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User Name/Nick: Kota
User LJ: N/A
AIM/IM: waningsunflower
E-mail: waningsunflower@aim.com
Other Characters: Iago, Capa, Jane, Beatty, Sveta
Character Name: Jim Moriarty
Series: Sherlock (BBC)
Age: 30s
From When?: Post movie. We’ll say that the vest did blow.
Inmate/Warden: INMATE. Jim is a “consulting criminal.” People go to him, or to his representatives, to help them do things of a usually illegal nature. He’s a man who cares very little for human life and has been known to take hostages…just to play a game with Sherlock Holmes.
Abilities/Powers: Jim is a very intelligent person and has a very distinct ability to blend into a crowd. He has a vast knowledge that extends up to and beyond poison, art, weaponry, explosives and technology. However, much of the technical side of what he does comes from outside sources. He doesn’t really like to get directly involved.
Personality: Moriarty is the epitome of “wealthy man.” He carries himself in a very dignified manner, as if he has been used to having exactly what he wants when he wants it all the time. Which, of course, is true in his case. If he didn’t have what he desired, even as a child, he knew how to take it and he was prepared to do so. When things didn’t work out the way he wanted them to, he realized, even then, the importance of manipulation of some kind.
That kind of lifestyle is something he’s not prepared to give up. Though he’ll slip into a role to avoid detection, it’s never one that he would consider demeaning. The last role he used was a man who worked in IT at a hospital. One would never see him His role as “Jim” will be discussed later, but he doesn’t like to even play the role of someone who he might consider “beneath” him.
He’s very proud of what he has and is willing to show off to get it. He’s not afraid to drop the brand name when his suit is in danger of getting wrinkled, even when someone is pointing a gun at him. However, this has implications beyond him simply being “prissy.” It means that he has his priorities more than a little twisted. He places much more concern on his clothing than he does to other people. He so casually turns Watson’s bond with Holmes against him and gives it no more thought. He drops 30 million pounds on a painting just to get Sherlock’s attention. He's a man whose thoughts are constantly on himself and what will benefit him. What will amuse him. No one else really registers to Moriarty, so he's fine with burning money and resources to get his way.
A main trait of Jim Moriarty is his intelligence. He is almost, if not fully, an equal to Sherlock Holmes in that regard and was able to successfully fly under his radar, even when the man was looking for him and playing his games. He knows how the man thinks because he has a similar way of it. He is smart enough to know how to act and how to keep out of the public eye, even though he basically runs a crime ring. He is able to run multiple illegal activities without ever getting caught, though that usually means taking a few people’s lives here and there.
But with that intelligence comes boredom. People around him are so insignificant to him that he feels basically alone in the world. Like he is the only person who ever really, truly thinks about anything. This has left him a social outcast at best, both as a child and as an adult. He claims that he killed a boy, simply for laughing at him and presumably bullying him. But Jim doesn’t see this as a negative thing. He doesn’t care to fit in with everyone else, simply because everyone else is so very far beneath him.
This is a main reason for his crimes. He’s simply bored and was looking for something to do. He’s a hyper-intellectual who is always on the prowl for new things to challenge and entertain him. And when they don’t, he creates situations to suit his current wants, even though that usually results in the deaths of the people who are unfortunate enough to play his games.
But he really has no sympathy for those people. Or for anyone, honestly. After people told that people have died doing his bidding, he replies “That’s what people do.” To him, death is meaningless. Other people don’t ever really register as “people” to him, which goes back to his superiority complex when it comes to his intelligence. The lives of other people are so inconsequential to him because he doesn’t see their death as a loss. They’re all simply a waste of space and air. But even when faced with his own death, he is unsurprised and uncaring. It could be argued that it doesn’t really bother him because he’s so bored with his own life.
That’s why he enjoys playing games with people. He twists them and manipulates them to make them dance. To make them do his bidding. Do whatever he wants. And they follow for whatever reason he creates for them. Moriarty knows their hearts, giving him a way to control them…just because he can. There’s really no other motivation suitable for his crimes.
The game that he plays with Sherlock is dangerous as well as expensive. It involves him ratting out the people he had helped in the first place, as really nothing is sacred for Moriarty. But it also involves getting a good number of people involved in his games and paying them to keep quiet. Dropping money like it’s nothing, killing people like they don’t mean anything. All of that, to him, pales in comparison to what he’s trying to achieve. His giant game of chess is more important than anything else.
