App; ilpromenade
PLAYER
✧ NAME: Adri
✧ LJ USERNAME: misstakin
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): (e-mail) merryprankster.adri [at] gmail.com, (AIM) misstakin22, (plurk) dreamalittlebigger
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: N/A
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Eric van der Woodsen
✧ SERIES: Gossip Girl
✧ HISTORY: Wikipedia
✧ TIMELINE: Post season 3
✧ PERSONALITY:Eric is a young, innocent soul trapped in a world of underhandedness and evil schemes. He's smart, optimistic, and sometimes naive. However, when we first met him he was a troubled young man. He's grown a lot from the closeted teenager who internalized all his feelings.
Now, Eric's not afraid to speak his mind. While he's still polite and well-spoken, he doesn't hold back when he thinks someone's getting hurt, especially when it's his family. He's fiercely protective of his mom and his sister, having had to be the sensible one to both of them despite being the youngest. In many situations he's managed to intervene and keep them from getting hurt even worse than they would have been, even if they brought a situation upon themselves. In many instances, they are the problem in the first place, and Eric recognizes that, but he does whatever he can to keep them safe nonetheless.
Sometimes he doesn't recognize it, however, and he can go a bit overboard with protecting them. His usual primary reaction is just to cut everyone else off until he can figure out the root of the problem, and generally this is out of pure frustration over the complex plots that his sister and her friends get themselves into.
Occasionally Eric does succumb to the Upper East Side shenanigans going on around him. Sometimes he thinks it's the best way to really get what he wants or what's best for his friends and family. It's at these times that the worst of him shows itself. After growing up around these people, he's seen how they operate and he knows how to hurt people. Since he's not really part of that lifestyle, he can be a bit bitter when no one listens to him, so he participates in their schemes. Though most of the time it's to help the people he loves, sometimes it is for selfish reasons. It never lasts for long though. He has a pretty good perspective and he always realizes that that sort of thing is wrong, whether someone else has to tell him that or not.
Above all things, Eric values honesty. Frankly, he thinks most of what goes on in the Upper East Side is total bullshit, and he just wants people to settle down and stop messing with each others lives. He openly expresses how much he dislikes being kept in the dark about things, especially concerning his family, and he doesn't make it a secret that he thinks the truth would make everything better.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: None!
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Night.
✧ MASK DESIGN: This one!
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: None really.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON:Hello?
Is anyone there?
Okay, the kidnapping thing? This is something that would happen to my sister. Not that I like to joke about it, but you have to admit this is a bit irregular. I don't know what you want with me, but...
Look, I can give you money. That's no secret - I'm not going to pretend I'm not a van der Woodsen, but please, if this has anything to do with my family, just leave us alone. We've been through enough.
...
The mask is a nice touch, though. Very Phantom of the Opera. Erik, Eric. I get it. Very poetic. Clearly someone knows about my love for the French classics.
If someone's listening, I'd just like to go home now. Please.
✧ THIRD PERSON:By this point, Eric was quite used to being alone.
The women in his life weren't the most reliable people on the planet. He knew that. It wasn't their fault, really, they just didn't know much better. Rufus was a bit more reliable - Eric was glad his mom had finally settled on a husband who really cared, but as it had turned out the merging of their families had once again left him feeling alone. He had thought Jenny would become a second sister to him, but instead here she was being carted off back to her mother because she had gotten in it worse than Serena ever had. Or maybe Serena just knew how to avoid the consequences a little better.
In any case, Eric was alone once again, trying in vain to get through some of his summer reading done and waiting for Eliot to call from his little family vacation. Serena was in Paris, his mother and step-father were out looking at some new art for the penthouse, Dan - his step-brother - hadn't been around in a while, and Chuck... well, no one had heard from Chuck in a while, but Eric couldn't care less about that.
So there he was, summer reading officially discarded on his bedside table, closing his eyes and leaning back against the headboard of his bed.
This was just plain unfair.
Eric wasn't going to blame anyone for it, though. That would also be unfair. But it wasn't like he had asked to have everyone in his life just disappear and be terribly unreliable and bad at showing that they really did care about him. He did have Lily van der Woodsen for a mother, so he had learned to take all of this with a grain of salt.
It didn't change that he still felt lonely, though.
