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Jan. 4th, 2014 02:41 amPLAYER INFO
Name: Eric
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Time Zone: PST (GMT-8)
Characters Played: I am secretly every other player in the game
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, AKA Beast Boy
Character Canon: Teen Titans
History: http://teentitans.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Short version he got sick in the jungle, his parents tried a weird cure on him that cured him and gave him shapeshifting powers, his parents died. He joined the Doom Patrol, a superhero team that did battle with an evil brain in a jar, but eventually quit to spread his wings on his own for a while, then joined the Teen Titans, ANOTHER superhero team, and had all kinds of adventures.
AU History: Garfield's parents were renowned explorers and biologists, who devoted their lives to studying strange and rare breeds of pokemon. They were also not enlightened, so they were both thrilled when their son was born able to take the form of a Ditto, and thus the form of any pokemon he knew of. Unfortunately, exploration of the wilderness is not a terribly safe occupation. When Garfield was 11, the three of them got caught in a flood. Garfield was able to escape by turning into a flying type, but could only watch his parents go over the edge.
He kind of went feral for a while, living in the woods with other pokemon, but eventually found his way back to Union. After suitable rehabilitation, Garfield declared that he was going to make sure that he kept everyone else safe from the hardship he suffered and, because he was enlightened, was allowed into the Rangers despite his young age (after the appropriate training.). In the end, however, he wasn't able to keep up with the older veterans he was teamed up with, and eventually left them.
He joined the guard, which was a less strenuous position that still let him satisfy his desire to protect the city from danger AND let him finish up his education. The present day finds him well liked among the guard due as much to his friendly and relaxed attitude as to his powerful shape shifting abilities. He is affectionately called "Beast Boy" by his comrades.
Canon Personality: Beast Boy is an inherently lazy person. That's not to say that he won't work hard, but that if he DOES work hard, it is always for a specific purpose. If he has nothing he needs to get done he likes nothing more than to just kick back and relax. Put simply, he works as hard as he needs to, but usually doesn't work any HARDER than he needs to.
He is a vegetarian. A very very vocal vegetarian. He won't get angry at other people for eating meat, but he reacts with severe irritation to anyone who tries to serve him any. His explanation is that since he's BEEN most animals, actually eating them is basically cannibalism. As such, he is enormously fond of tofu, and is constantly trying to make stuff out of it, from turkeys to waffles. He will then usually try to get his friends to join him in trying out his latest creation.
He is a huge extrovert. Given the choice, he would almost always rather be doing something with someone else. In general you could say that he thrives under attention. The longer he's stuck by himself, the more eagerly he jumps into any kind of social activity, from video games, to tofu eating contests, to even trying to pick up girls if he's REALLY desperate. His scrawny build and green skin makes this last activity a doomed endeavour.
He's got a bit of an inferiority complex. When he was in the doom patrol, his boss held him to very high standards, which he usually had trouble meeting. The constant criticism left him perpetually a bit unsure of himself, along with a tendency to second guess his decisions. He is hesitant to take charge of a situation, and generally would rather follow orders more than give them.
Finally, Beast Boy really wants a moped. He believes that having one will make him the sweetest guy, able to pick up all the chicks and get invitations to all the cool parties.
AU Deviation: Unlike his canon counterpart, he is equally likely to respond to any variation on his actual name as he is to "Beast Boy", as he didn't get the nick name until relatively recently. The lack of video games and emphasis on everyone having to contribute at all times for the good of the city have made him...not less lazy, but more creative in his laziness. He still doesn't like working when he doesn't have to, but he puts more energy into thinking up ways to get his work done without over exerting himself. He'll work all day on a technique or device that will let him sleep in another 3 minutes in the morning. In the end, he probably ends up doing MORE work avoiding work than he'd end up doing if he just buckled down and did his work in the first place.
Canon Abilities: Beast Boy is green, but he can turn into any animal he knows of, seemingly without effort. He is not limited by conservation of mass, switching effortlessly between hummingbird and tyrannosaurus rex. The only limitation seems to be that regardless of what he turns into, he always is green.
