App for city_of_cydonia
Out Of Character Information!
NAME;; Yasmine
AGE;; 19
JOURNAL;; cethRAWR
AIM/YIM/MSN;; AIM = crimpingwithnoel
EMAIL;; yasmine.adams@ymail.com
DESIRED CHARACTER;;
In Character Information!
CHARACTER NAME;; Vince Noir
CHARACTER JOURNAL;; electrolady_boy
CHARACTER AGE;; about 22
FANDOM;; The Mighty Boosh
TIMELINE;; Just after season 3
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE;;
Vince is very slim, and has a lot of feminine features. Due to his varying heights of stacked boots and shoes (and the fact he's never seen out of them), his height is unknown, but is in the ranges of 5'7” - 5'11”. He has blue eyes, and dyes his naturally brown hair black. He has a unique sense of style, and it can range from the mirror-ball disco suit to jeans an t-shirt. But, Even if it is jeans and t-shirt, it will be fantastical in some way - from it being a neon pink t-shirt with the Boosh face on it or drainpipes so tight you'd imagine them to hurt. He's the accessory king, and will never wear an outfit by it's self. He will either be wearing a hat, or he will dress it up with a scarf or belt. Usually it is more than one accessory, and most of them are outlandish.
ABILITIES;; He can talk to animals (he calls himself Mowgli in flares); can charm fish right out of the water with his personality; and can cast shaman magic if it is read out of a book, and it is going to screw him over in no way helpful to his situation at the time.
STRENGTH/WEAKNESS;;
STRENGTHS He manages to keep a sunny outlook on life, no matter what happens to him.
He's a very people-orientated person, but he can generally get along with everyone. He also gets on well with animals.
He's not a good problem solver, but that doesn't seem to matter. This kid has the luck of the devil, when it comes to problems.
Imagination. He has it in spades. In his case? It seems to be a strength, due to the fact it is what his main inspiration and ingenuity comes from. (Like... the bamboo clothes on the desert island.)
WEAKNESSES He is a typical 'act before you think' man. It often gets him in trouble, especially with his friends. It's a good thing he's awesome at making up. Plus, being so childish and adorable you can't stay mad at him for long, helps.
He is impossible to keep focused on a subject matter for too long. Especially when talking about something he isn't all that interested in. Though... get him talking about Gary Numan (or some other musician like this), and you might have a focus for longer than 5 minutes.
Stupid. Completely stupid. He has knowledge about some things... but it's things like fashion and celebrities.
Shallow. Very shallow. And self-centred.
He is a non-combatant, almost completely. Hell, scratch that. He's completely non-combatant. If it's scary? He'll try and make friends. If that doesn't work, he'll run and hide.
PERSONALITY;; Vince calls himself a "sunshine kid" as he is always happy and content with things, despite his life often being filled with misfortune and strange monsters. He is very optimistic about everything, and very, very few things get him down, and he does not seem to get angry either, he'd usually just brush it off. The only time in canon we see him get really angry is when he is about to have himself forced upon, and he burns the nose of the wilderness hunter, and that's with “Nicky Clarke straighteners: Hottest you can get.” (but there is a mention of when he pushed a child under a bus because he was stood on Vince's Topshop voucher.) Also, the only time we see him get really depressed is when he is being impersonated. Vince's most important thing in life is to be fashionable, centre of attention, and to be unique. When somebody is perceived to be stealing his limelight and style, it brings him down, and brings him down hard. That seems to be the one thing he can't just brush off.
Vince... is not a great word smith, for lack of a better term. When tries to help Howard be more confident, and happy, and just generally more like him, but it usually ends with him insulting Howard about his (lack of) fashion sense, style and charm, and is therefore unsuccessful. Also, good luck trying to keep him focused on the topic of conversation. Tangents are a frequent occurrence and he can sometimes have troubles focusing long enough to imagine something. An example of this would be when he is trying to imagine a polar bear. He first has to imagine “A blue clock”, then “Stocky Jesus” who's “like Jesus, but fatter”, then a “magical horn” then an “Angry seaweed god” until he finally imagines the polar bear. There are often times he will burst out into a “crimp” (short meaningless song with no rules as to how it goes together) which is loosely related to the subject. Also, good luck keeping him focused on a topic for a period of time - He's very easily distracted.
Vince can find happiness and pleasure in the most simple of items and situations. For example, he states that "it is impossible to be unhappy in a poncho". Vince is a complete narcissist and often looks at himself in the mirror and talks about how good he looks - he even carries around at least three mirrors, but probably many more. Vince often goes through phases of being interested in something, and usually attempts to be a part of this phase that he usually hears about through fashion magazine, "Cheek-bone" These phases have included being a mod, a goth (calling himself Obsidian Raven McNight), a punk, and other things, but his phases rarely last longer than an episode. He's also quite fickle. He will change his opinions depending on what phase he is going through, who he's with, or what's 'in fashion'. He is also shows his fickle side when he sells his best friend Howard out for a shiny cape (although, he does realise his mistakes when he does this, and tries to make amends. In this case, he gives the cape to a tramp to show his sincerity.)
