[ooc] Application
Player's Name: Tifa
Player LJ: arcesso
AIM or Email: live infamy @AIM, live.infamy@gmail.com
Timezone: Arizona (GMT)
Other Characters Played: Pepper Potts, Bruce Wayne, Rinoa Heartilly (all OU)
Character: Faye Valentine
Series/Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Original or Template version: Original
Age: 77 (physically 23 due to cryogenics)
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Sexuality: Heterosexual (will act either for a bounty)
Appearance:
Faye is the hottest grandmother you will ever meet. She's got soft, fair skin, despite hours spent trying to tan on the deck of the Bebop. This draws attention to her dark features, most noticeably, her thick eyelashes, bright green eyes and dark purple hair that is cropped asymmetrically just past her chin and held back with a yellow headband. She almost always carries a cigarette between her lips, and wears a pair of yellow vinyl shorts and a matching collared crop top that is fixed together by a teal clasp. She wears black suspenders, and thigh-high tights under her white leather ankle boots. She's got outrageous curves and legs up to Jupiter.
Personality:
Faye is the type of person who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. She's brash, lazy, egotistical and immature, and she's not afraid to use her feminine wiles to get what she wants. She's extremely vain and puts her own high-maintenance needs above the very basic needs of the rest of the Bebop crew, seen exfoliating even when they don't have food around. She's got a short fuse and goes off on Spike routinely, shouting and whining in annoyance. Despite all of her overt displays of confidence, she's actually a rather delicate person. Because of what happened to her when she awoke from her cryogenic sleep, she has become hardened and untrusting, leaving her extremely vulnerable to those she does trust. For this reason, she puts up her brash and sarcastic facade to keep people from getting close enough to hurt her again.
Abilities/Strengths:
As stated above, Faye is very good at getting what she wants. Whether she has to do it with a flirty glance or a gun to your head (or, both), she'll do it. Despite her appearance, she's physically fit and can easily handle her own as a bounty hunter, despite her routine mooching off of Spike and Jet. She can handle a pretty wide range of artillery, but usually sticks to the glock 30 she always carries. A key mental/character strength of hers would be her secrecy, because it's the way she keeps herself distant from other people.
Weaknesses:
Mainly; she's only female, and she's only human. She has the standard limitations any woman has, being easily overpowered by non-scrawny emo men, and she has the standard limitations of any human body. She needs food, sleep and water, and has no particularly supernatural abilities that would protect her from something inhuman. She's also very distrustful of others, and has addictions to both gambling and smoking.
History:
Faye was born on Earth in 1994. She was riding in a space shuttle that crashed, and was put under cryogenics for 54 years while medical technology evolved. When she woke up, it was 2071 and mankind had changed immensely. The entire solar system was open to navigation by starships and freighters alike, and they had colonized space stations, asteroids and even other planets. Unfortunately, she also wakes to find that she has accumulated a massive debt that she has no means of paying, as well as a severe case of amnesia. She cannot remember anything from before she was frozen, and thus, the doctor who woke her (Dr. Bacchus) gave the surname "Valentine." She has only flashes of memory, all of which involve a Merlion statue from a town in Singapore, or a large mansion, indicating that she may have come from a very wealthy family (this would also explain her ridiculous vanity and self image).
She meets a man, Whitney Hagas Matsumoto, who claims to be her lawyer. He takes her around on the town, and it is implied that they had feelings for one another until one day Dr. Bacchus sends the police after Faye to force her to pay her debt. Matsumoto tells Faye to run and runs the opposite direction. When Faye reaches the forest, she hears and explosion and assumes him to be dead. Bacchus tells Faye that in Matsumoto's will, he gave everything to Faye--which proved only to put her further in debt. Her only option was escape, and so she has been evading the authorities ever since. In an attempt to pay her debt, she made a backwards deal with a casino dealer to get a special chip from someone, and it is in that way that she meets Spike, who looks similar to the man who is meant to give her the chip. The chip gets lost, and Faye takes the money the Bebop crew is given in payment for it and runs. She reappears later to actually join the crew.
