Who are you? Jaidon How did you get here? MJ/plurk. Any alts? None as of right now.
Canon information
Character name and canon: Randolph Skully from Other Voices, Other Rooms Character background:
Randolph was born in Skully’s Landing (somewhat morbidly in the same bed his mother would die in), a mansion which sits outside of the small and dilapidated southern town of Noon City; both Noon City and the Landing are entirely surrounded by swamplands, much of it treacherous. Randolph grew up quite wealthy, especially compared to the folks living around him; the house even had a servant by the name of Jesus Fever and, later, when he became sick, his granddaughter Missouri Fever (who went by the name of Zoo). Randolph’s father died when he was young and left him living in the Landing with his mother and his cousin, Amy.
Randolph was educated in the arts and, around the time he turned 20, went abroad, traveling much of Europe, living, as he puts it, mostly in museums. In Madrid he met a woman named Dolores, the first person he claims to have ever loved (he describes her as one of the few people from which he was able to draw vitality), and they began to travel together, first throughout Europe, then to Cuba; they lived there, in a house above the bay of Matanzas for some time. Randolph describes her as something of a gambler and said that each day they would go down to the town to buy lottery tickets or a new guitar (of which Dolores had 30, which she brought with her when she traveled, and all of which she played horribly).
Their lives during this time were idealic, but towards the end of that winter, Randolph found a dream journal that Dolores had been keeping the entire time. In every dream she wrote of pursuing Randolph through the dreamscape, with the intent to kill him (she also wrote previously of killing another lover in her dreams, whom she only referred to as L.) Randolph became somewhat obsessed with the book and found it each day where Dolores had hidden it just to see how much closer she’d come to catching him in her dreams.
After this point, they traveled to America, arriving in Florida, then staying for a time in New York and Philadelphia, before they traveled to New Orleans, where they finally came to rest. (Somewhere around this time, Dolores either ridded herself of the journal or hid it so well that Randolph could never find it no matter how much he searched for it.) It was here they met Pepe Alvarez, a prizefighter, and Ed Samson, his manager. Randolph fell unfortunately in love with Pepe, which was unfortunate both because Pepe fell almost immediately in love with Dolores and also only tolerated Randolph at best. Still Randolph absolutely showered him with gifts. He freely admits knowing that Pepe loathed him, though not enough to ever turn away a gift.
(One night, during this period, Pepe came to the house very drunk, beat Dolores with a belt, pissed on the rug and Randolph’s paintings, and broke Randolph’s nose while calling him any number of horrible things. That night Randolph fled the house and went to Jackson Square; here he met a man who in fact holds the honor of being the first man he ever slept with, but who he never saw again, come morning. And still Randolph could not make himself leave Pepe; he went directly back to the house when he’d left the other man behind.)
On Mardi Gras, the four of them attended a ball; when Randolph could come up with no costume himself, Dolores arrives with a box that contains a Countess’ dress, satin slippers, a green mask and a towering white wig. Randolph took to the experience of dressing as a woman with total delight. That night he even danced with Pepe, who never recognized him in the slightest. (Randolph kept that particular costume and dressed in it routinely, in secret, for years to come.)
In April, Dolores and Pepe suddenly and violently disappeared; Randolph woke to the whole house ransacked and the two of them gone. He had in the moments that followed a kind of psychic break. When Ed ran up to him and started shaking him violently, shouting about Pepe, Randolph, in total panic, suddenly believing himself to be transported into Dolores’ dreams, not recognizing Ed at all except for someone who was pursuing him, ran into his bedroom and pulled out a gun he had hidden. When Ed broke into his room, after him, Randolph shot him, twice. Only after Ed had been hit and fallen down the stairs behind him did Randolph realize where he was and who he’d shot.
Ed lay on a couch in the house, bleeding and moaning and shouting (Randolph claiming there was nothing he could have done for him, though the fact that he admits to loathing Ed makes this rather suspect), until Amy came from the Landing to care for him.
And that is the canon point I am taking him from.
Voidville information
Character's Voidville name: Arlo Beasley Voidville background: Arlo is an underachieving art student at a community college with a permissive mother and an absentee father—the sort of father who walked out when Arlo was a child and whose only involvement with his life thereafter was the occasional birthday or Christmas card with $20 stuffed in it, which petered off altogether when he was a teenager. As far as Arlo is concerned he doesn’t have a father and never did.
Arlo tends to dabble in many things without particularly excelling in any of them. His interests in art are wide and varied, and he tends to play off his lack of real talent as ironic indifference. He’s also the sort of person who thinks that using a film camera instead of succumbing to digital gives him artistic integrity. He has an obsession with vintage and antique everything.
His mother is disgraced formerly high class woman, a riches to rags story in which she ran off with Arlo’s father as a teenager, despite her family’s vociferous protests, was disowned, had Arlo at 17, was subsequently abandoned by his father, and now works low wage jobs just to make ends meet. Arlo had the occasional brushes with the law through his teens, with charges ranging from petty shoplifting to vandalism to fire setting. He never caused enough damage to get in long term trouble and he’s mostly (at least publicly) straightened out, but the reputation it earned him lingers. His mother fawned over him from childhood, through his troubled teens, and up to the present day.
Arlo’s identifies with the male pronoun but will wear women’s clothes and jewelry as a matter of course. Frankly, he doesn’t care what you think of that.
Played by?: Cooper Thompson
Comments, thoughts, opinions? I did a thing once, and it was pretty awesome, you should let me RP with you.
