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Jul. 2nd, 2012 07:43 pmCHARACTER NAME: Helen Magnus
CHARACTER SERIES: Sanctuary
[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: to a degree, please discuss details.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Rape, sadism, mutilation, humiliation
[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Hugging this character: Yes
Kissing this character: Better ask first
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: Yes
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Yes, discuss this please.
Killing this character: Rather not, but it may come up.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes.
UPDATE! screened and ip logging off, apologies for not making sure they were set that way sooner!
CHARACTER SERIES: Sanctuary
[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: to a degree, please discuss details.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Rape, sadism, mutilation, humiliation
[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Hugging this character: Yes
Kissing this character: Better ask first
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: Yes
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Yes, discuss this please.
Killing this character: Rather not, but it may come up.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes.
UPDATE! screened and ip logging off, apologies for not making sure they were set that way sooner!
Dr. Helen Magnus; Paradisa app
Jul. 1st, 2012 05:17 pmPERSONAL
NAME: Batty
PERSONAL JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ms_batty
EMAIL: singularlygifted@aol.com
AIM: singularlygifted
WIKI NAME: N/A
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Helen Magnus
SERIES: Sanctuary
CANON POINT: End of Season 3, when Helen arrives in 1898.
LOSS: Helen has lost the moment of the vision of her deceased daughter. Ashley had come to Helen to forgive her and allow her mother to move on from grief and no longer hold on to the torturing hope that there was a way to save her. Without this brief moment Helen’s life cannot truly move on. She would continue her work to save abnormals and work with her friends, but she will never be entirely herself. Helen’s bright optimism will be dimmed and her personality slightly off to those who knew her well, internally she will be haunted by the idea that her daughter lingers in the inbetween of life and death and she has failed to bring her back.
Personality Helen Magnus is a rich and deeply complex woman, that is what naturally comes of spending over a century and a half in constant learning. In her youth, Helen learned the manners and poise of lady of her time; she had carried much of that with her over the rest of her years. Helen deplores crass language and thought and will only break down to profanity if the situation is dire.
Years of dealing with abnormals have opened Helen’s mind as well as her heart to acceptance of all life and culture. This openmindeness has been what has allowed Helen to lead the Sanctuary Network with an air of complete confidence and ease. There is rarely an event or situation to which Helen cannot manage to fit in. She is a woman of grace and refinement who is not above kicking a bit of ass when necessary.
Helen has an open heart for friends and often adopts others, primarily those of her Sanctuary team, as family. When it comes to romantic liaisons she is a bit more withdrawn, at least for the past few decades. She has loved and been betrayed or suffered loss, and that makes her gun shy to emotional attachment of that degree. The loss of John Druitt as she knew him, James Watson, her own daughter, all of this has given her good reason to remain distant and would require a great deal of work to get her to be otherwise.
Part of the grand Britannia that Helen keeps alive is her love of tea. She makes a point of having it every day, unless absolutely impossible. Don’t even think of offering her coffee, she takes that as an insult to personally as well as her culture. Helen has a fondness for multicultural food and wine. Her well stocked cellar, or the depletion there of, has been an ongoing point of banter between herself and Nikola Tesla.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: ( this is a bit extensive )
ABILITIES: Helen Magnus has longevity, to put it very mildly. She was born August 27 1850, and looks no older than her late 30’s now. Helen was raised by a brilliant father, if controversial, medical researcher. She followed in her father's footsteps and attended Yale, one of only a handful of women to do so at the time, specializing in medical science. While obtaining her degree and furthering her own interests in abnormal species, Helen befriended a small group of likeminded individuals who came to be known as “The Five.” All members of this exclusive Victorian think tank took part in a radical experiment involving pure vampire blood.
Each member of The Five took on individual and particular traits gifted from the blood, Helen was granted the most simple and possibly most devious of the gifts; extreme longevity. Helen stopped aging at that moment, and barring the change of her hair color, she remained physically as before for decades. Helen can of course be harmed, she could even possibly be killed by normal means, but she may well never die of age.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: Helen had been keeping fingers against the wall as she walked, rough brick guiding her along through the unnatural fog. The thick white mist be concealing anything, including the very abnormal she was here to find.
