Futuristic paradise in purgatory - characters

[xuanan]

Please post your character sheets for Paradise In Purgatory below! This post will also contain information on existing characters in the casino as well which will be played by me on the occasions they are encountered.

Spoiler: player characters

LOTUS - owner of the casino - unknown
SHAWN MORGAN - gambler - mortal
MERLE OLLIS - gambler - mortal
CHLOE - patrolling officer - angel
ALEC - gambler - mortal

Spoiler: non-player characters

HOLLY - performer - fallen angel
Holly is an angel from Heaven who has tied down her wings to perform at the club and mix in with the casino locals and mortals out of curiosity. She is very flamboyant, young, passionate, temperamental, easily upset and reads into things a little bit too much. Holly is hiding her true nature from everyone in the casino, as well as God. She has created a persona called Sugar Corpse, a scene queen who screams into the mic during nightly raves.

BELLADONNA - high officer - angel
Belladonna is an angel who comes down from heaven to investigate Holly’s disappearance. She is strict, severe, and cruel, following God's commands in a fundamentalist fashion.

GOD - God - God
The big man upstairs himself.

DAHLIA - ferrywoman - mortal
Dahlia is a mortal ferrywoman who takes mortals up and down the River Lethe. She collects the broken dreams she fishes out of the river and tries to repair them in her hotel room. She gambles occasionally, and although she has most of her memories, her living life was filled with sin and she is afraid to face judgement, preferring to remain in the casino. Dahlia is resourceful, kind, and friendly. She was deeply in love with another woman in her youth, but the two fell away due to social norms of their time. She rarely speaks of her past life and, though she claims her desire is to bring joy to others by fishing out their old dreams, she sometimes keeps a dream for herself. She is complacent and carefree, preferring to live without rules or a schedule. This lifestyle eventually led to her driving while intoxicated, killing a young girl in the process and killing Dahlia as well.

DERN - gambler - mortal
Dern has a gambling addiction and believes he just needs to play harder and smarter until one day his jackpot will come in. Dern doesn’t realise that his gambling addiction destroyed his marriage and caused his children to join a gang after Dern was killed for failing to pay off gambling debts. He is erratic, passionate, angry and selfish - but charming. His son is now a young man.

BRUCE - gambler - mortal
Bruce was a boxer who always dreamed of becoming a champion, but lost time and time again, each time getting a new tattoo to solidify his vow. Despite all the training, all the encouragement from his trainer and all the old-fashioned honor that he held himself to, he missed out on his goal. He learned to hate his friends, and himself, after he was told he was too old to ever become the champion - which led to his closest friend becoming addicted to performance enhancing drugs, and, ironically, become a champion.

Spoiler: character idea free-for-all!

You are Dern's resentful son who felt abandoned after his father fell victim to a gambling habit.

You are the girl that Dahlia killed in the accident.

You are Bruce's best friend and eventual boxing champion.

You are one of Holly's fans who discovers her secret.

 

[Once]

Name: Shawn Morgan
Age of death: 38 Years Old
Appearance: While Shawn may have been taller than the average man during his lifetime, he is now on the shorter side in comparison to people from more modern times. He has a muscular build, born from days spent sweeping the deck and rowing the ship, and a confident stance paired with a gait which makes his origins as a sailor clear. He has a head full of long, dirty-blond hair that, at its full length, reaches his chin, though with its messy curls and tangles, it appears a little shorter. He has a short, scruffy beard as well and upturned eyes the color of sapphires.

He has a few sunspots speckling his face, shoulders, and arms with a few darker freckles tossed into the mix. There’s a couple of scars running along his arms as well, most of them small marks from mishandling everyday objects and unfortunate accidents, though there are a few from actual scuffles, and one on his face, stretching across his left eyebrow. He has a realistic black-and-white tattoo of a Barque stretching across his right shoulder which is usually covered by his shirt’s sleeves and a few others scattered across his body.

Personality: Shawn a self-serving individual, all of whose decisions, both past and present, are deeply rooted in his desire to survive. He is hard-working, having taught himself most of the things he knows which is the cause of his stubborn nature, where it takes an excessive amount of time and effort for him to admit that he’s wrong. When it comes to decision making, Shawn is a practical man who focuses on the logical side of things, a sentiment which has unfortunately made its way over to hobbies as well since the adult has very few of them. That being said, he does enjoy treating himself to luxury items.

Even if he’s not the most charismatic guy in the room, Shawn does a strong sense of pride and self-worth, so there’s no need to worry about him being too shy to get his point across. He enjoys spending time around other people, even if he isn’t necessarily speaking to them, because it makes it feel like he belongs. He doesn’t mind giving advice and the occasional helping hand when asked, and can get past his selfish nature to help out a close friend when they need it.

