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Character Name: Seamus Zelazny Harper
Series: Andromeda
Age: 32
From When?: The beginning of Series Five, after three years stranded and alone on Seefra. After being pulled forward and backward in time by the Barge, Harper finally gets ditched back into the timestream he came from with no memory of his time as a warden. Just in time for Marika to figure out that Harper's been playing her, and shoots his ass.
Inmate/Warden: Inmaaaaaate. Throughout Andromeda Harper is consistently tribalistic in his loyalties and his morality. He hates and mistrusts various alien races for crimes committed against his people, and he finds it easy to get carried away in his vendettas and justify committing terrible crimes out of vengeance, the desire to further his own agenda, or to protect people who he's loyal toward.
Abilities/Powers: Physically? Harper is a scrawny thing, physically weak, shorter than everyone else on his ship (at a mighty 5 foot 4 inches tall), and with an immune system which has been severely shot thanks to a childhood living in the slums and sewers and refugee camps on what’s left of the planet Earth.
The one physical perk he does have? Is a data port installed into the base of his neck just behind his ear, which he can jack into to access technology, data files, and operate basically anything he can plug into, this does mean that he’ll have a permissions post up re: hacking private entries, because OH HE’LL TRY.
He’s also a self proclaimed genius, over the course of the series Harper has hacked, built, re-built, genetically engineered, reprogrammed, armed and disarmed just about anything imaginable, from being able to palm essential components out of guns, to building devices capable of splitting time streams and dimensions, Harper is essentially the giant technological deus-ex machina of the series. I promise not to abuse the hell out of this fact while I’m playing him.
Personality: [You might include how they are going to react to all this]
It’s impossible to talk about Seamus Harpers personality, without talking about where he comes from.
Earth did not fare well after the Fall of the Commonwealth. The utopian governing force which had held together peace and order in the known universe fell in an intergalactic war three hundred years before Harper was even born. After the war, earth had first been overthrown by a brutal tribe of the genetically enhanced Niezchien race, who enslaved, oppressed, and tortured the inhabitants, before playing host to the numerous invasions of a swarm of parasitic aliens known as the Magog, who swept across the planet consuming and laying their eggs within the inhabitants.
This was the world which Seamus Harper was born into, and while it might not be immediately obvious from his hyperactive and irreverent demeanor, the effects of growing up in a world that demanded the suspension of morality in the name of survival stay with him throughout his life.
A self proclaimed genius, it’s likely that Harper's intelligence was his key to escaping from his home planet, we see in flashbacks that when he first begins working with Beka (his long time captain) he is hired straight off earth by a boyfriend of her's for general grunt work, but it was Harper’s self taught ability with engines which convinced Beka to keep him on. This is likely a key contributor to his nigh megalomaniacal self praise when it comes to his abilities. He may be a short, scrawny, genetically inferior and deeply irritating life form who never gets laid despite his best efforts, but he’s smart. Hell, he’s really smart. He’s so smart that he single handedly thought his way into adulthood on one of the most hostile planets in the universe, then he thought his way off it, he thought his way across the galaxy and thought his way into the engine room of the biggest, baddest warship of the last three hundred years, and he definitely likes to make sure everyone knows about it. His need to constantly emphasize and brag about his intelligence is probably linked to a certain need to overcompensate for his physical weakness and the assumptions that are naturally made about people born on earth.
It is commented during the series that Harper follows the twin muses of Chaos and Caffeine, and it’s true that if you catch him on a good day then it’s likely that the overriding impression you’ll receive will be one of a small hyperactive boy with an incredibly short attention span and a bit of a god complex. He’s just one of those people whose mind moves so fast that it’s impossible for his body or just about anyone else’s to keep up, and while his behaviour and moods might make perfect sense to him, without the good fortune of being able to see the thought processes behind his motivations? The outcomes certainly suggest a chaotic line of thinking.
Harper also shows a hedonistic streak and a serious lack of impulse control. As early as the first episode he’s talking about spending his cut of a big score on going to the sci-fi equivalent of an extremely high class brothel, and throughout every series he proves himself to be flirtatious and lecherous when it comes to members of the fairer sex. He subsists off a constant flow of beer and cola while working, and has occasionally shown his passion for his work and his desire for recognition to override all other considerations of common sense, loyalty, fear, and reason.
