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fiveagainstradley) wrote2012-09-19 10:19 pm
fiveagainstradley) wrote2012-09-19 10:19 pm
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[nick / name]: Chris
[personal LJ/DW name]:milennialfalcon
[other characters currently played]: Pepper Potts :: Iron Man (movie) ::threeolives | Leah :: Marvel 616 :: helsmaiden
[e-mail]: gingerpottsceo+david@gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: ccgentes
[series]: Eight Days of Luke
[character]: David Allard
[character history / background]: Wiki link. David is an average boy with an average life, save for the fact that he's an orphan. He was made to live with his Aunt Dot, Uncle Bernard, Cousin Ronald, and Ronald's wife Astrid, who all treat him horribly and expect him to always be grateful. One evening, after his relatives were particularly awful, David storms out to the backyard where he begins cursing them, making up words as he goes along, not really expecting anything to happen. Instead, his made-up curse sets free a mysterious young man named Luke, who turns out to be Loki, Norse god of mischief and fire. Over the next week, Luke and David become fast friends, and David finds himself wound up in a mystery treasure hunt involving all sorts of Norse deities he never thought could be real. In the end, his awful relatives are driven out of town, except Astrid who turned out not to be too bad after all, and Luke is free from his prison forever.
[character abilities]: David is your average, ordinary teenager, except that he's a bit clever and perhaps more willing than most to suspend disbelief.
[character personality]: David is a bright boy, although it usually takes someone else pointing something out to him before he realizes it. Still, he's clever and able to come up with plans and schemes at the drop of a hat. Perhaps more importantly, he's able to come up with plans B and C when his first plan fails.
He's had a bit of a sad life, with his parents dying and leaving him to be raised by relatives who didn't care about David at all. His parents left him enough money to put him through public (which in England means private and posh) school, and his relations pilfered his money for themselves to boot. The only ally he has in the house is Astrid, who during the first week with Luke is shown to feel almost as much of an outsider as David. Astrid actually picks up on Luke's identity a hair before David puts it all together, further showing how David can be smart and yet slightly oblivious at the same time.
David can be, as most teenagers are, a little self-centered. He's no egotist by a long shot, and even amuses himself by making imaginary contests out of the pity parties his relatives throw trying to get sympathy from each other, but at the same time his world view is very David-centric. At one point Astrid makes mention of David not caring if she gets an awful head[ache], to which David responds that he would care. What he doesn't say is that the only reason he'd care is because when Astrid gets a headache, she's a pain to be around.
David's relatives try so hard to make him feel guilty that he's almost completely managed to ignore the feeling whenever he can. When Luke sets a building on fire just because David said he was bored, David starts to feel a little guilty but pushes the feeling aside fairly well, until he sees two girls trapped on the roof. When his guilt affects other people, he can't ignore it any longer. It's times like this that David feels particularly responsible for Luke, who, as David puts it, "did not operate by the same rules as other people." Because Luke is this ancient thing of chaos and mischief, David takes it upon himself to watch out for him, to make sure no one gets hurt by what he does, and Luke listens to David, so it works out pretty well.
In addition to guilt, David is used to people trying to tell him what to do or trying to threaten him, and he can ignore that as well. The better way to get David to do what you want is to be nice to him rather than try to scare or intimidate him, because that just won't work.
Before Luke, David doesn't really have any other friends to speak of. This is evident when he meets another boy, Alan, and describes him as having "the makings of a real ally." Note that David doesn't think to call Alan a friend, but an ally. He's so unused to having friends that he's stopped looking for them and instead just classifies peers as whether they'll make his life easier or more difficult. Luke is the great exception, because he is so grateful to David for freeing him that he does everything in his considerable power to make David happy, and he succeeds.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Approximately two years after the end. David has been going to school and living with Astrid when he comes home on breaks. He still sees Luke all the time, and they've become absolute best friends.
[journal post]:
[ The video feed opens on a small, wet cardboard box and a handful of thoroughly soaked and utterly useless matches. From the quality of the audio, it's evident the recording is accidental. ]
Where am I? This isn't Ashbury. And-- Oh, great, how am I meant to call Luke now? Wait, what's this? Some sort of portable?
[ A hand comes into view as it picks up the device, revealing a sandy-blond boy in his late teens. His hair and clothes are a few decades out of date, and he seems confused enough by what he's holding to suggest he's not from around here. ]
Oh, it's a camera. Sort of? Where's the film go? [ In trying to figure out where to put the nonexistent film, David accidentally ends the feed. ]
[third person / log sample]:
David stood and surveyed the room. The walls were bare, his trunk packed and his bed made. There wasn't much to pack but it had still taken him the better part of the morning to do it. With Alan's school already started and Astrid working all day at a shop in town, it had been just him, Alan's mum, and Alan's sisters around the house for days. And Luke.
