OOC Information Name: Lysoke LJ:lysoke Contact: lysoke@gmail.com, AIM: lysoke Characters played at Discedo: Owen Harper | Torchwood (weevilroyalty)
IC Information Name: Richard Alpert Canon: LOST Timeline: During the episode LAX (Season 6, episode 1) Just after Richard leads Locke and Ben to the statue and before they kill Jacob.
Personality: As shown in Richard’s flashbacks, he can be very passionate about something he cares about, like in the instance of trying to save his wife; he accidentally kills the doctor who refuses to help him (and his wife dies anyway). Richard also shows this side of him when he believes the Man in Black about Jacob holding his wife’s spirit hostage and tries to kill Jacob in an attempt to free her. Because of these events which led to him being on the island, Richard keeps his emotions in check most of the time so that there wouldn’t be a repeat outburst that could result in someone else’s death. These events also showcase his more determined side as, once he has a goal in mind (saving his wife, killing Jacob, serving Jacob, and, later, stopping the Man in Black from leaving) he doesn’t give up easily until it is achieved. Even after the smoke monster nearly kills him by throwing him into a tree, Richard gets back up and goes right back to trying to blow up the plane.
While I wouldn’t call Richard gullible, he does tend to take things at face-value like when the Man in Black convinced Richard that Jacob was holding Isabella (Richard’s wife) captive, and then later believed Jacob when he told Richard the Man in Black was lying both times with next to zero hesitation. As time goes on, he seems to develop more skepticism and doubt, though there are still aspects of that previous nature that show up from time-to-time. After he joins with Jacob and becomes his intermediary with the people Jacob brings to the island, Richard is shown to be very dedicated to his job and very loyal to Jacob, following his rules and decisions with complete faith (not unlike following a god). This loyalty and dedication extend to the people Richard acts as a leader for (known as the Others in the show) specifically when it comes to possible threats or outside interference. When the Dharma Initiative shows up on the island, Richard enacts a treaty between the two groups to ensure none of his ‘people’ are bothered by those in the initiative and he remains very strict with this treaty up until he breaks it himself with ‘the purge’ or the extermination of the Initiative.
As shown in the interactions Richard has with Locke’s mother, Juliet, and Sawyer, Richard can be very charming when he needs to be and will choose words and tone carefully to get what he needs out of the people he’s talking to. He’s been described as having a ‘silver tongue’ that he puts to use when dealing with, possibly, unfavorable situations or when he needs something. That said, he can also be very straight forward and blunt. When Juliet asked him what he put in a glass of orange juice he asked her to drink, he straight out told her he was drugging her to make transportation to the island easier. Similarly, he told Kate and Sawyer when they brought a young Ben Linus to him to save that, if he saved Ben, he would lose his innocence and no longer be the person he was.
Hand-in-hand with his blunt side is Richard’s sarcasm. He doesn’t use it often, but when he does it’s subtle, almost like an art. He rarely uses it to be mean, only to get his point across and when he’s rushed or aggravated. That said, to most people he seems detached and uncaring as he often keeps his emotions subdued and remains to the point in conversations most of the time. Mainly this ‘detached’ air comes from the fact that he knows he’s going to watch the people around him die. He’s been around for over a century and seen many people age and die leaving him in a position to get hurt if he grows too attached. Unfortunately for him, Richard is very kind-hearted and does care for others especially the people that make up the ‘others’ as he feels responsible for them and their safety. Even the survivors of Oceanic 815 who he met (throughout time) he came to care about just through prolonged exposure, even though he didn’t show it all that openly.
Powers & Abilities: Since Richard was ‘touched’ by Jacob when Richard first arrived on the island, he’s been in an immortal state where he cannot age or kill himself, though he can be killed by others. He is a smooth-talker, so he has that in his favor when in difficult situations, but Richard has shown that he suffers from depression and does have some suicidal tendencies (good thing he can’t kill himself).
For clarification on ‘not being able to kill himself’ that means that whatever he tries will fail, somehow. If he tries to shoot himself: the gun jams, in the show he references that if he were to light a stick of dynamite himself, it would go out before it actually reached the stick.
What items will they be bringing with them to Discedo? His wife’s cross, and his traveling pack.
