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CAPITAL H APPLICATION
PLAYER STUFF
Name: Madi
Pronoun: she/her
Email address: runawayballista@gmail.com
Preferred contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
runawayballista (preferred), AIM: timetravelresetbaby
Other characters: Milly Baelheit, Julius Baelheit
CHARACTER STUFF
Name: Tom Haverford
Aliases: Tommy H, DJ Dazzle (nightclub persona, civilian), The Throb (nightclub persona, costumed)
Canon: Parks & Recreation (wiki link)
Role: Local government official, hero couture entrepreneur
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Appearance:
Origin story: Born Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani, he was born and raised in South Carolina. Charismatic to a fault (or so he believes, anyway) and always dreaming of a career in politics, changed his name to Tom Haverford so that people would take him more seriously in the political world. He struck out to California after college, but managed only to land a small government job in a small California town, where he worked in the Parks & Recreation Department under Leslie Knope. He worked in local government to get his political career started, but after a few years of dead-in-the-water small town California he decided his location wasn’t exciting enough to breathe any kind of real life into his career, so he made the BIG MOVE...to L.A.
L.A., the national capital for swagger and sweet nightclubs, is pretty much Tom’s dream location. Moreover, it has tons of superheroes. His political career is still pretty boring -- he went from one Parks Department to another, and while L.A.’s Parks Department is certainly bigger and grander than the last town’s was, Tom has found himself among much stiffer competition than Indiana ever provided. While it was easy for him to shine among the dull and broken crayons that made up small town local government, his imitation Jay-Z lifestyle and red carpet insoles seem to dimmer in comparison to his colleagues at the L.A. Parks Department. Not to be daunted nor discouraged from his notions of grandeur, however, he struck out as an entrepreneur. After a few failed startups with a less than competent business partner, Tom took out a small business loan and decided to go for a solo venture he felt would be uniquely suited to L.A.’s needs -- Rent-A-Swag.
Rent-A-Swag is Tom’s answer to the growing needs of the superhero (and villain -- hey, Tommy H don’t discriminate) community in L.A. His business offers affordable rental costumes to heroes just getting started, in a variety of sizes and styles -- many of them come from Tom’s very own “personal collection”, although he’s declined to elaborate on what that actually means. As a startup, Rent-A-Swag isn’t doing too poorly -- it’s starting to make a name for itself -- so now Tom’s looking to beef up its public image by recruiting local heroes with name brand value to sponsor it, as well as keeping on the lookout for anyone he might be able to hire to make costumes to sell, to add to the versatility of the business. He’s still working in local government as his day job, but somehow he still finds time to manage his store and play an active part in L.A. nightlife. Tommy lives for the club, boo.
Tom also has superpowers, which he discovered at the tender age of eleven while jamming out to the latest 2Pac album, but they’re pretty much useless so instead of trying to make a career out of being a superhero, he’d rather be a hero promoter.
Personality: Tom does his level best to appear swaggering and boastful at all times; he tries to ooze charm and class out of every pore, but since he’s kind of a tryhard, he just winds up coming off as cheesy and, at times, cheap. But his tawdry air is all part of his charisma and part of what makes him endearing, even when he’s being a pain in the ass. Despite his starry-eyed notions of his own sense of style, In some ways, he’s keenly aware of how others perceive him, and it motivates him only to try harder. At heart he isn’t a bad guy, but in a lot of ways he’s childish and immature; he can be a bit of a bully when it comes to teasing people he deems uncool, and his cool cat facade crumbles away into petulant whining as soon as things stop going his way. He has good sense knocking around somewhere in his head, but his instinct leads him to choose flash over substance most of the time, and his heavy emphasis on appearances often overtakes his better judgment. That said, when he knows he’s made a mistake or hurt someone, he usually feels bad (at least for a moment) and will often apologize for it.
Tom is snarky, often witty, and easily bored. He can’t stand the dreariness and dullness of everyday life -- he wants to live like a celebrity, big and bold. He tends to be underachieving when it comes to his government work, but he can actually work quite hard when there’s something he wants. He’s cleverer than most people give him credit for and can be quite inventive; he’s almost always scheming and planning, although his own shortsightedness often makes for a bumpy road to success. Hard work doesn’t come to him naturally, though, and he almost always chooses fun over work. He almost always takes the shortcut if there is one; he’s susceptible to the new and shiny and almost always takes the new over the old. He’s easily bored and easily distracted, and tends to have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to most things. He considers himself quite the ladies’ man and is a gigantic flirt, but has no actual idea of how to talk to or connect with women; he tries WAY too hard and strikes out more often than not. He goes out of his way to make himself stand out and likes to jazz up his own speech with abbreviations and neologisms that, honestly, nobody really gives a shit about except Tom.
Tom is very much a product of his generation. He embodies and embraces pop culture, especially when it comes to social media. He’s waist-deep in social networking accounts and is on them constantly. He might as well be surgically attached to his iPhone; he’s pretty materialistic and impulse buys shit tons of useless crap, and he has a lot of self-indulgent tendencies when it comes to spending money. He’s completely lost without electronics and the internet; he’s incredibly reliant on modern technology, and while he might be an aficionado of skincare products, he has no idea how to take care of most things himself. If you left him in the woods without a smartphone for two days, he would probably die.
