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- PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Chase
AGE: 23
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: She
EMAIL ADDRESS: randide_candide@hotmail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: KwChase43 / apollo_chase
OTHER CHARACTERS: Alice Cullen (Twilight), Elaine Mallory (The Dresden Files)
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Nicolás Feuilly (yes, he KNOWS)
CODENAME: n/a
SERIES/SOURCE: Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
AGE: 25
GENDER: Male
BACKGROUND: Feuilly was born in Detroit, Michigan to two high school students - Brian Feuilly and Nadia Sánchez - who, having declared themselves very much in love, decided to keep the baby and begin their family together. The "honeymoon" phase of having a child quickly dissipated as the families of both students concluded that neither was emotionally or financially prepared to raise a baby, and began seeking a way to place Feuilly into the hands of an adoption agency. Having gotten wind of this plot, the two broke off connections with their families and ran off to Chicago, Illinois to start anew, but any sort of life they may have had ended abruptly when Nadia was killed during an armed store robbery. Neighbors later found an abandoned, crying Feuilly in the apartment Brian and Nadia had shared. Unable to locate Brian and unsure of any known relatives, Feuilly was declared a ward of the state.
Other than these extreme circumstances which occured in the first few months of Feuilly's life, he led a rather unremarkable childhood. Many assumed that because of his age when he arrived at the youth rehabilitation center, he would easily and permanently be adopted into a foster family. However, for some reason, he would always end up back at the center, and as he grew older, took on the responsibility of "big brother" to all of the other children there. The center itself wasn't the Dicksonian orphanage that many people on the outside assumed because of its lack of funding - the caretakers there genuinely cared about the children and did their best to provide a family-like atmosphere even in the worst conditions.
The caretakers themselves didn't quite know what to do with Feuilly though - he was a very smart, artistic child and progressed through the education provided through the center at an astonishing speed. In order to help the younger children whom he "adopted", he began to stay at the center more often and taught himself the gist of what they were teaching at his grade level and higher. Libraries in the neighborhood were his oasis, and his self-education proved to be extremely successful - he received perfect scores on his GEDs at the age of 16. However, despite the prodings of those at the center, he chose not to attend a university or a community college. Instead, when he turned 18, he decided to head out to New York City, the den of artists and other bohemians alike.
Feuilly was always working on his art skills and took to sidewalks and subway stations in various parts of Manhattan to showcase his work. He had been in New York for a few months and was at his job at a small cafe in the East Village when he heard about Les Amis de l'ABC from one of his customers (a student in the original political organization Enjolras had been a part of). Curiosity getting the better of him, Feuilly began attending the meetings despite not being a student himself. If the group itself often focused on the rights of mutants within the United States, it was Feuilly who strongly supported the rights of mutants on an international front.
After the murder of Lemarque and the subsequent riots and arrests afterward, Feuilly spent his six-month jail sentence studying the varying political views of mutant rights in various central European and southeast Asian countries, particularly taking an interest in Poland and Tibet. Deciding to help out with efforts in foreign countries for awhile, Feuilly arranged to get a passport and then headed towards the latter area, a place where human rights were already on the fritz and mutant rights may as well have been nonexistent. His designated task wasn't anything less than monumental, and he spent a year and a half traveling about the country, learning as much as he could and helping out different mutants he came across.
Following a political scuffle by ironically advocating both human and mutant rights, Feuilly ended up in jail for a few weeks before he was forcibly told to leave the country. He arrived back in the United States with a clear idea of the monstrous task that awaited for those seeking to invoke mutant rights when, in many parts of the world, human rights were still being horribly neglected. He was slightly sidetracked from tracking down the other Amis when a former colleague mentioned on-going troubles in Mexico...
PERSONALITY: Feuilly is a generous, soft-spoken, and hard-working young man, who takes pride in the "starving artist" persona that many people attribute to him and with good reason, other than the very literal meaning behind the phrase. He is classically bohemian and a self-proclaimed world citizen, believes in nothing more than the phrase "and justice for all", and therefore strongly supports the equality of all people, both mutants and non-mutants. Hugo puts it best when describing Feuilly, in that he "had but one thought, to save the world" - seeing anyone mistreated or ignored due to their status in society is a point of frustration and anger for the jack of all trades.
Being raised within the center for orphans, Feuilly also developed a sense of wanting everyone to belong. In a perfect world, there would be no such things as outcasts, that everyone could call some place a home, whether it be a literal or figurative. He takes it upon himself to "adopt" as many people as he can - family, blood bonds or not, is something dear to him. He views all of his fellow Amis as his surrogate brothers (and teases them appropriately). Of all the Amis, he is the one who speaks the least formally.
