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Player: Laurel
Contact: personal journal and Plurk are eternalferret
Age: 32
Current Characters: NA


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool
Age: mid 30s (it isn't explicitly said)
Canon: Deadpool (movie)
Canon Point: Near the end of the film, as the helicarrier collapses.

Background: Wade Wilson's background is a bit of a mystery. He was special forces, but transitioned to spending his time as a mercenary for hire at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Girls - a bar in NYC run by his buddy Weasel. He fell in love with a prostitute named Vanessa and they were all ready for their lives to have wedding bells, sunshine, and kittens, when the unthinkable strikes - Cancer. He is diagnosed with late stage cancer throughout his body. The outcome is grim. Until he gets a visit from a mysterious stranger who promises to cure his cancer and turn him into a superhero. Unfortunately, that's not totally the case. Not wanting to put Vanessa through the horrors of his decline, he takes the mysterious stranger's deal. He ends up a prisoner at the hands of Ajax (AKA Francis Freeman) who subjects him to any torture he can think of to try to get a serum to activate any latent mutant genes. It works.... at the expense of his dashing good looks. As he said, he got the cure to "el everything" and his body is constantly healing itself. His body is left horrifically scarred and pitted as a result. He tries to kill Francis, but Francis survives by telling him he can fix his horrible skin condition. Wade now has one mission - to find Francis and get him to fix his face so he can win back the girl of his dreams.

A year passes by. He's taken the moniker "Deadpool" (taken from the macabre betting pool at Sister Margaret's) and made himself a suit. While he hunts down Francis' cronies, the X-Men are hunting him. Colossas is convinced he could use his powers for good, and continually tries to recruit him. Throughout all of it, he keeps an eye on Vanessa, holding out hope that they can be together again.

Personality: While Wade Wilson was definitely a kooky guy, quick with the wisecracks and willing to eschew sex for skiiball, once he goes through the transformation that turns him into Deadpool he goes a little coo-coo for cocoapuffs.  Of course, part of the crazy might be the fact that he can hide behind a mask and no one knows who he truly is, or the fact that he can't die, but other canon sources (the comics) outright say that the program was what made him crazy. He has absolutely no impulse control, no filter, and no censorship. He's rude, crude, and vile, but he has a definite soft side. No matter how much he may joke about sex, kidnapping, and murder, he's still in love. And he's still an enormous supporter of the power of love. He gets a ride from a taxi driver who laments the loss of his love to his cousin. Deadpool immediately seizes on the chance to impart a little wisdom. He tells the driver (Dopinder) that he must hold onto that love as tightly as he can and never let go, to not make the same mistake he made. No matter how bad things got for him, he never gave up on the thought of going back to Vanessa and living happily ever after. On the flip side, he is a brutal maniac. In his quest to find Francis he not only tracks down anyone who might know him - he kills them in the most spectacular fashions. The only thing that made him pause was questioning if it would be more sexist to kill a woman who attacked him or not to kill her.

He has friends... kind of. While he would move heaven and Earth to save Vanessa, the same probably can't be said for any of his other so-called friends. He and Weasel are close, he's the only one he tracked down from his life as Wade Wilson. But Weasel did bet on him to die, so there is that. His roommate, Al, is a blind old woman. He does tell her he loves her once, but followed it up by mockingly telling her he's hidden cocaine in the apartment next to the cure for blindness. He lets a few people in, but keeps most of them at arms length. Of course, he's also just an asshole so it should be expected that any friend of his should be ready to be taken advantage of and mocked horrifically. One other sign that he's still got a little bit of his old self in there is when he stopped short of killing an old friend who happened to be working for Francis. He did knock him out, but he let him live.

Aside from his murderous tendencies, Wade is a massive pop culture nerd. His quips are peppered with movie, TV, and music references. He also has a habit of self-referential humor and fourth wall breaking. He doesn't care who's listening, and quickly corrects anyone who thinks he's talking to them.

Deadpool is pure chaos with a heart of tarnished silver. He's difficult to pin down because there are so many layers to his madness. He's immature, foul mouthed, manic, murderous, and callous. But he does seem to have some amount of moral fiber still running through him. He's not on an indeterminate killing spree through the city. He's tracking down bad guys so he can stop Francis from doing to more people what they did to him. He's not a good guy by any means, but he's not a villain. He's just... Deadpool.

Abilities: Mucho healing ability. To the point where the dude can't actually die. At least, not that he knows of. In canon he goes down in a burning building, gets impaled through the chest, stabbed in the head, shot MANY times, and cuts his own hand off and heals from all of it. He's also an incredibly skilled fighter.

Alignment: Elios. Deadpool's hatred of Francis and his love for Vanessa are his two driving forces. Even his reason for joining the experimental program was rooted in his desire to be able to survive to "do right by" the love of his life. Not to mention his speech to Dopinder encouraging him to hold onto his love as tightly as he can... and to kill the guy getting in his way.

Other: Since Deadpool has a love of breaking the fourth wall, and an extensive pop culture knowledge, I will be putting a permissions post on his page. If there is anyone who does not want their characters to be recognized by him I will respect that. He's not a gamer, so it would mostly be a potential issue with movie and TV characters. He's a massive Voltron fan, I'll seek out those cast members specifically since he would fanboy over all of them. There will be some amount of general fourth wall breakage (i..e. "can you believe this mun?" or referencing the subject line or something) but I'll keep it to a minimum and make sure it's unobtrusive.


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Remember that we ask for samples that show 1) core character portrayal and 2) some use of emotions, such as environmental effect. You can also use the same sample source for both, just make sure to directly link or quote the emotion portion. We highly encourage using the Test Drive, and you can use prompts from the Test Drives, Intro Logs, and the Task board if you need them. Refer to the main application page for links and more suggestions.

General Sample:
Test Drive
Another Test Drive thread 

Emotion Sample: Tag using emotion

Since I don't think that emotion sample is enough, here's another one:


[Deadpool lands hard on the ground. Still a little disoriented from the nearly healed knife wound to the head, he vaguely registers that it's a lot quieter than one would expect a helicarrier crash to be... and there's a lot less debris. And he's laying on the ground instead of on shards of metal.]

What the shit biscuits?

[He shoves himself to his feet, looking around.]

FUCKBALLS!

[He whirls around in a circle. He's in some sort of a market, complete with stalls and people. A lot of people. Vanessa and super freaks aren't anywhere in sight... neither is Francis. His blood boils and the earth beneath his feet begins to warm. He takes a few heaving breaths as his mind races, trying to put together the pieces of what just happened. His fury, and panic at the thought that Vanessa could be dead, or worse - in the hands of that raging box of assholes, blind him to the fact that the ground has started to crack and smoke.]

No... NO... NOOOO!!

[As he screams, fists clenching, the ground beneath him blackens and the cracks start to glow like a hot coal. When the heat seeps through his boots, the white eyes of his mask widen and he yelps in surprise, finally looking down. The ground cools as his fury fades to confusion.]

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?!