Vince's main personality trait is his relaxed outlook on life, living with perpetually laid back ease, socialising easily with those around him. Vince is often the voice of reason when Howard is being pretentious, although Vince has also been known to have a particularly naïve and somewhat childlike outlook on life. Vince is commonly mistaken for a female, and one-off characters often refer to him as Howard's wife or "lady friend". He even says to Howard, "I'm the confuser! Is it a man? Is it a woman? I'm not sure if I mind!", or in the Tundra episode Dixon Bainbridge says "Howard Moon and his ugly girlfriend are missing from the zoo." Though, if Vince had heard this, he would have been more offended at the fact he was called ugly than the fact he was referred to as Howard's girlfriend. He's generally a very kind and generous person, but his naïvety means that he's quite easy to take advantage of, and he's quite gullible.
HISTORY;; Vince Noir is self proclaimed "King of the mods", and Howard's best friend. Vince is always up to date with the latest fashion and has his own "style" which consists of very flamboyant and bizarre clothing and hats; all of which he says suits him. Vince has worked as a zoo keeper and a shopkeeper, as well as being sponsored for his fashion and is occasionally featured in fashion magazine, Cheek-bone - which is the magazine he subscribes to that gets delivered every three hours by ninja.
Vince was supposedly brought up by Bryan Ferry in a forest, where events similar to "The Jungle Book" occurred, including when apes tried to "steal his face" for their king. In his later life he was then given a proper education at a school, where became friends with Howard Moon. After school, they both got a job at Bob Fossil's 'Zooniverse'.Whilst working in the zoo, Vince has a multitude of adventures and mishaps, which include being 'kidnapped' in the Tundra when he and Howard went to find the 'egg of Mantunbi', but he ends up dancing with the polar bear that takes him,then returning to rescue Howard from the egg's protectors; rescuing Howard from a secret lab under the zoo, setting free captive mutants whilst he was down there; going to monkey hell and back to save Howard (which he does so by giving the monkey hell ruler a hair makeover; joining an electro band; having his 'novels' get published (he puts his own books in Weetabix boxes in the supermarket, and it gets found by a famous publisher, but they put Dixon Bainbridge's name on the novels instead of Vince's).
After the zoo's closure at the end of season one, the two lived in a flat in above Naboo's shop in Dalston called "Nabootique" which the two later went on to work in. Whilst in this flat they try to find a career in music, but fail; they (him, Howard, Naboo the shaman, and Bollo the gorilla) go camping and he protects himself from the cabin owner's “forceful advances” with Nicky Clarke hair straighteners, to then go on and rescue Howard from the Yeti which is on heat; He nearly causes 'Nanageddon' by summoning a blood-thirsty demon in the form of an old lady whilst trying to impress some goth girls; He finds himself branded 'chosen one' when he travels with Howard to Naboo's home planet of Xooberon, to find the fountain of youth, by teleporting with one of Naboo's amulets but then gets buried up to his neck in sand when he loses the amulet; he rescues Howard from Old Gregg under Black lake; and gets marooned on a desert island with Howard and the get arrested for murder when Howard accidentally kills Precious, one of the coconut people - not really, but that dream was enough to prevent Vince to never eat rancid coconuts ever again, one would imagine.
Vince has bisexual tendencies. His singular brain cell remarks to Howard that he "does swing both ways" but didn't really feel "it" with him. Despite not feeling “it” with Howard, he kisses Howard passionately to avoid being beheaded by Dennis, the head shaman.
Vince is a fan of electro music (especially Gary Numan and The Human League ), The Rolling Stones, punk rock, and glam rock (including Kiss ). Mick Jagger is Vince's hero. He hates jazz, going as far as to claim to be allergic to it. Vince has sung for various bands, including a glam-folk band with his friend Leroy, an electro band called Kraftwerk Orange, his and Howard's own band, and a punk band.
He has got a BTEC National in Hair Design, and in art too. He was given the nickname (amongst the load of others) "The Midnight Barber", because he cuts people's hair while they sleep, such as Howard (who thought his hair just grew slowly) and the captain of a ship (who threw Vince and Howard overboard because of his new mullet). He is good with natural resources. By this, of course, I mean he can make clothes out of anything and every thing, a good example of which would be his “bamboo drainpipes for the new-raver stuck on a desert island”.
SAMPLE JOURNAL POST:
[Being the person that Vince is, he's quite open to technology. It doesn't take him long to figure out how to use the communicator. The video clicks on, and he's dressed normal, by Vince's standards. He's in a fluorescent pink t-shirt, and black drainpipes. The red cowboy hat and black scarf complete the outfit.]
It's like something out of a science fiction film. It's amazing! I mean... I keep expecting Arnold Schwarzenegger to storm around the corner like [Accent. It's passable] “Where's Sarah Conner”.
[He chuckles] It's madness.
If anyone's seen a man with really small eyes and large face, kinda plain looking, point him in my direction will you? He's utterly helpless without me.
Oh, he answers to the name of Howard.
SAMPLE RP POST:
Vince had been here for a few days. S.A.M.M had brought all his clothes (and how they all fit into that storage space, Vince would never know. Not that he cared) and so he's in a good mood.
Not that he's ever not anyway.
If you walk past him, you'll hear “Cars” hummed softly. Only because he hasn't got to where the words of the next verse start though.
One thing struck him. The lack of animals. What good is a “Mowgli in flares” if there's no animals to talk to. Hmm. Okay, he's finding food next. Everywhere he goes, he gives a little “hello?” to see if there's anyone close by. There's not.
Upon seeing a robot, he crouches down to it. “Is there somewhere to eat around here? I've extreme dieted before, but they always had a little something in the diet to eat, and I'm quite hungry.” The bot chirps, and he follows it to the cafeteria. He opens the door... and remembers he didn't do an impressive entrance to turn the heads of his loyal subjects. Oh well, next time will do.