[taxonomites] Application
Your name/crazy internet handle/whatever: Brandon
Personal journal: mr_likestofight
Email: such.a.heart@gmail.com
AIM: suchaheartleads
Characters in Taxon (if applicable): None as of yet. This would be the first.
Character name: Ally McBeal
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Ally McBeal
Canon point: Immediately after "Sex, Lies, and Second Thoughts." Ally has broken up with Brian, her boyfriend of six months after meeting Larry Paul, a new lawyer in town and taking his advice.
Why this Character and Canon point?: Ally is a flawed, realistic human being who I relate to. She is endlessly complicated between her own neuroses and her quest for finding the man for her and through that, happiness - or so she hopes. She's snappy and talkative, most of the time overly so to the point of saying way, way too much. She's far from perfect and she is a work in progress. I find this very fascinating.
I wanted to choose this canon point because Ally finally thinks she has found what she has been looking for. After realizing he isn't the one, she has become content with being alone for the time being but waking up in Taxon will frustrate her to no end. She will have so many what-if questions bouncing around her head. She'll blame her situation on breaking up with Brian in the first place and then, because of Larry's sudden presence in her life, she'll be pissed off because he could have been a possibility. But now she's in Taxon.
Programmed Possession: Ally's apartment bedroom located here. She is very attached to this space. Many times she has been woken up by a dream or fantasy had right there.
Abilities/Weaknesses: Ally is human so she has no real supernatural ability. But, beyond that, she used to be a lawyer at the Cage & Fish law firm. Her abilities are simply this: she is intelligent and witty (when she isn't tripping over her words) and she is a fantastic litigator.
Weaknesses include:
+ overly attractive men
+ overbearing women
+ opinions in general
+ and as cruel (to the muse) as it is, happiness
Psychology/Personality: Ally is an eternal optimist who has grounded herself in idealism. She is looking for Mr. Right, the one for her, her soul mate. Everything she has done up till now has been fueled by that. She is "snappish" as Elaine, her assistant describes her. She has a quick, scathing tongue accompanied often by her foot in her mouth. It doesn't help her that she has intensely vivid fantasies that usually distract her to the point of not even paying attention. These fantasies range from pulling the lever of a trapped door (in order to drop Elaine down), to her tongue emerging and wrapping around a man's head, and even a dancing baby at one point. Some of these fantasies are extreme enough to be called hallucinations.
At first glance, she is quite antagonistic but deep down, she just wants to be loved and hell, even liked. She's very opinionated. She has started a few fights and has gone to jail several times because of her impulsive actions. Speaking of impulsive, she is prone to slips of the tongue. She takes Freudian slips to new heights.
In her eyes, she had one true love. A man named Billy Thomas who died the year before of a brain tumor. Luckily, she hasn't given up on love. It brings me back to her eternal optimism. She is a romantic at heart.
She is neurotic, constantly second guessing herself at every move - especially with the opposite sex.
Now, because of all her quirks and neurosis and, ahem, hallucinations she has many a time seen a therapist. She has no problem with therapy and finds at times it can be very helpful. She even has her very own theme song depending on the day.
In every sense of the term, Ally is an escape artist. She escapes into her fantasies to get away from life or to find meaning, she escapes men she could really fall for - for one reason or another, and when she's confronted with an issue or conversation she does not want, she will escape, literally. She will change the subject, push the person away until a later date, or she'll completely ignore something being said to her.
History: As a child, Ally's parents weren't exactly on the greatest of terms. At three years old Ally walked in on her mother having an affair with another man. She has kept this knowledge with her for years. Secretly, this is why she can never see a lasting relationship. Her parents' relationship didn't. They fought for one reason or another and because of that, she would turn on the radio and sit in her closet when they did fight.
It was during this time that Ally met Billy Thomas, "the boy next door." They became best friends and in high school pursued a very serious relationship. Because Billy went to law school Ally did as well. The summer of their senior year, Billy participated in an internship in Michigan. During the year, he told Ally he was going to pursue that firm after and he left her behind in Boston.
