[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Leah
AGE: 20 WHOOP WHOOP
JOURNAL:
hotforbabylegIM: formalleah
E-MAIL: gorillaforsandracing AT gmail
RETURNING: FIVE. FIVE. I PLAY FIVE MOTHERFUCKING CHARACTERS AND FOR SOME REASON I AM RETURNING FOR MORE. However, due to certain characters not passing the activity check this month Shiva I'm looking at you, and the fact that Riful is almost certainly not going to pass this month, if this application is accepted, I'll be dropping Riful in exchange! TEMPORARILY don't worry her crazy ass will be back by January no matter what.
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Marceline (THE VAMPIRE QUEEN)
FANDOM: Adventure Time! Also known as Adventure Time with Finn and Jake.
CHRONOLOGY: After It Came From the Nightosphere.
CLASS: Anti... hero? She's an opportunist who will act super evil all the time but secretly just goof off and be a huge troll, because she likes making other people pee themselves.
SUPERHERO NAME: MARCELINE THE VAMPIRE QUEEN YEAH MAN SHE'S A VAMPIRE SHE DOESN'T NEED TO NOT BE REPETITIVE
ALTER EGO: Marceline, the...... okay yeah she's just going to call herself Marceline the Vampire Queen no matter what and probably start a band. A band made out of skeletons.
BACKGROUND:
Adventure Time, spawned from a very simple pilot that got virally popular on youtube, appears to have a very simple premise! A boy named Finn, who has a cool hat, and a dog named Jake, who has stretchy Reed Richards powers, go on adventures in the fantastical Land of Ooo. And that is what happens! They save princesses, fight ogres, and kick the evil Ice King's patoot time and time again. In fact, since this is a kid's cartoon, that is pretty much all they do! And it is funtimes. What the viewer eventually realizes, however, is that Ooo is in fact a postapocalyptic version of the earth as we know it! At some point, due to events that have yet to be described, civilization was destroyed and, over time, the weird surreal fantasy land that serves as backdrop to the show took its place.
Marceline is 1,000 years old, and although her past is still mysterious, it's been confirmed that she was alive and human before the crisis unfolded. Her mother appears to have been caring, according to her throwaway line about her taking care of her scraped knees; her father, on the other hand, is evil incarnate. I mean, like, literally. He's a soulsucking, deathless, vampire demon thing who was long ago sealed into the dimension called the Nightosphere (which was apparently originally intended to be analogous to hell), and, though he loves her, their relationship is strained at best. At some point, he stole her french fries, something which Marceline never forgave him for. At some... other point, when she was in her teens, Marceline was made a vampire--possibly by her father! We do not know!--and proceeded to spend the next thousand years basically adventuring and goofing off. She lived through the apocalypse, killed the previous Vampire King to earn her current title, modified her family's heirloom axe into a bass guitar, and carved her initials into a bunch of locations for god knows why, claiming them as her property.
One of those locations was the tree in which Finn and Jake reside, which is how she comes into the story! Initially presented as a villainous character, she reclaims the tree and forces the heroes out into the cold, cold world to find a new home; when they come across a cave and fix it up, she shows up to reveal that she's also laid a previous claim on it! After an action-packed fight, however, they come to a compromise, and she gives them back their tree house as a gift for being cool dudes. Marceline later tricks Finn into becoming her henchman, then basically trolls him by forcing him to do totally normal things that initially seem unspeakably evil. Eventually, he catches on, she releases him from his duties, and the two become friends, although Jake is still kind of terrified of her, and indeed tries to stake her to save Finn.
After Finn learns about her and her father's fraught relationship, however, he decides to release her dad from the Nightosphere so they can talk it out. Which turns out to be a really bad idea! After taking Marceline's axe bass, he goes off to suck the souls from everyone in Ooo, and Finn and Marceline are forced to team up and hunt him down (to save everyone and get her bass back, respectively.) Marceline and her dad finally have a heart to heart and start to get along, at which point Finn goes all Benihana on her father with his sword and banishes him back to the Nightosphere! Then both of them lie back on the grass and watch the freed souls fly around in he sky. And that... is all the episodes she has been in. I'mma take her from after that!
