PERSONAL
NAME: Sair
PERSONAL JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
omnihotdog
EMAIL: vincentsangel@gmail.com
AIM: flouncingweenies
WIKI NAME: n/a
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Jake English
SERIES: MS Paint Adventures
CANON POINT: [ After which point in their canon storyline does the character enter Paradisa? ]
LOSS: Jake is going to lose the memory of every movie he’s ever watched. A void will be there, filling countless hours and leaving only a nagging sense that if he knew what he was doing in that span of time, he would really have liked it.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Jake is dumber than a box of rocks. He’s also a happy young man just brimming with panache and swagger. He has a very good heart even though his social graces and sense of perception fail fantastically. He would consider himself very attentive and astute, and he would be wrong.
To start to understand Jake’s peculiar blend of charm, dorkiness and infuriating obtuseness, you have to understand where he’s come from. He was raised on a remote island by Grandma Harley but not before she was killed while Jake was still young. Part of the process included the destruction of Jake’s house, and the start of his very unconventional lifestyle on a jungle island inhabited with alien monsters.
Growing up alone he learned to live very much in his own head, and consequently he considers himself the unflappable hero of the adventure he’s on. He didn’t have Jade’s advantage of spending time with carpacians on prospit, so he had to make do with what he had. He obtained a number of practical survival skills, and more than a few strange personality quirks. The key to his survival it seems, is his optimism and his ability to be blandly happy most of the time, and utterly delighted with the most trivial of novelties. But Jake wasn’t going to be alone forever, at some point, he was able to make friends on the internet and his small world grew, if only slightly.
Jake values his friends very dearly, and considers himself close to them, but as usual his perceptions are slightly flawed. He isn’t attentive of them as he thinks he is, and actually winds up more inclined to hurt them badly with careless, thoughtless or inattentive actions. He treats his relationship with Dirk flippantly, although it could be Jake’s inflated sense of bravado when he mentions how he could just break it off. He ignores social cues from his friends and sprite to go on about his own problems, making it hard for even Roxy to defend him. He’s very self-centered, although he’s certainly not malevolent, he’s just a twat in a very immature way. He misses his own hypocritical tendencies when he judges others for the same irritating things he does. After he crosses too many lines with the people he’s close to, he either tries to backpedal, hide or try to eke forgiveness out of them though only partially sincere or clumsy remediation.
Before you think Jake is a total scumbag, remember he really is trying to conduct himself with the best intentions, morals and manners he can manage. The problem is he has all the social aptitude of a small child and he has invested way too much time pouring his attention into action movies. He doesn’t understand people, and he’s good enough with charming words and sincere intentions that people don’t realize how fallible he is. He hasn’t had his behavior addressed in a way he understands, so it doesn’t change. It’s room for growth in his character, although in the present it’s showing to cause all kinds of havoc.
At least not all of Jake’s childishness is bad. He’s a playful, enthusiastic person who tries to keep obstinately positive. He loves guns, adventure, movie, skulls, blue women and spider-babes. The kid can keep himself busy if left unattended, and he does well enough on his own compared to the other lone-alphas. He looks forward to meeting other people, but doesn't express a need for human contact as much as Roxy, and the brobot was Dirk's idea to give Jake companionship, rather than Jake's. He isn't afraid to be on his own, and even considers it a solution to the problems he has with his friends (well that’s a little bad.). He’s as Dirk said, “rugged in a dorky way” and he can play survival-man with the best of them. Only problem is, Jake has only adapted to “dangerous” things along the lines of pitfalls, tomb-snares and big monsters ready to eat him. More subtle threats evade him.
Jake is staggeringly naive. He believes anything that is told to him, and takes it at face value despite any superseding connotations. He accepts his dead grandmother is his pen-pal writing him from the past and doesn’t question his correspondence with pre-scratch universe Jade. He takes the future Dirk tells him of in stride, and even announces himself a passionate foe of the Coincidence for her impending plans to mess up Earth. He doesn’t even seem pulsed about the cherub stuff. He even goes along with Caliborn, as much as the man offends Jake’s principles, Jake plays along. But there is a line to be drawn, and so far AR is the only one to cross it. Jake won’t stand for deception.
It almost seems like the idea of deceit couldn’t even cross Jake’s mind, and when it does Jake becomes infuriated. The best example of this is Jake’s beef with Dirk’s Auto-Responder. He has difficulty emphasizing with the program because it has deceived Jake so many times and has earned a grudge from the plucky youth, although they agreed AR would practice transparency if Jake would respect AR’s really real feelings. Even after that, Jake was skeptical of AR and tried to refuse cooperating with the program when AR arrived before Jake on Dirk’s severed head. Even then, Jake was still holding a grudge.
