Donovan, the West Coast...Ghost,
Haunting and Administrative Careers

Name Donovan (doesn't remember his last name)
Age Appears as a young adult; Died in the mid-80s (possibly not on Twoarth?) and does not remember how he died
Homeworld An Earth with some amount of supernatural levels to it, but not 'here'
Species

Human Ghost

Hair - red-orange, fluffy, stylish and flopped over one eye he must have been a cool dude
Eyes - an eerie opening through his invisible skull... they had been hazel
Skin Tone - pale, transparent; he is still an attractive guy, with a cute smile and a quick laugh
Preferred Clothing - Donovan is stuck in his business clothing from when he was a "nine to fiver" somewhere on the West Coast in California. He has no choice but to wear this for all of eternity, leading one to imagine he was on the job when something happened to him

Gender/Pref Male, straight, eyes only for Trudy SHOUT
Post Instructor
Tenure Assistant from 2000-2015, then Instructor currently ** page updated 10.28.26
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Smarts/GM 5
Bod/Feets 0/7 (physical 0 cannot interact, 7 maneuvering with intangibility)
RWS 3
Luck ??
Drive 0, Dragon Navigation 3 (he used to be afraid to drive, it's possible he ... oops)
Looks 4
Cool/Mouth 3
Bonk 0 (unless you count magical spells, cannot be harmed by physical means
Powers

Haunting, Donovan truly enjoys wandering around wherever he's needed (or wanted), but he also can scare up a good one when someone isn't expecting him to be there. However even though he lived with magic folks for a while, he is not a wizard in the slightest. He's just a ghost. But that still allows him to do things that ghosts are expected to do! Donovan doesn't spend all his time trapped at his death-point, in fact the opposite might be true, because no one can quite pin down exactly which Earth he's from based on his energy signature

-- Phasing Through Things, only an actual 'ghost trap' will prevent him from being somewhere he wants to be. He's flustered mages and necromancers and ward-making wizards and technologists alike by just showing up during a meeting or an experiment and throwing things off just a little (or a lot) because of his ectoplasmic presence

-- Scare The Shit Out Of You, he is not just intangible but most of the time undetectable. He's learned how to manifest himself in very unusual ways like 'only his eyes' or 'that cold cold chill of the grave' or 'a finger touching your ear'... he's really good at this

-- Telekinetically Manipulate Until He Realizes He's Intangible, at times, Donovan doesn't remember that he isn't physical but things he touches lift off tables, or he can turn lights on and off just like a normal person. If no one says anything he doesn't realize it, but if anyone around sees it and comments it'll definitely stop working. He does use this when he's rooting around for files in the stacks of the Admin Torus, but no one will stop him there, in fact it's expected of him there

Weaknesses - Donovan fears that he may be dispelled by someone, but he knows that Trudy wants to keep him around. He cannot affect things properly because he is entirely made of ectoplasmic energy.*

Wand - Donovan has no wand. But you don't want to tell him that - because he'll start off on some really bad naughty jokes about wands and staves and stuff.

Clusters

Administrative Duties +4 he somehow just 'knows how to file stuff', his whole schtick was 'organized!' so it follows that he is still able to dig through files of any type - he doesn't need to touch them, he can read them because he's a ghost whether they're in a digital format or a crusty manila folder or even a clay tablet. If there's a record of any kind, he can read it

Ghost! +4 he's been undead far longer than he was alive at this point, and he doesn't really care that the years have gone by in such a weird blur. He also knows that there are much, much older spirits lingering around any given campus or school he's been residing at and might even have taken notes

Skills

Legalese +3 can recognize if not compose legal paperwork, he might have had a little background in the judicial system at one point, but didn't pass the bar at any time. Maybe he was an assistant, he's very good at that!

Keeps Up With Student Gossip +3 When you don't really need to sleep or even rest, you wander around a lot when you're on your rest period or day off. He can listen in on conversations when they're not warded, but he recognizes when someone or a team needs privacy. Wards don't bother him but they do at least show up in his ghostly vision, right? But the long and short of it is that he knows who's cheating on their girlfriend or cheating on their tests, who will make it onto the squad or into the honor roll, and more importantly who's going to the prom with that popular kid!

