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uselessguy) wrote2012-02-04 01:31 am
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player information.
name: Cakepan
are you over 18?: Yes.
personal dw:cakepan
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: cakepan @ plurk
characters in abax: None.
in character information.
name: Percy Clarke
age: 16
sex: Male
race: Human
weight: 152 Ibs
height: 6'0"
canon point: A few weeks after Chris left and after he discovers the nature of their world.
previous cr: No.
physical appearance:
Percy is tall and thin, bordering on lanky. He has short, mousy-brown hair that is typically well-maintained. As of late it has been growing out, due to his inability to get a haircut. He is relatively pale and has freckles dotting through the center of his face. His facial features are fairly soft and he has a rounder face rather than a sharper one. His eyes are green and always have large bags under them.
world information:
Please refer to Chris' app for their world information!
NOTE: Dee said this was okay.
history:
Percy was a boy born into wealth. His parents being highly successful business owners, they were more than well-off by the time they decided to have a child. There was a slight problem with them having a child, however. They didn't want a child; they wanted an heir. Someone that would inherit their company and continue running the business after they were gone. But actually having to raise him? That was something they wanted very little part in.
Fortunately for Percy, his mother had a sister who had been trying to have a child with her husband for years without success. Very little convincing was needed to get his aunt and uncle to take him in. And that was how his parents weaseled their way out of raising him or even seeing him frequently. Throughout his life, they had little interest in visiting him and would only do so every year or so. It was always a highly frustrating time for everyone involved whenever they did.
Regardless, the arrangement mostly suited everyone just fine. Percy's aunt and uncle did a far better job at being parents than his actual parents ever could have, raising him in a loving and supportive home. Which isn't to say that there weren't a few hiccups along the way. Such as when he was seven and his uncle died of a sudden heart attack. Or the fact that he had been having horrific nightmares for as long as he could remember.
These nightmares had always felt incredibly real. As though they were actually happening, rather than being only in his head. Dreams of a ruined Earth, full of people that no longer possessed their humanity. Little more than monsters with the appearance of humans, he had to watch them commit horror after horror upon one another every time he slept. What made him most uncomfortable was the unshakable feeling that these were once average people - good people, even - and that something had reduced them to this.
Perhaps obviously, Percy didn't like sleeping too much because of this. Therefore, his genius solution was simply not to sleep. Considering how people tend to need to sleep, he wasn't able to stay awake indefinitely. But it did make him realize that he could stay up for a long while without having to deal with the nightmares he made a point of getting as little sleep as possible from that point forward. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in him being tired all the time, but it was a consequence he was willing to deal with.
At the age of ten, his life began to go in an unexpected direction. That was when he met Chris and Alice. Or, rather, that was when he and Alice saved Chris's life. Their class had been on a field trip to a frozen lake, to let the kids have some fun and learn how to ice skate. There were still patches of thin ice, but the children were warned to stay away from them. Not caring, Chris had foolishly chosen to stand on one of these thin patches, had fallen through, and began to drown. Panic erupted and the teacher responsible for the group was at a loss for what to do. With no one doing anything to help, Percy made the questionable choice of running out onto the ice to try to save the other boy. Even as he did so, he was panicking about the fact that this was clearly a very poor decision.
Still, Percy managed to drag Chris out of the freezing water with some help from a strange girl who had suddenly run out from the woods. Despite the whole life-saving thing, the three did not immediately become friends. It was about a month later that Chris started, frankly, stalking Percy around the school they attended due to his odd moral code. Shockingly, Percy didn't enjoy being followed around all the time and hardly considered Chris a friend. Eventually, however, his loyalty and refusal to abandon Percy won him over. After being sought out in the woods, the strange girl, Alice, also became their friend.
In the years afterward, the three would become nearly inseparable. They also got up to all kinds of stupid bullshit during the intervening time before August of Percy's s 16th year. That was when the strangeness began, not that they noticed at first, as the three rarely interacted with people outside of themselves. Once school started, however, the changes began to become more apparent. People were running on autopilot. It is almost as though they weren't real.
