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Dec. 25th, 2011 03:17 amOut of Character Information
Name: Jessi
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In Character Information
Basics
Character Name: Detective Lawrence 'Pookie' Chang
Username:thechangbang
Fandom: Scott Sigler's podcast novel Nocturnal
Played By: Song Kang-ho
Icon: This one!
Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Pooks is a early-to-mid thirties, slightly pudgy, Korean American cop. He's about average height, is often smiling and blah blah blah.
Sexuality: Pookie is straight, and he's also a womaniser (though a respectful one). He's flirty, joking and somewhat romantic in his own special way, and although in canon, we never actually see him explicitly get a woman into bed, he's had a lot of one-night stands or short affairs with a lot of different women, usually married ones. He watches Grey's Anatomy aaaand another show I can't recall off the top of my head (I think it might be Desperate Housewives?), partly because he's a derpy bastard and secretly likes the stories, and partly because it puts him in good stead with the ladies. He's also the proud inventor of The Chang-Bang, a sexual position that involves the use of a barstool and a hula-hoop. Yeah, he's a creative one, is Pooks.
History: So, Pookie grew up in Chicago, had a normal childhood, except for the "blatent child abuse" that was his dad letting him watch Nightmare on Elm Street at the tender age of seven, something he totally had nightmares about for years after. He became a cop in his early to mid twenties, then at some point transferred to San Francisco, where he was partnered with Detective Bryan Clauser on the homocide squad. They saw their fare share of cases, including the one where Bryan killed a man to save Pookie's life, but mostly they were normal murders.
Until the "Piss Man" murders. Basically, entire gangs were being systematically wiped out, the bodies were mostly taken from the scene and then the killer or killers would pee all over the place before leaving without another trace. Bryan Clauser? He started having fucked-up dreams, like, really fucked-up. He'd dream of stalking people, hunting them down, he'd dream of monsters stalking and hunting people and he'd wake up with a boner. Pookie, reasonably, was worried about Bryan, but he stayed calm, joking and playing it like it was no big deal to keep Bryan from going crazy. Bryan was his partner, and the guy who'd saved his life, after all.
Then Alex Panos was killed. Alex Panos was a teenager, a high-school jock who had run a low-level gang called Boys Company or BoyCo. Turns out Bryan dreamt of his exact manner of death. And Bryan finds some weird symbols written on the wall in blood - one of which he'd been compelled to draw after each dream, due to it being the only thing that stopped the feeling that he was being hunted himself. Pooks and Bryan investigate these symbols, taking them to the gang squad's database as is routine, but also going slightly more unorthodox by paying a visit to Mr Biz-Nass, who, as I said, is a fortune-teller with an electronic voicebox who also happens to have Tourette's Syndrome. Biz points the detectives to an old case of a serial killer called the Grand Park Slasher, which he says definitely involved those symbols. Turns out, the files have been erased.
This whole deal, plus a number of new murders, both gangs and people from Alex Panos' high school, stems a new investigation. Along the way, they talk to the foster-mother of one Rex Deprovdechuck, a thirteen year old from Galileo High, where BoyCo went to school, as Rex was one kid who BoyCo constantly tortured and bullied. They find pictures, detailed well-drawn pictures of BoyCo members being killed, both by a superhero-style Rex and by monsters, the same monsters Bryan's had dreams about before, and they also find drawings of the symbols. They do not, however, find Rex Deprovdechuk, and they leave, putting out an APB on him. The investigation finally leads to them finding out about Marie's Children, or the Nocturnals, a group of mutant monsters who live in tunnels underneath San Francisco and come out occasionally to hunt humans. Fortunately, the monsters have someone they fear enough to stop them from just tearing all the people in the city to pieces: the Savior. And fortunately, the Savior has high-level police officials who keep his name and what he does - killing these supernatural killers, some who look completely human, with special silver-dust-coated arrows - out of the casefiles and out of the media. This doesn't sit well with Pookie, or Bryan, though for slightly different reasons. Pookie hates the idea of corrupt cops running his police force, and Bryan? Bryan just wants some goddamn answers, because he's still having the dreams.
So, after the two watch Savior kill a murder witness (who is a mutant, and was actually helping kill the victim, though they don't know that) right in front of them Pookie and Bryan track the makers of the arrows, an old man and his grandson, Alder and Adam Jessup, and from them learn that the Savior, or at least, the recipient of the arrows is one Jebediah Erikson. Chief Amy Zou tells them to back off the entire case, but Bryan decides to bust into Savior's house. Pookie, being the good buddy and clean cop he is, backs his partner's play, planning ahead and setting his pieces up in advance - utilising both "Big Tonda" Murphy and John "Black Mister Burns" Smith, whose lives Bryan had also previously saved by killing their attackers, earning him the nickname of "The Ninja", as backup, and setting it up so that BMB called in the 'break-in' at Savior's house and Big Tonda and her partner were the first responders, guaranteeing the team time to check out Savior's house and find proof of his guilt. A perfect plan, at least until Savior gets home and proceeds to beat the living crap out of the whole group after he sees Bryan.
In the scuffle, Bryan gets shot, but he still manages to stab Savior with Savior's own knife, and the surprisingly-tough old man goes down. He gets rushed to hospital, while Bryan and Pookie scramble to get the hell away from the house before other cops arrive, taking with them a stuffed mutant they found in Erikson's basement. They go to Robin Hudson, Bryan's ex-girlfriend, and medical examiner, who is helping them investigate the mutants, being the one who finds out that all the mutant DNA has a Z (pronounced 'zed' for the sake of distinguishing some other Z chromosomal issue idk) chromosome, and the one who, along with help from her old mentor, develops a test that allows them to identify a Z almost instantly in a DNA sample. Robin patches Bryan up and they start to actually talk again for the first time in forever.
