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Feb. 20th, 2012 11:17 pmOut of Character Information
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Basics
Character Name: Jack Half-A-Prayer
Username:clawtheelite
Fandom: The Bas Lag Novels
Played By: NA
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Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Jack's true appearance is obscured, in more than one sense of the term. His natural hair, eye, even skin color are not known, since he certainly disguises himself, wearing different colored hair, wigs, etc. What is known are the common factors of all his appearances.
Jack is around 5''8, and of average build, with lithe musculature. There's a grizzled appearanc to him that no disguise can cover up. If he doesn't bother to shave, he very quickly develops a five o clock shadow. There are scars in several places on his body. He favors baggy, concealing clothes such as robes or jumpsuits. This is to help disguise his most distinguishing feature: Starting at mid bicep, Jack's arm is replaced with a large mantis claw. It's big and serrated, capable of doing you harm and shows it. Jack wears a disguising garment, puts the claw in a cast or folds it up and pretends to be an amputee to avoid attracting attention.
Sexuality: There are no canon examples of Jack's sexuality. I choose to play him as bisexual. However sexuality plays very little role in his life, save where he clashes with homophobic elements in his own movement.
History: As Jack's early life is not listed in canon, that part of this section will be my own interpretation.
Headcanon section: Jack grew up in the slums of Lichford, in New Crobuzon. He had a different name then, but it's unimportant now. For the purposes of this section, we'll call him Jack.
As his parents worked long hours doing the lowliest sort of work, he was unsupervised for most of the day. Though his parents were intense xenophobes, Jack had friends among the newly arrived xenian immigrants in the adjoining slums of The Spatters. Stealing out to his friend's shacks (and sure to recieve a beating if caught), he would hear the adult Garuda remniscing about the anarcho-communist society they'd left behind to try and find their fortune in New Crobuzon. These ideas would take seed in his mind, forgotten until he was an adult. As he grew older, he made more human friends, forgetting his Garuda pals, as was proper for even the lowliest of human boys. Poor humans tended to be even more bigoted against xenians than their richer cousins, having nothing else to differentiate them except for species.
Boy's gangs in that part of the city were everywhere, often serving as raw recruitment material for the bigger criminals in Dogg Fen. Naturally he fell in with one. An ambitious boy, he was soon the top of his gang after laying a tripline for the ostensible leader and savaging him with a cobblestone. Rather than work for one of the big players, however, he decided to go into business for himself. As the gang matured, they went into full time robbery and drug dealing, (buying product from Mr Motley and strongarm selling it mostly). It wasn't long before they were feared, as one slight could set them off into terrible violence. Jack at this time fancied himself the top predator in his little ecosystem, remembering an ecological chart from the few months total schooling he had. He was caught by the militia at the height of his hubris, attempting to rob a church. In the ensuing shootout, several members of Jack's gang and the priest were killed.
Jack was arrested. Trial was swift. He was sent to prison, where another prisoner, a reporter for the seditious newspaper Runagate Rampant radicalized him. His friend also went quickly to trial and was never seen again, though Jack would never forget him. Sent to the punishment factory, Jack's arm was removed, and a huge mantis claw grafted in its place. At that time, lying in his cell, he befriended a guard, a bored, discontented man (the POV character of Jack in the Looking For Jake collection). Jack escaped, with his new friend's secret help, and faded back into the New Crobuzon underworld. When the heat on him had died down, he began comitting crimes again.
These crimes were not like his previous ones though. He didn't kill for money or power. He kept only enough to keep himself going. And he always left documentation, manifestoes, at the scene. By the time people began labeling his crimes, giving them names like those of stories, as if he were Jabber himself, Jack knew something had changed. He was no longer his old self. He was now Jack Half A Prayer, the city's savior, legend, hero, anathema. People began rallying to him. Soon the size of his network of fellow fReemade was dwarfed by the number of people who supported him.
He began studying thaumaturgy in earnest and stealing experimental weapons from the city. Crowds gathered at each heist, cheering him on until the militia silenced them.
