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Original Characters; Profiles and Info on new characters
Topic Started: Jan 14 2008, 06:16 AM (972 Views)
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As you may know, we are introducing at least one new major character. This thread will serve as an introduction (maybe Stupes can be tempted into creating a pic) for this and any other OCs we decide to bring in to the series.

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Character Profile

Name - Chloe Francesca Ellis
Gender - Female
D.O.B - 23rd April (is about 15 years old as the series begins)
Place of birth - Melbourne, Australia

Parents - Amanda and Luke Ellis
Siblings - None

Physical appearance - Of below average height, and average (achievable) weight.
Eye colour - Blue
Hair colour - Dirty blonde
Skin colour - Caucasian

Miscellaneous - Is deaf.

Personal information:

History: Born in Australia, her parents moved to California when Chloe was six years old, due to her father's then-job. They found they liked it, so settled there permanently. Due to her parents affluence, Chloe has attended private schooling most of her life, but has now started High school in the public sector for the first time, by her choice.

Personality: As an only child born to relatively rich parents, Chloe is frustrated with and bored by a stifling drip-fed private school existence. A lover of science fiction, highly intelligent, and a hard worker despite her own eccentricities, Chloe is unsurprisingly an outcast from both the rich society into which she was born, finding them snobbish, and the High school society in which she now finds herself, which she largely views as beneath her anyway. Skilled at recognising shallowness for what it is and long having cast aside any desire to fit in with the converted masses.

Religion: A lapsed Catholic, with objections to organised religion as a general concept.

Hobbies: Reading, watching TV, writing, drawing (self-confessed as a bad artist), evolving conspiracy theories.

Favourite school subjects: English, Psychology and practical sciences (physiology and chemisty).

Notes on her deafness: Chloe suffers from profound nonsyndromic deafness, a genetic disorder causing near-total hearing loss. Chloe can, and does, read lips, and can speak. However, her preferred and most fluent method of communication is sign language, largely American Sign Language, though she also understands and uses elements of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) which she learned during childhood. It remains somewhat like an accent, slipping into her everyday speech. Chloe identifies herself as part of the Deaf community, seeing herself not as disabled but rather simply as a speaker of an alternative language.

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So, that's it. Many Australians who are Deaf or partially deaf attend public or open-access private schools, so Chloe's parents would probably have kept her in the general population. I personally never went to a school without at least three deaf students. The Deaf community, which I was introduced to by one of my best friends in Year 10, believes that they aren't disabled and reject the idea of PC labelling of them as "hearing impaired" - they don't have any desire to hear so don't see it as an impairment.

If anyone has any desperately major problems with this profile, let me know and I'll see what can be changed.
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Character Profile

Name
- Jarvis "JR" Roon
Gender - Male
Date of birth - January 26, 1958
Place of birth - Saint Louis, Mo.

Personal appearance - endomorphic (rather thin) Caucasian, with gray combover and somewhat beady eyes. Is -1.9 myopic.

Personal Information:

History and Personality - Jarvis Roon is the rather ineffectual principal of Southern Foothills High School (SF to the students). In his first 3 years he was rather capable and enthusiastic in office, having been instrumental in rendering the school disabled-friendly (hence Chloe attending school here); a horrible prank set up by school troublemakers involving moldy bread and Toilet Duck, however, seems to have made him rather reclusive and paranoid. Though still judged mentally sound enough by the School Board to run the school, he has effectively become a rubber-stamp, with the vice-principal, Jason Schwerin, running the show. Even with his state, however, he is loyal to his wards, diligent, helpful, and most of all very honest about his shortcomings.

Hobbies: Mini-golf in his office, making rounds in the school (usually in search of potential pranks), playing solitaire, generally anything that does not get him away from his job without being too exposed to the student body.

Religion: Reform Jewish, with some sympathy for Luriatic Kabbalah. Mostly secular lifestyle (likes eating ham sandwiches, though he still never eats meat with dairy)

Update: no more voice actor behind it. And I didn't know it was your birthday, but it's staying. :P
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Did we need the "Voiced By"? And why did you make his birthday the same as mine? XD :P
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You were born in 1958 Gavin? Wow! You could be my dad!

