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Your name: Sean
Messenger: solaris2325@live.com (AIM)
Email: solaris2325@live.com
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Character Name: Count Hannibal Lecter VIII, MD; or simply 'Hannibal Lecter.' He is going by the alias "Gideon Quinn" because he's a fugitive and considered dangerous enough that he eventually makes it on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Due to initial copyright issues, screenplay writer Ted Tally was going to change the name of a few of the characters when transitioning them from Thomas Harris's novel into the film adaption; this is where "Gideon Quinn" connects to the good doctor.
Journal Name: lithuaniancount
Why do you want to play this character: Because I have had Hannibal living in my head for about seven years, and is itching to come out and play. He has shaped and influenced me in so many ways, and I would relish the opportunity to play him here.
Source: Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series -books, not films.
Characters present age: Mid-fifties. Let's say 56. I think he's sixty in Hannibal, and I'm setting this right after Silence of the Lambs.
Apparent Age: Ignoring the fact that my icons are from Hannibal and the Red Dragon FILM in which he Anthony Hopkins is in his 60's, please forgive and assume Hannibal looks his age, being his mid-fifites.
Physical Description: Lecter stands a small 5'8'' but manages a completely erect and regal straightness with the balance of a dancer and the poise of a cat. He has a firm, wiry strength and is fit, especially for his age. He has sleek, dark hair combed back from a widow's peak, dark brown eyes that sometimes glow red, pale skin but an occasionally flushed and always healthy complexion. His features are sharp, distinct, and clearly a mix of well-bred Europeans. His voice is rich and textured, though he bends it into numerous different accents at will either for some sort of effect, in mockery, or simply for his own amusement. His own voice lost it's humanity and resonance long ago, in the winter 1944. It is not the scratchy and metallic voice we associate with his years of incarceration, however, because he has now spent a few years mingling amongst the masses again; however he still struggles to regain natural inflections and a display of emotion behind it. His voice is often monotone, despite being softer than in later stories, simply because he DOES have the emotional range of a sociopath, and the voice reflects it, though it irritates him and he often covers it by, as I've said, inserting various inflections or accents at will. You forget, while in his presence, that he is shorter. He seems tall in the intensity of his aura. Most feel intimated and not a few, uncomfortable when around him. He has the presence and persona of the noble that he was born, and briefly raised to be.
Distinguishing Features: Widow's Peak; reddish-brown eyes that shine red like "tiny pinpoints of light" in certain lighting. He has six fingers on his left hand - though his hands are otherwise perfectly shaped. Blended, well-bred European features.
Special abilities/talents/powers: He has intense powers of perception, a genius-level intellect, photographic memory, notable skill in art and admirable musical abilities, and speaks: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (most likely), Spanish (probably), and Russian - (these are what we know of or can discern from his history). He has superior knowledge of psychiatry, and is well versed in the use and affects of most medicines. Please also note an almost super-human sense of smell - he can usually tell when people are lying, but most relatedly, he knew what sort of perfume Clarice had worn a few days ago by scent from about eight feet away, separated by glass. I think this counts for something.
Occupation: Taken from canon, he was a private psychiatrist in Baltimore, MD. He will probably try to get into medicine and psychology here as well. He was also known to mingle in elite clubs for cuisine, music, philosophy, etc.
Items they possess when they arrive: 2 Frank Beltrane 9'' Italian Horn Switchblade Knives. (The second will most likely be, eventually, given to a person of ultimate trust, by token of appreciation and comradeship). Victorinox Swiss Army pocket watch seen here (except in addition I wish to add that it has a silver face-cover with an ornate "H" on it in this type of font). It also has a removable face and a compass inside. 100 meters water-proof, damage resistant, and his treasured item of utmost reliability. Armani duffel bag containing a few ridiculously expensive outfits acquired in South America, before his intended departure to Italy, purchased under the name "Lloyd Wyman." He also carries a basic first-aide kit and all the money he had stashed in the form of cash.
Brief Personal History for the character: Copied from this site but I have made the appropriate and necessary edits, concerning inconsistencies between books, movies, and the fact that this bio came from another RP.
Family: Count Lecter (Father), Simonetta Sforza (Mother), Mischa Lecter (Sister), Robert Lecter (Uncle), Lady Murasaki (Aunt and guardian)[All Deceased.]
