Below is an explanation of the application requirements we will be holding all of the applications to, and a guide to help explain the outline to you. Applications should be posted in the comments section of this post. If you have a reserve, please make it clear in the subject line of your comment(s). Applications are accepted within the week, and they are currently open.
Player Name: Self-explanatory. Player Journal: Self-explanatory. If your journal is only on livejournal, use the following code:
Player Age: Self-explanatory. Players under 18 will not be permitted to play out adult content in the game. Current Characters: Characters that you currently have in Project Gemini. If you are applying for an additional character beyond the three character limit, please link your cleared activity checks in this section as demonstrated here.
Character Name: Self-explanatory. Canon: Title of the series/work/fandom. Medium: Television/Anime/Comic/Movie/Book/Etc.
Character Age: At the chosen canon point. Characters under 18 will not be permitted to play out adult content in the game. Canon Point: The point in the story from which you are drawing your character. Be it an episode stock number or name or a chapter number or an issue number, or just an event. Give us an idea of where they are coming in.
Why did you choose this character?: What do you like about your character? What draws you to them? Give us an idea of why you've chosen this particular character. Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Any plans you might have for them to work on. If they're from a different time period, maybe think about how they'll adjust to the different technology. If they're from the same time period, what they'll try to do while in the confines of the city.
History: DO NOT WRITE THIS OUT. Provide a link to a wiki. If a wiki link is not available and you can't find ANY source that will summarize your character's story in canon, please write this out. Personality: At least 500 words. Give us a couple paragraphs talking about your character's driving motivations. Their goals, their personality traits, their driving characteristics and their basic attitude and mental processes. If you need help getting started, you can choose to answer the following questions in addition to or in lieu of this section. If you choose to do it in lieu of, it must still come out above 500 words:
Who is the most important person in your character's life and why?: How have the events of your character's canon helped them grow?: What are some of your character's emotional strengths?: What are some of your character's flaws?: What is your character afraid of?: What are your character's goals and motivations?:
First Person Sample: First person sample network post. Can be linked from a thread or post of when you previously played this character, but please keep it in the ballpark of your chosen canon point. Third Person Sample: Third person narrative post. Can be linked from a thread or post of when you previously played this character, but please keep it in the ballpark of your chosen canon point.
Why did you choose this character?: Buffy is a character that I love and hate at the same time. She's an inspiration and she's bossy and annoying all at the same time. I like playing her because she's been that important to me and I like sharing that. She's got all these huge gaping faults that are either tied in with or mirror her strengths, and she's very real because of it. In other news, Joss Whedon is a genius. Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Buffy will probably work on a basic level at keeping the monster levels down in the city and then try and help figure out a way for them to get out of it, trying to find out what kind of spell got them there.
Prior to becoming the Slayer, Buffy was rather superficial and shallow, which was a point of great contention with her first Watcher, Merrick. She acted the part of the stereotypical valley girl, all about shoes and shopping and boys. However, after becoming the Slayer was when Buffy's growing up first started. She develops a sense of focus in her life, and while she's not quite soldier material, it definitely put her a rut up above most of her classmates on the responsibility scale.
Overall, she's a naturally snarky girl, who's a fan of quips and likes bantering with demons almost as much as she likes fighting them. She's somewhat klutzy and airheaded at times, but despite this she's shown to be highly intelligent when it comes to formulating plans and doing her job -- probably in part due to her Slayer abilities. She's also bull-headed and stubborn and once she's set her mind on something, she doesn't accept anything less. She makes her destiny what she wants to make of it and doesn't accept the "you are fated to this" crap.
Buffy has mixed feelings about her role as the Slayer. She grows to accept it through season 5 more than anything, and she really embraces it, but she doesn't let it define her and she had some initial resistance to the responsibility. She never really stops viewing it as a burden (even calling it that in season 7 when talking to Faith) and has repeatedly tried to reject her destiny in the past before embracing her role and really settling into it in season 5. However, she still has some lingering sentiments of wanting to return to her normal life, which are exploited in Normal Again, but conflict directly with her desire to hold onto her powers because she sees the Slayer as being such a huge part of her that she can't just let go of.
