[app for Hearts and Minds]
Mun Info
Name/online handle: KaOS
Personal LJ: thiswasatriumph @ DW
Email: promotedtocondiments [at] gmail [dot] com
AIM: orderfromka0s
Character Info
Character: "Evil" Ed Lee
Fandom: Fright Night
Point of Entry: post-death
Media: movie (2011 reboot)
Character Journal: socoolbrewster
Voicemail Link: here
Phone Number: 555-SUCK
Background:
Ed's been a geek his whole life; from being introduced to the original Batman tv show as a kid to a childhood revolving around whatever animated superheroes and comics he could get his hands on, he's spent most of his life living in a fantasy world in one way or another; cartoons and comics branched out into Star Wars, Star Trek, Hercules, Xena, Farscape, Cons and cosplay and swordfights with boffer weapons and improvised armor among like-minded kids. He met Adam and Charley in kindergarten, and from then on the three were all but inseparable: Squid Man, Gladiator Boy, and Kid Comeback, banded together against the jocks and jerks who didn't quite get their brand of Different. The hallways were tough, hostility and black eyes lurking around every corner, but with the three of them? It was manageable.
And then high school rolled around, and everything changed.
It started gradually at first; sophomore year full meetings of the trio increasingly became duos, Ed and Adam left in the lurch more and more often for more and more transparent reasons; plans made when there hadn't been a conflict before, surprise visits, or flat-out refusals to answer the phone. Junior year brought an even further breakdown of the group, and before Senior year had even started Charley had stopped talking to them entirely, and started hanging out with the same jocks and jerks who had spent their every waking moment tormenting them, to add insult to injury.
Ed took this especially hard, refusing to accept one of his best friends had been replaced with a pod person in the name of girls; unlike Adam, who just wrote him off, he clung to the hope that he'd one day come to his senses, so he kept trying to pull him back into the group despite the extra crap he got because of it, right up until the day Adam disappeared.
They'd had their suspicions for a while; a new guy in the neighborhood and then a sudden rash of disappearances over the next weeks, it was too weird to dismiss as coincidence. So they started following him, videotaping him, building their case, and finally, after weeks of work, they had their conclusion: he was a vampire. Ridiculous, of course, but the proof was there, it was undeniable, each point on its own only circumstantial but together overwhelmingly compelling.
They were supposed to hunt him down together, skip school to ambush him in his house during the day and put an end to the monster, only...morning came, Ed left early for the meeting point as agreed, but Adam never showed. So he went to the only person he knew might care enough to do something. Charley.
Except it didn't go as planned and he ended up a vampire instead. And then got staked by his (former) best friend, only to wake up in the village.
Personality:
The funny thing about Evil Ed is that he wasn't even particularly evil when he was given the nickname. Weird, yes, different, yes, which is mostly what spawned it in the first place, but not evil, but in the way childhood nicknames given in the heat of the moment tend to, the right situation, the right audience, and the name stuck. In the hands of friends it became something different though, something cool; like Evil Knievel, it was just a word, not a description.
It was only later that it actually turned out to be appropriate.
Ed's the kind of guy who seems ubiquitous to just about every school. The one who's just a little strange -- ultimately harmless, but he never seems to be on quite the same page as everyone else. A few seconds too quick to laugh at the joke, or too slow to stop, or he skips the one everyone laughs at entirely to get amusement out of the one nobody else finds funny. He's got a twisted sense of humor, a tendency towards the macabre, and a bit of a reputation for being something of a spazz; he's high-strung by nature, given to sudden bursts of ideas and flurries of words, and once he's got an idea in his head he tends to purse it until he's exorcised it completely. Good for productivity, sure, great for projects and creativity in general, but not so good for the social life when you live one fixation for weeks at a time to the detriment of everything else.
