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PLAYER
NAME: Megan
AGE: 20
PERSONAL LJ: urbaninja
EMAIL ADDRESS:elvengirl@shaw.ca
AIM SCREENAME: ilovecenturions
EXPERIENCE RPing: 8 or so years at various places, plutoix, and here as Leoben.
CHARACTER
NAME: Barney Stinson
CANON SOURCE: How I Met Your Mother.
TIMELINE: About Mid-season 2, just after the episode Slap Bet
CANON ABILITIES: Being awesome? He can do magic tricks as well. Just regular magic tricks though.
PERSONALITY:
Barney is a womanizer. He loves to meet women, sleep with them, and then leave. And have no qualms about it in the process. He is not really afraid to be loud, abrasive, and disrespectful. He is extremely egotistical, with a firm belief in his awesomeness. It is not often that he regrets an action or a statement, and will do little to retract them. He starts and holds petty grudges. He steals women from his friends. He isn’t that great of a guy.
Obviously this behavior has not won him many close friends, but what close friends he has he is very loyal to. He claims himself to be Ted’s best friend, even if Ted doesn’t think of him as one, and tries to help him out as only a bro can. It’s often Barney who has to force Ted to loosen up. He offers Marshall a job at his company, as well as getting him a suit for his wedding. When Lily needs to sneak into a prom, Barney agrees to be her and Robin’s date, even getting them corsages. He cares for these people, and will help them. He lives by the “Bro Code” which gives him his own morality, one that is slightly different from everyone else’s.
He’s a perpetrator of ridiculous schemes, especially to pick up women. These go so far as picking up women at an airport by throwing fake luggage on the carousal and then striking up a conversation (or popping out of luggage, or following girls to Philadelphia), licking the liberty bell, getting Ted drunk, starting up a longtime rivalry with the guy who works in the building across from him, and participating in immature things such as Slap Bets. There are no regrets.
Barney wants to be liked. He is not afraid to turn on the charm to do that, as seen when he meets Ted’s parents. He doesn’t want to lose what friends he has. He doesn’t like being teased. He also has a bit of a gambling problem.
However, Barney has a positive outlook on life despite all of this. He lives life to the fullest and expects life to pay him back in kind. His optimism is infectious and it is hard to not like him. He’s good at talking to people, and is rather charismatic. Get on his good side, and you will have a friend for life.
CANON HISTORY:
Barney was once a very different type of man. Originally, he was more of a hippie type person, with dreams of joining the Peace Corps with his girlfriend, to go and help the Nicaraguans. This, unfortunately changed when Barney learned that his girlfriend was cheating on him, with a man similar to what Barney would become. It broke his heart, and he made a tape, serenading his girlfriend and begging her to come back. This was viewed by his girlfriend and new boyfriend, much to Barney’s embarrassment. Barney wandered in his grief, until finding a flyer bearing the words “SUIT UP!” And that’s what Barney did. He cut his hair, shaved his beard, suited up, and never looked back.
When he is first introduced in the series, he is Ted’s self-proclaimed best friend and wingman, on the search to find his friend a girl. It is Barney who introduces Ted to Robin with a game of “Have you met Ted?” Not a whole lot is learned of Barney in the first season. He sleeps with women, and avoids answering the question “what is your job?” and causes trouble. He is, however, instrumental in getting Ted drunk, getting Ted to have more self-esteem, getting Marshall a job at the company he works for, and helping out people, sometimes. He did volunteer at a homeless shelter for a time, but that was because he had to do community service hours for public urination. He shared an apartment with Lilly briefly.
In the episode I’m taking him from, Barney and Marshall had a slap bet over why Robin disliked going into malls. Barney lost, and now Marshall has the opportunity to slap Barney 5 times from then until eternity.
He has a bit of a gambling problem, and apparently gambled his life savings away while in Atlantic City.
Other than that, most of his background is largely unknown at this point in the series. As I progress through the later seasons, I’m sure I’ll find out more, and it will be added.
HOW DIFFERENT DO YOU WANT THE MEMORIES TO BE FROM THEIR CANON? Pretty much the 1930’s version of his modern day life. He was born in New York City, and continues his life there as normal: going to work, hanging out at the bar, and generally being awesome. He remembers Ted, Marshall, Lilly and Robin, but hasn’t shown them his notebook. He still believes that he is awesome. The fact that his memories have been rewritten really won’t bother him, except if he remembers something he liked to do (like playing Laser tag, or the giant TVs that he has). However, getting his memories back would only serve to remind him of how awesome he is.
He has a job at Stark Enterprises, probably a desk job, although, I would like to keep the exact specifics of what he does a mystery (to comply with his canon). Can he have his own office?
PLANS FOR YOUR CHARACTER:
Barney is here to have a good time and to cause trouble, but in a good way. He’s looking to be someone’s wingman (at least until a Ted shows up), and to flirt with women, but he’s clearly not in the relationship phase. The notebook, he figures, is another way to pick up women. Kind of like a precursor to the internet, since Barney is probably going to start using the book in a blog-like way (recording day to day events and such).