Despite mainly coming across as fairly well intentioned, Harper has a definite nasty side to him, his deep seated hatred of Niezchiens and Magog is something he never grows out of, and he expresses several times that he would ultimately be content with the eradication of both races. At one point he even attempts to re-write history by killing potentially hundreds of thousands of Niezchiens before a critically important battle. When confronted by the reality and consequences of his actions, he does show a certain regret for what he’s done, not wanting to talk or think about the damage caused. However in the hours building up to it, the possibility of feeling anything but victorious afterward never seems to even occur to him. He also shows zero respect for the internal workings of the ships AI, Andromeda, despite clearly viewing her as an independent sentient being, he’s perfectly happy to hack into her and play with, block, unleash, and re-write her memory bank and internal workings. This happens multiple times across the series and while she is always deeply offended by it and he is always apologetic? That never seems to stop him from doing it again the next time.
Over the first four series Harper does grow more noble in some ways, more hesitant to immediately seek vengeance for various slights, and more prone towards self sacrifice than he is in early series, however, by the beginning of series five this has all been undone. In the conclusion of the last episode of series four, the crew are scattered across a technologically backwards planet in a distant galaxy, and while most of them are only there for a few weeks or months before Dylan begins to reunite them, due to a temporal flux, Harper is stranded there for three years there before anyone else arrives. By the time Dylan finds him he’s been trying to re-build Andromeda’s consciousness and memories for years, with little success. He’s working on growing the perfect species for an evil geneticist who’s lacking in any real talent, and mainly achieving deformed and unintelligent mutations in his attempts. He does however seem to view them with the a deep rooted affection, and is happy to endanger the remainder of the galaxy to try and protect them. At this point Harper appears to have regressed to the same kind of morality which he lived by on earth, in which he protects himself and his family and doesn’t care about anything else. When one of his former crewmates suggests that because he was stranded alone he started stealing, Harper responds that he started stealing when he was five, so that was nothing new, apparently supporting this theory.
In terms of interpersonal relations, Harper manages to connect with a broad variety of people despite his obnoxious and annoying tendencies. Arguably his closest friend in the series, and probably the one whom he shows the most respect for is Beka Valentine, who captains the ship he served on since his escape from Earth. Despite his lecherous tendencies, Harper clearly has no problem with serving under a female commander, and indeed seems to be more inclined towards doing what she tells him too than doing what his latter Captain, Dylan Hunt tells him. Probably the most meaningful relationship we see Harper in over the course of the series, is the one he has with the ship itself, while his true motives for how he feels towards Andromeda are never fully explored, he says several times across the series that he loves her or is in love with her, although the exact degree to which Andromeda returns the feelings beyond a platonic level is unclear, as either way it’s clearly impossible for her to return his affections, it is likely something she’s never had cause to entertain. On Harpers part the feelings seem to be largely rooted in his role as “her” engineer, and a level of intimacy that comes from devoting himself so intently towards keeping her running. Although there was also an obvious and immediate attraction to the ship before he was officially her engineer, and as has been already mentioned, he’s quite verbal about his attraction to the women he comes across, so it seems unlikely that he’s incapable of falling in love with women who aren’t star ships.
Harpers relationships with men tend to be more antagonistic than the ones he has with women (There’s considerably less flirting, although throw away lines like describing Dylan as: “A greek god” still sneak in? Harper is more verbal about how taken he is with women.), although this could in part be due to the fact that three out of the four relationships with men that we see Harper develop across the course of the series are with Magog and Nietzchiens. Harper develops a close friendship with Nietzchien Tyr Anasazi over the first three series of Andromeda, and while in the forefront of his mind, Harper never actually confesses to liking or trusting Tyr, he shows an increasing amount of affection for the other man, going so far as to hug the other man tightly when he and Beka return from several weeks lost in space. When Try eventually does betray them, and Harper gets a chance to speak to him again, he asks Tyr what he’d ever done to him to deserve the betrayal, making it clear that he wasn’t prepared to shrug the act off as just being the rational thing to do, or an act against the crew at large, not only was it personal? But it was also clearly about him.
Path to Redemption: I WILL WRITE ONE SOON!