Bryan goes and talks to a taxidermist about the creature, and finds out that it's real, not an example of fake taxidermy. Bryan's badge and gun get taken from him by the Sub-chief, and he's officially supposed to stay home. He says fuck that, and Pookie and Bryan go to the hospital to see Erikson, who has woken up. He freaks out when Bryan's in the room, calling him 'devil' and 'satan' and struggling to get out of his restraints. Bryan, sick of all this shit, freaks out and yells at Savior, who just seems even more scared and angry. In the resulting chaos, Bryan snaps and injures both Pookie and another officer - they try to drag him out of the room, he shakes the other officer off him, throwing him into a wall by accident with his freaky strength and then picks Pookie up by the throat when Pooks tries to step in.
Safe to say, Pookie is really freaked by this, but he can see that Bryan is even more rattled, and stays calm for his friend. They nearly leave the hospital, but a bum is brought in with a baby, who came wrapped in a blanket covered in the same symbols from the Panos murder scene, so it's back to work. The bum, Aggie, had been held by Marie's Children, and freed by one, with a proviso that he takes the baby and finds it a home. He'd also been given a list of names of people who had taken babies before, and who might take another one. On the list of names, there's Roberta Deprovdechuck, Rex's fostermum, and also, there's Bryan Clauser's father. Bryan goes to get answers out of his dad, and Pookie, after calling Bry-Bry's father quickly, goes to Roberta's house, only to find Roberta and her husband/boyfriend brutally, brutally murdered.
After an argument with his (foster-)father, Bryan joins forces with the Jessups, who kit him out in Savior gear, though skipping the armoured forest-green cloak and going for an up-market armoured black pea-coat instead. They save Savior from being killed in the hospital by the Nocturnals, a group consisting of Rex Deprovdechuk, Pierre and Sly, two of the mutants Bryan dreamed about (Pierre is a werewolf-ish thing, Sly is a snake man). This rescue involves Bryan throwing Erikson's whole hospital bed out of the window, Erikson still chained to it, then jumping out himself. It's not a ground floor window. By this time, Bryan knows he has the Z, and as a result, has enhanced strength and fast healing. The Jessups race the two men back to their house and start working on saving Savior, who by this time, grudgingly accepts that Bryan is not, infact, the devil.
Then, MAJOR SPOILERS, disaster strikes.
Rex sends his monsters after Robin Hudson in her apartment. The monsters are Clyde the Glide, Spidey and Bone Head, (so named because Clyde has wing flaps that let him glide/fly, Spidey has six arms and two legs and Bone Head has an extra huge head with a big boney plate at the front that he uses to bash people to death) Robin, despite a good fight she's pretty unprepared for, which also involves her dog, Emma, her neighbour Big Gay Max and his dog whose name I've forgotten (:c), is badly hurt, and even though Bryan and Pookie arrive, it's too late to save her. She dies in Bryan's arms, before they get to restart their relationship, and Bryan goes on the warpath. Pookie, despite adoring Robin, thinks like a cop, and calls Big Tonda to get her butt over there and act as the first responder to the scene, then he starts wiping places Bryan might have left fingerprints (as by this point, Bryan has been framed for the murder of an ex-cop, by the Sub-Chief using his gun and is a wanted suspect, and this will kill his chances of revenge). Bryan, on the other hand, turns violent. He tortures Bone Head, who'd been knocked out in the fight, and at Pookie's urging, takes him back to the Jessup place, to continue the interrogation there. BMB and Mr Biz are there too, after Pookie had sent Black Burns to go get the fortuneteller.
After some interrogation, through which Bryan learns that Rex has arranged a showdown on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, an old war ship, Bone Head stabs himself through the heart with the silver-dust-coated knife Bryan had stabbed through both his palms when Bryan asks about where the Nocturnals live. Enraged, Bryan asserts that, no, Bone Head doesn't get to die by his own hand, he gets to die by Bryan's, and then shoots him point blanc in the head a couple times, which both freaks out and satisfies Pookie.
Then Bryan gears up for war. He wants a showdown with Rex, the boy who ordered Robin's death, and he's going to get it. He gives Pookie a chance to opt out, but Pookie decides he's staying with Bryan. So, after the Jessups fit the two out with weapons and Pookie with a snazzy "fag Robin Hood" Savior cloak, they start driving for the pier in Pookie's piece of shit car, a journey during which Bryan freaks Pookie out even more by rebreaking his broken collarbone and then setting it right then and there, in the moving vehicle. Then the car gets attacked by Clyde and Spidey, who have been ordered back, despite injuries sustained. The car gets pretty wrecked, so Pookie and Bryan take the fight out into the street. Pookie takes on Spidey, shooting off one of his arms with a shotgun, while Bryan takes out Clyde by shooting him in the chest and through one of his wing-flaps. In the fight, Pookie gets shot, but the cloak protects him. Bryan, after helping Pooks with Spidey and turning back to beat Clyde to the ground, begins to stab into Pookie's car's gas tank, letting petrol spill out and cover the mutant. Pookie begs him not to do what he's started to do, people are looking and fuck, that's just something else, even if he did kill Robin, but Bryan does it anyway. Pookie is shocked and sickened by it, but Bryan leaves the mutant burning to death in the street, and again gives Pookie the option to opt out. Pookie doesn't. "In for a penny, in for a pound. Let's finish this, but afterwards, you and I are gonna have a little talk. The word therapy does come to mind."
They run for the pier, for the ship, and it's from here that I'm taking him, just before the final showdown. MORE SPOILERS HERE, DUH.
