Ian James Fleming
Nicknames: Goes by his middle name
Age: 18
Nationality:
Relationship Status: British Exchange Student (recent graduate)
Seat Class: First Class
Height: 6’4”
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Body Type: Athletic, ripped
Attire: He could wear anything he wants, but he simply doesn’t care.
Team Sports - Football (what Americans call soccer, 8 oar rowing, polo,
Solo Sports - Boxing, MMA, Aikido, Kendo, Krav Maga
Survival training
His father is a Royal Marine. He has been preparing Ian to enter military service and follow in his family’s footsteps.
Passive aggressive, suffers from abandonment issues. Couldn’t give a damn about money. Hates team sports and combat sports - though he has all the right skills. He’s a natural athlete. But he prefers any sport that he can do alone.
Dislikes
Rich snobs and Entitled brats
Bullies
Football, Baseball, Boxing
Interests and Hobbies
Art (comic book, fantasy, sci fi, nature, sketching)
Agriculture
James is an A-B student, who could probably do better. He is a natural athlete, the sort usually picked first for a team. But ever since he became a teen he has been rebelling more and more.
His father forced him into sports and grew angry when James stopped trying. So he hired professional trainers and told them the boy had better win, or they could find a new job and not expect a glowing referral. James had a whole room full of trophies. For his first attempt at sculpture, he used the trophies to create a gigantic trophy/lego statue of a kid on a skateboard, gluing and welding as needed. Needless to say, his father was not amused.
He has been in and out of schools. Often getting in trouble for things like doing stunts on a skateboard - inside and on top of the schools. He took a lesson from the movie Middle School: Worst Years of My Life and post-it noted the entire campus overnight. It was rather impressive, considering the planning it took.
James may as well have been an orphan. He has spent more time in daycare, boarding schools or with nannies and butlers than with his parents. In fact, since he was 5, he has yet to have celebrated a birthday with his parents. Oh, that isn’t to say he never spent a birthday with them. They just forgot what day it was.
His official story? His parents died when he was 5 and he’s been raised like Bruce Wayne by his butler. Not true at all. He’s just hijacking the Batman origin story.
The truth, his mother was MI-6. His father is the King of Belgium. But he was illegitimate. His mother left him in the care of his “Parents”. Both of his parents have spouses of their own. The reason they are always travelling is that they each have their own spouses and families. It was never supposed to go on this long. He is still in the dark about all this.
Mini-Laptop w/case
Cell phone - real pricey one
Notepad
Artist pens and pencils
Erika Channing
Nicknames:
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Nationality:
Relationship Status:
Seat Class: Passenger Business Class
Height: 5’11”
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Other:
Psychic. Medium. She is the real deal. She does readings with Tarot. She also reads palms. Physical touch “helps”.
Spiritual Healer - Again, the real deal. She can ease pains like arthritis. It is painful for her. But at least this is one skill she can control. She can speed up a person’s natural healing, but don’t expect her to make someone wheelchair bound walk again. Or better yet, help the blind to see. Don’t you think she would have taken advantage of that herself if she could? If pain is purely psychosomatic, she might be able to help.
Spirit Vision - while blind, she sees better than an ordinary person in some ways. To her the whole world is a ghostly scene. Even inanimate objects have auras. People are warm, sometimes blazing things. Oh, she can’t read a book. And she can’t see details of a person’s face. Beauty is aura dependent. Do NOT expect her to catch baseballs, or see exactly where your hand is at to shake. She is blind and not Daredevil.
Heightened Senses. Much as one would expect, the rest of her senses overcompensate for her lack of sight.
Blind since birth.
Erika’s shop, Illuminations, was sort of a New Age shop. It catered to ‘crystal weenies’, Hermetic mages, Wiccans, psychics, stage magicians, and the like. She even had a room for private seances and Tarot or palm readings. But she stressed that divination was by appointment only. The bulk of her business was in herb, incense, or book sales. Her spell books were primarily blank grimoires for budding witches to fill out themselves.
She also served as a retailer of items used by the visually impaired. She had a sunglasses display with a mirror for the blind - just a large frame on the wall (no mirror) with a small bronze programmable plaque at roughly face height with writing in Braille. The saying changed from time to time. Currently it read, “You’re the fairest of them all.” She also had Braille label makers, scanners to convert text to Braille.
Her real pride and joy was her private collection of Phantom of the Opera paraphernalia. She was a very serious collector. The items in her collection were absolutely not for sale.
Above the shop, is her apartment. Unable to drive she hadn’t wanted to deal with a commute every day. She had to lease the shop next door. That had given her the extra space for her psychic readings, and private Phantom of the Opera museum, plus space for storage in which to store her small antiques in need of restoration. It was simple and cozy, but pricey.
Warm, good humored, empathic. She enjoys good blind jokes as much as anyone. She does make an effort to put people at ease about the fact that she is visually challenged. Her biggest worries are whether whatever she put on that day is color coordinated.
But her gifts also create a very interesting life. She can’t just tune the spirit world out. The dead won’t leave her alone.
She never, ever goes near large bodies of water.
She will NOT do psychic work for the police. No, no, no. Getting inside the head of serial killers is no picnic.
Phantom fan girl if ever there was one. She is a collector.
White Cane
Mini laptop with braille reader.
Smartphone (Siri is her friend!)
Diane Matthews
Aliases:
Heather Daniels (pen name)
Junkyard Jane (comic book character that uses her face)
Codename: Karma (hacker ID)
Age 25
Nationality: USA
Relationship Status: Single
Seat Class: First Class
Height 5’6”
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue (very intense)
Jewelry and Tattoos: None
Scars: Covered with them. Most small ones have faded or she uses makeup. Looks like she might have tried to kill herself by slitting her wrists - straight across and jagged.
