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TLV - Potential Application Discussion
Thinking about applying for a character, but not quite sure if they're a good fit? This post is dedicated to discussion of that very thing! A jury of your peers will help you in deciding whether or not a character you suddenly have a hankering for would be a fit for the Barge!
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Character Name: Dana Scully
Series: The X-Files
Warden or Inmate: Warden
Do they meet all rules and requirements?: YUP
Do you think they will be active and interact with others?: Yes
Would this character be active in ports and floods, or sit out?: Active as hell
Why do you want them?: I RPed Scully for years once upon a time. She's actually the first live-action character I ever played. Her voice comes very easily to me and I think she could bring a really interesting dynamic to the Barge.
Potential Concerns: AHAHA, basically I only have ONE concern: her skepticism.
I'd be bringing Scully in from some point in season 5 (before the series became ri-goddamn-diculous), and at that point, she's still gung-ho about needing hard science before she'll support anything (Catholicism aside). So if she, say, accepts a deal to rehabilitate someone (in exchange for information) from an average gentleman one day, someone she might simply assume is part of the Syndicate (they all go by titles, so "Admiral" wouldn't seem odd) and then gets brought aboard the Barge...well.
Let me make a partial list of things she repudiates, as they'd apply here.
- Aliens
- Vampires
- Werewolves or any kind of shapeshifter
- Time travel or any other kind of time manipulation
- Parallel worlds
- Raising people from the dead
THIS IS JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE.
Basically, if she arrived and was faced with all this, she would demand hard proof. As an example, she'd go seeking blood samples or similar "evidence" from the nonhuman inhabitants. As for floods? If there was no concrete evidence of a cause she'd go with mass hallucinations or hysteria, at least to start out.
I know how to write Scully; I don't know how to write Scully on the Barge. Help?
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Come to think of it, the infirmary would have files on all the nonhumans she could study. At least, I think so? Which could be a fun mini plot of PRIVACY ISSUES, SCULLY, THEY *MATTER*.
... Don't mind me, I've had coffee :)
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Scully would be even less inclined to believe things as that trifecta of scientists. There's a reason why she's the trope namer for "Scully Syndrome" and the internet-coined verb "Scullying," i.e. to quash all paranormal theories.
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I'd also find her Catholicism hard to play (you know what my 'relationship' with religion is) but I could suffer through it. I love her character enough for that~
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In my opinion, doing this for a strong enough reason would give her the faith she needs to see a rehabilitation through, even if she doesn't quite believe the Barge, and time with its inhabitants (non-human/displaced time-travelers) would help. I could see her talking to everyone, pulling all the evidence in, and writing up her conclusions each day. Keeping a log will keep her sane.
Maybe for Mulder, who'd get a serious kick out of the Barge.
It'd be difficult, but not impossible.
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The fact that she is (if I take her far enough into season 5) both post-abduction and post-hypnotic regression WOULD make it somewhat easier for her to open herself to possibility; she's come to respect the journey, but still tends to strongly challenge the destination. While she fully accepts the existence of a government conspiracy, she doesn't necessarily accept the involvement of anything paranormal. I'm just wondering how much of the Barge she'd come to accept and how much she'd never believe, and how long it would take for her to believe ANYTHING.
A Mulder would definitely make things somewhat easier and much more fun, I've played her without one before and didn't really find that to be much of an obstacle. :3
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I would like to see a Scully around, even if Kay would just skulk and let her be a skeptic all she likes because that's usually helpful to him.
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However, I think that if you play it with the assumption she's been around for a few days and requested medical details and such, it's conceivable to portray her from the very start as what she'd ultimately have to be: Saying to hell with it and getting on with her job.
Also, whatever she/he/it/they are, the Admiral will have maybe confronted her with a 'this is what's the what'-type thing before arrival.
There could be a third option: I don't know what the circumstances would be of when you'd take her from, but you could play it a bit like that scene in the film, 'The Last Starfighter', where the hero kind of half-believes that maybe they're asleep and it's all a dream, so it doesn't matter, anyway. :)
I suspect that's how most characters approach their lives aboard the ship in any case!
I mean, it's one thing to be asked to believe someone's an alien/robot/ghost or whatever, but when you get approached by someone you're fully aware is meant to be fictional, that brings in a whole new surrealist level to a character's perceptions! If she's eating lunch with Indiana Jones, Robocop and Supergirl, it'd be enough to make just about anyone figure it either has to be a dream or they've somehow wandered into a dimension where nothing makes sense, anyway. I'm pretty sure Scully's probably aware of parallel dimensional stuff being at least a theoretical possibility in the physicist realm. She could be said to have decided to approach it from that angle - and if she's already done so in some ambiguously hand-waved few days before she decided to post stuff, you don't need to wrestle with all that philosophical stuff.
The only thing you might have to deal with, psychologically, is why she'd bother doing her job if she figures it doesn't matter. But then, maybe she assumes that would be the trigger to wake up or get back to her own dimension.