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Road of Trode Application
Jul. 5th, 2012 12:45 amI: PLAYER INFO
Name (or internet handle): Kally
Age: 24
Contact: ukrainiandiva21 (AIM)
Current characters in Road of 'Trode: N/A
II: CHARACTER INFO
Name: Virginia “Pepper” Potts
Dreamwidth Username: [personal profile] his_girlfriday
Fandom: Marvel Movieverse
Age/Appearance: 35
Wiki Links: http://ironman.wikia.com/wiki/Virginia_%22Pepper%22_Potts_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_Potts
Personality: Pepper grew up as a politician's daughter in Washington D.C. Her maternal grandfather was a French ambassador, and Pepper grew up spending much of her summers in France with her grandparents. As such, she is fluent in the language. Pepper was sent to the very best private schools in D.C. She was an only child, and grew up with loving parents. Her father was a conservative politician, but her mother had liberal views. However, despite major political differences and their involvement in politics, the pair were loving and committed, always respectful of each other's views. From her father, Pepper learned to be organized, dedicated, and a hard worker. Her mother taught her elegance and grace under pressure. From watching the two of them, she learned to be tolerant and respectful of others.
There’s an unfortunate trend in the representation of women in media to fall into one of two categories. On the one hand, there are powerful, intelligent women. These women are often portrayed as being solely driven by their careers, caring very little about the emotions of others, or generally just being “ball busters,” for lack of a better term. On the other hand, there are “feminine” women. These women are often maternal, playing the role of girlfriend or wives, caring and devoted and happily settling down for marriage and children. Like everything else in her life, Pepper is elegant about landing between these two stereotypes. She is undoubtedly intelligent. She has gotten far in her career, even becoming CEO of Stark Industries at one point. She is a natural businesswoman, and she has had to fill in for Tony multiple times, whether he was out of the country, being held captive, or sleeping off a hangover. She notices the small details, picks up on Tony’s slack, and is a seemingly tireless, completely devoted employee.
However, one of the things I love about the character is that she also radiates a genuine warmth. At times, her care for Tony is almost maternal, and she pays attention to the small details dropped by other people. She is genuinely interested in other people’s lives and is greatly skilled in the art of conversation, unlike the often distracted and sometimes brusque Tony Stark. An example of this her response to Agent Coulson in The Avengers. While Tony doesn’t even seem to know Coulson’s first name, Pepper amiably chats with him about his love life, as if the two are friends. This scene also exemplifies the maternal side of Pepper, and the way that she places duty before her own desires. She and Tony are interrupted in the middle of a romantic moment, but with absolutely good-natured ease, she guides Tony into accepting his duty and makes no complaints about their own moment being interrupted.
This is a good indication of the way that Pepper generally does not make a fuss about her own needs or desires. She isn’t a doormat, and she does have a backbone when it’s called for, but she has come to accept Tony’s flaws and how they affect her own life. An example of this is when Tony forgets her birthday in Iron Man. She teases him about how it is the same day it was the year before, but she doesn’t seem the least bit offended or surprised (and in fact, had assumed he would forget, evidenced by the fact that she already bought herself a present from him).
As mentioned, however, she is not without a backbone. Though she will easily place her own desires on the back burner, there are also plenty of times in both of the Iron Man films when she does not accept Tony’s behavior or overlook his immaturity. In fact, she is incredibly upset with him for a great deal of Iron Man 2, going as far as to walk out on him when she’s upset. She obviously has passion beneath her cool, elegant surface, though she only lets her feathers be ruffled during extreme situations. Otherwise, she presents herself with elegance and poise. Her clothing during her brief appearance in The Avengers shows that she is not always tailored suits and high heels. Once she is comfortable with her relationship with Tony, we see her walking around, barefoot and wearing shorts. This is a far cry from the Pepper in Iron Man who was always presented as being meticulously groomed and dressed to the nines.
Pepper also has ambition. However, while she enjoys the finer things in life, her end goal is not to find the best paying job available. She wants power, but she wants to have it in order to make a difference in the world and in her job, since she's not content to be a nameless employee who has no say in anything her company does. However, her ambition is a quiet one. She tries to get ahead through her merits, not through the sabotage, brown nosing, and back stabbing that is often seen in those who climb the corporate ladder. However, this quiet ambition is part of what draws her to Tony. Despite his narcissistic playboy tendencies, he is passionate and shows that he does care, that he isn't content with letting the dice fall where they may. Her ambition is quiet? His is deafening. He is constantly out there for the world to see. He announced he was Iron Man to the world, after all.