Of course that could be the source of the fog in the first place. Charles Dodgson had gotten that one wrong entirely, Jabberwocky indeed. Sometimes the only way to hide an abnormal was to let them been written about, who ever would believe it after reading the rest of his tale?
Sadly it had ruined his credibility, but at least he'd taken her advice and used a pseudonym to publish under. That had taken care of any initial sightings in 1864, hysteria due to the book, now however the creature had found a way out of it's enclosure and made it's way into a populated area, who knew what it might do? This was precisely the reason the Sanctuary Network needed constant monitoring and why she was spending more and more of her time recapturing abnormals than preserving the undocumented, uncaptured ones.
The town had been evacuated, easy to spook the right people when you had the sort of strings to pull that the Sanctuary Network had. The hard part, crowd control was done through deception; gas leaks were horribly good incentives to leave, so all she had to do now was bring the beastie in.
Or, at least that was the plan until she heard another voice. A decidedly accented voice. "...Hello?" Was it in front of her or behind? In the blighted fog she couldn't tell, but she did know this, the Jabberwocky didn't speak. So who then was out there with her?
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE: Journal of Helen Magnus, Twenty fifth June, two thousand and twelve.
Keeping a formal record has always helped me in the past so I suppose it is just as good and useful now. I’ve come to a place, rather lovely actually, a castle known as Paradisa. I’ve made rounds and it is a true castle with courtyard and grounds and a variety of inhabitants that makes me feel rather at home. That is to say it is a wild here as any of the Sanctuary Network stations.
I have heard there is some purpose for being here, give that I feel I’ve otherwise lost my purpose at times this may be a good thing. Nothing like Hollow Earth, so there is a level of guard I do not have to maintain. I feel more at home here than I should I think, but it is a new place and it does not have memories around every corner or reminders of my failure. It isn’t home, but it is at least not hell, yet.
INTENT: I am fascinated by Helen because she has what many of us would want, immortality. The idea of living so long, if not infinitely, is thrilling, yet at the same time every mortal friend, lover, even enemy would one day grow old and die leaving you behind. What I want to see is how Helen, with the loss of closure over her daughter's death, react to others. It will be a vastly internal issue but it will be profound and, I think anyway, very interesting for story purposes.
NAME: Batty
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
ms_battyEMAIL: singularlygifted@aol.com
AIM: singularlygifted
WIKI NAME: N/A
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Dr. Helen Magnus
SERIES: Sanctuary
CANON POINT: End of Season 3, when Helen arrives in 1898.
LOSS: Helen has lost the moment of the vision of her deceased daughter. Ashley had come to Helen to forgive her and allow her mother to move on from grief and no longer hold on to the torturing hope that there was a way to save her. Without this brief moment Helen’s life cannot truly move on. She would continue her work to save abnormals and work with her friends, but she will never be entirely herself. Helen’s bright optimism will be dimmed and her personality slightly off to those who knew her well, internally she will be haunted by the idea that her daughter lingers in the inbetween of life and death and she has failed to bring her back.
Personality Helen Magnus is a rich and deeply complex woman, that is what naturally comes of spending over a century and a half in constant learning. In her youth, Helen learned the manners and poise of lady of her time; she had carried much of that with her over the rest of her years. Helen deplores crass language and thought and will only break down to profanity if the situation is dire.
Years of dealing with abnormals have opened Helen’s mind as well as her heart to acceptance of all life and culture. This openmindeness has been what has allowed Helen to lead the Sanctuary Network with an air of complete confidence and ease. There is rarely an event or situation to which Helen cannot manage to fit in. She is a woman of grace and refinement who is not above kicking a bit of ass when necessary.
