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App - Mask or Menace
< PLAYER INFO >
NAME: V.
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:vvvvv
IM / EMAIL: hodudududuh / easypeasyeasypeasy AT gmail.com
PLURK:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
v__
RETURNING: No.
< CHARACTER INFO >
CHARACTER NAME: Dana Scully; Mrs. Spooky
CHARACTER AGE: 35 years
CANON ORIGIN: The X-Files, OU
CHRONOLOGY: Middle of 7x04 'Millennium'
CLASS: Hero (Reluctant)
HOUSING: Ultimately I'm fine with housing anywhere, but individual housing would be preferable if available.
BACKGROUND: The X-Files is set in a world recognisably like ours circa the late 1990s, complete with chunky wireless phones and steadily dwindling use of shoulderpads. Also like our world, a bunch of weird, unexplained shit happens. Unlike our world, aliens. Our unlikely story begins with Special Agent Dana Scully, super sleuth and, as she will not hesitate to remind you as often as humanly possible, medical doctor, receiving her assignment to the X-Files, a small division of the FBI which handles unexplained cases, particularly those which appear to pertain to the paranormal. The division consists entirely of one other person, a weird, possibly smelly dude who works out of (lives in?) a basement office in the J. Edgar Hoover building. His name is Fox Mulder. He is indeed weird. Smelly is debatable.
Unexpectedly, Scullgrippa the Sceptic and Spooky Mulder hit it off like a house on fire, flying off to Oregon to investigate a series of unexplained abductions of young men and women. Along the way they interview a vegetable, manage to misplace nine minutes, and bicker like they're married, which they might as well be, because this is going to be the rest of their lives. Forever. Or at least another nine years, barring the occasional break to investigate shipments of fertilizer.
Throughout the remainder of this wild ride, the majority of which was clearly pulled out of the writers' asses as they went along, Agents Moose and Squirrel investigate the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrials, and a conspiracy within the United States government to cover up evidence of that existence, not to mention anything else that seems situationally appropriate. All manner of creepy crawlies set the dynamic duo's weird shit meter a-pinging over the marginally exhausting nine-season-and-two-movie stretch of the show. You name it, they've investigated it, from cannibals to time-travellers to invisible elephants. Scully, being either the protagonist or the deuteragonist of the series depending on whether or not you're paying attention, is involved with all of it in one way or another, from her initial introduction to Mulder, through her increasing involvement in his investigation of the government conspiracy surrounding the existence of extraterrestrials and the abduction of his sister as a child, through her own abduction by aliens, her near-death upon her return, several encounters with conspiracy members and with aliens, Mulder's faked death, a bout with cancer, and a host of other significant events, culminating for the purposes of my application with the discovery of a crashed alien vessel in Côte d'Ivoire, curing Mulder of a mysterious brain disease, and, finally, the investigation of a millennial cult attempting to bring about the apocalypse with zombies, somehow.
More importantly, since absolutely nobody would be aided in any way by an attempt on my part to sum up over a hundred episodes and a movie, here's a wiki link.
PERSONALITY: Scully's most immediately obvious quality in the series is that she's a sceptic; at the start, this is her qualifying characteristic. It sets her at comfortable odds with Mulder's willingness and desire to believe in the paranormal and establishes the show's initial tension. Whence that scepticism stems, though, serves as the underlying basis from which a large part of her motivation stems.
Dana Scully was born to a military family. Her father was a Navy captain, and her childhood and youth were spent in flux, moving from base to base as Bill Scully's career demanded. She's the youngest of four children, with one elder sister and two elder brothers. It's implied that their household was run with a certain degree of rigidity and discipline, reflected in her own character, her own tendency to fall back on that rigidity and that discipline to see her through her own life. Nonetheless she also rebels against it -- she speaks in the series of her own need to subvert the rules of her father, to find meaning outside of them, or simply to escape their confines. This is ultimately what drove her away from a career in medicine and towards the FBI, a decision of which her father did not approve which, it is implied, played a part in her desire to do so. This rigidity helps provide her background, a student of mathematics and a medical doctor, and her rebelliousness instills in her a degree of openmindedness, a desire to believe, to find sufficient proof of what Mulder investigates as to allow her to believe.
