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cherrybomb
AIM/Plurk: kamikazescot @ plurk
Email: allikateor@gmail.com
Other characters: Owen, Chauves, Norman, Spike!
Character name: Harvey Dent
Age: Late 30s to early 40s
Canon: DC (specifically the Christopher Nolan film series)
Canon point: After being knocked out, tied up, and stuck in a warehouse full of explosives.
Totem: His double headed coin. During a fissure, the grooves on the edges will become smooth and one of the heads sides will become a tails.
Weapons: n/a
Abilities/powers: Harvey has a mean right cross...and that's about it. Aside from that, he's a normal human, vulnerable to stabbity killy things like guns, knives, acid and fire. The latter two weaknesses will definitely come into play in the dream cause I'm a douchebag.
Location: Arkham Asylum. Despite the fact that Harvey never goes to Arkham in the film, I think that as District Attorney, he’s been to Arkham enough/it’s important enough to him that it can count as a location (plus, I want it to weird out the game-I can come up with a different location if y’all want.) Arkham Asylum is a large, spacious building that really looks like it could benefit from a makeover. The outside is drab, with a large ‘Arkham Asylum’ sign as the only marker of the building’s identity. The building is large, with multiple floors, though only the first floor will be accessible for the dreamers. Inside, the halls are narrow and cramped and give the building the appearance that it really could use a dash of paint and some more budget. Accessible to the dreamers will be a few rooms (consisting of a cheap bed, chair and table), a doctor’s office (though NOT Jonathan Crane’s-we don’t want any more crazydrugs in Limbo) as well as a white, sterile meeting room of sorts.
Personality:
People's first impression of Harvey Dent is a carefully controlled image. The public sees Harvey Dent as a man who rolls with the punches, who's on a crusade to clean up Gotham, who’s Apollo, who’s Gotham’s White Knight, who’s just super great. The public sees Harvey Dent as a paragon, which is exploited by Batman after Harvey goes crazy and dies and is embraced by the public so much that there's a Harvey Dent Day in The Dark Knight Rises (oh how I wish I was kidding). The Harvey Dent most people in Gotham know is that controlled image of Gotham's White Knight, occasionally joking around with the newspapers and reporters but who is still bound and determined to set things right and clean up the city. Because of this, a fair amount of Harvey’s actions revolve around that controlled image or are reflections of it.
All things considered, Harvey is a pretty okay guy. He jokes around with Rachel and with the press. Harvey responds to tough situations with humor-partially to relieve stress and partly to convince others that really, he’s fine. After a tense situation where he’s saved by Batman and almost killed by the Joker, he waves away reporters by saying that he “trusted Batman to do the right thing: saving my ass.” He often attempts to relieve tense situations with a flip of his double-headed coin, an attitude which seems flippant to everybody else (since only Harvey knows the coin is two-headed.) He’ll definitely react to weird events in the dream with humor and levity, if only to try and calm everyone down.
Harvey is very brash and headstrong. If he wants something, he’ll go straight forward and get it, by any means necessary. His proposal to Rachel reflects this: he just showed her a ring and pretty much proposed, bluntly and straight-forward. This means that Harvey can be fairly aggressive. He gets angry easily, and will go to slightly extreme measures to get what he wants-like threatening to shoot one of the Joker's goons to figure out just what his plan was. Harvey's brash nature means that he often acts impulsively, such as punching out a man who pulled a gun on him in court. His aggressive side is usually pushed down and only comes out in times of a crisis.
He's got some issues with duality (the guy who becomes Two-Face having duality issues WHO'DVE THOUGHT THAT.) Harvey sees the world as very black and white. To him, "you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." People are good or bad-he's horrible at this 'middle ground' concept. He tolerates and trusts Batman, a vigilante who operates outside the law, because he believes Batman is good and will operate for the good of the city. He villainizes cops like Ramirez who, despite noble intentions, are corrupt and betray the department. Later in the film post accident, his duality issues get dropkicked into high gear, getting to the point where Harvey is willing to kill a child to punish Gordon, because at that point in his mind, Jim Gordon is fully in the bad camp.
His determination shows itself in various ways, one of which being no social life and limited people skills-which leads to Harvey feeling pretty damn awkward in large groups. He feels natural behind his desk or in a courtroom. He could easily talk to the media, but not to rich people at a party. He can’t schmooze. He hides his uncomfortableness behind smiles and trying to be good natured. He isn't used to free time, which is gonna mess him up GOOD in the dream. Harvey Dent is a man with a crusade (and this is true both pre and post mental breakdown). In the dream, he'll flounder around a bit before trying to find something to do, whether it be worming his way onto the police force or trying to start a justice system for the dream.
