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Jun. 10th, 2012 09:40 pmPlayer Name: Alli
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cartamore
Player Age: 25
Current Characters: n/a
Character Name: Helen Magnus
Canon: Sanctuary
Medium: Television
Character Age: 160
Canon Point: 3x20
Why did you choose this character?: Because she’s Amanda Tapping with a British accent…. No, seriously, Helen is a bad ass and a mama bear. She wants to take care of everyone and will break a mother fucker’s arm to keep those she cares about safe. I’ve also been playing her for like 2 years now, so she’s just a natural choice for me to start a new game with.
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: After experiencing a new and unknown city in her own canon, Helen will roll with the punches. She’ll be intensely curious and happy to explore to figure out just what is going on and how to get herself back so that she can set her own world right, but she won’t be too freaked out to exist.
History: here
Personality: Helen is quite multi-faceted, which can be expected from all of her years lived. In her time, she has been a daughter, a student, a friend, a lover, a mother, an employer, a therapist, a doctor, a savior, and so much more. Juggling her various roles has given Helen the ability to move fluidly through a variety of emotions at a moment's notice.
She's incredibly intelligent, and seems to only grow more curious and eager to explore the world around her as she grows older. As a young girl, Helen idolized her father, a surgeon and scientist whose work Helen would later continue for many years to come. Even while he tried to shelter her from his work, not wanting to drag her into the ridicule that he received from the scientific community, Helen couldn’t help but hunger to learn everything that she could. She refused to let her curiosity be limited by Victorian gender roles and sat in on courses at Oxford, continuing her education against all odds.
There's a sense of authority that seems to just exude from her, causing others close to her to easily fall in line behind her command. She can be forceful, when pressed, but prefers to take a more diplomatic approach to conflict in most cases. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, sure, but that doesn’t mean that you have to ruin the whole dozen. Helen tries to balance her various forms of power as much as she can. Exploiting the connections she has forged within various government agencies is not something likes to do, but will, if pushed into a corner. Likewise, while she is perfectly capable with a weapon, she values life enough to execute plenty of control.
Her compassion for all life is one of the key reasons she continues to expand the Sanctuary Network, in hopes of one day making life more pleasant for humans and abnormals - and to hopefully allow them to co-exist someday. Helen’s work and likewise her own life is grounded in the core belief that all things have the right to live a full life. Because of this, she shelters those people and creatures that might be subjected to scrutiny in the common world, while also protecting the world from the more dangerous species that the world is not ready for.
In her personal life, Helen can be humorous and caring, mothering to those that she has raised - whether they be of her blood or not. She jokes when the time is right for it, or other times to break tension. Her heart is guarded, though - as she has been hurt in varying ways by those closest to her. Her once-fiancé John Druitt became the serial killer Jack the Ripper, running into a dark life instead of taking her offered help. Her daughter Ashley was corrupted by her enemy, the Cabal, and turned into a weapon used against her. Ashley died because of these actions, and Helen lost a part of herself with her daughter. The members of her team who remain are now part of what keeps her in the here and now, as she focuses quite strongly on keeping them safe.
First Person Sample: [This makes twice in too short of a time that Helen has woken up covered in tubes and wires. She’s taken her time to familiarize herself with the technology provided. Thankfully, she’s been able to piece together a rough idea of just what has happened to her. Her appearance on the network feed is poised, but it’s not hard to tell that she’s more than irritated at the situation.]
My name is Dr. Helen Magnus and I seem to find myself in a rather… interesting predicament. However, I see that I’m not alone in being out of place. Any information that you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
[She pauses, and then decides to just ask the most important question.]
Lovely a city as Minneapolis is, have any of you made any headway on finding a way out?
Third Person Sample: It isn't the first time Helen has fallen asleep at her desk, nor will it be the last. All throughout the previous night, Helen had been scouring the Sanctuary network for a hint, some sort of clue that would bring her closer to an answer. The abnormal she is currently looking to track down has a particularly nasty habit of being able to cover its tracks. Thankfully, Helen's network can keep one step ahead. She was awoken by the beeping alert that the network has found a sign of the abnormal.
Helen raises her head and squints at the screen, wondering just what sort of trick this all is. It only takes her a moment, though, before she's sitting up and reading the screen's downloaded information.
"No..." She says aloud to her empty office. "It's just not possible. Of all places in the world…" She scrolls through the text for a moment longer before accepting it. She lifts her phone and dials the first number of many she knows she'll need to punch in before any plan can be crafted.
"Henry. It's here. Old City must be its next target. We have to move fast. The last city this creature settled in only had three days before signs of the plague began to crop up in the rural areas. Put all hospitals on high alert to start gathering supplies." She pauses as a new beep demands her attention be drawn to the computer screen. "Nevermind that, actually. Find Will and Kate. Bring them to the old bridge. I think our new friend wants to have a chat.”
