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bloodisthicker) wrote2016-09-25 05:28 pm
bloodisthicker) wrote2016-09-25 05:28 pm
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Player
Name: Ran
E-mail: [email protected]
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Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character
Name: Tarrlok
Series: Avatar: Legend of Korra
Timeline: The middle of Episode 8, before Korra shows up.
Canon Resource Links: WIKI HERE
Personality: So, that smooth-talking, ambitious, young (well, for a politician) politician from the notoriously smug Northern Water Tribe who is popular with the general populace… you know that guy? The one who smells like a lady? Yeah, that guy. Well, let me let you in on a little secret.
He has a lot of dark secrets and is honestly kind of a douche.
I know.
You are totally surprised.
Well, let’s start with “honestly kind of a douche” before we get into “dark secrets,” shall we? Tarrlok is the kind of guy who will go to extremes to get what he wants, and what he wants tends to be power. Bribery? Oh, of course. Emotional manipulation? Totally. Media manipulation? He has it down to an art form, man. McCarthyism? Hell yeah, let’s do this thing. Kidnapping the Avatar after she shows up getting all mad about him imprisoning her friends to keep her in line and then locking her in a metal box? Well… that’s for special occasions. Behind his amiable, impeccably groomed façade is the sort of ruthless, calculating asshole you’d expect an ambitious young politician to be under all the bullshit.
If he wants someone as an ally, well… expect him to try to come off as their best friend and buy them all the expensive things. Maybe there will be some sort of manipulation outside of that, but hey! As long as he can get partial credit and come off as really impressive, he will be behind you the whole way. Well, unless you get in his way or things go sour between you. Then he will be a snide asshole who is pretty fantastic at hitting where it hurts most in order to intimidate you, and he will give negative fucks about it. He’s fairly cunning and good at figuring out how to spin a situation to his advantage, though he’s not always on top of things.
This is pretty obvious when he’s put in opposition to a group he just doesn’t get. Canonically, he tries to combat the Equalists by using hardline tactics that make them look like they have more of a point and, basically, play right into their hands. His response isn’t to lighten up the pressure or try to figure out the enemy’s mindset—he just keeps stubbornly sticking to the initial line of logic and upping the intensity. Even though he’s a cunning manipulator, this has the potential to make him fairly easily manipulated himself. Or just easily trolled, honestly, that works too. Point is, he’s very unlikely to waver on a decision when he’s come to one.
...he also has a pretty bad temper, although… it’s really only in relation to specific things. Like, you know, being compared to Amon, the dude terrorizing Republic City, who he’s mentally comparing to Yakone, the dude who terrorized Republic City years ago (and is also his horrible fuckin’ dad who he’s trying really hard not to be but kind of failing at, whoops). It should be noted that the person he attacked on this basis was someone he was at the end of his rope with anyway, but that doesn’t exactly mean he can’t crack and flip out on someone in a situation that was a different kind of stressful. He’s not exactly terrible at covering his tracks, and will go to pretty significant lengths to do so up to and including injuring himself to make it look like he was attacked… but more likely than not, he’d probably just end up digging his hole deeper, to the point where things would undoubtedly fall in on him in the worst way possible.
Another point is… yeah, he has a stunning lack of self-awareness. He’s kind of set himself up as the savior of Republic City who can remodel the everloving shit out of its rotten, crime-loving foundations… but honestly, he really isn’t all that different from his awful mafia dad, as much as he’s trying to run things from the top rather than the bottom. He doesn’t want to second guess himself or back down because he thinks that’s probably part of what screwed up his life so badly as a kid… after all, years of being berated for not being able to horrifyingly bloodbend animals as well as your brother does something to you. So does your brother telling you you’re weak for wanting to take care of your mom instead of running away… before he runs away himself in a blizzard and (very likely definitely totally but they never found the body) dies.
If Tarrlok really had to confront the person that he’s become over the years and reflect on it, for whatever reason… well. It probably wouldn’t sit very well with him. He liked to think he’d dedicated his life to being better than that. But… he really didn’t accomplish it.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer!
Starter: Poliwag
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: my magnum opus tbh
Victory Road Sample: Tarrlok definitely was the last person who’d say that city life had made him soft, but… for someone who’d spent so much time heading out into the frozen wilderness as a child, he was possibly a bit ashamed to find himself balking at the idea of traveling through the untamed wilderness for three days on foot with one change of clothes, no sleeping bag, berries along the way that were apparently edible by everything except humans, and… no bending.
...he was still scratching his head figuring that one out, because apparently no one here knew what an Equalist was to begin with. It was pretty deeply concerning, all things considered, because it’s entirely possible he’d had a run-in with Amon and just didn’t remember it at all… but then, he’d notice other things wrong too, wouldn’t he? He wasn’t sore or stiff at all, and he’d… really just seemed to be going about his business before waking up in some strange woman’s house.
There was definitely something shady about all this, and he’d definitely know a thing or two about things being shady. He would have to actually get to the bottom of this, which probably meant… well… approaching this the way everyone in this world expected him to, didn’t it.
...yeah, he couldn’t help giving an uncertain glance towards the oversized tadpole that had just toddled up behind him and honestly seemed a bit confused as to why he wasn’t continuing forward. It seemed like he was practically expected to use this in combat instead of his bending, which… well. War animals were a thing, certainly, and when in Ba Sing Se you do like the residents, but telling this poor little Poliwag thing to fight people for him felt…
…
No, he had to keep moving forward, didn’t he? He’d just deal with it and do whatever he had to do to get the bottom of things, just as he always did. He was sure he’d get the hang of it at some point, regardless of how easy or difficult to get used to it ended up being.
“...well, I guess we don’t have all day to just admire the scenery, do we?” he said, partially to himself and partially to the Poliwag. “Let’s start getting ready to take this league by storm.”
