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foxlikeface) wrote2012-06-03 08:39 pm
foxlikeface) wrote2012-06-03 08:39 pm
eventual app for fr
Player name: Kates
Journal:cherrybomb
AIM: MartyDaChicken
Email: radioactivetedishot at gmail dot com
Other characters: Marco, Raoul, Owen
Character name: Citizen Chauvelin (Lord only knows what his first name is. Apparently in 'Sir Percy Leads the Band' it's revealed to be Armand, but some adaptations have him listed as Paul. Most adaptations just go FUCK IT and list his name as simply Chauvelin, which is what I'm doing)
Age: He's described as being "closer to forty than thirty", so I'm gonna say he's thirty seven or thirty eight
Canon: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Canon point: Post 'El Dorado'. We're going to say that Chauvelin fell asleep back home after a long night of being grumpy that Sir Percy managed to rescue the dauphin.
Totem: One of the many notes that the Scarlet Pimpernel has left behind after rescuing stupid aristocrats. During a fissure, the little Scarlet Pimpernel seal (a wax seal of a scarlet pimpernel) vanishes.
Weapons: A single shot pistol, specifically the Pistolet modèle An IX (which is a flintlock calvary pistol) with a bag of gunpowder and ten bullets. He'll also be bringing a dueling sword.
Abilities/powers: Chauvelin has no supernatural powers. However, he does have a lot of neat abilities. He speaks fluent French and English. He has some of the skills needed to be a good nemesis: he can ride a horse, fire a pistol (and probably a musket) quite well and he's an expert swordsman. He also is slightly good at disguise. In 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', he was able to disguise himself as a priest and wasn't noticed by most people...until Sir Percy saw through his disguise and loudly pointed it out to everybody. He's a competent strategist, a quick thinker and a planner.
Basically, he's a second-rate Sir Percy. Which is why he always loses.
Location: A lovely assortment of five or so small, horrible, dingy Parisian jail cells, perfect for storing aristocrats before you cut their heads off. The cells are small and not very comfy at all. They're your typical, cliche, old-fashioned evil prison cells.
Personality:
First and foremost: Chauvelin is Not A Very Nice Man. You've got this guy described as being "in league with the devil", for Christ's sake. And there is nothing subtle about his Not Very Niceness. He gives off an air of someone you don't want to be around for too long-multiple people comment on his unpleasantness. His lifelong ambition is to kill the Scarlet Pimpernel. You can probably guess that from that goal that Chauvelin doesn't really have morals. Chauvelin is curt, abrupt, and sharp when it comes to conversation. He also really doesn't like anything English, mostly due to the Englishmen who keep stealing the aristos out of France. Stupid English.
He is patriotic as fuck. This guy is the poster child for post-Revolution France. We hear little to nothing about his social life, probably because he doesn't have one. The fact that he actually got around/talked to people enough to actually have a daughter is mind boggling, considering the lack of social interaction this guy has. Chauvelin is married to the job. And fortunately for him, his job involves killing aristos. Chauvelin hates the aristocratic class, the upper crust, any sort of nobility, etc. He feels no qualms about killing aristos and sending cute little upper-class children to the guillotine. They're aristocrats, it's their fault, they deserve to be punished. He is a believer in a people's republic, the France of the people, a France that isn't ruled by nobility. Which would be great, except for that whole 'killing people' thing. And the fact that our protagonists are upper-class.
Chauvelin is a big fan of ultimatums. His favorite thing to do, when he has the upper hand, are either-or ultimatums. Either you do this and get screwed over, or you do that and you get screwed over. In his ultimatums, he really doesn't care much for people. Come to think of it, he really doesn't care much for people period. He casually uses Armand as bait in order to draw out Marguerite. Chauvelin has a hard time when he's out of his element, such as at Lord Greenville's ball.
