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OOC:
Name: Lina
Are you over 16?: Si
Personal LJ: icedcaffeine
Email: avillaininwhite[@]hotmail[.]com
Timezone: US Central
Other contact: AIM: vagabond woof
Characters already in the game: Victor Mancha (electromexican), Ezio Auditore (maestro_ezio)
How did you find us?: Already here!
IC:
Character name: Spike Spiegel
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Timeline: Right after episode 17, Mushroom Samba
Age: 27 (his DoB is June 26, 2044 just an fyi)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Nothing really in terms of magic, but he's a skilled fighter in several different styles (notably in Jeet Kune Do) and has a cybernetic eye, but it's never been revealed if he can really do anything extraordinary with it. He's an excellent sharpshooter and knows how to work with several kinds of guns and bombs. Spike knows a lot of sleight of hand tricks as well to sneak things into peoples' pockets or pickpocket them.
Spike is an air pilot as well. He has his own small red airship which he called the Swordfish II and is armed with several types of offense weapons and cannons.
How would they use their abilities?: Mostly for his own benefit or protection when needed. Spike is generally pretty relaxed so unless he's in danger or after a bounty, you won't get to see his skills on a daily basis unless he's practicing.
Appearance:
Spike is a tall, lanky man with fluffy, disheveled dark green hair and fair skin. While he has brown eyes, his right cybernetic eye is lighter than his real eye. Most of the time he wears a blue suit and a yellow button-up shirt with a black skinny tie. The suit's jacket buttons across his chest similar to a military-style jacket. The sleeves of his jacket are always rolled up to his elbows. (Here's a picture!)
Background/Personality:
Several years before the start of the series, Spike was involved in a crime ring called the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. During a shootout, he gets badly injured and finds himself in the care of a woman named Julia, who at the time was Vicious' girlfriend. Vicious was a close friend of Spike and also a member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. Spike and Julia fell in love and both decided to leave the Syndicate together, but Vicious found out about this. Either Spike gets killed, he told Julia, or both would have to face the punishment of death together for their betrayal. Spike managed to fake his own death to escape Red Dragon, promising to wait for Julia. She never arrived.
A few years later he joined forces with a man named Jet Black, a former member of the Intra Solar System Police (or ISSP for short), and began their lives together as a bounty hunting team. They travel from planet to planet on the Bebop, Jet's massive ship. Spike keeps his airship docked in the ship most of the time.
For three years it had been just the two of them until a data dog named Ein joined their group during one of their bounty hunts. It's not exactly clear what a data dog can do but this corgi was genetically engineered and highly valuable. Their intention was to catch the thief and return the dog, but Ein wound up staying on the ship.
Soon after a woman named Faye Valentine joined them as well. At the time, she was serving as a middle man for an illegal transaction. Even while with them, she constantly squandered away all her money and was always in debt. Spike is rather cold towards her, stating explicitly that he hates women with attitudes. It's never clear if he actually liked her or not due to his behavior and personality.
Spike and Jet confront a team of eco-terrorists named Space Warriors. Initially they had meant to find another small-time bounty, but when they find out the leader of the Space Warriors is at this restaurant, their plans completely change. They manage to stop the group from employing a very dangerous biological weapon that would turn humans into acting like primates, but at the same time they completely wrecked the restaurant they found them in. It's not unusual for most of their bounty to go into paying damages.
Faye is on the hunt for a bounty on Mao Yenrai, the crimeboss of Red Dragon. Faye gets captured by Vicious during her hunt. While she is unharmed, Spike, much against Jet's protest, goes after Mao's killer and constant rival Vicious. He gets caught up in a shootout at a church and the two have a face off. Spike was pushed out of a window but he somehow survives the fall, albeit with extensive injuries. He recovers after a while and continues to hunt for bounties all the same.
The team were in desperate need of help to stop the hackings of satellites and track down their bounty, so they hire someone named "Radical Edward." To their surprise, they find that the hacker is a very young and bizarre little girl who named herself Ed. She is an extremely skilled hacker and winds up staying on the Bebop as well, much to Spike's dismay, since he hates dogs and children as well.
In a two-part episode named Jupiter Jazz, Faye runs off with the team's earnings. Ed is asked to research and hack her way around to see if they can find anything about Faye. Obviously they wants the money back, so Jet goes after her alone. Spike goes off to follow up on some very important leads on the whereabouts of his former love after Ed finds something codenamed Julia on one of Jupiter's moons. He hadn't heard very much about her since his faked death and very much wants to see her again and wants to know what happened to her. Here he runs into Vicious again as he's looking for Julia as well. At the end of the first part, he gets knocked out and finds that he was shot with a tranquilizer at the start of the second part. Meanwhile, Faye is kidnapped and held hostage by a man named Gren, who she had first seen at a bar playing jazz music. He once admired Vicious, but he now hates him completely. Gren, Vicious and Spike face off in a three-way battle in the snow.
