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Player;
CHARACTER NAME: Ian Fowler
AGE: 35
CANON: OC
CANON POINT: 18 months post apocalypse + CRAU
BACKGROUND/HISTORY:
•Born September 1, 1986 in Weaverville, California.
•Single mother and an absent father without even a name to him, he believes his mother may have an idea or two of who it could be but not any real certainty.
•His mother worked 2 jobs to keep them financially afloat, meaning as soon as he was old enough Ian became a latchkey kid and spent the vast majority of his time alone.
•In his teen years he fell into a group of semi-hoodlum kids with whom he'd smoke pot or break into abandoned buildings with, but in the mining town that is Weaverville there isn't really a lot of trouble you can get into.
•Pushed by his mother to make a better life for himself than she could give him, he attended college and ultimately followed his tendency to take things apart & put them back together to decide on an engineering major.
•Found out his mother had cancer not long after he started post-grad, she was a pack a day smoker who didn't quit even after her diagnosis. She passed away 6 months later.
•He spent a few years after her passing withdrawn and channeling all of his feelings into school or work or projects.
•Private consulting / contracting after getting his masters, took on a few apprentices and found he really liked sharing his knowledge or guiding them to their fullest potential. Switched to teaching.
•In 2018 humanity experiences First Contact via a technologically advanced species that touched down on all major humanity hubs across the globe.
•Humanity is subjugated entirely in a matter of months. They're a scavenging race who visit planets with intelligent life and determine whether or not they're deserving of the gift they've been given.
•Earth sucks, do you even live here? Humanity is found unworthy of its resources, and they set up shop to strip it & harvest all of it for all valuable resources.
•Humans are given the opportunity to join work camps in order to survive. Anything besides acceptance is considered rebellion, and anyone that refuses is slaughtered.
•The Judge's primary interest is in metal. They have ships not terribly unlike magnets that can detect any metal larger than a sedan. All major cities are stripped within months before they start moving out toward smaller towns.
•Ian was fortunate enough to make it out of the city without being rounded up or slaughtered, along with his TA Luke & Luke's siblings.
•They wind up merging with a few additional survivors, and find their way up to Crater Lake National Park to establish a tentative homestead.
•Nia's son Jamill, a teenager, began pushing for his involvement in these supply runs. Ian ultimately made the final call that he's old enough to begin participating.
•They get cornered & most of them escape — except for JJ, who is taken.
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY:
•Showed up in New Amsterdam while everyone was trapped in a simulation. He met Kyna via network post and immediately launched into a flirty exchange. Also, got the lamest super power.
•They figured out where to go to un-assimilate, and Ian went despite it being full of a shitload of monsters so he could Unplug the thing because apparently that’s all it took.
•On the way back from Monsters, Nate walked in on him trying to patch himself up. Nate was a great guy and also hot, and so did the patching for him.
•Ian got back and was immediately like hey gurl i saved ur ass wanna bang, and she was like oh totes I definitely wanna bang. So they bung.
•An earthquake happened and he got all protective of Kyna, then realized he was being protective and was like oh shit, nope, too close lol bye, and then ghosted her.
•Monster Apocalypse happened and he got trapped in the bunker with her and a dude he was also banging. She got hurt, and he freaked out a little and immediately started to tend to her wound. She sprung an empathy bond on him while being salty about aforementioned ghosting. They had a Real Talk, and for the first time in many a year Ian decided not to completely fuck off on somebody because he was getting too attached to them.
•Shortly after, giant badger moles invaded the safe house and Attractive Nate was there at the right time to totally save his ass. They then had a super long convo while Nate made him walk across this stupid beam 60 stories in the air, identified and called him on his bullshit, and they also got Slightly Real.
•Look at this personal growth he is now attached to two entire people.
•He stopped sleeping with Kyna because they became bffs and also for other reasons. His super power leveled up to something awesome, that's probably unrelated.
•Had a dreamshare with Nate and kissed him to make him stop crying. It didn’t work but it DID make him be like oh shit I’m into this guy. Time to totally repress everything about that because it’s Too Much.
•He met Lance and bonded with him intensely, so now we’re at THREE whole people, such growth, wow. He also started KIND OF opening up about his Baggage, even more grow-ier.
•He started rediscovering normalcy in the form of taking an engineering job / apprenticeship and learning about 2500s cybernetic implant technology which was dope. He also got real invested in Morningstar because he wanted to Help People. Trying to score legal representation got him super shit on, but rebuilding everything with inconsistent time spans mostly fixed his rep.
