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Canon Character Application
Player Info
Player Name: Brandy
Player LJ: detefabula
Player Instant Messenger Type and Handle: AIM: detefabula
Player Email: detefabula@gmail.com
Are you 18 years of age or older? Yes
Character Info
Character Name: Albert Wesker
Character’s Age: He was born in 1960, but instead of looking 50, he looks about 35-40.
Fandom: Resident Evil
Timeline: Following the end of Resident Evil 5
Powers/Abilities: Wesker is well-trained in the use of firearms and hand to hand combat. Because he is a Tyrant, he possesses superhuman speed, agility, strength, and reflexes. He can dodge bullets at point blank range, cover great distances on foot in a very short time, move so quickly across short distances that he appears to teleport, and jump great heights. He is strong enough to pick adult humans up with one hand without any visible effort kill B.O.W.s with one hit. Wesker also has a low-level healing ability which, coupled with his endurance, makes him nearly invincible to conventional damage like punches, kicks, projectiles, and blades.
Game Specific Info
Why do you want to play this character? While Wesker appears to be nothing more than a psychopath on the surface, there are depths to his personality that makes him a compelling character. He willfully murders people, not only when they pose a threat to him or his plans, but also when they get in his way or outlive their usefulness. He experiments on people and turns them into horrific monsters without a qualm. He has committed various forms of blackmail, bribery, and extortion. He is often cruel and dispassionate. He tends to look upon others with contempt and derision, viewing them as pawns to use and discard when they are no longer necessary. But he is neither random nor inexplicable in his actions. Wesker has very clear, deliberate reasons, even if only understandable to himself, for doing what he does. He is methodical and logical, and he will do whatever it takes to see his machinations come to fruition. Even if that means that he must subject himself to experimentation.
Cool, analytical, and arrogant, Wesker can be charismatic when it suits his purposes. He befriended fellow Umbrella researcher William Birkin and maintained that friendship over the course of their thirteen-year research on the T-virus. Additionally, he proved himself a capable leader when he created the S.T.A.R.S. unit of the Raccoon City Police Department, and not only served as its captain, but commanded the respect and devotion of his subordinates.
Wesker is also incredibly manipulative. He has no qualms about using people to further his agenda. He got the majority of the S.T.A.R.S. team killed in order to gather data about the effectiveness of Umbrella’s bio-organic weapons in actual combat. Later, he brought Umbrella down so that he could rebuild the company to his own specifications. With it under his control, he planned to pick up where Spencer left off, succeeding him as god to a new world. To fund this endeavor, he formed a partnership with Excella Gionne, the CEO of a rival pharmaceutical company, and allowed her to believe that he harbored feelings for her so that he could use her position in the company to further his Uroboros research.
Why do you believe this character fits into this game’s setting? Wesker is many things: a trained police operative, a doctor, and a scientist. All of these positions give him a plethora of useful skill sets in a contemporary city setting. He is also incredibly intelligent, which allows him to make up for what he lacks by giving him the ability to adapt to new and unexpected situations. His intelligence is not only the foundation upon which his actions were based throughout his life, it is also the reason why his life went in the direction that it did. Born of parents who possessed intelligence far superior to that of regular people, Wesker’s intellect was the reason he was chosen by Ozwell Spencer to be part of the advanced race of human beings the man sought to build. He and other children like him were taken from their families and raised in a collective, experimental atmosphere. They were given the best education unlimited funding could supply, but they were also brainwashed to be obedient to Spencer and his vision. Of all the children, it was Wesker who showed the most promise of conforming to Spencer’s ideal. He grew up surrounded by individuals of startling intellectual ability and was raised by an international mega-corporation that ensured that all of his material needs were met. Because of this, there was little opportunity for him to develop a realistic view of the world and his place in it.
