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OOC:
Name: Risu
Are you over 16?: Yes
Personal LJ: 9squirrels
Email: rubberizedtire@gmail.com
Timezone: PST
Other contact: plurk: gazzafizza
Characters already in the game: N/A
How did you find us?: through a friend who is also apping in
IC:
Character name: Never in the movie is he actually addressed by name (others refer to him using masculine pronouns or by calling him "the tire"), but the credits refer to him as Robert.
Fandom: Rubber
Timeline: 1h12m in, just before he gets reincarnated into a tricycle.
Age: Unknown, likely somewhere between 20,000-60,000 miles (the average lifespan of a tire, depending on quality). Has been "alive" for five days.
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: The ability to self-propel via rolling, sentience (though he can't speak), the ability to "see" even though he has no eyes, and the ability to psychokinetically vibrate at such frequencies as to make objects explode. [TRIGGER WARNING] The explosion is limited in size, and can only affect one target at a time. By the end of the movie, however, the explosions are powerful enough to take out a whole person rather than just their head, and he also demonstrates the ability to transfer his consciousness into another inanimate object (a tricycle) and to instill life in other abandoned tires. It is unknown whether he can be reincarnated in any form, or whether it has to be something with tires (like the tricycle).
How would they use their abilities?: Usually to blow up anything (or anyone) that gets in his way. He isn't inherently bad, he just needs someone to befriend him and teach him that there are other ways to go through life. Though, considering the traumatic events of his short life so far, that may be a difficult task.
Appearance: Black, round, average size for a car tire. Bears tread markings around his circumference. Brandless.
Background/Personality: Robert started off as just an old abandoned tire in a junk yard in the desert. Then one day, he started moving. He shifted, he rotated, and eventually he propelled himself upright and began to roll. New to life, he merely wanted to discover what these new powers mean, and what he can do. It's only natural. You learn you can roll, you roll. You learn you can roll over things, you roll over things! You learn you can make things explode, well... Like I said, it's only natural.
It started with a inanimate objects. Bottles, cans, the usual detritus you find near the highway. Then a scorpion, rabbit, a crow. Whatever stood in the path of his rolling. When he came to the road, however, he saw something that would change his short life forever: a beautiful woman driving down the highway in a red convertible. He wanted her. He started down the road after her, but was stopped when a man driving a pickup truck hit him and knocked him over. His natural response was to follow the man to a gas station and blow up his head, then follow the girl to a motel.
At the motel, a cleaning lady found him and, not understanding that he was alive, tossed him out into the parking lot. In retaliation, he blew up her head too, and when the police came, he blew up the head of the motel owner, who was about to spill the truth, and the heads of the two policemen who chased after him. Further along the highway, he came across some men who were burning a pile of tires.
Now stop to think about that for a minute. You've been "alive," as it were, for only a few days, and all of a sudden you encounter these people who are burning dozens of your own kind. This, after seeing these same people ostensibly slaving your kind and bolting them to the wheels of their cars, denying them the freedom of movement that, up until now, was your sole experience in life. How would that make you feel?
Three days later, bloody corpses with their heads missing litter the convenience stores and roadways of this small Southwestern town, while our protagonists sits comfortably inside a house and watches NASCAR on TV. The police find him, and use the girl from the convertible to lure him into a trap.
Why does any of this happen? No reason.
Why should that character be in this game: (I know this section is for OCs, but I felt like answering anyway.) The idea came to me when I read the line about apping a rock. I thought, "I don't think I can play a rock, but I could probably play a sentient, murderous tire!" So here we are.
Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play: N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?: Yes! Flaming Ferret; They can accept a mission, they can work freelance, or they can mooch off of other people in their canon.
1st person sample: [The video feed opens showing... a ceiling. Someone has apparently laid the Guide open on the ground. A large dark shape comes into view at the bottom of the screen. You think you can see treadmarks, but it's too blurry to tell from this angle. It rolls off the screen, then back on again, coming a little further. With apparent effort, it hauls itself up onto the screen proper, and you can tell that it's a perfectly ordinary car tire. There's no one pushing or moving it, though, so maybe it isn't perfectly ordinary.
It balances precariously on the edge of the Guide for a moment before tipping over and landing sideways over the screen. A low buzzing sound starts, much like a grumble of frustration, growing louder and higher in pitch as the walls of the tire begin to vibrate. The vibration turns into a full on violent shaking and the sound hits a pitch that sends shivers down your spine--
The feed cuts out, leaving only static.]
3rd person sample: If a tire rolling itself along the corridors of the S.S. Thor was in any way out of the ordinary, no one made any indication of it. And so the tire rolled on, eager to explore this new environment. There were creatures of all kinds here, and many new things to see. He reveled in it, absorbing all the sights and sounds with the curious eye that comes with being new to life.
Suddenly he realized he'd stopped. He was still rolling, but the scenery had stopped passing by. He paused, but the scenery moved forward without him, so he started rolling again as fast as he could trying to catch up. It was something to do with the ground, he realized. It was moving underneath him and holding him back. Finally, after much effort, he reached the end of the moving ground with such abruptness that he shot forward, unable to adjust his speed in time. He rolled to a stop next to the wall and leaned against it to catch his breath. Well, whatever you call breath for a thing with no lungs, anyway.
Questions?: Nope.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yep.
Name: Risu
Are you over 16?: Yes
Personal LJ: 9squirrels
Email: rubberizedtire@gmail.com
Timezone: PST
Other contact: plurk: gazzafizza
Characters already in the game: N/A
How did you find us?: through a friend who is also apping in
IC:
Character name: Never in the movie is he actually addressed by name (others refer to him using masculine pronouns or by calling him "the tire"), but the credits refer to him as Robert.
Fandom: Rubber
Timeline: 1h12m in, just before he gets reincarnated into a tricycle.
Age: Unknown, likely somewhere between 20,000-60,000 miles (the average lifespan of a tire, depending on quality). Has been "alive" for five days.
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: The ability to self-propel via rolling, sentience (though he can't speak), the ability to "see" even though he has no eyes, and the ability to psychokinetically vibrate at such frequencies as to make objects explode. [TRIGGER WARNING] The explosion is limited in size, and can only affect one target at a time. By the end of the movie, however, the explosions are powerful enough to take out a whole person rather than just their head, and he also demonstrates the ability to transfer his consciousness into another inanimate object (a tricycle) and to instill life in other abandoned tires. It is unknown whether he can be reincarnated in any form, or whether it has to be something with tires (like the tricycle).
How would they use their abilities?: Usually to blow up anything (or anyone) that gets in his way. He isn't inherently bad, he just needs someone to befriend him and teach him that there are other ways to go through life. Though, considering the traumatic events of his short life so far, that may be a difficult task.
Appearance: Black, round, average size for a car tire. Bears tread markings around his circumference. Brandless.
Background/Personality: Robert started off as just an old abandoned tire in a junk yard in the desert. Then one day, he started moving. He shifted, he rotated, and eventually he propelled himself upright and began to roll. New to life, he merely wanted to discover what these new powers mean, and what he can do. It's only natural. You learn you can roll, you roll. You learn you can roll over things, you roll over things! You learn you can make things explode, well... Like I said, it's only natural.
It started with a inanimate objects. Bottles, cans, the usual detritus you find near the highway. Then a scorpion, rabbit, a crow. Whatever stood in the path of his rolling. When he came to the road, however, he saw something that would change his short life forever: a beautiful woman driving down the highway in a red convertible. He wanted her. He started down the road after her, but was stopped when a man driving a pickup truck hit him and knocked him over. His natural response was to follow the man to a gas station and blow up his head, then follow the girl to a motel.
At the motel, a cleaning lady found him and, not understanding that he was alive, tossed him out into the parking lot. In retaliation, he blew up her head too, and when the police came, he blew up the head of the motel owner, who was about to spill the truth, and the heads of the two policemen who chased after him. Further along the highway, he came across some men who were burning a pile of tires.
Now stop to think about that for a minute. You've been "alive," as it were, for only a few days, and all of a sudden you encounter these people who are burning dozens of your own kind. This, after seeing these same people ostensibly slaving your kind and bolting them to the wheels of their cars, denying them the freedom of movement that, up until now, was your sole experience in life. How would that make you feel?
Three days later, bloody corpses with their heads missing litter the convenience stores and roadways of this small Southwestern town, while our protagonists sits comfortably inside a house and watches NASCAR on TV. The police find him, and use the girl from the convertible to lure him into a trap.
Why does any of this happen? No reason.
Why should that character be in this game: (I know this section is for OCs, but I felt like answering anyway.) The idea came to me when I read the line about apping a rock. I thought, "I don't think I can play a rock, but I could probably play a sentient, murderous tire!" So here we are.
Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A
For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play: N/A
Have you read up on how the game works?: Yes! Flaming Ferret; They can accept a mission, they can work freelance, or they can mooch off of other people in their canon.
1st person sample: [The video feed opens showing... a ceiling. Someone has apparently laid the Guide open on the ground. A large dark shape comes into view at the bottom of the screen. You think you can see treadmarks, but it's too blurry to tell from this angle. It rolls off the screen, then back on again, coming a little further. With apparent effort, it hauls itself up onto the screen proper, and you can tell that it's a perfectly ordinary car tire. There's no one pushing or moving it, though, so maybe it isn't perfectly ordinary.
It balances precariously on the edge of the Guide for a moment before tipping over and landing sideways over the screen. A low buzzing sound starts, much like a grumble of frustration, growing louder and higher in pitch as the walls of the tire begin to vibrate. The vibration turns into a full on violent shaking and the sound hits a pitch that sends shivers down your spine--
The feed cuts out, leaving only static.]
3rd person sample: If a tire rolling itself along the corridors of the S.S. Thor was in any way out of the ordinary, no one made any indication of it. And so the tire rolled on, eager to explore this new environment. There were creatures of all kinds here, and many new things to see. He reveled in it, absorbing all the sights and sounds with the curious eye that comes with being new to life.
Suddenly he realized he'd stopped. He was still rolling, but the scenery had stopped passing by. He paused, but the scenery moved forward without him, so he started rolling again as fast as he could trying to catch up. It was something to do with the ground, he realized. It was moving underneath him and holding him back. Finally, after much effort, he reached the end of the moving ground with such abruptness that he shot forward, unable to adjust his speed in time. He rolled to a stop next to the wall and leaned against it to catch his breath. Well, whatever you call breath for a thing with no lungs, anyway.
Questions?: Nope.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yep.