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Jack Walters ([personal profile] lookslike_fishmen) wrote in [community profile] singularityooc2012-01-10 10:19 am
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I'm Beginning to Hear a lot of Fishmen, Right Outside My Door

Oh hi there everyone! This is Jayde, bringing in a new character: Jack Walters from Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. It's a horror game based on Lovecraft, particularly a certain pair of stories (A Shadow Over Innsmouth and A Shadow Out of Time) Don't know them? Don't worry! Here's what you need to know about Jack.

1) Jack is a detective. He will investigate all your things, as long as you ask him to and pay/barter for his services.
2) Jack is from the 1920s. Specifically 1922. Your new-fangled gadgets are weird and he can't hack to save his life. Also, he will be baffled by the lack of Prohibition but exceedingly glad because he drinks. A lot.
Also, he'd really like to punch Edgar J. Hoover in the face. You might want to avoid mentioning the FBI to him.
3) Jack is psychic. It mostly works like Spidey Sense. He knows when somebody is out to hurt him or if somebody has been killed recently, and when he's being stalked. It shows up in the game primarily as "Monster Sense" where he sees through the eyes of the attacker. It's only coming up here when he's genuinely in danger from something, though.
4) Jack is not right in the head. You probably wouldn't be either, if you'd faced off against demon fish-gods and their horrible spawn. He hallucinates voices and a little girl named Ramona, and occasionally mutters to himself. In fact, he's arriving from his final few-day stint in Arkham Asylum (not the Batman version). He's also afraid of heights, dead bodies, and doesn't deal well with people and things that look like fish, frogs, or squid anymore.
5) Jack knows the occult. Better than most. The only stipulation is that the Occult he knows is Lovecraftian. If it's a critter from or heavily based on Lovecraft, he might know it. He also isn't too bad at chants and the like that don't have many vowels. And he's going to scribble ancient, strange languages on everything. You have been warned.
6) Jack is not precisely human. Remember those psychic powers I mentioned? Those came from a certain place. Namely, his father. Or his second father, rather. See, Jack had two daddies. There was the human one... and the one that was a time-travelling, mind-swapping alien called a Yithian. The Yithian, in its infinite wisdom, swapped minds with Jack's human father right as Jack was conceived. It gave him a fraction of the Yithian's powerful psychic abilities, though when he fully realized this he kind of... went a bit Mad From the Revelation and committed suicide to escape the knowledge.

Jack is showing up right after hanging himself. By the time he sends out his first post he'll be partially recovered but still in the hospital.

tl;dr, Jayde has a psychic, schizophrenic detective from the Roaring Twenties. Hooray!
Go bug him on the Hat Trick Meme if you like, or set up plotty things on the CR with Me(me) or Plurk at me directly.
justamobster: (My idea of diplomacy involves bullets)

[personal profile] justamobster 2012-01-10 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hiya, pal. We have a lot in common. :]
hisoldgirl: (*police box shadow)

[personal profile] hisoldgirl 2012-01-10 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
...can he scribble on the TARDIS' exterior?

a la this
hisoldgirl: (*ooc kitty goes :|)

[personal profile] hisoldgirl 2012-01-10 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Awww yeah she'll be so :| it'll be awesome.
justamobster: (Hittin' the bottle)

[personal profile] justamobster 2012-01-10 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Did I mention I own a bar? ;]
justamobster: (You amuse me.)

[personal profile] justamobster 2012-01-10 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And suddenly the TARDIS has an Eldritch-themed tramp stamp.

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hisoldgirl: (laughing)

[personal profile] hisoldgirl 2012-01-10 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
why has this not happened yet?!
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[personal profile] shortlived 2012-01-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, fishmen! Tintakki's world has those.

Hilarious misunderstandings ho?
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[personal profile] curbstomping 2012-01-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
You just wait until I get the other boy I want to bring in here. ♥ It will be most excellent brohood of the crazy, probably. :')

Will probably be hilarious to have Jack witness some Alex's omnomnom shenanigans too, though. 8D
hisoldgirl: (*police box dancing Eleven)

[personal profile] hisoldgirl 2012-01-10 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
JOY
hisoldgirl: (glee)

[personal profile] hisoldgirl 2012-01-10 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I am dying I can't even
justamobster: (Little smile)

[personal profile] justamobster 2012-01-10 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Only the best!
hisoldgirl: (walking together)

[personal profile] hisoldgirl 2012-01-10 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I dooooooooooooooo
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[personal profile] trollololoki 2012-01-10 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...Loki could have fun with him, negl.
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[personal profile] trollololoki 2012-01-10 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all good. Half-brother to Thor, god of thunder. It's like living with your hand shoved in a socket. B)
shortlived: (so to yourself be true)

[personal profile] shortlived 2012-01-10 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
But they're very polite and kind of adorable?

I BELIEVE YOU MAY JUST BE A RACIST, SIR.
shortlived: (and away we will go)

[personal profile] shortlived 2012-01-10 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
WELL STOP BEING SO DELICIOUS AND THIS WOULDN'T BE SUCH A PROBLEM.
shortlived: (where I'm free to be me)

[personal profile] shortlived 2012-01-11 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'M NOT SURE YOU'RE QUALIFIED TO COMMENT ON THE FLAVOR OF HUMAN FLESH.

ALSO NO IT'S NOT. EATING PEOPLE IS PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR DRAGONS.
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[personal profile] notsoloyal 2012-01-11 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
i demand cr on the simple fact that that game is awesome
notsoloyal: (grin/ hypatia is going to burn)

[personal profile] notsoloyal 2012-01-11 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
jack. jack come play with the rainbow lizard
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[personal profile] shortlived 2012-01-11 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'M PRETTY SURE THAT WHATEVER WORLD YOU EXIST IN ISN'T NORMAL.

LOVECRAFT, AFTER ALL.
notsoloyal: (dress/ giselle what is i mean how nice)

[personal profile] notsoloyal 2012-01-11 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
they clearly need to be friends like yesterday
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[personal profile] suitable 2012-01-11 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
...then it's a great thing that he'll be coming in at the same general time as an FBI agent who is sick and tired of the occult

I SMELL SITCOM~~~

[personal profile] soddingmonkeys 2012-01-11 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hey bro we have three of those things in common :Dc
fuckinghubble: (i have no mouth and i must scream)

[personal profile] fuckinghubble 2012-01-14 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
LET'S BE FRANDS.
fuckinghubble: (your eyes are open)

[personal profile] fuckinghubble 2012-01-14 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
NOT MY PRECIOUS CORNFLOWER BLUE WALLS

...in other words GO FOR IT.