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May. 9th, 2020 06:36 pmIN CHARACTER
Character Name: Deborah Armstrong
Canon: The Secret Circle (book canon)
Canon Point: The end of The Power
In-Game Tattoo Placement: Full tattoo sleeve on her right arm.
Current Health/Status: Broken left arm, healing in a cast.
Age: 17.
Species: Human.
Content Warnings: Evil, murder, children being breed for their bloodline, Bad 90s view on "witchcraft"
History: Not a great personal wiki and a General novel wikii
Revision requested history: When we first met Deb in the story, she is someone who is at the top of the world in her power structure. She’s someone who’s considered one of the boys and basically runs wild with the Harley that she’s restored herself, and is someone who her parents don’t even attempt to make any attempts to stop. At school, she’s a member of an elite group called ‘The Club’ by mostly outsiders and it’s a code for something far different than what it is: an actual magical Circle (a coven) composed of eleven very powerful teen witches. The teenagers within the Circle are composed of the twelve families that originally left Salem after the witch trials: the ones who were actual witches but who weren’t caught. Under their evil leader who the descents called “Black John,” The Coven then went on to settle a community on a small island just a little ways away from Salem and called it “New Salem.” While others such as servants and those who they tolerated came to live on the island, Crowhaven Road and the thirteen houses on it were the true seat of power.
After Black John died, the twelve families used magic, and kept to the old ways even as the times changed around them. The twelve families unofficially ruled the town until many of the current generations grandparents put their magic away, including their Book of Shadows, which hold intergenerational secrets going back to the founding of Salem itself. The current generation found their old magic and sought to reclaim it, under the tutelage of a charismatic outsider named John Blake who turned the idea of a circle into a cult. Blake acted as a cult leader, one who paired lines off until he had a new generation of children: eleven extremely gifted magical children who were all born within a month of one another who could control their various elements from their cradles.
Some of the parents then realized what Blake was up to and came to understand that he was actually Black John who returned and created an especially talented generation of children who he could shape into a coven and be the leader of. A group of the parents, the bravest ones, went to stop John Blake from taking their children. They burned the house at Thirteen Crowhaven and thought they killed him. But it wasn’t without sacrifice: all of the parents who went to confront Blake died. The children and everyone else was told that it had been an exceptionally bad hurricane. Deborah Armstrong’s parents weren’t among those who went to fight Blake. Both of her parents survived, and they took in her cousin Nick who had lost both of his parents. Even without knowing why, Deb considered her parents cowards and strives to be different from them. Even if the remaining adults put away their magic, it was impossible for the children to do so, and at sixteen they have already formed themselves into a coven.
The Circle became The Club at school and all of the “outsiders” (the other children in the schools) either feared them or revered them. Deborah, along with her friends Faye, Susan and the Henderson twins became a group of bullies who definitely used their abilities and status to make outsiders lives a living hell. The Circle was divided into two groups: the Dark which was led by Faye with Deborah and Susan as her trusted lieutenants and Diana, Adam and the rest as the Light side. When Cassie Blake comes to school as half an outsider, she immediately draws Faye’s ire by flirting with a boy that Faye likes. Faye, Deborah, Susan and the Hendersons start to then make Cassie’s life a living hell in typical bully fashion. Eventually, she’s saved by Diana who adopts her as a “little sister.” While Cassie is then in the Club by proxy, Diana informs her that unfortunately she can’t join officially even if she doesn’t explain why: a coven is twelve and that last space is being saved for Chris and Doug Hendrson’s sister Kori.
Unfortunately Kori then meets a terrible end (being pushed down a hill and breaking her neck) which means that Cassie is able to be initiated into the Coven in Kori’s place. However, this isn’t without objection. Deborah is the person who objects the loudest saying that Cassie is an outsider and that she didn’t deserve to be a part of the Circle. However she is reminded that in order to be a complete and full coven with the power that provides, they need someone with magic to make twelve and a seventh girl. Finally Deborah agrees and Cassie is initiated.
That’s not the end of the conflict. Cassie has a secret and it’s that she’s desperately in love with Diana’s boyfriend Adam who she met over the summer on Cape Cod before she came to New Salem. The two had an instant connection and felt bound by a metaphysical “silver cord.” While the two are saying goodbye (and swearing to do so) Faye’s familiars witness this and report back.
