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flightforfreedom) wrote2017-07-01 04:13 pm
flightforfreedom) wrote2017-07-01 04:13 pm
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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Britt
AGE: 30
JOURNAL: daestwen
IM / EMAIL: daestwen at gmail
PLURK: sh_consulting
RETURNING: nope neeewww sort of cnc don't count no mo
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Poe Dameron
CHARACTER AGE: 32
SERIES: Star Wars
CHRONOLOGY: After the destruction of Starkiller base at the end of Force Awakens
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: I am up for being tossed into someone's laundry especially if it is hilarious so go ahead
BACKGROUND: Poe's basic background is fairly simple. He was born after the battle of Yavin, two years before the Battle of Endor, to two Rebel fighters. His mom was a pilot, and started teaching him how to fly from the age of six. She died when he was eight, but he continued to fly through his entire life, before joining the newly reestablished republic fleet. There is a lot of detail in there including how Luke gave his parents a Force Sensitive tree (I kid you not), but for his background, knowing that he grew up looking up to his parents as heroes, and actually knowing heroes of the rebellion, gives you a pretty good idea of why he never really thought twice of continuing the family tradition.
Witnessing war crimes by the First Order was the first major shift in his world view - he had witnessed atrocity and yet was forbidden by republic command to deal with it, or intercept the threat. Obviously angry about his impotence, he was approached by General Leia Organa, who had started the Resistance when the Republic refused to deal with the First Order threat, and was recruited into the organisation. As the resistance's best pilot, he was used both for recruitment as well as for dangerous missions, and it was on one of these, to search out the map leading to Luke Skywalker, that Poe fell into the hands of the First Order (and started the movie the Force Awakens). He was unsuccessfully tortured for information, before Kylo Ren pulled the location of the map from his mind. Before he could be killed, he was rescued by an unnamed Stormtrooper who he nicknamed Finn, before both of them crashed on Jakku.
Here he was supposed to be dead but thanks to the fact that Oscar Isaacs is charming as fuck the script was rewritten so that he would miraculously survive. So instead of dying he passes out, loses his memory for a little while, then wanders through the desert until he meets someone that doesn't even get to appear in the movie, who is apparently as impressed by him as JJ Abrams is, tells him he's a bad ass pilot and laughs at him simultaneously, who helps him get back to the resistance. For some reason Poe decides that makes more sense than to look for the robot that he left on Jakku that has the most important piece of information in the universe, but it's probably for the best since the plot already got bb8 off the planet so he would have just been running around in circles anyway. He gets back to his home on Yavin 4 to pick up his custom painted black x-wing that he conveniently didn't bring on the mission where it would have gotten blown up, and heads back to the Resistance. Later he gets sent to Takodana to help rescue Han, Chewie, and Finn, and blows up a bunch of stuff being the best pilot in the resistance (have you got that yet? he's the best) before escorting everyone back to the Resistance Headquarters.
Here he has an incredibly emotional reunion with a Stormtrooper that he knew for all of ten minutes who now wants to go blow up the death star - sorry I mean starkiller base - and decides yes, that is an awesome idea, let's go do that. So they go do that only his buddy gets really badly wounded and then the credits roll.
There is a lot of stuff I have left out here, like the fact he once had to visit a cult worshipping a giant egg, which is mostly spread out over comics and books, which you can read more about here if you are really that curious:
His Wiki page.
PERSONALITY:
Poe Dameron is basically made of bravado and sass. As is common with fighter pilots, he is a bit of an adrenaline junky, and has very little care for his personal well-being. (As evidenced by deciding to shoot Kylo Ren when if he had really just waited like five minutes he would have gotten away, but he really need to shoot that guy since he shot someone else.) Long term consequences are not his forte. The life expectancy of a fighter pilot is very low, even when you are the Best Pilot In The Resistance (TM), so he basically just does death-defying stunts because he can. It helps that such stunts seem to help him take down more enemies, which in a round about way keeps him alive.