Name: Ran
E-mail: [email protected]
Preferred Contact:
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: N/A
Character
Name: Tarrlok
Series: Avatar: Legend of Korra
Timeline: The middle of Episode 8, before Korra shows up.
Canon Resource Links: WIKI HERE
Personality: So, that smooth-talking, ambitious, young (well, for a politician) politician from the notoriously smug Northern Water Tribe who is popular with the general populace… you know that guy? The one who smells like a lady? Yeah, that guy. Well, let me let you in on a little secret.
He has a lot of dark secrets and is honestly kind of a douche.
I know.
You are totally surprised.
Well, let’s start with “honestly kind of a douche” before we get into “dark secrets,” shall we? Tarrlok is the kind of guy who will go to extremes to get what he wants, and what he wants tends to be power. Bribery? Oh, of course. Emotional manipulation? Totally. Media manipulation? He has it down to an art form, man. McCarthyism? Hell yeah, let’s do this thing. Kidnapping the Avatar after she shows up getting all mad about him imprisoning her friends to keep her in line and then locking her in a metal box? Well… that’s for special occasions. Behind his amiable, impeccably groomed façade is the sort of ruthless, calculating asshole you’d expect an ambitious young politician to be under all the bullshit.
If he wants someone as an ally, well… expect him to try to come off as their best friend and buy them all the expensive things. Maybe there will be some sort of manipulation outside of that, but hey! As long as he can get partial credit and come off as really impressive, he will be behind you the whole way. Well, unless you get in his way or things go sour between you. Then he will be a snide asshole who is pretty fantastic at hitting where it hurts most in order to intimidate you, and he will give negative fucks about it. He’s fairly cunning and good at figuring out how to spin a situation to his advantage, though he’s not always on top of things.
This is pretty obvious when he’s put in opposition to a group he just doesn’t get. Canonically, he tries to combat the Equalists by using hardline tactics that make them look like they have more of a point and, basically, play right into their hands. His response isn’t to lighten up the pressure or try to figure out the enemy’s mindset—he just keeps stubbornly sticking to the initial line of logic and upping the intensity. Even though he’s a cunning manipulator, this has the potential to make him fairly easily manipulated himself. Or just easily trolled, honestly, that works too. Point is, he’s very unlikely to waver on a decision when he’s come to one.
...he also has a pretty bad temper, although… it’s really only in relation to specific things. Like, you know, being compared to Amon, the dude terrorizing Republic City, who he’s mentally comparing to Yakone, the dude who terrorized Republic City years ago (and is also his horrible fuckin’ dad who he’s trying really hard not to be but kind of failing at, whoops). It should be noted that the person he attacked on this basis was someone he was at the end of his rope with anyway, but that doesn’t exactly mean he can’t crack and flip out on someone in a situation that was a different kind of stressful. He’s not exactly terrible at covering his tracks, and will go to pretty significant lengths to do so up to and including injuring himself to make it look like he was attacked… but more likely than not, he’d probably just end up digging his hole deeper, to the point where things would undoubtedly fall in on him in the worst way possible.
Another point is… yeah, he has a stunning lack of self-awareness. He’s kind of set himself up as the savior of Republic City who can remodel the everloving shit out of its rotten, crime-loving foundations… but honestly, he really isn’t all that different from his awful mafia dad, as much as he’s trying to run things from the top rather than the bottom. He doesn’t want to second guess himself or back down because he thinks that’s probably part of what screwed up his life so badly as a kid… after all, years of being berated for not being able to horrifyingly bloodbend animals as well as your brother does something to you. So does your brother telling you you’re weak for wanting to take care of your mom instead of running away… before he runs away himself in a blizzard and (very likely definitely totally but they never found the body) dies.
If Tarrlok really had to confront the person that he’s become over the years and reflect on it, for whatever reason… well. It probably wouldn’t sit very well with him. He liked to think he’d dedicated his life to being better than that. But… he really didn’t accomplish it.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer!
Starter: Poliwag
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: my magnum opus tbh
Victory Road Sample: Tarrlok definitely was the last person who’d say that city life had made him soft, but… for someone who’d spent so much time heading out into the frozen wilderness as a child, he was possibly a bit ashamed to find himself balking at the idea of traveling through the untamed wilderness for three days on foot with one change of clothes, no sleeping bag, berries along the way that were apparently edible by everything except humans, and… no bending.
...he was still scratching his head figuring that one out, because apparently no one here knew what an Equalist was to begin with. It was pretty deeply concerning, all things considered, because it’s entirely possible he’d had a run-in with Amon and just didn’t remember it at all… but then, he’d notice other things wrong too, wouldn’t he? He wasn’t sore or stiff at all, and he’d… really just seemed to be going about his business before waking up in some strange woman’s house.
There was definitely something shady about all this, and he’d definitely know a thing or two about things being shady. He would have to actually get to the bottom of this, which probably meant… well… approaching this the way everyone in this world expected him to, didn’t it.
...yeah, he couldn’t help giving an uncertain glance towards the oversized tadpole that had just toddled up behind him and honestly seemed a bit confused as to why he wasn’t continuing forward. It seemed like he was practically expected to use this in combat instead of his bending, which… well. War animals were a thing, certainly, and when in Ba Sing Se you do like the residents, but telling this poor little Poliwag thing to fight people for him felt…
…
No, he had to keep moving forward, didn’t he? He’d just deal with it and do whatever he had to do to get the bottom of things, just as he always did. He was sure he’d get the hang of it at some point, regardless of how easy or difficult to get used to it ended up being.
“...well, I guess we don’t have all day to just admire the scenery, do we?” he said, partially to himself and partially to the Poliwag. “Let’s start getting ready to take this league by storm.”