application.
User Name/Nick: Nicci/Nicole
User LJ: sixfiveohsex
AIM/IM: brbeatingwaffles
E-mail: brbeatingwaffles@aim.com
Other Characters: Dean, Max, and JD
Character Name: Shawn Spencer
Series: Psych
Age: He was born in 1977 so I’d say that makes him about thirty-two or thirty-three at this point. He does tend to look younger than his age denotes, but that’s mainly because he walks around like a flailing twelve year old. Having a sprightly spirit does wonders for your skin.
From When?: From the episode “You can’t handle this episode,” after his steady girlfriend Abigail leaves him and his intuition proves to be correct about his associate Jules brother he decides that maybe he needs a break and to be somewhere where not everyone is constantly struggling to entertain his company. He’d never admit this, of course, but it’s part of his reasoning for being on the barge.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Shawn while openly judgmental and sometimes even shallow has a good strength of will and really wants to believe the best in people. He’s just determined and cunning enough to be suitable in the position and interdemensional ships sound like something out of one of his elaborate bed time story based schemes so when the admiral offered the position after much consideration and some loud fan girlish squeeing he agreed to come on board under the premise that he could at some point alleviate and right some of his own wrongs that aren’t constantly thought and/or spoken of.
Item: A book about the dole plantation in Hawaii. An ongoing joke in the series is that Shawn has a natural affinity for pineapples and they show up several times through ought the shows four seasons. The book would likely be pocket sized and paper back and he’d probably be seen flipping through it even when nothing was going on with his inmate, surreptitious though he is.
Abilities/Powers: Shawn is all in all a normal person. The show itself is based around the fact that he is extremely intuitive and capable of putting puzzles together quicker than an average person and because of these talents he’s landed himself in a squishy job as a police department’s psychic investigator. He’s by no means psychic at all but will go out of his way having ‘visions’ to prove a point which could mean wild flailing spasms of limbs and dragging things off of shelves with him as he goes or even a false fit of seizing on the floor.
Personality: Shawn is what most would call a kindled spirit. He’s unique and not bogged down by the average woes most people face. He prefers to live life spontaneously and happily and while he is plagued with his own issues he takes them in stride and rolls with the punches… living each moment as it’s fundamentally his last because he’s seen first hand the wicked of the world and knows that you really could go in the blink of an eye and he’d rather go knowing he achieved greatness than toiled out his days being a cynic or acting morose.
Shawn is naturally sprightly. He’s the guy you see in a room with circles of people around him, smiling broadly and laughing whilst gesturing wildly with his hands. He enjoys attention and could even go so far as being called attention-seeking. He’s always making a joke and they’re usually of a more pop culture variety… his main stints being dabbling in things of his childhood, things that happened in the 80’s or 90’s, though he occasionally makes benign references to things happening in current times as well.
He could be summed up in one word completely and that’s eccentric. Everything he does is so profoundly over the top and excitable most people would walk away slowly and the small number of the rest would laugh along with his presumed insanity. You could say he still looks or chooses to look at the world through the eyes of a child. He prefers to see the brighter side of things and has an optimistic way of going through things and dealing with situations in his own life. If he’s had a bad day? Go-kart races or a trip the arcade. His antics are something very hard to ignore and very rarely go unnoticed.
Despite all of this though, there’s a more sensitive side to the man. He’s not always the class clown. He’s passionate and compassionate. He truly wants to help people and make the world a better place. He’ll always do what is within his power to get to that goal. He wants nothing more than to see ‘the human species evolve.’ He thinks too many people make the wrong decisions and throw their lives down the gutter. With his own renewed sense of self worth after his accident he’s willing to fight the good fight and go whatever it takes. In a very ‘Shoot for the moon and at the very least you’ll land among the starts’ type of way.
Shawn is also loyal to a fault. If he’s established any sort of connection with you whatsoever he’ll do whatever is in his power to make sure that you’re safe and/or sound of mind. He likes to be the person someone can come to for a good time or a shoulder to cry on and finds helping his friends just as fundamental as helping the world or helping someone better themselves. Even though one could argue that Shawn himself is a shade of gray, he has no shades of gray in doing the things he does. He loves hard and plays and fights harder.