Once she had been with Spike and Jet for some time, Whitney Hagas Matsumoto appears as a con-man with a bounty on his head that amounts to several million woolong. They capture him, but she helps him escape in an attempt to get answers. Bacchus, who is also chasing Matsumoto, reveals to Faye that her name was just taken from his favorite love song and that no one really knows her name. He tells her that all of her data was lost, and turns out to be Matsumoto's uncle. Bacchus has to flee the police, so Faye throws Whitney Hagas Matusmoto in jail and claims the bounty on his head.
She takes an intense interest in Spike's lost love, Julia, and in doing so meets Gren--a man who spent time in the Titan War with Vicious, Spike's nemesis and Julia's ex. Gren was playing saxophone at a bar where Faye wound up, and he brought her home to give her a place to stay. It is there that Faye finds out about Gren's relationship with Vicious and the fact that during the war Gren was given an experimental treatment that messed with his hormones and gave him breasts. She connects emotionally with Gren, only to find out he has a bounty on his head. Spike goes after him and they encounter Vicious. Vicious kills Gren, and Spike helps Gren set his shuttle back to Titan so that he can return one last time. While she constantly argues with the boys of the Bebop, the fact that she consistently returns to them shows that she does value the partnership, but that she's maybe just afraid of the term because of how Bacchus and Matsumoto crushed her ability to trust people to stay there, and also because of how Gren "abandoned" her as well just after he'd gotten past her trust barrier. She even seems to care about Spike and Jet just a little bit; when the situation is serious, she worries about them.
Sample Journal Entry:
Ugh, this is complete and total bullshit! [waving her hands in the air, staring at the sky] Hello, come on, this isn't even funny. It's not like I blew that much of the bounty, there's still plenty left for the repairs!
You guys are such babies, seriously, I barely even took more than my share out. What's 100,000 woolong between friends? Right?
[sighs and drops her arms] You could at least give me back my ship, assholes. [shakes her head and runs a hand through her hair, straightening up] Alright, alright, might as well figure out where the hell I am.
...Wait. Where am I? This doesn't look like Venus, but I swear we just went through that gate...
[slumps] Dammit... Now, what am I gonna do?
Sample Roleplay:
Duck. Duck, duck, duck--"Duck, you idiot!" Faye didn't bother slamming on her gun's safety as she ducked, thrusting herself head-first in Spike's direction; her shoulders took him out, knocking the air effectively from his diaphragm. He would be down for a while, luckily they now had the cover of a few crates. There was a belated chiming of bullet casings striking the ground. They had an advantage of being on higher ground, she deduced, peering out from behind the cover of the boxes to get a headcount. Two on the construction machine, one standing boldly--or stupidly--in front of a crate labeled "fragile". She ducked her head back in and looked down at Spike, who was recovering from Faye's blow. He opened his mouth to shout at her and she just held up a finger to silence him, pointing three through the box at their back. He took the hint and nodded, scooting slowly around to the other side.
"Where the hell is Jet?" She asked in a hoarse whisper. "If he'd actually covered our asses like he said he was going to, this wouldn't even be a--" She cut herself off, realizing that Spike had stopped listening. Clearly, he had more faith in their comrade than she did. Faye just rolled her eyes and pulled her glock 30 to her chest. She wasn't actually worried, but bitching at Spike always calmed her down. Maybe, because it meant he was still there to bitch at. Whatever it was, it didn't keep her behind the crate thinking for long. She dove out, glock brandished and fired off five shots. Three met their mark. Two in one of the men on the construction equipment, and one in the leg of the man--the leader--acting like an overeager idiot trying to show off to his new girlfriend.
The one left standing leveled his gun in her direction to return fire, and Faye swore, knowing she wouldn't get out of the way in time once he pulled that trigger. Best case scenario; she wouldn't be in the casino to spend this bounty, or the next. However, the man's eyes suddenly shot wide and he collapsed to his knees, slumping off the roof of the bulldozer. Jet stood behind him and it became clear that, no, he hadn't even shot the man, but one blow with that artificial arm of his and he was out cold as could be. Faye, having dropped her gun to her side suddenly perked up, excited.
"Jet, check the other one, I'll get this guy in the cuffs before he starts getting any ideas." She began to hum her usual victory song, not noticing Jet and Spike's adverse reactions to her antics, or at least not caring to acknowledge them.