PERSONALITY:
The thing about Marceline is that she's 1,000 years old, but instead of being a creepy old man in a teenager's body, she functionally is a teenager in both looks and personality! She's basically the cool, mellow rocker girl who drags you out to cut class and smoke in the bleachers, only she's also a vampire who feasts on the flesh of the damned instead of stolen liquor!
So basically, she's... she's vampire Ke$ha, I guess. Marceline is vampire Ke$ha. Oh, god.
Marceline is a consummate daredevil, constantly searching for new ways to have fun and troll people, and when she gets some novelty in her life she really appreciates it. After Finn manages to actually hurt her in a fight, for example, she immediately shrinks down, kisses him on the cheek, and lets him and Jake keep their old house--just because "[she] hadn't fought like that in years" and the two of them were providing her with legitimate entertainment. Because of this, she can appear tempermental, going from OH MY GOD THERE'S A GIANT FUCKING BAT LUNGING TOWARDS ME IT IS SO PISSED AND IT'S THREATENING TO DRINK MY BLOOD to a giggling trollfaced teenager in no time at all. She's a trickster and loves to fuck with people, only not with that language because we on the Cartoon Network are godfearing folk, thank you very much. The fact that she has an expansive and well-earned reputation as an eldritch terror is something that she takes advantage of precisely for that reason, and she can't resist an opportunity to terrify people who are already inclined to be afraid of her.
In reality, though, Marceline's bark is much worse than her bite. She's a rebellious rocker type, to be sure, with an occasional dangerous edge, but she doesn't actually spend most of her time killing and eating people and subjugating them in the name of the unholy--she'd rather be lasooing giant goldfish or playing gigs at birthday parties. Once you get past her trickster side, she's actually pretty good-natured--as long as you aren't standing in the way of her getting something that she wants. Marceline is very possessive of her things--the houses she's claimed, her bass guitar, even Jake when she decides to "take" him from Finn--and if someone is preventing her from owning something she sees as hers, or just wants to have, she will swat them out of her way without question. If they directly refuse her something, she will flip a shit. Essentially, like all totally awesome teenage girls, Marceline can be utterly selfish, only she can also turn into a giant bat and eat people when things don't go her way. Her ambitions don't seem to run too high in canon, but that's in the context of Adventure Time, where she's already the Vampire Queen and an official member of Ooo royalty, and we do know that she had to kill the previous Vampire King or whatever monarch there was in order to attain her current title. Her motivations, moreover, are almost always personal and therefore utterly morally ambiguous; if she helps someone out it's because there's something she wants in conjunction, or because she thinks doing so would be fun for her. She has friends, and she'll do things for them, even going so far as to basically bare her soul to some of them, but most of the time it's all about her and having a good time!
Marceline does have deeper-seated emotions than her playful default, but it takes some serious drama to bring them to the surface. She's ridiculously old, after all, she's seen most everything, and usually her dad isn't around to stir her up into a frenzy of rage. Those deeper emotions, btw, are still ridiculously teenagery; at her heart she really wants her daddy to show that he cares about her, even if he's a jerk who ate her french fries, etc., and it doesn't appear to concern her that he's a fifty-foot-tall monster who's sucking the souls out of everybody in the Kingdom.
POWER:
Marceline has a crapload of powers, but for the sake of the three powers limit, I'mma reduce it to these three things. Which may not count as three things! I am not completely sure.
VAMPIRE PHYSIOLOGY: Marceline... is a vampire. I have said this many times! Although she's faster and stronger and ~her skin is pale white and ice cold~ and shit thanks to this, what's probably most notable about this is that she can fly/levitate. Since this is a kid's show, she isn't bound by a need to suck people's blood; what she really feeds off of is the red in things, so she can eat the red in a strawberry or some dude's bowtie and get along with her bad self just as easily as she would sucking down blood. She's also suspect to the typical vampire rules--crosses and holy water are never incorporated, since it's a... kid's show......, and she's been shown to stay out during the day when she has a parasol, but sunlight and garlic can mess her up pretty bad! She'll quickly shrivel up and die if stuck out in the naked sun, and stakes appear to be able to kill her. Since she makes Finn open a house's door for her when she goes to feed on this one dude, she may also need permission to enter a home that isn't hers, although this is unclear and she could have just been trolling Finn.
