Application for mayfield_rpg
Name: Rune
Personal LJ: raining_chairs
Contact Info: AIM: Blinking Rune
Other Characters Played: Cyuss Warren (striped_biceps)
Preferred Housing: RANDOM MATCH
Character Name: Bree Van de Kamp
Character Series: Desperate Housewives
Character Age: Her age is never stated in the series; however, based upon information later in the series including a five year jump, I’ll assume she’s thirty-eight.
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_Van_de_Kamp
Personality: On the surface, Bree is the ultimate mother and polite housewife, and it’s something she strives to be. Every night at dinner, she has an entire meal cooked and prepared from scratch. Her gardens are always perfect, and she always has everything done in a timely manner. She loves her house to be spotless, and she wants her kids to have every advantage they can. She sounds too good to be true, doesn’t she?
It’s a shame that she’s not the perfect mother. She’s very strict, and when she doesn’t get her way, she’s very devious. She’ll stop at nothing to come out on top. The entirety of season 2 has her constantly battling wits with her son, Andrew. He pretends that Bree hits him so he can get emancipated? She skillfully plants gay porn in his luggage so his grandparents will cancel his trust fund. At one point, she even puts all of her children’s’ things on the lawn and won’t let them back in unless they agree to her rules…and even changes the locks. She won’t take shit from anyone, and even goes so far as to shoot a car’s stereo (which was on the roof, announcing an engagement she wished to keep private) from her window with a rifle. Yes, we’ll get to that. She’s so devoted to her children that she manages to come up with a plan out of nowhere to keep her son Andrew from going to jail for hitting a woman with his car. She conceals this secret from her best friend for seven seasons, spanning twelve+ years.
That isn’t to say Bree is heartless, however. She was very much in love with her first husband, Rex, and she was very devoted to him. She believes in love, and she believes in marriage, but she also believes in an old-fashioned life and her inability to let her kids go out and eat pizza eventually drove him to want to divorce her. She wants nothing more than a second chance with her children, and despite how they treat her, she always loves them (until a later season--Bree has a remarkable ability to change her beliefs; after her daughter takes Bree's granddaughter away from her, they become estranged for the rest of the series to date).
While image is very important to her, Bree isn’t always the image of perfect femininity herself. While I mentioned she was devious, she has one very special passion…guns. She loves guns. She has a collection of them, and she’s a member of the NRA. Another vice she has is alcohol. She spends most of season 2 recovering from an alcohol addiction. It gets so bad she ends up passed out in a dressing room…that closes while she’s still inside.
Moving on, while I said Bree isn’t heartless, she isn’t a perfect woman, either. If you push her buttons, she may break down, but at different points in canon, she’s shown she’ll fight for something. Not only that, but she watches a man die after he commits suicide because he won’t tell her the truth about him killing her husband, effectively making Bree a murderer. She lies to him and watches him sleep, saying she already called 911 about the overdose.
She’s not a superwoman, either. She will break down and cry. She will find herself unable to keep up. Another thing that’s important to her is her friends. She has three important friends, Gabrielle Solis, Lynette Schavo, and Susan Mayer (Delfino in later seasons). When things are down, she’ll rely on her friends for help (after initially rejecting it for pride). She’ll also do anything for them herself. She also has pride in her values. She will not sleep with someone (at this point in the series) unless they are married, and feels guilty cheating on her husband even after he’s dead.
So, when it comes down to it, Bree is very much a desperate housewife. She’s the iconic 1950’s mother with a dark twist, a compulsive neat streak, a gun collection rivaling an armory, and the love of gossip women her age are famous for. If you push her, she won’t take it lying down, and she just might shoot you. But if you treat her right, or let her do the same for you? She won’t just bring muffins over to gossip. She’ll bring muffins over to be your friend, and an invaluable one at that. It’s better than her as an enemy, at least.
Abilities: Bree is an incredible cook, cleaner, and she has terrific aim…she’s a gun expert, and not afraid to bring it up. She’s also skilled at gardening, sports, and games of revenge.
Sample Entry:
All of this talk of...not coming home for dinner is absolutely absurd. I don’t care if you have a “drone” mother, conversation happens at the dinner table, and everyone deserves a nice, healthy home-cooked meal at the end of the day. Of course, these housewives can’t hold a candle to my own cooking. It just...lacks love, but I’m sure it’s not poisoned or anything like that.
Now, who do I talk to about getting a gun? I can hardly be expected to keep this silly little facade of Mayfield’s up if I can’t even have something I care about at home.