Over the course of the series, as she sees and experiences more of the paranormal through her work on the X-Files, she grows less rigid in her assertions of the impossibility of Mulder's claims. Instead, she focuses on trying to ensure that their work is scientifically rigorous, on trying to defend Mulder, in essence, both from his detractors and from himself. This highlights another of her defining characteristics: she is profoundly loyal to the people who mean something to her. Mulder is the most obvious example, but her loyalty to her family and to the people in her life who earn her affection and her trust is equally devoted. She derives a great deal of meaning from interpersonal relationships, though she intentionally maintains a degree of distance from the people in her life, which she writes up in one episode (5x06 'Christmas Carol') as resulting from a fear of death and of loss. All the same, she fights more viciously for the people in her life, Mulder in particular, than she does for herself, a fact she recognises and occasionally grows to resent (see 4x13 'Never Again'). This stems, again, from her rebellious streak, from her relentless need to find a way to understand herself and to be true to that understanding.
All of these varying drives serve to create a complex woman, a consummate professional with a flair for rulebreaking, a career-driven, ambitious woman with a need to prove herself and a drive to pursue the dangerous, but who also longs for a normal life and a family of her own. She's a sceptic with faith, stubborn in her belief though she struggles with it too. Scully is relentlessly human, possessed of profound strength but deeply vulnerable, and relentlessly devoted to both Mulder's search for answers and her own.
POWER: Immortality (canon, sort of)*
Premonitory Visions/Sense (also canon, sort of)**
Weirdness Magnet (that's it that's the show)***
*It's strongly implied that thanks to a mishap involving a man who had cheated death and therefore could not die (6x10 'Tithonus'), Scully is immortal. (See also 3x04 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose', in which the titular character, who can see how people are going to die, informs her that she isn't going to.) I guess I'll stick with that one? What a show. Also noting that as it's not confirmed in-character and doesn't prevent her from being seriously injured and/or incapacitated, she's not exactly keen on chancing it, so it may not arise much.
**She receives a number of visions, visitations, and premonitions throughout the series. They're always vague and I fully intend to keep them that way should it come up in-game; I have no interest in infomodding, certainly not without full and informed permission. (Cf.: 1x13 'Beyond the Sea', 2x08 'One Breath', 2x13 'Irresistible', 3x11 'Revelations', etc etc etc.)
***Weird stuff tends to happen around her, even when she's not looking for it! In-game this is probably only going to dictate the sort of plots/events I get her involved in.
< CHARACTER SAMPLES >
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Hello?
[The voice at the end of the line is clearly audible despite the background noise. Groans, shouts, and panicked breathing can be heard, beneath which the particularly observant might pick out the sound of soft, wet sobs.]
If anyone can hear me, this is Doctor Dana Scully—
[Special Agent Dana Scully, badge number JTT0331613, but that's no longer applicable anymore, and old habits die hard, but not quite that hard.]
—requesting immediate medical assistance to the corner of Atlantic and Fillmore. I repeat, immediate medical assistance to the corner of Atlantic and Fillmore, I have at least five wounded, one in critical condition.
[Her voice is steady, words clear, ungarbled by haste or fear — delivered, that is to say, in a manner which belies practice, a certain familiarity with emergency situations. All the same, the firmness of Scully's tone and careful enunciation can't wholly obscure the underlying tension that genuine concern brings to her voice. She handles herself well under stress, but if there were any doubt as to the genuineness of her need that tight urgency would dispel it.
For a time, her voice lowers to something softer, modulated to soothe, and clearly directed at someone in her presence rather than whoever might be listening at a distance.]
You're all right, you're going to be all right. Keep breathing, nice and easy. That's it. Eyes on me.
[Where she sits, hands pressed to the dying man's oozing, bubbling gunshot wound, Scully turns her eyes briefly heavenward and speaks loudly, clearly into the cell phone.]
Please; if anyone can hear me, these people need your help.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test drive meme post here.
FINAL NOTES:
Given the canon point she's coming in with some scratch marks on her neck and other minor injuries from a close encounter with a zombie. Rough day. She's also got a small, round, metallic implant in the back of her neck, because aliums, which I would prefer to keep. If possible I'd also like her to keep her gun and possibly her badge but that's up to you lot. Thanks! :)
NAME: V.
