Application for Route_29
Mun
Name: Megan
Livejournal Username: urbaninja
E-mail: elvengirl @ shaw . ca
AIM/MSN: ilovecenturions
Timezone: Central
Current Characters in Route: Roxas
Character
Name: Barney Stinson
Series: How I Met Your Mother
Timeline: Post Season 3 (Given that he was hit by a bus in the last episode, he’ll be post enough that he’s recovered). Since the show takes place the later 2000’s, I assume that Barney has some knowledge of pokemon, ie: that it was a fad in the 90’s.
Canon Resource Links:
Barney's HIMYM wiki Page
HIMYM Wikipedia Page
Barney's Wikipedia Page
Barney's Blog
The history is a bit scant coming from a sitcom. The actual Wikipedia article provides episode summaries for the seasons. I’ll sum up Barney’s history in season 3, leading up to the point in canon I’m taking him from, and if you need anything more, let me know and I’ll provide it.
At the end of season 1, Ted, Barney’s best friend (or so he likes to say) started dating Robin. They broke up at the end of season 2. Mid-way through Season 3, Barney slept with Robin, effectively breaking the Bro Code as you’re not supposed to sleep with your bro’s ex-girlfriend. Ted found out about this and ended his friendship with Barney, realizing that, as he was going in to a new chapter of his life, getting married and everything, that Barney might not be the best person to have around. This devastates Barney, and he essentially ends up moping around looking for a new wingman. In the season finale, however, Ted is hit by a car and is in the hospital. Barney is notified, but brushes the call off, since why should he care? However, this changes about 30 seconds later, and he runs out the door, running all the way to the hospital to see Ted (unable to get a taxi). As he is crossing the street, he is hit by a bus. Everyone ends up coming to see him, as Ted was fine, and he and Ted make up.
Affiliation: Trainer is probably best. I don’t think he’d be very useful to Team Rocket unless it was in shady business deals.
Personality:
Barney is a womanizer. He loves to meet women, sleep with them, and then leave. And have no qualms about it in the process. He is not really afraid to be loud, abrasive, and disrespectful. He is extremely egotistical, with a firm belief in his awesomeness. It is not often that he regrets an action or a statement, and will do little to retract them. He starts and holds petty grudges. He steals women from his friends. He isn’t that great of a guy.
Obviously this behavior has not won him many close friends, but what close friends he has he is very loyal to. He claims himself to be Ted’s best friend, even if Ted doesn’t think of him as one, and tries to help him out as only a bro can. It’s often Barney who has to force Ted to loosen up. He offers Marshall a job at his company, as well as getting him a suit for his wedding. When Lily needs to sneak into a prom, Barney agrees to be her and Robin’s date, even getting them corsages. He cares for these people, and will help them. He lives by the “Bro Code” which gives him his own morality, one that is slightly different from everyone else’s.
He’s a perpetrator of ridiculous schemes, especially to pick up women. These go so far as picking up women at an airport by throwing fake luggage on the carousal and then striking up a conversation (or popping out of luggage, or following girls to Philadelphia), licking the liberty bell, getting Ted drunk, starting up a longtime rivalry with the guy who works in the building across from him, and participating in immature things such as Slap Bets. There are no regrets.
Barney wants to be liked. He is not afraid to turn on the charm to do that, as seen when he meets Ted’s parents. He doesn’t want to lose what friends he has. He doesn’t like being teased. He also has a bit of a gambling problem.
However, Barney has a positive outlook on life despite all of this. He lives life to the fullest and expects life to pay him back in kind. His optimism is infectious and it is hard to not like him. He’s good at talking to people, and is rather charismatic. Get on his good side, and you will have a friend for life.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths:
-Barney is friendly. He’s able to strike up a conversation with pretty much anyone, and consider them a friend in a matter of minutes.
-If you’re a really close friend, he won’t mind going out of his way to do you a favor.
-He’s rather resourceful, as in he always knows a guy.
-He can speak a few different languages.
-He’s good at magic tricks, and seems to be pretty good with kids as well.
Weaknesses:
-Barney is a gambling addict, and supposedly has gambled away his life savings.
-As mentioned before, he has a weakness for women.
-He’s a city boy, born and bred, so the wild outdoors are going to be a challenge. No camping skills to speak of.
-He is easily distracted.
-He cannot drive.
