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PLAYER
NAME/NICKNAME: Ali
AGE: 25
PERSONAL LJ: aliccolo
TIMEZONE: EST
EMAIL ADDRESS: aliccolo at gmail dot com
IM SCREENNAME AND SERVICE: plurk and aim: aliccolo
CHARACTER
NAME: Michael Carrington
AGE: 18
FANDOM/MEDIUM: Grease 2
CANON PULL-POINT: Just after he has seemingly died after having driven his motorcycle off of a drop at a construction site (about 3/4 through the movie)
ABILITIES: He's very intelligent and has a knack for both English literature and fixing mechanical things. Aside from that, he has no superpowers or anything like that.
CHARACTER BACKGROUND: Michael Carrington was born in England in 1944 and spent the first seventeen years of his life there. He was educated in a private school and was raised to be gentlemanly and polite, and while he was somewhat shy, he had little trouble fitting in amongst his peers. But in the summer of 1961 he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the United States.
In the autumn of 1961 Michael enrolled in classes at Rydell High School (the same school where his cousin Sandy Olsson graduated two years prior) and was immediately taken under the wing of Frenchy, a friend of cousin Sandy's. However, it was apparent from the start that soft-spoken, mannerly Michael didn't quite fit in with the rest of the kids at school. The Greaser culture reigned supreme at Rydell, and the school was run by two gangs, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies. The T-Birds were the coolest kids in school and the Pink Ladies were their designated girlfriends. The leader of the T-Birds, Johnny Nogerelli was dating the leader of the Pink Ladies, Stephanie Zinone. And of course Michael fell in love with Stephanie the moment he saw her.
But he was a nerd. Sure, he was good looking, but he was polite and he liked English class and he played the piano and he wasn't very good at sports. Michael was the kind of guy who fit in more with the drama club than with the motorcycle loving T-Birds. But he wanted to fit in, and more than anything he wanted to be with Stephanie. So despite Frenchy's warnings, he followed the cool kids to the local bowling alley one weekend night. Michael just happened to walk through the door as Stephanie (who was in the process of breaking up with Johnny) declared to everyone that she would kiss the next boy who entered the bowling alley. Needless to say, Michael was even more smitten by Stephanie after their very public kiss and decided to ask her out after talent show rehearsal the following Monday.
Unfortunately, geeky Michael was not what Stephanie had in mind when it came to a rebound romance. She made it very clear to him that she didn't like nice boys or nerds. She wanted a "cool rider": a bad boy with a motorcycle who would take her riding and rescue her from her mundane life. Michael was heartbroken but determined to become Stephanie's ideal man. Clever boy that he was, he formulated a plan to tutor his classmates and sell essays for money, and in no time he had enough money saved to purchase his very own motorcycle.
After some time spent practicing his skills, he was ready to win Stephanie's heart. One night, a rival biker gang was busy taunting the T-Birds in the bowling alley parking lot when Michael arrived on the scene in a leather jacket, a helmet, and oversized goggles that obscured his entire face. Using motorcycle stunt skills gained by the magic of being a film character, he was able to race laps around the rival gang, pissing them off, enraging the already humiliated T-Birds, and winning the admiration of the Pink Ladies, Stephanie in particular. She was instantly smitten by the mysterious "Cool Rider" despite having no idea that he was really geeky Michael from her English class.
A few days later, Michael arrived at the gas station where Stephanie worked after school. He was in his Cool Rider costume and he took her on a romantic sunset ride, nearly revealing his true identity to her, only to be stopped at the last moment when the T-Birds and Pink Ladies arrived to spoil the moment. So instead, he promised Stephanie that he would see her again at the end of the year talent show.
Meanwhile, Stephanie was failing her English class and turned to Michael for tutoring help. After some questioning, she revealed to him that she was in love with Cool Rider, but thought perhaps that he was just too good to be true. She wondered aloud what she would do if underneath the goggles he was just "some ordinary guy". All the while, Michael played the role of supportive friend and naive nerd, impressing Stephanie with his vocabulary and understanding of Shakespeare. In fact, it's during these study sessions that the tides seem to shift in Michael's favor as Stephanie slowly developed a crush on the unassuming lad.