He doesn't trust anybody. Nobody at all. He bosses around soldiers and underlings through fear and yelling, not by being an example or anything like that. The only person Chauvelin fully trusts is himself. He feels that the common French soldier is incompetent (which, to be fair, they kinda are) and never reveals a hint of what he's planning to them-or to anybody. In contrast to the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Chauvelin's got weeny French soldiers who follow his orders to the letter because they're terrified of him.
Chauvelin is also obsessive as hell. He constantly dwells on the Scarlet Pimpernel and (later after he finds out his identity) Sir Percy. Sir Percy's laugh has been described as ringing through Chauvelin's head MULTIPLE times. He is obsessed with getting rid of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately, this obsession tends to kill his common sense. Chauvelin is like a really stupid Bond villain. He wants Sir Percy to be humiliated, to be made an example of. Just shooting him really won't do. He also never goes for the emotional tactics. I think he uses the 'I have your wife do what I say or else' plan only once in the long series, despite knowing it would work. He never tells anybody the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. He wants to beat Sir Percy but he wants to beat him on his own time and by his own hand. It's a matter of pride for Chauvelin to beat Sir Percy in his games.
Limbo will be interesting, because there's no France in Limbo, no French government in Limbo, and the only other French person in Limbo (Raoul) is dumb as a bag of bricks and nobility to boot. And, unfortunately, Limbo has Sir Percy. This will probably cause a minor meltdown. However, Chauvelin will end up picking himself back up by his bootstraps and will probably try to take over the police station-because Sue's a woman and she's Scottish. And, also, he could use the police station to (hopefully) prove that Sir Percy is the Scarlet Pimpernel once and for all.
To sum it all up, he is a perfect foil for Sir Percy. Percy protects the aristocracy and the old order, Chauvelin wants to destroy it. Percy's strengths lie with his friends, Chauvelin works alone. And it's Percy's good qualities that help him win out and save the day, while Chauvelin is always left behind in the dust, cursing his name helplessly.
History: Absolutely next to nothing is known about Chauvelin's childhood. We can infer that he had a lower to middle class upbringing because he absolutely hates the aristocracy and completely buys into the revolutionary ideas of 'kill all the nobles'. He worked his way up through the revolutionary government, becoming the ambassador to England, a representative in the National Assembly and the chief agent of the Committee of Public Safety. Chauvelin is completely married to his job and probably has had little to no social interaction outside of it. Somehow, however, he found/married/shacked up a woman and she left him/died/vanished into a plot hole, leaving Chauvelin to take care of his daughter Fleurette. Nobody really knows what happened to Fleurette's mom, since Orczy doesn't give any details, the book in which she's first mentioned was one of the latter-written books, and she has little to no mention in the novels.
Also, he may or may not have had a fling with Marguerite St. Just, Sir Percy's future wife (depending on the adaptation, of course). Anyway, then the books happened. Here's a summary of the first book, which is the most important of the series (as the rest tend to get a bit 'lather, rinse, repeat'.
I too will copy Gels' strategy of being a canon hog because the books are kind of problematic in their own regard because Orczy really doesn't like the French. She reeeeeally doesn't like the French. Also, there's the whole problem of Percy's gambit relying mostly on the fact that the French are racist dickwads. D: So, I too will be drawing on elements from the 1982 movie, but not the mostly terrible BBC miniseries as I haven't seen it yet. And also, the 1982 movie has Magneto as Chauvelin! How cool is that?
3rd person sample: He's my fourth character. c:
1st person sample: [The handwriting is neat, precise and in pen.] I've scanned through this [a pause and pentaps. What the hell even is this?]
This device. It seems the majority of people here unfortunately speak English. Despite the fact that it's not my native tongue, I know enough so that I will be able to comply. My name is Chauvelin. I'd like an explanation as to where I am, how I got here and how I can return home. I have business to attend to there.
[The following is written in French, so that those damned English can't read it:] If any members of the Committee of Public Safety are here, I expect you to report immediately to Apartment Building 1. This is Citizen Chauvelin, head of the Committee. I also expect a full report about this damned place and how to return home to France. Do not dawdle.