Alice was the first of them to notice this and attempted to convince Chris and Percy. The former realized the unreality of the situation before the latter. Percy takes by far the longest to recognize the issue, as he doesn't want to have to recognize it. But, inevitably, he has to see the reality of the situation and the illusion collapses. The people are revealed to be nothing but shadows and the world itself undergoes a change.
Alone to wander the landscape, they are presented with fairly meaningless tasks and a great deal of "beginning" enemies. They'd found themselves in the midst of a tutorial. During their acclimation stage, Chris takes up the mantle of being the scavenger, stealing supplies and things out of the abandoned houses. Alice, on the other hand, is the best fighter out of the three and is usually responsible for defeating the enemies they come across. Percy is useless.
This fact is something he is all too aware of and one evening he sets off on his own, only to encounter the first "real" shadow person. Those beings that had once been masquerading as people they knew had, up until that point, been harmless and mostly unseen. Now one of these creatures was attacking and it was much tougher than any of the other enemies encountered up to that point. Fortunately, Alice and Chris managed to save Percy before he was seriously injured or died, but it was a wake-up call to all three of them that their easy tutorial stage was very much over.
With their adventure truly begun, they are not together as much. They go off on their own to do their own quests and to discover more about their own world. Despite this, they would always be back together before too long.
During this time period a few events worthy of note occur. For one, two beings called the avatars, one male and one female, begin to have greater influence over the kids. Up until this point, they had always been around in their world, even before the shift, but their importance hadn't been seen until this point. While the male focused more upon Chris and Alice, the female focused more upon Percy. She pushed him along his path towards discovering what made their world the way it was.
Another important event was contact being made with another teenager, named Avvelen. She attempts to talk to them through a static-y TV and is generally fairly odd and uncomfortable for the kids, as she is a glimpse into the idea that people exist outside of their story. Others later contact the kids in similar ways.
At some point, Chris starts acting oddly. He grows more distant from Alice and Percy and does not come around as often or stick around as long. Meanwhile, Percy is on the brink of figuring out something important. The female avatar had been indicating areas he may want to check out or things he may want to look more deeply into. Often he would end up in ruins and need to figure out puzzles that got him closer to a realization but left him frustratingly bereft of the actual answer. He began to sleep even less than normal, becoming somewhat obsessed with finding out the nature of their world - to do something of actual use. Over time, he grows more and more irritable.
After a confrontation with Percy, Chris leaves for seemingly good. Alice and Percy are left alone to fend for themselves. For weeks the intricacies of the puzzles Percy is given increases, until at last it culminates to something. In one of the dungeons, he finds a solution in an unexpected manner. Rather than attempting the clever solutions he normally did, the sort that would bypass the dangers of traps and monsters, a flustered Percy took a violent and head-on approach. Being an awful fighter, he was lucky to get through it alive. Such a risk had earned him his prize, however:
A single page ripped from a book.
At first, it was difficult to believe. The page detailed him entering the ruin and began to describe what he had considered doing; the sort of traditional puzzle solving he normally did. Suddenly, however, there were cross outs and white outs and black marks. A few words were written in attempting to detail what he had actually done, before it seemed the author gave up and threw it away.
But it fit with every other scrap of info Percy had found up until then and a quick check with the female avatar confirmed his suspicions.
The three of them were characters in a story.
personality:
At a glance, Percy appears to be a nice, normal kid. Especially compared to Chris or Alice, there's nothing about him that immediately screams that he has issues. He tries to be polite to people or just friendly and pleasant in general. But sometimes he puts his foot in his mouth. He'll accidentally say something that is quite rude without necessarily meaning for it to come off that way. Typically he'll recognize that he did it straight away and will apologize profusely for it. Even with his occasional slip-up, there isn't much that most people would find offensive about Percy's every day behavior.
