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Tu Shanshu app (WIP)
Apr. 23rd, 2013 05:56 pmPlayer Information:
Name: Chris
Age: 23
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Game Cast: Bean
Character Information:
Name: Cody Griffin
Canon: The Thirteenth Year
Canon Point: 14 years post movie
Age: 27
Reference: Wiki here
Setting: Cody's world is our world with one exception: mermaids, and mermen, are real. The movie doesn't say anything about their world or way of life, but I believe they must live in small communities so as to stay off humanity's radar. The community where Cody lived would be relatively near the Newport Beach, California area (where the movie was filmed and presumably set). Due to the prevalence of mermaids over mermen in human popular culture, I posit that females are for some reason more common than males, and/or merfolk society is matriarchal in nature.
Personality:
Appearance: As a teenager, Cody Griffin had light brown, sun-bleached hair. During his years underwater, his hair darkened somewhat. He has a silvery blue tail, scales on his hands, and fins on his arms. He tends not to wear any clothing.
Abilities: As a merman, Cody can naturally live and breathe underwater. He's an incredibly good swimmer. He can also grip onto things so strongly he can climb across the ceiling, and he can create electrical charges with his hands, so powerful they can restart a heart. He's of average intelligence, but he was never very good in school, which he only attended 'til he was thirteen anyway.
Mermaids in the film aren't shown to communicate outside of making hand gestures and giving each other meaningful looks, but it wouldn't make any sense for a species to evolve and exist without any communication. Rather than have them speak in a series of dolphin clicks, I believe merfolk have a sort of telepathy that allows them to express ideas, feelings, questions, and intent, if not using direct sentences or words. Cody's birth mother is shown to give one look to Mrs. Griffin and convey the message that she'll take good care of him. Rather than attribute that to mother's intuition, I take it as a sign that the telepathy can be used on non-merfolk as well. Since Cody grew up speaking, however, once he's above the surface, that's the mode of communication he'll default to.
Inventory: Absolutely nothing!
Suite: Would have to be Water, for practical reasons.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
After they carted him to his suite, and before they left, Cody convinced the kedan to carry him out to one of the canals they'd passed. It seemed to be the only way he'd be able to get around this place. "Thanks, guys!" he called as they dropped him in, but they were already walking away. "Alright, then. Or not." They weren't the friendliest people, it seemed, these kedan, but Cody wasn't going to let that detract from his excitement at being on land again. Sure, he was still stuck with the tail, unable to do virtually anything, but there were people here he could talk to! After fourteen years of practice he'd gotten good enough at mermaid communication that he can always express what he has to say, but words are just better, in his opinion. So much detail can be lost when you lack the right, or any, vocabulary.
Cody swam up and down, but to his dismay, no one seemed to want to talk to the weird fish guy in the canal. Half the people just ignored him, and half the people looked at him like he was crazy to be swimming down there. "I'm not contagious or anything," he tried to plead. "I won't contaminate your water supply." After looking at the water he was in, he amended, "any more than it already is." The water looked gross, like the polluted water close to a populated shore, but worse. Like it had gone bad. None of the other fish there seemed happy about it. Cody decided he'd have to find some way of getting around outside the canal if he was ever going to get by in this place.
Network:
[The video turns on to see Cody, shirtless and rather wet. If it weren't for the fins on his arms one might think he was just some guy fresh out of the shower.]
I've got two questions. First, does anyone know where to get a wheelchair around here? And secondly, does anyone have any good ideas about ways to keep something wet? [He scratches behind his ear, making a face.] I know it sounds kind of mysterious, but I don't know if anyone would believe me if I told the whole truth.
Oh yeah, and my name's Cody. Thanks. [With a hopeful smile, he signs off.]
Name: Chris
Age: 23
Contact:
Game Cast: Bean
Character Information:
Name: Cody Griffin
Canon: The Thirteenth Year
Canon Point: 14 years post movie
Age: 27
Reference: Wiki here
Setting: Cody's world is our world with one exception: mermaids, and mermen, are real. The movie doesn't say anything about their world or way of life, but I believe they must live in small communities so as to stay off humanity's radar. The community where Cody lived would be relatively near the Newport Beach, California area (where the movie was filmed and presumably set). Due to the prevalence of mermaids over mermen in human popular culture, I posit that females are for some reason more common than males, and/or merfolk society is matriarchal in nature.
Personality:
Appearance: As a teenager, Cody Griffin had light brown, sun-bleached hair. During his years underwater, his hair darkened somewhat. He has a silvery blue tail, scales on his hands, and fins on his arms. He tends not to wear any clothing.
Abilities: As a merman, Cody can naturally live and breathe underwater. He's an incredibly good swimmer. He can also grip onto things so strongly he can climb across the ceiling, and he can create electrical charges with his hands, so powerful they can restart a heart. He's of average intelligence, but he was never very good in school, which he only attended 'til he was thirteen anyway.
Mermaids in the film aren't shown to communicate outside of making hand gestures and giving each other meaningful looks, but it wouldn't make any sense for a species to evolve and exist without any communication. Rather than have them speak in a series of dolphin clicks, I believe merfolk have a sort of telepathy that allows them to express ideas, feelings, questions, and intent, if not using direct sentences or words. Cody's birth mother is shown to give one look to Mrs. Griffin and convey the message that she'll take good care of him. Rather than attribute that to mother's intuition, I take it as a sign that the telepathy can be used on non-merfolk as well. Since Cody grew up speaking, however, once he's above the surface, that's the mode of communication he'll default to.
Inventory: Absolutely nothing!
Suite: Would have to be Water, for practical reasons.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
After they carted him to his suite, and before they left, Cody convinced the kedan to carry him out to one of the canals they'd passed. It seemed to be the only way he'd be able to get around this place. "Thanks, guys!" he called as they dropped him in, but they were already walking away. "Alright, then. Or not." They weren't the friendliest people, it seemed, these kedan, but Cody wasn't going to let that detract from his excitement at being on land again. Sure, he was still stuck with the tail, unable to do virtually anything, but there were people here he could talk to! After fourteen years of practice he'd gotten good enough at mermaid communication that he can always express what he has to say, but words are just better, in his opinion. So much detail can be lost when you lack the right, or any, vocabulary.
Cody swam up and down, but to his dismay, no one seemed to want to talk to the weird fish guy in the canal. Half the people just ignored him, and half the people looked at him like he was crazy to be swimming down there. "I'm not contagious or anything," he tried to plead. "I won't contaminate your water supply." After looking at the water he was in, he amended, "any more than it already is." The water looked gross, like the polluted water close to a populated shore, but worse. Like it had gone bad. None of the other fish there seemed happy about it. Cody decided he'd have to find some way of getting around outside the canal if he was ever going to get by in this place.
Network:
[The video turns on to see Cody, shirtless and rather wet. If it weren't for the fins on his arms one might think he was just some guy fresh out of the shower.]
I've got two questions. First, does anyone know where to get a wheelchair around here? And secondly, does anyone have any good ideas about ways to keep something wet? [He scratches behind his ear, making a face.] I know it sounds kind of mysterious, but I don't know if anyone would believe me if I told the whole truth.
Oh yeah, and my name's Cody. Thanks. [With a hopeful smile, he signs off.]
