app in progress
• Your name: Catie
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• Your personal LJ: http://orlanstamos.livejournal.com
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• Who do you currently play at Tabula Rasa?: Calvin O’Keefe, Peter Pan and Shadow
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• Please list the dates of your participation requirement threads or posts for each pup for the two previous calendar months:
• Calvin: EP on July 30 and tags in June on the 16th, 25th, 27th and 29th
• Peter: EP on July 1 and May 4
• Shadow EP on July 12 and June 2
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• Have you dropped any pup since your last application? Nope, no drops
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• What month and year is this application for?: August 2008
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• Your character's name: Barney Stinson
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• Your character's canon: How I Met Your Mother
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• What type of canon is it (Book series, film, etc.): TV series
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• Your character's LJ: hey_high_five.livejournal.com
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• Is your character living or dead at their time of entry?: Living
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• Does your character have any pre-existing disabilities of a medical, physical, or psychiatric nature?: (paralyzed or missing limbs, AIDS, barren, schizophrenia, etc.) Barney got hit by a public bus a few hours before getting to the island. He was right in front of the hospital, so his injuries have all been set, but at the time of entry he has a broken right arm and fractured wrist, a broken left wrist, a broken left leg, and a hairline fracture on his pelvis. If Barney gets accepted, before he debuts, I would want to contact the island_medical community about his care and staying there for a while.
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• Tell us about your character's background:
o If you asked Barney about his background, he would probably call it something like ‘a walk through the valley of lame before the scales fell from his eyes, and he finally saw the light of his inner awesome.’ He really did not have a tremendously unusual childhood; he grew up on Staten Island living with his mother and half-brother James. His mom did the best she could with them, even if she did once tell an 8-year-old Barney that the ‘Price is Right’ host Bob Barker was his father. He believes that to this day and once went on the show to finally meet his beloved father. They didn’t have a big reunion, but Barney did make Bob proud by winning both Showcases. In school, he was an obnoxiously bright kid; the kind who always wanted to be right, always wanted to be called on, always wanted to be the one setting the curve, which didn’t make him any friends. His brother was his best friend growing up, even if he was into sports and really, really close to all the guys on the team. And, yeah, eventually it turned out that was in a queer way, but it was James, and he was awesome anyway.
o He went to college up in Cornell where he double-majored in Asian Studies and International Relations, where all that over-achieving focused on a new goal: saving the world. It was a way to be a better person, and a way to get closer to the girl of his dreams, Shannon. They made plans to join the Peace Corps together and worked together in a fair-trade coffee shop. She broke his heart; went off with a suit-wearing sonuvabitch the night they were going to leave. It destroyed him in almost every sense of the world. The Barney after Shannon had only the vaguest resemblance to the Barney before her. For the first time, he suited up. He got a hair cut, started putting those degrees to work by getting a job at Altrucel, which is, undoubtedly, a very evil corporation even if no one is quite sure what Barney does there. But, most importantly, his brother James convinced the…how shall we say, loosest women in the neighborhood they grew up in to sleep with him and take his virginity, even to say that he was ‘the best she’d ever had.’
o And thus, the Barney that we know today was born. Now, seven years after his break-up with Shannon, he has settled into a routine. He lives in a massive, luxurious apartment that is nearly all devoid of humane touches. He’s got his mom and his brother still on speed-dial, even though James had to go and get married on him. He’s got his blog, which is getting more hits every month. There are at least a million women left in New York he hasn’t slept with, and that’s not even counting all the immigrants coming in every year. Plus, there’s his friends. Ted, Marshall, Lily and Robin. His best friends. Yeah, alright, they never suit up the way they should, and yeah, Ted hates his guts because he slept with Robin…but Ted’s still his best friend. That’s all Barney really needs.