Friendships are almost nonexistent to Moriary. He sees John Watson as Sherlock’s “pet” and refers to him as such. Allies are more important than friends because friendship implies a kind of equality that Moriarty has not yet seen in his life. Even enemies are treated better than he would a “pet.” He uses Molly as a way to get to Sherlock, even going so far as to pretend to date her for a number of weeks, just for the chance of an encounter.
But Moriarty lives in the shadows. The Barge will be treated as just another place to rule. When he arrives, he will be quiet for quite some time. He’s the type to take copious mental notes on everyone he can and to read as much over the network as he’s able to. When he finally does speak, he will adopt the persona of “gay Jim from IT,” the man he became in order to fool Sherlock while he was dating Molly. However, this doesn’t mean that he will stop his other life. Quite the contrary. In secret, in the shadows, he will become M and try to establish himself as a man to go to with your troubles. He can fix it. He can fix anything.
He's going to keep up this "Jim" facade for as long as he's able to before someone figures him out. And, when they do, it won't matter too much to him. He's much too confident in his ability to handle any situation that arises to worry about getting caught. He's a man who can make the best, at least for him, out of any situation.
Path to Redemption: Jim is a difficult inmate to redeem. He does what he does because he likes it. He enjoys the lifestyle that it gives him and he loves to manipulate the people around him in order to get what he wants. A potential warden will need to have a lot of patience with him and not be so easily swayed by his charms. He needs to learn that people are people. That they have lives that cannot be wasted. He needs to learn how to channel his intelligence in a more productive way.
He sees the world in a very different way than anyone else. He doesn't really know how to deal with people in an appropriate way because he's never had to. But forcing him to interact with people, to see that they have value, will be a big step for him. On that note, though, any real attempts to throw him out to be a "common man," will just make it worse. He doesn't need to see the plight of man...he just needs to connect on some level.
One danger that he'll fall into will be faking graduation to get what he wants, which goes back to his manipulation. It will be difficult to see through the lies, the sarcasm and the deception, but it'll need to be done. And once someone is able to really get him to sit down and talk, to gain his trust that much, then everything else will start falling into place. But it's just getting his respect and trust that will be the main difficulty for his warden.
History:
I'm linking to the three episodes of the series. They contain a great deal of information about what he's done, though nothing, of course, goes back to him directly.
A study in Pink
The Blind Banker
The Great Game
Sample Journal Entry: I’m going to do two, as Moriarty will spend a lot of time being Jim at first, at least over the network.
[Jim turns on the camera and gives a bit of a nervous laugh. He bites his thumbnail absently before holding his arms out to show his room.]
This is brilliant, really. Amazing. This looks just like my room back home. I guess that I should be a little scared of it, since it means that someone’s been watching me, but as far as prisons go, it’s not so bad. Still don’t know why I’m here, but….that can be worked out later.
[As an aside:] Molly was right, though. It could use with a bit of colour.
~~~
M_ I rather enjoy surprises.
M_ Though, what’s the point of surprises when you don’t know who’s giving them? Come out, Admiral. Come and play.
M_ I don’t like to be kept waiting.
M_ I don’t like to be disappointed.
Sample RP:
Jim ran his fingers along the locks on the doors to the wardens only area. He wanted through there, but he knew that it wouldn't work out too well for him if he tried now. It was difficult to predict who was going to come around the corner, and if he was caught trying to get in, then Jim was going to be in quite a bit of trouble. Nothing he had to deal with permanently, as he was more than a little confident in his ability to talk his way out of things.
But it was certainly an inconvenience.
He stepped away from the door and headed back down to the deck, trying to seem nonchalant. He might not have a warden yet, but there were plenty of wardens around. Any of them were potentially stupid enough to give him their items, or at least give him supervised access. He could handle supervised. It's not as if any of them really knew what to look for anyway. Jim was quite confident in his deception.
He could only imagine what was behind those doors. A pool, he knew. A place called the CES, he also knew. A pub. And a spa, of sorts. Nothing of any real interest to him, except for the fact that he was completely incapable of getting past those locks.
And he hated the fact that he needed to rely on other people to achieve this. Soon, he told himself, he would have one of those items. Soon, he would fake his graduation and then be able to be here, sitting in this happy seat of power. This was better than anything he found back home. These people were exceptionally dumb. And they all seemed so eager to please.
There was no way he was going to let an opportunity like that slip through his fingers.
Special Notes: Because he didn't make much progress, if any, during his time on the Barge, I'm just going to give him a full reset and have him come back with Barge amnesia that he won't recover from.
