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these_are_my_words) wrote2016-05-14 10:44 am
these_are_my_words) wrote2016-05-14 10:44 am
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OOC: Medietas Application
Player Information
Name: Ash
Age: Over 18.
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Characters already in Medietas: Roshanak Parvinzadeh, Annie Odair, Delia of Eldorne
Reserve Link: HERE
Character Basics
Name: The Splendid Angharad
Character Journal: these_are_my_words
Canon: Mad Max: Fury Road
Canon Point: Falling off the War Rig
Age Mid-twenties
Icon: http://v.dreamwidth.org/9595483/2448633
Canon Character Information
Appearance: The Splendid Angharad is a very beautiful and charismatic blue-eyed blonde, with a tall, slender frame, golden skin, and full lips. On the right side of her forehead and her right cheek are two lattices of self-inflicted razor scars, and the same is repeated on the inside of her left arm from wrist almost to elbow. Just below the base of her neck is a brand in the shape of a screaming skull in a half-flaming circle.
History
The Splendid Angharad was born, bred, and raised in the Citadel, the leading settlement in an alliance of three in the post-apocalyptic Australian desert. The Citadel was ruled by Immortan Joe, a former Australian Army colonel turned cult leader/warlord in the 45 years since civilisation finally broke.
As she's referred to as a 'breeder, a prize breeder' and also as 'pure-bred', I'm interpreting this as there are other women who are breeding stock in the Citadel, and Angharad's the daughter of one of them.
She was raised in the cult of Immortan Joe, but the breeder-women in the Citadel received not as much attention as the War Boys (raised to be battle-fodder and foot-soldiers) or the Wretched (the people who lived at the base of the three rocky monoliths of the Citadel). Her sisters, if healthy or mostly so, were turned into breeders once they were old enough, and her brothers were taken away to be War Boys, or trained to do other tasks. I headcanon that the girls too young to have children and the women who weren't the Milking Mothers worked as babysitters, as well as gardeners, cleaners, mechanics as needed for the machinery in the women's areas, makers and repairers of clothing. All typical feminine tasks.
At some point during her childhood, she was branded with the screaming skull that is Immortan Joe's symbol.
In her mid-teens, she was chosen to be one of Immortan Joe's wives, to give him a healthy male heir. This meant no more tasks for the wider Citadel, to live behind a vault door, to wear a toothed chastity belt when Joe wasn't with her. To be treated as a 'treasure' on good days, to be brutally abused on bad, to always be treated as a sexual object rather than a person.
One of her methods of coping was self-harm, using a razor to slice her left arm and then the right side of her face.
It also meant that she finally learned how to read and write beyond the barest minimum. There were hundreds of books in Joe's private harem and Miss Giddy – an elderly woman also known as the History Keeper – educated her. To raise a worthy heir meant to have more culture than the others. (This also is why Angharad learned to play the piano.)
The more she learned, and the more she talked to Miss Giddy, and the more she thought about everything, the more Angharad de-brainwashed herself and realised just how messed up the Citadel's society actually was.
Over then next decade, Angharad became Joe's favourite and was considered to be his main wife. She also gained sister-wives - Capable, Toast the Knowing, the Dag, and Cheedo the Fragile – and considered them her sisters. After years in the same small space, only three or so rooms, they moved similarly, talked similarly, and could sometimes finish each other's sentences. As they all learned from Miss Giddy, the Splendid Angharad also taught them that they were not things, that it was wrong that Immortan Joe had branded them and kept them locked up and forced himself on them.
At some point, she gained the confidence of one of Joe's Imperators, a woman called Furiosa. Furiosa had been captured as a child, and would tell the wives about where she'd been taken from – the land of the Many Mothers, also called the Green Place.
The wives – led by Angharad – begged Furiosa to help them escape. Furiosa, driven by the need to hurt Immortan Joe as much by the need to redeem herself by helping them, agreed. It took a year to plan the escape.
During the planning, Angharad fell pregnant. And stayed pregnant. While this helped with Joe's doting on her (when he was in that mood), it only fuelled her desire to escape even more.
Her escape with her sisters featured car-chases and car-battles, her being shot and her using her pregnant body as a shield to protect Furiosa. To preserve her freedom and that of her sisters, the Splendid Angharad stared down Immortan Joe and climbed over the War-Rig to cut off grappling hooks.
She'll arrive in-game during the escape, during her fall off the War-Rig.
