Application for Abax City
May. 7th, 2012 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theplonkplayer information.
name: Duckie
are you over 18?: Oh yes.
personal dw:ilovesatellites
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc:
Email: thelightofduskATgmailDOTcom
AIM: amethystduckie
Plurk: ilovesatellites
characters in abax: Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
in character information.
series: Life on Mars (UK version)
name: Annie Cartwright
age: 25
sex: Female
race: Human
weight: 135 lbs
height: 5ft, 5in
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: Since, canonically speaking, Annie is already in copper purgatory I was hoping 'gunshot' could be listed (both because we see Sam associating her with the person his father killed and because it's feasible she could have been 'shot during the train heist' canon point I'm taking her from. It's okay if not though!)
canon point: Last episode of season two and the series, during the train heist, but before Sam Tyler has returned.
previous cr: None.
history:
Wikipedia - Annie Cartwright
BBC Character Commentary - Annie Cartwright
personality:
Annie is the softer side of Life on Mars that we viewers so rarely get to see. Though the focus of the series is predominantly on Sam's internal struggle to process what he's experiencing, the glimpses we are given into those he's surrounded by really make the show the strong story that it is. Integral to this is the gentle, rational facet that Annie brings to CID. Her first instinct is usually to analyze before reacting, often causing her to glean minor, and major, details that help break cases and find crooks.
Having studied psychology while in University, as she mentions during the course of the series, Annie often has fresh insight. On occasions when she and Sam talk, Annie advises him both on case matters and how to deal with his boss and colleagues. This extra level of both knowing how people work and sensing what approach will be best has gotten her information, out of trouble, and even promoted to WDC for her talents.
Despite being surrounded by sexism and corruption, Annie exemplifies what Sam really wants to see CID become. Focused, discerning, and without the gratuitous violence his colleagues so regularly employ. Annie is the voice of reason that helps keep Sam from going mad. She reminds him of his connection to those around him, despite his inability to let go of the modern world he's thinks he's left behind. While she is an officer of the law, Annie is also a vibrant and dynamic woman who brings out the humanity in Manchester that Sam so often forgets is there.
Wanting nothing more than to be respected for the bright mind and skills she possesses, Annie will put up with a lot of crap from the men in CID in order to do her job. She has more self-control than Ray, Chris, and the Guv combined and as a result she allows the majority of misogynistic comments and derogatory remarks to roll off her back. She has an unshakable inner confidence that helps her make her way through the day with a smile, despite what gets thrown her way.
Though, this is not to say that she's a push over. When it comes down to it, Annie is more than capable of standing up for herself and of having her own strength. The series depicts her retorting to especially obnoxious comments, taking the reigns in investigations, and even tackling the occasional criminal scum. Part of what helps forge the somewhat positive relationship she has with Sam is that he actually respects her and recognizes her value, talents, and what she can offer CID.
While we never see details of what type of police woman she was, and from when, as the sequel series alludes to existing by virture of the Life on Mars world being a sort of cop purgatory, I assume making her way to WDC and becoming a solid policewoman was part of what she must have needed to actually 'pass on.' It is not canonically specified how she died, or if in the 'real world' Sam's father did shoot her in 1973 and I will leave that part purposefully ambiguous and without detail or how it could have shaped her psyche.
abilities/powers: No superhuman or special powers here, but Annie is very intuitive with people, very clever, and her patience with Sam and the rest of the boys at CID certainly is more than most mortals have.
first person sample:
[transmission - it's upside down and clear the user isn't aware she's being filmed as well as recorded]
I wanted nothing more than to push Sam into the line of fire when that stupid radio of his went off! How could he? How could he betray us all like that? I'm double glad I slapped him now.
Chris wanted to make excuses and maybe the Guv did too. [There's a stiff pause and her voice is a little softer with the next sentence.] The look on Gene's face was nothing short of shattered. But for once, Sam Tyler has really done it. I don't want to stand up for him anymore. Don't want to make explanations for his erratic and mind boggling behavior. If he wants to succumb to whatever madness plagues him, to the point of abandoning us, abandoning me, then so be it.
I wanted to think that maybe he took me seriously. Maybe Sam wasn't so arrogant and obsessed with a world that doesn't exist that we could finally rely on him. Finally have all of Sam all the time in some way more than a ghost copper with randomly gifted insight.
...
Oh what am I saying? Silly Annie, chattering away like a daft bird about some fella who is more mad than he is sane. And into this strange radio no less!
