Lindsey Majors' Journal -- Day [entries|friends|calendar]
Lindsey Majors

[ userinfo | scribbld userinfo ]
[ calendar | scribbld calendar ]

app [15 Oct 2010|11:20pm]

NextGen Application (Canon and OC)

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Dylan

Email: on-file
AIM (if you have one): likewise
Character Name: Lindsey Majors
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight):  Lindsey appears, to be an attractive woman in her late twenties.  But even this is truly a lie, for there is something decidedly artificial about her… especially her eyes.  The rest of her is also clearly artificial, more like a doll than a person, with visible joins and seams; when working her systems to their fullest, green circuit and gear patterns can be seen underneath her “skin”.
Age: 27
Birthday: February 7
Codename (if using one): Doll-Woman
PB: (If using one.) Zooey Deschanel


Abilities: Lindsey’s body in entirely robotic, and as such offers her great strength (though below Kryptonian levels), durability, and speed.  She can magnetize her feet to scale metal walls, and contains an assortment of small tools (like a buzzsaw and drill) built into her fingertips.  Her vision and hearing are several times greater than that of a human.  Her eyes act as cameras, recording and transmitting everything they see.


Weaknesses and flaws: As a robot, Lidnsey is subject to magnetism and electromagnetic effects, and requires recharging of her power source.  While well protected, the remains of her human body inside the rest of her are a major weak point in endangered.  Her own hatred of her condition often puts her into a deep depression.

Cadmus itself has the ability to remotely deactivate her, though she does not know this.


Character location/Home: Cadmus Labs
Alignment (villain, hero etc): more or less Hero
Team: Doom Patrol
Relatives (living/dead?): Austin Majors (husband, alive), Steve Majors (son, alive), Jamie Majors (daughter, alive)


Backstory: A cheerleader in high school, Lindsey fell in love with and dated the star of the high school football team, Austin Majors.  They continued to date throughout college and married shortly after.  Lindsey became a reporter for the local paper, while Austin started a sporting goods store, that he was able to expand and franchise out after two years.  Along the way, they had two children, Steve and Jamie.

Shortly after her twenty-sixth birthday, Lindsey began covering science-related topics for the paper, occasionally authoring editorials in addition.  Not long after this… she was in a terrible car accident with a Cadmus Labs truck transporting dangerous materials.  Her family was told she had died.  They received a very generous settlement in exchange for not suing and Cadmus being able to deny responsibility for the event.

Lindsey, in fact, did not die.  Instead, she was simply very badly injured.  Most of her skin was burned and many of her organs were otherwise ruined.  What was left was taken by Cadmus and dipped into an experimental nanite solution and used as the core of a mold for a new type of robotic body.  While she was still somewhat recognizable as herself at the end of the process… it was much more like seeing a doll version of herself.  Cadmus promises one day they will prefect the process and return her to normal, but this is far from the truth.

Lidnsey, meanwhile, knows her family thinks she is dead, but cannot bring herself to correct the situation until she feels human enough to be a wife and mother again. 

With nothing else left in her life, the Cadmus director (or is he? She’s never been sure of his title) Niles Caulder, otherwise known as the Chief, has extended the opportunity to her to be a part of the new Doom Patrol, cleaning up other Cadmus messes…


How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: I’d like to go with the DP as having already formed sometime off-screen, with just never having been seen in-game.  They’ll have a mission they’ll be going out on for their first plot.
What are you planning to do with this character? I’ve got a long term (for the DP) plot ready to go with the nature and origins of their freakiness (mentioned in the pitch) 
What do you want to see happen with this character?: Slowly rediscovering her humanity, bonding with the other DP members, and, of course, dealing with the massive fallout from the eventual revelations.

Please include a sample post/scene

post comment

the pitch [15 Oct 2010|11:22pm]
Team of threeoperatives, plus the Chief and other Cadmus staff as NPCs.  Team would already have been formed some time ago off camera, with only now being where we get to see their adventures.

would also need a Cadmus utility journal.

The Pitch

Once upon a time, there were three ordinary people, who endured horrible accidents that left them unable to be a part of conventional society.  Filled with despair, one man drew them together with the promise that there could be something more to their lives again.  That they could help inspire their fellow man and by overcoming their own challenges and sorrows, become something more.  That man was Niles Caulder, the Chief.  The Doom Patrol’s members will be freakish, by any definition.  None of them, because of their looks or abilities, would have a chance at living a normal life.  This job and each other are all they’d have.

 

What I’d like to do is set up the Doom Patrol as Cadmus field agents, cleaning up messes from Cadmus science projects gone wrong, including DNAliens, various monsters, and other things created by tampering in things man was not meant to know.  Human-shaped black hole, creature that “eats” colors, giant telepathic ants, nac mac feegle-style creatures, etc.  the weirder and more sci-fi/silver-age crazy the better.  They’d also investigate other sci-fi phenomena (to use an old in-game example, they’d be the first ones sent in to deal with the Dark Heart nannites), and battle a new Brotherhood of Evil (with the same old Brain, however)

 

What the Doom Patrol do not know, is that  the accidents and these accidents were the result of Cadmus experiments orchestrated by the Chief (still Niles Caulder).  The Chief’s exact relationship to Cadmus and its heads, and whether or not he or they is truly in charge, should be left up to question for some time.  What the Doom Patrol will do when it finds this information out, well, that’s up to them.  This constitutes part of the “big idea” of the team, one of two long-running arcs with them.  The other centers even more directly around Cadmus itself, and a secret project that might well bring doom to us all.

 

The Doom Patrol maintains only the loosest connections to other teams and super-heroes of the rest of the universe.  Borrowing a bit from the Animated universe, Cadmus has a distinct distrust for metahumans, and prefers to use ones they can control.  (They have specific fail-safes to deal with each DP member going rogue)  The DP may encounter the other heroes from time to time, but aren’t on the phone-tree to call when really big cases start going down.  They’re still definitely free to encounter some of the tangential or side bits, but definitely would not need their parts plotted for (and if they would be a good fit, this can be worked out through good communication).



post comment

navigation
[ viewing | October 15th, 2010 ]
[ go | next day ]