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Player NAME: Al
Current AGE: 20+
Player TIME ZONE: GTM+1 (Spain)
Personal JOURNAL: crotalus6
IM & SERVICE: daiannecrotalus @ AIM
Player PLURK: crotalus
Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Christopher Smith / Peacemaker
Canon & MEDIUM: DC Comics. …Comics.
Canon PULL-POINT: End of Blue Bettle.
Character AGE: He was born in 1950 so he should technically be on his sixties, but since this is comics where you aren’t allowed to look old unless you’re Alfred he looks in his forties, at the most and he’s in the physical shape of a man in the peak of his life.
Character ABILITIES: Peacemaker doesn’t have any superpower, the closest he’s ever had to one being the Scarab’s programing inside of his head (which he has gotten rid of at his canon point).
He has, however trained all his life and has a lot of physical strength and stamina. He knows a lot of hand-to-hand techniques, even more subtle ones like pressure points. He’s an extremely skilled combatant and has a lot of experience in combat, including war. He’s very good with weapons in general and seems to have a hand with vehicles as well (he’s a skilled pilot, and has been seen driving trucks, cars and his beloved bike).
He’s also a skilled diplomat, and a good businessman if the way he modified his father’s enterprise and made it successful enough to be living the life in Switzerland is any indication.
Character HISTORY:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/New_Earth this is Smith’s Earth.
Christopher Smith was born Christopher Schmidt in Austria and raised there for most of his infancy until his father, a Nazi controller of a concentration camp in Poland committed suicide out of guilt and to escape judgment for his war crimes. Christopher saw him, which traumatized him and will be become a driving force for him over the years. His mother, an American author moved to America and brought him with her, changing their names to Smith. He didn’t quite fit in in America, but eventually grew up and decided to join the army- where he would soon excel and raise to the rank of Sergeant. It was in his first tour that everything went wrong for him.
Unknown to everyone else Christopher had begun seeing visions from his father ever since infancy, who would talk to him telling him what to do and urging him to do more, do better, be worthy of his legacy. Christopher did, but in Vietnam listening to the vision cost him dearly when, along with a military error in intelligence it caused him to order a massacre to an entire town. Since he was the sergeant he was the one the authorities sentenced with 20 years in jail, which he took to clench his guilt. But not two years later he was given the chance to get parole if he worked with the government for Project: Peacemaker- which ended up shut down.
Smith used his father’s enterprises in weaponry and changed them to build households appliances, which proved to be a smart decision and allowed him to live calmly in Switzerland helping people with projects like the institute Geneva to help war victims. It was then that he tried being a diplomat to try to achieve the peace he so desired… and when that proved to be not enough he became Peacemaker. His illness kept getting worse and worse, not only seeing his father’s spirit now but also the ones he of people couldn’t save, and his methods more extreme with time to the point where he had to agree to get therapy with a doctor.
Christopher kept on working with different teams (Checkmate, the Shadow Fighters) until a mission went wrong with a mission against a villain named Eclipso. Everyone in the team died and Smith was reported death as well- and here is when things get tricky, because he was supposed to have died as well. We even see his soul in purgatory… so I believe that the best guess is that his death was retconned and he had actually survived unknown to everyone else. He’s been seen using a secret identity on his first apparitions and his identity was only implied, but since then he’s been confirmed to be who he says he is because the Power Ring said his name when he choose him. And also DC is known for pulling this kind of continuity fails sometimes.
Either way he somehow stumbled into Kha-Ef-Re’s tomb, a pharaoh who’d been in possession of the scarab (the alien technology that gives the Blue Bettle his powers). The scarab wasn’t there anymore, had long since been taken by the first Blue Beetle, but the instructions and programing the Reach (the aliens who’d created the technology) had left for the scarab- called ‘project infiltrator’. Christopher “downloaded” the information to his brain with a simple touch… and was overwhelmed by what he saw. He now knew the kind of monsters the Reach had left on Earth, he knew what the scarab was truly capable of and he wasn’t going to let something like that roam the Earth.
So he traveled to El Paso to find Jaime, the new Blue Beetle. He was extremely wary of the kid using the Scarab at first, fully aware of what it could do. With time, though, and enough information about how the magic had corrupted the Scarab and made the Reach unable to control it he decided to help the kid out and train him so he could become a better superhero. He helped him out in a lot of different shenanigans, like fighting a magic giant woman… and for a while was unwittingly being tracked by the reach, who had implanted another scarab on him in hopes of using the programing in his brain.