Saying that Shawn was a prideful man wouldn’t be a lie. He looks at himself fondly, he thinks he’s awesome and if everyone else doesn’t think so? That’s their problem. It’s been spoken in the series that he’s always been like that, flamboyantly proud of himself. It’s not an acquired trait or a learned habit but something he’s developed in the thirty-three years of his life that has gotten to the point of almost intolerable to some of people works with or spends time around. He enjoys having the spotlight on him, he revels in it, and he thinks he deserves it. Why yes! He is the best thing walking on two legs. So kind of you to notice.
For all of Shawn’s valor however, he is something of a wimp. He’s come face to face with high tension or dangerous situations and every time his reaction is akin to fear and OMIGAD why?! He has a tendency to pull astounding physical leaps in this situation but for the most part he prefers to be a behind the scenes operator. He’s Clark Kent instead of Super Man but he saves people all the same. He enjoys what he does to a certain degree and as he goes along the situations he gets himself into, no matter how horrific, are easier for him to find fathomable and easier for him to deal with. He can adjust.
Shawn’s entire state of being is a lie and one could say that he’s an uncanny liar. He never lies to hurt anyone but more so to further establish his own needs. His working as a psychic investigator is a lie as he’s not really psychic but extremely intuitive, and while there’s been moments of doubt on behalf of the people he’s working with, he always seems to prove their doubt negligent and win their favor again anyway. He’s likely to continue this train of behavior even on the barge.
Shawn’s reaction to the barge will likely be one of bewilderment at first and then will steadily change to star struck. He’s likely to eventually find the ship a spectacular amount of fun and he’ll want to be as involved in every little thing as he can be. He’ll likely troll and mull over all of the entries and take great pleasure in the iconic and pop-culturally related people that are there. He’s going to overall be the nuisance that everyone wants to go away.
Path to Redemption: N/A
History: I’ve got two links for his relative history.
One (The Wiki page) and Two (Character Network profile).
Sample Journal Entry: VOICE:
Denizens of the barge! The good ship lollipop and the S.S. heartthrob this is your Captain speaking.
Yes, Captain. Captain Crunch. The Connoisseur to your Connoinah.
I’d like to thank you all for flying redemption airlines and no, we are not the titanic, but we also are a ship that WILL not sink.
That’s correct, right? The ships never actually sunk before? I’ve been on deck and everything is just a swirling black abyss of doom, it’s like we’re stuck between two Oreo Cookies with no cream in the middle.
I’m not sure I like that metaphor…
Anywhoo! My name is Shawn Spencer and I’d like to introduce myself as the awesome psychic that you all will have the pleasure of knowing, SOON- very soon. I’ll get you my pretties.
[Warden Filter.]
So... you wanna give me the LD on this place, BBG? I’ll repay you in kindness and smothering. No, really, you’ll never be rid of me. It’ll be awesome. I’m like a cancerous tumor that instead of killing you makes everything around you brighter. Like marigold and green, the color of pineapples.
Sample RP: Shawn spun around in the Gus’s computer chair, a bag of popcorn in his lap and the itunes on the desktop playing loud and clear. He was waving a hand to the symphony and with the other shoving the kernels into his mouth with a broad grin. There were no cases that needed his attention today and his successful business had been changed into a successful party room. He was, for once, enjoying the figurative lull in things. Even if it wasn’t a lull. Not really. It was more like a long undulated birthday weekend. It was awesome.
The windows were shaking with the bass beats coming up from the speakers of the computer that he may or may not have fiddled with to blare noise this loud. His ears were unaffected and in a fleeting moment while the chair was still spinning he hopped to his feet on top of it and road it like a surf board for the half circle that it turned from his weight.
The door, which had been being pounded upon was finally taken notice to in the brief seconds it took for the song to recycle itself on his friend’s computer and he walked over to open it. “….Yello?” On the other side of it stood a very angry woman with two fingers pinching the bridge of her nose.
“Were you drinking a slushy? Those things… they’re dangerously cold. It’s almost unholy. Though I guess you could argue that anything cold is unholy because the light of god is warm… but then what does that make hell? Ice?” The woman barked at him to turn it down and Shawn looked over his shoulder at the computer. “It’s barely at a crescendo!” he held out his back of kettle corn. “Want some?”
