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not_really_charlieOOC Information
Player Name: Kay
Player Age: 22
Player Contact: AIM or plurk – dragon8writer
Player/Character HMD: http://not-really-charlie.dreamwidth.org/1035.html
Other characters in game: Barbara Gordon
IC Information
Character Name: Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury – AKA Carrie Heinlein, though both names are fake. Her true last name is “middleton” – her real first name is not known. (Charlie forms her aliases by taking the first names from Stephen King novels, and the last name of famous sci-fi writers)
Character Canon: [OU] Supernatural
Character Age/Gender: 28 - female
Canon Point: Following Pac-man fever, where she lets her mother go.
Character Canon History: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Charlie_Bradbury
Character Personality: At first appearance, Charlie comes across as a fairly normal, cute and geeky girl; perhaps something of a stereotype. She surrounds herself in paraphernalia from her fandom, dances energetically to music when no one was around, and uses words like “frak” on a regular basis. Back in her first appearance, she would act pretty timid when scared, and she admitted a tendency to herself when nervous. All of that is interesting – but barely scratches the person beneath.
Charlie is a liberal – and has been since she was at least twelve, when she stole a video game off a company’s servers and gave it a makeover to express her rather strong views, as she launched her now free game – a first person shooter which pitted them against super soldier vampires in a hospital, as they attempted to save the lives of patients.
Considering Charlie’s father had just died, and her mother was in a coma, that particular action was as likely a matter of lashing out at the world as it was a matter of politics. Still, Charlie apparently inherited some rather strong values from her parents (including but not limited to her love of reading), and she clung to them desperately when her mother passed. Likely it was something for her to cling to, when the makers of that video game she stole had her arrested. On the run, having to falsify everything about herself in order to survive, books comics and role playing games were undoubtedly one of the few consistencies in her life, the common thread tying her false identities to her real one. Them, and the mother who had read her the hobbit as a child and inspired it all, who’s hospital care Charlie has no doubt been paying for since she was twelve, apparently via her hacking skills. If nothing else, Charlie is loyal to those she loves.
She’s brave, as well; despite initial reluctance, she volunteered to head into enemy territory – both to wipe an important hard drive of information, and to hack into Dick Roman’s’s email account in order to find out what the shape shifter was looking for. She panicked, she protested that it was beyond her abilities, but she did it; and in so doing she helped the Winchesters get their hands on information that would help them save the world.
Unfortunately, as her own brave actions showed, she is sometimes more loyal to ideals then people. She said she was doing this, after all, because she wasn’t simply willing to sit back as monsters ate everyone she knew. Yet she was willing to leave them all behind, without so much as a note, after the job was done. It’s the sort of thing she had to get used to, spending sixteen years on the run. Friends were temporary connections she couldn’t afford to reveal too much of herself to.
That brings us to the darker side of Charlie’s personality: the girl who needs control of her environment, who’s confidence in part hinges upon this. This can be seen, for starters, in her work space. Decorated with objects from her fandom, Charlie made it to look as much as possible like her own home, her own environment, rather than the company’s. She downplayed her immediate superior’s importance, and hacked on company property - as if saying that it was her place and she could do what she wanted. While she was in that environment, her voice rang with confidence – joking and teasing with her neighboring co-worker. When pulled out of it, and faced with an authority figure who had actual power over her, that confidence was lost – she became nervous, stuttering and tripping over herself to try and avoid displeasing him. This was shown again when Charlie set to work for the Winchesters, trying to wipe the hard drive. She set up everything herself, minimizing what the boys would have to do, and half panicking when she was faced with the real life threat of Dick. Obviously, she was brave enough to get through it, and do what had to be done. But the confidence she had expressed while in her own territory went out the window.
None of this is to say that Charlie is a control freak, or that the need for control is even a dominant part of her personality – she never tried to tell anyone else how to do their jobs, for example, or screamed that a certain thing had to be a certain way. But it is to say that Charlie’s confidence and determination – insurmountable in her own environment, where she would willingly spend the night in order to crack open a hard drive – is somewhat influenced by her environment. When removed from it, her self-confidence would take a hit.
That undoubtedly contributes to Charlie’s stated issues with authority – her dislike of having control taken from her, and put in someone else’s hands, which leads to trying to downplay the authority figures in her life. She would call her supervisor “teddy bear Pete,” for example, implying that his displeasure couldn’t possibly be a real threat to her. Doing this means she’s in control, not them.
