User:BilliAnn Bravin

About Me
BilliAnn Bravin joined Wikia through editing some entries on SWRPedia: The Second Life Star Wars Wiki. That resulted in her apparently being given an account on the main Wikia, though she thought that it would also mean that her User Page information there would transfer over to this as well. As it didn't, following is the copied user page information from SWRPedia. It is heavy in Second Life coverage because BilliAnn spends most of her time in that virtual community.

BilliAnn Bravin has been a resident of Second Life since June of 2008, after reading Second Life For Dummies. She initially got involved in the Doctor Who community in SL, where she met in her first month inworld Rhialto Tereschchenko, now the Exarch of New Tibannopolis. An avid comics reader, BilliAnn was also was drawn to the SL superhero community, where she joined the Blue Lantern Corps in August 2008 and, in November, became a member of the Justice League Unlimited, SL's premiere peacekeeping/community service organization. (Both the BLC and the JLU were actual service groups that helped protect SL residents from the actions of griefers by reporting such acts to Linden Labs and helping residents recover from them. The JLU remains such an organization, although the BLC has declined under its current leadership to little more than a token group.)

BilliAnn also joined Rhialto first at his space station and then at several locations around SL as a zombie hunter, racking up an impressive number of "kills" in that area. Early in 2009, BilliAnn also joined Rhialto in a series of Star Wars RP scenarios, in which she portrayed an assassin character, who maintained a cover as a musician, supporting Rhialto's Mandalorian bounty hunter on several missions. She later introduced Rhialto to his now SL wife, Christine Ballyhoo, with whom she'd been best friends for several months. Christine and BilliAnn had met as tribute musicians in Starshine Productions, a short-lived production company producing tribute bands for performances at various SL venues. When the original owner had disappeared abruptly from SL, BilliAnn had salvaged as many of the bands as she could and kept the company going. Eventually, she formed her own production company, Brightest Day Productions, and now offers a number of tribute bands for performance. These include The Beatles, The Doors, The Animals (a band of furries), The Go Go's, Alice Cooper, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. She also picked up Elvis and ABBA from another tribute company that recently fell on hard times. She is currenly working on a number of Woodstock-era bands for a series of concerts to culminate in an SL recreation of the original Woodstock festival to run in August 2010, created by her friend FrannyDJ Dean. Bands she is working on for this include The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, CSN&Y, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, among others.

BilliAnn has worked at a number of SL clubs, starting in October 2008 as a hostess at the now defunct Underground Club in the Knightsbridge sim of the London, England, region, where she worked till March 2010. She was a hostess, head hostess, and co-owrner/manager at the short-lived Mersey Side Cavern club in mid- to late 2009, and has served as manager at Club Liberty NYC since February 2010. BilliAnn has also worked as a hostess at the superhero-themed Heroes club since June 2009. She was a concierge for several months in mid-2009 at the Palace High Society ballroom before it closed. BilliAnn's other heroic affilations include The White Lantern Corps, in which she serves as a Guardian of Light; The SL Indigo Lantern Corps, which she founded and leads as Indigo-1; The Green Lanterns, where she acts as a Guardian of Oa; and The Star Sapphire Core. She was a guardian in The Blue Lantern Corps as well, until she left that group in disgust over the very non-Lanternlike treachery of a fellow guardian. She is also the current chair of the Lantern Alliance, a group of SL Lantern Corps interested in peacekeeping and community service as opposed to merely RP. In Justice League Unlimited, BilliAnn is head of the Internal Events committee, a member of the Public Relations committee, and Liaison to the Lantern Alliance. She also helps coordinate the League's security details for SL events, contributes to its forums and wiki on a regular basis, and is a contributor to its affiliated Krypton Radio.

Currently, BilliAnn lives in the Victorian sim 1888, in a nice house with her partner and husband, the Duke Nik Daffyd. The two met at the sim, where BilliAnn was a student at Lady E's Academy, and partnered in April 2010 and will be wed there in June. She also manages the sim's new concert hall, Club 88, where she will be putting on shows by her bands (in a little "pocket out of time"), and helps the Duke in overseeing rental properties there. She maintains a separate apartment in another sim, mainly out of nostalgia and as a place to keep her kitty, Max, and nonperiod furnishings. BilliAnn is a landowner, too, on the restricted-access Justice Island, home of the JLU, where she maintains a fantasy garden and a Victorian TARDIS skybox as a sort of "Fortress of Solitude" away from the rest of the virtual world. Whenever she finds the time (rare), BilliAnn explores new places in SL and visits sims related to her areas of interest--Victoriana, Sherlock Holmes, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Doctor Who and science fiction in general, superheroics, steampunk, and other genres. She has just agreed to RP as security chief for Exarch Rhialto at New Tibannopolis to help coordinate JLU OOC patrols of Bespin. And BilliAnn is currently a mentor for the Relay For Life fund-raising program for the American Cancer Society in SL, as well as a mentor in the Virtual Reflections program for helping newbies at the Dark City RP sim.

Oh, and occasionally she finds time to contribute to wikis and other sites on the Web.