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• Your character's personality:
o Describing Barney is, in some ways, dealing with opposites. He's insane and weird and hilarious but he's also so very capable when he really wants to be. It's just that he doesn't give much of a fuck anymore, except when it comes to menswear, his friends, sex and fine liquors. And also the Price is Right. He can simultaneously be this fantastic friend and this bastard that you can't believe you know. He is a person of seemingly endless energy and enthusiasm and determination. He ran the New York Marathon on a whim. Oh, the things he could do if he put those talents to use for the side of good. Barney has, always had, this passion and dedication. He follows through. But he's also a bastard who is absent-minded, flippant, unsympathetic, too smart for his own damn good, manipulative and cruel both when he wants to be and when he doesn't care to try harder.
o For a while, he WAS good. Kind and sweet and loyal and so in love with a girl and the idea of doing good for the world. But he was also impotent in a way that had nothing to do with his dick. He was compromising and didn't want to stand up for himself. Too sensitive. It was with the broken heart that Barney Stinson became the man he was today. He got smarter, got apathetic, got cruel. He thought he needed to, back then. Maybe he doesn't need to anymore, but it's etched indelibly into him now.
o He loves, but reluctantly. When Barney cares about you, he’s all in. It’s hard to work your way into the elite club, for sure, but once you do, he’ll love you forever. Not that you’ll necessarily know it or that he’ll treat you all that different, but it’s true. Everything had been fine, everything was calm, awesome even, until Barney accidentally fell in love with Robin while he wasn’t paying attention. It had been there for a while, quiet-like and way subtle. But here's the thing about Robin Scherbatsky. She's awesome. She is so unceasingly awesome that for mere mortals, it's like staring into the sun, only the sun has really great tits and is Canadian and is totally down for watching '70s porn with him. And it's like that bus accident showed him all at once the true, intense awesome that is Robin, and, come on, how could even he not love her after that, you know?
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• Why do you want to play this character?:
o I want to play Barney Stinson, most of all, because it would be so much fun. He tends to find bizarre adventures and chaos in New York City, I can only imagine what he would do on the island. Beyond the simple joy of watching him try to build a laser park on a tropical island and antagonizing Gordon Cutter about the lameness of Canada, I really do want to see what Barney Stinson is like when you strip away the suits and the scotch and bizarrely mysterious and likely illegal occupation. Part of that too is stripping away some of the magnificent façade that is Barney Stinson. He is so committed to these outward and superficial definitions of himself and his place in the world, and I think it would be amazing to see what he’d do without them here. It would be so easy to make it seem that underneath the suits, Barney is just this sad little woobie who’s crying on the inside who sleeps with women and lies to them to cover up his broken heart. He’s more complicated than that. Sure, some of it is facades and he’s more sensitive and sweet than people give him credit, but he’s also a magnificent bastard who deep down picks up women or lies or does crazy things because he can. All of my other characters are so damn sincere and sweet, the idea of playing someone who lies for fun is a tantalizing one. I want to see him put down roots on the island in a way he hasn’t allowed him to anywhere else. I want to see how Barney copes with his actions, big or small, having consequences here. Sleeping with Robin was the first, big catastrophic example of that, but the smaller details and daily relationships mattering outside his little group of people will be new to him. I am bringing him in from a hard moment of canon, and it’s going to be a real challenge playing him as injured as he is. But that moment of revelation he got from the bus accident and subsequent make-up with Ted and the gang is really important to Barney and his development as a character, so while playing him practically debilitated is going to be a challenge, it’s worth it.
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• Your character's initial personal inventory:
o Hospital bed on wheels with rails with all of the bedding along with it
o Two pillows, hospital regulation
o A neck brace
o A hospital gown, tied up and worn at time of entrance
o A cast on his right arm, left arm and left leg
o On the bed are attached to over-hanging slings that are positioned so his leg can be held up there as well as support beams for the casts to hold them in place
o A goodly number of bandages covering the worse of the scratches and bruises from the accident
o An IV drip with accompanying stand, containing saline solution with a small amount of morphine left in it
o Bed sheets and blanket, hospital regulation
o A soft urinary catheter and attached bag
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• Your character's entrance post:
Hey there Barnacles, sorry about the blogging delay. In my unending search for delectable ladies to nail, sometimes there are obstacles that not even I can overcome. One of those is city bus 662 heading east past St. Anthony's Hospital. But I won't let casts on three of my limbs keep me down, especially when I can tell chicks all about how I was caught in an avalanche saving Inuit children from rabid polar bears. But in the hospital, things started reaching yet-unseen heights of awesome. Three words. Women's. Communal. Shower.
It turns out getting hit by a bus and breaking about half the bones in your body is pretty exhausting. Ted was long gone, off on his epic quest to regain his lady love in a land of skeeball and animatronic animals, but Marshall, Lily and Robin were still here. It made up for the fact that his nurse was a fifty-year-old guy named Bill and not young, female nor hot.
