Anya and Pierre de la Cour
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- 8 months, 28 days ago
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01 — Profile
Even though Anya and Pierre are already oddly-identical twins, the two of them play up the act, almost always acting in sync and behaving in strangely-foreboding ways towards others. Theatrical and farcical, Anya and Pierre seem more like fictional characters than the heads of the Research Division. They know far more than they appear to, despite the ditzy act they put on.
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Anya has a mole under their left eye and piercings on their left ear, while Pierre has a mole under their right eye and piercings on their right ear. They can switch the side their bang is on (or even trade clothing), but this is how you tell them apart!
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Usually wear eyeliner and green eyeshadow, but this is optional.
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Shoes are purposefully mismatched.
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The long halves of their dress are embroidered with a rose pattern that fade out around mid-thigh. Feel free to simplify if necessary.
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Scarf is knitted; can be drawn either as a plaid pattern, a netted pattern, a knit pattern, and so on.
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Wears an ID lace with the Research Division's symbol on it.
02 — Personality
Dramatic to a fault, Anya and Pierre seem better fit for a theater stage than an office setting -- given how theatrical their mannerisms are, how farcical their wordplay is, how they constantly preach omens about the future and allude to the long-forgotten past. Rarely seen apart, the two of them often act in a strange tandem, mirroring their hand motions or finishing each other's sentences in an eerily-connected way that never fails to creep out whoever they're talking to. People always have the sense that they "know too much." It's not that they actively act cruelly towards others; they just can't help but give people oddly-fitting nicknames, act a bit too touchy and patronizing for their own good, guess at people's pasts and weaknesses in a way that makes it feel like they've somehow been watching it all happen. Anya says that they "just have a natural knack for figuring things out." Pierre says that they "have simply learned to read between the lines."
The two of them don't really care who's seen as which. They often tease or play pranks on others, switching the side of their face that their bang covers and sharing the exact same wardrobe and fashion sense for the express purpose of wanting to trick others. For how symmetrical they can be, however, they often talk between themselves in a decidedly asymmetrical fashion. Anya can be more airy and carefree than Pierre, who has a sense of pragmatism that Anya entirely lacks. Whenever they're not putting on a show for the audience watching them, they're often lightheartedly arguing, even cutting each other off to get their say -- which is jarring for people who haven't seen their "true" selves, having been fooled by the "perfect twin" facade they love to show off.
Despite their strangeness, the two of them show a distinct fascination with other people -- which translates, more often than not, into an odd sort of kindness. They're the type of people to remember small details: birthdays, favorite foods, favorite songs, stories and memories mentioned in passing that even the speaker themselves might've forgotten. They might not be the... best-equipped at giving advice and comfort, but they certainly do their best. People often come out of conversations with them feeling both awkward and relieved, with their exaggerated consolation causing them to forget what they were so upset about in the first place. It's rare for their ominous portentions of the future to be proven wrong, which provides a weird sense of security every time they offer to read someone's fortune. When asked about how they get it right so often, Anya calls it "nothing more than a blessing"; Pierre laughs, saying that it's "an awful curse."
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Extravagant, lavish interior design.
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Plays and musicals.
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Unintentional puns and rhymes.
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Laughter.
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Nothing and nobody at all! :) (:
03 — Background
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Fair is foul, and foul is fair -- hover through the fog and filthy air --
Oh, Anya. If you don't want to tell our guests about our past, you hardly have to make such a scene about it!
Oh, Pierre. If you didn't want to make a scene of it, you'd allow me to finish my soliloquy!
It's two lines from the end of the first scene in Macbeth, dear. Hardly a soliloquy. A pithy one-liner --
Two-liner.
Two-liner, at best. A pithy two-liner. Our audience isn't here for a pithy two-liner, Anya.
Will you give it a rest, darling! The play's awfully synonymous to our situation. Ah -- not our situation exactly, no...
But the angel's certainly a close relative of it.
Yes, precisely.
We haven't even talked about our pasts, have we?
Oh, silly us! Of course we haven't. Did they expect us to? Why, I'm not an easy catch! Am I, Pierre?
Of course not, Anya.
They'll get none of that from us! Alone we'll stand, beds of roses at our feet. And our dear actors will play their parts -- won't that be a treat!
Awful rhyme, Anya. And hardly how we should speak.
Oh, you and your slant rhymes. Terrible cheat.
Virion Project
Anya and Pierre have been members of the Virion Project from the very beginning, so it seems. Whenever they're asked about where they come from, they just smile, saying that they're "exactly where they need to be." While they're clearly competent enough to be the heads of the Division -- you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody who can make blueprints more efficiently and clearly than theirs, particularly given that they have four hands working on them at the same time -- they volunteer little other information about themselves and their past, preferring to focus on the moment at hand.
