{PP} Application
☣ Player
Name: Meta
Personal LJ: metanaitosama but I never use it.
Age: 21
Contact: MSN messenger - ludwigdeutschland@hotmail.com; AIM - metathepanda
Current Characters: France aka Francis Bonnefoy - paysdelamour
Are you fine with your application being unscreened? Unscreened is fine with me.
[Optional] Where did you hear about PP? ysobritish
☣ Character
Character Name: Doctor Harleen Frances Quinzel - but she prefers Harley Quinn.
Character Age: Unknown, somewhere in her 20s.
Canon + Format: Batman, mostly from the TV series Batman: The Animated Series, but with a few comic book stories and other TV series thrown in. She's been everywhere.
Background: Harley's Wikipedia entry and her largest fanpage.
Canon Point: The end of Batman: The Animated Series.
Personality: A very fun-loving girl, Harley adores having a good time and a few laughs - especially if it's with a certain Clown Prince of Crime. She is lively and spirited, exuberant to the extreme at all times (and sometimes with a flair for the dramatic). Harley is also extremely friendly to strangers ("Harley Quinn, pleased to meetcha!" ) with the only noticeable exception being police officers when she's in costume. She is not above using her looks on other men to get what she wants, though most of the time she's robbed a man blind before he gets so much as a kiss.
Harley can be quite ditzy sometimes, obviously not being the brightest of the bunch with her Queens accent, the fact she flunked her thesis in college, and some of her quotes from the show ("And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blonde bimbo! Well, the joke's on you - I'm not even a real blonde!") However she does seem to have a flourish of creativity (hanging Batman upside down so that piranha fish would appear as if they were smiling to the victim, Batman), and at least street smarts if nothing else based upon the show. So while she does not come across as a competent villain by any means, if it weren't for her relationship with the Joker (see below), she probably would be ruling Gotham's underworld.
She is madly in love with the Joker (one really can't say if it's "mutual love" since the Joker never shows much affection to her) and has been his self-proclaimed girlfriend for several years. She is so much in love that she is dependent upon him for everything. She constantly worries about how much the Joker loves her, often out loud, so she gets quite a few strange looks when speaking to people. No matter how many times she tries to deny him, or tries to walk out on him, she always ends up crawling back on her hands and knees, wanting to be taken back. Sometimes she can be a bit of a selfish brat when he's being particularly ungrateful for her services, because she wants the Joker's attention more than anything in the world, and shamelessly flirting with her "Mista J" to get that attention is certainly not beneath her. Usually this results in her getting shoved around, but hey, it's still attention.
In order to keep her connection with him she sometimes ends up bending over backwards for him. If he needs a distraction to throw to the Batman so that he can get away, Harley is usually the first one to get thrown at him. If he needs someone to be the springboard for his jokes, Harley is usually the one he uses. If he simply needs an extra pair of hands while he's busy with something, she ends up being his extra pair of hands. She willingly does everything the Joker asks though, so she really doesn't mind.
Harley considers her and the Joker to be "family", so much so that their pet hyenas are considered their "babies" to her. She is the only one who can fully control the hyenas, the Joker to a lesser extent, so she usually refers to herself as "mommy" and the Joker as "daddy" around the hyenas.
She also has a particularly interesting connection with Poison Ivy, another Gotham villainess. It is unclear what Pam's feelings are toward Harley, but in Harley's case she considers them to be the best of friends. Whenever the Joker has kicked her out of the hideout she always goes running to Pam, who is very gentle with her and always supportive of their arguably abusive relationship. Harley doesn't seem to understand the lesbian overtones that many people imply when they talk about her and Pamela's "relationship", thinking of them just as BFFLs.
Appearance: Usually she appears wearing a harlequin outfit and makeup though occasionally she can be found without makeup/costume. Here's another badass one for good measure.
Abilities: For this roleplay, Harley Quinn has the powers of a cartoon - she can't die easily, she can perform feats of super-strength, and she is extremely quick, especially when she's running away from something. She almost has the abilities of a gold-medal Olympic gymnast in the show, which translates here to her being extremely flexible and acrobatic, being able to pull off very tightrope walking, back flips and front flips and cartwheels, and other sorts of tricks.
