-OOC Information-
Player Name: Lynny
Player Age: 32
Contact: #slothbless on discord, slothbless

-IC Information-
Character Name: NNA-24267466 (“Nina”)
Character Age: Older Than You Might Think (around 35 by her species’ standards)
Canon: Airlocked [Original MG]
CRAU: Airlocked [NPC]
Canon Point: 5 Years post-Airlocked R5.
Previous Game Link: https://theairlock.dreamwidth.org/40454.html?thread=35202310#cmt35202310
Reserve Link: https://wecouldbemods.dreamwidth.org/10775.html?thread=514327#cmt514327

Bottom Line: The former CEO of intergalactic media production company InterGal 7 and Executive Producer of the hit show “Airlocked!”, currently serving an extremely long jail sentence for…so, so many crimes.
Suitability: Well…I personally feel like the fact she intentionally ran 4 murdergames (as season 4/round 3 of Airlocked was intended to be a “Scared Straight” sort of thing, albeit with actual kidnapping) under the guise of a fake reality show makes her an excellent candidate for a taste of her own medicine.
History:
NNA-24267466 (later known as Nina) was born and raised on the planet Kelocindeno, an isolationist planet with a totalitarian-style government. Their culture carried strict focus on the academic and shunning of many creative practices and putting the good of the whole over the good of the individual. Objectives/jobs were assigned at birth, and they carried on with an encouragement of assembly-line uniformity despite their species natural shape-shifting ability, along with the shunning of those who choose to leave their assigned profession.

Nina was assigned as a meteorologist but never had an interest in it. Her mother, a tech programmer, taught her in secret for years despite frequent reeducation classes and reconditioning classes for her daughter. When the authorities found out, she was removed in the middle of the night. Nina was sent to reeducation and never saw her mother again.

She eventually grew into a young adult and continued her studies in secret. She rejected every assignment and job offer that was sent her way. When she tried to encourage others to do the same, to search out what they wanted to do and live up to their real potential, she was reported and nearly taken away to the same facility her mother was forced into. She managed to slip away from her captors and flee the planet but now she was alone in a massive galaxy with infinite potential but no one to share it with.

Nina ended up working several odd jobs to make ends meet while she enrolled in a public university to get the real education she craved. She was a bartender, she ran deliveries for just about anything that would pay her, she worked unofficial IT for both students and teachers at the university - whatever she could do to get by. As it turned out she was a bit of a programming genius.

She did a dual major in virtual reality programming and intergalactic media studies. The programming fed into what her mother had already taught her and intergalactic media studies opened her eyes to the beauty of films, the excitement of television and the creativity of web streams.

When she worked her way up to a graduate student, she leapt on the first TA position that opened in the programming department. Through that job, she befriended a professor who’s classes she’d audited a few times but had never really gotten to know: Yl’lb Ein. She dropped in on him one day in the staff lunch room with a tablet and a problem: the very simple AI she’d built for a game as a personal project kept breaking her code and no amount of arguing with silent rubber ducks could help her unravel the issue. He was able to help her and from there a mentorship and later deep friendship grew.

After graduation, Nina struck out on her own and created what would eventually be the massive network “InterGal 7” and just started out as “InterGal”. She’d scraped together enough money to rent out a small studio and camera set-up and the first call she made was to Yl’lb to ask if he wanted to make some quality children’s edutainment.

Over the next few years the two of them worked together to create “Yl’lb Ein: The Science Mind”, an educational children’s program focused on teaching how interesting and fun science could be. Nina thrived as the executive producer and one tree woman crew. She and Yl’lb made a great team and even managed to finally turn a profit in sales (even if Yl’lb had to make financial contributions every now and again despite Nina’s protests).

Then there came a point where she received a call from Yl’lb in the middle of the night saying he’d accidentally created life. She was naturally deeply confused, knowing how his species worked, but the revelation that he was talking about the A.I. he’d constructed as a lab assistant cleared up at least some of it. She was happy to push back their filming schedule to give him a few days to process and figure things out. When she finally got to meet Wilhemina the experience was electrifying. A.I. weren’t exactly uncommon across the galaxy but one that showed the capability to grow from learned experiences and signs of an actual personality? That was an astonishing scientific breakthrough, made by her best friend no less!

Wilhelmina proved to be a substantial asset to the show. With her hooked up, Nina didn’t have to run the light and soundboards at the time time on top of having the fire extinguisher ready for the occasional science-based fire that would break out. This freed her up to start shopping additional show concepts around in the hopes of expanding their slowly growing company.

