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timelessinventor) wrote2015-09-07 09:49 am
timelessinventor) wrote2015-09-07 09:49 am
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P L A Y E R;
NAME: Quinn
AGE: 32
PLAYER JOURNAL:quiverby
TIMEZONE: Eastern
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OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Naoto Shirogane
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Helena Grace Wells AKA H.G. Wells
CANON: Warehouse 13
POINT IN CANON: Between "Reset" and "The New Guy"
AGE: Technically 144, but she seems about mid-to-late thirties.
APPEARANCE: Picture Helena is five-foot-seven inches tall with shoulder-length dark black hair and a slim frame.
CANON HISTORY: Helena's Wiki here I'll expand on the specific backstory I'm using for Helena in the AU section, as Warehouse 13 painfully contradicts itself many many times. A note: The historical HG Wells is her older brother, Charles. Her actual history parallels some of his, including the first books written under the HG Wells name.
CANON PERSONALITY: Helena Wells is one of the most confident people you will ever meet. She is an extremely brilliant woman, she knows it, and she won't let anyone forget that. A feminist in the constricting Victorian era, Helena worked hard to be her own woman, defying social convention by wearing trousers when she was doing her work for the Warehouse, and openly flirting with women at social gatherings. She was known in the Victorian Era as a woman with a slightly-dubious reputation. One of her co-workers asking if there was anyone in London she had not charmed. Her answer, off-hand as always, was 'Oscar Wilde, but not for lack of trying.' She is well aware of her sexuality, and is charismatic and confident enough to charm even some of the hardest of hearts.
However, under the not-always-proper Victorian exterior, Helena is a driven woman. She wrote science fiction novels in a time when science fiction hadn't even been conceived. She also has many various inventions, both practical and fantastic, even things that were not even possible with the technology she had access to. Each of these things she was quite proud of, using them as much as possible, both to help and to hinder those around her. She is also very proud of her writing, commenting off-hand at one point how much in royalties she would have gotten from a short story in a magazine.
All is not well with Helena, however. After her daughter was murdered, her determination, drive, and passions turned to a darker side to try to get Christina back. Helena is very capable of murder and destruction (and has done both) when something she loves is in danger. Also, spending over a century as a sentient bronze statue has left its mental scars as well. She is very broken, lost in a world not her own, where she is only truly beginning to find her feet again. While Helena was a statue, she was alone with her own darker and pained thoughts. For the entire century, all she had was to dwell on her failed attempts to rescue Christina even with the entire power of the Warehouse and her own mind at her back. The knowledge that there was literally nothing she could have done broke her confidence, making her believe, at least for a while, that there was no purpose to go on, that there was no reason for her to live again.
When she was debronzed, she had to find reasons to live again, to find things that made her whole again. She had decided that she wanted to end the world, but was talked out of it by people in the Warehouse. Those around her reminded her of all of the good things in life. While she is still broken, and still feels like an utter failure, she is more confident about wanting to live again.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: Warehouse 13, while excellent with actual history, is extremely poor at remembering its own history. I am using a timeline where Christina was born in 1891 and died in 1899. Helena wrote four of the main HG Wells canon books, as well as the original short story for When the Sleeper Wakes. The First Men in the Moon was Charles' work from some of her extensive notes. There are some contradictions in canon, but this is the backstory I'm working with. The party shown in "3 2 1", is the release party for Invisible Man in 1897.
Where Helena actually deviates from canon comes in the events of "Buried" and "Reset", the end of Season 2 of the show. In the show, Helena claims a trident from Warehouse 2, and runs off to destroy the world at Yellowstone. However, in this AU, Helena was waylaid before she could get the trident by a shawl connected to Demeter, which made her run off to try yet again to find a way to get her daughter back. The shawl (in addition to creating snow in June) sent her to find Claudia's brother Joshua, the only person alive who was working on time travel. Unfortunately, Joshua's research was not good enough for Helena, but he was able to talk her down and neutralize the shawl, negating its effect on her.
Instead of being fired from the Warehouse for her actions, Helena was re-instated, and is yet again a full Warehouse agent. This is where she gets pulled in to be a Traveler. The AU is more extensive, but I am taking her from early in it.
ABILITIES: Science-fiction author, inventor, electrical and mechanical knowledge, knowledge of time travel theory and some practice, Kenpo, marksmanship.
INVENTORY; Tesla, Farnsworth, Grappler, magnetic boots, locket with a picture of her daughter, trench coat, blouse and trousers.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Test Drive Thread
PROSE SAMPLE: She's not even sure why she campaigned for the ping in France. Perhaps time with Myka, perhaps she just wanted to get out, perhaps she wanted to see how she'd do. There was one thing, though, one specific place that she had to go.
Shaking off Myka was easier than she expected. Whether the other woman actually realized what she was intending to do or not, she let her go. Actually finding the place she needed was a bit of an adventure after losing her way, finding a parking lot, and finally being told that what she was looking for had moved half a century ago.
Walking into the mausoleum, she quietly scanned each crypt until she found the one she was looking for. Reaching out, she gently put a hand on the name. "Hello, my darling girl."
She was still standing there later, barely holding back sobs, talking almost nonsensically to Christina. She'd told her about Joshua, about what life in the twenty-first century was like, and that Wooley was back in her life. Time flew by, a few people wandered in, but left at the sight of her grief. This was her moment and her moment alone.
Eventually, she wiped the tears from her cheeks, standing up straighter. "Mummy loves you, my little girl. I always will." She pauses for a long moment, collecting her emotions. "Perhaps I can finally visit you on a regular basis. Perhaps it is finally that time."
