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Character Name: Bart Allen [Bar Torr]
Series: DCnU Teen Titans
Age: 18/19ish
From When?: The fight during his trial (Issue 27/28) - basically, he ends up dying when Superboy choke-holds him out into space.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - Honestly, the brass tacks of it is that Bar has to change his sense of morality. When he lived as Bart Allen he learned the way of being a superhero, he learned to fight for the betterment of people without killing. That foundation is there, the lessons had started to sink in, but with his cover identity stripped away and the merciless revolutionary exposed, he's lost sight of it. Living in a place like the Barge and working with someone who can guide his sense of morality away from violence and bloodshed and more towards a peaceful, hopefully bloodless push for change would really help him be able to go back home and work through his in canon "redemption" arc and actually come out of it on top.
Abilities/Powers: Superspeed! In canon, Bar's speed has been forcibly accelerated to the point where he needs to constantly wear his suit in order to keep from slipping through reality and other such comics nonsense. As an inmate on the barge, this will thankfully be extremely reduced. I'd say his reaction time and processing speed will be at least halved, but his overall speed will probably just be a quarter of what it is in canon. That is, instead of being able to run laps around a speeding car and zip off to New York and back in the blink of an eye, he'll top out at just under the speed of a car on the freeway. Which... still sounds like a lot, but in canon speedsters can do the whole run across countries in a panel and jog across water (and run so fast they break free of the pull of gravity but. y'know. comics science.).
Personality: To describe Bar as even something like two sides of a coin wouldn't quite be doing it justice. The kid is literally split between two different personas, and seeing that the fully formed person that was Bart Allen has only just been revealed as false, it's... a bit confusing inside of Bar's mind. So first, we'll go over the various parts of the two different personas (Bart Allen and Bar Torr) and then we'll go into how they've combined and influenced this new person Bar's becoming.
Now, before we go into Bart Allen, it's best noted that this kid is best described as childish energy meets asshole teenagerdom. In this world, he was never Impulse. He never had that sweet and innocent side to him, he was never really a joke or someone that shouldn't be a hero or anything like that, but he does still live up to the name in ways. Only he's mixed with a bit of a darker more mature side as well. Which seems to be the norm when it comes to the DC reboot.
Bart is energy. He's constantly moving and doing something, he gets bored easily and does increasingly ridiculous things to keep himself entertained. If he's out of uniform, he's speaking in large hand gestures, teasing his friends and teammates by zipping to and from various locations, disappearing for a second and coming back with a baseball cap from some nearby team and a giant foam finger, stealing food before they can get to it, claiming the tv whenever possible. In uniform, he's not all that different. He'll do training exercises like stealing the plaque of the Statue of Liberty in the blink of an eye, raiding closets and coming up with a modified uniform of his own out of scraps of his friends' old ones, coming back with both evidence he needed to gather and a hot dog in hand. To a speedster, even one not connected to the speedforce, their powers become a part of their personality. The way they function at higher speeds feeds into how they treat both situations and others. Bart has endless amounts of energy, he finds it hard to sit still for too long, he has little patience, and he has a sort of carelessness about him that's a direct result of his speed.
See, Bart's fast enough that things don't really have too many consequences. Danger is real, he knows that much, and he knows that he's able to be hurt and taken out as much as anyone else, but it's hard to fully keep that in mind when he moves faster than everyone around him. When dodging a punch is as easy to him as sidestepping a ninety-year-old man with a walker trying to make his way through molasses. As such, when he first dives into fights or situations, its hard for him to remember that there are people with powers that counteract his own, that he can be caught and hurt and beat down. So, more often than not, he ends up running in headfirst and either having everything work out fine because it is something his speed works out against, or he ends up getting smacked away and having to recover and regroup. ... Or he ends up running away from the Flash across a few dozen countries and every single continent just because he wanted to talk to him about some sort of speed-related murder. It's not quite impulsive behavior, it's a bit more controlled than that, but this Bart is definitely careless.
Now, something
Bart
+ energetic
+ careless
- scathing
- flirty
- menace
Bar
- bitter
- driven
- ruthless
- determined
- friends
[Please write at least 5 solid paragraphs. The more depth and detail, the better! Keep in mind that other players will use this section to determine if your character is a good match for potential Warden/Inmate pairings, and this may be their first exposure to your character.]
Barge Reactions:
[You need to include how they are going to react to the Barge, possibly addressing the other character types, genres, and fandoms they'll be encountering or how they may react to floods or breaches. If the character has stayed on the Barge before, will they remember that and what effect did it have on them?
Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application.]
Path to Redemption: The best way to redeem Bar is to constantly show him that things can be solved without violence and killing. It's a matter of repetition, of peaceably beating out his ingrained response to kill or be kill. He grew up in a world where murder happened all around him, where people were sent off to die with no second thoughts, and where the culling of entire sectors were constantly condoned by the people in charge. So. Yeah. Killing is literally his go-to.