History: Hannibal Lecter is born on January 20, 1933, to a wealthy aristocratic Lithuanian family. He could read between the ages of two and three. At six, he was reading Euclid's "Elements" and determining the length of Lecter Castle using Euclid's instructions, upon which discovery his father hired him a superior private tutor - "a penniless scholar" (a fled Jew from Leipzig who ended up having great influence on Lecter's mind, and how he saw the world on an intellectual level - even giving him the idea to store memories in a memory palace). Also at six, Hannibal's sister Mischa was born. "He thought Mischa looked like a wrinkled red squirrel. He reflected privately that it was a pity she did not get their mother's looks. Usurped on all fronts, he thought how convenient it would be if the eagle that sometimes soared over the castle should gather his little sister up and somehow transport her to some happy peasant home in a country far away, where the residents all looked like squirrels and she would fit right in. At the same time he found that he loved her in a way he could not help, and when she was old enough to wonder, he wanted to show her things, he wanted her to have the feeling of discovery." Operation Barbarossa saw to the siege of their pleasant countryside, and forced the family to move into a safer location in an old home in the woods. They survived there for three years before the Blitzkrieg of the winter of 1944-45. His parents and most those hiding with them were shot down outside the home by a strayed artillery.
After the death of his parents in World War II, twelve-year-old Hannibal and his younger sister Mischa were held against their will by a group of looters during the severe winter of 1944. Unable to find food, the looters resorted to cannibalism, and chose Mischa to be consumed. Lecter was severely traumatized by his sister's death, an event that haunted him for the rest of his life. This destroyed his faith in God, and shaped him into the "monster" that is later depicted in the series.
Lecter, orphaned, lived in his former home which had been converted into an orphanage. After a year, his uncle and aunt: Count Robert Lecter, and Lady Murasaki, retrieve him so that he could live in France. Lecter committed his first murder as a teenager, by beheading a butcher who insulted his aunt, and whose insult indirectly lead to the death of his uncle. Lecter was interrogated by the police, but was released on lack of evidence. Knowing what Lecter had done, Lady Murasaki feared that he would try to kill the men who murdered Mischa. After failing to dissuade him from hunting the men, Lecter left, determined to avenge his sister.
Avenging Mischa grew into an obsession, and he relentlessly hunted the group who killed his sister; he then systematically butchers them, cannibalizing several of them. When he confronts the group's leader, Vladis Grutas, he learns that he too had consumed Mischa's remains in a broth. Out of rage, Lecter carved the letter M into Grutas' body repeatedly. [It does not make sense for Lecter to have successfully murdered all his sister's killers, for psychological reasons you will understand if you read the Profile by Anthony Bruno. But also, because it just doesn't make sense for a young man with a knife to rush into a boat guarded by men with Semi-automatics, kill their leader and live.] Upon seeing what Lecter had become, Lady Murasaki left him. With all his loved ones gone, Lecter leaves Europe for the United States, having earlier been accepted to Johns Hopkins University.
Later, Hannibal established a psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland, and became a celebrated figure in the city's most prominent social circles. Lecter had also worked as an emergency room physician in Baltimore.
Lecter kills nine more people in Baltimore, and is nicknamed "The Chesapeake Ripper." Ironically, Lecter corresponds with FBI Agent Will Graham on the murders he himself commits. Graham consults Lecter one night, and suddenly realizes the doctor is the killer he seeks after seeing the antique medical diagram "Wound Man" in Lecter's office; Graham remembers that one of the victims was found in the exact position. When Graham attempts to call the police, Lecter stabs and nearly disembowels him. [This is correct from the book; though in the film, Graham finds a recipe book with a mark on a page for I don't remember what but it used the meat matching the missing organ of the last victim as it's main course, and suddenly everything connects in the detective's mind.]
Lecter is found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to nine consecutive life terms in the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He is nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal" in the National Tattler, a lurid tabloid that covers his trial.
Lecter was a model patient for the first year of his incarceration, until he attacks a nurse (in a presumed attempt at escape), dislocating her jaw and eating her tongue and one of her eyes. During the assault, Lecter's pulse never rose above 85 beats per minute.
Because of his unusual brain wave patterns and history of violence, he is branded a "pure sociopath"; Graham mentions, however, that Lecter does not really fit any psychological profile, and so is labeled a sociopath for lack of a more appropriate term. Lecter refuses to submit to any standard psychological testing, folding questionnaires into origami and reciting a recipe for nacho dip under the influence of sodium amytal.
Lecter's keepers in the asylum are: administrator Frederick Chilton, whom Lecter despises and considers his nemesis; and guard Barney Matthews, who treats Lecter with courtesy, and enjoys a mutual respect.
Graham briefly consults Lecter in an investigation of a serial killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". Unknown to Graham, Lecter starts a correspondence with the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, and gives him Graham's home address in code. As a result, Dolarhyde is killed and Graham is permanently disfigured.
