Damaris Thorne
(played in the movie by Carrie-Ann Moss)
Influences: Brian Daley's Han Solo novels, and the fine tradition of space pirate novels they ripped off. The Matrix.
Quote: I bet I can make that shot. Waddaya think?
Damaris was a character in a short-lived Traveller game. She was a twenty-year-old punk kid with a fast and deadly gun and a bad attitude. She had been forcibly retired from her berth as a gunner on a pirate ship. With no goals and no prospects, her plans were to live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.
The best moment she got in four sessions of play was leaping onto the back of a pressurized aircar as it lifted off to prevent her enemy from getting away. It would have been suicidal if she hadn't been convinced she could shoot out the back window before they got too far off the ground. She and her trigger-happy cohorts managed it, too. Fortunately, the car wasn't that high when the bad guys tossed her out, and she landed in a nice, soft dumpster.
Frances "Scoop" Perkins
(played in the movie by Kirsten Dunst)
Influences: "I'm not a girl, I'm an aviatrix!"
Frances was my character in the now-defunct Shadows Across Arkham Buffy-Cthulhu crossover. She was on the trail of the Big Story: what's behind all those mysterious deaths in Arkham, most recently the death of Isaac Levinson.
She and her companions stumbled across the Slayer and her allies, but it wasn't clear that they were all going to be friends.
Lillian Astorbilt
(played in the movie by Frances O'Connor)
Influences: The Importance of Being Earnest, every screwball romantic comedy movie I've ever seen, and a little gaslight-era Cthulhu
Lillian is my character in the occasional Unearthly FTF game I play. She's the eldest of the three Astorbilt children (Fannie and Lawrence "Laurie" are the other two), all of whom mysteriously survived the sinking of an ocean liner and reappeared on the docks in New York several weeks later.
Apparently older than her 19 years, Lillian would be the ideal choice to follow in her father's footsteps were she a young man. She's invested in the idea that nothing significant has changed since the trio's mysterious rebirth, and tries to ignore signs that they're now superhuman. At the same time, she can't resist solving a good mystery, and the mystery of what happened to her may be the toughest one she's ever encountered.
The Honourable Miss Sophonisba Hawkwood
(played in the movie by Gillian Anderson)
Influences: She's a Hawkwood. Need I say more?
The Honourable Miss Sophonisba Hawkwood is my character in the Lunar Ellipse PBeM. She's a competitor with the British team.