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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
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REVISION REQUEST
Your application looks good! However, despite canon not giving many details about it, we would like to see some speculation on how Alfie might react to civilians and other types of people. Most of the characters Alfie interacts with in his samples are similar character types to those of the gang-affiliated people Alfie is familiar with, so we do not have a clear idea of how he might behave when he must interact with more benevolent and varied character types.
Additionally, we would like to see some analysis as to how Alfie's military background factors into his personality and his behavior. We do not require a lot from this, but we would like to have an idea as to what type of effect it has had on him.
Please reply to this comment with your revisions within three days or your slot will be forfeit.
this got wicked long; I'm sorry
Alfie would be likely to clash with benevolent characters, unless they were particularly passive or understanding. He is from a society where his actions are considered criminal, and it's not as if he doesn't understand this - he knows very well that what he does is, strictly speaking, wrong, but he's neither ashamed of nor apologetic about it. His default would probably be to try to take a "you don't mess with my affairs, and I won't mess with yours" approach. He would consider this to be a very reasonable offer, and anyone who didn't take him up on it would be neatly slotted into the "fair game" category in his head - the one for people who are voluntarily involving themselves in the criminal world, and who know (or should know) what they're getting into. Given the extreme nature of the survival situation in Norfinbury, he'd probably still be willing to interact, make temporary truces, and do business with them in some circumstances - but their attempts to control his activities from a moral or legal standpoint would put them closer to police than straight-up civilians in his mind, and he would rankle at the idea of relying on them for anything or working too closely with them unless he literally had no other options. As for morally upstanding characters who, for whatever reason, wouldn't try to put a stop to any potential unsavory activities, how he would respond to and interact with them would be highly variable - but if they simply disapproved and/or disliked him from afar without getting involved, their morals alone wouldn't put them at risk of his criminal attentions.
One thing to make mention of is that his ideas of what constitutes as being involved in criminal activity might not necessarily match up with most other people's, which could cause confusion and misunderstandings. For example, most of the gangs in his London deal in protection services - a business or establishment will pay one gang to protect them from other gangs (and/or the police, if it's an illegal business). Paying for protection from a gang is absolutely seen as allying oneself with that gang. If a pub pays a gang for protection, rival gangs might see the pub as a viable target (though on the other side of the coin, if something did happen to the pub, the protecting gang would be considered to have failed in their protection duties, and would be responsible for taking care of damages incurred). If Alfie somehow got his hands on a weapon and someone who was more defenseless asked him to, say, escort them across a dangerous part of town in exchange for a few days' worth of rations, they might simply see it as two survivors helping each other out in a way that works for both of them. Alfie, on the other hand, would be much more likely to see it as a contract of his services - and, by extension, an acceptance of and a business relationship with a criminal. Still, when it came to that sort of thing, he'd understand that not everyone comes from the same sort of background and environment that he does, and he'd probably be willing to try to clarify by asking, "Are you asking me to do this just as a person, or do you understand who I am and what I do?" It's a little difficult to generalize exactly where he'd draw the line between "one-time survivor-to-survivor deal" and "actual legit business deal" , but a general rule of thumb would be how serious it is. Things like traveling together for a few days, casually exchanging things like food and information every once in a while, etc. wouldn't be a big deal - everyone does it. Things like traveling together for an extended period of time or making an agreement to meet up once a week to trade supplies, however, would be closer to a formal alliance in his mind. Despite this, he'd probably be open to being more lenient with these lines than he would be at home - he can appreciate different sorts of rules for different sorts of situations, especially since he'd be well aware of being the only person around with his sort of background and expectations. But he wouldn't want to change his worldview entirely, and while he could be convinced to be less rigid with certain things and at certain times, his perspective as a whole would be extremely unlikely to change, and it would color his thinking in all situations - even if he made a conscious decision to handle something differently than he would have in London.
Finally, while Alfie isn't a selfless person by any means and would focus the vast majority of his time on looking out for himself (and, if ever applicable, any close CR), he's not unfeeling, clinically antisocial, or a complete monster. If he ran across a confused newbie and there was no one better around to help them, he'd give them a few pointers without expecting anything in return. If he saw someone alone, defenseless, and in dire straits, he'd have to really dislike them to just walk away. He'd never be one of the people rolling out the welcome wagon, getting involved in community service projects, or jumping up to be the first to offer assistance, but he wouldn't be entirely unsympathetic to the plights of his fellow unwilling Norfinbury residents.
Military background
The aftermath of World War I is a recurring theme in Peaky Blinders. Almost all of the major characters served, and most of them feel contemptuous towards men who didn't. Unfortunately, Alfie's time as an Allied soldier is another one of those things that isn't expanded on much in canon. He talks about the war exactly twice. The first time, he tells Tommy Shelby the story of the time he brutally attacked (and presumably killed) an Italian soldier by hammering a nail up his nose. He refers to it as "[his] own personal form of stigmata" as a weird sort of reference to crucifixion, which indicates that he saw it as a punishment of some sort - maybe because he was angry about Italy's murky role at the beginning of the war and the complicated circumstances in which they ended up eventually deciding to fight for the Allies, or maybe just because he was used to fighting Italians in gang wars at home and wasn't willing to put that completely on hold for the war's duration. No matter his reasons, this gruesome tale indicates that even in extreme life-or-death situations, he won't automatically and completely drop old grudges or let bygones by bygones, even with people who are supposed to be on his side at the moment - it's yet another example of his ultimate untrustworthiness when it comes to his alliances.
His second mention of the war comes, again, with Tommy - when they're locked in the high-stakes, death-threat-filled negotiations mentioned at the end of my written history section, and Tommy mentions that he'd been a tunneler and namedrops his unit. Alfie gives him a menacing half-smile and responds, in a quiet, almost teasing tone:
This is significant because it shows that - even though he's a veteran himself, and even though I don't think he's the type to not understand what a serious thing it is - he isn't above using somebody else's war experiences to needle them. But when Tommy doesn't rise to the bait, Alfie seems impressed by his mettle, chuckling and offering him a better deal than he'd been offering before.
World War I was brutal on an unprecedented scale - particularly in the trenches, where Alfie fought. It would be unrealistic to claim that he came away from it completely unaffected, but he seems to have recovered better than many. The show does not shy away from portraying men who have been deeply traumatized by their experiences in the war, but Alfie isn't one of them. If he's still battling war-related demons, he's doing it very quietly, and in a way that doesn't appear to detrimentally affect his current life.
ACCEPTED
A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony, although the balcony has partially collapsed and what remains isn't safe to walk on. One couch cushion is missing. There's an office in the right bedroom downstairs. On the floor beside the desk is an odd-looking case that's bolted to the floor. Open it up and it seems like there are countless slots for small SD cards, or something. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, STEPHANIE BROWN, GREED, EDWARD ELRIC, DAY FORTY FOUR, TRAVELLING EAST." has been carved into one of the walls.
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