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About The Juggler
Appearance!
At first glance, Valentine might just look like a decently tall boy in a floppy coat with spiked hair.
Well, if first glance is from behind.
From straight on, one is bound to notice the mask -- a box-shaped construct that wraps around half his head, leaves his lips in plain view, and then reinstates itself again on his chin in a mass of pokey beard that matches the style of the mask from his forehead on up-- He's never seen without this mask, because it is for all purposes actually his face.
Yes, you're the funny-looking one. Attempting to tell him otherwise will probably result in you being stared at oddly with two little pokey-hole mask-eyes.
What's Normal for Me...
Valentine comes from a world parallel to our own-- a sort of dream world that mirrors the artistic endeavors of a girl in the real world. In this world, it isn't unnatural to see fish flying down the street, and miniature rainbow-winged sphinxes roam the alleyways in lieu of stray cats. Everyone there wears a mask-- or perhaps the mask is in fact part of their face-- and anyone who doesn't have one is simply not a complete individual. Improper, unmasked faces are seen as just downright revolting.
Valentine has probably never seen the colour blue in his life-- the atmosphere of the place he's from is very bleached, very surreal, and if it doesn't exist in black, white, grey, or on a colour wheel between lemon yellow and burnt umber, then his world probably doesn't have it, or doesn't display it often.
Books have minds of their own and can fly, gryphons look like the sphinxes, only larger and they prefer riddles to eating the pages out of books, and chickens can talk.
Fandom High to Valentine is strange only because it's so oddly mundane. But he's been about for a year now, so he's starting to get used to it. Even so, now and again he'll spot something that seems so very, very wrong, while in reality it is something as perfectly normal as a pair of white bunny slippers.
Motivations, Obsessions, et cetera.
Although he always boasts that he is a very important man, Valentine's background is a little on the disconcerting side. He never really had a healthy family-- his mother bought him from a man when he was very young, and kicked him out not long afterward. This has left him fending for himself using every trick he knows, and he's something of an opportunist and a coward. He makes a living through street performing-- juggling is his specialty, though his juggling partners fell victim to shadowy tentacles of death and he's been bent on replacing them with members of the student population ever since.
He brags often about his tower-- A large, chicken-legged conical structure that gets from point A to point B using large, fluid leaps-- but it unfortunately no longer exists, destroyed in the same series of events that claimed his juggling partners.
Being as opportunistic as he is, Valentine is likely to grab any chance he can see in order to make things better for himself. He used to take riches and jewels over good friends, but he's at least learned his lesson in that regard, and food comes before practicality, always. Also, it would be a miracle if ever someone managed to pry an apology out of him. Valentines are simply never sorry.
But What Can He DO?
Valentine doesn't have special powers, per se, unless one counts taking off a mask to reveal another one underneath, and then holding conversations with the mask in his hand (this comes from the published scriptbook, which I am using for canon just as faithfully as the movie itself, which it was cut from due to complications animating such a scene). He does juggle-- and he juggles well. It is, after all, how he makes his living. Oh. And he's good at flailing.
And, of course, he has a "FOOD!" radar. In his stomach. Usually at the worst moment possible.
Valentine in Fandom High
Originally, Valentine came to Fandom before the events of the movie, MirrorMask, seeking opportunity to improve his means of bringing in income. Over the summer, he lived his canon through, and so his world is either severely damaged or entirely nonexistant, he's aware of the fact that he's the physical manifestation of the drawings and imaginings of a little girl, and he really has no place else to go. He's learned a good deal over the events of the summer, and they've left him a slightly more responsible, far more trustworthy, still slightly insane person.
Also, he has a penchant for randomly shooting terrible B movies under the franchise title, "Fandom Chicken." As for how many there are-- I've lost count. BUT THEY ARE QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT. REALLY.
About The Turtle
Appearance!
Mikey is a perfectly normal high school student. Except that he is green. And suspiciously turtle-shaped. He walks on two feet and he grins and has thumbs, so being a turtle isn't too terrible an impediment.