A quick rundown of what happens after this point: the O'Brien has already sailed, holding crew, Chief Amy Zou and her captured two daughters, a fuckbunch of mutants and two rival gangs, the Russians and the Italians (though they've been disarmed, for the first little while the detectives are on the ship, anyway). Pooks thinks that's it, they can't get to the ship... but Bryan can jump like a freak, so he jumps himself and Pooks over to it. Bryan draws everyone's attention, starting a firefight with mutants and some gangmembers, to give Pooks enough time to go into the hold and find Zou's kids. He finds them, but he also finds a bomb on a timer. He and Zou manage to save her daughters, though they don't kill Pierre, who's holding them hostage, and Zou has to remain behind to keep him in place while Pookie escapes with her daughters. The clock on the bomb ticks down, Pookie and the girls get to the deck and it goes off. They're now on a sinking ship, Bryan's still fighting, and Chief Zou is nowhere to be seen. Pookie waits until the ship keels over nearly to the water, then jumps in with the girls, despite the risks of being dragged out to sea. A former Russian gangmember, who had been hired because of his awesome swimming talents to swim guns out onto the ship for the Russians, helps Pooks and the girls out, and gets them to relative safety in a lifeboat. There's a long, drawn out, painful battle between Bryan and his various enemies, Chief Zou was injured in the bomb, and various characters bite the dust. Eventually, it's over and Pooks, his formerly-Russian buddy, Amy Zou's kids and their lifeboat are joined by Bryan and a nastily-burnt-but-still-alive Amy Zou.
Then nothing much happens, except that Pookie gets promoted with the disappearance of Sub-Chief Robertson, as someone's gotta keep the new Savior - yes, that's Bryan "The Ninja" Clauser - out of the media and off the books, right? A new Chief is appointed and Pookie immediately gets himself in the Chief's bad books by saying how glad he is the guy isn't a gay man, like Pooks thought he might be. Turns out? He is. He's also one tough guy, and Pooks thoroughly embarasses himself. THE END.
(Also, this is the story from the podcast version of the novel, not the version scheduled to be published for real in 2012. Since I first played Pooks, Sigler has taken down the podcast of Nocturnal and rewritten it for publishing; he's called the podcast novel a "draft" as well, so idk what changes there will be but they're probably going to be faiiiirly major.)
Powers: Absolutely nothing! He's not supernatural in any way and has no powers, unless you count being ridiculously attractive a power. Which Pooks totally does. :V
Talents/Abilities:: He's a normal dude. Slightly pudgey, but still fit and surprisingly fast on his feet. He's also a quick thinker and he's freakishly good at remembering tiny details about you that you forgot you told him months ago.
As a cop, he's obviously got experience with guns, and he's not one for risking a headshot instead of taking the more-reliable torso shot. He also shows that he has knowledge of other guns that he wouldn't have actually come in contact with before, like the USAS12 12-gauge. He knows a LOT of random weapon trivia.
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Pookie Chang is, first and foremost, a cop. He's surprisingly smart, analytical and willing to put his life on the line to protect and serve the people of his city. He's had the training, and he uses it and whatever other knowledge he's managed to glean to his advantage. He's a creative cop, too, resorting to slightly unorthodox sources to get his work done, notably Mr. Biz-Nass, an abrasive fortune-teller with Tourette's and an electronic voicebox, who happens to be an expert on San Francisco's occult history. Pookie uses what he can find, and won't baulk at utilising a resource just because it seems a little out there. He's also loyal to a fault, if you're someone he truly trusts (like Bryan, his partner, the man who saved Pookie's life by killing a gangbanger pointing a gun to Pookie's head). But his loyalty doesn't mean he will obey orders without question. If something seems fucked up about what he's being told to do? Pookie will question the order, talk back or even find sneaky ways of getting around it, like he does when the San Francisco Chief of Police tells him and Bryan to back off a lead that relates back to the Saviour, Pookie does indeed back off, but he focuses his investigation instead on the Galileo High slayings, which he know relates directly back to the Saviour case. And when the Chief catches wind of this and tells him to stay the hell off of all the cases? He does, but he repeats her order back to her with a turn of phrase that forces her to confront just how messed up what she's asking him to do is: 'I'm off the case. I'll ignore the brutal murder of two sixteen year old boys, and the disappearance of two more, the murder of a thirteen year old boy and the disappearance of his father, mother and sister, the cold-blooded assassination of a murder witness in front of two police, the murder of a high school principal, the disappearance of geography teacher, and I'll ignore the fact that we know the people who are probably responsible for all of it. Did I repeat that back to you well enough, Chief?'
He has a sense of humour, and he's really not afraid of sounding crude. It's stated that his sense of humour never really progressed past the level of a fifth grader, and... yeah, that's pretty near accurate. He'll banter with anyone, give them good-natured shit, make jokes (usually sexual, sometimes homophobic or a little misogynistic -- though he's not really that big of a homophobe or misogynist), he'll give people nicknames to hassle them some (for example, Black Mister Burns, who, as the name would suggest, looks like a black version of Mister Burns from the Simpsons. He loves the name, btw, and insists everyone calls him by it, because his real name - John Smith - is so boring.) Pooks is a really social animal, almost constantly with a smile on his slightly chubby face (except when he's being chased by mutant monsters, when he can, in fact, get deadly serious). He also has a freakishly good memory for somewhat insignificant details about people's lives. At one point, he reminds a guy of the guy's son's birthday, which the man had forgotten himself, and at another, he asks a different guy what place his mum came in a cook-off she was entering, and asks for more of her hazelnut cookies. Basically, if you ever tell him anything personal, he'll likely be able to remember it just fine, even if you only talk to him again six months later.