AGE: 25
JOURNAL:
vvvvvIM / EMAIL: hodudududuh / easypeasyeasypeasy AT gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: No.
< CHARACTER INFO >
CHARACTER NAME: Dana Scully; Mrs. Spooky
CHARACTER AGE: 35 years
CANON ORIGIN: The X-Files, OU
CHRONOLOGY: Middle of 7x04 'Millennium'
CLASS: Hero (Reluctant)
HOUSING: Ultimately I'm fine with housing anywhere, but individual housing would be preferable if available.
BACKGROUND: The X-Files is set in a world recognisably like ours circa the late 1990s, complete with chunky wireless phones and steadily dwindling use of shoulderpads. Also like our world, a bunch of weird, unexplained shit happens. Unlike our world, aliens. Our unlikely story begins with Special Agent Dana Scully, super sleuth and, as she will not hesitate to remind you as often as humanly possible, medical doctor, receiving her assignment to the X-Files, a small division of the FBI which handles unexplained cases, particularly those which appear to pertain to the paranormal. The division consists entirely of one other person, a weird, possibly smelly dude who works out of (lives in?) a basement office in the J. Edgar Hoover building. His name is Fox Mulder. He is indeed weird. Smelly is debatable.
Unexpectedly, Scullgrippa the Sceptic and Spooky Mulder hit it off like a house on fire, flying off to Oregon to investigate a series of unexplained abductions of young men and women. Along the way they interview a vegetable, manage to misplace nine minutes, and bicker like they're married, which they might as well be, because this is going to be the rest of their lives. Forever. Or at least another nine years, barring the occasional break to investigate shipments of fertilizer.
Throughout the remainder of this wild ride, the majority of which was clearly pulled out of the writers' asses as they went along, Agents Moose and Squirrel investigate the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrials, and a conspiracy within the United States government to cover up evidence of that existence, not to mention anything else that seems situationally appropriate. All manner of creepy crawlies set the dynamic duo's weird shit meter a-pinging over the marginally exhausting nine-season-and-two-movie stretch of the show. You name it, they've investigated it, from cannibals to time-travellers to invisible elephants. Scully, being either the protagonist or the deuteragonist of the series depending on whether or not you're paying attention, is involved with all of it in one way or another, from her initial introduction to Mulder, through her increasing involvement in his investigation of the government conspiracy surrounding the existence of extraterrestrials and the abduction of his sister as a child, through her own abduction by aliens, her near-death upon her return, several encounters with conspiracy members and with aliens, Mulder's faked death, a bout with cancer, and a host of other significant events, culminating for the purposes of my application with the discovery of a crashed alien vessel in Côte d'Ivoire, curing Mulder of a mysterious brain disease, and, finally, the investigation of a millennial cult attempting to bring about the apocalypse with zombies, somehow.
More importantly, since absolutely nobody would be aided in any way by an attempt on my part to sum up over a hundred episodes and a movie, here's a wiki link.
PERSONALITY: Scully's most immediately obvious quality in the series is that she's a sceptic; at the start, this is her qualifying characteristic. It sets her at comfortable odds with Mulder's willingness and desire to believe in the paranormal and establishes the show's initial tension. Whence that scepticism stems, though, serves as the underlying basis from which a large part of her motivation stems.
Dana Scully was born to a military family. Her father was a Navy captain, and her childhood and youth were spent in flux, moving from base to base as Bill Scully's career demanded. She's the youngest of four children, with one elder sister and two elder brothers. It's implied that their household was run with a certain degree of rigidity and discipline, reflected in her own character, her own tendency to fall back on that rigidity and that discipline to see her through her own life. Nonetheless she also rebels against it -- she speaks in the series of her own need to subvert the rules of her father, to find meaning outside of them, or simply to escape their confines. This is ultimately what drove her away from a career in medicine and towards the FBI, a decision of which her father did not approve which, it is implied, played a part in her desire to do so. This rigidity helps provide her background, a student of mathematics and a medical doctor, and her rebelliousness instills in her a degree of openmindedness, a desire to believe, to find sufficient proof of what Mulder investigates as to allow her to believe.
