when she was only eleven out on one of their research trips for their beliefs and desire to protect nature. She was forced into a normal life just after. She was always intelligent and graduated from high school two years early before heading to college- majoring in arts and minoring in nature research.