C&C Application
Trigger warning for mentions of deaths, murders, attempted suicide.
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Zoe
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: morgana006
IM: zmpeccadillo
E-MAIL: morgana007 @ gmail.com
RETURNING: Yep! Two: the Monster in the Darkness and Flint Marko
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Julian Day aka the Calendar Man
FANDOM: DC Comics, Batman
CHRONOLOGY: Pre Reboot, post crisis, back when Tim Drake was starting out as Robin, just post "Misfits".
CLASS: Villain on holidays and sometimes more, depending on the day of the week.
SUPERHERO NAME: Calendar Man
ALTER EGO: Julian Day. He has no job, and will probably spend all his time planning for the next holiday and trolling the network whenever anyone mentions it’s their birthday.
BACKGROUND:
If you were to take a trip around the DC Universe, you might notice some sights. It’s very similar to the modern world with a few key differences. Metahumans and superheroes fly around fighting superpowered crime and extraordinary criminals. There are fictional cities where fictional heroes fight villains. Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, the Justice League, Justice League International, the Teen Titans. Lex Luthor, Circe, Braniac, the Rogues, Darkseid, you name it. Metropolis, Keystone, Opal City, Star City, Paradise Island, Khandaq. You get the picture. To be a superhero is to be one of many and costumed crime is almost a legitimate enterprise.
If you took this road trip further, you might end up in Gotham, home to the Batman, the caped crusader, the bat themed superhero and his numerous cohorts. The air gets notably darker and grittier. The town is corrupt and full of crime. If it's not professional criminals running the place, the costumed ones are there murdering, thieving, causing disasters. The number of metahumans drops off. Most of the vigilantes and costumed criminals have no powers, just training, determination or gimmicks.
Only a few care more about their gimmick than Calendar Man.
Julian Day started operating as Calendar Man in the early days of Batman’s career, when the mob still ruled the town and the “costumed freaks” had only just started appearing.
Julian committed crimes based around the calendar. Presumably crimes similar to those he committed in the previous DCU, Pre-Crisis - four themed robberies, one for each season, a week thieving things related to the names of the weekdays, etc etc. It can probably be assumed that Julian had committed many crimes on holidays, disrupting and disturbing Gotham for most of the year. Somewhere along the line he was caught and thrown into Arkham Asylum.
Which brings us to the events of the Long Halloween, in which someone else starts committing crimes based on the holidays. It starts when Johnny Viti, nephew to the crime lord Carmine Falcone, is murdered on Halloween. The killer purposely left behind the murder weapon and a Jack-O-Lantern. From then on, every major holiday is marked with murders of mobsters, and by Christmas Eve Batman starts going to Julian Day for information.
It’s heavily implied that Julian had figured out who was doing the killings early on - he was certainly obsessing over it enough. And of course he would, someone was committing crimes on holidays. The Calendar is his realm of expertise, and the Holiday killer was taking it over. By Labor Day, Julian advised Batman on who “Holiday” would go after, leading to the capture of the self-proclaimed culprit: Alberto Falcone, Carmine Falcone’s son. Things were not quite wrapped up, however. The events of the Long Halloween resulted in Harvey Dent, the district attorney, becoming Two-Face and murdering Carmine Falcone, one year after it all started.
Dark Victory continues this line of events about a year later, after Alberto Falcone, Holiday, had been placed in Arkham. In the cell across from Calendar Man, even, because evidently it didn’t occur to anyone how bad of an idea that was. Regardless, Calendar Man escaped Arkham (on yet another Halloween), just as a new series of crimes started on the holidays.
The new “Hangman killings” were only of secondary importance to Julian as he gave himself tattoos around his skull (JANFEBMARAPRMAY etc) and moved into the walls of the recently released Alberto’s house and tormented him by making him think he’s hearing the voice of his father. In the meantime, he worked with Harvey Dent and the other rogues, loosely. This lasted up until Harvey Dent murdered Janice Porter, the then-current DA, and Calendar Man disposes of the body onto Alberto’s bed. But when he tries to convince Alberto to commit suicide, the game is revealed and it does not end well for Julian.
After that, there were years in and out of Arkham (and sometimes Blackgate prison), mostly in. He teamed up with the Misfits, a group of Gotham rogues who were tired of not being in the spotlight. They kidnapped the mayor, Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne. Catman made fun of him and he refused to kill Batman on Killer Moth’s orders and that is pretty much the most you need to know about that. He also teamed up with Clock King, Chronus, and Time Commander ("the Time Foes") in a couple of time related escapades.
