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Character Name: Georgia Carolyn Mason
Character Age: 22
Canon: Newsflesh
Canon Point: Feed Chapter 15
History/World: George doesn’t know what day she was born. She doesn’t know anything about her birth family, besides that they’re probably dead, and she doesn’t care to know more than that. As far as she’s concerned, her life started on the day she was adopted as a baby, when she met the Masons, and more importantly, when she met her adopted twin brother Shaun.
The Masons, her adopted parents, had been a professor and a dental hygienist when the Rising happened in 2014, but when zombies started showing up, they became so much more. Her father used his blog to get students in Berkeley to safety, and her mother took daring risks that entertained the masses and saved lives. They became bloggers, in an age when bloggers had just started to become the newest celebrities, and they would do anything for ratings. Including adopting two new children once their own biological child was killed by a zombie dog.
It took George a long time to see that her parents didn’t love her, that every act of affection was calculated to be on camera so as to boost their ratings. It was Shaun who noticed first, and after that, the only person they had to count on was each other. Still, they benefited from their parents’ aggressive attempts to give them as normal a childhood as possible… or at least, normal in a pre-zombie world. While other parents wouldn’t let their children outside when playing inside was so much safer, the Masons made a habit of dining in the only open air restaurant left in Berkeley. While other families stayed afraid, the Masons made it clear that they would not let a little thing like zombies keep them from living their lives the way they choose. Of course, there were still blood tests and bleach showers and learning how to be safe in a world filled with the undead. That much was unavoidable.
Shaun and George spent almost every moment together. They shared a room until puberty and then they had adjoining rooms. They would have kept sharing a room if they could. They have a relationship that some might call extremely codependent. They mostly just called it sane, since there were worse things than having one person you absolutely 100% trusted to have your back with you at all times. What they didn't call it, in print at least, was incestuous, mostly because there are some things you absolutely can't write down. Nothing is entirely unhackable, and even though they were adopted, and even though they'd had blood tests to prove that they were absolutely, definitely not biologically related, they were raised as siblings and there would have been a scandal that would have killed their ratings and made their parents disown them for blackening the family name. They had to be insanely careful. Still, that didn't change the fact that they were definitely, absolutely in love with each other and only each other in every way that mattered and they just found excuses to never date anyone else. They were just "too busy."
Despite their disdain for their parents, George wanted to be a blogger from a very young age, and of course, Shaun went along with her. The two of them have always been inseparable. George became a “Newsie,” part of the Factual News Division and someone who always reported the truth as she saw it. Shaun became an “Irwin,” part of the poking zombies with sticks and taking dumb risks to entertain people division. They hired on Georgette “Buffy” Meissonier as their “Fictional,” someone to add poems and stories to their website and round out the team. Buffy proved to be even more of an asset than they’d hoped: she was a tech and espionage genius and vastly improved their site’s security. She also helped suit them up with state of the art equipment and more hidden cameras than even Shaun and George knew about.
Their site was popular, but it wasn’t until they landed a position as the official bloggers for Senator Ryman’s Presidential campaign that they really took off. It was the big break they’d been waiting for, the moment when they’d either soar or have to end up seeking other careers, and with every passing speech the senator gave, things seemed more and more perfect. George was impressed with his honesty and integrity. The only thing he requested they not report too much on was his wife’s horse ranch and that was because he feared for her safety and the safety of his kids. He was entirely open and honest with them besides that. The campaign was going well, their ratings were soaring, and it seemed nothing could go wrong.
So of course, things started to go wrong. After a speech in Eakly, Oklahoma some people who had attended the rally in person and alive showed up at the perimeter of the campaign caravan suddenly undead. George and Shaun helped fight them off, but they couldn’t save everyone. Some of the security guards died. The tragedy struck the senator hard… even more so when Buffy realized that the alarms had been cut and this hadn’t been an accident: it was an attempt on the Senator’s life.
But despite the tragedy, the campaign soldiered on. George managed to snag an interview with one of the other presidential candidates, Governor Tate. It was hate at first sight. She thought he was a conservative, evil jackass that would destroy the living in his campaign against the dead and he thought she was a nosy, uncontrollable blogger who would write whatever the hell she wanted with no regards to how it made him look. They were both right. She also met Rick Cousins, a blogger who had been working for Wagman's campaign before she dropped out of the campaign. He offered exclusive access to everything he had on her in exchange for a job. George liked him and his work and hired him on quickly.