But this didn't sit too well with Johnny, who soon caught on to the pair's growing mutual affection. Upset that his ex-girlfriend would rather date a nerd than the coolest guy in school, he threatened to have the T-Birds beat up Michael unless Stephanie resigned as leader of the Pink Ladies. Stephanie refused to step down, leading Michael to question whether or not he should reveal the truth of his identity to Stephanie in a musical montage.
It was finally time for the talent show, though, and Cool Rider arrived to meet Stephanie, just as he'd promised. But their reunion was short lived when the T-Birds spotted him and engaged in a motorcycle chase into the night. Stephanie and the Pink Ladies followed in their car, catching up to the guys just in time to see Cool Rider crash his motorcycle off a drop in a construction site. The kids all abandon the scene, as the wreck was speculated to have been fatal. But somehow, through the magic of plot holes, Cool Rider survived, and it is at this time that he is ported into the world of Oregon Trail.
CHARACTER PERSONALITY: Michael is quiet, polite, serious, and actually rather sophisticated for a high school student. He has good manners and is a good student, and he's clever enough to earn enough money to finance his motorcycling escapades on his own. He's well read and can be very well spoken, though outwardly he comes across as somewhat withdrawn.
As a foreigner, he feels somewhat isolated from the students at his school and is sometimes the target of mockery because of this, and as an intellectual and a "nerd" he's looked down upon by the popular students at school. This leads him to be somewhat quiet, though he is able to make friends with students further down on the social pecking order. But he is well liked by the fellow outcasts at school; the nerds, the underclassmen, and even the teachers think highly of him. It's the greasers at school, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, who think he's a square.
From day one at Rydell he was rejected by them, and this is something he would go to any length to change. And his determination to change his image is amplified when Stephanie is thrown into the mix. Her rejection of straight-laced Michael Carrington was the final straw when it came to the invention of the Cool Rider persona. Cool Rider wouldn't be just an ordinary guy, he would be the embodiment of all things cool and the man of Stephanie's dreams.
With his helmet and goggles on, Michael is emboldened. He's free to be the person he feels he is on the inside. He drives fast, he flirts with girls (mainly Stephanie, of course,) he challenges rivals to races, he's a mysterious trouble making rebel. And as Cool Rider, he's both idolized and reviled by his fellow students. It's a precarious position, suddenly being the coolest kid in town.
WORLD: Grease 2 is set on Earth, but it's the Earth of 1961/62. It's a world full of sock hops, malt shops, greasers, poodle skirts, and Cold War paranoia. And it's a world where people burst into song at random without anyone batting an eye.
OCCUPATION: Wainwright
SAMPLES
THIRD PERSON:
This had to be a dream. Or a really bad concussion or something of that nature. There was no way on Earth he'd managed to fall off that cliff and into the past. And even if that was possible, there was no way he could actually stay here. Michael barely fit in back at Rydell, he was absolutely certain that he wasn't going to fit in in 1800's Missouri.
He stared at the quaint little town, hesitant to venture any further into this insanity than he already had. He stuck out like a sore thumb in his motorcycling outfit, there was no need to attract any more attention. He just had to play this cool until he snapped out of his coma. Maybe he could practice being confident and charming with some of the local ladies.
He gave one passing woman a friendly, yet shy smile, muttering a soft 'hello' under his breath. The woman seemed appalled, turning up her nose and fluttering away with a huff, skirts rustling as she moved. Clearly his 1960's charm was not very popular with these 1850's ladies. Unsurprising.
But perhaps Stephanie would've been impressed. That thought made Michael smile again. And it made him concentrate even harder on waking up. The sooner he recovered from that stupid cliff dive, the sooner he could see his dream girl again.
FIRST PERSON:
[The voice is soft spoken and distinctively British. From the sounds of it, he's talking to himself.]
Hello. Yep, you're on, aren't you. But you're not working. Perfect. Some radio you are. [Scoffing:] Thanks a lot, but this transistor can't even find a signal. Worthless piece of...
[A pause, some fiddling.]
Why am I even bothering? It's not like this is even real. I must've hit my head harder than I thought, that's all. This is just a dream. A very lucid dream. A trauma induced hallucination.
So then, the question is, why's my subconscious dreaming up old western cities and wagon trains and oxen and all this rubbish about being a pioneer? I never cared for--
[He stops short, realizing that the comm is in fact working.]
What is this thing, a walkie-talkie or something? Is somebody there? Can anyone hear me? Hello? Stephanie?
NOTES: Anything else that you think should be mentioned.
