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gunhearted) wrote2015-08-26 12:04 am
gunhearted) wrote2015-08-26 12:04 am
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Player Info:
Name: Airi
Timezone: EST
Contact: moveslikejaeger
Character Info:
Name: Jacuzzi Splot
Age: 19
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Baccano! STE!Reincarnation AU
Key Points:
History:
Jacuzzi Splot has lived two lives. The first during the early 1900s, during the Great Depression, the Prohibition and the chaos that surrounded them. During that life, he was a bootlegging gang leader who chose his life in order to do what he felt was right. He surrounded himself with society's untouchables and unwanted. His friends were immigrants, minorities, and/or physically intimidating. These friendships helped him to overcome impossible odds, fighting when he was outclassed and surviving what a man never should.
Until, you know, he died and everything.
That's where this Jacuzzi's life picks up. Jacuzzi was born to parents who never particularly wanted him. They expected certain things out of a child and he could never provide these things. Developing anxiety and asthma at a young age, Jacuzzi could never reach their standards. His father in particular, a corrupt Locke City cop, absolutely hated him and made it well known. Through nearly two decades of emotional abuse, Jacuzzi came to believe no one could love him like his parents did--no one else would ever put up with him. Combined with his anxiety, Jacuzzi could never succeed. He could barely pass his classes to begin with, and when he began to get echoes, he nearly failed completely for not showing up to class. How could he, with a giant tattoo covering half his face?
Things only went from bad to worse for Jacuzzi. At first, it was little memories of his last life. Then it was crimes. Then it was murder. His echoes weighed heavily on his shoulders, and even more as he knew his father was a member of the police force that had executed the Numbered--the people with echoes--for the crime of having these memories. After the city was attacked by a giant snake, Jacuzzi felt he had no choice but to be honest. His parents immediately kicked him out of their home.
With no one to turn to, Jacuzzi asked the network of Numbered for help. Isaac and Miria Dian, with whom he shared a past life, took him in. And for the first time in his life, Jacuzzi was really happy. Isaac and Miria became the unconditionally loving parents he had never had. He gained someone he saw as a sister. He began dating a girl who he'd loved in his last life and loved again now. At a party, he and his girlfriend were accidentally served the elixir of life and became effectively immortal. Everything was great.
Until aliens began to attack in earnest. The elixir of life didn't stop your body from dying. It put it back together afterward. Jacuzzi's anxiety returned, and began to physically destroy him. After asthma attacks that should have killed him and chest contractions that made doctors wary of heart attacks, Jacuzzi had to leave Locke City and the danger behind. With the danger, he also left the only family he ever knew.
Things were going well with Nice when they moved. Really well. Except for the imminent threat of alien invasion. But with the burden off his shoulders, Jacuzzi could at least survive. In a sense, then, it was merciful that clones of Isaac and Miria that had been created in Locke City in his absence came for him before the final invasion. Unknowing that the clones were very literally the antithesis of the couple that had taken him in (or that they were clones at all), Jacuzzi allowed them in, only to be murdered in his own home for no reason more than to taunt the original Isaac and Miria.
Personality:
In his original life (canon), Jacuzzi was defined by pretty much three things: crying, getting scared, and mustering reckless valor. There's a whole episode about it. Jacuzzi was the king of fears, being able to instantly fall apart at the suggestion of something bad happening. His tears were a constant source of mockery, as well. But when the going got tough riders of the train were being massacred, Jacuzzi stepped up and faced the Rail Tracer without a single tear. Most of that bravery came from the absurd loyalty Jacuzzi felt toward the people he loved. Constantly surrounded by outcasts like himself, Jacuzzi found himself able to survive by being their leader. He gave himself purpose caring for others.
Reborn in Locke City, Jacuzzi had no one else to care for. For the first nineteen years of his life, he was literally alone. This caused him to become a closed-off stuttering mess who could barely handle interaction with other humans. In his desires to earn the love of his parents, he focused on the one thing he could really live up to--morally just. Jacuzzi struggled much more than his preincarnation with the idea of lying, fighting and breaking the law. With his father as a police officer, he also grew a strong fear of breaking the law, as he spent much of his childhood being told if he messed up he'd face worse punishment than anyone else. In that way, his fears were even more crippling than the original Jacuzzi's. His fear of his parents, his father in particular, caused him to be an isolated outcast, with emptiness where the loyalty and love his gang gave him once was.
And prior to meeting the Dians, Jacuzzi's self-confidence was completely shot. After meeting them and coming to live with them, it became absolutely apparent that his timid inability to speak up only mattered when he had to defend himself. A little part of his original self came to exist again when he had to defend Isaac and Miria from Miria's emotionally abusive mother, and it only grew from there. By the time he left Locke City, Jacuzzi would have done anything for the couple, along with any number of his friends, whether it meant death or murder.