•The alternate universe known as the Aerie happened, which brought on an entire slew of new trauma and an entire second life’s worth of memories, so he had to start reconciling “grew up with family and loved ones” Ian with “forever alone” Ian. Got much closer to Nate’s brother so now he’s at FOUR.
•Now struggling to not let Aerie life influence Current Life, freaking the F out over letting himself open up to people but doing his Very Best Try.
PERSONALITY:
Calm & Even Tempered
He has a "chill vibe" feeling. He isn't easily baited into arguments, he's not quick to anger, and when presented with an issue he comes at it with a grounded and unbiased approach. He tends to store up all of his intense emotions and set them aside until later, when he can process it all in private.
Aloof & Detached
He spent his formative years coming home to an empty house, having nobody but his own company. He believes all of his relationships go this way; they're surface level, friendly and enjoyable, but incredibly impermanent. He allows people to drift out of his life without doing anything to stop it.
Perceptive & Intelligent
Ian tended to turn to books and interests that fascinated him to fill the loneliness. He began to take things apart, learn their inner workings, and put them back together again. He studies people like he studies his work, and usually has enough social intelligence to Get them.
Social & Laid Back
When not filling his time with solo hobbies, Ian tends to be a little desperate for human contact. He can facilitate group discussions in a way that seems effortless and outgoing. His calm and ease make it seem like he's not trying to be the center of attention, and his aloof nature keep him from coming on too strong.
Egotistical & Self-Righteous
Because of his solitary nature and his intelligence, Ian tends to become a little full of himself. He tries to stay self-aware and check it with some humility, but he has a natural instinct to assume his opinion is the Right opinion. While he isn't intentionally a mansplainer, he gets so keen on teaching people and sharing knowledge that he might assume they know less than they do. He believes that his life experience has made him wise, and he dishes out that wisdom like it's candy.
Wise & Considerate
Despite being a little too full of himself about it, Ian is actually pretty wise. He offers up advice from a place of levelheadedness, and he navigates things with real care. Because he likes to fluff up his "I'm a wise and good person" ego, he goes out of his way to be considerate at all times and judges people who aren't.
Inflexible When Angry
Although it takes a LOT of work to upset Ian, it does occasionally happen. Getting into heated discussions about an issue he's decided he's the moral authority on will eventually devolve into a flaring of his normally repressed temper, and he has a tendency to yell or overreact. From a personal relationships standpoint, on the off-chance he does start to let somebody in and he finds himself slighted or betrayed by them, he takes it incredibly personally. He may surprise them by breaking his normally reserved disposition and getting incredibly petty or spiteful, using his perceptiveness and insight to unleash ruthless commentary.
SUITABILITY: Ian's from the alien apocalypse; finding ways to survive on minimal resources has been the last 18 months of his life. He will do exactly what he did back home — identify needs around their society and find ways to solve for them. He'll devote his engineering background to this, as well as offer up strategic insight for difficult decisions.
ABILITIES/SKILLS:
SKILLS:
Engineering — just shy of a doctorate. He spent months in the future learning super advanced engineering bullshit like neural meshes and brain implants and stuff
Chemistry — he minored in it
Teaching
Public speaking
Diplomacy aka keeping his shit together and being a voice of reason, mediating 2 parties
Decent shot with a rifle, but he's no specialist
Basic survival ie first aid, skinning a deer, growing a decent tomato plant
Things that involve doing stuff with your hands - cooking, woodworking, general handyman stuff
He's done a lot of recreational drugs and he can keep it together while trippin balls does that count as a skill
POWERS:
Matter manipulation — he can move and change the shape of non-sentient matter up to 5x5 square feet with his mind. Must be within line of sight.
Matter duplication — he can duplicate objects smaller than a breadbox, they must be more simple than a handgun.
Bloodbending — he can move and change the shape of blood, currently only while outside of a body; no meat puppeting, just blood whipping and shit.
Empathy bonding / memory sharing — currently limited to just people with stupid god shards in their chests.