Despite his humour and his joking personality, Pookie is also a brave guy. He's a tough man, particularly when he's protecting someone or something important to him or someone else. When Bryan heads for the showdown with mutants (who, like Bryan, happen to have enhanced senses, strength, healing and often nasty little extras to help them kill you) on the Jeremiah O'Brien, he offers Pookie the chance to back out of his promise to help him, recognising that the game has changed for the worse and it's likely that neither one of them will survive the confrontation. Pookie, though freaked the fuck out, dealing with shit he never really believed was real, sticks with his partner, and when they actually get to the ship? Pookie does everything in his power to save the Chief's twin little girls, who are being held prisoner somewhere on a ship crawling with mutants and mobsters. His bravery's all tied up in his sense of justice and his very strong sense of right and wrong. Pookie believes, whole-heartedly, that everyone deserves their due process, their right to a fair trial, even in the case of a killer. He won't allow any one person to be judge, jury and executioner - which is why he went behind the Chief's back when it came to the Saviour case (Pookie couldn't stomach the fact that Saviour was allowed to kill people and the police were covering up for him). The idea that his superior officers are on the take is something that doesn't sit well at all with Pookie. He's determined to expose them for what he believes they're doing, knowing that doing so may cost him his friends, his badge, even his life. Although this attitude changes over the course of the story, mainly in regards to covering up for the Saviour, he still believes, a bit idealistically, in truth and goodness and cops doing the right thing.
On the Barge, Pooks will be the kind of warden who hangs around with his inmate, spending time with them and trying to befriend them by giving them shit and just generally being there. He's not afraid to look like an idiot, so he'll probably just not act as smart as he actually is. He's not particularly squeamish either, as in situations where other cops are chucking their cookies, Pooks tends to remain pretty calm, for example, when Roberta Deprovdechuk's body is discovered, hacked to pieces with a chainsaw. Also, due to the run-ins with Marie's Children, Pookie is aware of the kind of stuff that might be out there, so different races and whatnot won't phase him an awful lot. He'll treat most of them with the same Pookie charm.
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The cloak, maybe?
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Because he's awesome, I want to join BDL and I want to play him again and hopefully keep him around :CCC
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NO IDEA YET
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First-Person Network Post: [TAKEN FROM ANOTHER GAME]
[Pookie's messing around with his journal, and eventually flicks it to video. He's been here for a couple days, and he knows the score. It takes him a second to start talking, but when he does, he's smiling.]
Man, if the media knew about this place, you guys'd have press crawling all over, like flies on a day-old dog turd. Yeah, I tell you, that Admiral, he must be one well-connected fucker, if he's managed to keep a gigantic space prison out of the news for however long he's been running this operation. You'd think some of the old wardens would've blabbed, but nope, not even a tiny headline on page five of the tabloids. Hell, not even a conspiracy theory for the basement-dwelling nerds to yank their cranks over.
I guess the retirement plans he sets up are real good. Unless once we're done here, we just disappear, if you get my drift... [He waggles his eyebrows jokingly for a moment to emphasize his point. Then he continues:] Anyway, the name's Detective Chang, of the San Francisco Police Department, and I'm here to represent for the asians. You guys can just call me Pookie; don't it roll off the tongue so much better? [He gives the camera one last grin, then he switches to private.]
[Private to Jonathan Crane]
I see we wardens have been given our assignments, and it looks like you got the luck of the draw, champ. As I believe I've already mentioned, my name's Pookie. How's about you and I get properly aquainted?
[Warden filter]
[Pookie looks more professional now; the grin's gone.] Okay, what can you tell me about one Doctor Jonathan Crane? Any info you got, I'll take.
First-Person Journal Post: A few sentences written by the character, something they intend only for themselves to read. A look into how they think of themselves and how they are when no one is looking.
Third-Person Arrival Post: [Taken from app for another game because I liked it :c]
Detective Lawrence "Pookie" Chang was not the kind of man who agonised over decisions. Sure, he would think them through, being as logical as possible and try not to let unrelated shit get in his way, but he wouldn't spend hours deciding what to do. It came from being a cop. Everything was immediate, split-second decisions or your ass was gone. So when the Admiral - he still wasn't sure how, considering he'd been running down the street, hot on Bry-Bry's tail. It was all a little hazy, and that bugged him - had offered him the chance to make a deal, to redeem a criminal and get something he wanted in return, he'd thought about it for all of two minutes, his mind cranking through possibilities fast. He'd asked two questions: "How long will I be gone for?" and "What do you mean, time doesn't have to pass?"
The answers, though weird and messed up and Jesus, he was getting himself into some crazy shit these days, had soothed his worries. The biggest worry he had was that he and Bryan and Amy Zou's children would bite the dust, and if he were to believe what this Admiral guy said, he could make sure they wouldn't. He could secure their safety just by taking the time - the time that would not pass in the real world, thank you very much - and playing therapist to some fucked-up criminal. Pookie could do that. Oh yes, he could.
So the decision had been made, and... Pookie wasn't entirely sure what had happened after that. But he'd ended up on the Barge. A giant, floating prison in outer space. "Man, this just couldn't get any fucking weirder if it tried," he said, to no one in particular, absently edging his hand back to find the knife in the actually, swear-to-God armoured green cloak that Adam Jessup had given him. He didn't actually expect an attack, but it was good to be prepared.
Third-Person Action Post: A prose post describing your character in an emotionally fraught or heated situation. It can be sexual, violent, or just frightening; regardless, it must be adult in nature. At least two paragraphs.
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Name: Jessi
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jessihoneyAre you over the age of eighteen? Y.
Current characters in Baedal: ~NONE~
In Character Information
Basics
Character Name: Detective Lawrence 'Pookie' Chang
Username:
thechangbangFandom: Scott Sigler's podcast novel Nocturnal
Played By: Song Kang-ho
Icon: This one!
Canon Character Section
Physical Description: Pooks is a early-to-mid thirties, slightly pudgy, Korean American cop. He's about average height, is often smiling and blah blah blah.