Needless to say, he's also the kind of guy who tends to attract bullies of all shapes and sizes just by existing; he's awkward and gangly, he doesn't really fit in -- a fact which he generally seems to pride himself on, regardless of the trouble it usually gets him into -- and while by now he's pretty much used to it, the fact hasn't exactly helped him considering it's mostly just given him a thicker skin and a more sarcastic and snarky attitude towards...just about everyone who isn't a friend, even if they haven't done anything to him personally. Which only makes it worse on himself in the long run.
He's also a manipulative little shit when he wants to be; years of being used and abused by his classmates has given him something of a nasty streak, a tendency towards unscrupulous behavior when he has no other options he can see. Ordinarily he's happy to go along with whatever, but if he's dedicated enough to his plans and sees no other alternative to accomplishing his goals, he's not opposed to using underhanded methods to get what he wants; he blackmailed Charley to get him to check out Adam's house with him, after all.
Getting turned has done little to help any of this, in fact has only served to exacerbate most of it since it has by and large completely removed his moral code. He's a cocky little twerp, thoroughly convinced of his own superiority (vampires are stronger, faster, and just generally better than humans in every way, and even though it wasn't that long ago that he was dead certain they all needed to die he's not afraid to extol their virtues anyway). Nevermind that he's been one for all of days, and that he doesn't have anywhere near enough un-life experience just yet to back up the kind of noise he makes, he's a vampire now, and he's got a Sire who will absolutely back him up when he can't do it himself. ...Probably.
With his humanity removed, Ed's free to take his vengeance on the world, and as far as he's concerned he's 100% entitled to do so; he's had to take their shit for eighteen years, in his mind it's absolutely his right to return the favor now that he's got the means.
Physical Description:
Shorter side (5'10") and kind of lanky, more or less, though surprisingly solid for his build. He looks like a geek, acts like a geek, but he's pale like he spends all day every day in the basement and runs quite a few degrees cooler than average. He also barely breathes, and his heart rate is virtually nonexistent. He tends to dress in t-shirts and jeans, generally with some kind of clever quip or geeky in-joke on the front, and when he gets cranky or hungry he grows fangs and claws, his pupils dilate to take up the entirety of the iris. Further annoyance, or voluntary shifting, yields leathery skin, pointed ears, and 32 shark teeth; this change is preceded by the appearance of veins under the skin that weren't visible prior.
Does your pup have any special powers/abilities/gifts that we should be aware of? (i.e. super healing, telepathic etc): Improved strength, stamina, reflexes, senses, and endurance, as well as the tendency to be a bitch and a half to actually kill. He can scent like a shark, hear your heartbeat from the other side of the house, see in the dark as if it were a sunny day, and taste the air like a snake, and his bite acts like something of a paralytic, although it doesn't last long. He can also shift into a wolf, although he can't manage it for longer than 20 minutes at a time.
(Full ability rundown/explanation can be found here)
What brings your character to the village? What does he need to learn/achieve, etc?: Ed was a troubled teenager even as a human; he had few friends, barely got along with anyone else at school, and tended to respond to most interactions with hostility because it's all that he ever expected. As a vampire, these qualities have only been exacerbated; girls went from automatically skanks to walking vaginas, good for little else but screwing, everyone male was a tool or an ass and undeserving of respect; the world's against him, so his mentality is by and large "I have to get them before they get me". This mindset stems from pretty substantial self-esteem issues from all the issues he's had so far, not the least of which were compounded by Charley's abandonment of him and almost constant bullying by Charley's new set of friends, and after he was turned by Jerry his response was to latch onto the guy. Once he arrives in the village and finds out that Jerry's around that whole thing's going to come back into effect, and he's likely to lose his own identity in favor of his dependence on his Sire, on trying to Fit and Belong. On trying to make him proud of him and prove his value. His goal while he's here, and the key to returning to his own verse, will lie in breaking that, in becoming truly independent and self-sufficient for his own validation. ...Also in getting to the point where he stops assuming everyone's out to get him and getting over Charley's abandonment.
