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Mippins's Character Blurbs

got a booty like BLAOW

Age: 12

Canon Point: February 2005; when Shelly is asleep on the plane ride from NYC back to Chicago

Appearance: 4'8, this and this which she is mysteriously wearing despite her canonpoint fight me?? Her clothes include: a dark red striped peanut-shaped hat which she wears like a doof, a teal t-shirt with idk ponies on it, a blue wool sweater jacket, a dark brown winter coat with a furry hood, sky blue track pants, ugg boots, knitted blue/purple mittens with lil frills on the cuffs, an archery wristguard, and what is likely a super cute undies/bra combo?

Personality:

Backstory:

Notable Traits:
--smokes
--recovering from recently tearing her ACL/MCL (left leg)

Starting Inventory:

Edited 2016-09-05 01:16 (UTC)

Age: 36

Canon Point: Christmas 2005; end of movie after he gets shot and shoots like 16 guys, then passes out as he and Harmony are waiting for the police

Appearance: 5'9; looks like this right now, except he's wearing this, which includes: white undershirt, white (and pretty wrinkled) button-up, gray jacket that's a bit big on him and falls to about his mid thigh, probably boxer-briefs, gray idk running pants maybe, white socks, and whitish athletic sneakers. Also, he's thoroughly injured. Most notably, he's missing the ring finger on his left hand from the second knuckle up (the wound is healed over but it's still wrapped up in a shitload of gauze). Other injuries include: a cut on his right cheekbone, a bullet graze on his right shoulder, probably some burns on his groin area because the whole electrocution thing happened gross, and a gunshot wound (healed but there's a nasty scar) on the left side of his chest.

Personality:

Backstory: Harry steals shit for a living. He's lived in New York City for awhile now but he's from Indiana. The movie doesn't go into much detail about his past, but he likely didn't finish high school, is probably divorced from some mystery woman, and he used to be really into magic when he was a kid. He has a niece named Chloe so presumably he has a sibling who is less crappy at life than he is. He had a huge crush on his childhood friend Harmony, whom he hasn't seen since she left for LA when they were 18. He was also into Jonny Gossamer noir novels, but he probably only got into those because of Harmony. During the movie, Harry's partner in crime is killed after a failed attempt at robbing a toy store, and he lucksacks his way into a movie audition, which lands him in LA. He starts detective lessons with Gay Perry (an actual PI) to prep for the role, but of course he accidentally gets in over his head and chaos ensues, blahblah. He also kills a bunch of people (at least four or five) near the end of the movie, which is tough for him.

Notable Traits:
--smokes (like a lot)
--has great reflexes and is awesome at slight of hand (because magician and then petty thief)
--compulsively lies, usually when asked basic questions about himself that he doesn't want to answer
--is good at lying/being witty/thinking on the spot
--bad at math and grammar
--gets really upset about casual sexism and objectification of women
--loves snakes, afraid of spiders
--doesn't know how to fight but does know how to take a beating (all of my characters tbh)

Starting Inventory:
--his personal cell phone
--his wallet which likely has fuck all in it
--a beat-up paperback copy of "You Wouldn't Want to Live There," a Jonny Gossamer novel, which has a bullet hole straight through it

Edited 2016-09-05 01:17 (UTC)

Age: 28

Canon Point: December 2007; end of season 2 after Doakes is killed and framed as the Bay Harbor Butcher, and Lundy leaves.

Appearance: She currently looks like this and is wearing that outfit when she shows up on the island. So, currently wearing: white tank top, sky blue button up, jeans, leather belt, white socks, super cute bra/undies, dark blue converse, a black wristwatch, and her cool aviator sunglasses. She's also wearing her badge around her neck like in the pic and her gun is holstered at her waist.

Personality:

Backstory:

Notable Traits:
--swears like nonstop
--police
--is in absurdly good shape, like she exercises p much constantly and can whoop ass
--has a lot of feelings

Starting Inventory:
--GUN, she has a gun, it's a police-issue pistol, it's a gun
--her police badge
--sunglasses, for maximum cool
--cellphone
--wallet

Edited 2016-09-05 08:32 (UTC)

Age: 34

Canon Point: February 1989; end of season 1 after being shot in his hotel room.

