Ruby City Application
Apr. 20th, 2014 12:48 amPLAYER
Name: Eric
Age: 24
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nevolition
E-mail: nevolition@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Nevolition on Plurk
CHARACTER
Name: Damian Wayne
Canon: DC Comics
Age: 10 years old
Timeline: Pre-Flashpoint (before the New 52)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: From day one of conception, Damian was groomed to take his place as prince amongst the League of Assassins: willful, stubborn, and self-confident in his physical capacities to the point of arrogance. Practical and ruthless, he has no qualms with taking a life; in Batman and Son, Part 3: Wonderboys, he opts to not only kill The Spook, but also brings back the villain’s head back with him to the Cave as a trophy (and shortly later, as a pretty gross weapon).
Moreover, Damian is competitive and driven, and distrustful of all others. Although born and bred for his role, he does not slack in challenging himself to greater physical achievements, and sees many things as a threat to the assurance of his position in life. This is reflected in his hostility towards Tim Drake, who he sees as unworthy of his position as Batman’s Robin (a position that Damian himself feels he should hold and that Tim is “redundant”), and he initially responds to Tim’s existence by trying to rid Tim from the picture altogether - nearly succeeding.
However, when he is suddenly thrust into the charge of his father, Bruce Wayne, and then subsequently into the guidance of Dick Grayson, Damian finds that his League-given attitude – take down whatever gets into his way – no longer fits in amongst this new company, and he struggles to reconcile the moral teachings of Batman (“we don’t kill”) with the ways he was raised. In many of his confrontations with Bruce, and with Dick, Damian is quick to express frustration over his inability to understand their moral logic, often reacting in anger or acting impetuously on his own against their wishes.
Despite this, the core of Damian’s frustration really appears to come from a desire to impress his father and to win his approval, even as his father seems perpetually disappointed in or dismissive of Damian when he isn't avoiding him altogether. But, despite his ruthless nature and lack of familiarity with standard social graces, Damian is trying his best to adapt to and succeed in his new environment outside the League of Assassins, making mistakes but doing his best to rectify them. Eventually, it is Dick who manages to win his trust and respect as the Batman to his Robin, and he begins to take some of his moral and social cues from Dick's encouragement.
Although he is often blunt and unkind in many of his social exchanges (as can be seen in nearly every line of dialogue he and Stephanie Brown swap), Damian occasionally has the potential for kindness – mostly in action. He has a soft spot for animals, and he also forms a friendship with orphan Colin Wilkes, going so far as to help him take down an illegal fighting ring for children. Although initially scorning Batman’s creed of fighting crime, he later strongly takes to being a defender of Gotham alongside Batman, choosing exile from the al Ghul family and the League of Assassins in favor of being Robin, and treats the work as a point of pride (despite his complaining).
He just has a ways to go.
Background: Damian’s complete summarized history can be read at his page on Batman Wikia.
Abilities: Damian doesn’t have any super powered abilities, but he was raised as a master of martial arts and assassination techniques, with above-average strength, endurance, and flexibility due to training with the League of Assassins. He's incredibly intelligent, and thanks to private tutoring his education is light-years ahead of most adults, let alone his peers, and he excels particularly in mechanics and languages. (He also has the power to piss off anybody he is talking to in less than two minutes flat!)
First Person:
This is stupid. Low tech piece of cursed magic junk--
[A finger swipes across the screen, blurring the feed until it refocuses on the scowl filling up half the picture; the other half is filled by tan skin, a sharp green mask, and a black and yellow hoodie-cape fashion disaster combo. The night shadows most of his expression, but the irritation comes through clearly.]
--crush it and it comes right back again and again. -Tt.-
[The watch has been through some shit.]
[His look turns more considering, and the fingers return to fiddle more with the watch's interface. He knows he shouldn't be messing with this, but Damian is reaching the end of his limited resources and all that's left is this watch or interrogating ahostage local.]
Batman, I'm scouting a rendezvous point. ["If you even get this" goes unsaid.] Checking back in at sunrise. [He pauses, looking like he wants to add something - don't do anything stupid, Grayson - but settles on a huff.] Robin, out.
[The screen goes black.]
Third Person:
Inventory check. He laid out everything - everything he came with, and everything he picked up along the way. Various sized knives, batarangs, cable hook, smoke bombs, night vision goggles, signal-less communication device, emergency rations, and a wrinkled sheet of Dora the Explorer stickers courtesy of Grayson's warped sense of humor. Ridiculous cursed pocket watch, and stolen civvies off a drying line. No gun.
"Really," he muttered sourly. No gun.
It wasn't much to work with. However, he can more than make do with a single knife.
His eye is caught by that stupid sticker sheet. Dora smiled up at him charmingly, and his irritation wavered. Grayson knew he doesn't watch cartoons, doesn't care for the things, but he sat him through a marathon of the intrepid explorer anyway and Damian -- well, Damian has grown fond of her ingenuity. Reaching over, he peeled off the sticker of Dora with her backpack - why didn't he have a talking backpack? - and placed it on the cover of the pocket watch.
