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anxietydescending) wrote2021-03-20 03:47 pm
anxietydescending) wrote2021-03-20 03:47 pm
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Ramona A. Stone.: anxietydescendingDoor: Canon: The David Bowie album 1.Outside -- a cybernoir detective story set in a cyberpunk 2000 AD where extreme concept and performance art (reference Seedbed (cw: semi-public masturbation, unsolicited sharing of sexual fantasies) and Shoot (cw: gunshot wound, arguably self-harm) for irl examples!) has spiraled so far out of control that “Art, Inc,” the corporation affiliated with the Arts Protectorate of Longon (Ontario) has established an “art-crime” unit to discern whether certain acts in their area have artistic merit, and are worthy of legal protection, or are just common crimes. Wikipedia. Scans of the liner notes/booklet, with the story. A transcription of said liner notes. Canon Point: End of album - after the Baby Grace murder, but before any culplit is apprehended. Age: 43 years old. Born in 1956. Appearance: PB Patti Smith. In her mid-forties. Tall and skinny, all lean muscle and sharp bone. Not really beautiful, at all -- but at least interesting,striking. There is a tightness in her face that hints at surgery and chemical peels -- when she was younger, to avoid recognition, and more recently to fight the inevitable advance of age. Nails bitten down to the quick, fingers covered in fine, fading scars from the various risks of her craft. Hair colour and length are incredibly variable -- depends on how she feels that day, really. She indulges in editorial makeup and interesting outfits, but only to make an impression on others. If there is no audience, she barely bothers with personal hygiene, much less fashion. History: (Headcanon is in red. CW suicide, cults/spiritual abuse, racist ideology, drugs, taxidermied body parts, unusual violence against a pregnant woman, inplied theft of a fetus, unusual violence against a child.) Ramona was born to a well-off New York family, sometime in 1957. Her upbringing was unremarkable, her parents emotionally detached. She chose, when she graduated high school, to attend the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she dual-majored in Art Theory and Design. From there, she made her way to Berlin, where she used her university connections to fall in with the artistic underground. She founded what became known as the Caucasian Suicide Center, which distributed racist propoganda and promised an escape for those who feared changing racial and ethnic demographics. She took the bigots in, and convinced them that suicide was really the proper choice, for their own good. As the Art-Crime Detective Professor Nathan Adler said, “She must have overseen more than 30 or 40 check-outs before the local squad twigged what was going down.” (She didn’t really believe the propaganda she was pushing -- while she held the sort of quiet prejudices that anyone born well-off in the 50s might, the extremism and the ‘answer’ she pushed on her ‘followers’ was pure artistic and intellectual curiosity. Could she talk someone into killing themselves? How many more times could she do it? What kinds of people were the easiest, what were the best weaknesses to exploit?) Det. Prof. Adler went on to describe what she did after being caught out in Berlin -- “After surgery and investment in a bullet-proof mask, Ramona turned up in London, Canada as owner of a string of body-parts jewellery stores. Lamb penis necklaces, goat-scrotum purses, nipple earrings, that sort of thing. The word on the street, however, suggested that it was not in the best of interests to become one of her clients as occasionally, a customer would step into her shop and not come out again.” This was popular rumour, and not untrue. She was reasonably smart about her habits, though, at least enough to not to attract undue police attention, until sometime in 1986. A young celebrity, “known for being known,” disappeared. Her last known remarks pointed to Ramona -- and also revealed that the young woman had been pregnant when she had disappeared. They could pin nothing on Ramona for the deed. They couldn’t find the celebrity, her body, or the child. But the investigation ruined Ms. Stone. She closed her stores, sold off her remaining pieces, and went underground. She lived off of her not-inconsiderable savings, and operated as a drug dealer, to finance her continued artistic pursuits. Her illegal pieces were highly sought after by some collectors, though anyone who sought her out still ran the risk of never being heard from again. Roughly fourteen years after that scandal, at 5:47 am, December 31st, 1999, the dismembered body of a young woman called of Baby Grace Blue was discovered, put on grotesque display at the “Oxford Town Museum of Modern Parts.” She had been hooked up to a machine to record her thoughts and feelings, drugged to keep her sensible, and, still living (for a time) dismembered and arranged about the entrance, obviously intended as a horrific art installation. Baby Grace had been nearly fourteen years old, and a known associate of Ramona Stone’s. And Ramona’s name had come up in the young girl’s dying recordings. Had she been the one to kill Baby Grace? Would she be caught, or would she escape justice again? We, as an audience, will never know. it’s never explicitly stated in the album or any of the accompanying literature, who the Artist actually is. Outside was a commercial failure, and the trilogy it was intended to be the first chapter of was never completed. There will be no conclusion. No answers. [In my portrayal of her, Ramona did not do the deed, and it was in fact performed by an acquaintance of hers, in an attempt to get her attention. She had other plans for Baby Grace, and is actually low-key pissed that her ‘project’ was ruined before its conclusion. And, yes. Baby Grace was the child she’d stolen from the unnamed celebrity’s body, those years ago.] Personality: IMPORTANT NOTE: I expect that between her personality, her moral nihilism, and her being a completely baseline human, she’s going to get killed. Possibly a lot. I am okay with this. I’ll let you know when it happens, and if you feel like it would be appropriate or interesting for her to suffer exaggerated/more extreme effects after repeated deaths, please let me know. OTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: She will require an opt-out post. Here it is.
Powers and Abilities: Ramona is a 100% baseline human. A reasonably physically fit one, for her age and profession, and one who doesn't hesitate to fight dirty, but that only does so much. Her talents, however, include: Butchery. Salesmanship. Confidence games. Philosophical debate. Computers. Pharmaceuticals. Leather tanning and tooling. Carving. Pattern-drafting, sewing, metalwork and jeweling. The whole gamut of skills involved in crafting clothing and accessories out of animal matter, from snout to tail. Art and fashion history. Inventory: A set of bone-handled leather knives. Samples: January TDM Threads. The one with Zero has a bright-red screaming cw for noncon. |