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Topic Started: Aug 14 2011, 07:52 AM (7 Views)
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Basic Character Information
Name: Caelum A. Colasour
Nickname:
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Affiliation: Hipster
Hipster Victories/Achievements:
  • He put a video up on youtube. After it got over one-hundred thousand hits he deleted it for being too “mainstream”.
  • Once, while browsing a record store, a worker came up to him and asked if he needed help finding anything. Caelum looked at him and said: “Yeah, but you probably don’t know the band I’m looking for,” and left the store.
  • When he needed a job, that record store hired him. He sorted the bands according to how underground they were. He left the next day because everything was still too mainstream.
  • Stopped using Google+ the day it went public.
  • He met the drummer of one of his former favorite bands at the mall one day. He told him that the band had lost their soul the day they sold one million copies.
  • He started up a T-Shirt company with a few friends for an economics project. After selling a few shirts, they stopped production so their shirts could be called ‘limited’.

Hipster Status: 1.8/2
Profession:

~Film Student
Film Students are aspiring little Spielbergs with dreams of grandeur. Some actually try to work their way up into the film world legitimately. But most just like to film artsy music videos and indie flicks that they think are deep and inspiring. Usually they get their friends to help them with their projects, instead of getting the help of theatre students or low budget actors. A film student will be able to start with more film equipment than normal. They also do not need to pay upkeep for maintaining their equipment and supplies.

~Freelance Photographer
Freelance photographers take pictures of whatever they can for however much they’re offered. Most usually have another job, though some of the “starving artist” types still exist. They see the world through expensive camera lenses and when they are not equipped with their finest DSLR, they usually have a back up quick-shot digital camera.

Position: Connoisseur of Obscurities

Physical Appearance
Height: 5’11” | 180.34 cm
Weight: 161 | 73.03 kg
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Jade Green
Clothing/Accessories:
Caelum wears Rone brand skinny jeans. Rone is a brand from South Korea and thus, not widely known in the states. The jeans are black and fit the young man quite snugly. On the right back pocket, the letters “Bj” are stitched in with the finest yellow threads. He wears a dark green Burberry Brit shirt to compliment his black skinny jeans. The shirt is a button down with a collar and with long sleeves. There is a single patch pocket on the left side of the chest. The ends of the sleeves are single cuffs with the ability to be rolled up. Burberry Brit is a highly expensive European brand of clothing. This gives it a slightly above average coolness factor. It is only slightly above average because Europe is so close to America. The closer something is to America, the more mainstream it is. This is why Hawaii and Alaska are the only sort of cool states.

For accessories, the man wears a green, black and white scarf with a checkered pattern. The scarf is wrapped around his neck about five times with the short end going over his shoulder and resting along the back of it. The long end of the scarf dangles to the area just above his belly button. Over his eyes, he wears black horned rimmed glasses. The glasses are non-medicinal and are there just because. For shoes, he wears all black dress loafers. He doesn’t like shoes to stand out and distract from the rest of his outfit, so plain loafers are the perfect choice. And not too many people wear loafers with regular outfits, so that ups the appeal. Upon his wrist lays a wrist watch with a leather strap. All of the numbers are in silver roman numerals.


General Appearance:
Caelum Has short, dark brown hair is elegantly disheveled. He spends hours in the morning in front of the mirror and a good amount of hair gel trying to get that natural look one gets after waking up from hours of sleep. His face is covered by light stubble. The stubble gives him a manly look while still retaining his youth. Caelum’s eyes are a deep, captivating jade green. The man’s face is usually marked by a look of incurable boredom; a downturned mouth, almost dead eyes and slightly raised eyebrows that give off a ‘I don’t really care about what you are saying, I’m just acting interested enough for you to hurry this along’ look. The corners of his lips are rarely turned upwards. On the rare occasion that they are in a smiling position, it is usually only to show that he was victorious in some meaningless argument or situation.

Upon his neck, just under where his ear and jaw meets, he has a tattoo. The tattoo is two Roman numeral twelve separated by a backslash. The roman numerals are fancy enough to stand out from other plain tattoos, yet small enough not to draw too much attention to them. The tattoo has significant meaning to the man and everyone he knows. It was the day that everyone he had ever known had their lives changed forever. It was the date of Caelum’s birth. December 12th. You may ask how it affected people outside of his family. He’d just say he’s that damned important.