About a year and a half after Wilhelmina’s “birth”, Nina was given an offer by a a group of some of the wealthiest and most sought after sponsors across 10 galaxies. They saw immense potential in InterGal and wanted to invest but children’s educational entertainment wasn’t something they were interested in. She had a choice to make: accept their offer and cancel The Science Mind or reject them and stay in the small time giving parents a 30 minute break from their offspring. She had one hour to decide.

Nina had several options at that point: she could have outright told them no, that she had more integrity than to drop the show she’d poured years of effort into for the vague promise of something bigger. She could have called Yl’lb and asked what he thought, if it was worth it. She could have done literally anything in that hour but the icy, haunting grip of “immense potential” and how much she’d sacrificed just to be in this office took hold in her chest and didn’t let go.

In the end, she numbly made the call to the studio to clean up the Science Mind set and put it in storage- the show was cancelled effective immediately and to please put all studio resources in storage. That unfortunately included Wilhelmina, who had been partially created using studio resources and was, by legal standards, equipment. Nina couldn’t bring herself to go back to the studio until much later, fresh sponsor funds in the studio’s account and over a dozen voicemails from Yl’lb on her phone.

When she finally made it to the storage center, Nina did her best to comfort Wilhelmina. She wanted her to understand what was happening, why it was happening. It was for the best, or at least that’s what she told herself. She understood the hurt, burned with her own regret. In the end she made the choice to shut Wilhelmina down, remove and store the files that made her Wilhelmina, and reboot her as C.E.C.E., a still very sophisticated but unburdened A.I. assistant. It was better way, for both of them. That was the nice thing about the building blocks of A.I. being lines of code: you can always fix it, especially if you back-up your data.

In the following years the network became a somewhat popular network known primarily for their soap operas. After a period of immense growth for what was now InterGal7 and Nina hardening her heart to survive in a space capitalist hellscape, one of their small satellite studios was attacked by the Flavortown pirates led by Captain Blaze Dudely. It was a shitshow. It was only by chance that Nina had been there that day and she violently defended it with everything she had. When it was clear the pirates were on the backfoot, Dudley called for a parlay. Their goal was only to bring attention to the plight of their home planet of Flavortown, never to cause any actual harm. An agreement was finally reached: Dudley and his first mate Radical Skullqueen would become her employees temporarily, him serving as the second host of the new simulation show she was getting ready to premiere and Rad becoming an intern. The rest of the pirates were free to go but if they made any more attempts on the studio the consequences would be extreme.

This leads us to…

CRAU History: Airlocked Season 1 (Round 4): Nina herself scouted out each individual Champion for the inaugural season. The original intention had been to be more of a competition in a simulation, with the boon and sabotage system, leading to an Ultimate Champion getting an undetermined prize but everyone being sent back to their proper locations and times in the end. It wasn’t until Manaka Sajyou was scouted that the focus of the game shifted toward death. Because it was a simulation, the idea was that when death occurred the Champion’s consciousness would be transferred to a different simulation where they would stay until the end. Then they would be put back into their bodies and sent home, with the show feeling like nothing more than a bad dream.

Nina entered the simulation as “Rox Petuu”, a sharp-smiled and cartoonish cruel host to contrast Blaze Dudely’s more mellow presentation while he also acted as her enforcer. She spent much of her time in the simulation on her phone, which was perceived as rudeness/a lack of interest in what was going on when really she was monitoring the simulation and PIP activity to make sure things were running properly.

Things went south Very Quickly, especially where Akira and Kaiba were involved. She spent an entire season beefing with teenagers and for what? A near total TPK, a space pirate who was likely going to die anyway based on how everything else had gone with the people dying.

Unfortunately, transferring sentient consciousnesses into a simulated environment is trickier than Nina thought. Even with her programming expertise and the few remaining scientific contacts she had from the Science Mind days, the dead’s data became corrupted and Max’s brain scan was the only salvageable one. He was left alone for a full year in the Florida simulation as it became worse and worse with his decaying mental and emotional state with nothing that could be done at the time.

With Jamie and Bolton as the sole survivors and without the technological capabilities to help the people she’d effectively made braindead through her own coding errors, she made another choice: she was going to fix it. She added new commands to CECE’s programming, to take care of those two, and got back to work. “Lovelocked” was more of an afterthought then a fully thought-out concept but at least it was tastefully edited.