Sexuality: Pookie is straight, and he's also a womaniser (though a respectful one). He's flirty, joking and somewhat romantic in his own special way, and although in canon, we never actually see him explicitly get a woman into bed, he's had a lot of one-night stands or short affairs with a lot of different women, usually married ones. He watches Grey's Anatomy aaaand another show I can't recall off the top of my head (I think it might be Desperate Housewives?), partly because he's a derpy bastard and secretly likes the stories, and partly because it puts him in good stead with the ladies. He's also the proud inventor of The Chang-Bang, a sexual position that involves the use of a barstool and a hula-hoop. Yeah, he's a creative one, is Pooks.
History: So, Pookie grew up in Chicago, had a normal childhood, except for the "blatent child abuse" that was his dad letting him watch Nightmare on Elm Street at the tender age of seven, something he totally had nightmares about for years after. He became a cop in his early to mid twenties, then at some point transferred to San Francisco, where he was partnered with Detective Bryan Clauser on the homocide squad. They saw their fare share of cases, including the one where Bryan killed a man to save Pookie's life, but mostly they were normal murders.
Until the "Piss Man" murders. Basically, entire gangs were being systematically wiped out, the bodies were mostly taken from the scene and then the killer or killers would pee all over the place before leaving without another trace. Bryan Clauser? He started having fucked-up dreams, like, really fucked-up. He'd dream of stalking people, hunting them down, he'd dream of monsters stalking and hunting people and he'd wake up with a boner. Pookie, reasonably, was worried about Bryan, but he stayed calm, joking and playing it like it was no big deal to keep Bryan from going crazy. Bryan was his partner, and the guy who'd saved his life, after all.
Then Alex Panos was killed. Alex Panos was a teenager, a high-school jock who had run a low-level gang called Boys Company or BoyCo. Turns out Bryan dreamt of his exact manner of death. And Bryan finds some weird symbols written on the wall in blood - one of which he'd been compelled to draw after each dream, due to it being the only thing that stopped the feeling that he was being hunted himself. Pooks and Bryan investigate these symbols, taking them to the gang squad's database as is routine, but also going slightly more unorthodox by paying a visit to Mr Biz-Nass, who, as I said, is a fortune-teller with an electronic voicebox who also happens to have Tourette's Syndrome. Biz points the detectives to an old case of a serial killer called the Grand Park Slasher, which he says definitely involved those symbols. Turns out, the files have been erased.
This whole deal, plus a number of new murders, both gangs and people from Alex Panos' high school, stems a new investigation. Along the way, they talk to the foster-mother of one Rex Deprovdechuck, a thirteen year old from Galileo High, where BoyCo went to school, as Rex was one kid who BoyCo constantly tortured and bullied. They find pictures, detailed well-drawn pictures of BoyCo members being killed, both by a superhero-style Rex and by monsters, the same monsters Bryan's had dreams about before, and they also find drawings of the symbols. They do not, however, find Rex Deprovdechuk, and they leave, putting out an APB on him. The investigation finally leads to them finding out about Marie's Children, or the Nocturnals, a group of mutant monsters who live in tunnels underneath San Francisco and come out occasionally to hunt humans. Fortunately, the monsters have someone they fear enough to stop them from just tearing all the people in the city to pieces: the Savior. And fortunately, the Savior has high-level police officials who keep his name and what he does - killing these supernatural killers, some who look completely human, with special silver-dust-coated arrows - out of the casefiles and out of the media. This doesn't sit well with Pookie, or Bryan, though for slightly different reasons. Pookie hates the idea of corrupt cops running his police force, and Bryan? Bryan just wants some goddamn answers, because he's still having the dreams.
So, after the two watch Savior kill a murder witness (who is a mutant, and was actually helping kill the victim, though they don't know that) right in front of them Pookie and Bryan track the makers of the arrows, an old man and his grandson, Alder and Adam Jessup, and from them learn that the Savior, or at least, the recipient of the arrows is one Jebediah Erikson. Chief Amy Zou tells them to back off the entire case, but Bryan decides to bust into Savior's house. Pookie, being the good buddy and clean cop he is, backs his partner's play, planning ahead and setting his pieces up in advance - utilising both "Big Tonda" Murphy and John "Black Mister Burns" Smith, whose lives Bryan had also previously saved by killing their attackers, earning him the nickname of "The Ninja", as backup, and setting it up so that BMB called in the 'break-in' at Savior's house and Big Tonda and her partner were the first responders, guaranteeing the team time to check out Savior's house and find proof of his guilt. A perfect plan, at least until Savior gets home and proceeds to beat the living crap out of the whole group after he sees Bryan.
In the scuffle, Bryan gets shot, but he still manages to stab Savior with Savior's own knife, and the surprisingly-tough old man goes down. He gets rushed to hospital, while Bryan and Pookie scramble to get the hell away from the house before other cops arrive, taking with them a stuffed mutant they found in Erikson's basement. They go to Robin Hudson, Bryan's ex-girlfriend, and medical examiner, who is helping them investigate the mutants, being the one who finds out that all the mutant DNA has a Z (pronounced 'zed' for the sake of distinguishing some other Z chromosomal issue idk) chromosome, and the one who, along with help from her old mentor, develops a test that allows them to identify a Z almost instantly in a DNA sample. Robin patches Bryan up and they start to actually talk again for the first time in forever.
Bryan goes and talks to a taxidermist about the creature, and finds out that it's real, not an example of fake taxidermy. Bryan's badge and gun get taken from him by the Sub-chief, and he's officially supposed to stay home. He says fuck that, and Pookie and Bryan go to the hospital to see Erikson, who has woken up. He freaks out when Bryan's in the room, calling him 'devil' and 'satan' and struggling to get out of his restraints. Bryan, sick of all this shit, freaks out and yells at Savior, who just seems even more scared and angry. In the resulting chaos, Bryan snaps and injures both Pookie and another officer - they try to drag him out of the room, he shakes the other officer off him, throwing him into a wall by accident with his freaky strength and then picks Pookie up by the throat when Pooks tries to step in.
