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makeitwork) wrote2012-05-15 02:34 pm
makeitwork) wrote2012-05-15 02:34 pm
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User Name/Nick: Melanie
User DW: Noooooope
AIM/IM: crimsongrace07
E-mail: crimsongrace07@gmail.com
Other Characters: Jim Kirk, Arthur Pendragon
Character Name: Jefferson/Mad Hatter
Series: Once Upon a Time
Age: Late 20's physically. Technically he's been trapped in a curse for 28 years without aging as well.
From When?: The end of 1x17 "Hat Trick" when he is kicked out of the window. The fall kills him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - Jefferson claims to do everything for his daughter but he's lost sight of things like morals and boundaries and will hurt anyone and do anything to get her back including kidnapping and drugging people and being an accomplice to murder. He needs to learn that people aren't pawns.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Jefferson has a magic hat that can open portals to other worlds essentially. On the Barge, the hat won't do any of that and will just be a hat, like in Storybroke. Otherwise he's pretty much a normal human.
Personality: Jefferson is known in the storybooks as the Mad Hatter. He wasn't always like this. There was a time when he lived a simple life with his daughter and maybe they weren't rich but they were happy. She's all that he has left and he loves her more than anything. He would quite literally do anything for Grace. He plays the adoring father, and it's mostly true but there's another reason for his devotion to her. His work is what killed her mother and he feels massive guilt for that. So while Grace seems to be happy with just the two of them and their mushrooms, Jefferson takes a job with the Queen to get them more money, as a twisted way to make up for the lack of a maternal figure in the young girl's life.
If Jefferson ever had any compassion, it dried up when Regina trapped him in Wonderland. He was perhaps already on the tipping point of madness before that trip, given that his wife had died because of him and that isn't something he ever managed to move on from. As he puts it, being trapped somewhere when you know you belong somewhere else, having two conflicting realities in your head is enough to drive you mad. In Wonderland, he becomes obsessed with recreating his magical hat to bring him back to his world, to his Grace. He is shown mumbling to himself and building an entire warehouse of hats, and anyone meeting him wouldn't have any doubts as seeing him as insane.
Being trapped in Storybroke has only deepened that madness. Where before he was obsessed with returning to Grace, he is now faced with her every day and trapped in the bitterness of knowing that he can never have her. There's a dose of desolation in there as well, as the only thing he wants besides getting Grace back is to kill Regina and he can't even do that. The curse won't let him. He has done little else for the last twenty eight years besides watch Grace through a telescope and let his bitterness, madness, and depression consume him. He can put on the appearance of being normal but it's only an illusion and it would take very little to push him back to the mumbling, ranting person of Wonderland.
He is a talented liar and can turn on the charm whenever it suits his purpose. When Emma nearly hit him with her car, a situation that he deliberately set up, he played injured and sweet to get her to come home with him. He is manipulative and vindictive, turning on people if he thinks that they've turned on him. He doesn't seem to form alliances with anyone, only striking deals when he feels he has no other choice or because it's the lesser of two evils. If he can't be with Grace, then he'd rather be alone. He doesn't want anyone's pity or compassion.
When he isn't playing up the charm, he can be rather moody and sullen with a quick temper to match when things aren't going his way. When Emma can't get the hat to work, he shouts at her and threatens her. When she tries to escape, he decides that if she can't help with the hat, she's useless and tries to shoot her, even though he knows perfectly well that she's the only one that can break the curse. Breaking the curse couldn't matter less to him, he doesn't care about other people's happiness. He could do more to help Emma and the others but he doesn't because there's nothing in it for him. If he can't have what he wants, then no one else should get to have it either. And he will go out of his way to ensure that doesn't happen.
He is naturally something of a pessimist. He doesn't seem to hold other worlds in very high regard, being that the first thing he says when getting to Wonderland is that he hates it. He doesn't look for hope or love or forgiveness or anything that could be considered the good things about life. When faced with them, he has a habit of twisting them and stomping all over them. After spending twenty eight years in our world, he has nothing good to say about it. That is in part due to his depression but also because he sees the glass as half empty all the time. Life is a bitch, and he is constantly being screwed by her.
Jefferson does have a redeeming quality. He places a high regard on family, seeing is as one of the only inherently good things about life. You don't leave family, according to him, and while he in theory believes that you would never turn on them either, it's probable that he would if it was a matter of Grace's safety and happiness. He wants his wife back, wants to be free of the guilt from her death and because he believes Grace needs her. He's brokenhearted and disillusioned. He is at his core a simple man who wants the best for his daughter but just doesn't know how to do that.
He will absolutely hate the Barge. If only because there's no possibility of seeing Grace here and he would hate to see her here anyway. His sweet girl deserves more than this. Being here will only serve to shorten his temper even more and make him seem even further off his rocker. It will also make him even more resistant to being redeemed.