A character in a movie trilogy as well as a superhero were all created using her own face as the image. She is a look alike for Emily Rudd (her face claim). She is also known to be a friend of Taylor Swift who attended her 16th birthday.
She always wears sunglasses and earplugs. Her senses are so acute that she likely narrowly missed being born autistic. That said, she suffers from overload at times and will do whatever she can to escape input.
Hyperthymesia
Peak human senses. Think Sherlock Holmes level perception. The worst is her hearing and vision.
Animal friend - she has a knack having wild animals accepting her. This has always been a knack.
Diane abounds with creative talent. She is also a very talented hacker, though she doesn’t like to abuse her skills. She customized her own laptop and can build her own motherboard from scraps. She has an eidetic memory and speed reads. Her vision is 20/10. She has perfect pitch. In short she is hypersensitive.
She is a self-published author (fantasy and science fantasy - under a penname)
She is a professional blogger (writing, music, art, naturalist training)
Vlogging (linked to her Blogging - music) she never appears in her own videos
Graphic artist - especially computer fantasy art
Music is just a passion, not something she plans on for a career
Guitarist (started when she was 12)
Keyboard (started at 13)
Singer (started training at 14)
Amateur Naturalist (her best terrains are what you’d find in the Southwest USA, though she also learned a bit in Florida and GA)
Amateur Lapidary (mostly works in metals like precious metals)
Languages: (She learns new languages FAST)
Cherokee
Japanese
Latin
Greek
Middle Irish (dead language, so speaking really isn’t accurate)
Manx and Scottish Gaelic
Sign Language (still learning but pretty skilled)
Lip Reading (not as good as her Sign)
Lots of computer languages
MMA training (one year taught by her limo driver / bodyguard - a former USMC)
Weapon training - Rifle (USMC sponsored course at Kirtland AFB)
Weapon training - Pistol (one year - indoor training by her limo driver / bodyguard)
Kendo - should be listed under things she sucks at in her opinion. She isn’t THAT bad.
Fencing - see Kendo
Survival training. (desert, mountain, and forest)
DIY technical skills learned from her little brother mostly (who got his ideas from youtube videos and tried out with the help of his Dad)
Diane came from a large military family - or rather was adopted into one as a stepchild. By default, large meant poor. After all, the government didn’t issue families. On their fixed income, while dealing with medical issues and the costs of constantly moving from base to base life was tough. One had to learn to adapt to survive. It didn’t help that her mother was little better than trailer trash. It didn’t help that her stepbrother and stepsister into everything their father forbade - gangs, drugs. He assumed she was too.
She got her GED at 14, but never told her parents. She didn’t feel ready to face the adult world - and her stepfather would have used it as an excuse to make her life more of a living hell.
When she was 15 her stepbrother and stepsister were both killed by a rival gang. At least that was the rumor. The same gang broke into her home and killed her mother and two younger half brothers. Her father was on tour overseas at the time and never made it home.
She moved to Rome, GA where she lived next door to a salvage yard with foster parents. At least that was the rumor. The truth was that she was Emancipated and RENTED them. She also worked for them as their IT department and had begun to turn into their Marketing Manager. She found them through their attempt to become foster parents or even adopt which was being very slow to approve.
She made her early fortune from writing fantasy novels - under a pen name, many of which were turned into blockbuster movies. She also wrote and did the art for a comic book line called Junkyard Jane - and used her own face. So … she might be recognized - considering she met Stan Lee before his death. The movie based on her character co-starred with She Hulk. She did a recycling campaign called Go Green with Marvel’s blessing.
She has also worked as a freelance CIA asset hacking terrorist cells - purely voluntary and not technically legal. She calls her work “alternative intelligence.” She has no idea if any of her tips have ever been useful. But as she is still a free woman - and the CIA Director showed up to a recent birthday party, she assumes they aren’t upset with her.
Not on the flight:
Son: David Age 21 attending MIT
Older Son: James Age 30 (not in photo, serving active duty USMC)
The dogs in the picture have since passed away and been replaced by puppies. Their names are Sam(antha) and Dean (Winchester. The Millers are huge Supernatural fans.)
General:
Quiet unless she has been triggered by a dislike
Workaholic mentality
She avoided social media for the most part, though she couldn't completely avoid it given her blogging. She is a bit of a hippie / treehugger. She is not in the slightest bit squeamish about gutting a fish ... and laughed herself silly watching an episode of TBBT where Penny is teaching how to bait a hook and gut fish to the boys.
Likes:
Health nut (won’t drink sodas, eat junk food)
Jogging
Rock Climbing
Swimming
Yoga
Computers (building and coding)
Recycling
Digital photography and video
CGI fantasy art
Blogging and Vlogging (though she was never in her own videos)
Writing
Dislikes:
SJW’s
Cyberbullies
Bullies in general
Gangs (especially hispanic)
Drugs, smoking, alcohol
Crowds
Quirks:
Thinks Vegans are silly. (“Pass me the A1.”)
OCD (not extremely so. She’s not like Sheldon from TBBT. But her books are arranged on shelves by subject, alphabetized. When she buys groceries she organizes everything in neat rows and in set numbers - like 4 of everything. If bored she’ll start organizing everyone else’s stuff.)
Writes in calligraphy. Sometimes uses words that most people have to look up in dictionaries.
Phobias
Demophobia, mild
Arachnophobia
Laptop, very high end and customized
iPad, very expensive (made for artwork)
External hard drive
Smartphone
Very expensive digital video camera
Sketch pad with professional art pens and pencils.