Because of her friendship with another Gotham villainess, Poison Ivy, Harley has an immunity to toxins and poisons. Mun believes this will give her a little more resiliency when it comes to radiation poisoning as well - especially since she lives in Gotham, one of the most polluted cities in comic book history.
Her only other ability which I have adapted from the show would be to pull or "summon" random things out of her leather purse, which may or may not actually fit into the purse in real life. This ranges from pistols and packs of playing cards to bazookas and rubber chickens. She can only withdraw things that she placed in there previously (don't ask her how she got the bazooka in there... just... don't).
Items/Weapons: She will have the following:
♦ Her costume and makeup
♦ Her leather shoulder bag which is currently holding:
♥ Her comically oversized pistol (see first appearance picture)
☣ Samples
First Person Sample: [Having just had a fight with her beloved Mista J, Harley finds herself being booted out of their hideout. Again. For the third time this week. She stands up and dusts herself off, scowling, her full lips in an adorable yet childish pout.]
Hmph! Shows what I know for likin' some no-good clown! I oughta teach him a lesson! I should just walk away for a few days, until he comes beggin' for me-- [She imitates his voice, which doesn't sound perfect by any means.] "Oh Harley, I should have never been so mean to you, please come back, sweetie pie!" Yeah... sweetie pie...
[She sighs, dozing off, dreaming of her beloved Joker calling her such a pet name. But she snaps out of it quickly, and makes a sound of annoyance.] Oooh, that man! He drives me crazy! Always wantin' me to do this, hold that, be a distraction for the B-man, be the getaway driver. Well that's the last straw, he can be his own getaway driver from now on! I oughta go see Ivy and tell her what a mean, rotten scumbag Mista J's been! [She starts walking off, but then pauses, her eyes showing concern.]
But then... Mista J can't shoot and drive at the same time... that might be dangerous! My poor little puddin', who knows what might happen to him!... [But then she pouts and crosses her arms over her chest, tapping her foot.] C'mon now, Harl, you're a big girl now, and he's a no-good piece of trash! He wouldn't even let you use the whoopee cushion last night! The nerve of him! Yeah, Harl, he's a no good piece of trash!
[She walks out of the alley way and to the main street... then she comes rushing back to the hideout door, banging on it with her fists.] Please, Mista J! Lemme back in! I'll be a good harlequin, I promise! Mista Jaaaaaaaay!
Third Person Sample: So there Harley was, stranded in the middle of an aisle of metallic tubes. The first thing she did was cover herself with her arms, shivering a bit at the strange goo all over her. "What happened? Did I fall into the water treatment plant? Last thing I remember is Batman and... Mista J!" Her eyes grew wide as dinner plates and she rushed out through the hallway, going down it as quickly as she could to see just where she was and how she could get back to the middle of the fight between her puddin' and their arch-nemesis. "Oh, stuff it, ya old hag!" She yelled to the recording of the woman's voice playing over and over, as she stepped into the room that the woman had called the decontamination room.
Finding no exit, she twirled around, looking to see if there was an opening above her or on one of the sides of this strange room, when suddenly she felt a series of cold air jets hit her skin. "Yeeeee!" She squealed, sort of curling up while standing on one foot, trying to get away from the jets. But the strange goo on her skin was thankfully disappearing. Once she got used to it, she stood back up (covering herself of course), waiting for the jets to stop completely. Then, much to her delight, the door opened and she rushed through it, ignoring the female's advice and rushing out into the other room.
She found her costume and quickly yanked on her undergarments and the catsuit, and grabbed her compact of makeup, striding over to one of the metal walls and using its reflective surface to perfect her makeup. Thankfully her hair was already tied up into pigtails, so it was a matter of pulling on the headdress and securing it, and then she was Harley Quinn. Taking her compact back to her purse and shoving it in, she started muttering. "The nerve of that Batman, to throw me into the water...! When I get my hands on him there'll be some real hell to pay!"
Slinging her bag over her shoulder, she was ready to rush out into Gotham and find where she was so she could return and provide some backup for the Joker. She didn't bother taking any of the pamphlets, she didn't care about that, all she cared about was her poor Mister J-- wait a second, something wasn't right. "Why were my clothes... on the table...?" She stared down at the table for a moment, trying to figure this all out. Curious, she strode out the door to find that, to her complete surprise, she wasn't in Gotham anymore. "Sweet sassy molassey! Where am I?!"