Basically, Bar is an inmate who's both disillusioned with the idea of hope and peaceful rebellion. He's quick to anger, has little to no second thoughts about betrayal if it's for his own greater good, and can give the green-light to kill hundreds upon hundreds of people and doesn't feel a lick of remorse about it. Because that's just how his world is. HOWEVER-- there is a part of Bar that actually really wants friendship and wants to be a hero since... he... really did enjoy being Kid Flash. It's just also on the backburner because, you know, he has a revolution to lead and all that.
Basically, the best Warden for Bar is going to be someone who's flexible, who can actually teach him that how he thinks is wrong and can show him that there really is another way to achieve what he's trying to. It would ideally be someone who can understand killing out of defense and what growing up in a world where that's commonplace can do to someone's morality. The best fit would be someone that Bar would actually find himself bonding with and learning to trust. He's much more prone to listen to and let a friend guide him than someone who's nothing but an ~authority figure~.
His weak spots, for any interested Wardens, are his sister (who's fighting for his enemies), his friends, and the general ideal of being a hero and wearing a mask and saving people over killing them. To restate, there is a part of Bar that does want to remake himself, he's just so stuck in his plans and his revolution that it's hard for him to really think of anything else.
History: here
Sample Journal Entry:
This is stupid. [Says the teenager still making a video post, good job Bar. Way to follow through.] What's the point of this, huh? If I'm dead, let me be dead. I don't give a crap about any of this [He raises up his hands, the way-too-shiny costume he's in reflecting light everywhere as he does some exaggerated finger quotes] "redemption" stuff. I don't need it.
[Everyone else does. Everyone he's fighting against. The Functionary. The Purifiers. Those idiots who had been holding the most one-sided and ridiculous trial in the whole goddamn Universe. Just to make an example of the one guy who'd ever had any luck ruffling their murderous feathers.
He isn't the one who needs help. Or whatever the hell he's here for.]
But let me guess: it doesn't matter, right? [The kid scowls, and man if it doesn't look... oddly vicious.] Figure it won't, everyone's the same. Anyway, I'm Bar.
[There's a pause, before something almost like a grin twists across his face, and he gestures to the red and yellow lightning bolts on his uniform.]
Or Kid Flash, for whatever that's worth.
[It's not like Tim revoked his superhero credentials, after all. Even if he kind of didn't have time to what with Bar trying to kill him and everything. But. You know. Semantics.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific.]
Special Notes:
User DW:
calafeugoAIM/IM: tmesisly
E-mail: reyndown@gmail.com
Other Characters: n/a
Character Name: Bart Allen [Bar Torr]
Series: DCnU Teen Titans
Age: 18/19ish
From When?: The fight during his trial (Issue 27/28) - basically, he ends up dying when Superboy choke-holds him out into space.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - Honestly, the brass tacks of it is that Bar has to change his sense of morality. When he lived as Bart Allen he learned the way of being a superhero, he learned to fight for the betterment of people without killing. That foundation is there, the lessons had started to sink in, but with his cover identity stripped away and the merciless revolutionary exposed, he's lost sight of it. Living in a place like the Barge and working with someone who can guide his sense of morality away from violence and bloodshed and more towards a peaceful, hopefully bloodless push for change would really help him be able to go back home and work through his in canon "redemption" arc and actually come out of it on top.
Abilities/Powers: Superspeed! In canon, Bar's speed has been forcibly accelerated to the point where he needs to constantly wear his suit in order to keep from slipping through reality and other such comics nonsense. As an inmate on the barge, this will thankfully be extremely reduced. I'd say his reaction time and processing speed will be at least halved, but his overall speed will probably just be a quarter of what it is in canon. That is, instead of being able to run laps around a speeding car and zip off to New York and back in the blink of an eye, he'll top out at just under the speed of a car on the freeway. Which... still sounds like a lot, but in canon speedsters can do the whole run across countries in a panel and jog across water (and run so fast they break free of the pull of gravity but. y'know. comics science.).
Personality: To describe Bar as even something like two sides of a coin wouldn't quite be doing it justice. The kid is literally split between two different personas, and seeing that the fully formed person that was Bart Allen has only just been revealed as false, it's... a bit confusing inside of Bar's mind. So first, we'll go over the various parts of the two different personas (Bart Allen and Bar Torr) and then we'll go into how they've combined and influenced this new person Bar's becoming.
Now, before we go into Bart Allen, it's best noted that this kid is best described as childish energy meets asshole teenagerdom. In this world, he was never Impulse. He never had that sweet and innocent side to him, he was never really a joke or someone that shouldn't be a hero or anything like that, but he does still live up to the name in ways. Only he's mixed with a bit of a darker more mature side as well. Which seems to be the norm when it comes to the DC reboot.
