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Oct. 18th, 2018 10:27 pmSUBJECT SHOULD BE IN "APPLICATION: Character Name (Series)" FORMAT
Handle: Ca
Contact: PM!
Over 18? Y
Characters Played: N/A
Character Name: Frank Castle
Series: The Punisher (2004) & (if allowed) Punisher: Dirty Laundry (2012)
Canon Point: Directly after the YouTube video if allowed
Character Age: Roughly 35 in the 2004 film / 42 in the 2012 video
Background: Here.
Dirty Laundry is technically a Bootleg film but doesn’t change anything canonically about Frank Castle or his mythos. This would help me personally as he would be closer to the average year people are from in game / less of that OMG WHAT’S A SMARTPHONE bs, but it also gives him 8 years of being The Punisher under his belt as opposed to coming fresh off of avenging his family’s murder. I am totally open to playing from either canon point if this unofficial film is not allowable.
Personality: While we only see Frank for a brief time before his family is gunned down in front of him, changing him irreversibly, it’s obvious that he was a man of high moral character who was respected and loved by those around him. His relationship with his partner at the Bureau is displayed warmly in the first few scenes as he prepares Frank’s retirement party on the back of an operation gone awry. No one thinks much about it, though one of the bad guys died accidentally. In fact, Frank is the only one who speaks up about the young man’s death, saying that no one was supposed to die during the mission, but he has his big family reunion to get to and he’s visibly excited to reunite with them as he hurries home.
Once there, Frank’s love for his family is palpable. The way he looks at Maria is reverent and almost worshipful, and he regrets not being in Will’s life more because of his job. He wants them to be a family again and to spend every moment he can at home now that he’s retired. The big reunion in Puerto Rico is a great welcome back to civilian life, and he seems happy and at ease surrounded by his entire family - he never sees what’s about to happen coming, but he doesn’t hesitate to fight with every fiber of his being.
The moment his mother goes down, he’s in full-on tactical mode. He trusts Maria to take care of Will while he takes out as many targets as he can. Ultimately, he is too late to save them but he is ruthless in taking every last one of them down. They blow him up and it’s still not enough to keep him down. When he returns to Washington, everyone thinks he’s dead. They treat him like a ghost and he doesn’t make an effort to change their minds. He has a singular mind of revenge now and will stop at nothing to see the man punished who orchestrated his family’s murder.
He moves into this shithole apartment while he works on that and quickly his neighbors become intrigued by his life. He pretends he doesn’t notice them and claims that “Frank Castle is dead,” but when the woman across the hall is being threatened by her boyfriend he once more doesn’t hesitate to take action. Frank punches the guy out after threatening him so he never comes back, proving that he still cares about the people around him despite his focus on killing John Travolta. This woman Jane makes an advance on him, but he quickly rebuffs her. Obviously he still isn’t over Maria and has yet to avenge his family the way he needs to to move on, but there’s an underlying self-hatred there. The belief that he should be alone, whether or not he wants to be. Even in Dirty Laundry, it’s obvious he’s living a solitary life, it would take a lot for him to feel romantically-inclined again after what’s happened to him.
Every assassin the bad guys send after him, he bests. No one trips him up until The Russian. After taking down half his apartment knocking the guy out, his neighbors come to his aid. They lie for him and protect him when they don’t have to and that’s what truly awakens a man he thought was long dead. He stops merely surviving and goes on the offense, taking sadistic joy out of his actions with this new fire burning within him. It isn’t enough for him to merely kill Travolta and his family, he has to make him suffer. Frank makes him think his wife is cheating on him with his best friend so that he’ll kill them both himself. Then he kills his other son and tells him all about it while he finally gets his shot to fight him one on one, twisting the knife further. He makes sure that he understands exactly what happened and why before he dies and then, in his mind, justice is done.
When he ultimately leaves the apartment complex, he leaves his neighbors plenty of money to start fresh. He doesn’t like owing people, but he also doesn’t know how else to show his appreciation for them taking care of him. Frank Castle is a man who sees the injustice in the world and thinks that he is the solution. Because he has nothing left to live for, he feels as though he’s the perfect vessel to punish people he perceives as wrong-doers. Though his own revenge is done, they leave us at the end of the film knowing he will go on as a vigilante. He has a twisted sense of morality after what happened to him and no longer thinks the law is enough. Criminals must die, and the punishment must match the crime.
