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hypodermicgurl〈 PLAYER INFO 〉vi
NAME: Stacey
AGE: 29
JOURNAL: n/a
IM / EMAIL: littlegeekpenguin@gmail.com
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RETURNING: April Ludgate
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Sally McKenna
CHARACTER AGE:Late 20s alive, +22 years as a ghost
SERIES: American Horror Story: Hotel
CHRONOLOGY: Just after the ‘state of the hotel’ meeting in episode 12
CLASS: Villain/Anti-hero
HOUSING: Randomize, but she will be checking in to James March’s hotel.
BACKGROUND:
History link.
Sally is a ghost in the hotel that serves to enable ongoing events in canon. Several major characters are in the hotel as a direct result of or in part due to her (causing Donovan’s overdose, serving as a stabilizing agent for John Lowe, killing many of the people that would go on to haunt the hotel) and she acts as March’s agent in bringing in victims on Devil’s Night. All of this is done for selfish reasons, such as her wanting love or for others to be as miserable as her or just her pure addiction to multiple drugs, but the series would have been undeniably different without her presence.
PERSONALITY:
According to the show writers Sally’s appearance and, to an extent personality, were based off Nancy Spungen, the famous/infamous girlfriend of Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious. Thus the live fast and die young, codependent, sex and rock and roll filled life that Nancy lead gives a good insight into Sally’s personality. She originally came to LA with a friend to write music, her friend calling her poems like ‘glass shattering.’ After she wrote the song, she was written off, her friend becoming famous while was she was left alone.
After this Sally survived by continuing with a job she’d had since before the singing career, acting as a drug dealer for a friend from high school and making her money through that and writing songs for whoever would take them. She was essentially a model member of the grunge/punk community of the 90s. Sally was used to be being used and sought the wonderful feeling of being high to escape that reality, a habit that has stayed with her in her afterlife.
The man she’s in love with in canon describes her as ‘a bottomless pit of need.’ Sally doesn’t just want to be around people, to belong and be cared for, she needs it. Sally begs multiple people over the course of the series to not leave her, showing the huge abandonment issues she has that drive her need to be wanted. And she will take whatever substitutes she can get while searching for the real feeling of love and belonging she longs for. Drugs, people saying they love her under torture, even enemies staying with her so long as they are a constant in her life. All of these serve as temporary highs on her search for eternal bliss. Given her personality overall, it’s not surprising her approach to finding this state of happiness is very much a selfish endeavour. She murders countless people in the hotel, some because they annoy her, but many, from her own words, because she’s ‘not going to stop collecting souls until I find my soulmate.’ Through murder she binds people she finds interesting/attractive to the hotel on the off chance they might be the one for her. The only thing that ever prevents her from killing as she pleases is James March, the owner of the hotel, and his threats of punishment against her.
Tied into her own loneliness and pain, Sally adores hearing the pain filled stories of others. There’s a reason that as a ghost her makeup always makes her look like she’s crying: she’s drawn to the despairing like a moth to the flame and will supply people with drugs and company to hear the detailed, honest accounting of their woes. She tells one dying, terrified girl to ‘move me with your tears,’ demonstrating how this passion is drenched in self-satisfying indifference to the actual pain of others. Just taking in their suffering is a drug. Not quite as good a drug as heroin, but it still does wonders for her soul.
POWER:
Ghost of Pain
Sally was a ghost and some of the abilities she has grown accustom to stick with her now. These all fit under the same umbrella and as such will be listed below.
1). Sally can sense when a person in a private setting (so in a private gather/alone in the woods/otherwise not just in the middle of a crowded street) is in a state of intense emotional pain/despair, particularly if they are turning to a vice such as drugs or sex to overcome it. No matter where she is in the world, Sally can manifest in a space not currently being observed (such as behind their back if they’re alone, or in an unused room of a house during a party) for the specific reason of speaking with that person. She can’t sense pain in California, manifest, and then go on vacation without dealing with the person that ‘brought’ her there first.
2) Sally can walk through walls and be invisible to the naked eye if she desires. This invisibility affects visual senses only. While this includes video cameras (she won’t appear on security footage), people can still hear/smell her, and those able to sense minds will know she is there.
3) Sally isn’t impacted by physical demands. She can chose to sleep or eat, but doesn’t have to. Nor does she need to breathe or be in a climate humans can survive in (she could be in outer space and be fine, for example). However, to give her some limits, she can be killed if the seat of the soul, her mind, is destroyed. So head shots, running her head over with a car, etc will do the trick.
