application - cape and cowl
PLAYER
NAME: Karra
AGE: 30
JOURNAL: karra
IM: brundle324
E-MAIL: anniecatt@hotmail.com
RETURNING: I used to play Gwen Stacy, but not anymore.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Kyle Reese
FANDOM: Terminator: TSCC
CHRONOLOGY: Moments before his death
BACKGROUND:
Kyle Reese is a resistance fighter with Tech-Com, sent back in time to protect Sarah Connor from being assassinated by cybernetic killers from the future. We known this. This is a fact known by quite a few people, from John Connor to Cameron Phillips to Kyle's brother to Tech-Comm Sergeant Martin Bedell. This is a fact.
A fact known to half of those people, but most certainly not to Kyle himself, is that he's the father of John Connor. This fact will become known to him soon enough, and the ramifications of a classic case of predestination paradox will no doubt be interesting. Either that, or the information will have very little effect on him at all.
Kyle was born in 2002 to Dennis and Mary Reese. He has a brother, Derek. Until April 21, 2011 (Judgement Day, to the Resistance), Kyle led a fairly normal life. After Judgement Day, his life was anything but normal. Filled with running, hiding, fighting. Filled with the death of both of his parents and being taken care of by his brother Derek. Being separated from his brother and taken to Century Work Camp by the machines. By metal.
This happened in the year 2015. By the year 2021, he had met and befriended John Connor. By the year 2021, there had been a mass breakout at Century, a bloodbath in which he was credited as having saved both Martin Bedell and John Connor. After this, he quickly became a trusted leader in the Resistance.
So trusted, in fact, that he was chosen by John to be the one sent back to 1984 to protect his mother, a woman whose picture John had given to Kyle years before as a sort of good luck charm.
Yes. That's why he was chosen.
Kyle Reese: You know when I was in Century... Derek Reese: Hey, Wisher. Did you hear; brother Kyle was in Century Work Camp. Billy Wisher: No, really. Was he a hero? Kyle Reese: Go to hell. Derek Reese: I heard he led Connor out of a slaughter house without getting so much as a pin-prick. Billy Wisher: No, I heard it was two slaughter houses and that he carried Connor. Kyle Reese: It was one slaughter house, many Connors. From then on, things went fairly fast. He met Sarah Connor, fell in love with Sarah Connor. John Connor was...well. Conceived. Kyle protected her from an assassin, was killed by said assassin while doing so.
But before he died, the that moment before he died? Well, then he was here. In that moment.
PERSONALITY:
Kyle has strength and courage, enough of that to have encouraged men to follow him into and away from battles. Enough of that to convince Sarah Connor to fight for her son, to train her son to fight the metal, the machines. He's a leader, of course.
As a father, he won't be anymore than 1/3 as strict as Sarah is.
He's over-emotional at times, and over-protective of the ones he cares about. Unlike Sarah, his brand of over-protection doesn't lend towards smothering and emotional blanking, but more towards being so overprotective that he tends not to care so much what happens to him when he protects them. It's this trait that will get him killed while protecting Sarah from metal.
He does recognize that not all metal is bad metal. The metal that John reprograms, for example, he trusts. He'll even protect them to an extent. Cameron, for example. Queeg, for another. Though, in the former's case, it may have more to do with her template being based on someone he cared about.
He's stubborn, and he's smart. He's capable. He tends to compartmentalize what's happened to him in the war, which makes for some interesting dreams. He's an oddly happy man, at least on the outside. He's not exactly unhappy. He is damaged by this war, but he's determined not to let it make him bitter and hard. Not like his brother. Not like Wisher or Perry.
Not like Connor, honestly.
Sometimes he fails at this. Sometimes he doesn't. But he tries. How he tries.
CLASS: Hero, though he likely won't do much with that. Much.
SUPERHERO NAME: Chronovisor
ALTER EGO: Kyle Reese, file clerk. (shut up, Derek)
POWER:
Unfortunately for Kyle, he seems saddled with what he considers the most useless powers that a man in a town full of heroes and villains could possibly have.
Dream Manipulation - Kyle has the ability to manipulate the dreams of others, either to make them happier dreams or complete nightmares. The only person that he could see this even remotely benefiting is Cameron.
Clairalience - This is the ability to pick up smells of things things on another plane of reality. These smells will often be much stronger than everyday smells, at least to the person with this ability.
Clairgustance - Let's just say...'he tastes dead people', and leave that one at that.
