The Victims of Pushers

[Weremouse]

I am a pusher.
Thou might ask - what is this pusher you speak of?
It is simple - a pusher is an immortal. A pusher is perfection. A pusher devotes their life to knowledge.

I am a victim.
I was pushed from my own body and thrust into the wrong age group. My name was Vanessa. Now I am Katherine. I was turning 18. Now I'm over 82. My life is almost over, yet it just began. People think I'm crazy. I have attendants. My body is weak and useless. I'm not allowed alchohol - I skipped through that entire period of life.
I'm a virgin. My boyfriend doesn't know I exist anymore. In my place, there's a pusher.

I am a pusher.
I am skilled in adaptation. I switch names like I switch clothes. I live out my old body and leave it to someone else - to die for me. No, I have no moral concerns over this. The pursuit of knowledge is better than that.
The love and sex that I get left with? Sometimes I take it, sometimes I break it. Usually I have my fun with the boyfriends I get, then leave them. It's not really my life, so why should I care who I hurt? I have other pushers for company, sometimes we meet up. With about a hundred pushers but over thousands of generations, we're bound to meet up now and then.
My memories are the one things I keep from life to life. Some pushers keep tokens, but I just keep my memories.

I am a victim.
My pusher explained everything, and told me to be grateful she did. Apparently the only way to get my body back is to push her out of it. She also told me that most victims wind up in the same nursing home - pushers have a cosmic attraction or something. So now, that's my quest. To meet up with the other victims, learn how to push, track down my pusher and get back my life.

[Weremouse]

I hope that intro explained everything about the plot of this RP, victims, pushers, etc.
If you have any questions PM me or ask me in the chat.

Name: (obvious)
Victim or Pusher: (also obvious.)
Age: (obviously victims are young - and pushers are usually over a thousand years old, but not by much)
Appearance: (pictures are fine - victims take on the elderly appearance of their pushers (occasionally a pusher will discard a young body, but usually only if they have a bad medical condition of some sort) and pushers take on the usually young appearance of their victims. Pushers never take over high school kids - they hate schooling as most have already done it several times)
Personality: (yeah. You know what to do. I normally protest this field because personalities are usually portrayed as the RP goes on, but perhaps a quickish summary)
History: (obviously pushers have a long history, and they have killer memory, so yeah. I expect a lot. Victims? not so much)
Extra: (anything else you'd like to add)

[Aubs]

Bookmarking

--Aubs

[Weremouse]

Current Name: Katrina Nickelson

Victim or Pusher: Pusher

Age: 1293

Appearance:


Personality: Cold and heartless, Sasha completely fits the stereotype for the average pusher. She feels nothing and cares for nothing. She's ended the lives of so many people early. She really doesn't think about it much. If and when she does, it's usually just a "well, sucks for them. I'ma go party now" thought.
Sasha is really just living life. She's never actually had a job - she usually picks a rich victim, it's one of her standards. People know her as the rich one because of course, she keeps making out her wills to herself. She now has a pretty crazy fortune and a massive party pad, as well as a shopping spree whenever she wants it and a hundred-lifetime supply of cheerios, one of the only things she truly enjoys eating. That and spaghetti.

History: Sasha Nickelson was born Amani Jai, daughter of a relatively rich sultan in Arabia. Born into richness, she was close to dying naturally when all of a sudden - the knowledge of how to push popped into her head in a dream she had, and her conscience and ability to love were both taken away in one fell swoop. She realized she was an old woman now, and that, frankly, SUCKED. So she arranged her affairs to be given to a first cousin, thrice removed of hers, and pushed her cousin out of her 12-year old body. Amani/Sasha never seemed to get bored with the lives she took, but she did know one thing - that she was never going to die. She became one of the luckier pushers - she was never attacked by a natural disaster. Luck just ran in her way. She came close to drowning in the River Nile once, but managed to save herself - by pushing into someone else.
Amani/Sasha has had a long time to accomplish something with her life, but she's so shallow she seems to be perfectly fine with just partying all the time and not actually doing anything.

Extra: ...