Airlocked Season 2 (Round 1): The season that launched “Airlocked!” into the stratosphere of popularity. Nina didn’t get especially involved this season, having learned her lesson the first time. She mostly observed and only interfered when she felt necessary: like recruiting Xander as a mole to observe Jamie and Bolton. It made for good audience drama, great conflict, and let her slip into another new character: the mysterious E.P.

In the end the Champions actually beat her at her own game, which was frustrating, but did result in her granting Xander the title of “Ultimate Champion” on the technicality that he has succeeded in committing a murder and not being the voted for culprit. She was almost as impressed as she was irritated.

Until they stole her very expensive ship and renamed it after a Dungeons and Dragons character. At that point she was just irritated.

Airlocked Season 3 (Round 2): Remember how I said she’d learned her lesson about getting personally involved with the Champions? She Did Not.

With Kip Larimer, the host of the surprisingly popular “Airtalked!” they’d launched after the first few episodes of season 2 proved to be a wild success, by her side the Fantasy Sweet season started with a bang- which was appropriate considering the entire concept was based on the popularity of the concept of “shipping” and relationships. Nina stepped into the role of Cece Diver, an InterGal7 intern there to assist Kip in his duties.

The cast of this season bonded much more quickly than Nina had anticipated, including the double surprise of them bonding with her. Cece had mostly been meant as an observer, facilitator or Kip Wrangler, depending on what was needed. But Nina quickly found herself having fun with them, enjoying their company, becoming their friend. Between the casual affection thrown around left and right in the mansion, the deep friendships formed, Choromatsu’s affections and Nari’s romantic confession and their subsequent relationship, Nina had never experienced this kind of overwhelming love and affection- and in the end, when Kip had been outed an an Irken and they were gearing up to leave the flaming Fantasy Sweet, that icy reminder of everything she’d done, everything she’d sacrificed, everything she’d built made itself comfortable in her chest.

She successfully convinced them that she should leave with the bodies, promising to find a way to revive them with Cece’s scientist “father’s” help. Several hours and more than one bottle of wine later, she was back at InterGal7 to go back to putting out fires.

Airlocked Round 2 Intermission: The InterGal7 Meet & Greet! This event wasn’t initially conceived as a trap to lure out the current pack of survivors (at the time, Nina didn’t have a way to know how closely they were monitoring InterGal’s activities or that they had Jaycee looking out for them). The sponsors wanted a grand fan event to keep interest stirring and, knowing she had no “actors” to pull for an actual meet and greet, Nina had to call in a favor from someone she didn’t expect to ever speak to again.

He returned exactly none of her calls and when he finally answered her numerous e-mails it was when she brought up Wilhelmina. In exchange for his assistance on a professional short-term contract, he would be able to visit with his A.I. daughter. The contract was that, because of contractual issues with the cast of Airlocked!, they weren’t able to attend the event that was being held. If Yl’lb provided the robot hardware and basic AI capabilities, InterGal would provide anything else he needed. Once the event was complete, he’d have acces to The Temerity and be able to visit with C.E.C.EMina.

When the Champions unsurprisingly did show up in the Temerity, Nina had to think on her feet. She barely had time to summon the network’s security to gather up the disguised Champions she spotted on the monitors before all hell broke loose. Tranquilizing Ardyn, the Doctor, Church, Yurika, and Xander and throwing them into a building InterGal had for minor storage and sometimes soap opera set wasn’t ideal but it would do until she had a more comfortable placement for them. Unfortunately for her, great googly moogly it all went to shit for the second time in a day and she was stuck with malfunctioning robots and an evacuated event.

Airlocked Season 4 (Round 3): Madame-Not-Appearing-In-This-Season-Until-The-End-To-Fix-Her-Fuck-Up-Sort-Of (because she was several light years away at the Fantasy Sweet, struggling to wrangle Kip.) It should be noted that while the season was airing, she and Yl’lb were still in communication- arguing back and forth via e-mail over his visitation that he’d, as far as the network knew, never received- all while relaxing by his pool with the Champions he was harboring and his daughter. Nina started breaking out the pinot spoir during the work day again.

Airlocked Pre-Round 5 Intermission: Airlocked’s “Revenge of the Sith” time. Creating a fake distress call from Cece and then levying (questionably doable) threats against Jaycee’s family, Nina coordinated her series finale capture attempt for the Champions. She lured them to a closed concourse of Presley Interstellar Spaceport that InterGal had rented out for “filming purposes” for a publicized fan meet-up.

