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Recolle App
Oct. 29th, 2017 11:41 amPLAYER
YOUR NAME: Noodle
18+?:
CONTACT: loverbayou @ plurk
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Noctis Lucis Caelum
RESERVATION LINK: here
YOUR NAME: Noodle
18+?:
CONTACT: loverbayou @ plurk
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Noctis Lucis Caelum
RESERVATION LINK: here
CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Booker DeWitt
AGE: 38
CANON: Bioshock Infinite
NAME: Booker DeWitt
AGE: 38
CANON: Bioshock Infinite
CANON HISTORY: here
CANON PERSONALITY: Booker DeWitt is a... Special sort. Brutish and crass in his own way, DeWitt is the result of years of pain, destruction, poor decisions and poor guidance.
While his personality hadn't been lost in the effects that come with traveling through a Tear, Booker is the result of a hard mix of regret, manipulation, and trauma. First and foremost, he's a man of guilt. Booker comes off as rude and hardened, but there's a softness to him that makes him unique. Regret drives him to seek forgiveness and understanding, but it also deters him from being a better man. He's a serious man who very openly expresses discontent towards himself, and so it fosters a sort of negativity that constantly goes about him. He's rather desensitized to most atrocities, given that he's partaken in killing so many people, including those of who share his ancestry. He once easily succumbed to the pressure of those around him, and so it's piled up a large gathering of regret and dismay that eventually fosters his careless attitude that is usually worn as a mask. Regret is what defines him, guilt is what molds him.
It's made him rather poisonous. Booker often berates himself and is very open about how terrible of a person he is, not at all hiding the aspects of his past that he hasn't confused or remembered incorrectly. Take, for instance, his openness of his faults during Wounded Knee, but his inability to answer Elizabeth when questioning him about her finger. He would prefer to be alone in his guilt, and somehow that has fostered a sort of compassionate sense of protection to those around him. He doesn't want to get others tied up in his nonsense anymore, and would honestly prefer to be miserable and lonely. Because he truly feels that is what he deserves.
But that doesn't deter him from socializing. Those who have come into Booker's life would see that while he absolutely hates himself for what he has become and what he has done, it's not as if he doesn't want to redeem himself in some fashion. Though he's initially confused as to why he's seeking out Elizabeth to wipe away his debts, he truly believes he's doing the right thing. In some fashion. It's nothing to truly be proud of, but at least he's not skinning people alive anymore. Then again, he's rather quick to go right back to berating and beating himself the second he realizes he's wrong. Booker truly desires to be a better person. He's poor at communication, he's terrible at softening himself around others, and so he's not the easiest to get along with. But there is a genuine desire to change, and that can be said for every iteration of him other than Zachary Hale Comstock.
Booker, guilt-ridden and angry as he is, is an addict and an unintentional con-man. His sense of justice is solid after years of doing wrong to others, wanting nothing more than for all to experience the beauties of freedom and liberty. He carries the desire of the American Dream, but he's too busy wallowing in his own sorrow and regret as a hypocritical man to truly go for it himself. For all these reasons, Booker is hardened to almost every single individual he comes across, and his attempts to be kind usually fall flat and seem rather awkward. But he's a man of compassion and care, showing it in the way he does appear truly disturbed to certain evils and his desire to protect Elizabeth. Despite knowing she doesn't need protection, and despite the fact that he's actually quite terrified of her.
He's snarky, crude, and often crass to those around him. Booker's sense of humor is generally dark and dreary, and that is all from the years of war and violence that he's been a part of. He doesn't generally trust anyone, but it doesn't stop him from interacting with those around him. He just may appear to be uncaring or distasteful to individuals who seem suspicious.
And he's not without some sort of sense of morality. Though he's afraid of Elizabeth in some form, he deeply cares for her and truly wants to ensure her safety and success. Much as other iterations of him have, and that much is made clear when he both refuses to kill her in order to avoid Songbird from whisking her away, and his insisting of killing Comstock so she doesn't have to. It's all to ensure that while he wants to redeem himself, she doesn't have to become what he has.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
- Hand-to-hand combat: Booker is proficient with his fists. Mostly with blunt objects. He doesn't fight like a karate master, but he definitely fights like a polished, dirty brawl man.
- Vigors and Plasmids: Booker has consumed an entire collection of Vigors, which are essentially liquid-powers. Drink a specific Vigor and receive a specific power. Vigors derive from Columbia and are consumed orally. Plasmids work much the same, and derive from Rapture, where Booker has resided in a twisted future. Plasmids are consumed via injection, and both forms of treatment rewrite one's genetic code to provide them following powerful abilities:
Flame throwing/Fire conjuring
Releasing a murder of Crows on either an individual or crowd
Moving objects with his mind
Unleashing powerful streams of water that can be used to grab and/or throw individuals
Electricity
Possession
Unleashing an invisible, powerful force of gravity on either an individual or crowd.