Later, Lecter assists FBI trainee Clarice Starling in capturing "Buffalo Bill". In exchange for his help (given as vague, riddling clues) Lecter demands personal information about Starling's painful childhood. The two grow to respect each other, and it is implied that Lecter forms a romantic attachment to her. When "Multiple" Miggs, the prisoner in cell adjacent to Lecter's, throws his semen into her face, Lecter "finds this discourtesy unspeakably ugly" and punishes Miggs by manipulating him into committing suicide.
Toward the end of the investigation, Lecter gives Starling a final clue: "This man covets, and how do we begin to covet? We covet what we see everyday." This helps Starling deduce that the killer knew one of his victims personally, and uses this to find "Buffalo Bill" in time to save the woman he had kidnapped, killing him in the ensuing struggle. Lecter escapes, killing two guards, a staff of paramedics and a tourist whose identity he steals. During a party celebrating her graduation from the FBI Academy, Starling is startled when she receives a phone call from Lecter. He asks her if the lambs have stopped screaming, and promises her that he will not come after her, and that he expects the same courtesy. He also tells her that he is "having an old friend for dinner". Lecter is stalking Frederick Chilton, who has arrived at the same location (the Bahamas) to hide from Lecter, knowing he is likely to go after him for his cruelty as his warden. [I like this ending, but I am going to be consistent and go with the book endings. The following is what actually happens.]
Hannibal gets his premeditated provisions for if he ever became a fugitive that he'd stashed "in the wall of a vacation home on the Susquehanna River", assumes the alias "of the late Lloyd Wyman" and slips through customs after signing up for a vacation tour of South America. He gets to Rio and cleverly begins to alter his face with carefully acquired drugs, cosmetics, silicone, etc; and writes a few notes while staying at fancy hotel. One is to Frederick Chilton, suggesting he will pay him a visit, and that protective custody won't save him for long, and one is to Clarice Starling, congratulating her, suggesting she owes him a piece of information - and asks her if the lambs have stopped screaming. And then he proceeds to describe (not in useful enough detail to find him) the astronomy of the sky and the night's constellations, and suggest "I suspect you can see them too. Some of our stars are the same." Presumably, he later kills Chilton.
I'm going to set this a few years after his escape, briefly before planning to depart for Italy. This means post-Silence of the Lambs and pre-Hannibal.
Your name: Sean
Messenger: solaris2325@live.com (AIM)
Email: solaris2325@live.com
-Character information-
Character Name: Count Hannibal Lecter VIII, MD; or simply 'Hannibal Lecter.' He is going by the alias "Gideon Quinn" because he's a fugitive and considered dangerous enough that he eventually makes it on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Due to initial copyright issues, screenplay writer Ted Tally was going to change the name of a few of the characters when transitioning them from Thomas Harris's novel into the film adaption; this is where "Gideon Quinn" connects to the good doctor.
Journal Name: lithuaniancount
Why do you want to play this character: Because I have had Hannibal living in my head for about seven years, and is itching to come out and play. He has shaped and influenced me in so many ways, and I would relish the opportunity to play him here.
Source: Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series -books, not films.
Characters present age: Mid-fifties. Let's say 56. I think he's sixty in Hannibal, and I'm setting this right after Silence of the Lambs.
Apparent Age: Ignoring the fact that my icons are from Hannibal and the Red Dragon FILM in which he Anthony Hopkins is in his 60's, please forgive and assume Hannibal looks his age, being his mid-fifites.
Physical Description: Lecter stands a small 5'8'' but manages a completely erect and regal straightness with the balance of a dancer and the poise of a cat. He has a firm, wiry strength and is fit, especially for his age. He has sleek, dark hair combed back from a widow's peak, dark brown eyes that sometimes glow red, pale skin but an occasionally flushed and always healthy complexion. His features are sharp, distinct, and clearly a mix of well-bred Europeans. His voice is rich and textured, though he bends it into numerous different accents at will either for some sort of effect, in mockery, or simply for his own amusement. His own voice lost it's humanity and resonance long ago, in the winter 1944. It is not the scratchy and metallic voice we associate with his years of incarceration, however, because he has now spent a few years mingling amongst the masses again; however he still struggles to regain natural inflections and a display of emotion behind it. His voice is often monotone, despite being softer than in later stories, simply because he DOES have the emotional range of a sociopath, and the voice reflects it, though it irritates him and he often covers it by, as I've said, inserting various inflections or accents at will. You forget, while in his presence, that he is shorter. He seems tall in the intensity of his aura. Most feel intimated and not a few, uncomfortable when around him. He has the presence and persona of the noble that he was born, and briefly raised to be.