Enlightened Abilities: Beast Boy is a normal type, and a shifter. He can turn into a Ditto, and thus into any other pokemon, though the transformation remains incomplete (He can't use any of the special abilities such as fire breath or invisibility or what have you, he's not quite as strong or tough as the original, and he is limited by body mass.) unless he has an example of what he's transforming into actually physically present where he can see it.
Starter Pokémon: None, but he does tend to hang out with various pokemon in his neighborhood, and a lot of them view him as a friend. They wouldn't fight for him save in very unusual circumstances.
Notes/Special Considerations: None!
SAMPLES
First-Person: From the testrun meme! Also from before we fully ironed out the rules on ditto shifters.
Third-Person: Being a guardsman on the wall could best be described as brief periods of chaos and panic poking out from a sea of tedium. There was an awful lot of Beast Boy's day that was dedicated to just standing on the wall, staring out into the jungle, and waiting. It got so boring.
So over the last few weeks, Beast Boy had started making some unofficial changes to his post. The first had been the addition of a chair. Eventually the chair had gotten a pillow so as to not hurt his butt. A while after that, he had added a small radio so he could listen to sports broadcasts while on duty. The latest addition was the cooler he was carrying up just now, in which he could store drinks and snacks.
As he heaved the cooler up onto the top of the wall, he reflected that it would have been smarter to take it up here while it was empty and then just sneak stuff to fill it with here slowly over time. He stopped at the top of the stairs to catch his breath and stared out into the wilderness. Ah yes, the endless wilderness. What mysteries lay beyond Union? What wonders? What horrors? What herd of rampaging tauros.
Beast Boy did a magnificent double take when he noticed the incoming trouble. He ran to ring the alarm bell shouting "RAMPAGING POKEMON! TAUROSES ARE ATTACKING! OR ARE THEY TAURI? THEY'RE RAMPAGING WHATEVER THEY ARE!"
Once he was sure the alarm was starting to spread down the wall, he took a running leap off the edge. In mid-air, he dissolved into a mass of goo, only to reform as a green Wingull, so he could start flying down to help get people out of the way of the stampede.
Name: Eric
Contact Information: plurk:
Time Zone: PST (GMT-8)
Characters Played: I am secretly every other player in the game
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, AKA Beast Boy
Character Canon: Teen Titans
History: http://teentitans.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Short version he got sick in the jungle, his parents tried a weird cure on him that cured him and gave him shapeshifting powers, his parents died. He joined the Doom Patrol, a superhero team that did battle with an evil brain in a jar, but eventually quit to spread his wings on his own for a while, then joined the Teen Titans, ANOTHER superhero team, and had all kinds of adventures.
AU History: Garfield's parents were renowned explorers and biologists, who devoted their lives to studying strange and rare breeds of pokemon. They were also not enlightened, so they were both thrilled when their son was born able to take the form of a Ditto, and thus the form of any pokemon he knew of. Unfortunately, exploration of the wilderness is not a terribly safe occupation. When Garfield was 11, the three of them got caught in a flood. Garfield was able to escape by turning into a flying type, but could only watch his parents go over the edge.
He kind of went feral for a while, living in the woods with other pokemon, but eventually found his way back to Union. After suitable rehabilitation, Garfield declared that he was going to make sure that he kept everyone else safe from the hardship he suffered and, because he was enlightened, was allowed into the Rangers despite his young age (after the appropriate training.). In the end, however, he wasn't able to keep up with the older veterans he was teamed up with, and eventually left them.
He joined the guard, which was a less strenuous position that still let him satisfy his desire to protect the city from danger AND let him finish up his education. The present day finds him well liked among the guard due as much to his friendly and relaxed attitude as to his powerful shape shifting abilities. He is affectionately called "Beast Boy" by his comrades.
Canon Personality: Beast Boy is an inherently lazy person. That's not to say that he won't work hard, but that if he DOES work hard, it is always for a specific purpose. If he has nothing he needs to get done he likes nothing more than to just kick back and relax. Put simply, he works as hard as he needs to, but usually doesn't work any HARDER than he needs to.
