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bloodisthicker) wrote2012-08-05 01:17 pm
bloodisthicker) wrote2012-08-05 01:17 pm
APPLICATION FOR APPENA ESTATES
Player
Name: Ran
Age: 21
Contact: AIM: TungstenSamurai, Plurk:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Character
Name: Tarrlok
Age: 37
Gender: Male
History: Wiki link!
Personality: So, that smooth-talking, ambitious, young (well, for a politician) politician from the notoriously smug Northern Water Tribe who is popular with the general populace… you know that guy? The one who smells like a lady? Yeah, that guy. Well, let me let you in on a little secret.
He has a lot of dark secrets and is honestly kind of a douche.
I know.
You are totally surprised.
Well, let’s start with “honestly kind of a douche” before we get into “dark secrets,” shall we? Tarrlok is the kind of guy who will go to extremes to get what he wants, and what he wants tends to be power. Bribery? Oh, of course. Emotional manipulation? Totally. Media manipulation? He has it down to an art form, man. McCarthyism? Hell yeah, let’s do this thing. Kidnapping the Avatar after she shows up getting all mad about him imprisoning her friends to keep her in line and then locking her in a metal box? Well… that’s for special occasions. Behind his amiable, impeccably groomed façade is the sort of ruthless, calculating asshole you’d expect an ambitious young politician to be under all the bullshit.
If he wants someone as an ally, well… expect him to try to come off as their best friend and buy them all the expensive things. Maybe there will be some sort of manipulation outside of that, but hey! As long as he can get partial credit and come off as really impressive, he will be behind you the whole way. Well, unless you get in his way or things go sour between you. Then he will be a snide asshole who is pretty fantastic at hitting where it hurts most in order to intimidate you, and he will give negative fucks about it. He’s fairly cunning and good at figuring out how to spin a situation to his advantage, though he’s not always on top of things.
This is pretty obvious when he’s put in opposition to a group he just doesn’t get. Canonically, he tries to combat the Equalists by using hardline tactics that make them look like they have more of a point and, basically, play right into their hands. His response isn’t to lighten up the pressure or try to figure out the enemy’s mindset—he just keeps stubbornly sticking to the initial line of logic and upping the intensity. Even though he’s a cunning manipulator, this has the potential to make him fairly easily manipulated himself. Or just easily trolled, honestly, that works too. Point is, he’s very unlikely to waver on a decision when he’s come to one.
So why is Tarrlok such a massive tool, anyway? Well… that’s where the ‘dark secrets’ thing comes in—he’s literally kind of a tool. It’s a long and complicated story that essentially boils down to, uh… Long ago, Tarrlok was a pretty nice kid. Then, everything changed when he learned to waterbend and his asshole dad decided to use him and his brother, Noatak, as tools to get revenge on Republic City and the Avatar. They were both taught the forbidden art of bloodbending, which Tarrlok absolutely hated—he was the sort of kid who, wonder of wonders, didn’t take well to being forced to inflict severe pain on animals, so his father treated him like shit because he wasn’t good at it… and, well, Noatak turned out to be really good at it, so all the pressure ended up on him.
And then, of course, there was that particular altercation which lead to Noatak’s apparent death. An altercation where Noatak finally got fed up with his father’s abusive bullshit, made it plain that he was sick of being treated as a tool of revenge, bloodbended the shit out of his dad, and told Tarrlok to come with him. Tarrlok hesitated out of concern for his mother, which Noatak called him weak for.
And then he ran off alone, during a blizzard. Tarrlok and his father could only assume that he'd died out there.
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Name: Ran
Age: 21
Contact: AIM: TungstenSamurai, Plurk:
Character
Name: Tarrlok
Age: 37
Gender: Male
History: Wiki link!
Personality: So, that smooth-talking, ambitious, young (well, for a politician) politician from the notoriously smug Northern Water Tribe who is popular with the general populace… you know that guy? The one who smells like a lady? Yeah, that guy. Well, let me let you in on a little secret.
He has a lot of dark secrets and is honestly kind of a douche.
I know.
You are totally surprised.
Well, let’s start with “honestly kind of a douche” before we get into “dark secrets,” shall we? Tarrlok is the kind of guy who will go to extremes to get what he wants, and what he wants tends to be power. Bribery? Oh, of course. Emotional manipulation? Totally. Media manipulation? He has it down to an art form, man. McCarthyism? Hell yeah, let’s do this thing. Kidnapping the Avatar after she shows up getting all mad about him imprisoning her friends to keep her in line and then locking her in a metal box? Well… that’s for special occasions. Behind his amiable, impeccably groomed façade is the sort of ruthless, calculating asshole you’d expect an ambitious young politician to be under all the bullshit.
If he wants someone as an ally, well… expect him to try to come off as their best friend and buy them all the expensive things. Maybe there will be some sort of manipulation outside of that, but hey! As long as he can get partial credit and come off as really impressive, he will be behind you the whole way. Well, unless you get in his way or things go sour between you. Then he will be a snide asshole who is pretty fantastic at hitting where it hurts most in order to intimidate you, and he will give negative fucks about it. He’s fairly cunning and good at figuring out how to spin a situation to his advantage, though he’s not always on top of things.
This is pretty obvious when he’s put in opposition to a group he just doesn’t get. Canonically, he tries to combat the Equalists by using hardline tactics that make them look like they have more of a point and, basically, play right into their hands. His response isn’t to lighten up the pressure or try to figure out the enemy’s mindset—he just keeps stubbornly sticking to the initial line of logic and upping the intensity. Even though he’s a cunning manipulator, this has the potential to make him fairly easily manipulated himself. Or just easily trolled, honestly, that works too. Point is, he’s very unlikely to waver on a decision when he’s come to one.
So why is Tarrlok such a massive tool, anyway? Well… that’s where the ‘dark secrets’ thing comes in—he’s literally kind of a tool. It’s a long and complicated story that essentially boils down to, uh… Long ago, Tarrlok was a pretty nice kid. Then, everything changed when he learned to waterbend and his asshole dad decided to use him and his brother, Noatak, as tools to get revenge on Republic City and the Avatar. They were both taught the forbidden art of bloodbending, which Tarrlok absolutely hated—he was the sort of kid who, wonder of wonders, didn’t take well to being forced to inflict severe pain on animals, so his father treated him like shit because he wasn’t good at it… and, well, Noatak turned out to be really good at it, so all the pressure ended up on him.
And then, of course, there was that particular altercation which lead to Noatak’s apparent death. An altercation where Noatak finally got fed up with his father’s abusive bullshit, made it plain that he was sick of being treated as a tool of revenge, bloodbended the shit out of his dad, and told Tarrlok to come with him. Tarrlok hesitated out of concern for his mother, which Noatak called him weak for.
And then he ran off alone, during a blizzard. Tarrlok and his father could only assume that he'd died out there.
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