Pokemon
Starter: Totodile
Name: Megan
Livejournal Username: urbaninja
E-mail: elvengirl @ shaw . ca
AIM/MSN: ilovecenturions
Timezone: Central
Current Characters in Route: Roxas
Character
Name: Barney Stinson
Series: How I Met Your Mother
Timeline: Post Season 3 (Given that he was hit by a bus in the last episode, he’ll be post enough that he’s recovered). Since the show takes place the later 2000’s, I assume that Barney has some knowledge of pokemon, ie: that it was a fad in the 90’s.
Canon Resource Links:
Barney's HIMYM wiki Page
HIMYM Wikipedia Page
Barney's Wikipedia Page
Barney's Blog
The history is a bit scant coming from a sitcom. The actual Wikipedia article provides episode summaries for the seasons. I’ll sum up Barney’s history in season 3, leading up to the point in canon I’m taking him from, and if you need anything more, let me know and I’ll provide it.
At the end of season 1, Ted, Barney’s best friend (or so he likes to say) started dating Robin. They broke up at the end of season 2. Mid-way through Season 3, Barney slept with Robin, effectively breaking the Bro Code as you’re not supposed to sleep with your bro’s ex-girlfriend. Ted found out about this and ended his friendship with Barney, realizing that, as he was going in to a new chapter of his life, getting married and everything, that Barney might not be the best person to have around. This devastates Barney, and he essentially ends up moping around looking for a new wingman. In the season finale, however, Ted is hit by a car and is in the hospital. Barney is notified, but brushes the call off, since why should he care? However, this changes about 30 seconds later, and he runs out the door, running all the way to the hospital to see Ted (unable to get a taxi). As he is crossing the street, he is hit by a bus. Everyone ends up coming to see him, as Ted was fine, and he and Ted make up.
Affiliation: Trainer is probably best. I don’t think he’d be very useful to Team Rocket unless it was in shady business deals.
Personality:
Barney is a womanizer. He loves to meet women, sleep with them, and then leave. And have no qualms about it in the process. He is not really afraid to be loud, abrasive, and disrespectful. He is extremely egotistical, with a firm belief in his awesomeness. It is not often that he regrets an action or a statement, and will do little to retract them. He starts and holds petty grudges. He steals women from his friends. He isn’t that great of a guy.
Obviously this behavior has not won him many close friends, but what close friends he has he is very loyal to. He claims himself to be Ted’s best friend, even if Ted doesn’t think of him as one, and tries to help him out as only a bro can. It’s often Barney who has to force Ted to loosen up. He offers Marshall a job at his company, as well as getting him a suit for his wedding. When Lily needs to sneak into a prom, Barney agrees to be her and Robin’s date, even getting them corsages. He cares for these people, and will help them. He lives by the “Bro Code” which gives him his own morality, one that is slightly different from everyone else’s.
He’s a perpetrator of ridiculous schemes, especially to pick up women. These go so far as picking up women at an airport by throwing fake luggage on the carousal and then striking up a conversation (or popping out of luggage, or following girls to Philadelphia), licking the liberty bell, getting Ted drunk, starting up a longtime rivalry with the guy who works in the building across from him, and participating in immature things such as Slap Bets. There are no regrets.
Barney wants to be liked. He is not afraid to turn on the charm to do that, as seen when he meets Ted’s parents. He doesn’t want to lose what friends he has. He doesn’t like being teased. He also has a bit of a gambling problem.
However, Barney has a positive outlook on life despite all of this. He lives life to the fullest and expects life to pay him back in kind. His optimism is infectious and it is hard to not like him. He’s good at talking to people, and is rather charismatic. Get on his good side, and you will have a friend for life.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths:
-Barney is friendly. He’s able to strike up a conversation with pretty much anyone, and consider them a friend in a matter of minutes.
-If you’re a really close friend, he won’t mind going out of his way to do you a favor.
-He’s rather resourceful, as in he always knows a guy.
-He can speak a few different languages.
-He’s good at magic tricks, and seems to be pretty good with kids as well.
Weaknesses:
-Barney is a gambling addict, and supposedly has gambled away his life savings.
-As mentioned before, he has a weakness for women.
-He’s a city boy, born and bred, so the wild outdoors are going to be a challenge. No camping skills to speak of.
-He is easily distracted.
-He cannot drive.
Pokemon
Starter: Totodile