NAME/NICKNAME: Ali
AGE: 25
PERSONAL LJ: aliccolo
TIMEZONE: EST
EMAIL ADDRESS: aliccolo at gmail dot com
IM SCREENNAME AND SERVICE: plurk and aim: aliccolo
CHARACTER
NAME: Michael Carrington
AGE: 18
FANDOM/MEDIUM: Grease 2
CANON PULL-POINT: Just after he has seemingly died after having driven his motorcycle off of a drop at a construction site (about 3/4 through the movie)
ABILITIES: He's very intelligent and has a knack for both English literature and fixing mechanical things. Aside from that, he has no superpowers or anything like that.
CHARACTER BACKGROUND: Michael Carrington was born in England in 1944 and spent the first seventeen years of his life there. He was educated in a private school and was raised to be gentlemanly and polite, and while he was somewhat shy, he had little trouble fitting in amongst his peers. But in the summer of 1961 he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the United States.
In the autumn of 1961 Michael enrolled in classes at Rydell High School (the same school where his cousin Sandy Olsson graduated two years prior) and was immediately taken under the wing of Frenchy, a friend of cousin Sandy's. However, it was apparent from the start that soft-spoken, mannerly Michael didn't quite fit in with the rest of the kids at school. The Greaser culture reigned supreme at Rydell, and the school was run by two gangs, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies. The T-Birds were the coolest kids in school and the Pink Ladies were their designated girlfriends. The leader of the T-Birds, Johnny Nogerelli was dating the leader of the Pink Ladies, Stephanie Zinone. And of course Michael fell in love with Stephanie the moment he saw her.
But he was a nerd. Sure, he was good looking, but he was polite and he liked English class and he played the piano and he wasn't very good at sports. Michael was the kind of guy who fit in more with the drama club than with the motorcycle loving T-Birds. But he wanted to fit in, and more than anything he wanted to be with Stephanie. So despite Frenchy's warnings, he followed the cool kids to the local bowling alley one weekend night. Michael just happened to walk through the door as Stephanie (who was in the process of breaking up with Johnny) declared to everyone that she would kiss the next boy who entered the bowling alley. Needless to say, Michael was even more smitten by Stephanie after their very public kiss and decided to ask her out after talent show rehearsal the following Monday.
Unfortunately, geeky Michael was not what Stephanie had in mind when it came to a rebound romance. She made it very clear to him that she didn't like nice boys or nerds. She wanted a "cool rider": a bad boy with a motorcycle who would take her riding and rescue her from her mundane life. Michael was heartbroken but determined to become Stephanie's ideal man. Clever boy that he was, he formulated a plan to tutor his classmates and sell essays for money, and in no time he had enough money saved to purchase his very own motorcycle.
After some time spent practicing his skills, he was ready to win Stephanie's heart. One night, a rival biker gang was busy taunting the T-Birds in the bowling alley parking lot when Michael arrived on the scene in a leather jacket, a helmet, and oversized goggles that obscured his entire face. Using motorcycle stunt skills gained by the magic of being a film character, he was able to race laps around the rival gang, pissing them off, enraging the already humiliated T-Birds, and winning the admiration of the Pink Ladies, Stephanie in particular. She was instantly smitten by the mysterious "Cool Rider" despite having no idea that he was really geeky Michael from her English class.
A few days later, Michael arrived at the gas station where Stephanie worked after school. He was in his Cool Rider costume and he took her on a romantic sunset ride, nearly revealing his true identity to her, only to be stopped at the last moment when the T-Birds and Pink Ladies arrived to spoil the moment. So instead, he promised Stephanie that he would see her again at the end of the year talent show.
Meanwhile, Stephanie was failing her English class and turned to Michael for tutoring help. After some questioning, she revealed to him that she was in love with Cool Rider, but thought perhaps that he was just too good to be true. She wondered aloud what she would do if underneath the goggles he was just "some ordinary guy". All the while, Michael played the role of supportive friend and naive nerd, impressing Stephanie with his vocabulary and understanding of Shakespeare. In fact, it's during these study sessions that the tides seem to shift in Michael's favor as Stephanie slowly developed a crush on the unassuming lad.