In this way, and many others, he is the ying to her yang. He is loud, she is quiet. He speaks before he thinks, she thinks before she does anything. He is brusque, she is demure. He displays his life in tabloids, she prefers to have her own life remain more private. Despite the complete opposite ways they carry themselves, they have many of the same motivations. They both want to make the world better, they want to help where they can, they both want to use their strengths to change things for the better.
It is during times when these things aren't happening, and when she perceives that Tony isn't doing things to the best of his ability, that she lets down her barriers and lashes out. When she feels Tony is making bad decisions or when she believes that someone is making a decision that harms more than just themselves, that is when she'll speak up or raise her voice, push her opinions.
There is a quote by Mother Teresa. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." This is Pepper's mantra. She is content with not being CEO of Stark Industries, because she knows she can make changes and do good where she is at. She can influence Tony from her position, and he in turn can make more "ripples" with his technology and products.
Much of this is work related, because Pepper does put that before her personal life, when she has to make the choice. She obviously loves Tony, though, and I think she would like to be a wife and mother someday. However, it's not her main ambition or motivation in life, but it is one of those things she would like to happen at some point. She lets her hair down, so to speak, when she's alone with Tony, and I'd even say she needs those moments. No one can have their "game face" on all the time, and Pepper's no exception. I'd even say she needs those moments when she doesn't have to be Tony's assistant and can simply be a girl.
Reason for playing: The first paragraph of Pepper’s personality section says a lot about why I want to play her. She is both intelligent and warm. She is elegant and professional, but she isn’t a cold fish. I also love her relationship with Tony, and getting to play him off of Rosa’s Tony would just be enjoyable. The two have such an interesting relationship. They both rely on each other, and they both bring something unique to the relationship. Tony needs Pepper’s organization and considerations, and Pepper needs Tony to sometimes coax her out of having too stiff of an upper lip. And really? I just enjoy playing charming, intelligent woman and Pepper is definitely both of those.
III. AU INFO
Name: Same name, but goes by Virginia, not Pepper
Age/Appearance: Same
History: Virginia was born in the Capitol to Matthew and Pamela Potts. Matthew worked as the curator of a Capitol museum, and Pamela was a politician, working for the Department of Education. Her parents were busy with their careers, but they doted on their daughter and her childhood was happy and stable enough. Though the Potts were not the most famous family in all the Capitol, they were relatively influential, and Virginia grew up attending functions with the movers and shakers of the city.
Through her father, she gained an appreciation for culture. She learned about art, music, and literature. Her father would stand her in front of a painting and spend an hour discussing the brilliance or the imperfections of it. At night, he would tell her bedtime stories about the sort of art that could be found in the Twin City, and the vibrance and color that could be found there. As a teenager, she had plans of leaving to go to the Twin City and becoming an artist there. As a child and teenager, she spent a great amount of her time at libraries, reading nonfiction and poetry and fiction alike.
From her mother, however, she also learned about the value of education. Virginia was a naturally gifted and bright girl, and her parents encouraged her to work and study hard. She was able to attend one of the best schools in the city and despite the fact that she never had a difficult time with her schoolwork, she was still a dedicated an ambitious student, even going ahead in her lessons and bringing up questions to her teachers about non-assigned books she had read in the library.
She still had dreams about becoming an artist and leaving for the Twin City, but she promised her parents that she would attend university. It was while she was a student, studying Humanities, that she met a politician named Ian Blackthorn. Ian was a young politician running for a position in the Department of Energy. The two began a romantic relationship, and when Virginia made suggestions of ways Ian could improve his campaign, he realized that he had found a perfect campaign manager. She was organized, charming, intelligent, and excellent at noticing small details. When Ian won the election, he encouraged Virginia to switch from art and work in politics. Finding out that she’d enjoyed her work on Ian’s campaign and that she wasn’t ready to leave her new boyfriend behind to travel to another city, Virginia switched to studying politics and communication.
Before she experienced the VR memories, Virginia had become one of the more successful campaign managers in the city, often sought out by politicians in higher rankings. She had gone through several relationships, though to the disappointment of her parents, no relationship had stuck for very long. She was relatively content, though recently discovered she wasn’t quite happy.
Residence/Job: Virginia is a campaign manager, living with her cat in an apartment that has a good view. It’s no larger than the average person’s apartment, though it is in an excellent location.
Skills/Powers: Virginia is exceptionally intelligent and has fantastic interpersonal skills, but she has no superhuman powers. She will remember a variety of languages from her canon memories, though they’ll be of little use in the Ark.
Resources: She has no extra income, aside from her allotted resources.
IV. SAMPLE
Arrival:
It wasn’t that she was stuck with this politician.