He’s had a handful of other appearances, including one short story in which he becomes very depressed on February 29th, Leap Day, and attempts to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of Arkham. Notably in that story, he tells the doctor of a childhood incident where he waited from Christmas Eve until New Year’s at a bus stop in the snow for his father, as a possible beginning on his fixation on dates.
As a pull point, I’m bringing him from around the time he teamed up with Misfits, although that particular story was published before the Long Halloween. See also, my final notes.
PERSONALITY:
Julian Day is completely and utterly obsessed with the calendar and anything to do with the calendar: the days of the week, holidays, zodiac signs, the number of days in the month, the names, the dates, the seasons, and especially the holidays. He gives meanings to these things. He expresses this obsession with themed crimes, and while he can come across as a bit of a joke, he takes it dead seriously. His obsession is by no means limited to his crime, and infects almost everything he does.
More to the point, Julian is extremely possessive of his gimmick. He helped stop the Holiday killings and tormented Alberto Falcone almost to the point of suicide because Holiday was taking the attention away from the Calendar Man. Regardless of whether or not Alberto was the Real Killer, he became the face of Holiday terror - and Calendar Man couldn't have that. Julian has a fear of having his work as the Calendar Man forgotten, indicating a huge want for attention, but also a need to be associated with the calendar. It is HIS thing and no one else's. The calendar belongs to him. He WANTS the Calendar Man to be remembered for his crimes.
Julian does seem to respect human life to an extent, and outside the incident with Alberto Falcone will often state that murder is not one of his crimes and will refuse to commit it. However, in certain circumstances, literally depending on the day or when he feels threatened, he may become increasingly violent and much less empathetic. Under normal circumstances he is relatively calm (or at least the appearance of calm), almost eerily so. His mood swings and violent tendencies are limited to holidays and/or those days he’s assigned extra meaning. Just because he's not a murderer does not mean he's not dangerous.
Julian is something of a loner, lost in his own world of dates and times and created meanings. This does not mean he never interacts with anyone, but when he does he filters and focuses those interactions through his obsession. He can get to know people, even be pleasant in his own way, but in the end his own ideals and the calendar will take precedent over others.
He’s extremely intelligent, although this is limited by his obsession - if it does not have to do with the calendar, he loses interest, but he IS very good at what he does. He’s known to be good at building gadgets (themed gadgets), and so is decent enough with technology, although it's not his main priority. It probably goes without saying, but he has an extensive knowledge of anything to do with the calendar. When dealing with people, he can be surprisingly perceptive, but can still make mistakes.
He does not use a lot of slang, and speaks with a lot of fragments, making side comments, observations, and asking questions that are sometimes more like statements. When he's particularly lost in his own thoughts or caught up in his obsession he repeats lists of holidays, rhymes ("Thirty days hath september", "Monday's child is fair of face"), counts out the days on his knuckles, things like that. His expressions and emotions are there, but subtle.
For some reason when he's in Arkham he never wears shoes. He dresses very simply up until he commits a crime, and then his clothes become excessively flamboyant, attention seeking, and fashionably questionable.
POWER:
He has no canon superpowers! So I’m giving him a power loosely inspired from the Batman: the Brave and the Bold cartoon:
Holiday Themed Monster Summoning
Calendar Man can summon monsters! He can only summon them on holidays, and they have to fit the theme of the day.
TL;DR specifics:
Almost any holiday counts as long as it is celebrated by multiple people in the cityverse AND has some sort of symbol or figure that can be monsterized. Birthdays do not count. Religious holidays are varied - he cannot summon religious figures, but non-religious figures associated with those holidays are fine. In other words, vicious Easter bunnies instead of zombie Jesus.
He can only summon the same number of monsters as the date - so four undead founding fathers on July 4th and thirty-one general spooks on Halloween. Conservation of Ninjitsu is in effect; a singular monster is really tough, with decreasing individual strength as the number of monsters increases.
He cannot completely control the monsters, but they do respond to his commands, as long as they are simple. They do not kill, although they can injure, fight or destroy things. After being defeated or by the end of the day they disappear.