George went down to interview Senator Ryman again, and was there when he won the primary, officially becoming the Republican Nominee for the Presidential election. Unfortunately, that meant she was also there when the news came in that Senator Ryman’s ranch had been attacked and his oldest daughter had died, along with her grandparents. George’s report on the girl painted her as a hero and made Ryman surge ahead in the polls, but the air of excitement that had surrounded the campaign from the start was permanently gone. Especially when Ryman chose Tate as his running mate. George could acknowledge that he was a good choice and likely to pull in anyone who wasn’t already sold on Ryman, but she didn’t like it. She was convinced Tate was evil, and as much as she trusted Ryman, she didn’t know if she could still trust him with Tate as his running mate.
She convinced Ryman to let her take a look around the ranch under the cover of getting there first: if they showed that there was no story to be found, other less reputable bloggers wouldn’t try to sneak in. The truth was, though, she had ulterior motives. George’s journalist instincts told her that the story wasn’t as simple as it appeared. Horses were big enough that they could amplify and become zombies, same as any other large mammal. Most people don’t keep pets that are bigger than, say, a house cat anymore for that reason, and an accident like that wasn’t something that would be questioned too hard. But George was always one to question too hard, and she couldn’t see why a perfectly healthy horse on a ranch that knew the risks and made sure to be insanely careful would just suddenly become a zombie.
Shaun stepped on the answer. There was a small needle filled with an unknown substance, but it wasn’t hard to guess what it contained. Live Kellis-Amberlee. The virus that causes zombies. The horse hadn’t spontaneously turned into a zombie, someone had turned it into one. Suddenly, this wasn’t just a tragic accident. It was an act of terrorism.
Senator Ryman, Emily Ryman, and Governor Tate called a meeting with the bloggers after that and tried to get them to go home. The story had gotten too big, the campaign trail too dangerous, and there was no reason to throw away lives in pursuit of a good story. Shaun and George disagreed, insisting that they had to stay a part of this, that they were here til the end. Only Buffy wanted to quit, to go home, but she was outvoted.
But of course, things weren't going to get any safer. Not when only two tragedies had struck and there was still a long path to the white house. When driving from the Ryman family’s ranch to meet up with the rest of the campaign, snipers shot out the wheels of George’s bike, the van, the security vehicle, and team newbie Rick’s car. George, Shaun, and Rick made it out okay, but Buffy was in the security vehicle with her boyfriend. When her boyfriend died and came back, he managed to bite her. Buffy managed to confess that so many things had been her fault, that she’d been feeding information to an unknown group until after the events at the ranch, when she’d realized that what she’d done was wrong and getting people killed and cut off contact. Unfortunately, that made her a) useless, and b) a liability, which led to making her c) dead. She gave George and Shaun the password to her private account before she turned completely and George had to pull the trigger.
They called the CDC to get clean-up on the site, but it turned out they weren’t the first to make the call. Someone had reported them undead, and the CDC could not ignore that kind of tip. They were lucky the CDC didn’t just kill them to be sure. After all, zombies aren’t something to fuck around with, and sometimes (often) innocent, living people end up dead just in case they’re actually undead. But Dr. Wynn was intrigued enough to take them in and test them instead. The fact that they’d been called in dead confirmed that someone was trying to kill them even more than the gunshots had. Someone wanted them dead and had no problem trifling with zombies and extremely powerful government agencies to get it done. Again, Ryman and Tate tried to get them to go home. Again, they outright refused. The story was too big to stop now.
With access to all of Buffy’s bugs they ended up overhearing Governor Tate himself on the phone saying things that tied him to the shooting, to whoever it was that had been getting information from Buffy. This conspiracy was bigger than they’d ever imagined, and that meant it was time for drastic action. They made the most secure online chat they could and gathered the entire staff of their site, and as soon as George was certain it was secure, she fired everyone. It didn’t last long. Anyone who wanted to come back was welcome to, but with the added knowledge that being connected to this paper could put them in danger, might even get them convicted of treason. Some people left. A lot of other people stayed, and George, Shaun, and Rick filled them in on what had been happening. The only person who George didn’t allow to come back was Mahir, her second and closest non-Shaun friend. After the meeting, she called him and explained her plan: he was their offshore back-up. Should things go wrong, he wouldn’t be affiliated with the site, but he could publish, and he could keep the story alive, even if everyone else was dead. He agreed though not happily.