Her exposure to the supernatural has forced her to grow up rather quickly. It's through her destiny as the Slayer that Buffy learns the importance of duty and how to put it above other things, like her own feelings. She constantly proves herself capable of making the tough calls. However, that doesn't make her invulnerable to fear. When Buffy learned from Giles that her death was prophesized and that she would be killed by the Master, she tried to quit slaying and leave town. However, when other lives were put at stake by her decision, she came back to fulfill her duty. It showed that while Buffy does fear for her own life, she also puts the lives of others before herself. She's not exactly selfless, but she is definitely hero material.
The Slayer rite, called the Cruciamentum, that Buffy underwent in season 3 in which she lost all her powers and was pitted against a demon took a great toll on her. It took her to her weakest point and put her up against things that she couldn't handle -- not only that, but it turned someone she trusted against her and forced him to betray and hurt her. It put a severe strain on her relationship with Giles and came out to be more of a cruel and unusual punishment for being born into this rather than a lesson of any kind. It puts her in this place where she's alone and she has to fight by herself with no powers and she learns that when it comes down to it, it's just her. Just her and the demons. While she's always learned to rely on her friends, the Cruciamentum makes it clear that she doesn't get that luxury as a Slayer.
Through the trauma of dealing with Slayerdom, she's learned to rely on others like the Scooby Gang but she's also learned that she'll never be able to do that -- she understands that being the Slayer isn't something you can share with anyone. She has to understand that while she'll always want to be and try to be just a girl, she can't ever do that. Because she's not just a girl, she's the Slayer, and she has responsibilities and experiences and a weight on her chest that no one else can understand. It's a responsibility that Buffy has learned to take very seriously and put above her own wants and needs. She sees her duty as something that has to come before other things like school and boys.
When Buffy met Kendra, the second slayer, it was a big stepping stone for her. Meeting someone else who could do exactly what she did, and had the same fate as she did, and yet accepted it so much better than Buffy did changed her in a lot of ways. It helped her accept that being the Slayer didn't have to be a burden, but it could be a gift. Kendra, the dedicated soldier, showed Buffy that it was an honor to be chosen to save the world. However, Drusilla killed Kendra, and Buffy suffered the loss of a dear friend -- but Buffy kept Kendra's stake, Mr. Pointy, as a memory of her.
On the other hand, Faith taught Buffy some very different things. Faith taught Buffy that there is a line, and while Slayers are powerful enough to cross it, that doesn't make it right. She taught her to be more aware of her own boundaries and her own underlying urges. Buffy, just as Faith tried to argue with her several times, has a certain ruthless quality about her -- a killer instinct. All Slayers have it, and though Buffy covers it up with all her duty and her self righteousness about doing the right thing and killing the bad guys, she still has it. It's that violent urge that leads to her stabbing Faith in the gut, even though it was for the sake of saving the love of her life.
The other thing is that it proves how far she's willing to go for the ones she loves -- and it's a pretty scary length. She'd literally do anything to save someone she cares about, be it sacrificing her own life (Angel nearly kills her when she uses her own blood the cure the poison Faith introduces into his system) or sacrificing someone else's (she wanted to use Faith's blood). If the person means something to her to that degree, she'd destroy worlds -- and as the Slayer, she can.
However, Faith also taught her about forgiveness when people are looking for it. Buffy claimed that she had tried everything to help Faith when she first began her downward spiral, but it became clear that wasn't true when Angel started getting through to her and Buffy went to L.A. and found them together. Buffy was hurt and betrayed by her own immature and jealous feelings, but eventually came to accept that Faith was looking for forgiveness and trying to make right what she'd screwed up, and Buffy came to forgive her and even respected her decision to turn herself in.
That said, Buffy, despite how mature she's had to become, is still an intensely immature person. She often lets herself get distracted by petulance, jealousy and petty arguments. The smallest, most insignificant thing can become something that she fixates on and blows way out of proportion. She's very possessive, and doesn't let go of things easily -- even after she and Angel say their goodbyes, when she sees Faith with him in L.A., it kicks up the same jealous reaction she had when seeing them together in season 3 prior to their break-up. She doesn't like other people playing with her things, and she just generally doesn't like sharing.
