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snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
Application
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Billy Kaplan grew up idolizing superheroes, especially the Avengers: larger-than-life fixtures in his world who could right any wrong and solve any problem. Following their example, he values protecting the innocent and fighting evil above his own safety and often his own happiness. As a teenager, he successfully avoided a bully only to learn that the bully had turned his attention on other targets. Rather than remaining silent and safe, Billy confronted his former tormentor and in the process manifested magical powers. That was the first step on the path to becoming a superhero himself, and he's been walking it ever since.
Being a superhero from the age of sixteen has done a number on what Billy considers normal. He reacts to weird things with amusement rather than disbelief, and he's usually calm (if occasionally annoyed) in the face of things like time travel, retroactive reincarnation, and alien parasites from another dimension. That isn't to say, however, that he's jaded - while he's genre-savvy from living in a comic book universe, deaths and real horrors can and do affect him deeply.
Despite the occasional grimness of his job, Billy is one of those superheroes that really love their banter. His sense of humor is dorky and he's not above puns and pop culture references. There is always time for a good quip (or a terrible one) regardless of the traumatic or life-endangering circumstances. This can be overly flippant, and sometimes even actively unhelpful. He's prone to inserting sarcastic comments under his breath or to those standing close-by, especially when his teammates are doing something he considers foolish or annoying. In arguments, this tendency manifests as outright bitter sarcasm rather than expressing his feelings directly. It can also lead him into trouble as he has been shown to be distracted in the middle of battle by a conversation that seems more important than beating the supervillain of the day.
Though he doesn't alway know when to close his mouth, Billy does try to play peacemaker in big and small ways. When he discovered that the Avengers believe his mother, Wanda Maximoff, was culpable for her actions in ridding the world of mutants he argued on her behalf to Captain America. His desire to argue for Wanda even when it became obvious how much damage she had done came out of a deep sense of loyalty. Billy will do almost anything for those he cares about most, such as betraying his own code of ethics ("Avengers don't kill") in extreme circumstances by attempting to cast a spell that would have killed a scientist torturing Teddy. His loyalty and his hero-worship make him overly-trusting at times, especially of authority figures and other superheroes. However, he isn't trusting to the point of stupidity: when Magneto and Loki came calling, he was sensibly cautious about the possibility of a team-up.
While he's smart (and genre-savvy) enough to avoid trusting supervillains, Billy does have a major problem with looking before he leaps. Once he's set on a plan or idea, it's incredibly difficult to get him to back down - especially if he thinks what he's doing is for the greater good. That stubbornness has even put him toe-to-toe with the Avengers themselves on more than one occasion. While that can be a flaw, his determination and strong sense of right and wrong allows him to stand up for his principles even at great personal cost, such as when he joined Captain America's side in the superhero Civil War and ended up imprisoned in the negative zone.
While it might seem that someone that stubborn would be confident in themselves, Billy is anything but. After the loss of two of his friends and the disbanding of the Young Avengers, he fell into severe depression, and later he was willing to commit suicide in order to save the day because he didn't believe himself to be a good person. Several years later, when he was overtaken by a fear demon, he admitted that the demon's tactics weren't particularly effective on him because he already had a little voice in his head telling him that he wasn't good enough, and he didn't let it win every day. That scene was also notable because it showed growth from his teenage self: Billy addressed some of his own issues and was okay enough with himself to expel the demon entirely. Due to his mental health issues and the nature of his powers, Billy is sometimes too fixated on his own problems at the expense of paying attention to his loved ones' personal issues. He also takes blame on himself and tries to shoulder the responsibility for things alone, even when other people try to help him.
Strangely for someone with that lack of self-assuredness, Billy's powers can sometimes make him arrogant. While he's usually quick to admit that he doesn't really know what he's doing, he's fond of gloating at supervillains when he's winning. However, that arrogance doesn't really spill over into his life outside of the battlefield and it doesn't lead him to seek power beyond what he already has. When he was offered a glimpse at the multiverse and given a chance to alter it to his whims, he decided that he didn't have enough experience to meddle with things outside his understanding and let go of that power for now. Wanda observed that he didn't want the responsibility of having power over the universe, and she was probably right. Instead Billy chooses to accept more normal limitations and in his civilian identity do things in a non-magical way, like living with his parents into his 20s rather than using his powers to create an ideal life. Despite his enormous potential and crazy superhero life, he's ultimately a grounded person doing his best to live up to his heroes.
Flavor Abilities: None.
Suitability: As someone who's lived through some of the more bizarre things comics has to offer, Billy isn't particularly surprised by weird. He can handle being kidnapped to an alternate dimension and existential questions about the nature of perception. Some of his best friends are AIs. So, I anticipate him being fairly stable as far as Norfinbury's weirdness is concerned.
However, being cut off from his powers for months is something he's never experienced since getting them. It puts him in a new and difficult position, and undercuts one of the few things that he is confident about. I'm looking forward to exploring who he is when he can't be a magic-user as well as throwing him against whatever it is that's neutralizing anomalies as well as the more supernatural aspects of Snowblind.
Also, it's a small thing, but out of the four characters I've brought to Snowblind he will be the most comfortable with the network format and I'm pretty excited to take more advantage of that.
RP Samples:
Network (Subthread with Davesprite)
Prose
ACCEPTED
A standard single-story house with a bedroom, living room, kitchen, and bathroom. Every room in the house has haphazardly been painted red. The paint around the doors, windows, and gutted electrical outlets has been stripped off, revealing bare metal beneath. A patch on each wall has been stripped of paint, revealing bare metal. "I AM HERE" is scraped onto the bedroom wall, with "@mnemosyne Day 216" beneath it.
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