My Little Mercenaries - Derpy

So, you may be asking yourself, "Hey, self, I wonder when the next chapter of My Little Mercenaries is going to go up?" The answer to that question is, "Jim is a lazy bastard."

Well, okay, so the answer is a little more complicated than that. I mean, I could say "soon", but when is this ineffable "soon" anyway? I will say that I've gotten some work done on it. I will also say that I have excuses for why I haven't gotten enough work done on it. These excuses are legit and valid - one of them is "tornado", just for instance - but I won't bore you with all of them. Instead, I'll try to titillate and tantalize you with pictures.

Well, a picture, anyway.

I don't know if I'm ever going to actually write an MLM story with Derpy in it, but if I did, this would probably be what she'd look like. If you want to watch this picture as it progresses through that and other stages of development, you can keep an eye on it here on my DeviantArt. Or maybe here in this journal. I'll probably update it here too.

Anywho, here's some writing stuffs to help tide you over until the next chapter of Nightmare.

Name: Deryn "Derpy" Huff
Age: 26
Race: Angel
Talent: Protective Bubble
Occupation: Mercenary specializing in mass damage, various odd jobs on the side

Primary Weapon: The Muffin Cannon, a personal rail accelerator that has been modified to fire 5oz muffin loads at supersonic speeds. The aiming and external firing mechanisms have been removed and replaced, their functions being handled remotely by Derpy's ever-moving cybermagic eye. Derpy uses muffins for ammunition because she finds it both hilarious and delicious.

General Info: Always thought to be stupid or handicapped due to her unusual eyes and clumsy nature, Deryn Huff decided to take full control of her life from the bullies. She willingly adopted the nickname "Derpy" for herself, took on work as a mercenary, and used the proceeds from her first few successful jobs to replace one of her eyes and most of her nervous system with cybermagic implants.

Though she has purposefully set her eye to wander randomly (partly as a symbolic gesture to her previous wall-eye and partly as a practical measure to confound and confuse her opponents), in truth it gives her perfect and even enhanced vision. This combined with the nearly supernatural steadiness provided by her altered nervous system makes her a deadly foe in most situations.

Derpy takes to her latest job with not just a sense of professional pride but of personal satisfaction. Hired out to send a certain humanoid a "message" in the form of a high velocity muffin to the torso, she looks forward to reuniting with the woman who caused her the most grief before her transformation . . . fellow mercenary and angel Dash.

But Dash has other concerns. Her teammate AJ has disappeared after going to an Iron Humanoid competition that turns out to be completely fictitious. Will Dash be able to find her friend and ditch the insane angel trying to clip her feathers at the same time?

Or will Derpy finally get the last laugh?