(no subject)
[a woman with a past]
Canonically, Julia's pretty mysterious. Her part in the backstory of Cowboy Bebop is revealed in the form of flashbacks and memories -- largely Spike's -- as well as some references and subtle hints and, of course, the closing credits. There are some things we know as absolute fact, though, and the first is that Julia was involved with the Red Dragons in Tharsis City on Mars in 2068. Furthermore, she was romantically involved with both Vicious and Spike. Third, Vicious considered her relationship with Spike to be a betrayal and ordered her to kill Spike herself or die along with him. The ultimatum prompted her to leave Tharsis City and the Dragons without a word to Spike. Three years later, she learns they're both in danger (Shin, you loyal boy!) and seeks Spike out. It doesn't go well for Spike and Julia, though, and shortly after their long-awaited reunion they find their good friend Annie dead, killed by Dragons searching for Spike. Minutes later, Julia is shot as she and Spike escape from Annie's store.
For purposes of roleplaying here, Julia was a pretty new recruit with the Red Dragons when she met Spike. She met Vicious first, however, and quickly became his girlfriend. She and Vicious and Spike were a questionably comfortable trio of friends for some time until two things happened: Vicious went to fight in the war on Titan, and a hit turned bad sent Spike trudging half-dead to the door of her apartment building. It was in the days she played nurse to him after the hit that she really fell for him, turning their trio into a full-fledged triangle.
Spike eventually confesses that he's ready to take her and get away from life with the Dragons, and Knowing how they work, she's concerned for his life. Unfortunately, that's compounded when Vicious, aware of what's going on between his lover and his best friend, drops by to put a gun to her head and demand Spike's death by her hands. Unable to do it, Julia packs up and leaves in silence. For three years she lives a life similar to a fugitive's, never staying in one place too long. The only person from her past she maintains any contact with is loyal Shin. During her years of travel, she meets Gren on Callisto and learns all about how Vicious framed him as a spy during the war on Titan and landed him in military prison, where experimental drugs changed his body irrevocably. Presumably over their shared Vicious trouble, she and Gren forged a bond -- as evidenced by how fondly he speaks of her even after two years of no contact and his admission that she was the first to learn his secret -- but it wasn't long before she moved on.
When Shin contacts her with the news that she's in danger, it isn't long before she discovers just how serious he is. Speeding down a Martian street in an effort to get a car full of Red Dragon goons off her tail, she runs into Faye. The two team up very briefly, and those Dragon guys never know what's hit 'em. Julia, having learned enough about Spike's current situation to recognize his partner's name, takes advantage of the opportunity to ask Faye to relay a message for her. She wants Spike to know she'll be waiting there.
He proves that he does indeed know where she meant: the graveyard they were supposed to meet in three years before. Where he seems outwardly shell-shocked by the situation, Julia tells him why she left the way she did three years before, tells him she wants to run away with him, and -- in a sudden show of vulnerability -- asks him why he loved her. Shortly after that, she goes even further by doing what she couldn't do three years before. She vows to stay by his side until the end.
For Julia, the end is a little premature. Shot on the rooftop of the building neighboring Annie's store, she dies in Spike's arms with the words it's all a dream on her lips.
[guns and roses]
Julia was a trained member of the Red Dragons. A professional killer. She's notably skilled with handguns in particular, though in a pinch she could do some serious damage with a knife. Beyond that, she's in great physical shape, has good reflexes, and would make a hell of a getaway driver.
She's no slouch at pool, and chances are you'd like it if you got her to sing for you.
[a broken hallelujah]
Other people in canon have a few choice things to say about Julia. Vicious cautions someone -- Spike, we're left to assume -- to "be careful when you're with that woman." A bartender who knew her in passing calls her "a real woman." Gren remembers her habit of asking him to play the same song for her every time she went to the Rester House, and he calls her smile "so sad, so beautiful." Even Spike eventually lets slip that he considers her the part of him he'd lost along the way.
To anyone she only knows as an acquaintance, Julia will seem a mystery, the beautiful blonde who sits at the corner bar stool and has a sad smile. The past three years have put her in the habit of not giving up much without a good reason for it, but it can't be denied that falling for Spike and falling out with Vicious changed her life as much as it did anyone else's. She wears her sadness around her eyes, and her smiles and laughter come much slower now than they once did.
If you do more than scratch the surface, you discover that Julia has a little bit of a dual nature. She's a woman capable of love and laughter and tenderness, equally unafraid of wearing an apron while cooking or cleaning ugly wounds, but she is also dangerous, has a penchant for skin-skimming clothing, and is perfectly at home hanging out in smoky bars and playing pool with the guys. The normalcy of how she lived in her Tharsis apartment seemed somewhat at odds with her former profession and capabilities.
She tries to think with her head rather than her heart, but she can't always do it and her primary weakness is... Spike. Her actions at the end of the series show how hard she really fell for him three years before and how the decision to leave Tharsis has since molded her. With the twin promises of Vicious and death looming over her, she'd sooner die with Spike the second time around.
Love is more important to her now than it ever was before, but by necessity, the number of people she truly lets in is small.
Julia's often fatalistic, hides behind a stoic mask when she can, and she's stubborn to a fault. She's not much of a chatty Cathy unless the circumstances are right, and although she used to do it pretty often, she can't hardly remember the last time she hummed or sang under her breath.
She often feels as if her life is a dream.
[you're gonna carry that weight]
Julia enters the game from session 26, The Real Folk Blues part 2. She arrives moments after her death in canon.
I would personally appreciate no one canon-puncturing her; no breaking her fourth wall, please.
Can't find me on AIM? Too shy to chat? Forgot my e-mail address? Have plot ideas? Can't send LJ messages? Have a question or a concern?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, feel free to comment here.
