Frito

Frito
Character(s):	Marie-Ange Colbert, Kyle Gibney
Email:
Pronouns:	she/her
Date joined:	May 2003

About

Karen "Frito" Lawrence is currently an active player of X-Project. She began playing Marie-Ange Colbert in May of 2003, and Kyle Gibney in October of 2004. She currently acts as one of the admins for the Xproject wiki, and has been a mod of the game twice previously, retiring from her most recent tenure as a mod in April 2017. She also hosts and maintains the webpage and is generally responsible for dealing with the technical end of any of the webpage-y things for the game.

She can be reached on gchat via the email address, or email at Her preferred means of contact is email, and her personal journal, full of memes, posts about cupcakes, assorted miscellany, and infrequent actual content can be found at Frito. The picture shown here is not actually representative of Frito. Mostly. She has a twitter. You can probably guess that it's also Frito_Kal

A former resident of Baltimore and the Washington DC Area, she now lives in San Marcos, CA (a bit north of San Diego) - she hates snow and shoes, and loves seafood, tea and math. She lives with Twiller and their son "Typechip", born in February 2014, and has a truly astounding number of stuffed animals for someone who is in her forties.

She also claims to be 1/4 allosaurus.

Phase 2

Socking

Modsocks	NPCs	Villains	Formerly Socked
Amelia Voght	Rebecca Barnes Storm Family Odin	Ian McNee Bullseye Abyss Slendermen

Phase 1

Socking

Modsocks	NPCs	Villains	Formerly Socked
Amelia Voght	Rebecca Barnes Big Bertha Storm Family	Quentin Quire, Milan Telford Porter Rebecca Barnes Ian McNee Skurge the Executioner Cameron Hodge Abyss Dark Riders Heinrich Klar Nanny The Orphan Maker Reavers (villains) Fer-de-Lance Slendermen Abadu Bemba	Artie Maddicks (now played)

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Player Bio	Wiki Page Update Kyle Gibney	Wiki Page Update before May 31, 2010
Wiki Page Update 2011.	Great 2011 Wiki Update.	Game Art and Images
Part of Wiki Update Party July 2015!	For edits to re-associate P1 events with p1 characters

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Today is Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

This month in XProject: July 2024

This week is 27-2024

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Daily Events

July 3 PHASE 1 2003: Kitty has a powers mishap with her pet rat Algernon and accidentally kills him. 2004: Nathan and Amanda discuss Manuel's empathic training. 2005: Jubilee finishes her first hand-to-hand session with Haroun. 2006: Crystal meets Kevin out by the fountain, and they have a rather strained conversation about powers. Terry has her first Danger Room session with Scott. Bleeding: Marius tells Forge that he's decided to leave the school rather than stick around and be an "invalid". The Rictor Effect: Julio wakes up in a hospital in Mexico and learns he is a mutant; Julio's father calls Nathan and convinces him to come talk to Julio about the school; then later that night, Magneto kidnaps Julio out of the hospital. 2007: Scott and Jean discuss the futility of the year's events. Cain announces the construction of a kennel on-site for the mansion's pets. Cain encounters Jennie, who is not coping at all well with the Attilan disappearance and then goes to talk to Ororo about the trainees. Marius and Kyle have a discussion that erupts into violence before Scott intervenes. 2008: Shiro and Alex have a confrontation outside the Danger Room and it becomes clear things are hard for Shiro with Alex on the team. Mark remixes some of Jay's songs for Silver, and Jay is less than impressed. Jan wishes everyone a happy Independence Day for the next day. 2009: Mnemovore: Jean-Paul runs into Johnny as he is released from medlab and reluctantly accepts help. Callie tracks down Angel (with bribery cookies) to talk to her about the latest incident with Julian. Charles announces the departures of three residents - Tatiana, Alex and Tommy. Analog Kid, Digital Man: Doug and Forge make their reports on the trip to their respective teams; Doug e-mails Forge about the escape of Milan and Quire. Fred posts about 4th of July plans for a BBQ. Jake posts about plans to spend the 4th of July on the roof with booze and fireworks. Adrienne helps Cammie study mathematics through the not so subtle use of bribery. Shiro visits Jean-Paul and they talk about helping him through his current situation. Jean-Paul makes a post to the journals about being back amongst the living. Laurie posts about being back at the mansion for good. Yvette runs into Julian creating waves and they talk about Angel and miscommunications are resolved. Catseye goes to see Jean-Paul for a visit and delivers a tackle-hug before settling in. 2010: Jared sees Crystal out flying and asks her out. 2011: Charles makes a post announcing what happened on July 1 and the list of casualties, also that most of the residents are going to be staying at the Hamptons for a few days while the damage is repaired. 2012: Jean leaves a squirrel coffee cup and a bag of ground macadamia nut flavored coffee and a note for Dori. Kurt tries to coax Dori into talking about what she went through in Genosha. Nico posts a comic strip on the journals about Jesus being a swell guy. Layla finds herself at Nico’s door and they talk. Marie-Ange posts a picture of animals talking in caps. Dori announces that everyone will be sorted into different houses via the Sorting Hat on the Fourth of July. Jubilee posts that she is taking in requests for firework displays. 2013: 2014: Laurie invites Doug to the mansion’s 4th of July BBQ. Adrienne emails Garrison about her evening with Emma, Emma’s invitation to Las Vegas, and their trip to Boston for the 4th. Hope posts an update on the Red-X fundraiser. Lorna posts a general invitation to the July 4th BBQ at the mansion. Matt posts an open invitation for breakfast/brunch at Deli-CAT-essen before the BBQ. Longshot’s PR people send Cecilia the asked-for autographed photo; Cecilia leaves the photograph for Clint; Clint emails Cecilia with his thanks. Wade has his check-up with Cecilia and they talk about tattoos. PHASE 2 2015: Laurie asks Jean to meet her in town for brunch to get away from the mansion. Alison sends Sue a text thanking her for the pointers, but things take a turn for the worse when she uses it and her powers to damage the wall. Doug discovers Marie-Ange upset at her tarot collection - and then learns how much the universe being rebuilt has affected her powers, and ripple effects are seen, down to the organizational level. 2016: Molly posts to the journals asking if anyone has any plans for Independence Day. 2017: Emma delicately changes the subject from spiders to apartment decor. Maya changes it back to spiders. Cecilia, still on vacation, checks in with the medlab staff post-infestation. 2018: X-Men Mission: Type X Negative: Bobbi lets all the teams know that she’s heard another attack is upcoming. Wanda drops by to see Clint and winds up catching Miles in his underwear due to new Spidey-suit testing. 2019: 2020: 2021: 2022: Darcy texts Kyle and Terry to ask them where they are. Marie-Ange shares a new tarot deck she's found. 2023: Julio introduces himself on the journals and asks for a ride to a gardening center. Terry texts Darcy asking if she should make a cake for her grandmother. Forge posts a political cartoon to represent his views on the 4th of July. Julio and Shatterstar meet each other. Julio meets Matt, who offers to help with his visa.

