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Your name or online alias: Laura
Your email: aria.marier@gmail.com
Another preferred means of contact: AIM: lornadooneii
Character's Full Name: Jack Twist
Character's Canon: Brokeback Mountain
Character's Journal Name:jack_f_twist
What would you like your character's tag to be?: Jack Twist
In 300-500 words total, tell us your... Character's background (their past and present):
"You know, friend, this is one goddam bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."
Jack Twist has a talent for understatement.
Just another good old boy raised in Lightning Flat, Wyoming, on hard knocks and ranch work, he managed somehow to hang onto dreams of a better life: making it big in the rodeos, having a ranch all his own, getting the hell out of Lightning Flat. Jack rolls with the punches, getting back up again and again with that same shit-eating grin on his face, observing life's realities and hardships with a philosophical cigarette in his mouth, bitching and moaning without any real malice. Jack clings to some wordless impossible hope, and it keeps him going when sometimes it seems like nothing else will. And though that has always been part of his character, none of it really seemed to make much difference until after Brokeback Mountain and Ennis Del Mar.
Jack, at the time of his entrance, is not yet twenty-four, riding the rodeo circuit and with a few loose ideas of what he's doing, where he's going, and what his general purpose in life seems to be. He is a flirt and a charmer, but behind almost everything he says and does is a barely tangible disdain, a smirk lying just behind his ready smile. There's a core of steel in Jack, and it shows sometimes in the way he raises his head to meet a steady gaze, or in the carelessly graceful way he sprawls against the side of his beat-up old truck. As Stephen King writes about Larry Underwood, there's something in Jack that is like biting on tinfoil. Not that he's the strong silent type--hell no, Jack has a temper and he uses it, lightning-fast and mean. He's mercurial, is Jack, a quicksilver soul bottled up inside holed-through boots, broken-in old jeans and cowboy mentalities.
When the mood comes on him he can go for hours on ranching, horses, rodeoing or whatever topic strikes his fancy. At times of particular abandon, he might burst into song in a cigarette-roughened voice, or pull out a battered old harmonica, which he plays with minimal skill and much enjoyment. He drinks only beer and neat whiskey, and the one thing you ain't never gonna get him to talk about is what really happened that summer up on Brokeback.
Character's personality: Garrulous.
Character's skills/abilities/powers: He can stay on a bull for a full eight seconds...sometimes.
Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: Nope. Not unless you count his harmonica. Which might be considered a weapon.
Are you bringing your character to [Bad username or unknown identity: ten_fwd from another game? Yes. If you are, which game?: Milliways If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were changed by and what challenges they faced in the climate of their previous game(s):]
Your email: aria.marier@gmail.com
Another preferred means of contact: AIM: lornadooneii
Character's Full Name: Jack Twist
Character's Canon: Brokeback Mountain
Character's Journal Name:
jack_f_twist What would you like your character's tag to be?: Jack Twist
In 300-500 words total, tell us your... Character's background (their past and present):
"You know, friend, this is one goddam bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."
Jack Twist has a talent for understatement.
Just another good old boy raised in Lightning Flat, Wyoming, on hard knocks and ranch work, he managed somehow to hang onto dreams of a better life: making it big in the rodeos, having a ranch all his own, getting the hell out of Lightning Flat. Jack rolls with the punches, getting back up again and again with that same shit-eating grin on his face, observing life's realities and hardships with a philosophical cigarette in his mouth, bitching and moaning without any real malice. Jack clings to some wordless impossible hope, and it keeps him going when sometimes it seems like nothing else will. And though that has always been part of his character, none of it really seemed to make much difference until after Brokeback Mountain and Ennis Del Mar.
Jack, at the time of his entrance, is not yet twenty-four, riding the rodeo circuit and with a few loose ideas of what he's doing, where he's going, and what his general purpose in life seems to be. He is a flirt and a charmer, but behind almost everything he says and does is a barely tangible disdain, a smirk lying just behind his ready smile. There's a core of steel in Jack, and it shows sometimes in the way he raises his head to meet a steady gaze, or in the carelessly graceful way he sprawls against the side of his beat-up old truck. As Stephen King writes about Larry Underwood, there's something in Jack that is like biting on tinfoil. Not that he's the strong silent type--hell no, Jack has a temper and he uses it, lightning-fast and mean. He's mercurial, is Jack, a quicksilver soul bottled up inside holed-through boots, broken-in old jeans and cowboy mentalities.
When the mood comes on him he can go for hours on ranching, horses, rodeoing or whatever topic strikes his fancy. At times of particular abandon, he might burst into song in a cigarette-roughened voice, or pull out a battered old harmonica, which he plays with minimal skill and much enjoyment. He drinks only beer and neat whiskey, and the one thing you ain't never gonna get him to talk about is what really happened that summer up on Brokeback.
Character's personality: Garrulous.
Character's skills/abilities/powers: He can stay on a bull for a full eight seconds...sometimes.
Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: Nope. Not unless you count his harmonica. Which might be considered a weapon.
Are you bringing your character to [Bad username or unknown identity: ten_fwd from another game? Yes. If you are, which game?: Milliways If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were changed by and what challenges they faced in the climate of their previous game(s):]