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guywithaplan ([personal profile] guywithaplan) wrote2018-03-17 10:43 pm
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Permissions/HMD

OOC PREFERENCES:
CONTACT METHOD: PM or Plurk
THREAD-JACKING: In general I don't see a problem but if it looks like it might not be coolsies, it wouldn't hurt to PM.
FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: Just PM me and let's get a dialogue going.
BACKTAGGING: Absolutely!
AVOIDED TOPICS: The character is presented in the movie as an absolute, and I intend to play him as such -- so anybody who could reach in and pluck out information he wouldn't readily give, like his real name, etc? I'm kind of not interested in doing that right now. While these might be things to explore in the future, I'm not going to delve immediately and I will steer him in conversations away from that.
PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUN: I'm she/her.

IC CHARACTERISTICS:
CURRENT CANON POINT: His capture at the end of the movie.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Standing 6'1" but occasionally hunching, the Joker typically wears purples and greens, most commonly seen in fitted suits featuring those colors. His face he paints white, with black eye sockets and a red mouth that traces the entire length of the grotesque scars that form an ear-to ear smile on his face. He doesn't really do touch-ups and the makeup is typically in some state of day-long fade. He licks his lips a lot; it's partly the scars but also a tic. His manner of speech is crisp, snappy banter when he's feeling talkative, and he has just a touch of a Chicago accent.
DEMEANOR: The Joker can shift between an unsettling, inanimate stillness to a restless, plucky sort of body language, with an odd spring in his step. He makes himself at home in a space or a group very quickly, if he decides he wants the attention. When he commands a room he uses confusion to seize control, which includes unusual rambling, hard questions, invading personal space, and occasionally sudden violence.
ABILITIES: Physically fit and strong for someone in good physical health, with training in combat. He also doesn't really care much about pain. Other talents (taken from profile) include:

-Various weapon proficiencies; the Joker's preferred weapon is a knife, but he knows how to use a number of projectile weapons of various grades, including rifles, revolvers, and bazookas, and it should not be assumed that he can't improvise a weapon with no others available to him.
-Familiarity enough with first aid and field dressing to perform functional amateur surgery.
-Urban guerilla warfare tactics; he and his goons are near-successful at surrounding and destroying a convoy transporting who they believe to be a recently unmasked Batman. This includes the accurate use of heavy military artillary while in a moving vehicle, coordinated offensive maneuvers that force the convoy into a closed space where they will be surrounded, and even anti-aircraft techniques.
-Complex communication and information exchange; every move the Joker makes and every move his henchmen make are extremely precise for a leader considered to be so chaotic. Nobody knows anyone else and everyone has a different way of getting in contact with the boss. Lines never cross, each zigzagging into mandallic mazes too complicated to unravel in a short amount of time. This man has learned how to pass information among many people without betraying anything to a potential enemy.
-Creation and use of improvised electronics and explosives; he turned a cell phone into a detonator for an explosive powerful enough to take out an entire police station. He displays on more than one occasion knowledge of how to acquire necessary supplies to build explosives and weapons from scratch. However, it is implied that the tech he uses and knows his way around might be a touch outdated from his canon point by a few years. Old unbreakable totally-not-a-horcrux Nokia 6030s? Cake. Newer tablets? Might take a while.
-Knowledge of police protocol and formation; he was able to successfully impersonate an armed officer at the commisioner's funeral, including during a ceremony when specific, trained, and rehearsed rituals were part of the proceedings, including properly bearing and presenting arms, salutes, marching, etc, and he was able to teach others to do the same thing without anyone noticing anything was amiss until they started shooting people.
-Knowledge of effective interrogation and torture techniques, as well as torture suppressant techniques. He knows how to push buttons. He knows how not to rough somebody up if you want them to hurt really bad, or if you want them clear enough to answer questions. His "my backstory is multiple choice" schtick is part of the reverse of that.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: The scars on his face appear to have been caused by a sharp object, likely a hunting knife or a bayonet, plus slipshod field dressing after the fact.
CABIN INFORMATION: The room appears to be a nondescript motel room, lacking a bathroom. There's a bed, a desk, a dresser, lights, neutral hanging wall art, a clock radio and a TV.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: He doesn't like being discarded as crazy if he actually cares about what's going on.

IC PERMISSIONS:
MENTAL: Ask first.
MIMICRY: Ask first.
VIOLENCE: Absolutely. But still let's talk it out first.
MAGIC: Let's talk about it before it happens.
DEBATE: Totally. Just understand that he's not going to always play along. For instance, he's not going to give you a creepy story about his scars if you ask for one -- he literally only does this unprompted to create confusion/unsettle. More likely than not your answer will be "plastic tube freezer pops" or something similar.
OTHER / NOTES: N/A

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