Player LJ: arcesso
AIM or Email: live infamy @AIM, live.infamy@gmail.com
Timezone: Arizona (GMT)
Other Characters Played: Pepper Potts, Bruce Wayne, Rinoa Heartilly (all OU)
Character: Faye Valentine
Series/Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Original or Template version: Original
Age: 77 (physically 23 due to cryogenics)
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Sexuality: Heterosexual (will act either for a bounty)
Appearance:
Faye is the hottest grandmother you will ever meet. She's got soft, fair skin, despite hours spent trying to tan on the deck of the Bebop. This draws attention to her dark features, most noticeably, her thick eyelashes, bright green eyes and dark purple hair that is cropped asymmetrically just past her chin and held back with a yellow headband. She almost always carries a cigarette between her lips, and wears a pair of yellow vinyl shorts and a matching collared crop top that is fixed together by a teal clasp. She wears black suspenders, and thigh-high tights under her white leather ankle boots. She's got outrageous curves and legs up to Jupiter.
Personality:
Faye is the type of person who knows what she wants and knows how to get it. She's brash, lazy, egotistical and immature, and she's not afraid to use her feminine wiles to get what she wants. She's extremely vain and puts her own high-maintenance needs above the very basic needs of the rest of the Bebop crew, seen exfoliating even when they don't have food around. She's got a short fuse and goes off on Spike routinely, shouting and whining in annoyance. Despite all of her overt displays of confidence, she's actually a rather delicate person. Because of what happened to her when she awoke from her cryogenic sleep, she has become hardened and untrusting, leaving her extremely vulnerable to those she does trust. For this reason, she puts up her brash and sarcastic facade to keep people from getting close enough to hurt her again.
Abilities/Strengths:
As stated above, Faye is very good at getting what she wants. Whether she has to do it with a flirty glance or a gun to your head (or, both), she'll do it. Despite her appearance, she's physically fit and can easily handle her own as a bounty hunter, despite her routine mooching off of Spike and Jet. She can handle a pretty wide range of artillery, but usually sticks to the glock 30 she always carries. A key mental/character strength of hers would be her secrecy, because it's the way she keeps herself distant from other people.
Weaknesses:
Mainly; she's only female, and she's only human. She has the standard limitations any woman has, being easily overpowered by non-scrawny emo men, and she has the standard limitations of any human body. She needs food, sleep and water, and has no particularly supernatural abilities that would protect her from something inhuman. She's also very distrustful of others, and has addictions to both gambling and smoking.
History:
Faye was born on Earth in 1994. She was riding in a space shuttle that crashed, and was put under cryogenics for 54 years while medical technology evolved. When she woke up, it was 2071 and mankind had changed immensely. The entire solar system was open to navigation by starships and freighters alike, and they had colonized space stations, asteroids and even other planets. Unfortunately, she also wakes to find that she has accumulated a massive debt that she has no means of paying, as well as a severe case of amnesia. She cannot remember anything from before she was frozen, and thus, the doctor who woke her (Dr. Bacchus) gave the surname "Valentine." She has only flashes of memory, all of which involve a Merlion statue from a town in Singapore, or a large mansion, indicating that she may have come from a very wealthy family (this would also explain her ridiculous vanity and self image).
She meets a man, Whitney Hagas Matsumoto, who claims to be her lawyer. He takes her around on the town, and it is implied that they had feelings for one another until one day Dr. Bacchus sends the police after Faye to force her to pay her debt. Matsumoto tells Faye to run and runs the opposite direction. When Faye reaches the forest, she hears and explosion and assumes him to be dead. Bacchus tells Faye that in Matsumoto's will, he gave everything to Faye--which proved only to put her further in debt. Her only option was escape, and so she has been evading the authorities ever since. In an attempt to pay her debt, she made a backwards deal with a casino dealer to get a special chip from someone, and it is in that way that she meets Spike, who looks similar to the man who is meant to give her the chip. The chip gets lost, and Faye takes the money the Bebop crew is given in payment for it and runs. She reappears later to actually join the crew.