After that, all that was left to do was follow the money, and where it led wasn’t very pretty. Clear evidence that Tate was behind this, and that even worse, the CDC might be involved. George hadn’t been talking much to Ryman before that, which he had noticed and was not happy about, since her stories had been a huge boost to the campaign, but it as unavoidable. She wasn’t sure how much he was involved with all this, and she couldn’t risk going to him before she had proof. Now she had proof. Ryman didn’t take it very well. He told her to leave immediately and that he’d see what evidence she had after the Sacramento rally was over. George, Shaun, and Rick left quickly, and headed back to their trailers.
Rick’s discovery that his cat had been killed brought all of them out of the trailers… and just in time, since someone had planted bombs in both of them. They made a run for their van, but George wasn’t quite fast enough. A needle filled with pure Kellis-Amberlee nicked her arm, dosing her with enough zombie juice to ensure the change would happen.
George and Shaun had always assumed Shaun would die first. He was the Irwin, the one who lived off stupid risks. George was the careful one. They’d assumed he’d go first, and George had privately known she’d go shortly after that. She didn’t want to live in a world without Shaun. George dying first was something they'd never planned for, but they didn’t have time to worry about what happened next. They sent Rick out, ordering him to take a drive with all their evidence and go before quarantine dropped. Shaun dosed George with a sedative, just enough to delay the infection and give her time to write one last article. She wrote down everything, urged everyone to read the evidence they had. She did what she’d always done, gave forth pure, undiluted truth as she saw it, and then she died. Shaun blasted out her brains before she could hurt anyone, and that was it for George. What happened next would be all up to Shaun.
Personality: No one put Georgia better than Mahir Gowda: "Having Georgia on your side was like... it was like knowing you were somehow privileged to be on a first-name basis with a natural disaster. You knew that one day it was going to rage out of control and destroy everything in its path, and until that day arrived, you didn't have to worry about a damn thing. You were the one with the tornado in your corner."
She's a stubborn idealist who sees everything in black and white and refuses to accept anything less than the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. She sees the world in black and white and rather than let that be a flaw, she uses it to pin down the news, converting it into facts and truths and being as objective as humanly possible. She believes opinion has no place in the news outside of opeds, and while she shares hers (you need to know someone's biases to read around them), she keeps them stripped out of her fact-based news pieces. She gives off an impression of being easily irritated and overly serious, and it's not exactly an act. It is, however, a carefully crafted public persona, designed to give her the maximum journalistic credibility possible whenever anyone sees her.
In some ways this is the real George. She certainly is glad she doesn't have to smile all the time like Shaun does and that she can get away with being terse and rude. But she does have a sense of humor. Secretly. Buried deep under all that seriousness. It's just that you have to know her pretty well to realize she's joking because her deadpan is killer. She's also very, very caring though that's even harder to read than her sense of humor. If you're in the select group of people she's allowed to get close to her, she will do anything to help or protect you. She's loyal, brave, and takes care of her people.
She has an extremely codependent relationship with her adopted brother Shaun. They are everything to each other. Sibling, best friend, business partner, even lover. It's a side-effect of how fucked up their family was: they got no love or support from their parents, so they filled in the gaps by loving each other as much as they could in every way they could. They're aware it's a little fucked up and that they'd be disowned and lose all their ratings if their secret got out. But they don't care. They wouldn't want to be different even if they had the option. To them, having that one person you can count on no matter what means more than all the societal conventions in the world. They're a beautiful team, but when they're separated, they fall apart. Georgia always expected Shaun to go first, since as an Irwin he was always doing stupidly dangerous shit for fun and profit, and she never expected to last long after that. She had no interest in living life an only child.
She is extremely averse to being touched by anyone but Shaun, which can be chalked partly up to her parents again (most of her mother's hugs were on camera, she almost never touched the kids when the world wasn't watching) and to the healthy paranoia of living in a world where getting close to anyone could spell death. She knows how to shake hands without flinching because sometimes you have to when you spend a lot of time around politicians. She likes it even less than the rest of her generation does.