Safe to say, Pookie is really freaked by this, but he can see that Bryan is even more rattled, and stays calm for his friend. They nearly leave the hospital, but a bum is brought in with a baby, who came wrapped in a blanket covered in the same symbols from the Panos murder scene, so it's back to work. The bum, Aggie, had been held by Marie's Children, and freed by one, with a proviso that he takes the baby and finds it a home. He'd also been given a list of names of people who had taken babies before, and who might take another one. On the list of names, there's Roberta Deprovdechuck, Rex's fostermum, and also, there's Bryan Clauser's father. Bryan goes to get answers out of his dad, and Pookie, after calling Bry-Bry's father quickly, goes to Roberta's house, only to find Roberta and her husband/boyfriend brutally, brutally murdered.
After an argument with his (foster-)father, Bryan joins forces with the Jessups, who kit him out in Savior gear, though skipping the armoured forest-green cloak and going for an up-market armoured black pea-coat instead. They save Savior from being killed in the hospital by the Nocturnals, a group consisting of Rex Deprovdechuk, Pierre and Sly, two of the mutants Bryan dreamed about (Pierre is a werewolf-ish thing, Sly is a snake man). This rescue involves Bryan throwing Erikson's whole hospital bed out of the window, Erikson still chained to it, then jumping out himself. It's not a ground floor window. By this time, Bryan knows he has the Z, and as a result, has enhanced strength and fast healing. The Jessups race the two men back to their house and start working on saving Savior, who by this time, grudgingly accepts that Bryan is not, infact, the devil.
Then, MAJOR SPOILERS, disaster strikes.
Rex sends his monsters after Robin Hudson in her apartment. The monsters are Clyde the Glide, Spidey and Bone Head, (so named because Clyde has wing flaps that let him glide/fly, Spidey has six arms and two legs and Bone Head has an extra huge head with a big boney plate at the front that he uses to bash people to death) Robin, despite a good fight she's pretty unprepared for, which also involves her dog, Emma, her neighbour Big Gay Max and his dog whose name I've forgotten (:c), is badly hurt, and even though Bryan and Pookie arrive, it's too late to save her. She dies in Bryan's arms, before they get to restart their relationship, and Bryan goes on the warpath. Pookie, despite adoring Robin, thinks like a cop, and calls Big Tonda to get her butt over there and act as the first responder to the scene, then he starts wiping places Bryan might have left fingerprints (as by this point, Bryan has been framed for the murder of an ex-cop, by the Sub-Chief using his gun and is a wanted suspect, and this will kill his chances of revenge). Bryan, on the other hand, turns violent. He tortures Bone Head, who'd been knocked out in the fight, and at Pookie's urging, takes him back to the Jessup place, to continue the interrogation there. BMB and Mr Biz are there too, after Pookie had sent Black Burns to go get the fortuneteller.
After some interrogation, through which Bryan learns that Rex has arranged a showdown on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, an old war ship, Bone Head stabs himself through the heart with the silver-dust-coated knife Bryan had stabbed through both his palms when Bryan asks about where the Nocturnals live. Enraged, Bryan asserts that, no, Bone Head doesn't get to die by his own hand, he gets to die by Bryan's, and then shoots him point blanc in the head a couple times, which both freaks out and satisfies Pookie.
Then Bryan gears up for war. He wants a showdown with Rex, the boy who ordered Robin's death, and he's going to get it. He gives Pookie a chance to opt out, but Pookie decides he's staying with Bryan. So, after the Jessups fit the two out with weapons and Pookie with a snazzy "fag Robin Hood" Savior cloak, they start driving for the pier in Pookie's piece of shit car, a journey during which Bryan freaks Pookie out even more by rebreaking his broken collarbone and then setting it right then and there, in the moving vehicle. Then the car gets attacked by Clyde and Spidey, who have been ordered back, despite injuries sustained. The car gets pretty wrecked, so Pookie and Bryan take the fight out into the street. Pookie takes on Spidey, shooting off one of his arms with a shotgun, while Bryan takes out Clyde by shooting him in the chest and through one of his wing-flaps. In the fight, Pookie gets shot, but the cloak protects him. Bryan, after helping Pooks with Spidey and turning back to beat Clyde to the ground, begins to stab into Pookie's car's gas tank, letting petrol spill out and cover the mutant. Pookie begs him not to do what he's started to do, people are looking and fuck, that's just something else, even if he did kill Robin, but Bryan does it anyway. Pookie is shocked and sickened by it, but Bryan leaves the mutant burning to death in the street, and again gives Pookie the option to opt out. Pookie doesn't. "In for a penny, in for a pound. Let's finish this, but afterwards, you and I are gonna have a little talk. The word therapy does come to mind."
They run for the pier, for the ship, and it's from here that I'm taking him, just before the final showdown. MORE SPOILERS HERE, DUH.
