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sith_happened) wrote2007-09-05 05:28 pm
sith_happened) wrote2007-09-05 05:28 pm
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OOC: Better Late Than Never: The Introduction to Fry’s Boys
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Hector “Arr” Barbossa (pirate currently not appearing in this game): Barbossa is currently off-island catching up on thirty years of canon and adding squirrels to life in the Caribbean. He’s from the Pirates of the Caribbean and is interested in rum, wenching, rum, running a radio station (long story), being wily, and rum. While he is away…
Doctor Johnny “I Don’t Understand the Squirrels” Fever is running the radio station. Johnny hails from 1979 and WKRP in Cincinnati, the best show about a radio station in the history of television. (And possibly the only show about a radio station. Hush.) He is very, very normal aside from a caffeine addiction and the ability to fall asleep just about anywhere. His canon brings the crack (men dressed as carp, turkeys falling from the sky), but not the supernatural, so he’s having a bit of an adjustment period. He should be fine in a few days. His mood swings from hyperactive to asleep faster than just about anyone’s.
Josh “I Wanna Mock People” Lyman has been in Fandom for a year and a half (how did that happen?), so very little surprises him any more. Coming from the West Wing, he’s also more grounded in the non-magical world, but he’s been dating the lovely Alianne, a magical spy type, so his horizons have expanded. He is the sponsor for student government, as is right and proper. He’s very, very good at his job (getting people elected, yelling at Congress, being right) and talks quickly, expects people to keep up with him and has an irrational disdain for British people because he’s irritated by the Ambassador to Great Britain in his version of the world. He’s also a bit of a worrier about people he cares about: his life has a tendency to kill off people at the most inopportune moment. He was pulled out of his canon right after Bartlet was reelected president so that I didn’t have to live through the travesty that was season 5.
Anakin “Sullen is a Lifestyle Choice” Skywalker began life at Fandom as a student, graduated, went home, got secretly married and had his whole life go to hell. He turned back up 20 years later (or four days…) as Darth Vader, there to check up on his son Luke and convert him to the Dark Side. Or kill him. His boss didn’t really care much in either direction. Episodes V and VI played out in game over the course of last year and now he’s back, redeemed and in a shiny new cloned body. He teaches ethics. Yes, he thinks it’s hysterical too. He’s a good guy, but not really a nice one.
The important bit: Very, very few people know about the link between Vader and Anakin and for good reason. Being a planet-killing homicidal embodiment of evil isn’t exactly what Anakin had planned out for his life and he’s not the chattiest guy on personal matters to begin with. Currently on the island, the only people who know about the link (other than the administration, who know everything, naturally, and now I have this mental image of a filing cabinet in Zoe’s office labeled “Skywalker”) are Luke, Jaina, Lucifer, Molly, Isabel and Rikku (and Anakin doesn’t know about Rikku). If you think it is vitally important for your character to know, drop me an email and we’ll see what we can work out. As far as Anakin is concerned, he’s told everyone who needs to know. Luke might have another opinion. Regarding the death of Padme, the details of what happened will be kept between Anakin, Rory, and Luke (and Rikku, though, again, Anakin doesn’t know that) and most likely never, ever spoken of again.
Powers and such: Anakin is the most powerful
Getting on Anakin’s bad side: Even though nursing grudges and holding on too tightly put him on the express train to the Dark Side, Anakin hasn’t learned to tone down that charming aspect of his personality. He’s absolutely the kind of guy who has an alphabetized list of everyone who’s ever wronged him (he has pages on Obi-Wan) and once you’re on that list, you tend to stay there. The fastest track to having a pissed off Chosen One on your case is messing with the people he cares about (admittedly, a pretty small list): Luke, Jaina, Qui-Gon, and Rory. He won’t forgive—or forget—an insult to any of them and his standard of what constitutes insulting behavior is probably much higher than the ones the characters themselves would use.
That being said, he’s a pretty soft touch on broken characters, mostly because he’s been there himself (not that he’ll tell you that. Anakin lets his guard down around exactly two people and he killed one of them on the Death Star). It’s just in his own way: if he thinks you’re being stupid, he’ll tell you so and in very blunt terms. There was a reason Obi-Wan was part of the team: Anakin’s no diplomat.
Anything else? He’s also pretty much awesome with a lightsaber or in anything he can convince to fly. He’s gotten over his “oh, I am unworthy to hold a lightsaber” angst and is back to kicking ass and taking names.
Luke “Whining is Hereditary, Who Knew?” Skywalker, going into his senior year, is his father rationally softened.
Not that he wants to hear that.
Conveniently enough, he went through Episode V & VI last year, too, so he knows all of Anakin’s twisted history (including the Padme parts. Which is why he’s not really talking to Anakin at the moment.), only has one real hand and is becoming increasingly devoted to the idea of restarting the Jedi Order.
That it gets him away from Anakin is an added bonus.
Luke hides the family skeletons very carefully behind a smile and an innocent farmboy exterior. If anything touching on it comes up in conversation, he’ll talk a little about his life on Tatooine and make illusions to blowing up Death Stars and seeing combat, but he is repressing like a champion and Jedi-ness aside, is really focusing on trying to be a teenager because he knows it won’t last. He will babble on forever about his sister if you get him started. He’s friendly, but not exactly open.
He’s still the much easier Skywalker to get to know, loves to listen, and really tunes into people’s emotions (so please include them in your narrative if you want him to pick them up). He doesn’t lose his temper unless sorely provoked and tends to forget about the event shortly thereafter. He doesn’t loom and stomp like his father (which makes sense since he will never hit the 6’3” his dad is pushing), and gives people second, third and fourth chances. He’s not the flashiest Skywalker, but he’s the more effective Jedi. He’s also stubborn like a stubborn thing (not shocking, given his parents). If he’s walking in a certain direction and there’s a wall in the way, he really will expect the wall to move. He’s very intuitive and instinctive and will trust his heart over his head more often than not.
Powers and such: In terms of raw power, he’s not far behind Anakin, but he’s only had a year of training rather than a lifetime and is still fumbling his way around a bit. He also has a living, breathing example of what not to do, so he tends to lean more towards doing too little with his power rather than too much. He’s also not at all in-your-face about what he can do: someone else would give a much more exciting version of what blowing up the Death Star was like. He thinks of himself as a good pilot and a fairly decent shot. He’s really a lot closer to exceptional on both. When he chooses to tap into what he can do, he’s brilliant, but right now his first instinct is never the Force.
He doesn’t have the need to go for the jugular that his father does, so he will always give you a chance to disengage, to change your mind, and to walk away. He tried to negotiate with Umbridge even after he knew she’d sliced his
So. Funny stories, witty anecdotes, questions that don’t include why I am drawn to sarcastic headcases?
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