Helen has an open heart for friends and often adopts others, primarily those of her Sanctuary team, as family. When it comes to romantic liaisons she is a bit more withdrawn, at least for the past few decades. She has loved and been betrayed or suffered loss, and that makes her gun shy to emotional attachment of that degree. The loss of John Druitt as she knew him, James Watson, her own daughter, all of this has given her good reason to remain distant and would require a great deal of work to get her to be otherwise.
Part of the grand Britannia that Helen keeps alive is her love of tea. She makes a point of having it every day, unless absolutely impossible. Don’t even think of offering her coffee, she takes that as an insult to personally as well as her culture. Helen has a fondness for multicultural food and wine. Her well stocked cellar, or the depletion there of, has been an ongoing point of banter between herself and Nikola Tesla.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: ( this is a bit extensive )
ABILITIES: Helen Magnus has longevity, to put it very mildly. She was born August 27 1850, and looks no older than her late 30’s now. Helen was raised by a brilliant father, if controversial, medical researcher. She followed in her father's footsteps and attended Yale, one of only a handful of women to do so at the time, specializing in medical science. While obtaining her degree and furthering her own interests in abnormal species, Helen befriended a small group of likeminded individuals who came to be known as “The Five.” All members of this exclusive Victorian think tank took part in a radical experiment involving pure vampire blood.
Each member of The Five took on individual and particular traits gifted from the blood, Helen was granted the most simple and possibly most devious of the gifts; extreme longevity. Helen stopped aging at that moment, and barring the change of her hair color, she remained physically as before for decades. Helen can of course be harmed, she could even possibly be killed by normal means, but she may well never die of age.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: Helen had been keeping fingers against the wall as she walked, rough brick guiding her along through the unnatural fog. The thick white mist be concealing anything, including the very abnormal she was here to find.
Of course that could be the source of the fog in the first place. Charles Dodgson had gotten that one wrong entirely, Jabberwocky indeed. Sometimes the only way to hide an abnormal was to let them been written about, who ever would believe it after reading the rest of his tale?
Sadly it had ruined his credibility, but at least he'd taken her advice and used a pseudonym to publish under. That had taken care of any initial sightings in 1864, hysteria due to the book, now however the creature had found a way out of it's enclosure and made it's way into a populated area, who knew what it might do? This was precisely the reason the Sanctuary Network needed constant monitoring and why she was spending more and more of her time recapturing abnormals than preserving the undocumented, uncaptured ones.
The town had been evacuated, easy to spook the right people when you had the sort of strings to pull that the Sanctuary Network had. The hard part, crowd control was done through deception; gas leaks were horribly good incentives to leave, so all she had to do now was bring the beastie in.
Or, at least that was the plan until she heard another voice. A decidedly accented voice. "...Hello?" Was it in front of her or behind? In the blighted fog she couldn't tell, but she did know this, the Jabberwocky didn't speak. So who then was out there with her?
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE: Journal of Helen Magnus, Twenty fifth June, two thousand and twelve.
Keeping a formal record has always helped me in the past so I suppose it is just as good and useful now. I’ve come to a place, rather lovely actually, a castle known as Paradisa. I’ve made rounds and it is a true castle with courtyard and grounds and a variety of inhabitants that makes me feel rather at home. That is to say it is a wild here as any of the Sanctuary Network stations.
I have heard there is some purpose for being here, give that I feel I’ve otherwise lost my purpose at times this may be a good thing. Nothing like Hollow Earth, so there is a level of guard I do not have to maintain. I feel more at home here than I should I think, but it is a new place and it does not have memories around every corner or reminders of my failure. It isn’t home, but it is at least not hell, yet.
INTENT: I am fascinated by Helen because she has what many of us would want, immortality. The idea of living so long, if not infinitely, is thrilling, yet at the same time every mortal friend, lover, even enemy would one day grow old and die leaving you behind. What I want to see is how Helen, with the loss of closure over her daughter's death, react to others. It will be a vastly internal issue but it will be profound and, I think anyway, very interesting for story purposes.