Caelum isn’t very muscular at all. He is somewhat tall and thin. He doesn’t exercise much because he doesn’t believe in being a meathead. Caelum is perfectly comfortable with his physique and doesn’t want to change a thing about it. Being thin is the sign of a good diet. And a good diet works better for a brain than exercising muscles that would never be used outside of fights and menial labor.

The Character
Personality:
When it comes to family and friends of family, Caelum is usually pretty friendly and reserved. He doesn’t know most of his parent’s friends and family, but he does his best to be on his best behavior and to not embarrass his family and their reputation. Around his family he doesn’t talk much because there is not much they have to talk about. Caelum usually calls to check on how they are doing and how things are going with them. He also calls when he is in dire need of money because of sudden happenings.

Caelum acts completely differently around friends. He is very outgoing, talks like there is a motor in his mouth and shows off a bit. He likes to impress his friends with witty and intelligent comments. When around his friends, he is on his A-game with quick witted comments. He lacks the ability to think on his feet when around people he’s not familiar with. Caelum is also a bit handsy and flirtatious around girls he’s known for a while, regardless of their relationship status. He won’t mess with friends’ girls, but all others are fair game in his mind.

When it comes to people that he doesn’t know, Caelum ranges from a total dick to complete gentleman. When a stranger pisses him off, he’s not afraid to yell at them and call them out on whatever they have done. While not to their faces, he often makes fun of strangers’ fashion faux-pas, tacky hairstyles and shitty tastes. He and his friends often sit around in Starbucks or some other place for people watching to hound these unfortunate souls under their breaths. When met with someone who has made an excellent style or taste choice, Caelum will treat them with the utmost respect. He praises them for not being a sheep. He will also treat strangers with great manners generously, often helping them out and assisting them if they are in need. He only does this if their clothes don’t clash.

Hometown: Upper-Middle Class Suburb, USA
History:
Caelum was born to in a quiet suburb. His father is a wealthy stock broker and his mother is a retired actress. His father, luckily, invested in a company called Apple when he first married Caelum’s mother. He thought it was a good idea to invest in an up-and-coming company and that idea paid off very well. After Apple blew up, Caelum’s father decided to use that money to start up his own investment firm, being a business major. Caelum’s mother came from a long line of actors, actresses and writers. Cinema was just in her blood. Her first big role was starring in a series of Fruit Juice commercials as a child. She was practically the face of the Fruit Juice Company after a year or two. In her teens she appeared in a few television and movie roles. Before she made it big, Caelum’s mother decided that she would rather further in her education and leave her life in front of the camera on hold.

Being born was the best thing to ever happen to his parents. They loved him and cared for him more than anything in the world and provided him with a great life. He had a mostly uneventful life for the first eighteen years of his life. He went to a private elementary school like everyone else, he attended a private middle school like every other normal kid and he even attended a high school that barely placed tenth in the ‘Top Ten Private Schools in America’ list.

It was on his eighteenth birthday when his life was turned rightside-left(everyone uses upside-down, but he’s too original to lower himself to other people’s terms). He was a nice kid, so he invited everyone he could to his party. The list included a few kids that were into obscure music and trends. These kids were the pioneers of the counter-culture in his community. You may know these people as hipsters. They intrigued Caelum. Their music was way better than any of the mainstream crap he listened to, their fashion sense was superior tenfold and they were able to hold intelligent conversations about meaningful things like no others.

The hipsters eventually formed a very tight-knit group over the next two years. The group became tighter than peanut butter and jelly. One could almost say that a hive mind was formed. They all shared the same interests, tastes, dislikes, fashion sense and at one point, the same toothbrush for a week. Caelum dated another member of the group for about two weeks until he found out that she had dated many others before him. Caelum preferred girls that were a little less mainstream and girls with amazing eyes.


Abilities and Possessions
Combat:
Caelum doesn’t fight. He hasn’t gotten into a single physical fight in his 20 years of life. Arguments are the man’s specialty. He argues semi-valid points until the opponent either gives up or overwhelms him with facts. In case the latter happens, he’ll start referencing obscure works or things he made up ad proceed to tell the opponent that they don’t know anything because they don’t know what he is talking about. This usually gives him an automatic win or defeat, depending on who is spectating the argument. Fellow hipsters will side with Caelum, while sane people will side with the other person.