I’d also like to include the rivalry he has with the guy who works in the building across the street from him
NAME: Megan
AGE: 20
PERSONAL LJ: urbaninja
EMAIL ADDRESS:elvengirl@shaw.ca
AIM SCREENAME: ilovecenturions
EXPERIENCE RPing: 8 or so years at various places, plutoix, and here as Leoben.
CHARACTER
NAME: Barney Stinson
CANON SOURCE: How I Met Your Mother.
TIMELINE: About Mid-season 2, just after the episode Slap Bet
CANON ABILITIES: Being awesome? He can do magic tricks as well. Just regular magic tricks though.
PERSONALITY:
Barney is a womanizer. He loves to meet women, sleep with them, and then leave. And have no qualms about it in the process. He is not really afraid to be loud, abrasive, and disrespectful. He is extremely egotistical, with a firm belief in his awesomeness. It is not often that he regrets an action or a statement, and will do little to retract them. He starts and holds petty grudges. He steals women from his friends. He isn’t that great of a guy.
Obviously this behavior has not won him many close friends, but what close friends he has he is very loyal to. He claims himself to be Ted’s best friend, even if Ted doesn’t think of him as one, and tries to help him out as only a bro can. It’s often Barney who has to force Ted to loosen up. He offers Marshall a job at his company, as well as getting him a suit for his wedding. When Lily needs to sneak into a prom, Barney agrees to be her and Robin’s date, even getting them corsages. He cares for these people, and will help them. He lives by the “Bro Code” which gives him his own morality, one that is slightly different from everyone else’s.
He’s a perpetrator of ridiculous schemes, especially to pick up women. These go so far as picking up women at an airport by throwing fake luggage on the carousal and then striking up a conversation (or popping out of luggage, or following girls to Philadelphia), licking the liberty bell, getting Ted drunk, starting up a longtime rivalry with the guy who works in the building across from him, and participating in immature things such as Slap Bets. There are no regrets.
Barney wants to be liked. He is not afraid to turn on the charm to do that, as seen when he meets Ted’s parents. He doesn’t want to lose what friends he has. He doesn’t like being teased. He also has a bit of a gambling problem.
However, Barney has a positive outlook on life despite all of this. He lives life to the fullest and expects life to pay him back in kind. His optimism is infectious and it is hard to not like him. He’s good at talking to people, and is rather charismatic. Get on his good side, and you will have a friend for life.
CANON HISTORY:
Barney was once a very different type of man. Originally, he was more of a hippie type person, with dreams of joining the Peace Corps with his girlfriend, to go and help the Nicaraguans. This, unfortunately changed when Barney learned that his girlfriend was cheating on him, with a man similar to what Barney would become. It broke his heart, and he made a tape, serenading his girlfriend and begging her to come back. This was viewed by his girlfriend and new boyfriend, much to Barney’s embarrassment. Barney wandered in his grief, until finding a flyer bearing the words “SUIT UP!” And that’s what Barney did. He cut his hair, shaved his beard, suited up, and never looked back.
When he is first introduced in the series, he is Ted’s self-proclaimed best friend and wingman, on the search to find his friend a girl. It is Barney who introduces Ted to Robin with a game of “Have you met Ted?” Not a whole lot is learned of Barney in the first season. He sleeps with women, and avoids answering the question “what is your job?” and causes trouble. He is, however, instrumental in getting Ted drunk, getting Ted to have more self-esteem, getting Marshall a job at the company he works for, and helping out people, sometimes. He did volunteer at a homeless shelter for a time, but that was because he had to do community service hours for public urination. He shared an apartment with Lilly briefly.
In the episode I’m taking him from, Barney and Marshall had a slap bet over why Robin disliked going into malls. Barney lost, and now Marshall has the opportunity to slap Barney 5 times from then until eternity.
He has a bit of a gambling problem, and apparently gambled his life savings away while in Atlantic City.
Other than that, most of his background is largely unknown at this point in the series. As I progress through the later seasons, I’m sure I’ll find out more, and it will be added.
HOW DIFFERENT DO YOU WANT THE MEMORIES TO BE FROM THEIR CANON? Pretty much the 1930’s version of his modern day life. He was born in New York City, and continues his life there as normal: going to work, hanging out at the bar, and generally being awesome. He remembers Ted, Marshall, Lilly and Robin, but hasn’t shown them his notebook. He still believes that he is awesome. The fact that his memories have been rewritten really won’t bother him, except if he remembers something he liked to do (like playing Laser tag, or the giant TVs that he has). However, getting his memories back would only serve to remind him of how awesome he is.
He has a job at Stark Enterprises, probably a desk job, although, I would like to keep the exact specifics of what he does a mystery (to comply with his canon). Can he have his own office?
PLANS FOR YOUR CHARACTER:
Barney is here to have a good time and to cause trouble, but in a good way. He’s looking to be someone’s wingman (at least until a Ted shows up), and to flirt with women, but he’s clearly not in the relationship phase. The notebook, he figures, is another way to pick up women. Kind of like a precursor to the internet, since Barney is probably going to start using the book in a blog-like way (recording day to day events and such).
I’d also like to include the rivalry he has with the guy who works in the building across the street from him