It was one of the greatest contenders between her and Faith -- Buffy's only child complex. She has a hard time viewing the world outside the scope of her own wants, needs and desires. Normally, it's not an issue, because her own desires and needs involve Slayerdom and therefore saving the world, but when it comes to the more day-to-day stuff, it can be a trial to deal with. Particularly because of my next point …
A part of this only child syndrome wears away after Dawn comes into play, in that it forces Buffy to grow up and take on a kind of mom role since Joyce dies around there. She learns how to have maternal instincts and while this is good for her because she has to be somewhat down to Earth and not go crazy overboard, and put others before herself instead of being her usual selfish Buffy, it's also part of what drives her to power-tripping. Buffy has a complex of having to take care of everyone and be everyone's mother. She's constantly the savior, constantly the one scolding people who screw up, and she just generally has to take on a whole lot of roles that she's not ready for.
Buffy is self-righteous. She's the very textbook definition of self-righteous. When it comes to Buffy, because of how much of a natural born leader she is and because of how seriously she takes her role as the Slayer, it's her way or the highway. It is what causes her to break ties with the Watcher's Council, and it's also what causes it to be tough for her to get along with certain people and butt heads. The potential Slayers in season 7 call her out on it and impeach her from being their leader because they can't tolerate it.
She doesn't know how to accept being wrong and she has a sense of pride that is often overwhelming and keeps her from admitting she's wrong when she does finally come to terms with the fact that she is. It's a part of that burden of being a Slayer. She can't share it with anyone, and no one can understand what it's like to be her, and they all admit it. However, it gives her this mentality that she's in a perpetual teenage girl state of mind that no one understands her and her life is an abyss of agony sometimes. That mentality is half of what alienates her from people, even if at a base level it's true and she won't ever be able to connect to them completely because of her calling.
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Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Why did you choose this character?: I chose to play Elena Gilbert because she's a challenge. She's a character I didn't find interesting at first and eventually wanted to understand better, and it turns out uninteresting is the very last thing she is. I think she's a complex, headstrong person who is both admirable and flawed. This game has just the premise to explore feelings about her life and deal with her identity issues. Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Elena will do everything she can to find out why she's here and how to get back to reunite with her friends and family. She’ll definitely suspect some foul play by Klaus and/or the Original Witch. When/if she realizes some of loved ones might reside on the planet, she'll be comforted – but still bent on going home. A secret part of her however may feel relieved to live somewhere else, have a new life away from all the death and dying, even as she clings to her old one.
Elena Gilbert is strong, determined, and compassionate, with a surprising snarky streak a mile wide. However, what's important about Elena's personality is not what she is, but why she embodies those traits. Ever since her parents died, she's pledged that she won't be the sad little girl who killed lost her parents, she'll be someone different. She'll answer that she’s fine when someone asks how she is, but never really wants to know. She'll be the invincible, bright girl she was before that night on the bridge, no matter how unrealistic that is. She'll survive because the truth is Elena doesn't know what else she can do. No one can tell her why she's alive and the people she loves most are dead.
The crux of every decision Elena makes – be it accepting (and loving, and forgiving, and identifying with) the morally questionable vampires into her life, or going on a martyrdom parade to save her friends and family – is about how scared she is of losing and/or inadvertently hurting her loved ones. And she is scared of that more so than dying, if not more so than wanting to save everyone because it's the right thing to do.
And yet, despite all that darkness and survivor’s guilt she carries, she still believes that there is good in everyone and good in the world. She continues to keep living and wanting to live a normal (or normal enough) life, searching however blindly for a reason besides there's no other option. She keeps trying, because if Elena's anything at the end of the day, she's a fighter.
As a result, this last season Elena has shown signs of coming into her own and finding some kind of acceptance with the death of her parents and the death surrounding her. She has been learning to move on, become a more independent person with a more rounded outlook on life. She still upholds her ideals, morals, and humanity with a characteristic fierceness. The only difference is before she was, in part, going through the motions. (For example, she didn't fight the sacrifice in season two and instead decided to go along with it, for the sake of her friends and family. This season, she's training to protect herself and fight whatever plans Klaus has for her.)
