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vocalistyodels) wrote2025-06-07 09:52 am
vocalistyodels) wrote2025-06-07 09:52 am
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PLAYER INFO
Name: Maus
Preferred Contact: PM or Plurk:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Age: 38
Invite Link: Here we gooooo-
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Cooper Howard and or The Ghoul
Canon: Fallout
Age: 250+
Canon Point: S1 End of EP7
Wiki Link(s): Sometimes a fella's gotta eat a fella.
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
He's been searching for specific folks who would know where the location of his family are, for over 200 years. While that may sound crazy, it's not too far fetched for people within the right circumstances to find a way to stick around that long where he's from. While of course he's probably thought on many occasions that his family could very well be long dead too, it's the small shining bit of hope that's kept him alive so long. So if he had a dream where he found out where his daughter Janey was, he'd sure as hell run towards it. To her.
2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
After being around so long and going through so much, Cooper doesn't truly fear much at this point. He's lived through nuclear war that turned America to an irradiated giant dust bowl and had his body transformed by that same radiation into something more zombie like in appearance. It's been a blessing and a curse in many ways, but the one thing he truly fears is one of the biggest set backs of being what he is now, a ghoul. It happens at a different pace for every ghoul really, but their minds eventually start changing, wearing down, till eventually they become feral. A mindless thing that attacks anything that moves. Much like a zombie.
It's the one thing he's fighting against as time goes on. Dying isn't even something he's really afraid of, but losing himself to the decay of his mind till he's just some mindless thing and can't remember his own daughter anymore... that scares him. He'll do whatever he has to to prevent it. Tried to sell a person to get drugs to keep it at bay for a while longer. Even ate part of another ghoul to try and get any residual effects from the drug that that ghoul had taken earlier when he was out of the drugs himself. Cooper definitely fights and adapts, until he can go on no longer.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
At the point Cooper is at now his connections to people are primarly expect the worst and trust them as far as he can throw them. If that. It's a dog eat dog world in the wasteland after all. Kill or be killed. Cooper will kill people with barely a blink of his eye or care. Most relationships that are shown or hinted at for him during this time are people knowing who he is and that he's dangerous. Fucking with him is asking for trouble. Yet even at his worst, we do see he does make some connections with others that are genuinely good, even if they may not be deep. He's shown reminising with another person who's got the same ghoul affliction as him, but they're close to losing their mind and becoming feral. In their last moments he talks fondly of the past, leaving them with good memories, waiting till they've looked away to blow their brains out.
It's violent yet still a mercy, He's used to working with others too, but typically it's for his own goals. Deep connections are few and far inbetween for him, but pee paw can play nice with others if he needs/has to, doesn't mean he won't bounce if it doesn't benefit him. Though at the end of the first season of the show, we do get more little bits and pieces of him having more of a heart than he'd like to admit. There's a dog he sounds to stop it from attacking him, but then later heals to use it to track a man he's out to get a bounty on. Though as we see them interact a few more times in the show it's clear he's got some fondness for the pup, even if it's due to old memories of his pet dog who's loooong since dead.
So tldr; Cooper for the most part can play nice with others, but he's got no qualms with killing and or leaving people to their bad choices. It doesn't concern him as far as he sees it... but maybe, just maybe, under all that tough asshole bullshit, he can care about people. It would take a lot of work, but he can.
4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
I'd say the man he is now and the man he used to be. Logic verses doing what's right. He's spent more of his life being someone who is the complete opposite of the man he was before the world went to hell that when he does remember that person he used to be, even sees himself in an old movie, it's like getting cold water tossed on his face. Logically, realistically, the world is shit now. People are shit. You're shit. He's shit too. People don't do good things out of the kindness of their hearts most of the time and even when they do, it tends to bite them in the ass over benefiting them. He tried to do the right thing back in the day and it ruined his marriage, ruined his career all that before the bombs fell and destroyed almost everything literally.
He meets a woman who reminds him of his wife, or the pedastal he'd had her on, that she would always do the right thing. Maybe even of himself. This person with her golden rule of helping people and being kind, naive of how the world worked. He tried to break her down, show her how awful things are, and they are truly, she does see this, but even in the end she does still keep that goodness. Doesn't let him or other terrible shit break her completely. Even saving Cooper after he literally sells her off to get drugs for his feral problem. She could have left him to go mad, lose himself completely and become a true monster, but she shows him kindness and mercy after everything he did to her and that too gets under his tough exterior, even if he wouldn't admit it. Not yet at least.
With a lot of work and CR he could potentially learn to be a bit more like the man he was instead of the man he is.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? I feel as he's already had his body transformed into something monsterish, token would be interesting to play around with.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Artificer, he's had to learn how to build, upkeep and customize weapons and ammo through his years, it would be interesting for him to have to do all that still, but differently than he's used to. Pee paw gotta learn new tricks.