Thanks to Jaime and the Scarab’s help, Smith was able to overcome the programing and he went as far as to rip the Scarab from his spinal cord to make sure something like that didn’t happen again. Eventually Jaime himself managed to stop the Reach invasion almost on his own and Christopher decided he wasn’t really needed anymore in El Paso, taking his leave.
And then the reboot happened.
Character PERSONALITY:
Christopher is a soldier, first and foremost. He was in line to sign up for the army the day he became 18, and he hasn’t quite stopped having the soldier mentality ever since. He’s determined, focused, and has a no-nonsense attitude towards everything (and everyone). His main goal in life is peace, and as cheesy as It sounds to say he loves peace ‘enough to kill for it’ it kind of became his catchphrase in the 90s for a reason. All he does is to keep peace, either as a diplomat or with less conventional means. He’s so focused in bringing peace he has a hard time actually finding time for other things, and even when he has a lot of free time he’s kind of a bit at lost on what to do with it.
His ‘obsession’ with peace most probably comes from the traumatic experience of knowing his father had commanded a concentration camp in Poland and seeing him commit suicide when he was 5. It marked him deeply, to the point where he began having hallucinations about his father, which got worse in time when he began to develop a mental illness that made him believe the souls of everyone he hadn’t been able to save followed him- but said illness has apparently disappeared by the time he seeks the Blue Beetle.
Considering he was also supposed to be death (we even saw his soul in the purgatory in another event), he’s definitely gotten ‘better’ about a lot of things. Sadly since DC went through a reboot before they had time to explain more on Christopher’s past so we don’t… exactly know how he got better, but I refer to what I said in the history section when it comes to that (his death got retconned, he was only reported dead and using a secret identity ever since).
Said illness had, in the past, brought him to kill an entire village of innocent people during war. He spent time in prison, during which his mother died, but it’s clear from what he tells Jaime about his past than the guilt of it, alongside everyone he couldn’t save and the times where he started used more and more extreme methods weights heavily on his conscience. He wants to bring peace, but he doesn’t consider himself one of the good guys.
Even without his illness Smith is pretty determined to bring peace and help everyone out. He cares deeply about humanity in general even though he keeps people at an arm’s length and only sticks around while he thinks he can be useful. He can actually be gentle, and like mentioned before he’s actually a diplomat when he has to- but over the last years he’s been leaning heavily towards his more bellicose side and he always leaves the being nice and understanding job to other people while he focuses on what he deems practical and important. He has a very dry sense of humor, but only people who stick around him long enough to see through his grouchy demeanor get to hear it.
He’s very much his own man, but he’s also good at working with a team for someone that doesn’t actually like having people around that much. Social stuff is different than being on a team and acting professionally and he actually appreciates having someone he can trust to have his back. And for someone who doesn’t like having friends around he sure was upset about not having anyone around to have a drink with as all the team was below drinking age… he doesn’t quite like friends, but he likes camaraderie.
He also doesn’t have a problem sticking around people he actually ends up liking, as long as he finds a useful thing to do to help in the meantime- like him staying in El Paso to help Jaime out, training him and giving him advice when needed- or all the teams he’s joined over the years. He just has a need to be doing something, he can’t quite process the idea of staying in a place just because he enjoys it there. Which is why the moment Jaime doesn’t quite need him anymore, he grabs his bike and rides out without looking back. He will miss it, yes, but again practicality and his duty go first.
He has a very big sense of justice, and tries to follow rules whenever he can like when he patrolled the frontier to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the frontier because he is fully aware people aren’t the only thing they bring and how dangerous it can get- but he doesn’t have anything against staying on the wrong side of the law either, as proven by the many times he took matters into his own hands. He’s got his own personal set of morals and he’s going to follow them no matter what.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: He has his gun so he would pick a long old-styled sword like the one he used sometimes in his times as a caped hero. It would evolve reacting to his training at first, adapting to fast movement and quick strikes, which are Peacemaker’s favorite way of attack. It’d also probably learn to react to his mood later on, for example getting sharper when he’s on edge.
Character INVENTORY: His clothes, his wallet, a small bag with perishables (he was about to go in a long trip), his gun in a holster. His belt has a lot of little compartments which we don’t really get to see but I think there would be extra bullets, a basic mask for protection, sunglasses (thick ones, also for protection), a small Swiss army knife and some money. I’m sorry if it’s not okay to assume and if that’s the case I’m fine with him not bringing his belt.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
Text;
[The message comes from an anonymous source, because that’s how PM rolls.] First, if anyone has heard of Blue Bettle of El Paso speak up.
