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trainspotter) wrote2017-02-05 08:14 pm
trainspotter) wrote2017-02-05 08:14 pm
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PLAYER
Player name: Laura
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Characters currently in-game: none
CHARACTER
Character Name: Ned Wynert
Character Age: 28
Canon: Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Canon Point: end of the main story
History: wiki
Personality: The first thing one notices about Ned is the way he always seems to be the most confident person in the room. He's gifted, really, in schmoozing and smooth-talking, and he has an easygoing and almost charming air about him most of the time because it's much easier to put people at ease when you're as short and harmless-looking as he is than it is to intimidate them the normal way. Because at the end of the day, almost everything about Ned's interactions with other people is calculated to achieve the best outcome in his favor, because most of his interactions with other people involve, well, crime. He knows how to get what he wants and he's friendly and fun to be around just enough to usually get it. At a glance he's cheerful, confident, smooth-talking—and he's very good at being those things! Even when he doesn't mean it, his number one natural talent seems to be "scheming and schmoozing," according to other Real Criminal Masterminds, and he always uses it to his advantage.
So below the surface, it's easy to see that Ned can and will game the system for his own purposes. He'll flatter, he'll bargain, he'll bribe until he gets what he wants out of someone, whether it's material or assistance or something else. He's intelligent, naturally so, and educated thanks to his rich and fancy upbringing back in New York, and while he's no Einstein, it definitely puts him at an advantage over the usual crop of people he interacts with—uneducated, solve-problems-with-punches types, more or less. With people of higher intelligence and even higher class, he's more touch-and-go; when he waltzes into the Fryes' fancy train to ogle it from the inside, he says his bit and doesn't hang around long enough for any of them to figure out anything besides what he hands them: his name and address. Ned is not in the business of revealing anything beyond what he needs known at any given time, and he is practiced in the art of scheming enough to keep it up.
To this end, Ned is not a very trusting person. It's visible in his behavior down to his body language; when he's not engaged in talking to someone, where he'll be very physically expressive and gesture a lot to emphasize his points, he will close himself up. He loiters with tightly folded arms and a permanent frown and sharp glare to match, like he's waiting for someone to come up and challenge him about something. He is a criminal with plenty of criminal rivals and the cops out for his head, so it makes sense—he doesn't trust easily. While it does keep people at a distance—everything about his personal life is learned through meta bios, not him talking about it—it makes him more discerning, which helps with the whole "crime lord" thing. He's able to pinpoint where Jacob's plan to trust some "contact" he's never worked with before and has only just met as a really dumb plan, and naturally he turns out to be right. Ned likes to know all the details before he really commits to anything; in the case with Jacob-and-contact, he's willing to help out with the legwork of the job, but the moment he can sense something is going to go wrong with trusting this stranger, he backs off and lets Jacob dig his own grave.
Given his career path, Ned's whole life revolves around keeping his personal syndicate up and running. He's a good boss, a great boss even, as it's stated that his little band of thieves is super loyal to him and even the Rooks, who are not even his gang, are willing to let him take control when he helps Jacob out with that ill-advised stranger job; he literally just stands in the middle of the action and supervises, occasionally yelling criticisms, and the thugs do whatever he asks. He has a presence when he wants to, meaning when he really gets down to business; one does not become the boss of a crime syndicate in Victorian London by being soft and sweet, and Ned might be friendly but he's still the boss. It's stated that the only thing preventing Ned from being in control of all of London's streets is that the Blighters, the rival gang, are too big and backed by too much Legal Money for Ned to take them on alone. But he's ambitious and willing to take help when he needs it, so the Fryes walking onto the scene with their Assassin training and their brand new gang the Rooks are definitely something he uses to his advantage. Within days of meeting the Fryes, he asks them to help out in moving his cargo and sabotaging the Blighters' stuff, and it all works out very nicely for everybody.
While he does more or less want to topple the Blighters and put himself in place as the head honcho of London's criminal underground, he knows how to make it sound nice; he says completely straight-faced that his job is keeping London "in balance," primarily through making sure his own cargo of illegally smuggled goods are the only illegally smuggled goods around. He's just very friendly about it and willing to part with precious gems and super cool weapons easily since the Fryes helped him out so much. At the same time, he has a lot of pride - when he's caught by the cops and Jacob busts him out of police custody, instead of saying "thanks" he just yells the whole time about how Jacob should have left him alone because he hates having to owe people for rescuing him. There's just something about shouting "Where do you get off rescuing me?" while still in handcuffs that really speaks to someone's pride as a tiny crime lord.