Path to Redemption: The single most important motivator that someone could use with Jefferson is his daughter, Grace. It won't be as easy as telling him that she wouldn't like to see him like this and if he stopped treating people so carelessly, he could go home to her. His devotion to returning to her is tinted with madness and he would assume anyone using that line with him is tricking him like Regina did. Nothing is ever that simple and everything he's done has been for her anyway, so why would he change that? His Warden will have to sort through his insanity to make any lasting progress.
Talking to him about his guilt over his wife's death will spark some progress. It isn't something that he even talks to Grace about, so getting him to work through that grief will be another milestone.
History: All aboard the lazy train of linking to a wiki
Sample Journal Entry:
Do you people ever talk about anything relevant? It's like being trapped in one of your world's high schools for all eternity. Where you just go on and on and on about your horrible lives. Look around you. Do you still have your sanity? Do you still look in the mirror and make peace with the fact that you don't belong here? Yes? Then shut up.
Sample RP: For the smallest of seconds before he'd hit the ground, he believed it was going to work. That when he landed on the hat, somehow magic would be there, that Emma had gotten it work because she was the Savior. That's what she was supposed to do. And he allowed himself to hope, but that was for nothing. There was pain and light and then darkness and more pain and then nothing.
When he woke again, he was in his bedroom in that repulsive house from Storybroke. It was bare like he left it, he wouldn't have even bothered with filling it with furniture if Regina hadn't supplied it when she dragged him across worlds with her curse. It wasn't as though he slept much in Storybroke anyway. It was hard to sleep. If he slept, he dreamed and his dreams were full of his wife and his Grace and of a life that was damn near perfect. A life that he'd ruined with his selfish, selfish work. And when the fear of the dreams wasn't keeping him up, the madness took care of the rest. The people in this world thought that insomnia was a symptom of depression. Jefferson thought it was one of the few things that they'd gotten right.
There was something off. Something in the air or what, he wasn't sure but this didn't feel like Storybroke. Storybroke had the constant sense of the curse working against him and he couldn't feel that here. Or maybe he'd finally become immune to that, but that still didn't explain how he got back into the house with the admiral Sheriff Swan arresting him and dragging him off to the little town jail. Unless he was starting to lose his memories now too.
With a grimace, Jefferson forced himself off of the bed and over to the doorway, flinging it open with little regard for noise or denting the wall. He didn't expect what he was faced with: a long hallway full of doors. All different doors. Just like the inside of the hat. But this, this was not his hat. He knew his hat, like an extension of his being and this wasn't it.
This was worse than Storybroke and Wonderland and even that dingy hole he'd lived in with Grace combined. This was a place he was well and truly trapped and he didn't even have the small consolation of watching Grace through a telescope. This was hell. This was truly what madness was like.
Special Notes: Nope!
User DW: Noooooope
AIM/IM: crimsongrace07
E-mail: crimsongrace07@gmail.com
Other Characters: Jim Kirk, Arthur Pendragon
Character Name: Jefferson/Mad Hatter
Series: Once Upon a Time
Age: Late 20's physically. Technically he's been trapped in a curse for 28 years without aging as well.
From When?: The end of 1x17 "Hat Trick" when he is kicked out of the window. The fall kills him.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate - Jefferson claims to do everything for his daughter but he's lost sight of things like morals and boundaries and will hurt anyone and do anything to get her back including kidnapping and drugging people and being an accomplice to murder. He needs to learn that people aren't pawns.
Item: N/A
Abilities/Powers: Jefferson has a magic hat that can open portals to other worlds essentially. On the Barge, the hat won't do any of that and will just be a hat, like in Storybroke. Otherwise he's pretty much a normal human.
Personality: Jefferson is known in the storybooks as the Mad Hatter. He wasn't always like this. There was a time when he lived a simple life with his daughter and maybe they weren't rich but they were happy. She's all that he has left and he loves her more than anything. He would quite literally do anything for Grace. He plays the adoring father, and it's mostly true but there's another reason for his devotion to her. His work is what killed her mother and he feels massive guilt for that. So while Grace seems to be happy with just the two of them and their mushrooms, Jefferson takes a job with the Queen to get them more money, as a twisted way to make up for the lack of a maternal figure in the young girl's life.
If Jefferson ever had any compassion, it dried up when Regina trapped him in Wonderland. He was perhaps already on the tipping point of madness before that trip, given that his wife had died because of him and that isn't something he ever managed to move on from. As he puts it, being trapped somewhere when you know you belong somewhere else, having two conflicting realities in your head is enough to drive you mad. In Wonderland, he becomes obsessed with recreating his magical hat to bring him back to his world, to his Grace. He is shown mumbling to himself and building an entire warehouse of hats, and anyone meeting him wouldn't have any doubts as seeing him as insane.
Being trapped in Storybroke has only deepened that madness. Where before he was obsessed with returning to Grace, he is now faced with her every day and trapped in the bitterness of knowing that he can never have her. There's a dose of desolation in there as well, as the only thing he wants besides getting Grace back is to kill Regina and he can't even do that. The curse won't let him. He has done little else for the last twenty eight years besides watch Grace through a telescope and let his bitterness, madness, and depression consume him. He can put on the appearance of being normal but it's only an illusion and it would take very little to push him back to the mumbling, ranting person of Wonderland.