Distinguishing Features: Widow's Peak; reddish-brown eyes that shine red like "tiny pinpoints of light" in certain lighting. He has six fingers on his left hand - though his hands are otherwise perfectly shaped. Blended, well-bred European features.
Special abilities/talents/powers: He has intense powers of perception, a genius-level intellect, photographic memory, notable skill in art and admirable musical abilities, and speaks: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese (most likely), Spanish (probably), and Russian - (these are what we know of or can discern from his history). He has superior knowledge of psychiatry, and is well versed in the use and affects of most medicines. Please also note an almost super-human sense of smell - he can usually tell when people are lying, but most relatedly, he knew what sort of perfume Clarice had worn a few days ago by scent from about eight feet away, separated by glass. I think this counts for something.
Occupation: Taken from canon, he was a private psychiatrist in Baltimore, MD. He will probably try to get into medicine and psychology here as well. He was also known to mingle in elite clubs for cuisine, music, philosophy, etc.
Items they possess when they arrive: 2 Frank Beltrane 9'' Italian Horn Switchblade Knives. (The second will most likely be, eventually, given to a person of ultimate trust, by token of appreciation and comradeship). Victorinox Swiss Army pocket watch seen here (except in addition I wish to add that it has a silver face-cover with an ornate "H" on it in this type of font). It also has a removable face and a compass inside. 100 meters water-proof, damage resistant, and his treasured item of utmost reliability. Armani duffel bag containing a few ridiculously expensive outfits acquired in South America, before his intended departure to Italy, purchased under the name "Lloyd Wyman." He also carries a basic first-aide kit and all the money he had stashed in the form of cash.
Brief Personal History for the character: Copied from this site but I have made the appropriate and necessary edits, concerning inconsistencies between books, movies, and the fact that this bio came from another RP.
Family: Count Lecter (Father), Simonetta Sforza (Mother), Mischa Lecter (Sister), Robert Lecter (Uncle), Lady Murasaki (Aunt and guardian)[All Deceased.]
History: Hannibal Lecter is born on January 20, 1933, to a wealthy aristocratic Lithuanian family. He could read between the ages of two and three. At six, he was reading Euclid's "Elements" and determining the length of Lecter Castle using Euclid's instructions, upon which discovery his father hired him a superior private tutor - "a penniless scholar" (a fled Jew from Leipzig who ended up having great influence on Lecter's mind, and how he saw the world on an intellectual level - even giving him the idea to store memories in a memory palace). Also at six, Hannibal's sister Mischa was born. "He thought Mischa looked like a wrinkled red squirrel. He reflected privately that it was a pity she did not get their mother's looks. Usurped on all fronts, he thought how convenient it would be if the eagle that sometimes soared over the castle should gather his little sister up and somehow transport her to some happy peasant home in a country far away, where the residents all looked like squirrels and she would fit right in. At the same time he found that he loved her in a way he could not help, and when she was old enough to wonder, he wanted to show her things, he wanted her to have the feeling of discovery." Operation Barbarossa saw to the siege of their pleasant countryside, and forced the family to move into a safer location in an old home in the woods. They survived there for three years before the Blitzkrieg of the winter of 1944-45. His parents and most those hiding with them were shot down outside the home by a strayed artillery.
After the death of his parents in World War II, twelve-year-old Hannibal and his younger sister Mischa were held against their will by a group of looters during the severe winter of 1944. Unable to find food, the looters resorted to cannibalism, and chose Mischa to be consumed. Lecter was severely traumatized by his sister's death, an event that haunted him for the rest of his life. This destroyed his faith in God, and shaped him into the "monster" that is later depicted in the series.
Lecter, orphaned, lived in his former home which had been converted into an orphanage. After a year, his uncle and aunt: Count Robert Lecter, and Lady Murasaki, retrieve him so that he could live in France. Lecter committed his first murder as a teenager, by beheading a butcher who insulted his aunt, and whose insult indirectly lead to the death of his uncle. Lecter was interrogated by the police, but was released on lack of evidence. Knowing what Lecter had done, Lady Murasaki feared that he would try to kill the men who murdered Mischa. After failing to dissuade him from hunting the men, Lecter left, determined to avenge his sister.
Avenging Mischa grew into an obsession, and he relentlessly hunted the group who killed his sister; he then systematically butchers them, cannibalizing several of them. When he confronts the group's leader, Vladis Grutas, he learns that he too had consumed Mischa's remains in a broth. Out of rage, Lecter carved the letter M into Grutas' body repeatedly. [It does not make sense for Lecter to have successfully murdered all his sister's killers, for psychological reasons you will understand if you read the Profile by Anthony Bruno. But also, because it just doesn't make sense for a young man with a knife to rush into a boat guarded by men with Semi-automatics, kill their leader and live.] Upon seeing what Lecter had become, Lady Murasaki left him. With all his loved ones gone, Lecter leaves Europe for the United States, having earlier been accepted to Johns Hopkins University.