Underneath this, however, Percy is a boy that lacks a great deal of self-worth. He is someone that needs the validation of others, even though he often does not get it. He tries very hard to please. This sort of behavior is seen very clearly with the way he acts with his parents. Despite the fact that they had been absent for the majority of his life, they left a heavy impact. Always he would try to make them proud by trying to show them that he knew what he was doing with business management. It was something he studied as often as he could, solely for them. It tended to consume his life and his free time, but in the end it didn't matter how much effort he put into his studies. On the rare occasions that his parents did visit, nothing was ever good enough for them. It didn't matter that he had tried, what mattered was that he wasn't doing things as well as he should have been. That he wasn't good enough. With his parents' attitude toward him being this, it stuck with him that he probably was not good enough. As a result he tends to have very little confidence in himself, even with his aunt's attempts to encourage him.
On that note, Percy likes to feel useful. He enjoys the idea that he's helping someone else out and that he's doing something of worth. This isn't something he necessarily needs to be acknowledged for, but he does like to be able to see the fruits of his labor. This is part of the reason why being friends with Chris and Alice is so good for him. He feels like he's helping them out by being the best friend he can be and he can see the fruits of his labor, even if they don't express gratefulness. With his parents, however, it's different. He never sees his actions or decisions affect them and only ever feels like he's being useless. When their story properly begins, this starts to become a problem for him. Chris scavenges, Alice fights and he doesn't do much of anything. He tries to direct his friends on where might be good places to explore, or things they should do. He attempts to keep things organized and to help in this way; to be useful as a friend. Ultimately, however, it's something that weighs fairly heavily on him. He simply feels useless and, because of that, his own lack of self-worth pushes down on him more easily.
That aside, Percy is an idealistic and hopeful person at his core. He clings to the hope that things will work out for the best one day. This is why he absolutely loves the Disney animated canon. He loves that in those worlds good will always triumph over evil, that the hero will always win and the villain will always pay for their misdeeds. He loves that within these worlds, there is no doubt that true love exists and that people can live happily ever after. He is not unrealistic about the world the he lives in, though. He knows that bad things can and do happen to good people and that things don't always work out. He simply believes that sometimes there are happy endings and hopes there will be one for himself and for the people he cares about.
Additionally, he is a diligent and hard-worker. Though he is fairly intelligent on his own, most of his successes come from the fact that he is dedicated to his work. This is why he was able to piece clues together in order to discover the secrets of their world and their story. He was determined to figure things out and was focused in his efforts. He would also be able to explain those efforts, if need be. Percy knows a lot and likes to impart his knowledge onto others so they have a better understanding of the situation at hand. This can extent to relatively unimportant things only somewhat related to the present topic, however. He has a tendency to overanalyze and will, for example, attempt to make logical sense out of incredibly stupid metaphors or explain why they wouldn't work at all. Usually, these interjections are fairly ineloquent.
This ineloquence carries over to his attempts to comfort people. Percy is a naturally empathetic person and can usually tell when something is bothering someone. He'll try to make them feel better, but will tend to sound somewhat silly while doing so. There is an earnestness to his words that often counters that, fortunately for him and the people he's trying to make feel better.
Percy rarely gets visibly angry or even internally angry. Irritation is typically as far as it goes, as he has a very nasty habit of repressing things if he doesn't want to deal with them or finds them appropriate. If he gets angry he automatically swallows it down and pretends like he wasn't angry in the first place. If he's upset and is in a public place, he'll choked that down, too, scrub his face of any negative emotions and replace it with his standard soft smile. His resentments go the same way, too. He denies them to himself. Deep down he's aware of them, but on a surface level they are entirely ignored. The fact that Chris and Alice are pretty awful friends some of the time and the fact that he is constantly made fun of does sort of bother him? Pushed down so that he can give a gentle laugh when he's called a dipshit. The fact that his parents clearly don't love him? He just doesn't think about it. The fact that he doesn't love his parents, either? He won't even admit that to himself.