Going back to his natural defensiveness, Ned is pretty tightly wound about any personal details about himself. When he's asked simple questions like "Do you treat all your friends this way?" his immediate response is "Never mind that now," because he sure isn't going to discuss his friends or anything else about himself beyond his literal business. He doesn't like being indebted to other people and he showers his friends with really expensive stolen goods; that's about it. It makes sense twofold: first, again, he is a criminal. He's wanted. It's not a surprise that he's tight-lipped about himself when plenty of people would be satisfied with him out of the picture, criminal or otherwise. Second, it's London in 1868, where LGBT people are still being sent to asylums for existing and Ned is transgender, so it goes without saying that he's not going to advertise much about his personal life. Ned's identity comes up, like the rest of his personal background, only in his database bios and isn't talked about by the characters, so—again, it's 1868. He doesn't bring it up.
He is however pretty open about being a criminal, as he'll chat up both Fryes with comments about how there are so many things to do in London, and some of them are even legal! And isn't the fog pretty, it sure does let you get away with more crime! And so on. It's an open secret, kind of. Socially when he's not schmoozing he lands somewhere between friendly and friendly-but-with-sass, depending on who you are. The amount of sass is directly proportional to his comfort level, ironically.
Overall, Ned is charismatic and clever, a bit of a snake, and a good boss as far as criminals go. He's ambitious and a take-charge kind of guy, aggressively independent but still friendly and easy to hang out with. Dashing!
Inventory: His clothes and a ye olde handgun.
Abilities: He has no superhuman/supernatural/magical ability to speak of. That said, he excels at organized crime and theft. He's got good leadership qualities, since his gang of thieves is very much loyal to him and he was literally scouted by an even more notorious career criminal as a teenager to run his own syndicate because he is great at "scheming and schmoozing."
Flaws: He's a career criminal, so there's that. He runs a gang of thieves and has run a gang of thieves for an unspecified but nonzero number of years, and at this point he controls a large amount of territory in London. As per canon, the only thing stopping him from controlling the whole city is the rival gang of the Blighters, but he certainly has no qualms about having the Blighters killed to get them out of his way. Aside from his questionably loose morals he's overly defensive and doesn't hold back from being openly critical of others. Conclusion: he's a tiny crime lord and being friendly doesn't change the part about being a Real Criminal.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: test drive thread
Player name: Laura
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: none
CHARACTER
Character Name: Ned Wynert
Character Age: 28
Canon: Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Canon Point: end of the main story
History: wiki
Personality: The first thing one notices about Ned is the way he always seems to be the most confident person in the room. He's gifted, really, in schmoozing and smooth-talking, and he has an easygoing and almost charming air about him most of the time because it's much easier to put people at ease when you're as short and harmless-looking as he is than it is to intimidate them the normal way. Because at the end of the day, almost everything about Ned's interactions with other people is calculated to achieve the best outcome in his favor, because most of his interactions with other people involve, well, crime. He knows how to get what he wants and he's friendly and fun to be around just enough to usually get it. At a glance he's cheerful, confident, smooth-talking—and he's very good at being those things! Even when he doesn't mean it, his number one natural talent seems to be "scheming and schmoozing," according to other Real Criminal Masterminds, and he always uses it to his advantage.
So below the surface, it's easy to see that Ned can and will game the system for his own purposes. He'll flatter, he'll bargain, he'll bribe until he gets what he wants out of someone, whether it's material or assistance or something else. He's intelligent, naturally so, and educated thanks to his rich and fancy upbringing back in New York, and while he's no Einstein, it definitely puts him at an advantage over the usual crop of people he interacts with—uneducated, solve-problems-with-punches types, more or less. With people of higher intelligence and even higher class, he's more touch-and-go; when he waltzes into the Fryes' fancy train to ogle it from the inside, he says his bit and doesn't hang around long enough for any of them to figure out anything besides what he hands them: his name and address. Ned is not in the business of revealing anything beyond what he needs known at any given time, and he is practiced in the art of scheming enough to keep it up.
To this end, Ned is not a very trusting person. It's visible in his behavior down to his body language; when he's not engaged in talking to someone, where he'll be very physically expressive and gesture a lot to emphasize his points, he will close himself up. He loiters with tightly folded arms and a permanent frown and sharp glare to match, like he's waiting for someone to come up and challenge him about something. He is a criminal with plenty of criminal rivals and the cops out for his head, so it makes sense—he doesn't trust easily. While it does keep people at a distance—everything about his personal life is learned through meta bios, not him talking about it—it makes him more discerning, which helps with the whole "crime lord" thing. He's able to pinpoint where Jacob's plan to trust some "contact" he's never worked with before and has only just met as a really dumb plan, and naturally he turns out to be right. Ned likes to know all the details before he really commits to anything; in the case with Jacob-and-contact, he's willing to help out with the legwork of the job, but the moment he can sense something is going to go wrong with trusting this stranger, he backs off and lets Jacob dig his own grave.