It is also, no doubt, connected to her past. Constantly having to flee, avoiding real attachments in case her past caught up with her, or she was caught out in her present day hacking… Charlie needed to stay in control. She had to be able to leave. She is a girl who has run before, and who knows she may have to run again. It shines through in the way she lives her life and is evidenced even by her choice in idols - Hermione Granger; while a strong female character, and a good choice, she is nevertheless fictional. Yet Charlie put a bobble head of the woman on her desk, spoke to it when working through difficult situations, and drew upon her for strength when going after the hard drive. It was a speech about Hermione that allowed her to continue.
Rather than a human, someone who could surprise her or respond in a way she didn’t like, Charlie chose as her companion a plastic toy of a fictional being. Rather than field work with unknown dangers, she stuck to computer hacking – doing her Robin Hood maneuvers from a place of safety, where she can feel in control.
A lot of that started to shift, though, after the Winchesters entered her life. Having been exposed to the world of supernatural, and forced to flee yet again, Charlie actually found a place where she felt like she belonged. Joining a group of LARPers, Charlie was actually made queen of her fellow players, a position that gave her a great deal of power, control, respect, and admittedly a lot of willing girls – but also gave her a great deal of responsibility. When real magic started cropping up, Charlie wanted to do nothing more than flee the scene. But as the queen of moondoor she refused to leave her people behind. She again stayed, facing down a real life monster and even saving the lovely fairy Gilda. Afterward, she showed her development by saying that she going to stay put this time, and try to honestly set down roots. She found a home, and learned that there are times when you just can’t cut and run. There was too much there for her.
Of course, she’s still scared outside of her element. The stuttering might have gone down some, but her abject terror at being in the field was so great that she nearly became lunch to a pair of fear-devouring djinn. However, without quite meaning to, she also let Dean and Sam into her life. She opened up to Dean about her past and her family, and Dean (and to a lesser extent Sam) opened up to her. Finally having a deep connection to someone out in the world is undoubtedly what has given her the strength to face those terrors and keep going forward, letting go of her past – and her mother, who she had to admit would never awaken. Rather than running from the world of supernatural, or her own past, she’s started doing everything she can to become more a part of her present. Scared she might be, but she’s brave.
AU Information: [If applicable. Focus specifically on what is different from canon and how this changes the character.]
Character Abilities: She’s good with a sword – at least in role play, though she’d arguably be no match in a real fight against a warrior. Thankfully, she’s also a crack shot with a gun (as she reveals in her second and third episodes respectively.)
She’s a hacker. More than that, she’s a genius hacker – The leviathan, who were able to impersonate any person in terms of memory and appearance, claimed that she possessed a special spark that was impossible to copy.
Character Inventory: A gun, a laptop, a backpack, her wallet, a fake fbi badge, and a tablet containing an online encyclopedia of demons and magic that she’d been compiling to better understand the supernatural world.
Samples: [One third person/introspective sample, and one thread of interaction with at least one other character. There will be a test drive meme open before each application round, but bakerstreet, dear_mun, and previous game threads all count if you prefer to use those for your interactive sample, so long as they are threads for the same version of the character you're apping - so, a meme thread with an OU version of a character would not count if you were apping an AU version of a character, but would if you were apping them as OU.
http://justhugalready.dreamwidth.org/1327.html?thread=868655#cmt868655
Panic seemed to clutch at her, as she fought to calm down enough that she could actually hear what was being said. Or at least not hyperventilate. She’d been kidnapped; which seemed to happen a lot, but she’s pretty sure this time’s not going to be a grateful blonde fairy looking for a knight. That leaves her with demons that want to eat her, which dumps her right back into panicking mode.
She takes a deep breath, trying to calm herself, and forces herself to listen even when they start talking about needing their energy. She can’t be trapped here – she’s got people who need her back home. She’s the queen. Not to mention Sam and Dean… they will find her here, won’t they? She’s not going to be stuck here. She can’t be.
She took another deep breath, eyes flicking about the room as she took in her fellow captives. All these people milling about, it probably wasn’t another djinn dream. Just as good, probably. Liquefied insides? Not really her tastes. That didn’t really change the fact that she was trapped. It just meant she wasn’t in any immediate danger of being devoured. Hopefully.
Maybe she should flash her fake badge about. See if she couldn’t get any answers from the populace. Or maybe see if her fellow kidnappees knew anything. As soon as she got herself in order. Just because it felt like her heart was going to pop out of her chest didn’t mean she had to show it off.
Deep breath. Eyes closed. She stood, looking around. There had to be some way to get home – to get all of these people home. She just needed to figure out what was going on, first.