Appearance: 6'0; Cooper is all business, but is always just thrilled to be here. He takes pride in his appearance, so he'll be pretty irritated when he starts to look more like this due to the island's lack of hair gel. Currently wearing: a full tux because he arrives in style.

Personality: consistently walking a fine line between chipper and dire

Backstory: Cooper has been sent off to the sleepy town of Twin Peaks to investigate the murder of one (1) Laura Palmer, a high school student wrapped up in mysterious soap-opera-esques goings-ons. That's all you get because I need to canon review.

Notable Traits:
--appreciates good coffee
--loves cherry pie, donuts
--is an honorary member of the Bookhouse Boys which is a secret club??
--records notes about his life/surroundings compulsively
--is super into Tibetan monks and their ideologies
--FBI agent, that should probably have been mentioned sooner

Starting Inventory:
--GUN, he also has a gun, it's a revolver, he's wild west
--his tape recorder for sending tapes to Diane
--his FBI badge and wallet

Edited 2016-09-05 09:18 (UTC)

Age: 35

Canon Point: January 2025; immediately after his first dumbass drift with the kaiju brain

Appearance: 5'7; he currently looks like this except mysteriously slightly... dusty?? and his left eye is all fucked up from the kaiju drift. He's currently wearing: white button-up shirt with his lil black tie thing, skinny jeans apparently, combat boots bc he's Ready, probably some sick kaiju groupie undies, cool scientist socks, his super neato glasses, a bunch of black bracelets on his left wrist and some kind of cool ring on his right pinky which is definitely science-related somehow i'm sure. Also, this jacket but less fucked up.

Personality: you're wrong and i'm the best

Backstory: just here read the thing

Notable Traits:

Starting Inventory:
--science

Edited 2016-11-26 10:21 (UTC)

Age: 31

Canon Point: During 74th Hunger Games; the night that Julek kills Lewis

Appearance: 6'1; he generally looks like this except way less sass and approximately one million times more done. Other expressions include: still done but not with ur shit, done but in solidarity. Also, he's ripped because fight me? Currently wearing: a nice gray suit (ignore too many hair) because Capitol, a dark gray dress shirt, a black tank top underneath, a black leather belt, boring undies and socks, and fancy but relatively functional boots. Also he wears glasses but faceclaims are hard. Also bonus pic.

Personality:

Backstory:

Notable Traits:

Starting Inventory:

Edited 2016-09-05 02:43 (UTC)

Age: 28

Canon Point: March 2016; the first night her eye is missing (before she knows Julek's plan to infiltrate Sebastian's life via cat, after she finds out about Emilio's rabbit wife problems, and after she gets Harlan involved with her eye situation)

Appearance: 5'3; behold my beautiful determined protag!! she is kinda slouchy and kinda cranky and doesn't always want to be here. she will get along great with will. sometimes she is excited about things, though. Currently wearing: this, so a black spaghetti strap tank top under a pinkish checkered button up with a dark purple cardigan over it all, jeans, a bra and some undies that just happened to be clean and def do not match, socks that def do match, and sneakers that are obnoxiously bright green and blue. She also wears glasses, and she usually ties back her shoulder-length hair in a loose ponytail.

Personality:

Backstory:

Notable Traits:

Starting Inventory:

Edited 2016-09-05 03:05 (UTC)

Age: 37

Canon Point: March 2016; when he passes out after hacking off his finger (about a day before the start of the novel)

Appearance: 6'3; he looks like this except hhhhhh is his usual expression and he looks like a delightful goof when he smiles. Currently wearing: a knee-length green peacoat that is way too big for him bc it is actually his wife's, a blue longsleeve shirt that is also too big for him (and also now bloodstained, good job emilio), cargo pants that don't quite fit him right, Batman undies, argyle socks, and black converse. He's missing his right pinky finger, though the wound has healed over.