User LJ: N/A
AIM/IM: waningsunflower
E-mail: waningsunflower@aim.com
Other Characters: Iago, Capa, Jane, Beatty, Sveta
Character Name: Jim Moriarty
Series: Sherlock (BBC)
Age: 30s
From When?: Post movie. We’ll say that the vest did blow.
Inmate/Warden: INMATE. Jim is a “consulting criminal.” People go to him, or to his representatives, to help them do things of a usually illegal nature. He’s a man who cares very little for human life and has been known to take hostages…just to play a game with Sherlock Holmes.
Abilities/Powers: Jim is a very intelligent person and has a very distinct ability to blend into a crowd. He has a vast knowledge that extends up to and beyond poison, art, weaponry, explosives and technology. However, much of the technical side of what he does comes from outside sources. He doesn’t really like to get directly involved.
Personality: Moriarty is the epitome of “wealthy man.” He carries himself in a very dignified manner, as if he has been used to having exactly what he wants when he wants it all the time. Which, of course, is true in his case. If he didn’t have what he desired, even as a child, he knew how to take it and he was prepared to do so. When things didn’t work out the way he wanted them to, he realized, even then, the importance of manipulation of some kind.
That kind of lifestyle is something he’s not prepared to give up. Though he’ll slip into a role to avoid detection, it’s never one that he would consider demeaning. The last role he used was a man who worked in IT at a hospital. One would never see him His role as “Jim” will be discussed later, but he doesn’t like to even play the role of someone who he might consider “beneath” him.
He’s very proud of what he has and is willing to show off to get it. He’s not afraid to drop the brand name when his suit is in danger of getting wrinkled, even when someone is pointing a gun at him. However, this has implications beyond him simply being “prissy.” It means that he has his priorities more than a little twisted. He places much more concern on his clothing than he does to other people. He so casually turns Watson’s bond with Holmes against him and gives it no more thought. He drops 30 million pounds on a painting just to get Sherlock’s attention. He's a man whose thoughts are constantly on himself and what will benefit him. What will amuse him. No one else really registers to Moriarty, so he's fine with burning money and resources to get his way.
A main trait of Jim Moriarty is his intelligence. He is almost, if not fully, an equal to Sherlock Holmes in that regard and was able to successfully fly under his radar, even when the man was looking for him and playing his games. He knows how the man thinks because he has a similar way of it. He is smart enough to know how to act and how to keep out of the public eye, even though he basically runs a crime ring. He is able to run multiple illegal activities without ever getting caught, though that usually means taking a few people’s lives here and there.
But with that intelligence comes boredom. People around him are so insignificant to him that he feels basically alone in the world. Like he is the only person who ever really, truly thinks about anything. This has left him a social outcast at best, both as a child and as an adult. He claims that he killed a boy, simply for laughing at him and presumably bullying him. But Jim doesn’t see this as a negative thing. He doesn’t care to fit in with everyone else, simply because everyone else is so very far beneath him.
This is a main reason for his crimes. He’s simply bored and was looking for something to do. He’s a hyper-intellectual who is always on the prowl for new things to challenge and entertain him. And when they don’t, he creates situations to suit his current wants, even though that usually results in the deaths of the people who are unfortunate enough to play his games.
But he really has no sympathy for those people. Or for anyone, honestly. After people told that people have died doing his bidding, he replies “That’s what people do.” To him, death is meaningless. Other people don’t ever really register as “people” to him, which goes back to his superiority complex when it comes to his intelligence. The lives of other people are so inconsequential to him because he doesn’t see their death as a loss. They’re all simply a waste of space and air. But even when faced with his own death, he is unsurprised and uncaring. It could be argued that it doesn’t really bother him because he’s so bored with his own life.
That’s why he enjoys playing games with people. He twists them and manipulates them to make them dance. To make them do his bidding. Do whatever he wants. And they follow for whatever reason he creates for them. Moriarty knows their hearts, giving him a way to control them…just because he can. There’s really no other motivation suitable for his crimes.
The game that he plays with Sherlock is dangerous as well as expensive. It involves him ratting out the people he had helped in the first place, as really nothing is sacred for Moriarty. But it also involves getting a good number of people involved in his games and paying them to keep quiet. Dropping money like it’s nothing, killing people like they don’t mean anything. All of that, to him, pales in comparison to what he’s trying to achieve. His giant game of chess is more important than anything else.