He is a vegetarian. A very very vocal vegetarian. He won't get angry at other people for eating meat, but he reacts with severe irritation to anyone who tries to serve him any. His explanation is that since he's BEEN most animals, actually eating them is basically cannibalism. As such, he is enormously fond of tofu, and is constantly trying to make stuff out of it, from turkeys to waffles. He will then usually try to get his friends to join him in trying out his latest creation.
He is a huge extrovert. Given the choice, he would almost always rather be doing something with someone else. In general you could say that he thrives under attention. The longer he's stuck by himself, the more eagerly he jumps into any kind of social activity, from video games, to tofu eating contests, to even trying to pick up girls if he's REALLY desperate. His scrawny build and green skin makes this last activity a doomed endeavour.
He's got a bit of an inferiority complex. When he was in the doom patrol, his boss held him to very high standards, which he usually had trouble meeting. The constant criticism left him perpetually a bit unsure of himself, along with a tendency to second guess his decisions. He is hesitant to take charge of a situation, and generally would rather follow orders more than give them.
Finally, Beast Boy really wants a moped. He believes that having one will make him the sweetest guy, able to pick up all the chicks and get invitations to all the cool parties.
AU Deviation: Unlike his canon counterpart, he is equally likely to respond to any variation on his actual name as he is to "Beast Boy", as he didn't get the nick name until relatively recently. The lack of video games and emphasis on everyone having to contribute at all times for the good of the city have made him...not less lazy, but more creative in his laziness. He still doesn't like working when he doesn't have to, but he puts more energy into thinking up ways to get his work done without over exerting himself. He'll work all day on a technique or device that will let him sleep in another 3 minutes in the morning. In the end, he probably ends up doing MORE work avoiding work than he'd end up doing if he just buckled down and did his work in the first place.
Canon Abilities: Beast Boy is green, but he can turn into any animal he knows of, seemingly without effort. He is not limited by conservation of mass, switching effortlessly between hummingbird and tyrannosaurus rex. The only limitation seems to be that regardless of what he turns into, he always is green.
Enlightened Abilities: Beast Boy is a normal type, and a shifter. He can turn into a Ditto, and thus into any other pokemon, though the transformation remains incomplete (He can't use any of the special abilities such as fire breath or invisibility or what have you, he's not quite as strong or tough as the original, and he is limited by body mass.) unless he has an example of what he's transforming into actually physically present where he can see it.
Starter Pokémon: None, but he does tend to hang out with various pokemon in his neighborhood, and a lot of them view him as a friend. They wouldn't fight for him save in very unusual circumstances.
Notes/Special Considerations: None!
SAMPLES
First-Person: From the testrun meme! Also from before we fully ironed out the rules on ditto shifters.
Third-Person: Being a guardsman on the wall could best be described as brief periods of chaos and panic poking out from a sea of tedium. There was an awful lot of Beast Boy's day that was dedicated to just standing on the wall, staring out into the jungle, and waiting. It got so boring.
So over the last few weeks, Beast Boy had started making some unofficial changes to his post. The first had been the addition of a chair. Eventually the chair had gotten a pillow so as to not hurt his butt. A while after that, he had added a small radio so he could listen to sports broadcasts while on duty. The latest addition was the cooler he was carrying up just now, in which he could store drinks and snacks.
As he heaved the cooler up onto the top of the wall, he reflected that it would have been smarter to take it up here while it was empty and then just sneak stuff to fill it with here slowly over time. He stopped at the top of the stairs to catch his breath and stared out into the wilderness. Ah yes, the endless wilderness. What mysteries lay beyond Union? What wonders? What horrors? What herd of rampaging tauros.
Beast Boy did a magnificent double take when he noticed the incoming trouble. He ran to ring the alarm bell shouting "RAMPAGING POKEMON! TAUROSES ARE ATTACKING! OR ARE THEY TAURI? THEY'RE RAMPAGING WHATEVER THEY ARE!"
Once he was sure the alarm was starting to spread down the wall, he took a running leap off the edge. In mid-air, he dissolved into a mass of goo, only to reform as a green Wingull, so he could start flying down to help get people out of the way of the stampede.