Personality:

Backstory:

Notable Traits:

Starting Inventory:

Edited 2016-09-05 03:18 (UTC)

Age: 39

Canon Point: March 2016; the night before his 8th Hollowend kill, immediately after Hettie shows up to his office drunk and makes a move on him

Appearance: 5'7; you know what charlie day looks like by now bc i'm trash!!!!! In general Harlan looks more composed and, uh, clean than charlie kelly or newt (i.e. he's an actual adult human). The main differences are that he's not constantly covered in mystery filth, he doesn't perpetually look like he just woke up in an alleyway, and he's capable of dressing himself. Speaking of, currently wearing: plain black t-shirt, red flannely button up thing, black leather jacket, jeans, leather belt, very practical no-nonsense undies, black socks, and those like work boot things that are actually classy shoes. Also, he has a tattoo? Tattoos? Idk, his left thigh is all covered in self-inflicted black dots. At a glance, it looks like an incomplete-yet-precise geometric design of some kind. It's his murder tally. Harlan would sooner DIE than let anyone see this so it likely won't come up but also this is TEN so.

Personality: very likable until he's very not, is (maybe surprisingly) pretty emotional but his compulsions help him to keep himself in check (said emotions are usually anxiety and anger)

Backstory: Quick world explanation: Hollowend is a town in an AU version of Earth where supernatural/magic stuff exists. Actual supernatural stuff is relatively rare, but its existence is common knowledge (for example, running into a vampire in line at the store is about as rare and exciting as running into someone from another country; it's neat, but not earthshattering). Hollowend is a convergence point for supernatural folk, so there's a higher population of magical beings than average. There's no real reason for this. It's just a town, idk.

Harlan is from not-Hollowend. Harlan is not his real name. He never knew his dad. His mom was a witch. He's a warlock. He inherited her influence multiplier. She was abusive. He killed her. He started killing people to see if he could get away with it. He tells himself the killing is still just a test. He can't use his influence on himself.

Notes on his actual murder cycle are here because I was like, I'll write a quick summary! and then two+ pages happened.

Important things that have happened by his canon point:
Hettie has not solved the eye mystery; Julek is still being a cat at Sebastian (and Harlan knows this); Emilio's wife is still a rabbit; Harlan has killed seven people in Hollowend and he's planning to kill another the following day; Ms. Gilmoor briefly kidnapped Julek, which led to him releasing all the werewolves; Hettie showed up drunk at his office and tried to get in his pants

Notable Traits:
--he's a serial killer, that is important
--he is a warlock, that is also important
--his specific brand of magic is that he has an insane amount of influence, that is the most-most important; rules for that at the bottom
--has OCD that he manages to hide pretty well (or does he? maybe he just constantly tells people "you didn't see that shut up"), mostly related to numbers and stuff being orderly; he does things in threes
--super super SUPER hates being touched do not touch him don't do it
--knows ASL for reasons
--has killed roughly 75-80 people (he knows the exact number but fuck it for right now)
--pretty good at math
--avoids drugs, legal or illegal, that alter his state of mind or could lead to an addiction; he's busy
--stripping him of his control in a situation is the fastest way to send him spiraling; if this happens, he'll quickly lose control of himself too, so cue some violence
--basically he's going to be a hot mess on this island everyone including him is super fucked

Starting Inventory:
--hatchet >8)
--digital watch on his left wrist
--lighter for reasons
--pen and notepad
--wallet (literal monopoly money)
--cell phone, keys, blahblah boring adult stuff

Influence Magic Rules:
In a nutshell: he can convince anyone of anything. This is how he keeps getting away with murder. He's actually been arrested like a billion times but he uses his influence to weasel out of it. This ability is super nerfed in TEN (the opposite player gets to pick when it works and when it doesn't) but here are some general rules about how his magic works in canon:

--He has to actually speak for the magic to work. Usually. It can works when he writes stuff, but it takes way more energy and is way less reliable. Words in the air only happen once, whereas written words are there forever and can be read repeatedly, in which case the magic will weaken. In general, writing has too many variables.
--It's not mind control. He can't force anyone to do anything, just to believe anything. For example, he couldn't command his mother to hang herself, but he could convince her that she wanted to commit suicide. Just an example that is related to nothing.
--The stronger the original belief, the stronger Harlan's magic needs to be to override it. For example, it would be nearly impossible for him to convince someone to commit suicide if they didn't already suspect, even in a very small way, that their life was not worth living. For example.
--It's easier for him to deploy particularly large lies (see example above) when the victim is either wrapped up in a bunch of smaller lies and/or is already vulnerable in some way. It's classic manipulation but turned up to 11.
--The magic does wear off after awhile, but the victim wouldn't be aware that they had been under a spell. It's more like slowly realizing that they misremembered/forgot something than regaining sudden clarity.
--All of the above mostly depends on how much effort Harlan puts into each lie. That said, he can only control how much power he puts behind his words, like one of those sliding power scales in a golf game or something. He can't specifically control when the magic will wear off or how effective the spell will be in the first place. He can make an educated guess based on the variables, but he's not always right.