[helen]

Name: Melissa DuGar

Victim or Pusher: Victim

Age: 17

Appearance: She was petite, very tiny boned and very short. She had straight blonde hair with natural highlights of golden-blonde running through it, it used to topple over her shoulders. She had dark sapphire blue eyes, but they were very tiny. She used to wear tons of makeup, gold eyeshadow, blush, anything to make her look better. She had thin, rose petal pink lips. Now, she has thin, wiry gray hair that just goes past her ears. She has wrinkly skin, and is still short but fatter. She has dark brown eyes and gray eyebrows above them. She can’t do much about her appearance though; she’s stuck with that body until she finds a way out.

Personality: Sweet, very innocent seeming, and very smart. She had a certain charm about her that made people want to do things for her. She wasn't very outgoing or wild; she was calm, quiet, and reserved. She used to think that she always had to be the prettiest, the most popular, and the smartest. She never was good at any sports because she was very weak; she had barely any muscle at all. She was always very curious about everything, and now that she’s just lying in a hospital bed all day, she doesn’t have much to do other than think and wonder.

History: Never very rich, but she had the charm that got her up to the top of everything. Top in her school, socially and academically, but then one day, something happened. She was walking along and all of a sudden, she just woke up an 82 year old in a hospital bed. Now she’s just trying to figure out how to get her life back. She misses her boyfriend, her friends, her family, and most of all she misses her dog. She’s determined to find out how to fix things, and she’s not a quitter. Unfortunately, the body she’s now in is slowly dying, so her time left to figure it out is limited…

Extra: When she was herself, she used to have an eating disorder of bulimia because she was so obsessed with her appearance and how everyone thought she looked.

[juliecakess]

Name: Raquel Hayes
Victim or Pusher: Victim
Age: 20
Appearance: Before she was pushed out of her own body, Raquel was very happy with herself. Eating on an organic diet kept Raquel from gaining unnecessary weight, and thin. Her auburn hair is naturally wavy and thick, and she keeps it shoulder length and usually two separate braids. One of her more superficial qualities that she loves are her eyes: the left eye is a strange shade of deep blue, while the other is a blue-ish grey. She only wears mineral foundation and 100% natural lip balm, and only when she remembers to put it on. She has a small nose, with a very thin bridge. Her cheeks each have a dimple when she smiles. She has several beauty marks sprinkled all over her body, and about three small ones on her right cheek.
After she was pushed out of her body, Raquel finds herself in the body of a 47 year old housewife. Her age is made apparent by the wrinkles on her forehead and the bags under her eyes. Her brunette hair is shorter than she is used to, stopping right beneath her chin, and quite a few grey hairs have sprouted from the roots. She is extremely small, both width-wise and length-wise. In other words, she is very frail. She is shorter than she was, despite the age difference, at 5'2. She weighs in at around 100 pounds. This body was once beautiful, Raquel considers, but age has not done it well.

Personality: Raquel was always very nice to everyone around her, but she is quiet. She is an observer. Rather than join in the party, Raquel is content with sitting back and enjoying the atmosphere. She is laid back.

History: Raquel was a college kid, unsure of her future. The thought of just taking off and traveling the world, living as a nomad occurred to her countless times. The sensical side almost always takes over, though. Raquel always enjoyed taking part of activism for the things she supported, and this is how she met her first serious boyfriend, Thomas. They were at an animal rights rally, and Raquel just knew when she met him, that he was the one. So when she found Thomas with Raquel's close friend in his room alone late one night, she was heartbroken. Immediately, she broke up with Thomas despite his numerous apologies. It was only three weeks after, as she was finally getting over him, when she was pushed. Now she's in a body of a middle aged woman, who is fragile and sick. The woman was obvious unaware of her health, or lack thereof, as she has yet to find any sign of medication. The woman lead a stressful life, and has a faltering marriage with two teenage children. With this recent, insane turn of events, Raquel has realized how much of her life she has missed. She wants her ex-boyfriend back, and wants to follow her dreams. Raquel is not sure what the hell has happened, but if it is the last thing she does she will return to her own body.

