butterouttacream | OOC: Infoposting Like A Champ, Summer I 2012 (Reply)

Hay thar, bandwagon. I'll be boarding you now, kthx.

First, my newbie:

Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (Catch Me If You Can),

catchmeifyoucan

Is 14 years old and from New Rochelle, New York sometime in the sixties
Is a rising freshman
Will grow up to be a con man and run across New York forging checks and impersonating a doctor and a PanAm pilot and generally aggravating FBI Agent Carl Hanratty (that link's from last year's Tony awards, btw, and it's fucking amazing and one of my favorite Norbert Leo Butz numbers and catch me I'm swooning) before ultimately joining the FBI as a consultant
No, in a totally different way from this guy
Loves school, like a dork
Is genuinely friendly and adorable to everyone
Dresses like he has to wear a uniform even when he doesn't...
...because his dad has taught him that the clothes make the man...
...and Frank is kind of a hero-worshipper where his dad is concerned.
Because really his dad is kind of awesome, with the way he married a hot French woman and Knows Everything About Everything
(Except how to get out of trouble with the IRS, not that Frank knows about that)
So Frank will parrot stuff his dad says a lot
Speaks fluent French (and spends some time in canon impersonating a French teacher just for shits and giggles)
Reads comic books, loves the ladies, and thinks he's super sophisticated because he's from New York. State. He is wrong.
Is curious like a fourteen-year-old, and will probably ask all sorts of weird personal questions if you're clearly from a vastly different background from him. It's a thing he does.
Has most of his icons from Gossip Girl, because somehow people struggle iconning live theater, how about that
Is kind of a schemer when there's something he wants
Though usually things come naturally to him because he's lucky as hell
And brilliant
And adorable, shut up Aaron Tveit is awesome
Sometimes breaks the fourth wall, but not a ton

If you've met a version of him before, which as far as I know would just have been this guy, this Frank is different in that he looks different and is probably goofier and sillier and tinier and idk I don't really remember the movie that well. But he's fine to bring up to him, inasmuch as the other Frank went around pulling shenanigans all weekend and that's something this guy can see himself doing.

On the meta level... Frank Abagnale is indeed a real guy, so his whole life story is technically public knowledge to anyone who might theoretically have heard of him or the fictionalized movie of his life story, Find Me If You're Able. However, I would really really prefer that people not tell Frank this or hint about it or anything, because part of what makes his canon so much fun is that he basically just trips into being a con artist, and I don't want to spoil the element of surprise for him. So seriously, please don't do it. Or else you will have a sad teacup on your hands.

If you're curious... Well, first off, the show is starting a national tour this fall, so EVERYONE GO SEE IT ~~except the Canadians and Europeans who have an excuse~~ ~~NO EVERYONE~~, but in the meantime, I happen to have a DVD of one of the performances which I'd be glad to upload if anyone's interested! Lemme know and I can get on that. Also, just to get you hooked, there's a decent trailer for it here, which pieces together a bunch of my favorite numbers and yeah I'm a nerd.

And the non-newbies!

Christopher "Topher" Brink (Dollhouse),

dollpocalypse

"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."

Is 16 years old and from Los Angeles, California
Is a rising junior
Is a genius, which he has no shame about informing you at every possible opportunity
Is kinda-sorta-possibly starting to date selfhelphero
Is capable of advanced hacking and computer programming, including the super-secret spy robots he cranks out for lockestheway
Always wears a bracelet on his left wrist that says "Kill your idols"
Has a tattoo on his left ankle that reads ~~meta for~~ "NCC-1701," the serial number of the ship from Galaxy Quest
Chugs Mountain Dew like it's the last sugary beverage on earth
Works at Stark Industries on Saturdays
Has a laundry list of phobias, including: rats and other rodents, the dark (especially when he's already stressed), wide open spaces (ditto), ladyparts, and being rejected by the friends he's built up since coming here
Is an enormous nerd. He's also way too curious for his own good, which means poking around the internet for people's personal information. Let me know if you want him to dig something up on your character and I'll be happy to work something out!
Has... never really had friends before, and doesn't always know exactly how to go about being a friend
When there are people who can stand to be around him? He clings. A lot.
Pisses most people off. Will probably piss your character off. If he reaches a point of offending you on an OOC basis, please let me know so I can dial him back.
Will eventually pretty much almost end the world. You can totally see why he gets the "genius" title, right? No? Huh.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Angel),

wesleynotponcy

"As a point of courtesy, I like to get to know my opponents before I engage them in mortal combat. Do, ah, do you have any hobbies?"

Is 19 years old and from Southampton, England
Is an alum of the class of 2012, whut whuuut
Trained to be a Watcher, or a guardian of sorts to the superpowered young women known as Vampire Slayers whose job it is to wipe out vampires and demons
Was fired from that after failing miserably
Is heading back to LA to help some friends out with demon-hunting like five seconds after graduation
Is a total sharpshooter with a gun, and passable with swords and knives and the like
Speaks ALL THE LANGUAGES. Dead, demonic, whatever you want. He's got this.
Is a huge nerd who sometimes gets it into his head that he's a badass
Will hate me with a burning passion by the end of this year, oh yes
Pretty much always wants to help with whatever might be going on. Isn't always great at it. Oops.
Can has plot. Rly. Sooooon.

And finally, me!

Michelle, @callsyapastries

I'm 19, 4'11, and from New York but currently going to school outside Chicago.
I'm a sorority girl. Mock at will.
I joined FH almost two years ago, jfc.
I'm a college freshman and have way too much time on my hands.
I have no idea what people from the sixties are actually supposed to talk like, because my parents were barely even alive then, let alone me. So hopefully I won't fuck that up.
I am attached to my Blackberry. I will phone-ping the crap out of you and you will like it.
Looks like my current type is: adorable dorky boys who grow up to accidentally do horrible things. That sounds about right.
I'm terrified of cats. Terrified.
I spend a lot of time tweeting about my newest Mass Effect playthrough. Sorry I'm not sorry.
I have an unreasonable amount of love for my PBs. I'm told that my face when I heard Alexis Denisof is gonna be in The Avengers was a little bit priceless.
Yeah, my character list went from maxed-out to tiny. Woe. :(