Grudges are a somewhat dangerous if irrational thing with Jake. As mentioned before, Jake took the HIC’s legend seriously. When he was introduced to her pre-scratch version, Meenah, Jake flew at her like a howler monkey without hesitation. After all, she was a bad guy. Jake’s world is rather black and white in that respect. His critical thinking skills are rather… underwhelming. If he thinks someone’s a bad guy, it’s not likely one will change his mind any time soon. Such is the life of an adventurer and action hero.
ABILITIES:
Jake is an accomplished outdoorsman and a talented shooter.
For being from the 21st century, he’s not bad at making robots though he’s nowhere near as good as Jade or Dirk.
He also has some kind of supernatural power given to him by Sburb, following his title Page of Hope. As a page he has a vast potential with the possibility of it becoming realized. As a hope player... well he’s hopeful. And terrible with people (seems to be a thing). Combining his title, he should be able to provide a benefit to his allies by bringing hope to the party. Maybe. It’s not canon yet and I’ll be avoiding it until it is.
A latent power his title seems to provide is that Jake has the sense he knows more things than he should, or realizes. It’s possible he can make fake things less fake by believing in them, hence why Dirk was able to occupy Jake’s brain shard. This is all fandom speculation and will be avoided completely unless resolved by canon. Just wanted to get it down so the mods know I’ve taken it into consideration (Include ALL the things!).
Last, but not least, he has the superhuman talent to love every movie. All of them. That has to count as a talent or something.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
A young man stood in his bedroom. It just so happened he wasn't going to go out today because it was pouring. This brought the boy a great deal of dissatisfaction.
Jake heaved a sigh to no one in particular. The rainy season was the worst when you were stuck indoors for days on end.
It was particularly unpleasant when there was only one door to keep you in and that was the door to your bedroom. Jake glanced down the stairwell that led out, eyeballing the thick pumpkin vine that was already creeping into his private chamber. Those damn things will be growing like weeds at this rate, he thought. For a passing moment Jake considered going after them all with a bayonet and pruning back some of the foliage, but that sounded terribly boring and similar enough to work that Jake dismissed the thought almost immediately.
What to do...
He’d watched his fill of movies, for now anyway. Not that he believed there was such a thing as too much Nic Cage, but still… he wanted to save Ghost Rider for later. He nudged one of his comics with the toe of his boot, humming noncommittally. The printed heroes would have to wait on Jake for another day, besides he’d read them all a dozen times. There had to be some kind of stimulation around here.
He could work on Terry. He only had a little more than a month left before he was supposed to send the little guy on his way. Nevertheless, working on a project, even for his most beloved Grandma, sounded unappealing. He wanted someone to entertain him and that was a serious problem when you were the only one on a remote island who wasn't a terrible monster.
No one was on messenger, either. Well, besides Dirk’s blasted auto-responder. Jake killed a good hour talking to that asshole before he realized it wasn't Dirk. How infuriating, the gall of that program to impersonate Jake’s best friend. Jake would do something about it, but fat chance getting his paws on the bastard. Hm. Jake could stand to get into some scrums today, but the brobot was probably laying low somewhere where the water couldn't seep into its circuits. Then Jake realized what he was considering with a grimace. Christ on a cracker he was bored if he was willing to get in a tousle with that overpowered thing.
“Well, Terry. I think it’s just you and me today,” Jake flopped onto his bed and addressed the partially assembled rabbit. “Though I highly doubt we’re in store for any kind of hilarious antics.”
Terry gave no reply, which was little wonder considering his head was unattached. Resigning himself to getting to work, Jake pulled a screwdriver out of his sylladex and commenced his work for the day.
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Dearest adventure journal,
Its a pleasure to make your acquaintance and im sure itll be no time before this tooled volume is filled to the brim with accounts of all sorts of marvelous adventures accrued in this mysterious castle! Though i guess you could say i feel like a real heel for blowing out of the game with my friends like that. I never even had the chance to make amends with jane! Damn it if i had you i would have jotted down that code LICKETY-SPLIT! Then i could have sent it off without a hitch instead of looking like an even bigger buffoon to my dear friend. Whatever it was i bet she would have been thrilled by my selfless gesture of friendship.
Oh well. I guess theres no sense crying over spilled milk now. Those guys will do just fine without me. I have nothing but complete faith in them! And who knows? Maybe this is the way the time travel my friend mentioned comes to pass! Yes im sure of it. By the time i get back jane and dirk ought to have cooled down and itll be just like old times!
Whops. Sitting around moping sure isnt getting any exploring or daring do accomplished is it? Well then my esteemed compendium lets get on with it and see what kind of hazards we can unearth!