Faye begins to blackmail Cassie in order to get her to bring the first of what are considered “the master tools” to her: in this case the crystal skull that contains Black John’s enegry. After Cassie finds the skull and Faye takes it from her, his spirit escapes in the form of dark energy and begins to murder people. It’s during this time that Faye is blackmailing Cassie that Deb becomes closer to her and builds a budding respect for the girl. This starts when Faye and Susan are playing “pizza man, he delivers” where they seduce pizza delivery men. Deb has no part in it other than moving the cars and making sure that Faye and Susan are safe doing it, and when Cassie refuses to do it too, Deb takes her on a ride on her bike and the two bond.
The two then grow closer when after there is another murder and Cassie finds the body of, Deb is with the group that goes chasing down the dark energy. Cassie acts in the same way that Deb does: climbing fences and is ready to fight if needed. Thankfully they don’t need to then, but their bond is cemented following these two instances. When Faye blackmails Cassie in order to win the election for Coven leader, Deb is still in her corner but as Faye becomes seduced by the dark side and Black John himself, Deb pulls away from her and aligns more with the Light side.
This bond isn’t based on Deb becoming a perfect person. Instead it’s based on her friendship with Cassie and Faye losing it and choosing Black John over the Circle. The bond between Cassie and Deb is cemented when she is there as Cassie’s grandmother reveals the truth about the Coven, the families at Crowhaven and what happened to the Circle’s parents the generation before, then Mrs. Howard dies as a result of Black John’s attack.
At the funeral, it’s revealed that Black John has returned in the form of the new school principal: John Brunswick. There, he begins to lead a new sort of witch hunt like he did in Salem so that the Club has nowhere to turn but him. They are singled out by offenses that are very them specific so that he can get access to them alone. Faye during this time is fully working with Black John as an unofficial assistant. Deb joined team light as an enforcer.
This becomes particularly evident when Cassie is kidnapped by Witch hunters who are trying to burn and brand her in order to try and find out the location of the rest of the Master Tools (the symbols of a witch leader that have significant power of their own). Deb is there helping to lead the charge to save her. Later when Cassie is sent to Black John, Deb is one of the people who start a school wife fight in order to get her out. Following Cassie’s meeting with John, Faye informs her that she is actually Black John’s father and that she was part of his plan all along. While Cassie’s instinct is to hide, Deborah is there that morning with the statement “I don’t care if her father is Adolf Hitler, what does that have to do with Cassie?!”
Deb is firmly team Cassie for the rest of the book and is involved in the planning for taking down Black John. When the coven votes for a new leader and puts their plan into action, Deb is one of the first people who voices their support for making Cassie the new leader of the Circle. During the fight at a reconstruction via magic no. 13, Deb is one of the first witches who comes in to help Cassie and gives her ability to use with the statement “power of air have I over thee.” With the power of the full Circle at her back, including Faye who has a change of heart, Cassie uses the Circle’s power to destroy Black John’s crystal skull once and for all. When the house collapses, Deb’s arm is broken.
Personality: Deb's personality is not really all that complicated when it comes down to it. She certainly does have a strong one, however! There are certain things that are the basis of it, and the first one is bravery. Deb believes and respects in bravery, especially physical bravery above all else. One of the reasons that Deb rates it so highly is because of the fact that it is something both of her parents lack in multiple ways. The way that they lack it the most is that during the first battle with him, her parents never went out and attacked Black John in order to defend themselves or their daughter's future. Not only that, but Deb displayed a strong aptitude or magic as a child, and her parents were constantly frightened of both magic itself and that their daughter (and the nephew that they were caring for as well) could practice it. Because of her parents fear, Deb embraced it, deciding that nothing would ever scare her.
Few things scare Deb, even when they should. Her bravery is the sort of thing that often end up on just this side of insanity, giving the impression that Deb thinks that she's invincible. Which, honestly, she does. She believes that nothing actually bad can happen to her, because she's stronger than all of that. This is something that Deb showcases in many ways but perhaps the largest one of them is in the way that Deb normally doesn't think: she just does.
She just does in multiple ways; she rides her bike at insane speeds without a helmet, and she'll go chasing down any sort of threat without thinking about it first. If she needs to, she'll face down people with guns, or hop fences after shadows, or really, sit with dying old ladies who are telling stories that alter how she views things forever. While there is a fear there, Deb powers through it, because she is determined to be braver than her parents, even if she isn't thinking about it. It simply is; bravery for Deborah is no longer a choice that she makes or thinks about.