Knacks

Studies Magic +3 He watches the mages of House Domina or Wonder or CHS with interest, because maybe - just maybe - he'll be able to learn something. While he has actually learned quite a bit, it's mostly relegated to 'knowing that a spell isn't being spoken correctly' but not ever being able to cast it himself

Wants A Family +3 He's half convinced he ought to ask the local Necromancer about being put back into a coporeal form like Trudy but feels that might be a little intrusive.*

Period Class Teaching
1 Haunting (
2 Haunting
3 Careers: Corporate Admin and Legal
4 Careers: Corporate Admin and Legal
5 Afterlife Choices
6 Afterlife Choices
7 Living With Undeath
8 -
art by Lethe around 1998
Partners? Probably Trudy since they're very compatible, even though their kids are also sorta 'different'
Children? *Yup, we'll see how that plays out

"No I do not want to join in the dragon sport team," Inae said, "In fact I think I detest the idea."

"Oh come on Inae, it's fun! Look at them!" Donovan watched from one of the lower floors of House Domina as the group of dragon riding students and staff had their weekly battle. They would return the field to the normal broom-riding team midweek, but for now it was all wings.

The ghost sighed, "well, fine. I guess I'll never get to join in any wizarding games." He shuffled away, fading in and out of view. Perhaps fading from human view, for Inae, even though she was still young, had mastered her power to communicate with spirits such as he.

And though she was put off by the whole 'riding around slapping balls into hoops' thing, there was the fact that Don was her bond, and he was disappointed. She felt waves of it coming from him: spirits were pretty good at that whole 'emo' thing.

"Fine, fine," she grumbled, butting her head onto his bottom and nearly tumbling him over. She could do that: her ability with spirits extended quite physically, so in effect even though he was a ghost, he was still her rider.

They flew from the back entrance of the keep, out over the low forest and then burst into the field, Inae howling and cackling. Donovan had 'hitched' rides with people before, particularly with Iris and her lovely Spirit dragon, but this was something else... quite the wild ride but he held on because Inae wanted him there.

"I'll be the smackerball thing!" she bellowed, and Donovan saw the terrified looks on some of the kids as they whooshed past. But then, he started laughing so hard - this really was great fun! Even if he couldn't be a wizard, he was a dragon rider!

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Eventually, because his friend Trudy wanted to rediscover her 'roots' in socal, she dragged him and Inae back to Talon City. There were plenty of ghosts there, some even working nine to five just like they had before their abrupt departure from the realm of the living.

They had been back on Twoarth with House Domina up there in the northern Washington State area a while, but it seemed like Trudy would be working full time at that high school she was fond of, Carramba. To Donovan's memories he hadn't really noticed that there were furries and aliens when he was in this area. Truth be told he wasn't from Twoarth, but things got wobbly for everyone when magic was involved.

She'd taken that job and because he was bored, Donovan would become her assistant, not really instructing but definitely present for teacher's aide purposes!

At least, not until there were more undead students and courses to be offered? Turned out he really did have a knack for that Corporate Administration and Legal thing, he did have to sit in (invisibly) on courses to 'bone up' as it were (ha ha ha) on local laws, but once he'd gotten accredited he could help out in the Admin department for guiding kids both spiritually and career-wise!

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Inae Vulunn

Name: Inae Vulunn
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: 9' s / 30' l / 70' ws (arbitrarily, father is quite small but others in the remnant links are this size)
Colors: Blue with white confetti wings
Features:
Powers:Winged Flight, super speedy when she wants to be, and with wings this size she can out pace most dragons her height. She does have to watch for narrow areas, though she can still tuck her wings down they may clip if she's not paying attention
*Teleportation nexus, local she got here didn't she?
*Telepathy, verbal speech
* Psionics inherit together
Spirit magic, communication with spirits; allowing her to interact with the dead or undead with ease
Unassisted Fire breath

Parentage: Darkling Dawn clutch G8 (on database)
Mate/Offspring:
Origin: Darkling Dawn breeding project Art By: Digitalis
Other Info: Bad-tempered and irritable, but she also has a mischeivous side and likes to watch others make fools of themselves.

Lineage

Sepol
Inae
Neiq
Kerrale
Anelde
Sin
Nalrak
Serine
Briskel
Ninida
Buron

Confetti rainbow lavender Inasath
confetti starry Kalturtinocth
Liamath
GGGd
DD Gens,
Ryslen,
Raug,
Sparkul,
HDen
GGGs
Zeuth
Satineth
Lakenth
brown rainbow Irothe
Gzrieth
Sadikith
Selenyan
Liojuth
GGGd
GGGs
white Okeo
grey pointed black Affielth Vulunn
Amriel V
GGGd
GGGs
Nath
Semoth
Lear
copper Wyld Obelo
Eragekimupth
Ainchisth
Ambroseth
Tarnulil
GGGd
GGGs

Mates and Descendants

Location / Date Partner Offspring Notes