A quick rundown of what happens after this point: the O'Brien has already sailed, holding crew, Chief Amy Zou and her captured two daughters, a fuckbunch of mutants and two rival gangs, the Russians and the Italians (though they've been disarmed, for the first little while the detectives are on the ship, anyway). Pooks thinks that's it, they can't get to the ship... but Bryan can jump like a freak, so he jumps himself and Pooks over to it. Bryan draws everyone's attention, starting a firefight with mutants and some gangmembers, to give Pooks enough time to go into the hold and find Zou's kids. He finds them, but he also finds a bomb on a timer. He and Zou manage to save her daughters, though they don't kill Pierre, who's holding them hostage, and Zou has to remain behind to keep him in place while Pookie escapes with her daughters. The clock on the bomb ticks down, Pookie and the girls get to the deck and it goes off. They're now on a sinking ship, Bryan's still fighting, and Chief Zou is nowhere to be seen. Pookie waits until the ship keels over nearly to the water, then jumps in with the girls, despite the risks of being dragged out to sea. A former Russian gangmember, who had been hired because of his awesome swimming talents to swim guns out onto the ship for the Russians, helps Pooks and the girls out, and gets them to relative safety in a lifeboat. There's a long, drawn out, painful battle between Bryan and his various enemies, Chief Zou was injured in the bomb, and various characters bite the dust. Eventually, it's over and Pooks, his formerly-Russian buddy, Amy Zou's kids and their lifeboat are joined by Bryan and a nastily-burnt-but-still-alive Amy Zou.
Then nothing much happens, except that Pookie gets promoted with the disappearance of Sub-Chief Robertson, as someone's gotta keep the new Savior - yes, that's Bryan "The Ninja" Clauser - out of the media and off the books, right? A new Chief is appointed and Pookie immediately gets himself in the Chief's bad books by saying how glad he is the guy isn't a gay man, like Pooks thought he might be. Turns out? He is. He's also one tough guy, and Pooks thoroughly embarasses himself. THE END.
(Also, this is the story from the podcast version of the novel, not the version scheduled to be published for real in 2012. Since I first played Pooks, Sigler has taken down the podcast of Nocturnal and rewritten it for publishing; he's called the podcast novel a "draft" as well, so idk what changes there will be but they're probably going to be faiiiirly major.)
Powers: Absolutely nothing! He's not supernatural in any way and has no powers, unless you count being ridiculously attractive a power. Which Pooks totally does. :V
Talents/Abilities:: He's a normal dude. Slightly pudgey, but still fit and surprisingly fast on his feet. He's also a quick thinker and he's freakishly good at remembering tiny details about you that you forgot you told him months ago.
As a cop, he's obviously got experience with guns, and he's not one for risking a headshot instead of taking the more-reliable torso shot. He also shows that he has knowledge of other guns that he wouldn't have actually come in contact with before, like the USAS12 12-gauge. He knows a LOT of random weapon trivia.
Personality: Explain who your character is as a person, both their exterior (and whether it is accurate to who they are inside) persona and their inward motivations and psychology. This is one of the most important parts of the application, so please expand as necessary on their strengths and weaknesses. AU characters should also have at least a paragraph or two dedicated to how their particular alternate universe has changed their characterization.
Pookie Chang is, first and foremost, a cop. He's surprisingly smart, analytical and willing to put his life on the line to protect and serve the people of his city. He's had the training, and he uses it and whatever other knowledge he's managed to glean to his advantage. He's a creative cop, too, resorting to slightly unorthodox sources to get his work done, notably Mr. Biz-Nass, an abrasive fortune-teller with Tourette's and an electronic voicebox, who happens to be an expert on San Francisco's occult history. Pookie uses what he can find, and won't baulk at utilising a resource just because it seems a little out there. He's also loyal to a fault, if you're someone he truly trusts (like Bryan, his partner, the man who saved Pookie's life by killing a gangbanger pointing a gun to Pookie's head). But his loyalty doesn't mean he will obey orders without question. If something seems fucked up about what he's being told to do? Pookie will question the order, talk back or even find sneaky ways of getting around it, like he does when the San Francisco Chief of Police tells him and Bryan to back off a lead that relates back to the Saviour, Pookie does indeed back off, but he focuses his investigation instead on the Galileo High slayings, which he know relates directly back to the Saviour case. And when the Chief catches wind of this and tells him to stay the hell off of all the cases? He does, but he repeats her order back to her with a turn of phrase that forces her to confront just how messed up what she's asking him to do is: 'I'm off the case. I'll ignore the brutal murder of two sixteen year old boys, and the disappearance of two more, the murder of a thirteen year old boy and the disappearance of his father, mother and sister, the cold-blooded assassination of a murder witness in front of two police, the murder of a high school principal, the disappearance of geography teacher, and I'll ignore the fact that we know the people who are probably responsible for all of it. Did I repeat that back to you well enough, Chief?'
He has a sense of humour, and he's really not afraid of sounding crude. It's stated that his sense of humour never really progressed past the level of a fifth grader, and... yeah, that's pretty near accurate. He'll banter with anyone, give them good-natured shit, make jokes (usually sexual, sometimes homophobic or a little misogynistic -- though he's not really that big of a homophobe or misogynist), he'll give people nicknames to hassle them some (for example, Black Mister Burns, who, as the name would suggest, looks like a black version of Mister Burns from the Simpsons. He loves the name, btw, and insists everyone calls him by it, because his real name - John Smith - is so boring.) Pooks is a really social animal, almost constantly with a smile on his slightly chubby face (except when he's being chased by mutant monsters, when he can, in fact, get deadly serious). He also has a freakishly good memory for somewhat insignificant details about people's lives. At one point, he reminds a guy of the guy's son's birthday, which the man had forgotten himself, and at another, he asks a different guy what place his mum came in a cook-off she was entering, and asks for more of her hazelnut cookies. Basically, if you ever tell him anything personal, he'll likely be able to remember it just fine, even if you only talk to him again six months later.