That without thinking about things first thing is often in combination with Deb's second major personality trait: loyalty. Deb often functions as a trusted lieutenant, for Faye who is her best friend and her chosen leader. She backs Faye up in most every circumstance, feeding her friend's fire through her own air. Often, the two of them together are worse than they otherwise would be on their own. However, that doesn't mean that her loyalty is blind by any means. While some people may see it as a change of loyalty when Deb learns about Black John's return, how dangerous he is and how he is manipulating her friend (which he definitely is, in Deb's mind, despite how good Faye normally is with men. John is too good to be taken in by Faye, and he's using her to get close to the circle.) Deb refuses to dance to Faye's tune. Instead, she realizes that it would be far better for all of The Club, Faye included, if she worked against Black John, rather than for him.
Despite the fact that Deb's primary loyalty is to both Faye and Susan, she does feel a great deal of loyalty to the circle, and to having a complete one. Even though she may not agree with Diana, Cassie or Adam (at all, really) if something happened to them, she would go out of her way to either save them or avenge them. This is even before she has the realization that springs from what Cassie's Grandmother tells them about how Black John has attempted to craft them into a perfect docile little circle.
Deb does not ever attempt to live up to people's expectations of her. She is what she is, and she enjoys that. Indeed, she'd fight the idea that Black John has some sort of destiny carved out for them, because she doesn't believe in that sort of thing. More than not believing in destiny (in that sort of way, in the way of a person creating it for someone else) she doesn't believe in the establishment. Part of that I will talk about below with Deb's superiority complex, but another part of it is that she simply doesn't believe that she should be held to such rules or social constrictions, nor does she want to be. Instead, Deborah is very much her own person.
In a small town in New England like New Salem, even when you are a part of the 'ruling class' as it were, there is still social pressures of femininity and the like. Deborah Armstrong laughs at those. Not only does she ride the aforementioned bike, but she also refuses to be penciled into dating some guy. No, even with Susan and Faye hooking up with multiple guys (during the Pizza Man games) Deb instead is the person who moves the cars out of the way, and she basically stays to make sure that things are alright with her friends. Then she just sort of acts as security. I believe that she does this for many reasons, but she's most definitely the one who is not interested in boys in that way. Multiple times, people say that no one would dare try that with Deb, and she's not interested in boys.
Instead, all of her primary male relationships are nothing more than friendships, and those are all have a level of aloofness to them. Deb's earned that in being her tough self. But emotionally, she connects with women, Faye, and oddly enough, Cassie. The two have an almost... date after one of the Pizza Man parties, which is coded in romantic notions. Because of the time when the books were written, I believe the author intended to have Deborah coded as a lesbian, but was afraid to go about doing it entirely.
Another aspect of Deb's personality is that she's more than a little bit prejudiced against those who don't have magic, and thus who aren't inside 'The Club.' Not only that, but even within the Club itself, there are those that Deb considers herself higher than. She's got more than a little bit of a superiority complex. When pushed on things she doesn't agree with, Deb becomes argumentative, and once again isn't at all in awe of leadership. She fights with Diana about Cassie's joining the Club, and then again when she disagrees about the direction that they are going in.
Not only is she prejudiced, but she treats those who she sees as below herself rather badly. Deborah is first introduced into the story through an act of violence, and it's something that continues throughout the novels. She can be more than a bit of a bully, seeing other people's fear as a weakness. As someone who's spent her entire life hating weakness, she will use it as a justification to place people below herself. Coupling the fact that she's a bully, and can be terribly antagonistic, her needing to accept that she's not at the top of the food chain anymore is going to be something that is really interesting to address and work through.
Despite all of that, Deb has a quiet sort of strength around her. It's the sort of strength that doesn't allow her to take any bullshit, and when she's suffering, she can put it aside for the needs of the group. An example of this is when her arm is broken and she writes it off as being nothing.
Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:Powers and abilities: As a witch, Deb is able to call on the four elements and is able to use crystals, herbs and them for spells including scrying. Without the fullness of her Circle (a coven of twelve witches, seven women and five men) her power is most often limited to the element that is Deb's. Air. In some ways, Deb is like a lowkey kind of airbender with Aerokinesis. This is the only element that Deb is able to call upon without some sort of assistance, such as a spell, incantation, candles, herbs or stone. She uses it in mostly small ways: to shove something or someone, to make sure that she doesn't fall off of her bike when she uses it at breakneck speeds and for scaring people. Warping As a magical worker, Deb will find that her large spells (the ability to use air in order to shove heavy things for example, or as a weapon) will be entirely unreliable and will only work approximately half the time and will have the effect of shoving her back an equal distance. Her simple spells will work, but will require greater concentration and focus and magic, tiring her out sooner.
