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NAME: Mici
JOURNAL: vpshinra
IM: Shinra Brat
E-MAIL: Presidentshinra[at]gmail
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: John Connor/Resistance
FANDOM: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
CHRONOLOGY: Season one, episode 9 (before Cameron blows up)
BACKGROUND:This story begins in the future. Sometimes in the early 21st century, a computer program used by the military called Skynet gains sentience, and in a ploy to protect itself from getting turned off, declares nuclear war on humanity. Humans are rounded up and exterminated by machines in an attempt to protect itself, but a resistance forms, led by John Connor who gains the technology to send things back to the past. At the end of the war, Skynet uses this technology to attempt to kill him at his conception, which leads to his history. (Convoluted? Yes. Bear with me.)
John Connor was born out of an odd circumstance; in 1984 (or 86, timeline discrepency, thanks Josh Friedman) a Terminator was sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, John's mother, in hopes that he would never be born. John sent back his own soldier, Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah. Bow-chika-bow-wow, they get it on, and John is concieved. The Terminator is killed and Sarah flees to Central America where she gives birth to John and proceeds to raise him. For the next ten years they live in Central America with various guerilla groups. They return to the United States where Sarah is institutionalized at Pescadero State Hospital, and John is put in foster care.
That's when Skynet sent another Terminator back in time to kill John. John, however, sends back another, reprogrammed Terminator to save his younger self, and together they break out Sarah Connor and destroy the Liquid Metal Terminator. There, they think it's over.
That's where the Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up, about three years after the events of Terminator 2. John and Sarah move from place to place because Sarah believes it is never safe. Sarah is about to get married when she decides they are no longer safe, and they move to a town in the Southwest. There, a Terminator named Cromartie shows up to kill John Connor; he is saved by another Terminator named Cameron. Cameron explains that Skynet continues to exist, and that she has been sent back to stop it. She takes John and Sarah and transports them 8 years into the future, skipping over Sarah's "death" from cancer in an attempt to have them stop Skynet.
After getting them fake IDs, John and Cameron enroll in public school and they begin to suss out their current situation. According to the news, they died in an explosion that occured when Cameron's machine transported them through time. They begin to look for the roots of Skynet, and find a man named Andy Goode who has a supercomputer that plays chess called the Turk. Sarah gets close to him in order to discover if it's any kind of threat, then burns down his house, while John attempts to integrate into teenaged life. However, he ends up stumbling across a supply of coltan, the material that Terminators are made from. The gang manages to drive the coltan into the ocean, but John realizes how dangerous things can be in the "future".
Andy Goode, however, had a backup Turk, and takes it to a chess competition where Sarah and John meet up with him. After realizing how dangerous the Turk is, John wants to take it, but Sarah wants it destroyed. However, before they can act, the Turk is stolen by a man only known as "Sarkissian" and Andy Goode is killed; this is done by Derek Reese, John's uncle from the future (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP). Derek gets shot by the police and Sarah takes him home, where John saves his life with the help of Sarah's fiancee from the past. As it turns out, John and Derek share a bloodtype.
This begins the hunt for Andy Goode's Turk. While on this search they discover a whole load of stuff - Cromartie is alive, they are being hunted by an FBI agent named James Ellison, Derek is John's uncle (although Sarah, apparently, knew that from the start), there is a Terminator named Vick. They manage to capture Vick's chip (like a computer's hard drive; a Terminator cannot function without it's chip) and John manages to decode it, proving how ridiculously good he is at computers. However, due to his skill Cameron is able to shut down baby!Skynet's surveillance system.
Finally, Sarah tracks down the Turk and the Sarkissian. They manage to take it (basically, Derek holds a little girl hostage and then shoots the guy who they think is the Sarkissian - turns out he isn't, but they don't know that until the beginning of season 2) and now they're at home. John's birthday is tomorrow. And Cameron? Is about to leave to get his birthday cake (and blow up).
PERSONALITY: John is a serious kid. In fact, while he's only sixteen, he's extremely not a sixteen year old; he's seen people die for him, he's seen people fight for him and he knows just how dangerous his world is. He's ridiculously intelligent, claiming he can hack a computer "in his sleep", and he learns 8 years worth of technological improvement basically overnight. He knows strategy and is an expert at weaponry and chess. He's curious about things, especially regarding the things his mother has kept from him - stories about his father (which are elaborated upon when Derek joins the household) and things about himself in the future.
