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Dualis application
CW for sexual abuse, mental illness, and of course Doom Patrol spoilers.
YOU
Player name: Shan
Contact: Discord: PixieStyx#8980
Referral: Koko
Current characters: None
THEM
Character Name: Crazy Jane
Character Age: 69
Canon: Doom Patrol (DCTV show)
Canon Point: The end of the first season finale, "Ezekiel Patrol."
History/World: Jane comes from (a variation of) the DC Universe. Superheroes are an established thing with many of DC's biggest names already operative, although Jane is not involved until she meets Victor Stone/Cyborg. She and the rest of the unofficial Doom Patrol (the name technically belongs to a retired group) are not exactly heroes – they're a group of super-powered people with major emotional issues who are as likely to cause a catastrophe as they are to save someone.
Kay Challis was born in Arkansas in 1950. When she was seven years old she was sexually assaulted by her father, which caused her to dissociate and develop alternate personalities. Jane eventually took over as the primary personality while Kay preferred to stay sequestered in her own mind. She was committed to a psychiatric institution where scientists experimented on her, injecting her with a formula that gave her (and her alternate personalities) superpowers. In 1978 Dr. Niles "the Chief" Caulder rescued her from a forced lobotomy and took her to his home, where he housed and attempted to rehabilitate other odd individuals with difficult abilities to control. He cataloged her personalities and accepted each of them, eventually winning her trust. However, she would not stay permanently in the house and often would leave for years at a time before coming back unannounced. Her entrance into the show is after one of these long absences, and that's where this extremely weird story picks up.
Personality: To explain Crazy Jane it's first necessary to explain Jane's mind and how her multiple personalities function. When the original personality, Kay Challis, was sexually assaulted as a child, Kay created alternate identities to deal with the trauma and retreated into her own mind to protect herself. This is typical of dissociative identity disorder as it's recognized in real life, but from here the superhero show takes a more literary approach to the mental disorder. Kay's mind became the Underground, a home and gathering place for her sixty-four personalities. While each of these personalities are part of Kay herself and have the primary goal of protecting her from harm, they consider themselves individuals and have unique attitudes, interests, and goals. They are able to interact with each other and share information or view each other's memories, although some personalities remain antisocial.
The Underground is a chaotic place over which no personality has complete control. Sometimes they may meet to determine who should be "on the surface" in control of Kay's body, sometimes they climb over each other to take the spot, and sometimes no one wants to be on the surface at all. Jane holds the position as the primary personality, meaning she deals with the majority of day-to-day life and is most often the one to interact with other people. Still, she does not have control over the other personalities and cannot always stop them from "being on top". Jane accepts this as "how she works" and strongly advocates for her personalities' right to exist, becoming angry at anyone who doesn't try to understand and offended when others ask for a particular personality, saying she's not a menu to be ordered off of. But she can also become exhausted and angry while struggling to keep order in her own mind, and that's before she tackles the disorder in her own life. In fact, Jane seems to struggle between extremes in most areas of her life.
Jane highly values autonomy and despises being under someone else's authority or influence, whether that's a parent's, a doctor's, or even an overbearing friend's. She has spent much of her life cut off from support around people who meant her harm and because of this she has developed a strong sense of self-reliance. She is highly adaptable when facing a threat as her personalities will appear to use their powers and defend themselves. Other characters in the series note "Jane can take care of herself" and "Jane moves at her own pace," and she'll often disappear or jump into action without communicating with anyone else. She's survived so far and sees few problems with this. Also because of her past, she is distrustful of others and usually suspects that they have ulterior motives. She often appears flippant or sarcastic, even mean, to those around she's close to in an attempt to hold them at arm's length.
At first it appears that it would be very easy for her to draw away from others and live her life alone, but Jane recognizes the value in other people even as she has difficulty relating to them. Although she doesn't feel called to be a superhero, she will automatically try to rescue others from danger, as shown when she confronts a strange man harassing a woman in public or when she immediately agrees rescue Victor Stone from imprisonment (even though this plan involves her being captured and possibly tortured). She seems to have strong protective instincts towards vulnerable women and children, as she puts aside her own feelings about the Chief in order to rescue his daughter from Mr. Nobody. Through the efforts of Niles Caulder and the other members of the Doom Patrol, Jane has also begun to see the value in forming bonds with other people, although it's difficult for her to build up enough trust to let someone in. She fears getting hurt so badly that when her friend Cliff Steele manages to venture into the Underground, he's surprised to see that she sees their first meeting as the beginning of everything going wrong.
