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bechdelpls) wrote2016-12-01 03:55 pm
bechdelpls) wrote2016-12-01 03:55 pm
Little Hades App;
💀 Player Information
Name: Jae
Age: 29
Contact: ninjae @ plurk
Characters In-game: None
💀 Character Information
Name: Sarah Wenham
Canon: The Covenant
Canon Point: Post-movie
Age: 18-ish
Description:
A sharp-featured blonde with an easy smile and very bright blue eyes. She’s slightly less than average height, maybe 5’4’’ or 5’5’’, and seemingly as innocent as the day is long. She can’t keep her emotions to herself. If she’s upset, she cries. If she’s mad, it shows. Most of the time she’s smiling.
She dresses for comfort over fashion, though she’s not oblivious to the latter and can turn out when she wants to. She also likes layers, though that might change given that the weather in Hell is a little different than the weather in Boston, no matter what some people might say. She wears very little jewelry, though her ears are pierced, mostly because even if she has it she forgets to put it on.
Physical changes: A gradually growing pair of curved horns a la the gerenuk.
Powers: It’s implied by the movie (or by its plot holes) that she has psychic abilities and a certain level of clairvoyance. She sensed when magic was being worked around her and she dreamed of HORRIFYING SPIDER INFESTATION shortly before her roommate went to the hospital after being bitten by hundreds of spiders. Post-movie, she’s embraced the idea of having abilities of her own and has been studying and practicing, enough to read auras, have more consistent prophetic dreams, and to have successfully astrally projected. Once.
History: The mess that is the film.
Her pre-movie history is only very briefly touched on. She’s a scholarship student at Spenser Academy, having moved to Ipswich from Boston in order to attend. It can be assumed her family is middle or lower middle class, the kind of people who can afford perhaps to give their daughter a new high-class camera (or a used one) but not maintain the consistent payments required for a private school.
Hell Status: Hell Newbie
What Brings Them To Hell: She would have been a Limbo Case, if not for Chase Collins and his inability to Let Shit Go. As he’s done before, Chase flagged her name and got a list of offenses added to her trial that she never actually committed. (Approved by the player.)
The Pitch:
Like all genuinely good people, Sarah has great potential to become a monster. A good person in Hell eventually has no choice but to adapt, compromise, and potentially damn themselves all over again. The fight against that, the fight to find ways around it, is part of what makes me want to play her in a setting like this. Not least because any first slips would be made out of a desire to do good; she tends for forgive bad actions that she thinks are meant well, which makes it that much easier to see her dipping a toe in the deep end for the sake of people she cares about.
She’s young. She had a long life ahead of her, or thought she did, and planned accordingly. A little thing like death isn’t going to get in the way of her goals. Even if she has to adjust them somewhat to fit her new situation. Again, it’s going to come down to the path she chooses; stick to the good she knows, or choose the gray area options that will bring her closer to positions of power and the chance to better things from the inside. There’s the possibility that she’ll believe she’s doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, right up to the moment she sinks a knife into someone’s neck.
Also, someone so Good in Hell has potential to be hilarious. She’s friendly and accommodating, liable to make friends on both sides of the Hell/Heaven divide and to try to bring them together whether they want to be brought or not. Subtle and driven, her tendency to get what she wants in the quietest way possible has a lot of potential for manipulation in a scenario like this. She could very well trick demons into acts of kindness and contracts based on good deeds, or find her abilities turned against her and land over her head in debt to someone with far fewer scruples than she has.
In her eternally optimistic way, Sarah’s going to believe for a long while that there’s a way to win free of Little Hades and either go back to her life or move on to A Better Place. Once she comes to grips with the idea that there’s no way out, that’s when things will get really interesting, and when it’ll come out just how far she’s willing to go to get what she wants.
Sarah was brutally underutilized in her canon (like all of the female characters). There was a lot of potential for her to be an interesting, caring human being in the middle of a bunch of selfish magical idiots, and instead she’s relegated to unconsciousness or damselhood for most of the film. This is a chance to really play with the possibility that existed in her character, and to create and arc for her where there was none before.
Personality:
Sexy lamp.
We're given a lot of kernels of personality in the movie without any of them being truly fleshed out. Sarah is kind, forgiving, compassionate, optimistic, friendly, and believes the best of most people almost all the time. She's not naive - she's too smart to be truly naive - but she's the sort who believes at bottom that, given the option, people will choose to do the right thing. Her flaw isn't so much that she refuses to see the dark side of people as it is that she gives them a pass for bad behavior she thinks is meant well.