Despite his humour and his joking personality, Pookie is also a brave guy. He's a tough man, particularly when he's protecting someone or something important to him or someone else. When Bryan heads for the showdown with mutants (who, like Bryan, happen to have enhanced senses, strength, healing and often nasty little extras to help them kill you) on the Jeremiah O'Brien, he offers Pookie the chance to back out of his promise to help him, recognising that the game has changed for the worse and it's likely that neither one of them will survive the confrontation. Pookie, though freaked the fuck out, dealing with shit he never really believed was real, sticks with his partner, and when they actually get to the ship? Pookie does everything in his power to save the Chief's twin little girls, who are being held prisoner somewhere on a ship crawling with mutants and mobsters. His bravery's all tied up in his sense of justice and his very strong sense of right and wrong. Pookie believes, whole-heartedly, that everyone deserves their due process, their right to a fair trial, even in the case of a killer. He won't allow any one person to be judge, jury and executioner - which is why he went behind the Chief's back when it came to the Saviour case (Pookie couldn't stomach the fact that Saviour was allowed to kill people and the police were covering up for him). The idea that his superior officers are on the take is something that doesn't sit well at all with Pookie. He's determined to expose them for what he believes they're doing, knowing that doing so may cost him his friends, his badge, even his life. Although this attitude changes over the course of the story, mainly in regards to covering up for the Saviour, he still believes, a bit idealistically, in truth and goodness and cops doing the right thing.
On the Barge, Pooks will be the kind of warden who hangs around with his inmate, spending time with them and trying to befriend them by giving them shit and just generally being there. He's not afraid to look like an idiot, so he'll probably just not act as smart as he actually is. He's not particularly squeamish either, as in situations where other cops are chucking their cookies, Pooks tends to remain pretty calm, for example, when Roberta Deprovdechuk's body is discovered, hacked to pieces with a chainsaw. Also, due to the run-ins with Marie's Children, Pookie is aware of the kind of stuff that might be out there, so different races and whatnot won't phase him an awful lot. He'll treat most of them with the same Pookie charm.
Object: When a character arrives in Baedal, something useful or significant from home is brought along with them. The object must be no larger than a refrigerator and cannot be sentient.
The cloak, maybe?
Reason for playing: Why have you chosen this particular character? Tell us about what you would like to do with the character in Baedal, and what your expectations for gameplay are. This will help us ascertain whether the game will meet your needs, as well as telling us what sort of character arcs and plots you might be looking for in RP.
Because he's awesome, I want to join BDL and I want to play him again and hopefully keep him around :CCC
Gods: Which of the gods of Baedal is most likely to take an interest in your character and why?
NO IDEA YET
Writing Samples
Players may choose to write three of the four writing samples. Additionally, for two of the three samples applicants may substitute links to previously written roleplaying threads of no less than eight substantial replies. We reserve the right to ask for an additional sample if more information is required.
First-Person Network Post: [TAKEN FROM ANOTHER GAME]
[Pookie's messing around with his journal, and eventually flicks it to video. He's been here for a couple days, and he knows the score. It takes him a second to start talking, but when he does, he's smiling.]
Man, if the media knew about this place, you guys'd have press crawling all over, like flies on a day-old dog turd. Yeah, I tell you, that Admiral, he must be one well-connected fucker, if he's managed to keep a gigantic space prison out of the news for however long he's been running this operation. You'd think some of the old wardens would've blabbed, but nope, not even a tiny headline on page five of the tabloids. Hell, not even a conspiracy theory for the basement-dwelling nerds to yank their cranks over.
I guess the retirement plans he sets up are real good. Unless once we're done here, we just disappear, if you get my drift... [He waggles his eyebrows jokingly for a moment to emphasize his point. Then he continues:] Anyway, the name's Detective Chang, of the San Francisco Police Department, and I'm here to represent for the asians. You guys can just call me Pookie; don't it roll off the tongue so much better? [He gives the camera one last grin, then he switches to private.]
[Private to Jonathan Crane]
I see we wardens have been given our assignments, and it looks like you got the luck of the draw, champ. As I believe I've already mentioned, my name's Pookie. How's about you and I get properly aquainted?
[Warden filter]
[Pookie looks more professional now; the grin's gone.] Okay, what can you tell me about one Doctor Jonathan Crane? Any info you got, I'll take.
First-Person Journal Post: A few sentences written by the character, something they intend only for themselves to read. A look into how they think of themselves and how they are when no one is looking.
Third-Person Arrival Post: [Taken from app for another game because I liked it :c]
Detective Lawrence "Pookie" Chang was not the kind of man who agonised over decisions. Sure, he would think them through, being as logical as possible and try not to let unrelated shit get in his way, but he wouldn't spend hours deciding what to do. It came from being a cop. Everything was immediate, split-second decisions or your ass was gone. So when the Admiral - he still wasn't sure how, considering he'd been running down the street, hot on Bry-Bry's tail. It was all a little hazy, and that bugged him - had offered him the chance to make a deal, to redeem a criminal and get something he wanted in return, he'd thought about it for all of two minutes, his mind cranking through possibilities fast. He'd asked two questions: "How long will I be gone for?" and "What do you mean, time doesn't have to pass?"
The answers, though weird and messed up and Jesus, he was getting himself into some crazy shit these days, had soothed his worries. The biggest worry he had was that he and Bryan and Amy Zou's children would bite the dust, and if he were to believe what this Admiral guy said, he could make sure they wouldn't. He could secure their safety just by taking the time - the time that would not pass in the real world, thank you very much - and playing therapist to some fucked-up criminal. Pookie could do that. Oh yes, he could.
So the decision had been made, and... Pookie wasn't entirely sure what had happened after that. But he'd ended up on the Barge. A giant, floating prison in outer space. "Man, this just couldn't get any fucking weirder if it tried," he said, to no one in particular, absently edging his hand back to find the knife in the actually, swear-to-God armoured green cloak that Adam Jessup had given him. He didn't actually expect an attack, but it was good to be prepared.
Third-Person Action Post: A prose post describing your character in an emotionally fraught or heated situation. It can be sexual, violent, or just frightening; regardless, it must be adult in nature. At least two paragraphs.
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