Edited 2016-11-11 12:09 (UTC)

Age: 26

Canon Point: March 2016; after he sees Harlan kill Sebastian, maim Vernon, and assault Hettie because I guess I'm rolling with that as a test run hhhhhh

Appearance: 5'9 (ignore the fact this his faceclaim is a million feet tall); basically he looks like this except with 100% less Robin Hood and like 50% more panicky I CAN EXPLAIN!! flailing. he has two facial expressions outside of panicky flailing, and they include smugger than fuq and everybody loves me bc i'm so cute. He's currently wearing: a dark red t-shirt with like a band logo or something idk, a gray zip up hoodie jacket thing clothes words are hard, jeans, a cloth belt, boxers, black socks, crappy sneakers.

Personality: so many feelings so little time, ON FIRE

Backstory: Quick world explanation: Hollowend is a town in an AU version of Earth where supernatural/magic stuff exists. Actual supernatural stuff is relatively rare, but its existence is common knowledge (for example, running into a vampire in line at the store is about as rare and exciting as running into someone from another country; it's neat, but not earthshattering). Hollowend is a convergence point for supernatural folk, so there's a higher population of magical beings than average. There's no real reason for this. It's just a town, idk.

In Hollowend, there's a Mr. Fischoeder-esque landlady who owns half the town named Ms. Gilmoor and she's an elderly vampire (like, she was turned when she was in her 80s). Julek works as a courier for Ms. Gilmoor (under the table) and also deals pot (via his mom; Guena continues to ball hard). He's good for these things because he's a cat shifter, specifically an undocumented cat shifter. He used to be dating Sebastian, but Sebastian dumped him, and Julek is Upset about this so he decides to pose as a stray cat to get back into Sebastian's life and figure out how to actually win him back. It's a Bad Plan. Julek also sort of helps Hettie track down her missing eye, but he spends most of the novel Ben Harmoning around and making bigger messes of things.

Important things that have happened by his canon point:
Hettie has solved the eye mystery; Julek and Sebastian have started to reconcile (Sebastian knew Julek was the cat); Emilio's wife is still a rabbit; Harlan has killed eight people in Hollowend; Ms. Gilmoor briefly kidnapped Julek, which led to him releasing all the werewolves; AESOP (magic police basically) is on the scene; Hettie broke up with Brianna; Julek witnesses Harlan torture Vernon, murder Sebastian, and sexually assault Hettie; Hettie believes that Sebastian was the serial killer and she killed him to protect Vernon; Julek still remembers all of this stuff because they have not yet gone to Harlan's office

Notable Traits:
--can turn into a cat (specifically a large yet scrawny long-haired black cat, like this); his clothes don't magically shift with him when he shifts, so whenever he comes out of cat form, he'll be naked
--smokes
--has a lot of Feelings, esp with his canonpoint

Starting Inventory:
--two cigarettes
--a lighter
--wallet (super empty)
--cell phone
--Sebastian's glasses (cracked and bloodstained for maximum horror memento)

Edited 2016-09-05 11:04 (UTC)

- Charlie Kelly
- James Wilson
- Mara Reiniger
- Dennis Reynolds
- Brianna Jackson
- Robin Gunn
- Ladd Russo

Age: IT'S COMPLICATED physically he's 38 but technically he's 45

Canon Point: Februaryish 2018, super after Hollowend (which happens in March 2016)

Appearance: 6'1, looks like this but is usually more ominous, and also he's a zombie right now so he looks a little gross. The zombie part isn't too bad; mostly his skin is just grayer than it should be, and he looks/feels kind of... dry. The gross part is that his throat has been split open vertically on the left side, all the way from his jawbone to his collarbone. He can, uh, make gross congealed blood spurt out of the wound if he wants to. Usually he keeps the wound stitched up but that can get uncomfortable so NOT TODAY. Other than that, he's wearing a button-up gray shirt with a white A shirt underneath, jeans, idk some boring undies, argyle socks bc fancy zombie, and boots.