INVENTORY:
Small notebook & pen
MP3 player & headphones
Tragically useless face mask device which literally won’t work for anyone but himself
Flashlight pods that stick to your temples and track your retinas for Smart Shine technology, patent pending
Samples;
NAME: Em
AGE: 29
PRONOUNS: She/Her
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Character;AGE: 29
PRONOUNS: She/Her
CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: apping the white wolf winter swoldier barnes
CHARACTER NAME: Ian Fowler
AGE: 35
CANON: OC
CANON POINT: 18 months post apocalypse + CRAU
BACKGROUND/HISTORY:
•Born September 1, 1986 in Weaverville, California.
•Single mother and an absent father without even a name to him, he believes his mother may have an idea or two of who it could be but not any real certainty.
•His mother worked 2 jobs to keep them financially afloat, meaning as soon as he was old enough Ian became a latchkey kid and spent the vast majority of his time alone.
•In his teen years he fell into a group of semi-hoodlum kids with whom he'd smoke pot or break into abandoned buildings with, but in the mining town that is Weaverville there isn't really a lot of trouble you can get into.
•Pushed by his mother to make a better life for himself than she could give him, he attended college and ultimately followed his tendency to take things apart & put them back together to decide on an engineering major.
•Found out his mother had cancer not long after he started post-grad, she was a pack a day smoker who didn't quit even after her diagnosis. She passed away 6 months later.
•He spent a few years after her passing withdrawn and channeling all of his feelings into school or work or projects.
•Private consulting / contracting after getting his masters, took on a few apprentices and found he really liked sharing his knowledge or guiding them to their fullest potential. Switched to teaching.
•In 2018 humanity experiences First Contact via a technologically advanced species that touched down on all major humanity hubs across the globe.
•Humanity is subjugated entirely in a matter of months. They're a scavenging race who visit planets with intelligent life and determine whether or not they're deserving of the gift they've been given.
•Earth sucks, do you even live here? Humanity is found unworthy of its resources, and they set up shop to strip it & harvest all of it for all valuable resources.
•Humans are given the opportunity to join work camps in order to survive. Anything besides acceptance is considered rebellion, and anyone that refuses is slaughtered.
•The Judge's primary interest is in metal. They have ships not terribly unlike magnets that can detect any metal larger than a sedan. All major cities are stripped within months before they start moving out toward smaller towns.
•Ian was fortunate enough to make it out of the city without being rounded up or slaughtered, along with his TA Luke & Luke's siblings.
•They wind up merging with a few additional survivors, and find their way up to Crater Lake National Park to establish a tentative homestead.
•Nia's son Jamill, a teenager, began pushing for his involvement in these supply runs. Ian ultimately made the final call that he's old enough to begin participating.
•They get cornered & most of them escape — except for JJ, who is taken.
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY:
•Showed up in New Amsterdam while everyone was trapped in a simulation. He met Kyna via network post and immediately launched into a flirty exchange. Also, got the lamest super power.
•They figured out where to go to un-assimilate, and Ian went despite it being full of a shitload of monsters so he could Unplug the thing because apparently that’s all it took.
•On the way back from Monsters, Nate walked in on him trying to patch himself up. Nate was a great guy and also hot, and so did the patching for him.
•Ian got back and was immediately like hey gurl i saved ur ass wanna bang, and she was like oh totes I definitely wanna bang. So they bung.
•An earthquake happened and he got all protective of Kyna, then realized he was being protective and was like oh shit, nope, too close lol bye, and then ghosted her.
•Monster Apocalypse happened and he got trapped in the bunker with her and a dude he was also banging. She got hurt, and he freaked out a little and immediately started to tend to her wound. She sprung an empathy bond on him while being salty about aforementioned ghosting. They had a Real Talk, and for the first time in many a year Ian decided not to completely fuck off on somebody because he was getting too attached to them.
•Shortly after, giant badger moles invaded the safe house and Attractive Nate was there at the right time to totally save his ass. They then had a super long convo while Nate made him walk across this stupid beam 60 stories in the air, identified and called him on his bullshit, and they also got Slightly Real.
•Look at this personal growth he is now attached to two entire people.
•He stopped sleeping with Kyna because they became bffs and also for other reasons. His super power leveled up to something awesome, that's probably unrelated.
•Had a dreamshare with Nate and kissed him to make him stop crying. It didn’t work but it DID make him be like oh shit I’m into this guy. Time to totally repress everything about that because it’s Too Much.
•He met Lance and bonded with him intensely, so now we’re at THREE whole people, such growth, wow. He also started KIND OF opening up about his Baggage, even more grow-ier.
