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PLAYER
[journal] neuroticisizing
[age] 21
[previous characters] N/A
CHARACTER
[series] Inception
[full name] Robert Fischer Jr.
[age] 37
[gender] Male
[canon point] Post Inception-movie.
[reference] wikipedia.
[personality]
Robert is a man that wishes to make his father happy. Of course, their relationship has always been strained. His father owned the world in his fingertips and yet he could never give a moment to his son. When his son did manage to get his attention, he was always very disappointed. Needless to say, Robert has grown up his entire life people telling him what he can or cannot do, where he can or can't go and that is by people whom his father hired. His father issues are so deep that the extractors are able to use this to manipulate Robert into conceiving an idea.
Robert has been given wealth, he knows this and sometimes the entire thing exasperates him; he's spoiled, but he's still social. Despite wanting to become his father (a very strong desire to), he became this weaker person that would rather be a doormat and gullible than be himself or anyone else for that matter. There's a point in the movie where he's seen getting mugged and he's just "Oh really? This is what's going on. Here mug me and please take me to my stop." He's clueless to the world and to who his father's competitors are. When he passes Saito in a dream, he doesn't even know that this is a man who is powerful. He's been sheltered, but not too sheltered. He knows how to do business, but it's not his style. It's just a mimic of his father's.
The key difference is that while his father is reserved and stoic (he told his own son on his mother's funeral that "There really wasn't much to say") and Robert is a lot more open about his emotions. He's bitter, yes, but he thaws quickly and lets people in. After all, it's not him they're interested in and his feeling or his place on anything can't be used against the company.
After the movie, the catharsis is that Robert can stand on his two feet. He dissolves the company, but he does so knowing that he can rebuild. Robert, unlike other businessman, shows emotion and it is an integral part of his charisma. While he was a petulant child, he spent most of his time in the shadow of his father - thus letting him people watch. This catharsis has given him the confidence boost that he always needed and craved from his father. However, more importantly, it allows the world to see the skills he had cultivated by watching and learning. Though mostly through the mistakes of his father, Robert isn't a fool (… well, at least int he business sense) and he knows exactly what he wants to do.
[orientation] canon: heterosexual
[appearance] n/a
[wish] To become his own man.
[requested house] Youfuu or Iki o/
[misc notes]
SAMPLES
[sample 1#] thread #1
[sample 2#]
SAMPLE PROSE POST.
The woman sitting across from Robert just doesn't understand that Robert could really care less about her. Of course there's that fake, tight smile, but really he just wants her to go away. She had stopped talking for a few minutes, staring at him as if he had to respond.
"Am I supposed to say something?" He retorted as he grabbed his tea and tried to force himself to enjoy it. As bad as it was, he wanted a nice cold beer. Robert was too impatient and too self-involved to be able to be an entertainer. Sadly for him, there wasn't a venture capitalist position open to "pay off his debt".
Was there a sneer? Or did she leave? Oh, she left. Robert would soon get a visit from the head of his house and he would be informed that he would have to be more hospitable to clients or that he would be shipped to the lowest district to be a common whore.
What a terrible one he would be, indeed.
Robert checked the time with a wry smirk (oh, his client was still there). It wasn't that he was glad that their time was almost over - in fact, he was ecstatic that the torture would soon pass - it was just that he would be going into the central hub and start investing his allowance today. Robert Fischer would get out of this place and he would pay off his debt the fastest and his pride would still be intact.
However, until then, he'd have to deal with the redundant compliment to his strange eyes. It was worth it.