Future Sight - This ability? Kyle considers this one his most useless, though it will no doubt not always be that way. Also known as precognition, this ability involves obtaining knowledge of future events in dreams, visions, by touching objects or by experiencing extreme emotional swings. Kyle knows what the future holds, or so he thinks. He dislikes this ability immensely.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
[audio only, a man in his early 20s.]
Right. Okay. Hello, people of the wherever the hell. Things I need in short and no particular linear order: a shaving blade, a job, a place to stay and a woman named Sarah Connor. Cute, kind of short, hair that's trying to destroy the entire Ozone layer.
Kind of out of it. Kind of weirded out by this. This is more than a little messed up, but I could probably get used to it. Just don't feel much like doing the whole 'pull a page out of a phonebook, track her down, come with me if you want to live' thing again. I will, if I have to...
Anybody? Yes? No?
THIRD PERSON:
Was he shocked? That John Connor, the John Connor, was his son? That being with Sarah in 1984 had led to the birth of the leader of the resistance? Yes. Obviously, yes.
And no.
No, because when he looked at John now, when he really looked at him, he could see it. He could see his own father in John's eyes, see Derek in the way John didn't smile. Himself in the way John did. He'd seen these things before, of course, the way John looked now wasn't that different than the way John will look in the future. Minus the scars from metal, and years of battle-weariness.
He'd seen these things before, and he hadn't thought anything of them. Hadn't thought them important, and he hadn't even considered the possibility. He hadn't had the perspective of it, even knowing about TDE. Even knowing where John was sending him, the idea hadn't popped into his head at all.
He's not sure that it shouldn't have, but it hadn't.
It occurs to him now that John, his John, future John...well, he must have known. He knows now, so he had to know then. Will know then. He wonders what that does to a person, knowing that he's sending his own father back to meet his mother. That he's setting his parents up to be together.
That he's sending his own father back to die.
Kyle doesn't have any doubt that he will die. He knows what war he's fighting, he knows what he's fighting. It was a miracle that they were winning even then. It was a miracle that they'd won. But he knows that John Connor has to be born to get that miracle. And he knows that John Connor grew up without a father, and he knows that the kind of man he is...he'd never leave a son to grow up on his own. He'd never leave his own child, not willingly.
So, Kyle knows that he must be dead. That he must die in order to preserve the future. In order for the war to be won.
And he's not sure that he has a problem with that.
NAME: Karra
AGE: 30
JOURNAL: karra
IM: brundle324
E-MAIL: anniecatt@hotmail.com
RETURNING: I used to play Gwen Stacy, but not anymore.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Kyle Reese
FANDOM: Terminator: TSCC
CHRONOLOGY: Moments before his death
BACKGROUND:
Kyle Reese is a resistance fighter with Tech-Com, sent back in time to protect Sarah Connor from being assassinated by cybernetic killers from the future. We known this. This is a fact known by quite a few people, from John Connor to Cameron Phillips to Kyle's brother to Tech-Comm Sergeant Martin Bedell. This is a fact.
A fact known to half of those people, but most certainly not to Kyle himself, is that he's the father of John Connor. This fact will become known to him soon enough, and the ramifications of a classic case of predestination paradox will no doubt be interesting. Either that, or the information will have very little effect on him at all.
Kyle was born in 2002 to Dennis and Mary Reese. He has a brother, Derek. Until April 21, 2011 (Judgement Day, to the Resistance), Kyle led a fairly normal life. After Judgement Day, his life was anything but normal. Filled with running, hiding, fighting. Filled with the death of both of his parents and being taken care of by his brother Derek. Being separated from his brother and taken to Century Work Camp by the machines. By metal.
This happened in the year 2015. By the year 2021, he had met and befriended John Connor. By the year 2021, there had been a mass breakout at Century, a bloodbath in which he was credited as having saved both Martin Bedell and John Connor. After this, he quickly became a trusted leader in the Resistance.
So trusted, in fact, that he was chosen by John to be the one sent back to 1984 to protect his mother, a woman whose picture John had given to Kyle years before as a sort of good luck charm.
Yes. That's why he was chosen.
Kyle Reese: You know when I was in Century... Derek Reese: Hey, Wisher. Did you hear; brother Kyle was in Century Work Camp. Billy Wisher: No, really. Was he a hero? Kyle Reese: Go to hell. Derek Reese: I heard he led Connor out of a slaughter house without getting so much as a pin-prick. Billy Wisher: No, I heard it was two slaughter houses and that he carried Connor. Kyle Reese: It was one slaughter house, many Connors. From then on, things went fairly fast. He met Sarah Connor, fell in love with Sarah Connor. John Connor was...well. Conceived. Kyle protected her from an assassin, was killed by said assassin while doing so.