- Polished aim: Booker is extremely proficient with firearms. Both this and his experience in combat come from his experience working for the Pinkertons and his time as a soldier.
- Strategy: Just like his polished aim and proficient fighting, Booker is extremely talented at thinking up a decent resolution in a time of violence or entrapment, and he's extremely quick on his feet.
CANON PERSONALITY: Booker DeWitt is a... Special sort. Brutish and crass in his own way, DeWitt is the result of years of pain, destruction, poor decisions and poor guidance.
While his personality hadn't been lost in the effects that come with traveling through a Tear, Booker is the result of a hard mix of regret, manipulation, and trauma. First and foremost, he's a man of guilt. Booker comes off as rude and hardened, but there's a softness to him that makes him unique. Regret drives him to seek forgiveness and understanding, but it also deters him from being a better man. He's a serious man who very openly expresses discontent towards himself, and so it fosters a sort of negativity that constantly goes about him. He's rather desensitized to most atrocities, given that he's partaken in killing so many people, including those of who share his ancestry. He once easily succumbed to the pressure of those around him, and so it's piled up a large gathering of regret and dismay that eventually fosters his careless attitude that is usually worn as a mask. Regret is what defines him, guilt is what molds him.
It's made him rather poisonous. Booker often berates himself and is very open about how terrible of a person he is, not at all hiding the aspects of his past that he hasn't confused or remembered incorrectly. Take, for instance, his openness of his faults during Wounded Knee, but his inability to answer Elizabeth when questioning him about her finger. He would prefer to be alone in his guilt, and somehow that has fostered a sort of compassionate sense of protection to those around him. He doesn't want to get others tied up in his nonsense anymore, and would honestly prefer to be miserable and lonely. Because he truly feels that is what he deserves.
But that doesn't deter him from socializing. Those who have come into Booker's life would see that while he absolutely hates himself for what he has become and what he has done, it's not as if he doesn't want to redeem himself in some fashion. Though he's initially confused as to why he's seeking out Elizabeth to wipe away his debts, he truly believes he's doing the right thing. In some fashion. It's nothing to truly be proud of, but at least he's not skinning people alive anymore. Then again, he's rather quick to go right back to berating and beating himself the second he realizes he's wrong. Booker truly desires to be a better person. He's poor at communication, he's terrible at softening himself around others, and so he's not the easiest to get along with. But there is a genuine desire to change, and that can be said for every iteration of him other than Zachary Hale Comstock.
Booker, guilt-ridden and angry as he is, is an addict and an unintentional con-man. His sense of justice is solid after years of doing wrong to others, wanting nothing more than for all to experience the beauties of freedom and liberty. He carries the desire of the American Dream, but he's too busy wallowing in his own sorrow and regret as a hypocritical man to truly go for it himself. For all these reasons, Booker is hardened to almost every single individual he comes across, and his attempts to be kind usually fall flat and seem rather awkward. But he's a man of compassion and care, showing it in the way he does appear truly disturbed to certain evils and his desire to protect Elizabeth. Despite knowing she doesn't need protection, and despite the fact that he's actually quite terrified of her.
He's snarky, crude, and often crass to those around him. Booker's sense of humor is generally dark and dreary, and that is all from the years of war and violence that he's been a part of. He doesn't generally trust anyone, but it doesn't stop him from interacting with those around him. He just may appear to be uncaring or distasteful to individuals who seem suspicious.
And he's not without some sort of sense of morality. Though he's afraid of Elizabeth in some form, he deeply cares for her and truly wants to ensure her safety and success. Much as other iterations of him have, and that much is made clear when he both refuses to kill her in order to avoid Songbird from whisking her away, and his insisting of killing Comstock so she doesn't have to. It's all to ensure that while he wants to redeem himself, she doesn't have to become what he has.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
- Hand-to-hand combat: Booker is proficient with his fists. Mostly with blunt objects. He doesn't fight like a karate master, but he definitely fights like a polished, dirty brawl man.
- Vigors and Plasmids: Booker has consumed an entire collection of Vigors, which are essentially liquid-powers. Drink a specific Vigor and receive a specific power. Vigors derive from Columbia and are consumed orally. Plasmids work much the same, and derive from Rapture, where Booker has resided in a twisted future. Plasmids are consumed via injection, and both forms of treatment rewrite one's genetic code to provide them following powerful abilities:
Flame throwing/Fire conjuring
Releasing a murder of Crows on either an individual or crowd
Moving objects with his mind
Unleashing powerful streams of water that can be used to grab and/or throw individuals
Electricity
Possession
Unleashing an invisible, powerful force of gravity on either an individual or crowd.