Under their guidance, however, there's no doubt that the Research Division has managed to develop far more quickly than it might've had otherwise. They're constantly encouraging their team, pushing them in directions that they wouldn't have taken and forcing them to examine their projects from different perspectives -- while also ensuring that they're working collaboratively on everything they do, of course! It's hard to imagine that their warnings and omens towards the future hold any weight at all, given how frivolous they are and how much they like to hide about themselves. With that being said, though, it's certainly odd just how much they seem to know about everyone they know... isn't it?
04 — Trivia
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Anya and Pierre share mismatching shoes on purpose. They bought the same shoes in two different colors, traded one for the other, and now wear one from each set.
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They have completely identical features, and their faces are perfectly symmetrical -- if not for their mole and piercing, they'd look the same as each other and the same in pictures as they do in the camera. Sometimes they'll switch clothing/switch their bang to the other side just to confuse people.
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Have the tendency to sing and hum a lot, moving around whenever they don't have to stay seated. Can be very unnecessarily touchy when interacting with others.
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People just... aren't sure if they're espers or use EQE or anything? It's assumed that they have to be at least familiar with essence and they each wear a single glove, but the glove doesn't seem to be an EQE glove. Nobody's seen them use any type of essence before.
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They never squish any insects (and get faux-mad when they see others do). Will freely let spiders, cockroaches, and so on crawl onto their palms when they take them outside.
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Somehow, they seem to know the lines of every single Shakespeare play ever written. Quotes from them frequently -- particularly to scare or intimidate others, for fun.
05 — Relationships
”How wonderful! The raven, always such an omen of bad luck, misfortune, what is and was and will be ruined. I wonder, has anyone ever asked the raven how he's felt about the whole thing? Did he ask for all that destruction in the first place -- or is he a poor witness, doomed to watch it all crumble down around him? We joke, we joke. Only something to consider!”
Anya and Pierre are fascinated by Duncan, finding his irritation to be amusing above all else. Sure, they might not be the picture-perfect Division Heads that Duncan expected to find leading viscerosis research... but aren't they so much more fun this way?
No matter how sour Duncan's expression get whenever the two of them are around, they're convinced that Duncan will warm up to them eventually. He's named after a Shakespeare play, after all. (Don't ask how they know that.) Shouldn't he like it more every time they rattle off foreboding Shakespeare lines at him, trying to get him to engage more with the rest of the team?
”My, she certainly doesn't seem as intimidating as our description of her would make her out to be! Maybe she has some teeth, under that dreamy head of hers? Or maybe all her anger got passed on to somebody else... ah, we wonder who it could be!”
With how enthused Laverne seems to be by their storytelling and acting, Anya and Pierre are more than happy to entertain. They have the tendency to act out just a bit more than they usually do when she's around (even though, to most people, it'd be hard to tell) -- playing up the 'twin' bit, talking with even more rhymes and metaphors than they already do, even singing and moving like they're in a musical, if they're really in the mood.
They'd love to get a look at exactly what it is that Laverne is writing in all those notebooks and diaries of hers, no matter how much she tries to hide them away. They're trustworthy editors -- promise!
”Cameron is an absolute delight! Oh, don't let this shadow of a cat fool you for a second. They look like they'd shy away from your touch, but they secretly love the company. They look like they're unsure of what they're doing, what they want, who they are... but they have a much stronger idea of all three than you could ever imagine!”
Cameron warmed up to Anya and Pierre immediately, when they joined the Research Division -- they were the only other people in the Division who knew how to sign at the time, after all. Anya and Pierre aim not to break that trust.
They spend a surprising amount of time talking to Cameron, being able to draw out a level of expressiveness with them that Cameron usually only shows Laverne. They also have a knack for predicting (or pretending to predict) what Cameron's thinking or saying, even when Cameron doesn't actually say or sign anything. In their defense, they tend to be mostly right; Cameron's never objected to the practice, at least.
”Oh, little Lisza... little lazy Lisza, her grandfather says! Just give her a few more years, playing around with her puddles in the mud. A tadpole takes time to grow into a true frog, after all, and we're quite sure that she'll make the biggest splash out there one day.”
Even though Anya and Pierre are sure that Lisza's intimidated by them, they don't see it as a sign to change their behavior whatsoever. She'll get used to them eventually! Everybody does, in the end.
They take it easy on Lisza, treating her with far less discipline than two Division Heads really should be treating their interns -- letting her pick her own assignments and set her own deadlines, for example. It's their philosophy that everyone will end up at precisely the place they both want and need to be, and Lisza just needs some time to mature so that she can find that place. If they can provide a little bit of guidance, no matter how foreboding that guidance might be... well, they're happy to help!
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