Feuilly is also nothing short of an artistic genius, knowing full well that he could have gone to any of the top universities in the United States, but choosing to lead a more austere life for the sake of his ideals. Despite this, he will argue vehemently for the working-class everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE - he has even researched certain places just for the purpose of arguing.
APPEARANCE: While Hugo gives no physical description for a majority of the Amis, Feuilly, to me, would seem to be the kind of young man who would be the barista at the coffeeshop down the street, the grocer at the local supermarket, the cashier at the bookshop, the waiter at the Cheesecake Factory - physically average save for being rather tall and gangly and not entirely memorable save for his extremely animated expressions. He doesn't have the money to spend on fancy clothing and can usually be seen running around in shirts with the sleeves rolled up, sneakers, and torn jeans (that suddenly became fashionable in recent years though this fact would go right over Feuilly's head).
And he refuses to wear an eyepatch damn it that joke is old. :|
POWERS: Feuilly has the power (curse?) of never being able to tell a lie. If he tells a lie, he just sort of...keels over. It is an utterly pointless power, as he has learned to stretch the truth or QUICKLY CHANGE THE SUBJECT. He also is blessed with an extreme lack of tact at times because of this power. Also because of his power, he holds people to the same standards of honesty as he is confined to - broken promises piss him off. :(
ANYTHING ELSE?: Feuilly rides around on a red-and-white moped (it's not a scooter, damn you) that breaks down at least twice a week, but you can't really tell him to get rid of it because a.) it's pretty much his only means of transportation and b.) it's his baby, shut up. Said moped is covered in various organizational bumper stickers - except for the "baby on board" bumper sticker some smartass put on that Feuilly can't remove.
He is a bit of a wanderer - his intrigue for the political and social affairs of other countries and his wanderlust couldn't be easily quelled by simply reading books. Prior to his arrival in New York City, he had traveled to various provinces of Canada and Brazil, and before traveling to Mexico from Tibet, he made stops in Hungary, Greece, Germany, and France. He speaks a smattering of languages, none of them fluently outside of English and perhaps Spanish.
He also has more odd jobs than you can shake a stick at, on top of being a sidewalk muralist.
NAME: Chase
AGE: 23
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: She
EMAIL ADDRESS: randide_candide@hotmail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: KwChase43 / apollo_chase
OTHER CHARACTERS: Alice Cullen (Twilight), Elaine Mallory (The Dresden Files)
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Nicolás Feuilly (yes, he KNOWS)
CODENAME: n/a
SERIES/SOURCE: Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
AGE: 25
GENDER: Male
BACKGROUND: Feuilly was born in Detroit, Michigan to two high school students - Brian Feuilly and Nadia Sánchez - who, having declared themselves very much in love, decided to keep the baby and begin their family together. The "honeymoon" phase of having a child quickly dissipated as the families of both students concluded that neither was emotionally or financially prepared to raise a baby, and began seeking a way to place Feuilly into the hands of an adoption agency. Having gotten wind of this plot, the two broke off connections with their families and ran off to Chicago, Illinois to start anew, but any sort of life they may have had ended abruptly when Nadia was killed during an armed store robbery. Neighbors later found an abandoned, crying Feuilly in the apartment Brian and Nadia had shared. Unable to locate Brian and unsure of any known relatives, Feuilly was declared a ward of the state.
Other than these extreme circumstances which occured in the first few months of Feuilly's life, he led a rather unremarkable childhood. Many assumed that because of his age when he arrived at the youth rehabilitation center, he would easily and permanently be adopted into a foster family. However, for some reason, he would always end up back at the center, and as he grew older, took on the responsibility of "big brother" to all of the other children there. The center itself wasn't the Dicksonian orphanage that many people on the outside assumed because of its lack of funding - the caretakers there genuinely cared about the children and did their best to provide a family-like atmosphere even in the worst conditions.
The caretakers themselves didn't quite know what to do with Feuilly though - he was a very smart, artistic child and progressed through the education provided through the center at an astonishing speed. In order to help the younger children whom he "adopted", he began to stay at the center more often and taught himself the gist of what they were teaching at his grade level and higher. Libraries in the neighborhood were his oasis, and his self-education proved to be extremely successful - he received perfect scores on his GEDs at the age of 16. However, despite the prodings of those at the center, he chose not to attend a university or a community college. Instead, when he turned 18, he decided to head out to New York City, the den of artists and other bohemians alike.