And that said:
Weapons.
I was told they were infused sentience, which honestly sounds all kinds of creepy. [And too close to the Scarab for his comfort. He’s already fought that kind of pseudo-setient technology and once was more than enough.]
But how powerful is that sentience? How big is the link between them and the person using it? They told me it adapted with time and training. How much can it adapt? And how much does it learn from you? I’d like to know before I actually start with the training, not thrilled by it monitoring me to God knows what entity.
[And he’s about to close the tablet, but then:]
Feel free to reply to this as anon, as well. I don’t really care either way. [’Don’t give a fuck’ had seemed a bit too… crude.]
Third PERSON:
Smith was definitely used to cold, no problem.
Or had been, once, before the warmed temperatures of El Paso had apparently spoiled him rotten. Now he was shivering like a wet kitten when the temperature wasn’t even that cold- but he kept telling himself that, in his defense, the clothes he was wearing weren’t exactly thought for that kind of weather. He wasn’t really sure to whom he felt he had to justify himself in his mind, but he never thought that kind of questions too deeply, just in case he actually found an answer.
Absentmindedly he reached to grace his gun with his fingertips (a tick he’d developed in the army and he’d never quite gotten rid of) and found the hilt of the sword instead. He looked down at it with a frown- he’d have to examine that one further in private. The idea of it being linked to him made him feel… uncomfortable for lack of a better word, but he had never been one to say no to a free weapon. He’d just have to find out what the catch was, sooner rather than later.
Once the introduction had gone over he’d looked around until he’d found the closest thing resembling to a bar he had seen, and gotten himself something to drink. Say what you want about his priorities but they had never failed him yet, and he had to have a drink first after this kind of situation to keep his head clear. Later, when he went out in the cold again, he had decided the next step was clear.
Find allies, gather information.
He reached for the tablet he had been given, and turned it on. The operative system (or whatever the equivalent was) seemed easy enough to understand and he had already checked all the possible links and even had done some of the little ridiculous history tests. But now that he was going to use it as some sort of social network bullshit thing he needed to find out more. Find out how to use it privately, to keep his identity hidden.
Well, at least it’d provide a distraction.
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Player NAME: Al
Current AGE: 20+
Player TIME ZONE: GTM+1 (Spain)
Personal JOURNAL: crotalus6
IM & SERVICE: daiannecrotalus @ AIM
Player PLURK: crotalus
Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Christopher Smith / Peacemaker
Canon & MEDIUM: DC Comics. …Comics.
Canon PULL-POINT: End of Blue Bettle.
Character AGE: He was born in 1950 so he should technically be on his sixties, but since this is comics where you aren’t allowed to look old unless you’re Alfred he looks in his forties, at the most and he’s in the physical shape of a man in the peak of his life.
Character ABILITIES: Peacemaker doesn’t have any superpower, the closest he’s ever had to one being the Scarab’s programing inside of his head (which he has gotten rid of at his canon point).
He has, however trained all his life and has a lot of physical strength and stamina. He knows a lot of hand-to-hand techniques, even more subtle ones like pressure points. He’s an extremely skilled combatant and has a lot of experience in combat, including war. He’s very good with weapons in general and seems to have a hand with vehicles as well (he’s a skilled pilot, and has been seen driving trucks, cars and his beloved bike).
He’s also a skilled diplomat, and a good businessman if the way he modified his father’s enterprise and made it successful enough to be living the life in Switzerland is any indication.
Character HISTORY:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/New_Earth this is Smith’s Earth.
Christopher Smith was born Christopher Schmidt in Austria and raised there for most of his infancy until his father, a Nazi controller of a concentration camp in Poland committed suicide out of guilt and to escape judgment for his war crimes. Christopher saw him, which traumatized him and will be become a driving force for him over the years. His mother, an American author moved to America and brought him with her, changing their names to Smith. He didn’t quite fit in in America, but eventually grew up and decided to join the army- where he would soon excel and raise to the rank of Sergeant. It was in his first tour that everything went wrong for him.
Unknown to everyone else Christopher had begun seeing visions from his father ever since infancy, who would talk to him telling him what to do and urging him to do more, do better, be worthy of his legacy. Christopher did, but in Vietnam listening to the vision cost him dearly when, along with a military error in intelligence it caused him to order a massacre to an entire town. Since he was the sergeant he was the one the authorities sentenced with 20 years in jail, which he took to clench his guilt. But not two years later he was given the chance to get parole if he worked with the government for Project: Peacemaker- which ended up shut down.