Cliff's affection for Jane has been a challenge for her to deal with but she's ultimately been made better through it. She appears about the same age his daughter would be and at first he takes a very paternal interest in her, which upsets her given her own father's abuse. Her other personalities jump to the defensive and try pushing him away, and he learns from each of them and presses on trying to befriend her. It's through acknowledging her feelings and issues are valid, even when they're upsetting or confusing, that he's able to prove he truly respects her as a person and she begins to accept him (and to a lesser extent, the other Doom Patrol members) in turn. Cliff showed her she didn't need to make herself vulnerable or hurt herself to have a connection with someone, and while this bond is new and frightening to her, she becomes a little more generous and people-oriented as time goes on. When Jane becomes suicidal and retreats to the Underground, Cliff follows her (with a little super-powered help) into the darkest parts of her own mind. It's there that Jane is able to defend Cliff from the specter of her abusive father, a destructive mental force no personality has beaten before. In a strange way, he taught her she's stronger with friends than on her own.
Still, it'll take time for Jane to get out of her antisocial habits. She tends to be sarcastic and cynical, fitting into the "depressed millennial" stereotype despite technically being a baby boomer: she's dark-clothed, Internet-savvy, world-weary, and brooking no bullshit despite being confused about what is and isn't bullshit. She's inherhently contradictory and her strengths tend to also be her biggest weaknesses: she's very adaptable but completely unreliable, her intelligence is easily twisted into cynicism and hopelessness, and she fearlessly springs into action using her powers but becomes angry if she's asked to use these powers for someone else's benefit. Her defense of herself and Kay means she pushes away people who truly want to help her. Jane's the quintessential young adult who hasn't gotten her life together, although not for lack of trying. This has secretly caused a great deal of self-loathing, exacerbated by guilt for having so many pieces of herself that can be so harmful to others, yet she has a great deal of . And despite her will to live on her own terms she's fundamentally unable to escape working with others, even in her own head.
Items: Jane doesn't carry weapons and rarely carries tools unless she knows she'll need them. The contents of her pockets would be drug-related.
Powers/skills: Each personality of Jane's has a different superpower, although many personalities have not shown their abilities in the series. These are the abilities we have seen so far, and if more are shown in the future they could be added through the tattoo/implant system.
In more mundane abilities, Jane is an artist and appears to be a competent hand-to-hand fighter.
SAMPLE
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YOU
Player name: Shan
Contact: Discord: PixieStyx#8980
Referral: Koko
Current characters: None
THEM
Character Name: Crazy Jane
Character Age: 69
Canon: Doom Patrol (DCTV show)
Canon Point: The end of the first season finale, "Ezekiel Patrol."
History/World: Jane comes from (a variation of) the DC Universe. Superheroes are an established thing with many of DC's biggest names already operative, although Jane is not involved until she meets Victor Stone/Cyborg. She and the rest of the unofficial Doom Patrol (the name technically belongs to a retired group) are not exactly heroes – they're a group of super-powered people with major emotional issues who are as likely to cause a catastrophe as they are to save someone.
Kay Challis was born in Arkansas in 1950. When she was seven years old she was sexually assaulted by her father, which caused her to dissociate and develop alternate personalities. Jane eventually took over as the primary personality while Kay preferred to stay sequestered in her own mind. She was committed to a psychiatric institution where scientists experimented on her, injecting her with a formula that gave her (and her alternate personalities) superpowers. In 1978 Dr. Niles "the Chief" Caulder rescued her from a forced lobotomy and took her to his home, where he housed and attempted to rehabilitate other odd individuals with difficult abilities to control. He cataloged her personalities and accepted each of them, eventually winning her trust. However, she would not stay permanently in the house and often would leave for years at a time before coming back unannounced. Her entrance into the show is after one of these long absences, and that's where this extremely weird story picks up.