That said: Elena makes questionable decisions. She makes several attempts to sacrifice herself to save the people she loves behind their backs, she erases her brother's memory to save him the pain of grief, and she extends forgiveness to those who probably do not deserve it. She is noble, but she is not a saint. She is selfless, but is selfishly motivated; taking drastic and reckless action that is often harmful to her and the loved ones she is trying to protect.
Elena is a brave, warm, compassionate and understanding person who screws up continually because she is stubborn and idealistic, and oftentimes not in touch with the reality of her life and situation. She is an eighteen-year-old girl who has dealt with more than any teenager should, for no reason besides her carbon copy physical existence.
There is nothing special or unique about Elena, no reason she is the center of all this chaos. That she looks like Katherine is arguably the only reason the Salvatore brothers stuck around and consequently fell in love with her, that she was born a doppelgänger is the reason everyone dies around her, that her life and death is essentially the key to everything. She was born with someone else’s face; her life in many regards is not her own, and she is in a constant struggle against that (and sometimes she wants to give into, too).
Why did you choose this character?: As with most of my characters, my favorite thing about Lex is that he's colossally fucked up. He's been so damaged by his family that he's beyond repair. He can't trust anyone, he manipulates people because he believes he knows what's "right" for them and he feels like he needs to test their love for him. It's really sad. In addition, Lex is a really great character for doing player-run plots with and he'll help expand the universe of the game, I think. He's one of those villains who doesn't really think he's a villain. He tries to do the right thing, but his own issues corrupt it. Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Lex will likely try and search out the secrets of Gemetics once he arrives. He'll settle in rather easily because LuthorCorp will be brought in with him, and probably work to stage a hostile takeover of the company as he builds LuthorCorp up.
History:Lex Luthor on the Smallville Wiki. Personality:
Being born a Luthor means subscribing to not only a certain type of lifestyle and beliefs, but it more or less signs your life away to being a certain kind of person. There was no escaping it. Lex tried -- for many, many years -- to be a better man, and not the man Lionel wanted him to be. He fought against the Luthor lifestyle and made his own mistakes in partying and rebellion, and wound up ostracized to the Luthor Corp plant in Smallville, Kansas. Lex was determined not to let himself be trapped by the Luthor name. When he drove off a bridge and was saved from death by Clark Kent, he found a friend who might just be what he needed to pull him back from that ledge.
But, Clark Kent failed.
No matter how hard they both tried to fight Lex's dark destiny, it swallowed him whole. It started with his insatiable curiosity. Lex's desire for knowledge overshadowed everything else in his life, and the key example is what drove a wedge in his friendship with Clark: the car accident. Lex couldn't just be grateful that Clark saved his life, instead he had to know. Know how he'd done it, how it was possible. He proved himself pushy as he snooped and investigated Clark's private life despite Clark's repeated requests for Lex to drop it.
This truth-seeking comes from Lex's inherent need for control. All through his childhood, Lex both suffered from a serious lack of control in his life and seeing his father's example, a man who controlled everything, right down to his family. Lex eventually grew to be the same man his father was.
His lust for power, his need to control everything around him, stemmed from this Luthoran upbringing and singlehandedly ruined every relationship he forged in the same was his father had. He drove Lana away with it, because he found himself, after being used and manipulated by his father for so many years, and treated as a pawn by so many others who wanted to take advantage of him, unable to trust her, in great part due to his first wife, Helen Bryce's, darker intentions in their union. He lied to Lana, manipulated and emotionally abused her, putting her through repeated trials to try and get her to prove her love for him was absolute and that he wouldn't be left in the cold in this relationship.
But, that's the thing about Lex. All of this, all of the reason that he wants his power and to control people, everything that he does, he does because he is seeking love and acceptance. Cliche, perhaps, but true. His father never loved him. His mother was negligent due to illness. Even Clark, the only person he'd truly developed a real bond with, left him. And then Lana betrayed him. Everyone Lex has ever looked to for affection has crushed him. And, as a result, he's begun to drive them off.
Most of his actions prior to Lionel Luthor's death are driven by seeking out his father's approval, and even after he dies, that legacy lives on in Lex. He will never escape that shadow. Lex had his rebellions, and they were all a result of Lex's inherently good nature. He has a good heart. The child he once was who was caring and compassionate and loving is still there, seen playing as his conscience in the face of the ruthless, tyrannical Lex that Lionel was constantly trying to shape.
That's the key difference between him and Lionel. In the end, everything that Lex does is motivated by what he believes is right. Not selfish gain, but rather what he perceives as positive for the world, which isn't always what actually is best. His judgment there is clouded by his upbringing and corrupted. So, some people might see meteor freaks and think "help them" whereas Lex would lend more to "study, use and control them." He wants to study and use and control them to help people, but he's hurting them in the process, and in his mind, the ends justify the means in so many ways.
In the true show of his heart being in the right place, Lex would do anything to protect the people he cares the most about. Even, yes, Clark. Lex feels a certain possessiveness over the people he's been close to who've hurt him, in that "only I'm allowed to" get revenge kind of way. He's extremely protective in that way, and would go to the ends of the Earth for the people who matter to him.
Towards the end of the series when I'm taking him from, he does embrace the idea that he is the "villain" and Clark is the "hero," but this doesn't appear to change. Because, in a perfect example of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, as well as protecting the people he cares about at any cost, he kills Tess, his sister, in order to keep her from turning out like him. He acknowledges that he is wrong and he wants to protect her from the internal struggle he faced. He's just … really awful at actually protecting her from it in the right way. This seems to imply that Lex believes that he was helpless against his fate from the beginning, and that he truly believes he did everything he could to avert it.
On a less daddy issues level and more of a surface level, Lex is a very intoxicating personality. He's intelligent, he consistently quotes and references history, historical figures, and bible scripture, he's charismatic, likable, knowledgable. He has a wide range of interests from fast cars to pool and scotch to fencing, marksmanship and other martial arts.
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Your personality section does not meet the 500 word minimum requirement for applications. Please reply to this comment with an expanded personality section within the next week. In addition, I'd suggest placing particular emphasis of the affect of Haru's sexual identity on his psychology (i.e., growing up identifying as male in Japanese society which has a very specific male ideal, while being biologically female, while having feelings for a man--these are all things that would impact his psyche given societal expectations on him as a Japanese man). If you have any questions about the nature of the revisions, feel free to ask!
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Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
Your app looks great so far, but I'd like to ask to see an additional first person sample before I render a final judgment on it.
If at all possible, I'd like to see something that is less standardized than an introduction post, as many characters would react to showing up in the city in a similar way, and something that less directly relies on reference to canon events. In order to get a better idea of your grasp on Steve's individual voice, I'd like to see something less canon event-oriented and more unique to him than an introduction.
If you find yourself having a hard time thinking of a prompt, you're invited to participate in the test run meme that's been put up in projects. Any thread that contains over 10 comments from your character is viable to be linked as a first person sample.
Congratulations! You've been accepted into Project Gemini.
Please reply to this comment with the character journal you intend to use for the game. If you need an invite code, contact a mod or ask in a reply to this comment and we'll get you one.
Once you've done that, please request membership to the following communities: dioskouroi, geminus, and projects. Then, comment to the Player Contact post with your information. After that, comment to the Taken Characters page with the required information as well.
If you have any elements of your character's world and canon that you'd like to add to the game, we suggest you go to the World-Building post and fill out the required forms.
Once you've done that, review the arrival information and rules of play and get started! You can introduce yourself in the OOC community, projects and then get your IC intro posted in the main network community, dioskouroi, or the logs community, geminus. We hope you enjoy the game!
NOTE: Given the nature of your samples, it feels important to note that any and all connection between Gemetics and suspiciousness WILL be a slow-building plot point, so please keep that in mind as you play! Hints to build suspicion will be ICly dropped as in-game events and any IC wariness prior to that build-up should definitely be curbed until that happens.
Player Name: Brandi Player Journal:626 Player Age: 5,000+
Character Name: Claire Bennet Canon: Heroes Medium: Television - Live Action
Character Age: 15 Canon Point: Season One, Homecoming.