Barney was doing his best to stay up at least through visiting hours, but every time he blinked it lasted a little bit longer. His body couldn't keep up with his inner awesome, just like Iron Man's blue glowing heart. Marshall's stories about miracles weren't really making sense anymore, not when he didn't hear any of the middle.
"So she was stranded by the side of the road with the engine totally overheated..."
His eyes drifted shut, and he was just so tired. Underneath the fuzziness of the pain medication, everything hurt.
Man, being hit by a bus was lame. It could have been worse, the doctors had all said. It could have been worse, if his legs had been crushed under the wheels or if it had been one of those city buses with a bike rack on the front. Better him break his bones than Ted, anyway, who would have been a total pansy about it.
Absently, Barney hoped that one of his bros remembered to call his brother. If Robin didn't, Lily would.
"...and then she won the roller derby prize! That is just a miracle among miracles!" Forcing his eyes open, Barney glanced over at Marshall and Lily then twisted his head a bit to look over at Robin. She'd found a chair from somewhere to sit on and looked a little bit like she was settling in like a nursemaid.
Can you say sexy sponge baths, anyone?
He closed his eyes again but smiled. "The weekend I spent with the Toledo women's roller derby team was legen- wait for it...waaaaaaaait for it...dary!"
Just saying it made him feel better. Grinning, Barney opened his eyes and saw white tiles and shower heads where before there had been hospital equipment. A communal shower? A women's locker room judging by the clean smell of the place.
Weird to show up in heaven still in the hospital bed and weirder still for Barney Stinson to be in heaven at all. But Barney knew better then to turn his nose up at a lifelong fantasy, i.e. shower room orgy complete with soap fights and creative use of detachable shower heads.
With a satisfied smile, Barney settled back into the pillows to, at the very least, enjoy the show.
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1. Why does TR only cast characters with a confirmed canon presence? It’s because it’s a fandom game, and even if it’s panfandom that’s still a far cry from original characters. There’s a difference between an original character that’s crafted around a single name mentioned once in canon, and one who has a genuine and confirmed canon presence being played on the island.
2. How long can a current player have a character on reserve at TR? A month right now, I believe, but with the change to the quarterly apping process it is being bumped up to two months. I think.
3. What is a "mun"? A mun is shorthand for a player in the game.
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• Your personal LJ: http://orlanstamos.livejournal.com
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• Who do you currently play at Tabula Rasa?: Calvin O’Keefe, Peter Pan and Shadow
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• Please list the dates of your participation requirement threads or posts for each pup for the two previous calendar months:
• Calvin: EP on July 30 and tags in June on the 16th, 25th, 27th and 29th
• Peter: EP on July 1 and May 4
• Shadow EP on July 12 and June 2
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• Have you dropped any pup since your last application? Nope, no drops
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• What month and year is this application for?: August 2008
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• Your character's name: Barney Stinson
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• Your character's canon: How I Met Your Mother
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• What type of canon is it (Book series, film, etc.): TV series
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• Your character's LJ: hey_high_five.livejournal.com
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• Is your character living or dead at their time of entry?: Living
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• Does your character have any pre-existing disabilities of a medical, physical, or psychiatric nature?: (paralyzed or missing limbs, AIDS, barren, schizophrenia, etc.) Barney got hit by a public bus a few hours before getting to the island. He was right in front of the hospital, so his injuries have all been set, but at the time of entry he has a broken right arm and fractured wrist, a broken left wrist, a broken left leg, and a hairline fracture on his pelvis. If Barney gets accepted, before he debuts, I would want to contact the island_medical community about his care and staying there for a while.
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• Tell us about your character's background:
o If you asked Barney about his background, he would probably call it something like ‘a walk through the valley of lame before the scales fell from his eyes, and he finally saw the light of his inner awesome.’ He really did not have a tremendously unusual childhood; he grew up on Staten Island living with his mother and half-brother James. His mom did the best she could with them, even if she did once tell an 8-year-old Barney that the ‘Price is Right’ host Bob Barker was his father. He believes that to this day and once went on the show to finally meet his beloved father. They didn’t have a big reunion, but Barney did make Bob proud by winning both Showcases. In school, he was an obnoxiously bright kid; the kind who always wanted to be right, always wanted to be called on, always wanted to be the one setting the curve, which didn’t make him any friends. His brother was his best friend growing up, even if he was into sports and really, really close to all the guys on the team. And, yeah, eventually it turned out that was in a queer way, but it was James, and he was awesome anyway.