The most important thing in the world to George is the truth. She believes wholeheartedly that telling the truth is the right choice in every situation, that lying is never right, and that secrets are.... only acceptable when they really definitely don't hurt anyone. It's possible she only has that last clause to allow her own lie of omission about her own illicit relationship, but it's no one's business but hers and Shaun's, and she's happy to keep it that way. Georgia would (and in fact, has) died for the truth. She set out to expose a conspiracy and when she learned what the cost might be, she kept going. The cost was arguably too high. It didn't stop her. And if she had regrets when the bill came due, well, it was too late to undo what she'd done. The people in power were lying, and Georgia refused to let that stand. She urged the world to rise up, then she let Shaun take care of her and make sure she didn't hurt anyone else. It wasn't worth it. But it was the only thing she could do because of the person she is.
Items: Body armor, laptop (and assorted other items) bag, laptop, phone, mp3 recorder, watch with a back-up recorder, notebook and pen, a handful of hidden cameras and microphones hidden in her clothes and jewelry, a .40 pistol, pepper spray, taser, collapsible baton, extra ammunition, a press pass, three pairs of sunglasses, painkillers, electric blue contacts that make her look like an alien but protect her eyes, three blood testing units, a small first aid kit. She's a journalist, she comes prepared.
Powers/skills: She can write words. Believe me, it's a superpower.
Georgia has all the skills necessary to be a certified journalist with an A-15 license. That means she has basic field and first-aid training, is a good shot with a variety of firearms, and is very, very good at finding and telling the truth. She's an excellent writer who can use words as weapons and smart as a whip. She's good at reading people and good at pushing them.
Also, her weird zombie eyes give her excellent night vision and let her see through one-way mirrors. It just has the low low cost of horrible chronic migraines! Also, she's immune to cancer and the common cold (and most other diseases) and if she dies, she'll get up again and try to eat everyone in sight unless someone shoots her in the brain. Her breath and body fluids also carry the virus. This is… sort of a power???
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Player name: Shana
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Referral: RAE
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Character Name: Georgia Carolyn Mason
Character Age: 22
Canon: Newsflesh
Canon Point: Feed Chapter 15
History/World: George doesn’t know what day she was born. She doesn’t know anything about her birth family, besides that they’re probably dead, and she doesn’t care to know more than that. As far as she’s concerned, her life started on the day she was adopted as a baby, when she met the Masons, and more importantly, when she met her adopted twin brother Shaun.
The Masons, her adopted parents, had been a professor and a dental hygienist when the Rising happened in 2014, but when zombies started showing up, they became so much more. Her father used his blog to get students in Berkeley to safety, and her mother took daring risks that entertained the masses and saved lives. They became bloggers, in an age when bloggers had just started to become the newest celebrities, and they would do anything for ratings. Including adopting two new children once their own biological child was killed by a zombie dog.
It took George a long time to see that her parents didn’t love her, that every act of affection was calculated to be on camera so as to boost their ratings. It was Shaun who noticed first, and after that, the only person they had to count on was each other. Still, they benefited from their parents’ aggressive attempts to give them as normal a childhood as possible… or at least, normal in a pre-zombie world. While other parents wouldn’t let their children outside when playing inside was so much safer, the Masons made a habit of dining in the only open air restaurant left in Berkeley. While other families stayed afraid, the Masons made it clear that they would not let a little thing like zombies keep them from living their lives the way they choose. Of course, there were still blood tests and bleach showers and learning how to be safe in a world filled with the undead. That much was unavoidable.
Shaun and George spent almost every moment together. They shared a room until puberty and then they had adjoining rooms. They would have kept sharing a room if they could. They have a relationship that some might call extremely codependent. They mostly just called it sane, since there were worse things than having one person you absolutely 100% trusted to have your back with you at all times. What they didn't call it, in print at least, was incestuous, mostly because there are some things you absolutely can't write down. Nothing is entirely unhackable, and even though they were adopted, and even though they'd had blood tests to prove that they were absolutely, definitely not biologically related, they were raised as siblings and there would have been a scandal that would have killed their ratings and made their parents disown them for blackening the family name. They had to be insanely careful. Still, that didn't change the fact that they were definitely, absolutely in love with each other and only each other in every way that mattered and they just found excuses to never date anyone else. They were just "too busy."
