Post by Rutger Kilborn on Jun 30, 2010 22:41:12 GMT -5
Player Name:Andi
Player Age:Right...
Years Experience in roleplaying:You already know the answer
How did you hear about us?Silly question
Did you read the rules? (See the rules for password) Merlin's Baggy Y-fronts!
Character Name:Rutger Kilborn
Character Age:32
{If adult} Occupation:Auror Specialist
{If student} Year:
{If Student} Preferred House:
(If Student) Best Classes:
{If Student) Worst Classes:
Appearance:
Celebrity Claim (make sure you post in the Celebrity Claim list as well, and make sure your chosen celebrity is available): Marton Csokas
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Quirks/Habits:
Favorite...
Personality (At least 4 sentences, but longer is preferred):The person who said that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" might have been talking about Rutger. However, he is actually anything but dull. Rather, he's a bit odd and eccentric, so deeply involved in his work that he has absolutely no personal life whatsoever. Oh, he has an apartment, but it's virtually bare of personal items. No photos adorn the walls, no cute little knick-knacks, no vases of any kind. The walls are white, the carpet is brown, and the sofa is a ghastly green plaid that's ripped and torn in places. This is not because he's messy... he just has no interest in decorating. It's not like he spends much time in his apartment, anyway. He's always working. And when he's not working, he's thinking about working.
He's cool and analytical, but not an unfeeling person. On the contrary, he works so hard because he cares deeply about what he's doing. People are dying, brutally, and it's his job to stop that from happening. He genuinely believes in protecting the innocent from violence and death, and he takes it very seriously.
He has learned that, in order to catch killers, one must learn to think like one, to get into the murderers' heads. He has studied muggle psychiatry and psychology and has found that it's all pretty much the same with wizards as with muggles. He uses this knowledge to track killers and catch them.
Because he is so smart, not everyone will understand him. He will start a train of thought, and abandon it suddenly in mid-sentence, usually because he's already figured out the answer and he forgets that anyone else is listening to his words. He needs to be reminded to eat and sleep sometimes, especially when he thinks he's close to cracking a case. He has no sense of humor at all... jokes and puns just don't make sense to him.
Love, for Rutger, is something he has never experienced. Even reading the literature about love, it doesn't really connect for him. He thinks it's just a chemical reaction, something that one can just "outgrow." What he doesn't realize is that, because he cares so deeply, he is very much capable of love. He just needs to be open to the idea.
History (At least 4 sentences):Most people can't even imagine that Rutger was once a child. But he was. He was born in Germany, during the height of World War II. At the time of his birth, his father was in a concentration camp, having been discovered as a wizard. Hitler intended to either find a way to steal or exploit the magical powers of witches and wizards... or exterminate them all, if they wouldn't help. His mother Hillary was a muggle, so they didn't take her, but they brought her in frequently for "tests" to see if the child she was carrying possessed magical powers. But there was nothing abnomal in the prenatal blood, and as we know, it takes a little while for children to develop their magical powers.
Rutger was three years old when it happened. Even though it was getting close to the end of the war, there was still a German soldier that followed him around all the time. It was a simple thing, really. Little Rutger was playing with a neighborhood boy, when the boy stole his toy and ran off with it. Rutger, using a power he didn't yet understand, made the boy stop and the toy fly out of his hands. Almost immediately, Rutger was scooped up and whisked away, to the protests of his mother.
Rutger spent the next couple of years in a research facility, being trained by unscrupulous people to use his powers for evil. But even at a young age, Rutger had a strong sense of right and wrong, and he refused to do as they wanted. He was punished, brutally and physically, but he would not relent. An infected injury from the torture brought him near death, but he miraculously was able to recover. One of the trainers was actually a teacher at Durmstrang, and he had a soft spot for the strong-willed, stubborn boy. He slipped the boy a healing potion.
After 2 and a half years of torture and abuse, the war ended and Rutger was finally freed. Now about 5 years old, he was free to return to his family... only he had no family to return to. His father had died at a work camp, and his mother, trying to get her son freed from his imprisonment, was killed by German soliders.