Why do you want to play this character? I've been playing Ed at Last Voyages since January on first LiveJournal and then Dreamwidth when they made the move, and I've just had a lot of fun with him so far; he's just such a great character, full of piss and vinegar and all the stuff that's so stereotypically teenager, but at the same time he's this little monster. Literally. But at Last Voyages it's a completely different environment; he's got a warden, he's supposed to become a better critter, to Improve Himself, and that's the entire goal. I wanted the chance to throw him somewhere else, integrate him into a new environment that has the same goal and yet not, and see how he does when there's no-one holding his hand through it, nobody ACTIVELY trying to get him there.
Please list all your pups: n/a
Have you been active in the last 8 weeks with ALL of your pups, if not - why and which pups?: n/a
Character based writing sample:
He'd expected it to hurt more.
Not that he'd ever really thought about it; a stick on steroids shoved through your chest wasn't exactly something you usually contemplated. Sure, he'd had a few in-depth discussions with Adam about what killing a vampire might be like, but...somehow they'd never thought they would be on the other side of it. It was one of those horror movie situations, you don't think about what the monster's feeling because he doesn't matter. He's only there to be killed off in the end.
He's not you, except for in werewolf movies. Or zombie flicks. And even then it's more metaphorical than serious. "The Beast That Lurks Inside Everyone". "The Growing Pandemic of Consumerism". Not actually you.
But here he was. Heart, meet stake, and there was Charley, the fucking smug bastard. Fitting, that he got it now, after it was already too late. After he got Amy the stupid skank involved. Figures it would be the chick that did it. Sell-out little shit. Too fucking perfect; the prodigal friend returneth. Ed wanted to laugh, but he had a sneaking suspicion it would only make things worse on his end, and he doubted Charley would get the joke anyway.
His fingers were smoking, dissolving. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. He could feel them, but that hurt less than he'd thought too. Less than the hole in his chest, anyway.
Charley frowned, looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't find the words, but at least he looked sorry about it. Good, he should, but Ed couldn't really find the malice for it. He hadn't wanted this, not really. And in that moment, he forgave him for everything. All of it.
"It's okay, Charley."
...Except it wasn't. Because he closed his eyes in one place, only to open them in dirt. Again.
"FUCKING SHIT."
Name/online handle: KaOS
Personal LJ: thiswasatriumph @ DW
Email: promotedtocondiments [at] gmail [dot] com
AIM: orderfromka0s
Character Info
Character: "Evil" Ed Lee
Fandom: Fright Night
Point of Entry: post-death
Media: movie (2011 reboot)
Character Journal: socoolbrewster
Voicemail Link: here
Phone Number: 555-SUCK
Background:
Ed's been a geek his whole life; from being introduced to the original Batman tv show as a kid to a childhood revolving around whatever animated superheroes and comics he could get his hands on, he's spent most of his life living in a fantasy world in one way or another; cartoons and comics branched out into Star Wars, Star Trek, Hercules, Xena, Farscape, Cons and cosplay and swordfights with boffer weapons and improvised armor among like-minded kids. He met Adam and Charley in kindergarten, and from then on the three were all but inseparable: Squid Man, Gladiator Boy, and Kid Comeback, banded together against the jocks and jerks who didn't quite get their brand of Different. The hallways were tough, hostility and black eyes lurking around every corner, but with the three of them? It was manageable.
And then high school rolled around, and everything changed.
It started gradually at first; sophomore year full meetings of the trio increasingly became duos, Ed and Adam left in the lurch more and more often for more and more transparent reasons; plans made when there hadn't been a conflict before, surprise visits, or flat-out refusals to answer the phone. Junior year brought an even further breakdown of the group, and before Senior year had even started Charley had stopped talking to them entirely, and started hanging out with the same jocks and jerks who had spent their every waking moment tormenting them, to add insult to injury.
Ed took this especially hard, refusing to accept one of his best friends had been replaced with a pod person in the name of girls; unlike Adam, who just wrote him off, he clung to the hope that he'd one day come to his senses, so he kept trying to pull him back into the group despite the extra crap he got because of it, right up until the day Adam disappeared.