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Who are you? Jaidon
How did you get here? MJ/plurk.
Any alts? None as of right now.
Canon information
Character name and canon: Randolph Skully from Other Voices, Other Rooms
Character background:
Randolph was born in Skully’s Landing (somewhat morbidly in the same bed his mother would die in), a mansion which sits outside of the small and dilapidated southern town of Noon City; both Noon City and the Landing are entirely surrounded by swamplands, much of it treacherous. Randolph grew up quite wealthy, especially compared to the folks living around him; the house even had a servant by the name of Jesus Fever and, later, when he became sick, his granddaughter Missouri Fever (who went by the name of Zoo). Randolph’s father died when he was young and left him living in the Landing with his mother and his cousin, Amy.
Randolph was educated in the arts and, around the time he turned 20, went abroad, traveling much of Europe, living, as he puts it, mostly in museums. In Madrid he met a woman named Dolores, the first person he claims to have ever loved (he describes her as one of the few people from which he was able to draw vitality), and they began to travel together, first throughout Europe, then to Cuba; they lived there, in a house above the bay of Matanzas for some time. Randolph describes her as something of a gambler and said that each day they would go down to the town to buy lottery tickets or a new guitar (of which Dolores had 30, which she brought with her when she traveled, and all of which she played horribly).
Their lives during this time were idealic, but towards the end of that winter, Randolph found a dream journal that Dolores had been keeping the entire time. In every dream she wrote of pursuing Randolph through the dreamscape, with the intent to kill him (she also wrote previously of killing another lover in her dreams, whom she only referred to as L.) Randolph became somewhat obsessed with the book and found it each day where Dolores had hidden it just to see how much closer she’d come to catching him in her dreams.
After this point, they traveled to America, arriving in Florida, then staying for a time in New York and Philadelphia, before they traveled to New Orleans, where they finally came to rest. (Somewhere around this time, Dolores either ridded herself of the journal or hid it so well that Randolph could never find it no matter how much he searched for it.) It was here they met Pepe Alvarez, a prizefighter, and Ed Samson, his manager. Randolph fell unfortunately in love with Pepe, which was unfortunate both because Pepe fell almost immediately in love with Dolores and also only tolerated Randolph at best. Still Randolph absolutely showered him with gifts. He freely admits knowing that Pepe loathed him, though not enough to ever turn away a gift.
(One night, during this period, Pepe came to the house very drunk, beat Dolores with a belt, pissed on the rug and Randolph’s paintings, and broke Randolph’s nose while calling him any number of horrible things. That night Randolph fled the house and went to Jackson Square; here he met a man who in fact holds the honor of being the first man he ever slept with, but who he never saw again, come morning. And still Randolph could not make himself leave Pepe; he went directly back to the house when he’d left the other man behind.)
On Mardi Gras, the four of them attended a ball; when Randolph could come up with no costume himself, Dolores arrives with a box that contains a Countess’ dress, satin slippers, a green mask and a towering white wig. Randolph took to the experience of dressing as a woman with total delight. That night he even danced with Pepe, who never recognized him in the slightest. (Randolph kept that particular costume and dressed in it routinely, in secret, for years to come.)
In April, Dolores and Pepe suddenly and violently disappeared; Randolph woke to the whole house ransacked and the two of them gone. He had in the moments that followed a kind of psychic break. When Ed ran up to him and started shaking him violently, shouting about Pepe, Randolph, in total panic, suddenly believing himself to be transported into Dolores’ dreams, not recognizing Ed at all except for someone who was pursuing him, ran into his bedroom and pulled out a gun he had hidden. When Ed broke into his room, after him, Randolph shot him, twice. Only after Ed had been hit and fallen down the stairs behind him did Randolph realize where he was and who he’d shot.
Ed lay on a couch in the house, bleeding and moaning and shouting (Randolph claiming there was nothing he could have done for him, though the fact that he admits to loathing Ed makes this rather suspect), until Amy came from the Landing to care for him.
And that is the canon point I am taking him from.
Voidville information
Character's Voidville name: Arlo Beasley
Voidville background: Arlo is an underachieving art student at a community college with a permissive mother and an absentee father—the sort of father who walked out when Arlo was a child and whose only involvement with his life thereafter was the occasional birthday or Christmas card with $20 stuffed in it, which petered off altogether when he was a teenager. As far as Arlo is concerned he doesn’t have a father and never did.
Arlo tends to dabble in many things without particularly excelling in any of them. His interests in art are wide and varied, and he tends to play off his lack of real talent as ironic indifference. He’s also the sort of person who thinks that using a film camera instead of succumbing to digital gives him artistic integrity. He has an obsession with vintage and antique everything.
His mother is disgraced formerly high class woman, a riches to rags story in which she ran off with Arlo’s father as a teenager, despite her family’s vociferous protests, was disowned, had Arlo at 17, was subsequently abandoned by his father, and now works low wage jobs just to make ends meet. Arlo had the occasional brushes with the law through his teens, with charges ranging from petty shoplifting to vandalism to fire setting. He never caused enough damage to get in long term trouble and he’s mostly (at least publicly) straightened out, but the reputation it earned him lingers. His mother fawned over him from childhood, through his troubled teens, and up to the present day.
Arlo’s identifies with the male pronoun but will wear women’s clothes and jewelry as a matter of course. Frankly, he doesn’t care what you think of that.
Played by?: Cooper Thompson
Comments, thoughts, opinions? I did a thing once, and it was pretty awesome, you should let me RP with you.