20 Years Reunion Coordination Post!

[not_a_whiner]

For your coordination of backstory needs!

We've got a form for you to fill out here:

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Age at the Reunion:</b> <b> Backstory I've Worked Out So Far:</b> <b> How Your Character Can Fit In:</b>

...but feel free to brainstorm any way you'd like!

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[boneyard_girl]

Character Name: Ada Miller
Age at the Reunion: 37, almost 38
Backstory I've Worked Out So Far: Ada moved to the tank full-time two years ago, when she completely lost the use of her legs and couldn't cope with the severe pain of being confined to a wheelchair while every single bone in her legs dissolved and reformed under her skin as her legs fused together. It was the water or continuing a pain-killer regimen (swiftly becoming an addiction) that wasn't actually helping, and she chose the water. She stayed out of the tank almost a decade longer than her mother did, but Ada Miller doesn't live in a world with fairy godmothers or where wishes come true. In the end, there's no cure for being born a mermaid. Her legs have coalesced into her tail, which is almost completely scaled-over; she will never walk again.

Her memory is okay most days, though it's starting to slip. The routine of the carnival helps keep it from all falling away: she always knows her name, and most of the cousins, and while sometimes she needs a prompt on the long-term stuff, her short-term memory is just fine. Of course there's bad days, too, and those are getting more and more frequent. She doesn't have a phone anymore because she forgot it wasn't waterproof twice and tried to take it under with her while she was talking to someone. Oops.

Her cousin Duncan was put in charge of her phone, in case of actual emergencies, but he won't answer calls from Fandom numbers nine times out of ten. You'd have to call repeatedly, on the same day, for him to pick-up. He doesn't like the Fandomites coming around and getting Ada all upset when she thinks about what she's lost, because it kills him a little bit each time her heart breaks all over again.

How Your Character Can Fit In: Duncan might not be thrilled when people from Fandom call or show up, but the rest of the carnival plays a different tune: Ada's friends have been free to come-and-go as they like for years, and have free use of her trailer. She's not using it anymore, after all. Stay a few hours, stay a few months, the Millers don't mind as long as you pitch in in the kitchen if you're staying more than a week. Besides, Chester is still in charge, not Duncan, and as long as Chester is the head of the Millers, people from Fandom are welcome.

When she's having a Good Day, Ada might yell at a cousin until they set up a laptop for her -- safety cabled to a railing because dammit Ada -- so she can Skype with people. So if you think you've talked with her recently, you probably did!

During the reunion itself, Ada will be residing in Selkie Lake, thinking the island just decided it was going to kidnap her for the reunion in its own weird way.