Standing here on the last day of summer holidays before his last year at school made David wonder. It made him think about university, and inevitably, about life after university. What did he want to do with his life? He had no clue, except that he wanted to stay best friends with Luke, and maybe have a job involving cricket somehow. He wasn't good enough to play professionally, but maybe he could be an announcer, or work for a team in administration or something. He's not too bad at maths, he thinks. Maybe he could keep score.
He stood thinking for a while, until he reached in his pocket without thinking and his hand hit his trusty box of matches. He could hear from the rattling around that it was getting light. He'd have to pick up a new one soon. Or he could get a lighter, though he always preferred matches. They felt better in his hand, more traditional somehow.
As he struck a match, David looked out the window to see Luke turn into the drive. He smiled, glad to see his oldest and closest friend, and opened the window to call out to him.
"The door's open atop the stairs," he said, pointing to the fire escape turned external staircase that served his and Astrid's rooms. It's not as though Luke didn't know the way in; he'd been round a million times before, but it had become a sort of tradition for David to point out the stairs ever since they'd moved into the house, which had no creepers for Luke to climb up to David's window.
Luke gave a little salute of a wave and disappeared out of sight towards the stairs. Half a minute later he swung through the doorway and made himself comfortable on David's bed. "All packed up and ready to go, I see."
"We leave tomorrow, remember?" David frowned. "You're still coming, right?"
"Of course I am," Luke answered. "Last year? Wouldn't miss it."
"Good," said David. He knew Luke didn't have to go to school with him, being an ages old Norse deity and all, but the fact that he wanted to just to spend time with David made David feel special, warm inside. He never really had friends in school, or out of it, until Luke had come along. Plus he made Comparative Religions class loads more interesting.
"So," Luke said, "last day of holidays. What do you want to do?"
David didn't need to look out at the cloudy autumn sky to know he wanted to stay indoors. He settled in next to Luke on the bed. "How about some doodles?" he said.
"Sure," answered Luke, and they both turned their attention to the darkest corner of the room, which lit up with David's favorite of Luke's fire pictures.
They sat like that all afternoon. At one point David suggested they make popcorn, which Luke summarily burnt. They both laughed and ate it anyway.
[personal LJ/DW name]:
milennialfalcon[other characters currently played]: Pepper Potts :: Iron Man (movie) ::
threeolives | Leah :: Marvel 616 :: helsmaiden[e-mail]: gingerpottsceo+david@gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: ccgentes
[series]: Eight Days of Luke
[character]: David Allard
[character history / background]: Wiki link. David is an average boy with an average life, save for the fact that he's an orphan. He was made to live with his Aunt Dot, Uncle Bernard, Cousin Ronald, and Ronald's wife Astrid, who all treat him horribly and expect him to always be grateful. One evening, after his relatives were particularly awful, David storms out to the backyard where he begins cursing them, making up words as he goes along, not really expecting anything to happen. Instead, his made-up curse sets free a mysterious young man named Luke, who turns out to be Loki, Norse god of mischief and fire. Over the next week, Luke and David become fast friends, and David finds himself wound up in a mystery treasure hunt involving all sorts of Norse deities he never thought could be real. In the end, his awful relatives are driven out of town, except Astrid who turned out not to be too bad after all, and Luke is free from his prison forever.
[character abilities]: David is your average, ordinary teenager, except that he's a bit clever and perhaps more willing than most to suspend disbelief.
[character personality]: David is a bright boy, although it usually takes someone else pointing something out to him before he realizes it. Still, he's clever and able to come up with plans and schemes at the drop of a hat. Perhaps more importantly, he's able to come up with plans B and C when his first plan fails.
He's had a bit of a sad life, with his parents dying and leaving him to be raised by relatives who didn't care about David at all. His parents left him enough money to put him through public (which in England means private and posh) school, and his relations pilfered his money for themselves to boot. The only ally he has in the house is Astrid, who during the first week with Luke is shown to feel almost as much of an outsider as David. Astrid actually picks up on Luke's identity a hair before David puts it all together, further showing how David can be smart and yet slightly oblivious at the same time.
David can be, as most teenagers are, a little self-centered. He's no egotist by a long shot, and even amuses himself by making imaginary contests out of the pity parties his relatives throw trying to get sympathy from each other, but at the same time his world view is very David-centric. At one point Astrid makes mention of David not caring if she gets an awful head[ache], to which David responds that he would care. What he doesn't say is that the only reason he'd care is because when Astrid gets a headache, she's a pain to be around.