NAME: Quinn
AGE: 32
PLAYER JOURNAL:
quiverbyTIMEZONE: Eastern
CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Naoto Shirogane
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Helena Grace Wells AKA H.G. Wells
CANON: Warehouse 13
POINT IN CANON: Between "Reset" and "The New Guy"
AGE: Technically 144, but she seems about mid-to-late thirties.
APPEARANCE: Picture Helena is five-foot-seven inches tall with shoulder-length dark black hair and a slim frame.
CANON HISTORY: Helena's Wiki here I'll expand on the specific backstory I'm using for Helena in the AU section, as Warehouse 13 painfully contradicts itself many many times. A note: The historical HG Wells is her older brother, Charles. Her actual history parallels some of his, including the first books written under the HG Wells name.
CANON PERSONALITY: Helena Wells is one of the most confident people you will ever meet. She is an extremely brilliant woman, she knows it, and she won't let anyone forget that. A feminist in the constricting Victorian era, Helena worked hard to be her own woman, defying social convention by wearing trousers when she was doing her work for the Warehouse, and openly flirting with women at social gatherings. She was known in the Victorian Era as a woman with a slightly-dubious reputation. One of her co-workers asking if there was anyone in London she had not charmed. Her answer, off-hand as always, was 'Oscar Wilde, but not for lack of trying.' She is well aware of her sexuality, and is charismatic and confident enough to charm even some of the hardest of hearts.
However, under the not-always-proper Victorian exterior, Helena is a driven woman. She wrote science fiction novels in a time when science fiction hadn't even been conceived. She also has many various inventions, both practical and fantastic, even things that were not even possible with the technology she had access to. Each of these things she was quite proud of, using them as much as possible, both to help and to hinder those around her. She is also very proud of her writing, commenting off-hand at one point how much in royalties she would have gotten from a short story in a magazine.
All is not well with Helena, however. After her daughter was murdered, her determination, drive, and passions turned to a darker side to try to get Christina back. Helena is very capable of murder and destruction (and has done both) when something she loves is in danger. Also, spending over a century as a sentient bronze statue has left its mental scars as well. She is very broken, lost in a world not her own, where she is only truly beginning to find her feet again. While Helena was a statue, she was alone with her own darker and pained thoughts. For the entire century, all she had was to dwell on her failed attempts to rescue Christina even with the entire power of the Warehouse and her own mind at her back. The knowledge that there was literally nothing she could have done broke her confidence, making her believe, at least for a while, that there was no purpose to go on, that there was no reason for her to live again.
When she was debronzed, she had to find reasons to live again, to find things that made her whole again. She had decided that she wanted to end the world, but was talked out of it by people in the Warehouse. Those around her reminded her of all of the good things in life. While she is still broken, and still feels like an utter failure, she is more confident about wanting to live again.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: Warehouse 13, while excellent with actual history, is extremely poor at remembering its own history. I am using a timeline where Christina was born in 1891 and died in 1899. Helena wrote four of the main HG Wells canon books, as well as the original short story for When the Sleeper Wakes. The First Men in the Moon was Charles' work from some of her extensive notes. There are some contradictions in canon, but this is the backstory I'm working with. The party shown in "3 2 1", is the release party for Invisible Man in 1897.
Where Helena actually deviates from canon comes in the events of "Buried" and "Reset", the end of Season 2 of the show. In the show, Helena claims a trident from Warehouse 2, and runs off to destroy the world at Yellowstone. However, in this AU, Helena was waylaid before she could get the trident by a shawl connected to Demeter, which made her run off to try yet again to find a way to get her daughter back. The shawl (in addition to creating snow in June) sent her to find Claudia's brother Joshua, the only person alive who was working on time travel. Unfortunately, Joshua's research was not good enough for Helena, but he was able to talk her down and neutralize the shawl, negating its effect on her.
Instead of being fired from the Warehouse for her actions, Helena was re-instated, and is yet again a full Warehouse agent. This is where she gets pulled in to be a Traveler. The AU is more extensive, but I am taking her from early in it.
ABILITIES: Science-fiction author, inventor, electrical and mechanical knowledge, knowledge of time travel theory and some practice, Kenpo, marksmanship.
INVENTORY; Tesla, Farnsworth, Grappler, magnetic boots, locket with a picture of her daughter, trench coat, blouse and trousers.
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?
S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Test Drive Thread
PROSE SAMPLE: She's not even sure why she campaigned for the ping in France. Perhaps time with Myka, perhaps she just wanted to get out, perhaps she wanted to see how she'd do. There was one thing, though, one specific place that she had to go.
Shaking off Myka was easier than she expected. Whether the other woman actually realized what she was intending to do or not, she let her go. Actually finding the place she needed was a bit of an adventure after losing her way, finding a parking lot, and finally being told that what she was looking for had moved half a century ago.
Walking into the mausoleum, she quietly scanned each crypt until she found the one she was looking for. Reaching out, she gently put a hand on the name. "Hello, my darling girl."
She was still standing there later, barely holding back sobs, talking almost nonsensically to Christina. She'd told her about Joshua, about what life in the twenty-first century was like, and that Wooley was back in her life. Time flew by, a few people wandered in, but left at the sight of her grief. This was her moment and her moment alone.
Eventually, she wiped the tears from her cheeks, standing up straighter. "Mummy loves you, my little girl. I always will." She pauses for a long moment, collecting her emotions. "Perhaps I can finally visit you on a regular basis. Perhaps it is finally that time."