User LJ: sixfiveohsex
AIM/IM: brbeatingwaffles
E-mail: brbeatingwaffles@aim.com
Other Characters: Dean, Max, and JD
Character Name: Shawn Spencer
Series: Psych
Age: He was born in 1977 so I’d say that makes him about thirty-two or thirty-three at this point. He does tend to look younger than his age denotes, but that’s mainly because he walks around like a flailing twelve year old. Having a sprightly spirit does wonders for your skin.
From When?: From the episode “You can’t handle this episode,” after his steady girlfriend Abigail leaves him and his intuition proves to be correct about his associate Jules brother he decides that maybe he needs a break and to be somewhere where not everyone is constantly struggling to entertain his company. He’d never admit this, of course, but it’s part of his reasoning for being on the barge.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Shawn while openly judgmental and sometimes even shallow has a good strength of will and really wants to believe the best in people. He’s just determined and cunning enough to be suitable in the position and interdemensional ships sound like something out of one of his elaborate bed time story based schemes so when the admiral offered the position after much consideration and some loud fan girlish squeeing he agreed to come on board under the premise that he could at some point alleviate and right some of his own wrongs that aren’t constantly thought and/or spoken of.
Item: A book about the dole plantation in Hawaii. An ongoing joke in the series is that Shawn has a natural affinity for pineapples and they show up several times through ought the shows four seasons. The book would likely be pocket sized and paper back and he’d probably be seen flipping through it even when nothing was going on with his inmate, surreptitious though he is.
Abilities/Powers: Shawn is all in all a normal person. The show itself is based around the fact that he is extremely intuitive and capable of putting puzzles together quicker than an average person and because of these talents he’s landed himself in a squishy job as a police department’s psychic investigator. He’s by no means psychic at all but will go out of his way having ‘visions’ to prove a point which could mean wild flailing spasms of limbs and dragging things off of shelves with him as he goes or even a false fit of seizing on the floor.
Personality: Shawn is what most would call a kindled spirit. He’s unique and not bogged down by the average woes most people face. He prefers to live life spontaneously and happily and while he is plagued with his own issues he takes them in stride and rolls with the punches… living each moment as it’s fundamentally his last because he’s seen first hand the wicked of the world and knows that you really could go in the blink of an eye and he’d rather go knowing he achieved greatness than toiled out his days being a cynic or acting morose.
Shawn is naturally sprightly. He’s the guy you see in a room with circles of people around him, smiling broadly and laughing whilst gesturing wildly with his hands. He enjoys attention and could even go so far as being called attention-seeking. He’s always making a joke and they’re usually of a more pop culture variety… his main stints being dabbling in things of his childhood, things that happened in the 80’s or 90’s, though he occasionally makes benign references to things happening in current times as well.
He could be summed up in one word completely and that’s eccentric. Everything he does is so profoundly over the top and excitable most people would walk away slowly and the small number of the rest would laugh along with his presumed insanity. You could say he still looks or chooses to look at the world through the eyes of a child. He prefers to see the brighter side of things and has an optimistic way of going through things and dealing with situations in his own life. If he’s had a bad day? Go-kart races or a trip the arcade. His antics are something very hard to ignore and very rarely go unnoticed.
Despite all of this though, there’s a more sensitive side to the man. He’s not always the class clown. He’s passionate and compassionate. He truly wants to help people and make the world a better place. He’ll always do what is within his power to get to that goal. He wants nothing more than to see ‘the human species evolve.’ He thinks too many people make the wrong decisions and throw their lives down the gutter. With his own renewed sense of self worth after his accident he’s willing to fight the good fight and go whatever it takes. In a very ‘Shoot for the moon and at the very least you’ll land among the starts’ type of way.
Shawn is also loyal to a fault. If he’s established any sort of connection with you whatsoever he’ll do whatever is in his power to make sure that you’re safe and/or sound of mind. He likes to be the person someone can come to for a good time or a shoulder to cry on and finds helping his friends just as fundamental as helping the world or helping someone better themselves. Even though one could argue that Shawn himself is a shade of gray, he has no shades of gray in doing the things he does. He loves hard and plays and fights harder.
