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Feb. 25th, 2012 05:15 pmName: Harry Lockhart
Source: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Canon point: like a year after the film? something like that
Gender: Male
Age: 35ish
Colour: #208727
Chumhandle: corpsePisser
History: Born in Embry, Indiana, Harry had a pretty ordinary childhood. When he was like eight he wanted to be a magician and performed at the local state fair as HAROLD THE GREAT. His upbringing was pretty boring until some time after high school when, instead of going off to college, he fucked off to New York and tried to find a job. He mostly failed in that respect but managed to make some friends, and got into petty thievery as a means of sustaining himself. His interest in sleight of hand tricks as a kid came in real handy with that, as it turned out.
It was all going more or less dandy until one night near Christmastime when Harry and his partner accidentally fucked up a job robbing a toy store in the dead of night, and in their escape his partner got shot. Harry, panicking and shell shocked, left his partner there and managed to stumble into an audition room for a film. The auditioners mistook him for a method actor, confusing his panic with brilliance, and flew him out to LA to have him screentested, where he met private detective "Gay" Perry van Shrike. Through a bizarre chain of events, he got wrapped up in a thoroughly complex murder mystery, reunited with Harmony (the "one who got away" from his high school days), and lost his left ring finger. After all was through and through, and he and Perry were both out of the hospital, Perry offered him a job working at his private investigation firm, Sentron Inc. Harry's been doing that ever since, though somewhere along the way, he and Harmony had a messy breakup, and it's been just him and Perry ever since. But, you know, in a totally not gay way.
Personality: Harry isn't the brightest. Sure, he can be incredibly clever at times (given the right set of circumstances and sleep deprivation), but in regards to making decisions, he's pretty awful. He's snarky and obnoxious and likes to make wiseguy cracks (which fall flat a good half of the time) and curses generously. He often ends up the butt of Perry's jokes when he does something stupid, although to be fair a lot of his stupid actions and decisions result from either a) trying to look cool, b) getting caught up in the heat of the moment/fear/excitement, or c) both. He likes to talk bigger than he really is, which sometimes results in getting his ass kicked, but it's usually with good intentions somewhere in mind. He has a hard time finishing things he's started -- especially relationships -- he's said himself that while it starts out fine, somewhere along the way he just cuts out and runs. He's impulsive and a "do shit now and don't think about it later" kind of guy, and even though he's got an actual job, he has a tendency to shoplift sometimes just for the rush, without even really thinking about it. Insensitivity on his part is usually accidental and a result of his chronic Foot in Mouth condition. He has either incredibly bad or incredibly good luck, depending on how you look at it. Possibly both. As a kid, he enjoyed the Johnny Gossamer books, a series of pulp fiction detective novels, which led to his ridiculous Genre Savvy-ness.
Harry is also really bad at math.
Abilities & physical limitations: HARRY IS GOOD AT: shoplifting, talking out his ass, getting piss drunk, and having tremendous swings of luck in both directions. He also knows how to operate pistols. He is not terribly good in a fistfight or in very good shape, but other than the fact that he’s missing a finger he doesn’t have any real limitations.
Appearance: http://content8.flixster.com/poll/10/50/105086_std.jpg
Notable AU differences, if applicable: N/A
Strife Specibus: fistkind/pistolkind
Prototyping: a mugful of lukewarm coffee (pre-entry) and a framed photograph of his boss Perry (post-entry)
Title: Dearth of Wit
In-game abilities: idk words or something, who cares, he’s not going to be able to use it anyway because he sucks at this game
Planet: Land of Sleight and Noir
It’s perpetually midnight on LOSAN, with twinkling stars and moon in the sky creating a blue cast over the planet, which is covered in bridges and underpasses and dank offices and back alleyways. There are playing cards and top hats everywhere, and strange things hover just on the edge of vision, but when you turn to look they’re not there. There are traps and tricks waiting in dark corners, and seemingly innocuous objects usually turn out to be dangerous. Various doorways and boxes act as portals to different points on the planet; if you step through one, you wind up somewhere completely different.
The planet’s consorts are a race of capricious though friendly little black dogs wearing fedoras. All they want you to do is pick a card.
The planet’s denizen is Capo, a hardboiled, chain-smoking sparrow who has ruined the planet by introducing organized crime.