✧ NAME: Adri
✧ LJ USERNAME: misstakin
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): (e-mail) merryprankster.adri [at] gmail.com, (AIM) misstakin22, (plurk) dreamalittlebigger
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: N/A
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Eric van der Woodsen
✧ SERIES: Gossip Girl
✧ HISTORY: Wikipedia
✧ TIMELINE: Post season 3
✧ PERSONALITY:Eric is a young, innocent soul trapped in a world of underhandedness and evil schemes. He's smart, optimistic, and sometimes naive. However, when we first met him he was a troubled young man. He's grown a lot from the closeted teenager who internalized all his feelings.
Now, Eric's not afraid to speak his mind. While he's still polite and well-spoken, he doesn't hold back when he thinks someone's getting hurt, especially when it's his family. He's fiercely protective of his mom and his sister, having had to be the sensible one to both of them despite being the youngest. In many situations he's managed to intervene and keep them from getting hurt even worse than they would have been, even if they brought a situation upon themselves. In many instances, they are the problem in the first place, and Eric recognizes that, but he does whatever he can to keep them safe nonetheless.
Sometimes he doesn't recognize it, however, and he can go a bit overboard with protecting them. His usual primary reaction is just to cut everyone else off until he can figure out the root of the problem, and generally this is out of pure frustration over the complex plots that his sister and her friends get themselves into.
Occasionally Eric does succumb to the Upper East Side shenanigans going on around him. Sometimes he thinks it's the best way to really get what he wants or what's best for his friends and family. It's at these times that the worst of him shows itself. After growing up around these people, he's seen how they operate and he knows how to hurt people. Since he's not really part of that lifestyle, he can be a bit bitter when no one listens to him, so he participates in their schemes. Though most of the time it's to help the people he loves, sometimes it is for selfish reasons. It never lasts for long though. He has a pretty good perspective and he always realizes that that sort of thing is wrong, whether someone else has to tell him that or not.
Above all things, Eric values honesty. Frankly, he thinks most of what goes on in the Upper East Side is total bullshit, and he just wants people to settle down and stop messing with each others lives. He openly expresses how much he dislikes being kept in the dark about things, especially concerning his family, and he doesn't make it a secret that he thinks the truth would make everything better.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: None!
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Night.
✧ MASK DESIGN: This one!
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: None really.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON:Hello?
Is anyone there?
Okay, the kidnapping thing? This is something that would happen to my sister. Not that I like to joke about it, but you have to admit this is a bit irregular. I don't know what you want with me, but...
Look, I can give you money. That's no secret - I'm not going to pretend I'm not a van der Woodsen, but please, if this has anything to do with my family, just leave us alone. We've been through enough.
...
The mask is a nice touch, though. Very Phantom of the Opera. Erik, Eric. I get it. Very poetic. Clearly someone knows about my love for the French classics.
If someone's listening, I'd just like to go home now. Please.
✧ THIRD PERSON:By this point, Eric was quite used to being alone.
The women in his life weren't the most reliable people on the planet. He knew that. It wasn't their fault, really, they just didn't know much better. Rufus was a bit more reliable - Eric was glad his mom had finally settled on a husband who really cared, but as it had turned out the merging of their families had once again left him feeling alone. He had thought Jenny would become a second sister to him, but instead here she was being carted off back to her mother because she had gotten in it worse than Serena ever had. Or maybe Serena just knew how to avoid the consequences a little better.
In any case, Eric was alone once again, trying in vain to get through some of his summer reading done and waiting for Eliot to call from his little family vacation. Serena was in Paris, his mother and step-father were out looking at some new art for the penthouse, Dan - his step-brother - hadn't been around in a while, and Chuck... well, no one had heard from Chuck in a while, but Eric couldn't care less about that.
So there he was, summer reading officially discarded on his bedside table, closing his eyes and leaning back against the headboard of his bed.
This was just plain unfair.
Eric wasn't going to blame anyone for it, though. That would also be unfair. But it wasn't like he had asked to have everyone in his life just disappear and be terribly unreliable and bad at showing that they really did care about him. He did have Lily van der Woodsen for a mother, so he had learned to take all of this with a grain of salt.
It didn't change that he still felt lonely, though.