Trish Carmichael

Trish Carmichael is a stranded alien belonging to a species with a hive-like societal structure, with hive queens reigning over others. Trish herself is still young, and with no adults of her kind to guide her, is trying her best to fill the role of hive queen by herself.

Bio
(from her most recent character slide)

Mousy Patricia Carmichael wasn’t particularly notable. She blended into the background with a handful of close relationships. But that was the Old Trish. New Trish is outgoing, attention-seeking, and a little bit of a mean girl. New Trish is also a Lisa Frank alien parasite in a human skinsuit.

She took over Old Trish’s life when she unknowingly encountered the remains of New Trish’s ship, thinking it a strange rock. The last thing Patricia remembers is hearing a click after placing her hand on a strange indentation. It was also the last thing she did.

In her place stood New Trish, an alien entity with her shape and memories, whose real name can’t be spoken with only one mouth. While Trish’s new form used Patricia as a template, the copy isn’t perfect, and only skin deep. In addition to the personality “changes,” she now has 20/20 vision, and any medical imaging would produce alarming results.

She’s had time since the incident to settle into boarding school life, entrenching herself as one of the popular kids, and leaving behind Patricia’s old friends. Which she considers for the better. She has enough of Patricia’s memories to not want to turn them into drones.

Of course, now that’s she’s dorming -- a strategic decision to minimize people knowing about her actual financial station -- she’s been assigned to room with Old Trish’s closest friend, Valerie, who nurses a crush for her.

Future Institute of Boston S2
Trish went with Mara, Nicky, and Alvin. She helped Cass G set up a romantic gesture for Kenzie.

Queens and Drones
There are no males/females or men/women in her species, and attempting to apply those labels will just cause more confusion. What there are, are "queens" and "drones". Queens are significantly larger, often brightly colored (Trish has bright pink and orange patterning)... for lack of a better word, tentacle monsters. They are able to assimilate another being (a process which kills the other being and destroys their body for raw material) and take on their form in order to adapt to different planetary environments. Drones are much smaller, and can lodge themselves inside another species, and shoot out neuroconductive filaments.

Queens can create drones, and sufficiently powerful Queens can create drones that will also be able to create more drones.

Trish's Gender
While Trish uses she/her pronouns, she does not see herself as a woman. She is a hive queen -- or at least, that's the closest term for what she will become one day. Since in English Queen is often associated with she/her -- at times regardless of gender -- it suffices for now.

Relationships
As a Queen -- and a hive princess -- Trish's relationships with others is necessarily complicated. For the most part she views people as inside her hive, and out. Only recently has she developed friendships where, while assimilating them into the hive is an interest it's not an active goal.

Her Hive
Trish is highly protective of her hive.

PCs

 * Cyd - (Cerberus) brought in to protect the hive.
 * Mara - (Ghoul) brought in when Trish realized Cyd wouldn’t be able to protect her and the hive.

NPCs

 * Nikki - Cheerleader, is having a reaction to the spine/brain worms that is helped by transmitting some excess to others.
 * Alvin -
 * Chaz -
 * (HSU) Nathan - Alvin hooked up with him at FIB2.

Friendly

 * Cameron Sabado -
 * (HSU) Cassidy Silverberg -
 * (HSU) Morde Davies -
 * (HSU) Kenzie -
 * (HSU) Delilah Dushku - Former Queen who used to head up a cult, claiming to speak with an alien entity named Vaaku -- which, naturally, caught Trish's attention. Especially as she was unable to remember anything that fit. Trish messaged her to follow up, after Delilah broke her pendant and "connection to Vaaku". Since then, Trish has felt weird about Delilah's situation, and compelled to help her adjust to no longer being something approaching a hive queen.

Game Appearances

 * Las Rosas
 * Future Institute of Boston S2