- Polished aim: Booker is extremely proficient with firearms. Both this and his experience in combat come from his experience working for the Pinkertons and his time as a soldier.
- Strategy: Just like his polished aim and proficient fighting, Booker is extremely talented at thinking up a decent resolution in a time of violence or entrapment, and he's extremely quick on his feet.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Booker DeWitt (Formerly: Zachary Hale)
AU AGE: 38
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Booker looks exactly as he does in canon, however he is missing the "AD" initials burned on his hand.
AU NAME: Booker DeWitt (Formerly: Zachary Hale)
AU AGE: 38
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Booker looks exactly as he does in canon, however he is missing the "AD" initials burned on his hand.
AU HISTORY: - Booker's actual AU name is Zachary Hale. This is due to a pretty heavy life of crime, which resulted in him changing his name and skipping town.
- Booker moved to Recolle roughly close to a year ago, having left Brooklyn, NY to attempt escaping the eyes of the mob he'd been doing dealings with.
- At age 36, Booker lived a modest life with his wife of two years, Annalise Hale. He was a police officer with the NYPD, and working towards having a family until Analise was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Treatment cost far more than either of them could afford, and so their quality of life severely decreased due to funds necessary for her medication and surgeries. Unfortunately, money ran dry. Zachary Hale eventually loses his job as a police officer, and decides to take on a life of crime in order to earn big money fast. He became very quickly indebted to the mob, where he eventually was forced to work for them in order to 1. pay his debts and 2. still make enough money to get by.
- Zachary Hale's involvement with the mob leads to regularly committed crimes, violence, murder, and robbery.
- Annalise, despite constant treatment and surgery, dies of her ailment and leaves Zachary a widow. Many attempts to have a child failed, and so he has no family when his wife passes.
- This leads to a severe downward spiral of depression and erratic behavior. Zachary normalizes his crime life and no longer sees it as a means to get by. Rather, he adjusts to it and uses it as a coping mechanism to ignore the loss of his wife. He becomes extremely erratic, angry, and unpredictable in his time with the mob.
- Hit jobs are the norm with the mob he's tangled up with, and Zachary is tasked with his first assassination. A man who is severely in debt with the group who is delinquent in his payments. Zachary almost gets the job done, until he's forced to face a fearful mother of three children. The mother being the man's wife, the kids being his. Given that this hits pretty close to home, Zachary is forced to remember how soft he really is and he refuses the job. This doesn't bode well with the mob, and eventually results in the mob coming after him. With his life threatened and his life essentially in shambles, he manages to steal a large sum of money and weapons belonging to them as a last "fuck you". This facilitates the means for him to change his name and skip town to Recolle to assume a new life with a clean slate.
- Now Booker DeWitt, he eventually seeks help for his drug and alcohol addiction. He goes through rehab and meetings and manages to get clean. He gets a job as a private investigator/detective and starts working as a handyman on the side for extra money.
- Zachary Hale became a very angry, very depressed man. The assumed new life of Booker DeWitt has made him want very much to be a better man. While he's not a sweetheart and he's definitely got the very same snarky attitude that Booker has in Infinite, he's not a total asshole either. He does struggle and often lets his old self seep in every so often, but he makes a conscious effort not to be that way. He's striving to keep clean and move on with his life.
- Booker does have a close friendship with Rosalind Lutece. He's done plenty of extra jobs for her on the side, and they wound up becoming good friends in the process. She's really the only friend he's made since his arrival to Recolle. Though this is very likely to cause issue along the way with regains, for now, Booker has a deep respect for Rosalind after working with her for an extended period of time. She's one of the only individuals that he trusts. Upon getting regains, it's likely that there will be a lot of friction between them, considering that she is the general antagonist in his life, and is partly to blame for the multiple realities he's been forced through.
- Booker sought to remove all remnants of the life of Zachary Hale. This includes the destruction of any and all documents related to his name and past, and he burned down his Brooklyn, NY home before running away to Recolle as Booker DeWitt.
AU PERSONALITY: Not unlike his canon self, Booker is a man full of regret and despair. His entanglement with the mob created friction in his marriage, put his life in danger many times, and fostered his addictions that sprouted like wildfire. Though he is generally softer than the Booker DeWitt who once worked for the Pinkertons, it's only a very slight difference to the man he truly is. Booker is full of guilt and loneliness, but he refuses to reflect upon it and wishes to completely leave the life of Zachary Hale behind. He hasn't told a soul that he was previously married, and any information about his self has been tapered and watered down to make it seem genuine. He's extremely fearful of the mob coming after him, and so his past is to be left in the past, even if he allows it to constantly haunt him and follow him everywhere.