Personality:
For a decade, the Splendid Angharad has been treated as a sex-slave and breeding stock by the leader of the cult she was raised in. She was property, locked up in a vault and locked into a toothed chastity belt. To be unlocked meant to be in the presence of a man who had full authority to hurt her, and he did. And yet, the events in canon are driven in large part because of her hunger for and believe in freedom. In something better than the lot she'd been given.
Like the other women who have hit the headlines after escaping abductions and cults, Angharad is a survivor. She learned how to negotiate her abuser to such an extent that she became his favourite, and she clung to the dignity and sense of self she believed she was entitled to despite everything she was put through. When she and Furiosa argue about killing Nux, Angharad shouts that they agreed to no unnecessary killing – even when trying to escape, Angharad is one who will cling to her principles and negotiate. Temper them to reality, but she'll stand up for her beliefs even to a rescuer.
Given she was raised in a cult focused on death, violence, and fertility, that Angharad is essentially a pacifist is something remarkable. Despite her brainwashing, her questioning mind used all the books and education she received in Joe's vault to put together her own worldview. One where she saw the flaws in both the past and the present (“Who killed them world?” she writes on the walls of the vault, she shouts at Nux the War Boy) and pieced together an alternative worldview and was willing to risk lives to try and achieve it. She also, maybe even more remarkably, shared this worldview with her sister-wives to the point where they believed her. After her death, they repeated her words – we are not things, we are not things – and continued on the path she set for them.
Angharad was the oldest of this batch of wives, and she took on a leadership/big sister role. That they view each other as sisters and have a deep, deep bond with each other probably has a lot to do with Angharad herself. It'd be easy in that kind of situation for them to be played against each other, resent each other, but instead, they are a family unit with the deep love and occasional squabbles a close family has. They can finish each other's sentences sometimes, and tend to move in similar ways, almost reading each other's minds on occasion. Cheedo, the youngest, had more doubts and fear than the others, but even she followed Angharad out of the vault. Of all of them, Angharad's closest to Capable. If Angharad is the revolutionary idealist, Capable is the one to remind her of practicalities.
This is something she needs. She's reckless with her personal safety, throwing herself in harm's way again and again over the course of her canon screentime. Partly, this is because she is a true leader who will defend those around her, but partly it's because she has little regard for heeding physical costs to herself in the aim of getting her objective completed. If this objective is freedom, she'll use herself as a shield or climb out of a speeding truck with a pair of boltcutters. If this objective is mental survival, she'll slice up her skin and use the pain to focus. That self-harm also means that she was harming Joe's property in a way he couldn't stop, a part of her enjoyed.
Her recklessness is also notable in how heavily pregnant she is. There's no hesitation in her movements when action is called for, both because this is the way she is but it also speaks of her sometimes disconnected and often complicated relationship to her unborn child. Her child is her main purpose, and has been conceived in rape by a man Angharad has long come to despise. Her pregnancy makes her feel exhausted, uncomfortable, and yet the child is innocent of the crimes of its father and is a part of her as well. She is determined that if a boy, her son will not be a warlord, that if a girl, she will not be an asset good for nothing but birthing children, but she hasn't yet come to terms that she, herself, will be a mum to an actual person. Her complicated feelings are something I want to explore in-game, with her dealing with the reality of her son and coming to like him as well as well as her natural protectiveness for the defenceless.
Powers/Abilities/Talents: High degree of resistance to illness, mutation and the effects of her toxic wasteland of a home. Incredible charisma.
Note: The Splendid Angharad will be arriving 32 weeks pregnant with a son by her warlord-husband, Immortan Joe. The boy will be born either on arrival day or the next day, and will be spending a few weeks in the clinic incubator.
What 4 items would you like your character too have with them on the island during their stay?
a packet of sheet music | box set of Banjo Paterson's complete work | the Wives' bag of personal effects | boltcutter
Samples - Can be linked
First Person: HERE - with Obi-Wan.
Third Person: HERE - TDM threads
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun. L a k e
Name: Ash
Age: Over 18.