History: There's a pretty lengthy history on the WIKI LINK!
Sample Journal Entry: Ladies! Gentlemen! Variations upon that theme, yeah, you know who you are. Allow me to introduce myself;
I, the great, mighty, and modestly handsome Seamus Zelazney Harper, Master engineer and all around super genius, have agreed to a contract with your Admiral and from now on shall be serving on board in the position of Warden. Yeah, that’s right, pleased to meet you.
Private
This? Is the sweetest deal, ever.
Sample RP:
Harper pressed his palms across his eyes and tried to focus on his work. Tried not to listen to the gurgled screaming echoing down the hall where he knew she was working. It was just another dissection. It was science. He’d done them before when the need called for it, hell, if the need called for it right now then he wouldn’t have minded taking a look at what kind of chemical reactions that bitch had to shut off so she could do this and live with herself. So she could do this to his creations, to his work. In the distance, the hum of the hyperdrill paused, and a low, disjoined moan of agony swirled through the air.
Harper dropped his hands down, and picked up his nano-welder, looking at the small panel of electronics before him. He could work, he needed to work. He needed to finish Rommie, to make her herself again, to make her remember him and just temporarily forget about Dylan. He could do this, hell, he was a freakin’ genius, he excelled at this!
Then the hyperdrill sounded out down the corridor and the voice of one of his children sounded out into the air in an agonized whine and somehow Harper had found himself on his feet and heading down the corridor, teeth clenched and the nano-welder still clutched in his palm ready to burn the face off of his esteemed colleague before she hurt anything else that he wanted to protect. Screw reason, and screw science, and screw getting home and screw Dylan and Rommie and Beka and Trance and screw this and screw her because Seamus Zelazney Harper was sick of just letting people die.
He was two steps from the door to her surgery when someone about a foot taller than him and ever so slightly familiar stepped into his way, and some small part of Harper behind the wall of desperation and rage built up in his mind, actually listened when the man offered him another way.
Special Notes: AND THAT MAN WAS OBVS THE ADMIRAL.
AIM/IM: stoptheworld26
E-mail: michaelheroin at gmail dot com
Other Characters: LOL NOPE
Character Name: Seamus Zelazny Harper
Series: Andromeda
Age: 32
From When?: The beginning of Series Five, after three years stranded and alone on Seefra. After being pulled forward and backward in time by the Barge, Harper finally gets ditched back into the timestream he came from with no memory of his time as a warden. Just in time for Marika to figure out that Harper's been playing her, and shoots his ass.
Inmate/Warden: Inmaaaaaate. Throughout Andromeda Harper is consistently tribalistic in his loyalties and his morality. He hates and mistrusts various alien races for crimes committed against his people, and he finds it easy to get carried away in his vendettas and justify committing terrible crimes out of vengeance, the desire to further his own agenda, or to protect people who he's loyal toward.
Abilities/Powers: Physically? Harper is a scrawny thing, physically weak, shorter than everyone else on his ship (at a mighty 5 foot 4 inches tall), and with an immune system which has been severely shot thanks to a childhood living in the slums and sewers and refugee camps on what’s left of the planet Earth.
The one physical perk he does have? Is a data port installed into the base of his neck just behind his ear, which he can jack into to access technology, data files, and operate basically anything he can plug into, this does mean that he’ll have a permissions post up re: hacking private entries, because OH HE’LL TRY.
He’s also a self proclaimed genius, over the course of the series Harper has hacked, built, re-built, genetically engineered, reprogrammed, armed and disarmed just about anything imaginable, from being able to palm essential components out of guns, to building devices capable of splitting time streams and dimensions, Harper is essentially the giant technological deus-ex machina of the series. I promise not to abuse the hell out of this fact while I’m playing him.
Personality: [You might include how they are going to react to all this]
It’s impossible to talk about Seamus Harpers personality, without talking about where he comes from.
Earth did not fare well after the Fall of the Commonwealth. The utopian governing force which had held together peace and order in the known universe fell in an intergalactic war three hundred years before Harper was even born. After the war, earth had first been overthrown by a brutal tribe of the genetically enhanced Niezchien race, who enslaved, oppressed, and tortured the inhabitants, before playing host to the numerous invasions of a swarm of parasitic aliens known as the Magog, who swept across the planet consuming and laying their eggs within the inhabitants.