However, a huge struggle that John has with himself is his paranoia (the family motto is "You're never safe") against his desire to be normal. He wants to go to school. He wants to be a normal kid. He knows that it's important they stop Skynet, but he doesn't want to do this anymore. He can't use his real name. He can't be himself. His guard is always up, even against people he knows like his mom. He struggles against his own future image - that of a messiah like figure for mankind. He knows that's who he's supposed to be, but he has no clue how he'll get there.
His most important relationship is with Sarah, who has taken care of him, protected him, taught him for his entire life. However, it's also a complicated relationship. He begs her, at one point, to make Skynet stop, to make things safe again. However, she's his mother. They argue over Cameron, who was sent back by John, but Sarah can't trust her. At another point, he confronts her about how she gave him up for adoption. He wants to be her son, but sometimes he feels like all she sees him as is as the savior of humanity, which only makes him struggle against the image that she and the Terminators have set up for him.
The only person he can drop his guard down a little bit with is Cameron; he's more likely to be more of a teenager with her. He clearly has feelings for her but can't reconcile them because she's a robot. He appreciates that she's there, but at the same time resents how both she and Sarah treat him - as though he cannot protect himself.
To be fair, though, he does have a sense of humor and he is very charismatic. At school he can make friends (and does) and he's seen to be a peacekeeper if people are about to start a fight. He cares about people, deeply, as shown when he wants to stop a schoolmate he doesn't even know from committing suicide and getting upset when Cameron doesn't let him interfere. His sense of justice is elevated, but his moral compass always points to one goal - stop Skynet. He will do anything for that and he can be ridiculously stubborn about it, a trait he inherited from his mother.
CLASS: Hero!
SUPERHERO NAME: Resistance
ALTER EGO: John Connor (Baum); HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT?
POWER: > Technomancy; a heightened connection with computers and cybernetic lifeforms and the ability to control/manipulate them. (Non Canon)
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE: [Private: Encrypted]
program_search
input_sarah connor
sarah baum
sarah reese
cameron phillips
cameron baum
cameron reese
cameron connor
_
result_void
program_file encryption
input_run
running
WELCOME JOHN CONNOR
[END: Private; encrypted]
My name is John Baum; I'm looking for my family; my mom and my sister. My mom's name is Sarah, my sister is Cameron. Guys, if you're out there, could you let me know?
THIRD PERSON: John is hacking a computer.
This is important because right now, he's not thinking of anything else. His fingers are flying over the keys, and he's only vaguely aware of how his mother is probably in mortal peril, how Derek keeps looking at Cameron like he hopes she'll explode at any moment but if she doesn't he won't mind blowing her up, how Cameron can sit still for hours at a time, still like a statue.
John never noticed how he expects her to breathe, some days.
But this awareness is vague, because this awareness is hovering against the larger part of his mind, the part that's involved in hacking the final process, in breaking into this particular computer like it was a box, and John holds the key. He loves that feeling; like there's a way in, and he has to think of it. Or that there's a virus and he has the cure - or maybe that there's a cure, but he has the virus, and it's more virulent than they expected.
They is always Skynet. There's no other nemesis - in another world, John might have become one of those hackers that destroys government computers because it was the highest high he could get, but John doesn't have the time for that kind of fun. If he hacks into a government computer, he can't get caught. It's not safe. If people find him, jail isn't the worst they can do to him.
John finishes; or at least he pauses, and the real world floods back into his brain, peels against his system, and he stretches his fingers and his arms as though that will keep it away. It's not that John doesn't want to be back in the real world, but his world, some days, is too real. It makes him wish he could be like every other teenaged boy; that he could be worried about girls and puberty and getting laid. Instead he's hacking a supercomputer that might be the first step in mankind creating it's own downfall.
Another joyous day in the life of John Connor, is the first thought that flashes through his head. He grimaces; part of the grimace is a grin, laughing at himself, but most of it is the thought of another day where the words you're never safe are the keys to his survival, another day where someone out there wants him dead. Or something. Or, on an especially bad day, both.
He stands from the computer and looks out onto a world that doesn't know what's going to hit it, and he's unsure if he's ready to sacrfice himself for it, and he hates himself, just a little. He's the savior of mankind? So why does he feel like such a kid?
The computer beeps, and the break is over. John goes back to hacking a computer, because it makes him stop thinking about all these things, because even though he's doing it for the world, he feels free.