Finding themselves once again desperate for money, Jet, Spike and Faye go off to find different bounties to feed themselves and put gas in the Bebop. Faye is very stressed out and tells her story to Ein, but Spike hears all of her story as well. It turns out she was put into cryogenic sleep after a major accident because the technology of the time was not up to par. When she awakes, she owes a massive amount of money to the hospital that put her into the sleep without her consent. Since she had no means to pay, she ran away. His attitude doesn't change much towards her after this, admittedly, but again, it's never obvious if this did change his opinion about her or not.
From the point I take Spike, the crew is stranded on a weird planet without food or fuel and the Bebop is in desperate need of repairs. While Jet and Spike attempt to work on the Bebop to figure out what's wrong (besides the lack of food), Spike sends off Ed to get some food for them. Ed takes Ein on a scooter and they get caught up between a woman after a bounty. Her bounty is a man who sells special mushrooms that causes people to get high and hallucinate. Ed takes the mushrooms back to the ship and the crew gets very high off the mushrooms. Specifically, Spike hallucinates that he's talking to a cocky frog and is walking up an endless flight of stairs.
Spike, when he's not after a bounty, is pretty relaxed, almost carefree about everything and everyone around him. He rarely takes anything too seriously and even in the first episode he admits that he gets told often that people don't know if he's joking or not. He also has a very sarcastic streak towards anything and anyone. Spike is also a pretty lively guy. He exudes charisma and charm, but it doesn't mean he's the epitome of cool. He reacts to things sometimes very melodramatically and can exaggerate his meaning. A thing to note about him is that his tone of voice has a very great range of expressiveness depending on the situation, as well as his face in general. The show's director has said that Spike has the habit of being indirect with his emotions, as stated before.
His view on life is that life is actually a dream and that death will be the awakening to his true life. He considers himself dead as well. These philosophies are based on ancient bushido ideals, which is why he isn't so serious about life in general.
Spike is a smoker and he'll smoke whenever and wherever he wants, even if it says "no smoking" or if it's raining.
Why should that character be in this game: N/A
Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play: N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?: Sure have! Players use the Flaming Ferret to communicate with each other and you can earn wages by bumming off other people, taking missions or pickpocketing.
1st person sample:
People keep telling me this is a ship. Never seen a ship this big. Looks more like a space station than an actual ship.
[Spike runs his fingers through his fluffy hair with a short, melodramatic sigh.] Guess it's true the planet blew up. Wonder if Mars is still around, or Venus... there are a lot of planets out there, doubt they all blew up. If they all did, well, we're all pretty screwed then, huh?
[An alien passes by and Spike stares at it with a bemused expression, an eyebrow cocking slowly upward. Aliens. Aren't. Real.] I'm never eating mushrooms again.
[After a moment of Spike eying the camera...]
JET! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?!
3rd person sample:
A lanky man walks down the hallways with a relaxed sort of swagger in his step. The first thing that is very impressive about him is his height and the second his crow’s nest of dark green hair. Spike never cared for brushing it properly, anyway. It never stayed in place, so what was the point?
He got a pack of cigarettes out from the pocket of his suit pants. But when he started hunting for his lighter in the other pocket, he found it was very empty. Spike scowled. Damn it. Must’ve left it in the ship... maybe.
Lucky for him, he was near a bar. Spike walked in and went straight for the bar. “Got a light?” he asked the bartender.
The man reached behind him and slapped a crappy lighter onto the bar. “Paying customers only.” Spike snatched up the lighter anyway and lit his cigarette, slightly crinkled in the middle from having been stuffed in his pocket. “Hey! You can’t do that!”
“Just did,” Spike answered with the cigarette in his mouth. “Catch ya later.” With that, he sauntered back out after giving him a half-wave. He didn’t give half a crap about the people shouting after him. If they wanted him to pay so bad, they could come and get him.
Looks like they didn’t. Good, he wasn’t in the mood anyway. He walked at a very leisurely pace. What was this place really? They told him it was a ship, SS Thor. Clever name. But it was huge. He wondered if he heard wrong since he was very groggy when they gave him a towel and some kind of video/audio thing. What was with the towel anyway? Whatever. It felt real, or as real as it could get and he was pretty sure he wasn’t hung over.
“Just gotta go with the flow, Spike,” he told himself, walking on, smoking his cigarette.
Questions?: I know a couple of characters have their ships and Gundams, so can Spike have his Swordfish II?
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yep.