Despite their disdain for their parents, George wanted to be a blogger from a very young age, and of course, Shaun went along with her. The two of them have always been inseparable. George became a “Newsie,” part of the Factual News Division and someone who always reported the truth as she saw it. Shaun became an “Irwin,” part of the poking zombies with sticks and taking dumb risks to entertain people division. They hired on Georgette “Buffy” Meissonier as their “Fictional,” someone to add poems and stories to their website and round out the team. Buffy proved to be even more of an asset than they’d hoped: she was a tech and espionage genius and vastly improved their site’s security. She also helped suit them up with state of the art equipment and more hidden cameras than even Shaun and George knew about.
Their site was popular, but it wasn’t until they landed a position as the official bloggers for Senator Ryman’s Presidential campaign that they really took off. It was the big break they’d been waiting for, the moment when they’d either soar or have to end up seeking other careers, and with every passing speech the senator gave, things seemed more and more perfect. George was impressed with his honesty and integrity. The only thing he requested they not report too much on was his wife’s horse ranch and that was because he feared for her safety and the safety of his kids. He was entirely open and honest with them besides that. The campaign was going well, their ratings were soaring, and it seemed nothing could go wrong.
So of course, things started to go wrong. After a speech in Eakly, Oklahoma some people who had attended the rally in person and alive showed up at the perimeter of the campaign caravan suddenly undead. George and Shaun helped fight them off, but they couldn’t save everyone. Some of the security guards died. The tragedy struck the senator hard… even more so when Buffy realized that the alarms had been cut and this hadn’t been an accident: it was an attempt on the Senator’s life.
But despite the tragedy, the campaign soldiered on. George managed to snag an interview with one of the other presidential candidates, Governor Tate. It was hate at first sight. She thought he was a conservative, evil jackass that would destroy the living in his campaign against the dead and he thought she was a nosy, uncontrollable blogger who would write whatever the hell she wanted with no regards to how it made him look. They were both right. She also met Rick Cousins, a blogger who had been working for Wagman's campaign before she dropped out of the campaign. He offered exclusive access to everything he had on her in exchange for a job. George liked him and his work and hired him on quickly.
George went down to interview Senator Ryman again, and was there when he won the primary, officially becoming the Republican Nominee for the Presidential election. Unfortunately, that meant she was also there when the news came in that Senator Ryman’s ranch had been attacked and his oldest daughter had died, along with her grandparents. George’s report on the girl painted her as a hero and made Ryman surge ahead in the polls, but the air of excitement that had surrounded the campaign from the start was permanently gone. Especially when Ryman chose Tate as his running mate. George could acknowledge that he was a good choice and likely to pull in anyone who wasn’t already sold on Ryman, but she didn’t like it. She was convinced Tate was evil, and as much as she trusted Ryman, she didn’t know if she could still trust him with Tate as his running mate.
She convinced Ryman to let her take a look around the ranch under the cover of getting there first: if they showed that there was no story to be found, other less reputable bloggers wouldn’t try to sneak in. The truth was, though, she had ulterior motives. George’s journalist instincts told her that the story wasn’t as simple as it appeared. Horses were big enough that they could amplify and become zombies, same as any other large mammal. Most people don’t keep pets that are bigger than, say, a house cat anymore for that reason, and an accident like that wasn’t something that would be questioned too hard. But George was always one to question too hard, and she couldn’t see why a perfectly healthy horse on a ranch that knew the risks and made sure to be insanely careful would just suddenly become a zombie.
Shaun stepped on the answer. There was a small needle filled with an unknown substance, but it wasn’t hard to guess what it contained. Live Kellis-Amberlee. The virus that causes zombies. The horse hadn’t spontaneously turned into a zombie, someone had turned it into one. Suddenly, this wasn’t just a tragic accident. It was an act of terrorism.
Senator Ryman, Emily Ryman, and Governor Tate called a meeting with the bloggers after that and tried to get them to go home. The story had gotten too big, the campaign trail too dangerous, and there was no reason to throw away lives in pursuit of a good story. Shaun and George disagreed, insisting that they had to stay a part of this, that they were here til the end. Only Buffy wanted to quit, to go home, but she was outvoted.