Virginia was known well enough by now that she could choose her clients. To say she was good at her job was an understatement. She was excellent at her job. She was dedicated and clever and she got results. Virginia knew how the politicians who hired her should present themselves, how they should speak, what they should say, which issues should be addressed and which people didn’t care about. She coached the politicians on how to interact with the public, she wrote their speeches, and and she styled their hair, picked out their shoes, and decided how many buttons were stuffy and how many were too casual.
So no, she wasn’t stuck with Ash Harman. She’d picked him from the half dozen requests she’d received last season because he was kind and he was likable and she wanted a man like him to win this election. Unfortunately, he was also not nearly as intelligent as his steely eyed opponent. Most of the time, his innocence was refreshing, or at least endearing. Today? It was tiring.
Virginia had told her assistant that she would need a few moments to herself. When she walked into her office, she left the door just slightly open before settling herself down at her desk. She needed to research Ash’s opponent and see if any news had come up about him today, or see if any of her informants had any information they had found out about him. Regardless of her expertise, this race was going to be a challenge.
But when she connected to the network, something she’d done thousands of times before, something happened. Something unusual, something new. Virginia saw a world of wealth and passion and luxury. She saw a man in a red suit, flying in the sky and she saw herself watching him. She felt love for this man, she felt love for parents that were not her own, and she saw more opulence and art and grandeur than she had ever imagined possible. Memories she’d never experienced, languages she’d never heard of? They were all there. More than a dream, it was another life. In the span of moments between connecting to the network and waking up, she’d lived half of a lifetime.
She woke up with a gasp and when she looked around, head spinning, she tried to recall where she was. This wasn’t the bedroom she’d been in only moments before, this wasn’t Manhattan.
And then she remembered.
She cursed, loud enough to send her assistant running in. “Virginia?” he asked. “Virginia, are you all right? What happened?” Curiosity turned to concern when he took in her wide eyes, flushed face. His employer’s usual exterior of simple elegance was transformed into frazzled nerves. “Is anything wrong?”
Tony, she thought, repeating the name like a mantra. Tony, she had to find Tony, immediately. Tony would be lost without her.
She opened her mouth to tell the assistant (whose name she couldn’t remember just then) that much, to ask for his help. But the words didn’t come out, because she was suddenly struck with the realization of his mistake.
“Pepper. My name is Pepper.”
Name (or internet handle): Kally
Age: 24
Contact: ukrainiandiva21 (AIM)
Current characters in Road of 'Trode: N/A
II: CHARACTER INFO
Name: Virginia “Pepper” Potts
Dreamwidth Username: [personal profile] his_girlfriday
Fandom: Marvel Movieverse
Age/Appearance: 35
Wiki Links: http://ironman.wikia.com/wiki/Virginia_%22Pepper%22_Potts_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_Potts
Personality: Pepper grew up as a politician's daughter in Washington D.C. Her maternal grandfather was a French ambassador, and Pepper grew up spending much of her summers in France with her grandparents. As such, she is fluent in the language. Pepper was sent to the very best private schools in D.C. She was an only child, and grew up with loving parents. Her father was a conservative politician, but her mother had liberal views. However, despite major political differences and their involvement in politics, the pair were loving and committed, always respectful of each other's views. From her father, Pepper learned to be organized, dedicated, and a hard worker. Her mother taught her elegance and grace under pressure. From watching the two of them, she learned to be tolerant and respectful of others.
There’s an unfortunate trend in the representation of women in media to fall into one of two categories. On the one hand, there are powerful, intelligent women. These women are often portrayed as being solely driven by their careers, caring very little about the emotions of others, or generally just being “ball busters,” for lack of a better term. On the other hand, there are “feminine” women. These women are often maternal, playing the role of girlfriend or wives, caring and devoted and happily settling down for marriage and children. Like everything else in her life, Pepper is elegant about landing between these two stereotypes. She is undoubtedly intelligent. She has gotten far in her career, even becoming CEO of Stark Industries at one point. She is a natural businesswoman, and she has had to fill in for Tony multiple times, whether he was out of the country, being held captive, or sleeping off a hangover. She notices the small details, picks up on Tony’s slack, and is a seemingly tireless, completely devoted employee.
However, one of the things I love about the character is that she also radiates a genuine warmth. At times, her care for Tony is almost maternal, and she pays attention to the small details dropped by other people. She is genuinely interested in other people’s lives and is greatly skilled in the art of conversation, unlike the often distracted and sometimes brusque Tony Stark. An example of this her response to Agent Coulson in The Avengers. While Tony doesn’t even seem to know Coulson’s first name, Pepper amiably chats with him about his love life, as if the two are friends. This scene also exemplifies the maternal side of Pepper, and the way that she places duty before her own desires. She and Tony are interrupted in the middle of a romantic moment, but with absolutely good-natured ease, she guides Tony into accepting his duty and makes no complaints about their own moment being interrupted.