But before he died, the that moment before he died? Well, then he was here. In that moment.
PERSONALITY:
Kyle has strength and courage, enough of that to have encouraged men to follow him into and away from battles. Enough of that to convince Sarah Connor to fight for her son, to train her son to fight the metal, the machines. He's a leader, of course.
As a father, he won't be anymore than 1/3 as strict as Sarah is.
He's over-emotional at times, and over-protective of the ones he cares about. Unlike Sarah, his brand of over-protection doesn't lend towards smothering and emotional blanking, but more towards being so overprotective that he tends not to care so much what happens to him when he protects them. It's this trait that will get him killed while protecting Sarah from metal.
He does recognize that not all metal is bad metal. The metal that John reprograms, for example, he trusts. He'll even protect them to an extent. Cameron, for example. Queeg, for another. Though, in the former's case, it may have more to do with her template being based on someone he cared about.
He's stubborn, and he's smart. He's capable. He tends to compartmentalize what's happened to him in the war, which makes for some interesting dreams. He's an oddly happy man, at least on the outside. He's not exactly unhappy. He is damaged by this war, but he's determined not to let it make him bitter and hard. Not like his brother. Not like Wisher or Perry.
Not like Connor, honestly.
Sometimes he fails at this. Sometimes he doesn't. But he tries. How he tries.
CLASS: Hero, though he likely won't do much with that. Much.
SUPERHERO NAME: Chronovisor
ALTER EGO: Kyle Reese, file clerk. (shut up, Derek)
POWER:
Unfortunately for Kyle, he seems saddled with what he considers the most useless powers that a man in a town full of heroes and villains could possibly have.
Dream Manipulation - Kyle has the ability to manipulate the dreams of others, either to make them happier dreams or complete nightmares. The only person that he could see this even remotely benefiting is Cameron.
Clairalience - This is the ability to pick up smells of things things on another plane of reality. These smells will often be much stronger than everyday smells, at least to the person with this ability.
Clairgustance - Let's just say...'he tastes dead people', and leave that one at that.
Future Sight - This ability? Kyle considers this one his most useless, though it will no doubt not always be that way. Also known as precognition, this ability involves obtaining knowledge of future events in dreams, visions, by touching objects or by experiencing extreme emotional swings. Kyle knows what the future holds, or so he thinks. He dislikes this ability immensely.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
[audio only, a man in his early 20s.]
Right. Okay. Hello, people of the wherever the hell. Things I need in short and no particular linear order: a shaving blade, a job, a place to stay and a woman named Sarah Connor. Cute, kind of short, hair that's trying to destroy the entire Ozone layer.
Kind of out of it. Kind of weirded out by this. This is more than a little messed up, but I could probably get used to it. Just don't feel much like doing the whole 'pull a page out of a phonebook, track her down, come with me if you want to live' thing again. I will, if I have to...
Anybody? Yes? No?
THIRD PERSON:
Was he shocked? That John Connor, the John Connor, was his son? That being with Sarah in 1984 had led to the birth of the leader of the resistance? Yes. Obviously, yes.
And no.
No, because when he looked at John now, when he really looked at him, he could see it. He could see his own father in John's eyes, see Derek in the way John didn't smile. Himself in the way John did. He'd seen these things before, of course, the way John looked now wasn't that different than the way John will look in the future. Minus the scars from metal, and years of battle-weariness.
He'd seen these things before, and he hadn't thought anything of them. Hadn't thought them important, and he hadn't even considered the possibility. He hadn't had the perspective of it, even knowing about TDE. Even knowing where John was sending him, the idea hadn't popped into his head at all.
He's not sure that it shouldn't have, but it hadn't.
It occurs to him now that John, his John, future John...well, he must have known. He knows now, so he had to know then. Will know then. He wonders what that does to a person, knowing that he's sending his own father back to meet his mother. That he's setting his parents up to be together.
That he's sending his own father back to die.
Kyle doesn't have any doubt that he will die. He knows what war he's fighting, he knows what he's fighting. It was a miracle that they were winning even then. It was a miracle that they'd won. But he knows that John Connor has to be born to get that miracle. And he knows that John Connor grew up without a father, and he knows that the kind of man he is...he'd never leave a son to grow up on his own. He'd never leave his own child, not willingly.
So, Kyle knows that he must be dead. That he must die in order to preserve the future. In order for the war to be won.
And he's not sure that he has a problem with that.