Over the course of the series, as she sees and experiences more of the paranormal through her work on the X-Files, she grows less rigid in her assertions of the impossibility of Mulder's claims. Instead, she focuses on trying to ensure that their work is scientifically rigorous, on trying to defend Mulder, in essence, both from his detractors and from himself. This highlights another of her defining characteristics: she is profoundly loyal to the people who mean something to her. Mulder is the most obvious example, but her loyalty to her family and to the people in her life who earn her affection and her trust is equally devoted. She derives a great deal of meaning from interpersonal relationships, though she intentionally maintains a degree of distance from the people in her life, which she writes up in one episode (5x06 'Christmas Carol') as resulting from a fear of death and of loss. All the same, she fights more viciously for the people in her life, Mulder in particular, than she does for herself, a fact she recognises and occasionally grows to resent (see 4x13 'Never Again'). This stems, again, from her rebellious streak, from her relentless need to find a way to understand herself and to be true to that understanding.
All of these varying drives serve to create a complex woman, a consummate professional with a flair for rulebreaking, a career-driven, ambitious woman with a need to prove herself and a drive to pursue the dangerous, but who also longs for a normal life and a family of her own. She's a sceptic with faith, stubborn in her belief though she struggles with it too. Scully is relentlessly human, possessed of profound strength but deeply vulnerable, and relentlessly devoted to both Mulder's search for answers and her own.
POWER: Immortality (canon, sort of)*
Premonitory Visions/Sense (also canon, sort of)**
Weirdness Magnet (that's it that's the show)***
*It's strongly implied that thanks to a mishap involving a man who had cheated death and therefore could not die (6x10 'Tithonus'), Scully is immortal. (See also 3x04 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose', in which the titular character, who can see how people are going to die, informs her that she isn't going to.) I guess I'll stick with that one? What a show. Also noting that as it's not confirmed in-character and doesn't prevent her from being seriously injured and/or incapacitated, she's not exactly keen on chancing it, so it may not arise much.
**She receives a number of visions, visitations, and premonitions throughout the series. They're always vague and I fully intend to keep them that way should it come up in-game; I have no interest in infomodding, certainly not without full and informed permission. (Cf.: 1x13 'Beyond the Sea', 2x08 'One Breath', 2x13 'Irresistible', 3x11 'Revelations', etc etc etc.)
***Weird stuff tends to happen around her, even when she's not looking for it! In-game this is probably only going to dictate the sort of plots/events I get her involved in.
< CHARACTER SAMPLES >
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
Hello?
[The voice at the end of the line is clearly audible despite the background noise. Groans, shouts, and panicked breathing can be heard, beneath which the particularly observant might pick out the sound of soft, wet sobs.]
If anyone can hear me, this is Doctor Dana Scully—
[Special Agent Dana Scully, badge number JTT0331613, but that's no longer applicable anymore, and old habits die hard, but not quite that hard.]
—requesting immediate medical assistance to the corner of Atlantic and Fillmore. I repeat, immediate medical assistance to the corner of Atlantic and Fillmore, I have at least five wounded, one in critical condition.
[Her voice is steady, words clear, ungarbled by haste or fear — delivered, that is to say, in a manner which belies practice, a certain familiarity with emergency situations. All the same, the firmness of Scully's tone and careful enunciation can't wholly obscure the underlying tension that genuine concern brings to her voice. She handles herself well under stress, but if there were any doubt as to the genuineness of her need that tight urgency would dispel it.
For a time, her voice lowers to something softer, modulated to soothe, and clearly directed at someone in her presence rather than whoever might be listening at a distance.]
You're all right, you're going to be all right. Keep breathing, nice and easy. That's it. Eyes on me.
[Where she sits, hands pressed to the dying man's oozing, bubbling gunshot wound, Scully turns her eyes briefly heavenward and speaks loudly, clearly into the cell phone.]
Please; if anyone can hear me, these people need your help.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test drive meme post here.
FINAL NOTES:
Given the canon point she's coming in with some scratch marks on her neck and other minor injuries from a close encounter with a zombie. Rough day. She's also got a small, round, metallic implant in the back of her neck, because aliums, which I would prefer to keep. If possible I'd also like her to keep her gun and possibly her badge but that's up to you lot. Thanks! :)