Name: Lina
Are you over 16?: Si
Personal LJ: icedcaffeine
Email: avillaininwhite[@]hotmail[.]com
Timezone: US Central
Other contact: AIM: vagabond woof
Characters already in the game: Victor Mancha (electromexican), Ezio Auditore (maestro_ezio)
How did you find us?: Already here!
IC:
Character name: Spike Spiegel
Fandom: Cowboy Bebop
Timeline: Right after episode 17, Mushroom Samba
Age: 27 (his DoB is June 26, 2044 just an fyi)
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Nothing really in terms of magic, but he's a skilled fighter in several different styles (notably in Jeet Kune Do) and has a cybernetic eye, but it's never been revealed if he can really do anything extraordinary with it. He's an excellent sharpshooter and knows how to work with several kinds of guns and bombs. Spike knows a lot of sleight of hand tricks as well to sneak things into peoples' pockets or pickpocket them.
Spike is an air pilot as well. He has his own small red airship which he called the Swordfish II and is armed with several types of offense weapons and cannons.
How would they use their abilities?: Mostly for his own benefit or protection when needed. Spike is generally pretty relaxed so unless he's in danger or after a bounty, you won't get to see his skills on a daily basis unless he's practicing.
Appearance:
Spike is a tall, lanky man with fluffy, disheveled dark green hair and fair skin. While he has brown eyes, his right cybernetic eye is lighter than his real eye. Most of the time he wears a blue suit and a yellow button-up shirt with a black skinny tie. The suit's jacket buttons across his chest similar to a military-style jacket. The sleeves of his jacket are always rolled up to his elbows. (Here's a picture!)
Background/Personality:
Several years before the start of the series, Spike was involved in a crime ring called the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. During a shootout, he gets badly injured and finds himself in the care of a woman named Julia, who at the time was Vicious' girlfriend. Vicious was a close friend of Spike and also a member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. Spike and Julia fell in love and both decided to leave the Syndicate together, but Vicious found out about this. Either Spike gets killed, he told Julia, or both would have to face the punishment of death together for their betrayal. Spike managed to fake his own death to escape Red Dragon, promising to wait for Julia. She never arrived.
A few years later he joined forces with a man named Jet Black, a former member of the Intra Solar System Police (or ISSP for short), and began their lives together as a bounty hunting team. They travel from planet to planet on the Bebop, Jet's massive ship. Spike keeps his airship docked in the ship most of the time.
For three years it had been just the two of them until a data dog named Ein joined their group during one of their bounty hunts. It's not exactly clear what a data dog can do but this corgi was genetically engineered and highly valuable. Their intention was to catch the thief and return the dog, but Ein wound up staying on the ship.
Soon after a woman named Faye Valentine joined them as well. At the time, she was serving as a middle man for an illegal transaction. Even while with them, she constantly squandered away all her money and was always in debt. Spike is rather cold towards her, stating explicitly that he hates women with attitudes. It's never clear if he actually liked her or not due to his behavior and personality.
Spike and Jet confront a team of eco-terrorists named Space Warriors. Initially they had meant to find another small-time bounty, but when they find out the leader of the Space Warriors is at this restaurant, their plans completely change. They manage to stop the group from employing a very dangerous biological weapon that would turn humans into acting like primates, but at the same time they completely wrecked the restaurant they found them in. It's not unusual for most of their bounty to go into paying damages.
Faye is on the hunt for a bounty on Mao Yenrai, the crimeboss of Red Dragon. Faye gets captured by Vicious during her hunt. While she is unharmed, Spike, much against Jet's protest, goes after Mao's killer and constant rival Vicious. He gets caught up in a shootout at a church and the two have a face off. Spike was pushed out of a window but he somehow survives the fall, albeit with extensive injuries. He recovers after a while and continues to hunt for bounties all the same.
The team were in desperate need of help to stop the hackings of satellites and track down their bounty, so they hire someone named "Radical Edward." To their surprise, they find that the hacker is a very young and bizarre little girl who named herself Ed. She is an extremely skilled hacker and winds up staying on the Bebop as well, much to Spike's dismay, since he hates dogs and children as well.
In a two-part episode named Jupiter Jazz, Faye runs off with the team's earnings. Ed is asked to research and hack her way around to see if they can find anything about Faye. Obviously they wants the money back, so Jet goes after her alone. Spike goes off to follow up on some very important leads on the whereabouts of his former love after Ed finds something codenamed Julia on one of Jupiter's moons. He hadn't heard very much about her since his faked death and very much wants to see her again and wants to know what happened to her. Here he runs into Vicious again as he's looking for Julia as well. At the end of the first part, he gets knocked out and finds that he was shot with a tranquilizer at the start of the second part. Meanwhile, Faye is kidnapped and held hostage by a man named Gren, who she had first seen at a bar playing jazz music. He once admired Vicious, but he now hates him completely. Gren, Vicious and Spike face off in a three-way battle in the snow.