Extra: The woman she was pushed into has a a sickness that takes a lot of energy away physically, but Raquel has no idea what to do. This makes her more determined to save herself.

[Weremouse]

OOC: Just in case you were wondering, both of you are in! :-D

Name: Katrina Summerfield

Victim or Pusher: Victim.

Age: 15

Appearance: Katrina now looks actually quite fine. Her tanned skin looks dull in a hospital environment, her silky, raven colored dark hair looking dull and dusty after so long without brushing or washing it. Her brown eyes that look as if the original owner of the body smiled and loved a lot look cold and empty after being occupied by a sick pusher. Her body which appears to have once been toned and muscular appears dull and unused. Her wheelchair is pretty nice - automatic and super comfortable. Katrina actually doesn't appear too sick - despite always wearing a hospital gown, her symptoms aren't too bad despite the headaches and her general unhealthiness...just feeling like shit, you know?

Personality: Katrina is used to being able to shout as loud as she wanted to, dance around and laugh. She was a very, very bubbly person.
Shouting hurts now. She's still getting used to that.
For Katrina, the hardest part in her being pushed is that she can't dance or laugh anymore. Her head hurts and her legs don't work properly.

History: Katrina is odd in many ways. Pre-pushing she was pretty typical, nothing too special. She excelled in sports. Her name then was actually also Katrina, one of her special characteristics.
Anyway, onto her specialness.
Katrina is unusual as a victim in that her pusher actually pushed her out of her body early, because said pusher was actually desperate to escape the body it had been attached to. Because of this, Katrina has a very, very limited lifespan. She's confined to a wheelchair and has terminal leukemia. She has about one miserable month to live.
Her other unusual trait is the fact that she got stuck in a body only a couple years older than her own.

Extra: ...

[mojojuju]

Pusher Name| Andrzej Orzechowski
Victim Name| Julian Black
Pusher Age| 567 (mentality)
Victim Age| 22 (looks)
Victim|Pusher| Pusher
Victim Appearance|

played by: Teddy Geiger

___HAIR + Julian has pitch black hair which is neither long nor short. It's in between with his bangs falling side-ways, finishing just above his eyes. His hair is at a constant state of messiness. Nothing seems to make it look more presentable. He doesn't mind it too much though since apparen'tly women "dig" the whole messy look.
___EYES + His eyes are light grey with some specs of green in them. He also has black, quite long eyelashes. His mother (or rather, the mother of the victim) always said that every girl that saw him was jealous of his eyelashes.
___BODY TYPE + Julian is tall and a bit lanky. He's not really one of those muscular guys. Girls mock his "chicken arms" and his abs are rather... non-existent? Thankfully, he doesn't have to worry about gaining weight since (a) his metabolism does wonders and burns everything he eats fast (and he eats a lot), and (b) swimming is pretty much the only sport he does which helps him "keep in shape"?
___OTHER NOTABLE TRAITS + His facial features are rather soft and delicate however. They are more feminine than masculine, however that only adds to his looks which he exploits to catch the attention of a potential victim. As another, more unique characteristic, he has a two-inch scar on his left side (of the face) going from his ear to underneath his jawbone.
___CLOTHING + Julian most often wears simple black and blue jeans along with personalized band t-shirts. By personalized, he means that while he would buy a simple black t-shirt with a white saying The Beatles he would also sow on the shirt random other band patches and band buttons/pins. Call it his love/obsession for music, but he just likes it. As footwear he wears converse or sneakers. As a jacket he always wears an old, leather brown jacket which is clearly an old possession of his (victim's) father.

Pusher Idiosyncrasies|
- Julian has a habit of tapping his foot to any beat he hears -- whether it's birds chirping, someone humming a song, the sound of traffic, music, anything really.
- He says "cheers" all the time and uses British swear words.
- He bites his lower lip when he’s thinking of a plan, concentrating or deciding on something.
- Before pushing someone out of a body he stalks them, freaks them out and then likes making them appear crazy and insane in the eyes of their loved ones. He likes seeing them shiver and quiver.