But of course, things weren't going to get any safer. Not when only two tragedies had struck and there was still a long path to the white house. When driving from the Ryman family’s ranch to meet up with the rest of the campaign, snipers shot out the wheels of George’s bike, the van, the security vehicle, and team newbie Rick’s car. George, Shaun, and Rick made it out okay, but Buffy was in the security vehicle with her boyfriend. When her boyfriend died and came back, he managed to bite her. Buffy managed to confess that so many things had been her fault, that she’d been feeding information to an unknown group until after the events at the ranch, when she’d realized that what she’d done was wrong and getting people killed and cut off contact. Unfortunately, that made her a) useless, and b) a liability, which led to making her c) dead. She gave George and Shaun the password to her private account before she turned completely and George had to pull the trigger.
They called the CDC to get clean-up on the site, but it turned out they weren’t the first to make the call. Someone had reported them undead, and the CDC could not ignore that kind of tip. They were lucky the CDC didn’t just kill them to be sure. After all, zombies aren’t something to fuck around with, and sometimes (often) innocent, living people end up dead just in case they’re actually undead. But Dr. Wynn was intrigued enough to take them in and test them instead. The fact that they’d been called in dead confirmed that someone was trying to kill them even more than the gunshots had. Someone wanted them dead and had no problem trifling with zombies and extremely powerful government agencies to get it done. Again, Ryman and Tate tried to get them to go home. Again, they outright refused. The story was too big to stop now.
With access to all of Buffy’s bugs they ended up overhearing Governor Tate himself on the phone saying things that tied him to the shooting, to whoever it was that had been getting information from Buffy. This conspiracy was bigger than they’d ever imagined, and that meant it was time for drastic action. They made the most secure online chat they could and gathered the entire staff of their site, and as soon as George was certain it was secure, she fired everyone. It didn’t last long. Anyone who wanted to come back was welcome to, but with the added knowledge that being connected to this paper could put them in danger, might even get them convicted of treason. Some people left. A lot of other people stayed, and George, Shaun, and Rick filled them in on what had been happening. The only person who George didn’t allow to come back was Mahir, her second and closest non-Shaun friend. After the meeting, she called him and explained her plan: he was their offshore back-up. Should things go wrong, he wouldn’t be affiliated with the site, but he could publish, and he could keep the story alive, even if everyone else was dead. He agreed though not happily.
After that, all that was left to do was follow the money, and where it led wasn’t very pretty. Clear evidence that Tate was behind this, and that even worse, the CDC might be involved. George hadn’t been talking much to Ryman before that, which he had noticed and was not happy about, since her stories had been a huge boost to the campaign, but it as unavoidable. She wasn’t sure how much he was involved with all this, and she couldn’t risk going to him before she had proof. Now she had proof. Ryman didn’t take it very well. He told her to leave immediately and that he’d see what evidence she had after the Sacramento rally was over. George, Shaun, and Rick left quickly, and headed back to their trailers.
Rick’s discovery that his cat had been killed brought all of them out of the trailers… and just in time, since someone had planted bombs in both of them. They made a run for their van, but George wasn’t quite fast enough. A needle filled with pure Kellis-Amberlee nicked her arm, dosing her with enough zombie juice to ensure the change would happen.
George and Shaun had always assumed Shaun would die first. He was the Irwin, the one who lived off stupid risks. George was the careful one. They’d assumed he’d go first, and George had privately known she’d go shortly after that. She didn’t want to live in a world without Shaun. George dying first was something they'd never planned for, but they didn’t have time to worry about what happened next. They sent Rick out, ordering him to take a drive with all their evidence and go before quarantine dropped. Shaun dosed George with a sedative, just enough to delay the infection and give her time to write one last article. She wrote down everything, urged everyone to read the evidence they had. She did what she’d always done, gave forth pure, undiluted truth as she saw it, and then she died. Shaun blasted out her brains before she could hurt anyone, and that was it for George. What happened next would be all up to Shaun.