Friendships are almost nonexistent to Moriary. He sees John Watson as Sherlock’s “pet” and refers to him as such. Allies are more important than friends because friendship implies a kind of equality that Moriarty has not yet seen in his life. Even enemies are treated better than he would a “pet.” He uses Molly as a way to get to Sherlock, even going so far as to pretend to date her for a number of weeks, just for the chance of an encounter.
But Moriarty lives in the shadows. The Barge will be treated as just another place to rule. When he arrives, he will be quiet for quite some time. He’s the type to take copious mental notes on everyone he can and to read as much over the network as he’s able to. When he finally does speak, he will adopt the persona of “gay Jim from IT,” the man he became in order to fool Sherlock while he was dating Molly. However, this doesn’t mean that he will stop his other life. Quite the contrary. In secret, in the shadows, he will become M and try to establish himself as a man to go to with your troubles. He can fix it. He can fix anything.
He's going to keep up this "Jim" facade for as long as he's able to before someone figures him out. And, when they do, it won't matter too much to him. He's much too confident in his ability to handle any situation that arises to worry about getting caught. He's a man who can make the best, at least for him, out of any situation.
Path to Redemption: Jim is a difficult inmate to redeem. He does what he does because he likes it. He enjoys the lifestyle that it gives him and he loves to manipulate the people around him in order to get what he wants. A potential warden will need to have a lot of patience with him and not be so easily swayed by his charms. He needs to learn that people are people. That they have lives that cannot be wasted. He needs to learn how to channel his intelligence in a more productive way.
He sees the world in a very different way than anyone else. He doesn't really know how to deal with people in an appropriate way because he's never had to. But forcing him to interact with people, to see that they have value, will be a big step for him. On that note, though, any real attempts to throw him out to be a "common man," will just make it worse. He doesn't need to see the plight of man...he just needs to connect on some level.
One danger that he'll fall into will be faking graduation to get what he wants, which goes back to his manipulation. It will be difficult to see through the lies, the sarcasm and the deception, but it'll need to be done. And once someone is able to really get him to sit down and talk, to gain his trust that much, then everything else will start falling into place. But it's just getting his respect and trust that will be the main difficulty for his warden.
History:
I'm linking to the three episodes of the series. They contain a great deal of information about what he's done, though nothing, of course, goes back to him directly.
A study in Pink
The Blind Banker
The Great Game
Sample Journal Entry: I’m going to do two, as Moriarty will spend a lot of time being Jim at first, at least over the network.
[Jim turns on the camera and gives a bit of a nervous laugh. He bites his thumbnail absently before holding his arms out to show his room.]
This is brilliant, really. Amazing. This looks just like my room back home. I guess that I should be a little scared of it, since it means that someone’s been watching me, but as far as prisons go, it’s not so bad. Still don’t know why I’m here, but….that can be worked out later.
[As an aside:] Molly was right, though. It could use with a bit of colour.
~~~
M_ I rather enjoy surprises.
M_ Though, what’s the point of surprises when you don’t know who’s giving them? Come out, Admiral. Come and play.
M_ I don’t like to be kept waiting.
M_ I don’t like to be disappointed.
Sample RP:
Jim ran his fingers along the locks on the doors to the wardens only area. He wanted through there, but he knew that it wouldn't work out too well for him if he tried now. It was difficult to predict who was going to come around the corner, and if he was caught trying to get in, then Jim was going to be in quite a bit of trouble. Nothing he had to deal with permanently, as he was more than a little confident in his ability to talk his way out of things.
But it was certainly an inconvenience.
He stepped away from the door and headed back down to the deck, trying to seem nonchalant. He might not have a warden yet, but there were plenty of wardens around. Any of them were potentially stupid enough to give him their items, or at least give him supervised access. He could handle supervised. It's not as if any of them really knew what to look for anyway. Jim was quite confident in his deception.
He could only imagine what was behind those doors. A pool, he knew. A place called the CES, he also knew. A pub. And a spa, of sorts. Nothing of any real interest to him, except for the fact that he was completely incapable of getting past those locks.
And he hated the fact that he needed to rely on other people to achieve this. Soon, he told himself, he would have one of those items. Soon, he would fake his graduation and then be able to be here, sitting in this happy seat of power. This was better than anything he found back home. These people were exceptionally dumb. And they all seemed so eager to please.
There was no way he was going to let an opportunity like that slip through his fingers.
Special Notes: Because he didn't make much progress, if any, during his time on the Barge, I'm just going to give him a full reset and have him come back with Barge amnesia that he won't recover from.