Personal LJ: raining_chairs
Contact Info: AIM: Blinking Rune
Other Characters Played: Cyuss Warren (striped_biceps)
Preferred Housing: RANDOM MATCH
Character Name: Bree Van de Kamp
Character Series: Desperate Housewives
Character Age: Her age is never stated in the series; however, based upon information later in the series including a five year jump, I’ll assume she’s thirty-eight.
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bree_Van_de_Kamp
Personality: On the surface, Bree is the ultimate mother and polite housewife, and it’s something she strives to be. Every night at dinner, she has an entire meal cooked and prepared from scratch. Her gardens are always perfect, and she always has everything done in a timely manner. She loves her house to be spotless, and she wants her kids to have every advantage they can. She sounds too good to be true, doesn’t she?
It’s a shame that she’s not the perfect mother. She’s very strict, and when she doesn’t get her way, she’s very devious. She’ll stop at nothing to come out on top. The entirety of season 2 has her constantly battling wits with her son, Andrew. He pretends that Bree hits him so he can get emancipated? She skillfully plants gay porn in his luggage so his grandparents will cancel his trust fund. At one point, she even puts all of her children’s’ things on the lawn and won’t let them back in unless they agree to her rules…and even changes the locks. She won’t take shit from anyone, and even goes so far as to shoot a car’s stereo (which was on the roof, announcing an engagement she wished to keep private) from her window with a rifle. Yes, we’ll get to that. She’s so devoted to her children that she manages to come up with a plan out of nowhere to keep her son Andrew from going to jail for hitting a woman with his car. She conceals this secret from her best friend for seven seasons, spanning twelve+ years.
That isn’t to say Bree is heartless, however. She was very much in love with her first husband, Rex, and she was very devoted to him. She believes in love, and she believes in marriage, but she also believes in an old-fashioned life and her inability to let her kids go out and eat pizza eventually drove him to want to divorce her. She wants nothing more than a second chance with her children, and despite how they treat her, she always loves them (until a later season--Bree has a remarkable ability to change her beliefs; after her daughter takes Bree's granddaughter away from her, they become estranged for the rest of the series to date).
While image is very important to her, Bree isn’t always the image of perfect femininity herself. While I mentioned she was devious, she has one very special passion…guns. She loves guns. She has a collection of them, and she’s a member of the NRA. Another vice she has is alcohol. She spends most of season 2 recovering from an alcohol addiction. It gets so bad she ends up passed out in a dressing room…that closes while she’s still inside.
Moving on, while I said Bree isn’t heartless, she isn’t a perfect woman, either. If you push her buttons, she may break down, but at different points in canon, she’s shown she’ll fight for something. Not only that, but she watches a man die after he commits suicide because he won’t tell her the truth about him killing her husband, effectively making Bree a murderer. She lies to him and watches him sleep, saying she already called 911 about the overdose.
She’s not a superwoman, either. She will break down and cry. She will find herself unable to keep up. Another thing that’s important to her is her friends. She has three important friends, Gabrielle Solis, Lynette Schavo, and Susan Mayer (Delfino in later seasons). When things are down, she’ll rely on her friends for help (after initially rejecting it for pride). She’ll also do anything for them herself. She also has pride in her values. She will not sleep with someone (at this point in the series) unless they are married, and feels guilty cheating on her husband even after he’s dead.
So, when it comes down to it, Bree is very much a desperate housewife. She’s the iconic 1950’s mother with a dark twist, a compulsive neat streak, a gun collection rivaling an armory, and the love of gossip women her age are famous for. If you push her, she won’t take it lying down, and she just might shoot you. But if you treat her right, or let her do the same for you? She won’t just bring muffins over to gossip. She’ll bring muffins over to be your friend, and an invaluable one at that. It’s better than her as an enemy, at least.
Abilities: Bree is an incredible cook, cleaner, and she has terrific aim…she’s a gun expert, and not afraid to bring it up. She’s also skilled at gardening, sports, and games of revenge.
Sample Entry:
All of this talk of...not coming home for dinner is absolutely absurd. I don’t care if you have a “drone” mother, conversation happens at the dinner table, and everyone deserves a nice, healthy home-cooked meal at the end of the day. Of course, these housewives can’t hold a candle to my own cooking. It just...lacks love, but I’m sure it’s not poisoned or anything like that.
Now, who do I talk to about getting a gun? I can hardly be expected to keep this silly little facade of Mayfield’s up if I can’t even have something I care about at home.