Posting Samples Third-Person Sample: (This takes place shortly after his canon point. If this is a problem, I can supply a different sample.)
There was a flare that had been put into place a long time ago at the temple. It wasn’t supposed to be used except in one case: Jacob’s death. It was an alert, a message to send to all of those who knew what it meant and Richard could still see the dying red sparks of that flare falling from the sky. He felt cold as disbelief washed away everything else that he’d been feeling. The ‘meeting’ between ‘Locke’, Ben, and Jacob had been taking a long time but he knew better than to interfere when it came to these audiences between the chosen leader and Jacob; he was the middle man and, this time, he’d been cut out. Locke had taken Ben with him into the foot-statue and it had been hours; Richard didn’t even know what was going on. These situations didn’t happen often but when it did he was supposed to respect that. And now that flare which he hoped he’d never see had been used. Something had gone wrong.
Somehow, the people at the temple knew that only a few yards from Richard himself in that statue, Jacob lay dead and Richard hadn’t had a clue.
He couldn’t think. This was a scenario in theory not in practice, Jacob wasn’t supposed to die. He was immortal; a god. All Richard could do was stare at that impossible flare as his mind tried, frantically, to work out what this meant and what he was supposed to do now. Even as he heard murmurs behind him, alerting him to Ben and the-man-who-wasn’t-really-Locke’s return, and turned to face them he still couldn’t quite believe what was going on. Jacob’s plans and goals…the ones Richard was supposed to help carry out…everything that he had lived for….what was he supposed to do now?
First-Person Sample: [The video turns on to show Richard giving the network a considering look. He looks away for a moment, staring at nothing, until his gaze finally returns to the video.]
It’s interesting, to me, to see how many people seem to have lost faith. I don’t just mean in whatever religion they had before arriving here, but in everything; in each other, in themselves…
It’s like they’ve decided there’s nothing worth believing in except that bad things will happen.
Are times really so bad here, the punishments really so horrible that there is no reason for faith at all?
I find that hard to believe. There must be something you believe in, otherwise, there’d be no point in fighting and living.
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Name: Lysoke
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Contact: lysoke@gmail.com, AIM: lysoke
Characters played at Discedo: Owen Harper | Torchwood (weevilroyalty)
IC Information
Name: Richard Alpert
Canon: LOST
Timeline: During the episode LAX (Season 6, episode 1) Just after Richard leads Locke and Ben to the statue and before they kill Jacob.
Canon Resource Link: Good Luck <3
Personality:
As shown in Richard’s flashbacks, he can be very passionate about something he cares about, like in the instance of trying to save his wife; he accidentally kills the doctor who refuses to help him (and his wife dies anyway). Richard also shows this side of him when he believes the Man in Black about Jacob holding his wife’s spirit hostage and tries to kill Jacob in an attempt to free her. Because of these events which led to him being on the island, Richard keeps his emotions in check most of the time so that there wouldn’t be a repeat outburst that could result in someone else’s death. These events also showcase his more determined side as, once he has a goal in mind (saving his wife, killing Jacob, serving Jacob, and, later, stopping the Man in Black from leaving) he doesn’t give up easily until it is achieved. Even after the smoke monster nearly kills him by throwing him into a tree, Richard gets back up and goes right back to trying to blow up the plane.
While I wouldn’t call Richard gullible, he does tend to take things at face-value like when the Man in Black convinced Richard that Jacob was holding Isabella (Richard’s wife) captive, and then later believed Jacob when he told Richard the Man in Black was lying both times with next to zero hesitation. As time goes on, he seems to develop more skepticism and doubt, though there are still aspects of that previous nature that show up from time-to-time. After he joins with Jacob and becomes his intermediary with the people Jacob brings to the island, Richard is shown to be very dedicated to his job and very loyal to Jacob, following his rules and decisions with complete faith (not unlike following a god). This loyalty and dedication extend to the people Richard acts as a leader for (known as the Others in the show) specifically when it comes to possible threats or outside interference. When the Dharma Initiative shows up on the island, Richard enacts a treaty between the two groups to ensure none of his ‘people’ are bothered by those in the initiative and he remains very strict with this treaty up until he breaks it himself with ‘the purge’ or the extermination of the Initiative.