Inventory: 1. Harley.
2. One backpack filled with various crystals and herbs.
3. Leather jacket
4. Book of Shadows.
Writing Samples: 1.
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OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Kim
Player Age: 40
Player Contact:
Other Characters In Game: Alex Reagan
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Deborah Armstrong: Kim
Permissions for Character: Permissons.
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: I like. Uh. Being frightened. The way fear shows us who we are in stressful circumstances through its transformative nature. I like being safely scared. Also, it's easier for me to lose myself in horror content than in other things.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: animal death, eye stuff.
Additional Information:
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May. 9th, 2020 03:32 am ★ Character Basics ♚ CHARACTER NAME: Deborah Armstrong ♚ CANON: The Secret Circle (book canon) ♚ CANONPOINT: End of The Power (book 3) ♚ PB: Jenna Malone ★ First Impressions ♚ VISUAL: From the moment someone looks at Deb, it's clear that she has a bad attitude and that she thinks she's better than you. It's your typical teenage arrogance amped up to eleven. Her arms are normally crossed, or her hands are shoved into her worn leather jacket. ♚ FASHION: Deb is the sort of person who wears things that shock, but it's almost always a uniform of some sort: leather jacket over a cami, jeans, black docs. A lot of earthy crunchy jewelry one wouldn't expect. ♚ DEMEANOUR: Deb is a brat, she is. She thinks she knows better than you and she's always ready to throw down in a fight. ♚ SOUND: Deb's voice is husky and soft, and has a huge new england accent in it. ♚ SCENT: The wind during a storm. ♚ MENTAL INFORMATION: Deb is a witch. ♚ MAGICAL INFORMATION:Deb is part of an extremely powerful coven of witches. She was literally bred for it. Her power is more amplified when she is with other members of her Circle, but her own personal element is air and air manipulation. Basically, she's kind of a low key airbender. ★ OOC/MUN PREFERENCES ♚ CONTACT INFO: ♚ PREFERRED PRONOUNS: She/Her ♚ TIMEZONE: EST. ♚ BACKTAGGING: My life can be kind of crazy, so I tend to backtag forever. ♚ FOURTHWALLING: Sure go ahead! ♚ THREADJACKING: Sure, as long as it's open! ♚ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Deb will only accept it if she knows you well. Otherwise it's an invitation for a fight. ♚ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Here for it, let's talk about it. ♚ RELATIONSHIPS: I am definitely down for shipping, but Deb is a baby closeted lesbian. So it will probably be slow. She doesn't know how to speak queer yet. ★ WARNINGS AND OPT OUTS ♚ WARNINGS: The Secret Circle is a YA series of books that deals with issues of children being bred for power, evil, the persecution of witches and murder. Puritan style. ♚ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS FOR DEB: Don't deny magic is a thing, don't fuck with nature, don't fuck with her friends. ♚ AVOIDED MUN TOPICS: I really can't do eye stuff or animal death. ♚ TO OPT OUT OF ANY OF THESE SUBJECTS OR TO AVOID DEB ALL TOGETHER: Please fill out the form below and reply to this post. All comments are screened. |
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Aug. 8th, 2014 06:19 pmPlayer's Name: Kim
Are you over 16? What do you think?
Characters Played Here: Martha Jones, Ana Lewis, Mae, Julia Bellamy
Character: Deborah Armstrong
Series/Canon: The Secret Circle Books
From When? Just after Cassie is kidnapped by the Witchhunters at Thanksgiving
History: Sort of terrible wiki here and General book wiki.
Personality: Deb's personality is not really all that complicated when it comes down to it. She certainly does have a strong one, however! There are certain things that are the basis of it, and the first one is bravery. Deb believes and respects in bravery, especially physical bravery above all else. One of the reasons that Deb rates it so highly is because of the fact that it is something both of her parents lack in multiple ways. The way that they lack it the most is that during the first battle with him, her parents never went out and attacked Black John in order to defend themselves or their daughter's future. Not only that, but Deb displayed a strong aptitude or magic as a child, and her parents were constantly frightened of both magic itself and that their daughter (and the nephew that they were caring for as well) could practice it. Because of her parents fear, Deb embraced it, deciding that nothing would ever scare her.
