I am Marie Brooks.
I work in the police station. You think I’m plain, perhaps dull and unassuming. I did, however, find evidence of a police cover-up, or perhaps a framing, and I’m going to blackmail people and threaten people and milk this for all it’s worth!
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I’d be the most mysterious character because I do not have a middle name. I’d simply be, Brighton.
Male? Female? Who knows. Brighton would be the newcomer to town who turns out to be someone’s long lost son/daughter. They would cause trouble, but some horrific experience would turn them into the town hero.
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But of course! You’d be the long lost child of Beth Brighton, the insane window who lives on the edge of town! No one remembers her name; she’s forgotten who she is and who she used to be. For years she has done nothing but wander the streets muttering to herself by day, and sit at home petting her eleven Persian cats by night…
But upon hearing murmurs of the newcomer…Brighton…Brighton?…someone lights a candle in her mind, and her identity begins to come back to her…
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But of course! You’d be the long lost child of Beth Brighton, the insane window
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Naw, she only thinks she’s a window, but it’s obvious that nobody can see right through her… 
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Naw, she only thinks she’s a window, but it’s obvious that nobody can see right through her…
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!!! you owe me a new keyboard !!! :D:D:D:D:D:D
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All my [del]children[/del] decades of watching soaps finally becomes useful on the SDMB!
Carol Jackson–A pretty blonde lawyer who comes to town and sets up practice handing the other side of divorce cases. You square off against Elliot Van Buren in a few cases, and end up at the local Motel 6 with him for one passionate afternoon. You get pregnant, but realize it could never work out with Elliot, so you leave town with telling Elliot, who has just gotten engaged to a very wealthy divorcee.
3 years later, Elliot’s wife bumps into you and your twins. You tell her they are Elliott’s and try to blackmail her. She in turn tells Elliott and he claims you are in unfit mother and sues you for custody. Elliot’s wife goes after you with a gun, but you end up shooting her accidentally and killing her. You go to jail and Elliot gets the twins. He refers you to top crime attorney James Cwmdare, who gets you off and you fall madly in love with James, take the children (Eliot never wanted them, he was only doing it for his wife), and leave town.
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Brilliant!
Shall I assume that the twins are named Madaline Sarai Jackson and McKaty Alyson Jackson?
at some point over the next few days, I will pull all this info together so we have a cohesive (well, as much as possible) picture of our little town. Any ideas for the name of our burg?
First street, or first street I remember?
Michael Copperline, heir-apparent to his father’s railroad empire. Due to the interesting geography of the town, Michael will soon be in control of the only form of transport in or out… His plans to exploit that arrangement will be dashed through insidious blackmail – in his youth he murdered his twin brother, but the body was never found, and recent strange occurrences are leading him to wonder whether he succeeded.
Michael Cedarbrook, a well-known doctor from a connected family with great influence throughout the area. Nice guy, lovely wife, 3 kids, the American dream. But his patients seem to die a little more often than you’d think normal. Bad luck, or familial revenge?
My porn name (first pet + mother’s maiden) is MUCH better: Coco Brown.
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Naw, she only thinks she’s a window, but it’s obvious that nobody can see right through her…
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I was going to correct you, but it’s a lot funnier this way! Anyway, she’s insane. Mad. Batshit crazy!!!
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Any ideas for the name of our burg?
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At the risk of really opening things up for insanity, I like the idea of Arkham Valley.
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First street, or first street I remember?
Michael Copperline, heir-apparent to his father’s railroad empire. Due to the interesting geography of the town, Michael will soon be in control of the only form of transport in or out… His plans to exploit that arrangement will be dashed through insidious blackmail – in his youth he murdered his twin brother, but the body was never found, and recent strange occurrences are leading him to wonder whether he succeeded.
Michael Cedarbrook, a well-known doctor from a connected family with great influence throughout the area. Nice guy, lovely wife, 3 kids, the American dream. But his patients seem to die a little more often than you’d think normal. Bad luck, or familial revenge?
My porn name (first pet + mother’s maiden) is MUCH better: Coco Brown.