Personality: To explain Crazy Jane it's first necessary to explain Jane's mind and how her multiple personalities function. When the original personality, Kay Challis, was sexually assaulted as a child, Kay created alternate identities to deal with the trauma and retreated into her own mind to protect herself. This is typical of dissociative identity disorder as it's recognized in real life, but from here the superhero show takes a more literary approach to the mental disorder. Kay's mind became the Underground, a home and gathering place for her sixty-four personalities. While each of these personalities are part of Kay herself and have the primary goal of protecting her from harm, they consider themselves individuals and have unique attitudes, interests, and goals. They are able to interact with each other and share information or view each other's memories, although some personalities remain antisocial.
The Underground is a chaotic place over which no personality has complete control. Sometimes they may meet to determine who should be "on the surface" in control of Kay's body, sometimes they climb over each other to take the spot, and sometimes no one wants to be on the surface at all. Jane holds the position as the primary personality, meaning she deals with the majority of day-to-day life and is most often the one to interact with other people. Still, she does not have control over the other personalities and cannot always stop them from "being on top". Jane accepts this as "how she works" and strongly advocates for her personalities' right to exist, becoming angry at anyone who doesn't try to understand and offended when others ask for a particular personality, saying she's not a menu to be ordered off of. But she can also become exhausted and angry while struggling to keep order in her own mind, and that's before she tackles the disorder in her own life. In fact, Jane seems to struggle between extremes in most areas of her life.
Jane highly values autonomy and despises being under someone else's authority or influence, whether that's a parent's, a doctor's, or even an overbearing friend's. She has spent much of her life cut off from support around people who meant her harm and because of this she has developed a strong sense of self-reliance. She is highly adaptable when facing a threat as her personalities will appear to use their powers and defend themselves. Other characters in the series note "Jane can take care of herself" and "Jane moves at her own pace," and she'll often disappear or jump into action without communicating with anyone else. She's survived so far and sees few problems with this. Also because of her past, she is distrustful of others and usually suspects that they have ulterior motives. She often appears flippant or sarcastic, even mean, to those around she's close to in an attempt to hold them at arm's length.
At first it appears that it would be very easy for her to draw away from others and live her life alone, but Jane recognizes the value in other people even as she has difficulty relating to them. Although she doesn't feel called to be a superhero, she will automatically try to rescue others from danger, as shown when she confronts a strange man harassing a woman in public or when she immediately agrees rescue Victor Stone from imprisonment (even though this plan involves her being captured and possibly tortured). She seems to have strong protective instincts towards vulnerable women and children, as she puts aside her own feelings about the Chief in order to rescue his daughter from Mr. Nobody. Through the efforts of Niles Caulder and the other members of the Doom Patrol, Jane has also begun to see the value in forming bonds with other people, although it's difficult for her to build up enough trust to let someone in. She fears getting hurt so badly that when her friend Cliff Steele manages to venture into the Underground, he's surprised to see that she sees their first meeting as the beginning of everything going wrong.
Cliff's affection for Jane has been a challenge for her to deal with but she's ultimately been made better through it. She appears about the same age his daughter would be and at first he takes a very paternal interest in her, which upsets her given her own father's abuse. Her other personalities jump to the defensive and try pushing him away, and he learns from each of them and presses on trying to befriend her. It's through acknowledging her feelings and issues are valid, even when they're upsetting or confusing, that he's able to prove he truly respects her as a person and she begins to accept him (and to a lesser extent, the other Doom Patrol members) in turn. Cliff showed her she didn't need to make herself vulnerable or hurt herself to have a connection with someone, and while this bond is new and frightening to her, she becomes a little more generous and people-oriented as time goes on. When Jane becomes suicidal and retreats to the Underground, Cliff follows her (with a little super-powered help) into the darkest parts of her own mind. It's there that Jane is able to defend Cliff from the specter of her abusive father, a destructive mental force no personality has beaten before. In a strange way, he taught her she's stronger with friends than on her own.
Still, it'll take time for Jane to get out of her antisocial habits. She tends to be sarcastic and cynical, fitting into the "depressed millennial" stereotype despite technically being a baby boomer: she's dark-clothed, Internet-savvy, world-weary, and brooking no bullshit despite being confused about what is and isn't bullshit. She's inherhently contradictory and her strengths tend to also be her biggest weaknesses: she's very adaptable but completely unreliable, her intelligence is easily twisted into cynicism and hopelessness, and she fearlessly springs into action using her powers but becomes angry if she's asked to use these powers for someone else's benefit. Her defense of herself and Kay means she pushes away people who truly want to help her. Jane's the quintessential young adult who hasn't gotten her life together, although not for lack of trying. This has secretly caused a great deal of self-loathing, exacerbated by guilt for having so many pieces of herself that can be so harmful to others, yet she has a great deal of . And despite her will to live on her own terms she's fundamentally unable to escape working with others, even in her own head.