NAME: Mici
JOURNAL: vpshinra
IM: Shinra Brat
E-MAIL: Presidentshinra[at]gmail
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: John Connor/Resistance
FANDOM: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
CHRONOLOGY: Season one, episode 9 (before Cameron blows up)
BACKGROUND:This story begins in the future. Sometimes in the early 21st century, a computer program used by the military called Skynet gains sentience, and in a ploy to protect itself from getting turned off, declares nuclear war on humanity. Humans are rounded up and exterminated by machines in an attempt to protect itself, but a resistance forms, led by John Connor who gains the technology to send things back to the past. At the end of the war, Skynet uses this technology to attempt to kill him at his conception, which leads to his history. (Convoluted? Yes. Bear with me.)
John Connor was born out of an odd circumstance; in 1984 (or 86, timeline discrepency, thanks Josh Friedman) a Terminator was sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, John's mother, in hopes that he would never be born. John sent back his own soldier, Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah. Bow-chika-bow-wow, they get it on, and John is concieved. The Terminator is killed and Sarah flees to Central America where she gives birth to John and proceeds to raise him. For the next ten years they live in Central America with various guerilla groups. They return to the United States where Sarah is institutionalized at Pescadero State Hospital, and John is put in foster care.
That's when Skynet sent another Terminator back in time to kill John. John, however, sends back another, reprogrammed Terminator to save his younger self, and together they break out Sarah Connor and destroy the Liquid Metal Terminator. There, they think it's over.
That's where the Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up, about three years after the events of Terminator 2. John and Sarah move from place to place because Sarah believes it is never safe. Sarah is about to get married when she decides they are no longer safe, and they move to a town in the Southwest. There, a Terminator named Cromartie shows up to kill John Connor; he is saved by another Terminator named Cameron. Cameron explains that Skynet continues to exist, and that she has been sent back to stop it. She takes John and Sarah and transports them 8 years into the future, skipping over Sarah's "death" from cancer in an attempt to have them stop Skynet.
After getting them fake IDs, John and Cameron enroll in public school and they begin to suss out their current situation. According to the news, they died in an explosion that occured when Cameron's machine transported them through time. They begin to look for the roots of Skynet, and find a man named Andy Goode who has a supercomputer that plays chess called the Turk. Sarah gets close to him in order to discover if it's any kind of threat, then burns down his house, while John attempts to integrate into teenaged life. However, he ends up stumbling across a supply of coltan, the material that Terminators are made from. The gang manages to drive the coltan into the ocean, but John realizes how dangerous things can be in the "future".
Andy Goode, however, had a backup Turk, and takes it to a chess competition where Sarah and John meet up with him. After realizing how dangerous the Turk is, John wants to take it, but Sarah wants it destroyed. However, before they can act, the Turk is stolen by a man only known as "Sarkissian" and Andy Goode is killed; this is done by Derek Reese, John's uncle from the future (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP). Derek gets shot by the police and Sarah takes him home, where John saves his life with the help of Sarah's fiancee from the past. As it turns out, John and Derek share a bloodtype.
This begins the hunt for Andy Goode's Turk. While on this search they discover a whole load of stuff - Cromartie is alive, they are being hunted by an FBI agent named James Ellison, Derek is John's uncle (although Sarah, apparently, knew that from the start), there is a Terminator named Vick. They manage to capture Vick's chip (like a computer's hard drive; a Terminator cannot function without it's chip) and John manages to decode it, proving how ridiculously good he is at computers. However, due to his skill Cameron is able to shut down baby!Skynet's surveillance system.
Finally, Sarah tracks down the Turk and the Sarkissian. They manage to take it (basically, Derek holds a little girl hostage and then shoots the guy who they think is the Sarkissian - turns out he isn't, but they don't know that until the beginning of season 2) and now they're at home. John's birthday is tomorrow. And Cameron? Is about to leave to get his birthday cake (and blow up).
PERSONALITY: John is a serious kid. In fact, while he's only sixteen, he's extremely not a sixteen year old; he's seen people die for him, he's seen people fight for him and he knows just how dangerous his world is. He's ridiculously intelligent, claiming he can hack a computer "in his sleep", and he learns 8 years worth of technological improvement basically overnight. He knows strategy and is an expert at weaponry and chess. He's curious about things, especially regarding the things his mother has kept from him - stories about his father (which are elaborated upon when Derek joins the household) and things about himself in the future.
However, a huge struggle that John has with himself is his paranoia (the family motto is "You're never safe") against his desire to be normal. He wants to go to school. He wants to be a normal kid. He knows that it's important they stop Skynet, but he doesn't want to do this anymore. He can't use his real name. He can't be himself. His guard is always up, even against people he knows like his mom. He struggles against his own future image - that of a messiah like figure for mankind. He knows that's who he's supposed to be, but he has no clue how he'll get there.
His most important relationship is with Sarah, who has taken care of him, protected him, taught him for his entire life. However, it's also a complicated relationship. He begs her, at one point, to make Skynet stop, to make things safe again. However, she's his mother. They argue over Cameron, who was sent back by John, but Sarah can't trust her. At another point, he confronts her about how she gave him up for adoption. He wants to be her son, but sometimes he feels like all she sees him as is as the savior of humanity, which only makes him struggle against the image that she and the Terminators have set up for him.
The only person he can drop his guard down a little bit with is Cameron; he's more likely to be more of a teenager with her. He clearly has feelings for her but can't reconcile them because she's a robot. He appreciates that she's there, but at the same time resents how both she and Sarah treat him - as though he cannot protect himself.
To be fair, though, he does have a sense of humor and he is very charismatic. At school he can make friends (and does) and he's seen to be a peacekeeper if people are about to start a fight. He cares about people, deeply, as shown when he wants to stop a schoolmate he doesn't even know from committing suicide and getting upset when Cameron doesn't let him interfere. His sense of justice is elevated, but his moral compass always points to one goal - stop Skynet. He will do anything for that and he can be ridiculously stubborn about it, a trait he inherited from his mother.
CLASS: Hero!
SUPERHERO NAME: Resistance
ALTER EGO: John Connor (Baum); HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT?
POWER: > Technomancy; a heightened connection with computers and cybernetic lifeforms and the ability to control/manipulate them. (Non Canon)
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE: [Private: Encrypted]
program_search
input_sarah connor
sarah baum
sarah reese
cameron phillips
cameron baum
cameron reese
cameron connor
_
result_void
program_file encryption
input_run
running
WELCOME JOHN CONNOR
[END: Private; encrypted]
My name is John Baum; I'm looking for my family; my mom and my sister. My mom's name is Sarah, my sister is Cameron. Guys, if you're out there, could you let me know?
THIRD PERSON: John is hacking a computer.
This is important because right now, he's not thinking of anything else. His fingers are flying over the keys, and he's only vaguely aware of how his mother is probably in mortal peril, how Derek keeps looking at Cameron like he hopes she'll explode at any moment but if she doesn't he won't mind blowing her up, how Cameron can sit still for hours at a time, still like a statue.
John never noticed how he expects her to breathe, some days.
But this awareness is vague, because this awareness is hovering against the larger part of his mind, the part that's involved in hacking the final process, in breaking into this particular computer like it was a box, and John holds the key. He loves that feeling; like there's a way in, and he has to think of it. Or that there's a virus and he has the cure - or maybe that there's a cure, but he has the virus, and it's more virulent than they expected.
They is always Skynet. There's no other nemesis - in another world, John might have become one of those hackers that destroys government computers because it was the highest high he could get, but John doesn't have the time for that kind of fun. If he hacks into a government computer, he can't get caught. It's not safe. If people find him, jail isn't the worst they can do to him.
John finishes; or at least he pauses, and the real world floods back into his brain, peels against his system, and he stretches his fingers and his arms as though that will keep it away. It's not that John doesn't want to be back in the real world, but his world, some days, is too real. It makes him wish he could be like every other teenaged boy; that he could be worried about girls and puberty and getting laid. Instead he's hacking a supercomputer that might be the first step in mankind creating it's own downfall.
Another joyous day in the life of John Connor, is the first thought that flashes through his head. He grimaces; part of the grimace is a grin, laughing at himself, but most of it is the thought of another day where the words you're never safe are the keys to his survival, another day where someone out there wants him dead. Or something. Or, on an especially bad day, both.
He stands from the computer and looks out onto a world that doesn't know what's going to hit it, and he's unsure if he's ready to sacrfice himself for it, and he hates himself, just a little. He's the savior of mankind? So why does he feel like such a kid?
The computer beeps, and the break is over. John goes back to hacking a computer, because it makes him stop thinking about all these things, because even though he's doing it for the world, he feels free.