This was the world which Seamus Harper was born into, and while it might not be immediately obvious from his hyperactive and irreverent demeanor, the effects of growing up in a world that demanded the suspension of morality in the name of survival stay with him throughout his life.
A self proclaimed genius, it’s likely that Harper's intelligence was his key to escaping from his home planet, we see in flashbacks that when he first begins working with Beka (his long time captain) he is hired straight off earth by a boyfriend of her's for general grunt work, but it was Harper’s self taught ability with engines which convinced Beka to keep him on. This is likely a key contributor to his nigh megalomaniacal self praise when it comes to his abilities. He may be a short, scrawny, genetically inferior and deeply irritating life form who never gets laid despite his best efforts, but he’s smart. Hell, he’s really smart. He’s so smart that he single handedly thought his way into adulthood on one of the most hostile planets in the universe, then he thought his way off it, he thought his way across the galaxy and thought his way into the engine room of the biggest, baddest warship of the last three hundred years, and he definitely likes to make sure everyone knows about it. His need to constantly emphasize and brag about his intelligence is probably linked to a certain need to overcompensate for his physical weakness and the assumptions that are naturally made about people born on earth.
It is commented during the series that Harper follows the twin muses of Chaos and Caffeine, and it’s true that if you catch him on a good day then it’s likely that the overriding impression you’ll receive will be one of a small hyperactive boy with an incredibly short attention span and a bit of a god complex. He’s just one of those people whose mind moves so fast that it’s impossible for his body or just about anyone else’s to keep up, and while his behaviour and moods might make perfect sense to him, without the good fortune of being able to see the thought processes behind his motivations? The outcomes certainly suggest a chaotic line of thinking.
Harper also shows a hedonistic streak and a serious lack of impulse control. As early as the first episode he’s talking about spending his cut of a big score on going to the sci-fi equivalent of an extremely high class brothel, and throughout every series he proves himself to be flirtatious and lecherous when it comes to members of the fairer sex. He subsists off a constant flow of beer and cola while working, and has occasionally shown his passion for his work and his desire for recognition to override all other considerations of common sense, loyalty, fear, and reason.
Despite mainly coming across as fairly well intentioned, Harper has a definite nasty side to him, his deep seated hatred of Niezchiens and Magog is something he never grows out of, and he expresses several times that he would ultimately be content with the eradication of both races. At one point he even attempts to re-write history by killing potentially hundreds of thousands of Niezchiens before a critically important battle. When confronted by the reality and consequences of his actions, he does show a certain regret for what he’s done, not wanting to talk or think about the damage caused. However in the hours building up to it, the possibility of feeling anything but victorious afterward never seems to even occur to him. He also shows zero respect for the internal workings of the ships AI, Andromeda, despite clearly viewing her as an independent sentient being, he’s perfectly happy to hack into her and play with, block, unleash, and re-write her memory bank and internal workings. This happens multiple times across the series and while she is always deeply offended by it and he is always apologetic? That never seems to stop him from doing it again the next time.
Over the first four series Harper does grow more noble in some ways, more hesitant to immediately seek vengeance for various slights, and more prone towards self sacrifice than he is in early series, however, by the beginning of series five this has all been undone. In the conclusion of the last episode of series four, the crew are scattered across a technologically backwards planet in a distant galaxy, and while most of them are only there for a few weeks or months before Dylan begins to reunite them, due to a temporal flux, Harper is stranded there for three years there before anyone else arrives. By the time Dylan finds him he’s been trying to re-build Andromeda’s consciousness and memories for years, with little success. He’s working on growing the perfect species for an evil geneticist who’s lacking in any real talent, and mainly achieving deformed and unintelligent mutations in his attempts. He does however seem to view them with the a deep rooted affection, and is happy to endanger the remainder of the galaxy to try and protect them. At this point Harper appears to have regressed to the same kind of morality which he lived by on earth, in which he protects himself and his family and doesn’t care about anything else. When one of his former crewmates suggests that because he was stranded alone he started stealing, Harper responds that he started stealing when he was five, so that was nothing new, apparently supporting this theory.
