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Dec. 2nd, 2009
Sep. 27th, 2009
rp: backdated: mending fences
It's bad enough having to be distantly civil every day to people you can't stand; it's much worse having to be distantly civil every day to people you really, really like. After a week or so, Mike has had all he can stand. He turns up quietly in the doorway, as Jim has done so frequently to him. "Hey."
Apr. 7th, 2009
RP: backdated: coffee with jim
On Thursday afternoon Mike collects his belongings, tosses them in the backseat of the car, and walks the few blocks to the corner coffee shop near the center of town. He's let Gary know that he'll be late getting home; and the rain has finally let up. It's a good day.
Dec. 4th, 2008
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Player Name: Mhari
Player Age: Over 21
Contact Info: northseaflotsam@gmail.com ; MhariMackenna@AIM
Time Zone: US Eastern (GMT -5)
Character: Michael Madison
Based on: Mordred
Age: 30s
Occupation: High school teacher
Bio: Mordred was the oldest son of Queen Morgause, by her half-brother Arthur; he always believed, rightly or not, that this was deliberate on her part. She raised him in Orkney alongside his younger half-brothers; at sixteen he went with Gawain to Arthur's court. He did well there; married, had two sons.
But he detested Lancelot almost on sight, being far more defensive of Gawain's standing than Gawain himself would ever be. Half for that reason, half out of loyalty to his brother Agravain, he abetted the latter in exposing Lancelot's affair with Guenever. In the ensuing drama, three of the Orkney brothers were killed; and when Arthur left to besiege his erstwhile friend and recover his Queen, he took Gawain with him, leaving Mordred as regent.
Mordred himself took this as insult added to an already mortal injury. Arthur's misguided favoritism, as he saw it, had killed three of his brothers and endangered the last; Gawain was out of reach, when Mordred needed him most. Between grief and resentment and the weight of unwanted responsibility, he snapped. Arthur returned to find his son had raised an army against him; and in the ultimate battle, poetically, they killed each other.
Michael, by contrast, grew up in Britannia, the only child in a more-or-less well-adjusted family. He went to college nearby, and spent a couple of years working closer to NYC, where he met and fell instantly for Gary Wilkinson, a struggling portrait artist. When a job opened up at Britannia's sole high school, Gary went back with him.
The first year went well. In the second came Gary's breakdown.
So far, Mike attributes his recurring nightmares -- half-remembered, chaotic -- to the stress of living with a man who's prone to psychotic episodes.
Personality: He is and has always been constitutionally, tenaciously loyal -- this is both a virtue and a liability, since (as with Agravain) it leads him to do things against his better judgment. His humor is often acerbic, and though this incarnation is less quick-tempered than the last, in anger he is still viciously spiteful. For the rest, he's bright, charismatic, good-humored; impatient of folly, stubborn, but not especially strong-willed, and has a tendency to panic under pressure.
Michael, having no particular inferiority complex, is not as paralyzed by authority as Mordred was; surly teenagers are about his speed, and on the whole he does well with them.
Player Age: Over 21
Contact Info: northseaflotsam@gmail.com ; MhariMackenna@AIM
Time Zone: US Eastern (GMT -5)
Character: Michael Madison
Based on: Mordred
Age: 30s
Occupation: High school teacher
Bio: Mordred was the oldest son of Queen Morgause, by her half-brother Arthur; he always believed, rightly or not, that this was deliberate on her part. She raised him in Orkney alongside his younger half-brothers; at sixteen he went with Gawain to Arthur's court. He did well there; married, had two sons.
But he detested Lancelot almost on sight, being far more defensive of Gawain's standing than Gawain himself would ever be. Half for that reason, half out of loyalty to his brother Agravain, he abetted the latter in exposing Lancelot's affair with Guenever. In the ensuing drama, three of the Orkney brothers were killed; and when Arthur left to besiege his erstwhile friend and recover his Queen, he took Gawain with him, leaving Mordred as regent.
Mordred himself took this as insult added to an already mortal injury. Arthur's misguided favoritism, as he saw it, had killed three of his brothers and endangered the last; Gawain was out of reach, when Mordred needed him most. Between grief and resentment and the weight of unwanted responsibility, he snapped. Arthur returned to find his son had raised an army against him; and in the ultimate battle, poetically, they killed each other.
Michael, by contrast, grew up in Britannia, the only child in a more-or-less well-adjusted family. He went to college nearby, and spent a couple of years working closer to NYC, where he met and fell instantly for Gary Wilkinson, a struggling portrait artist. When a job opened up at Britannia's sole high school, Gary went back with him.
The first year went well. In the second came Gary's breakdown.
So far, Mike attributes his recurring nightmares -- half-remembered, chaotic -- to the stress of living with a man who's prone to psychotic episodes.
Personality: He is and has always been constitutionally, tenaciously loyal -- this is both a virtue and a liability, since (as with Agravain) it leads him to do things against his better judgment. His humor is often acerbic, and though this incarnation is less quick-tempered than the last, in anger he is still viciously spiteful. For the rest, he's bright, charismatic, good-humored; impatient of folly, stubborn, but not especially strong-willed, and has a tendency to panic under pressure.
Michael, having no particular inferiority complex, is not as paralyzed by authority as Mordred was; surly teenagers are about his speed, and on the whole he does well with them.