Out of the oppressive covering of his parents, Jacuzzi was able to actually function in society. Not as well as a normal person, but better than he ever had before. When he lived with Isaac and Miria, he grew confident and happy and offered a helping hand whenever he could. His fear and illness took backseat to his Dian-inspired helpfulness and good cheer. With their inspiration, Jacuzzi never quite entered the same space of absolute rage as he had in his prohibition life--he never killed anyone, and even knowing he had in his past life weighed on his shoulders.
In reality the biggest differences between Jacuzzi and his last life were a) the fact he grew up alone and thus became someone who was shyer than before. Just as easily attached to people, but shyer. and b) the fact that he had a stronger sense of morality than his prohibition counterpart ever did. This has left him closer to a normal human being than his preincarnation, but also less capable of surviving in an insane world like the world Locke City was a part of. It left him defenseless when Isaac and Miria's doppelgangers showed up. And it left him, at the moment of his death, glad that he no longer had to survive in a world when he'd been betrayed by the first and only people he'd ever really trusted. His change was both good and bad, but upon being given a second chance HE'LL AT LEAST BE EASIER TO PLAY THAN CANON JACUZZI.
Gem Considerations: Sunstone. The stone is focused around helping with fears, leadership, and turning negative energy into positive energy. This absolutely suits his transformation after living with the Dians. He knew no fear, was able to muster the ability to function, and saw all the negative things about him as maybe not so negative after all.
Power considerations:
List Three Powers You Would Like Your Character To Have:
Summarize how would they be affected by the powercap present in Cosmographia, and how they would react to gaining power.
Sample: IT'S THE PROPER AU THIS TIME.
NOTE: This is the full list of echoes Jacuzzi had in Save the Earth!
Name: Airi
Timezone: EST
Contact: moveslikejaeger
Character Info:
Name: Jacuzzi Splot
Age: 19
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Baccano! STE!Reincarnation AU
Key Points:
- Jacuzzi lived one life as a prohibition-era bootlegger and leader of a gang. He did a lot of really illegal shit and had severe anxiety.
- He died at some point and was reborn as the son of a Locke City police officer.
- Reborn Jacuzzi struggled with anxiety and health problems at a young age, along with having abusive families and generally just struggling to exist.
- When he was 19, he began getting "echoes," along with many Locke City residents, memories of his 1930s gangster life.
- After meeting a few people from his past life reincarnated, Jacuzzi couldn't bear to lie to his parents anymore and told them about his echoes. His parents immediately kicked him out.
- He moved in with Isaac and Miria Dian, reincarnated from his past life, as well as another girl the pair had "adopted."
- For the first time, Jacuzzi was actually happy, and he accidentally drank the elixir of life that happened.
- However, when aliens invaded and things got even more dangerous, Jacuzzi's anxiety became painful to the point that he could no longer function and he had to move away.
- Unfortunately, after a time, clones of the Dians (created in Locke in an event) found Jacuzzi, and in order to torment the original Dians, murdered him just before the world pretty much ended thanks to aliens.
History:
Jacuzzi Splot has lived two lives. The first during the early 1900s, during the Great Depression, the Prohibition and the chaos that surrounded them. During that life, he was a bootlegging gang leader who chose his life in order to do what he felt was right. He surrounded himself with society's untouchables and unwanted. His friends were immigrants, minorities, and/or physically intimidating. These friendships helped him to overcome impossible odds, fighting when he was outclassed and surviving what a man never should.
Until, you know, he died and everything.
That's where this Jacuzzi's life picks up. Jacuzzi was born to parents who never particularly wanted him. They expected certain things out of a child and he could never provide these things. Developing anxiety and asthma at a young age, Jacuzzi could never reach their standards. His father in particular, a corrupt Locke City cop, absolutely hated him and made it well known. Through nearly two decades of emotional abuse, Jacuzzi came to believe no one could love him like his parents did--no one else would ever put up with him. Combined with his anxiety, Jacuzzi could never succeed. He could barely pass his classes to begin with, and when he began to get echoes, he nearly failed completely for not showing up to class. How could he, with a giant tattoo covering half his face?
Things only went from bad to worse for Jacuzzi. At first, it was little memories of his last life. Then it was crimes. Then it was murder. His echoes weighed heavily on his shoulders, and even more as he knew his father was a member of the police force that had executed the Numbered--the people with echoes--for the crime of having these memories. After the city was attacked by a giant snake, Jacuzzi felt he had no choice but to be honest. His parents immediately kicked him out of their home.