"An improvement."
Name: Eric
Age: 24
Personal Journal:
nevolition E-mail: nevolition@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Nevolition on Plurk
CHARACTER
Name: Damian Wayne
Canon: DC Comics
Age: 10 years old
Timeline: Pre-Flashpoint (before the New 52)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: From day one of conception, Damian was groomed to take his place as prince amongst the League of Assassins: willful, stubborn, and self-confident in his physical capacities to the point of arrogance. Practical and ruthless, he has no qualms with taking a life; in Batman and Son, Part 3: Wonderboys, he opts to not only kill The Spook, but also brings back the villain’s head back with him to the Cave as a trophy (and shortly later, as a pretty gross weapon).
Moreover, Damian is competitive and driven, and distrustful of all others. Although born and bred for his role, he does not slack in challenging himself to greater physical achievements, and sees many things as a threat to the assurance of his position in life. This is reflected in his hostility towards Tim Drake, who he sees as unworthy of his position as Batman’s Robin (a position that Damian himself feels he should hold and that Tim is “redundant”), and he initially responds to Tim’s existence by trying to rid Tim from the picture altogether - nearly succeeding.
However, when he is suddenly thrust into the charge of his father, Bruce Wayne, and then subsequently into the guidance of Dick Grayson, Damian finds that his League-given attitude – take down whatever gets into his way – no longer fits in amongst this new company, and he struggles to reconcile the moral teachings of Batman (“we don’t kill”) with the ways he was raised. In many of his confrontations with Bruce, and with Dick, Damian is quick to express frustration over his inability to understand their moral logic, often reacting in anger or acting impetuously on his own against their wishes.
Despite this, the core of Damian’s frustration really appears to come from a desire to impress his father and to win his approval, even as his father seems perpetually disappointed in or dismissive of Damian when he isn't avoiding him altogether. But, despite his ruthless nature and lack of familiarity with standard social graces, Damian is trying his best to adapt to and succeed in his new environment outside the League of Assassins, making mistakes but doing his best to rectify them. Eventually, it is Dick who manages to win his trust and respect as the Batman to his Robin, and he begins to take some of his moral and social cues from Dick's encouragement.
Although he is often blunt and unkind in many of his social exchanges (as can be seen in nearly every line of dialogue he and Stephanie Brown swap), Damian occasionally has the potential for kindness – mostly in action. He has a soft spot for animals, and he also forms a friendship with orphan Colin Wilkes, going so far as to help him take down an illegal fighting ring for children. Although initially scorning Batman’s creed of fighting crime, he later strongly takes to being a defender of Gotham alongside Batman, choosing exile from the al Ghul family and the League of Assassins in favor of being Robin, and treats the work as a point of pride (despite his complaining).
He just has a ways to go.
Background: Damian’s complete summarized history can be read at his page on Batman Wikia.
Abilities: Damian doesn’t have any super powered abilities, but he was raised as a master of martial arts and assassination techniques, with above-average strength, endurance, and flexibility due to training with the League of Assassins. He's incredibly intelligent, and thanks to private tutoring his education is light-years ahead of most adults, let alone his peers, and he excels particularly in mechanics and languages. (He also has the power to piss off anybody he is talking to in less than two minutes flat!)
First Person:
This is stupid. Low tech piece of cursed magic junk--
[A finger swipes across the screen, blurring the feed until it refocuses on the scowl filling up half the picture; the other half is filled by tan skin, a sharp green mask, and a black and yellow hoodie-cape fashion disaster combo. The night shadows most of his expression, but the irritation comes through clearly.]
--crush it and it comes right back again and again. -Tt.-
[The watch has been through some shit.]
[His look turns more considering, and the fingers return to fiddle more with the watch's interface. He knows he shouldn't be messing with this, but Damian is reaching the end of his limited resources and all that's left is this watch or interrogating a
Batman, I'm scouting a rendezvous point. ["If you even get this" goes unsaid.] Checking back in at sunrise. [He pauses, looking like he wants to add something - don't do anything stupid, Grayson - but settles on a huff.] Robin, out.
[The screen goes black.]
Third Person:
Inventory check. He laid out everything - everything he came with, and everything he picked up along the way. Various sized knives, batarangs, cable hook, smoke bombs, night vision goggles, signal-less communication device, emergency rations, and a wrinkled sheet of Dora the Explorer stickers courtesy of Grayson's warped sense of humor. Ridiculous cursed pocket watch, and stolen civvies off a drying line. No gun.
"Really," he muttered sourly. No gun.
It wasn't much to work with. However, he can more than make do with a single knife.
His eye is caught by that stupid sticker sheet. Dora smiled up at him charmingly, and his irritation wavered. Grayson knew he doesn't watch cartoons, doesn't care for the things, but he sat him through a marathon of the intrepid explorer anyway and Damian -- well, Damian has grown fond of her ingenuity. Reaching over, he peeled off the sticker of Dora with her backpack - why didn't he have a talking backpack? - and placed it on the cover of the pocket watch.
"An improvement."