Canonically, Julia's pretty mysterious. Her part in the backstory of Cowboy Bebop is revealed in the form of flashbacks and memories -- largely Spike's -- as well as some references and subtle hints and, of course, the closing credits. There are some things we know as absolute fact, though, and the first is that Julia was involved with the Red Dragons in Tharsis City on Mars in 2068. Furthermore, she was romantically involved with both Vicious and Spike. Third, Vicious considered her relationship with Spike to be a betrayal and ordered her to kill Spike herself or die along with him. The ultimatum prompted her to leave Tharsis City and the Dragons without a word to Spike. Three years later, she learns they're both in danger (Shin, you loyal boy!) and seeks Spike out. It doesn't go well for Spike and Julia, though, and shortly after their long-awaited reunion they find their good friend Annie dead, killed by Dragons searching for Spike. Minutes later, Julia is shot as she and Spike escape from Annie's store.
For purposes of roleplaying here, Julia was a pretty new recruit with the Red Dragons when she met Spike. She met Vicious first, however, and quickly became his girlfriend. She and Vicious and Spike were a questionably comfortable trio of friends for some time until two things happened: Vicious went to fight in the war on Titan, and a hit turned bad sent Spike trudging half-dead to the door of her apartment building. It was in the days she played nurse to him after the hit that she really fell for him, turning their trio into a full-fledged triangle.
Spike eventually confesses that he's ready to take her and get away from life with the Dragons, and Knowing how they work, she's concerned for his life. Unfortunately, that's compounded when Vicious, aware of what's going on between his lover and his best friend, drops by to put a gun to her head and demand Spike's death by her hands. Unable to do it, Julia packs up and leaves in silence. For three years she lives a life similar to a fugitive's, never staying in one place too long. The only person from her past she maintains any contact with is loyal Shin. During her years of travel, she meets Gren on Callisto and learns all about how Vicious framed him as a spy during the war on Titan and landed him in military prison, where experimental drugs changed his body irrevocably. Presumably over their shared Vicious trouble, she and Gren forged a bond -- as evidenced by how fondly he speaks of her even after two years of no contact and his admission that she was the first to learn his secret -- but it wasn't long before she moved on.
When Shin contacts her with the news that she's in danger, it isn't long before she discovers just how serious he is. Speeding down a Martian street in an effort to get a car full of Red Dragon goons off her tail, she runs into Faye. The two team up very briefly, and those Dragon guys never know what's hit 'em. Julia, having learned enough about Spike's current situation to recognize his partner's name, takes advantage of the opportunity to ask Faye to relay a message for her. She wants Spike to know she'll be waiting there.
He proves that he does indeed know where she meant: the graveyard they were supposed to meet in three years before. Where he seems outwardly shell-shocked by the situation, Julia tells him why she left the way she did three years before, tells him she wants to run away with him, and -- in a sudden show of vulnerability -- asks him why he loved her. Shortly after that, she goes even further by doing what she couldn't do three years before. She vows to stay by his side until the end.
For Julia, the end is a little premature. Shot on the rooftop of the building neighboring Annie's store, she dies in Spike's arms with the words it's all a dream on her lips.
[guns and roses]
Julia was a trained member of the Red Dragons. A professional killer. She's notably skilled with handguns in particular, though in a pinch she could do some serious damage with a knife. Beyond that, she's in great physical shape, has good reflexes, and would make a hell of a getaway driver.
She's no slouch at pool, and chances are you'd like it if you got her to sing for you.
[a broken hallelujah]
Other people in canon have a few choice things to say about Julia. Vicious cautions someone -- Spike, we're left to assume -- to "be careful when you're with that woman." A bartender who knew her in passing calls her "a real woman." Gren remembers her habit of asking him to play the same song for her every time she went to the Rester House, and he calls her smile "so sad, so beautiful." Even Spike eventually lets slip that he considers her the part of him he'd lost along the way.
To anyone she only knows as an acquaintance, Julia will seem a mystery, the beautiful blonde who sits at the corner bar stool and has a sad smile. The past three years have put her in the habit of not giving up much without a good reason for it, but it can't be denied that falling for Spike and falling out with Vicious changed her life as much as it did anyone else's. She wears her sadness around her eyes, and her smiles and laughter come much slower now than they once did.
If you do more than scratch the surface, you discover that Julia has a little bit of a dual nature. She's a woman capable of love and laughter and tenderness, equally unafraid of wearing an apron while cooking or cleaning ugly wounds, but she is also dangerous, has a penchant for skin-skimming clothing, and is perfectly at home hanging out in smoky bars and playing pool with the guys. The normalcy of how she lived in her Tharsis apartment seemed somewhat at odds with her former profession and capabilities.
She tries to think with her head rather than her heart, but she can't always do it and her primary weakness is... Spike. Her actions at the end of the series show how hard she really fell for him three years before and how the decision to leave Tharsis has since molded her. With the twin promises of Vicious and death looming over her, she'd sooner die with Spike the second time around.
Love is more important to her now than it ever was before, but by necessity, the number of people she truly lets in is small.
Julia's often fatalistic, hides behind a stoic mask when she can, and she's stubborn to a fault. She's not much of a chatty Cathy unless the circumstances are right, and although she used to do it pretty often, she can't hardly remember the last time she hummed or sang under her breath.
She often feels as if her life is a dream.
[you're gonna carry that weight]
Julia enters the game from session 26, The Real Folk Blues part 2. She arrives moments after her death in canon.
I would personally appreciate no one canon-puncturing her; no breaking her fourth wall, please.
Can't find me on AIM? Too shy to chat? Forgot my e-mail address? Have plot ideas? Can't send LJ messages? Have a question or a concern?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, feel free to comment here.