App to Scorched

[thejakeisalie]

Out of Character Information

player name: Alex
player livejournal: tarnera
playing here: Ginko
where did you find us? From a friend
are you 16 years of age or older?: Yes

In Character Information

character name: Barnaby Brooks Jr. (also called Bunny)
Fandom: Tiger & Bunny
Timeline: The end of the series, after the one-year time jump.
character's age: 26

powers, skills, pets and equipment:

Powers:
Barnaby is a NEXT--basically a human with powers of some kind. His power is known as the Hundred Power. When active, it increases every physical attribute by a hundredfold--strength, speed, hearing, and even (only somewhat effective) healing have all been demonstrated in the show. However, this power can only stay active for five minutes, and then it can’t be activated for an hour.

However, in Scorched I’d like him to lose this power. If possible, I’d like him to do it over the course of two or three months, mimicking something that happened to his partner in canon--first his power will surge, and he will be, very briefly, even more powerful... and then the amount of time his powers can stay active will start rapidly dwindling. Depending on the amount of time I am working with, he may lose more time when he uses his powers.

I would like to replace his powers with the ability to summon energy shields, a power held by a different character in his canon. He can summon them to defend himself, of course; but as he saw them being used offensively to do damage, by forcibly projecting the shield away from the summoner’s body, he will probably master that skill first. The shields can also vary in size, depending on Barnaby’s will. They’re not invulnerable; a good, solid blow could probably shatter them.

Skills:
Charisma, charm, getting his own way when he wants it. Good control over his feelings and exactly what he wants people to see of his ‘real’ self. Moderate cooking abilities.

Pets:
None.

Equipment:
Barnaby has a suit that he wears while doing his hero-ing work. Along with correcting his vision so he doesn’t have to wear glasses when he’s working, it also has diagnostic abilities, and a timer so he knows when his power is about to run out. The foot he kicks with can also transform into a... bigger foot. Because their mechanic is weird/thinks it’s cool. Idek.

canon history: His earliest memories are of visiting his parents in their lab, where they worked on researching robotics. They were constructing them to help save people.

Unfortunately, when Barnaby was four they were shot and killed in front of him. He doesn’t remember much about it (at least at first), just the person standing over their bodies with a gun, a tattoo of a snake devouring its own tail with a blade thrust through it on the person’s hand, and everything burning. He remembers being taken in by Albert Maverick, a friend of the family, at a young age, shortly after his family was killed. However, it is completely unknown how much of Barnaby’s memories are real and how much are fabricated, altered, or tweaked in some fashion, due to Maverick’s NEXT power of memory manipulation (a twist that isn’t revealed until the end of the series). It is fairly certain that Barnaby spent some of his childhood in an orphanage before Maverick took him in and enrolled him in the Hero Academy, where he quickly became a favorite. Loved by all (he even had his own fanclub who all wore glasses like his), he excelled in his studies and was basically a model student.

Since a young age (or so he remembers) life has pretty much been an all-consuming quest for revenge. Barring the times he had to be in school or studying, Barnaby spent all his time researching the strange tattoo he’d seen, the only thing he remembered of his parents’ killer, and searching for leads. Maverick helped him and supported him in his quest, but Barnaby did all the legwork (as far as the viewer can tell). Over the course of 20 years, Barnaby amassed quite a bit of information about the organization known as Ouroboros, based on a single piece of information—the tattoo he remembers seeing, of a snake swallowing its own tail, on the back of the murderer’s hand.

We first meet Barnaby when he’s introduced as a new Hero, in a press release (that’s also supposed to pick the ‘King of Heroes,’ based on number of points earned in a single season of Hero TV). Later, we learn that he’s been teamed up with another Hero in the first-ever Superhero Team, calculated to bring in viewers. He and his partner, Kaburagi T. Kotetsu, do not get along at all at first. Barnaby is someone who carefully plots out a plan of attack, including how to make himself look the best/gain the most points; Kotetsu is the opposite of him in every way.

Shortly after they team up a mysterious vigilante calling himself Lunatic shows up and starts killing convicted criminals and murderers in an apparently misguided sense of justice. In dealing with this new figure, Barnaby and Kotetsu learn to start cooperating and getting along a little better, and Barnaby starts opening up about his past to Kotetsu. The fact that Kotetsu takes a shot meant for Barnaby is the first thing that really shows Barnaby he can trust Kotetsu, and is the first thing that really starts off the slow build of trust and friendship between them.

During all this, Barnaby’s memories of his parents’ murder are slowly getting more clear. Eventually he remembers the murderer’s face--just in time for that people outside the prison where that person, Jake Martinez, is being held to manage a jailbreak by holding the city hostage. Once he’s free, Barnaby and Kotetsu go after him--only for Kotetsu to get in Barnaby’s way, fearing he’s going to go out of control and attack a pretend Jake, thereby shattering the burgeoning trust between the two of them. Jake starts a tournament of sorts, where he fights the heroes one-on-one, and beats each hero with ease. Kotetsu gets beaten badly, and Barnaby doesn’t seem to care.

During Barnaby’s fight, he’s losing badly with Jake simply toying with him until Kotetsu breaks out of the hospital with a plan. It works (mostly because he lies to Barnaby about what the real plan is, as Jake is psychic) and the trust and partnership between them seems to be restored, at least in part. Jake is killed and his partner, Kriem, ends up in a coma, so there’s no way to know the reason for why Jake killed Barnaby’s parents.

We skip ahead ten months, where Barnaby is the new King of Heroes and getting lots of publicity. He and Kotetsu are getting along better than ever (even if Kotetsu is frustrated by the lack of hero work and the large number of interviews and photoshoots), and Barnaby seems to be genuinely enjoying his life.

There is a small incident with a highly advanced fighting robot, which Sky High, another hero, helps take care of, and Barnaby is dismayed to learn that the robot was developed with his parents’ research. But the destruction of the robot seems to be the end of it.

Kotetsu goes on a paid vacation to his home town, and while he’s gone Kriem wakes up from her coma. Kotetsu comes back in time to accompany Barnaby when he goes to visit her in the hospital, and she reveals that Jake was not the one who killed Barnaby’s parents, as he was busy kidnapping her on that day.

Barnaby refuses to believe it at first, but then when proof is shown that Jake couldn’t be the murderer (no tattoo on his hand), his memories of the event twist and change, showing different faces--that of his housekeeper, of Maverick, of people he’s known in the past... eventually it changes to Kotetsu’s face, and finally his own. In short, he has a breakdown, both mental and emotional. Kotetsu vows to help him figure out what’s wrong, and to do that they go to the mall that Barnaby had visited as a child just before his parents were killed, in the hopes of jogging some new memories.

He has another breakdown at the mall, and ends up fainting. When he wakes up and goes to find his partner, he learns from an overheard phone call that Kotetsu is planning on leaving. Correctly surmising that Kotetsu was only trying to help him so it would be easier for the other man to quit, and because his partner refuses to tell him what’s really wrong, he says some very hurtful things and leaves, fleeing to the only person he thinks can help him--Maverick.

However, Barnaby’s housekeeper discovers a photograph that prove Barnaby’s memories are a lie, and in reaction to this news Maverick reveals that he is the one that killed Barnaby’s parents--and that he is a NEXT who can change the memories of others. He then proceeds to change everyone’s memories to wipe Kotetsu out completely, replacing him with a faceless, nameless ‘Wild Tiger.’ Kotetsu is then implicated for killing Barnaby’s housekeeper, who was also really killed by Maverick. Eventually that’s resolved (with the help of Kotetsu’s child and the Pain of Friendship), and everyone goes after Maverick.

There is an altercation with a robot who is impersonating Wild Tiger, developed by the same robotics engineer as before, and Kotetsu is apparently killed--by his partner, no less, in the process of taking down the robot. The truth about why Kotetsu wanted to quit comes out (he’s losing his powers) and after they manage to defeat the bad guys and Kotetsu ‘comes back to life,’ both Kotetsu and Barnaby decide to quit being Heroes. Kotetsu because of his powers, Barnaby because he doesn’t want to be a Hero without his partner.

Skipping ahead a whole year, Kotetsu is back to being a Hero, and Barnaby returns as well.

personality: Above all other things, image is very important to Barnaby. Looking the part, staying calm and collected on the surface and always smiling for the camera/the people, and of course carefully planning his moves so he shows up on camera in the best possible light. Acting the part, and getting points in his name so he becomes the King of Heroes, has always been far more important to Barnaby than the actual work of being a Hero. Sure, he definitely will leap into action if someone is dying in front of him, but foremost in his mind is always his image and what will make him look best.

He isn’t nearly so calm and collect under the surface. We get several hints when he’s by himself in private that there is a great deal of emotional turmoil and anger under that cool exterior. He’s even chided for being too emotional at one point by Maverick. Also when things don’t go according to plan so badly that he can’t adjust the plan, such as when Lunatic kills a criminal with an Ouroboros tattoo, Baranby has shown that he can't always keep his cool. He ends up attacking the vigilante wildly, aggressively, and without thought or any kind of plan.

Over the course of the show, Barnaby slowly begins to open up to others, most notably Kotetsu--and I feel that it’s because Kotetsu is his partner that he starts to connect to others. When he first joins the Heroes he’s rather cool and distant to anyone who tries to get close to him--especially Kotetsu. As time passes and he learns to trust his partner more, however, he starts to open up to him emotionally as well. Even then, it’s clearly a very fragile sort of relationship--the smallest sign of distrust from Kotetsu is enough to make Barnaby withdraw into his shell instantly.

Though Barnaby slowly starts to warm up to people in general, for the most part he treats them to variations of his Public Face and only considers Kotetsu a true friend. That doesn’t mean he thinks Kotetsu is completely flawless; he is more than happy to lecture or yell at his partner if he thinks he needs it. And though the trust that is built between them seems to be rather fragile, in truth it runs deep; though Barnaby is slow to accept others as friends, once he has it seems they are there to stay.

Because Maverick messed with his head and his memories throughout his whole life, he’s not mentally or emotionally stable 100% of the time. He manages perfectly well most of the time, but he has plenty of issues lurking under the surface. During the year he took off, he suffered from depression, identity issues, and guilt, thanks to Maverick making him think Kotetsu was the enemy. In the end, he came back to be a Hero not because Kotetsu was a Hero again (though that was a big factor in his return as well), but because he wanted to. It’s very different from why he became a Hero at the start of the show; he changed and grew a lot during the course of it, thanks to the friends he made, and no thanks to Maverick.

why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Well, he is a Hero. And while he’s not as selfless or whole-hearted about it as his partner, he is very good at what he does. He’s also pretty used to weird things happening, since his job requires him taking on all sorts of NEXT with strange powers.

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