Though it's unhealthy, it's what allows him to function normally on a daily basis. Typically, the only form of hostility he shows is some sarcastic rudeness towards Chris. It's not anything intentionally hurtful (not that Chris would care, anyway), just the typical playful snarking that friends do. Occasionally, he will also do this to Alice when she is being particularly Chris-like. Really, it's sometimes the only way for him to deal with having friends like them.
Finally, Percy's nightmares have had an effect on the way he tends to deal with things. As his solution for them is to ignore them as often as possible by sleeping as little as possible, he is very rarely not tired. This results in him allowing things to slide more often than he might if he weren't always exhausted. When he is particularly tired, it is easier to take the path of least resistance rather than trying to sort things out or get worked up about them on very little sleep. That said, particularly frustrating situations can be made worse by the lack of sleep as he may not think as quickly as normal or be able to cope with things as well. His ability to swallow his negative emotions being one of those coping mechanisms that doesn't always function properly in this state. However, this typically only occurs during long periods of no sleep - several days - and doesn't often happen during his usual lack-of-sleep schedule. These nightmares have also caused him to have a fairly high tolerance for horror.
abilities/powers:
In terms of skills, Percy is pretty good at solving problems. He's more of a think-inside-the-box sort of person, however.
He also possesses powers, though they have not truly manifested at this point in his canon. To put it as plainly as possible, he has the ability to influence the will of people or things. He could cause someone to believe in something or to lose faith in something. Presently, he can't do much and he certainly can't do it consciously. These abilities only appear when he's able to take charge of a situation and show some true confidence or leadership skills- when the others truly see him as a leader. Right now, at most, he's able to inspire people to continue fighting or to continue to pursue whatever goal they're pursuing. He could also go in the opposite direction and inspire people to give up, but in both cases, it is only influence and not full-on forcing them. If they were determined enough to go one way or the other, he wouldn't be able to change that at this canon point.
first person sample:
Over here!
third person sample:
Percy's parents were supposed to be coming home soon. Normally that would mean frenzied preparation of documents and spreadsheets and stocks to show his progress. It didn't matter that they probably wouldn't show up, anyway. They rarely ever showed when they said they would. This time around, however, Percy had barely begun organizing. It was mid-December and he had other things to worry about. It was crunch time at school. Tests were coming up, projects were due. Christmas was coming up, too, and it was always a trial trying to figure out the perfect gift for his aunt and, of course, his friends. All two of them.
But these other concerns didn't stop him from obsessing about his parents return. From thinking about how disappointed they were going to be that those things he had been asked to improve on hadn't been. He chewed his lip as he looked over what needed to be done. Though "needed" may not have been the right term. It was more what he thought needed to be done. The truth was that it probably wouldn't matter at all. He inhaled deeply, placing his pen to the paper.
Nothing was written and in a few moments he placed it back down. A growing dread was forming in his stomach. He groaned and thumped his forehead against the desk before shifting his head to the side, so that he was laying on his cheek. The truth was it wasn't going to be good enough, anyway.
A sudden splat caused Percy to lift his head and glance around for the source. There was nothing in his room that could have caused it, as far as he could tell. Yet there the noise was again. He stood. Now sure he recognized that sound. That was the very distinct sound of something hitting his window. Sure enough, no sooner had he approached it that a glob of snow smacked up against it.
Rolling his eyes and shaking his head, Percy opened it up. "What, exactly, do you have against my window?" he called down at the culprits sometimes known as his friends. There was no answer, unless another snowball meeting him square in the face could be considered an answer. Sputtering and wiping quickly melting but still very cold snow off of his face, he managed to reopen his eyes just in time to see the two hooligans running away.
He let out a quiet chuckle as he shut the window again and moved to go back to his desk. Taking in the work still undone, however, he hesitated. And, after a moment of deliberation, he shrugged and instead walked towards his door. "Alright, you guys," he whispered to himself.
Who knew? Maybe this time he'd actually manage to hit one of them with some snow.
