AATR - Poj

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ABOUT POJ: The Basics
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Height: 5' 5"
Eye Color: Green
Favorite Food: CHEESEBURGERS
Fears: NOTHING! Okay, centipedes actually. BUT NOTHING ELSE


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PERSONALITY
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With a long history of sitting on the porch in the sun doing nothing in particular, catching fish, catching frogs, catching Z's, taking the occasional hike, and pursuing a long line of obsessive yet useless hobbies, Poj certainly does not look the part of a mighty warrior. In actuality, however, she enjoys yelling loudly in her surprisingly low voice and throwing her fists around aimlessly, just as a proper warrior ought to. Poj is a bit of a smartass (but CLEVER smartass) who enjoys cheap verbal puns and even cheaper beer.

The thing Poj finds most awesome in the world is her plump, lazy cat, Delores. On the normal plane, Delores is a housecat. Poj always carries a picture of Delores in her back pocket along with her favorite generic-brand red pen.


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PLUNGING INTO THE REAL
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One day, Poj was throwing back a beer and fishing off the dock in front of her cabin on the edge of a lake in Birchwood, Wisconsin. Suddenly, she noticed a soggy little algae-covered flyer floating amidst the lily pads. Uttering an audible "What the," Poj lifted the paper from the weeds and gently shook the leeches from its face. Upon the flyer were three words hand-written in surprisingly vicious upper-case:

"DO YOU ACCEPT?"

Never one to turn down a challenge, even a seemingly imaginary and totally creepy one, Poj mumbled "Sure," to the wind. The moment the word escaped Poj's lips, there was a tug at her fishing line. A BIG tug. Poj grasped at the handle of her fishing pole and braced against the dock with all of her puny strength. Expecting to catch the biggest Northern she'd ever seen, Poj pulled and pulled. She fought for hours on the dock until she was completely exhausted, and eventually the fighting on the line ceased. Poj cautiously edged close to the corner of the dock and stared down into the watery depths.

"I've got you now, you big darn fish! Thought you could outfight me, did you?" Capitalizing on what she assumed was the exhaustion of the mighty lake monster, Poj reeled the line in frantically and relaxed her posture.

Suddenly, a phenomenally huge tug on the line catapulted the unsuspecting Poj off the dock and toward the lake surface. Bracing for impact, Poj clutched her fishing pole dearly and closed her eyes, expecting the warm water to rush over her ears like it did a few days ago when she accidentally fell off her pontoon boat.

Poj breathed a deep lungful of air, but gradually realized that there had been no splash. There was no water, no leeches.... as her adrenaline subsided, Poj also became aware that her fishing pole was gone. Good thing I used my cheap one today, she thought. Upon opening her eyes, Poj realized with a sense of astonishment that she was no longer anywhere near her lakeside cabin.

She was somewhere completely different entirely.


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SUMMONING THE CAT-RAPTOR
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After several weeks of sitting on the porch in the sun doing nothing in particular, catching fish, catching frogs, catching Z's, taking the occasional hike, and pursuing a long line of obsessive yet useless hobbies inside the Real, Poj started getting homesick. She reached into her pocket and fished out the photo of her beloved feline friend, Delores.

Suddenly feeling rather emotional, Poj took out her red pen and started writing "ALWAYS" in the corner of the photo. However, Poj had just been thinking about how awesome dinosaurs were, and how she had always wanted to see one. So, instead of actually writing "ALWAYS," she wrote "DINOSAURS" by accident. No sooner had she realized her mistake than the ground began to shake beneath Poj's feet. A creature was rising up through the ground! Before she could get out of the way, Poj found herself sitting upon the fuzzy back of an odd, yet strangely familiar creature.

Delores?

READ DELORES' PROFILE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY!

CHECK IT OUT: DELORES THE CAT-RAPTOR'S PROFILE: [link]