With no one to turn to, Jacuzzi asked the network of Numbered for help. Isaac and Miria Dian, with whom he shared a past life, took him in. And for the first time in his life, Jacuzzi was really happy. Isaac and Miria became the unconditionally loving parents he had never had. He gained someone he saw as a sister. He began dating a girl who he'd loved in his last life and loved again now. At a party, he and his girlfriend were accidentally served the elixir of life and became effectively immortal. Everything was great.
Until aliens began to attack in earnest. The elixir of life didn't stop your body from dying. It put it back together afterward. Jacuzzi's anxiety returned, and began to physically destroy him. After asthma attacks that should have killed him and chest contractions that made doctors wary of heart attacks, Jacuzzi had to leave Locke City and the danger behind. With the danger, he also left the only family he ever knew.
Things were going well with Nice when they moved. Really well. Except for the imminent threat of alien invasion. But with the burden off his shoulders, Jacuzzi could at least survive. In a sense, then, it was merciful that clones of Isaac and Miria that had been created in Locke City in his absence came for him before the final invasion. Unknowing that the clones were very literally the antithesis of the couple that had taken him in (or that they were clones at all), Jacuzzi allowed them in, only to be murdered in his own home for no reason more than to taunt the original Isaac and Miria.
Personality:
In his original life (canon), Jacuzzi was defined by pretty much three things: crying, getting scared, and mustering reckless valor. There's a whole episode about it. Jacuzzi was the king of fears, being able to instantly fall apart at the suggestion of something bad happening. His tears were a constant source of mockery, as well. But when the going got tough riders of the train were being massacred, Jacuzzi stepped up and faced the Rail Tracer without a single tear. Most of that bravery came from the absurd loyalty Jacuzzi felt toward the people he loved. Constantly surrounded by outcasts like himself, Jacuzzi found himself able to survive by being their leader. He gave himself purpose caring for others.
Reborn in Locke City, Jacuzzi had no one else to care for. For the first nineteen years of his life, he was literally alone. This caused him to become a closed-off stuttering mess who could barely handle interaction with other humans. In his desires to earn the love of his parents, he focused on the one thing he could really live up to--morally just. Jacuzzi struggled much more than his preincarnation with the idea of lying, fighting and breaking the law. With his father as a police officer, he also grew a strong fear of breaking the law, as he spent much of his childhood being told if he messed up he'd face worse punishment than anyone else. In that way, his fears were even more crippling than the original Jacuzzi's. His fear of his parents, his father in particular, caused him to be an isolated outcast, with emptiness where the loyalty and love his gang gave him once was.
And prior to meeting the Dians, Jacuzzi's self-confidence was completely shot. After meeting them and coming to live with them, it became absolutely apparent that his timid inability to speak up only mattered when he had to defend himself. A little part of his original self came to exist again when he had to defend Isaac and Miria from Miria's emotionally abusive mother, and it only grew from there. By the time he left Locke City, Jacuzzi would have done anything for the couple, along with any number of his friends, whether it meant death or murder.
Out of the oppressive covering of his parents, Jacuzzi was able to actually function in society. Not as well as a normal person, but better than he ever had before. When he lived with Isaac and Miria, he grew confident and happy and offered a helping hand whenever he could. His fear and illness took backseat to his Dian-inspired helpfulness and good cheer. With their inspiration, Jacuzzi never quite entered the same space of absolute rage as he had in his prohibition life--he never killed anyone, and even knowing he had in his past life weighed on his shoulders.
In reality the biggest differences between Jacuzzi and his last life were a) the fact he grew up alone and thus became someone who was shyer than before. Just as easily attached to people, but shyer. and b) the fact that he had a stronger sense of morality than his prohibition counterpart ever did. This has left him closer to a normal human being than his preincarnation, but also less capable of surviving in an insane world like the world Locke City was a part of. It left him defenseless when Isaac and Miria's doppelgangers showed up. And it left him, at the moment of his death, glad that he no longer had to survive in a world when he'd been betrayed by the first and only people he'd ever really trusted. His change was both good and bad, but upon being given a second chance HE'LL AT LEAST BE EASIER TO PLAY THAN CANON JACUZZI.
Gem Considerations: Sunstone. The stone is focused around helping with fears, leadership, and turning negative energy into positive energy. This absolutely suits his transformation after living with the Dians. He knew no fear, was able to muster the ability to function, and saw all the negative things about him as maybe not so negative after all.
Power considerations:
List Three Powers You Would Like Your Character To Have:
- STRENGTH INCREASING TEARS wherein the more Jacuzzi cries, the stronger he gets.
- Forcefields
- Shapeshifting
Summarize how would they be affected by the powercap present in Cosmographia, and how they would react to gaining power.
Sample: IT'S THE PROPER AU THIS TIME.
NOTE: This is the full list of echoes Jacuzzi had in Save the Earth!