Additional Sample: Over here.
case no: 00-11-20
name: Cakepan
are you over 18?: Yes.
personal dw:
cakepanemail/msn/aim/plurk/etc: cakepan @ plurk
characters in abax: None.
in character information.
name: Percy Clarke
age: 16
sex: Male
race: Human
weight: 152 Ibs
height: 6'0"
canon point: A few weeks after Chris left and after he discovers the nature of their world.
previous cr: No.
physical appearance:
Percy is tall and thin, bordering on lanky. He has short, mousy-brown hair that is typically well-maintained. As of late it has been growing out, due to his inability to get a haircut. He is relatively pale and has freckles dotting through the center of his face. His facial features are fairly soft and he has a rounder face rather than a sharper one. His eyes are green and always have large bags under them.
world information:
Please refer to Chris' app for their world information!
NOTE: Dee said this was okay.
history:
Percy was a boy born into wealth. His parents being highly successful business owners, they were more than well-off by the time they decided to have a child. There was a slight problem with them having a child, however. They didn't want a child; they wanted an heir. Someone that would inherit their company and continue running the business after they were gone. But actually having to raise him? That was something they wanted very little part in.
Fortunately for Percy, his mother had a sister who had been trying to have a child with her husband for years without success. Very little convincing was needed to get his aunt and uncle to take him in. And that was how his parents weaseled their way out of raising him or even seeing him frequently. Throughout his life, they had little interest in visiting him and would only do so every year or so. It was always a highly frustrating time for everyone involved whenever they did.
Regardless, the arrangement mostly suited everyone just fine. Percy's aunt and uncle did a far better job at being parents than his actual parents ever could have, raising him in a loving and supportive home. Which isn't to say that there weren't a few hiccups along the way. Such as when he was seven and his uncle died of a sudden heart attack. Or the fact that he had been having horrific nightmares for as long as he could remember.
These nightmares had always felt incredibly real. As though they were actually happening, rather than being only in his head. Dreams of a ruined Earth, full of people that no longer possessed their humanity. Little more than monsters with the appearance of humans, he had to watch them commit horror after horror upon one another every time he slept. What made him most uncomfortable was the unshakable feeling that these were once average people - good people, even - and that something had reduced them to this.
Perhaps obviously, Percy didn't like sleeping too much because of this. Therefore, his genius solution was simply not to sleep. Considering how people tend to need to sleep, he wasn't able to stay awake indefinitely. But it did make him realize that he could stay up for a long while without having to deal with the nightmares he made a point of getting as little sleep as possible from that point forward. Unsurprisingly, this resulted in him being tired all the time, but it was a consequence he was willing to deal with.
At the age of ten, his life began to go in an unexpected direction. That was when he met Chris and Alice. Or, rather, that was when he and Alice saved Chris's life. Their class had been on a field trip to a frozen lake, to let the kids have some fun and learn how to ice skate. There were still patches of thin ice, but the children were warned to stay away from them. Not caring, Chris had foolishly chosen to stand on one of these thin patches, had fallen through, and began to drown. Panic erupted and the teacher responsible for the group was at a loss for what to do. With no one doing anything to help, Percy made the questionable choice of running out onto the ice to try to save the other boy. Even as he did so, he was panicking about the fact that this was clearly a very poor decision.
Still, Percy managed to drag Chris out of the freezing water with some help from a strange girl who had suddenly run out from the woods. Despite the whole life-saving thing, the three did not immediately become friends. It was about a month later that Chris started, frankly, stalking Percy around the school they attended due to his odd moral code. Shockingly, Percy didn't enjoy being followed around all the time and hardly considered Chris a friend. Eventually, however, his loyalty and refusal to abandon Percy won him over. After being sought out in the woods, the strange girl, Alice, also became their friend.
In the years afterward, the three would become nearly inseparable. They also got up to all kinds of stupid bullshit during the intervening time before August of Percy's s 16th year. That was when the strangeness began, not that they noticed at first, as the three rarely interacted with people outside of themselves. Once school started, however, the changes began to become more apparent. People were running on autopilot. It is almost as though they weren't real.