The Nightmare Plague was a potent distraction from his own adventures, so at first he dismissed it as a mere propaganda ploy, a thing the Militia was using against him. Yet when it began taking both city councilmen and his own comrades, leaving those men and women drooling husks with no minds, he knew he'd have to act. In the end he ended up assisting the brilliant renegade scientist Isaac Dan Der Grimnebulin in a daring plan to kill the Slake Moths causing the phenomenom through a kind of overfeeding.
Most recently, Jack has offered a position in his gang to a disgraced Geruda, Too Too Abstract Individual Not To Be Respected Yagharek, which he was surprised to find the bird-man turned down.
Powers: Jack's most obvious difference from the human norm is the enormous claw replacing one of his arms. It is a very potent weapon at close range, taking a head clean off the neck with the right placement. The end can also be used to stab with. It's also useful for climbing, cutting fences, etc.
Jack is trained in basic thaumaturgy. [thaumaturgy he knows]
Talents/Abilities:: Jack is a potent combatant, with knowledge of both melee and ranged combat. He appears to be very agile, having been described as leaping from rooftops.
He's a skilled leader, not just on the organizational side of things but in that he has a personality that's magnetic and makes people want to follow him. This is augmented by an instinct for where propaganda (by deed) is most effective.
Personality: Jack is a man who has almost entirely subsumed himself into his own myth. Think of Batman: Bruce Wayne becomes him when he puts the mask on, and then he is something bigger, more potent, more forceful than any human can be. The difference between them is that Jack never takes the mask off. The trauma of his remaking remade his personality in such a way as to subsume his former drives into the personality of JAck Half A Prayer.
And who is Jack Half A Prayer? He's articulate, cunning and magnetic. People love him and respect him because he actually seems to care about their daily struggles. People respect him because he does something about it. He's a kind of an archetypal repository for all the repressed hopes of lower class New Crobuzon.
This is the kind of role that would break most men, and it sometimes comes close to breaking him. Buried under the Jack persona is a very human man with wants, needs and feelings that have nothing to do with the good of the city. But he's also aware of how many people rely on him and finds himself unable to vent to anyone the frustrations of being a rebel messiah, save a very small circle of trusted confidantes.
He expresses several quirks in his private life that aren't noticeable to his public though. Jack is a lover of wordplay. Learning to read at more than the most basic level in prison opened up a new world for him and he's never quite lost that sense of wonder. He loves wordplay, tending to speak in sentences as labyrinthine as the back alleys of New Crobuzon themselves, with an odd mixture of upper class loquaciosness and lower class slang.
Jack's a bit of a thrill seeker. If his current lifestye didn't supply him with plenty, he'd probably find some other way to do dangerous things. Part of what attracted him to the gangster lifestyle he led before becoming Jack was the heart-racing thrill of it. When in a situation that satisfies this danger-craving he smiles wide, becomes almost unsettlingly manic.
At his nicest, Jack pities those who are bigoted towards others, remembering his parents' own prejudices. On bad days, he treets them with icy contempt, going out of his way to make sure they are hurt in his operations.
Conversely and in contrast to the man he was before he became Jack, he's actually quite quick to forgive slights directed at him personally. Perhaps he simply can't afford to hold a personal grudge or perhaps it's part of his almost monklike devotion to his cause.
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Name: Hedge
Username: (if applicable)
tsunderrorismAre you over the age of eighteen? y
Current characters in Baedal: -
In Character Information
Basics
Character Name: Jack Half-A-Prayer
Username:
clawtheeliteFandom: The Bas Lag Novels
Played By: NA
Icon: Link to an icon you would like to see used on the character sheet. Otherwise, default icons will be used.
Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Jack's true appearance is obscured, in more than one sense of the term. His natural hair, eye, even skin color are not known, since he certainly disguises himself, wearing different colored hair, wigs, etc. What is known are the common factors of all his appearances.