Saying that Shawn was a prideful man wouldn’t be a lie. He looks at himself fondly, he thinks he’s awesome and if everyone else doesn’t think so? That’s their problem. It’s been spoken in the series that he’s always been like that, flamboyantly proud of himself. It’s not an acquired trait or a learned habit but something he’s developed in the thirty-three years of his life that has gotten to the point of almost intolerable to some of people works with or spends time around. He enjoys having the spotlight on him, he revels in it, and he thinks he deserves it. Why yes! He is the best thing walking on two legs. So kind of you to notice.
For all of Shawn’s valor however, he is something of a wimp. He’s come face to face with high tension or dangerous situations and every time his reaction is akin to fear and OMIGAD why?! He has a tendency to pull astounding physical leaps in this situation but for the most part he prefers to be a behind the scenes operator. He’s Clark Kent instead of Super Man but he saves people all the same. He enjoys what he does to a certain degree and as he goes along the situations he gets himself into, no matter how horrific, are easier for him to find fathomable and easier for him to deal with. He can adjust.
Shawn’s entire state of being is a lie and one could say that he’s an uncanny liar. He never lies to hurt anyone but more so to further establish his own needs. His working as a psychic investigator is a lie as he’s not really psychic but extremely intuitive, and while there’s been moments of doubt on behalf of the people he’s working with, he always seems to prove their doubt negligent and win their favor again anyway. He’s likely to continue this train of behavior even on the barge.
Shawn’s reaction to the barge will likely be one of bewilderment at first and then will steadily change to star struck. He’s likely to eventually find the ship a spectacular amount of fun and he’ll want to be as involved in every little thing as he can be. He’ll likely troll and mull over all of the entries and take great pleasure in the iconic and pop-culturally related people that are there. He’s going to overall be the nuisance that everyone wants to go away.
Path to Redemption: N/A
History: I’ve got two links for his relative history.
One (The Wiki page) and Two (Character Network profile).
Sample Journal Entry: VOICE:
Denizens of the barge! The good ship lollipop and the S.S. heartthrob this is your Captain speaking.
Yes, Captain. Captain Crunch. The Connoisseur to your Connoinah.
I’d like to thank you all for flying redemption airlines and no, we are not the titanic, but we also are a ship that WILL not sink.
That’s correct, right? The ships never actually sunk before? I’ve been on deck and everything is just a swirling black abyss of doom, it’s like we’re stuck between two Oreo Cookies with no cream in the middle.
I’m not sure I like that metaphor…
Anywhoo! My name is Shawn Spencer and I’d like to introduce myself as the awesome psychic that you all will have the pleasure of knowing, SOON- very soon. I’ll get you my pretties.
[Warden Filter.]
So... you wanna give me the LD on this place, BBG? I’ll repay you in kindness and smothering. No, really, you’ll never be rid of me. It’ll be awesome. I’m like a cancerous tumor that instead of killing you makes everything around you brighter. Like marigold and green, the color of pineapples.
Sample RP: Shawn spun around in the Gus’s computer chair, a bag of popcorn in his lap and the itunes on the desktop playing loud and clear. He was waving a hand to the symphony and with the other shoving the kernels into his mouth with a broad grin. There were no cases that needed his attention today and his successful business had been changed into a successful party room. He was, for once, enjoying the figurative lull in things. Even if it wasn’t a lull. Not really. It was more like a long undulated birthday weekend. It was awesome.
The windows were shaking with the bass beats coming up from the speakers of the computer that he may or may not have fiddled with to blare noise this loud. His ears were unaffected and in a fleeting moment while the chair was still spinning he hopped to his feet on top of it and road it like a surf board for the half circle that it turned from his weight.
The door, which had been being pounded upon was finally taken notice to in the brief seconds it took for the song to recycle itself on his friend’s computer and he walked over to open it. “….Yello?” On the other side of it stood a very angry woman with two fingers pinching the bridge of her nose.
“Were you drinking a slushy? Those things… they’re dangerously cold. It’s almost unholy. Though I guess you could argue that anything cold is unholy because the light of god is warm… but then what does that make hell? Ice?” The woman barked at him to turn it down and Shawn looked over his shoulder at the computer. “It’s barely at a crescendo!” he held out his back of kettle corn. “Want some?”