[APPLICATION]
Out Of Character Information!
NAME;; Fey
AGE;; 18
JOURNAL;; oxymoronic3
AIM/YIM/MSN;; AIM: Feyrae3, Plurk: Feygasm
EMAIL;; jazzyjess_92@hotmail.com
DESIRED CHARACTER;; Simon Bellamy
In Character Information!
CHARACTER NAME;; Simon Bellamy
CHARACTER JOURNAL;; notamelonfucker
CHARACTER AGE;; Around 18. Canon refers to them as teenagers, yet they manage to work and go to pubs all the time, so I'm not very clear on that one.
FANDOM;; Misfits
TIMELINE;; Post season 2, episode 6
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE;;
The first thing people usually notice about Simon are his eyes. They're quite a pretty shade of gray-blue, but the beauty of them tends to be downgraded due to the wide-eyed, attentive stare he tends to adopt most of the time. Other than that, he's a tall, fairly well built individual with dark brown bluntly cut hair and pasty white skin. When it comes to clothing, he favours dark, nondescript clothing that covers as much skin as possible. He usually wears black button up shirts that he buttons right up to the bottom of his neck. He's often described as looking creepy, which is definitely accurate given his particularly intense gaze and how slow he is to smile. Simon's impeccable appearance (perfectly ironed shirts, well groomed hair, smoothed down uniform) is matched by his rigid posture.
ABILITIES;; Due to a freak electrical storm, Simon received the powers of invisibility. At the beginning of the series, he had difficulty controlling this ability and turned invisible every time he felt insecure--in other words, when he felt invisible, he turned invisible. This power is accompanied by a small (and apparently painful) seizure beforehand which can be intense enough to make him fall to the ground. While invisible, others around him cannot hear him, and everything he touches becomes invisible as well. By the end of the series, he's able to harness his abilities a bit more, but is still prone to turning invisible when he doesn't particularly want to. It's revealed that certain drugs will reverse the effects of his power and will make everyone pay attention to him and like what he's doing.
STRENGTH/WEAKNESS;; Strengths: Simon is a very intelligent young man. He thinks things through, he notices his surroundings, and he's careful to pay attention to every little detail. He's somewhat compulsive in his need to understand everything, which proves to be very good for what they have to do. Among the group, he is the one with the most control over his power of invisibility. He's also rather good with technology as his hobby is editing together videos he shoots. Simon can be very persistent once something gets into his mind which can be a weakness but can often prove to be a strength.
Weaknesses: Unfortunately, Simon's weaknesses outweigh many of his strengths. His biggest weakness is that he's extremely vulnerable. He has very little experience of the world outside of his experiences I outlined in his history, and is very susceptible to kindness. It's easy to take advantage of him and his immediate loyalty. Once someone shows him even a little bit of kindness, he will do his best to protect them. When insulted or put down, he tends to squash it down inside him until he explodes in some outrageous act, like trying to burn someone's house down. He's horribly insecure, socially awkward and desperate for friends. He has trouble speaking up when someone is bullying him and tends to turn the other cheek. It's questionable whether or not he'd be able to raise a hand against someone tried to hit him. He's very much a normal man, and would lose in a fight against most people with any form of formal training or powers.
PERSONALITY;; Simon is a very shy, introverted person with a notable lack of social skills. A misfit among misfits, he makes a distinct effort to make friends and is desperate for some form of company, but goes about it in a way that suggests that he has not had proper social interaction for quite some time, which is very much true. Prior to the series, he spent much of his time being ignored and hid himself in fiction and the internet. It's never explicitly stated, but it's certainly implied that this is in part to escape the loneliness he was plagued with. At first glance, people may write Simon off as a loner, but that's an erroneous judgment. He may be alone, but he longs for friendship as much as he longs for love.
Simon is also a quietly intelligent individual. Though it's not shown what knowledge he has of a scholarly nature (though it's assumed that he has quite a bit), he shows a lot of knowledge from what he's gained of simply watching the world. He's fascinated by everything that goes on around him and therefore manages to soak up information like a sponge. He tends to spout trivia about certain things, mostly television shows he's watched or comics he's read, but he also managesto come up with solutions to problems such as where to hide a body. He is slow and thoughtful and has a tendency to pay close attention to every word that comes out of someone's mouth. Because of the vulnerable nature I outlined in his weaknesses, it is easy to gain his loyalty, and he is loyal to a fault. He appears to think that it is completely justified to kill a woman to save his 'friends' who did little more than ignore him and pay him a scant few compliments.
At times, Simon is also a bit of a follower. He goes along with others' plans and jokes if not only to feel part of something bigger. When he feels confident enough to let it show - which isn't often - his sense of humour pokes through which is surprisingly barbed.
