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irishrotter) wrote2014-12-10 11:24 pm
irishrotter) wrote2014-12-10 11:24 pm
Application for The Last Voyages
User Name/Nick: Juniper
User DW: meh
AIM/IM: ricinbeens
E-mail: iamthejunipertree at gmail
Other Characters: the other dark-haired gay dude with the ugly sweaters
Character Name: Simon Monroe
Series: In the Flesh
Age: Biologically 27, chronologically 32
From When?: After Amy's funeral.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. On paper, Simon -- being a disciple of a zombie cult -- may seem like prime inmate material, but he's actually a very decent and caring man. All he wants is for himself and his fellow undead to live free and peaceful, unburdened and unharmed by the living. He's warm and genuine with his congregation and truly tries to understand the people he cares about and give them what he believes they need. For example, he lets Amy think of herself and him as a couple even though he's gay because he believes she needs to feel loved and he wants to give that to her regardless of whether or not his feelings for her are romantic. While he would be best suited to a fairly specific kind of inmate (read: undead), he would really try to help lead them to a better life.
Item: A pocket Bible.
Abilities/Powers: Simon is a PDS Sufferer, although the Undead Liberation Army prefer to call themselves the Redeemed. In popular terminology, though, he's a straight-up zombie with zombie abilities, most notably that he can't die unless his brain is destroyed. In his "untreated" or rabid state, he cannot feel pain or any other sensations other than, perhaps, discomfort and hunger. When treated with neurotriptyline, it is implied that PDS Sufferers may be able to feel some mild sensations as their brain cells regenerate. With the drug, he definitely can feel emotions and enjoy or dislike certain sensations (he likes kissing; he does not enjoy being vivisected). He must be injected with neurotriptyline once every 24 hours or he will start to revert back to his rabid condition. In either state, he is stronger than most living humans, vulnerable to electricity, and unable to ingest anything but brains (human or animal).
Personality: [cw: drug use, depression, human experimentation, religious fanaticism]
In terms of the face he shows the world, Simon is an interesting contradiction. On the one hand, as acult church leader, he has a pretty intense demeanor and a certain flair for the dramatic. He likes art and poetry. He plays the guitar. He's decent at making speeches and even better at making statements: going to the pub with no coverup on to provoke the living, freeing captured rabid undead, throwing a party where everyone comes in the clothes they were buried in. When Kieren jokingly refers to him as a modern-day Moses, he doesn't exactly disagree.
At the same time, though, he's not actually very charismatic or personable, and certainly not very... well, lively. He's capable of caring and making people feel cared for, and he's got a sense of humor, but he's not exactly someone you would go to for a good time one-on-one. He's the guy who sets up the party and then sits outside -- literally. Despite his intensity, he also usually seems pretty contained, quiet even when he gets angry. Even when provoked to the point of violence, he's more likely to lash out physically than raise his voice, and he's really most likely to communicate his feelings with a cutting remark or the raise of a brow.
Probably the single most important thing to know about Simon, though, is that he is 100% a True Believer. He's a proud member of the Undead Liberation Army and a disciple of the Church of the Undead Prophet, and he is involved with both of these (which are sort of separate but deeply intertwined movements) because he genuinely, truly, and very deeply believes in their message. The undead, or the Redeemed in his parlance, are his family, his flock. They are to be protected and nurtured at just about any cost to the living. He doesn't actively advocate hurting the living, but he certainly doesn't feel much sympathy for most of them. The living are essentially an inconvenience at best; the dead are beautiful.
Part of the reason for his intense commitment is that he feels that being resurrected gave him a new lease on life. Before his death, he felt that life was meaningless and he more or less spent all his time, in his own words, "getting fucked up beyond belief." As a lab rat for the creation of neurotriptyline, his life had a purpose and a meaning, but was still deeply miserable. Now, free of mortality and illness and free of living society, embraced by the undead community, he feels cleansed and born anew to a world of possibility.
Canon implies that he is also simultaneously a fairly serious Christian (probably Irish Catholic), having taken the Bible and applied it (possibly somewhat selectively) to himself and the ULA. He prays, quotes Corinthians and Revelation liberally, and really does seem to believe that the Redeemed are just that: God's chosen vessel of human redemption. Similarly, he believes that bringing on another Rising and creating more Redeemed will help them inherit their proper place in the world.
Although Simon is definitely a fanatic, he is not completely unmalleable. Kieren is the best example of this. It's not only that Simon is physically attracted to Kieren: something about Kieren's spirit and compassion, the odd contradiction in him of depression and hope, feel unique to Simon and draw him to Kieren almost despite himself. Kieren even gets him to relax on some of his strongest convictions: he reluctantly wears makeup and goes to Sunday lunch at Kieren's house because Kieren asks him to. Of course, most important of all is that he winds up refusing to carry out his sacred mission because it would require killing Kieren. As important as the second Rising is to Simon, protecting Kieren is even moreso.
Barge Reactions: Simon will really enjoy certain aspects of the Barge. He'll like that there are other undead around and that they don't seem to feel any need to hide, and he'll like that this seems to be a place where people judge based on character rather than appearance. That said, he's not particularly warm or friendly with living humans and he'll probably gravitate more towards the undead and non-human characters unless very actively and positively engaged by the living (or unless Kieren really, really wants him to).
He may also have very mixed feelings when he finds out that all (or most) inmates have died: he'll be both uncertain (because they're still mostly in functionally 'alive' bodies and may not even remember their deaths or resurrections) and also a little angry/protective (because they're undead and trapped on the Barge).
Deal: To bring about the Second Rising without harming Kieren.
History: [CW: depression and drug use, human experimentation, cannibalism?] Simon Monroe was born in Ireland in 1982 and at some undetermined point moved to northern England with his family. Other than that, nothing remarkable is known about Simon's pre-death history, save that he was deeply depressed for the majority of his life. Untreated by medicine, he eventually started to self-medicate with "the a to z of the periodic table," believing life was meaningless and it didn't matter what he did to his body. At times, he did try healthier means of improving his life, such as moving to the US, but as soon as the shine wore off the apple he was always back to more of the same. In 2009, at the age of 27, he overdosed on an unknown drug (he literally does not seem to remember what) and died.
It was the best thing that could have happened to him.
But not at first. The same year he died, the dead rose en masse from the grave as rabid corpses in an event widely called The Rising. In his mindless state, Simon attacked his own home and killed and likely ate his own mother, although his father escaped. Eventually, Simon was captured and taken to the lab of Victor Halperin and John Weston, two doctors who were attempting to create a drug that could subdue or even cure the undead. Simon was the first to respond to their treatment and "wake up" again. He agreed to become a test subject in order to be fully cured and was subjected to an intense series of experiments, including electroshock and spinal surgery. As more of the undead began to wake up, one of them hijacked the lab's PA system at regular intervals, claiming to be a prophet and broadcasting messages of undead pride. Simon ignored these at first, even when another undead (now being called "Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferers"), Julian, tried to recruit him into the "Prophet's" growing congregation.
However, as part of his treatment, Simon was forced to see his father again, at which time he learned that his mother was dead and began to suspect the reason why. Soon after, he decided to reject the experiments and leave the center. He moved in with his father, who tried not to blame Simon, but ultimately couldn't handle what he had done and kicked him out of the house. Simon fled into the night and called Julian up. He was welcomed into the Prophet's church with open arms as his 12th and last disciple.
The church adopted the name of the Undead Liberation Army and focused on freeing the undead from the burdens and expectations of the living society they were being forced to reintegrate into. In this community, Simon truly found a family and a new lease on life. He became a zealous disciple and was eventually given a critical mission: to help bring about a second Rising, one of the ULA's most important goals. As the first Rising was widely believed to have started in the tiny village of Roarton, Simon was sent there with one of its undead citizens, Amy Dyer, and told to seek out the very first undead to awake during the original Rising.
While in Roarton, Amy introduced Simon to her "Best Dead Friend Forever," Kieren Walker, whom Simon soon kindled a relationship with. Not long after, Simon realized that Kieren was also the First Risen he had been searching for. However, when he told the Prophet, he was sent a chilling command in return: to bring about the second Rising, he would have to sacrifice Kieren on 12/12 at 12 PM in the Roarton cemetery. Despite being truly agonized over the order, Simon still planned to go through with it -- but he changed his mind at the last minute and even ended up jumping in front of a bullet to protect Kieren, although he could not save Amy from being killed on the same day. Branded a traitor to the movement, he decided to stay in Roarton with Kieren and help protect him from further attacks.
Sample Journal Entry: Link
Sample RP: Link
Special Notes:
User DW: meh
AIM/IM: ricinbeens
E-mail: iamthejunipertree at gmail
Other Characters: the other dark-haired gay dude with the ugly sweaters
Character Name: Simon Monroe
Series: In the Flesh
Age: Biologically 27, chronologically 32
From When?: After Amy's funeral.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. On paper, Simon -- being a disciple of a zombie cult -- may seem like prime inmate material, but he's actually a very decent and caring man. All he wants is for himself and his fellow undead to live free and peaceful, unburdened and unharmed by the living. He's warm and genuine with his congregation and truly tries to understand the people he cares about and give them what he believes they need. For example, he lets Amy think of herself and him as a couple even though he's gay because he believes she needs to feel loved and he wants to give that to her regardless of whether or not his feelings for her are romantic. While he would be best suited to a fairly specific kind of inmate (read: undead), he would really try to help lead them to a better life.
Item: A pocket Bible.
Abilities/Powers: Simon is a PDS Sufferer, although the Undead Liberation Army prefer to call themselves the Redeemed. In popular terminology, though, he's a straight-up zombie with zombie abilities, most notably that he can't die unless his brain is destroyed. In his "untreated" or rabid state, he cannot feel pain or any other sensations other than, perhaps, discomfort and hunger. When treated with neurotriptyline, it is implied that PDS Sufferers may be able to feel some mild sensations as their brain cells regenerate. With the drug, he definitely can feel emotions and enjoy or dislike certain sensations (he likes kissing; he does not enjoy being vivisected). He must be injected with neurotriptyline once every 24 hours or he will start to revert back to his rabid condition. In either state, he is stronger than most living humans, vulnerable to electricity, and unable to ingest anything but brains (human or animal).
Personality: [cw: drug use, depression, human experimentation, religious fanaticism]
In terms of the face he shows the world, Simon is an interesting contradiction. On the one hand, as a
At the same time, though, he's not actually very charismatic or personable, and certainly not very... well, lively. He's capable of caring and making people feel cared for, and he's got a sense of humor, but he's not exactly someone you would go to for a good time one-on-one. He's the guy who sets up the party and then sits outside -- literally. Despite his intensity, he also usually seems pretty contained, quiet even when he gets angry. Even when provoked to the point of violence, he's more likely to lash out physically than raise his voice, and he's really most likely to communicate his feelings with a cutting remark or the raise of a brow.
Probably the single most important thing to know about Simon, though, is that he is 100% a True Believer. He's a proud member of the Undead Liberation Army and a disciple of the Church of the Undead Prophet, and he is involved with both of these (which are sort of separate but deeply intertwined movements) because he genuinely, truly, and very deeply believes in their message. The undead, or the Redeemed in his parlance, are his family, his flock. They are to be protected and nurtured at just about any cost to the living. He doesn't actively advocate hurting the living, but he certainly doesn't feel much sympathy for most of them. The living are essentially an inconvenience at best; the dead are beautiful.
Part of the reason for his intense commitment is that he feels that being resurrected gave him a new lease on life. Before his death, he felt that life was meaningless and he more or less spent all his time, in his own words, "getting fucked up beyond belief." As a lab rat for the creation of neurotriptyline, his life had a purpose and a meaning, but was still deeply miserable. Now, free of mortality and illness and free of living society, embraced by the undead community, he feels cleansed and born anew to a world of possibility.
Canon implies that he is also simultaneously a fairly serious Christian (probably Irish Catholic), having taken the Bible and applied it (possibly somewhat selectively) to himself and the ULA. He prays, quotes Corinthians and Revelation liberally, and really does seem to believe that the Redeemed are just that: God's chosen vessel of human redemption. Similarly, he believes that bringing on another Rising and creating more Redeemed will help them inherit their proper place in the world.
Although Simon is definitely a fanatic, he is not completely unmalleable. Kieren is the best example of this. It's not only that Simon is physically attracted to Kieren: something about Kieren's spirit and compassion, the odd contradiction in him of depression and hope, feel unique to Simon and draw him to Kieren almost despite himself. Kieren even gets him to relax on some of his strongest convictions: he reluctantly wears makeup and goes to Sunday lunch at Kieren's house because Kieren asks him to. Of course, most important of all is that he winds up refusing to carry out his sacred mission because it would require killing Kieren. As important as the second Rising is to Simon, protecting Kieren is even moreso.
Barge Reactions: Simon will really enjoy certain aspects of the Barge. He'll like that there are other undead around and that they don't seem to feel any need to hide, and he'll like that this seems to be a place where people judge based on character rather than appearance. That said, he's not particularly warm or friendly with living humans and he'll probably gravitate more towards the undead and non-human characters unless very actively and positively engaged by the living (or unless Kieren really, really wants him to).
He may also have very mixed feelings when he finds out that all (or most) inmates have died: he'll be both uncertain (because they're still mostly in functionally 'alive' bodies and may not even remember their deaths or resurrections) and also a little angry/protective (because they're undead and trapped on the Barge).
Deal: To bring about the Second Rising without harming Kieren.
History: [CW: depression and drug use, human experimentation, cannibalism?] Simon Monroe was born in Ireland in 1982 and at some undetermined point moved to northern England with his family. Other than that, nothing remarkable is known about Simon's pre-death history, save that he was deeply depressed for the majority of his life. Untreated by medicine, he eventually started to self-medicate with "the a to z of the periodic table," believing life was meaningless and it didn't matter what he did to his body. At times, he did try healthier means of improving his life, such as moving to the US, but as soon as the shine wore off the apple he was always back to more of the same. In 2009, at the age of 27, he overdosed on an unknown drug (he literally does not seem to remember what) and died.
It was the best thing that could have happened to him.
But not at first. The same year he died, the dead rose en masse from the grave as rabid corpses in an event widely called The Rising. In his mindless state, Simon attacked his own home and killed and likely ate his own mother, although his father escaped. Eventually, Simon was captured and taken to the lab of Victor Halperin and John Weston, two doctors who were attempting to create a drug that could subdue or even cure the undead. Simon was the first to respond to their treatment and "wake up" again. He agreed to become a test subject in order to be fully cured and was subjected to an intense series of experiments, including electroshock and spinal surgery. As more of the undead began to wake up, one of them hijacked the lab's PA system at regular intervals, claiming to be a prophet and broadcasting messages of undead pride. Simon ignored these at first, even when another undead (now being called "Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferers"), Julian, tried to recruit him into the "Prophet's" growing congregation.
However, as part of his treatment, Simon was forced to see his father again, at which time he learned that his mother was dead and began to suspect the reason why. Soon after, he decided to reject the experiments and leave the center. He moved in with his father, who tried not to blame Simon, but ultimately couldn't handle what he had done and kicked him out of the house. Simon fled into the night and called Julian up. He was welcomed into the Prophet's church with open arms as his 12th and last disciple.
The church adopted the name of the Undead Liberation Army and focused on freeing the undead from the burdens and expectations of the living society they were being forced to reintegrate into. In this community, Simon truly found a family and a new lease on life. He became a zealous disciple and was eventually given a critical mission: to help bring about a second Rising, one of the ULA's most important goals. As the first Rising was widely believed to have started in the tiny village of Roarton, Simon was sent there with one of its undead citizens, Amy Dyer, and told to seek out the very first undead to awake during the original Rising.
While in Roarton, Amy introduced Simon to her "Best Dead Friend Forever," Kieren Walker, whom Simon soon kindled a relationship with. Not long after, Simon realized that Kieren was also the First Risen he had been searching for. However, when he told the Prophet, he was sent a chilling command in return: to bring about the second Rising, he would have to sacrifice Kieren on 12/12 at 12 PM in the Roarton cemetery. Despite being truly agonized over the order, Simon still planned to go through with it -- but he changed his mind at the last minute and even ended up jumping in front of a bullet to protect Kieren, although he could not save Amy from being killed on the same day. Branded a traitor to the movement, he decided to stay in Roarton with Kieren and help protect him from further attacks.
Sample Journal Entry: Link
Sample RP: Link
Special Notes: