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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:02 am
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:29 pm
|| NAVIGATION ||
The Corkboard - Updates and Notes
About Johnson - Character Information
The History - Character History and Notes
The Horses - Horse Information
The Big Top - Talents and The Show
Fame & Respect - Fame and Respect Logs
Progressions - Stages and Information
Memories - Roleplay Logbook
Relationships - Character's Relationships in Cirque
Photography - Additional Artwork
Background - OOC Information
Resources - Reference Texts and Research Notes
Credits - Shop Credits and Other Copyrights
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:45 pm
[color=#646A57][b]NOTICES[/b] || MAY 13, 2007 ||
........Journal created.
|| MAY 11, 2007 ||
........Ohmigosh, won a custom via the Cirque art contest in the illustration category!
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:51 pm
Name: Johnson Luca Hinton
Nicknames: Jo (typically goes by this most often)
Stage Name: Luca, just Luca (though he wouldn't mind a fantastic name for his horses, thank you)
Age: 36
Date of Birth: February 10th, 1896
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Languages: English, some shoddy Italian
Additional Notes: Jo's left leg ends just below the knee due to an accident which facilitated the need to amputate the rest of it. He wears a prosthetic/brace built of wood, metal and leather which straps over his knee and cinches closed. The prosthetic typically allows for very little range of motion in his knee and is more a matter of either being set to a locked position or a bent one, depending on where Johnson has the brace's screws set. He usually finds it too much trouble to torque the brace into a right angle every time he sits down though.
Personality: Jo considers himself a simple man: is maybe a little on the pessimistic side (--minds his own damn business), but simple and easy to please; a tiny cog in the great wheel of the world, and his business shouldn't matter to anybody else, alright? Good. He takes a rather passive-aggressive approach to the future, more than a little stuck in his own superstitions and traditions. And while he's driven and focused, he certainly runs with blinders on.
Despite this willingness, almost stubborn self-identification as 'simple,' Jo takes great care to craft the image he wants to believe in so badly. He gets a little hawk-eyed and snappy when someone gets the inclination to dig further than whatever layer he wears on the surface, and has a tendency to take conversation veering suddenly elsewhere should the topic ever land on his personality or history - if it's anything more than simple observations, anyway. He gets touchy when people 'ask too many questions.' That said, Jo is a fairly decent person to talk to as long as you're not trying to talk about him. While he's no stellar conversationalist or guru of tough-love knowledge, he makes a good wall to shout at. He might not be able to parrot back everything, but he listens even if he doesn't usually have much to say about other people's troubles or whatnot. Unfortunately, this makes Jo a rather hard person to befriend unless one is comfortable with never getting a straight answer out of the man - because while Jo couldn't strategize his way out of a paper bag, he's shockingly adept at circulatory logic and never answering a question he doesn't want to. And while he may not be wholly loyal to a number of people, he has a strong affinity to (most - damn cats) animals.
Jo's sense of humor borders on either deadpan wit or absolute tomfoolery, depending on the situation (and how much liquor he's consumed in the day). He enjoys reading dime store novels, particularly westerns and tawdry romances (though he'd personally beat the knowledge out of anyone who found out about the latter). He usually avoids reading everything but the sports scores in the paper, appreciates a solid pair of shoes and is rather fond of the color blue. Jo hates cats, cars and is extremely superstitious concerning a number of little trivial practices. Lastly, he has a penchant for gambling on anything he can get his hands on: horse races, dog races, cards, dice, boxing. If there's money to be made and lost, he'll take a ticket.
Appearance: Jo is on the underside of average height, but is fairly broad through the shoulder and chest in comparison to most men his height. Furthermore, he looks his age. He wears a number of wrinkles and the fine beginnings of spider web lines at the corners of his eyes and so forth. He's weathered and a little gritty looking - like he's used to chewing dust between meals; and while his initial facial structure is pleasing enough, Jo's had his nose broken more than a few times, lending it a lumpy and slightly crooked appearance. None-the-less, he has a high forehead and prominent cheekbones that might have been attractive had his nose not looked like had been smacked one two many times with a two-by-four.
Quite expressive through the mouth if not necessarily the eyes, Jo's smiles are sharp and slight but meaningful, and when he laughs, he laughs. He has rather unremarkable brown eyes and a thick head of dark brown hair which he keeps trimmed to a sensible length and, commonly, slicked back. And while he's not exactly clean shaven, he doesn't typically sport beards that are more than a few days old.