Personality: No one put Georgia better than Mahir Gowda: "Having Georgia on your side was like... it was like knowing you were somehow privileged to be on a first-name basis with a natural disaster. You knew that one day it was going to rage out of control and destroy everything in its path, and until that day arrived, you didn't have to worry about a damn thing. You were the one with the tornado in your corner."
She's a stubborn idealist who sees everything in black and white and refuses to accept anything less than the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. She sees the world in black and white and rather than let that be a flaw, she uses it to pin down the news, converting it into facts and truths and being as objective as humanly possible. She believes opinion has no place in the news outside of opeds, and while she shares hers (you need to know someone's biases to read around them), she keeps them stripped out of her fact-based news pieces. She gives off an impression of being easily irritated and overly serious, and it's not exactly an act. It is, however, a carefully crafted public persona, designed to give her the maximum journalistic credibility possible whenever anyone sees her.
In some ways this is the real George. She certainly is glad she doesn't have to smile all the time like Shaun does and that she can get away with being terse and rude. But she does have a sense of humor. Secretly. Buried deep under all that seriousness. It's just that you have to know her pretty well to realize she's joking because her deadpan is killer. She's also very, very caring though that's even harder to read than her sense of humor. If you're in the select group of people she's allowed to get close to her, she will do anything to help or protect you. She's loyal, brave, and takes care of her people.
She has an extremely codependent relationship with her adopted brother Shaun. They are everything to each other. Sibling, best friend, business partner, even lover. It's a side-effect of how fucked up their family was: they got no love or support from their parents, so they filled in the gaps by loving each other as much as they could in every way they could. They're aware it's a little fucked up and that they'd be disowned and lose all their ratings if their secret got out. But they don't care. They wouldn't want to be different even if they had the option. To them, having that one person you can count on no matter what means more than all the societal conventions in the world. They're a beautiful team, but when they're separated, they fall apart. Georgia always expected Shaun to go first, since as an Irwin he was always doing stupidly dangerous shit for fun and profit, and she never expected to last long after that. She had no interest in living life an only child.
She is extremely averse to being touched by anyone but Shaun, which can be chalked partly up to her parents again (most of her mother's hugs were on camera, she almost never touched the kids when the world wasn't watching) and to the healthy paranoia of living in a world where getting close to anyone could spell death. She knows how to shake hands without flinching because sometimes you have to when you spend a lot of time around politicians. She likes it even less than the rest of her generation does.
The most important thing in the world to George is the truth. She believes wholeheartedly that telling the truth is the right choice in every situation, that lying is never right, and that secrets are.... only acceptable when they really definitely don't hurt anyone. It's possible she only has that last clause to allow her own lie of omission about her own illicit relationship, but it's no one's business but hers and Shaun's, and she's happy to keep it that way. Georgia would (and in fact, has) died for the truth. She set out to expose a conspiracy and when she learned what the cost might be, she kept going. The cost was arguably too high. It didn't stop her. And if she had regrets when the bill came due, well, it was too late to undo what she'd done. The people in power were lying, and Georgia refused to let that stand. She urged the world to rise up, then she let Shaun take care of her and make sure she didn't hurt anyone else. It wasn't worth it. But it was the only thing she could do because of the person she is.
Items: Body armor, laptop (and assorted other items) bag, laptop, phone, mp3 recorder, watch with a back-up recorder, notebook and pen, a handful of hidden cameras and microphones hidden in her clothes and jewelry, a .40 pistol, pepper spray, taser, collapsible baton, extra ammunition, a press pass, three pairs of sunglasses, painkillers, electric blue contacts that make her look like an alien but protect her eyes, three blood testing units, a small first aid kit. She's a journalist, she comes prepared.
Powers/skills: She can write words. Believe me, it's a superpower.
Georgia has all the skills necessary to be a certified journalist with an A-15 license. That means she has basic field and first-aid training, is a good shot with a variety of firearms, and is very, very good at finding and telling the truth. She's an excellent writer who can use words as weapons and smart as a whip. She's good at reading people and good at pushing them.
Also, her weird zombie eyes give her excellent night vision and let her see through one-way mirrors. It just has the low low cost of horrible chronic migraines! Also, she's immune to cancer and the common cold (and most other diseases) and if she dies, she'll get up again and try to eat everyone in sight unless someone shoots her in the brain. Her breath and body fluids also carry the virus. This is… sort of a power???
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