In terms of interpersonal relations, Harper manages to connect with a broad variety of people despite his obnoxious and annoying tendencies. Arguably his closest friend in the series, and probably the one whom he shows the most respect for is Beka Valentine, who captains the ship he served on since his escape from Earth. Despite his lecherous tendencies, Harper clearly has no problem with serving under a female commander, and indeed seems to be more inclined towards doing what she tells him too than doing what his latter Captain, Dylan Hunt tells him. Probably the most meaningful relationship we see Harper in over the course of the series, is the one he has with the ship itself, while his true motives for how he feels towards Andromeda are never fully explored, he says several times across the series that he loves her or is in love with her, although the exact degree to which Andromeda returns the feelings beyond a platonic level is unclear, as either way it’s clearly impossible for her to return his affections, it is likely something she’s never had cause to entertain. On Harpers part the feelings seem to be largely rooted in his role as “her” engineer, and a level of intimacy that comes from devoting himself so intently towards keeping her running. Although there was also an obvious and immediate attraction to the ship before he was officially her engineer, and as has been already mentioned, he’s quite verbal about his attraction to the women he comes across, so it seems unlikely that he’s incapable of falling in love with women who aren’t star ships.
Harpers relationships with men tend to be more antagonistic than the ones he has with women (There’s considerably less flirting, although throw away lines like describing Dylan as: “A greek god” still sneak in? Harper is more verbal about how taken he is with women.), although this could in part be due to the fact that three out of the four relationships with men that we see Harper develop across the course of the series are with Magog and Nietzchiens. Harper develops a close friendship with Nietzchien Tyr Anasazi over the first three series of Andromeda, and while in the forefront of his mind, Harper never actually confesses to liking or trusting Tyr, he shows an increasing amount of affection for the other man, going so far as to hug the other man tightly when he and Beka return from several weeks lost in space. When Try eventually does betray them, and Harper gets a chance to speak to him again, he asks Tyr what he’d ever done to him to deserve the betrayal, making it clear that he wasn’t prepared to shrug the act off as just being the rational thing to do, or an act against the crew at large, not only was it personal? But it was also clearly about him.
Path to Redemption: I WILL WRITE ONE SOON!
History: There's a pretty lengthy history on the WIKI LINK!
Sample Journal Entry: Ladies! Gentlemen! Variations upon that theme, yeah, you know who you are. Allow me to introduce myself;
I, the great, mighty, and modestly handsome Seamus Zelazney Harper, Master engineer and all around super genius, have agreed to a contract with your Admiral and from now on shall be serving on board in the position of Warden. Yeah, that’s right, pleased to meet you.
Private
This? Is the sweetest deal, ever.
Sample RP:
Harper pressed his palms across his eyes and tried to focus on his work. Tried not to listen to the gurgled screaming echoing down the hall where he knew she was working. It was just another dissection. It was science. He’d done them before when the need called for it, hell, if the need called for it right now then he wouldn’t have minded taking a look at what kind of chemical reactions that bitch had to shut off so she could do this and live with herself. So she could do this to his creations, to his work. In the distance, the hum of the hyperdrill paused, and a low, disjoined moan of agony swirled through the air.
Harper dropped his hands down, and picked up his nano-welder, looking at the small panel of electronics before him. He could work, he needed to work. He needed to finish Rommie, to make her herself again, to make her remember him and just temporarily forget about Dylan. He could do this, hell, he was a freakin’ genius, he excelled at this!
Then the hyperdrill sounded out down the corridor and the voice of one of his children sounded out into the air in an agonized whine and somehow Harper had found himself on his feet and heading down the corridor, teeth clenched and the nano-welder still clutched in his palm ready to burn the face off of his esteemed colleague before she hurt anything else that he wanted to protect. Screw reason, and screw science, and screw getting home and screw Dylan and Rommie and Beka and Trance and screw this and screw her because Seamus Zelazney Harper was sick of just letting people die.
He was two steps from the door to her surgery when someone about a foot taller than him and ever so slightly familiar stepped into his way, and some small part of Harper behind the wall of desperation and rage built up in his mind, actually listened when the man offered him another way.
Special Notes: AND THAT MAN WAS OBVS THE ADMIRAL.