The trainer at the research facility, the one who worked at Durmstrang, found out about this and took in the boy. Rutger came to know the man as "Uncle Morty," but he never forgot where he met the man and what he had done. It turned out that he had been tortured just as Rutger and his father had been, but he didn't have the strength of will to fight back. But watching the young boy withstand the torture, he realized that he was weak. Taking in Rutger was a way to atone for his crimes.
The rest of Rutger's childhood was basically pretty normal. He was a quiet, serious boy who kept to himself and rarely played... he preferred to read. When he got his Durmstrang letter, Uncle Morty celebrated with him.
At school, Rutger was a good student, one of the best, in fact. But he was not the most social student. He had no close friends, never made small talk, never dated, and never even seemed to notice girls. He was all about the work.
Uncle Morty died just before Rutger graduated, but he would have been proud of Rutger's decision to become an Auror. He began the training right after school, and quickly passed the test to become a full auror.
Over the years, his hard work and determination has made him one of the most formidable aurors in the German ministry. He found a particular specialty in the area of catching murderers, and has become the premiere authority on the subject. But his unorthodox working style began to create some problems within the Ministry, so his was assigned a partner who would balance him out. Since being assigned to Kryshna's case, Rutger and his partner have been working very close together, and spending a lot of time together....
RP Sample (At least 4 sentences, must be as the character. Pretend it's your first post): Wow, this character came together really fast. I love him already....
Player Age:Right...
Years Experience in roleplaying:You already know the answer
How did you hear about us?Silly question
Did you read the rules? (See the rules for password) Merlin's Baggy Y-fronts!
Character Name:Rutger Kilborn
Character Age:32
{If adult} Occupation:Auror Specialist
{If Student} Preferred House:
(If Student) Best Classes:
{If Student) Worst Classes:
Appearance:
- Eye Color:brown
- Hair (color, length, style):dark hair, worn short, slightly curly
- Skin Tone:white, slightly tan
- Height:6'3"
- Weight:180 lbs? ish
Celebrity Claim (make sure you post in the Celebrity Claim list as well, and make sure your chosen celebrity is available): Marton Csokas
Strengths:
- Logic
- Attention to details--always catches things that other people miss
- Knows how to "get into the mind" of a killer
- Excellent tracker
- Won't give up until he solves a case
Weaknesses:
- Has no sense of humor (he just... doesn't get it)
- Kind of obsessed with work
- Doesn't always have the best interpersonal skills
- No social life
- When he's on the trail of someone, he becomes almost crazed and forgets basic things like eating and sleeping
- Is an insomniac (how many of my characters are insomniacs?)
Quirks/Habits:
- Has a tendency to work things out by talking to himself, then trailing off abruptly as he reaches the point of what he's saying (this drives his partner crazy)
- Often works things out while in the shower, or in bed, or eating, leading him to forget to do these things and get back to work
- Talks with his mouth full
Favorite...
- musician/band:He doesn't listen to a lot of music, but he does like the Beatles
- movie:Casablanca (the only movie he's ever seen)
- book:He mostly reads psychological theory books
- food:burgers
Personality (At least 4 sentences, but longer is preferred):The person who said that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" might have been talking about Rutger. However, he is actually anything but dull. Rather, he's a bit odd and eccentric, so deeply involved in his work that he has absolutely no personal life whatsoever. Oh, he has an apartment, but it's virtually bare of personal items. No photos adorn the walls, no cute little knick-knacks, no vases of any kind. The walls are white, the carpet is brown, and the sofa is a ghastly green plaid that's ripped and torn in places. This is not because he's messy... he just has no interest in decorating. It's not like he spends much time in his apartment, anyway. He's always working. And when he's not working, he's thinking about working.
He's cool and analytical, but not an unfeeling person. On the contrary, he works so hard because he cares deeply about what he's doing. People are dying, brutally, and it's his job to stop that from happening. He genuinely believes in protecting the innocent from violence and death, and he takes it very seriously.
