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[anamelessfool]

Secondo (born Michael Aulenbach 25 Oct 1961)

Despite his brooding nature, Secondo does hold a bit of whimsy in his heart. He learned to love reading thanks to his mother Rebecca's influence. She had always been entranced by mystery novels. Holmes and the Maltese Falcon, of course. Agatha Christie's Poirot. Above them all was Ian Fleming's James Bond, and once the films started coming out she would take her son to every premiere she could.

Of course Secondo, being a fantastical-brained young boy, bought in immediately to the stories on the screen. Bond wore a suit, and so did he. Bond's gadgets delighted him. His companions were beautiful and he always knew what to do. He always was two steps ahead of his foes and his lovers. Before his teenage interests in splatter films and doom metal Secondo was the elegant, cool-headed secret agent with just the right accessory for the job.

You would think all the seduction, violence, torture and bondage in the films would make the stuffy Rebecca clutch at some pearls, but she's a hedonist at heart. Let us not forget she is one of the most senior siblings of a Satanic Church. "Look at him," she says out loud in the movie theater. She talks through every movie while Secondo sits stoically beside her, taking all the action in. "Gorgeous man. Honorable, but not too much. Gets things done." Sometimes she's speaking about Bond, sometimes the villain.

Her favorite is Dr. No. Elegant, brilliant monster of a man. Going to toe with the dashing spy, wit for wit. She thinks the set design of the giant candelabras and absurd aquarium of man-eating fish is elegance at its peak. She's in a New York City theater with Secondo in 1969, or she's watching the film on television beside her adult son decades later she still says the same things. "In another life..." Her eyes sparkle as she savors the concept. "In another life they could have been friends. But destiny thought otherwise, boy. Destiny always does."

My "Scenes from the Void" AU

[scruffyplayssonic]

Are the ArchieSonic comics actually an 80's/90's syndicated cartoon? Episode 40: The one episode that's unique to the show's premise and characters (part 4: Spark of Life)

Welcome back to my look at the ArchieSonic comic series, and how it shared a lot of the same story tropes as a typical ‘80s or ‘90s syndicated cartoon. Today I have one last story arc I want to look at for the “episode that’s unique to the show’s premise or characters,” category. It’s the fan-favourite story arc Spark of Life, published in Sonic Universe #71 - 74!

Taking place during the Shattered World crisis adapting Sonic Unleashed post-reboot, Spark of Life saw Sally, Nicole, Tails and Big travel to Isolated Island (from Knuckles’ Chaotix) to answer a digital distress call from Nicole’s creator, Dr Ellidy. Venturing into the digital world, Nicole discovered Dr. Ellidy was being threatened by a rogue A.I. that was interfering with the reprogrammed badniks Ellidy had turned into his housekeepers, and which also tried to get its hands on Ellidy himself when he digitised himself to investigate the problem in Cyberspace. Combined with the continuing threat of the Dark Gaia monsters appearing at night and a shocking revelation about Nicole’s origins, the Freedom Fighters had a lot on their plates for this story.

Spark of Life is one of only a handful of stories written by Aleah Baker (with Aleah writing the script based on her husband Ian Flynn’s plot). Aleah regularly contributed to ArchieSonic for years by doing character designs, colouring, and working on the letter pages’ gag strip, Off Panel, as well as writing a number of stories for the post-reboot era. As well as Spark of Life, this includes the stories Light in the Dark in Sonic #260 - 262, Consequences in Sonic #263, Hidden Costs in Sonic #277 - 279, The Case of the Pirate Princess in Sonic Universe #91 - 94, and Knuckles vs. Break Man in Sonic: Worlds Unite Battles #1. Aleah has unfortunately not been able to write for IDW Sonic yet due to poor health, although last year she did colour an absolutely gorgeous cover for issue #50. I’m sure that I speak for all of us when I wish her all the best and hope that she gets better..

So what makes Spark of Life so special? Well a lot of it has to do with Nicole, and the relationships she has in this arc. By the time of this story Nicole had come a long way from the talking handheld computer she was first introduced as, developing into a real person with feelings, hopes, and dreams. Nicole and her development as a character was a large part of the Iron Dominion arc and its aftermath, but that was partially lost after the comic was rebooted and the Freedom Fighters’ backstories were all rewritten to be similar to the old canon but different enough to be distinguishable. Nicole’s awakening as a sentient being is shown as a flashback in this story, and it’s very similar to how it was pre-reboot, with Nicole creating a hard-light holographic avatar for herself and stargazing with Sally.

But how she got to that point was the big difference, as this time she didn’t have wacky body-swap shenanigans with Sally. She also wasn’t sent back in time to be Sally’s friend by a future Rotor - instead she was given to a young Sally as a present by Dr Ellidy. But it’s only during the events of this story that we find out why Dr Ellidy created Nicole in the first place.

Nicole was actually a failed attempt at creating a digital existence for his daughter Nikki, who was dying of a chronic disease. The idea was that he would be able to preserve Nikki’s mind in the digital world, but all he was able to create before Nikki passed was an A.I. that seemed emotionless and did not have any sense of identity or personality. Heartbroken, Dr. Ellidy decided to leave Mobotropolis and retire to Isolated Island, leaving the AI (now named Nicole by King Nigel) with Sally as a gift. However Dr. Ellidy was apparently more successful than he realised, as over time Nicole developed into an actual person - going from JARVIS to Vision, if you like. Dr. Ellidy lived up to the name of his new home and stayed isolated from the rest of the world for the most part, although he would occasionally make contact with the Kingdom such as when he sent Sally the ring blades that had become a part of her new design post-reboot. But Dr Ellidy wasn’t aware of how much Nicole had grown over the years and so he was naturally shocked when she came to his rescue in the digital world, and harboured some resentment towards her because she reminded him of Nikki.

The other main relationship that was focused on in this story was that of Nicole and Sally, as this issue was the first step on the road for the two of them becoming a couple. More like Spark of Romance, amirite?

…

…anyway! It was subtle and sadly not able to be followed up on before the series was cancelled, but the seeds of the romance that was supposed to come were there. With Sally, we got to see that she cared about Nicole very deeply and was very upset by how Dr Ellidy was treating her as if she were not a real person.

And for Nicole we got to see some character growth for her, as she started out chastising Sally for putting herself at risk at the beginning of the story but later realised she would do the exact same thing for her.

Nicole totally had an, “Oh… she just like me. She just like me FR!” moment there!

Aside from Nicole and how the other characters relate to her, there’s a lot of other great stuff in this story. Another one of my favourite moments from all of ArchieSonic is this incredibly wholesome talk that Sally and Big had.

In this house we stan Big the Cat. I'd go to him if I needed someone to talk about girls with too!

We also were introduced to Phage, the afore-mentioned malicious AI making everyone’s lives difficult.

Phage was a very curious AI who was fascinated by what she did not understand, and had an interesting speech pattern which indicates she may have assimilated a thesaurus at some point. We didn’t find out her whole story at this time, but we did discover that she was created by Eggman and seemed to be looking for a way to get back in his good graces. After Nicole foiled her first attempt on Dr Ellidy, Phage took Nicole hostage instead and demanded that the Freedom Fighters bring her the red star ring and the chaos emerald hidden on the island. 

Speaking of, red star rings now became a thing!

While they had technically been introduced the previous year in the Sonic Super Special Magazine, that was only in a five page story of dubious canonicity adapting the mobile game Sonic Dash, and the red star rings hadn’t been seen again since. This story served as their proper introduction, with Dr Ellidy explaining that the island’s Lake of Rings had one day created this instead of the usual standard rings and that he had been researching the increased power it generated compared to them. It was later revealed that the reason the Lake of Rings had started producing red star rings was because a chaos emerald had landed in it.

The best (and most unexpected) thing about the red star rings though is that they granted Nicole a super form!

But if SEGA asks, it’s not a super form, okay? It’s an overclocked form. Totally different. ;)

Dr Ellidy later gave both of the red star rings he’d obtained to Nicole as an olive branch, showing that he did actually want to have an ongoing friendship with her despite how the painful way she reminded him of his lost daughter. It was a nice gesture.

And the last thing I’d like to talk about in Spark of Life is the location. It was really neat to see the Knuckles’ Chaotix game get a shoutout in this way. It’s one of the classic games that is often overlooked (it doesn’t help that unlike most of the classic era games it has never been ported to modern consoles), and considering how different the modern Chaotix are to their classic counterparts, it’s hard to say whether it’s even canon any more. So for a long-time Sonic nerd like myself, it was nice to see it get this kind of representation. We get to see some of the badniks from the game and also the sling-rings, which actually make sense to be in this story.

This is in contrast to the pre-reboot adaptation of Knuckles’ Chaotix where they just came out of nowhere. Dr Ellidy was explained to be a scientist who was researching ring technology and had actually created them (presumably Knuckles and the Chaotix came across them during the events of that game and used them to get around the island). Considering the sling-rings were Chekov’s gun-ed early in the story, it felt a lot more natural for Sally and Nicole to use them against Phage than the way the Chaotix adaptation just jammed them into the story without any setup. 

So those are my four choices for most unique story arcs of ArchieSonic: Mike Gallagher’s Mecha Madness, Karl Bollers’ Return to Angel Island, Ian Flynn’s Iron Dominion, and Aleah Baker’s Spark of Life. I’d also like to shout out a couple of other Ian Flynn stories I considered for this category, but that didn’t quite make the cut:

#1: Enerjak Reborn. Ian gets his hands on Ken Penders’ echidna mythos, and like Karl Bollers before him, puts his own spin on it. Also like Karl Bollers before him, he really pisses Ken Penders off in doing so. xD

#2: The Tails Adventure. A very unexpected adaptation of the Game Gear game of the same name, introducing the Battlebird Armada! Tails takes Antoine and Bunnie to Cocoa Island for their long overdue honeymoon and hijinks ensue.

#3: Scrambled. It’s the big showdown between Snively and Eggman! With interesting cameos from the Egg Bosses and Omega, the introduction of Orbot and Cubot, and the long awaited return of the Iron Queen!

#4: Champions. A Sonic the Fighters adaptation in the middle of a Sonic Unleashed adaptation! Reintroducing a bunch of characters from the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon! Only Ian Flynn would be so bold!

Well as much fun as it’s been writing for this topic, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t relieved to be moving on to some shorter topics now. Hopefully this’ll mean there’s a shorter wait for you between posts too (but I am rather preoccupied trying to find a new home, so no promises).

Next time I’ll be looking at episode 41 of our theoretical 65 episode syndicated cartoon: “Recap the origin story in yet another clip show.” See you next time!

[ianhowellgcpd]

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The Diary of Life Chapter 4 An Invitation

Jamie watches as two doctors enter the room.  “Mr. Fraser, I am Dr. John Grey and this is Dr. Joe Abernathy. We are here to exam you. Determine treatment.”

 

“hello. A pacemaker, is it? I have ventricular fibrillation. All the men in my family have it and my father got a pacemaker last year.”

 

“We agree. After reviewing your tests, we have determined that a pacemaker is appropriate.” Dr. Abernathy agrees.

 

“Shall it be soon then?”

 

“Yes. Tomorrow morning. Then we can release you to go home.” Dr. Grey informs him.

 

“Sounds wonderful.” He is happy to sign the papers. They then leave.

 

He drifts off but awakes when a wet finger pokes his face “What? “His eyes fly open to see his baby brother sitting beside him. “You we rascal. How did you get here?”

 

“Da and I came to check on you.” He sees his da then, sitting beside the bed.

 

“Fergus here needed to see you were okay.  As did I. What are the doctors saying?”

 

“I will get a pacemaker tomorrow then can go home.”

 

“Here or Paris?”

 

“Here. Da, she is gorgeous, that old building and the grounds. Needs some work but it is minimal. The whisky they make, Murray’s Gold, will be a great addition to Fraser’s Spirits. There is a lot of tenants and I will need some help with them.” Brian frowns as his heart rate goes up.

 

“Relax son. I am here. Let me take Fergus here…” There is a knock on the door Fergus goes to answer it.

 

“Who are you?”

 

“Fergus Claudel Fraser, that is no way to speak to Jamie’s guest.” Brian scolds.  

 

“Fraser, so you are a relative of Jamie’s?”

 

“Oui’ I am his brother.”

 

“I was his doctor, treated him in the A&E.”

 

“Brian Fraser and Fergus, Jamie’s da and baby brother. Nice to meet you lass.”

 

“You too.  Jamie,” she looks to him now. She finds him smiling at her. “You don’t need to worry about him. He is strong.”

 

“Thank you lass.”

 

“She saved my life da.”

 

“I would love to stay in chat but this one,” he ruffles Fergus’s hair affectionately, “has  had a long day.  We will return in the morning mo mac. Rest.”

 

“Aye da.”

 

He takes Fergus to Lallybroch and gets him laid down. He then begins to explore his son’s new investment. He finds the diary and opens it.

 

‘Oh. I want my mam! I want her back. But she is gone, with the angels now and I am the lady of the house now. How am I to do this?’

 

‘’They beat Jamie so bad! So very bad. A thousand lashes. If only I would have went with the captain. But he wouldn’t hear if it.’

 

‘’Uncle Dougal brought da home to bury him. Said Jamie had killed him by his actions. He and that Sassanach he married! How could he do such a thing? They are on their way to Paris. Good!’

 

‘’I miss him. Ian says I should write him. I just simply can’t.’

 

Brian closes it with a sigh. His Jenny was stubborn but her ancestor was much more hard headed.

 

“Dr. Beauchamp, would you like to see Lallybroch?”

 

“Your estate?”

 

“Aye. After the pacemaker, I am being released. You can come up this weekend.”

 

“Jamie, it wouldn’t be proper. I am your doctor.”

 

“Nae lass, Drs. Grey and Abernathy are. You just were in the A&E. Please Claire, I would love to show you my home “

 

“Alright Jamie.” She says, not because of his plea, or not entirely. She was drawn to him. It scares her a little. *But for now you need rest.  I will see you in the morning, alright?”

 

“Alright “ he watches her walk out.

[thefloatingstone]

Last time I made a playlist of recommended youtube channels to enjoy while in lockdown or self quarantine, I focused on individual videos while also recommending other videos from the same channel.

I thought I’d make another list only this time I’m going to be recommending playlists or series on youtuber instead of just individual videos.

This is gonna go exactly like last time, so check out any of these that might seem interesting to you, and hopefully I can give you something to look into if you want something to watch but don’t feel like watching a Netflix or Crunchyroll show.

Last time I tried to put this under a read more break but it didn’t work and I ended up posting this long-ass post on everyone’s dash. Well I decided to do so again here. hit J to skip to the bottom of the post if you don’t feel like reading this whole thing. If you’re on tumblr mobile; why?

In no particular order;

Cinemassacre movie reviews and topics

All of you already know James Rolfe as the AVGN. I started watching him before Youtube was even a thing, before he was even signed on with Screwattack. Back when his videos could only be seen on his own website (or for some reason included on the free DVD you got with the local video game magazines). However, I eventually outgrew the outrage style humour of the AVGN episodes... but then James started doing Monster Madness where he would talk about his love for horror movies, and this where I learned about his vast knowledge about movie history and even films I had never even heard mention of before! I think it’s safe to say, he got me to be interested in movie history just as much as movie production and film as a viewing experience.

I recommend this playlist which is a hodgepodge of James talking about old horror movie franchises, talking about his first experience with Power Rangers as someone who didn’t grow up with it, or how Bob Ross is a childhood hero of his. It’s an excellent play list that’s really laid back but you learn a lot of stuff from it. James is very informed for the most part and it leads you to wanting to check out a lot of these things too, just because he’s so passionate about it.

If I ever get over my weird hang up about speaking out loud, these are the kinds of videos I’d like to make.

Vinesauce Vinny: The Neverhood

Vinny is by no means a new Let’s Player, having been on Youtube for over 10 years now, but I only started watching him a few months ago. I started with this playlist when I saw he was doing The Neverhood, a game I had heard about but never seen played before. The Neverhood is a bizarre game, as a point and click PC game from the 90s where the entirety of the video game was made with stop motion and clay. Something that sounds so insane you would say it’s impossible if not for the fact that it exists. The claymation itself is extremely well done, and the game has a really weird and absurd sense of humour. Just the strangest things happen in this thing. Now couple that with Vinny’s very dry and straightforward delivery and you have probably one of the funniest Let’s Plays I’ve watched in a long time.

This is also “short” for a Let’s Play series. With only 4 parts to it, the longest video only being a bit under and hour and 30 minutes. It’ll still take up a good chunk of your time, but it’s not as daunting as some of the other Let’s Plays I’ll mention on this list.

Team Four Star: Pokemon Shield Nuzlocke

Exactly what it says on the tin. The guys from Team Four Star play Pokemon Shield with Nuzlocke rules. They’ve done several Nuzlocke runs in the past, but I find the Pokemon Shield is the best one they’ve done. Especially since a lot of the needless fluff and grinding has been edited out. So unlike some of their previous series you don’t see a lot of Kieran and Grant running in a circle for an hour trying to catch a specific pokemon or trying to get to a certain level.

It’s also hilarious as they have a lot of “house rules” for the Nuzlocke often involving the exercise bike they.... have..... for some reason.

It’s very good and the gym battles become SUPER hype with the Nuzlocke rules and the music.

Baywatching

Having been going to a few years now, watch Allison try her very best to go through and do a video series where she talks about summarises every episode of Baywatch.

.... Ever. Single. Episode.

She’s not even close to done yet (and now she’s introduced Baywatch Nights AS WELL) but her trying to explain the batshit insanity of this show, it’s over the top characters, it’s insane plots and behind the scenes weirdness with all the enthusiasm and love for this slice of 90s is amazing. Please enjoy a good thick chunk of inside jokes, silly character voices, and a whole lot of ?????

Brutal Moose: Shenmue

Probably one of the most chill channels on all of Youtube, Brutal Moose aka Ian, prefers playing games you wouldn’t think would make for good Let’s Plays. And maybe they don’t, objectively. A collection of playlists covering Truck Simulator, Nancy Drew, Hidden Object games etc etc, spliced in with old commercials from drive in theaters from the 50s,60s and 70s. Ian’s Let’s Play channel is great for just putting on and letting play for company while you’re drawing or grinding in a video game or playing Stardew or something.

I recommend his Shenmue playthrough as Ian completely fell in love with the game and went on to play both the sequel and the newly released third game. Ian genuinely adores the weird voice acting and all the menial tasks and mini-games you can do. I watched this a lot in 2018 when I was going through a rough time, and it really helped me in a strange way to just put Ian on and listen to him talk to the chat and drive a forklift around for like 4 hours straight before going to Tomato Mart or wasting all his money on the gacha machines.

A Measured Response to “In Defense of Dark Souls 2″

At some point, big name youtuber Hbomberguy made a video called “In Defense of Dark Souls II”. I’m not subscribed to Hbomberguy but I enjoyed his video on why Sherlock (the BBC show) is trash. (come to think of it I should have added that to the first list). And it seems the video on Sherlock was really good and well argued.... and it seems his “In Defense of Dark Souls 2″ video... was not.

Using subjective language, bad representation of facts, or simply outright getting certain information wrong, Hbomberguy′s video on Dark Souls II is, at best, a man trying to argue that he likes Dark Souls II because it is “Objectively good”, rather than simply accept he likes it... because he likes it.

MauLer is kind of an asshole, but I have learned more about dissecting someone’s argument and deconstructing what they have said watching his response series than I have in any english or debate class I have ever had.

The response is over 10 hours long, but this is because MauLer takes time with each and every statement he takes umbrage with, discussing what is being said, discusses why it is false or dubious, and then compares with actual facts and research.

If you ever want to know how to to distinguish subjective opinion from objective fact in someone else’s argument regarding... ANYTHING really, I highly recommend this series.

I may not like MauLer as a person, but DAMN if he doesn’t know how to deconstruct an argument in a logic, emotionless way.

John Wolfe: Maize

Maize is a stupid game. a Stupid stupid game.

It involves sentient corn, and underground secret genetics lab, a Russian bootleg teddy bear that hates everyone, sentient corn, and a crumpet.

This game IMMEDIATELY went on my wishlist after watching this playthrough. Please watch John try and figure what the actual fuck is going on in this Monty Python-eque weird black comedy. It’s stupid, it’s weird, it’s bizarre and it’s honestly one of the funniest games I’ve seen streamed.

Hollywood: a Celebration of the Silent Era

This is not a youtube playlist. I mean it IS, but what this actually is, is a TV series released in the UK in 1980 covering the Silent Film era. As it was made in 1980, it includes interviews with many of the silent film stars who were often still alive during this documentary’s production. Each episode covers a specific theme of the silent movie era. One episode is about comedies, one is about WWI, one is about Westerns etc etc.

It’s a fascinating series, because it focuses on the silent era which, in modern day, I think many people unfairly think of as “those first few years of movies before movies really became a thing.” And that’s such a shame and really not true. The artistry, camera tricks, and raw nature of this early era of film making is so important and produced films which can still be watched today easily, possibly even easier than a few modern movies as often the very fact that the films are silent means they are universal, regardless of what language you speak.

I think an episode or two might have been turned to private or copyright claimed in this playlist, but I know if you do a search on youtube you can find the episode uploaded by someone else.

Diamanda Hagan: Bonekickers

Bonekickers is the show Mathew Graham made before he went on to work on the new Dr. Who. It is about archaeologists and it is God-fucking-Awful.

It is.... look. Ok. I like Archaeology a lot. But this isn’t a show that’s bad “if you like history” or “if you know things about archaeology”. This show is bad because it doesn’t make a single fucking lick of sense, all the characters are awful and terrible, and even if you understand what’s going on in the story you’re still going to be screaming “WHY????” at the screen as each new baffling stupid piece of the puzzle slots into place.

Diamanda Hagan has 0 time for this garbage and she’s going to walk you through each episode to show you how truly horrible this piece of garbage is.

Cry Plays: Ori and the Blind Forest

With Ori and the Will of the Wisps releasing recently, now is a great time to go and watch Cry playthrough the first Ori game. an absolutely gorgeous piece of work with a beautiful soundtrack and really likeable character designs and a sweet story, Ori is a great game to put on, sit back, and just let it wash over you. Cry’s playthrough is also great because although its a Metroidvania game, Cry fast forwards the parts where he backtracks for a long period of time, so you don’t get stuck watching him run back and forth as he tries to figure out where to go next or anything like that.

Cry also recently started playing the sequel as well!

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Episode 38 Review: Of Zombies and Men

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Damn, Jacques is hot in that scene! There. I just had to say that before starting this review.

Hello and welcome again to my Garden of Evil, which I have once again been neglecting. Long story short: the past month has been both terrifying (for what should be obvious reasons) and very, very busy, and I’ve been spending more of my free time offline than usual focusing on things like starting vegetables for my real-life garden. I don’t foresee things getting better for at least another month, so most likely either I won’t be very active or my muse will be more active than ever. If the latter, it may mean more reviews or it may mean more silliness like the Desmond Hall personality quiz from earlier this week. We shall see.

But, for right now, shall we jump into our exploration of Episode 38?

Wait! Quito didn’t leave the chandelier hanging on the table before!

The table (post-séance) from Episode 36, for comparison.

Another night has passed on Maljardin (as indicated by Jean Paul Desmond's change in clothing) and now someone has hung the chandelier on the side of the broken séance table where it wasn't in either of the previous two episodes. "Keeping this here as a souvenir, Jean Paul?" the Reverend Matthew Dawson, who is still wearing the same outfit as two episodes ago, asks.

"No, Reverend," Jean Paul corrects him, but forgets to tell him who put the chandelier back on the table and why. Instead, he tells him that there will be another séance.

Matt accuses him of playing with their lives and he responds with what sounds like a veiled threat: "Come now, Reverend, this is no game. Surely, superstitions and fears are not going to blacken your learned convictions. All of our days are numbered." Yes, Jean Paul's in pissy passive-aggressive mode and he will remain there for most of the next three weeks. This is one of the reasons why I prefer Jacques Eloi des Mondes. He may be THE DEVIL and he certainly has his own nasty, passive-aggressive side, but he doesn't go around glowering like his descendant and he takes himself less seriously. His death threats are also way funnier than Jean Paul’s. On top of that, he has that stunning cape that he once wore to the main island, which I miss horribly. I can’t see Jean Paul moping around on Maljardin while wearing that gorgeous number, which is a pity because it looked so good on him.

Just noticed while re-watching the episode that Matt has a pompadour now. I'm going to go ahead and guess the reason based on evidence from Episode 7: he's trying to level with the groovy swingers and keep up with what's happenin', but he's too square to realize the hairstyle he's adopted in his efforts to be happenin' is ten years out of date. (I’m sure I used at least two of these outdated slang terms incorrectly. Forgive me.)

Jean Paul lying to cover up Jacques’ attempted murder. Also, a pretty shot of Fox-C’s eyes!

To no viewers’ surprise, Jean Paul is planning on holding another séance, and another, and another, until he finally establishes contact with his late wife Erica. This angers Matt, who has been a loose cannon since Episode 35 and is due to fire again soon. “You forget the medium said death points only to me!” the lovesick, grieving billionaire shouts and storms away before Matt gets another chance to air his grievances against him.

We next see him in the crypt, telling Quito to have the table and the chandelier repaired ASAP. And then he gets a moment alone with Erica’s cryonics capsule and he says this interesting, cryptic aside:

Is he only saying that because of Jacques’ frequent possessions, or does he have another reason to mistrust himself? Lines like this one make me think that maybe Dan’s suspicions are correct and he did murder Erica.

Matt grows bored waiting for Jean Paul to return, so he visits Alison in the lab. Wearing a stylish blue labcoat, she is reading through Dr. Menkin’s notes on her sister Erica and confides in Matt about her despair that she has found so few of them.

Alison and Matt in the lab.

Their conversation in this scene is quite interesting. First, she reveals that Dr. Menkin has been researching cellular reconstruction and that, using his notes (especially the missing parts), it might actually be possible to bring Erica back to life. This means that there’s a chance that it was reasonable from an in-universe scientific standpoint--if still somewhat ethically questionable--for Jean Paul to freeze Erica.

Second, she denies Matt’s accusation that Jean Paul is treating them like chattel, replying, "What you forget is his love for Erica, his need for her is what drives him, not purposeful harm to others." Has she developed Stockholm Syndrome towards Jacques/Jean Paul during her time on the island? This line makes me wonder.

Their conversation drifts to Vangie’s accident, which reminds Alison to check on her! They find Vangie in the Great Hall, walking down the stairs in her Conjure Woman robes, her arms stretched out before her in standard zombie fashion. Because she isn’t watching where she’s going and is just staring blankly, Alison guides her down the stairs and onto the couch to prevent any further injuries. At the end of the scene, Quito comes to check on her and lets out a silent scream before covering his face: most likely as a subtle cue to new audience members that the silent servant in the earlier scene in the crypt is, like Vangie, a zombie.

Alison guiding Vangie to the couch.

But can we really compare Vangie’s state to Quito’s? In book canon, Quito was one of Jacques’ slaves, whom he killed and then had resurrected to punish Raxl for disobedience. The show canon never states how Quito became a zombie, but we do know that he is undead based on his lack of a pulse in Episode 33 and Jean Paul’s reference to “a soulless corpse” in Episode 16. Vangie, in contrast, is still alive, but behaves like a zombie (allegedly) because of a brain injury caused by the crashing chandelier. Oddly enough, her body language and behavior are more in line with a stereotypical Hollywood zombie than Quito, which makes me wonder how the hell she was able to put her Conjure Woman robes back on while in a cataleptic trance. (I bet it’s just another continuity error, like the chandelier hanging off the side of the table.)

There’s a brief scene here where Matt opens one of the cabinet drawers in the lab and pulls out one of Alison’s scalpels. I don’t understand why she doesn’t keep that drawer locked on such a dangerous island.

In his and Raxl’s bedroom, Quito mixes Vangie a potion using herbs from the island to attempt to bring her out of her catatonic state. He tastes the potion and nods as though to say, "Yes, it tastes right.” Even so, it doesn't appear to have any effect on him after he tastes it, which is strange. I don’t know how to interpret this scene. It could mean anything from “the antidote only works on living people” to “the antidote only works on people who were turned into zombies the way Vangie was (and Quito was not)” to “Quito drank this same potion years ago, and that’s why he can move around, think, and feel and isn’t stuck in a catatonic state like Vangie.”

The ambiguity makes this yet another unexplained plot point in a show overflowing with them, thanks to the change in writers and producer. I want to give Robert Costello and the team of writers who wrapped up Maljardin the benefit of the doubt and say that perhaps they ignored this plot hole because Ian Martin’s notes were partially missing like Dr. Menkin’s, but most of the evidence suggests that they consciously chose to go in a different direction than the one that Martin originally intended. We know that, from Episode 30 onward, executive meddling forced him to change and rearrange events in his episodes. There is that one line from Episode 54 that reminds me of what I believe were his original intended revelations about Erica, but I suspect that I’m over-analyzing a line for which Cornelius Crane probably intended a different, less unusual interpretation than mine.

Anyway, while Quito is downstairs, Jean Paul and Jacques have this amusing exchange:

Jean Paul: "You were the disrupting influence at that séance." Jacques: "I? Do I resemble a part of the chandelier that came crashing down?"

I think you can guess where this leads. Jacques possesses him, and this time the resulting scene is the most deliciously evil one we’ve seen yet of his character:

Just after possession, zombie Vangie identifies Jacques as Lucifer, and he confirms this. Since the first episode, we have heard Raxl say repeatedly that Jacques Eloi des Mondes was THE DEVIL, but at last we have confirmation that Ian Martin’s Jacques is, even after the beginning of executive meddling.

“Devil he is. Devil he will remain till I can exorcise and destroy him,” she adds, still in a trance and still with her eyes fixed forward.

“But aren’t you finding him too powerful for all of us?” Jacques replies.

“In the end, it is we who will be too strong for him.”

“But you are already losing all the battles.” Jacques smirks and leans closer to Vangie, as my heart--and the hearts of half the original audience--skips a beat. “Look at you now, Vangie. Look at you now, able to talk only with me because, like Quito, you are living in his...half-world.” (Does this mean that Quito can speak to him, too, when they are alone and Jacques allows it?) “Who put you there?”

“Fear not. He cannot kill me. My death is ordained.”

“He hasn’t killed you,” Jacques grins. “Who knows? Maybe in your present state, you will be able to reach Erica.”

“I didn’t want to reach her for myself, but for you, Jean Paul.” (Why does she identify him as Jean Paul now, when she called him Lucifer a minute ago? Jacques hasn’t de-possessed Jean Paul yet.)

Quietly, Alison and Matt enter undetected, as she continues. “The demon Jacques Eloi des Mondes, his evil was at the table. It was his alien presence that destroyed the séance.”

She lies back down on the couch, Jacques yells her name and grabs her, and Alison breaks her silence. “Jean Paul!” she shouts, rushing over to Vangie. “Leave her be!” Jacques demands that she bring her out of the trance, but Alison says that she doesn’t know how. He shoots down her suggestion that she take her to the mainland for treatment.

“It’s mystifying to hear her talk as though you were that man, an ancestor three hundred years dead,” Matt comments, pointing to Jacques’ portrait.

“The islanders are very superstitious with strange fancies,” Jacques gaslights him. “You’re not joining that group, are you, Reverend?”

“I may join them, too,” says Alison.

“Perhaps you all need therapy, or some other kind of treatment,” Jacques says as the camera zooms into his face. He starts off with a fairly neutral Jean Paul expression--he’s been getting better at imitating his descendant--but then widens his eyes in that way only Jacques does. It's not quite Bissits Face™, but it is a very Jacques expression nonetheless.

After the commercial break, Matt asks for some clarification as to what he meant by treatment. “Relief of tension, as at a séance,” he responds with a smile.

Another argument about séances is about to erupt when Quito walks up holding a cup of his herbal remedy. Jacques identifies this as “a pinch of hope, a dash of witchcraft, a hint of prayer, as harmless as Quito himself is.” Surprisingly, despite knowing that this will take Vangie out of her trance, he lets Alison serve it to her.

When Vangie recovers, she, too, insists--also surprisingly--that they have another séance. “It’s Jean Paul Desmond himself who risks all,” she tells Matt when he accuses her of endangering the guests’ lives. Alison has Matt take her upstairs to rest while she heads to the lab to grab a tranquilizer.

Meanwhile, in the lab...

A secret door behind the cabinet opens and Jacques comes out, carrying more of Dr. Menkin’s notes. When he hears Alison’s footsteps, he shuts the door (but not all the way--oops!) and leaves them on the table. After a brief conversation about Vangie, he leaves through the lab’s main entrance and Alison flips excitedly through the newly discovered notes.

My favorite shot of Alison from this scene.

The Lost Episode summary for this episode from The Newport Daily News mentions the secret door--indicating that it appeared in the original script for the episode--but also that Vangie knows about it and that Jacques will leave her alone during the second séance if she keeps it secret. Another version of the summary from the Minneapolis Star (November 5, 1969) says that the hidden door leads to “a secret passageway,” begging the question of where Jacques has hidden the notes. It must be somewhere between the Great Hall and the lab, but where?

You know, I’m surprised that, for all Raxl and Quito’s searching for the conjure doll and the silver pin and Alison, Dan, and Matt’s searching for the missing cyanide, they haven’t found more of the château’s secret rooms and passages. It’s just as inexplicable as how Jacques still doesn’t know the location of the Temple of the Serpent after three hundred years, hours of spying on people in the crypt, and that failed investigation of it with Holly last episode--and the Temple’s entrance isn’t even well-hidden! On a show set on an absurdly cold tropical island with anachronistic period costumes, 20-year-olds who look 30 but get turned away from the bar without being carded, white Incas, a white voodoo priest and priestesses, and a man with an IQ of 187 knowingly placing a glass table beneath a loose chandelier--and that’s only listing what we’ve seen so far--this stretches my willing suspension of disbelief more than anything else.

Right at the end of the episode, we learn from Jacques that Jean Paul’s will to resist him has become stronger, making possession of him more difficult:

Does Jean Paul’s stronger will explain all the headache faces?

Coming up next: A piece of the Conjure Man’s message reminds Raxl of Jacques’ pirate ship, which gives us the perfect opportunity to explore Jacques’ former career.

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BOB DYLAN - MURDER MOST FOUL

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He was thinking about Alicia Keys F. Kennedy...

Kylo Nocom: Man, who cares about the damn conspiracy theories, I like poetry! [8]

David Moore: Thank god for Raffi. [1]

Alfred Soto: Mindful that grateful boomers turned their scared eyes to him on 9-11, Bob Dylan vamps, over a piano line that shimmers like sunlight on a creek, about "Ferry Cross the Mersey" and A Nightmare On Elm Street and mumble-garbles excerpts from Macbeth and the slain JFK's speeches. To make sure we're still listening he tosses in lines like, "I'm just a patsy like Patsy Cline." He's still not there, still irreverent -- still irrelevant if seventeen minutes of okay-boomering appalls. [7]

Katie Gill: You know how there's a joke about a teacher taking "We Didn't Start The Fire" or "It's The End of the World As We Know It" and telling their class to pick a reference and write a paper about it? This feels like a less fun version of that assignment. There's potential here: those backing strings and piano intersect in ways that are absolutely gorgeous. And every now and then, there's a beautiful nugget of a lyric that shows you why Bob Dylan is the acclaimed songwriter people recognize him as. But he's an acclaimed songwriter. Not an acclaimed singer. If you removed the vocal tracks, this wouldn't get on a lo-fi hip-hop radio, beats to relax or study to, but it would certainly make its way onto an instrumental 8tracks of study music. And really, the indulgently long runtime and lyrics which start as seemingly gratuitous references but devolve into an indulgent trip into Dylan's metaphorical Spotify playlist take something potentially interesting, stretch it out a bit too long, before a tacked-on and completely overwrought five minutes at the end. tl;dr, JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say? [3]

Ian Mathers: I only got about 18 seconds in before my first "Bob Dylan retire challenge" moment. It was not my last. [3]

Oliver Maier: The best long, meandering, spoken word banger with no drums since René. [7]

Thomas Inskeep: Dylan at his most Dylanesque, doing a 17-minute spoken-word recitation about JFK's assassination, with accompaniment largely from piano and cello. It works, because it's so Dylan. No one else could pull this off quite like this. [7]

Alex Clifton: This does sound like a spoken-word poem backed by a small band on a coffeeshop stage during winter, and I want to stress that's actually kind of ideal for a song like this. Dylan sounds much better than I expected -- he's never been a strong singer, so this sort of melodic speak-singing works in his favour, even if about 30% of the words are slurred. In addition, it allows for a spotlight on the poetry of the piece: Dylan's lyrics are famously dense and poetic, occasionally meandering, but for a piece that examines the last sixty years of American culture, it fits the mood. It does feel odd to listen to a seventeen-minute single in an era when last year's biggest single just passed two-and-a-half minutes, but then again we're living through an absolutely unprecedented time. We've finally got the time to really take a good, long listen, soak up the entirety of the song, devour and analyze it slowly -- the antithesis of a culture that demands immediacy and speed. When we do get to listen, it's intimate and haunting, quite unlike anything I've heard in recent years. Dylan's always known how to make a story unfurl, a skill only a few songwriters have. Sounds like he's putting it to good use here. [8]

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What happened today:

- Meeting folks I met online in real life! @ruth-dw :) And folks from Horizon! And talking about the show! Chatting with a nice couple at the closed hotel bar well into midnight about how we got into Blake’s 7. So yeah, meeting folks!

- Seeing real Blake’s 7 costumes! Avon’s, Servalan’s, Jenna’s and many more - OMG they were all so slim! And naturally, before Hollywood obsession with thinness. Gorgeous costumes (for gorgeous people)!

- I asked John Leeson (Toise) what was his relationship with the white cat from Gambit. I’m obsessed with that cat, OK! :) He said that was an extremely well-behaved Persian and that he was OK with it even despite playing K9 :) Also that he was at a cat show in 2016 and he judged Norwegian breeds.

- I was stunned that the actress who played Arlen was only 18 when it was filmed! Wow! She was so intense and severe, I couldn’t believe she was that young.

AND THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY - JOSETTE SIMON!

On my, what a stunning woman - stunningly beautiful in person, like out of this world beautiful, and she’s 57 - but looks 35. I saw her walking in the hotel lobby with Ian the organizer and my jaw dropped - she was a vision!

(Speaking of Ian - he said during the talk that Sheldon never got into Blake’s 7. As I missed latest Big Bang Theory episode I thought *that* Sheldon never heard of it and that Blake’s 7 was mentioned on Big Bang Theory! I was so amazed I asked Ian what he meant and it was just someone named Sheldon in the audience. Talk about me being obsessed :) )

And she gave an AMAZING talk! Honestly if I smoked I’d want a cigarette after that. Just wow. Classy, intelligent, honest. 

She shared that she was really close with Jacqueline Pearce and was mothering her a bit in real life while Jacqueline was mothering her in professional life, helping out as an actress. That Jacqueline let her stay in her flat when Josette had to move out of hers, that Josette stayed on her houseboat and helped her pack when Pearce wanted to go to Hollywood (which didn’t work out). Josette hadn’t shared it before but now as Jacqueline Pearce passed she shared it as a tribute.

Josette had the most horrible thing happened to her during rehearsal of Cleopatra last December. It was almost literally like 16 ton weight dropped on her head, i.e. the throne accidentally dropped on her and knocked her out. OMG, she’s lucky to be alive! She had a concussion, paramedics came and checked her out but she insisted on finishing the play - stiff neck, headache and all. Adrenaline, or Dr. Theater as Josette called it - when actors could be sick and barely functioning but when they go on stage they just forget about it and fly. I have a friend opera singer in Germany, she told many a story like this when she had high fever, sore throat, could barely speak but somehow when she got on stage she would sing for 2 hours, on pure adrenaline.

And then Josette was a part of 2 best “Down and Safe” jokes ever! 

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Second one: somebody asked Josette in the end what would she think would be written in her obituary. Collective groans and facepalms were heard throughout the audience but then somebody chimed in - “Down and safe”! And it turned into a roar of laughter, with Josette joining in.

Oh man! Down and safe should be on every Blake’s fan obituary, you can’t beat that so I’ll finish here. Ta till tomorrow (see I’m picking British now :) ).

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OFFICER IAN HOWELL, GOTHAM CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT  ⁠—  DOCTOR GORGEOUS, THE NARROWS ||   "    y’know,   you can't save everyone, kid.    "    —    "    i have to try.    "

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{ ABOUT IAN   //   ian rarely introduces the people he knows (whether it be through the GCPD or…otherwise) to his father. this isn’t through some misguided attempt to protect the older man: ian just simply hasn’t found many people he’s comfortable with his father knowing. the two exceptions (so far) are Polar ( @polarprotector ) and Jonah ( @supernovamuses ) in varying verses.   –   the original nickname(s) that ian gave to GCPD detectives bullock and gordon were “wingus” and “dingus.” who was who depended on the day and ian’s annoyance levels with them.   –   ian enjoys watching super trashy reality shows like keeping up with the kardashians, and has a habit of commenting on the fashion choices made in each episode, even when he’s alone (or as alone as you can be living in an apartment with very thin walls). half of his neighbors now know that khloe’s choice in louboutin heels undoubtedly clashed with her dress and necklace last week. }

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𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑯𝑬𝑬𝑻

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𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

FULL NAME.    Ian Cecil Howell NICKNAME.    Doctor Gorgeous; Baby Cop; various terms of endearments given to him by his family (champ, sweetie, etc. by parents and siblings alike). GENDER.    Cis Male HEIGHT.     6′1. He a Tol Boy. AGE.    Verse dependent, but main series he can range from anywhere between 19 to 32. ZODIAC.    Taurus. SPOKEN LANGUAGES.   English, sign language (technically a spoken language! he’s learning it), some conversational Spanish and French.

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOR.    Sandy blond, was originally very bright blond as a child but has darkened over time. EYE COLOR.    Bright green. SKIN TONE.    Tan, freckled. BODY TYPE.   Athletic. ACCENT.     His words have a bit of a Southern Drawl. VOICE.   Listen to this boy sing. DOMINANT HAND.    Right POSTURE.   Relaxed, casual, unless he’s trying to be intimidating. Then he’s going to make full use of his height. SCARS.    Several small ones on his hands, arms and legs, due to various incidents in childhood. TATTOOS.    One, on his chest. A rose encompassed in a circle of lyrics from the song The Rose. BIRTHMARKS.    None. MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).    Height, his eyes, hair.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH.    Gotham City Memorial Hospital. HOMETOWN.     Gotham City, New Jersey BIRTH WEIGHT.   4 lbs. 9 ounces. BIRTH HEIGHT.   Nineteen inches. MANNER OF BIRTH.    Premature, C-Section. FIRST WORDS.     "Hurt,” “Ma,” and “Pizza.” SIBLINGS.   Keegan and Kori, brother and sister, twins. Both younger than him. PARENTS.   Arnold Howell and Celine Gregory (formerly Howell). PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.   Ian’s parents were and still are incredibly involved in his life. He visits his mother in Metropolis every weekend and he and his dad regularly talk on the phone whenever Ian can’t come see him. Even after the divorce, both of them were incredibly concerned for their son: they’d do anything for him.

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION.   Officer in the Gotham City Police Department // Underground Doctor for the people of Crime Alley and the Narrows. CURRENT RESIDENCE.     A somewhat shitty apartment in Park Row, in the East End District of Gotham. CLOSE FRIENDS.    Verse dependent. Really has no close friends because the majority of his acquaintances are criminals / villains and Ian can’t afford to get too close to them. RELATIONSHIP STATUS.   Verse dependent. FINANCIAL STATUS.    Not bad off, but not in a super cushy position. He makes an alright amount at the GCPD and while he doesn’t always charge the people who come to him for doctoring, if they offer him a bit of money he can tuck away for emergencies, he’s not gonna say no. DRIVER’S LICENSE.   Yes. Drives a black Roush Mustang, ‘88 or one of the GCPD squad cars. CRIMINAL RECORD.    Not yet. VICES.   Pride is probably the one that fits best?

