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✢ The Player
Player Name: Gil
Age: 34
LJ: N/A
AIM / MSN / Y!M: stillgraylikeme (aim)
E-mail: graylikeme@gmail.com
Other Characters: Not at this time.
✢ The Character
Character Name: Matt Parkman
Fandom: Heroes
Canon Point: Near the end of season one, mid episode 22. He and Noah has just found out that the tracking system they've been looking for is an adorable little girl named Molly. Matt has also found out that the floor is nice and hard, but definitely not as hard as the bedpan Mohinder hit him over the head with.
Age: Around 40ish.
Appearance: He's 6'2, brown eyes, brown hair. He's a big guy, but he's compensates for that with not standing too straight and speaking softly most of the time. Matt usually tries to not take up a lot of space in a room he's in, except for when he's in cop mode.
Abilities / Powers: Matt is a telepath. His power is on all the time and he's only just learning to deal with it and control it. He'll sometimes get overwhelmed with the stream of thoughts and end up with splitting headaches because of it.
Inventory: Wedding ring. A gun. His clothes; pants, shirt, underwear, belt, socks, leather jacket. His wallet, containing a few dollars and a picture of him and his wife Janice. A small bottle of advil in the pocket of his jacket.
Personality: Matt is dyslexic and avoids reading anything that is too complicated. Even so, if he’d bother to and if he kept his focus, he’d be able to read most anything, but he’s got this idea that he’s stupid when it comes to reading and a lot other things. Sometimes he’ll refer to himself as just a stupid cop or he’ll really hard on himself, beating himself down. This has to do with failing his detective exams several times over, even if he did know all the answers. It took Audrey Hanson, his FBI partner when they were working the Sylar case, to get him through the exam, letting him take it in a series of interviews instead. Also, his reason for thinking that he’s stupid can be traced back to his dad, who walked out on him and his mom when Matt was little. Matt internalized the guilt for that, telling himself that Maury left because he wasn’t good enough. That he wasn’t bright or that he wasn’t loveable or skinny enough. That’s one of his big fears too, to be abandoned. That and he doesn’t want to become like his father. He doesn’t want to be that guy who up and leaves his family, so he’s very responsible and he’s very much a family man. Matt cares a lot for whoever he chooses to include in his family.
Currently, he's married to Janice and they're expecting a kid. He's not so sure that it is his though, since Janice cheated on him with his former partner at the LAPD. That's naturally caused some inner turmoil, even if Matt said that they'd work on their marriage.
He sees himself as very average and normal guy, despite his ability. He’s not the most communicative person, he doesn’t talk a lot about his feelings and he doesn’t talk a lot period, really. He’s more a man of action than of deep thoughts, which makes his ability slightly ironic.
Matt has a sense of what is fair and what is right; doing the wrong thing doesn't come naturally to him, though he can be swayed by someone with a stronger personality. He strives to do the right thing and that's part of what made him choose to be a cop.
What Matt hopes for is basically a normal, everyday life, with a wife and some kids. He wants picket fences and the whole package. He'd also love to be able to go back to being a cop again, some day.
History: http://heroeswiki.com/Matt_Parkman/Season_One
First Person Sample: http://rp-shadesofgray.livejournal.com/74973.html
Third Person Sample: Matt stood outside the apartment, a struggle happening inside him. He'd had it for a few days now and both sides had exceedingly good arguments. One argued that he didn't have to do this, he could let the old man rot inside the nightmare created for him. The other said that he was better than that. Much better than Maury Parkman had ever been. He didn't want to be his father.
"I have to. I have to do it," Matt muttered to himself, turning the handle. The apartment looked like he'd left it, a captured moment in time. He remembered that day so well and it seemed that Maury did too. "Dad. Are you in here? I've come to let you out."
Maury was standing at the window, gazing out at the darkened streets below. "Matthew." His shoulders sagged somewhat. "I knew you'd come. You're... a good boy. Man." His voice had a tremble to it and Matt realized, uncomfortably, that his father was crying. "I promised I'd come back too, do you remember? Never kept it. I didn't feel good enough."
"No, I don't remember. But... I don't. I don't want to talk to you about this, this isn't a family reunion, you know? I'm only getting you out. You can go wherever you like, as long as you stay away from my family. You get that?"
Maury turned wet eyes towards him. "Y-yeah, I get that. I won't touch them, I promise. I'll keep this one." It was strange, but Matt did want to believe that, only nodding. "Take my hand then."
They parted ways outside the Company facility and well outside the boundraries of the nightmare. Matt had even agreed to a hug, though he felt the need for several hot showers after Maury's sweaty and apologetic hug.
At least he'd have a clean conscience now.
Other: Relationship with canon mates... Well, Matt basically knows of Sylar. He's never seen him, even if he spent half of season one trying to solve the Sylar case. The closest he got was trying to shoot him when Sylar came for Molly, but Sylar was nothing but a black shape then and he didn't get a good look at all. Mohinder just hit him over the head with a bedpan and he wouldn't know him either. There's a lot of Heroes people that he's not met, but he probably knows Noah, Claire, Peter and Ted the best and of course Janice.