This is a good indication of the way that Pepper generally does not make a fuss about her own needs or desires. She isn’t a doormat, and she does have a backbone when it’s called for, but she has come to accept Tony’s flaws and how they affect her own life. An example of this is when Tony forgets her birthday in Iron Man. She teases him about how it is the same day it was the year before, but she doesn’t seem the least bit offended or surprised (and in fact, had assumed he would forget, evidenced by the fact that she already bought herself a present from him).
As mentioned, however, she is not without a backbone. Though she will easily place her own desires on the back burner, there are also plenty of times in both of the Iron Man films when she does not accept Tony’s behavior or overlook his immaturity. In fact, she is incredibly upset with him for a great deal of Iron Man 2, going as far as to walk out on him when she’s upset. She obviously has passion beneath her cool, elegant surface, though she only lets her feathers be ruffled during extreme situations. Otherwise, she presents herself with elegance and poise. Her clothing during her brief appearance in The Avengers shows that she is not always tailored suits and high heels. Once she is comfortable with her relationship with Tony, we see her walking around, barefoot and wearing shorts. This is a far cry from the Pepper in Iron Man who was always presented as being meticulously groomed and dressed to the nines.
Pepper also has ambition. However, while she enjoys the finer things in life, her end goal is not to find the best paying job available. She wants power, but she wants to have it in order to make a difference in the world and in her job, since she's not content to be a nameless employee who has no say in anything her company does. However, her ambition is a quiet one. She tries to get ahead through her merits, not through the sabotage, brown nosing, and back stabbing that is often seen in those who climb the corporate ladder. However, this quiet ambition is part of what draws her to Tony. Despite his narcissistic playboy tendencies, he is passionate and shows that he does care, that he isn't content with letting the dice fall where they may. Her ambition is quiet? His is deafening. He is constantly out there for the world to see. He announced he was Iron Man to the world, after all.
In this way, and many others, he is the ying to her yang. He is loud, she is quiet. He speaks before he thinks, she thinks before she does anything. He is brusque, she is demure. He displays his life in tabloids, she prefers to have her own life remain more private. Despite the complete opposite ways they carry themselves, they have many of the same motivations. They both want to make the world better, they want to help where they can, they both want to use their strengths to change things for the better.
It is during times when these things aren't happening, and when she perceives that Tony isn't doing things to the best of his ability, that she lets down her barriers and lashes out. When she feels Tony is making bad decisions or when she believes that someone is making a decision that harms more than just themselves, that is when she'll speak up or raise her voice, push her opinions.
There is a quote by Mother Teresa. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." This is Pepper's mantra. She is content with not being CEO of Stark Industries, because she knows she can make changes and do good where she is at. She can influence Tony from her position, and he in turn can make more "ripples" with his technology and products.
Much of this is work related, because Pepper does put that before her personal life, when she has to make the choice. She obviously loves Tony, though, and I think she would like to be a wife and mother someday. However, it's not her main ambition or motivation in life, but it is one of those things she would like to happen at some point. She lets her hair down, so to speak, when she's alone with Tony, and I'd even say she needs those moments. No one can have their "game face" on all the time, and Pepper's no exception. I'd even say she needs those moments when she doesn't have to be Tony's assistant and can simply be a girl.
Reason for playing: The first paragraph of Pepper’s personality section says a lot about why I want to play her. She is both intelligent and warm. She is elegant and professional, but she isn’t a cold fish. I also love her relationship with Tony, and getting to play him off of Rosa’s Tony would just be enjoyable. The two have such an interesting relationship. They both rely on each other, and they both bring something unique to the relationship. Tony needs Pepper’s organization and considerations, and Pepper needs Tony to sometimes coax her out of having too stiff of an upper lip. And really? I just enjoy playing charming, intelligent woman and Pepper is definitely both of those.
III. AU INFO
Name: Same name, but goes by Virginia, not Pepper
Age/Appearance: Same
History: Virginia was born in the Capitol to Matthew and Pamela Potts. Matthew worked as the curator of a Capitol museum, and Pamela was a politician, working for the Department of Education. Her parents were busy with their careers, but they doted on their daughter and her childhood was happy and stable enough. Though the Potts were not the most famous family in all the Capitol, they were relatively influential, and Virginia grew up attending functions with the movers and shakers of the city.