As you can probably imagine, the majority of uses of his powers will have to be mod-approved.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
VOICE
[The voice is soft for a middle aged man, not quite monotone. His stresses on words are subtle.]
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011. All Saint’s Day. The beginning of Día de Los Muertos, for those that celebrate it.
I have missed days, months, years.
[ The slightest edge of bitterness is in his voice now. ] I have just missed Halloween. You’ve had quite the interesting one, haven’t you? Truly more spectacular than anything I could have come up with, although it is not quite my style. [ Pause.] I would have liked to have witnessed it.
[ Returning to his calmer voice ] I still have much to work with. Veteran’s Day. Thanksgiving. While I am without family, it does seem I know enough people here to invite for dinner.
After that is the holiday season, and then I may truly begin my work again.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Julian Day sits in the middle of his empty room, still in his Arkham jumpsuit, barefoot. He will get his costumes again, needs his costumes again. But for the moment, it is unimportant.
He sits, going back, back, back through the communicator. The everyday, the ordinary does not interest him. He notes dates, times, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays. Whenever someone mentions a date with a degree of importance, he notices.
He makes a mental list of what he needs. Paper, for notes. Pens, to write. Calendars, to keep track. He is without his calendars. He is aware of this at every moment.
He absentmindedly notes certain names from home. The Batman, of course - gone. Robins, multiple. Some Bat figures that he does not recognize. After his time, perhaps. Harvey Dent, the Gemini. Joker, the clown. Catwoman, Crane, Catman, Riddler.
Despite the familiar faces, this was not Gotham. His crimes were never committed here, and his name is unmentioned. It’s worse than home, and better. He is not a joke here. He is not anything here.
He plans for the future. He will make himself known. They will notice him on Thanksgiving, fear him on Christmas, and remember him by New Year’s. After that, it is an entire new year.
Given time, no one would forget the Calendar Man.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
His intro post might change depending on when exactly that happens. For the purposes of the test post, I just picked a day.
I pulled most of his characterization/history from the Long Halloween and Dark Victory, which seems to be how he is mostly characterized these days. However, it was published after a lot of his appearances (despite happening before - oh comics), which is why I only barely touched on those - not that they didn't happen, but different writers and all that. Hopefully it makes sense.
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Zoe
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: morgana006
IM: zmpeccadillo
E-MAIL: morgana007 @ gmail.com
RETURNING: Yep! Two: the Monster in the Darkness and Flint Marko
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Julian Day aka the Calendar Man
FANDOM: DC Comics, Batman
CHRONOLOGY: Pre Reboot, post crisis, back when Tim Drake was starting out as Robin, just post "Misfits".
CLASS: Villain on holidays and sometimes more, depending on the day of the week.
SUPERHERO NAME: Calendar Man
ALTER EGO: Julian Day. He has no job, and will probably spend all his time planning for the next holiday and trolling the network whenever anyone mentions it’s their birthday.
BACKGROUND:
If you were to take a trip around the DC Universe, you might notice some sights. It’s very similar to the modern world with a few key differences. Metahumans and superheroes fly around fighting superpowered crime and extraordinary criminals. There are fictional cities where fictional heroes fight villains. Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, the Justice League, Justice League International, the Teen Titans. Lex Luthor, Circe, Braniac, the Rogues, Darkseid, you name it. Metropolis, Keystone, Opal City, Star City, Paradise Island, Khandaq. You get the picture. To be a superhero is to be one of many and costumed crime is almost a legitimate enterprise.
If you took this road trip further, you might end up in Gotham, home to the Batman, the caped crusader, the bat themed superhero and his numerous cohorts. The air gets notably darker and grittier. The town is corrupt and full of crime. If it's not professional criminals running the place, the costumed ones are there murdering, thieving, causing disasters. The number of metahumans drops off. Most of the vigilantes and costumed criminals have no powers, just training, determination or gimmicks.
Only a few care more about their gimmick than Calendar Man.
Julian Day started operating as Calendar Man in the early days of Batman’s career, when the mob still ruled the town and the “costumed freaks” had only just started appearing.
Julian committed crimes based around the calendar. Presumably crimes similar to those he committed in the previous DCU, Pre-Crisis - four themed robberies, one for each season, a week thieving things related to the names of the weekdays, etc etc. It can probably be assumed that Julian had committed many crimes on holidays, disrupting and disturbing Gotham for most of the year. Somewhere along the line he was caught and thrown into Arkham Asylum.