Pusher Personality|
- Julian is a tormentor. He loves tormenting his victims and smirks as he sees them miserable. Usually, after taking the body of someone he would spend some time following the victim around and gloating about his success. He would then make them appear insane in front of the eyes of other people when the victim would then accuse Julian of stealing their body. After all, whom would the people believe? Honestly. Some old bloke who looks like he's going to cry, or a young, healthy adult trying to "calm" him down?
- That aspect also makes Julian quite cold and cruel since he enjoys seeing the suffering of others. However, there's an explanation for all those things he does. It has to do with his own past which caused him a lot of suffering. He wasn't always the cruel, cold and heartless person he is now. He used to care for people and their troubles. But after several events from his own past, Julian began to grow more wicked and more evil as the years (and the victims) went by.
- Julian, in the body of a victim, is very open. He will tell his (victim's) friends and family the secrets of the person. Julian will laugh about it all and just broadcast it to the world. Then, he will make the victim’s life miserable if he chooses to give them back the body. After all, that will make the person's life such an entertainment to him.
- Julian is an exploiter too. He tries to find other people's weakness and take advantage of it. He will use people for their money, looks, fame... whatever will bring him the spotlight and entertainment. He lives for entertainment and for keeping other people's lives miserable. He likes having people at their toes and having them as his own personal servants.
- On the exterior Julian may look like a kind, innocent and naïve person. His rather feminine features give out that kind of vibe, but that's exactly what he wants. It makes it easier for him to fool people. He's somewhat of a conman, one could say. Even if he doesn't need something, but he knows someone else might need it, he just takes it by using blackmail or by pretending to be on the person’s good side, and then exploiting them.
- He also gets bored easily, which is why many times he switches victims more often than needed really. He never takes over somebody who is over 45. Or when a current victim of his reaches that age, he drops them and takes over someone younger, more beautiful, stronger and different. He likes variety, after all. He likes trying to be different people of different backgrounds, culture, countries, gender... Yes, he likes it very much.