Source: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Canon point: like a year after the film? something like that
Gender: Male
Age: 35ish
Colour: #208727
Chumhandle: corpsePisser
History: Born in Embry, Indiana, Harry had a pretty ordinary childhood. When he was like eight he wanted to be a magician and performed at the local state fair as HAROLD THE GREAT. His upbringing was pretty boring until some time after high school when, instead of going off to college, he fucked off to New York and tried to find a job. He mostly failed in that respect but managed to make some friends, and got into petty thievery as a means of sustaining himself. His interest in sleight of hand tricks as a kid came in real handy with that, as it turned out.
It was all going more or less dandy until one night near Christmastime when Harry and his partner accidentally fucked up a job robbing a toy store in the dead of night, and in their escape his partner got shot. Harry, panicking and shell shocked, left his partner there and managed to stumble into an audition room for a film. The auditioners mistook him for a method actor, confusing his panic with brilliance, and flew him out to LA to have him screentested, where he met private detective "Gay" Perry van Shrike. Through a bizarre chain of events, he got wrapped up in a thoroughly complex murder mystery, reunited with Harmony (the "one who got away" from his high school days), and lost his left ring finger. After all was through and through, and he and Perry were both out of the hospital, Perry offered him a job working at his private investigation firm, Sentron Inc. Harry's been doing that ever since, though somewhere along the way, he and Harmony had a messy breakup, and it's been just him and Perry ever since. But, you know, in a totally not gay way.
Personality: Harry isn't the brightest. Sure, he can be incredibly clever at times (given the right set of circumstances and sleep deprivation), but in regards to making decisions, he's pretty awful. He's snarky and obnoxious and likes to make wiseguy cracks (which fall flat a good half of the time) and curses generously. He often ends up the butt of Perry's jokes when he does something stupid, although to be fair a lot of his stupid actions and decisions result from either a) trying to look cool, b) getting caught up in the heat of the moment/fear/excitement, or c) both. He likes to talk bigger than he really is, which sometimes results in getting his ass kicked, but it's usually with good intentions somewhere in mind. He has a hard time finishing things he's started -- especially relationships -- he's said himself that while it starts out fine, somewhere along the way he just cuts out and runs. He's impulsive and a "do shit now and don't think about it later" kind of guy, and even though he's got an actual job, he has a tendency to shoplift sometimes just for the rush, without even really thinking about it. Insensitivity on his part is usually accidental and a result of his chronic Foot in Mouth condition. He has either incredibly bad or incredibly good luck, depending on how you look at it. Possibly both. As a kid, he enjoyed the Johnny Gossamer books, a series of pulp fiction detective novels, which led to his ridiculous Genre Savvy-ness.
Harry is also really bad at math.
Abilities & physical limitations: HARRY IS GOOD AT: shoplifting, talking out his ass, getting piss drunk, and having tremendous swings of luck in both directions. He also knows how to operate pistols. He is not terribly good in a fistfight or in very good shape, but other than the fact that he’s missing a finger he doesn’t have any real limitations.
Appearance: http://content8.flixster.com/poll/10/50/105086_std.jpg
Notable AU differences, if applicable: N/A
Strife Specibus: fistkind/pistolkind
Prototyping: a mugful of lukewarm coffee (pre-entry) and a framed photograph of his boss Perry (post-entry)
Title: Dearth of Wit
In-game abilities: idk words or something, who cares, he’s not going to be able to use it anyway because he sucks at this game
Planet: Land of Sleight and Noir
It’s perpetually midnight on LOSAN, with twinkling stars and moon in the sky creating a blue cast over the planet, which is covered in bridges and underpasses and dank offices and back alleyways. There are playing cards and top hats everywhere, and strange things hover just on the edge of vision, but when you turn to look they’re not there. There are traps and tricks waiting in dark corners, and seemingly innocuous objects usually turn out to be dangerous. Various doorways and boxes act as portals to different points on the planet; if you step through one, you wind up somewhere completely different.
The planet’s consorts are a race of capricious though friendly little black dogs wearing fedoras. All they want you to do is pick a card.
The planet’s denizen is Capo, a hardboiled, chain-smoking sparrow who has ruined the planet by introducing organized crime.