As shown in the interactions Richard has with Locke’s mother, Juliet, and Sawyer, Richard can be very charming when he needs to be and will choose words and tone carefully to get what he needs out of the people he’s talking to. He’s been described as having a ‘silver tongue’ that he puts to use when dealing with, possibly, unfavorable situations or when he needs something. That said, he can also be very straight forward and blunt. When Juliet asked him what he put in a glass of orange juice he asked her to drink, he straight out told her he was drugging her to make transportation to the island easier. Similarly, he told Kate and Sawyer when they brought a young Ben Linus to him to save that, if he saved Ben, he would lose his innocence and no longer be the person he was.
Hand-in-hand with his blunt side is Richard’s sarcasm. He doesn’t use it often, but when he does it’s subtle, almost like an art. He rarely uses it to be mean, only to get his point across and when he’s rushed or aggravated. That said, to most people he seems detached and uncaring as he often keeps his emotions subdued and remains to the point in conversations most of the time. Mainly this ‘detached’ air comes from the fact that he knows he’s going to watch the people around him die. He’s been around for over a century and seen many people age and die leaving him in a position to get hurt if he grows too attached. Unfortunately for him, Richard is very kind-hearted and does care for others especially the people that make up the ‘others’ as he feels responsible for them and their safety. Even the survivors of Oceanic 815 who he met (throughout time) he came to care about just through prolonged exposure, even though he didn’t show it all that openly.
Powers & Abilities:
Since Richard was ‘touched’ by Jacob when Richard first arrived on the island, he’s been in an immortal state where he cannot age or kill himself, though he can be killed by others. He is a smooth-talker, so he has that in his favor when in difficult situations, but Richard has shown that he suffers from depression and does have some suicidal tendencies (good thing he can’t kill himself).
For clarification on ‘not being able to kill himself’ that means that whatever he tries will fail, somehow. If he tries to shoot himself: the gun jams, in the show he references that if he were to light a stick of dynamite himself, it would go out before it actually reached the stick.
What items will they be bringing with them to Discedo? His wife’s cross, and his traveling pack.
Posting Samples
Third-Person Sample: (This takes place shortly after his canon point. If this is a problem, I can supply a different sample.)
There was a flare that had been put into place a long time ago at the temple. It wasn’t supposed to be used except in one case: Jacob’s death. It was an alert, a message to send to all of those who knew what it meant and Richard could still see the dying red sparks of that flare falling from the sky. He felt cold as disbelief washed away everything else that he’d been feeling. The ‘meeting’ between ‘Locke’, Ben, and Jacob had been taking a long time but he knew better than to interfere when it came to these audiences between the chosen leader and Jacob; he was the middle man and, this time, he’d been cut out. Locke had taken Ben with him into the foot-statue and it had been hours; Richard didn’t even know what was going on. These situations didn’t happen often but when it did he was supposed to respect that. And now that flare which he hoped he’d never see had been used. Something had gone wrong.
Somehow, the people at the temple knew that only a few yards from Richard himself in that statue, Jacob lay dead and Richard hadn’t had a clue.
He couldn’t think. This was a scenario in theory not in practice, Jacob wasn’t supposed to die. He was immortal; a god. All Richard could do was stare at that impossible flare as his mind tried, frantically, to work out what this meant and what he was supposed to do now. Even as he heard murmurs behind him, alerting him to Ben and the-man-who-wasn’t-really-Locke’s return, and turned to face them he still couldn’t quite believe what was going on. Jacob’s plans and goals…the ones Richard was supposed to help carry out…everything that he had lived for….what was he supposed to do now?
First-Person Sample:
[The video turns on to show Richard giving the network a considering look. He looks away for a moment, staring at nothing, until his gaze finally returns to the video.]
It’s interesting, to me, to see how many people seem to have lost faith. I don’t just mean in whatever religion they had before arriving here, but in everything; in each other, in themselves…
It’s like they’ve decided there’s nothing worth believing in except that bad things will happen.
Are times really so bad here, the punishments really so horrible that there is no reason for faith at all?
I find that hard to believe. There must be something you believe in, otherwise, there’d be no point in fighting and living.
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