She, as Rox, waited for Jaycee to lead them to the closed off area of the airport and surprised them. With a flick of her fingers on her phone screen, the nanomachines in their blood froze the present Champions in place and their weapons vanished back into Ardyn’s armiger. Rox taunted the frozen Champions, showing off the same dramatic cruelty from Season 1 that Nina hoped would fuel them later on. They could hate Rox, they should hate Rox- that’s what she was made for.

The deaths of PAL, Kip and the Doctor- along with Jamie and CECE’s escape and Xander’s grievous injury- weren’t originally part of the plan. She’d had to work exhaustively quick behind the scenes in the time between the capture and the start of the season to course correct. Collecting PAL’s physical remains and core programming, snatching up the regenerated Doctor, uploading Kip into the new Flavortown simulation for the dead. The Kip issue, ripping off his pak and throwing him in with the rest of the Champions, had been a momentary loss of temper and control that Nina later grew to regret.

And as for Xander…she’d originally intended for Rox to host the final season to bring everything full circle from the beginning. But with Xander in need of more immediate medical assistance than the nanomachines could handle on their own, a new opportunity arose.

Airlocked Season 5 (Round 5): Back in the sim, bay-bee! For the final season, Nina had paired down her production crew to solely herself, Counselor Aiden Price from the prison season and the new host of the season, Xander of Nohr. Xander would stay in the simulation as needed, with Rox and Price working as both tech support and emotional support.

From the time of locking away Xander’s memories just before the season’s beginning, with their interactions being one-on-one and the perceived necessity of having a villain finally gone, Nina let go of the mask of cruelty she’d assigned to Rox so she could more easily cram down her true feelings and chose to interact with him as a peer rather than a jailer. The results were, unsurprisingly, much better than in the past. They spent time together, she brought him treats in the simulation, she fussed over him when the blinding headaches of memories trying to return- you could almost call them friends. Nina did care for him in her own way, cared for all her Champions despite everything she’d put them through. It was for the greater good after all, for repairing the damage she’d initially caused. When Church made a specific request, she brought herself into the simulation (after indulging in a little more wine than she should have) and gifted him with a memory of Yuuri in the Fantasy Sweet she knew he’d enjoy. It was the least she could do: Cece had loved him after all, just as much as she’d loved all of the season 3 champions.

All the while she was also playing double duty with the dead in the new, more exciting Flavortown simulation. She borrowed the human hardlight likeness of a former intern, one who’d left InterGal 7 after finding a job that better suited her field, named herself Simone and took it upon herself to take over for the indentured interns who’d been here before. She was, admittedly, mostly exhausted whenever she leapt in and as the result was very bad at this job.

Nearly six weeks in the Doctor found the weak point in his execution and shattered the entire simulation she’d built. The rush of rage she felt, over the Clarith’s brutal death and the destruction of a program she’d poured herself into building, running and maintaining, was the only thing that kept her physically moving in the scramble to accommodate the Champions who were now going to come out of stasis in the goddamn Bowie Intergalactic Spaceport of all places. Xander was also a problem, with his memories trying to break through and his rebellion in that final trial- it just seemed better, to Nina, to let him go peacefully. He’d be put in the Flavortown simulation with the rest of dead, reunited with Lightning and the other from his round. He’d have a chance to be happy and not have to face the consequences of what she’d put him through.

Jane’s one time use of the Lifey Thing sent that plan crashing into orbit but at this point what hadn’t exploded in her face?

Things continued as murdergames do, with Nina observing everything but letting the upgraded PAL and sometimes Price get involved. When Nari killed Noctis 8 weeks in, she nearly broke. When Nari escaped her execution with Xander’s help, she threw together a hologram execution to cover for it and wrestled with herself over the rules she’d set, whether she would have done the hypocritical move of saving the woman Cece had loved just like Kip had done for Queenie.

The final investigation came soon after, leaving Nina very little time to collect Rox and Cece’s mementos from the security office she’d been living (and mostly drinking) in for weeks. When they summed her to the final trial, she made her presence known in her true form without flare or dramatics. She laid bare her intentions, the different faces she wore for them, her regrets and true feelings. She offered them peace, a simulation she’d made just for them and their dead friends built on their happiest memories. Where they could be safe and comfortable.

