mericlecure | Character List: The (Mostly) Nameless Sketches (Reply)

Below, for your reading pleasure, are the Unfinished Ones: characters with personalities, but largely without names or backgrounds and other such details to fully flesh them out. Some ideas and descriptions are much more vague than others.

The Prototypes

Alpha (Switchblade 327)
When he gets drunk he fights all night

He likes fast cars, loud bars, and fightin' dirty. He's got a list of enemies a mile long and, frankly?, he doesn't give a fuck.

Potential Faces: ???

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Beta
Cautious, Observant, Underestimated

She takes the stoic and quiet type to new heights. She’s a master of blank expressions and tailored reactions, often showing neither distaste nor preference in her manners unless doing so is advantageous. She keeps to the background as much as she can, honing the art of observing more than she lets on. She’s careful and precise in her words, and even more so with her emotions. She is a person who is often underestimated in her intelligence and ability -- assumptions she’d rather have continue -- but she remains impeccable in completing the tasks she’s given. She's ended up in a job position she does not want to be in, but her employer/organization are not the kind a person can leave in one living piece. She makes no moves to go beyond the duties given to her or to seek more responsibility; she discretely tries to avoid such things as much as possible.

She’s polite and formal, keeping an arm’s distance from bonding to anyone on a significant level. She comes off as conservative, even adhering to traditions such as wearing exclusively black and dark colors in the year following her (much older) husband’s passing regardless of her lukewarm emotional attachment to the man. The person she’s come closest to trusting since her parents’ deaths was said late husband -- who was the one who roped her into the organization and maneuvered her into promotion in the first place -- and even then she had her significant share of secrets.

There are people unhappy she's there in the first place, viewing her as having taken advantage of her husband's position to get into the job; when he was alive she was untouchable, but his recent death has stripped her of that protection. There are people who also just want her job, and don't bat an eye that she probably needs to be killed for them to get it. Either way, she has enemies around her to contend with, who are just waiting for her to slip up so they can pounce.

She want Out. Or, at least, she wants to not be as involved and tangled up in things as she is. It isn’t a sentiment she advertises or trusts anyone enough to share, and having a distaste for aspects of her organization and job has not stopped her from performing as best she can at the tasks required of her; but she always keeps an eye out for an opportunity toward some amount of (stable) freedom. ...Even if she knows it's incredibly unlikely.

Potential Faces: ???

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Gamma
Obtuse, Thick-headed, Oblvious

Gamma is... well, 'obtuse' would be a polite way to phrase it. But really "denser than the brick you'll want to hurl at his goddamned head" is more accurate. He's a guy who's going to recquire a bright effin' neon sign if you want him to pick up any nuances in the conversation, and it might take a girl in a bikini with a Meat-Lovers Pizza to get his attention if he wasn't paying it in the first place.

To his credit, he isn't overly talkative. He seems to get mis-characterized as the Strong, Silent Type -- not that he has any idea -- and that's worked for him pretty well as far as The Ladies are concerned. ...Of course, the truth is that he's more likely pondering what that day's lunch special will be than brooding over inner workings of the Universe. He's a stubborn bull and likes his routine, so fucking with that makes him flail like nobody's business. Otherwise, he's a hard guy to upset -- but that's just because he's too dense to immediately catch onto the things that upset him.

Even though he's always late to the metaphorical party, his intensity more than makes up for the delay in getting there. When provoked, the guy can switch from 0 to "punching your damn face in" in a second. He's actually pretty good at doing that sort of thing, and an amazing buddy to have your back in a fight. He's loyal, protective, and definitely possessive. So if somebody wants to grab his seat or make a pass at his girlfriend? Don't.

Other Notes: In a supernatural setting, I can see this guy as a werewolf. Also, I think it would be amusing as hell to pair him up with a passive-aggressive girlfriend who, half the time, gets more pissed at him because he never notices that she's pissed in the first place xD.

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Delta
Cool-headed, Laid-Back, Emotionally Reserved

Delta keeps his head better than most, and is a guy few people have any problem with. He isn’t a pushover, but he has a higher tolerance for people’s slights and shortcomings. He doesn’t ignore them, but he’s usually able to take them in stride and move beyond them. He’s very social, and acquaintances are easy to form with him. Deeper friendships? Not so much. As social as he is, he plays his personal matters close to the chest. He’s happy to engage in any conversation – from small talk to the daily minutiae to the deeply philosophical -- as long as it doesn’t delve into his private life. Even if he isn’t harboring some deep dark secret, he does not like his affairs being pried into. Getting too pushy will likely get somebody a blowoff answer, some sort of deflection, or – if kept at it – some snap about leaving him alone.

Though he gets exasperated, it’s a damn hard endeavor to get a rise from him. Delta’s slow to anger, and even slower to infuriate, but once that line gets crossed it forms a breach that is truly irreparable. He isn’t likely to fly off in explosive rage, and is less apt to fester and obsess over revenge (though he does appreciate Karmic retribution); instead he cuts people out with a clean-cut precisions. He goes about it with a steel resolve against any pleading or apologies – no matter how heartfelt. It’s a fairly complete and permanent process, but it doesn’t happen often: his regard is hard to gain and even harder to lose; but once gone it’s lost forever.

He’s a fairly fun guy, one up for trying new things and whose ready to diffuse tensions with a quip at his own expense if need be, but he isn’t a spontaneous one. He prefers a heads-up and some warning for plans -- even if it’s just a phone call five minutes before -- instead of people randomly showing up at his door. While he appreciates little things, especially if they’re heartfelt or useful, he’s just not the best guy to spring a huge surprise on.

Oddly enough: he handles a crisis situation better than a surprise party or an impromptu day out. He’s great to have around when a vehicle breaks, a friend needs back on their feet, somebody gets hurt, etc. He’s got a cool head that’s quick to respond when something needs to be done. And in an emergency the priority and things that need to be done stick out to him: get to safety, get other people to safety, contact the right authorities, and if injuries involved try to do what he can. He isn’t any kind of doctor, but he knows enough to realize that if somebody is bleeding you should try to stop that and he shouldn’t tackle injuries he has no clue about.

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Character List: The (Mostly) Nameless Sketches

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