Which brings us to the events of the Long Halloween, in which someone else starts committing crimes based on the holidays. It starts when Johnny Viti, nephew to the crime lord Carmine Falcone, is murdered on Halloween. The killer purposely left behind the murder weapon and a Jack-O-Lantern. From then on, every major holiday is marked with murders of mobsters, and by Christmas Eve Batman starts going to Julian Day for information.
It’s heavily implied that Julian had figured out who was doing the killings early on - he was certainly obsessing over it enough. And of course he would, someone was committing crimes on holidays. The Calendar is his realm of expertise, and the Holiday killer was taking it over. By Labor Day, Julian advised Batman on who “Holiday” would go after, leading to the capture of the self-proclaimed culprit: Alberto Falcone, Carmine Falcone’s son. Things were not quite wrapped up, however. The events of the Long Halloween resulted in Harvey Dent, the district attorney, becoming Two-Face and murdering Carmine Falcone, one year after it all started.
Dark Victory continues this line of events about a year later, after Alberto Falcone, Holiday, had been placed in Arkham. In the cell across from Calendar Man, even, because evidently it didn’t occur to anyone how bad of an idea that was. Regardless, Calendar Man escaped Arkham (on yet another Halloween), just as a new series of crimes started on the holidays.
The new “Hangman killings” were only of secondary importance to Julian as he gave himself tattoos around his skull (JANFEBMARAPRMAY etc) and moved into the walls of the recently released Alberto’s house and tormented him by making him think he’s hearing the voice of his father. In the meantime, he worked with Harvey Dent and the other rogues, loosely. This lasted up until Harvey Dent murdered Janice Porter, the then-current DA, and Calendar Man disposes of the body onto Alberto’s bed. But when he tries to convince Alberto to commit suicide, the game is revealed and it does not end well for Julian.
After that, there were years in and out of Arkham (and sometimes Blackgate prison), mostly in. He teamed up with the Misfits, a group of Gotham rogues who were tired of not being in the spotlight. They kidnapped the mayor, Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne. Catman made fun of him and he refused to kill Batman on Killer Moth’s orders and that is pretty much the most you need to know about that. He also teamed up with Clock King, Chronus, and Time Commander ("the Time Foes") in a couple of time related escapades.
He’s had a handful of other appearances, including one short story in which he becomes very depressed on February 29th, Leap Day, and attempts to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of Arkham. Notably in that story, he tells the doctor of a childhood incident where he waited from Christmas Eve until New Year’s at a bus stop in the snow for his father, as a possible beginning on his fixation on dates.
As a pull point, I’m bringing him from around the time he teamed up with Misfits, although that particular story was published before the Long Halloween. See also, my final notes.
PERSONALITY:
Julian Day is completely and utterly obsessed with the calendar and anything to do with the calendar: the days of the week, holidays, zodiac signs, the number of days in the month, the names, the dates, the seasons, and especially the holidays. He gives meanings to these things. He expresses this obsession with themed crimes, and while he can come across as a bit of a joke, he takes it dead seriously. His obsession is by no means limited to his crime, and infects almost everything he does.
More to the point, Julian is extremely possessive of his gimmick. He helped stop the Holiday killings and tormented Alberto Falcone almost to the point of suicide because Holiday was taking the attention away from the Calendar Man. Regardless of whether or not Alberto was the Real Killer, he became the face of Holiday terror - and Calendar Man couldn't have that. Julian has a fear of having his work as the Calendar Man forgotten, indicating a huge want for attention, but also a need to be associated with the calendar. It is HIS thing and no one else's. The calendar belongs to him. He WANTS the Calendar Man to be remembered for his crimes.
Julian does seem to respect human life to an extent, and outside the incident with Alberto Falcone will often state that murder is not one of his crimes and will refuse to commit it. However, in certain circumstances, literally depending on the day or when he feels threatened, he may become increasingly violent and much less empathetic. Under normal circumstances he is relatively calm (or at least the appearance of calm), almost eerily so. His mood swings and violent tendencies are limited to holidays and/or those days he’s assigned extra meaning. Just because he's not a murderer does not mean he's not dangerous.