Later, Hannibal established a psychiatric practice in Baltimore, Maryland, and became a celebrated figure in the city's most prominent social circles. Lecter had also worked as an emergency room physician in Baltimore.
Lecter kills nine more people in Baltimore, and is nicknamed "The Chesapeake Ripper." Ironically, Lecter corresponds with FBI Agent Will Graham on the murders he himself commits. Graham consults Lecter one night, and suddenly realizes the doctor is the killer he seeks after seeing the antique medical diagram "Wound Man" in Lecter's office; Graham remembers that one of the victims was found in the exact position. When Graham attempts to call the police, Lecter stabs and nearly disembowels him. [This is correct from the book; though in the film, Graham finds a recipe book with a mark on a page for I don't remember what but it used the meat matching the missing organ of the last victim as it's main course, and suddenly everything connects in the detective's mind.]
Lecter is found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to nine consecutive life terms in the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He is nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal" in the National Tattler, a lurid tabloid that covers his trial.
Lecter was a model patient for the first year of his incarceration, until he attacks a nurse (in a presumed attempt at escape), dislocating her jaw and eating her tongue and one of her eyes. During the assault, Lecter's pulse never rose above 85 beats per minute.
Because of his unusual brain wave patterns and history of violence, he is branded a "pure sociopath"; Graham mentions, however, that Lecter does not really fit any psychological profile, and so is labeled a sociopath for lack of a more appropriate term. Lecter refuses to submit to any standard psychological testing, folding questionnaires into origami and reciting a recipe for nacho dip under the influence of sodium amytal.
Lecter's keepers in the asylum are: administrator Frederick Chilton, whom Lecter despises and considers his nemesis; and guard Barney Matthews, who treats Lecter with courtesy, and enjoys a mutual respect.
Graham briefly consults Lecter in an investigation of a serial killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". Unknown to Graham, Lecter starts a correspondence with the killer, Francis Dolarhyde, and gives him Graham's home address in code. As a result, Dolarhyde is killed and Graham is permanently disfigured.
Later, Lecter assists FBI trainee Clarice Starling in capturing "Buffalo Bill". In exchange for his help (given as vague, riddling clues) Lecter demands personal information about Starling's painful childhood. The two grow to respect each other, and it is implied that Lecter forms a romantic attachment to her. When "Multiple" Miggs, the prisoner in cell adjacent to Lecter's, throws his semen into her face, Lecter "finds this discourtesy unspeakably ugly" and punishes Miggs by manipulating him into committing suicide.
Toward the end of the investigation, Lecter gives Starling a final clue: "This man covets, and how do we begin to covet? We covet what we see everyday." This helps Starling deduce that the killer knew one of his victims personally, and uses this to find "Buffalo Bill" in time to save the woman he had kidnapped, killing him in the ensuing struggle. Lecter escapes, killing two guards, a staff of paramedics and a tourist whose identity he steals. During a party celebrating her graduation from the FBI Academy, Starling is startled when she receives a phone call from Lecter. He asks her if the lambs have stopped screaming, and promises her that he will not come after her, and that he expects the same courtesy. He also tells her that he is "having an old friend for dinner". Lecter is stalking Frederick Chilton, who has arrived at the same location (the Bahamas) to hide from Lecter, knowing he is likely to go after him for his cruelty as his warden. [I like this ending, but I am going to be consistent and go with the book endings. The following is what actually happens.]
Hannibal gets his premeditated provisions for if he ever became a fugitive that he'd stashed "in the wall of a vacation home on the Susquehanna River", assumes the alias "of the late Lloyd Wyman" and slips through customs after signing up for a vacation tour of South America. He gets to Rio and cleverly begins to alter his face with carefully acquired drugs, cosmetics, silicone, etc; and writes a few notes while staying at fancy hotel. One is to Frederick Chilton, suggesting he will pay him a visit, and that protective custody won't save him for long, and one is to Clarice Starling, congratulating her, suggesting she owes him a piece of information - and asks her if the lambs have stopped screaming. And then he proceeds to describe (not in useful enough detail to find him) the astronomy of the sky and the night's constellations, and suggest "I suspect you can see them too. Some of our stars are the same." Presumably, he later kills Chilton.
I'm going to set this a few years after his escape, briefly before planning to depart for Italy. This means post-Silence of the Lambs and pre-Hannibal.