In the Youtube video, Dirty Laundry, we see a Frank who is tired and living day-to-day. He literally just stops to do his laundry but he can’t ignore a gangbanger beating his girlfriend and then going after a kid. He must take action because he feels he’s the only one who can. There’s an arrogance there, that he feels it’s his responsibility to clean up the streets. He hides behind his own self-given moniker “The Punisher” and dons a shirt that his son got for him in PR with a skull on the front. Though that shirt gets destroyed in his first battle, he uses this symbol every time he fights to remind himself what he’s fighting for. He is still a man who loves others intensely and is deeply affected by his memories.
He also shares with Ron Perlman that he’s been sober for some time which seems to imply he’s trying to get back to some semblance of normal life. In the film, he was drinking heavily. Maybe he is even trying to not be the Punisher, though that’s never substantiated either way, but it’s a compulsion for him now. He sees something bad happening and he takes it upon himself to stop it because he feels he has to, not just because he wants to. He allows the girlfriend to kill the gangbanger ultimately because that’s justice in his mind, and for obvious reasons he’s especially affected by seeing a woman and a young boy being terrorized in front of him. He will never be able to ignore this kind of evil - he will always take action against those he considers lowlifes and he will always protect those he considers vulnerable.
Powers/Abilities:
Master Combatant: expert in hand-to-hand as well as weaponized combat
Expert Marksman: trained in sniper warfare, can hit a target from far away with impressive accuracy.
Interrogation Expert: he can get any information he needs out of a target without ever needing to use torture.
Demolitions Expert: extremely precise and brutal when it comes to explosives.
Expert Tactician: he’s always thinking 10 steps ahead in any situation.
Multilingual: Frank is passably fluent in English, Russian, Arabic, German, Spanish and presumably Italian.
Power Nerfs (if applicable): N/A
Inventory:
this outfit
his laundry of course
his zippo
(1) bottle of Jack Daniels
Weapon:
Customized (by his father) Colt M1911A1
Incentives: If the Orbiters allow him to kick some ass, he’s pretty much good with being anywhere. He doesn’t have anyone left at home they can keep safe for him, they can possibly entice him with starting over and building a new life here. Or just get him a dog, IDK. It’ll have the same effect.
here & here
OOC
Handle: Ca
Contact: PM!
Over 18? Y
Characters Played: N/A
THE CHARACTER
Character Name: Frank Castle
Series: The Punisher (2004) & (if allowed) Punisher: Dirty Laundry (2012)
Canon Point: Directly after the YouTube video if allowed
Character Age: Roughly 35 in the 2004 film / 42 in the 2012 video
Background: Here.
Dirty Laundry is technically a Bootleg film but doesn’t change anything canonically about Frank Castle or his mythos. This would help me personally as he would be closer to the average year people are from in game / less of that OMG WHAT’S A SMARTPHONE bs, but it also gives him 8 years of being The Punisher under his belt as opposed to coming fresh off of avenging his family’s murder. I am totally open to playing from either canon point if this unofficial film is not allowable.
Personality: While we only see Frank for a brief time before his family is gunned down in front of him, changing him irreversibly, it’s obvious that he was a man of high moral character who was respected and loved by those around him. His relationship with his partner at the Bureau is displayed warmly in the first few scenes as he prepares Frank’s retirement party on the back of an operation gone awry. No one thinks much about it, though one of the bad guys died accidentally. In fact, Frank is the only one who speaks up about the young man’s death, saying that no one was supposed to die during the mission, but he has his big family reunion to get to and he’s visibly excited to reunite with them as he hurries home.
Once there, Frank’s love for his family is palpable. The way he looks at Maria is reverent and almost worshipful, and he regrets not being in Will’s life more because of his job. He wants them to be a family again and to spend every moment he can at home now that he’s retired. The big reunion in Puerto Rico is a great welcome back to civilian life, and he seems happy and at ease surrounded by his entire family - he never sees what’s about to happen coming, but he doesn’t hesitate to fight with every fiber of his being.
