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User Name/Nick: Danii
User DW: yarnzipan
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: yarnzipan
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Jonathan Sims, Kiryu Kazuma, Makima, Vlad Dracula Tepes
Character Name: John Doe
Series: Malevolent (podcast)
Age: Technically, both a month and some days old AND aeons, as he is a part (the 'heart' even) of Hastur/The King in Yellow that broke off and decided to be his own person. He behaves in the manner of an adult man, however.
From When?: Part 12 The End: after the ritual when they would have ended up in the Dreamlands, they end up on the Barge. He'll be coming in with Arthur (lestercraft)
Warden Justification: Despite having done some awful shit in the past, and despite being part of a terrible endless eldritch entity, 'John' as he has decided to be called has distinguished himself as a thoughtful, caring individual and someone who is dedicated to not just not just rolling over for the entity he is technically a part of, but also to striving towards purpose and meaning in a more mortal and focused existence. He feels a sense of purpose and a drive and a will to live and in all of that, he tends to advocate for the lost and the victimized and the strange. While he isn't without his mistakes and setbacks, he has come to advocate mercy when Arthur's feeling particularly violent and does his best to point out that sometimes, it's just a matter of something seeming alien and its viewpoint being different from yours and not actual aggression or 'evil'.
This quote from Part 19 covers where he is:
You view me without conflict, as if I am whole. As if I’m the person that I always intended to be. [...] I am trying to become the thing I should've been a long time ago. It doesn’t come without blood, it doesn’t come without cracked ribs and broken bones. I am clawing my way, stumbling in the dark just as you are, toward a better version of myself. I am fucking up as I move there, but that doesn’t make me a monster. That makes me… human.
He's definitely a complicated warden and someone still somewhat on a path, but he does know right from wrong and he sees the value in it; it's something he'd want to share with others. He encourages Arthur in his darkest moments, and urges him towards kindness, towards understanding, towards seeing the humanity/personhood in beings, and often in non-violence. Towards self-forgiveness. Towards seeing a way out. Towards Arthur's better self: what else does a warden do?
From Part 3:
A:Then what, kill her?
J: Yes. Or…
A: Or?
J: Or we could set her free.
A: What on earth does that mean?
J: Arthur, believe it or not, whatever horrors this creature may instill – it is and was a person. She desires to have her child back and that is her strongest motivation for lingering.
From Part 8:
J: Arthur… she’s dead. Arthur! Jesus, Arthur, she’s dead!
A: (Out of breath) I’m so done with things trying to fight us.
J: Was she?
A: (Out of breath) What? Of- of course… she was… how can you even…?
J: Arthur, the… she didn’t seem like… I don’t know. She seemed like someone who might have been taken advantage of.
A: (Angry) How? She was a cultist, John. She-
J: She was a widow who moved out here to be with her husband.
A: Who joined up with an insane cult. She’s… she’s a monster, for fuck’s sake! How can you-
J: Her drawings! I don’t know, didn’t it feel like she might have been coerced? Maybe by the promise of her husband's return? I-
Item: His pallid mask. Alerts will show as a blinking yellow sign in his vision/a soft rushing sound if he's inside Arthur and looking at any flat surface will show the information he needs on it even if to everyone else it appears bare.
Abilities/Powers: His touch (through a body or by himself) allows him a certain amount of psychometry, especially upon the recently deceased where he can see the last few minutes of their lives. He has a great knowledge of the Cthulhu mythos (even though he doesn't always know he knows it), the supernatural, other worlds, and he can pick up information from his host if he's possessing someone like basic world details: what's a lamppost, what's a stop sign, etc. This is largely contingent on what Arthur mentions, sort of like getting context from present topics instead of being able to delve.
Speaking of: for the barge, carry or wear his mask and John possesses you and gains access to one of your senses, one of your limbs, and one set of extremities (fingers, toes, a tail, etc.) as this matches up with his 'ownership' of Arthur's body in canon. He'll also be able to talk silently in your head to you and provide guidance, information, and bickering, free of charge. He can't speak out of your mouth, but certain supernatural senses can hear him talking inside someone else's head even if the same senses couldn't just read someone's mind.