Pusher History|
- born on the 4th of August 1442, Andrzej Orzechowski was the bastard son of a wealthy merchant. His good for naught father denied any relation with Andrzej’s mother and hence she, being only 16, was looked upon as a disgrace. Her family disinherited her and Julia, his mother, was forced to seek help and refugee where ever she could paying whatever price necessary.
- born in the greatest period in Polish history, the Jagiellionian Dynasty, gave Andrzej (now Julian) and his mother a chance for a remotely decent life.
- he lived his early years in a small castle near Lodz where his mother made her living as a maid. His life there was far from good however. As a young boy he had to watch his mother get abused by their overlord (and any other person with a higher status than them basically). Andrzej learned fast that if he even tried to protect his mother, the abuse would only increase. And it would then not only be only physical and mental abuse, but sexual too.
- Despite this cruelty however, Andrzej always followed his mother’s preaching – to be good and kind to everyone, no matter the harm they may have done, for God will later bring justice. So Andrzej helped the other kids in the castle with their chores or protected them against bullies, even if that meant he too would get a beating. He believed though that one day he and his mother would have a good life. That God would send good fortune on them for all their sufferings.
- One night, when it was too much to bear, Julia committed suicide. She could no longer stand the constant abuse. She could no longer think and she lost all hope. When she took away her life she didn’t even think of her son. It was Andrzej that found his mother’s body in the stables. Her eyes were wide open, her lips were cracked and some blood was on them. Her skin was ghastly pale. It was the expression in her eyes that did it though. It was a look of satisfaction. It was a look that screamed, “Ha! I’m gone and now you deal with it”. At least that is how Andrzej interpreted it as. He was ten.
- That was the night when Andrzej slowly started changing. At first he was still trying to be the same as before. Trying to be kind, as his mother wanted him to be. But then things began to change. The ones he considered his friends were now turning their backs on him, mocking the death of Andrzej’s mother. They called her a whore and stated how she deserved everything he got. That sent Andrzej into a fit of rage and, quite possibly for the first time, he resorted to violence. He beat them up, but then discovered that his actions brought him nothing. The overlord only punished him and he became a “kitchen rat”. He had to work for long exhausting hours to pay for his stay at the castle. His old friends continued to mock him.
- It was two years later that he met someone -- Slawomir Kafka -- who taught him the art of deceit and exploitation. With his guidance Andrzej learned how to make people pay, how to make their lives miserable. He discovered his tormentors secrets and fears and he used those against them. Andrzej found out that while the view brought him joy it was not enough. He blackmailed one of the wealthier folk and managed to get money out of him.
- Along with Slawomir, Andrzej began the life of a wanderer and thief. He was a conman who only much later, when he turned 27 found out how to push people out of their bodies and take over them. As his first, official mission, Andrzej went after his “dear” father. His father was Andrzej’s only ever exception of taking over the life of someone who was over 45. His father was 57 at the time, wealthy as ever with a wife and five children.
- Andrzej first stalked his “father” and took note of what he did. Andrzej soon began taking action and started confronting his father. At first Maciej, his father, pushed him off and mocked Andrzej. He laughed in his face and called him a mere weakling. How could he, a mere kid, defeat his father? Andrzej had nothing and Maciej had everything. Andrzej then smirked and began the process of pushing. The next day Maciej woke up in Andrzej’s body and was disoriented. Andrzej on the other hand, took Maciej’s life and wrecked it. To make sure his father would see the damage and suffer properly, he “took him in” as his “son”. That was the first strike on the family. Maciej? With a bastard son? That was shameful and put a black cloud over the family. But what was Maciej to do? He had to accept being taken in his own home as where else would he go?
- From there Andrzej made sure that everything he did would ruin something for Maciej. First he destroyed Maciej’s social life, then his finances and business and finally he destroyed his family. Only after Maciej had nothing else did Andrzej push out of Maciej’s body and took back his own. He then laughed as Maciej laid on the ground, mourning the loss of everything he had. From that day, there was no turning back for Andrzej. He became a pusher and would remain so forever.
- Ever since the mid-1460s up until today, Andrzej changed his body and ruined people’s lives. He lived in Australia, China, Thailand, Scotland, Argentina, Nigeria, South Africa, New York and California among other places.
- Currently he is Julian Black, a musician who had everything going well for him until Andrzej decided to steal his life and wreck it.
Extra| He is currently spending some time stalking and confronting his victim and making them appear crazy. Oh the joy it brings him.



Note: I can't decide if I love this Andrzej/Julian or hate him. Haha. ^^

[Weremouse]

Wow - nice bio!

Even though it's not done, I like it a lot, and you're in whenever you feel you're ready to post.

I was actually just thinking that we needed some guys..

[mojojuju]

[:

Thanks.

I was actually originally going to be "Juliet" with Emma Stone. But then I noticed there were no guy characters, so I decided to be a meaner version of my beloved Julian. ^^

I'll start finishing the bio now and then I'll have a post up.


Question though -- should the victims others play be the actual victims of these pushers? (I dunno if that makes sense) Or should I pretend that there's a victim of Julian's trapped in another person's body, or would someone else play that victim? I dunno, but I thought it would be interesting. [:


Cheers,

-- Joanna.[/color]

[Weremouse]

Joanna -
I don't totally understand your question! I hate not understanding!
I blame myself. I get confused a lot. -.-"
Since I don't totally understand, I can't give you a straight answer, but I can pick keywords out of your question and try to explain bits and pieces that may help you.
A Pusher usually stays in one body until it's almost dead.
Because of this, there is USUALLY only one generation of victims at a time.
Katrina Summerfield is the exception in that she got stuck with a young body that is sick.
My basic idea was that each person who joined would make a victim and a pusher, as I did.
Pushers don't actually have much to do until near the end of the timeline. Yes. Theres a timeline. But there's still MAJOR room for creativity.
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And to answer your other question so I don't clog up the forums - yes, Pushers do have a bit of a telepathic connection. They can't hear each others thinking, but they TEND to flock to the same area and can tell if there is another pusher nearby (or in closer range, who it is). Many pushers actually know each other, though in Katrina and Julian's case, I'd imagine it unlikely weather they'd met because of their large age gap.
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Also, yes, post in that thread. I was kinda making threads left and right, based on location, so obviously, if you're in St. Marian's Hospital and Center for the Elderly, post in there, if you're wandering around and not really staying in the same place, post in Wandering. Though the general division is that victims are all in St. Marians and Pushers are all in Wandering.
Of course, theres always an exception