He is charming as all fuck. This is noted by General Organa, who muses that really she should just send him out all the time for recruitment as his bravado just brings them in droves.
Joking, bravado and charm aside, Poe can be boiled down simply to a man with an incredible sense of moral justice. Whether or not the powers at be believe something is right is not the point - he has his own moral compass and he acts on it, regardless of the consequence. He makes decisions incredibly fast - a skill necessary when a split second may be the difference between life or death - but this extends to people, as well. He is incredibly loyal, as long as those he gives his loyalty to prove themselves to be as just as he expects them to be. Origin doesn't matter, neither does species or whether you are made out of metal or cells: once you are one of his people, you are one of his people, period.
Poe would love to think he doesn't feel fear, but of course he does. He reacts to dangerous situations with sarcasm and bravado, but under that is the knowledge that everyone he loves may die at any time. Losing his mother at 8 cemented that fact, and subsequently working as a fighter pilot only made sure that his friends were generally in high-stress, high-mortality rate conditions for most of their lives. In the Sky (or in Space) it's easy to push death to the side and focus on the job at hand, but coming back to solid ground means facing the fact that you were at least partially the cause for many of your friend's deaths. Here his moral compass saves him - an unwavering belief in the fact that what they are doing is right means that he can support himself with that knowledge in the worst moments. His friends died doing the right thing. And as death is so incredible common and random in Poe's world, a good death is more important than anything else. So he pushes down any unneccessary 'negative' feelings and focuses on his sense of moral justice. This means, however, that the anger can be sudden and incredibly violent when he is forced to face those who have endangered his friends or his morality, and makes clear a line with which he has no problem with:
Killing someone before they hurt anyone else is an action he happily takes, in an instant, with no regrets. Once they are 'evil', they've given up their right to life.
POWER:
1: Eternal Sexy Bedhead. It doesn't matter what the conditions are, Poe's hair is always perfectly coifed as if he just finished ravishing you and is now lounging in a bathrobe with a grin and a fresh brewed coffee. Even in a hurricane.
2: Technopathy. Poe can speak to machines. Not just electronics, but really anything man made that has moving parts. He can't really do anything more than that, he can't manipulate them in ways that would be impossible under normal circumstances (with some exceptions, as will be outlined below), but he can make friends with his toaster and ensure his breakfast is always perfect.
3: I can fly anything. Poe can fly anything. Literally. If he can balance on it, he can fly it. Bicycle? Check. Couch? Check. Carpet? Check. Broom? Check. Anything he sits on he can make fly.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Hello, Imports. Welcome to a video of a blank white wall, and some quiet (one-sided) discussion in the background.]
It really would be better if we could make it a hologram, but sure, I guess video will work. Yeah, hang on, let me finish my drawi-- Oh, you're rolling already? I didn't mean right this second, Buddy, but yeah, alright. If you're that excited.
[Suddenly a handsome figure with perfectly coifed sexy bedhead and a lopsided grin enter the frame, holding a hand up in a wave.]
Hey everyone, sorry about that! Just getting used to the technology level, here. Anyway, I'll keep this brief. I'm putting out an alert for a friend of mine, who is missing. Not sure if he came through with me or not, but it would make me feel a lot better if I knew for sure. [He pauses, and then pulls out a crayon drawing of a droid, and holds it up close to the camera. At the top of the poster reads "LOST" and at the bottom says "please contact Poe Dameron if found" and gives a number.] This is BB-8, and if he's here, he's a long way from home. He's probably pretty confused - haven't seen any droid ports around here - and I don't know if he would be able to talk english. [There's a pause - apparently he's listening to something.] Seriously? Huh. Apparently he might even look like a human and speak normally, so uh - this might be harder than I thought. Anyway, I've made a bunch of these posters, so if anyone wants to help me out putting them up, I'd appreciate it.
And BB-8 -- If you're out there: Hold on, Buddy. I'm coming.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
There is plenty in his TDM post here.