Few things scare Deb, even when they should. Her bravery is the sort of thing that often end up on just this side of insanity, giving the impression that Deb thinks that she's invincible. Which, honestly, she does. She believes that nothing actually bad can happen to her, because she's stronger than all of that. This is something that Deb showcases in many ways but perhaps the largest one of them is in the way that Deb normally doesn't think: she just does.
She just does in multiple ways; she rides her bike at insane speeds without a helmet, and she'll go chasing down any sort of threat without thinking about it first. If she needs to, she'll face down people with guns, or hop fences after shadows, or really, sit with dying old ladies who are telling stories that alter how she views things forever. While there is a fear there, Deb powers through it, because she is determined to be braver than her parents, even if she isn't thinking about it. It simply is; bravery for Deborah is no longer a choice that she makes or thinks about.
That without thinking about things first thing is often in combination with Deb's second major personality trait: loyalty. Deb often functions as a trusted lieutenant, for Faye who is her best friend and her chosen leader. She backs Faye up in most every circumstance, feeding her friend's fire through her own air. Often, the two of them together are worse than they otherwise would be on their own. However, that doesn't mean that her loyalty is blind by any means. While some people may see it as a change of loyalty when Deb learns about Black John's return, how dangerous he is and how he is manipulating her friend (which he definitely is, in Deb's mind, despite how good Faye normally is with men. John is too good to be taken in by Faye, and he's using her to get close to the circle.) Deb refuses to dance to Faye's tune. Instead, she realizes that it would be far better for all of The Club, Faye included, if she worked against Black John, rather than for him.
Despite the fact that Deb's primary loyalty is to both Faye and Susan, she does feel a great deal of loyalty to the circle, and to having a complete one. Even though she may not agree with Diana, Cassie or Adam (at all, really) if something happened to them, she would go out of her way to either save them or avenge them. This is even before she has the realization that springs from what Cassie's Grandmother tells them about how Black John has attempted to craft them into a perfect docile little circle.
Deb does not ever attempt to live up to people's expectations of her. She is what she is, and she enjoys that. Indeed, she'd fight the idea that Black John has some sort of destiny carved out for them, because she doesn't believe in that sort of thing. More than not believing in destiny (in that sort of way, in the way of a person creating it for someone else) she doesn't believe in the establishment. Part of that I will talk about below with Deb's superiority complex, but another part of it is that she simply doesn't believe that she should be held to such rules or social constrictions, nor does she want to be. Instead, Deborah is very much her own person.
In a small town in New England like New Salem, even when you are a part of the 'ruling class' as it were, there is still social pressures of femininity and the like. Deborah Armstrong laughs at those. Not only does she ride the aforementioned bike, but she also refuses to be penciled into dating some guy. No, even with Susan and Faye hooking up with multiple guys (during the Pizza Man games) Deb instead is the person who moves the cars out of the way, and she basically stays to make sure that things are alright with her friends. Then she just sort of acts as security. I believe that she does this for many reasons, but she's most definitely the one who is not interested in boys in that way. Multiple times, people say that no one would dare try that with Deb, and she's not interested in boys.
Instead, all of her primary male relationships are nothing more than friendships, and those are all have a level of aloofness to them. Deb's earned that in being her tough self. But emotionally, she connects with women, Faye, and oddly enough, Cassie. The two have an almost... date after one of the Pizza Man parties, which is coded in romantic notions. Because of the time when the books were written, I believe the author intended to have Deborah coded as a lesbian, but was afraid to go about doing it entirely.
Another aspect of Deb's personality is that she's more than a little bit prejudiced against those who don't have magic, and thus who aren't inside 'The Club.' Not only that, but even within the Club itself, there are those that Deb considers herself higher than. She's got more than a little bit of a superiority complex. When pushed on things she doesn't agree with, Deb becomes argumentative, and once again isn't at all in awe of leadership. She fights with Diana about Cassie's joining the Club, and then again when she disagrees about the direction that they are going in.
Not only is she prejudiced, but she treats those who she sees as below herself rather badly. Deborah is first introduced into the story through an act of violence, and it's something that continues throughout the novels. She can be more than a bit of a bully, seeing other people's fear as a weakness. As someone who's spent her entire life hating weakness, she will use it as a justification to place people below herself. Coupling the fact that she's a bully, and can be terribly antagonistic, her being around Chase is going to be a terrible (and awesome) thing.