Name: Meta
Personal LJ: metanaitosama but I never use it.
Age: 21
Contact: MSN messenger - ludwigdeutschland@hotmail.com; AIM - metathepanda
Current Characters: France aka Francis Bonnefoy - paysdelamour
Are you fine with your application being unscreened? Unscreened is fine with me.
[Optional] Where did you hear about PP? ysobritish
☣ Character
Character Name: Doctor Harleen Frances Quinzel - but she prefers Harley Quinn.
Character Age: Unknown, somewhere in her 20s.
Canon + Format: Batman, mostly from the TV series Batman: The Animated Series, but with a few comic book stories and other TV series thrown in. She's been everywhere.
Background: Harley's Wikipedia entry and her largest fanpage.
Canon Point: The end of Batman: The Animated Series.
Personality: A very fun-loving girl, Harley adores having a good time and a few laughs - especially if it's with a certain Clown Prince of Crime. She is lively and spirited, exuberant to the extreme at all times (and sometimes with a flair for the dramatic). Harley is also extremely friendly to strangers ("Harley Quinn, pleased to meetcha!" ) with the only noticeable exception being police officers when she's in costume. She is not above using her looks on other men to get what she wants, though most of the time she's robbed a man blind before he gets so much as a kiss.
Harley can be quite ditzy sometimes, obviously not being the brightest of the bunch with her Queens accent, the fact she flunked her thesis in college, and some of her quotes from the show ("And here you thought I was just another bubble-headed blonde bimbo! Well, the joke's on you - I'm not even a real blonde!") However she does seem to have a flourish of creativity (hanging Batman upside down so that piranha fish would appear as if they were smiling to the victim, Batman), and at least street smarts if nothing else based upon the show. So while she does not come across as a competent villain by any means, if it weren't for her relationship with the Joker (see below), she probably would be ruling Gotham's underworld.
She is madly in love with the Joker (one really can't say if it's "mutual love" since the Joker never shows much affection to her) and has been his self-proclaimed girlfriend for several years. She is so much in love that she is dependent upon him for everything. She constantly worries about how much the Joker loves her, often out loud, so she gets quite a few strange looks when speaking to people. No matter how many times she tries to deny him, or tries to walk out on him, she always ends up crawling back on her hands and knees, wanting to be taken back. Sometimes she can be a bit of a selfish brat when he's being particularly ungrateful for her services, because she wants the Joker's attention more than anything in the world, and shamelessly flirting with her "Mista J" to get that attention is certainly not beneath her. Usually this results in her getting shoved around, but hey, it's still attention.
In order to keep her connection with him she sometimes ends up bending over backwards for him. If he needs a distraction to throw to the Batman so that he can get away, Harley is usually the first one to get thrown at him. If he needs someone to be the springboard for his jokes, Harley is usually the one he uses. If he simply needs an extra pair of hands while he's busy with something, she ends up being his extra pair of hands. She willingly does everything the Joker asks though, so she really doesn't mind.
Harley considers her and the Joker to be "family", so much so that their pet hyenas are considered their "babies" to her. She is the only one who can fully control the hyenas, the Joker to a lesser extent, so she usually refers to herself as "mommy" and the Joker as "daddy" around the hyenas.
She also has a particularly interesting connection with Poison Ivy, another Gotham villainess. It is unclear what Pam's feelings are toward Harley, but in Harley's case she considers them to be the best of friends. Whenever the Joker has kicked her out of the hideout she always goes running to Pam, who is very gentle with her and always supportive of their arguably abusive relationship. Harley doesn't seem to understand the lesbian overtones that many people imply when they talk about her and Pamela's "relationship", thinking of them just as BFFLs.
Appearance: Usually she appears wearing a harlequin outfit and makeup though occasionally she can be found without makeup/costume. Here's another badass one for good measure.
Abilities: For this roleplay, Harley Quinn has the powers of a cartoon - she can't die easily, she can perform feats of super-strength, and she is extremely quick, especially when she's running away from something. She almost has the abilities of a gold-medal Olympic gymnast in the show, which translates here to her being extremely flexible and acrobatic, being able to pull off very tightrope walking, back flips and front flips and cartwheels, and other sorts of tricks.