Player Name: Kay
Player Age: 22
Player Contact: AIM or plurk – dragon8writer
Player/Character HMD: http://not-really-charlie.dreamwidth.org/1035.html
Other characters in game: Barbara Gordon
IC Information
Character Name: Charlene “Charlie” Bradbury – AKA Carrie Heinlein, though both names are fake. Her true last name is “middleton” – her real first name is not known. (Charlie forms her aliases by taking the first names from Stephen King novels, and the last name of famous sci-fi writers)
Character Canon: [OU] Supernatural
Character Age/Gender: 28 - female
Canon Point: Following Pac-man fever, where she lets her mother go.
Character Canon History: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Charlie_Bradbury
Character Personality: At first appearance, Charlie comes across as a fairly normal, cute and geeky girl; perhaps something of a stereotype. She surrounds herself in paraphernalia from her fandom, dances energetically to music when no one was around, and uses words like “frak” on a regular basis. Back in her first appearance, she would act pretty timid when scared, and she admitted a tendency to herself when nervous. All of that is interesting – but barely scratches the person beneath.
Charlie is a liberal – and has been since she was at least twelve, when she stole a video game off a company’s servers and gave it a makeover to express her rather strong views, as she launched her now free game – a first person shooter which pitted them against super soldier vampires in a hospital, as they attempted to save the lives of patients.
Considering Charlie’s father had just died, and her mother was in a coma, that particular action was as likely a matter of lashing out at the world as it was a matter of politics. Still, Charlie apparently inherited some rather strong values from her parents (including but not limited to her love of reading), and she clung to them desperately when her mother passed. Likely it was something for her to cling to, when the makers of that video game she stole had her arrested. On the run, having to falsify everything about herself in order to survive, books comics and role playing games were undoubtedly one of the few consistencies in her life, the common thread tying her false identities to her real one. Them, and the mother who had read her the hobbit as a child and inspired it all, who’s hospital care Charlie has no doubt been paying for since she was twelve, apparently via her hacking skills. If nothing else, Charlie is loyal to those she loves.
She’s brave, as well; despite initial reluctance, she volunteered to head into enemy territory – both to wipe an important hard drive of information, and to hack into Dick Roman’s’s email account in order to find out what the shape shifter was looking for. She panicked, she protested that it was beyond her abilities, but she did it; and in so doing she helped the Winchesters get their hands on information that would help them save the world.
Unfortunately, as her own brave actions showed, she is sometimes more loyal to ideals then people. She said she was doing this, after all, because she wasn’t simply willing to sit back as monsters ate everyone she knew. Yet she was willing to leave them all behind, without so much as a note, after the job was done. It’s the sort of thing she had to get used to, spending sixteen years on the run. Friends were temporary connections she couldn’t afford to reveal too much of herself to.
That brings us to the darker side of Charlie’s personality: the girl who needs control of her environment, who’s confidence in part hinges upon this. This can be seen, for starters, in her work space. Decorated with objects from her fandom, Charlie made it to look as much as possible like her own home, her own environment, rather than the company’s. She downplayed her immediate superior’s importance, and hacked on company property - as if saying that it was her place and she could do what she wanted. While she was in that environment, her voice rang with confidence – joking and teasing with her neighboring co-worker. When pulled out of it, and faced with an authority figure who had actual power over her, that confidence was lost – she became nervous, stuttering and tripping over herself to try and avoid displeasing him. This was shown again when Charlie set to work for the Winchesters, trying to wipe the hard drive. She set up everything herself, minimizing what the boys would have to do, and half panicking when she was faced with the real life threat of Dick. Obviously, she was brave enough to get through it, and do what had to be done. But the confidence she had expressed while in her own territory went out the window.
None of this is to say that Charlie is a control freak, or that the need for control is even a dominant part of her personality – she never tried to tell anyone else how to do their jobs, for example, or screamed that a certain thing had to be a certain way. But it is to say that Charlie’s confidence and determination – insurmountable in her own environment, where she would willingly spend the night in order to crack open a hard drive – is somewhat influenced by her environment. When removed from it, her self-confidence would take a hit.
That undoubtedly contributes to Charlie’s stated issues with authority – her dislike of having control taken from her, and put in someone else’s hands, which leads to trying to downplay the authority figures in her life. She would call her supervisor “teddy bear Pete,” for example, implying that his displeasure couldn’t possibly be a real threat to her. Doing this means she’s in control, not them.