He’s an idealist with a one track mind (which is a REALLY shitty combination.) Harvey places all his time and effort on weeding out corrupt cops from the police force, something which alienates him from almost everybody. He’s an idealist, believing that weeding out corrupt cops and kicking the mob out of Gotham can actually be done and ignoring the fact that his office is probably just as corrupt as the cops. Because of his one-track mind, he can be pretty damn difficult to work with at times (and will probably end up driving all the police officers insane since just because this is a dream, that doesn’t mean we should compromise our ideals. >( )
Finally, a paragraph needs to be said about Rachel Dawes, Harvey’s coworker and fiancee. Rachel is to Christine Daae as Harvey is to Raoul de Chagney. He loves her. He really loves her so much. Almost all of his actions in the film that don’t revolve around his career revolve around her, and his want to protect her. When she’s in danger, he acts rashly and doesn’t think straight-such as visibly threatening one of the Joker’s thugs. Her death later in the film completely shatters him and pretty much drives him insane (Harvey already doesn’t react well to trauma, adding Rachel into the trauma mix just makes things worse.) He’ll miss her a lot in the dream, and probably use work to help fill that void.
History: Not that much is known about Harvey Dent’s past. According to the movie novelization, he was regularly abused as a child by his father, an ex-cop (which can help explain his bound and determined crusade to weed out the corrupt cops in GPD.) Beatings were frequent and often determined by a flip of his father’s coin (the two-headed one that Harvey now uses.) I’ll use this in his history because sure, why not, it fits. He went to university (probably in Gotham) and rose through the ranks of the court system, eventually becoming District Attorney, after the previous one was killed by Ra’s al Ghul’s goons. It can be assumed that he met Rachel Dawes there and, after some shameless flirting and a coin flip, the two started to date.
And then The Dark Knight happens and Harvey’s life goes to shit.
1st person sample: [The voice clicks on and, after a pause, Harvey starts talking.] So, Victorian England was surprisingly fun. Granted, I wish the circumstances were a bit better [aka 'man I wish John didn't go nuts'] but you can't really pick and choose with this place, can you. You just take what you get.
All that aside, I hear that one of our resident psychos is in prison. [aka, he badgered a cop enough until they told him what was up.] Which has got me thinking: I hate to be that guy, but what exactly are our protocols for imprisonment? Because if we don’t have hard and solid rules, I’d like to help out in developing them. And before you ask my credentials, I was DA in Gotham, for Christ's sake. I know about making the best out of a horrible situation.
Journal:
cherrybombAIM/Plurk: kamikazescot @ plurk
Email: allikateor@gmail.com
Other characters: Owen, Chauves, Norman, Spike!
Character name: Harvey Dent
Age: Late 30s to early 40s
Canon: DC (specifically the Christopher Nolan film series)
Canon point: After being knocked out, tied up, and stuck in a warehouse full of explosives.
Totem: His double headed coin. During a fissure, the grooves on the edges will become smooth and one of the heads sides will become a tails.
Weapons: n/a
Abilities/powers: Harvey has a mean right cross...and that's about it. Aside from that, he's a normal human, vulnerable to stabbity killy things like guns, knives, acid and fire. The latter two weaknesses will definitely come into play in the dream cause I'm a douchebag.
Location: Arkham Asylum. Despite the fact that Harvey never goes to Arkham in the film, I think that as District Attorney, he’s been to Arkham enough/it’s important enough to him that it can count as a location (plus, I want it to weird out the game-I can come up with a different location if y’all want.) Arkham Asylum is a large, spacious building that really looks like it could benefit from a makeover. The outside is drab, with a large ‘Arkham Asylum’ sign as the only marker of the building’s identity. The building is large, with multiple floors, though only the first floor will be accessible for the dreamers. Inside, the halls are narrow and cramped and give the building the appearance that it really could use a dash of paint and some more budget. Accessible to the dreamers will be a few rooms (consisting of a cheap bed, chair and table), a doctor’s office (though NOT Jonathan Crane’s-we don’t want any more crazydrugs in Limbo) as well as a white, sterile meeting room of sorts.
Personality:
People's first impression of Harvey Dent is a carefully controlled image. The public sees Harvey Dent as a man who rolls with the punches, who's on a crusade to clean up Gotham, who’s Apollo, who’s Gotham’s White Knight, who’s just super great. The public sees Harvey Dent as a paragon, which is exploited by Batman after Harvey goes crazy and dies and is embraced by the public so much that there's a Harvey Dent Day in The Dark Knight Rises (oh how I wish I was kidding). The Harvey Dent most people in Gotham know is that controlled image of Gotham's White Knight, occasionally joking around with the newspapers and reporters but who is still bound and determined to set things right and clean up the city. Because of this, a fair amount of Harvey’s actions revolve around that controlled image or are reflections of it.