The only difference between the Booker DeWitt in Recolle and the Booker DeWitt in Columbia is the fact that all of his memories have been replaced with others. As if this is yet another lighthouse. Yet another tear that he's stepped through, except every single memory has been changed, not slightly altered due to confusion.
- Booker moved to Recolle roughly close to a year ago, having left Brooklyn, NY to attempt escaping the eyes of the mob he'd been doing dealings with.
- At age 36, Booker lived a modest life with his wife of two years, Annalise Hale. He was a police officer with the NYPD, and working towards having a family until Analise was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Treatment cost far more than either of them could afford, and so their quality of life severely decreased due to funds necessary for her medication and surgeries. Unfortunately, money ran dry. Zachary Hale eventually loses his job as a police officer, and decides to take on a life of crime in order to earn big money fast. He became very quickly indebted to the mob, where he eventually was forced to work for them in order to 1. pay his debts and 2. still make enough money to get by.
- Zachary Hale's involvement with the mob leads to regularly committed crimes, violence, murder, and robbery.
- Annalise, despite constant treatment and surgery, dies of her ailment and leaves Zachary a widow. Many attempts to have a child failed, and so he has no family when his wife passes.
- This leads to a severe downward spiral of depression and erratic behavior. Zachary normalizes his crime life and no longer sees it as a means to get by. Rather, he adjusts to it and uses it as a coping mechanism to ignore the loss of his wife. He becomes extremely erratic, angry, and unpredictable in his time with the mob.
- Hit jobs are the norm with the mob he's tangled up with, and Zachary is tasked with his first assassination. A man who is severely in debt with the group who is delinquent in his payments. Zachary almost gets the job done, until he's forced to face a fearful mother of three children. The mother being the man's wife, the kids being his. Given that this hits pretty close to home, Zachary is forced to remember how soft he really is and he refuses the job. This doesn't bode well with the mob, and eventually results in the mob coming after him. With his life threatened and his life essentially in shambles, he manages to steal a large sum of money and weapons belonging to them as a last "fuck you". This facilitates the means for him to change his name and skip town to Recolle to assume a new life with a clean slate.
- Now Booker DeWitt, he eventually seeks help for his drug and alcohol addiction. He goes through rehab and meetings and manages to get clean. He gets a job as a private investigator/detective and starts working as a handyman on the side for extra money.
- Zachary Hale became a very angry, very depressed man. The assumed new life of Booker DeWitt has made him want very much to be a better man. While he's not a sweetheart and he's definitely got the very same snarky attitude that Booker has in Infinite, he's not a total asshole either. He does struggle and often lets his old self seep in every so often, but he makes a conscious effort not to be that way. He's striving to keep clean and move on with his life.
- Booker does have a close friendship with Rosalind Lutece. He's done plenty of extra jobs for her on the side, and they wound up becoming good friends in the process. She's really the only friend he's made since his arrival to Recolle. Though this is very likely to cause issue along the way with regains, for now, Booker has a deep respect for Rosalind after working with her for an extended period of time. She's one of the only individuals that he trusts. Upon getting regains, it's likely that there will be a lot of friction between them, considering that she is the general antagonist in his life, and is partly to blame for the multiple realities he's been forced through.
- Booker sought to remove all remnants of the life of Zachary Hale. This includes the destruction of any and all documents related to his name and past, and he burned down his Brooklyn, NY home before running away to Recolle as Booker DeWitt.
AU PERSONALITY: Not unlike his canon self, Booker is a man full of regret and despair. His entanglement with the mob created friction in his marriage, put his life in danger many times, and fostered his addictions that sprouted like wildfire. Though he is generally softer than the Booker DeWitt who once worked for the Pinkertons, it's only a very slight difference to the man he truly is. Booker is full of guilt and loneliness, but he refuses to reflect upon it and wishes to completely leave the life of Zachary Hale behind. He hasn't told a soul that he was previously married, and any information about his self has been tapered and watered down to make it seem genuine. He's extremely fearful of the mob coming after him, and so his past is to be left in the past, even if he allows it to constantly haunt him and follow him everywhere.
The only difference between the Booker DeWitt in Recolle and the Booker DeWitt in Columbia is the fact that all of his memories have been replaced with others. As if this is yet another lighthouse. Yet another tear that he's stepped through, except every single memory has been changed, not slightly altered due to confusion.