•He started rediscovering normalcy in the form of taking an engineering job / apprenticeship and learning about 2500s cybernetic implant technology which was dope. He also got real invested in Morningstar because he wanted to Help People. Trying to score legal representation got him super shit on, but rebuilding everything with inconsistent time spans mostly fixed his rep.
•The alternate universe known as the Aerie happened, which brought on an entire slew of new trauma and an entire second life’s worth of memories, so he had to start reconciling “grew up with family and loved ones” Ian with “forever alone” Ian. Got much closer to Nate’s brother so now he’s at FOUR.
•Now struggling to not let Aerie life influence Current Life, freaking the F out over letting himself open up to people but doing his Very Best Try.
PERSONALITY:
Calm & Even Tempered
He has a "chill vibe" feeling. He isn't easily baited into arguments, he's not quick to anger, and when presented with an issue he comes at it with a grounded and unbiased approach. He tends to store up all of his intense emotions and set them aside until later, when he can process it all in private.
Aloof & Detached
He spent his formative years coming home to an empty house, having nobody but his own company. He believes all of his relationships go this way; they're surface level, friendly and enjoyable, but incredibly impermanent. He allows people to drift out of his life without doing anything to stop it.
Perceptive & Intelligent
Ian tended to turn to books and interests that fascinated him to fill the loneliness. He began to take things apart, learn their inner workings, and put them back together again. He studies people like he studies his work, and usually has enough social intelligence to Get them.
Social & Laid Back
When not filling his time with solo hobbies, Ian tends to be a little desperate for human contact. He can facilitate group discussions in a way that seems effortless and outgoing. His calm and ease make it seem like he's not trying to be the center of attention, and his aloof nature keep him from coming on too strong.
Egotistical & Self-Righteous
Because of his solitary nature and his intelligence, Ian tends to become a little full of himself. He tries to stay self-aware and check it with some humility, but he has a natural instinct to assume his opinion is the Right opinion. While he isn't intentionally a mansplainer, he gets so keen on teaching people and sharing knowledge that he might assume they know less than they do. He believes that his life experience has made him wise, and he dishes out that wisdom like it's candy.
Wise & Considerate
Despite being a little too full of himself about it, Ian is actually pretty wise. He offers up advice from a place of levelheadedness, and he navigates things with real care. Because he likes to fluff up his "I'm a wise and good person" ego, he goes out of his way to be considerate at all times and judges people who aren't.
Inflexible When Angry
Although it takes a LOT of work to upset Ian, it does occasionally happen. Getting into heated discussions about an issue he's decided he's the moral authority on will eventually devolve into a flaring of his normally repressed temper, and he has a tendency to yell or overreact. From a personal relationships standpoint, on the off-chance he does start to let somebody in and he finds himself slighted or betrayed by them, he takes it incredibly personally. He may surprise them by breaking his normally reserved disposition and getting incredibly petty or spiteful, using his perceptiveness and insight to unleash ruthless commentary.
SUITABILITY: Ian's from the alien apocalypse; finding ways to survive on minimal resources has been the last 18 months of his life. He will do exactly what he did back home — identify needs around their society and find ways to solve for them. He'll devote his engineering background to this, as well as offer up strategic insight for difficult decisions.
ABILITIES/SKILLS:
SKILLS:
Engineering — just shy of a doctorate. He spent months in the future learning super advanced engineering bullshit like neural meshes and brain implants and stuff
Chemistry — he minored in it
Teaching
Public speaking
Diplomacy aka keeping his shit together and being a voice of reason, mediating 2 parties
Decent shot with a rifle, but he's no specialist
Basic survival ie first aid, skinning a deer, growing a decent tomato plant
Things that involve doing stuff with your hands - cooking, woodworking, general handyman stuff
He's done a lot of recreational drugs and he can keep it together while trippin balls does that count as a skill
POWERS:
Matter manipulation — he can move and change the shape of non-sentient matter up to 5x5 square feet with his mind. Must be within line of sight.
Matter duplication — he can duplicate objects smaller than a breadbox, they must be more simple than a handgun.
Bloodbending — he can move and change the shape of blood, currently only while outside of a body; no meat puppeting, just blood whipping and shit.
Empathy bonding / memory sharing — currently limited to just people with stupid god shards in their chests.
INVENTORY:
Small notebook & pen
MP3 player & headphones
Tragically useless face mask device which literally won’t work for anyone but himself
Flashlight pods that stick to your temples and track your retinas for Smart Shine technology, patent pending