FINAL NOTES:
NAME: Britt
AGE: 30
JOURNAL: daestwen
IM / EMAIL: daestwen at gmail
PLURK: sh_consulting
RETURNING: nope neeewww sort of cnc don't count no mo
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Poe Dameron
CHARACTER AGE: 32
SERIES: Star Wars
CHRONOLOGY: After the destruction of Starkiller base at the end of Force Awakens
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: I am up for being tossed into someone's laundry especially if it is hilarious so go ahead
BACKGROUND: Poe's basic background is fairly simple. He was born after the battle of Yavin, two years before the Battle of Endor, to two Rebel fighters. His mom was a pilot, and started teaching him how to fly from the age of six. She died when he was eight, but he continued to fly through his entire life, before joining the newly reestablished republic fleet. There is a lot of detail in there including how Luke gave his parents a Force Sensitive tree (I kid you not), but for his background, knowing that he grew up looking up to his parents as heroes, and actually knowing heroes of the rebellion, gives you a pretty good idea of why he never really thought twice of continuing the family tradition.
Witnessing war crimes by the First Order was the first major shift in his world view - he had witnessed atrocity and yet was forbidden by republic command to deal with it, or intercept the threat. Obviously angry about his impotence, he was approached by General Leia Organa, who had started the Resistance when the Republic refused to deal with the First Order threat, and was recruited into the organisation. As the resistance's best pilot, he was used both for recruitment as well as for dangerous missions, and it was on one of these, to search out the map leading to Luke Skywalker, that Poe fell into the hands of the First Order (and started the movie the Force Awakens). He was unsuccessfully tortured for information, before Kylo Ren pulled the location of the map from his mind. Before he could be killed, he was rescued by an unnamed Stormtrooper who he nicknamed Finn, before both of them crashed on Jakku.
Here he was supposed to be dead but thanks to the fact that Oscar Isaacs is charming as fuck the script was rewritten so that he would miraculously survive. So instead of dying he passes out, loses his memory for a little while, then wanders through the desert until he meets someone that doesn't even get to appear in the movie, who is apparently as impressed by him as JJ Abrams is, tells him he's a bad ass pilot and laughs at him simultaneously, who helps him get back to the resistance. For some reason Poe decides that makes more sense than to look for the robot that he left on Jakku that has the most important piece of information in the universe, but it's probably for the best since the plot already got bb8 off the planet so he would have just been running around in circles anyway. He gets back to his home on Yavin 4 to pick up his custom painted black x-wing that he conveniently didn't bring on the mission where it would have gotten blown up, and heads back to the Resistance. Later he gets sent to Takodana to help rescue Han, Chewie, and Finn, and blows up a bunch of stuff being the best pilot in the resistance (have you got that yet? he's the best) before escorting everyone back to the Resistance Headquarters.
Here he has an incredibly emotional reunion with a Stormtrooper that he knew for all of ten minutes who now wants to go blow up the death star - sorry I mean starkiller base - and decides yes, that is an awesome idea, let's go do that. So they go do that only his buddy gets really badly wounded and then the credits roll.
There is a lot of stuff I have left out here, like the fact he once had to visit a cult worshipping a giant egg, which is mostly spread out over comics and books, which you can read more about here if you are really that curious:
His Wiki page.
PERSONALITY:
Poe Dameron is basically made of bravado and sass. As is common with fighter pilots, he is a bit of an adrenaline junky, and has very little care for his personal well-being. (As evidenced by deciding to shoot Kylo Ren when if he had really just waited like five minutes he would have gotten away, but he really need to shoot that guy since he shot someone else.) Long term consequences are not his forte. The life expectancy of a fighter pilot is very low, even when you are the Best Pilot In The Resistance (TM), so he basically just does death-defying stunts because he can. It helps that such stunts seem to help him take down more enemies, which in a round about way keeps him alive.