Memories (7+):
(1): Memories starts with Shawn hiding in an alleyway, eating a piece of stolen food. He hears the storeowner yelling at one of their employees, and though he feels guilty about getting them in trouble, he’s much too hungry and scared to actually do anything about. Memory goes over what he hears as the two fight and how it makes him feel.
(2): An orphan is taken aboard by the whaling ship’s captain as a cabin boy where he is rewarded a bed and daily meals in exchange for aiding the cook, carrying meals to the crew and any messages passed between them, and whatever else they might need. This memory takes place on Shawn’s first day on the job, starting as he finishes wiping down the deck as sits down to rest. The first-mate informs the boy that he’s passed the test, and it takes a moment to explore his thoughts and emotions on the matter while he watches the dock’s waters as the sun sets.
(3): A few days after they set sail, the ship comes across its first whale. Shawn watches as the smaller ship sails off in pursuit of the colossal creature. The first few minutes are spent waiting in exhilaration, but as the hours stretch, the crew sinks back into boredom during which one of the sailors decides to teach him to play cards. Eventually, the crew spots the returning ship and the sperm whale being dragged along beside them. Memory ends with Shawn scurrying off to the kitchen because he hates how the thing looks/smells. May not include this if it gets gorey.
(4): Another shorter memory where one of the older, more educated crewmates attempts to teach the child to read. They’re briefly surprised by the amount he already knows, and the memory continues with a warm tone with the sailor helping him with words. Maybe Shawn is reminded of the parents that he’s never met.
(5): Memory kicks off with Shawn reminiscing about his time on the whaling ship and how that time ended. After a long time at sea, the captain of the ship announces his plan to retire and sell the ship when they return to land. This takes place when Shawn is in his late teens/early twenties. The crew is understandably distressed at the prospect of losing their livelihoods. Skips back to present time and Shawn is approaching the leader of a new merchant team and, after some negotiation, he gets hired as a navigator.
(6): A brief memory of Shawn leaning over the ship’s rail, blue eyes scanning the sky as he attempts to use the stars to make sure that the ship is on track. Will hopefully go into the tools that navigators used in the 1800s and develop his interest in astronomy and cartography.
(7): Takes place at a bar where Shawn and Co. have drunk a bit too much. One of them decides to start a fight and the rest decide to jump in and help their friend out. Owner has to kick them out of the establishment for causing a fight, and they’re escorted out by some hired muscle.
(8): The tattoo artist’s newest customer arrives at their parlor, here for his scheduled appointment. Shawn didn’t have many tattoos but every one of them held meaning. This one he dedicated to his new position as the captain of the fleet.

(9): The hurricane ripped through the ship, throwing its crew overboard among the wreckage. Shawn bobbles up in down in the waves before his head collides with one of the planks, knocking him unconscious. The last thing he remembers is sinking, struggling to swim upwards as water starts to fill his lungs.

Connections:
Merle Ollis: Unbeknownst to Shawn, the man who taught him to read went on to start a family and pass on a family tradition of sailing the seas. Skip a few generations down the line and you come across Merle Ollis, card-game-extraordinaire.

Extra (opt):
~ From some part of the 1800s. Not sure which, but some part.
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[Emeraude]

Dropped.

 

[FolKinPunk]

Here's my draft;

Name: Alec
Age of Death: 23
Appearance: Average height and Lanky, scratchy stubble. Dark brown hair and Green eyes. Likes wearing striped shirts/sweaters and shorts a lot, and wears overalls if he can get his hands on them. (overall shorts often) Fairly pale with moles speckled on his face/body. No freckles. Has pride in his “messy” hair. Wears round glasses.

Personality: Fairly outgoing, if someone invites him somewhere he'll gladly go, doesn't matter where. Will try anything at least once, even if he's scared. Very much a 'live and let live' person and doesn't want to bother others much. He's easily frustrated and a sore-loser. Despite liking to keep a neutral stance whenever he can, if a friend asks him for help he'll be the first one there. He tries to be more relaxed than uptight, but his anxiety usually ruins his attempts to relax. He's extremely curious and wants answers over anything, even if the truth's hurt. He wasn't the smart one out of him and his Brother, but managed to get into college while his brother did not. He likes to party with friends and speaks in a relaxed manner and not very polite.

Memories:
1 Alec was young. Looking up at the sky. Everything was shades of grey. Snow falling all around him could be seen. The only time he’d ever gotten to see snow. A light feeling in his chest could be felt.

2 Alec was warm, laying on a soft comforter. He felt safe. He looks to the side to see his brother. Close in age, they were both young kids still. He reaches his hand out and smacks his brother, he cries out for their mother. He feels amused.