Always Holding
Sally always has an unlimited supply of substances of abuse on her. Heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, meth, you name it, she can reach into her coat pocket and there it is. Along with the tools to use them.
Stitched Together
If a person/couple consents, Sally can ‘tie’ them together, so that at all times they both know where the other is, what they are doing, feeling, etc. Essentially turning two people into extensions of one another, no matter the distance between them. This involves a physical event where she literally stitches them together. They must remain in that state for five days, then pull themselves free free from the stitches by force, without cutting the stitching or any kind of painkiller or aid from an outside source. Each person, including Sally herself, can only be bound to one individual at a time in this way. If one of the people dies/is ported out, the bond is broken. They must undergo the ritual again, and further may pick someone new to undergo it with.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
So this is what the kids do for fun these days.
[Sally is, despite the warm weather in Florida, sitting on a bench with a leopard print coat slung over the back, a lit cigarette in hand.]
No wonder the world’s in a state. No meeting, no connecting. No more turn on, tune in, drop out. Just...shit, what’s the word? Log in. Gotta see what everyone else is saying in a box. Easier than doing it yourself.
[She takes a long drag, then look away from the camera, taking in the world around her.]
I’m done with that. Just waiting for what comes in my little box. Time to get back out into the world. Maybe some of you should try it.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
“Tell me about the last time you got drunk.”
She didn’t hang out at AA meetings. It wasn’t her style. If they wanted to cry and lie to each other, it wasn’t any skin off her nose. But she couldn’t help who called her after the big sharing fest got out. The bar down the street from the church, one hour and three buildings away from where tonight’s friend had spilled his soul in a musty basement. The stale coffee hadn’t been enough to hold him over, looked like. So he’d gone in the bar. Just to ‘prove to himself he could’ without breaking. He didn’t even need to tell her that bit. There were only so many lies that got a sober man into his den of sin, and she could see that particular justification written over his face when she’d slid on to the stool next to him.
Sally hadn’t been alive to see cigarettes get thrown out of bars, so it’s no big surprise to her when no one says a word at her lighting up as she jumped into the conversation.
“Details. It made you quit for this long. I bet it was stunning.”
FINAL NOTES:
NAME: Stacey
AGE: 29
JOURNAL: n/a
IM / EMAIL: littlegeekpenguin@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: April Ludgate
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Sally McKenna
CHARACTER AGE:Late 20s alive, +22 years as a ghost
SERIES: American Horror Story: Hotel
CHRONOLOGY: Just after the ‘state of the hotel’ meeting in episode 12
CLASS: Villain/Anti-hero
HOUSING: Randomize, but she will be checking in to James March’s hotel.
BACKGROUND:
History link.
Sally is a ghost in the hotel that serves to enable ongoing events in canon. Several major characters are in the hotel as a direct result of or in part due to her (causing Donovan’s overdose, serving as a stabilizing agent for John Lowe, killing many of the people that would go on to haunt the hotel) and she acts as March’s agent in bringing in victims on Devil’s Night. All of this is done for selfish reasons, such as her wanting love or for others to be as miserable as her or just her pure addiction to multiple drugs, but the series would have been undeniably different without her presence.
PERSONALITY:
According to the show writers Sally’s appearance and, to an extent personality, were based off Nancy Spungen, the famous/infamous girlfriend of Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious. Thus the live fast and die young, codependent, sex and rock and roll filled life that Nancy lead gives a good insight into Sally’s personality. She originally came to LA with a friend to write music, her friend calling her poems like ‘glass shattering.’ After she wrote the song, she was written off, her friend becoming famous while was she was left alone.
After this Sally survived by continuing with a job she’d had since before the singing career, acting as a drug dealer for a friend from high school and making her money through that and writing songs for whoever would take them. She was essentially a model member of the grunge/punk community of the 90s. Sally was used to be being used and sought the wonderful feeling of being high to escape that reality, a habit that has stayed with her in her afterlife.