They'd had their suspicions for a while; a new guy in the neighborhood and then a sudden rash of disappearances over the next weeks, it was too weird to dismiss as coincidence. So they started following him, videotaping him, building their case, and finally, after weeks of work, they had their conclusion: he was a vampire. Ridiculous, of course, but the proof was there, it was undeniable, each point on its own only circumstantial but together overwhelmingly compelling.
They were supposed to hunt him down together, skip school to ambush him in his house during the day and put an end to the monster, only...morning came, Ed left early for the meeting point as agreed, but Adam never showed. So he went to the only person he knew might care enough to do something. Charley.
Except it didn't go as planned and he ended up a vampire instead. And then got staked by his (former) best friend, only to wake up in the village.
Personality:
The funny thing about Evil Ed is that he wasn't even particularly evil when he was given the nickname. Weird, yes, different, yes, which is mostly what spawned it in the first place, but not evil, but in the way childhood nicknames given in the heat of the moment tend to, the right situation, the right audience, and the name stuck. In the hands of friends it became something different though, something cool; like Evil Knievel, it was just a word, not a description.
It was only later that it actually turned out to be appropriate.
Ed's the kind of guy who seems ubiquitous to just about every school. The one who's just a little strange -- ultimately harmless, but he never seems to be on quite the same page as everyone else. A few seconds too quick to laugh at the joke, or too slow to stop, or he skips the one everyone laughs at entirely to get amusement out of the one nobody else finds funny. He's got a twisted sense of humor, a tendency towards the macabre, and a bit of a reputation for being something of a spazz; he's high-strung by nature, given to sudden bursts of ideas and flurries of words, and once he's got an idea in his head he tends to purse it until he's exorcised it completely. Good for productivity, sure, great for projects and creativity in general, but not so good for the social life when you live one fixation for weeks at a time to the detriment of everything else.
Needless to say, he's also the kind of guy who tends to attract bullies of all shapes and sizes just by existing; he's awkward and gangly, he doesn't really fit in -- a fact which he generally seems to pride himself on, regardless of the trouble it usually gets him into -- and while by now he's pretty much used to it, the fact hasn't exactly helped him considering it's mostly just given him a thicker skin and a more sarcastic and snarky attitude towards...just about everyone who isn't a friend, even if they haven't done anything to him personally. Which only makes it worse on himself in the long run.
He's also a manipulative little shit when he wants to be; years of being used and abused by his classmates has given him something of a nasty streak, a tendency towards unscrupulous behavior when he has no other options he can see. Ordinarily he's happy to go along with whatever, but if he's dedicated enough to his plans and sees no other alternative to accomplishing his goals, he's not opposed to using underhanded methods to get what he wants; he blackmailed Charley to get him to check out Adam's house with him, after all.
Getting turned has done little to help any of this, in fact has only served to exacerbate most of it since it has by and large completely removed his moral code. He's a cocky little twerp, thoroughly convinced of his own superiority (vampires are stronger, faster, and just generally better than humans in every way, and even though it wasn't that long ago that he was dead certain they all needed to die he's not afraid to extol their virtues anyway). Nevermind that he's been one for all of days, and that he doesn't have anywhere near enough un-life experience just yet to back up the kind of noise he makes, he's a vampire now, and he's got a Sire who will absolutely back him up when he can't do it himself. ...Probably.
With his humanity removed, Ed's free to take his vengeance on the world, and as far as he's concerned he's 100% entitled to do so; he's had to take their shit for eighteen years, in his mind it's absolutely his right to return the favor now that he's got the means.
Physical Description:
Shorter side (5'10") and kind of lanky, more or less, though surprisingly solid for his build. He looks like a geek, acts like a geek, but he's pale like he spends all day every day in the basement and runs quite a few degrees cooler than average. He also barely breathes, and his heart rate is virtually nonexistent. He tends to dress in t-shirts and jeans, generally with some kind of clever quip or geeky in-joke on the front, and when he gets cranky or hungry he grows fangs and claws, his pupils dilate to take up the entirety of the iris. Further annoyance, or voluntary shifting, yields leathery skin, pointed ears, and 32 shark teeth; this change is preceded by the appearance of veins under the skin that weren't visible prior.