Contact:
Characters already in Medietas: Roshanak Parvinzadeh, Annie Odair, Delia of Eldorne
Reserve Link: HERE
Character Basics
Name: The Splendid Angharad
Character Journal: these_are_my_words
Canon: Mad Max: Fury Road
Canon Point: Falling off the War Rig
Age Mid-twenties
Icon: http://v.dreamwidth.org/9595483/2448633
Canon Character Information
Appearance: The Splendid Angharad is a very beautiful and charismatic blue-eyed blonde, with a tall, slender frame, golden skin, and full lips. On the right side of her forehead and her right cheek are two lattices of self-inflicted razor scars, and the same is repeated on the inside of her left arm from wrist almost to elbow. Just below the base of her neck is a brand in the shape of a screaming skull in a half-flaming circle.
History
Personality:
For a decade, the Splendid Angharad has been treated as a sex-slave and breeding stock by the leader of the cult she was raised in. She was property, locked up in a vault and locked into a toothed chastity belt. To be unlocked meant to be in the presence of a man who had full authority to hurt her, and he did. And yet, the events in canon are driven in large part because of her hunger for and believe in freedom. In something better than the lot she'd been given.
Like the other women who have hit the headlines after escaping abductions and cults, Angharad is a survivor. She learned how to negotiate her abuser to such an extent that she became his favourite, and she clung to the dignity and sense of self she believed she was entitled to despite everything she was put through. When she and Furiosa argue about killing Nux, Angharad shouts that they agreed to no unnecessary killing – even when trying to escape, Angharad is one who will cling to her principles and negotiate. Temper them to reality, but she'll stand up for her beliefs even to a rescuer.
Given she was raised in a cult focused on death, violence, and fertility, that Angharad is essentially a pacifist is something remarkable. Despite her brainwashing, her questioning mind used all the books and education she received in Joe's vault to put together her own worldview. One where she saw the flaws in both the past and the present (“Who killed them world?” she writes on the walls of the vault, she shouts at Nux the War Boy) and pieced together an alternative worldview and was willing to risk lives to try and achieve it. She also, maybe even more remarkably, shared this worldview with her sister-wives to the point where they believed her. After her death, they repeated her words – we are not things, we are not things – and continued on the path she set for them.
Angharad was the oldest of this batch of wives, and she took on a leadership/big sister role. That they view each other as sisters and have a deep, deep bond with each other probably has a lot to do with Angharad herself. It'd be easy in that kind of situation for them to be played against each other, resent each other, but instead, they are a family unit with the deep love and occasional squabbles a close family has. They can finish each other's sentences sometimes, and tend to move in similar ways, almost reading each other's minds on occasion. Cheedo, the youngest, had more doubts and fear than the others, but even she followed Angharad out of the vault. Of all of them, Angharad's closest to Capable. If Angharad is the revolutionary idealist, Capable is the one to remind her of practicalities.
This is something she needs. She's reckless with her personal safety, throwing herself in harm's way again and again over the course of her canon screentime. Partly, this is because she is a true leader who will defend those around her, but partly it's because she has little regard for heeding physical costs to herself in the aim of getting her objective completed. If this objective is freedom, she'll use herself as a shield or climb out of a speeding truck with a pair of boltcutters. If this objective is mental survival, she'll slice up her skin and use the pain to focus. That self-harm also means that she was harming Joe's property in a way he couldn't stop, a part of her enjoyed.
Her recklessness is also notable in how heavily pregnant she is. There's no hesitation in her movements when action is called for, both because this is the way she is but it also speaks of her sometimes disconnected and often complicated relationship to her unborn child. Her child is her main purpose, and has been conceived in rape by a man Angharad has long come to despise. Her pregnancy makes her feel exhausted, uncomfortable, and yet the child is innocent of the crimes of its father and is a part of her as well. She is determined that if a boy, her son will not be a warlord, that if a girl, she will not be an asset good for nothing but birthing children, but she hasn't yet come to terms that she, herself, will be a mum to an actual person. Her complicated feelings are something I want to explore in-game, with her dealing with the reality of her son and coming to like him as well as well as her natural protectiveness for the defenceless.
Powers/Abilities/Talents: High degree of resistance to illness, mutation and the effects of her toxic wasteland of a home. Incredible charisma.
Note: The Splendid Angharad will be arriving 32 weeks pregnant with a son by her warlord-husband, Immortan Joe. The boy will be born either on arrival day or the next day, and will be spending a few weeks in the clinic incubator.
What 4 items would you like your character too have with them on the island during their stay?
a packet of sheet music | box set of Banjo Paterson's complete work | the Wives' bag of personal effects | boltcutter
Samples - Can be linked
First Person: HERE - with Obi-Wan.
Third Person: HERE - TDM threads
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun. L a k e