The man she’s in love with in canon describes her as ‘a bottomless pit of need.’ Sally doesn’t just want to be around people, to belong and be cared for, she needs it. Sally begs multiple people over the course of the series to not leave her, showing the huge abandonment issues she has that drive her need to be wanted. And she will take whatever substitutes she can get while searching for the real feeling of love and belonging she longs for. Drugs, people saying they love her under torture, even enemies staying with her so long as they are a constant in her life. All of these serve as temporary highs on her search for eternal bliss. Given her personality overall, it’s not surprising her approach to finding this state of happiness is very much a selfish endeavour. She murders countless people in the hotel, some because they annoy her, but many, from her own words, because she’s ‘not going to stop collecting souls until I find my soulmate.’ Through murder she binds people she finds interesting/attractive to the hotel on the off chance they might be the one for her. The only thing that ever prevents her from killing as she pleases is James March, the owner of the hotel, and his threats of punishment against her.
Tied into her own loneliness and pain, Sally adores hearing the pain filled stories of others. There’s a reason that as a ghost her makeup always makes her look like she’s crying: she’s drawn to the despairing like a moth to the flame and will supply people with drugs and company to hear the detailed, honest accounting of their woes. She tells one dying, terrified girl to ‘move me with your tears,’ demonstrating how this passion is drenched in self-satisfying indifference to the actual pain of others. Just taking in their suffering is a drug. Not quite as good a drug as heroin, but it still does wonders for her soul.
POWER:
Ghost of Pain
Sally was a ghost and some of the abilities she has grown accustom to stick with her now. These all fit under the same umbrella and as such will be listed below.
1). Sally can sense when a person in a private setting (so in a private gather/alone in the woods/otherwise not just in the middle of a crowded street) is in a state of intense emotional pain/despair, particularly if they are turning to a vice such as drugs or sex to overcome it. No matter where she is in the world, Sally can manifest in a space not currently being observed (such as behind their back if they’re alone, or in an unused room of a house during a party) for the specific reason of speaking with that person. She can’t sense pain in California, manifest, and then go on vacation without dealing with the person that ‘brought’ her there first.
2) Sally can walk through walls and be invisible to the naked eye if she desires. This invisibility affects visual senses only. While this includes video cameras (she won’t appear on security footage), people can still hear/smell her, and those able to sense minds will know she is there.
3) Sally isn’t impacted by physical demands. She can chose to sleep or eat, but doesn’t have to. Nor does she need to breathe or be in a climate humans can survive in (she could be in outer space and be fine, for example). However, to give her some limits, she can be killed if the seat of the soul, her mind, is destroyed. So head shots, running her head over with a car, etc will do the trick.
Always Holding
Sally always has an unlimited supply of substances of abuse on her. Heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, meth, you name it, she can reach into her coat pocket and there it is. Along with the tools to use them.
Stitched Together
If a person/couple consents, Sally can ‘tie’ them together, so that at all times they both know where the other is, what they are doing, feeling, etc. Essentially turning two people into extensions of one another, no matter the distance between them. This involves a physical event where she literally stitches them together. They must remain in that state for five days, then pull themselves free free from the stitches by force, without cutting the stitching or any kind of painkiller or aid from an outside source. Each person, including Sally herself, can only be bound to one individual at a time in this way. If one of the people dies/is ported out, the bond is broken. They must undergo the ritual again, and further may pick someone new to undergo it with.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
So this is what the kids do for fun these days.
[Sally is, despite the warm weather in Florida, sitting on a bench with a leopard print coat slung over the back, a lit cigarette in hand.]
No wonder the world’s in a state. No meeting, no connecting. No more turn on, tune in, drop out. Just...shit, what’s the word? Log in. Gotta see what everyone else is saying in a box. Easier than doing it yourself.
[She takes a long drag, then look away from the camera, taking in the world around her.]
I’m done with that. Just waiting for what comes in my little box. Time to get back out into the world. Maybe some of you should try it.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
“Tell me about the last time you got drunk.”
She didn’t hang out at AA meetings. It wasn’t her style. If they wanted to cry and lie to each other, it wasn’t any skin off her nose. But she couldn’t help who called her after the big sharing fest got out. The bar down the street from the church, one hour and three buildings away from where tonight’s friend had spilled his soul in a musty basement. The stale coffee hadn’t been enough to hold him over, looked like. So he’d gone in the bar. Just to ‘prove to himself he could’ without breaking. He didn’t even need to tell her that bit. There were only so many lies that got a sober man into his den of sin, and she could see that particular justification written over his face when she’d slid on to the stool next to him.
Sally hadn’t been alive to see cigarettes get thrown out of bars, so it’s no big surprise to her when no one says a word at her lighting up as she jumped into the conversation.
“Details. It made you quit for this long. I bet it was stunning.”
FINAL NOTES:
