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[nick / name]: Audrey
[personal LJ name]: ignipotent
[other characters currently played]:
Amory Felix :: Original Character :: fatespoken
Tristan Thorn :: Stardust :: gazingup
Suou Pavlichenko :: Darker than Black sapanwood
[e-mail]: aeloriax[at]gmail.com
[AIM / messenger]: alongcatislong [aim]
[series]: Kick-Ass (Movie)
[character]: Mindy Macready (Hit-Girl)
[character history / background]: You can contact us through the mayor’s office. He has a special signal he shines in the sky. It’s the shape of a giant cock
[character abilities]: While her martial arts styles are not specified, it’s seen that she can decimate an entire room of mobsters without breaking a sweat. She would have put down all of D’amico’s staff, if it wasn’t for the fact she had run out of bullets. Her physical prowess includes leaping across buildings, running up the wall to launch off the ceiling, running across the side of a bookshelf, flips and body-slams in mid-air. She really is incredibly strong for her age, for any age, and it’s obvious that she knows a slew of fighting styles and how to handle various weapons from balisongs to spears. She’s also been trained in the art of escape, whether it’s physical escape or hiding her identity on the internet. Hacking (for instance, D’Amico’s security cameras) also seems to be something she’s capable of.
[character personality]: A life properly lived for Mindy is a life characterized by action. As she tells Kick-Ass prior to explaining her plan to kill D’Amico: “My mom died for nothing, so I’m sure as hell glad that my dad died for nothing too.” In fact, action is the driving force of her mentality, for the reason that her life has always been oriented to one purpose; one motive succeeding another, each interconnected and leading to a singular goal. From her training, her murder of D’Amico’s cronies, to the very murder of D’Amico himself, she was incubated for it-her father raising her from the age of five to become a killing instrument. Getting the job done comes first; wasting your time comes after you get shit done. To put it simply, Mindy doesn’t tolerate pointlessness. No whining. No bitching. The motive, the reason for acting, is always first in mind, first to be dealt with, though you’re free to have fun while you’re carrying out the plan. This is clear enough following the death of her father-Mindy doesn’t take the time to mourn, no tears are wasted-just a glance at what would have been their hot chocolate, and then the resolution to carry out “what her father would have wanted.” That is to say, the only proper way to honor her Father’s death would be to carry out his will. To do something, rather than doing nothing by investing in inaction and tears.
This doesn’t mean that Mindy can’t feel or doesn’t feel. It’s obvious enough when she looks at the hot chocolate her father and she would have had if he hadn’t been captured. It’s a completely internal reaction, but the pitch of her emotions resonate in the passing of a moment-pulling the gun on Kick-Ass (Her father wouldn’t have died, if he hadn’t led D’Amico to him.), telling him that she was going to do “what her father would have wanted.” There’s a flash of anger evident in directing the gun at him, the partial cause for her father’s death. And it’s not unexpected, considering that Mindy’s world consisted solely of her father and her. It was a world of violence, training and death, but to her perspective, it was normality. Practicing being shot in the chest was as normal as dressing up in a costume and purple wig and spearing a bunch of mobsters. Yet, even with the brutality the center of their life, the backbone of their relationship is that of a normal loving father and daughter. “I love you, Mindy,” are the last words he utters to her before dying; her returned affection are the last words spoken to her father. In the same way, what underlies Mindy’s personality-- despite the adult-like maturity of her disposition-is a 13-year old girl. She barters another round of target practice for bowling and ice cream (I’m going to get a hot fudge sundae, she declares) and she’s willing to whine a bit to coerce her father’s attention to her and her neat balisong tricks. Just like any other child would if they wanted to show someone something awfully neat. Her seemingly stunted emotionality is not inherent, but a conditioned state. To indulge in one’s emotions is unnecessary. And it’s also a matter of life or death when you’re facing a room full of armed villains. Nevertheless, she has the capacity to feel-the capacity to feel for others, to have faith in them as she did with asking Kick-Ass to assist her with D’Amico’s murder.
It’s hard to say that something isn’t wrong with a girl who can massacre a room full of mobsters with a smile on her face. Then again, one has to understand her mindset. Ingrained in her perspective is a clear cut between good and evil. It’s either than you’re good guy or you’re a “bad guy”-- either/or and black and white. If you’re a “bad guy,” then your death is warranted, and that’s that. There isn’t some heavy grappling with the morality of her actions for Mindy. They are undoubtedly moral when what you’re doing is discarding of the bad guy, even if you’re having fun with it. Similarly, she believes in the phrase “the end justifies the means” to a certain degree, such as sending Kick-Ass to assist her, even if he’s shown himself to be failure in every situation prior. (In other words, even if he risks getting killed-killing D’Amico is enough of a reason to get him involved.)
Maturity and aside, she’s snarky little girl who will say whatever she wants, regardless of what feelings she has to crush. She’s never going to sugarcoat her words for anyone’s sake because, really, beating around the bush is pointless. Coupled with her humor, she can deliver some fine lines of acrimony and sarcasm.