Permissions + Application
CHARACTER NAME: Dimitri Allen
CHARACTER SERIES: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
[OOC]
Backtagging: Yes, of course. I can be a slow tagger sometimes.
Threadhopping: Use your common sense; if it looks like a private thread, you probably shouldn't.
Fourthwalling: Go for it, but don't tell him he's fictional.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): I'd really rather you not use any misogynistic/homophobic/racist/ableist/etc slurs.
[IC]
Hugging this character: Yes, but he's not likely to hug back.
Kissing this character: Yes, but he'll get angry.
Flirting with this character: Yes, and it'll either go over his head or he'll ignore it.
Fighting with this character: Ask first; he's not very physically strong, so he won't go around picking fights with others.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Ask first, and I'd prefer he not lose any limbs or organs.
Killing this character: No, but I may change my mind depending on the situation.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Go for it; his thoughts are mostly about Claire.
Warnings: He's a perfectly normal human, so he's not that dangerous, but he can be a jerk at times.
Character Name: Dimitri Allen
Character Series: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Character Age: 40s (not stated in canon, but that's my best guess)
Background: Series | Character
Dimitri will be taken from the end of the game.
Personality: Dimitri is a very intelligent man, and when he sets his mind to something he's determined to see it through to the end. However, there's a fine line between determination and obsession, and by the start of the game he's long since crossed that line. For the sake of his goals he initially believes the ends justify the means, and he can come across as condescending and arrogant because of this. He's more than willing to manipulate and lie to others, and he doesn't care if people call him despicable for his actions, because if it means saving Claire, he'll do just about anything. He'll even threaten violence against the main characters, and although these turns out to be bluffs since he's not willing to go quite that far for his goals, it does show that he really doesn't care if he comes across as sadistic. It isn't until near the end of the game that his motives are revealed, so for most of the story he seems like an amoral, smirking scientist, and he doesn't care how others perceive him, so long as he can save Claire.
But his obsession with completing his time machine and saving Claire also makes him rather single-minded, and thus unable to see that his partner Clive was manipulating him, and the realization of Clive's plan to level London is one of few things to obviously distress him, and it's at this point he realizes the dangers of his obsessive attitude, as his own obsessions with his goals had made him blind to everything else around him. By the end of the game he confesses to Layton that he doesn't want to imagine the amount of suffering he had caused and promises to give up his research on time traveling. He has realized his own hypocrisy; he did believe what he was doing was right - he really just wanted to save Claire, after all - but his actions were immoral and destructive, and he was just the kind of obsessive, single-minded scientist that Clive hated.
Another key aspect of Dimitri's personality is bitterness. After Claire's death thanks to his friend Hawks testing the first time machine prematurely ten years prior to the start of the game, Dimitri becomes very bitter, and he knows that he's a broken man. For ten years he does nothing about his bitterness and grief, and it's this resentment, along with his obsessive love for Claire, that sends him back to his research. Unrequited love, pride, and hatred - these are his main motivators, and they don't make for the most stable of people. Dimitri is still rather bitter even at the end of the game, but he does acknowledge his faults, hoping to keep a tighter rein on them so they don't end up consuming him again.
Aside from his pride and bitterness, Dimitri does have a softer side to his personality, although it usually only shines through when he's going on about his love for Claire or when he remembers how he once considered Hawks a good friend, before he came to hate him. Saving Claire's life was his highest priority, but he also had a desire for revenge against Hawks, and that did twist his personality, and he has realized that about himself. In everyday situations, Dimitri can be polite, but that politeness may come across as superficial, and if his bartender façade is anything to go by, he can at least fake being sociable, but he prefers to keep other people at arm's length. Once, he was completely willing to manipulate others to get what he wanted, but now he'll be trying to suppress any such desires. He'll still seem condescending and smirking at times, though.
Dimitri is a bitter and obsessive person, willing to be driven by both an unrequited love and a desire for revenge for ten years, and he's realized and accepted these aspects of himself by the end of the game, hoping to change himself for the better and accept the appropriate punishments for his actions. He still has a long way to go with resolving his issues and the guilt he feels at all the suffering he caused; he'll be polite, but he'll try to avoid becoming especially close to anyone, and he'll keep his obsessive personality restrained, to avoid falling into the same pitfalls he had during the events of the game.
Abilities: Perfectly normal human! He's highly intelligent and very good with machines, but he has no magical or supernatural abilities.
Sample Entry: [Waking up in an unfamiliar house with an unfamiliar family had unnerved Dimitri quite a bit, but when he speaks into the receiver of the phone his voice is calm, if somewhat hoarse and exasperated.]
Hello, I would like to ask for any and all information anybody may have about this place. Before I had woken up, I was quite sure I had been in London, and I can tell for certain that this strange town is not it. I can't seem to recall how I came to be here - I may have been drugged or assaulted, and I must admit that either possibility is frightening.
[There's the sound of a laugh, although it's a rather hollow one.]
I suppose there is the slim chance I'm just dreaming, but I doubt I would ever dream of living in such an, ah, uniform town while married to some woman I've never seen before. [Of course he wouldn't, he thinks; he could never let go of his unrequited love for Claire to marry another person, not even in a dream.]
In any case, I would be grateful for any information you can provide me, especially if you know of a way out of this town, as I doubt such a place is suitable for me.