David's relatives try so hard to make him feel guilty that he's almost completely managed to ignore the feeling whenever he can. When Luke sets a building on fire just because David said he was bored, David starts to feel a little guilty but pushes the feeling aside fairly well, until he sees two girls trapped on the roof. When his guilt affects other people, he can't ignore it any longer. It's times like this that David feels particularly responsible for Luke, who, as David puts it, "did not operate by the same rules as other people." Because Luke is this ancient thing of chaos and mischief, David takes it upon himself to watch out for him, to make sure no one gets hurt by what he does, and Luke listens to David, so it works out pretty well.
In addition to guilt, David is used to people trying to tell him what to do or trying to threaten him, and he can ignore that as well. The better way to get David to do what you want is to be nice to him rather than try to scare or intimidate him, because that just won't work.
Before Luke, David doesn't really have any other friends to speak of. This is evident when he meets another boy, Alan, and describes him as having "the makings of a real ally." Note that David doesn't think to call Alan a friend, but an ally. He's so unused to having friends that he's stopped looking for them and instead just classifies peers as whether they'll make his life easier or more difficult. Luke is the great exception, because he is so grateful to David for freeing him that he does everything in his considerable power to make David happy, and he succeeds.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Approximately two years after the end. David has been going to school and living with Astrid when he comes home on breaks. He still sees Luke all the time, and they've become absolute best friends.
[journal post]:
[ The video feed opens on a small, wet cardboard box and a handful of thoroughly soaked and utterly useless matches. From the quality of the audio, it's evident the recording is accidental. ]
Where am I? This isn't Ashbury. And-- Oh, great, how am I meant to call Luke now? Wait, what's this? Some sort of portable?
[ A hand comes into view as it picks up the device, revealing a sandy-blond boy in his late teens. His hair and clothes are a few decades out of date, and he seems confused enough by what he's holding to suggest he's not from around here. ]
Oh, it's a camera. Sort of? Where's the film go? [ In trying to figure out where to put the nonexistent film, David accidentally ends the feed. ]
[third person / log sample]:
David stood and surveyed the room. The walls were bare, his trunk packed and his bed made. There wasn't much to pack but it had still taken him the better part of the morning to do it. With Alan's school already started and Astrid working all day at a shop in town, it had been just him, Alan's mum, and Alan's sisters around the house for days. And Luke.
Standing here on the last day of summer holidays before his last year at school made David wonder. It made him think about university, and inevitably, about life after university. What did he want to do with his life? He had no clue, except that he wanted to stay best friends with Luke, and maybe have a job involving cricket somehow. He wasn't good enough to play professionally, but maybe he could be an announcer, or work for a team in administration or something. He's not too bad at maths, he thinks. Maybe he could keep score.
He stood thinking for a while, until he reached in his pocket without thinking and his hand hit his trusty box of matches. He could hear from the rattling around that it was getting light. He'd have to pick up a new one soon. Or he could get a lighter, though he always preferred matches. They felt better in his hand, more traditional somehow.
As he struck a match, David looked out the window to see Luke turn into the drive. He smiled, glad to see his oldest and closest friend, and opened the window to call out to him.
"The door's open atop the stairs," he said, pointing to the fire escape turned external staircase that served his and Astrid's rooms. It's not as though Luke didn't know the way in; he'd been round a million times before, but it had become a sort of tradition for David to point out the stairs ever since they'd moved into the house, which had no creepers for Luke to climb up to David's window.
Luke gave a little salute of a wave and disappeared out of sight towards the stairs. Half a minute later he swung through the doorway and made himself comfortable on David's bed. "All packed up and ready to go, I see."
"We leave tomorrow, remember?" David frowned. "You're still coming, right?"
"Of course I am," Luke answered. "Last year? Wouldn't miss it."
"Good," said David. He knew Luke didn't have to go to school with him, being an ages old Norse deity and all, but the fact that he wanted to just to spend time with David made David feel special, warm inside. He never really had friends in school, or out of it, until Luke had come along. Plus he made Comparative Religions class loads more interesting.
"So," Luke said, "last day of holidays. What do you want to do?"
David didn't need to look out at the cloudy autumn sky to know he wanted to stay indoors. He settled in next to Luke on the bed. "How about some doodles?" he said.
"Sure," answered Luke, and they both turned their attention to the darkest corner of the room, which lit up with David's favorite of Luke's fire pictures.
They sat like that all afternoon. At one point David suggested they make popcorn, which Luke summarily burnt. They both laughed and ate it anyway.