But this didn't sit too well with Johnny, who soon caught on to the pair's growing mutual affection. Upset that his ex-girlfriend would rather date a nerd than the coolest guy in school, he threatened to have the T-Birds beat up Michael unless Stephanie resigned as leader of the Pink Ladies. Stephanie refused to step down, leading Michael to question whether or not he should reveal the truth of his identity to Stephanie in a musical montage.
It was finally time for the talent show, though, and Cool Rider arrived to meet Stephanie, just as he'd promised. But their reunion was short lived when the T-Birds spotted him and engaged in a motorcycle chase into the night. Stephanie and the Pink Ladies followed in their car, catching up to the guys just in time to see Cool Rider crash his motorcycle off a drop in a construction site. The kids all abandon the scene, as the wreck was speculated to have been fatal. But somehow, through the magic of plot holes, Cool Rider survived, and it is at this time that he is ported into the world of Oregon Trail.
CHARACTER PERSONALITY: Michael is quiet, polite, serious, and actually rather sophisticated for a high school student. He has good manners and is a good student, and he's clever enough to earn enough money to finance his motorcycling escapades on his own. He's well read and can be very well spoken, though outwardly he comes across as somewhat withdrawn.
As a foreigner, he feels somewhat isolated from the students at his school and is sometimes the target of mockery because of this, and as an intellectual and a "nerd" he's looked down upon by the popular students at school. This leads him to be somewhat quiet, though he is able to make friends with students further down on the social pecking order. But he is well liked by the fellow outcasts at school; the nerds, the underclassmen, and even the teachers think highly of him. It's the greasers at school, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies, who think he's a square.
From day one at Rydell he was rejected by them, and this is something he would go to any length to change. And his determination to change his image is amplified when Stephanie is thrown into the mix. Her rejection of straight-laced Michael Carrington was the final straw when it came to the invention of the Cool Rider persona. Cool Rider wouldn't be just an ordinary guy, he would be the embodiment of all things cool and the man of Stephanie's dreams.
With his helmet and goggles on, Michael is emboldened. He's free to be the person he feels he is on the inside. He drives fast, he flirts with girls (mainly Stephanie, of course,) he challenges rivals to races, he's a mysterious trouble making rebel. And as Cool Rider, he's both idolized and reviled by his fellow students. It's a precarious position, suddenly being the coolest kid in town.
WORLD: Grease 2 is set on Earth, but it's the Earth of 1961/62. It's a world full of sock hops, malt shops, greasers, poodle skirts, and Cold War paranoia. And it's a world where people burst into song at random without anyone batting an eye.
OCCUPATION: Wainwright
SAMPLES
THIRD PERSON:
This had to be a dream. Or a really bad concussion or something of that nature. There was no way on Earth he'd managed to fall off that cliff and into the past. And even if that was possible, there was no way he could actually stay here. Michael barely fit in back at Rydell, he was absolutely certain that he wasn't going to fit in in 1800's Missouri.
He stared at the quaint little town, hesitant to venture any further into this insanity than he already had. He stuck out like a sore thumb in his motorcycling outfit, there was no need to attract any more attention. He just had to play this cool until he snapped out of his coma. Maybe he could practice being confident and charming with some of the local ladies.
He gave one passing woman a friendly, yet shy smile, muttering a soft 'hello' under his breath. The woman seemed appalled, turning up her nose and fluttering away with a huff, skirts rustling as she moved. Clearly his 1960's charm was not very popular with these 1850's ladies. Unsurprising.
But perhaps Stephanie would've been impressed. That thought made Michael smile again. And it made him concentrate even harder on waking up. The sooner he recovered from that stupid cliff dive, the sooner he could see his dream girl again.
FIRST PERSON:
[The voice is soft spoken and distinctively British. From the sounds of it, he's talking to himself.]
Hello. Yep, you're on, aren't you. But you're not working. Perfect. Some radio you are. [Scoffing:] Thanks a lot, but this transistor can't even find a signal. Worthless piece of...
[A pause, some fiddling.]
Why am I even bothering? It's not like this is even real. I must've hit my head harder than I thought, that's all. This is just a dream. A very lucid dream. A trauma induced hallucination.
So then, the question is, why's my subconscious dreaming up old western cities and wagon trains and oxen and all this rubbish about being a pioneer? I never cared for--
[He stops short, realizing that the comm is in fact working.]
What is this thing, a walkie-talkie or something? Is somebody there? Can anyone hear me? Hello? Stephanie?
NOTES: Anything else that you think should be mentioned.