Alice was the first of them to notice this and attempted to convince Chris and Percy. The former realized the unreality of the situation before the latter. Percy takes by far the longest to recognize the issue, as he doesn't want to have to recognize it. But, inevitably, he has to see the reality of the situation and the illusion collapses. The people are revealed to be nothing but shadows and the world itself undergoes a change.
Alone to wander the landscape, they are presented with fairly meaningless tasks and a great deal of "beginning" enemies. They'd found themselves in the midst of a tutorial. During their acclimation stage, Chris takes up the mantle of being the scavenger, stealing supplies and things out of the abandoned houses. Alice, on the other hand, is the best fighter out of the three and is usually responsible for defeating the enemies they come across. Percy is useless.
This fact is something he is all too aware of and one evening he sets off on his own, only to encounter the first "real" shadow person. Those beings that had once been masquerading as people they knew had, up until that point, been harmless and mostly unseen. Now one of these creatures was attacking and it was much tougher than any of the other enemies encountered up to that point. Fortunately, Alice and Chris managed to save Percy before he was seriously injured or died, but it was a wake-up call to all three of them that their easy tutorial stage was very much over.
With their adventure truly begun, they are not together as much. They go off on their own to do their own quests and to discover more about their own world. Despite this, they would always be back together before too long.
During this time period a few events worthy of note occur. For one, two beings called the avatars, one male and one female, begin to have greater influence over the kids. Up until this point, they had always been around in their world, even before the shift, but their importance hadn't been seen until this point. While the male focused more upon Chris and Alice, the female focused more upon Percy. She pushed him along his path towards discovering what made their world the way it was.
Another important event was contact being made with another teenager, named Avvelen. She attempts to talk to them through a static-y TV and is generally fairly odd and uncomfortable for the kids, as she is a glimpse into the idea that people exist outside of their story. Others later contact the kids in similar ways.
At some point, Chris starts acting oddly. He grows more distant from Alice and Percy and does not come around as often or stick around as long. Meanwhile, Percy is on the brink of figuring out something important. The female avatar had been indicating areas he may want to check out or things he may want to look more deeply into. Often he would end up in ruins and need to figure out puzzles that got him closer to a realization but left him frustratingly bereft of the actual answer. He began to sleep even less than normal, becoming somewhat obsessed with finding out the nature of their world - to do something of actual use. Over time, he grows more and more irritable.
After a confrontation with Percy, Chris leaves for seemingly good. Alice and Percy are left alone to fend for themselves. For weeks the intricacies of the puzzles Percy is given increases, until at last it culminates to something. In one of the dungeons, he finds a solution in an unexpected manner. Rather than attempting the clever solutions he normally did, the sort that would bypass the dangers of traps and monsters, a flustered Percy took a violent and head-on approach. Being an awful fighter, he was lucky to get through it alive. Such a risk had earned him his prize, however:
A single page ripped from a book.
At first, it was difficult to believe. The page detailed him entering the ruin and began to describe what he had considered doing; the sort of traditional puzzle solving he normally did. Suddenly, however, there were cross outs and white outs and black marks. A few words were written in attempting to detail what he had actually done, before it seemed the author gave up and threw it away.
But it fit with every other scrap of info Percy had found up until then and a quick check with the female avatar confirmed his suspicions.
The three of them were characters in a story.
personality:
At a glance, Percy appears to be a nice, normal kid. Especially compared to Chris or Alice, there's nothing about him that immediately screams that he has issues. He tries to be polite to people or just friendly and pleasant in general. But sometimes he puts his foot in his mouth. He'll accidentally say something that is quite rude without necessarily meaning for it to come off that way. Typically he'll recognize that he did it straight away and will apologize profusely for it. Even with his occasional slip-up, there isn't much that most people would find offensive about Percy's every day behavior.