Personality: deadpan but a lil snarky and also this

Backstory: So James is a serial killer (sorry, everyone) and his whole schtick is garroting people. His murdering isn't as Complicated as Harlan's; he just like abducts homeless people, murders the crap out of them, and then cuts 'em up and dumps the pieces-parts in the mountains. He's been doing this for A While, so overall he has 42 kills under his belt.

James is a correctional psychiatrist, so his patients are all inmates and he also researches like, serial killer psychology and that sort of thing. Which is gr8 bc he is also a serial killer lololol. That's how he got into the field, p much, like on some level he wants to better understand his own psychopathy and murderous urges. Also, it's fun. Before Harlan showed up, James had been happily going about his business undetected since he's really good at covering his tracks (he gets a lot of A++ tips from his patients and from getting a behind the scenes look at the legal system heyooo). He lived in Colorado Springs and bounced between a lot of the major prisons in that area, including ADX Florence, which is like, The Prison.

his complete backstory is the longest shit ever so here it the long version...

tl;dr: James was doing his murderer thing, Harlan tracked him down, Harlan was like hey hottie hey, they were "together???" for a bit until shit went south and Harlan killed him. James revives and spends the next few years getting his shit together, which leads to him tracking down Harlan so Harlan can help him remember what the fuck his deal was in his old life.

Notable Traits:
- actually a psychopath.

- super good at reading people. he's not like sherlock holmes level or anything but he's particularly good at reading body language and mental states.

- his voice is a little hoarse bc of the whole neck wound thing.

- literally a zombie, which pretty much means he's a corpse possessed by a ghost and the corpse won't rot while he's possessing it. he can make his body work like normal when he wants to, like he can make his heart beat and he can digest food and stuff, but it's all voluntary, nothing just happens on its own. canonically, the only way to kill him would be to destroy his brain (also destroying the whole body would do, but that's... harder), but for our purposes here, he can be killed like normal. also, his body can't regenerate, so any injuries would be permanent but they also wouldn't really hurt him. more on that in a new thing since it's Important...

- he sort of can't feel pain. technically he can but in the same way that he can make his heart beat, like he has to actively focus on making his nerves work in order to feel anything. he pretty much always has his nerves turned on because navigating through the world with zero sensation at all is basically playing QWOP, but he can shut them off too if he doesn't feel like, uh, feeling. granted this works in accordance to an actual nervous system, like he couldn't shut off feeling in his shoulder without also losing feeling in his arm.

Starting Inventory:
- just normal pocket stuff idk nothing special

Age: 36

Canon Point: 2012, immediately after his "death" :')

Appearance: 5'7 look at this pouty fuckface that is what he is currently wearing and i'm not going to take the time to address all the pieces-parts but just know he Fancy. anyway here are some more pics of this crazy motherfucker.

Personality: predictability = 0%; insanity = yep; boredom = god help us

Backstory: just!! whatever!! you've seen the show get off my dick!!!! except in this version, i'm saying he did actually fake his death ??? somehow

Notable Traits:
- ain't afraid of shit, somehow? death and pain ain't no thing to him. he has a ridiculous tolerance for abuse.
- sherlock holmes but evil

Starting Inventory:
- just normal pocket stuff idk nothing special
- also A GUN it's a fake gun don't tell anyone

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Mippins's Character Blurbs

Shelly Spritzel | The Weather Man

Harry Lockhart | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Deb Morgan | Dexter

Agent Dale Cooper | Twin Peaks

Dr. Newt Geiszler

Sebastian Reiniger | HGRP

Hettie Reyes-Amurao | Hollowend

Emilio del Rio | Hollowend

Harlan Halliday | Hollowend

Julek Callery | Hollowend

POTENTIAL GUEST STARS

James Raider | Hollowend

Jim Moriarty | BBC Sherlock