When Caelum gets angry is when his true colors show. He begins to knock things over and break any object he can get his hands on. When people tell him to calm down or relax, he’ll yell at them and tell them his rage is too deep something that cannot be understood by non-intellectuals. Only a few out of his many friends know how to calm him down. After the young man finishes his rage fits, he promptly tosses his money around to pay for and replace anything he had broken or damaged. This is a technique only taught to the richest of the rich.


Items:
Cigarettes
A Flip Lighter
Sony α55 DSLR Camera and Lens
Sony NEX-VG10 Camcorder
Macbook Air & iMac
  • All Adobe Programs
  • Garage Band
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Angry Birds


    • Money: $23 on hand | $39,977 in bank account from parents’ $50,000 yearly allowance
      Upkeep: $11,450 per year for camera equipment and living expenses
      Hipster Cred Earned: 51
      Hipster Cred: 83
      • Used for Stats: 83
      • Used for Luck:

        • Strength: 10
        • Intellect: 26((26+15)-15)
        • Work Experience: 10
        • Personal Appeal: 27(37-10)
        • Luck: 20
      Traits:

      Pseudo Intellectual[3 Traits] – This character believes that they are highly a intelligent being though they are generally just of average or slightly above average intelligence. They read and partake in discussions of philosophy, politics, economics and sociology. They often throw around words with more than four syllables to make themselves seem smarter than they actually are. This character thinks their intellect is boosted by 60%. In reality, their personal appeal is lowered by 10.

      Seems Legit(1 Trait) – This character has a knack for discovering obscure fashion, music and other little-known things such as retro gaming. You might not know what a SNES is, but this character sees the beauty in such an antique console. At the end of every SL, this character will be given an item. This item may be something uncommon like the album of an indie band or a limited shirt that was only sold for a week, or it could be something rare like a vinyl player that someone threw out because no one purchased it at a garage sale.

      In-Learning (1 Trait) – This character is currently enrolled in a post-secondary educational facility. The character is studying the path of their choice and will be able to use these traits when they acquire two, four, six or eight traits, depending on their institutions’ enrollment policies.


      Techniques
      Regular Technique Points: 40
      Used Regular Technique Points: 32

      Nonchalant Techniques
      Whatever… (4)
      Type: Supportive
      Range: Self
      Stats: Intelligence +2
      Description: Caelum shrugs off any arguments someone throws at him. By him thinking the subject or argument is below him, he feels that he is much smarter than the other person, even if that person might be right.

      I’m Only Into Obscure Bands (4)
      Type: Offensive
      Range: In Earshot
      Stats: N/A
      Description: When someone into mainstream music goes on and on about how great their favorite band is, Caelum proceeds to put them down, stating that they have lost their soul by selling out or that all mainstream is garbage. He then proceeds to throw out obscure band names before telling the person to get ‘cultured’. The opponent is left devastated by these words, rendering their speech useless.

      Because Macs Don’t Get Viruses (8)
      Type: Offensive
      Range: Close
      Stats: N/A
      Description: There is a discussion going on about how great Windows is. Everyone is talking about how it is more customizable and open than a Mac. When Caelum enters the fray and is asked why Macs are better than PCs(even though all Macs are ‘Personal Computers’), his answer is simple: “Because Macs don’t get viruses or hacked.” Those hit with this technique are too dumbfounded to speak or move after being hit.


      Rich Parents Techniques
      Lawyer’d! (8)
      Type: Defensive
      Range: Self & Allies
      Stats: N/A
      Description: Whenever Caelum gets in trouble, be it copyright infringement from photos and videos or causing disturbances with loud music and/or parties, he immediately phones his parents’ highly expensive lawyers. The lawyers of Silverberg, Goldstein and Pennypinch can crush any case or dispute in a matter of seconds.

      Cashed-In (8)
      Type: Support
      Range: Self
      Stats: Personal Appeal + 5
      Description: If any of his equipment ever breaks, if he needs new equipment or items or just needs to flaunt to impress someone, he will dip into the money that his parents provide for him or just ask them directly. They have no qualms with pleasing their only son and are always glad to help. Getting new things makes him more attractive in the eyes of women and potential friends.