Finding themselves once again desperate for money, Jet, Spike and Faye go off to find different bounties to feed themselves and put gas in the Bebop. Faye is very stressed out and tells her story to Ein, but Spike hears all of her story as well. It turns out she was put into cryogenic sleep after a major accident because the technology of the time was not up to par. When she awakes, she owes a massive amount of money to the hospital that put her into the sleep without her consent. Since she had no means to pay, she ran away. His attitude doesn't change much towards her after this, admittedly, but again, it's never obvious if this did change his opinion about her or not.
From the point I take Spike, the crew is stranded on a weird planet without food or fuel and the Bebop is in desperate need of repairs. While Jet and Spike attempt to work on the Bebop to figure out what's wrong (besides the lack of food), Spike sends off Ed to get some food for them. Ed takes Ein on a scooter and they get caught up between a woman after a bounty. Her bounty is a man who sells special mushrooms that causes people to get high and hallucinate. Ed takes the mushrooms back to the ship and the crew gets very high off the mushrooms. Specifically, Spike hallucinates that he's talking to a cocky frog and is walking up an endless flight of stairs.
Spike, when he's not after a bounty, is pretty relaxed, almost carefree about everything and everyone around him. He rarely takes anything too seriously and even in the first episode he admits that he gets told often that people don't know if he's joking or not. He also has a very sarcastic streak towards anything and anyone. Spike is also a pretty lively guy. He exudes charisma and charm, but it doesn't mean he's the epitome of cool. He reacts to things sometimes very melodramatically and can exaggerate his meaning. A thing to note about him is that his tone of voice has a very great range of expressiveness depending on the situation, as well as his face in general. The show's director has said that Spike has the habit of being indirect with his emotions, as stated before.
His view on life is that life is actually a dream and that death will be the awakening to his true life. He considers himself dead as well. These philosophies are based on ancient bushido ideals, which is why he isn't so serious about life in general.
Spike is a smoker and he'll smoke whenever and wherever he wants, even if it says "no smoking" or if it's raining.
Why should that character be in this game: N/A
Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play: N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?: Sure have! Players use the Flaming Ferret to communicate with each other and you can earn wages by bumming off other people, taking missions or pickpocketing.
1st person sample:
People keep telling me this is a ship. Never seen a ship this big. Looks more like a space station than an actual ship.
[Spike runs his fingers through his fluffy hair with a short, melodramatic sigh.] Guess it's true the planet blew up. Wonder if Mars is still around, or Venus... there are a lot of planets out there, doubt they all blew up. If they all did, well, we're all pretty screwed then, huh?
[An alien passes by and Spike stares at it with a bemused expression, an eyebrow cocking slowly upward. Aliens. Aren't. Real.] I'm never eating mushrooms again.
[After a moment of Spike eying the camera...]
JET! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?!
3rd person sample:
A lanky man walks down the hallways with a relaxed sort of swagger in his step. The first thing that is very impressive about him is his height and the second his crow’s nest of dark green hair. Spike never cared for brushing it properly, anyway. It never stayed in place, so what was the point?
He got a pack of cigarettes out from the pocket of his suit pants. But when he started hunting for his lighter in the other pocket, he found it was very empty. Spike scowled. Damn it. Must’ve left it in the ship... maybe.
Lucky for him, he was near a bar. Spike walked in and went straight for the bar. “Got a light?” he asked the bartender.
The man reached behind him and slapped a crappy lighter onto the bar. “Paying customers only.” Spike snatched up the lighter anyway and lit his cigarette, slightly crinkled in the middle from having been stuffed in his pocket. “Hey! You can’t do that!”
“Just did,” Spike answered with the cigarette in his mouth. “Catch ya later.” With that, he sauntered back out after giving him a half-wave. He didn’t give half a crap about the people shouting after him. If they wanted him to pay so bad, they could come and get him.
Looks like they didn’t. Good, he wasn’t in the mood anyway. He walked at a very leisurely pace. What was this place really? They told him it was a ship, SS Thor. Clever name. But it was huge. He wondered if he heard wrong since he was very groggy when they gave him a towel and some kind of video/audio thing. What was with the towel anyway? Whatever. It felt real, or as real as it could get and he was pretty sure he wasn’t hung over.
“Just gotta go with the flow, Spike,” he told himself, walking on, smoking his cigarette.
Questions?: I know a couple of characters have their ships and Gundams, so can Spike have his Swordfish II?
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yep.