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Name/Nickname: Ian/Ilan
Personal LJ Username:
pridefall
E-mail:
Msn: tiamat_56@msn.com
Yahoo: arcantic_artistry@yahoo.com
AIM/Instant Messenger(s):
Msn: tiamat_56@msn.com
YiM: arcantic_artistry
AiM: nvncilaniix
Time Zone: GMT 4:00
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Character Application
Character Name [Canonly Written]: Jack Napier, AKA “The Joker”, AKA "The Prince of Knaves", AKA "The Clown-Prince of Crime", AKA "
Series: DC Comics; the Batman
Gender: Male
The Item(s) he arrives with, if applicable:: His electric buzzer of doom, clothes, several knives
Point with which your character has been taken from canon: Directly after he gets shot in the face to make him look more like TDK Joker.
Personality: Christ, how do you even begin to define what an insane person’s true “personality” really is? The Joker is so mentally fractured that there is really no real way to just “explain” how he thinks in mere words, seeing as his level of insanity literally makes him create a new personality for himself every single day. The Joker is therefore never held as to having a static characterization in this respect, because no matter how badly an author mangles his base persona, any and every characterization of him can simply be explained away as being a “new personality.”
The “Core” of the Joker, however, never changes, and can be expressed as thus:
+ If it isn’t funny, then it isn’t worth doing. Make the unfunny funny to SOMEONE, always.
+ The Batman’s attention is the more important thing to have, and I will do anything to get it. Anything.
+ Life’s a stage, and the name of the play is “Chaos.”
From a literary standpoint, authors are usually divided into two “camps” regarding the Joker’s personality. On the one hand, the Joker can be interpreted and written as being nothing more than a sweet (if oft misguided) and semi-loveable “zany” character whom plays harmless pranks on people just for kicks, (which is exactly what his Silver Age incarnation was.). While on the other hand, the Joker can (and is, more recently) being written as an unrepentant sociopath who kills people just because…well, because he can, really. Authors (and fans) argue A LOT when it comes to which characterization is the best-fitting for the Joker, and consequently the only two series that are taken as being the “truest” to characterizing him are the animated one (convientely named Batman: The Animate Series), and Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," movie, where Heath Ledger quite possibly comes the closest any one person has been to harnessing and portraying exactly how the Joker is.
Powers/Abilities CANON: IN order:
+ Super-Sanity, which allows him to sometimes “know” that he is in a comic-book or that he is not a “real” person.
+ Immunity to poison brought on by his avid consummation of his own Joker-venom.
+ Poisonous blood due to the aforementioned avid consummation.
+ Agile, to the point of being able to ditch the Batman, who is (at the very least), an Olympic-level athlete.
On a more mundane scale, the Joker is an average-to-skilled hand-to-hand fighter, is charismatic to a fault, is a quick-learner of anything that interests him, and also possesses enough knowledge in the fields of engineering, chemistry, electronics, genetics, and super-science that he can turn literally ANYTHING into a weapon.
Powers/Abilities Toned Down: I don’t really think he has anything too powerful considering he’s still HUMAN at the end of the day, so I think that having to be in such a confined environment is more than enough to keep him from being a psychopath for very long. Heck, the (insert limiting thing here) might just make him LESS crazy.
History: Ho-boy, this is going to get a bit tricky. Imagine, if you will, a down-and-out engineer-turned-comedian who’s life is slowly spiraling down, and down, and down into oblivion. He needs cash fast to support his pregnant wife, he needs to get some recognition to move on up in the world, and most of all? He needs respect -- this is where most authors who try to write the Joker’s history start when building a coherent “back-story” for him, even though by the Joker’s own admission sometimes he remembers his life one way, and sometimes he remembers it another way. Whatever the case, the Joker’s definitive origin goes on as thus: after failing to support his wife as a comedian, he agrees to help two criminals break into the chemical plant where he once worked in an effort to get some fast cash. Things go smoothly at first, but during the planning process the Joker’s wife (and unborn son) are killed, which leads to the Joker having to be strong-armed into actually doing something because of his own reluctance.
He is then tricked into donning the persona of “The Red Hood” so that it appears that he is the ringleader of the heist, and, after a disastrous shoot-out with the guards of the plant kills his two “flunkies,” tries to flee the scene of the crime only to find the Batman in his way. Terrified of what might happen to him, the man who would become the Joker tries to get the hell away from the Batman, slips in the process of doing so, and then falls into a the vat of chemicals that turns him into the Joker.
The rest is, as they say, history. (And also very, very convoluted. If you want me to outline the most important things that’ve happened to him, I will, but we’re talking about almost 70 years of comic-book history, here.)
Why do you play this character? I love the Joker. There’s nothing more to say - I have ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS been fascinated with him, and the last time I played him somewhere on livejournal people told me I played him very well, so I’d like to try and give him another go.
