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Wolfwood App, Round II
Jul. 27th, 2009 06:09 pmDesired character's full name and canon: Nicholas D. Wolfwood, of Trigun
Character's age and physical description: Mid-twenties to
mid-thirties, he is tall and thin but fit, with a serious amount of shaggy black hair and
gray-blue eyes. He always wears the same black suit and partially
unbuttoned cream-colored shirt. He carries a five foot cross (wrapped
in white cloth that's fastened with innumerable buckles) over his
shoulder or on his back.
Brief biography and background (you can expand on this in your
character's journal, if you like):
Nicholas D. Wolfwood made his first kill at the tender age of seven, when he gunned down his abusive foster father in cold blood. His life only became stranger from there.
Orphaned and sent into the brutal foster case system at a young age, Wolfwood grew up vowing to create a safer space for the many orphans of the planet Gunsmoke. After killing his foster father, he was taken in by a man known as Chapel the Evergreen. Wolfwood's particular temperament, his tendency towards brutality and his innate and exact sense of right and wrong made him an ideal trainee. He was taught to shoot, to fight, and to deceive. A boy of strong moral backbone, Wolfwood accepted that he would commit sins so that other people might live in a more perfect world. He harbored a private idealized image of Gunsmoke, an Eden, where he could never enter but where innocents like the orphaned children could live happily. As an adult, he founded a church to further this dream, but rarely spent time there.
It's difficult to say whether Wolfwood travels as a sort of personal penance, or whether he simply has an advanced case of wanderlust, either way, he sets off across the desert on his faithful motorcycle, the Angelina II, carrying little with him but a worn suit, a pair of sunglasses, and a six-foot cross wrapped with yards of white cloth. As a result, he is somewhat ragged in appearance; thin but tall and muscular, with a shocking amount of shaggy hair so black it looks blue in direct light. Hawk-nosed, with severe features, he is perhaps intimidating at first appearance, but Wolfwood's unassuming nature and ready grin tend to endear him quickly, particularly to children and pretty young women. While the goofy priest may well be Wolfwood's true personality, he has another face as well, and another name: Chapel the Evergreen, one of the Gung-Ho Guns, an elite assassination force unleashed upon Gunsmoke's most ineffectual and richest bounty, Vash the Stampede. He is the priest who rings the black funeral bell as well as a shepherd to straying sheep; a strange combination of gunman and goof.
Reason for wanting to play: I still think Wolfwood works well in Outpost 12's pan-fandom, Bebop inspired fandom. He's tough, and goofy, and complex, and challenging to play. It's not Wolfwood's fault that we fell out of O12 to begin with. I strongly believe there is a hell of a lot more to this character than we've seen so far out of him, both in canon and within the game, and I also believe he can once again be of aid and interest to the Outpost as a whole.
On a more personal note, in the past (nearly two years) since playing an online RPG, Wolfwood is the one character that has come back to haunt me again and again. It's my hope that I can steer him once again through elaborate plots, hilarious character interactions, and in doing so, become both a better writer and a more attentive reader, and to have a hell of a lot of fun doing so, because, damn, I miss these games! We are even willing to come back in a trial capacity, if you so deem it.
Personal contact information (email, instant messenger):
aria.marier@gmail.com, LornaDoone II on AIM
URL of character journal: http://filledwithmercy.livejournal.com
URL of player's personal journal: http://alemara.livejournal.com
In-character writing sample:
http://filledwithmercy.livejournal.com/2156.html
Character's age and physical description: Mid-twenties to
mid-thirties, he is tall and thin but fit, with a serious amount of shaggy black hair and
gray-blue eyes. He always wears the same black suit and partially
unbuttoned cream-colored shirt. He carries a five foot cross (wrapped
in white cloth that's fastened with innumerable buckles) over his
shoulder or on his back.
Brief biography and background (you can expand on this in your
character's journal, if you like):
Nicholas D. Wolfwood made his first kill at the tender age of seven, when he gunned down his abusive foster father in cold blood. His life only became stranger from there.
Orphaned and sent into the brutal foster case system at a young age, Wolfwood grew up vowing to create a safer space for the many orphans of the planet Gunsmoke. After killing his foster father, he was taken in by a man known as Chapel the Evergreen. Wolfwood's particular temperament, his tendency towards brutality and his innate and exact sense of right and wrong made him an ideal trainee. He was taught to shoot, to fight, and to deceive. A boy of strong moral backbone, Wolfwood accepted that he would commit sins so that other people might live in a more perfect world. He harbored a private idealized image of Gunsmoke, an Eden, where he could never enter but where innocents like the orphaned children could live happily. As an adult, he founded a church to further this dream, but rarely spent time there.
It's difficult to say whether Wolfwood travels as a sort of personal penance, or whether he simply has an advanced case of wanderlust, either way, he sets off across the desert on his faithful motorcycle, the Angelina II, carrying little with him but a worn suit, a pair of sunglasses, and a six-foot cross wrapped with yards of white cloth. As a result, he is somewhat ragged in appearance; thin but tall and muscular, with a shocking amount of shaggy hair so black it looks blue in direct light. Hawk-nosed, with severe features, he is perhaps intimidating at first appearance, but Wolfwood's unassuming nature and ready grin tend to endear him quickly, particularly to children and pretty young women. While the goofy priest may well be Wolfwood's true personality, he has another face as well, and another name: Chapel the Evergreen, one of the Gung-Ho Guns, an elite assassination force unleashed upon Gunsmoke's most ineffectual and richest bounty, Vash the Stampede. He is the priest who rings the black funeral bell as well as a shepherd to straying sheep; a strange combination of gunman and goof.
Reason for wanting to play: I still think Wolfwood works well in Outpost 12's pan-fandom, Bebop inspired fandom. He's tough, and goofy, and complex, and challenging to play. It's not Wolfwood's fault that we fell out of O12 to begin with. I strongly believe there is a hell of a lot more to this character than we've seen so far out of him, both in canon and within the game, and I also believe he can once again be of aid and interest to the Outpost as a whole.
On a more personal note, in the past (nearly two years) since playing an online RPG, Wolfwood is the one character that has come back to haunt me again and again. It's my hope that I can steer him once again through elaborate plots, hilarious character interactions, and in doing so, become both a better writer and a more attentive reader, and to have a hell of a lot of fun doing so, because, damn, I miss these games! We are even willing to come back in a trial capacity, if you so deem it.
Personal contact information (email, instant messenger):
aria.marier@gmail.com, LornaDoone II on AIM
URL of character journal: http://filledwithmercy.livejournal.com
URL of player's personal journal: http://alemara.livejournal.com
In-character writing sample:
http://filledwithmercy.livejournal.com/2156.html