Underneath this, however, Percy is a boy that lacks a great deal of self-worth. He is someone that needs the validation of others, even though he often does not get it. He tries very hard to please. This sort of behavior is seen very clearly with the way he acts with his parents. Despite the fact that they had been absent for the majority of his life, they left a heavy impact. Always he would try to make them proud by trying to show them that he knew what he was doing with business management. It was something he studied as often as he could, solely for them. It tended to consume his life and his free time, but in the end it didn't matter how much effort he put into his studies. On the rare occasions that his parents did visit, nothing was ever good enough for them. It didn't matter that he had tried, what mattered was that he wasn't doing things as well as he should have been. That he wasn't good enough. With his parents' attitude toward him being this, it stuck with him that he probably was not good enough. As a result he tends to have very little confidence in himself, even with his aunt's attempts to encourage him.
On that note, Percy likes to feel useful. He enjoys the idea that he's helping someone else out and that he's doing something of worth. This isn't something he necessarily needs to be acknowledged for, but he does like to be able to see the fruits of his labor. This is part of the reason why being friends with Chris and Alice is so good for him. He feels like he's helping them out by being the best friend he can be and he can see the fruits of his labor, even if they don't express gratefulness. With his parents, however, it's different. He never sees his actions or decisions affect them and only ever feels like he's being useless. When their story properly begins, this starts to become a problem for him. Chris scavenges, Alice fights and he doesn't do much of anything. He tries to direct his friends on where might be good places to explore, or things they should do. He attempts to keep things organized and to help in this way; to be useful as a friend. Ultimately, however, it's something that weighs fairly heavily on him. He simply feels useless and, because of that, his own lack of self-worth pushes down on him more easily.
That aside, Percy is an idealistic and hopeful person at his core. He clings to the hope that things will work out for the best one day. This is why he absolutely loves the Disney animated canon. He loves that in those worlds good will always triumph over evil, that the hero will always win and the villain will always pay for their misdeeds. He loves that within these worlds, there is no doubt that true love exists and that people can live happily ever after. He is not unrealistic about the world the he lives in, though. He knows that bad things can and do happen to good people and that things don't always work out. He simply believes that sometimes there are happy endings and hopes there will be one for himself and for the people he cares about.
Additionally, he is a diligent and hard-worker. Though he is fairly intelligent on his own, most of his successes come from the fact that he is dedicated to his work. This is why he was able to piece clues together in order to discover the secrets of their world and their story. He was determined to figure things out and was focused in his efforts. He would also be able to explain those efforts, if need be. Percy knows a lot and likes to impart his knowledge onto others so they have a better understanding of the situation at hand. This can extent to relatively unimportant things only somewhat related to the present topic, however. He has a tendency to overanalyze and will, for example, attempt to make logical sense out of incredibly stupid metaphors or explain why they wouldn't work at all. Usually, these interjections are fairly ineloquent.
This ineloquence carries over to his attempts to comfort people. Percy is a naturally empathetic person and can usually tell when something is bothering someone. He'll try to make them feel better, but will tend to sound somewhat silly while doing so. There is an earnestness to his words that often counters that, fortunately for him and the people he's trying to make feel better.
Percy rarely gets visibly angry or even internally angry. Irritation is typically as far as it goes, as he has a very nasty habit of repressing things if he doesn't want to deal with them or finds them appropriate. If he gets angry he automatically swallows it down and pretends like he wasn't angry in the first place. If he's upset and is in a public place, he'll choked that down, too, scrub his face of any negative emotions and replace it with his standard soft smile. His resentments go the same way, too. He denies them to himself. Deep down he's aware of them, but on a surface level they are entirely ignored. The fact that Chris and Alice are pretty awful friends some of the time and the fact that he is constantly made fun of does sort of bother him? Pushed down so that he can give a gentle laugh when he's called a dipshit. The fact that his parents clearly don't love him? He just doesn't think about it. The fact that he doesn't love his parents, either? He won't even admit that to himself.