Jo's average state of dress is 'disheveled.' He usually wears a long sleeved shirt of some sort (sleeves pushed up over the elbows for the most part), with an undershirt. He either wears trousers and suspenders or, less frequently, overalls - though the latter is usually belted with the top left to flop over rather than be worn properly. He owns two pairs of boots, one being a short battered pair of brown ones and the others knee-high black boots which he usually wears on days when his left knee's acting up. He keeps a cap in his back pocket most days, though very rarely actually wears it on his head. Rather, it seems to be something he carries to have in his hands should he need something to tug irritability at. Or something to whap people across the back of the head with. Whichever is convenient and comes first. Perhaps the most significant part of his daily attire is the prosthetic leg he wears on his left leg. A bizarre combination of ornate peg leg (as the prosthetic itself is in the shape of an actual leg and foot) and leg brace, the prosthetic lends a certain stiff rolling motion to Jo's stride.
Likes: Reading, horses, dogs, gambling, smoking, Eddie Cantor and Sally Rand (the latter two for entirely different reasons, thank you - Christ, that woman has legs up to here).
Dislikes: Cats, extremely hot weather, holes in his socks and obnoxiously loud and overbearing individuals.
World: World A - The United States, 1934
Born in 1896, Johnson grew up through the turn of the century and into the first World War where he lost a majority of his leg (with no fabulous story to go with it - just damn bad luck). Coming home to enjoy the world of the handicap, race horses, small ponies and - oh yeah, - the sharp economic decline in 1929, Jo spent much of his mid- to late twenties hauling around a small pony that was more of a pet than a horse, riding the railway tracks back and forth across the country, settling into veteran protest march camps and the like.
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:55 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:57 pm
Specks the Pony: Specks is a small pony of indeterminate breeding, though he may in fact be in some part Shetland pony. He stands at approximately 12.1 hands high and is gray roan in coloration. He has short socks on both forelegs and a flaxen mane and tail. His talents include counting all the way to eleven, finding treats under buckets, adding numbers together, identifying colors and shapes and eating far too much food to be considered strictly healthy for a pony his size.
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:04 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:20 pm
FAME: Fame is based on the audience and popularity. In every castmember's journal will be a poll with one option. Anyone can vote in this poll giving you one point of fame.
RESPECT: We can't rely on popularity alone. How you get along with your peers and bosses effects your status as well. These points will be based on RP and you will be responsible for keeping track of your own respect points. Every 100 words of RP count as 1 respect point.
|| CURRENT FAME TO ACHIEVE ||
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|| CURRENT RESPECT TO ACHIEVE ||
Stage One - Stage Two: 18.02 / 50
Stage Two - Stage Three: - - -
Stage Three - Stage Four: - - -
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:23 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:26 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:27 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:29 pm
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:30 pm
The character concept of Johnson was sort of the merging of a number of my interests into one place. I've had a longstanding fascination with horses, having ridden and tinkered with them for most of my, albeit short, life. Futhermore, anyone who knows me is aware that I have a geeky interest in both history and research. Give me a book on the history of the colt revolver? I'm totally there! Lastly, I've had a longstanding love affair with jaded male characters - I'm easy to please, right? Give me old guys, old books, and a couple of large mammals and I'm set. Therefore, when I found Cirque I was immediately interested in the possibilities it presented in terms of a character. For one, I could have horses - I couldn't believe there weren't any trick horse acts yet! - and I could have history due to the time (and dimension) traveling nature of the shop's setting. I spent a lot of time tinkering and toying with Jo's concept, including doing a LOT of research both off and online (and a number of late library fees *facepalm*).
Luckily, Cirque held an art contest in early 2007, without which I may have never had the chance or the ability to get Jo. I entered two pieces into the illustration category (and was extremely pleased with both), and waited anxiously. And, da da daa!, three months later the results were announced! I managed to snag the grand prize in the illustration category while Uennie won the costume design category with her AMAZING designs. Uennie got her fabulous character, Hazina, and I landed Jo. Aaaand, ....that's pretty much how it all went down! *jazzhands*
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:33 pm
|| ONLINE RESOURCES ||
...........Wikipedia: The Great Depression In The United States
...........Wikipedia: the Dust Bowl
...........Wikipedia: Franklin D. Roosevelt
|| OFFLINE RESOURCES ||
...........The Aspirin Age 1919 1941, The essential events of American Life in the chaotic years between two World Wars edited by Isabel Leighton
...........The Great Depression: The United States in the Thirties by Robert Goldston
...........Hard Times: An Oral History of The Great Depression by Studs Terkel
...........American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California by James N. Gregory
...........World War I by H.P. Willmott
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:34 pm
Character concept/information is copyrighted to Pukio.
Original journal code credited to Uennie.
All artwork is copyrighted to their respective artists.
Lyrics are copyrighted to My Brightest Diamond.
Resource material is copyrighted to their respective writers/publishers/etc.,.
Cirque du Coeur Torve is copyrighted to the staff.
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