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Moment of Awesome - Jessie Drake/Chameleon: Nica meets Jessie while she's decorating for Pride, and they discuss being ace in the community. "Happy Pride!" Jessie threw her arms up in celebration. "Now I accidentally bought a million flags - don't ask how that happened - so do you happen to subscribe to the good word of the queer gods on this door?" She made a show of gesturing to the door like she was about to open it to reveal a grand prize. Nica paused again. Then she said, rather bashfully: "Do you have a spare ace flag?" Maybe it was time for her to take actual pride in her own orientation. "Of course!" Jessie dipped into the suite and came back out with an eight by eleven ace flag, proudly presenting it to Nica. "Don't tell the others-" by which she meant the other flags, of course, "but this one is my favorite. The color scheme is just so nice. I might get a bigger ace tattoo next month, I'm starting to get the itch for one again. And the butterflies are so small." She turned her arm to show Nica the pride butterflies in the crook of her elbow - one ace, one aro, and one trans. Nica blinked. "Wait, are you ace too?" The "too" was kind of a giveaway. "Sure am!" Jessie puffed up proudly - as much as she was capable of, at least. "It doesn't come up as much as being trans because no one ever really asks, 'hey how do you feel about sex' unless they want to have it with you, but personally I think we should talk more about it." Nica clutched the flag to her chest. "YES." It couldn't have been more vehement if she'd tried. "I mean, I get it, sex is important for the continuation of the species and all that, but it's everywhere. Especially here. So much sex. All the time." She wrinkled her nose a bit. "I mean, I feel like the species might benefit from going celibate for like a decade, but..." Jessie waggled her hand back and forth. "That's not the point. And yeah I've noticed people are a lot more..." More hand waving. "Around here. And that's cool, good for them, no shame. But like. Man, I understand libidos even less than I did when I was living in a college dorm." That got a brief bark of laughter. "I swear the whole place needs hosing down sometimes," she agreed. It was such a relief to talk to someone else who felt the way she did. "I mean, I get it. Lots of attractive, fit young-ish people all crammed into the same living space. But it just gets so damn tiring sometimes!" She tilted her head. "So, this is probably a bit personal, but when you go to Pride... I'm guessing it's under the trans flag? Since it's not really safe with the others?" Jessie tilted her head a little, curious. "What do you mean 'safe'?" Nica grimaced. "Well... There's the whole "ace people aren't really queer" dialogue going on. Not just with the straights, but with the whole queer community, you know? And there's a pretty loud group that says we should be included under the Pride umbrella and definitely not at Pride itself." She stopped, feeling awkward. "You're right, that dialogue does happen." Jessie's tone was a bit more sedate now. "And - first to answer your question, I go under all the flags. I either wear the trans flag as a cape and wear my aro-ace shirt - it's a bow in the ace colors and an arrow in the aro colors - or I wear my ace/aro combo flag and 'nobody knows I'm trans' shirt. And... you're right, people do say that, and they're very loud about it, but they're not the majority. And that's not always reassuring, because they're still loud and kind of scary sometimes, and no amount of reasoning with them is ever going to work. The most important part, I think, is to remember that they're wrong, and also that there are people like them for almost every letter of the community except L and G. Like - bi people who aren't in same-sex relationships. If your partner looks like the opposite gender, then you're not really bi according to the self appointed community judges, and you don't belong at Pride. Trans women - especially lesbians - have a hard time because they're told they 'take resources from real women.' I've been told before that I don't belong to the trans community because I have passing privilege, which is total bullshit. There's always going to be people telling you that you don't belong unless you fit their very strict guidelines of what a queer person should be, and they're wrong. And I know it sounds like I'm making it all seem really easy like you can wake up tomorrow with sudden confidence because you know they're wrong, but really it takes time - and for me years of therapy - so if you want to go to Pride and you're not ready to be loud and proud, that's fine too. No one is going to stop you at the proverbial gate and ask what flag you're attending under, you know?" Nica took all of this in, nodding along as Jessie spoke. "I guess it's because I've only been out a few years, and only around here," she admitted. "But... maybe it's time I stopped worrying about it." She gave Jessie a shy sort of smile. "If it wouldn't cramp your style, would it be okay if I joined you? For the first little while, anyway?" "Of course!" Jessie was obviously and absolutely thrilled. She loved helping people find their way into the community, even if they were just testing the waters. "You can join us for whatever you want, however long you want. And if you decide you want to get a little more crazy, we can help."

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