He is a talented liar and can turn on the charm whenever it suits his purpose. When Emma nearly hit him with her car, a situation that he deliberately set up, he played injured and sweet to get her to come home with him. He is manipulative and vindictive, turning on people if he thinks that they've turned on him. He doesn't seem to form alliances with anyone, only striking deals when he feels he has no other choice or because it's the lesser of two evils. If he can't be with Grace, then he'd rather be alone. He doesn't want anyone's pity or compassion.
When he isn't playing up the charm, he can be rather moody and sullen with a quick temper to match when things aren't going his way. When Emma can't get the hat to work, he shouts at her and threatens her. When she tries to escape, he decides that if she can't help with the hat, she's useless and tries to shoot her, even though he knows perfectly well that she's the only one that can break the curse. Breaking the curse couldn't matter less to him, he doesn't care about other people's happiness. He could do more to help Emma and the others but he doesn't because there's nothing in it for him. If he can't have what he wants, then no one else should get to have it either. And he will go out of his way to ensure that doesn't happen.
He is naturally something of a pessimist. He doesn't seem to hold other worlds in very high regard, being that the first thing he says when getting to Wonderland is that he hates it. He doesn't look for hope or love or forgiveness or anything that could be considered the good things about life. When faced with them, he has a habit of twisting them and stomping all over them. After spending twenty eight years in our world, he has nothing good to say about it. That is in part due to his depression but also because he sees the glass as half empty all the time. Life is a bitch, and he is constantly being screwed by her.
Jefferson does have a redeeming quality. He places a high regard on family, seeing is as one of the only inherently good things about life. You don't leave family, according to him, and while he in theory believes that you would never turn on them either, it's probable that he would if it was a matter of Grace's safety and happiness. He wants his wife back, wants to be free of the guilt from her death and because he believes Grace needs her. He's brokenhearted and disillusioned. He is at his core a simple man who wants the best for his daughter but just doesn't know how to do that.
He will absolutely hate the Barge. If only because there's no possibility of seeing Grace here and he would hate to see her here anyway. His sweet girl deserves more than this. Being here will only serve to shorten his temper even more and make him seem even further off his rocker. It will also make him even more resistant to being redeemed.
Path to Redemption: The single most important motivator that someone could use with Jefferson is his daughter, Grace. It won't be as easy as telling him that she wouldn't like to see him like this and if he stopped treating people so carelessly, he could go home to her. His devotion to returning to her is tinted with madness and he would assume anyone using that line with him is tricking him like Regina did. Nothing is ever that simple and everything he's done has been for her anyway, so why would he change that? His Warden will have to sort through his insanity to make any lasting progress.
Talking to him about his guilt over his wife's death will spark some progress. It isn't something that he even talks to Grace about, so getting him to work through that grief will be another milestone.
History: All aboard the lazy train of linking to a wiki
Sample Journal Entry:
Do you people ever talk about anything relevant? It's like being trapped in one of your world's high schools for all eternity. Where you just go on and on and on about your horrible lives. Look around you. Do you still have your sanity? Do you still look in the mirror and make peace with the fact that you don't belong here? Yes? Then shut up.
Sample RP: For the smallest of seconds before he'd hit the ground, he believed it was going to work. That when he landed on the hat, somehow magic would be there, that Emma had gotten it work because she was the Savior. That's what she was supposed to do. And he allowed himself to hope, but that was for nothing. There was pain and light and then darkness and more pain and then nothing.
When he woke again, he was in his bedroom in that repulsive house from Storybroke. It was bare like he left it, he wouldn't have even bothered with filling it with furniture if Regina hadn't supplied it when she dragged him across worlds with her curse. It wasn't as though he slept much in Storybroke anyway. It was hard to sleep. If he slept, he dreamed and his dreams were full of his wife and his Grace and of a life that was damn near perfect. A life that he'd ruined with his selfish, selfish work. And when the fear of the dreams wasn't keeping him up, the madness took care of the rest. The people in this world thought that insomnia was a symptom of depression. Jefferson thought it was one of the few things that they'd gotten right.
There was something off. Something in the air or what, he wasn't sure but this didn't feel like Storybroke. Storybroke had the constant sense of the curse working against him and he couldn't feel that here. Or maybe he'd finally become immune to that, but that still didn't explain how he got back into the house with the admiral Sheriff Swan arresting him and dragging him off to the little town jail. Unless he was starting to lose his memories now too.
With a grimace, Jefferson forced himself off of the bed and over to the doorway, flinging it open with little regard for noise or denting the wall. He didn't expect what he was faced with: a long hallway full of doors. All different doors. Just like the inside of the hat. But this, this was not his hat. He knew his hat, like an extension of his being and this wasn't it.
This was worse than Storybroke and Wonderland and even that dingy hole he'd lived in with Grace combined. This was a place he was well and truly trapped and he didn't even have the small consolation of watching Grace through a telescope. This was hell. This was truly what madness was like.
Special Notes: Nope!