#character name: henrik bates

[newhavenrp]

Is that ADAM SENN? No, that’s HENRIK BATES. The 35 year old EARTH/NATURE - WITCH ALPHA MALE is a VET. If you ask their friends, they’re known to be PROTECTIVE & LOYAL, but beware, they’re also known to be SECRETIVE & DISTANT. Their friends also say that they’re into BONDAGE & EDGING but don’t you dare trying AGE PLAY & BATHROOM with them.

  Henrik is a kind and sweet guy who lost his parents one night during a fire when he was only ten years old. It was a warm summer night; Henrik was woken up by the smell of smoke. His mother risked her life to save him to get him out. After that night Henrik was alone. The male was bounce from one foster home to another, each being worst than the last. Henrik ran away at the age of fifteen and lived on his own. The young witch moved from place to place not staying in one place and due to his experience in foster homes he had learned not to trust anyone.

Henrik kept to himself and did what he could to survive, sometimes stealing and doing jobs. Henrik had managed to get everything he needed before he heard about New Haven as a safe place for him and which provided him with a safe place to grow his magic and connect to his power source of Earth/nature. The witch manages to find a place to rent with all the money he had from a nice couple who happen to give him a job in the vet clinic. Henrik worked for them, and they ended up helping him complete his education and support him, and even sending him to school where he became a vet after they discovered his talent for working with animals.

After years have passed, Henrik is now a vet and has taken over the clinic. He loves his job and is slowly trying to connect with people. Henrik distrusts almost everyone and even humans. Which is one of the main reasons he stays in New Haven and plus there was nothing outside New Haven for him.

[hello-robin-goodfellow]

TOP 20: DAVID WARNER ROLES (PART I)

It’s 20 because choosing only 10 is hard.

20º The Creature (Frankenstein, 1984)

In this 1984 adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic gothic novel, the character of the Creature suffers from a writing that is all over the place, mixing at the same time the naive innocence of the Universal encharnation with the vengefulness of the novel encharnation. But still, David Warner’s performance, specially during the soft and tender moments, makes it an interesting adaptation to check out.

19º Pomponius Falco (Masada, 1981)

Warner appears in three of the four chapters of this period minisseries set during the roman ocupation of Judaea (now Israel). His character, Pomponius Falco, at first appears to be a genuine of the protagonist, Flavius Silva (Peter O’Toole), but them, in chapter three his truly cold and calculist finally apears. The scene in wich he catapults several old man as a way to try convincing the jewish rebels of Masada to surrender is a specially disturbing moment.

18º Count Odoevsky (The Fixer, 1968)

Another cold and despicable authority figure. The Fixer tells the story of a jewish man, Yakov Bok (Alan Bates) who is unjustly acused of murdering a child and the tribulations to proove his innocence while he suffers several abuses in prison. Warner’s character, Count Odoevsky, is a russian aristocrat who watches what happens to Yakov Bok, and seens to notice that most of the evidence points that his emprisoment and torture is unfair, but is far from dispost to help, because after all “Who cares if another jew dies in Russia”? And all in the name of peace and order under the Tzar’s rule.

17º Frank (Albert’s Memorial, 2009)

Another TV movie. It is a road trip movie, where two man take the body of the friend they made during their time as soldiers in World War II, to be buried in Germany, as his last will, remembering and coming to terms with their traumas. Frank, Warner’s character, is a grumpy, cynical, tired and melancholic man. But this doesn’t take away his determination to go in the journey and realize the last will of his friend.

16º Blifil (Tom Jones, 1963)

The first major antagonist that David Warner played in a motion picture. Blifil is a man who thinks himself to be superior because he is of a rich aristocratic family, legitimized by his father and good at cathecism. But his character is nothing beyond a coward and entitled creep. This performance would be a spiritual predecessour for a lot of cold and hipocritical villains that Warner would play in his career.

15º Captain Hauptmann Kiesel (Cross of Iron, 1977)

A younger spiritual predecessour of Frank. During World War II, Kiesel is one of the captain of the German troops in the Russian Front. He is one of the many man that knows Germany will loose, the Nazis are shit-heads and staying in Russia is meaningless, fighting simply to survive. He compensates by heavy smoking and speaking the harsh truths in a sarcastic way. That guy will need a hug and lots of therapy after all that mess.

14º Captain John David Nau (The Island, 1980)

Five words: David Warner as a pirate! How more awesome you need to get to make watch your movie?!

13º Torvald Helmer (A Doll’s House, 1973)

A TV movie adaptation of the classical play by Henrik Ibsen that expands the source material beyond the scenery limits imposed by the stage. Warner’s portrayal of Helmer is what a lot of people imagine when reading the play: grumpy, stuborn, conservative, who talks to his wife, Nora (Jane Fonda) making us at first think that he loves and wants to protect her, but them, slowlly that his talking, that sounds supperficially caring, is nothing but condescending. He treats his wife as child for him to control, never imagining the sadness she feels and the sacrifices she makes for him. And it’s always enjoyable to watch when the tables are turned against him

12º Dennis Charles Nipple (Little Malcolm and His Strugle Against the Eunuchs, 1974)

In this 1974 tragicomedy, a group of frustratred art students decide to form a fascist party, called The Party of Dinamic Erection, that promotes male sexual dominance and plans to kidnapp the director of the art school. Amidst those characters is Dennis Charles Nipple, the odball, who loves to exagerate the most mundane happenings in his life and treats the founding of the party as a fun game (a highlight being when he plays of being the assassin responsible of shooting Malcolm, played by John Hurt). When Nipple is in the movie, the audience has fun with him. But when he is out, we start to realize that this group of fascists is truly disturbed. 

11º Jack the Ripper (Time After Time, 1979)

The first of four works of David Warner that involves the topic of time travelling. In this movie, Jack the Ripper uses a Time Machine invented by sci fi author H. G Wells (Malcolm Mcdowell) to come hiding in 1979 USA, searching for more victims that fall for his cool and suave facade. His dinamic with Wells is not of someone who wants to eliminate his archnemesis, but one where the villains simply wants the hero to leave him alone. The scene where the two sit on a hotel room and Jack shows scenes of violence on television (that on his own words make him look like an amateur) is the highlit of the picture.

(TO BE CONTINUED IN PART II...)

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