She has very little temper. Even when she's angry, it passes quickly. She's more interested in trying to reason out other peoples' choices and trying to understand why they would act a certain way. The energy of anger gets redirected to investigation.
She takes nothing for granted, and she trusts her instincts. In most things (though perhaps not people things), they're pretty damn good. She's always had a strong level of intuition and supplements it with an addiction to learning whatever she can about topics that interest her and the situations she finds herself in. Where some people would try to justify the strangeness going on around them within the context of the world they know, she saw teenage boys using magic and pursued a line of thinking that said "Well, maybe there's magic in the world. Let's find out." She's open to impossible possibilities, provided they can be proved in some way.
She's intensely driven and very quiet about that drive. When she decided she wanted to do to Harvard, she worked until she got a scholarship to a prep school that funnels students into Harvard. WHen she decided she liked a boy on campus, she insinuated herself into his life by volunteering to keep him company while he ran errands. When she sets her eyes on a goal, she knows that going straight at it isn't necessarily the best way to get it, or the most efficient. She uses her energy and her skills more carefully. She's comfortable playing a long game, and in some ways views life as a chess match to be won with as few casualties as possible.
Setting Fit:
Sarah doesn’t belong in hell, and she would take that as a challenge. She would jump at the chance to work for the Reform Branch, or any kind of service industry. She’s not afraid of getting her hands dirty, or she wasn’t on earth. Here, it might take a little getting used to. She would want to make things better for the residents of Hell, never considering the fact that maybe they like things more or less the way they are. If they have the option of things being better - better as she sees it - why wouldn’t they take it?
She's liable to find the lack of books in the library that are not porn something that desperately needs fixing. As someone who reaches for a book the moment she comes across a problem she doesn't understand, the lack of information about anything other than... uh.... anatomy? won't sit well with her. She planned on going to Harvard to study Journalism and Visual Arts, and might turn her penchant for investigative journalism into underground pamphlets on corruption in THE SYSTEM or simply join the Little Hades Gazette. Or both.
Eventually she might try to bring in contraband, even start a back-door Earthly Hideaway for people who want a taste of peace, quiet, and home. Working as a Reaper would be a step in that direction, and a very likely one given the lack of sensitivity her own Reaper had in bringing her down. She would want to make the transition easier for people, and in doing so would have the potential to realize other benefits of going topside.
Samples:
Test Drive Thread
Name: Jae
Age: 29
Contact: ninjae @ plurk
Characters In-game: None
💀 Character Information
Name: Sarah Wenham
Canon: The Covenant
Canon Point: Post-movie
Age: 18-ish
Description:
A sharp-featured blonde with an easy smile and very bright blue eyes. She’s slightly less than average height, maybe 5’4’’ or 5’5’’, and seemingly as innocent as the day is long. She can’t keep her emotions to herself. If she’s upset, she cries. If she’s mad, it shows. Most of the time she’s smiling.
She dresses for comfort over fashion, though she’s not oblivious to the latter and can turn out when she wants to. She also likes layers, though that might change given that the weather in Hell is a little different than the weather in Boston, no matter what some people might say. She wears very little jewelry, though her ears are pierced, mostly because even if she has it she forgets to put it on.
Physical changes: A gradually growing pair of curved horns a la the gerenuk.
Powers: It’s implied by the movie (or by its plot holes) that she has psychic abilities and a certain level of clairvoyance. She sensed when magic was being worked around her and she dreamed of HORRIFYING SPIDER INFESTATION shortly before her roommate went to the hospital after being bitten by hundreds of spiders. Post-movie, she’s embraced the idea of having abilities of her own and has been studying and practicing, enough to read auras, have more consistent prophetic dreams, and to have successfully astrally projected. Once.
History: The mess that is the film.
Her pre-movie history is only very briefly touched on. She’s a scholarship student at Spenser Academy, having moved to Ipswich from Boston in order to attend. It can be assumed her family is middle or lower middle class, the kind of people who can afford perhaps to give their daughter a new high-class camera (or a used one) but not maintain the consistent payments required for a private school.
Hell Status: Hell Newbie
What Brings Them To Hell: She would have been a Limbo Case, if not for Chase Collins and his inability to Let Shit Go. As he’s done before, Chase flagged her name and got a list of offenses added to her trial that she never actually committed. (Approved by the player.)
The Pitch:
Like all genuinely good people, Sarah has great potential to become a monster. A good person in Hell eventually has no choice but to adapt, compromise, and potentially damn themselves all over again. The fight against that, the fight to find ways around it, is part of what makes me want to play her in a setting like this. Not least because any first slips would be made out of a desire to do good; she tends for forgive bad actions that she thinks are meant well, which makes it that much easier to see her dipping a toe in the deep end for the sake of people she cares about.