[mojojuju]

Don't worry, I confuse myself all the time. Mainly because I'm not always sure if I can word properly my thoughts since sometimes they're all jumbled together. Well. Not sometimes. Most times. Your explanation explained my question though. [: So basically I can play can play both a victim (Nathan/real Julian) and then the pusher (Andrzej/Julian). Alright. I'll change "Nathan's" age to like 70 then and not 40. That way he can go into St. Marian's hospital. I'll make a bio for Nathan/Julian then too. ^^

[coolbeans]

Pusher's real name: Olive Grasin
Pusher's victim's name: Raquel Hayes
Victim or Pusher: Pusher
Age: Relativity young pusher, at 254 years.
Appearance: I'll go with juliecakess's description of my victim.

Personality: Olive (a female, if that wasn't made clear) was always quiet and thoughtful. She always did what was expected of her, hoping to stay out of everyone's way. She was sadly walked all over by her family, and her father was especially cruel to her when he was around. When she discovered her ability to push everything changed. Olive felt powerful, and for sometime the power went to her head. Now she is cynical and feels superior to the humans who she could so easily conquer. To her elder pushers, she is more respectful, but still harbors a resentment towards people who tell her what to do.

History: Growing up in the 1700s, Olive lived in England. She was shipped off to the thirteen colonies when she was fifteen in 1770. As girls were expected to tend to the household, Olive was always put to work by her mother, who had little sympathy for her. She had two siblings, both younger brothers, who assumed authority over her. This bothered her to no end though this was not uncommon during that time period. Regardless, Olive did what she was told to avoid trouble. Her father who always had an insult or put down ready, was deployed five years later in the American Revolution. He died before he could come home to his family, which shook up her mother and brothers. She did not have to deal with the repercussions however, because she was whisked away into a forced marriage. Olive did not oppose verbally, but vehemently hated the man who was soon her husband. She lived with him for the next decade, feeling repressed without freedom to live and breath. She was afraid of her husband, though, and always listened to his commands. Gradually, her resentment built up into hatred towards men.In 1785, when she was thirty, Olive made her first push. She was away from her husband and with a group of woman, whom she hardly knew. One lady she began to envy, as her tales of being unmarried (unheard of in those days) disgusted the woman, but enthralled Olive. A jealous rage that Olive could not suppress suddenl took over her and the next moment she knew, she was free. Free of her sadness, her anger, her restrictions. She watched as her former body fell limp in front of the now screaming woman. Freaked out, Olive ran. In the following years Olive was scared with her new powers, but as time wore on she lost the wary feeling. She embraced it with the help of a friendly pusher she met. They have been close friends since.

Nowadays, Olive enjoys being constantly young and free. One of her favorite activities as a pusher, who have seen it all, done it all, is to mess up relationships with her victim's boyfriend. Her resentment towards men obviously had a lasting effect. She recently took over a college girl who was suffering a broken heart. She felt a certain connection with this girl, although Olive had never been hearbroken before. She decided that the man deserved to be punished, so she kicked the poor girl out of her body to get down to business.

OOC: I eenie-meanie-mini-moed it, but I thought that the two existing victims needed a pusher. I would happily double as Melissa DuGar's pusher, if no one else applies. Also, I cited in my bio that my pusher became friends with another pusher who helped her - Could it be Katrina or Julian?

[Weremouse]

((OOC: Coolbeans-
Great bio, and thanks for taking over as Julies pusher, however, there are a couple things I'd like you to know:
Talk it over with Julie and make SURE she's okay with you being her pusher - she might have wanted to do it yourself, you never know.
Pushers actually don't have a lot to do that has relevance to the plot until very far into the RPG - in fact (pessimism alert) the RPG may never make it to that point as they tend to die.
My advice to you is to make a victim, despite pushers being more interesting characters, victims have a lot more to do.))