Also, he wears no clothing. Or, very little, actually. Belt, wristbands, and an orange bandanna around his eyes. Turtles are minimalists in the clothing department. Almost all of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halfshell_hero's user icons are naked icons. This makes thanking awesome people very easy. >.>
What's Normal For Me...
Michelangelo is from nice, normal, everyday New York City. He is used to living in sewers, however, so little things like having doors with handles becomes novel, now and again. Even by his reality's standards, he isn't exactly normal. There isn't exactly a wealth of bipedal mutant ninja turtles out there, after all.
However, he's got the mind of a teenage boy. So, while he's being gawked at because he's a freakish large green thing, he's doing the typical teenage boy thing and checking out pretty girls, skateboarding, playing video games, surfing, and partying!
But What Can He DO?
Mikey is a mutant! And a ninja! And a turtle! Therefore, he's every bit as intelligent as your average surfer-dude, every bit as skilled in fighting as a ninja is expected to be, and he's got the added benefit of a handy-dandy shell to hide in if the going gets tough.
Despite the super-duper shell, he's a big squishy puppy. Mikey likes everyone. If you are nice to Mikey, you are added to the list of "Mikey's Bestest Friends Ever" and you better believe that he'll go out of his way to use his mutant ninja turtle powers to keep you safe and sound.
Also, he is possibly the world's worst pizza cook. And he has a gut of steel. Peanut butter and sardine pizza with chocolate sprinkles? Totally delicious, dude.
Michelangelo in Fandom
Mikey is from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie quadrilogy canon. He's faced off against the Shredder, fought a large mutant Wolf and Snapping Turtle pair, and even been to ancient Japan. But he hasn't lived through TMNT itself, yet. He's been earning spare coin by posing as a (surprise, surprise) giant ninja turtle with foamy nunchucks at children's birthday parties. His brother, Leonardo, has been AWOL for a while, and the remaining turtles are somewhat restless. His dad is a rat.
Normal teenager issues, really.
For a super-insane crazy-long info post on my other character, Reno from Final Fantasy VII, click here.
Any questions about either, feel free to ask. :)
About The Juggler
Appearance!
At first glance, Valentine might just look like a decently tall boy in a floppy coat with spiked hair.
Well, if first glance is from behind.
From straight on, one is bound to notice the mask -- a box-shaped construct that wraps around half his head, leaves his lips in plain view, and then reinstates itself again on his chin in a mass of pokey beard that matches the style of the mask from his forehead on up-- He's never seen without this mask, because it is for all purposes actually his face.
Yes, you're the funny-looking one. Attempting to tell him otherwise will probably result in you being stared at oddly with two little pokey-hole mask-eyes.
What's Normal for Me...
Valentine comes from a world parallel to our own-- a sort of dream world that mirrors the artistic endeavors of a girl in the real world. In this world, it isn't unnatural to see fish flying down the street, and miniature rainbow-winged sphinxes roam the alleyways in lieu of stray cats. Everyone there wears a mask-- or perhaps the mask is in fact part of their face-- and anyone who doesn't have one is simply not a complete individual. Improper, unmasked faces are seen as just downright revolting.
Valentine has probably never seen the colour blue in his life-- the atmosphere of the place he's from is very bleached, very surreal, and if it doesn't exist in black, white, grey, or on a colour wheel between lemon yellow and burnt umber, then his world probably doesn't have it, or doesn't display it often.
Books have minds of their own and can fly, gryphons look like the sphinxes, only larger and they prefer riddles to eating the pages out of books, and chickens can talk.
Fandom High to Valentine is strange only because it's so oddly mundane. But he's been about for a year now, so he's starting to get used to it. Even so, now and again he'll spot something that seems so very, very wrong, while in reality it is something as perfectly normal as a pair of white bunny slippers.
Motivations, Obsessions, et cetera.
Although he always boasts that he is a very important man, Valentine's background is a little on the disconcerting side. He never really had a healthy family-- his mother bought him from a man when he was very young, and kicked him out not long afterward. This has left him fending for himself using every trick he knows, and he's something of an opportunist and a coward. He makes a living through street performing-- juggling is his specialty, though his juggling partners fell victim to shadowy tentacles of death and he's been bent on replacing them with members of the student population ever since.