Why did you choose this character?: Because I've played Claire for entirely too many years now and I have no idea how to be in a game without playing her. I wish this were a joke, but it's not. Also, I love her terrible qualities and love getting to have her be a brat that is offensive and occasionally endearing. I just really love how selfish she is, okay. I have nothing else to say here and am very awkward.
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: She'll be afraid at first, unsure of how to handle not being around her father or the rest of her family. Once she finds people she feels she can trust, she'll start to feel more secure and able to blossom a lot more. She'll be interested in exploring at first, with the purpose of finding her father or attempting to find a way to communicate with him, but eventually she'll explore to gather information about where she's at and how to make the most out of her situation. She'll want to go to school and be the cheerleader she was back home, but she'll eventually realize that she has to grow up some and not rely on other people to take care of her all the time. Basically, she's been a spoiled brat her entire life, she's still young and is of the generation that's used to being spoiled and babied. It's going to take some work to get her to the point of functioning as a normal person. Good times, good times.
Claire is one of the most egocentric people that you'll ever meet. Really, she is. Underneath that adorable exterior lies an attention hungry and acceptance needing monster that only is quelled when things are going Claire's way. Somehow, everything always relates back to her, which is probably a result of the of constant state of being the center of her family's world. Claire's always been special her entire life, from being adopted to having her ability, and she's used to being the center of attention. As much as she says she wants things to be normal, she wouldn't know how to live now if she actually was normal. She likes being noticed, and she wants other people to just accept and like her. Compared to her peers, she is very moody and emotional, and entirely reckless and unpredictable. She makes and breaks friendships easily, and has a tendency to use those that are closest to her. When she wants her friend Zach to do something for her, she tells him that if he does it she will talk to him in front of the other kids at school, as if that's a reward. She doesn't even realize she's doing it, really, and once she does realize she's stepped over a line she's always relatively quick to apologize. She's just desperate to belong and to be loved, and jumps through hoops to please the people closest to her so they don't leave her.
Claire's biggest character theme is finding herself and where she belongs. Fitting in means a lot to her, and she gets very bitter and angry when the popular girls at school are terrible to her. Despite her pretty looks and the fact she's a cheerleader, she's not very popular at all. She's one of the weird kids at school, because of rumors that her ex-friend Jackie has started. She usually only sits with her friend Zach at lunch, and the boy that she liked at the start of the season only really has anything to do with her because he thinks she'll have sex with him. And despite all of the terrible things she's been through, she's still very naive and trusting of others, and constantly wants to believe the best in people. She doesn't quite know how to adapt or understand things that are dark and sinister, and despite the fact that she is resilient and can pick herself up after a terrible event, she still has to learn how to not get herself into them. She has trouble trying to find her place in a world of "normal" people who can't accept what she is and what her ability enables her to do.
She really does care about the best for everyone deep down (as long as it's convenient and fair for her), and does try to be a hero like Peter and her father (sometimes) are. However, her heroics do come with a lot of selfish intentions attached. She saves others because a) it helps her test her ability, b) she is dying to be useful, and c) it makes her feel good about herself. For as confident as she can come across at school, she is very lost and scared on the inside, and that fragile state makes her want to do whatever she can to feel good about herself. So she is most definitely one of the good guys, but it comes with some strings attached. Saving the day also gives her a big sense of control, which is a huge thing that she has to have. She wants to feel in control of her own life and her destiny, and doesn't believe in predestined things or that the future is written in stone. She wants to feel that she can make a difference and change the world, and that her own fate can't be predicted. Being able to save others makes her feel that she can control her own destiny, and that The Company and her parents don't have control over every little aspect of her life. The fact that her father does control so much of her life is a huge sore spot for her, although she is in no way emotionally mature enough to think like an adult and successfully control every aspect of her life. She downright despises being told what to do, and usually goes out of her way to do the exact opposite of what someone tells her when they boss her around. She has a point to prove, and that point is that she is above being under someone's thumb.