At 27, Ally was working for a firm in Boston and living with her roommate and best friend, Renee. One day when she was on a ladder in the stacks a coworker squeezed her butt. After realizing the senior partners were not on her side, she left. She quit and as she walked out, that very moment on the street she met her ex classmate Richard Fish. He offered her a job at Cage & Fish, his own law firm.
With nothing to lose, Ally joined.
Upon arriving, she learned that her true love Billy was working there as well, having moved back to Boston. There was more as she then realized he was married to a woman, Georgia who soon joined the practice.
Through the next few months, she dated a few men. One, a model in her sculpture class with a giant penis. Another, a fellow lawyer who turned her off when he got salad on his face during dinner.
In the first few months at Cage & Fish, she was involved in several...mishaps involving anger when she knocked a woman down at the supermarket, punched out a woman on the street and told off a man who simply bumped into her. Because of this, she was called before the board with questions of her sanity.
Because of her frequent hallucinations, she seeked out therapy with Tracy, a brash, honest, humiliating woman who helped Ally towards several personal discoveries.
Ally's first serious relationship post-Billy involved Greg, a doctor. She strayed from him, however, when she kissed Billy in a moment of what was later discovered to be, a whim. In a moment of passion, she also slept with a stranger at a car wash and later learned that he was the groom to be to a client of hers. She has dated a homeless schitzophrenic, a nineteen year-old, and she briefly considered dating Richard Fish, a coworker.
After several months of his own erratic behavior, Ally realized she may have had feelings for a now divorced and single Billy but a brain tumor lead to his death. She bounced back a few weeks later with Brian, a fellow attorney...after being brought into court for statutory rape. Six months later, she was happily dating him - or so she thought. He asked her to move in with him and because of that, she went to her therapist. Her therapist had left town and in her place now sat Larry Paul who she confided in. After realizing their sex life wasn't the stuff of dreams and that he didn't want to marry her (probably) she dumped him. Later, she learned Larry was a new lawyer in town and not a therapist.
That night, she lamented (to the audience anyway) that the times she had felt most alone were around other people. She was content to be alone for the time being.
Arrival Post (Third Person)
Putting down her book, Ally slid out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. It may have been late and she may have read all night but that was never reason to ignore hygiene. She took her time brushing her teeth and took an extra few minutes smiling into the mirror before her. What man wouldn't want this? That was right.
There would be men lining up to date her.
She went into a rendition of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive. Of course, she wasn't nearly as talented as the singer but she could hold her own. Her hand came to the light switch flipping it off before stepping back into her bedroom.
Except, her bedroom was not this white. Or this furniture-less. Turning around, she was greeted with a wall that did not resemble the doorway to her bathroom.
"Well, it finally happenned. I'm crazy," she said to nobody in particular, holding her hands up. "I finally...cracked." Closing her eyes, she tried to will the hallucination away. But when she opened them, she was still there. Clicking her heels didn't help and truth be told she felt foolish doing it in the first place. "Hello..." seemed to be her next course of action.
What she did notice was something that resembled a flip-phone lying on the ground. She whirled around once more, just to make sure this psychosis wasn't going away, and then she crept towards the device.
Additional Third Person Sample:
Somewhere along the line, she had pissed off someone very, very high up. By now, after everything, she had come to the conclusion that this was just cosmic. Someone up there had it in for her. Maybe it was because she insulted the Rabbi that one time. Or, maybe because she dated him shortly after and then dumped him. It could've been the marriage she ruined - or was that, two? She had really lost count.
At any rate, she did something wrong and because of that she was being kicked in the ass over and over...
All Ally could think at that moment was, 'Oh crap' as the father she had been dating introduced her to his son who she had subsequently been dating.
And over.
One day she would look back at this and laugh - or maybe she'd cry. She didn't know. But, all she did know was that she suddenly had to go to the bathroom.
Of course, on the way back from the bathroom she had to meet an old high school friend. That was just how her life worked. Her amazing, funny, ironically cruel life.
"Ally!" she heard from behind her. It was impossible for her not to turn around and that was what she would claim in court were she under oath.
