application for capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Setine
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: theshinraco
IM: teamrocket on AIM
E-MAIL: setinechan@gmail.com
RETURNING: 1 ; soloisms
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Robert Fischer Jr.
FANDOM: Inception
CHRONOLOGY: Post movie
CLASS: He won't keep his dogtags, but he won't risk his life for other people.
SUPERHERO NAME: The Mark.
ALTER EGO: Robert Fischer Jr., Energy Mogul
BACKGROUND:
Despite being the mark in the movie, Fischer's role in Inception is limited to showing his relationship with his Father and how his relationship with him reflects how the entire team is going to plant the idea in his head to break up the world's biggest energy monopoly. Though, he's completely oblivious to the fact that people want this to happen. When Saito, the Fischer Morrow's greatest competitor, is on a plane with him, he doesn't even recognize him or when Eames bumps into him on the plane to pick his pocket for his passport in an effort to slip him the drug that will put him under, he doesn't even think twice that someone would do that or let alone keep his passport safe. It's to demonstrate that before the movie, Fischer lives in a bubble of his own self-loathing and yearning for his father to accept him or even show him some sort of love. Fischer is completely under the impression that he is a failure to his father, no matter how hard he works. It's exemplified when Maurice asks Fischer to come close to him whilst on his death bed and utters one word: disappointment.
While his father is dying, Fischer never leaves his side, despite how thankless it is. Even when Peter Browning comes to him about power of attorney, Fischer casts it aside like the doting son. But, he does open up to Browning about a moment he had with Maurice when he was very young. It's obviously a treasured memory because Fischer places the picture back on his father's bedside table. Eames takes the opportunity to use that to use Browning within Fischer's subconscious within the first level. There, they make Fischer think that he's in LA and they kidnap him in under the ruse that Fischer knows of a safe that holds an alternate will that will dissolve the company. Fischer, quite attached to the family name and Empire is confused, saying that he has no idea about any alternate will. His role becomes more involved once Maurice passes away and Fischer has to fly commercial to bury his father. He's then sedated and guided through three levels of his subconscious:
Level 1: He's brought into the dream thinking that he's arrived on a rainy day in Los Angeles. He's then kidnapped and taken to a warehouse where he's led to believe that there's an alternate will. It's revealed that Fischer had prepared himself, ironically, against mind crime and had his subconscious weaponized. Once they do reach the warehouse, Eames, disguised as Browning, wonders if Maurice ever mentioned it. Fischer finally reveals how bad their relationship was and how Maurice was closed off emotionally from him.
Level 2: It takes place in a hotel and in a gambit move, Cobb makes Fischer believe that he and the rest of the dream team are manifestations of Fischer's subconscious trying to protect him from mindcrime. In reality, it's the other way around. It just proves at how easily Fischer is manipulated if someone who claims to have authority tells him something. From there on, the tactic of destroying the relationship with Browning in order to reconcile Fischer with his father becomes vital in order for Fischer to agree to put himself under the third level.
Level 3: In the climax of the movie, Fischer does have the catharsis with his father (not before being shot and being a pawn in Mal's attempts to keep Cobb in limbo with her). He has a pivotal moment with his father, Fischer finally tells Maurice that he knew that he was disappointed in him. But, Maurice says that he was disappointed that Fischer never became like him and it leaves Fischer confused. When Maurice points to the safe under the bed, lo and behold, the clincher for Fischer isn't that there's an alternate will, but the fact that his father dies once more while he holds a paper pinwheel like the one he and his father made together all those years ago.
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. For instance, his desire to be noticed or to be acknowledged by his father is accented by the whole theme of the paper pinwheel. Robert places a picture of him and his father by his bedside table; obviously a cherished memory because in the picture, it shows Maurice actually sparing a smile and a moment with his son. He wants his father to see it and acknowledge that Robert loves him, but he doesn't. It's a fact that Robert takes bitterly to heart.
The movie takes the pains to note that Robert and his father fight a lot and that they have conflicting views on everything. To the rest of the world, Robert is weak and nonaggressive, unlike his father. But, Robert is proactive - whilst the Morrow's policy is one of litigation, when you see Robert moving through his own subconscious, it's clear that Robert wants to get down to the boil of things and resolve them. He might be scared and the concept might terrify him, but when he sets his mind to something (or it disrupts his hierarchy of needs), Robert will go for it. He might bitch (read: will bitch) and he will moan, but it will be done. Before Inception, he would have just bent to this father's ways, but now to become his own man, Robert will start going with his ideals and his point of view.
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. It's just waiting to crack out of that hardened shell of impatience, hubris and self entitlement that Robert built around him to actually see light.
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. Even though that is how he feels about himself and his place in the world, Robert acts as if he must be the center of all attention. Despite the fact that people tend to associate him with his father (in the movie, he's asked if he's the same Fischer as Maurice Fischer), wherever Robert goes, he makes sure that he's been given the best treatment, the best accommodations etc...
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 in the business sense) and he knows exactly what he wants to do without his father's weight on his shoulders.
POWER:
Sleeping Beauty: Fischer can sleep off mild to moderate injuries (internal injuries don't apply) in the matter of 10 hours of napping.
Field of Dreams: While the others in Inception are able to actually go into dreams and mess around with them, Fischer can only observe, not alter nor interact with projections, he's merely a ghost in them.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
VOICE.
[... there's just silence at first, a heavy sort of nervous breathing before someone who sounds way more entitled should be in this situation.] If you're looking for a randsom, I doubt you'd get it. Though, if you're more of the Morrow's more zealous - [a pause, as if he can never ever remember to correct himself] - if you were a zealous shareholder, I'm afraid you're too late. It won't do you any good, the Morrow is good as gone and your shares aren't worth anything. [Wait - did he just give away that he's useless as a hostage? Crap.] Look, if you let me go and let me go back to - well, it doesn't have a name yet, but if you let me go, I'll be happy to compensate you for the effort of returning me safely.
[B( not before every government agency finds you and takes you into custody!!!]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Panic is the first thing that sets in. Just. Blind Panic. It's worth becoming a proper noun and its own state of being. Fischer has never ever been in a situation like this before (though vaguely it seems like something out of a dream) and like most, he panics. He's been far too coddled with numerous security guards - even his subconscious has been trained to protect him - his assistants, his secretaries, people telling him where to go and what to do and all he had to do was act the part.
But now, he's alone in a city with no map, no support and for once Fischer feels the weight of "being his own man". Though through the frenzy of trying to discover who might be behind this kidnapping (Proclus? Doubt that they would want to do anything to their former rival), a small sliver of pride and hope shines through. Before, Fischer would have just tried to place a phone call to Maurice and the entire world would have to come and save him. He's determined that he can make his own way out of here, there's actually something worth going back for. Something that is his and not his father's.
Bravado aside, Fischer is still panicking. There's no phone call that he can make, there's no one that knows who he is (which, is a shock in itself) and for now it seems that he's not making his way back home.
He just hopes that this doesn't feed into the tabloid's construct of a nervous breakdown and he doesn't emerge an eccentric billionaire.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
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