Post by smee1 on Jun 9, 2011 9:42:08 GMT -5
...Temperance Jia Bae*
*Very exciting - two dead already! *
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...basics*
name Temperance Jia Bae
nickname Temperance. Just Temperance. You can't shorten Temperance.
age 21
gender Female
grade Adult
hometown Roscoe, New York/Chinatown New York City, New York
sexuality Straight
personification Mr. Smee
status Dormant
face claim Crystal Liu Yi Fei
...appearance*
hair color Long, thick, black hair. Often kept out of her face, usually in a loose braid.
eye color Dark brown, almost black. Almond shaped.
build Petite, very subtle curves, looks a bit younger than she is.
height 5' 1"
clothing style Nautical, easy to move in. Feminine, but not too flashy.
distinctive traits Has a bunch of tattoos, most noticeable is the Koi on the base of her neck, that she insists is a goldfish. Speaks with a quiet severity. Favorite quote: Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Her Stick is named Mr. Bangbang. Annnd it's sort of a pistol.
...personal*
personality
- Meticulous: It's very important to run a tight ship, and hers is kept in tip top shape. But this does not just apply to how she runs her boat, but how she runs her life. Temperance, despite reviling it, knows what she's doing today, tomorrow, next week. And she has a strong suspicion of what she's doing next year. Her life is so well planned out, it borders on unhealthy. Especially since she hates it.
- Craves Adventure: Temperance wants to figuratively let her hair down. She wants to make mistakes, make a name for herself, go out with a bang. She's attracted to power, and though she does not crave it herself, she wants to go out with her boots on.
- Secret Softy: Don't misread this: She gets what she needs to get done, and has very little guilt about it if it gets messy. For instance, she has no issue with using Mr. Bangbang (did you think I was kidding about that? I wasn't.) if the situation called for it. BUT: She does love kids. And, truth be told, they like her. Also: Fish. She adores fish. Especially goldfish. Well, animals in general. But she will still slap a bitch.
past Temperance never had a Mother. It is a fact that she finds quite sad about her life. The woman who gave birth to Temperance did not want to be a Mother, as so she poufed. Just disappeared, never to be seen again. Pouf, gone. Pouf.This left Temperance with the gentle Li Bae, who was a kind man. He worked himself near to death everyday, to provide for his daughter, long and hard hours at a laundry mat in Chinatown. And on the weekends, they would go to his boat and fish. This was the happiest time, for the young Temperance Bae, who had very few joys in her life. But on that boat, there was nothing wrong with the world. Nothing.
Three months shy of her eighteenth birthday, Li died on his way home from work, a victim of circumstance. At the wrong place, at the wrong time, caught up in a fight that had nothing to do with him. Temperance got emancipated from the state, and decided to start living in her boat. In attempts to recatch that childhood mirth.
She lead a life of quiet solitude at the docks, occasionally going to The Alleyway and betting on victors, getting a few drinks, flirting with the occasional gent. Nothing serious. Not that any of them could be taken seriously as contenders, useless lumps that they are. But they were sailors and fishermen, cut from the same uncouth cloth as she. Here she was at home.
present
Temperance continues her life of quiet solitude, maintaining her boat. She has few friends, mostly because many find her quiet severity to be unnerving. Temperance has become quite bored with life, and after finding out that her body was unable to conceive a child ever, she now wants a life of adventure. Live for herself, sail the world, do something amazing. Something people will talk about.
Not that she has many chances. Fishing today, fishing tomorrow. So goes her tale.
Or does it?
family
Bae Li: Father, died. Left his fishing boat to Temperance.
likes
- The Sea.
- Shooting Ranges.
- Kids.
- Goldfish
- Rum
- Her Boat Ching Shih
- Famous female pirates
- Cooking
- Swimming
- Managing
- Fishing
dislikes
- When she is out of control of something.
- Dirt on her boat.
- Being underestimated because she's a bit of a waif. Big things come in small packages.
- Sushi. It's gross.
- Boredom.
- Broke periods.
- Going into Chinatown.
- Talking about how she can't have children. It makes her sad.
- People slapping her ass. You have no idea. She will hurt someone! That is an epic nono.
- Being too far from her boat.
other notes TEXT HERE
...literature*
book title PETER & WENDY
backstory Smee is Captain Hook's right-hand man. He seems an oddly genial man for a pirate; Barrie describes him as "Irish" and "a man who stabbed without offence" – and is shown in the multiple pantomimes or movies of Peter Pan as a rather stupidly entertaining man interested in loot rather than Hook's more evil pleasures. Smee typically represents a humorous side to pirating, often portrayed as a portly man with a bulbous nose and red cheeks, but J.M. Barrie has hinted at a darker side. There is some, admittedly sparse, evidence that he has been 'sourcing' women from Neverland for his own ends. This is most tangibly expressed in the film Hook, where a Smee, played by Bob Hoskins, is apparently popular with the adult women of Neverland, but with a clear sense of fear present in their 'adoration'.
Like the other men of Neverland, Smee is ignorant of what a mother is. Early on, Wendy considers that if she were to have a pirate for a pet, she would choose Smee. When captured by Hook, every child in the brig loves Smee - he cannot lay a fist on them and does their darning - despite his belief that they fear him. Hook contemplates that Smee has good form without knowing it, which is of course the best form of all. He almost tears into Smee for this but knows that clawing a man for having good form is very bad form. In the Disney film, when Smee tells Hook that shooting a man in the middle of his cadenza isn't good form, Hook replies with "Good form, Mr. Smee? Blast good form! Did Pan show good form when he did this to me?" in which he refers to the time Peter Pan cut his hand off and threw it to the crocodile. Smee offers to save Wendy from the plank, if only she promises to be his mother - an offer she refuses, J. M. Barrie using the words, "Not even for Smee".
Smee's position on the Jolly Roger is presented inconsistently. In Peter and Wendy he is identified as the ship's bo'sun. In most Disney storybooks Smee is said to be first mate (the position held by Starkey in the novel), and this would explain him being addressed as 'Mister Smee' by Captain Hook, although some refer to him as the cook; in the Disney film he refers to both the first mate and the cook in the third person. However, he consistently acts as Captain Hook's "left hand man" (though with varying degrees of personal loyalty).
...roleplayer*
name Panda
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rp sample AT LEAST THREE PARAGRAPHS