Journal:
cherrybombAIM: MartyDaChicken
Email: radioactivetedishot at gmail dot com
Other characters: Marco, Raoul, Owen
Character name: Citizen Chauvelin (Lord only knows what his first name is. Apparently in 'Sir Percy Leads the Band' it's revealed to be Armand, but some adaptations have him listed as Paul. Most adaptations just go FUCK IT and list his name as simply Chauvelin, which is what I'm doing)
Age: He's described as being "closer to forty than thirty", so I'm gonna say he's thirty seven or thirty eight
Canon: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Canon point: Post 'El Dorado'. We're going to say that Chauvelin fell asleep back home after a long night of being grumpy that Sir Percy managed to rescue the dauphin.
Totem: One of the many notes that the Scarlet Pimpernel has left behind after rescuing stupid aristocrats. During a fissure, the little Scarlet Pimpernel seal (a wax seal of a scarlet pimpernel) vanishes.
Weapons: A single shot pistol, specifically the Pistolet modèle An IX (which is a flintlock calvary pistol) with a bag of gunpowder and ten bullets. He'll also be bringing a dueling sword.
Abilities/powers: Chauvelin has no supernatural powers. However, he does have a lot of neat abilities. He speaks fluent French and English. He has some of the skills needed to be a good nemesis: he can ride a horse, fire a pistol (and probably a musket) quite well and he's an expert swordsman. He also is slightly good at disguise. In 'The Scarlet Pimpernel', he was able to disguise himself as a priest and wasn't noticed by most people...until Sir Percy saw through his disguise and loudly pointed it out to everybody. He's a competent strategist, a quick thinker and a planner.
Basically, he's a second-rate Sir Percy. Which is why he always loses.
Location: A lovely assortment of five or so small, horrible, dingy Parisian jail cells, perfect for storing aristocrats before you cut their heads off. The cells are small and not very comfy at all. They're your typical, cliche, old-fashioned evil prison cells.
Personality:
First and foremost: Chauvelin is Not A Very Nice Man. You've got this guy described as being "in league with the devil", for Christ's sake. And there is nothing subtle about his Not Very Niceness. He gives off an air of someone you don't want to be around for too long-multiple people comment on his unpleasantness. His lifelong ambition is to kill the Scarlet Pimpernel. You can probably guess that from that goal that Chauvelin doesn't really have morals. Chauvelin is curt, abrupt, and sharp when it comes to conversation. He also really doesn't like anything English, mostly due to the Englishmen who keep stealing the aristos out of France. Stupid English.
He is patriotic as fuck. This guy is the poster child for post-Revolution France. We hear little to nothing about his social life, probably because he doesn't have one. The fact that he actually got around/talked to people enough to actually have a daughter is mind boggling, considering the lack of social interaction this guy has. Chauvelin is married to the job. And fortunately for him, his job involves killing aristos. Chauvelin hates the aristocratic class, the upper crust, any sort of nobility, etc. He feels no qualms about killing aristos and sending cute little upper-class children to the guillotine. They're aristocrats, it's their fault, they deserve to be punished. He is a believer in a people's republic, the France of the people, a France that isn't ruled by nobility. Which would be great, except for that whole 'killing people' thing. And the fact that our protagonists are upper-class.
Chauvelin is a big fan of ultimatums. His favorite thing to do, when he has the upper hand, are either-or ultimatums. Either you do this and get screwed over, or you do that and you get screwed over. In his ultimatums, he really doesn't care much for people. Come to think of it, he really doesn't care much for people period. He casually uses Armand as bait in order to draw out Marguerite. Chauvelin has a hard time when he's out of his element, such as at Lord Greenville's ball.