Given his career path, Ned's whole life revolves around keeping his personal syndicate up and running. He's a good boss, a great boss even, as it's stated that his little band of thieves is super loyal to him and even the Rooks, who are not even his gang, are willing to let him take control when he helps Jacob out with that ill-advised stranger job; he literally just stands in the middle of the action and supervises, occasionally yelling criticisms, and the thugs do whatever he asks. He has a presence when he wants to, meaning when he really gets down to business; one does not become the boss of a crime syndicate in Victorian London by being soft and sweet, and Ned might be friendly but he's still the boss. It's stated that the only thing preventing Ned from being in control of all of London's streets is that the Blighters, the rival gang, are too big and backed by too much Legal Money for Ned to take them on alone. But he's ambitious and willing to take help when he needs it, so the Fryes walking onto the scene with their Assassin training and their brand new gang the Rooks are definitely something he uses to his advantage. Within days of meeting the Fryes, he asks them to help out in moving his cargo and sabotaging the Blighters' stuff, and it all works out very nicely for everybody.
While he does more or less want to topple the Blighters and put himself in place as the head honcho of London's criminal underground, he knows how to make it sound nice; he says completely straight-faced that his job is keeping London "in balance," primarily through making sure his own cargo of illegally smuggled goods are the only illegally smuggled goods around. He's just very friendly about it and willing to part with precious gems and super cool weapons easily since the Fryes helped him out so much. At the same time, he has a lot of pride - when he's caught by the cops and Jacob busts him out of police custody, instead of saying "thanks" he just yells the whole time about how Jacob should have left him alone because he hates having to owe people for rescuing him. There's just something about shouting "Where do you get off rescuing me?" while still in handcuffs that really speaks to someone's pride as a tiny crime lord.
Going back to his natural defensiveness, Ned is pretty tightly wound about any personal details about himself. When he's asked simple questions like "Do you treat all your friends this way?" his immediate response is "Never mind that now," because he sure isn't going to discuss his friends or anything else about himself beyond his literal business. He doesn't like being indebted to other people and he showers his friends with really expensive stolen goods; that's about it. It makes sense twofold: first, again, he is a criminal. He's wanted. It's not a surprise that he's tight-lipped about himself when plenty of people would be satisfied with him out of the picture, criminal or otherwise. Second, it's London in 1868, where LGBT people are still being sent to asylums for existing and Ned is transgender, so it goes without saying that he's not going to advertise much about his personal life. Ned's identity comes up, like the rest of his personal background, only in his database bios and isn't talked about by the characters, so—again, it's 1868. He doesn't bring it up.
He is however pretty open about being a criminal, as he'll chat up both Fryes with comments about how there are so many things to do in London, and some of them are even legal! And isn't the fog pretty, it sure does let you get away with more crime! And so on. It's an open secret, kind of. Socially when he's not schmoozing he lands somewhere between friendly and friendly-but-with-sass, depending on who you are. The amount of sass is directly proportional to his comfort level, ironically.
Overall, Ned is charismatic and clever, a bit of a snake, and a good boss as far as criminals go. He's ambitious and a take-charge kind of guy, aggressively independent but still friendly and easy to hang out with. Dashing!
Inventory: His clothes and a ye olde handgun.
Abilities: He has no superhuman/supernatural/magical ability to speak of. That said, he excels at organized crime and theft. He's got good leadership qualities, since his gang of thieves is very much loyal to him and he was literally scouted by an even more notorious career criminal as a teenager to run his own syndicate because he is great at "scheming and schmoozing."
Flaws: He's a career criminal, so there's that. He runs a gang of thieves and has run a gang of thieves for an unspecified but nonzero number of years, and at this point he controls a large amount of territory in London. As per canon, the only thing stopping him from controlling the whole city is the rival gang of the Blighters, but he certainly has no qualms about having the Blighters killed to get them out of his way. Aside from his questionably loose morals he's overly defensive and doesn't hold back from being openly critical of others. Conclusion: he's a tiny crime lord and being friendly doesn't change the part about being a Real Criminal.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: test drive thread