Through her father, she gained an appreciation for culture. She learned about art, music, and literature. Her father would stand her in front of a painting and spend an hour discussing the brilliance or the imperfections of it. At night, he would tell her bedtime stories about the sort of art that could be found in the Twin City, and the vibrance and color that could be found there. As a teenager, she had plans of leaving to go to the Twin City and becoming an artist there. As a child and teenager, she spent a great amount of her time at libraries, reading nonfiction and poetry and fiction alike.
From her mother, however, she also learned about the value of education. Virginia was a naturally gifted and bright girl, and her parents encouraged her to work and study hard. She was able to attend one of the best schools in the city and despite the fact that she never had a difficult time with her schoolwork, she was still a dedicated an ambitious student, even going ahead in her lessons and bringing up questions to her teachers about non-assigned books she had read in the library.
She still had dreams about becoming an artist and leaving for the Twin City, but she promised her parents that she would attend university. It was while she was a student, studying Humanities, that she met a politician named Ian Blackthorn. Ian was a young politician running for a position in the Department of Energy. The two began a romantic relationship, and when Virginia made suggestions of ways Ian could improve his campaign, he realized that he had found a perfect campaign manager. She was organized, charming, intelligent, and excellent at noticing small details. When Ian won the election, he encouraged Virginia to switch from art and work in politics. Finding out that she’d enjoyed her work on Ian’s campaign and that she wasn’t ready to leave her new boyfriend behind to travel to another city, Virginia switched to studying politics and communication.
Before she experienced the VR memories, Virginia had become one of the more successful campaign managers in the city, often sought out by politicians in higher rankings. She had gone through several relationships, though to the disappointment of her parents, no relationship had stuck for very long. She was relatively content, though recently discovered she wasn’t quite happy.
Residence/Job: Virginia is a campaign manager, living with her cat in an apartment that has a good view. It’s no larger than the average person’s apartment, though it is in an excellent location.
Skills/Powers: Virginia is exceptionally intelligent and has fantastic interpersonal skills, but she has no superhuman powers. She will remember a variety of languages from her canon memories, though they’ll be of little use in the Ark.
Resources: She has no extra income, aside from her allotted resources.
IV. SAMPLE
Arrival:
It wasn’t that she was stuck with this politician.
Virginia was known well enough by now that she could choose her clients. To say she was good at her job was an understatement. She was excellent at her job. She was dedicated and clever and she got results. Virginia knew how the politicians who hired her should present themselves, how they should speak, what they should say, which issues should be addressed and which people didn’t care about. She coached the politicians on how to interact with the public, she wrote their speeches, and and she styled their hair, picked out their shoes, and decided how many buttons were stuffy and how many were too casual.
So no, she wasn’t stuck with Ash Harman. She’d picked him from the half dozen requests she’d received last season because he was kind and he was likable and she wanted a man like him to win this election. Unfortunately, he was also not nearly as intelligent as his steely eyed opponent. Most of the time, his innocence was refreshing, or at least endearing. Today? It was tiring.
Virginia had told her assistant that she would need a few moments to herself. When she walked into her office, she left the door just slightly open before settling herself down at her desk. She needed to research Ash’s opponent and see if any news had come up about him today, or see if any of her informants had any information they had found out about him. Regardless of her expertise, this race was going to be a challenge.
But when she connected to the network, something she’d done thousands of times before, something happened. Something unusual, something new. Virginia saw a world of wealth and passion and luxury. She saw a man in a red suit, flying in the sky and she saw herself watching him. She felt love for this man, she felt love for parents that were not her own, and she saw more opulence and art and grandeur than she had ever imagined possible. Memories she’d never experienced, languages she’d never heard of? They were all there. More than a dream, it was another life. In the span of moments between connecting to the network and waking up, she’d lived half of a lifetime.
She woke up with a gasp and when she looked around, head spinning, she tried to recall where she was. This wasn’t the bedroom she’d been in only moments before, this wasn’t Manhattan.
And then she remembered.
She cursed, loud enough to send her assistant running in. “Virginia?” he asked. “Virginia, are you all right? What happened?” Curiosity turned to concern when he took in her wide eyes, flushed face. His employer’s usual exterior of simple elegance was transformed into frazzled nerves. “Is anything wrong?”
Tony, she thought, repeating the name like a mantra. Tony, she had to find Tony, immediately. Tony would be lost without her.
She opened her mouth to tell the assistant (whose name she couldn’t remember just then) that much, to ask for his help. But the words didn’t come out, because she was suddenly struck with the realization of his mistake.
“Pepper. My name is Pepper.”