Name/Nickname: Ian/Ilan
Personal LJ Username:
pridefall
E-mail:
Msn: tiamat_56@msn.com
Yahoo: arcantic_artistry@yahoo.com
AIM/Instant Messenger(s):
Msn: tiamat_56@msn.com
YiM: arcantic_artistry
AiM: nvncilaniix
Time Zone: GMT 4:00
Other characters in RP:
Character Application
Character Name [Canonly Written]: Jack Napier, AKA “The Joker”, AKA "The Prince of Knaves", AKA "The Clown-Prince of Crime", AKA "
Series: DC Comics; the Batman
Gender: Male
The Item(s) he arrives with, if applicable:: His electric buzzer of doom, clothes, several knives
Point with which your character has been taken from canon: Directly after he gets shot in the face to make him look more like TDK Joker.
Personality: Christ, how do you even begin to define what an insane person’s true “personality” really is? The Joker is so mentally fractured that there is really no real way to just “explain” how he thinks in mere words, seeing as his level of insanity literally makes him create a new personality for himself every single day. The Joker is therefore never held as to having a static characterization in this respect, because no matter how badly an author mangles his base persona, any and every characterization of him can simply be explained away as being a “new personality.”
The “Core” of the Joker, however, never changes, and can be expressed as thus:
+ If it isn’t funny, then it isn’t worth doing. Make the unfunny funny to SOMEONE, always.
+ The Batman’s attention is the more important thing to have, and I will do anything to get it. Anything.
+ Life’s a stage, and the name of the play is “Chaos.”
From a literary standpoint, authors are usually divided into two “camps” regarding the Joker’s personality. On the one hand, the Joker can be interpreted and written as being nothing more than a sweet (if oft misguided) and semi-loveable “zany” character whom plays harmless pranks on people just for kicks, (which is exactly what his Silver Age incarnation was.). While on the other hand, the Joker can (and is, more recently) being written as an unrepentant sociopath who kills people just because…well, because he can, really. Authors (and fans) argue A LOT when it comes to which characterization is the best-fitting for the Joker, and consequently the only two series that are taken as being the “truest” to characterizing him are the animated one (convientely named Batman: The Animate Series), and Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," movie, where Heath Ledger quite possibly comes the closest any one person has been to harnessing and portraying exactly how the Joker is.
Powers/Abilities CANON: IN order:
+ Super-Sanity, which allows him to sometimes “know” that he is in a comic-book or that he is not a “real” person.
+ Immunity to poison brought on by his avid consummation of his own Joker-venom.
+ Poisonous blood due to the aforementioned avid consummation.
+ Agile, to the point of being able to ditch the Batman, who is (at the very least), an Olympic-level athlete.
On a more mundane scale, the Joker is an average-to-skilled hand-to-hand fighter, is charismatic to a fault, is a quick-learner of anything that interests him, and also possesses enough knowledge in the fields of engineering, chemistry, electronics, genetics, and super-science that he can turn literally ANYTHING into a weapon.
Powers/Abilities Toned Down: I don’t really think he has anything too powerful considering he’s still HUMAN at the end of the day, so I think that having to be in such a confined environment is more than enough to keep him from being a psychopath for very long. Heck, the (insert limiting thing here) might just make him LESS crazy.
History: Ho-boy, this is going to get a bit tricky. Imagine, if you will, a down-and-out engineer-turned-comedian who’s life is slowly spiraling down, and down, and down into oblivion. He needs cash fast to support his pregnant wife, he needs to get some recognition to move on up in the world, and most of all? He needs respect -- this is where most authors who try to write the Joker’s history start when building a coherent “back-story” for him, even though by the Joker’s own admission sometimes he remembers his life one way, and sometimes he remembers it another way. Whatever the case, the Joker’s definitive origin goes on as thus: after failing to support his wife as a comedian, he agrees to help two criminals break into the chemical plant where he once worked in an effort to get some fast cash. Things go smoothly at first, but during the planning process the Joker’s wife (and unborn son) are killed, which leads to the Joker having to be strong-armed into actually doing something because of his own reluctance.
He is then tricked into donning the persona of “The Red Hood” so that it appears that he is the ringleader of the heist, and, after a disastrous shoot-out with the guards of the plant kills his two “flunkies,” tries to flee the scene of the crime only to find the Batman in his way. Terrified of what might happen to him, the man who would become the Joker tries to get the hell away from the Batman, slips in the process of doing so, and then falls into a the vat of chemicals that turns him into the Joker.
The rest is, as they say, history. (And also very, very convoluted. If you want me to outline the most important things that’ve happened to him, I will, but we’re talking about almost 70 years of comic-book history, here.)
Why do you play this character? I love the Joker. There’s nothing more to say - I have ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS been fascinated with him, and the last time I played him somewhere on livejournal people told me I played him very well, so I’d like to try and give him another go.