Name: Maus
Preferred Contact: PM or Plurk:
Age: 38
Invite Link: Here we gooooo-
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Cooper Howard and or The Ghoul
Canon: Fallout
Age: 250+
Canon Point: S1 End of EP7
Wiki Link(s): Sometimes a fella's gotta eat a fella.
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
He's been searching for specific folks who would know where the location of his family are, for over 200 years. While that may sound crazy, it's not too far fetched for people within the right circumstances to find a way to stick around that long where he's from. While of course he's probably thought on many occasions that his family could very well be long dead too, it's the small shining bit of hope that's kept him alive so long. So if he had a dream where he found out where his daughter Janey was, he'd sure as hell run towards it. To her.
2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
After being around so long and going through so much, Cooper doesn't truly fear much at this point. He's lived through nuclear war that turned America to an irradiated giant dust bowl and had his body transformed by that same radiation into something more zombie like in appearance. It's been a blessing and a curse in many ways, but the one thing he truly fears is one of the biggest set backs of being what he is now, a ghoul. It happens at a different pace for every ghoul really, but their minds eventually start changing, wearing down, till eventually they become feral. A mindless thing that attacks anything that moves. Much like a zombie.
It's the one thing he's fighting against as time goes on. Dying isn't even something he's really afraid of, but losing himself to the decay of his mind till he's just some mindless thing and can't remember his own daughter anymore... that scares him. He'll do whatever he has to to prevent it. Tried to sell a person to get drugs to keep it at bay for a while longer. Even ate part of another ghoul to try and get any residual effects from the drug that that ghoul had taken earlier when he was out of the drugs himself. Cooper definitely fights and adapts, until he can go on no longer.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
At the point Cooper is at now his connections to people are primarly expect the worst and trust them as far as he can throw them. If that. It's a dog eat dog world in the wasteland after all. Kill or be killed. Cooper will kill people with barely a blink of his eye or care. Most relationships that are shown or hinted at for him during this time are people knowing who he is and that he's dangerous. Fucking with him is asking for trouble. Yet even at his worst, we do see he does make some connections with others that are genuinely good, even if they may not be deep. He's shown reminising with another person who's got the same ghoul affliction as him, but they're close to losing their mind and becoming feral. In their last moments he talks fondly of the past, leaving them with good memories, waiting till they've looked away to blow their brains out.
It's violent yet still a mercy, He's used to working with others too, but typically it's for his own goals. Deep connections are few and far inbetween for him, but pee paw can play nice with others if he needs/has to, doesn't mean he won't bounce if it doesn't benefit him. Though at the end of the first season of the show, we do get more little bits and pieces of him having more of a heart than he'd like to admit. There's a dog he sounds to stop it from attacking him, but then later heals to use it to track a man he's out to get a bounty on. Though as we see them interact a few more times in the show it's clear he's got some fondness for the pup, even if it's due to old memories of his pet dog who's loooong since dead.
So tldr; Cooper for the most part can play nice with others, but he's got no qualms with killing and or leaving people to their bad choices. It doesn't concern him as far as he sees it... but maybe, just maybe, under all that tough asshole bullshit, he can care about people. It would take a lot of work, but he can.
4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
I'd say the man he is now and the man he used to be. Logic verses doing what's right. He's spent more of his life being someone who is the complete opposite of the man he was before the world went to hell that when he does remember that person he used to be, even sees himself in an old movie, it's like getting cold water tossed on his face. Logically, realistically, the world is shit now. People are shit. You're shit. He's shit too. People don't do good things out of the kindness of their hearts most of the time and even when they do, it tends to bite them in the ass over benefiting them. He tried to do the right thing back in the day and it ruined his marriage, ruined his career all that before the bombs fell and destroyed almost everything literally.
He meets a woman who reminds him of his wife, or the pedastal he'd had her on, that she would always do the right thing. Maybe even of himself. This person with her golden rule of helping people and being kind, naive of how the world worked. He tried to break her down, show her how awful things are, and they are truly, she does see this, but even in the end she does still keep that goodness. Doesn't let him or other terrible shit break her completely. Even saving Cooper after he literally sells her off to get drugs for his feral problem. She could have left him to go mad, lose himself completely and become a true monster, but she shows him kindness and mercy after everything he did to her and that too gets under his tough exterior, even if he wouldn't admit it. Not yet at least.
With a lot of work and CR he could potentially learn to be a bit more like the man he was instead of the man he is.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? I feel as he's already had his body transformed into something monsterish, token would be interesting to play around with.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Artificer, he's had to learn how to build, upkeep and customize weapons and ammo through his years, it would be interesting for him to have to do all that still, but differently than he's used to. Pee paw gotta learn new tricks.