Jack is around 5''8, and of average build, with lithe musculature. There's a grizzled appearanc to him that no disguise can cover up. If he doesn't bother to shave, he very quickly develops a five o clock shadow. There are scars in several places on his body. He favors baggy, concealing clothes such as robes or jumpsuits. This is to help disguise his most distinguishing feature: Starting at mid bicep, Jack's arm is replaced with a large mantis claw. It's big and serrated, capable of doing you harm and shows it. Jack wears a disguising garment, puts the claw in a cast or folds it up and pretends to be an amputee to avoid attracting attention.
Sexuality: There are no canon examples of Jack's sexuality. I choose to play him as bisexual. However sexuality plays very little role in his life, save where he clashes with homophobic elements in his own movement.
History: As Jack's early life is not listed in canon, that part of this section will be my own interpretation.
Headcanon section: Jack grew up in the slums of Lichford, in New Crobuzon. He had a different name then, but it's unimportant now. For the purposes of this section, we'll call him Jack.
As his parents worked long hours doing the lowliest sort of work, he was unsupervised for most of the day. Though his parents were intense xenophobes, Jack had friends among the newly arrived xenian immigrants in the adjoining slums of The Spatters. Stealing out to his friend's shacks (and sure to recieve a beating if caught), he would hear the adult Garuda remniscing about the anarcho-communist society they'd left behind to try and find their fortune in New Crobuzon. These ideas would take seed in his mind, forgotten until he was an adult. As he grew older, he made more human friends, forgetting his Garuda pals, as was proper for even the lowliest of human boys. Poor humans tended to be even more bigoted against xenians than their richer cousins, having nothing else to differentiate them except for species.
Boy's gangs in that part of the city were everywhere, often serving as raw recruitment material for the bigger criminals in Dogg Fen. Naturally he fell in with one. An ambitious boy, he was soon the top of his gang after laying a tripline for the ostensible leader and savaging him with a cobblestone. Rather than work for one of the big players, however, he decided to go into business for himself. As the gang matured, they went into full time robbery and drug dealing, (buying product from Mr Motley and strongarm selling it mostly). It wasn't long before they were feared, as one slight could set them off into terrible violence. Jack at this time fancied himself the top predator in his little ecosystem, remembering an ecological chart from the few months total schooling he had. He was caught by the militia at the height of his hubris, attempting to rob a church. In the ensuing shootout, several members of Jack's gang and the priest were killed.
Jack was arrested. Trial was swift. He was sent to prison, where another prisoner, a reporter for the seditious newspaper Runagate Rampant radicalized him. His friend also went quickly to trial and was never seen again, though Jack would never forget him. Sent to the punishment factory, Jack's arm was removed, and a huge mantis claw grafted in its place. At that time, lying in his cell, he befriended a guard, a bored, discontented man (the POV character of Jack in the Looking For Jake collection). Jack escaped, with his new friend's secret help, and faded back into the New Crobuzon underworld. When the heat on him had died down, he began comitting crimes again.
These crimes were not like his previous ones though. He didn't kill for money or power. He kept only enough to keep himself going. And he always left documentation, manifestoes, at the scene. By the time people began labeling his crimes, giving them names like those of stories, as if he were Jabber himself, Jack knew something had changed. He was no longer his old self. He was now Jack Half A Prayer, the city's savior, legend, hero, anathema. People began rallying to him. Soon the size of his network of fellow fReemade was dwarfed by the number of people who supported him.
He began studying thaumaturgy in earnest and stealing experimental weapons from the city. Crowds gathered at each heist, cheering him on until the militia silenced them.
The Nightmare Plague was a potent distraction from his own adventures, so at first he dismissed it as a mere propaganda ploy, a thing the Militia was using against him. Yet when it began taking both city councilmen and his own comrades, leaving those men and women drooling husks with no minds, he knew he'd have to act. In the end he ended up assisting the brilliant renegade scientist Isaac Dan Der Grimnebulin in a daring plan to kill the Slake Moths causing the phenomenom through a kind of overfeeding.
Most recently, Jack has offered a position in his gang to a disgraced Geruda, Too Too Abstract Individual Not To Be Respected Yagharek, which he was surprised to find the bird-man turned down.