Not just simply intelligent, Wesker was also injected with a strain of the Progenitor virus. Along with great strength and speed, the virus also granted him regenerative abilities. Already set apart from his peers, this further isolated Wesker from the rest of humanity. All of this, combined with exposure to Spencer’s rhetoric about being the god of a new era, only served to underscore Wesker’s apparent superiority to the human race. It was a natural progression from believing himself better than ordinary people to believing that he had the right to alter the world to his own vision.
How do you intend to fit this character into a panfandom setting? Wesker is, at heart, a scientist. Having a variety of people to serve as test subjects gives him greater opportunities to refine and advance his work. Within the game presently are regular humans, demons, metahumans, extraterrestrials, and angels. Upon learning that such a diversity of genetic material is available, he will endeavor to make contact with it, ultimately to use it to further his research. He is also an opportunist and is capable of recognizing the usefulness of others. He will need research facilities. He will need equipment. He will need supplies and information about the environment in which he finds himself. And he isn’t shy about going to those which might be able to provide what he needs.
Little love is lost between Wesker and the rest of the characters from the Resident Evil canon. He will be more likely to seek out contact with individuals who do not know him than he will be to contact those who have encountered him before and know who and what he is. People who don’t know him are more likely to fall victim to his lies and machinations than canonmates, which makes them far more desirable to Wesker.
What are your plans for your character in this game? I tend to set Wesker up as an antagonist and source of concern for the people of the city. Once he’s established, I plan to have him continue his work. This means that he will experiment on whatever he can find in the city. Humans, animals, plants, everything is a potential piece in the scientific puzzle that is Wesker’s work. Not only will he conduct his experiments privately in his lab, he will also release the fruits of his labor on the city in order to acquire more data.
Writing Samples
Log/Third Person Sample:
Watching the monitor with mild, slightly detached interest, Albert Wesker sighed in disappointed aggravation. His opinion of humanity was rather low to begin with, but there was something inexplicably frustrating about watching Redfield and his sidekick bumble from one place to another in a fashion that was entirely too random for the man’s taste. After all, he had left them a copious amount of clues, most of which had been right out there in the open where even a child would have little difficulty discovering them. But Redfield and the woman seemed almost oblivious to the majority, stumbling upon only a few and reacting with shocked surprise each time.
As if Redfield had not been there that night at the mansion. As if he had not been there again on Rockfort Island. As if he had not been exposed to countless variations of Umbrella’s creations. As if something so simple as a fall from a window could do what everything else could not. And perhaps that was the most unacceptable aspect of Redfield’s apparent inability to learn from experience and make appropriate inferences. From all outward appearances, it was as though the man genuinely believed that Wesker was dead. That all of the work Wesker had put into this project had in fact been done by someone else. Someone undoubtedly far less intelligent and far more likely to miscalculate at a crucial juncture and make a grievous tactical error in execution.
Coming from Redfield, such an attitude was extraordinarily insulting.
Clearly, Wesker needed to up the ante. Not too much. Not nearly enough to give the game away. Not yet. But something a little more concrete. Something that Redfield could not blithely ignore. Both a carrot and a stick that would set him on the appropriate path with more determination and focus than he had shown thus far.
Fishing his mobile from his pocket, Wesker keyed in a sequence of numbers and brought the device to his ear. A moment’s pause as the line was reached, and then a low click as it connected.
“It’s time,” Wesker said shortly, wasting no time on the type of meaningless pleasantries other people used to preface their conversations with one another. “A glimpse, nothing more.”
Wesker terminated the connection and pocketed the device as his gaze slid back to the monitor. Redfield was so predictable when it came to women. Perhaps a sighting of Jill would provide him with the impetus he required to finally stop fooling around and take this seriously. Then again, perhaps Wesker was hoping for too much.
Journal Entry/First Person Sample:
[His voice is cool and haughty, subtly accented and edged with a hint of amusement.]
Well, well, what have we here?
[A low chuckle.]
And to think I was beginning to grow bored. What a delightful surprise.