o He went to college up in Cornell where he double-majored in Asian Studies and International Relations, where all that over-achieving focused on a new goal: saving the world. It was a way to be a better person, and a way to get closer to the girl of his dreams, Shannon. They made plans to join the Peace Corps together and worked together in a fair-trade coffee shop. She broke his heart; went off with a suit-wearing sonuvabitch the night they were going to leave. It destroyed him in almost every sense of the world. The Barney after Shannon had only the vaguest resemblance to the Barney before her. For the first time, he suited up. He got a hair cut, started putting those degrees to work by getting a job at Altrucel, which is, undoubtedly, a very evil corporation even if no one is quite sure what Barney does there. But, most importantly, his brother James convinced the…how shall we say, loosest women in the neighborhood they grew up in to sleep with him and take his virginity, even to say that he was ‘the best she’d ever had.’
o And thus, the Barney that we know today was born. Now, seven years after his break-up with Shannon, he has settled into a routine. He lives in a massive, luxurious apartment that is nearly all devoid of humane touches. He’s got his mom and his brother still on speed-dial, even though James had to go and get married on him. He’s got his blog, which is getting more hits every month. There are at least a million women left in New York he hasn’t slept with, and that’s not even counting all the immigrants coming in every year. Plus, there’s his friends. Ted, Marshall, Lily and Robin. His best friends. Yeah, alright, they never suit up the way they should, and yeah, Ted hates his guts because he slept with Robin…but Ted’s still his best friend. That’s all Barney really needs.
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• Your character's personality:
o Describing Barney is, in some ways, dealing with opposites. He's insane and weird and hilarious but he's also so very capable when he really wants to be. It's just that he doesn't give much of a fuck anymore, except when it comes to menswear, his friends, sex and fine liquors. And also the Price is Right. He can simultaneously be this fantastic friend and this bastard that you can't believe you know. He is a person of seemingly endless energy and enthusiasm and determination. He ran the New York Marathon on a whim. Oh, the things he could do if he put those talents to use for the side of good. Barney has, always had, this passion and dedication. He follows through. But he's also a bastard who is absent-minded, flippant, unsympathetic, too smart for his own damn good, manipulative and cruel both when he wants to be and when he doesn't care to try harder.
o For a while, he WAS good. Kind and sweet and loyal and so in love with a girl and the idea of doing good for the world. But he was also impotent in a way that had nothing to do with his dick. He was compromising and didn't want to stand up for himself. Too sensitive. It was with the broken heart that Barney Stinson became the man he was today. He got smarter, got apathetic, got cruel. He thought he needed to, back then. Maybe he doesn't need to anymore, but it's etched indelibly into him now.
o He loves, but reluctantly. When Barney cares about you, he’s all in. It’s hard to work your way into the elite club, for sure, but once you do, he’ll love you forever. Not that you’ll necessarily know it or that he’ll treat you all that different, but it’s true. Everything had been fine, everything was calm, awesome even, until Barney accidentally fell in love with Robin while he wasn’t paying attention. It had been there for a while, quiet-like and way subtle. But here's the thing about Robin Scherbatsky. She's awesome. She is so unceasingly awesome that for mere mortals, it's like staring into the sun, only the sun has really great tits and is Canadian and is totally down for watching '70s porn with him. And it's like that bus accident showed him all at once the true, intense awesome that is Robin, and, come on, how could even he not love her after that, you know?
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• Why do you want to play this character?:
o I want to play Barney Stinson, most of all, because it would be so much fun. He tends to find bizarre adventures and chaos in New York City, I can only imagine what he would do on the island. Beyond the simple joy of watching him try to build a laser park on a tropical island and antagonizing Gordon Cutter about the lameness of Canada, I really do want to see what Barney Stinson is like when you strip away the suits and the scotch and bizarrely mysterious and likely illegal occupation. Part of that too is stripping away some of the magnificent façade that is Barney Stinson. He is so committed to these outward and superficial definitions of himself and his place in the world, and I think it would be amazing to see what he’d do without them here. It would be so easy to make it seem that underneath the suits, Barney is just this sad little woobie who’s crying on the inside who sleeps with women and lies to them to cover up his broken heart. He’s more complicated than that. Sure, some of it is facades and he’s more sensitive and sweet than people give him credit, but he’s also a magnificent bastard who deep down picks up women or lies or does crazy things because he can. All of my other characters are so damn sincere and sweet, the idea of playing someone who lies for fun is a tantalizing one. I want to see him put down roots on the island in a way he hasn’t allowed him to anywhere else. I want to see how Barney copes with his actions, big or small, having consequences here. Sleeping with Robin was the first, big catastrophic example of that, but the smaller details and daily relationships mattering outside his little group of people will be new to him. I am bringing him in from a hard moment of canon, and it’s going to be a real challenge playing him as injured as he is. But that moment of revelation he got from the bus accident and subsequent make-up with Ted and the gang is really important to Barney and his development as a character, so while playing him practically debilitated is going to be a challenge, it’s worth it.