Personal journal: mr_likestofight
Email: such.a.heart@gmail.com
AIM: suchaheartleads
Characters in Taxon (if applicable): None as of yet. This would be the first.
Character name: Ally McBeal
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Ally McBeal
Canon point: Immediately after "Sex, Lies, and Second Thoughts." Ally has broken up with Brian, her boyfriend of six months after meeting Larry Paul, a new lawyer in town and taking his advice.
Why this Character and Canon point?: Ally is a flawed, realistic human being who I relate to. She is endlessly complicated between her own neuroses and her quest for finding the man for her and through that, happiness - or so she hopes. She's snappy and talkative, most of the time overly so to the point of saying way, way too much. She's far from perfect and she is a work in progress. I find this very fascinating.
I wanted to choose this canon point because Ally finally thinks she has found what she has been looking for. After realizing he isn't the one, she has become content with being alone for the time being but waking up in Taxon will frustrate her to no end. She will have so many what-if questions bouncing around her head. She'll blame her situation on breaking up with Brian in the first place and then, because of Larry's sudden presence in her life, she'll be pissed off because he could have been a possibility. But now she's in Taxon.
Programmed Possession: Ally's apartment bedroom located here. She is very attached to this space. Many times she has been woken up by a dream or fantasy had right there.
Abilities/Weaknesses: Ally is human so she has no real supernatural ability. But, beyond that, she used to be a lawyer at the Cage & Fish law firm. Her abilities are simply this: she is intelligent and witty (when she isn't tripping over her words) and she is a fantastic litigator.
Weaknesses include:
+ overly attractive men
+ overbearing women
+ opinions in general
+ and as cruel (to the muse) as it is, happiness
Psychology/Personality: Ally is an eternal optimist who has grounded herself in idealism. She is looking for Mr. Right, the one for her, her soul mate. Everything she has done up till now has been fueled by that. She is "snappish" as Elaine, her assistant describes her. She has a quick, scathing tongue accompanied often by her foot in her mouth. It doesn't help her that she has intensely vivid fantasies that usually distract her to the point of not even paying attention. These fantasies range from pulling the lever of a trapped door (in order to drop Elaine down), to her tongue emerging and wrapping around a man's head, and even a dancing baby at one point. Some of these fantasies are extreme enough to be called hallucinations.
At first glance, she is quite antagonistic but deep down, she just wants to be loved and hell, even liked. She's very opinionated. She has started a few fights and has gone to jail several times because of her impulsive actions. Speaking of impulsive, she is prone to slips of the tongue. She takes Freudian slips to new heights.
In her eyes, she had one true love. A man named Billy Thomas who died the year before of a brain tumor. Luckily, she hasn't given up on love. It brings me back to her eternal optimism. She is a romantic at heart.
She is neurotic, constantly second guessing herself at every move - especially with the opposite sex.
Now, because of all her quirks and neurosis and, ahem, hallucinations she has many a time seen a therapist. She has no problem with therapy and finds at times it can be very helpful. She even has her very own theme song depending on the day.
In every sense of the term, Ally is an escape artist. She escapes into her fantasies to get away from life or to find meaning, she escapes men she could really fall for - for one reason or another, and when she's confronted with an issue or conversation she does not want, she will escape, literally. She will change the subject, push the person away until a later date, or she'll completely ignore something being said to her.
History: As a child, Ally's parents weren't exactly on the greatest of terms. At three years old Ally walked in on her mother having an affair with another man. She has kept this knowledge with her for years. Secretly, this is why she can never see a lasting relationship. Her parents' relationship didn't. They fought for one reason or another and because of that, she would turn on the radio and sit in her closet when they did fight.
It was during this time that Ally met Billy Thomas, "the boy next door." They became best friends and in high school pursued a very serious relationship. Because Billy went to law school Ally did as well. The summer of their senior year, Billy participated in an internship in Michigan. During the year, he told Ally he was going to pursue that firm after and he left her behind in Boston.