Smith used his father’s enterprises in weaponry and changed them to build households appliances, which proved to be a smart decision and allowed him to live calmly in Switzerland helping people with projects like the institute Geneva to help war victims. It was then that he tried being a diplomat to try to achieve the peace he so desired… and when that proved to be not enough he became Peacemaker. His illness kept getting worse and worse, not only seeing his father’s spirit now but also the ones he of people couldn’t save, and his methods more extreme with time to the point where he had to agree to get therapy with a doctor.
Christopher kept on working with different teams (Checkmate, the Shadow Fighters) until a mission went wrong with a mission against a villain named Eclipso. Everyone in the team died and Smith was reported death as well- and here is when things get tricky, because he was supposed to have died as well. We even see his soul in purgatory… so I believe that the best guess is that his death was retconned and he had actually survived unknown to everyone else. He’s been seen using a secret identity on his first apparitions and his identity was only implied, but since then he’s been confirmed to be who he says he is because the Power Ring said his name when he choose him. And also DC is known for pulling this kind of continuity fails sometimes.
Either way he somehow stumbled into Kha-Ef-Re’s tomb, a pharaoh who’d been in possession of the scarab (the alien technology that gives the Blue Bettle his powers). The scarab wasn’t there anymore, had long since been taken by the first Blue Beetle, but the instructions and programing the Reach (the aliens who’d created the technology) had left for the scarab- called ‘project infiltrator’. Christopher “downloaded” the information to his brain with a simple touch… and was overwhelmed by what he saw. He now knew the kind of monsters the Reach had left on Earth, he knew what the scarab was truly capable of and he wasn’t going to let something like that roam the Earth.
So he traveled to El Paso to find Jaime, the new Blue Beetle. He was extremely wary of the kid using the Scarab at first, fully aware of what it could do. With time, though, and enough information about how the magic had corrupted the Scarab and made the Reach unable to control it he decided to help the kid out and train him so he could become a better superhero. He helped him out in a lot of different shenanigans, like fighting a magic giant woman… and for a while was unwittingly being tracked by the reach, who had implanted another scarab on him in hopes of using the programing in his brain.
Thanks to Jaime and the Scarab’s help, Smith was able to overcome the programing and he went as far as to rip the Scarab from his spinal cord to make sure something like that didn’t happen again. Eventually Jaime himself managed to stop the Reach invasion almost on his own and Christopher decided he wasn’t really needed anymore in El Paso, taking his leave.
And then the reboot happened.
Character PERSONALITY:
Christopher is a soldier, first and foremost. He was in line to sign up for the army the day he became 18, and he hasn’t quite stopped having the soldier mentality ever since. He’s determined, focused, and has a no-nonsense attitude towards everything (and everyone). His main goal in life is peace, and as cheesy as It sounds to say he loves peace ‘enough to kill for it’ it kind of became his catchphrase in the 90s for a reason. All he does is to keep peace, either as a diplomat or with less conventional means. He’s so focused in bringing peace he has a hard time actually finding time for other things, and even when he has a lot of free time he’s kind of a bit at lost on what to do with it.
His ‘obsession’ with peace most probably comes from the traumatic experience of knowing his father had commanded a concentration camp in Poland and seeing him commit suicide when he was 5. It marked him deeply, to the point where he began having hallucinations about his father, which got worse in time when he began to develop a mental illness that made him believe the souls of everyone he hadn’t been able to save followed him- but said illness has apparently disappeared by the time he seeks the Blue Beetle.
Considering he was also supposed to be death (we even saw his soul in the purgatory in another event), he’s definitely gotten ‘better’ about a lot of things. Sadly since DC went through a reboot before they had time to explain more on Christopher’s past so we don’t… exactly know how he got better, but I refer to what I said in the history section when it comes to that (his death got retconned, he was only reported dead and using a secret identity ever since).
Said illness had, in the past, brought him to kill an entire village of innocent people during war. He spent time in prison, during which his mother died, but it’s clear from what he tells Jaime about his past than the guilt of it, alongside everyone he couldn’t save and the times where he started used more and more extreme methods weights heavily on his conscience. He wants to bring peace, but he doesn’t consider himself one of the good guys.