Despite all of that, Deb has a quiet sort of strength around her. It's the sort of strength that doesn't allow her to take any bullshit, and when she's suffering, she can put it aside for the needs of the group. An example of this is when her arm is broken and she writes it off as being nothing.
Why do you think your character would work in this setting? She's going to be pissed off when she fluxes in, and wouldn't chose to stay past her six months, but she'd be a good fit in game with the other teens in the setting, and would work to learn about other forms of magic and the like.
If your character entered the game unwillingly, tell us how they'll react to the setting and whether you think they might choose to stay.
What will your character do for work? Stables, probably.
Inventory: Leather biker jacket, school bag with stuff in it. Magic.
Samples:
Third-Person Sample: Prose thread.
First-Person Sample: Meme thread.
Are you over 16? What do you think?
Characters Played Here: Martha Jones, Ana Lewis, Mae, Julia Bellamy
Character: Deborah Armstrong
Series/Canon: The Secret Circle Books
From When? Just after Cassie is kidnapped by the Witchhunters at Thanksgiving
History: Sort of terrible wiki here and General book wiki.
Personality: Deb's personality is not really all that complicated when it comes down to it. She certainly does have a strong one, however! There are certain things that are the basis of it, and the first one is bravery. Deb believes and respects in bravery, especially physical bravery above all else. One of the reasons that Deb rates it so highly is because of the fact that it is something both of her parents lack in multiple ways. The way that they lack it the most is that during the first battle with him, her parents never went out and attacked Black John in order to defend themselves or their daughter's future. Not only that, but Deb displayed a strong aptitude or magic as a child, and her parents were constantly frightened of both magic itself and that their daughter (and the nephew that they were caring for as well) could practice it. Because of her parents fear, Deb embraced it, deciding that nothing would ever scare her.
Few things scare Deb, even when they should. Her bravery is the sort of thing that often end up on just this side of insanity, giving the impression that Deb thinks that she's invincible. Which, honestly, she does. She believes that nothing actually bad can happen to her, because she's stronger than all of that. This is something that Deb showcases in many ways but perhaps the largest one of them is in the way that Deb normally doesn't think: she just does.
She just does in multiple ways; she rides her bike at insane speeds without a helmet, and she'll go chasing down any sort of threat without thinking about it first. If she needs to, she'll face down people with guns, or hop fences after shadows, or really, sit with dying old ladies who are telling stories that alter how she views things forever. While there is a fear there, Deb powers through it, because she is determined to be braver than her parents, even if she isn't thinking about it. It simply is; bravery for Deborah is no longer a choice that she makes or thinks about.
That without thinking about things first thing is often in combination with Deb's second major personality trait: loyalty. Deb often functions as a trusted lieutenant, for Faye who is her best friend and her chosen leader. She backs Faye up in most every circumstance, feeding her friend's fire through her own air. Often, the two of them together are worse than they otherwise would be on their own. However, that doesn't mean that her loyalty is blind by any means. While some people may see it as a change of loyalty when Deb learns about Black John's return, how dangerous he is and how he is manipulating her friend (which he definitely is, in Deb's mind, despite how good Faye normally is with men. John is too good to be taken in by Faye, and he's using her to get close to the circle.) Deb refuses to dance to Faye's tune. Instead, she realizes that it would be far better for all of The Club, Faye included, if she worked against Black John, rather than for him.
Despite the fact that Deb's primary loyalty is to both Faye and Susan, she does feel a great deal of loyalty to the circle, and to having a complete one. Even though she may not agree with Diana, Cassie or Adam (at all, really) if something happened to them, she would go out of her way to either save them or avenge them. This is even before she has the realization that springs from what Cassie's Grandmother tells them about how Black John has attempted to craft them into a perfect docile little circle.
Deb does not ever attempt to live up to people's expectations of her. She is what she is, and she enjoys that. Indeed, she'd fight the idea that Black John has some sort of destiny carved out for them, because she doesn't believe in that sort of thing. More than not believing in destiny (in that sort of way, in the way of a person creating it for someone else) she doesn't believe in the establishment. Part of that I will talk about below with Deb's superiority complex, but another part of it is that she simply doesn't believe that she should be held to such rules or social constrictions, nor does she want to be. Instead, Deborah is very much her own person.