Julian is something of a loner, lost in his own world of dates and times and created meanings. This does not mean he never interacts with anyone, but when he does he filters and focuses those interactions through his obsession. He can get to know people, even be pleasant in his own way, but in the end his own ideals and the calendar will take precedent over others.
He’s extremely intelligent, although this is limited by his obsession - if it does not have to do with the calendar, he loses interest, but he IS very good at what he does. He’s known to be good at building gadgets (themed gadgets), and so is decent enough with technology, although it's not his main priority. It probably goes without saying, but he has an extensive knowledge of anything to do with the calendar. When dealing with people, he can be surprisingly perceptive, but can still make mistakes.
He does not use a lot of slang, and speaks with a lot of fragments, making side comments, observations, and asking questions that are sometimes more like statements. When he's particularly lost in his own thoughts or caught up in his obsession he repeats lists of holidays, rhymes ("Thirty days hath september", "Monday's child is fair of face"), counts out the days on his knuckles, things like that. His expressions and emotions are there, but subtle.
For some reason when he's in Arkham he never wears shoes. He dresses very simply up until he commits a crime, and then his clothes become excessively flamboyant, attention seeking, and fashionably questionable.
POWER:
He has no canon superpowers! So I’m giving him a power loosely inspired from the Batman: the Brave and the Bold cartoon:
Holiday Themed Monster Summoning
Calendar Man can summon monsters! He can only summon them on holidays, and they have to fit the theme of the day.
TL;DR specifics:
Almost any holiday counts as long as it is celebrated by multiple people in the cityverse AND has some sort of symbol or figure that can be monsterized. Birthdays do not count. Religious holidays are varied - he cannot summon religious figures, but non-religious figures associated with those holidays are fine. In other words, vicious Easter bunnies instead of zombie Jesus.
He can only summon the same number of monsters as the date - so four undead founding fathers on July 4th and thirty-one general spooks on Halloween. Conservation of Ninjitsu is in effect; a singular monster is really tough, with decreasing individual strength as the number of monsters increases.
He cannot completely control the monsters, but they do respond to his commands, as long as they are simple. They do not kill, although they can injure, fight or destroy things. After being defeated or by the end of the day they disappear.
As you can probably imagine, the majority of uses of his powers will have to be mod-approved.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
VOICE
[The voice is soft for a middle aged man, not quite monotone. His stresses on words are subtle.]
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011. All Saint’s Day. The beginning of Día de Los Muertos, for those that celebrate it.
I have missed days, months, years.
[ The slightest edge of bitterness is in his voice now. ] I have just missed Halloween. You’ve had quite the interesting one, haven’t you? Truly more spectacular than anything I could have come up with, although it is not quite my style. [ Pause.] I would have liked to have witnessed it.
[ Returning to his calmer voice ] I still have much to work with. Veteran’s Day. Thanksgiving. While I am without family, it does seem I know enough people here to invite for dinner.
After that is the holiday season, and then I may truly begin my work again.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Julian Day sits in the middle of his empty room, still in his Arkham jumpsuit, barefoot. He will get his costumes again, needs his costumes again. But for the moment, it is unimportant.
He sits, going back, back, back through the communicator. The everyday, the ordinary does not interest him. He notes dates, times, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays. Whenever someone mentions a date with a degree of importance, he notices.
He makes a mental list of what he needs. Paper, for notes. Pens, to write. Calendars, to keep track. He is without his calendars. He is aware of this at every moment.
He absentmindedly notes certain names from home. The Batman, of course - gone. Robins, multiple. Some Bat figures that he does not recognize. After his time, perhaps. Harvey Dent, the Gemini. Joker, the clown. Catwoman, Crane, Catman, Riddler.
Despite the familiar faces, this was not Gotham. His crimes were never committed here, and his name is unmentioned. It’s worse than home, and better. He is not a joke here. He is not anything here.
He plans for the future. He will make himself known. They will notice him on Thanksgiving, fear him on Christmas, and remember him by New Year’s. After that, it is an entire new year.
Given time, no one would forget the Calendar Man.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
His intro post might change depending on when exactly that happens. For the purposes of the test post, I just picked a day.
I pulled most of his characterization/history from the Long Halloween and Dark Victory, which seems to be how he is mostly characterized these days. However, it was published after a lot of his appearances (despite happening before - oh comics), which is why I only barely touched on those - not that they didn't happen, but different writers and all that. Hopefully it makes sense.