All things considered, Harvey is a pretty okay guy. He jokes around with Rachel and with the press. Harvey responds to tough situations with humor-partially to relieve stress and partly to convince others that really, he’s fine. After a tense situation where he’s saved by Batman and almost killed by the Joker, he waves away reporters by saying that he “trusted Batman to do the right thing: saving my ass.” He often attempts to relieve tense situations with a flip of his double-headed coin, an attitude which seems flippant to everybody else (since only Harvey knows the coin is two-headed.) He’ll definitely react to weird events in the dream with humor and levity, if only to try and calm everyone down.
Harvey is very brash and headstrong. If he wants something, he’ll go straight forward and get it, by any means necessary. His proposal to Rachel reflects this: he just showed her a ring and pretty much proposed, bluntly and straight-forward. This means that Harvey can be fairly aggressive. He gets angry easily, and will go to slightly extreme measures to get what he wants-like threatening to shoot one of the Joker's goons to figure out just what his plan was. Harvey's brash nature means that he often acts impulsively, such as punching out a man who pulled a gun on him in court. His aggressive side is usually pushed down and only comes out in times of a crisis.
He's got some issues with duality (the guy who becomes Two-Face having duality issues WHO'DVE THOUGHT THAT.) Harvey sees the world as very black and white. To him, "you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." People are good or bad-he's horrible at this 'middle ground' concept. He tolerates and trusts Batman, a vigilante who operates outside the law, because he believes Batman is good and will operate for the good of the city. He villainizes cops like Ramirez who, despite noble intentions, are corrupt and betray the department. Later in the film post accident, his duality issues get dropkicked into high gear, getting to the point where Harvey is willing to kill a child to punish Gordon, because at that point in his mind, Jim Gordon is fully in the bad camp.
His determination shows itself in various ways, one of which being no social life and limited people skills-which leads to Harvey feeling pretty damn awkward in large groups. He feels natural behind his desk or in a courtroom. He could easily talk to the media, but not to rich people at a party. He can’t schmooze. He hides his uncomfortableness behind smiles and trying to be good natured. He isn't used to free time, which is gonna mess him up GOOD in the dream. Harvey Dent is a man with a crusade (and this is true both pre and post mental breakdown). In the dream, he'll flounder around a bit before trying to find something to do, whether it be worming his way onto the police force or trying to start a justice system for the dream.
He’s an idealist with a one track mind (which is a REALLY shitty combination.) Harvey places all his time and effort on weeding out corrupt cops from the police force, something which alienates him from almost everybody. He’s an idealist, believing that weeding out corrupt cops and kicking the mob out of Gotham can actually be done and ignoring the fact that his office is probably just as corrupt as the cops. Because of his one-track mind, he can be pretty damn difficult to work with at times (and will probably end up driving all the police officers insane since just because this is a dream, that doesn’t mean we should compromise our ideals. >( )
Finally, a paragraph needs to be said about Rachel Dawes, Harvey’s coworker and fiancee. Rachel is to Christine Daae as Harvey is to Raoul de Chagney. He loves her. He really loves her so much. Almost all of his actions in the film that don’t revolve around his career revolve around her, and his want to protect her. When she’s in danger, he acts rashly and doesn’t think straight-such as visibly threatening one of the Joker’s thugs. Her death later in the film completely shatters him and pretty much drives him insane (Harvey already doesn’t react well to trauma, adding Rachel into the trauma mix just makes things worse.) He’ll miss her a lot in the dream, and probably use work to help fill that void.
History: Not that much is known about Harvey Dent’s past. According to the movie novelization, he was regularly abused as a child by his father, an ex-cop (which can help explain his bound and determined crusade to weed out the corrupt cops in GPD.) Beatings were frequent and often determined by a flip of his father’s coin (the two-headed one that Harvey now uses.) I’ll use this in his history because sure, why not, it fits. He went to university (probably in Gotham) and rose through the ranks of the court system, eventually becoming District Attorney, after the previous one was killed by Ra’s al Ghul’s goons. It can be assumed that he met Rachel Dawes there and, after some shameless flirting and a coin flip, the two started to date.
And then The Dark Knight happens and Harvey’s life goes to shit.
1st person sample: [The voice clicks on and, after a pause, Harvey starts talking.] So, Victorian England was surprisingly fun. Granted, I wish the circumstances were a bit better [aka 'man I wish John didn't go nuts'] but you can't really pick and choose with this place, can you. You just take what you get.
All that aside, I hear that one of our resident psychos is in prison. [aka, he badgered a cop enough until they told him what was up.] Which has got me thinking: I hate to be that guy, but what exactly are our protocols for imprisonment? Because if we don’t have hard and solid rules, I’d like to help out in developing them. And before you ask my credentials, I was DA in Gotham, for Christ's sake. I know about making the best out of a horrible situation.