INTENT: I really enjoy Jake, I identify with his struggles and I admire his optimism and enthusiasm. I play him in another game, but I’d like to bring him to some deeper waters to expand his world though cross canon CR and see if he can grow. And antagonize the characters in his cast with how staggeringly stupid he can be. ;)
NAME: Sair
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
omnihotdogEMAIL: vincentsangel@gmail.com
AIM: flouncingweenies
WIKI NAME: n/a
CURRENT CHARACTERS: n/a
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Jake English
SERIES: MS Paint Adventures
CANON POINT: [ After which point in their canon storyline does the character enter Paradisa? ]
LOSS: Jake is going to lose the memory of every movie he’s ever watched. A void will be there, filling countless hours and leaving only a nagging sense that if he knew what he was doing in that span of time, he would really have liked it.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER:
Jake is dumber than a box of rocks. He’s also a happy young man just brimming with panache and swagger. He has a very good heart even though his social graces and sense of perception fail fantastically. He would consider himself very attentive and astute, and he would be wrong.
To start to understand Jake’s peculiar blend of charm, dorkiness and infuriating obtuseness, you have to understand where he’s come from. He was raised on a remote island by Grandma Harley but not before she was killed while Jake was still young. Part of the process included the destruction of Jake’s house, and the start of his very unconventional lifestyle on a jungle island inhabited with alien monsters.
Growing up alone he learned to live very much in his own head, and consequently he considers himself the unflappable hero of the adventure he’s on. He didn’t have Jade’s advantage of spending time with carpacians on prospit, so he had to make do with what he had. He obtained a number of practical survival skills, and more than a few strange personality quirks. The key to his survival it seems, is his optimism and his ability to be blandly happy most of the time, and utterly delighted with the most trivial of novelties. But Jake wasn’t going to be alone forever, at some point, he was able to make friends on the internet and his small world grew, if only slightly.
Jake values his friends very dearly, and considers himself close to them, but as usual his perceptions are slightly flawed. He isn’t attentive of them as he thinks he is, and actually winds up more inclined to hurt them badly with careless, thoughtless or inattentive actions. He treats his relationship with Dirk flippantly, although it could be Jake’s inflated sense of bravado when he mentions how he could just break it off. He ignores social cues from his friends and sprite to go on about his own problems, making it hard for even Roxy to defend him. He’s very self-centered, although he’s certainly not malevolent, he’s just a twat in a very immature way. He misses his own hypocritical tendencies when he judges others for the same irritating things he does. After he crosses too many lines with the people he’s close to, he either tries to backpedal, hide or try to eke forgiveness out of them though only partially sincere or clumsy remediation.
Before you think Jake is a total scumbag, remember he really is trying to conduct himself with the best intentions, morals and manners he can manage. The problem is he has all the social aptitude of a small child and he has invested way too much time pouring his attention into action movies. He doesn’t understand people, and he’s good enough with charming words and sincere intentions that people don’t realize how fallible he is. He hasn’t had his behavior addressed in a way he understands, so it doesn’t change. It’s room for growth in his character, although in the present it’s showing to cause all kinds of havoc.
At least not all of Jake’s childishness is bad. He’s a playful, enthusiastic person who tries to keep obstinately positive. He loves guns, adventure, movie, skulls, blue women and spider-babes. The kid can keep himself busy if left unattended, and he does well enough on his own compared to the other lone-alphas. He looks forward to meeting other people, but doesn't express a need for human contact as much as Roxy, and the brobot was Dirk's idea to give Jake companionship, rather than Jake's. He isn't afraid to be on his own, and even considers it a solution to the problems he has with his friends (well that’s a little bad.). He’s as Dirk said, “rugged in a dorky way” and he can play survival-man with the best of them. Only problem is, Jake has only adapted to “dangerous” things along the lines of pitfalls, tomb-snares and big monsters ready to eat him. More subtle threats evade him.
Jake is staggeringly naive. He believes anything that is told to him, and takes it at face value despite any superseding connotations. He accepts his dead grandmother is his pen-pal writing him from the past and doesn’t question his correspondence with pre-scratch universe Jade. He takes the future Dirk tells him of in stride, and even announces himself a passionate foe of the Coincidence for her impending plans to mess up Earth. He doesn’t even seem pulsed about the cherub stuff. He even goes along with Caliborn, as much as the man offends Jake’s principles, Jake plays along. But there is a line to be drawn, and so far AR is the only one to cross it. Jake won’t stand for deception.
It almost seems like the idea of deceit couldn’t even cross Jake’s mind, and when it does Jake becomes infuriated. The best example of this is Jake’s beef with Dirk’s Auto-Responder. He has difficulty emphasizing with the program because it has deceived Jake so many times and has earned a grudge from the plucky youth, although they agreed AR would practice transparency if Jake would respect AR’s really real feelings. Even after that, Jake was skeptical of AR and tried to refuse cooperating with the program when AR arrived before Jake on Dirk’s severed head. Even then, Jake was still holding a grudge.