Items: Jane doesn't carry weapons and rarely carries tools unless she knows she'll need them. The contents of her pockets would be drug-related.
- Zippo lighter
- Two marijuana joints
- One half-full vial of an experimental opiate which temporarily stops the use of superpowers.
Powers/skills: Each personality of Jane's has a different superpower, although many personalities have not shown their abilities in the series. These are the abilities we have seen so far, and if more are shown in the future they could be added through the tattoo/implant system.
- Shape-shifting. Not a true "choose your form" shape-shifting ability, but her appearance and body change when a different personality comes forward. The outline of her body seems to blur as she switches, and any physical differences manifest (such as the tattoo on Hammerhead's chest, Karen's blonde hair, or Sun Daddy's large fiery body). This can be a weakness since various personalities may have injuries or other health concerns that then manifest as well.
- Longevity. Jane has not aged since she was injected with the compound that gave her abilities in 1976, when she was approximately 26 years old. She eventually discovers that this was done in pursuit of immortality, although Jane remains as vulnerable to injury and violence as any other human.
- Super strength. While not as strong as some other DC characters, Hammerhead does have the ability to send a 355lb robot flying backwards with a punch and was briefly able to hold back a ~10,000lb mini bus when it was being sucked into a vortex.
- Hypnosis/mind control. Dr. Harrison's mind control relies on a verbal component. Someone listening to her voice will (usually) find what she says agreeable and follow along with the actions she suggests, as they are convinced she's correct. This power is often accompanied with a psychoanalysis of the person she's talking to, persuading them to do as she wishes. She's used this power to convince an abuser to injure himself, start a cult whose unwavering belief ultimately saved the world from an apocalypse, and to temporarily disarm the villain Mr. Nobody. This power can be easily thwarted by earplugs or noise-canceling headphones.
- Cutting words. This is probably the ability that's hardest to explain, as it's visual in nature. Silver Tongue can speak and manifest words as bladed metal, which she can control and direct as throwing weapons. For instance she might say "Let's go," and the words LET'S GO would appear from her mouth, floating in the air. She would then be able to fling the LET'S GO at a target. She can also change the shape of a word into that of a weapon. The words disintegrate when they hit their mark. Here is an example of this weird power in action.
- Pyrokinesis. Both Sun Daddy and Katy can create and use fire as a weapon, although they manifest the ability in different ways. Katy's entire body appears to be made of flames and she can expel flames at the ground, allowing her flight capabilities. Sun Daddy's head, chest, and hands are fiery, but she uses her pyrokinesis for growth and to absorb attacks, becoming an intimidating defensive figure at over 12 feet tall.
- Electrokinesis. Lucy Fugue can internally create electricity and expel it in a shock attack. These attacks are destructive but don't appear to be deadly, as she uses this ability against Victor Stone and Cliff Steele but neither one's hardware is incapacitated.
- Teleportation. Flit can teleport, and by touching objects or people as she does, can bring them with her. She has transported up to six people before. This ability will be limited to teleporting into areas she can access normally – public spaces and private spaces she's invited into, yes. Restricted areas, no.
- Affection manipulation. Karen looks into someone's eyes, her eyes glow a creepy blue, and the person becomes incredibly fond of her. This is a powerful ability that she can use to create either close friendship or romantic love – she once used it on her torturer while captured, and seconds later he declared his desire to be with her forever. It does not work on androids, robots, or any being who don't rely on biological eyesight.
- Precognition. The Hangman's Daughter is an artist who appears to be able to glimpse the future while painting. However, her precognition is not completely accurate, as she can foresee tragedy in Victor Stone's future through one of her paintings but not the specific circumstances under which it occurs.
- Wall-crawling. While it's not specified who this power belongs to (possibly Sylvia or Penny Farthing), one personality has the ability to walk up walls and stand on ceilings, as we see this happening in one of the recorded therapy sessions she had with Niles Caulder.
In more mundane abilities, Jane is an artist and appears to be a competent hand-to-hand fighter.
SAMPLE
Test drive
PERMISSIONS
Right here!