notkiaora | Application for teleios

Player Info

Name: Gem
Age: 30
Contact: gemmit
Characters Already in Teleios: the Doctor (11), Will Zimmerman, Peggy Carter
Reserve: here

Character Basics:

Character Name: Hal Yorke
Journal: notkiaora
Age: 500 + years old
Fandom: Being Human
Canon Point:Series 5 - The Greater Good
Debt:
Class A: 255,567 years
Class B: 46,800 years
Class C: 812 years and 3 months
GRAND TOTAL: 303,179 years and 3 months

Canon Character Section:

History: http://beinghuman.wikia.com/wiki/Hal_Yorke

Personality:
Through his over 500 years of life (or perhaps death) as a vampire, Hal has displayed the most extremes of character. It is something that quite clearly could be described as a type of multiple personalities, with the different sides of himself being so distinct that they were, for all intents and purposes, different people. Like the proverbial devil and angel on the shoulder, Hal’s ‘personalities’ were as extreme as could be, with ‘bad Hal’ epitomising the worst aspects of who he was, or who he could be, while ‘good Hal’ strove to be better, and to not give in to his primal vampiric urges, to prove that the human could win over. The cycle from one version of himself to the other is something Hal went through every few years or so, a seeming fight within himself, which eventually he would fail and the ‘bad Hal’ would win out, the ‘Good Hal’ almost trapped within himself.

On top of his extremes of personality, and largely because of it, Hal displays an extremely compulsive nature, and one that would very likely earn him a diagnosis of having OCD. For him, however, there is a very clear cut reason for the actions he displays. He has a need for everything to be in order, in some hope that it will help him keep in order. At times his condition can be quite severe, with the need to do things such as arrange pens into colours, or turn matches around so that they all line up. He is aware of his actions, and aware that people might find them ridiculous, but he’d be only too eager to dismiss their remarks knowing that it was small things like that that kept himself under control. Or at least he believed they did. Despite these efforts to keep himself strong, Hal was always under the impression that he was fighting a losing battle, and that his darker side would eventually take over, whether he wanted it to or not. Just a waiting game that he knew he wouldn’t win.

Of course quite apart from needing it as a way to control himself, Hal firmly believes that his efforts have merit and can have difficulty understanding how people could live any other way. He has a need for things to be clean, and a desire for people to act with a certain level of propriety, feeling it almost barbaric when people behave otherwise.

Largely due to his age, Hal’s ideals are what many would describe as old fashioned. He often views the modern world as coarse and uncivilized, and longs for a time when people were more polite and kebabs had never been invented. There is a constant attempt to settle himself in a world he’s not quite comfortable in. He likes to think of himself as cultured, with interests in the arts and things he might describe as high-brow. He can quite often be seen as snobbish and judgmental, and would admit quite plainly that he has been, making less than pleasant comments about the working class, even seeing people who grew to be his best of friends as brutish. It’s a problem he still struggles at times to overcome, his words often scathing and passing judgement on the actions of others.

Where people are concerned, Hal doesn’t tend to trust easily. His friends are few and far between, but when he decides to let someone into his inner circle he will support them wherever he can, and more importantly, defend them fiercely. To him, friends are important, and just as with his obsessiveness, he needs them in order to keep himself in line, and needed them to stop himself giving in to his darker side, and becoming the thing he’s terrified he is. It has proven before, that his friends help him through his darkest times, and pull him back from the edge when he could become dangerous. Right at the end of his vampiric life, even as he loses his battle with himself, it’s his friends who are there beside him to remind him of who he can be.

Powers/Abilties: Vampire blood lust, strength, enhances senses, really good at organising sock drawers by colour.

Appearance: http://media.sfx.co.uk/files/2013/01/Being-human-hal-3.jpg

CR AU
Game You’re Transferring CR from: Teleios

How has your character changed from their canon self?
NOT bringing Hal over with his previous Teleios game memories, but rather memories from the 4th Wall event when I brought him in with the earlier canon point. The difference being he'll simply be aware of his surroundings, yet not really be over familiar with them yet.

Are they gaining any abilities from their time in game? Did the game setting take something from them? Nope.

Samples:
Actionspam Sample:
[Hal's standing there like a teacher at the front of the class, with Tom and Alex on the sofa, switching like they're about to get given detention. Maybe they are

Now I'm sure you're both wondering why I've called you here. An excellent and most pertinent question, and one I'll be only too happy to answer.

[He raises a hand to stop him as Tom starts to speak.]

There will be time for questions later.

But for now, I present to you exhibit A. A nameless substance, which I can only assume was once intended for consumption, that I had the upmost misfortune to discover discarded on the kitchen counter. Now I have spent extended periods of time in the most hideous places you can imagine, and not even a desecrated crypt could emit odours as repugnant as this. Now if either of you have an explanation for this... frankly abhorrent behaviour, I'd love to hear it.

[He's angry, sort of, or at least that vein in his forehead is a little bigger. They might be here some time.]

Prose Sample:
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