Does your pup have any special powers/abilities/gifts that we should be aware of? (i.e. super healing, telepathic etc): Improved strength, stamina, reflexes, senses, and endurance, as well as the tendency to be a bitch and a half to actually kill. He can scent like a shark, hear your heartbeat from the other side of the house, see in the dark as if it were a sunny day, and taste the air like a snake, and his bite acts like something of a paralytic, although it doesn't last long. He can also shift into a wolf, although he can't manage it for longer than 20 minutes at a time.
(Full ability rundown/explanation can be found here)
What brings your character to the village? What does he need to learn/achieve, etc?: Ed was a troubled teenager even as a human; he had few friends, barely got along with anyone else at school, and tended to respond to most interactions with hostility because it's all that he ever expected. As a vampire, these qualities have only been exacerbated; girls went from automatically skanks to walking vaginas, good for little else but screwing, everyone male was a tool or an ass and undeserving of respect; the world's against him, so his mentality is by and large "I have to get them before they get me". This mindset stems from pretty substantial self-esteem issues from all the issues he's had so far, not the least of which were compounded by Charley's abandonment of him and almost constant bullying by Charley's new set of friends, and after he was turned by Jerry his response was to latch onto the guy. Once he arrives in the village and finds out that Jerry's around that whole thing's going to come back into effect, and he's likely to lose his own identity in favor of his dependence on his Sire, on trying to Fit and Belong. On trying to make him proud of him and prove his value. His goal while he's here, and the key to returning to his own verse, will lie in breaking that, in becoming truly independent and self-sufficient for his own validation. ...Also in getting to the point where he stops assuming everyone's out to get him and getting over Charley's abandonment.
Why do you want to play this character? I've been playing Ed at Last Voyages since January on first LiveJournal and then Dreamwidth when they made the move, and I've just had a lot of fun with him so far; he's just such a great character, full of piss and vinegar and all the stuff that's so stereotypically teenager, but at the same time he's this little monster. Literally. But at Last Voyages it's a completely different environment; he's got a warden, he's supposed to become a better critter, to Improve Himself, and that's the entire goal. I wanted the chance to throw him somewhere else, integrate him into a new environment that has the same goal and yet not, and see how he does when there's no-one holding his hand through it, nobody ACTIVELY trying to get him there.
Please list all your pups: n/a
Have you been active in the last 8 weeks with ALL of your pups, if not - why and which pups?: n/a
Character based writing sample:
He'd expected it to hurt more.
Not that he'd ever really thought about it; a stick on steroids shoved through your chest wasn't exactly something you usually contemplated. Sure, he'd had a few in-depth discussions with Adam about what killing a vampire might be like, but...somehow they'd never thought they would be on the other side of it. It was one of those horror movie situations, you don't think about what the monster's feeling because he doesn't matter. He's only there to be killed off in the end.
He's not you, except for in werewolf movies. Or zombie flicks. And even then it's more metaphorical than serious. "The Beast That Lurks Inside Everyone". "The Growing Pandemic of Consumerism". Not actually you.
But here he was. Heart, meet stake, and there was Charley, the fucking smug bastard. Fitting, that he got it now, after it was already too late. After he got Amy the stupid skank involved. Figures it would be the chick that did it. Sell-out little shit. Too fucking perfect; the prodigal friend returneth. Ed wanted to laugh, but he had a sneaking suspicion it would only make things worse on his end, and he doubted Charley would get the joke anyway.
His fingers were smoking, dissolving. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. He could feel them, but that hurt less than he'd thought too. Less than the hole in his chest, anyway.
Charley frowned, looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't find the words, but at least he looked sorry about it. Good, he should, but Ed couldn't really find the malice for it. He hadn't wanted this, not really. And in that moment, he forgave him for everything. All of it.
"It's okay, Charley."
...Except it wasn't. Because he closed his eyes in one place, only to open them in dirt. Again.
"FUCKING SHIT."