He brags often about his tower-- A large, chicken-legged conical structure that gets from point A to point B using large, fluid leaps-- but it unfortunately no longer exists, destroyed in the same series of events that claimed his juggling partners.
Being as opportunistic as he is, Valentine is likely to grab any chance he can see in order to make things better for himself. He used to take riches and jewels over good friends, but he's at least learned his lesson in that regard, and food comes before practicality, always. Also, it would be a miracle if ever someone managed to pry an apology out of him. Valentines are simply never sorry.
But What Can He DO?
Valentine doesn't have special powers, per se, unless one counts taking off a mask to reveal another one underneath, and then holding conversations with the mask in his hand (this comes from the published scriptbook, which I am using for canon just as faithfully as the movie itself, which it was cut from due to complications animating such a scene). He does juggle-- and he juggles well. It is, after all, how he makes his living. Oh. And he's good at flailing.
And, of course, he has a "FOOD!" radar. In his stomach. Usually at the worst moment possible.
Valentine in Fandom High
Originally, Valentine came to Fandom before the events of the movie, MirrorMask, seeking opportunity to improve his means of bringing in income. Over the summer, he lived his canon through, and so his world is either severely damaged or entirely nonexistant, he's aware of the fact that he's the physical manifestation of the drawings and imaginings of a little girl, and he really has no place else to go. He's learned a good deal over the events of the summer, and they've left him a slightly more responsible, far more trustworthy, still slightly insane person.
Also, he has a penchant for randomly shooting terrible B movies under the franchise title, "Fandom Chicken." As for how many there are-- I've lost count. BUT THEY ARE QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT. REALLY.
About The Turtle
Appearance!
Mikey is a perfectly normal high school student. Except that he is green. And suspiciously turtle-shaped. He walks on two feet and he grins and has thumbs, so being a turtle isn't too terrible an impediment.
Also, he wears no clothing. Or, very little, actually. Belt, wristbands, and an orange bandanna around his eyes. Turtles are minimalists in the clothing department. Almost all of
halfshell_hero's user icons are naked icons. This makes thanking awesome people very easy. >.>What's Normal For Me...
Michelangelo is from nice, normal, everyday New York City. He is used to living in sewers, however, so little things like having doors with handles becomes novel, now and again. Even by his reality's standards, he isn't exactly normal. There isn't exactly a wealth of bipedal mutant ninja turtles out there, after all.
However, he's got the mind of a teenage boy. So, while he's being gawked at because he's a freakish large green thing, he's doing the typical teenage boy thing and checking out pretty girls, skateboarding, playing video games, surfing, and partying!
But What Can He DO?
Mikey is a mutant! And a ninja! And a turtle! Therefore, he's every bit as intelligent as your average surfer-dude, every bit as skilled in fighting as a ninja is expected to be, and he's got the added benefit of a handy-dandy shell to hide in if the going gets tough.
Despite the super-duper shell, he's a big squishy puppy. Mikey likes everyone. If you are nice to Mikey, you are added to the list of "Mikey's Bestest Friends Ever" and you better believe that he'll go out of his way to use his mutant ninja turtle powers to keep you safe and sound.
Also, he is possibly the world's worst pizza cook. And he has a gut of steel. Peanut butter and sardine pizza with chocolate sprinkles? Totally delicious, dude.
Michelangelo in Fandom
Mikey is from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie quadrilogy canon. He's faced off against the Shredder, fought a large mutant Wolf and Snapping Turtle pair, and even been to ancient Japan. But he hasn't lived through TMNT itself, yet. He's been earning spare coin by posing as a (surprise, surprise) giant ninja turtle with foamy nunchucks at children's birthday parties. His brother, Leonardo, has been AWOL for a while, and the remaining turtles are somewhat restless. His dad is a rat.
Normal teenager issues, really.
For a super-insane crazy-long info post on my other character, Reno from Final Fantasy VII, click here.
Any questions about either, feel free to ask. :)