      Development History
      Gains/Losses:
      42 Hipster Cred ~ 1.8 Hipster Status ~ $ 100.45
      Bringing Guns to a Gunfight is Too Mainstream, So I Brought Knives Instead
      Purchased new lenses and upgrades to Sony NEX-VG10 Camcorder for $ 600
      Just Another Saturday in the Starbucks at the Corner of Silver & Wind Streets -9 Hipster Cred, $ 22.00, obtained Sarah’s phone number
      Edit Log:
      Edits


      Edited by Dicks the pony, Aug 14 2011, 08:03 AM.
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Money: $23 on hand | $39,977 in bank account from parents’ $50,000 yearly allowance
Upkeep: $11,450 per year for camera equipment and living expenses
Hipster Cred Earned: 51
Hipster Cred: 83
  • Used for Stats: 83
  • Used for Luck:

    • Strength: 10
    • Intellect: 26((26+15)-15)
    • Work Experience: 10
    • Personal Appeal: 27(37-10)
    • Luck: 20
Traits:

Pseudo Intellectual[3 Traits] – This character believes that they are highly a intelligent being though they are generally just of average or slightly above average intelligence. They read and partake in discussions of philosophy, politics, economics and sociology. They often throw around words with more than four syllables to make themselves seem smarter than they actually are. This character thinks their intellect is boosted by 60%. In reality, their personal appeal is lowered by 10.

Seems Legit(1 Trait) – This character has a knack for discovering obscure fashion, music and other little-known things such as retro gaming. You might not know what a SNES is, but this character sees the beauty in such an antique console. At the end of every SL, this character will be given an item. This item may be something uncommon like the album of an indie band or a limited shirt that was only sold for a week, or it could be something rare like a vinyl player that someone threw out because no one purchased it at a garage sale.

In-Learning (1 Trait) – This character is currently enrolled in a post-secondary educational facility. The character is studying the path of their choice and will be able to use these traits when they acquire two, four, six or eight traits, depending on their institutions’ enrollment policies.


Techniques
Regular Technique Points: 40
Used Regular Technique Points: 32

Nonchalant Techniques
Whatever… (4)
Type: Supportive
Range: Self
Stats: Intelligence +2
Description: Caelum shrugs off any arguments someone throws at him. By him thinking the subject or argument is below him, he feels that he is much smarter than the other person, even if that person might be right.

I’m Only Into Obscure Bands (4)
Type: Offensive
Range: In Earshot
Stats: N/A
Description: When someone into mainstream music goes on and on about how great their favorite band is, Caelum proceeds to put them down, stating that they have lost their soul by selling out or that all mainstream is garbage. He then proceeds to throw out obscure band names before telling the person to get ‘cultured’. The opponent is left devastated by these words, rendering their speech useless.

Because Macs Don’t Get Viruses (8)
Type: Offensive
Range: Close
Stats: N/A
Description: There is a discussion going on about how great Windows is. Everyone is talking about how it is more customizable and open than a Mac. When Caelum enters the fray and is asked why Macs are better than PCs(even though all Macs are ‘Personal Computers’), his answer is simple: “Because Macs don’t get viruses or hacked.” Those hit with this technique are too dumbfounded to speak or move after being hit.


Rich Parents Techniques
Lawyer’d! (8)
Type: Defensive
Range: Self & Allies
Stats: N/A
Description: Whenever Caelum gets in trouble, be it copyright infringement from photos and videos or causing disturbances with loud music and/or parties, he immediately phones his parents’ highly expensive lawyers. The lawyers of Silverberg, Goldstein and Pennypinch can crush any case or dispute in a matter of seconds.

Cashed-In (8)
Type: Support
Range: Self
Stats: Personal Appeal + 5
Description: If any of his equipment ever breaks, if he needs new equipment or items or just needs to flaunt to impress someone, he will dip into the money that his parents provide for him or just ask them directly. They have no qualms with pleasing their only son and are always glad to help. Getting new things makes him more attractive in the eyes of women and potential friends.



Development History
Gains/Losses:
42 Hipster Cred ~ 1.8 Hipster Status ~ $ 100.45
Bringing Guns to a Gunfight is Too Mainstream, So I Brought Knives Instead
Purchased new lenses and upgrades to Sony NEX-VG10 Camcorder for $ 600
Just Another Saturday in the Starbucks at the Corner of Silver & Wind Streets -9 Hipster Cred, $ 22.00, obtained Sarah’s phone number
Edit Log:
Edits


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