In a small town in New England like New Salem, even when you are a part of the 'ruling class' as it were, there is still social pressures of femininity and the like. Deborah Armstrong laughs at those. Not only does she ride the aforementioned bike, but she also refuses to be penciled into dating some guy. No, even with Susan and Faye hooking up with multiple guys (during the Pizza Man games) Deb instead is the person who moves the cars out of the way, and she basically stays to make sure that things are alright with her friends. Then she just sort of acts as security. I believe that she does this for many reasons, but she's most definitely the one who is not interested in boys in that way. Multiple times, people say that no one would dare try that with Deb, and she's not interested in boys.
Instead, all of her primary male relationships are nothing more than friendships, and those are all have a level of aloofness to them. Deb's earned that in being her tough self. But emotionally, she connects with women, Faye, and oddly enough, Cassie. The two have an almost... date after one of the Pizza Man parties, which is coded in romantic notions. Because of the time when the books were written, I believe the author intended to have Deborah coded as a lesbian, but was afraid to go about doing it entirely.
Another aspect of Deb's personality is that she's more than a little bit prejudiced against those who don't have magic, and thus who aren't inside 'The Club.' Not only that, but even within the Club itself, there are those that Deb considers herself higher than. She's got more than a little bit of a superiority complex. When pushed on things she doesn't agree with, Deb becomes argumentative, and once again isn't at all in awe of leadership. She fights with Diana about Cassie's joining the Club, and then again when she disagrees about the direction that they are going in.
Not only is she prejudiced, but she treats those who she sees as below herself rather badly. Deborah is first introduced into the story through an act of violence, and it's something that continues throughout the novels. She can be more than a bit of a bully, seeing other people's fear as a weakness. As someone who's spent her entire life hating weakness, she will use it as a justification to place people below herself. Coupling the fact that she's a bully, and can be terribly antagonistic, her being around Chase is going to be a terrible (and awesome) thing.
Despite all of that, Deb has a quiet sort of strength around her. It's the sort of strength that doesn't allow her to take any bullshit, and when she's suffering, she can put it aside for the needs of the group. An example of this is when her arm is broken and she writes it off as being nothing.
Why do you think your character would work in this setting? She's going to be pissed off when she fluxes in, and wouldn't chose to stay past her six months, but she'd be a good fit in game with the other teens in the setting, and would work to learn about other forms of magic and the like.
If your character entered the game unwillingly, tell us how they'll react to the setting and whether you think they might choose to stay.
What will your character do for work? Stables, probably.
Inventory: Leather biker jacket, school bag with stuff in it. Magic.
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Feb. 23rd, 2014 03:32 pmPlayer Info
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Name: Kim
Age: 33
Contact: aproclivity@ plurk
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Character Name: Deborah Armstrong
Journal: citrines
Age: 17
Fandom: The Secret Circle
Canon Point: Just past Black John having Cassie kidnapped at Thanksgiving
Debt:Class A: 3
Class B: 12
Class C: 240List crimes you’ve created for your character here.
GRAND TOTAL: 29 years
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History: Sort of terrible wiki here and General book wiki.
Personality:Deb's personality is not really all that complicated when it comes down to it. She certainly does have a strong one, however! There are certain things that are the basis of it, and the first one is bravery. Deb believes and respects in bravery, especially physical bravery above all else. One of the reasons that Deb rates it so highly is because of the fact that it is something both of her parents lack in multiple ways. The way that they lack it the most is that during the first battle with him, her parents never went out and attacked Black John in order to defend themselves or their daughter's future. Not only that, but Deb displayed a strong aptitude or magic as a child, and her parents were constantly frightened of both magic itself and that their daughter (and the nephew that they were caring for as well) could practice it. Because of her parents fear, Deb embraced it, deciding that nothing would ever scare her.
Few things scare Deb, even when they should. Her bravery is the sort of thing that often end up on just this side of insanity, giving the impression that Deb thinks that she's invincible. Which, honestly, she does. She believes that nothing actually bad can happen to her, because she's stronger than all of that. This is something that Deb showcases in many ways but perhaps the largest one of them is in the way that Deb normally doesn't think: she just does.