Not all of Simon is shy and longing, however, as he has an undefined darkness to him. His shaky mannerisms coupled with already snapping to the point of attempting arson, it's clear that he can topple either one way or the other. He's unstable, and there's enough power in him to do some grave deeds. He has elements of a sexual deviant to him, and has an alarming affinity towards stalking, particularly while invisible. He is quietly contemplative most of the time, which means he may unwind all at once at the wrong moment. On top of that, his determination to do one thing or the other enables him to improve any number of his skills. In canon, we see his future self who is bizarrely able to do backflips off of rooftops, apparently through training.
HISTORY;; What we know of Simon begins in his experiences with secondary school. He had been friends with his neighbor in middle school, but was promptly abandoned once he entered secondary school, presumably because he was an odd kid and probably didn't do wonders for the other boy's reputation. There, he was ruthlessly bullied until he felt sick in the mornings thinking about returning to school. Though he reported this to his parents and his teachers, nothing fixed the issue. At one point, this boy sent Simon a text inviting him to a club, and Simon went straightaway, underneath the impression that his neighbor wanted to apologize for all the hell he had put him through. As it turned out, he had sent Simon the text by mistake.
Humiliated, Simon got roaringly drunk and decided to burn his house down. After ensuring that his family was out, he dropped tissues drenched in lighter fluid through the letter box with the intention of letting it burn until he saw a cat inside. Not wanting to harm the cat, he panicked and put the fire out the only way he could think of: pissing through the letterbox. Which was when his neighbor's mother came home.
Predictably, she called the cops on him, and Simon got sent to a psychiatric unit for assessment where he met Lucy, a girl in the same unit as him. They formed a connection, and Lucy became obsessed with him. He promised to visit her after he left the unit, but he never did.
This is where the series begins, on the first day of Simon's community service where he is accompanied by five other young offenders. They had been painting benches for a total of five minutes before one of the five (Gary) stormed off in a rage and they were caught in a freak lightning/hailstorm where the five of them (including Simon) and their probation worker were struck by lightning. This was when they received their individual powers.
Gary hadn't been caught in the storm having earlier stormed inside and was promptly found and killed by Tony the probation worker, who received the awful power of what can only be described as unstoppable rage. After he recovered, he hid Gary's corpse in a locker. When the young offenders (who I will be referring to as "the misfits" from now on despite the fact that they never call themselves this in-show) arrived for their next day, Tony - not in rage mode - took away their cell phones and sent them to the locker rooms where Simon found Gary's bloody cap and was promptly ignored by the rest of the misfits. This was when he discovered his power to turn invisible, albeit unwillingly.
Kelly burst into the community centre where the rest of the misfits were waiting and reported that Tony had gone into rage mode again and now wanted to kill them. The others didn't believe her.
Here's a brief note: One of the misfits is Curtis, and his power is to turn back time whenever he feels regret. As they didn't believe Kelly the first time, Tony burst in and killed her. The second time, however, Curtis turned back time and let the others know that Kelly was telling the truth. They sealed the door against Tony and as they ran - surprise surprise! - found Gary's corpse. Tony finally broke through the door, and Kelly killed him by whacking the back of his head with a paint can. Bam! Instant connection through killing their probation worker. Knowing that no one would believe their story, they decided to clean off the corpses, wheel them off in wheelchairs, and bury them. The next day, the Misfits are questioned by their new probation worker, Sally, and got away with it for the present... aside from one thing: notes in their lockers that implied that someone knew that they had killed their probation worker.
Around this time was when Simon struck up a correspondence with a girl over the internet underneath the pseudonym of "shygirl" who had found him through his youtube channel. He soon grew close to her and shared his feelings of loneliness with her.
Simon found out that builders were planning on digging out the area where they had hid the corpses of Gary and Tony in order to build a structure on top of it. At Simon's prompting, the Misfits dug up the corpses, hid them in the community centre, and reburied them in the construction site once it was finished being dug out in order for the workers to pour concrete over top. Before they reburied them, Simon nicked Tony's wallet in order to purchase a one-way plane ticket with it to make it look as if Tony simply ran away.