Feuilly was always working on his art skills and took to sidewalks and subway stations in various parts of Manhattan to showcase his work. He had been in New York for a few months and was at his job at a small cafe in the East Village when he heard about Les Amis de l'ABC from one of his customers (a student in the original political organization Enjolras had been a part of). Curiosity getting the better of him, Feuilly began attending the meetings despite not being a student himself. If the group itself often focused on the rights of mutants within the United States, it was Feuilly who strongly supported the rights of mutants on an international front.
After the murder of Lemarque and the subsequent riots and arrests afterward, Feuilly spent his six-month jail sentence studying the varying political views of mutant rights in various central European and southeast Asian countries, particularly taking an interest in Poland and Tibet. Deciding to help out with efforts in foreign countries for awhile, Feuilly arranged to get a passport and then headed towards the latter area, a place where human rights were already on the fritz and mutant rights may as well have been nonexistent. His designated task wasn't anything less than monumental, and he spent a year and a half traveling about the country, learning as much as he could and helping out different mutants he came across.
Following a political scuffle by ironically advocating both human and mutant rights, Feuilly ended up in jail for a few weeks before he was forcibly told to leave the country. He arrived back in the United States with a clear idea of the monstrous task that awaited for those seeking to invoke mutant rights when, in many parts of the world, human rights were still being horribly neglected. He was slightly sidetracked from tracking down the other Amis when a former colleague mentioned on-going troubles in Mexico...
PERSONALITY: Feuilly is a generous, soft-spoken, and hard-working young man, who takes pride in the "starving artist" persona that many people attribute to him and with good reason, other than the very literal meaning behind the phrase. He is classically bohemian and a self-proclaimed world citizen, believes in nothing more than the phrase "and justice for all", and therefore strongly supports the equality of all people, both mutants and non-mutants. Hugo puts it best when describing Feuilly, in that he "had but one thought, to save the world" - seeing anyone mistreated or ignored due to their status in society is a point of frustration and anger for the jack of all trades.
Being raised within the center for orphans, Feuilly also developed a sense of wanting everyone to belong. In a perfect world, there would be no such things as outcasts, that everyone could call some place a home, whether it be a literal or figurative. He takes it upon himself to "adopt" as many people as he can - family, blood bonds or not, is something dear to him. He views all of his fellow Amis as his surrogate brothers (and teases them appropriately). Of all the Amis, he is the one who speaks the least formally.
Feuilly is also nothing short of an artistic genius, knowing full well that he could have gone to any of the top universities in the United States, but choosing to lead a more austere life for the sake of his ideals. Despite this, he will argue vehemently for the working-class everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE - he has even researched certain places just for the purpose of arguing.
APPEARANCE: While Hugo gives no physical description for a majority of the Amis, Feuilly, to me, would seem to be the kind of young man who would be the barista at the coffeeshop down the street, the grocer at the local supermarket, the cashier at the bookshop, the waiter at the Cheesecake Factory - physically average save for being rather tall and gangly and not entirely memorable save for his extremely animated expressions. He doesn't have the money to spend on fancy clothing and can usually be seen running around in shirts with the sleeves rolled up, sneakers, and torn jeans (that suddenly became fashionable in recent years though this fact would go right over Feuilly's head).
And he refuses to wear an eyepatch damn it that joke is old. :|
POWERS: Feuilly has the power (curse?) of never being able to tell a lie. If he tells a lie, he just sort of...keels over. It is an utterly pointless power, as he has learned to stretch the truth or QUICKLY CHANGE THE SUBJECT. He also is blessed with an extreme lack of tact at times because of this power. Also because of his power, he holds people to the same standards of honesty as he is confined to - broken promises piss him off. :(
ANYTHING ELSE?: Feuilly rides around on a red-and-white moped (it's not a scooter, damn you) that breaks down at least twice a week, but you can't really tell him to get rid of it because a.) it's pretty much his only means of transportation and b.) it's his baby, shut up. Said moped is covered in various organizational bumper stickers - except for the "baby on board" bumper sticker some smartass put on that Feuilly can't remove.
He is a bit of a wanderer - his intrigue for the political and social affairs of other countries and his wanderlust couldn't be easily quelled by simply reading books. Prior to his arrival in New York City, he had traveled to various provinces of Canada and Brazil, and before traveling to Mexico from Tibet, he made stops in Hungary, Greece, Germany, and France. He speaks a smattering of languages, none of them fluently outside of English and perhaps Spanish.
He also has more odd jobs than you can shake a stick at, on top of being a sidewalk muralist.