The Champions, both alive and dead, soundly rejected her proposal several times over. In the end she conceeded, telling them how remarkable they and their fans were and how much she wished “Airlocked!” could stay a story for them for just a little while longer.

Immediately after she was tackled by Officer Moses and arrested for, just…so many crimes. So many. Since her trial, Nina has been a model inmate in the Freddie Mercury Correctional Facility.

About: The most important thing to know about Nina is that she’s…complicated. She grew up in, struggled with, and was ultimately abandoned by a society that suppressed expressions of creativity and individualism while hammering in their “ends justifies the means” and “the needs of the whole outweigh the needs of the individual” mindset. As a result, she has never had a very definitive sense of self and a very warped work ethic. This is, along with her general “if I can get it done myself, it’s just easier all around”. Nina is someone who cares deeply about everything she does: her job, her friends, her performances. She’s also someone who will make terrible decisions based on the fear of loss. Ironic, considering her entire show is based on death and murder but that’s why Deadland existed in the first place: you always have a back-up, you always save your data, you always hold tight to what you care about…until you let go of the people in front of you because you’re holding so tightly to things that don’t matter as much.

[CW: a little suicidal ideation in this bit]

She accepts the fault that lies with her and the pain she caused herself and others but justifies to herself that it would all be worth it in the end. Being that she has had to endure 5 years of court-mandated therapy, some of these issues have started to be ironed out but they’ve also broken the dam to whole new sets of issues. There are times, not often but times, she wonders if it would have been better if the Champions had chosen to kill her like some of them wanted to. If they would be happier, if there would be a stronger sense of closure, if the puppet master who loomed over their lives for over a year or longer finally had her own strings permanently cut they would feel safer. She hasn’t brought up these thoughts with her therapist.

[CW ends.]

And now welcome to Nina: The Eras Tour.

The Rox Petuu Era: Her Rox Petuu persona was created with the express purpose of being a villainous hate-sink for the Champions of her brand-new show, “Airlocked!”. Everything about her was meant to make her hateable: her cruelty, her disinterest in suffering, her gleeful disposition for violence. She was an easy mask to slip on and compartmentalize her actions. Every terrible thing Rox said or did made the drama better or served to stoke the Champions’ fire. There was a calculated rhyme and reason for every pointed insult, no matter nauseous the words coming out of her mouth made her feel after she shrugged off Rox, it all fed into her ultimate goal of creating a good show.

The EP Era: EP was Nina’s first forway into anonymous interference. Like Rox, EP was calculating, every word typed carefully chosen to the letter. They were an expert at manipulating situations, making offers to stir up drama for the audience. Their cruelty was less pointed than Rox’s but no less present.

The Cece Diver Era: Cece was, in all honesty, the closest version of who Nina used to be, right down to offering up mostly true stories of her past to fill in Cece’s backstory. Losing her mother, a brilliant scientist father (figure), the sheer amount of jobs she had before and how she worked herself to the bone to get to where she is.

Cece was bright-eyed and hard-working, ready to jump in to help without provocation, and not afraid to roll up her sleeves and get her hands dirty. Cece was sweet, social, passionate, highly competent (although that was mostly due to needing to keep Kip on task) and grew to care deeply for the residents of the Fantasy Sweet - something Nina hadn’t anticipated. Out of all her personas, Cece is probably the one she slipped into the easiest and the one she hates the most after the fact. Everyone had loved Cece but Cece was never real. Cece was in fact one of the worst things that could have ever happened to the people who called her their friend because she was responsible. History repeating itself once again: she loves someone, she’s responsible for their pain, and she runs away in the end.

The Simone Era: Simone the Season 5 Deadland Intern was a rough time for Nina and it showed in her job performance. She’d locked away her previous “interns” to have a better handle on the dead’s simulation, so she was single-handedly running both simulations as well as having to enter Flavortown on occasion to make sure things were running like they should be (spoilers: shit ended up falling apart).

Simone let her indulge in apathy, to feel and do as little as possible while every other facet outside of the simulation overwhelmed her. In a lot of ways, Simone was the foil to Cece: where Cece was helpful and sweet, Simone was loud and selfish. Cece went out of her way to make friends, Simone would rather sit by herself and shovel down simulated Flavortown food without a thought in her head. Nina should have been thrilled to see her late Champions and deep down she was- Simone was just another layer of compartmentalizing so she could feel and deal with those feelings in the privacy of her security office.