Powers: Jack's most obvious difference from the human norm is the enormous claw replacing one of his arms. It is a very potent weapon at close range, taking a head clean off the neck with the right placement. The end can also be used to stab with. It's also useful for climbing, cutting fences, etc.
Jack is trained in basic thaumaturgy. [thaumaturgy he knows]
Talents/Abilities:: Jack is a potent combatant, with knowledge of both melee and ranged combat. He appears to be very agile, having been described as leaping from rooftops.
He's a skilled leader, not just on the organizational side of things but in that he has a personality that's magnetic and makes people want to follow him. This is augmented by an instinct for where propaganda (by deed) is most effective.
Personality: Jack is a man who has almost entirely subsumed himself into his own myth. Think of Batman: Bruce Wayne becomes him when he puts the mask on, and then he is something bigger, more potent, more forceful than any human can be. The difference between them is that Jack never takes the mask off. The trauma of his remaking remade his personality in such a way as to subsume his former drives into the personality of JAck Half A Prayer.
And who is Jack Half A Prayer? He's articulate, cunning and magnetic. People love him and respect him because he actually seems to care about their daily struggles. People respect him because he does something about it. He's a kind of an archetypal repository for all the repressed hopes of lower class New Crobuzon.
This is the kind of role that would break most men, and it sometimes comes close to breaking him. Buried under the Jack persona is a very human man with wants, needs and feelings that have nothing to do with the good of the city. But he's also aware of how many people rely on him and finds himself unable to vent to anyone the frustrations of being a rebel messiah, save a very small circle of trusted confidantes.
He expresses several quirks in his private life that aren't noticeable to his public though. Jack is a lover of wordplay. Learning to read at more than the most basic level in prison opened up a new world for him and he's never quite lost that sense of wonder. He loves wordplay, tending to speak in sentences as labyrinthine as the back alleys of New Crobuzon themselves, with an odd mixture of upper class loquaciosness and lower class slang.
Jack's a bit of a thrill seeker. If his current lifestye didn't supply him with plenty, he'd probably find some other way to do dangerous things. Part of what attracted him to the gangster lifestyle he led before becoming Jack was the heart-racing thrill of it. When in a situation that satisfies this danger-craving he smiles wide, becomes almost unsettlingly manic.
At his nicest, Jack pities those who are bigoted towards others, remembering his parents' own prejudices. On bad days, he treets them with icy contempt, going out of his way to make sure they are hurt in his operations.
Conversely and in contrast to the man he was before he became Jack, he's actually quite quick to forgive slights directed at him personally. Perhaps he simply can't afford to hold a personal grudge or perhaps it's part of his almost monklike devotion to his cause.
Object: When a character arrives in Baedal, something useful or significant from home is brought along with them. The object must be no larger than a refrigerator and cannot be sentient.
Reason for playing: Why have you chosen this particular character? Tell us about what you would like to do with the character in Baedal, and what your expectations for gameplay are. This will help us ascertain whether the game will meet your needs, as well as telling us what sort of character arcs and plots you might be looking for in RP.
Gods: Which of the gods of Baedal is most likely to take an interest in your character and why?
Writing Samples
Players may choose to write three of the four writing samples. Additionally, for two of the three samples applicants may substitute links to previously written roleplaying threads of no less than eight substantial replies. We reserve the right to ask for an additional sample if more information is required.
First-Person Network Post: An example of a post your character might make on the communication Networks in Baedal. This section can be short, and may involve video or audio narration in brackets or prose.
First-Person Journal Post: A few sentences written by the character, something they intend only for themselves to read. A look into how they think of themselves and how they are when no one is looking.
Third-Person Arrival Post: A post describing your character's arrival in Baedal. At least two paragraphs.
Third-Person Action Post: A prose post describing your character in an emotionally fraught or heated situation. It can be sexual, violent, or just frightening; regardless, it must be adult in nature. At least two paragraphs.
Misc
Other: If you have any questions or comments on your character or application, those can go here.
