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OOC:

Name: Spott
Are you over 16?: Yep!
Personal DW: spotters_guide
Email: spotters.guide@gmail.com
Timezone: GMT -8
Other contact: AIM - spottersg
Characters already in the game: N/A
How did you find us?: Dear Mun


IC:

Character name: Calvin
Fandom: Calvin and Hobbes
Timeline: after the comic ends ("let's go exploring!")
Age: 6

~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: Unless you call a really overactive imagination magical, none.

How would they use their abilities?: No really, he's just really imaginative. And precocious. Extra precocious. May start spouting off philosophy at any moment precocious.

Appearance: Short. I mean, really tiny. He's six years old, he's still got a lot of growing to do. Blonde, messy hair, dark eyes. Usually seen wearing a red and black striped shirt, shorts, and sneakers. He puts a lot of thought into his underwear as well, and has "lucky rocket ship" underwear.

Background/Personality:


Calvin is a 6 year old boy living in a typical American suburb in the 80's with a mom, a dad, and his best friend, a stuffed tiger named Hobbes. To say that he can be "a bit much" sometimes would be an understatement. Calvin is loud, proud (sometimes for no discernible reason), and in your face... and perhaps a tad too precocious for someone so young. His favored humor edges more often toward the macabre than anything else.



Calvin is an incredibly impulsive boy. While he is more than capable of rational thought, and does so quite often concerning more metaphysical topics, Calvin's typical Modus Operandi in life is to leap before he looks. If he has any interest in doing something, he doesn't consider the potential results of whatever task he happens to be undertaking and simply does it. For this reason, Calvin is often quick to find himself in trouble. He isn't really one for regret though, either.



Another reason Calvin often finds himself in trouble is his distinct lack of respect for authority. He is constantly undermining his parents and doesn't keep quiet whenever he disagrees with a decision they make; which is basically all the time.  Calvin will go to extreme lengths to "fight the power", as it were.



His rebellious nature and anti-authority stance doesn't just apply to his parents. In fact, Calvin typically shows even less respect for temporary figures of authority such as his teachers and principal, or his babysitter, Rosalyn. He doesn't like rules, especially ones he had no say in, and at one time demanded to know why "life is never fair in my favor".



However, while Calvin talks big, and may resort to passive aggressive messages through snowman medium, he is in no way, shape or form a violent child. In fact, when faced with a school bully, Calvin chooses to combat him with words, rather than fists. Calvin is far more likely to hurt himself through thoughtless and impulsive actions than he is to hurt another person our of anger.



Calvin is undeniably mischievous. He loves playing tricks and pranks on people and will go to elaborate lengths sometimes to do so. Even his parents aren't safe from him.



One of his favorite victims, and probably the only person his age that Calvin is even remotely close to, is Susie Derkins. While the two appear to be constantly at war with each other, there is no denying that there is an element of schoolyard pigtail pulling at play between the two of them. Susie is the only person besides Hobbes that Calvin plays with regularly.



While Calvin is certainly a bold child, he is in no way fearless. Calvin has many fears and nightmares about monsters living under his bed. He has on several occasions mistaken his father, mother, and Hobbes as monsters and has deep and genuine fears that they will eat him. He combats these fears pro-actively by arming himself with nerf-guns or a baseball bat and preparing for war. His fascination with the macabre outside of these instances is more than likely a way of allowing himself to control the situation in his own mind.



Calvin exhibits little to no interest in school on any given day, but can often be found contemplating deep philosophical concepts, including where we go when we die and predestination. While the argument can be made one way or the other about whether Calvin is book smart, there is no denying that he is highly intelligent, often speaking with an elevated vocabulary and concerning subjects that even adults are sometimes hesitant to address. He's also a big fan of irony.



"Normal" may be something difficult to accurate define, but whatever it is, Calvin isn't. Calvin is a study in contradictions. He loves trashy slasher movies, but discusses philosophy with his stuffed tiger Hobbes. He loves watching television, but if tempted outside can while a whole day away with only his imagination  and maybe a beat up little red wagon for company. He claims to want more friends, but feels that people are jerks and makes no actual attempts to befriend anyone himself.



In the end, it's necessary to make the distinction that Calvin is not unmotivated, but self motivated. When it comes to things that Calvin is interested in, he will go to extreme and creative lengths, but he falls significantly short of caring about anything he's not personally invested in.



Perhaps the most noteworthy things about Calvin is his imagination, which is overactive and exuberant. He spends most of his days half living in a fantasy world, perhaps best qualified by the fact that his best friend is his stuffed tiger, for whom he imagines a distinct and individual personality and goes on grand adventures with.



Calvin has also imagined himself in any number of fantastical storylines, but his three most prevalent "alter-identities" are: Tracer Bullet, a Noir Detective;



Spaceman Spiff, an intrepid space explorer who fights aliens, which are often portrayed by the school staff;



and Stupendous Man, a less than impressive superhero who takes his tests for him and gets stuck in the school lockers.

Why should that character be in this game: N/A

Why do you want to continue their history here: N/A

For applicants considering an alternate version of a character already in game, please use this as your chance to explain the key differences between your character and the one already in play: N/A

Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep! The plug-in for the guides is FlamingFerret and Calvin can earn money through missions, by stealing, or donations from other players. But he's six so don't expect him to take on too many missions :(

1st person sample: [video]

[In the true fashion of a dramatic opening for an action sci-fi blockbuster, the screen is black and a voice-over is currently playing. Though the sound is a little muffled, so maybe not so much a Hollywood blockbuster as s college film class project.]

---ash-landing on the hostile planet Zorkon, intrepid explorer Spaceman Spiff struggles from the shattered wreckage of his spacecraft only to quickly be surrounded by the gelatinous space scum Zorg.

[Another, distinctly different voice interrupts to correct the voice-over.] Vogon.

[A slight pause before the previous voice continues.]  ...Vogon. Cornered without his de-vogonizing ray--

What.

--without his de-vogonizing ray, this looks like the end for Spaceman Spiff. But little do the aliens know that Spiff is an expert in Bookheadkido, and with a loud battle cry Spiff leaps into action and--

[Suddenly and rather violently, the visual switches from black to a nauseating swirl of motion that resolves itself into the upside down image of a tousled haired blonde, six year old boy with a paper mask over his eyes standing on the check-in counter in front of an extremely bored looking Vogon. From the angle of the video it can be assumed that the boy is wielding the guide over his head like a weapon at the Vogon. The Vogon just shoves a stack of forms at Calvin's chest.]

Refugees are required to fill out the standard forms before they can be placed in a room. If you need a pen to fill them out, go stand in the other queue.

Oh. [Slowly, like a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, Calvin peels the paper mask off his face and hops down from the counter with his paperwork and settles down to peruse the papers given to him. After a long moment he leans over to the next person in line, taps them on the knee, and whispers.] 

What did you get for number one?

3rd person sample:

Calvin's been on this spaceship for a couple days now, and for space all of those days have been pretty phenomenally boring. In all of his games, space had always had more explosions and dastardly deeds to foil than this; the aliens on the ship were more placid than Hobbes with a belly full of tuna and a good long lay in the sun. All in all, an extremely disappointing end to the world, by Calvin's standards.

Playing House with Susie was typically more fraught with danger.

Worst of all, he hadn't found Hobbes yet. His tiger-type friend had certainly survived the end of the world, of this Calvin was sure, but apparently he'd gotten a bit turned around, or maybe Calvin had, and neither had managed to find each other. It was only a matter of time but. Calvin missed him regardless. Hobbes would have understood how Calvin was feeling about Earth being gone. About his mom and his dad and Susie and Rosalyn being gone, even if Calvin wasn't so sure at this point himself.

Until Hobbes tracked him down (and pounced on him, no doubt, for taking so long to be found) though Calvin would have to settle for discussing his pressing existential quandary with someone else. Anyone who didn't run away from him, really, he wasn't picky.

Well he was, ordinarily, but under these circumstances he really just needed someone to talk at than talk with. "Do you even stop to think that maybe none of us really escaped the total destruction of our worlds?" Calvin asks an alien with bulbous luminescent eyes who has the rather astonishing experience of actually being slightly shorter than Calvin. "That maybe we all died and this is where we wound up? It makes more sense than Pittsburgh, doesn't it? I'm pretty sure people actually live there. Or they used to anyway."

The alien doesn't say anything, just blinks very slowly at Calvin and offers him a candy.

Calvin takes it rather glumly and pops it into his mouth. At least the candy tastes like he thinks space should. "Maybe that's why I haven't found Hobbes yet. He didn't die." It's a distressing thought. Calvin resolves to put it out of his mind and focuses on the candy. And maybe trying to coerce some of the aliens into playing Calvinball with him later.

Questions?: Nope!

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