It is also, no doubt, connected to her past. Constantly having to flee, avoiding real attachments in case her past caught up with her, or she was caught out in her present day hacking… Charlie needed to stay in control. She had to be able to leave. She is a girl who has run before, and who knows she may have to run again. It shines through in the way she lives her life and is evidenced even by her choice in idols - Hermione Granger; while a strong female character, and a good choice, she is nevertheless fictional. Yet Charlie put a bobble head of the woman on her desk, spoke to it when working through difficult situations, and drew upon her for strength when going after the hard drive. It was a speech about Hermione that allowed her to continue.
Rather than a human, someone who could surprise her or respond in a way she didn’t like, Charlie chose as her companion a plastic toy of a fictional being. Rather than field work with unknown dangers, she stuck to computer hacking – doing her Robin Hood maneuvers from a place of safety, where she can feel in control.
A lot of that started to shift, though, after the Winchesters entered her life. Having been exposed to the world of supernatural, and forced to flee yet again, Charlie actually found a place where she felt like she belonged. Joining a group of LARPers, Charlie was actually made queen of her fellow players, a position that gave her a great deal of power, control, respect, and admittedly a lot of willing girls – but also gave her a great deal of responsibility. When real magic started cropping up, Charlie wanted to do nothing more than flee the scene. But as the queen of moondoor she refused to leave her people behind. She again stayed, facing down a real life monster and even saving the lovely fairy Gilda. Afterward, she showed her development by saying that she going to stay put this time, and try to honestly set down roots. She found a home, and learned that there are times when you just can’t cut and run. There was too much there for her.
Of course, she’s still scared outside of her element. The stuttering might have gone down some, but her abject terror at being in the field was so great that she nearly became lunch to a pair of fear-devouring djinn. However, without quite meaning to, she also let Dean and Sam into her life. She opened up to Dean about her past and her family, and Dean (and to a lesser extent Sam) opened up to her. Finally having a deep connection to someone out in the world is undoubtedly what has given her the strength to face those terrors and keep going forward, letting go of her past – and her mother, who she had to admit would never awaken. Rather than running from the world of supernatural, or her own past, she’s started doing everything she can to become more a part of her present. Scared she might be, but she’s brave.
AU Information: [If applicable. Focus specifically on what is different from canon and how this changes the character.]
Character Abilities: She’s good with a sword – at least in role play, though she’d arguably be no match in a real fight against a warrior. Thankfully, she’s also a crack shot with a gun (as she reveals in her second and third episodes respectively.)
She’s a hacker. More than that, she’s a genius hacker – The leviathan, who were able to impersonate any person in terms of memory and appearance, claimed that she possessed a special spark that was impossible to copy.
Character Inventory: A gun, a laptop, a backpack, her wallet, a fake fbi badge, and a tablet containing an online encyclopedia of demons and magic that she’d been compiling to better understand the supernatural world.
Samples: [One third person/introspective sample, and one thread of interaction with at least one other character. There will be a test drive meme open before each application round, but bakerstreet, dear_mun, and previous game threads all count if you prefer to use those for your interactive sample, so long as they are threads for the same version of the character you're apping - so, a meme thread with an OU version of a character would not count if you were apping an AU version of a character, but would if you were apping them as OU.
http://justhugalready.dreamwidth.org/1327.html?thread=868655#cmt868655
Panic seemed to clutch at her, as she fought to calm down enough that she could actually hear what was being said. Or at least not hyperventilate. She’d been kidnapped; which seemed to happen a lot, but she’s pretty sure this time’s not going to be a grateful blonde fairy looking for a knight. That leaves her with demons that want to eat her, which dumps her right back into panicking mode.
She takes a deep breath, trying to calm herself, and forces herself to listen even when they start talking about needing their energy. She can’t be trapped here – she’s got people who need her back home. She’s the queen. Not to mention Sam and Dean… they will find her here, won’t they? She’s not going to be stuck here. She can’t be.
She took another deep breath, eyes flicking about the room as she took in her fellow captives. All these people milling about, it probably wasn’t another djinn dream. Just as good, probably. Liquefied insides? Not really her tastes. That didn’t really change the fact that she was trapped. It just meant she wasn’t in any immediate danger of being devoured. Hopefully.
Maybe she should flash her fake badge about. See if she couldn’t get any answers from the populace. Or maybe see if her fellow kidnappees knew anything. As soon as she got herself in order. Just because it felt like her heart was going to pop out of her chest didn’t mean she had to show it off.
Deep breath. Eyes closed. She stood, looking around. There had to be some way to get home – to get all of these people home. She just needed to figure out what was going on, first.
