cosmographia app
May. 12th, 2015 08:23 pmPlayer Info:
Name: Zoki
Timezone: EST
Contact: Journal PM
Character Info:
Name: Dr. Emmett L. Brown (or 'Doc' to you cool kids)
Age: Canon is inconsistent, but late 60s/early 70s seems to be the best guess
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Canon: Back to the Future film trilogy
Summary:
First, aim to list 5-7 bullet points of the history of your character.
Name: Zoki
Timezone: EST
Contact: Journal PM
Character Info:
Name: Dr. Emmett L. Brown (or 'Doc' to you cool kids)
Age: Canon is inconsistent, but late 60s/early 70s seems to be the best guess
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Canon: Back to the Future film trilogy
Summary:
First, aim to list 5-7 bullet points of the history of your character.
- Emmett is raised by a strict father who wants him to practice law, but the young lad secretly conducts experiments. He eventually breaks free and becomes a somewhat unsuccessful scientist, failing experiments for around 20 years
- In November 1955, he hits his head and has a flash of an idea for the time machine, but is convinced it will fail like his other inventions. That night, when a teenaged boy arrives claiming to have come from 1985 in that very same time machine, Emmett has a burst of confidence.
- Doc successfully sends Marty back to his future, But he meets Marty again immediately thanks to a time travel mishap---again, he has to fix the time machine and send Marty off, this time to the past in order to save the future Doc.
- Emmett spends the next 30 years blowing away his savings on preparing for the time machine. At some point his mansion burns down and everybody decides he's a loony. Well...not everybody. Doc and Marty meet properly in 1982. Doc hires the curious kid as an assistant, and they become fast friends.
- Marty's first time trip takes place in 1985. Doc is shot by terrorists and died in the original timeline, but thanks to Marty's attempt to warn him, he survives this time.
- Following Marty's solo time trip, Doc travels to 2015 alone. He gets rejuvenation surgery, has the DeLorean time machine converted into a hover car, and discovers that Marty's future kids are headed down a dark path.
- Doc takes Marty and girlfriend Jennifer to 2015 to stop this crisis. They save the kids...but Marty's ill-conceived plan to take a future sports almanac to the past is stolen by a scumbag---Griff Tannen.
- When they return to 1985, it's a mess. The Tannen family has used the future sports almanac to correctly bet on races and use the winnings to take over the whole town, turning it into a hellhole better called Hell Valley. Doc and Marty return to 1955 to retrieve the almanac and fix the future. They succeed, but Doc and the DeLorean are struck by lightning before he can retrieve Marty.
- Doc winds up in the Old West, where he spends eight months making a life for himself as a blacksmith. A frantic Marty returns to him in September, claiming he'll be killed in a few days if they don't return to the future ASAP.
- Doc then saves the life of a science-minded schoolteacher named Clara and falls in love. This causes a problem, because he now has to choose between staying in the past with Clara or returning with Marty.
- In the end it's not really his choice---he attempts to go back with Marty, and Clara tries to join them, but the scumbag Tannens interfere and ensure that Doc and Clara are left behind in the past. Several years later, he arrives in Cosmographia.
- Electricity manipulation
- Light shield
- Telepathy
Personality:
Draw a mental picture of 'mad scientist' in your head. Frizzy white hair, incomprehensible techno-babble, flagrant disregard for safety protocols, unprecedented experiments, and bitter isolation in a lab. In another life, all of this could be an accurate depiction of Dr. Emmett Brown, and some of these stereotypes definitely apply to him---but the actual picture is a little more complicated than that.
After years of loneliness followed by one inspiring visit from a future boy, Doc learned to stand proud and brush off criticisms. He really doesn't give a darn what the townsfolk think of him anymore---none of them will ever be his friends, so he doesn't think twice before shooting his mouth off about some of the ruder people he encounters or doing his own thing.
Unfortunately, he's also developed a justified paranoia that others will try to ruin him. Regarding his science projects, he holds his cards very close to the vest, not even telling his one friend about his life's work until he's sure it's complete. He's always looking over his shoulder, trying to anticipate worst-case scenarios and prepare for them---and this can be unpleasant sometimes.
Behind that cold shell, though, is an eager scientist very much in love with his work. He still desperately wants to share his findings about physics and stars and impossibilities with someone, When he encounters someone willing to give him a chance, Doc becomes an over-excitable zealot, eagerly babbling about his findings and bursting with pride. When he finally meets other scientists (or schoolteachers) who understand and are willing to listen, he might not be able to contain his excitement.
Years of loneliness have made Doc an intensely loyal friend to the very few he considers worthy. For his best friend (and only friend at the moment), he's concocted complicated time travel schemes, thought up desperate MacGyver worthy rescue plans, sacrificed his own chance to return home, and even taken bullets for him. And he's so infatuated with his new love that he remained 100 years in his own past for her sake, content to talk about the stars and the universe with someone who has the same wide-eyed love for it that he does. When it comes to love, Doc will do anything. Friendship and love are to be treasured and protected.
Overall, Doc's a kooky scientist with just a hint of madness, severe paranoia, and a sarcastic streak...but earn his trust and he becomes a fierce friend, willing to fight to the depths of hell for the people he loves most.
Gem Considerations: Doc's gem is lightning-strike quartz, set in the center of his forehead. It's associated with releasing fear, connecting with others, and seeing higher dimensions...like the fourth dimension, time. He's done a lot of dancing with that one. It's meant to help him through his fear of connecting to others---not everyone will shun him, he'll be fine.
Power considerations:
List Three Powers You Would Like Your Character To Have:
(Any time-related powers would be limited to certain fusions, because you need three eyes to see fourth dimensionally as Garnet does ;) )
Any power at all is new to him, as he began as an entirely baseline human with a hyperactive mind. He'll think the power is incredible and wish to study and analyze it at every opportunity. He's never exactly been a warrior type, but he knows how to shoot---so he'll step up to the plate when needed.
How the powers work:
Electricity is mostly (and most easily) used to fling small lightning bolts around. He's a good sharpshooter, so he can aim his little strikes almost like arrows.
The light shield has a lightning-like look to it. Small at first, but he can grow to protect a few people with enough practice or in times of great need.
And the telepathy is a shallow mind link that has to be directly thinking at the other person on both ends, unless he establishes enough of a bond that they want to go deeper. It only works in distances where they're in sight of each other. He'll be very cautious about using it, because he really doesn't want to scare anyone off---he's done that enough in his life.
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