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15104Player Information:
Name: Nemo
Age: 25
Contact: nemo.no.man@ gmail.com - plurk: nemo_r - aim: nemonclature
Game Cast: -
Character Information:
Name: Russell Baze
Canon: Out of the Furnace
Canon Point: Just after the final scene - Which I took to be Russell after prison, which assumes that his sentence for murder was shortened whether through small town politics, good behaviour, or a mix of both.
Age: Mid forties
Reference: Out of the Furnace wiki page
Setting: The film is set in the real world. Modern day (there is a news broadcast referencing Obama's second election early on.)
One of the major influences on the town is not a person, but the massive looming steel mill that takes over the horizon. Where Russell's father worked before him and likely contracted the lung disease which eventually killed him. Where Russell works, and which is in danger of closing, leaving the future full of uncertainty.
The only other work we see is gambling, and specifically gambling surrounding the fights that Rodney, (Russell's brother) becomes involved in. These are vicious bare-knuckle fights, and rigged as well. Betting and the money made of these games is a big deal, and fuels the criminal underworld of the Braddock and the hill-towns around it.
John Petty runs the fighting rings (among other criminal enterprises) in Braddock, and is the reason Rodney gets into fighting. Harlan De Groat is a clever, vicious thug, who rules his more isolated town in the hills with an iron fist. Harlan is the one who kills Rodney, and Russell eventually tracks him down and murders him.
John Petty runs a backroom betting ring for the bare knuckle boxing fights that take place in various abandoned lots around the town. He also employs fighters for these fights. The betting itself is rigged. He tells the fighters when to take a dive. He's in deep to Harlan De Groat. We don't specifically find out why, but he owes him a great deal of money. In order to wipe the slate, he promises a fight where his fighter (Rodney) will take the fall. This does play out as planned, however Harlan double crosses them, kills Petty, then takes Rodney out into the woods and kills him too.
Russell then swears revenge on Harlan, tracks him down through Petty's book, and engineers a meeting, posing as the 'new Petty'. He then hunts him down with his rifle, and eventually shoots him while in full view of the law (Wesley). We can assume he gets jail time for this, though how much is ambiguous, as the final scene shows Russell in his home at his dining room table - whether this is before trial or after release we can't be sure.
As for Russell's original jail sentence - he was waiting in Petty's bar for Rodney, who never showed. He went to Petty and paid part of Rodney's debt out of his own wages, accepting a drink from Petty while he was there. On his way home in the dark, a mother backed out of her driveway in her own car, her young son in the back. Russell drove straight into them, killing them both. The scene is brief, we never see their faces, but it's clear they are both dead.
Personality: I think Russell's most basic motivation is to build a family. Whether that's a family in the traditional sense - or a found-family of friends and loved ones, is dependent on circumstance. He's not driven by ambition or a need for experience. His most important goals are rooted in other people, and the interactions and relationships between them.
Russell is a care-giver. He is the eternal big brother. His father must have worked long hours at the mill, struggling to support two boys on a single income. Russell would have filled in caring for his younger brother, and he carried that behaviour on into adulthood as well. The film opens with him reprimanding Rodney for gambling his money away, then later covering as much of his debt as he is able with Petty. Throughout the movie Russell's life is defined not just by his own mistakes and his actions, but by Rodney's as well. He takes on responsibility for Rodney without even thinking about it. Because of this relationship, I think he's the kind of person who would go the extra length for his friends and family. While he is relatively closed off - he's not going to be out there offering his help to every stranger he meets - he is more likely to help a stranger than just ignore them. He was clearly raised to a certain code and had the importance of being upstanding and responsible hammered into him.
Family is obviously important to him. We can see in the film that he he cares a great deal for his father - He ensures he has his medical needs seen to, he visits him before work, and he cries when he hears of his death when in prison. When he lets someone in, behind his walls, he doesn't let go of them easily. We see this as well with Lena. When he finds out she's pregnant with Wesley's child, he breaks down, and can barely get his well-wishes out through his tears. It's not just the loss of her that is killing him, it's the loss of their future together as a couple and as a family. While he genuinely wants her to be happy in her new relationship, it clearly takes a great deal out of him to let her go.
So he has these two battling instincts, the desire to keep his family close, and protect those he loves. And also the desire to let them make their own choices: He lets Rodney make his mistakes; he wishes Lena well; he tells Wesley they don't have a problem. He tries to do the right thing. The only person he's not thinking about is himself. He's so used to putting other people first, he doesn't really think about what he wants. Apart from taking Harlan's life at the end of the film, we don't see him make any choice motivated out of purely personal desire. I don't think he even realises he's doing it.
It does imply he has perhaps a low sense of self worth. While he may know what he's good at, (a good worker, a dependable friend). He doesn't think he deserves more. Unlike Rodney, he's not looking for a way out. While he may not exactly be content with his hard life, he's never thought to ask for better.
He has a strong moral centre. We can see this most dramatically in the driving accident. He breaks down completely when he sees he's killed a mother and child. He could have run. He could have simply got back in the car and driven away, but instead he got straight out to try and help whoever was in the second car, and when he saw what he'd done, he was utterly racked with guilt. The thought of lying and escaping never crossed his mind. He's not the kind of person who would do that. He tells the truth, he takes his jail sentence and doesn't try and get out of it.
When in prison, whilst putting his steel working welding skills to use, he also studies hard, he goes to church, He's not especially clever, he has no divine purpose. He just does what he's supposed to, he does his jobs well. He's conscientious and a good, hard worker.
He doesn't approve of his brother's gambling, or Petty's business. He limits his interaction there to only paying off Rodney's debt. He doesn't take a free drink, he doesn't gamble himself. He is a pretty straightforward, sensible guy. He pays his debts, he's reliable. The bad things that happen to him in the movie, excepting the murder of Harlan, are for the most part accidents, or come about from other character's actions.
That said, he doesn't dislike his brother for his actions. He doesn't judge him. While he probably wishes Rodney hadn't gone down the road he has, he never once forbids him from continuing. He may not approve of what Petty does, but he deals with him perfectly civilly. Again, he holds himself up to a different standard to other people. He'll take people as they are, treat them reasonably equally.
By the end of the movie, he has lost all the people he cares about, all his family, whether to death, or to other people. His major motivation is to protect and he failed. He failed his family, he failed his brother. Not just this, but he's also killed three people, two unintentionally. While he may not mourn Harlan, he's certainly haunted by all these ghosts.
He's racked with guilt with regards to the driving accident, and self-blame for Rodney's choices. He's definitely very depressed and can't see anything left to live for.
As for how he'll take to the game. While his protective instincts are hard wired through his upbringing. They aren't going to wake up until he gets past his depression, guilt and apathy. He's going to need to connect to someone before he can work through any of his issues. Until that point, I think his polite behaviour is going to kick in. He'll deal with people well enough. He'll probably look for a mindless job he can work himself to exhaustion in. In a bid to forget what happened in his life, he may end up getting caught up in the life of the game. And as the connections he makes with other characters deepens, he'll eventually start to open up and connect to other people.
He will be shocked by the magic of the world and the characters at first. His life so far has been very insular. He's probably never been out of state, so despite himself, the weird and wonderful may start to pierce the fog of his depression and could serve as another way to bring him out of himself, at least until it starts to become normalised.
Appearance: A happy medium between Machinist!Bale and Batman!Bale
Abilities: He's obviously well muscled and physically strong. He works with his body and hands in the mill, so he stays in shape. He also hunts, as we see in the film, not just deer, but also the unfortunate Harlan De Groat. He's good at reading people and situations - as evinced by his timing when disrupting Harlan and Petty's meeting. He has no magical or supernatural skills.
Inventory: Just the clothes on his back.
Suite: I'd like to house him in the Wood sector. The poverty level is probably apt. He's stubborn, but outside extreme examples, non-violent. I like the idea that woodworkers use their hands. In his house I'd like him to have three floors. Because the emptiness of all that space is sure to remind him of his empty house and his dead brother and father and Lena, and that will only make him more depressed and more likely to get out into the city. (Mwahaha)
(Currently living at: WO-3C).
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
Russell's never seen anything like it. The whole place looks like it's on fire. Half of him wants to run around looking for protective gear. The buildings are fire-brick red. The fountains are running fire. Actual fire! Only, it's not hot. He can see people reaching out, letting it run over their fingers. He doesn't fancy trying himself, and can't help flinching when he accidentally gets pushed too close.
Everything's so bright here. Everyone looks so smart, so focused. The flames may not give out heat, but he can feel himself getting warm. He's hyper aware of the stains on his jacket and the scuffs on his boots. He's never felt out of place like this. Even prison, it was only another sort of familiarity. He didn't know it at first, but once he was there, he learnt it quick. This bright, fiery place. He's sure he could never fit in a place like this.
He didn't find the other sector so strange. The one he was living in. Well. Okay. It was a bit like living in a cabin out in the woods. Only if the woods were mostly gone so it was just cabins and trees. It smelt like wood. That kind of, hot sap smell you'd get just in the air. He liked it. It was earthy. Strange but not... unnatural.
This place was too much. This place was like those, those science fiction movies. Rodney used to-
Russell swallows, raises his hand to his chest and rubs his thumb against his sternum. He walks forward unseeing, lets the motion of the crowd sweep him on through the sector.
Slowly he pulls himself back out of his memories. There's so much here, so much that's new to see. It's not easy, but for a little while he can lose himself in the differences.
Just for a little while, maybe, he can forget.
Network:
[Voice]
Uh. Yeah, so. They said this was like my own private radio or something. Don't really have anything much to say. [He coughs]. I guess, if anyone needs any... there any industry on this. Turtle? [He sounds unsure] Is that right? [Laughs]. This is stupid.
*CLICK*
Name: Nemo
Age: 25
Contact: nemo.no.man@ gmail.com - plurk: nemo_r - aim: nemonclature
Game Cast: -
Character Information:
Name: Russell Baze
Canon: Out of the Furnace
Canon Point: Just after the final scene - Which I took to be Russell after prison, which assumes that his sentence for murder was shortened whether through small town politics, good behaviour, or a mix of both.
Age: Mid forties
Reference: Out of the Furnace wiki page
Setting: The film is set in the real world. Modern day (there is a news broadcast referencing Obama's second election early on.)
One of the major influences on the town is not a person, but the massive looming steel mill that takes over the horizon. Where Russell's father worked before him and likely contracted the lung disease which eventually killed him. Where Russell works, and which is in danger of closing, leaving the future full of uncertainty.
The only other work we see is gambling, and specifically gambling surrounding the fights that Rodney, (Russell's brother) becomes involved in. These are vicious bare-knuckle fights, and rigged as well. Betting and the money made of these games is a big deal, and fuels the criminal underworld of the Braddock and the hill-towns around it.
John Petty runs the fighting rings (among other criminal enterprises) in Braddock, and is the reason Rodney gets into fighting. Harlan De Groat is a clever, vicious thug, who rules his more isolated town in the hills with an iron fist. Harlan is the one who kills Rodney, and Russell eventually tracks him down and murders him.
John Petty runs a backroom betting ring for the bare knuckle boxing fights that take place in various abandoned lots around the town. He also employs fighters for these fights. The betting itself is rigged. He tells the fighters when to take a dive. He's in deep to Harlan De Groat. We don't specifically find out why, but he owes him a great deal of money. In order to wipe the slate, he promises a fight where his fighter (Rodney) will take the fall. This does play out as planned, however Harlan double crosses them, kills Petty, then takes Rodney out into the woods and kills him too.
Russell then swears revenge on Harlan, tracks him down through Petty's book, and engineers a meeting, posing as the 'new Petty'. He then hunts him down with his rifle, and eventually shoots him while in full view of the law (Wesley). We can assume he gets jail time for this, though how much is ambiguous, as the final scene shows Russell in his home at his dining room table - whether this is before trial or after release we can't be sure.
As for Russell's original jail sentence - he was waiting in Petty's bar for Rodney, who never showed. He went to Petty and paid part of Rodney's debt out of his own wages, accepting a drink from Petty while he was there. On his way home in the dark, a mother backed out of her driveway in her own car, her young son in the back. Russell drove straight into them, killing them both. The scene is brief, we never see their faces, but it's clear they are both dead.
Personality: I think Russell's most basic motivation is to build a family. Whether that's a family in the traditional sense - or a found-family of friends and loved ones, is dependent on circumstance. He's not driven by ambition or a need for experience. His most important goals are rooted in other people, and the interactions and relationships between them.
Russell is a care-giver. He is the eternal big brother. His father must have worked long hours at the mill, struggling to support two boys on a single income. Russell would have filled in caring for his younger brother, and he carried that behaviour on into adulthood as well. The film opens with him reprimanding Rodney for gambling his money away, then later covering as much of his debt as he is able with Petty. Throughout the movie Russell's life is defined not just by his own mistakes and his actions, but by Rodney's as well. He takes on responsibility for Rodney without even thinking about it. Because of this relationship, I think he's the kind of person who would go the extra length for his friends and family. While he is relatively closed off - he's not going to be out there offering his help to every stranger he meets - he is more likely to help a stranger than just ignore them. He was clearly raised to a certain code and had the importance of being upstanding and responsible hammered into him.
Family is obviously important to him. We can see in the film that he he cares a great deal for his father - He ensures he has his medical needs seen to, he visits him before work, and he cries when he hears of his death when in prison. When he lets someone in, behind his walls, he doesn't let go of them easily. We see this as well with Lena. When he finds out she's pregnant with Wesley's child, he breaks down, and can barely get his well-wishes out through his tears. It's not just the loss of her that is killing him, it's the loss of their future together as a couple and as a family. While he genuinely wants her to be happy in her new relationship, it clearly takes a great deal out of him to let her go.
So he has these two battling instincts, the desire to keep his family close, and protect those he loves. And also the desire to let them make their own choices: He lets Rodney make his mistakes; he wishes Lena well; he tells Wesley they don't have a problem. He tries to do the right thing. The only person he's not thinking about is himself. He's so used to putting other people first, he doesn't really think about what he wants. Apart from taking Harlan's life at the end of the film, we don't see him make any choice motivated out of purely personal desire. I don't think he even realises he's doing it.
It does imply he has perhaps a low sense of self worth. While he may know what he's good at, (a good worker, a dependable friend). He doesn't think he deserves more. Unlike Rodney, he's not looking for a way out. While he may not exactly be content with his hard life, he's never thought to ask for better.
He has a strong moral centre. We can see this most dramatically in the driving accident. He breaks down completely when he sees he's killed a mother and child. He could have run. He could have simply got back in the car and driven away, but instead he got straight out to try and help whoever was in the second car, and when he saw what he'd done, he was utterly racked with guilt. The thought of lying and escaping never crossed his mind. He's not the kind of person who would do that. He tells the truth, he takes his jail sentence and doesn't try and get out of it.
When in prison, whilst putting his steel working welding skills to use, he also studies hard, he goes to church, He's not especially clever, he has no divine purpose. He just does what he's supposed to, he does his jobs well. He's conscientious and a good, hard worker.
He doesn't approve of his brother's gambling, or Petty's business. He limits his interaction there to only paying off Rodney's debt. He doesn't take a free drink, he doesn't gamble himself. He is a pretty straightforward, sensible guy. He pays his debts, he's reliable. The bad things that happen to him in the movie, excepting the murder of Harlan, are for the most part accidents, or come about from other character's actions.