You can't mention Claire without mentioning her being a cheerleader, since that is the main point of Claire's character that even people who have not seen the show recognize. It is what makes her iconic, and what gives her a sense of identity in her own mind. Claire loves cheerleading, and she's fought long and hard against the head cheerleader in order to stay on the squad and to find a place on it. She's not necessarily the best at it, but it gives her something that makes her feel entirely normal, like she's just a regular teenage girl. It also gives her a slight boost in her social status, and she seems to think that it makes her someone special. She bases a lot of her own identity on staying a cheerleader, and if she lost that status, she would be a huge loss. Fortunately, she's not a stereotypical cheerleader at all. She is very book smart (I guess outside of things like math) and isn't very popular at school, and she's just basically the most awkward and unusual cheerleader ever. Later on in the series it's revealed that she's a virgin, which is another trait that Claire uses to define herself against other teenage girls. After a near rape experience with the first boy she really liked, Claire has grown a lot of intimacy issues and she isn't likely to run off to be with someone anytime soon. That being said, she isn't opposed to finding a boyfriend. She would like the reassurance that someone actually liking her would bring, and it would make her feel much more validated and confident as a person. Someone really liking her is what she measures her own self worth on most of the time. It's a terrible way to measure self-worth, but Claire is often a terrible person so it all balances itself out in the end. But after getting that sense of validation, if any boy tried getting physical with her, everything would come crashing to a screeching halt. She has to be the one in control, control in every part of her life is a huge issue for her.
She's very headstrong and vocal about her opinions, and doesn't let anyone or anything stand in the way of what she wants to do. She thinks she's a hell of a lot more mature than she actually is, and she's always the first to remind someone she's almost an adult, but is also usually the first who ends up needing help in any given situation. She's still learning about her ability and finding her place in the world the same as all other teenagers are, and she often does reckless things that end up with one of her fathers or Peter needing to rescue her. She wants so badly to be as strong and capable as they are, and often just runs head first into dangerous situations because she knows she's invincible. She doesn't mind being a human shield, especially for people that she loves, just as long as her actions are validated by someone recognizing that she did a good job. At the start of the series, she saves a man from a fire and doesn't want public credit for it, but she received something for her good deed in the fact that she was able to test the limits of her ability. As the season progresses, she's seen taking more action, but wants credit for the things that she decides to do.
As stated earlier, Claire is entirely trusting, particularly of her family. Her father has lied to her for her entire life, and she's only starting to uncover the truths. She's angry about being lied to and about being given to her father on an assignment from The Company, but she doesn't know to do anything but to trust him. She trusts Noah above anyone else, and usually is quick to forgive him, despite how initially angry she may get at him. But when people lie to her, she doesn't handle it well at all. Lies are a good way to earn a hissy fit from Claire, and lies are the other huge element of Claire's character across every season of the show. If someone isn't honest with her, she takes it very personally. However, she's often guilty of omitting facts or avoiding the truth, so she has a pretty big double standard. But it's okay, because she's the golden child and often gets away with everything ever. It's okay to hate her for this, most everyone does.
There is also a darker part of Claire that most others don't really get to see. She can be highly vindictive and when that's combined with her being reckless, it can turn into something very messy. When a boy at school sexually assaults her and then kills her, she takes revenge as soon as possible and crashes him and his car into a brick wall going sixty. When Jackie is rude to her and calls her friend Zach gay, she punches the girl in the face. She also is afraid when Jackie dies, and feels terrible that a girl lost her life, but isn't exactly remorseful that it was Jackie herself that died. She feels terrible that someone died because of her, but as per usual with Claire, she turns Jackie's death at Sylar's hands into being about her and her feelings. It's shown in an episode of a possible future that Claire fully has the capability to become a villain. She's so insecure and easily manipulated that it would be almost too easy for someone to break her emotionally, especially since she puts so much value on her physical invincibility that she doesn't stop to think about her emotions until later on in the series.
At the end of the day, though, Claire is a mostly good person. She initially always wants to do the right thing, even if that's not always the course of action that she takes. In her mind, she honestly believes that all of her choices are right and for the best, even if they're actually downright terrible. That's really a side effect of being a teenager, though, so it shouldn't be held entirely against her. She has a lot of maturing and learning about the world to do, and although she's still so egocentric that she believes everything is about her she is starting to piece together the fact that her actions and the actions of others can have long-term consequences for countless others. She still needs to learn and fully understand that everything isn't about her, and that she needs to question people and their intentions better. She desperately needs to learn how to protect herself, just because the fact that everyone constantly coming to her rescue only makes her more egocentric and doesn't teach her anything. There's a lot of faults to her character, and she is so tragically emo most of the time, but once you get her away from all of the bad things in her own world there's a chance she'll be a lot stronger and more capable than anyone would ever give her credit for.