Bart is energy. He's constantly moving and doing something, he gets bored easily and does increasingly ridiculous things to keep himself entertained. If he's out of uniform, he's speaking in large hand gestures, teasing his friends and teammates by zipping to and from various locations, disappearing for a second and coming back with a baseball cap from some nearby team and a giant foam finger, stealing food before they can get to it, claiming the tv whenever possible. In uniform, he's not all that different. He'll do training exercises like stealing the plaque of the Statue of Liberty in the blink of an eye, raiding closets and coming up with a modified uniform of his own out of scraps of his friends' old ones, coming back with both evidence he needed to gather and a hot dog in hand. To a speedster, even one not connected to the speedforce, their powers become a part of their personality. The way they function at higher speeds feeds into how they treat both situations and others. Bart has endless amounts of energy, he finds it hard to sit still for too long, he has little patience, and he has a sort of carelessness about him that's a direct result of his speed.
See, Bart's fast enough that things don't really have too many consequences. Danger is real, he knows that much, and he knows that he's able to be hurt and taken out as much as anyone else, but it's hard to fully keep that in mind when he moves faster than everyone around him. When dodging a punch is as easy to him as sidestepping a ninety-year-old man with a walker trying to make his way through molasses. As such, when he first dives into fights or situations, its hard for him to remember that there are people with powers that counteract his own, that he can be caught and hurt and beat down. So, more often than not, he ends up running in headfirst and either having everything work out fine because it is something his speed works out against, or he ends up getting smacked away and having to recover and regroup. ... Or he ends up running away from the Flash across a few dozen countries and every single continent just because he wanted to talk to him about some sort of speed-related murder. It's not quite impulsive behavior, it's a bit more controlled than that, but this Bart is definitely careless.
Now, something
Bart
+ energetic
+ careless
- scathing
- flirty
- menace
Bar
- bitter
- driven
- ruthless
- determined
- friends
[Please write at least 5 solid paragraphs. The more depth and detail, the better! Keep in mind that other players will use this section to determine if your character is a good match for potential Warden/Inmate pairings, and this may be their first exposure to your character.]
Barge Reactions:
[You need to include how they are going to react to the Barge, possibly addressing the other character types, genres, and fandoms they'll be encountering or how they may react to floods or breaches. If the character has stayed on the Barge before, will they remember that and what effect did it have on them?
Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application.]
Path to Redemption: The best way to redeem Bar is to constantly show him that things can be solved without violence and killing. It's a matter of repetition, of peaceably beating out his ingrained response to kill or be kill. He grew up in a world where murder happened all around him, where people were sent off to die with no second thoughts, and where the culling of entire sectors were constantly condoned by the people in charge. So. Yeah. Killing is literally his go-to.
Basically, Bar is an inmate who's both disillusioned with the idea of hope and peaceful rebellion. He's quick to anger, has little to no second thoughts about betrayal if it's for his own greater good, and can give the green-light to kill hundreds upon hundreds of people and doesn't feel a lick of remorse about it. Because that's just how his world is. HOWEVER-- there is a part of Bar that actually really wants friendship and wants to be a hero since... he... really did enjoy being Kid Flash. It's just also on the backburner because, you know, he has a revolution to lead and all that.
Basically, the best Warden for Bar is going to be someone who's flexible, who can actually teach him that how he thinks is wrong and can show him that there really is another way to achieve what he's trying to. It would ideally be someone who can understand killing out of defense and what growing up in a world where that's commonplace can do to someone's morality. The best fit would be someone that Bar would actually find himself bonding with and learning to trust. He's much more prone to listen to and let a friend guide him than someone who's nothing but an ~authority figure~.
His weak spots, for any interested Wardens, are his sister (who's fighting for his enemies), his friends, and the general ideal of being a hero and wearing a mask and saving people over killing them. To restate, there is a part of Bar that does want to remake himself, he's just so stuck in his plans and his revolution that it's hard for him to really think of anything else.
History: here
Sample Journal Entry:
This is stupid. [Says the teenager still making a video post, good job Bar. Way to follow through.] What's the point of this, huh? If I'm dead, let me be dead. I don't give a crap about any of this [He raises up his hands, the way-too-shiny costume he's in reflecting light everywhere as he does some exaggerated finger quotes] "redemption" stuff. I don't need it.
[Everyone else does. Everyone he's fighting against. The Functionary. The Purifiers. Those idiots who had been holding the most one-sided and ridiculous trial in the whole goddamn Universe. Just to make an example of the one guy who'd ever had any luck ruffling their murderous feathers.
He isn't the one who needs help. Or whatever the hell he's here for.]
But let me guess: it doesn't matter, right? [The kid scowls, and man if it doesn't look... oddly vicious.] Figure it won't, everyone's the same. Anyway, I'm Bar.
[There's a pause, before something almost like a grin twists across his face, and he gestures to the red and yellow lightning bolts on his uniform.]
Or Kid Flash, for whatever that's worth.
[It's not like Tim revoked his superhero credentials, after all. Even if he kind of didn't have time to what with Bar trying to kill him and everything. But. You know. Semantics.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific.]
Special Notes:
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