SHAPESHIFTING: Marceline can change her appearance in numerous ways, although she typically just uses it to make herself hideous and scare the bejesus out of people with. Her ~*~ultimate form~*~, however, is that of a giant bat monster with legs, which she turns into when shit gets real. She can also turn into a little bat, for travel-size convenience!
OH YES IT'S THRILLER THRILLER NIGHT: She can make undead minions by reanimating corpses. For the purpose of levity and keeping to the spirit of the show, she's not going to be followed by a zombie army or anything; they'll immediately disintegrate into walking skeletons. Or, uh, possibly dancing skeletons.
Shit that she won't be taking into the City with her includes telekinesis, turning people into zombie slaves by... biting them apparently?... and various other possibly magical bullshit such as lighting fifty candles by snapping her fingers! She also won't be bringing her modified axe bass with her, because I'm pretty sure it counts for a power slot even though she never uses it as a weapon. :(
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: [There's nothing but a video of a dark room and the sound of female laughter. Soft at first, it escalates to a ridiculous Vincent Price-level crescendo as a shadowy figure approaches the phone, which appears to be just... sitting on a flat surface somewhere. There's a flash of red from what looks like the head of the person laughing; a gleam from their eyes?]
Seriously, though. Where are the lights?
[The speaker snaps her fingers, plunging the room into normal, if somewhat muted, lighting, YES I KNOW I REMOVED THIS FROM HER POWER SET BUT IT'S SO MUCH MORE DRAMATIC THIS WAY OKAY, and revealing a teenage girl in a purple tanktop. Spoooooky. Her skin is pale and a strange greyish color, and she has a lot of hair. Like, a lot of hair. She's giving a mellow smile to her communicator, which she's obviously holding.]
Thaaat's better. Anyway, I was going to say hey to you all earlier, but it wasn't the best time to hook up. I had to get my bearings, you know? And some sweet digs. [She gestures with her free armnoodle around the room, grinning briefly.] Pretty cool, right? I'm really feeling the ottoman. [Her eyes crinkle at the corners, and she yawns fitfully. Something winks in the corners of her mouth. FANGS????? It is four in the morning why is she even tired.] But all that furniture moving can really tire a girl out, man. I better get this introduction business over with before it's time to hit the sack.
Soooo... hey, guys. I'm Marceline, the vampire queen. [She grins, again, the gesture more prolonged this time. Those are definitely fangs! Marceline's almost as well-endowed in the sharp and pointy teeth department as she is in the hair department, and she's not trying to hide jack right now.] What's happening?
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: Sitting on a bench in a subway station, tuning her new and way boring bass guitar, she weighed this universe's pros and cons.
This city was weird. Really weird, actually--beyond weird--and the funny thing was how normal it would have been a thousand years ago. It was like a scene from her own past. Everyone--except the superheroes who she'd only heard about, so far--was human. No cube people, no talking dogs, no candy people? What was up with that? It was a little uncomfortable, actually, the kind of thing that made a girl all itchy for something as normal as an army of the slavering undead.
It didn't help that when she'd tried to force some pop-tarts out of a vending machine (cherry filling), nothing had happened, even after she stood around wiggling her fingers like a total dweeb for the next five minutes. That wasn't weird, though--it was just ticking her off. They were her powers, her things, and some punk robot was just taking them away from her because it was jealous? It wasn't fair! Nobody took her bass and lived to talk about it. Robot about it. Whatever.
Then again, there was the whole alternate worlds thing, which was kinda cool! She'd known about them in theory, sort of, but it wasn't anything she'd ever experienced personally, and this definitely wasn't the Nightosphere. Giving a sharp-toothed smile to the passers-by, she finally struck a chord on the bass. It wasn't the same, for sure, but it sounded good enough. And hey, maybe she could find a way to steal her axe bass back, and her powers. Nobody kept Marceline the Vampire Queen down for long.
"Hey, dude. You wanna hear the song I wrote about Babyblood Mountain?"
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
LMFAO WRITING A SERIOUS THIRD PERSON SAMPLE FOR AN ADVENTURE TIME CHARACTER ): Also, if I get her in, her first act is going to go to a supermarket or a Rite-Aid or whatever carries these three items and steal some duct tape, aluminum foil, and a bag of Red Vines. While looking like a werewolf. CAN I DO THAT?