The moment his mother goes down, he’s in full-on tactical mode. He trusts Maria to take care of Will while he takes out as many targets as he can. Ultimately, he is too late to save them but he is ruthless in taking every last one of them down. They blow him up and it’s still not enough to keep him down. When he returns to Washington, everyone thinks he’s dead. They treat him like a ghost and he doesn’t make an effort to change their minds. He has a singular mind of revenge now and will stop at nothing to see the man punished who orchestrated his family’s murder.
He moves into this shithole apartment while he works on that and quickly his neighbors become intrigued by his life. He pretends he doesn’t notice them and claims that “Frank Castle is dead,” but when the woman across the hall is being threatened by her boyfriend he once more doesn’t hesitate to take action. Frank punches the guy out after threatening him so he never comes back, proving that he still cares about the people around him despite his focus on killing John Travolta. This woman Jane makes an advance on him, but he quickly rebuffs her. Obviously he still isn’t over Maria and has yet to avenge his family the way he needs to to move on, but there’s an underlying self-hatred there. The belief that he should be alone, whether or not he wants to be. Even in Dirty Laundry, it’s obvious he’s living a solitary life, it would take a lot for him to feel romantically-inclined again after what’s happened to him.
Every assassin the bad guys send after him, he bests. No one trips him up until The Russian. After taking down half his apartment knocking the guy out, his neighbors come to his aid. They lie for him and protect him when they don’t have to and that’s what truly awakens a man he thought was long dead. He stops merely surviving and goes on the offense, taking sadistic joy out of his actions with this new fire burning within him. It isn’t enough for him to merely kill Travolta and his family, he has to make him suffer. Frank makes him think his wife is cheating on him with his best friend so that he’ll kill them both himself. Then he kills his other son and tells him all about it while he finally gets his shot to fight him one on one, twisting the knife further. He makes sure that he understands exactly what happened and why before he dies and then, in his mind, justice is done.
When he ultimately leaves the apartment complex, he leaves his neighbors plenty of money to start fresh. He doesn’t like owing people, but he also doesn’t know how else to show his appreciation for them taking care of him. Frank Castle is a man who sees the injustice in the world and thinks that he is the solution. Because he has nothing left to live for, he feels as though he’s the perfect vessel to punish people he perceives as wrong-doers. Though his own revenge is done, they leave us at the end of the film knowing he will go on as a vigilante. He has a twisted sense of morality after what happened to him and no longer thinks the law is enough. Criminals must die, and the punishment must match the crime.
In the Youtube video, Dirty Laundry, we see a Frank who is tired and living day-to-day. He literally just stops to do his laundry but he can’t ignore a gangbanger beating his girlfriend and then going after a kid. He must take action because he feels he’s the only one who can. There’s an arrogance there, that he feels it’s his responsibility to clean up the streets. He hides behind his own self-given moniker “The Punisher” and dons a shirt that his son got for him in PR with a skull on the front. Though that shirt gets destroyed in his first battle, he uses this symbol every time he fights to remind himself what he’s fighting for. He is still a man who loves others intensely and is deeply affected by his memories.
He also shares with Ron Perlman that he’s been sober for some time which seems to imply he’s trying to get back to some semblance of normal life. In the film, he was drinking heavily. Maybe he is even trying to not be the Punisher, though that’s never substantiated either way, but it’s a compulsion for him now. He sees something bad happening and he takes it upon himself to stop it because he feels he has to, not just because he wants to. He allows the girlfriend to kill the gangbanger ultimately because that’s justice in his mind, and for obvious reasons he’s especially affected by seeing a woman and a young boy being terrorized in front of him. He will never be able to ignore this kind of evil - he will always take action against those he considers lowlifes and he will always protect those he considers vulnerable.
Powers/Abilities:
Power Nerfs (if applicable): N/A
Inventory:
Weapon:
Incentives: If the Orbiters allow him to kick some ass, he’s pretty much good with being anywhere. He doesn’t have anyone left at home they can keep safe for him, they can possibly entice him with starting over and building a new life here. Or just get him a dog, IDK. It’ll have the same effect.
SAMPLES
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