He doesn't trust anybody. Nobody at all. He bosses around soldiers and underlings through fear and yelling, not by being an example or anything like that. The only person Chauvelin fully trusts is himself. He feels that the common French soldier is incompetent (which, to be fair, they kinda are) and never reveals a hint of what he's planning to them-or to anybody. In contrast to the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Chauvelin's got weeny French soldiers who follow his orders to the letter because they're terrified of him.
Chauvelin is also obsessive as hell. He constantly dwells on the Scarlet Pimpernel and (later after he finds out his identity) Sir Percy. Sir Percy's laugh has been described as ringing through Chauvelin's head MULTIPLE times. He is obsessed with getting rid of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately, this obsession tends to kill his common sense. Chauvelin is like a really stupid Bond villain. He wants Sir Percy to be humiliated, to be made an example of. Just shooting him really won't do. He also never goes for the emotional tactics. I think he uses the 'I have your wife do what I say or else' plan only once in the long series, despite knowing it would work. He never tells anybody the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. He wants to beat Sir Percy but he wants to beat him on his own time and by his own hand. It's a matter of pride for Chauvelin to beat Sir Percy in his games.
Limbo will be interesting, because there's no France in Limbo, no French government in Limbo, and the only other French person in Limbo (Raoul) is dumb as a bag of bricks and nobility to boot. And, unfortunately, Limbo has Sir Percy. This will probably cause a minor meltdown. However, Chauvelin will end up picking himself back up by his bootstraps and will probably try to take over the police station-because Sue's a woman and she's Scottish. And, also, he could use the police station to (hopefully) prove that Sir Percy is the Scarlet Pimpernel once and for all.
To sum it all up, he is a perfect foil for Sir Percy. Percy protects the aristocracy and the old order, Chauvelin wants to destroy it. Percy's strengths lie with his friends, Chauvelin works alone. And it's Percy's good qualities that help him win out and save the day, while Chauvelin is always left behind in the dust, cursing his name helplessly.
History: Absolutely next to nothing is known about Chauvelin's childhood. We can infer that he had a lower to middle class upbringing because he absolutely hates the aristocracy and completely buys into the revolutionary ideas of 'kill all the nobles'. He worked his way up through the revolutionary government, becoming the ambassador to England, a representative in the National Assembly and the chief agent of the Committee of Public Safety. Chauvelin is completely married to his job and probably has had little to no social interaction outside of it. Somehow, however, he found/married/shacked up a woman and she left him/died/vanished into a plot hole, leaving Chauvelin to take care of his daughter Fleurette. Nobody really knows what happened to Fleurette's mom, since Orczy doesn't give any details, the book in which she's first mentioned was one of the latter-written books, and she has little to no mention in the novels.
Also, he may or may not have had a fling with Marguerite St. Just, Sir Percy's future wife (depending on the adaptation, of course). Anyway, then the books happened. Here's a summary of the first book, which is the most important of the series (as the rest tend to get a bit 'lather, rinse, repeat'.
I too will copy Gels' strategy of being a canon hog because the books are kind of problematic in their own regard because Orczy really doesn't like the French. She reeeeeally doesn't like the French. Also, there's the whole problem of Percy's gambit relying mostly on the fact that the French are racist dickwads. D: So, I too will be drawing on elements from the 1982 movie, but not the mostly terrible BBC miniseries as I haven't seen it yet. And also, the 1982 movie has Magneto as Chauvelin! How cool is that?
3rd person sample: He's my fourth character. c:
1st person sample: [The handwriting is neat, precise and in pen.] I've scanned through this [a pause and pentaps. What the hell even is this?]
This device. It seems the majority of people here unfortunately speak English. Despite the fact that it's not my native tongue, I know enough so that I will be able to comply. My name is Chauvelin. I'd like an explanation as to where I am, how I got here and how I can return home. I have business to attend to there.
[The following is written in French, so that those damned English can't read it:] If any members of the Committee of Public Safety are here, I expect you to report immediately to Apartment Building 1. This is Citizen Chauvelin, head of the Committee. I also expect a full report about this damned place and how to return home to France. Do not dawdle.