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cool person (savantisms) wrote in admelioraooc,
@ 2010-05-01 19:24:00

Entry tags:

application

App
So you guys have an idea of what the app will contain:

Player name:

Character name:
Age:
Profession:

Power, if applicable:

Where do they live?:

Personality:

Appearance:

PB:

Background:

Skills:

Goals:

The player's:

a)
b)
c)

The character's:

a)
b)
c)

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ownmymind
2010-05-14 02:38 am UTC (link)

PB: Zooey Deschanel

Background: Born the second child in an obviously failing marriage, Rhea is well aware that she was her parent's last ditch attempt at staying together. That or an accident, given the fact that her sister is fourteen years older than she is. As such, she's taken on the responsibility for not being able to save her parent's marriage, blaming herself for her father walking out when she was six. If she had been better, wouldn't he have wanted to stay? If not for her mother, then for her at least?

Her sister had left by then too, leaving her alone with her mother for the next twelve years and nothing to do but study endlessly as her mother broke down. As a child, she was a disappointment to her father and the reason her mother cried - so she would be better. She studied sports scientifically, trying to perfect every game through hours of after school study. Her classes were things she would agonize over, studying every single textbook in the library, examining her teachers to try and guess what they'd want from essays and, most importantly, plotting out her life according to what her mother would like her to be. As difficult as it would be to fix a broken heart, well, she could study it up and try couldn't she? She could be better, so much better than her mother would have expected, so much better that her mother would forget him.

Her life was more or less totally plotted out according to what she thought her mother would like - except for summers, when her friend from Mexico would come over to visit and she would allow herself to act like a child. He stopped coming eventually and she fell out of touch with him, losing the only person she felt like she could act her age around. She went back to trying to be a prodigy.

University progressed in much the same way, except with her specialising in anthropology, she could drop a lot of the extracurricular stuff she'd picked up in order to impress her family and focus on that. She graduated with honours, and moved on to become a grad student at a different university, working part-time in the British Museum.

...Or that's what her file says. But honestly, smart, moneyed Oxford graduate, with the ability to conform to what people like and get people to let their guard down around her? She was headhunted whilst still in university, but not by AM. British Military Intelligence, section 6, the Secret Intelligence Service. After graduating, she was kicked straight into training, which was all very exciting. She learned how to do things like gather intelligence from the smallest of clues, marksmanship and not crack under torture and all that other James Bond stuff as well as taught that she was her country's woman, to be used as her government saw fit.

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ownmymind
2010-05-14 02:42 am UTC (link)

Which they did. After an incident involving a stretch of road which would make people and things disappear if they moved into it was cleared up by MI5 with help from Ad Meliora, the MI services, previously irked by the presence of this foreign group in their country, made a gesture of grudging good faith and sent one or two agents of their own on loan to help out. And also if they gathered intelligence for them about countries Britain wasn't too pleased with, well, that was a bonus. But they needed somebody who wouldn't be missed too badly, someone who wasn't already working, someone incredibly expendable...

Bingo, Rhea found herself being sent to America.

Working as an Agent means that while she does answer to the British government first and foremost, they're more of a distant boss. Ad Meliora has expectations of her, yes, but they're more of a day job and will not count on her the way her mother did. For the first time in her life, she is free of other people's expectations.

It's absolutely terrifying.

Still, she's recognised that once her loan here is over, she's going back to British intelligence and will no longer have this kind of freedom anymore. While she's here, she's making a list of things normal people do and is trying to finish it before she finds her "normal" life taken away and replaced with something else. It helps that quirky people with lists of things normal people do aren't exactly people you'd peg as having a license to kill.

Skills: She's very, very smart; she dislikes staying in her own head so she spends most of her time outside thinking about every little thing. Her mother was a Shakesperian actress and she can quote Shakespeare pretty good. She can sing and can improvise things pretty well.

She's also pretty good at watching other people and noticing their body language. If you have a "tell" which gives away the fact that you're lying, she'll likely spot it. She's also pretty good at noticing if you like something and evaluating what people like or dislike in order to become it.

She also has basic agent skills and, well, secret agent skills. Like a less trained and less gadgeted James Bond. Who can't drive and doesn't sleep with every woman she meets. Which I guess narrows that down to cool accent, sneaky skills and marksmanship. And not losing her cool under pressure and a well honed ability to lie (which she rarely uses). She also has the ability to look adorable and cute and not dangerous at all awww.

She also speaks German and pigeon Spanish, I guess.

Goals:

The player's:

a) Get some friends!
b) Sing a She & Him song or get mistaken for Katy Perry >_>
c) Break the official secrets act re: her job with someone she likes, aka leave the little voice behind and talk to someone.

The character's:

a) To complete her list
b) She would also like to find someone to identify with/belong to. She would kind of want to experience a stable family unit while she's free.
c) Get someone to laugh out loud at a joke she makes. But getting a pet is also good.

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