3 Alec and his brother sat on a roof, throwing water balloons down on the passing cars at the intersection. The cars swerved slightly or tapped their breaks and the boys laughed. It was fun until a balloon went through an open window and the car swerved too much. It pushed another car and the car drove onto the sidewalk and hit the light. "Oh shit dude-" Alec's brother cursed, Alec stood up and grabbed him,"lets get outta here dude fucking hell, didn't mean for that-" They ran off.

4 Alec was scared. He was running. The boys were chasing him across the courtyard. Breathing heavy, knees hurting as his legs carried him behind the shed. Quickly getting to the fence and climbing over it, he looks back. They see him again from the shed and start running again. He keeps running as fast as he can. He just needs to be faster, he’ll get away.

5 "Please, Alec..." His friend was in front of him, bloody nose, uneven clothes, and messy hair. He was requesting Alec let him into his house to clean up. He could faintly see blood on his hands. He was shaking and crazy eyed. "Yeah, yeah... Come in dude, what happened?" He could hear police sirens in the distance. What had his friend done? "I... I think... I hurt someone..." Things were different after that night.

6 Alec opens a letter. ‘Congratulations! You have been accepted to-” He shouts for his brother, he got accepted. He was going to college! His brother hugs him, despite his brother not getting accepted. This will be their first time away from each other.

7 Alec slouched in his chair, waiting for his brother to get done in the bathroom. He could hear him throwing up, but he insisted it was a rough party last night. His brother had been coming to less and less, Alec tried warning him that he'd be less tolerant of alcohol because of it but he wanted to accompany Alec to the party still. He couldn't complain, his brother had been less active in his life lately but he was worried still.

8 Alec sat in his dorm after running out of the party. He felt like a total jerk, having embarrassed himself in front of his dorm-mate and their friends. He never went to play games, he knew he was a sore loser. He knows he gets upset and shouts at people. He shouldn’t have gone. His dorm-mate walks in, holding a drink. Alec rolls over in his bed and covers his head with his blanket.

9 Alec sat in the room decorated with old books and nic-nacs. His mother made him start going after his brother was hospitalized. Alec didn’t need to see a shrink, he wanted to see his brother. He sighed as the therapist kept trying to get him to talk.

10 He was driving fast. It was pouring rain. He had to get to the hospital before his brother… before he didn’t make it. He’d been in the hospital for a few months. He was supposed to be okay, he was supposed to make it. He was stressed, speeding, swerving around corners. Laying on the horn he drove through a red light. He heard an even louder horn and tried looking to his left, but didn’t have enough time.

Role: Mortal

Connections: Merle Ollis; First time Alec ever gambled was with a college friend, they knew someone else at the table named Merle. Alec had only ever played texas hold’em as a child, but thought he could play a quick game of crazy 8’s. Merle was going to leave as Alec and another person had joined but their mutual friend convinced Merle to stay for one more round. Alec lost and was upset, he really thought he could do good. He got up and left after a quick shout. (They could have met times after and been friends or just acquaintances still, up to Emeraude haha

Extra:
Used to play Texas Hold’em with his grandfather as a child. Completely forgot how to play.
Good friends with his brother, who was sick with cancer and hid it from him, until they couldn't hide it and that led Alec to his death.

Also I drew a little doodle of how Alec looks (:

 

[ramennoodles]

Name: Chloe

Type: Angel

Age: Eons, her vessel appears to be 19-23 years old

Appearance: Chloe's vessel is a pale woman with chest-length blonde hair and blue doe eyes. She stands at about 5'4 and has an average body type. She has no physical imperfections or blemishes due to the fact her vessel has had to be healed a few times and her face is extremely beautiful and soft looking. I imagine her looking like Alicia Silverstone in the '90s.

Personality: Chloe, although extremely girly looking and beautiful, has a no-nonsense personality. She is an extremely high-ranking angel in heaven, and she takes her job as God's right-hand man after her brother Lucifer was damned to hell for defying their Father. She was entrusted with being a guardian of the casino simply because she was God's favorite and could possibly do no wrong in His eyes. Her outward personality, to those who don't know her, can come across as bitchy, cold, or distant, especially since she has mixed opinions and feelings on humanity as a whole (unbeknownst to her Father, of course.) However, as time goes on and one gets to crack the exterior surface, Chloe is compassionate, loving, and soft even in personality. She loves art and values it in high regard. She is extremely intelligent and loves to learn more about whatever she can. Chloe also loves fashion, a time period that was particularly her favorite for fashion being the '90s. Because of this, she is often seen in a mini skirt sporting vibrant colors, which also gives into her girly, feminine look.