Even without his illness Smith is pretty determined to bring peace and help everyone out. He cares deeply about humanity in general even though he keeps people at an arm’s length and only sticks around while he thinks he can be useful. He can actually be gentle, and like mentioned before he’s actually a diplomat when he has to- but over the last years he’s been leaning heavily towards his more bellicose side and he always leaves the being nice and understanding job to other people while he focuses on what he deems practical and important. He has a very dry sense of humor, but only people who stick around him long enough to see through his grouchy demeanor get to hear it.
He’s very much his own man, but he’s also good at working with a team for someone that doesn’t actually like having people around that much. Social stuff is different than being on a team and acting professionally and he actually appreciates having someone he can trust to have his back. And for someone who doesn’t like having friends around he sure was upset about not having anyone around to have a drink with as all the team was below drinking age… he doesn’t quite like friends, but he likes camaraderie.
He also doesn’t have a problem sticking around people he actually ends up liking, as long as he finds a useful thing to do to help in the meantime- like him staying in El Paso to help Jaime out, training him and giving him advice when needed- or all the teams he’s joined over the years. He just has a need to be doing something, he can’t quite process the idea of staying in a place just because he enjoys it there. Which is why the moment Jaime doesn’t quite need him anymore, he grabs his bike and rides out without looking back. He will miss it, yes, but again practicality and his duty go first.
He has a very big sense of justice, and tries to follow rules whenever he can like when he patrolled the frontier to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the frontier because he is fully aware people aren’t the only thing they bring and how dangerous it can get- but he doesn’t have anything against staying on the wrong side of the law either, as proven by the many times he took matters into his own hands. He’s got his own personal set of morals and he’s going to follow them no matter what.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: He has his gun so he would pick a long old-styled sword like the one he used sometimes in his times as a caped hero. It would evolve reacting to his training at first, adapting to fast movement and quick strikes, which are Peacemaker’s favorite way of attack. It’d also probably learn to react to his mood later on, for example getting sharper when he’s on edge.
Character INVENTORY: His clothes, his wallet, a small bag with perishables (he was about to go in a long trip), his gun in a holster. His belt has a lot of little compartments which we don’t really get to see but I think there would be extra bullets, a basic mask for protection, sunglasses (thick ones, also for protection), a small Swiss army knife and some money. I’m sorry if it’s not okay to assume and if that’s the case I’m fine with him not bringing his belt.
» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
Text;
[The message comes from an anonymous source, because that’s how PM rolls.] First, if anyone has heard of Blue Bettle of El Paso speak up.
And that said:
Weapons.
I was told they were infused sentience, which honestly sounds all kinds of creepy. [And too close to the Scarab for his comfort. He’s already fought that kind of pseudo-setient technology and once was more than enough.]
But how powerful is that sentience? How big is the link between them and the person using it? They told me it adapted with time and training. How much can it adapt? And how much does it learn from you? I’d like to know before I actually start with the training, not thrilled by it monitoring me to God knows what entity.
[And he’s about to close the tablet, but then:]
Feel free to reply to this as anon, as well. I don’t really care either way. [’Don’t give a fuck’ had seemed a bit too… crude.]
Third PERSON:
Smith was definitely used to cold, no problem.
Or had been, once, before the warmed temperatures of El Paso had apparently spoiled him rotten. Now he was shivering like a wet kitten when the temperature wasn’t even that cold- but he kept telling himself that, in his defense, the clothes he was wearing weren’t exactly thought for that kind of weather. He wasn’t really sure to whom he felt he had to justify himself in his mind, but he never thought that kind of questions too deeply, just in case he actually found an answer.
Absentmindedly he reached to grace his gun with his fingertips (a tick he’d developed in the army and he’d never quite gotten rid of) and found the hilt of the sword instead. He looked down at it with a frown- he’d have to examine that one further in private. The idea of it being linked to him made him feel… uncomfortable for lack of a better word, but he had never been one to say no to a free weapon. He’d just have to find out what the catch was, sooner rather than later.
Once the introduction had gone over he’d looked around until he’d found the closest thing resembling to a bar he had seen, and gotten himself something to drink. Say what you want about his priorities but they had never failed him yet, and he had to have a drink first after this kind of situation to keep his head clear. Later, when he went out in the cold again, he had decided the next step was clear.
Find allies, gather information.
He reached for the tablet he had been given, and turned it on. The operative system (or whatever the equivalent was) seemed easy enough to understand and he had already checked all the possible links and even had done some of the little ridiculous history tests. But now that he was going to use it as some sort of social network bullshit thing he needed to find out more. Find out how to use it privately, to keep his identity hidden.
Well, at least it’d provide a distraction.
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