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• Your character's initial personal inventory:
o Hospital bed on wheels with rails with all of the bedding along with it
o Two pillows, hospital regulation
o A neck brace
o A hospital gown, tied up and worn at time of entrance
o A cast on his right arm, left arm and left leg
o On the bed are attached to over-hanging slings that are positioned so his leg can be held up there as well as support beams for the casts to hold them in place
o A goodly number of bandages covering the worse of the scratches and bruises from the accident
o An IV drip with accompanying stand, containing saline solution with a small amount of morphine left in it
o Bed sheets and blanket, hospital regulation
o A soft urinary catheter and attached bag
o
• Your character's entrance post:
Hey there Barnacles, sorry about the blogging delay. In my unending search for delectable ladies to nail, sometimes there are obstacles that not even I can overcome. One of those is city bus 662 heading east past St. Anthony's Hospital. But I won't let casts on three of my limbs keep me down, especially when I can tell chicks all about how I was caught in an avalanche saving Inuit children from rabid polar bears. But in the hospital, things started reaching yet-unseen heights of awesome. Three words. Women's. Communal. Shower.
It turns out getting hit by a bus and breaking about half the bones in your body is pretty exhausting. Ted was long gone, off on his epic quest to regain his lady love in a land of skeeball and animatronic animals, but Marshall, Lily and Robin were still here. It made up for the fact that his nurse was a fifty-year-old guy named Bill and not young, female nor hot.
Barney was doing his best to stay up at least through visiting hours, but every time he blinked it lasted a little bit longer. His body couldn't keep up with his inner awesome, just like Iron Man's blue glowing heart. Marshall's stories about miracles weren't really making sense anymore, not when he didn't hear any of the middle.
"So she was stranded by the side of the road with the engine totally overheated..."
His eyes drifted shut, and he was just so tired. Underneath the fuzziness of the pain medication, everything hurt.
Man, being hit by a bus was lame. It could have been worse, the doctors had all said. It could have been worse, if his legs had been crushed under the wheels or if it had been one of those city buses with a bike rack on the front. Better him break his bones than Ted, anyway, who would have been a total pansy about it.
Absently, Barney hoped that one of his bros remembered to call his brother. If Robin didn't, Lily would.
"...and then she won the roller derby prize! That is just a miracle among miracles!" Forcing his eyes open, Barney glanced over at Marshall and Lily then twisted his head a bit to look over at Robin. She'd found a chair from somewhere to sit on and looked a little bit like she was settling in like a nursemaid.
Can you say sexy sponge baths, anyone?
He closed his eyes again but smiled. "The weekend I spent with the Toledo women's roller derby team was legen- wait for it...waaaaaaaait for it...dary!"
Just saying it made him feel better. Grinning, Barney opened his eyes and saw white tiles and shower heads where before there had been hospital equipment. A communal shower? A women's locker room judging by the clean smell of the place.
Weird to show up in heaven still in the hospital bed and weirder still for Barney Stinson to be in heaven at all. But Barney knew better then to turn his nose up at a lifelong fantasy, i.e. shower room orgy complete with soap fights and creative use of detachable shower heads.
With a satisfied smile, Barney settled back into the pillows to, at the very least, enjoy the show.
o
1. Why does TR only cast characters with a confirmed canon presence? It’s because it’s a fandom game, and even if it’s panfandom that’s still a far cry from original characters. There’s a difference between an original character that’s crafted around a single name mentioned once in canon, and one who has a genuine and confirmed canon presence being played on the island.
2. How long can a current player have a character on reserve at TR? A month right now, I believe, but with the change to the quarterly apping process it is being bumped up to two months. I think.
3. What is a "mun"? A mun is shorthand for a player in the game.