I left the year notation in Chloe's D.O.B blank because we don't know exactly what "year" this would be set in, so I just had her birthday and an age as we begin the series. And the voiced by seems a bit un-necessary as well.

Other than that, it's an alright profile. I like the "paranoid" idea - one of my favourite characterisations in animation of recent years is Mayor Adam West in Family Guy, with his massively paranoid behaviour which makes him a very funny character. Transferring this kind of paranoia to a school principal (albeit toning it down to more realistic levels), who thinks the students are out to get him but at the same time wants to help them should make for some amusing moments. He wouldn't be weak or stupid, but nervous and extreme, I think. A plot where he takes back control of the school but simultaneously remains afraid of his charges pulling pranks could be interesting.

However, we'd have to be careful not to make him into too much of a Dil-centric character. Pangborn's best interaction came with Dil, but we don't want to make this character into another Pangborn.
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I think you very well know I meant the date. XD

And it's fine, lol. It's fun imagining voice actors, but technically it'll never happen, that's all.
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Character Profile

Name - Jason Anthony Hohenlohe Schwerin
Gender - Male
Date of Birth - April 4 (about 54)
Place of Birth - Scranton, Pa.

Personal Appearance - tall (6'7"), thin but a little muscular, blond hair withstreaks of gray; blue eyes and trimmed mustache

Personal Information:

History and Personality - A History teacher by training and Executive Vice Principal of SF, "the Iron Vice" is effectively the top authority of the school, "pending improvements to Principal Roon's, uhhh, wits", or so he says. Resented by students for his authoritarian ways, he is equally feared for his cunning and manipulative leadership skills and equally admired for his guts and general fairness in dealing with disciplinary problems. Selected by Roon to help him implement his ambitious policies, Schwerin now makes them for and in the name of the principal, though he hasn't hankered for the top job (even saving Roon from ouster after the "incident"). Paragon of Prussian virtues, with a mildly liberal twist.

Hobbies - Genealogy, caring for his collection of Prussian helmets, his job, playing bass guitar in Hastily-Formed Teacher's Band (the name of the band he's part of)

Religion - born Lutheran; currently agnostic. Has some sympathies toward Eastern Catholicism, but keeping his options open.

Other tidbits - part of military family; considered a black sheep for not joining the armed forces like the rest did
- fluent in 8 languages
- thrifty and economical; school is well-endowed financially compared to other areas
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Jan 20 2008, 08:02 PM
Other than that, it's an alright profile. I like the "paranoid" idea - one of my favourite characterisations in animation of recent years is Mayor Adam West in Family Guy, with his massively paranoid behaviour which makes him a very funny character. Transferring this kind of paranoia to a school principal (albeit toning it down to more realistic levels), who thinks the students are out to get him but at the same time wants to help them should make for some amusing moments.

I was actually making him a composite of Father Dougal (Father Ted) and Prince George (Blackadder the Third), but I guess a saner version of Mayor Adam West subconsciously came up, and apparently same enough to still hold his job. That's whereI put Schwerin in. (Personally I think I overdid Schwerin's traits.)

Yes, I guess we could have a story in season 2 or 3 where he tries to take back his authority from Schwerin's manipulations.I thought making his vice principal intimidating would raise up the ante so as to make it herculean.
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Let's not get too deep in the religion, I think. This is not a show to bring controversies into.

Profile otherwise checks out fine w/ me, the love-hate relationship w/ the students is perfect.
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I love the name Jarvis Roon. :-X Oh god, the kids are going to have a field day with that name. I know it was something we discussed previous chats, but I think this character will work well in our stories.
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Chloe is Australian? Bindi Irwin could play her. And for Roon and Scherwin, they resemble John Lassetter and Paul Sheridan.
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I bet if you guys continued the fan fics, can we have Chloe find herself a boyfriend, one who is African-American (and is from Newark, New Jersey)? His name would be Jerome.
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