Once she had been with Spike and Jet for some time, Whitney Hagas Matsumoto appears as a con-man with a bounty on his head that amounts to several million woolong. They capture him, but she helps him escape in an attempt to get answers. Bacchus, who is also chasing Matsumoto, reveals to Faye that her name was just taken from his favorite love song and that no one really knows her name. He tells her that all of her data was lost, and turns out to be Matsumoto's uncle. Bacchus has to flee the police, so Faye throws Whitney Hagas Matusmoto in jail and claims the bounty on his head.
She takes an intense interest in Spike's lost love, Julia, and in doing so meets Gren--a man who spent time in the Titan War with Vicious, Spike's nemesis and Julia's ex. Gren was playing saxophone at a bar where Faye wound up, and he brought her home to give her a place to stay. It is there that Faye finds out about Gren's relationship with Vicious and the fact that during the war Gren was given an experimental treatment that messed with his hormones and gave him breasts. She connects emotionally with Gren, only to find out he has a bounty on his head. Spike goes after him and they encounter Vicious. Vicious kills Gren, and Spike helps Gren set his shuttle back to Titan so that he can return one last time. While she constantly argues with the boys of the Bebop, the fact that she consistently returns to them shows that she does value the partnership, but that she's maybe just afraid of the term because of how Bacchus and Matsumoto crushed her ability to trust people to stay there, and also because of how Gren "abandoned" her as well just after he'd gotten past her trust barrier. She even seems to care about Spike and Jet just a little bit; when the situation is serious, she worries about them.
Sample Journal Entry:
Ugh, this is complete and total bullshit! [waving her hands in the air, staring at the sky] Hello, come on, this isn't even funny. It's not like I blew that much of the bounty, there's still plenty left for the repairs!
You guys are such babies, seriously, I barely even took more than my share out. What's 100,000 woolong between friends? Right?
[sighs and drops her arms] You could at least give me back my ship, assholes. [shakes her head and runs a hand through her hair, straightening up] Alright, alright, might as well figure out where the hell I am.
...Wait. Where am I? This doesn't look like Venus, but I swear we just went through that gate...
[slumps] Dammit... Now, what am I gonna do?
Sample Roleplay:
Duck. Duck, duck, duck--"Duck, you idiot!" Faye didn't bother slamming on her gun's safety as she ducked, thrusting herself head-first in Spike's direction; her shoulders took him out, knocking the air effectively from his diaphragm. He would be down for a while, luckily they now had the cover of a few crates. There was a belated chiming of bullet casings striking the ground. They had an advantage of being on higher ground, she deduced, peering out from behind the cover of the boxes to get a headcount. Two on the construction machine, one standing boldly--or stupidly--in front of a crate labeled "fragile". She ducked her head back in and looked down at Spike, who was recovering from Faye's blow. He opened his mouth to shout at her and she just held up a finger to silence him, pointing three through the box at their back. He took the hint and nodded, scooting slowly around to the other side.
"Where the hell is Jet?" She asked in a hoarse whisper. "If he'd actually covered our asses like he said he was going to, this wouldn't even be a--" She cut herself off, realizing that Spike had stopped listening. Clearly, he had more faith in their comrade than she did. Faye just rolled her eyes and pulled her glock 30 to her chest. She wasn't actually worried, but bitching at Spike always calmed her down. Maybe, because it meant he was still there to bitch at. Whatever it was, it didn't keep her behind the crate thinking for long. She dove out, glock brandished and fired off five shots. Three met their mark. Two in one of the men on the construction equipment, and one in the leg of the man--the leader--acting like an overeager idiot trying to show off to his new girlfriend.
The one left standing leveled his gun in her direction to return fire, and Faye swore, knowing she wouldn't get out of the way in time once he pulled that trigger. Best case scenario; she wouldn't be in the casino to spend this bounty, or the next. However, the man's eyes suddenly shot wide and he collapsed to his knees, slumping off the roof of the bulldozer. Jet stood behind him and it became clear that, no, he hadn't even shot the man, but one blow with that artificial arm of his and he was out cold as could be. Faye, having dropped her gun to her side suddenly perked up, excited.
"Jet, check the other one, I'll get this guy in the cuffs before he starts getting any ideas." She began to hum her usual victory song, not noticing Jet and Spike's adverse reactions to her antics, or at least not caring to acknowledge them.