B/V: Lanae and Michael

I know,  I know, it's not NaNoWriMo anymore, but I haven't blogged in a while(ok two months) and I tend to leave things unfinished--which is sad. Currently, I am in the umpteeth revision of my Robin Hood project and not writing anything new; but I realized I never finished introducing y'all to the peeps in B/V--so I'm going to remedy that starting now. Indulge me.

You've met all the protagonists, so here's their allies--cause boy do these guys ever need allies. They're brother and sister, and they were the ones who started the rebellion in the first place. Well, the guy started it, and his sister joined not long after.

The leader of the Resistance is Michael--someone who thinks just enough to decide what the question is before getting the answer. He's also the only one who can reign in Deac if need be. Michael is the one who's got a lot of the answers, but not all of them; and he's only fault is that he stays in the shadows and sends other people out to do the dirty work. Which isn't necessarily a fault per se, but it does slow things down just a little bit as far as taking the Agency apart goes. Michael's model has changed several many times--probably because he's one of those awesome characters that you have to prod with a toothpick to get him to talk to you. But I think I finally pinned one down: Adam Beach.

I saw him in the trailer for "Windtalkers" back in 2002, and thought he was fabulous(though I have yet to see the movie). I did see "Cowboys and Aliens" plus the episode of the "Hawaii Five-O" reboot that he was in, and for some reason he became Michael in my head and he's kind of stuck. (Side note: He's also Slipknot in "Suicide Squad", another film I have yet to see.

Confession: I started writing this while in the middle of my investigation into the CW series "The 100"(I lost interest so didn't watch past the second season--BUT I read all the recaps, because, you know, librarian day job) so the model for Lanae is from the cast of "The 100"(the second season). Lanae's model is  actress Luisa D'Oliveira:

Lanae is the yin to Michael's yang, and she's the one person who can calm him down or pull him out of a funk if need be. She's tough as nails but also really warm and caring when she needs to be--and in some of the situations that Jason and co. get into, they really need a nice listening ear. 

So yes, both of these celeb models are from films I've only seen trailers to(except one) and a tv show that I watched for like a second, but they made enough of an impact on this writer to make them models for some of her characters, so I'd say that all worked out pretty well.