She’s young. She had a long life ahead of her, or thought she did, and planned accordingly. A little thing like death isn’t going to get in the way of her goals. Even if she has to adjust them somewhat to fit her new situation. Again, it’s going to come down to the path she chooses; stick to the good she knows, or choose the gray area options that will bring her closer to positions of power and the chance to better things from the inside. There’s the possibility that she’ll believe she’s doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, right up to the moment she sinks a knife into someone’s neck.
Also, someone so Good in Hell has potential to be hilarious. She’s friendly and accommodating, liable to make friends on both sides of the Hell/Heaven divide and to try to bring them together whether they want to be brought or not. Subtle and driven, her tendency to get what she wants in the quietest way possible has a lot of potential for manipulation in a scenario like this. She could very well trick demons into acts of kindness and contracts based on good deeds, or find her abilities turned against her and land over her head in debt to someone with far fewer scruples than she has.
In her eternally optimistic way, Sarah’s going to believe for a long while that there’s a way to win free of Little Hades and either go back to her life or move on to A Better Place. Once she comes to grips with the idea that there’s no way out, that’s when things will get really interesting, and when it’ll come out just how far she’s willing to go to get what she wants.
Sarah was brutally underutilized in her canon (like all of the female characters). There was a lot of potential for her to be an interesting, caring human being in the middle of a bunch of selfish magical idiots, and instead she’s relegated to unconsciousness or damselhood for most of the film. This is a chance to really play with the possibility that existed in her character, and to create and arc for her where there was none before.
Personality:
Sexy lamp.
We're given a lot of kernels of personality in the movie without any of them being truly fleshed out. Sarah is kind, forgiving, compassionate, optimistic, friendly, and believes the best of most people almost all the time. She's not naive - she's too smart to be truly naive - but she's the sort who believes at bottom that, given the option, people will choose to do the right thing. Her flaw isn't so much that she refuses to see the dark side of people as it is that she gives them a pass for bad behavior she thinks is meant well.
She has very little temper. Even when she's angry, it passes quickly. She's more interested in trying to reason out other peoples' choices and trying to understand why they would act a certain way. The energy of anger gets redirected to investigation.
She takes nothing for granted, and she trusts her instincts. In most things (though perhaps not people things), they're pretty damn good. She's always had a strong level of intuition and supplements it with an addiction to learning whatever she can about topics that interest her and the situations she finds herself in. Where some people would try to justify the strangeness going on around them within the context of the world they know, she saw teenage boys using magic and pursued a line of thinking that said "Well, maybe there's magic in the world. Let's find out." She's open to impossible possibilities, provided they can be proved in some way.
She's intensely driven and very quiet about that drive. When she decided she wanted to do to Harvard, she worked until she got a scholarship to a prep school that funnels students into Harvard. WHen she decided she liked a boy on campus, she insinuated herself into his life by volunteering to keep him company while he ran errands. When she sets her eyes on a goal, she knows that going straight at it isn't necessarily the best way to get it, or the most efficient. She uses her energy and her skills more carefully. She's comfortable playing a long game, and in some ways views life as a chess match to be won with as few casualties as possible.
Setting Fit:
Sarah doesn’t belong in hell, and she would take that as a challenge. She would jump at the chance to work for the Reform Branch, or any kind of service industry. She’s not afraid of getting her hands dirty, or she wasn’t on earth. Here, it might take a little getting used to. She would want to make things better for the residents of Hell, never considering the fact that maybe they like things more or less the way they are. If they have the option of things being better - better as she sees it - why wouldn’t they take it?
She's liable to find the lack of books in the library that are not porn something that desperately needs fixing. As someone who reaches for a book the moment she comes across a problem she doesn't understand, the lack of information about anything other than... uh.... anatomy? won't sit well with her. She planned on going to Harvard to study Journalism and Visual Arts, and might turn her penchant for investigative journalism into underground pamphlets on corruption in THE SYSTEM or simply join the Little Hades Gazette. Or both.
Eventually she might try to bring in contraband, even start a back-door Earthly Hideaway for people who want a taste of peace, quiet, and home. Working as a Reaper would be a step in that direction, and a very likely one given the lack of sensitivity her own Reaper had in bringing her down. She would want to make the transition easier for people, and in doing so would have the potential to realize other benefits of going topside.
Samples:
Test Drive Thread