Simon then struck up a shaky friendship/romance with their second probation worker, Sally, when she asked about his interests and acted as if she understood him. She actively attempted to win him over which wasn't terribly hard; Simon responded to any measure of kindness with enthusiasm and was immediately besotted. Shygirl advised him to ask her out, and he complied. They went out for a drink, Simon trusted in her enough to tell him about his past, and Sally kissed him in front of those who bullied him. For Simon, life was going pretty swell. Unfortunately for him, it turned out that Sally was Tony's fiancee, and she was only using Simon in order to find out what happened to him. They met up in the community centre, and when Sally sent Simon out of the room to get drinks, Sally took his phone and hid in the washroom only to find video evidence that they had killed Tony. Simon found her with it, and a struggle for the cell phone ensued, in which Simon found out that Sally was also Shygirl. Double whammy! Operating under the hurt of being betrayed and his wish to protect those who he called his friends, Simon fought her for the phone and slammed her head into a door, accidentally killing her. Simon, now master corpse-hider... hid her in the freezer in the community centre.
Annnd onto Series 2!
Sally's hidden corpse remained unfound, but another girl entered Simon's life: Lucy, the girl I had mentioned at the beginning of this app who was in the psychiatric unit with Simon. One portion of their community service involved helping those from the psychiatric unit through therapeutic painting. Surprise surprise, Lucy was there! As it turned out, Lucy was affected by the storm as well and turned into a shapeshifter. After thoroughly confusing the misfits through shapeshifting into each other, Lucy came up with the brilliant plan of confessing Sally's murder in Simon's form to the officials so he would return to the psychiatric unit and they would be together forever.
As predicted, Simon was not very fond of this idea. While in the confession booth, he managed to convince her at the very last minute not to do it. He confessed that even if he had murdered his probation worker, he was the happiest he had ever been.
The next few episodes don't have too much focus on Simon besides the fact that he slowly grew closer to each member of their little group. There's a lot of stuff to do with Simon from the future, but fortunately it doesn't pertain to my application so that means that this doesn't have to be any longer than it is.
Cue the third girl of Simon's life, Jessica. (His love life really does bloom after he dons an ugly orange jumpsuit.) She was helping out at a charity marathon that the misfits were forcibly volunteered for. Both were shy, both were awkward, and Simon fell for it right away. The only problem was that men tended to die around Jessica, and the rest of the group suspected that she was killing them. Two losses of virginity (Simon and Jessica's) and one costume party later, they found out that surprise surprise--her father was killing them. Second potential romantic interest lost as Jessica broke up with Simon, citing the reason that it was too strange to go out with someone who put her dad in jail... and too strange to go out with someone who was almost killed by her father.
After that, they completed their community service and were ejected into the terrifying world of the real world.
SAMPLE JOURNAL POST;; (Remember, in FIRST PERSON) [An image of Simon flickers onto the screen. He's visibly agitated, pale skin even paler and breath coming out in quiet pants as he attempts to make sense of what's going on. Right as he comes on the screen, image diagonal due to the clumsy way he's holding the device, he audibly mutters,] ...something out of science fiction... oh! It's on.
[He puts the screen upright and peers into it, brows knitted and eyes boring into the camera as if attempting to stare it into making sense.]
Hello.
[He scrubs anxiously at his hair, slightly mussed from bedhead, and then skims his thumb across his pursed lips.]
Can--can anyone hear me? Hello?
[His eyes flit downwards and he takes a slow, shuddering gulp of air. When he speaks again, his voice is quiet.]
Where am I? Please. I need to know.
SAMPLE RP POST;; (Remember, in THIRD PERSON) Simon could hardly believe his situation. Scratch that, he could believe it; one could only go through so much before deeming everything as believable in some respect. But he didn't want to believe it. Yes, the night before he had wondered what was going to happen to him. They had finished community service. Done.
Simon had belonged there, but he didn't belong in the real world. Plus his neighbours kept on glaring at him every time he so much as stepped outside, which was not an unfamiliar sensation, but it was unpleasant nevertheless. So yes, he had wished that he could find a place in life and figure it all out, but he didn't expect to wake up to see someone had attempted to do it for him. He would have freaked out if not for the device he had found on him. The weight of something like a cell phone was as comforting as a security blanket, and it gave him the courage to leave his room after he figured out how to tape videos on it.
This was like some sort of strange science fiction movie, one he had probably wished to be in at some point in his wretched life. Well, now he was in one. He drifted around outside, taping his surroundings without focusing on any one thing until he spotted it. A robot.
He gasped, half in fright - what sort of place was this really? - and half in awe. "A robot." He took a couple of steps towards it. "Wait!"
Curiosity overcoming his previous urge to explore and videotape his surroundings, he charged in the direction of the robot. It could be anything. This place could hold anything, it seemed. It could have a gun. It could be taping him and his every movement, like... well, like most of the science fiction he knew of. It could be housing someone's consciousness. It could be sentient. His mind raced with more and more possibilities until he finally managed to track it down into housing.
Or, he thought, feeling a little foolish as a mop extended from the robot's chest cavity, it could be a handy mechanical janitor.