Memories (7+, will add more memories that connect my characters to other characters once this is posted and people are able to read over my character):

1. Chloe remembers being created. She was created around the same time Lucifer, her brother, had been created. All she remembers is a lot of light and suddenly having consciousness. It was the feeling of going from being nothing, a fragment of the Universe, to being something with intelligent thought. It was something she still couldn't explain to another being who hadn't been through it.
   
   
2. She remembers specifically when Lucifer and her Father argued over humanity. Lucifer argued that humans shouldn't have free-will because they didn't know what they'd do with it, and Father didn't take Lucifer questioning Him or His favorite creation all that well. Lucifer being damned to Hell was so traumatic for her that she would never admit that she actually agreed with Lucifer's line of thinking and had planned to back him up during the argument. She didn't want to end up fallen either.
   
   
3. She remembers becoming God's favorite angel and right-hand man after Lucifer left. She was in charge of overseeing both angels and human activity on Earth alike. Her memory being extremely sharp, she can recall the lives and names of most human beings, causing her to know most, if not everyone, at the casino she oversees.
   
   
4. She remembers Jesus being on Earth. Despite his heavily debated existence, he was a real person and she remembered his time on Earth. He was one of the few humans that caused her to rethink how she saw humanity as a whole because of how genuinely pure he was. Alternatively, she remembered how strange it was when humans decided he was the son of God and created a whole religion based upon him. She understood it, Jesus truly had been a model human, but him being the son of God was untrue in every sense of the phrase.
   
   
5. Chloe remembers the Renaissance. That was her favorite time period in history. The art, the music, the spark of intellectual thinking that swept the Earth. She was moved deeply by especially the art, and Michelangelo was particularly her favorite artist of the time period. His work in the Sistine Chapel is her favorite piece of art ever created. Although she believes humanity is mostly a bad idea, she will admit that humans did something remarkable when they began creating art.
   
   
6. Chloe remembers when Lucifer contacted her some time after he was damned. The contact had to be in secret because every angel in Heaven had been warned not to communicate with Lucifer by any circumstances unless they wanted to share the same fate. In the letter Lucifer sent, he called his sister 'craven' and told her he would never forgive her for stabbing him in the back and not defending him when she was supposed to. This was something she still hasn't recovered from to this day because she did love her brother and wanted nothing more than to defend him.
   
   
7. Chloe remembers the Holocaust and how deeply the event struck her. She had never seen something so atrocious committed on such a wide scale in the entirety of humanity's creation, the only exception being the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which she also remembered. Something about the Holocaust deeply affected her, however. She could remember hearing their screams and she could feel their pain even from Heaven. This was another event that was deeply traumatic for her and caused her mistrust of humans to grow significantly. It also made her start to question her Father and His judgment. Why was her brother damned for questioning Him but humans were not for something so vile? It made no logical sense to her.

Other: This is how Alicia Silverstone looked in the '90s. Not really necessary I guess but I know my appearance section was small.

 

[xuanan]

NAME: Lotus
AGE OF DEATH: None; immortal
AGE: Undefinable
Appearance: Lotus has tanned olive skin, vivid violet-red eyes, and dark hair knotted into long locks extending halfway down her back. There are stray strands of grey among the sleek strands, and her face seems ageless, simultaneously old and young. Her garb is often majestic and illustrious, as she does enjoy giving herself an old-fashioned grand entrance. She has small, delicate hands and feet, arched brows, and a button nose that rests upon her well-crafted features. She is also extremely tall for a woman, at a towering 6'2.

Personality: Lotus is the original fallen angel, The Devil. Lotus runs the casino, helps staff, and generally has an atmosphere of mystery. She is the keeper of the garden atop the casino. She’s a trickster at heart, mischievous, playful, funny and clever. Remorseless in her toying with mortal lives, she seeks to improve mortal’s lives by getting them to achieve self-understanding. She believes she is a necessary evil in the grand scheme of things. She is completely content with being in the casino, and understands her relationship with god is a thing of the past - she enjoys the idea that God might believe she will undermine him. She doesn't care whether the others understand her or not.

Her relationship with mortals is difficult to comprehend at times. She sees them as toys one moment, then as living, breathing beings the next. She has very little anxiety in regard to social interactions and sometimes can say dumb or baffling things that don't quite fit the mood. She has a tendency to overtalk one moment then be silent at another, more social gathering. Underneath her searing and humorous facade is a woman who lives the lonely life of being at the top of the food chain.

I will not be including Lotus' memories, as I kind of wanted them to be a surprise to the players when she eventually does gamble (which will come much later down the line, as she has no need to do so most of the time)!