(This is the mechanism through which we're allowing for Arthur and John to play as one, as they are in canon, while also allowing for them to disengage and be separate.)
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: John is going to find the Barge absolutely marvelous and he's going to be a little wary but deeply interested in everything and everyone that he meets on board. The library is getting GLOMMED on. He's got a love of music and poetry and stories, etc. beautiful things, and he's going to indulge the hell out of himself. While he's very on board with a domain and a being who wishes to redeem people, he's going to be very vocal about how he feels on some of the more fucked up floods or breaches. When it comes to being a warden, he's got a pretty good understanding of what it is to be /checks smudgy arm writing/ an aeons-old Great Old One and King but having gained purpose and coming to believe in the value of life and purpose and the value of others, he's going to be very on board for showing others that power can feel pretty hollow in comparison, that enmeshing your life with another person or people can be deeply satisfying and mean more than even great power and eternal life ever could.
Given his situation with Arthur, they're almost certainly going to some degree tag team their inmates, but I see John being better at dealing with those who've had incredibly bleak experiences, done incredibly extreme and desperate things, and who have a tendency to be a little bit... reactive (given his own behavior). He tends towards a mix of logical discussion and pointing out someone's a FUCKING MORON but he does have a very good grasp and knowledge of how different existence can be for people so he'll definitely be using that in his wardening. He's also used to getting creative and thinking carefully on how to move a situation forward, especially with a stubborn person. I also think he wouldn't be beyond allowing his inmate to 'carry' him for a bit if it would help them bond. I see him as seeing his position as a warden as being someone guiding someone else because he can see and they can't, so to speak, very much his function in canon.
For strengths, well, I'd say he's got a lot of empathy and feels strongly, and he has no problem sharing either of those things with someone he's working close with. He feels intensely about his partner, and I have no doubt that this will be the same with his inmate, that he'll feel protective of them but not the sort that swaddles them in wool. Teamwork is basically all he's known in his 'life' as it is so he's definitely going to do his best to work with his inmate and their personality and he's actually pretty good at that. As I mentioned above, he's on his own journey and he is intensely aware of the fact that graduation is a life choice you make every day, to keep trying to be better, a struggle and a journey and one that won't be without its setbacks; that kind of understanding I see as being really useful for him as a warden, especially when paired with his intense desire to get better.
For weaknesses: he CAN be overdramatic, grumpy, occasionally a little vindictive or cruel, and he definitely has a lower threshold on getting shouty or insulting that could be offputting to inmates that are particularly sensitive or have issues specifically around verbal abuse. The man is foulmouthed. He can be sarcastic and even mean at times, and he's almost certainly going to end up having to apologize for overreacting to his inmate at some point.
He'd definitely do well with non-human inmates, with inmates who kind of need to be thrown off their track a bit (since he's such a weird case and a weird situation and his life experience is even weirder), and anyone who's in the BBEG category since yeah, he's 50% of a Great Old One from a completely different world. He'd probably be especially good with anyone indifferent to suffering, especially someone who views themselves above it. At the same time, he can be INTENSELY human so I could also see him being okay with a very human and normal inmate even if he'd end up pulling them into a wider understanding of the multiverse.
Alternately, an inmate who doesn't take well to debate, who has firm feelings about the lines of good and evil and where non-humans sit on them, who would dismiss him because his experience is so alien and different, or who is particularly delicate and unable to take a bit of verbal roughness probably wouldn't do well with him. He's not above doing something mean to teach a lesson so someone who'd hold grudges would also have a bit of a learning curve with him.
Deal:To get himself a human body and restore Arthur's sight and body to him To return the life of Peter "Parker' Yeung.
History: John @ Malevolent Wiki
Sample Network Entry:
Arthur told me what his deal is. What he wants from this being who has brought us here and offered us employment in this strange place.
He was so passionate when he spoke of it that I wonder if he realizes how it sounded; I don't often stop him when he's on a roll like that. I can't deny the wisdom of it, or how fair it is of him, given what he's encountered. But I'm not sure if he's considered how I might feel about something like that.
It might be worse if he has thought about it.
My own deal is simpler, smaller. More personal. I consider it a matter of trust that his deal has nothing to do with me. Blind, missing his left arm to the forearm, and unable to control his toes and still he'd rather look out for someone else. That is...
That is my partner. Which is why, I suppose, my deal is to restore his body and separate us. It's what he deserves. Even if...
No. It IS what he deserves. My choice is clear.
Sample RP:TDM thread with Arthur | TDM thread NOT with Arthur including network | his own TDM post | more with others
Special Notes: Arthur (lestercraft) and John have explicit permission to godmod each other when in a thread together, due to their statuses as Possessor/Possessee. We'll have that in our permissions to keep it clear.
User DW: yarnzipan
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: yarnzipan
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Jonathan Sims, Kiryu Kazuma, Makima, Vlad Dracula Tepes
Character Name: John Doe
Series: Malevolent (podcast)
Age: Technically, both a month and some days old AND aeons, as he is a part (the 'heart' even) of Hastur/The King in Yellow that broke off and decided to be his own person. He behaves in the manner of an adult man, however.
From When?: Part 12 The End: after the ritual when they would have ended up in the Dreamlands, they end up on the Barge. He'll be coming in with Arthur (
lestercraft)Warden Justification: Despite having done some awful shit in the past, and despite being part of a terrible endless eldritch entity, 'John' as he has decided to be called has distinguished himself as a thoughtful, caring individual and someone who is dedicated to not just not just rolling over for the entity he is technically a part of, but also to striving towards purpose and meaning in a more mortal and focused existence. He feels a sense of purpose and a drive and a will to live and in all of that, he tends to advocate for the lost and the victimized and the strange. While he isn't without his mistakes and setbacks, he has come to advocate mercy when Arthur's feeling particularly violent and does his best to point out that sometimes, it's just a matter of something seeming alien and its viewpoint being different from yours and not actual aggression or 'evil'.
This quote from Part 19 covers where he is:
You view me without conflict, as if I am whole. As if I’m the person that I always intended to be. [...] I am trying to become the thing I should've been a long time ago. It doesn’t come without blood, it doesn’t come without cracked ribs and broken bones. I am clawing my way, stumbling in the dark just as you are, toward a better version of myself. I am fucking up as I move there, but that doesn’t make me a monster. That makes me… human.
He's definitely a complicated warden and someone still somewhat on a path, but he does know right from wrong and he sees the value in it; it's something he'd want to share with others. He encourages Arthur in his darkest moments, and urges him towards kindness, towards understanding, towards seeing the humanity/personhood in beings, and often in non-violence. Towards self-forgiveness. Towards seeing a way out. Towards Arthur's better self: what else does a warden do?
From Part 3:
A:Then what, kill her?
J: Yes. Or…
A: Or?
J: Or we could set her free.
A: What on earth does that mean?
J: Arthur, believe it or not, whatever horrors this creature may instill – it is and was a person. She desires to have her child back and that is her strongest motivation for lingering.
From Part 8:
J: Arthur… she’s dead. Arthur! Jesus, Arthur, she’s dead!
A: (Out of breath) I’m so done with things trying to fight us.
J: Was she?
A: (Out of breath) What? Of- of course… she was… how can you even…?
J: Arthur, the… she didn’t seem like… I don’t know. She seemed like someone who might have been taken advantage of.
A: (Angry) How? She was a cultist, John. She-
J: She was a widow who moved out here to be with her husband.
A: Who joined up with an insane cult. She’s… she’s a monster, for fuck’s sake! How can you-
J: Her drawings! I don’t know, didn’t it feel like she might have been coerced? Maybe by the promise of her husband's return? I-
Item: His pallid mask. Alerts will show as a blinking yellow sign in his vision/a soft rushing sound if he's inside Arthur and looking at any flat surface will show the information he needs on it even if to everyone else it appears bare.
Abilities/Powers: His touch (through a body or by himself) allows him a certain amount of psychometry, especially upon the recently deceased where he can see the last few minutes of their lives. He has a great knowledge of the Cthulhu mythos (even though he doesn't always know he knows it), the supernatural, other worlds, and he can pick up information from his host if he's possessing someone like basic world details: what's a lamppost, what's a stop sign, etc. This is largely contingent on what Arthur mentions, sort of like getting context from present topics instead of being able to delve.
Speaking of: for the barge, carry or wear his mask and John possesses you and gains access to one of your senses, one of your limbs, and one set of extremities (fingers, toes, a tail, etc.) as this matches up with his 'ownership' of Arthur's body in canon. He'll also be able to talk silently in your head to you and provide guidance, information, and bickering, free of charge. He can't speak out of your mouth, but certain supernatural senses can hear him talking inside someone else's head even if the same senses couldn't just read someone's mind.
(This is the mechanism through which we're allowing for Arthur and John to play as one, as they are in canon, while also allowing for them to disengage and be separate.)
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: John is going to find the Barge absolutely marvelous and he's going to be a little wary but deeply interested in everything and everyone that he meets on board. The library is getting GLOMMED on. He's got a love of music and poetry and stories, etc. beautiful things, and he's going to indulge the hell out of himself. While he's very on board with a domain and a being who wishes to redeem people, he's going to be very vocal about how he feels on some of the more fucked up floods or breaches. When it comes to being a warden, he's got a pretty good understanding of what it is to be /checks smudgy arm writing/ an aeons-old Great Old One and King but having gained purpose and coming to believe in the value of life and purpose and the value of others, he's going to be very on board for showing others that power can feel pretty hollow in comparison, that enmeshing your life with another person or people can be deeply satisfying and mean more than even great power and eternal life ever could.
Given his situation with Arthur, they're almost certainly going to some degree tag team their inmates, but I see John being better at dealing with those who've had incredibly bleak experiences, done incredibly extreme and desperate things, and who have a tendency to be a little bit... reactive (given his own behavior). He tends towards a mix of logical discussion and pointing out someone's a FUCKING MORON but he does have a very good grasp and knowledge of how different existence can be for people so he'll definitely be using that in his wardening. He's also used to getting creative and thinking carefully on how to move a situation forward, especially with a stubborn person. I also think he wouldn't be beyond allowing his inmate to 'carry' him for a bit if it would help them bond. I see him as seeing his position as a warden as being someone guiding someone else because he can see and they can't, so to speak, very much his function in canon.
For strengths, well, I'd say he's got a lot of empathy and feels strongly, and he has no problem sharing either of those things with someone he's working close with. He feels intensely about his partner, and I have no doubt that this will be the same with his inmate, that he'll feel protective of them but not the sort that swaddles them in wool. Teamwork is basically all he's known in his 'life' as it is so he's definitely going to do his best to work with his inmate and their personality and he's actually pretty good at that. As I mentioned above, he's on his own journey and he is intensely aware of the fact that graduation is a life choice you make every day, to keep trying to be better, a struggle and a journey and one that won't be without its setbacks; that kind of understanding I see as being really useful for him as a warden, especially when paired with his intense desire to get better.
For weaknesses: he CAN be overdramatic, grumpy, occasionally a little vindictive or cruel, and he definitely has a lower threshold on getting shouty or insulting that could be offputting to inmates that are particularly sensitive or have issues specifically around verbal abuse. The man is foulmouthed. He can be sarcastic and even mean at times, and he's almost certainly going to end up having to apologize for overreacting to his inmate at some point.
He'd definitely do well with non-human inmates, with inmates who kind of need to be thrown off their track a bit (since he's such a weird case and a weird situation and his life experience is even weirder), and anyone who's in the BBEG category since yeah, he's 50% of a Great Old One from a completely different world. He'd probably be especially good with anyone indifferent to suffering, especially someone who views themselves above it. At the same time, he can be INTENSELY human so I could also see him being okay with a very human and normal inmate even if he'd end up pulling them into a wider understanding of the multiverse.
Alternately, an inmate who doesn't take well to debate, who has firm feelings about the lines of good and evil and where non-humans sit on them, who would dismiss him because his experience is so alien and different, or who is particularly delicate and unable to take a bit of verbal roughness probably wouldn't do well with him. He's not above doing something mean to teach a lesson so someone who'd hold grudges would also have a bit of a learning curve with him.
Deal:
History: John @ Malevolent Wiki
Sample Network Entry:
Arthur told me what his deal is. What he wants from this being who has brought us here and offered us employment in this strange place.
He was so passionate when he spoke of it that I wonder if he realizes how it sounded; I don't often stop him when he's on a roll like that. I can't deny the wisdom of it, or how fair it is of him, given what he's encountered. But I'm not sure if he's considered how I might feel about something like that.
It might be worse if he has thought about it.
My own deal is simpler, smaller. More personal. I consider it a matter of trust that his deal has nothing to do with me. Blind, missing his left arm to the forearm, and unable to control his toes and still he'd rather look out for someone else. That is...
That is my partner. Which is why, I suppose, my deal is to restore his body and separate us. It's what he deserves. Even if...
No. It IS what he deserves. My choice is clear.
Sample RP:TDM thread with Arthur | TDM thread NOT with Arthur including network | his own TDM post | more with others
Special Notes: Arthur (
lestercraft) and John have explicit permission to godmod each other when in a thread together, due to their statuses as Possessor/Possessee. We'll have that in our permissions to keep it clear.
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Pairing Comment!
Character Journal: greatoldjohn
Status: Warden
Pairing Information:
John is, in all ways, a bit of an oddity. Without getting too far into the weeds, he has been at the absolute lowest point you can go (in hell with amnesia and not even a body) and pretty dang high (a Great Old One of incalculable power) and right now he's kinda rocking around being an excitable and slightly anxious himbo who does his best to look out for people. Which is to say:
John's talents include being very willing to listen, being extremely empathic, and always willing to give someone another chance even when he absolutely shouldn't. He's been a few different versions of terrible (apathetic to suffering, actively hurting people for perceived benefit, actively hurting people for emotional benefits, desperate and uncaring about consequences, willing to hurt people to get himself out of a bind) and that means he won't even attempt a high ground, let alone talk down from it. His morality is not grounded in any society or system so it's good for people who have unique circumstances or won't be coming to this from a human/normal background, as well as people who are just so burned by the universe at large that they don't have much faith in the decency of anyone. For people who need someone who's incredibly genuine and willing to put up with a lot? Definitely your guy. He's a cheerleader who wants to support you and celebrate your every achievement.
In a practical sense, he's extremely durable and willing to take a LOT of shit as well as being capable of a range of solutions for various issues magical and non. Stabbing him might happen. He's fine with it. He's got a good support system that he'll utilize in a village-based solution if and when he can while also having a very healthy respect for someone's right to privacy and their own autonomy.
He is, fortunately or unfortunately, unapologetically not human so anyone who has issues with non-humans or is actively unwilling to see them as people is probably not going to work well with him. Monsters or monster adjacent folks, however, could be a good fit since he's made that journey himself and he understands how violent, messy, and difficult it can genuinely be. As well as how hard it is sometimes to believe that you can be a decent person as a monster. Or understand/enter 'society'.
Flaw-wise, his understanding of 'society' or 'norms' or complete social issues is extremely rudimentary. While he'll extend empathy, anything too far in that realm will mostly get just 'that's stupid, sorry' and he won't have many solutions to offer. He's also a very mixed bag when it comes to duplicitous inmates; he's genuine but he can also be a cynical asshole and more insightful... but on small lies and obfuscation, he's fucked. He's extremely open with his emotions so if a character would be thrown off by that or require a calm and steady hand, he's probably not your best option. And if your character needs a lot of distance, professional or otherwise? Not the guy for you. John can give breathing room, but his preference for relationships are 'close' and 'intense' and he honestly works best that way. Difficult, argumentative, ready to tear into each other knock down drag out fights are a okay, but polite Stepford Wife 'everything's fine' is going to lead to frustration on both sides. He will care very personally about your inmate and want the best for them. He's not here to 'do a job'.