Because of her friendship with another Gotham villainess, Poison Ivy, Harley has an immunity to toxins and poisons. Mun believes this will give her a little more resiliency when it comes to radiation poisoning as well - especially since she lives in Gotham, one of the most polluted cities in comic book history.
Her only other ability which I have adapted from the show would be to pull or "summon" random things out of her leather purse, which may or may not actually fit into the purse in real life. This ranges from pistols and packs of playing cards to bazookas and rubber chickens. She can only withdraw things that she placed in there previously (don't ask her how she got the bazooka in there... just... don't).
Items/Weapons: She will have the following:
♦ Her costume and makeup
♦ Her leather shoulder bag which is currently holding:
♥ Her comically oversized pistol (see first appearance picture)
☣ Samples
First Person Sample: [Having just had a fight with her beloved Mista J, Harley finds herself being booted out of their hideout. Again. For the third time this week. She stands up and dusts herself off, scowling, her full lips in an adorable yet childish pout.]
Hmph! Shows what I know for likin' some no-good clown! I oughta teach him a lesson! I should just walk away for a few days, until he comes beggin' for me-- [She imitates his voice, which doesn't sound perfect by any means.] "Oh Harley, I should have never been so mean to you, please come back, sweetie pie!" Yeah... sweetie pie...
[She sighs, dozing off, dreaming of her beloved Joker calling her such a pet name. But she snaps out of it quickly, and makes a sound of annoyance.] Oooh, that man! He drives me crazy! Always wantin' me to do this, hold that, be a distraction for the B-man, be the getaway driver. Well that's the last straw, he can be his own getaway driver from now on! I oughta go see Ivy and tell her what a mean, rotten scumbag Mista J's been! [She starts walking off, but then pauses, her eyes showing concern.]
But then... Mista J can't shoot and drive at the same time... that might be dangerous! My poor little puddin', who knows what might happen to him!... [But then she pouts and crosses her arms over her chest, tapping her foot.] C'mon now, Harl, you're a big girl now, and he's a no-good piece of trash! He wouldn't even let you use the whoopee cushion last night! The nerve of him! Yeah, Harl, he's a no good piece of trash!
[She walks out of the alley way and to the main street... then she comes rushing back to the hideout door, banging on it with her fists.] Please, Mista J! Lemme back in! I'll be a good harlequin, I promise! Mista Jaaaaaaaay!
Third Person Sample: So there Harley was, stranded in the middle of an aisle of metallic tubes. The first thing she did was cover herself with her arms, shivering a bit at the strange goo all over her. "What happened? Did I fall into the water treatment plant? Last thing I remember is Batman and... Mista J!" Her eyes grew wide as dinner plates and she rushed out through the hallway, going down it as quickly as she could to see just where she was and how she could get back to the middle of the fight between her puddin' and their arch-nemesis. "Oh, stuff it, ya old hag!" She yelled to the recording of the woman's voice playing over and over, as she stepped into the room that the woman had called the decontamination room.
Finding no exit, she twirled around, looking to see if there was an opening above her or on one of the sides of this strange room, when suddenly she felt a series of cold air jets hit her skin. "Yeeeee!" She squealed, sort of curling up while standing on one foot, trying to get away from the jets. But the strange goo on her skin was thankfully disappearing. Once she got used to it, she stood back up (covering herself of course), waiting for the jets to stop completely. Then, much to her delight, the door opened and she rushed through it, ignoring the female's advice and rushing out into the other room.
She found her costume and quickly yanked on her undergarments and the catsuit, and grabbed her compact of makeup, striding over to one of the metal walls and using its reflective surface to perfect her makeup. Thankfully her hair was already tied up into pigtails, so it was a matter of pulling on the headdress and securing it, and then she was Harley Quinn. Taking her compact back to her purse and shoving it in, she started muttering. "The nerve of that Batman, to throw me into the water...! When I get my hands on him there'll be some real hell to pay!"
Slinging her bag over her shoulder, she was ready to rush out into Gotham and find where she was so she could return and provide some backup for the Joker. She didn't bother taking any of the pamphlets, she didn't care about that, all she cared about was her poor Mister J-- wait a second, something wasn't right. "Why were my clothes... on the table...?" She stared down at the table for a moment, trying to figure this all out. Curious, she strode out the door to find that, to her complete surprise, she wasn't in Gotham anymore. "Sweet sassy molassey! Where am I?!"