Grudges are a somewhat dangerous if irrational thing with Jake. As mentioned before, Jake took the HIC’s legend seriously. When he was introduced to her pre-scratch version, Meenah, Jake flew at her like a howler monkey without hesitation. After all, she was a bad guy. Jake’s world is rather black and white in that respect. His critical thinking skills are rather… underwhelming. If he thinks someone’s a bad guy, it’s not likely one will change his mind any time soon. Such is the life of an adventurer and action hero.
ABILITIES:
Jake is an accomplished outdoorsman and a talented shooter.
For being from the 21st century, he’s not bad at making robots though he’s nowhere near as good as Jade or Dirk.
He also has some kind of supernatural power given to him by Sburb, following his title Page of Hope. As a page he has a vast potential with the possibility of it becoming realized. As a hope player... well he’s hopeful. And terrible with people (seems to be a thing). Combining his title, he should be able to provide a benefit to his allies by bringing hope to the party. Maybe. It’s not canon yet and I’ll be avoiding it until it is.
A latent power his title seems to provide is that Jake has the sense he knows more things than he should, or realizes. It’s possible he can make fake things less fake by believing in them, hence why Dirk was able to occupy Jake’s brain shard. This is all fandom speculation and will be avoided completely unless resolved by canon. Just wanted to get it down so the mods know I’ve taken it into consideration (Include ALL the things!).
Last, but not least, he has the superhuman talent to love every movie. All of them. That has to count as a talent or something.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
A young man stood in his bedroom. It just so happened he wasn't going to go out today because it was pouring. This brought the boy a great deal of dissatisfaction.
Jake heaved a sigh to no one in particular. The rainy season was the worst when you were stuck indoors for days on end.
It was particularly unpleasant when there was only one door to keep you in and that was the door to your bedroom. Jake glanced down the stairwell that led out, eyeballing the thick pumpkin vine that was already creeping into his private chamber. Those damn things will be growing like weeds at this rate, he thought. For a passing moment Jake considered going after them all with a bayonet and pruning back some of the foliage, but that sounded terribly boring and similar enough to work that Jake dismissed the thought almost immediately.
What to do...
He’d watched his fill of movies, for now anyway. Not that he believed there was such a thing as too much Nic Cage, but still… he wanted to save Ghost Rider for later. He nudged one of his comics with the toe of his boot, humming noncommittally. The printed heroes would have to wait on Jake for another day, besides he’d read them all a dozen times. There had to be some kind of stimulation around here.
He could work on Terry. He only had a little more than a month left before he was supposed to send the little guy on his way. Nevertheless, working on a project, even for his most beloved Grandma, sounded unappealing. He wanted someone to entertain him and that was a serious problem when you were the only one on a remote island who wasn't a terrible monster.
No one was on messenger, either. Well, besides Dirk’s blasted auto-responder. Jake killed a good hour talking to that asshole before he realized it wasn't Dirk. How infuriating, the gall of that program to impersonate Jake’s best friend. Jake would do something about it, but fat chance getting his paws on the bastard. Hm. Jake could stand to get into some scrums today, but the brobot was probably laying low somewhere where the water couldn't seep into its circuits. Then Jake realized what he was considering with a grimace. Christ on a cracker he was bored if he was willing to get in a tousle with that overpowered thing.
“Well, Terry. I think it’s just you and me today,” Jake flopped onto his bed and addressed the partially assembled rabbit. “Though I highly doubt we’re in store for any kind of hilarious antics.”
Terry gave no reply, which was little wonder considering his head was unattached. Resigning himself to getting to work, Jake pulled a screwdriver out of his sylladex and commenced his work for the day.
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
Dearest adventure journal,
Its a pleasure to make your acquaintance and im sure itll be no time before this tooled volume is filled to the brim with accounts of all sorts of marvelous adventures accrued in this mysterious castle! Though i guess you could say i feel like a real heel for blowing out of the game with my friends like that. I never even had the chance to make amends with jane! Damn it if i had you i would have jotted down that code LICKETY-SPLIT! Then i could have sent it off without a hitch instead of looking like an even bigger buffoon to my dear friend. Whatever it was i bet she would have been thrilled by my selfless gesture of friendship.
Oh well. I guess theres no sense crying over spilled milk now. Those guys will do just fine without me. I have nothing but complete faith in them! And who knows? Maybe this is the way the time travel my friend mentioned comes to pass! Yes im sure of it. By the time i get back jane and dirk ought to have cooled down and itll be just like old times!
Whops. Sitting around moping sure isnt getting any exploring or daring do accomplished is it? Well then my esteemed compendium lets get on with it and see what kind of hazards we can unearth!
INTENT: I really enjoy Jake, I identify with his struggles and I admire his optimism and enthusiasm. I play him in another game, but I’d like to bring him to some deeper waters to expand his world though cross canon CR and see if he can grow. And antagonize the characters in his cast with how staggeringly stupid he can be. ;)