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION.   Bisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.   Biromantic PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.    submissive |  dominant  | switch PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.    submissive  | dominant  |  switch LIBIDO.    He’s never really had sex but I’d personally say low. TURN ON’S.    Has never really given it much thought. However he definitely has found an interest in biting. TURN OFF’S.   Has never really given it much thought. LOVE LANGUAGE.   Verse dependent. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.    Likes to get to know the person first before he really makes a huge commitment to them, and even that’s difficult because in Gotham it feels like someone’s always hiding something. Isn’t too interested in sex but won’t say no if his partner’s in the mood. 

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG.   Baby Cop Shark, doo doo do doo do doo.

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.   Underground doctoring (Both work and a hobby you guys!), boxing / working out (the boxing he does with his step-dad in Metropolis), reading (medical texts mostly, but also fiction books for pleasure), recreational gun shooting (he’s got a membership at the Gotham Gun Range), gaming (this is actually useful as he uses words and codes from his games to disguise the files of his patients). MENTAL ILLNESSES.     None. PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.    None. LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.    I guess right? Technically? Honestly he’s probably both but he’s more creative than he is logical. PHOBIAS.    Emetophobia, specifically the fear of himself throwing up. Other people he’s fine with but whenever Ian throws up you can undoubtedly expect him to have a panic attack right after the retching has subsided (and sometimes during it). SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.    It depends on the situation. If it’s a situation that Ian’s confident he can do well in (say, arresting a criminal), then his confidence level is fairly high. If it’s a situation he has no confidence in himself in (like, say, dealing with someone saying he’s cute), Ian will flounder. VULNERABILITIES.    His family. His position at the GCPD and his desire not to get sucked into the take of Gotham’s corrupt cops. His underground doctoring. The people he cares about, whether it be criminals or otherwise... there’s a large variety.

TAGGED BY:   @blackfiire

TAGGING: @feltcalling, @kxngofgotham, @tremereastor-uriel, @ghirhiim, @polarprotector, @shedontgetnormal, and anyone who’d care to do this!

[ianhowellgcpd]

character sheet

BASICS.

FULL NAME. ian cecil howell PRONUNCIATION.  e-an see-sill howl NICKNAME.   baby cop / baby police by most criminals (usually those older than him); rookie (by other officers) GENDER.   male HEIGHT.  1.86m AGE.   verse dependent, usually somewhere in his 20s until the timeskip in s5 ZODIAC.   taurus SPOKEN LANGUAGES.   english

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

HAIR COLOUR.  dirty blond EYE COLOUR.  green SKIN TONE.   tan BODY TYPE.  athletic ACCENT.   american DOMINANT HAND.   right POSTURE.   straight backed. boy makes full use of his height. TATTOOS.   none (yet) MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE. height; his eyes

CHILDHOOD.

PLACE OF BIRTH.  new jersey, united states HOMETOWN.  gotham MANNER OF BIRTH.   cesarean FIRST WORDS.  “pizza” (his father was so proud) SIBLINGS.   keegan and kori gregory, younger siblings (set of twins) PARENTS.   arnold howell and celine reynolds PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT.  lived with both parents until their divorce; father gained primary custody and ian visited his mother every other weekend and holiday.

ADULT LIFE.

OCCUPATION.   rookie officer in the gotham city police department / underground doctor for those who cannot afford the clinics in gotham. CURRENT RESIDENCE.   a somewhat shitty apartment on park row avenue, also known as crime alley. CLOSE FRIENDS.  “jellybean” jonah ( @supernovamuses ); harleen quinzel / macy reynolds (do cousins count as friends? -- @shedontgetnormal / @unfairsituation ); ....that’s about it actually. RELATIONSHIP STATUS.  verse dependent FINANCIAL STATUS.   makes ends meet DRIVER’S LICENSE.  yes CRIMINAL RECORD.  no. “VICES”.   occasional weekend drinker / drinks after particularly tough cases. incredibly stubborn and set on opinions.

SEX & ROMANCE.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. bisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION. panromantic PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.   submissive  | dominate |  switch  |  unknown PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.   submissive  |  dominant  |  switch |  sex repulsed LIBIDO.  medium? he doesn’t really think much on sex. TURN ONS.   he’s never really explored enough to figure out what he likes. TURN OFF’S.  he’s never really explored enough to figure out what he likes. LOVE LANGUAGE.  ...heck if we know lol. he’s usually one to use sweet words and compliments. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.  works up an emotional connection with the person first before even attempting to ask them out. usually goes for people who could honestly kick his ass. has a taste for danger (*side eyes his relationships with vampires and criminal bodyguards*). enjoys people who like to be soft as well, with cuddles and gentle kisses and the like.

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. honestly by now i’d be lying if i said it wasn’t baby cop shark. HOBBIES TO PASS THE TIME.  playing tic-tac-toe, learning sign language (really useful honestly!), studying up on new forms of medical advancements, cleaning his guns, going to the shooting range to practice, visiting his father. MENTAL ILLNESSES.   n/a PHYSICAL ILLNESS.   n/a LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED.  right brained FEARS.  losing his family / the people he cares about; being thrown out of the GCPD; the GCPD finding out about his underground doctoring business... SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.   pretty high honestly. ian��s got a good amount of self confidence, mostly in his skills as a GCPD officer and a doctor. VULNERABILITIES. bit of a chatterbox who sometimes worries he’s being too annoying when talking to others; mortality (he’s only human after all! well in most verses...); his family / the people he loves; his underground doctoring business....the list could go on.

TAGGED BY.   @stagekiller (thank you!) TAGGING: @feltcalling, @shedontgetnormal, @supernovamuses, @polarprotector, and anyone else who’d love to do it! consider yourself tagged by me!

[ianhowellgcpd]

{ ABOUT IAN   //   during his high school years, ian was involved in a school production of “the rocky horror picture show,” where he played the eponymous rocky himself. he’s still capable of singing each of the songs from the show, enjoys performing time warp with a group of friends, and will teasingly sing toucha-toucha-touch me to his partners if he’s in a playful mood. he also has a few pictures of himself in rocky’s iconic golden shorts, though he never brings them out -- he’s a bit embarrassed by them, really. still, he keeps them around, and if anyone’s ever nosy enough they might just find them... }