Player Journal:
cartamorePlayer Age: 25
Current Characters: n/a
Character Name: Helen Magnus
Canon: Sanctuary
Medium: Television
Character Age: 160
Canon Point: 3x20
Why did you choose this character?: Because she’s Amanda Tapping with a British accent…. No, seriously, Helen is a bad ass and a mama bear. She wants to take care of everyone and will break a mother fucker’s arm to keep those she cares about safe. I’ve also been playing her for like 2 years now, so she’s just a natural choice for me to start a new game with.
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: After experiencing a new and unknown city in her own canon, Helen will roll with the punches. She’ll be intensely curious and happy to explore to figure out just what is going on and how to get herself back so that she can set her own world right, but she won’t be too freaked out to exist.
History: here
Personality: Helen is quite multi-faceted, which can be expected from all of her years lived. In her time, she has been a daughter, a student, a friend, a lover, a mother, an employer, a therapist, a doctor, a savior, and so much more. Juggling her various roles has given Helen the ability to move fluidly through a variety of emotions at a moment's notice.
She's incredibly intelligent, and seems to only grow more curious and eager to explore the world around her as she grows older. As a young girl, Helen idolized her father, a surgeon and scientist whose work Helen would later continue for many years to come. Even while he tried to shelter her from his work, not wanting to drag her into the ridicule that he received from the scientific community, Helen couldn’t help but hunger to learn everything that she could. She refused to let her curiosity be limited by Victorian gender roles and sat in on courses at Oxford, continuing her education against all odds.
There's a sense of authority that seems to just exude from her, causing others close to her to easily fall in line behind her command. She can be forceful, when pressed, but prefers to take a more diplomatic approach to conflict in most cases. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, sure, but that doesn’t mean that you have to ruin the whole dozen. Helen tries to balance her various forms of power as much as she can. Exploiting the connections she has forged within various government agencies is not something likes to do, but will, if pushed into a corner. Likewise, while she is perfectly capable with a weapon, she values life enough to execute plenty of control.
Her compassion for all life is one of the key reasons she continues to expand the Sanctuary Network, in hopes of one day making life more pleasant for humans and abnormals - and to hopefully allow them to co-exist someday. Helen’s work and likewise her own life is grounded in the core belief that all things have the right to live a full life. Because of this, she shelters those people and creatures that might be subjected to scrutiny in the common world, while also protecting the world from the more dangerous species that the world is not ready for.
In her personal life, Helen can be humorous and caring, mothering to those that she has raised - whether they be of her blood or not. She jokes when the time is right for it, or other times to break tension. Her heart is guarded, though - as she has been hurt in varying ways by those closest to her. Her once-fiancé John Druitt became the serial killer Jack the Ripper, running into a dark life instead of taking her offered help. Her daughter Ashley was corrupted by her enemy, the Cabal, and turned into a weapon used against her. Ashley died because of these actions, and Helen lost a part of herself with her daughter. The members of her team who remain are now part of what keeps her in the here and now, as she focuses quite strongly on keeping them safe.
First Person Sample: [This makes twice in too short of a time that Helen has woken up covered in tubes and wires. She’s taken her time to familiarize herself with the technology provided. Thankfully, she’s been able to piece together a rough idea of just what has happened to her. Her appearance on the network feed is poised, but it’s not hard to tell that she’s more than irritated at the situation.]
My name is Dr. Helen Magnus and I seem to find myself in a rather… interesting predicament. However, I see that I’m not alone in being out of place. Any information that you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
[She pauses, and then decides to just ask the most important question.]
Lovely a city as Minneapolis is, have any of you made any headway on finding a way out?
Third Person Sample: It isn't the first time Helen has fallen asleep at her desk, nor will it be the last. All throughout the previous night, Helen had been scouring the Sanctuary network for a hint, some sort of clue that would bring her closer to an answer. The abnormal she is currently looking to track down has a particularly nasty habit of being able to cover its tracks. Thankfully, Helen's network can keep one step ahead. She was awoken by the beeping alert that the network has found a sign of the abnormal.
Helen raises her head and squints at the screen, wondering just what sort of trick this all is. It only takes her a moment, though, before she's sitting up and reading the screen's downloaded information.
"No..." She says aloud to her empty office. "It's just not possible. Of all places in the world…" She scrolls through the text for a moment longer before accepting it. She lifts her phone and dials the first number of many she knows she'll need to punch in before any plan can be crafted.
"Henry. It's here. Old City must be its next target. We have to move fast. The last city this creature settled in only had three days before signs of the plague began to crop up in the rural areas. Put all hospitals on high alert to start gathering supplies." She pauses as a new beep demands her attention be drawn to the computer screen. "Nevermind that, actually. Find Will and Kate. Bring them to the old bridge. I think our new friend wants to have a chat.”