That said, he doesn't dislike his brother for his actions. He doesn't judge him. While he probably wishes Rodney hadn't gone down the road he has, he never once forbids him from continuing. He may not approve of what Petty does, but he deals with him perfectly civilly. Again, he holds himself up to a different standard to other people. He'll take people as they are, treat them reasonably equally.
By the end of the movie, he has lost all the people he cares about, all his family, whether to death, or to other people. His major motivation is to protect and he failed. He failed his family, he failed his brother. Not just this, but he's also killed three people, two unintentionally. While he may not mourn Harlan, he's certainly haunted by all these ghosts.
He's racked with guilt with regards to the driving accident, and self-blame for Rodney's choices. He's definitely very depressed and can't see anything left to live for.
As for how he'll take to the game. While his protective instincts are hard wired through his upbringing. They aren't going to wake up until he gets past his depression, guilt and apathy. He's going to need to connect to someone before he can work through any of his issues. Until that point, I think his polite behaviour is going to kick in. He'll deal with people well enough. He'll probably look for a mindless job he can work himself to exhaustion in. In a bid to forget what happened in his life, he may end up getting caught up in the life of the game. And as the connections he makes with other characters deepens, he'll eventually start to open up and connect to other people.
He will be shocked by the magic of the world and the characters at first. His life so far has been very insular. He's probably never been out of state, so despite himself, the weird and wonderful may start to pierce the fog of his depression and could serve as another way to bring him out of himself, at least until it starts to become normalised.
Appearance: A happy medium between Machinist!Bale and Batman!Bale
Abilities: He's obviously well muscled and physically strong. He works with his body and hands in the mill, so he stays in shape. He also hunts, as we see in the film, not just deer, but also the unfortunate Harlan De Groat. He's good at reading people and situations - as evinced by his timing when disrupting Harlan and Petty's meeting. He has no magical or supernatural skills.
Inventory: Just the clothes on his back.
Suite: I'd like to house him in the Wood sector. The poverty level is probably apt. He's stubborn, but outside extreme examples, non-violent. I like the idea that woodworkers use their hands. In his house I'd like him to have three floors. Because the emptiness of all that space is sure to remind him of his empty house and his dead brother and father and Lena, and that will only make him more depressed and more likely to get out into the city. (Mwahaha)
(Currently living at: WO-3C).
In-Character Samples:
Third Person:
Russell's never seen anything like it. The whole place looks like it's on fire. Half of him wants to run around looking for protective gear. The buildings are fire-brick red. The fountains are running fire. Actual fire! Only, it's not hot. He can see people reaching out, letting it run over their fingers. He doesn't fancy trying himself, and can't help flinching when he accidentally gets pushed too close.
Everything's so bright here. Everyone looks so smart, so focused. The flames may not give out heat, but he can feel himself getting warm. He's hyper aware of the stains on his jacket and the scuffs on his boots. He's never felt out of place like this. Even prison, it was only another sort of familiarity. He didn't know it at first, but once he was there, he learnt it quick. This bright, fiery place. He's sure he could never fit in a place like this.
He didn't find the other sector so strange. The one he was living in. Well. Okay. It was a bit like living in a cabin out in the woods. Only if the woods were mostly gone so it was just cabins and trees. It smelt like wood. That kind of, hot sap smell you'd get just in the air. He liked it. It was earthy. Strange but not... unnatural.
This place was too much. This place was like those, those science fiction movies. Rodney used to-
Russell swallows, raises his hand to his chest and rubs his thumb against his sternum. He walks forward unseeing, lets the motion of the crowd sweep him on through the sector.
Slowly he pulls himself back out of his memories. There's so much here, so much that's new to see. It's not easy, but for a little while he can lose himself in the differences.
Just for a little while, maybe, he can forget.
Network:
[Voice]
Uh. Yeah, so. They said this was like my own private radio or something. Don't really have anything much to say. [He coughs]. I guess, if anyone needs any... there any industry on this. Turtle? [He sounds unsure] Is that right? [Laughs]. This is stupid.
*CLICK*