Regains:
The X Files - A futuristic-looking digital tablet with several interesting text-based reports and exchanges.

2. Rose Red Bookmark - A well-loved card stock bookmark with a careful gradient of layered rose petals, starting with the darkest reds at the top and slowly transitioning to lighter shades at the bottom of the card and a handwritten note on the back. In the very bottom corner, in handwriting different from the note, someone has written in neat handwriting Rainbow.

3. Season 5 Notes - A futuristic-looking digital tablet with personal notes and observations.

4. Luscinia - A positively spherical plush toy of a galaxy-colored pigeon in a little orange scarf. When you squeeze her, she coos out a lovely song that will not stop until it’s done, no matter how many more times you squeeze her.

5. [Renewable] Art Therapy - A medium-sized painting on futuristic-looking digital canvas. The art quality is [pick one: not great, kind of okay, pretty good, actually very nice] and depicts [something space-y, something aquatic-related or a combination of both].

6. The Overseeing Cellphone - A pattern-locked iPhone-like device. It probably has some cool games if you can unlock it.

7. Spabernet - A case made of a strangely textured purple wood with “Modis Valley“ branded into the side, packed with 12 sealed bottles of a deep red wine.

8. A Different Time: A digital photograph kept in a futuristic-looking frame. It shows a younger-looking Yl'lb Ein and a slightly shorter Nina side-by-side, his hand on her shoulder with a look of pride. She's holding up a clacker board that reads "SCIENCE MIND: DAY 1, SCENE 1".

9. Dakimakura Cover - A long pillow case for a long pillow. Features a purple-haired human young woman posed confidently and looking radiant.

10. [Renewable] Shipping Teas - [pick a tea, any tea! They come pre-descriptioned.]

Motives: Despite all the violence she was responsible for and sometimes inflicted, Nina believes she’s too savvy to the genre to fall for most motives.

But oh baby, regrets is where it’s at! Nina is filled to the brim with them and a proved chance to go back and change a major point in your history would be sorely tempting for her, especially if it meant undoing the original damage she did to her relationship with Yl’lb. Is it mostly selfish because she misses her best friend? Absolutely. Is it also a sign of growth that she would give up the empire she built just so they could go back to when they were broke, happy and liked each other? Probably, ask her prison appointed Elcor therapist.

Sample:

Sometimes shapeshifting is a mistake. Not often but when you’ve had you’ve had a repressor attached to your ankle for five years and switching to any form that isn’t your natural shape feels like taking the biggest, loudest spine-cracking stretch anyone has ever experienced you’re sometimes willing to accept a mistake or two.

At the moment all Nina can do is grit her human teeth and sprint as quickly as her short legs can carry her. Changing to the shortest and most agile form that seemed like the smartest idea in the seconds after the week’s team match was announced. Being small and quick, able to get out of the way before getting hit, that made sense. The mistake was she’s forgotten that 1) she herself got winded easily after five years of very little strenuous physical activity and 2) the form she’d chosen was modeled for aesthetics and not dodgeball matches

“This.” Dodge around Pyrrha.

“Is.” Duck under Somnus’s arm.

“So-!” A bright red rubber ball comes flying across the room like a comet, a streak of red coming from the fingers of a ginger robot with a grudge and targeting programs aimed straight at Nina. She throws herself to the hard wood floor, the wind knocked out of her delicate human lungs. Why do they have to be built like this? Why did she choose this? She could have been a Hork Bajir. But no, it had to be Cece who came to mind and leave her with one shift for the rest of the week. Stupid, Nina, wonderful decision making.

She lifts her head from the floor, long sections of purple hair coming loose from their messy bun and falling in front of her face. With her frustration at it’s peak, she pushes back the hair and snarls, “Derivative! We had dodgeball in season 2 and let me tell you, it was-”

Penny’s ball hit the wall behind where Nina had stood, bounced off it, bounced off the ceiling and then straight down to smack her in the center of her back.

Nina is out of the match.

Plot Involvement: With Nina being aware of what it’s like to be on the side of plot involvement that actually has the power in the situation, I feel like she’d be a hard sell so probably not!

Case Involvement: Not a specific case number, but Lu and I did have a plan for Nina and Yl’lb to be involved in a case together! Specifically, with Yl’lb as a culprit and Nina choosing to use her shapeshifting to attempt to throw suspicion off him to help him escape without his knowledge.

Other:

(If ya’ll make one of the team events dodgeball, I will forever be in your debt.)