She just does in multiple ways; she rides her bike at insane speeds without a helmet, and she'll go chasing down any sort of threat without thinking about it first. If she needs to, she'll face down people with guns, or hop fences after shadows, or really, sit with dying old ladies who are telling stories that alter how she views things forever. While there is a fear there, Deb powers through it, because she is determined to be braver than her parents, even if she isn't thinking about it. It simply is; bravery for Deborah is no longer a choice that she makes or thinks about.
That without thinking about things first thing is often in combination with Deb's second major personality trait: loyalty. Deb often functions as a trusted lieutenant, for Faye who is her best friend and her chosen leader. She backs Faye up in most every circumstance, feeding her friend's fire through her own air. Often, the two of them together are worse than they otherwise would be on their own. However, that doesn't mean that her loyalty is blind by any means. While some people may see it as a change of loyalty when Deb learns about Black John's return, how dangerous he is and how he is manipulating her friend (which he definitely is, in Deb's mind, despite how good Faye normally is with men. John is too good to be taken in by Faye, and he's using her to get close to the circle.) Deb refuses to dance to Faye's tune. Instead, she realizes that it would be far better for all of The Club, Faye included, if she worked against Black John, rather than for him.
Despite the fact that Deb's primary loyalty is to both Faye and Susan, she does feel a great deal of loyalty to the circle, and to having a complete one. Even though she may not agree with Diana, Cassie or Adam (at all, really) if something happened to them, she would go out of her way to either save them or avenge them. This is even before she has the realization that springs from what Cassie's Grandmother tells them about how Black John has attempted to craft them into a perfect docile little circle.
Deb does not ever attempt to live up to people's expectations of her. She is what she is, and she enjoys that. Indeed, she'd fight the idea that Black John has some sort of destiny carved out for them, because she doesn't believe in that sort of thing. More than not believing in destiny (in that sort of way, in the way of a person creating it for someone else) she doesn't believe in the establishment. Part of that I will talk about below with Deb's superiority complex, but another part of it is that she simply doesn't believe that she should be held to such rules or social constrictions, nor does she want to be. Instead, Deborah is very much her own person.
In a small town in New England like New Salem, even when you are a part of the 'ruling class' as it were, there is still social pressures of femininity and the like. Deborah Armstrong laughs at those. Not only does she ride the aforementioned bike, but she also refuses to be penciled into dating some guy. No, even with Susan and Faye hooking up with multiple guys (during the Pizza Man games) Deb instead is the person who moves the cars out of the way, and she basically stays to make sure that things are alright with her friends. Then she just sort of acts as security. I believe that she does this for many reasons, but she's most definitely the one who is not interested in boys in that way. Multiple times, people say that no one would dare try that with Deb, and she's not interested in boys.
Instead, all of her primary male relationships are nothing more than friendships, and those are all have a level of aloofness to them. Deb's earned that in being her tough self. But emotionally, she connects with women, Faye, and oddly enough, Cassie. The two have an almost... date after one of the Pizza Man parties, which is coded in romantic notions. Because of the time when the books were written, I believe the author intended to have Deborah coded as a lesbian, but was afraid to go about doing it entirely.
Another aspect of Deb's personality is that she's more than a little bit prejudiced against those who don't have magic, and thus who aren't inside 'The Club.' Not only that, but even within the Club itself, there are those that Deb considers herself higher than. She's got more than a little bit of a superiority complex. When pushed on things she doesn't agree with, Deb becomes argumentative, and once again isn't at all in awe of leadership. She fights with Diana about Cassie's joining the Club, and then again when she disagrees about the direction that they are going in.
Not only is she prejudiced, but she treats those who she sees as below herself rather badly. Deborah is first introduced into the story through an act of violence, and it's something that continues throughout the novels. She can be more than a bit of a bully, seeing other people's fear as a weakness. As someone who's spent her entire life hating weakness, she will use it as a justification to place people below herself. Coupling the fact that she's a bully, and can be terribly antagonistic, Not having magic is definitely a triple weakness, as it were and missing her magic is going to be a terrible thing for her in game.
Despite all of that, Deb has a quiet sort of strength around her. It's the sort of strength that doesn't allow her to take any bullshit, and when she's suffering, she can put it aside for the needs of the group. An example of this is when her arm is broken and she writes it off as being nothing.
Powers/Abilities: Deb is a witch, and she's got powers that are aligned with nature. The element that Deb is mostly closely associated with is Air.
Appearance: Deb's got black hair and a fierce look and a feminine face. I'm using Jena Malone from Four Last Songs. Here.
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