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Obviously, Michael Cedarbrook is Michael Copperline’s presumed dead twin, with amnesia. The “connected family” took him in and brainwashed him to believe he was really their son.
John Lafayette. Swarthy ladies’ man with a pencil-thin moustache and homicidal tendencies.
Actually, I don’t personally remember Lafayette Street. From age 1 through age 10, I lived on 72nd Street, so perhaps I’d have to go with the nearest cross street, Blondo, which still sounds kinda foreign, so I could still be an archetypal soap opera bluebeard.
I’d be:
Grace Rural Delivery Route #1
(Waves at Kajadhi)
Depends… there are two streets I essentially grew up on. I’m either:
Dawn Deadman (sounds like Dedmin)- sounds like a black widow to me… or
Dawn Utopia - … cripes, sounds like a hooker with a heart of gold.
Quite a contrast, there.
Or we could get really technical. I could be Dawn Route 785.
An old friend of mine would be “Anne Army Camp”.
My porn name, FTR, is Pearl Nicklaus. Which is simply the most awesome name ever in the world. ETA: not from any “first ______ + first ______” kind of name, from some other thingy, like a generator or something. It’s still the coolest name ever. EVER.
John Lafayette and Dawn Deadman marry and try to go straight , posing as an artsy couple who migrated from Greenwich Village to Scenic Falls to pursue a simpler life as antique dealers.
Blackmailer Marie Brooks has other plans and will be dealt with --PERMANENTLY.
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Any ideas for the name of our burg?
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Ceciltown. No, Cecilville. I know – Cecil City!
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon]
An old friend of mine would be “Anne Army Camp”.
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“Anne Army Camp”–Daughter of two very wealthy people. Joe Army and Amy Anne Camp. Orphaned at age 5 (two years after she was born), and inherited their vast fortune. It has been managed by her uncle, John Lafayette, who has spent most of it. When she finds this out at age 18, she kills him, does a stint in Cecil Penitenary, and falls in love with a guard there. Ends up “middle class and happy.” The Guard is killed in a prison riot, and Anne finds out he had made a fortune in Internet stocks, so she is now the wealthy widow.
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
“Anne Army Camp”–Daughter of two very wealthy people. Joe Army and Amy Anne Camp. Orphaned at age 5 (two years after she was born), and inherited their vast fortune. It has been managed by her uncle, John Lafayette, who has spent most of it. When she finds this out at age 18, she kills him, does a stint in Cecil Penitenary, and falls in love with a guard there. Ends up “middle class and happy.” The Guard is killed in a prison riot, and Anne finds out he had made a fortune in Internet stocks, so she is now the wealthy widow.
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But Stefano DiMera has Doctor Rolf steal John Lafayette’s corpse and re-animate it.
Soapdom now has two Phoenixes!! Bwahahaha!
Later still, it is revealed that Amy’s hubby wasn’t killed, but drugged and carted off to one of the DiMera family islands.
John Lafayette, who,for the benefit of the squeamish viewer, is only related to Amy by marriage, gets plastic surgery to look just like Amy’s “dead” husband.
As Amy’s husband’s long-lost twin brother, he romances her and cleans out her fortune, of which he kicks back 60% to Stefano.
BTW, Amy’s husband/ the reconstructed John Lafayette will be played by Jensen Ackles, whom everyone will have to forget, played Sami Brady’s twin brother Eric prior to getting a gig as a mutant on “Dark Angel”.
Toward the end of this story arc, we’ll need to bring Jessica Alba in for a two-week guest stint–at the end of which she dons a catsuit and kicks Jensen’s ass.
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Later still, it is revealed that Amy’s hubby wasn’t killed, but drugged and carted off to one of the DiMera family islands.
John Lafayette, who,for the benefit of the squeamish viewer, is only related to Amy by marriage, gets plastic surgery to look just like Amy’s “dead” husband.
As Amy’s husband’s long-lost twin brother, he romances her and cleans out her fortune, of which he kicks back 60% to Stefano.
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The two rules in my soap opera universe are no dead people coming back and no long lost twins showing up.