Though it's unhealthy, it's what allows him to function normally on a daily basis. Typically, the only form of hostility he shows is some sarcastic rudeness towards Chris. It's not anything intentionally hurtful (not that Chris would care, anyway), just the typical playful snarking that friends do. Occasionally, he will also do this to Alice when she is being particularly Chris-like. Really, it's sometimes the only way for him to deal with having friends like them.
Finally, Percy's nightmares have had an effect on the way he tends to deal with things. As his solution for them is to ignore them as often as possible by sleeping as little as possible, he is very rarely not tired. This results in him allowing things to slide more often than he might if he weren't always exhausted. When he is particularly tired, it is easier to take the path of least resistance rather than trying to sort things out or get worked up about them on very little sleep. That said, particularly frustrating situations can be made worse by the lack of sleep as he may not think as quickly as normal or be able to cope with things as well. His ability to swallow his negative emotions being one of those coping mechanisms that doesn't always function properly in this state. However, this typically only occurs during long periods of no sleep - several days - and doesn't often happen during his usual lack-of-sleep schedule. These nightmares have also caused him to have a fairly high tolerance for horror.
abilities/powers:
In terms of skills, Percy is pretty good at solving problems. He's more of a think-inside-the-box sort of person, however.
He also possesses powers, though they have not truly manifested at this point in his canon. To put it as plainly as possible, he has the ability to influence the will of people or things. He could cause someone to believe in something or to lose faith in something. Presently, he can't do much and he certainly can't do it consciously. These abilities only appear when he's able to take charge of a situation and show some true confidence or leadership skills- when the others truly see him as a leader. Right now, at most, he's able to inspire people to continue fighting or to continue to pursue whatever goal they're pursuing. He could also go in the opposite direction and inspire people to give up, but in both cases, it is only influence and not full-on forcing them. If they were determined enough to go one way or the other, he wouldn't be able to change that at this canon point.
first person sample:
Over here!
third person sample:
Percy's parents were supposed to be coming home soon. Normally that would mean frenzied preparation of documents and spreadsheets and stocks to show his progress. It didn't matter that they probably wouldn't show up, anyway. They rarely ever showed when they said they would. This time around, however, Percy had barely begun organizing. It was mid-December and he had other things to worry about. It was crunch time at school. Tests were coming up, projects were due. Christmas was coming up, too, and it was always a trial trying to figure out the perfect gift for his aunt and, of course, his friends. All two of them.
But these other concerns didn't stop him from obsessing about his parents return. From thinking about how disappointed they were going to be that those things he had been asked to improve on hadn't been. He chewed his lip as he looked over what needed to be done. Though "needed" may not have been the right term. It was more what he thought needed to be done. The truth was that it probably wouldn't matter at all. He inhaled deeply, placing his pen to the paper.
Nothing was written and in a few moments he placed it back down. A growing dread was forming in his stomach. He groaned and thumped his forehead against the desk before shifting his head to the side, so that he was laying on his cheek. The truth was it wasn't going to be good enough, anyway.
A sudden splat caused Percy to lift his head and glance around for the source. There was nothing in his room that could have caused it, as far as he could tell. Yet there the noise was again. He stood. Now sure he recognized that sound. That was the very distinct sound of something hitting his window. Sure enough, no sooner had he approached it that a glob of snow smacked up against it.
Rolling his eyes and shaking his head, Percy opened it up. "What, exactly, do you have against my window?" he called down at the culprits sometimes known as his friends. There was no answer, unless another snowball meeting him square in the face could be considered an answer. Sputtering and wiping quickly melting but still very cold snow off of his face, he managed to reopen his eyes just in time to see the two hooligans running away.
He let out a quiet chuckle as he shut the window again and moved to go back to his desk. Taking in the work still undone, however, he hesitated. And, after a moment of deliberation, he shrugged and instead walked towards his door. "Alright, you guys," he whispered to himself.
Who knew? Maybe this time he'd actually manage to hit one of them with some snow.
Additional Sample: Over here.
case no: 00-11-20