First Person Sample: (Taken from Kannagara @ lj)
[She should be more concerned about the fact she went from being in New York to being here, but Claire can't really be bothered but to do anything but stare at the beautiful scene surrounding her. She's holding a phone in one hand and knows that she's recording, but doesn't really make any hurry to do anything interesting. She's standing in the middle of the most green and vibrant area she's ever seen, staring up at a large tree with a sense of childish wonder. As a few colorful butterflies fly past, she curiously holds out her left hand and watches as one settles down upon the tip of her index finger.
She opens her mouth to speak, but a rustling from a nearby bush causes her to take pause. Her look of wonder turns into an all out smile as she watches a family of white rabbits go bounding past. The noise of the other animals makes the butterfly startle and take flight once again, and she tips her head back to watch it fly up into the sky with the others.]
I should be trying to find my way back home, shouldn't I?
[Another pause, and she glances back over her shoulder at the rabbits.]
Please tell me this isn't some kind of crazy Alice in Wonderland reference, because I'm definitely not looking to dive into any rabbit holes.
[Even still -
She lets out a sigh and decides to just follow after the rabbits, because so far, they're her best hope of finding some kind of life other than herself. As she walks, she focuses in on the camera, her face solemn.]
I'm Claire Bennet, and this is the start of another adventure I didn't ask to be a part of. If anyone can see or hear this, and knows a way back to New York, that would be really helpful.
Third Person Sample: Cold. Everything was so cold. That was the only thought on Claire's mind as everything came crashing back to reality, and her body's healing kicked in enough that she came back to life. Cut wide open and sprawled out naked across a metal table, the girl was only confused and afraid. The initial sting of feeling her body be wide open was ignored, mostly because she had no idea she was even in such a state until she tried to sit up and look around. It didn't take her long to realize where she was, and the memory of how she must have gotten there was still fresh in her mind.
Brody.
He must have killed her, after -
No. She couldn't let herself think about that, not right now. She had more important things to worry about. Like how to get her body healed enough so that she could sit up and move around properly. The last thing she wanted was for a mortician to come back and see a once dead body moving around. That would raise entirely too many questions, and there was no way she could play off everything as a joke.
Think, Claire, this isn't that hard to do! You've been in worse situations than this before.
Had she really? She knew that was a lie, and that this was the absolute worst and most horrifying moment of her life, but she didn't let herself focus on that fact and gathered her wits enough to hold her chest together. The squishy sound that her flesh and organs made upon the movement caused her to wince. The pain was bothersome, but it was something she could deal with. And all things considered, she was grateful to have it. It was the only thing in the situation that was keeping her grounded in reality, and reminded her that she was human. She wasn't some freak that deserved to be dead and in a cooler along with all the other people in the room. She was Claire Bennet, and she was -
"...oh no."
Her eyes fell on the clock hanging in the corner of the room and she saw what time it was. Morning already? She could only guess what her parents were thinking, and prayed that they hadn't gotten a call from the hospital yet. She hurried to sit up and turn around, wincing once again as her toes touched the freezing cold tile floor. Once again grateful for any ounce of pain that her body was giving her, she tiptoed across the room and tried to ignore the feel of her organs trying to fall out of her open chest cavity.
She needed to find something to cover up with, and get back home. If she managed to make it back before the hospital called, there wouldn't be anything for her father to cover up. And as much as she wanted to do nothing but forget all about this entire ordeal, she knew that getting her father involved with it at all was a dangerous idea. There were too many questions about him and his work now, too many dark unknowns. If he thought she had been hurt, there would be hell to pay. And as much as she despised Brody and wanted him to suffer, she was already bound and determined to do it herself. This was one time daddy wasn't going to take care of everything for her. For once, Claire was going to fight her own battle.
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