At 27, Ally was working for a firm in Boston and living with her roommate and best friend, Renee. One day when she was on a ladder in the stacks a coworker squeezed her butt. After realizing the senior partners were not on her side, she left. She quit and as she walked out, that very moment on the street she met her ex classmate Richard Fish. He offered her a job at Cage & Fish, his own law firm.
With nothing to lose, Ally joined.
Upon arriving, she learned that her true love Billy was working there as well, having moved back to Boston. There was more as she then realized he was married to a woman, Georgia who soon joined the practice.
Through the next few months, she dated a few men. One, a model in her sculpture class with a giant penis. Another, a fellow lawyer who turned her off when he got salad on his face during dinner.
In the first few months at Cage & Fish, she was involved in several...mishaps involving anger when she knocked a woman down at the supermarket, punched out a woman on the street and told off a man who simply bumped into her. Because of this, she was called before the board with questions of her sanity.
Because of her frequent hallucinations, she seeked out therapy with Tracy, a brash, honest, humiliating woman who helped Ally towards several personal discoveries.
Ally's first serious relationship post-Billy involved Greg, a doctor. She strayed from him, however, when she kissed Billy in a moment of what was later discovered to be, a whim. In a moment of passion, she also slept with a stranger at a car wash and later learned that he was the groom to be to a client of hers. She has dated a homeless schitzophrenic, a nineteen year-old, and she briefly considered dating Richard Fish, a coworker.
After several months of his own erratic behavior, Ally realized she may have had feelings for a now divorced and single Billy but a brain tumor lead to his death. She bounced back a few weeks later with Brian, a fellow attorney...after being brought into court for statutory rape. Six months later, she was happily dating him - or so she thought. He asked her to move in with him and because of that, she went to her therapist. Her therapist had left town and in her place now sat Larry Paul who she confided in. After realizing their sex life wasn't the stuff of dreams and that he didn't want to marry her (probably) she dumped him. Later, she learned Larry was a new lawyer in town and not a therapist.
That night, she lamented (to the audience anyway) that the times she had felt most alone were around other people. She was content to be alone for the time being.
Arrival Post (Third Person)
Putting down her book, Ally slid out of bed and made her way to the bathroom. It may have been late and she may have read all night but that was never reason to ignore hygiene. She took her time brushing her teeth and took an extra few minutes smiling into the mirror before her. What man wouldn't want this? That was right.
There would be men lining up to date her.
She went into a rendition of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive. Of course, she wasn't nearly as talented as the singer but she could hold her own. Her hand came to the light switch flipping it off before stepping back into her bedroom.
Except, her bedroom was not this white. Or this furniture-less. Turning around, she was greeted with a wall that did not resemble the doorway to her bathroom.
"Well, it finally happenned. I'm crazy," she said to nobody in particular, holding her hands up. "I finally...cracked." Closing her eyes, she tried to will the hallucination away. But when she opened them, she was still there. Clicking her heels didn't help and truth be told she felt foolish doing it in the first place. "Hello..." seemed to be her next course of action.
What she did notice was something that resembled a flip-phone lying on the ground. She whirled around once more, just to make sure this psychosis wasn't going away, and then she crept towards the device.
Additional Third Person Sample:
Somewhere along the line, she had pissed off someone very, very high up. By now, after everything, she had come to the conclusion that this was just cosmic. Someone up there had it in for her. Maybe it was because she insulted the Rabbi that one time. Or, maybe because she dated him shortly after and then dumped him. It could've been the marriage she ruined - or was that, two? She had really lost count.
At any rate, she did something wrong and because of that she was being kicked in the ass over and over...
All Ally could think at that moment was, 'Oh crap' as the father she had been dating introduced her to his son who she had subsequently been dating.
And over.
One day she would look back at this and laugh - or maybe she'd cry. She didn't know. But, all she did know was that she suddenly had to go to the bathroom.
Of course, on the way back from the bathroom she had to meet an old high school friend. That was just how her life worked. Her amazing, funny, ironically cruel life.
"Ally!" she heard from behind her. It was impossible for her not to turn around and that was what she would claim in court were she under oath.