He has learned that, in order to catch killers, one must learn to think like one, to get into the murderers' heads. He has studied muggle psychiatry and psychology and has found that it's all pretty much the same with wizards as with muggles. He uses this knowledge to track killers and catch them.
Because he is so smart, not everyone will understand him. He will start a train of thought, and abandon it suddenly in mid-sentence, usually because he's already figured out the answer and he forgets that anyone else is listening to his words. He needs to be reminded to eat and sleep sometimes, especially when he thinks he's close to cracking a case. He has no sense of humor at all... jokes and puns just don't make sense to him.
Love, for Rutger, is something he has never experienced. Even reading the literature about love, it doesn't really connect for him. He thinks it's just a chemical reaction, something that one can just "outgrow." What he doesn't realize is that, because he cares so deeply, he is very much capable of love. He just needs to be open to the idea.
History (At least 4 sentences):Most people can't even imagine that Rutger was once a child. But he was. He was born in Germany, during the height of World War II. At the time of his birth, his father was in a concentration camp, having been discovered as a wizard. Hitler intended to either find a way to steal or exploit the magical powers of witches and wizards... or exterminate them all, if they wouldn't help. His mother Hillary was a muggle, so they didn't take her, but they brought her in frequently for "tests" to see if the child she was carrying possessed magical powers. But there was nothing abnomal in the prenatal blood, and as we know, it takes a little while for children to develop their magical powers.
Rutger was three years old when it happened. Even though it was getting close to the end of the war, there was still a German soldier that followed him around all the time. It was a simple thing, really. Little Rutger was playing with a neighborhood boy, when the boy stole his toy and ran off with it. Rutger, using a power he didn't yet understand, made the boy stop and the toy fly out of his hands. Almost immediately, Rutger was scooped up and whisked away, to the protests of his mother.
Rutger spent the next couple of years in a research facility, being trained by unscrupulous people to use his powers for evil. But even at a young age, Rutger had a strong sense of right and wrong, and he refused to do as they wanted. He was punished, brutally and physically, but he would not relent. An infected injury from the torture brought him near death, but he miraculously was able to recover. One of the trainers was actually a teacher at Durmstrang, and he had a soft spot for the strong-willed, stubborn boy. He slipped the boy a healing potion.
After 2 and a half years of torture and abuse, the war ended and Rutger was finally freed. Now about 5 years old, he was free to return to his family... only he had no family to return to. His father had died at a work camp, and his mother, trying to get her son freed from his imprisonment, was killed by German soliders.
The trainer at the research facility, the one who worked at Durmstrang, found out about this and took in the boy. Rutger came to know the man as "Uncle Morty," but he never forgot where he met the man and what he had done. It turned out that he had been tortured just as Rutger and his father had been, but he didn't have the strength of will to fight back. But watching the young boy withstand the torture, he realized that he was weak. Taking in Rutger was a way to atone for his crimes.
The rest of Rutger's childhood was basically pretty normal. He was a quiet, serious boy who kept to himself and rarely played... he preferred to read. When he got his Durmstrang letter, Uncle Morty celebrated with him.
At school, Rutger was a good student, one of the best, in fact. But he was not the most social student. He had no close friends, never made small talk, never dated, and never even seemed to notice girls. He was all about the work.
Uncle Morty died just before Rutger graduated, but he would have been proud of Rutger's decision to become an Auror. He began the training right after school, and quickly passed the test to become a full auror.
Over the years, his hard work and determination has made him one of the most formidable aurors in the German ministry. He found a particular specialty in the area of catching murderers, and has become the premiere authority on the subject. But his unorthodox working style began to create some problems within the Ministry, so his was assigned a partner who would balance him out. Since being assigned to Kryshna's case, Rutger and his partner have been working very close together, and spending a lot of time together....
RP Sample (At least 4 sentences, must be as the character. Pretend it's your first post): Wow, this character came together really fast. I love him already....
I'm still mad about Helm's Deep...shouldn't have been there.
I'll just have to be patient
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