He is charming as all fuck. This is noted by General Organa, who muses that really she should just send him out all the time for recruitment as his bravado just brings them in droves.
Joking, bravado and charm aside, Poe can be boiled down simply to a man with an incredible sense of moral justice. Whether or not the powers at be believe something is right is not the point - he has his own moral compass and he acts on it, regardless of the consequence. He makes decisions incredibly fast - a skill necessary when a split second may be the difference between life or death - but this extends to people, as well. He is incredibly loyal, as long as those he gives his loyalty to prove themselves to be as just as he expects them to be. Origin doesn't matter, neither does species or whether you are made out of metal or cells: once you are one of his people, you are one of his people, period.
Poe would love to think he doesn't feel fear, but of course he does. He reacts to dangerous situations with sarcasm and bravado, but under that is the knowledge that everyone he loves may die at any time. Losing his mother at 8 cemented that fact, and subsequently working as a fighter pilot only made sure that his friends were generally in high-stress, high-mortality rate conditions for most of their lives. In the Sky (or in Space) it's easy to push death to the side and focus on the job at hand, but coming back to solid ground means facing the fact that you were at least partially the cause for many of your friend's deaths. Here his moral compass saves him - an unwavering belief in the fact that what they are doing is right means that he can support himself with that knowledge in the worst moments. His friends died doing the right thing. And as death is so incredible common and random in Poe's world, a good death is more important than anything else. So he pushes down any unneccessary 'negative' feelings and focuses on his sense of moral justice. This means, however, that the anger can be sudden and incredibly violent when he is forced to face those who have endangered his friends or his morality, and makes clear a line with which he has no problem with:
Killing someone before they hurt anyone else is an action he happily takes, in an instant, with no regrets. Once they are 'evil', they've given up their right to life.
POWER:
1: Eternal Sexy Bedhead. It doesn't matter what the conditions are, Poe's hair is always perfectly coifed as if he just finished ravishing you and is now lounging in a bathrobe with a grin and a fresh brewed coffee. Even in a hurricane.
2: Technopathy. Poe can speak to machines. Not just electronics, but really anything man made that has moving parts. He can't really do anything more than that, he can't manipulate them in ways that would be impossible under normal circumstances (with some exceptions, as will be outlined below), but he can make friends with his toaster and ensure his breakfast is always perfect.
3: I can fly anything. Poe can fly anything. Literally. If he can balance on it, he can fly it. Bicycle? Check. Couch? Check. Carpet? Check. Broom? Check. Anything he sits on he can make fly.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[Hello, Imports. Welcome to a video of a blank white wall, and some quiet (one-sided) discussion in the background.]
It really would be better if we could make it a hologram, but sure, I guess video will work. Yeah, hang on, let me finish my drawi-- Oh, you're rolling already? I didn't mean right this second, Buddy, but yeah, alright. If you're that excited.
[Suddenly a handsome figure with perfectly coifed sexy bedhead and a lopsided grin enter the frame, holding a hand up in a wave.]
Hey everyone, sorry about that! Just getting used to the technology level, here. Anyway, I'll keep this brief. I'm putting out an alert for a friend of mine, who is missing. Not sure if he came through with me or not, but it would make me feel a lot better if I knew for sure. [He pauses, and then pulls out a crayon drawing of a droid, and holds it up close to the camera. At the top of the poster reads "LOST" and at the bottom says "please contact Poe Dameron if found" and gives a number.] This is BB-8, and if he's here, he's a long way from home. He's probably pretty confused - haven't seen any droid ports around here - and I don't know if he would be able to talk english. [There's a pause - apparently he's listening to something.] Seriously? Huh. Apparently he might even look like a human and speak normally, so uh - this might be harder than I thought. Anyway, I've made a bunch of these posters, so if anyone wants to help me out putting them up, I'd appreciate it.
And BB-8 -- If you're out there: Hold on, Buddy. I'm coming.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
There is plenty in his TDM post here.
FINAL NOTES: