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jonesiseverywhere( PLAYER INFORMATION )
Name: Parcel
Contact: Plurk: Caligraphunky, Journal PMs, Email and Skype available on request
Are you over 17?: Yes
Characters in Forest Covered: N/A
( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
Name/Work Name: Casey Jones/Goro
Canon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012
Canon Point: before the episode Return to New York
AU/CRAU: No
Age: 17
History:
“All my life I knew I was meant for something greater. This is my calling...my destiny! A true warrior has gotta be prepared...”
Not much is known about Casey Jones before his introduction proper in the show. He was just a punk teenager who tagged subways with graffiti occasionally, living with his father and little sister (no mother seems present) in a tiny New York City apartment above a barber shop. He's been held back in school at least once, and his introduction to the stranger bits of NYC was only through an unusual trigonometry tutor he lined up...
For underneath the streets of NYC, living in the sewers, are giant adolescent turtles training to be silent warriors of the night. In other words, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! And the turtles are not the only mutant creatures out there, because the small brain-like alien beings making the mutants, the Kraang, have been working to take over the earth for thousands of years. At the same time, the arch enemy of the turtle's Master Splinter, Shredder, was setting up his ninja clan/criminal syndicate in the middle of the city, joining forces with the Kraang over the course of events. Casey was aware of the aliens, having lived through the first invasion attempt they made, but he did not become part of the story proper until he met one April O'Neil.
April had signed up to tutor students struggling with math, of which Casey was probably the most struggling of that sort. He didn't even care about the class, he just didn't want to be kicked off the school's hockey team. It just happened that, in the middle of their study session, they were attacked by a mutation gone wrong: a giant hulking mass of organs in a jar with acidic hands, a casualty of the Kraang's and Shredder's experiments. Casey and April escaped, this and a second attack on the two of them by robot ninjas, cemented his friendship with her.
But Casey was not satisfied now that he knew there was danger out there that threatened his new friend, her family and his own. He made the decision to become a crime fighting vigilante then, improvising a costume and weapons out of old sporting equipment and a homemade taser. On his very first night out he happened to come across members of the Purple Dragons gang mugging a man. His attempt to put the fear of god into them was cut short, however, by the interception of one of the turtle ninjas, Raphael, who felt Casey was going too far in his quest for justice. Casey disagreed and they fought each other to a standstill. Not willing to let this ride, Casey tracked down the turtle again, and followed him back to his hideout. However Casey was followed by one of the Shredder's robot ninjas. Casey found three other turtle ninjas (Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo), a giant rat (Master Splinter)...and April O'Neil, who convinced Casey that the turtles were friends.
At that point, the robot ninja summoned more of the same and attacked. Casey fought alongside his new friends to prevent the turtles from being discovered, and they welcomed him as part of the team. Though there were rough patches, Casey's life for the next year became a rush of battles alongside the turtles against the forces of the Kraang and Shredder until the Kraang's attempted second invasion. The turtles, April, and Casey fought hard and...lost. Injured and broken and with Master Splinter missing and possibly dead, they fled the city to April's grandmother's house to heal and recuperate.
It took months, and they were under constant assault by mutants during that time, but little by little, they recovered, mentally and physically. Now they're preparing to return to New York, save Master Splinter and destroy the Kraang menace once and for all...with no idea how they're going to do it...
Personality: In some ways Casey Jones is exactly the kind of snotty little punk he looks like. He's more likely to introduce himself with a thrown object and a "think fast!" than a handshake, and it's always an accurate first impression. Overbearing and bratty, he loves to push people's buttons, even when he likes them. Especially when he likes them. He's also the kid who apparently spends a good deal of time in his room, writing in what amounts to an angry poetry journal and playing knifey-fingers with the Bowie knife he keeps stabbed in his desk. He simply has no filter on his actions, partly due to the many, many blows to the head he's taken over his life, but mostly due to the fact that Casey Jones simply cannot just sit still.
Let's not beat around the bush: Casey is, in so many ways. a crazy person. He goes apparent months without interacting with a non-mutant/non-crazy person so it's easy to forget, but he's crazy. This is the ordinary high school kid who looked at monsters and aliens running around his city and decided to do something about it personally with no training, old wooden hockey sticks and a taser he made out of a potato masher. He's the kid who took on a man made entirely of acid with a rusty metal pipe, chased down a robot ninja with a hostile turtle ninja and made him his best friend, and tried to take on the entire New York criminal underworld by himself. Casey Jones is (if only by virtue of burying his deeper feelings and thoughts) a simple creature, happy when he gets to fight, happier when he gets to fight a lot, happiest when he feels like the fight is for a just cause.
For all of Casey's punk bluster, he really does have a big, open, righteous heart. He doesn't seem to have too many friends but it isn't tough to make him a friend for life. He knew one of his best friends April O'Neal for a maybe little over two weeks before deciding they were close, and he accepted the ninja turtles the moment she vouched for them. Casey's actually a surprisingly good judge of character, generally pretty good at picking out when people's intentions aren't on the up and up, but he's not judgmental. He's readily accepted mutant animals, alien-human hybrids, and a wild ninja girl as his friends and allies, sometimes even before he knows them. The only real way to get on his bad side, beyond being a jerk or a criminal, is to act like you're better than him. And not mean it in a friendly rivalry way.
Casey doesn't like to think about himself or his motives with the depth or self-reflection he'd need to realize this, but he's very insecure about his own strength and, in the grand tradition of guys who have way too much to prove and don't realize it, this manifests in a powerful veneer of arrogance. He is not insecure about his powerful sense of empathy or the fact that he cares quite a bit about the people he fights for, mind, but what he absolutely, positively cannot stand is the thought that he isn't good enough to win his battles, protect the people he cares about, and, most powerfully, that he can't keep up with the people he admires. In his effort to be cool, the knowledge of his actual abilities slip through the cracks.
So he speaks in the third person about how awesome he is and picks fights that people tell him he can't possibly hope to win and makes sure that everybody knows that Casey Jones was the guy who broke up the plans of Shredder and, by extension, the giant criminal syndicates that are far more connected and ruthless then he could ever be in the hope of convincing the universe that he's the big man he says he is. In some part of Casey's unconscious mind, asking for help is an admission of weakness and so he pretends that he can handle everything, even when he can't, and he's adept at ignoring the signs that this puts his friends in danger because if there's one thing Casey Jones can't do, it's be honest with himself.
Debt:
Casey wants to save New York. He wants the alien menace out of his city. He wants his home, and his family back together. Both of them. The witch has promised him the power to make sure this happens and while he may have some misgivings...well, if it means they win, then it's a risk worth taking.
Inventory:
-Street clothes
-His vigilante gear (hockey pads with nails pounded through them, a homemade tazer, folding roller skates, and a goalie mask painted like a skull)
-One baseball bat.
-Two wooden hockey sticks, one goalie, one regular.
-His personal journal, which is a heavily modified composition book
Abilities: Casey is a lot stronger than his scrawny frame would suggest, but he's still a normal human with normal human strength. He's a good fighter but in an undisciplined street-fighter kind of way, and his impulsiveness can hamper his effectiveness. He's also a skilled hockey player, which he leverages into his fighting style by shooting pucks with remarkably good aim.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
+ Casey is quick on his feet and generally pretty good at improvisation when it comes to fighting. And sports, skills that overlap for him. His major selling point is his athleticism, which includes strength, stamina, and speed. He can be a little clumsy, but mostly that's more from not thinking ahead or trying something new.
+ Casey is pretty open with his friendship. Assuming you don't hate him or have a personality he can't stand, he'll be friends with you no matter who or what you actually are. And he gets attached to people very quickly.
+ Once he likes you, Casey is pretty much your friend for life. His loyalty is such that he'll stand beside the people he cares about no matter what happens or where it leads them. Their fights are his fights, always.+ DETERMINATION. Casey really does not ever give up, even when the odds are stacked against him. This is partly out of his genuine belief that good guys always win, partly out of his own sense of justice, partly out of the powerful affection he feels for people, and partly because he just really has no idea when to quit.
+ Casey's not exactly the PARTY DUDE, but he's pretty fun-loving. He's always down for games or challenges or just hanging out, all night. He's willing to teach people to ice skate if they ask!
- The biggest and most obvious of his flaws is that Casey LOVES danger and fighting. He thinks of himself as a lone vigilante hero of the night and vigilante heroes don't think twice about jumping straight into the fray, no matter how much worse they end up making things.
- Tied into the first point is that sometimes he doesn't recognize danger when it's staring him right in the face. Often his first reaction to an unfamiliar object is to try and smash it open with a bat, which, in a world of ninja assassins, aliens, monsters, and magical artifacts, is usually a terrible idea. He has a strong sense of curiosity without any common sense to temper it and his refusal to pay attention in school does not help matters
- Casey's kind of an egotist. At best he tends towards un-self aware and insensitive, at worst he's self-absorbed and resistant to any kind of reflection until he's hurt people he cares about. It really doesn't help that he likes to push people's buttons to get a rise out of them.
- He's mostly a pretty laid back and friendly guy, but he also has an unpredictable temper and when it flares up it's difficult to calm him back down. Usually it's only a problem when he works himself up over being doubted, or mocked, or just plain feeling inadequate.
- For a kid who gets into trouble so much, he's terrible at lying. No, really, he sucks at it. He has so many tells, the only reason people don't call him out is to be polite or get the upper hand
( SAMPLE )
Characterization Sample: Casey fights and makes up with someone.
Name: Parcel
Contact: Plurk: Caligraphunky, Journal PMs, Email and Skype available on request
Are you over 17?: Yes
Characters in Forest Covered: N/A
( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
Name/Work Name: Casey Jones/Goro
Canon: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012
Canon Point: before the episode Return to New York
AU/CRAU: No
Age: 17
History:
“All my life I knew I was meant for something greater. This is my calling...my destiny! A true warrior has gotta be prepared...”
Not much is known about Casey Jones before his introduction proper in the show. He was just a punk teenager who tagged subways with graffiti occasionally, living with his father and little sister (no mother seems present) in a tiny New York City apartment above a barber shop. He's been held back in school at least once, and his introduction to the stranger bits of NYC was only through an unusual trigonometry tutor he lined up...
For underneath the streets of NYC, living in the sewers, are giant adolescent turtles training to be silent warriors of the night. In other words, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! And the turtles are not the only mutant creatures out there, because the small brain-like alien beings making the mutants, the Kraang, have been working to take over the earth for thousands of years. At the same time, the arch enemy of the turtle's Master Splinter, Shredder, was setting up his ninja clan/criminal syndicate in the middle of the city, joining forces with the Kraang over the course of events. Casey was aware of the aliens, having lived through the first invasion attempt they made, but he did not become part of the story proper until he met one April O'Neil.
April had signed up to tutor students struggling with math, of which Casey was probably the most struggling of that sort. He didn't even care about the class, he just didn't want to be kicked off the school's hockey team. It just happened that, in the middle of their study session, they were attacked by a mutation gone wrong: a giant hulking mass of organs in a jar with acidic hands, a casualty of the Kraang's and Shredder's experiments. Casey and April escaped, this and a second attack on the two of them by robot ninjas, cemented his friendship with her.
But Casey was not satisfied now that he knew there was danger out there that threatened his new friend, her family and his own. He made the decision to become a crime fighting vigilante then, improvising a costume and weapons out of old sporting equipment and a homemade taser. On his very first night out he happened to come across members of the Purple Dragons gang mugging a man. His attempt to put the fear of god into them was cut short, however, by the interception of one of the turtle ninjas, Raphael, who felt Casey was going too far in his quest for justice. Casey disagreed and they fought each other to a standstill. Not willing to let this ride, Casey tracked down the turtle again, and followed him back to his hideout. However Casey was followed by one of the Shredder's robot ninjas. Casey found three other turtle ninjas (Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo), a giant rat (Master Splinter)...and April O'Neil, who convinced Casey that the turtles were friends.
At that point, the robot ninja summoned more of the same and attacked. Casey fought alongside his new friends to prevent the turtles from being discovered, and they welcomed him as part of the team. Though there were rough patches, Casey's life for the next year became a rush of battles alongside the turtles against the forces of the Kraang and Shredder until the Kraang's attempted second invasion. The turtles, April, and Casey fought hard and...lost. Injured and broken and with Master Splinter missing and possibly dead, they fled the city to April's grandmother's house to heal and recuperate.
It took months, and they were under constant assault by mutants during that time, but little by little, they recovered, mentally and physically. Now they're preparing to return to New York, save Master Splinter and destroy the Kraang menace once and for all...with no idea how they're going to do it...
Personality: In some ways Casey Jones is exactly the kind of snotty little punk he looks like. He's more likely to introduce himself with a thrown object and a "think fast!" than a handshake, and it's always an accurate first impression. Overbearing and bratty, he loves to push people's buttons, even when he likes them. Especially when he likes them. He's also the kid who apparently spends a good deal of time in his room, writing in what amounts to an angry poetry journal and playing knifey-fingers with the Bowie knife he keeps stabbed in his desk. He simply has no filter on his actions, partly due to the many, many blows to the head he's taken over his life, but mostly due to the fact that Casey Jones simply cannot just sit still.
Let's not beat around the bush: Casey is, in so many ways. a crazy person. He goes apparent months without interacting with a non-mutant/non-crazy person so it's easy to forget, but he's crazy. This is the ordinary high school kid who looked at monsters and aliens running around his city and decided to do something about it personally with no training, old wooden hockey sticks and a taser he made out of a potato masher. He's the kid who took on a man made entirely of acid with a rusty metal pipe, chased down a robot ninja with a hostile turtle ninja and made him his best friend, and tried to take on the entire New York criminal underworld by himself. Casey Jones is (if only by virtue of burying his deeper feelings and thoughts) a simple creature, happy when he gets to fight, happier when he gets to fight a lot, happiest when he feels like the fight is for a just cause.
For all of Casey's punk bluster, he really does have a big, open, righteous heart. He doesn't seem to have too many friends but it isn't tough to make him a friend for life. He knew one of his best friends April O'Neal for a maybe little over two weeks before deciding they were close, and he accepted the ninja turtles the moment she vouched for them. Casey's actually a surprisingly good judge of character, generally pretty good at picking out when people's intentions aren't on the up and up, but he's not judgmental. He's readily accepted mutant animals, alien-human hybrids, and a wild ninja girl as his friends and allies, sometimes even before he knows them. The only real way to get on his bad side, beyond being a jerk or a criminal, is to act like you're better than him. And not mean it in a friendly rivalry way.
Casey doesn't like to think about himself or his motives with the depth or self-reflection he'd need to realize this, but he's very insecure about his own strength and, in the grand tradition of guys who have way too much to prove and don't realize it, this manifests in a powerful veneer of arrogance. He is not insecure about his powerful sense of empathy or the fact that he cares quite a bit about the people he fights for, mind, but what he absolutely, positively cannot stand is the thought that he isn't good enough to win his battles, protect the people he cares about, and, most powerfully, that he can't keep up with the people he admires. In his effort to be cool, the knowledge of his actual abilities slip through the cracks.
So he speaks in the third person about how awesome he is and picks fights that people tell him he can't possibly hope to win and makes sure that everybody knows that Casey Jones was the guy who broke up the plans of Shredder and, by extension, the giant criminal syndicates that are far more connected and ruthless then he could ever be in the hope of convincing the universe that he's the big man he says he is. In some part of Casey's unconscious mind, asking for help is an admission of weakness and so he pretends that he can handle everything, even when he can't, and he's adept at ignoring the signs that this puts his friends in danger because if there's one thing Casey Jones can't do, it's be honest with himself.
Debt:
Casey wants to save New York. He wants the alien menace out of his city. He wants his home, and his family back together. Both of them. The witch has promised him the power to make sure this happens and while he may have some misgivings...well, if it means they win, then it's a risk worth taking.
Inventory:
-Street clothes
-His vigilante gear (hockey pads with nails pounded through them, a homemade tazer, folding roller skates, and a goalie mask painted like a skull)
-One baseball bat.
-Two wooden hockey sticks, one goalie, one regular.
-His personal journal, which is a heavily modified composition book
Abilities: Casey is a lot stronger than his scrawny frame would suggest, but he's still a normal human with normal human strength. He's a good fighter but in an undisciplined street-fighter kind of way, and his impulsiveness can hamper his effectiveness. He's also a skilled hockey player, which he leverages into his fighting style by shooting pucks with remarkably good aim.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
+ Casey is quick on his feet and generally pretty good at improvisation when it comes to fighting. And sports, skills that overlap for him. His major selling point is his athleticism, which includes strength, stamina, and speed. He can be a little clumsy, but mostly that's more from not thinking ahead or trying something new.
+ Casey is pretty open with his friendship. Assuming you don't hate him or have a personality he can't stand, he'll be friends with you no matter who or what you actually are. And he gets attached to people very quickly.
+ Once he likes you, Casey is pretty much your friend for life. His loyalty is such that he'll stand beside the people he cares about no matter what happens or where it leads them. Their fights are his fights, always.+ DETERMINATION. Casey really does not ever give up, even when the odds are stacked against him. This is partly out of his genuine belief that good guys always win, partly out of his own sense of justice, partly out of the powerful affection he feels for people, and partly because he just really has no idea when to quit.
+ Casey's not exactly the PARTY DUDE, but he's pretty fun-loving. He's always down for games or challenges or just hanging out, all night. He's willing to teach people to ice skate if they ask!
- The biggest and most obvious of his flaws is that Casey LOVES danger and fighting. He thinks of himself as a lone vigilante hero of the night and vigilante heroes don't think twice about jumping straight into the fray, no matter how much worse they end up making things.
- Tied into the first point is that sometimes he doesn't recognize danger when it's staring him right in the face. Often his first reaction to an unfamiliar object is to try and smash it open with a bat, which, in a world of ninja assassins, aliens, monsters, and magical artifacts, is usually a terrible idea. He has a strong sense of curiosity without any common sense to temper it and his refusal to pay attention in school does not help matters
- Casey's kind of an egotist. At best he tends towards un-self aware and insensitive, at worst he's self-absorbed and resistant to any kind of reflection until he's hurt people he cares about. It really doesn't help that he likes to push people's buttons to get a rise out of them.
- He's mostly a pretty laid back and friendly guy, but he also has an unpredictable temper and when it flares up it's difficult to calm him back down. Usually it's only a problem when he works himself up over being doubted, or mocked, or just plain feeling inadequate.
- For a kid who gets into trouble so much, he's terrible at lying. No, really, he sucks at it. He has so many tells, the only reason people don't call him out is to be polite or get the upper hand
( SAMPLE )
Characterization Sample: Casey fights and makes up with someone.
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<cut text="Be prepared for this day of Rockoning"><big>( <strong>PLAYER INFORMATION</strong> ) </big>
<strong>Name</strong>: Parcel
<strong>Contact</strong>: Plurk: Caligraphunky, Journal PMs, Email and Skype available on request
<strong>Are you over 17?</strong>: Yes
<strong>Characters in Forest Covered</strong>: N/A
<big>( <strong>CHARACTER INFORMATION</strong> )</big>
<strong>Name/Work Name</strong>: Casey Jones/Goro
<strong>Canon</strong>: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012
<strong>Canon Point</strong>: before the episode <i>Return to New York</i>
<strong>AU/CRAU</strong>: No
<strong>Age</strong>: 17
<strong>History</strong>:
<i>“All my life I knew I was meant for something greater. This is my calling...my destiny! A true warrior has gotta be prepared...”</i>
Not much is known about Casey Jones before his introduction proper in the show. He was just a punk teenager who tagged subways with graffiti occasionally, living with his father and little sister (no mother seems present) in a tiny New York City apartment above a barber shop. He's been held back in school at least once, and his introduction to the stranger bits of NYC was only through an unusual trigonometry tutor he lined up...
For underneath the streets of NYC, living in the sewers, are giant adolescent turtles training to be silent warriors of the night. In other words, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! And the turtles are not the only mutant creatures out there, because the small brain-like alien beings making the mutants, the Kraang, have been working to take over the earth for thousands of years. At the same time, the arch enemy of the turtle's Master Splinter, Shredder, was setting up his ninja clan/criminal syndicate in the middle of the city, joining forces with the Kraang over the course of events. Casey was aware of the aliens, having lived through the first invasion attempt they made, but he did not become part of the story proper until he met one April O'Neil.
April had signed up to tutor students struggling with math, of which Casey was probably the most struggling of that sort. He didn't even care about the class, he just didn't want to be kicked off the school's hockey team. It just happened that, in the middle of their study session, they were attacked by a mutation gone wrong: a giant hulking mass of organs in a jar with acidic hands, a casualty of the Kraang's and Shredder's experiments. Casey and April escaped, this and a second attack on the two of them by robot ninjas, cemented his friendship with her.
But Casey was not satisfied now that he knew there was danger out there that threatened his new friend, her family and his own. He made the decision to become a crime fighting vigilante then, improvising a costume and weapons out of old sporting equipment and a homemade taser. On his very first night out he happened to come across members of the Purple Dragons gang mugging a man. His attempt to put the fear of god into them was cut short, however, by the interception of one of the turtle ninjas, Raphael, who felt Casey was going too far in his quest for justice. Casey disagreed and they fought each other to a standstill. Not willing to let this ride, Casey tracked down the turtle again, and followed him back to his hideout. However Casey was followed by one of the Shredder's robot ninjas. Casey found three other turtle ninjas (Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo), a giant rat (Master Splinter)...and April O'Neil, who convinced Casey that the turtles were friends.
At that point, the robot ninja summoned more of the same and attacked. Casey fought alongside his new friends to prevent the turtles from being discovered, and they welcomed him as part of the team. Though there were rough patches, Casey's life for the next year became a rush of battles alongside the turtles against the forces of the Kraang and Shredder until the Kraang's attempted second invasion. The turtles, April, and Casey fought hard and...lost. Injured and broken and with Master Splinter missing and possibly dead, they fled the city to April's grandmother's house to heal and recuperate.
It took months, and they were under constant assault by mutants during that time, but little by little, they recovered, mentally and physically. Now they're preparing to return to New York, save Master Splinter and destroy the Kraang menace once and for all...with no idea how they're going to do it...
<strong>Personality</strong>: In some ways Casey Jones is exactly the kind of snotty little punk he looks like. He's more likely to introduce himself with a thrown object and a "think fast!" than a handshake, and it's always an accurate first impression. Overbearing and bratty, he loves to push people's buttons, even when he likes them. Especially when he likes them. He's also the kid who apparently spends a good deal of time in his room, writing in what amounts to an angry poetry journal and playing knifey-fingers with the Bowie knife he keeps stabbed in his desk. He simply has no filter on his actions, partly due to the many, many blows to the head he's taken over his life, but mostly due to the fact that Casey Jones simply cannot just sit still.
Let's not beat around the bush: Casey is, in so many ways. a crazy person. He goes apparent months without interacting with a non-mutant/non-crazy person so it's easy to forget, but he's crazy. This is the ordinary high school kid who looked at monsters and aliens running around his city and decided to do something about it personally with no training, old wooden hockey sticks and a taser he made out of a potato masher. He's the kid who took on a man made entirely of acid with a rusty metal pipe, chased down a robot ninja with a hostile turtle ninja and made him his best friend, and tried to take on the entire New York criminal underworld by himself. Casey Jones is (if only by virtue of burying his deeper feelings and thoughts) a simple creature, happy when he gets to fight, happier when he gets to fight a lot, happiest when he feels like the fight is for a just cause.
For all of Casey's punk bluster, he really does have a big, open, righteous heart. He doesn't seem to have too many friends but it isn't tough to make him a friend for life. He knew one of his best friends April O'Neal for a maybe little over two weeks before deciding they were close, and he accepted the ninja turtles the moment she vouched for them. Casey's actually a surprisingly good judge of character, generally pretty good at picking out when people's intentions aren't on the up and up, but he's not judgmental. He's readily accepted mutant animals, alien-human hybrids, and a wild ninja girl as his friends and allies, sometimes even before he knows them. The only real way to get on his bad side, beyond being a jerk or a criminal, is to act like you're better than him. And not mean it in a friendly rivalry way.
Casey doesn't like to think about himself or his motives with the depth or self-reflection he'd need to realize this, but he's very insecure about his own strength and, in the grand tradition of guys who have way too much to prove and don't realize it, this manifests in a powerful veneer of arrogance. He is not insecure about his powerful sense of empathy or the fact that he cares quite a bit about the people he fights for, mind, but what he absolutely, positively cannot stand is the thought that he isn't good enough to win his battles, protect the people he cares about, and, most powerfully, that he can't keep up with the people he admires. In his effort to be cool, the knowledge of his actual abilities slip through the cracks.
So he speaks in the third person about how awesome he is and picks fights that people tell him he can't possibly hope to win and makes sure that everybody knows that Casey Jones was the guy who broke up the plans of Shredder and, by extension, the giant criminal syndicates that are far more connected and ruthless then he could ever be in the hope of convincing the universe that he's the big man he says he is. In some part of Casey's unconscious mind, asking for help is an admission of weakness and so he pretends that he can handle everything, even when he can't, and he's adept at ignoring the signs that this puts his friends in danger because if there's one thing Casey Jones can't do, it's be honest with himself.
<strong>Debt</strong>:
Casey wants to save New York. He wants the alien menace out of his city. He wants his home, and his family back together. Both of them. The witch has promised him the power to make sure this happens and while he may have some misgivings...well, if it means they win, then it's a risk worth taking.
<strong>Inventory</strong>:
-Street clothes
-His vigilante gear (hockey pads with nails pounded through them, a homemade tazer, folding roller skates, and a goalie mask painted like a skull)
-One baseball bat.
-Two wooden hockey sticks, one goalie, one regular.
-His personal journal, which is a heavily modified composition book
<strong>Abilities</strong>: Casey is a lot stronger than his scrawny frame would suggest, but he's still a normal human with normal human strength. He's a good fighter but in an undisciplined street-fighter kind of way, and his impulsiveness can hamper his effectiveness. He's also a skilled hockey player, which he leverages into his fighting style by shooting pucks with remarkably good aim.
<strong>Strengths and Weaknesses</strong>:
+ Casey is quick on his feet and generally pretty good at improvisation when it comes to fighting. And sports, skills that overlap for him. His major selling point is his athleticism, which includes strength, stamina, and speed. He can be a little clumsy, but mostly that's more from not thinking ahead or trying something new.
+ Casey is pretty open with his friendship. Assuming you don't hate him or have a personality he can't stand, he'll be friends with you no matter who or what you actually are. And he gets attached to people very quickly.
+ Once he likes you, Casey is pretty much your friend for life. His loyalty is such that he'll stand beside the people he cares about no matter what happens or where it leads them. Their fights are his fights, always.+ DETERMINATION. Casey really does not ever give up, even when the odds are stacked against him. This is partly out of his genuine belief that good guys always win, partly out of his own sense of justice, partly out of the powerful affection he feels for people, and partly because he just really <i>has no idea</i> when to quit.
+ Casey's not exactly the PARTY DUDE, but he's pretty fun-loving. He's always down for games or challenges or just hanging out, all night. He's willing to teach people to ice skate if they ask!
- The biggest and most obvious of his flaws is that Casey LOVES danger and fighting. He thinks of himself as a lone vigilante hero of the night and vigilante heroes don't think twice about jumping straight into the fray, no matter how much worse they end up making things.
- Tied into the first point is that sometimes he doesn't recognize danger when it's staring him right in the face. Often his first reaction to an unfamiliar object is to try and smash it open with a bat, which, in a world of ninja assassins, aliens, monsters, and magical artifacts, is usually a <i>terrible</i> idea. He has a strong sense of curiosity without any common sense to temper it and his refusal to pay attention in school does not help matters
- Casey's kind of an egotist. At best he tends towards un-self aware and insensitive, at worst he's self-absorbed and resistant to any kind of reflection until he's hurt people he cares about. It really doesn't help that he likes to push people's buttons to get a rise out of them.
- He's mostly a pretty laid back and friendly guy, but he also has an unpredictable temper and when it flares up it's difficult to calm him back down. Usually it's only a problem when he works himself up over being doubted, or mocked, or just plain feeling inadequate.
- For a kid who gets into trouble so much, he's terrible at lying. No, really, he sucks at it. He has so many tells, the only reason people don't call him out is to be polite or get the upper hand
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<strong>Name/Work Name</strong>: Casey Jones/Goro
<strong>Canon</strong>: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012
<strong>Canon Point</strong>: before the episode <i>Return to New York</i>
<strong>AU/CRAU</strong>: No
<strong>Age</strong>: 17
<strong>History</strong>:
<i>“All my life I knew I was meant for something greater. This is my calling...my destiny! A true warrior has gotta be prepared...”</i>
Not much is known about Casey Jones before his introduction proper in the show. He was just a punk teenager who tagged subways with graffiti occasionally, living with his father and little sister (no mother seems present) in a tiny New York City apartment above a barber shop. He's been held back in school at least once, and his introduction to the stranger bits of NYC was only through an unusual trigonometry tutor he lined up...
For underneath the streets of NYC, living in the sewers, are giant adolescent turtles training to be silent warriors of the night. In other words, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! And the turtles are not the only mutant creatures out there, because the small brain-like alien beings making the mutants, the Kraang, have been working to take over the earth for thousands of years. At the same time, the arch enemy of the turtle's Master Splinter, Shredder, was setting up his ninja clan/criminal syndicate in the middle of the city, joining forces with the Kraang over the course of events. Casey was aware of the aliens, having lived through the first invasion attempt they made, but he did not become part of the story proper until he met one April O'Neil.
April had signed up to tutor students struggling with math, of which Casey was probably the most struggling of that sort. He didn't even care about the class, he just didn't want to be kicked off the school's hockey team. It just happened that, in the middle of their study session, they were attacked by a mutation gone wrong: a giant hulking mass of organs in a jar with acidic hands, a casualty of the Kraang's and Shredder's experiments. Casey and April escaped, this and a second attack on the two of them by robot ninjas, cemented his friendship with her.
But Casey was not satisfied now that he knew there was danger out there that threatened his new friend, her family and his own. He made the decision to become a crime fighting vigilante then, improvising a costume and weapons out of old sporting equipment and a homemade taser. On his very first night out he happened to come across members of the Purple Dragons gang mugging a man. His attempt to put the fear of god into them was cut short, however, by the interception of one of the turtle ninjas, Raphael, who felt Casey was going too far in his quest for justice. Casey disagreed and they fought each other to a standstill. Not willing to let this ride, Casey tracked down the turtle again, and followed him back to his hideout. However Casey was followed by one of the Shredder's robot ninjas. Casey found three other turtle ninjas (Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo), a giant rat (Master Splinter)...and April O'Neil, who convinced Casey that the turtles were friends.
At that point, the robot ninja summoned more of the same and attacked. Casey fought alongside his new friends to prevent the turtles from being discovered, and they welcomed him as part of the team. Though there were rough patches, Casey's life for the next year became a rush of battles alongside the turtles against the forces of the Kraang and Shredder until the Kraang's attempted second invasion. The turtles, April, and Casey fought hard and...lost. Injured and broken and with Master Splinter missing and possibly dead, they fled the city to April's grandmother's house to heal and recuperate.
It took months, and they were under constant assault by mutants during that time, but little by little, they recovered, mentally and physically. Now they're preparing to return to New York, save Master Splinter and destroy the Kraang menace once and for all...with no idea how they're going to do it...
<strong>Personality</strong>: In some ways Casey Jones is exactly the kind of snotty little punk he looks like. He's more likely to introduce himself with a thrown object and a "think fast!" than a handshake, and it's always an accurate first impression. Overbearing and bratty, he loves to push people's buttons, even when he likes them. Especially when he likes them. He's also the kid who apparently spends a good deal of time in his room, writing in what amounts to an angry poetry journal and playing knifey-fingers with the Bowie knife he keeps stabbed in his desk. He simply has no filter on his actions, partly due to the many, many blows to the head he's taken over his life, but mostly due to the fact that Casey Jones simply cannot just sit still.
Let's not beat around the bush: Casey is, in so many ways. a crazy person. He goes apparent months without interacting with a non-mutant/non-crazy person so it's easy to forget, but he's crazy. This is the ordinary high school kid who looked at monsters and aliens running around his city and decided to do something about it personally with no training, old wooden hockey sticks and a taser he made out of a potato masher. He's the kid who took on a man made entirely of acid with a rusty metal pipe, chased down a robot ninja with a hostile turtle ninja and made him his best friend, and tried to take on the entire New York criminal underworld by himself. Casey Jones is (if only by virtue of burying his deeper feelings and thoughts) a simple creature, happy when he gets to fight, happier when he gets to fight a lot, happiest when he feels like the fight is for a just cause.
For all of Casey's punk bluster, he really does have a big, open, righteous heart. He doesn't seem to have too many friends but it isn't tough to make him a friend for life. He knew one of his best friends April O'Neal for a maybe little over two weeks before deciding they were close, and he accepted the ninja turtles the moment she vouched for them. Casey's actually a surprisingly good judge of character, generally pretty good at picking out when people's intentions aren't on the up and up, but he's not judgmental. He's readily accepted mutant animals, alien-human hybrids, and a wild ninja girl as his friends and allies, sometimes even before he knows them. The only real way to get on his bad side, beyond being a jerk or a criminal, is to act like you're better than him. And not mean it in a friendly rivalry way.
Casey doesn't like to think about himself or his motives with the depth or self-reflection he'd need to realize this, but he's very insecure about his own strength and, in the grand tradition of guys who have way too much to prove and don't realize it, this manifests in a powerful veneer of arrogance. He is not insecure about his powerful sense of empathy or the fact that he cares quite a bit about the people he fights for, mind, but what he absolutely, positively cannot stand is the thought that he isn't good enough to win his battles, protect the people he cares about, and, most powerfully, that he can't keep up with the people he admires. In his effort to be cool, the knowledge of his actual abilities slip through the cracks.
So he speaks in the third person about how awesome he is and picks fights that people tell him he can't possibly hope to win and makes sure that everybody knows that Casey Jones was the guy who broke up the plans of Shredder and, by extension, the giant criminal syndicates that are far more connected and ruthless then he could ever be in the hope of convincing the universe that he's the big man he says he is. In some part of Casey's unconscious mind, asking for help is an admission of weakness and so he pretends that he can handle everything, even when he can't, and he's adept at ignoring the signs that this puts his friends in danger because if there's one thing Casey Jones can't do, it's be honest with himself.
<strong>Debt</strong>:
Casey wants to save New York. He wants the alien menace out of his city. He wants his home, and his family back together. Both of them. The witch has promised him the power to make sure this happens and while he may have some misgivings...well, if it means they win, then it's a risk worth taking.
<strong>Inventory</strong>:
-Street clothes
-His vigilante gear (hockey pads with nails pounded through them, a homemade tazer, folding roller skates, and a goalie mask painted like a skull)
-One baseball bat.
-Two wooden hockey sticks, one goalie, one regular.
-His personal journal, which is a heavily modified composition book
<strong>Abilities</strong>: Casey is a lot stronger than his scrawny frame would suggest, but he's still a normal human with normal human strength. He's a good fighter but in an undisciplined street-fighter kind of way, and his impulsiveness can hamper his effectiveness. He's also a skilled hockey player, which he leverages into his fighting style by shooting pucks with remarkably good aim.
<strong>Strengths and Weaknesses</strong>:
+ Casey is quick on his feet and generally pretty good at improvisation when it comes to fighting. And sports, skills that overlap for him. His major selling point is his athleticism, which includes strength, stamina, and speed. He can be a little clumsy, but mostly that's more from not thinking ahead or trying something new.
+ Casey is pretty open with his friendship. Assuming you don't hate him or have a personality he can't stand, he'll be friends with you no matter who or what you actually are. And he gets attached to people very quickly.
+ Once he likes you, Casey is pretty much your friend for life. His loyalty is such that he'll stand beside the people he cares about no matter what happens or where it leads them. Their fights are his fights, always.+ DETERMINATION. Casey really does not ever give up, even when the odds are stacked against him. This is partly out of his genuine belief that good guys always win, partly out of his own sense of justice, partly out of the powerful affection he feels for people, and partly because he just really <i>has no idea</i> when to quit.
+ Casey's not exactly the PARTY DUDE, but he's pretty fun-loving. He's always down for games or challenges or just hanging out, all night. He's willing to teach people to ice skate if they ask!
- The biggest and most obvious of his flaws is that Casey LOVES danger and fighting. He thinks of himself as a lone vigilante hero of the night and vigilante heroes don't think twice about jumping straight into the fray, no matter how much worse they end up making things.
- Tied into the first point is that sometimes he doesn't recognize danger when it's staring him right in the face. Often his first reaction to an unfamiliar object is to try and smash it open with a bat, which, in a world of ninja assassins, aliens, monsters, and magical artifacts, is usually a <i>terrible</i> idea. He has a strong sense of curiosity without any common sense to temper it and his refusal to pay attention in school does not help matters
- Casey's kind of an egotist. At best he tends towards un-self aware and insensitive, at worst he's self-absorbed and resistant to any kind of reflection until he's hurt people he cares about. It really doesn't help that he likes to push people's buttons to get a rise out of them.
- He's mostly a pretty laid back and friendly guy, but he also has an unpredictable temper and when it flares up it's difficult to calm him back down. Usually it's only a problem when he works himself up over being doubted, or mocked, or just plain feeling inadequate.
- For a kid who gets into trouble so much, he's terrible at lying. No, really, he sucks at it. He has so many tells, the only reason people don't call him out is to be polite or get the upper hand
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<strong>Characterization Sample</strong>: <a href="http://hfm-logs.dreamwidth.org/6596.html">Casey fights and makes up with someone.</a>
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