[nick / name]: Tam [personal LJ name]: tmartian42 [other characters currently played]: Dr. Horrible :: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog :: horrible_phd [e-mail]: tmartian42@yahoo.com [AIM]: tmartian42
[series]: Dexter (TV series) [character]: Dexter Morgan [character history / background]: Have somelinks [character abilities]: expert at blood spatter analysis, killing people
[character personality]: Dexter feels the need to kill like an addiction, which he refers to as his 'dark passenger.' From a young age, his adoptive father trained him to a strict code-only kill killers. This is the Code of Harry and it functions as Dexter's conscience. Though only part of the code is about doing what's right--mostly it's about not getting caught. For a character who, if a psychopath, ought to be selfish, Dexter ends up doing a lot of things for sister Deb, girlfriend Rita and Rita's kids. Despite professing a lack of true emotion, his internal monologues tend to be almost overwrought. He claims to accept himself as he is, but obsesses about his differences from normal people and the dark needs that drive him. It's not always serious, though. He can also be darkly funny
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Can a madman go mad? Many of my playmates have called me a madman and I've never minded. I accept what I am and I follow a code that makes as much sense to me as anything 'sane' and 'rational'. Yet now I find myself in a situation so strange, wouldn't it be madness to accept it? It seems terribly convenient that I arrived to find waiting for me both the one person who loves me and my very favorite playmate. Still, I'd like to think that if I got lost within my own fantasies, it would be in which Deb knew all and still accepted me as her brother and everyone applauded me for the public service I provide
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[third person / log sample]:It had been a stupid thing to do, and Dexter couldn't manage to deny that. Sure, he'd had to do something to protect Rita, Rita the mask of normality he felt comfortable hiding himself behind, but hitting Paul in the head with a frying pan? How absurd. At least he'd covered his tracks, and cleverly. No one would believe Paul, Paul the heroin addict. No one would believe that dearly devoted Dexter had an even deeper, darker craving. One that he'd been unable to fulfill with Paul--Paul was too close. No plastic wrap and duct tape for Paul, no sharp and shiny toys, no new slide for his collection
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[personal LJ name]: tmartian42
[other characters currently played]: Dr. Horrible :: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog :: horrible_phd
[e-mail]: tmartian42@yahoo.com
[AIM]: tmartian42
[series]: Dexter (TV series)
[character]: Dexter Morgan
[character history / background]: Have some links
[character abilities]: expert at blood spatter analysis, killing people
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Can a madman go mad? Many of my playmates have called me a madman and I've never minded. I accept what I am and I follow a code that makes as much sense to me as anything 'sane' and 'rational'. Yet now I find myself in a situation so strange, wouldn't it be madness to accept it? It seems terribly convenient that I arrived to find waiting for me both the one person who loves me and my very favorite playmate. Still, I'd like to think that if I got lost within my own fantasies, it would be in which Deb knew all and still accepted me as her brother and everyone applauded me for the public service I provide ( ... )
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