[end transmission]
--
Another First Person sample log!
third person sample:
Log 1 from a previous game
Log 2 from a previous game
***I'm happy to provide more samples if necessary!
case no: Randomize me, baby!
name: Duckie
are you over 18?: Oh yes.
personal dw:
ilovesatellitesemail/msn/aim/plurk/etc:
Email: thelightofduskATgmailDOTcom
AIM: amethystduckie
Plurk: ilovesatellites
characters in abax: Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
in character information.
series: Life on Mars (UK version)
name: Annie Cartwright
age: 25
sex: Female
race: Human
weight: 135 lbs
height: 5ft, 5in
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: Since, canonically speaking, Annie is already in copper purgatory I was hoping 'gunshot' could be listed (both because we see Sam associating her with the person his father killed and because it's feasible she could have been 'shot during the train heist' canon point I'm taking her from. It's okay if not though!)
canon point: Last episode of season two and the series, during the train heist, but before Sam Tyler has returned.
previous cr: None.
history:
Wikipedia - Annie Cartwright
BBC Character Commentary - Annie Cartwright
personality:
Annie is the softer side of Life on Mars that we viewers so rarely get to see. Though the focus of the series is predominantly on Sam's internal struggle to process what he's experiencing, the glimpses we are given into those he's surrounded by really make the show the strong story that it is. Integral to this is the gentle, rational facet that Annie brings to CID. Her first instinct is usually to analyze before reacting, often causing her to glean minor, and major, details that help break cases and find crooks.
Having studied psychology while in University, as she mentions during the course of the series, Annie often has fresh insight. On occasions when she and Sam talk, Annie advises him both on case matters and how to deal with his boss and colleagues. This extra level of both knowing how people work and sensing what approach will be best has gotten her information, out of trouble, and even promoted to WDC for her talents.
Despite being surrounded by sexism and corruption, Annie exemplifies what Sam really wants to see CID become. Focused, discerning, and without the gratuitous violence his colleagues so regularly employ. Annie is the voice of reason that helps keep Sam from going mad. She reminds him of his connection to those around him, despite his inability to let go of the modern world he's thinks he's left behind. While she is an officer of the law, Annie is also a vibrant and dynamic woman who brings out the humanity in Manchester that Sam so often forgets is there.
Wanting nothing more than to be respected for the bright mind and skills she possesses, Annie will put up with a lot of crap from the men in CID in order to do her job. She has more self-control than Ray, Chris, and the Guv combined and as a result she allows the majority of misogynistic comments and derogatory remarks to roll off her back. She has an unshakable inner confidence that helps her make her way through the day with a smile, despite what gets thrown her way.
Though, this is not to say that she's a push over. When it comes down to it, Annie is more than capable of standing up for herself and of having her own strength. The series depicts her retorting to especially obnoxious comments, taking the reigns in investigations, and even tackling the occasional criminal scum. Part of what helps forge the somewhat positive relationship she has with Sam is that he actually respects her and recognizes her value, talents, and what she can offer CID.
While we never see details of what type of police woman she was, and from when, as the sequel series alludes to existing by virture of the Life on Mars world being a sort of cop purgatory, I assume making her way to WDC and becoming a solid policewoman was part of what she must have needed to actually 'pass on.' It is not canonically specified how she died, or if in the 'real world' Sam's father did shoot her in 1973 and I will leave that part purposefully ambiguous and without detail or how it could have shaped her psyche.
abilities/powers: No superhuman or special powers here, but Annie is very intuitive with people, very clever, and her patience with Sam and the rest of the boys at CID certainly is more than most mortals have.
first person sample:
[transmission - it's upside down and clear the user isn't aware she's being filmed as well as recorded]
I wanted nothing more than to push Sam into the line of fire when that stupid radio of his went off! How could he? How could he betray us all like that? I'm double glad I slapped him now.
Chris wanted to make excuses and maybe the Guv did too. [There's a stiff pause and her voice is a little softer with the next sentence.] The look on Gene's face was nothing short of shattered. But for once, Sam Tyler has really done it. I don't want to stand up for him anymore. Don't want to make explanations for his erratic and mind boggling behavior. If he wants to succumb to whatever madness plagues him, to the point of abandoning us, abandoning me, then so be it.
I wanted to think that maybe he took me seriously. Maybe Sam wasn't so arrogant and obsessed with a world that doesn't exist that we could finally rely on him. Finally have all of Sam all the time in some way more than a ghost copper with randomly gifted insight.
...
Oh what am I saying? Silly Annie, chattering away like a daft bird about some fella who is more mad than he is sane. And into this strange radio no less!
[end transmission]
--
Another First Person sample log!
third person sample:
Log 1 from a previous game
Log 2 from a previous game
***I'm happy to provide more samples if necessary!
case no: Randomize me, baby!