Differences from canon: TOM IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME TBH the only difference is that he’s got superpowers and he’s moved to L.A., and that his business is focused on superheroes rather than middle-school-aged boys. SAME OL’ TOMMY TOM
Power level: E
Powers: Tom Haverford is basically Dazzler, if Dazzler were really into Kanye West and also was completely useless. That is to say, Tom’s powers largely lie in the domain of converting sonic input to photic output, i.e., converting ambient sound into light. This works especially well with music, and Tom has made a little bit of a name for himself in the DJ circuit just because of his light shows, not because his DJing is any good (it isn’t). That is pretty much the extent of what he can do; if pressed he could probably scream and generate enough light to temporarily blind someone, but he is really basically useless in a combat situation. He prefers to use his powers to create little self-made disco lights to dazzle people at presentations, or, you know, just jazz up an ordinary conversation. Swag style.
Team affiliation: N/A
First person sample: MAN I GOT SO MANY TWEETS
Prose sample: Tom chats up Space Ghost.
Name: Madi
Pronoun: she/her
Email address: runawayballista@gmail.com
Preferred contact:
Other characters: Milly Baelheit, Julius Baelheit
CHARACTER STUFF
Name: Tom Haverford
Aliases: Tommy H, DJ Dazzle (nightclub persona, civilian), The Throb (nightclub persona, costumed)
Canon: Parks & Recreation (wiki link)
Role: Local government official, hero couture entrepreneur
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Appearance:
Origin story: Born Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani, he was born and raised in South Carolina. Charismatic to a fault (or so he believes, anyway) and always dreaming of a career in politics, changed his name to Tom Haverford so that people would take him more seriously in the political world. He struck out to California after college, but managed only to land a small government job in a small California town, where he worked in the Parks & Recreation Department under Leslie Knope. He worked in local government to get his political career started, but after a few years of dead-in-the-water small town California he decided his location wasn’t exciting enough to breathe any kind of real life into his career, so he made the BIG MOVE...to L.A.
L.A., the national capital for swagger and sweet nightclubs, is pretty much Tom’s dream location. Moreover, it has tons of superheroes. His political career is still pretty boring -- he went from one Parks Department to another, and while L.A.’s Parks Department is certainly bigger and grander than the last town’s was, Tom has found himself among much stiffer competition than Indiana ever provided. While it was easy for him to shine among the dull and broken crayons that made up small town local government, his imitation Jay-Z lifestyle and red carpet insoles seem to dimmer in comparison to his colleagues at the L.A. Parks Department. Not to be daunted nor discouraged from his notions of grandeur, however, he struck out as an entrepreneur. After a few failed startups with a less than competent business partner, Tom took out a small business loan and decided to go for a solo venture he felt would be uniquely suited to L.A.’s needs -- Rent-A-Swag.
Rent-A-Swag is Tom’s answer to the growing needs of the superhero (and villain -- hey, Tommy H don’t discriminate) community in L.A. His business offers affordable rental costumes to heroes just getting started, in a variety of sizes and styles -- many of them come from Tom’s very own “personal collection”, although he’s declined to elaborate on what that actually means. As a startup, Rent-A-Swag isn’t doing too poorly -- it’s starting to make a name for itself -- so now Tom’s looking to beef up its public image by recruiting local heroes with name brand value to sponsor it, as well as keeping on the lookout for anyone he might be able to hire to make costumes to sell, to add to the versatility of the business. He’s still working in local government as his day job, but somehow he still finds time to manage his store and play an active part in L.A. nightlife. Tommy lives for the club, boo.
Tom also has superpowers, which he discovered at the tender age of eleven while jamming out to the latest 2Pac album, but they’re pretty much useless so instead of trying to make a career out of being a superhero, he’d rather be a hero promoter.
Personality: Tom does his level best to appear swaggering and boastful at all times; he tries to ooze charm and class out of every pore, but since he’s kind of a tryhard, he just winds up coming off as cheesy and, at times, cheap. But his tawdry air is all part of his charisma and part of what makes him endearing, even when he’s being a pain in the ass. Despite his starry-eyed notions of his own sense of style, In some ways, he’s keenly aware of how others perceive him, and it motivates him only to try harder. At heart he isn’t a bad guy, but in a lot of ways he’s childish and immature; he can be a bit of a bully when it comes to teasing people he deems uncool, and his cool cat facade crumbles away into petulant whining as soon as things stop going his way. He has good sense knocking around somewhere in his head, but his instinct leads him to choose flash over substance most of the time, and his heavy emphasis on appearances often overtakes his better judgment. That said, when he knows he’s made a mistake or hurt someone, he usually feels bad (at least for a moment) and will often apologize for it.
Tom is snarky, often witty, and easily bored. He can’t stand the dreariness and dullness of everyday life -- he wants to live like a celebrity, big and bold. He tends to be underachieving when it comes to his government work, but he can actually work quite hard when there’s something he wants. He’s cleverer than most people give him credit for and can be quite inventive; he’s almost always scheming and planning, although his own shortsightedness often makes for a bumpy road to success. Hard work doesn’t come to him naturally, though, and he almost always chooses fun over work. He almost always takes the shortcut if there is one; he’s susceptible to the new and shiny and almost always takes the new over the old. He’s easily bored and easily distracted, and tends to have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to most things. He considers himself quite the ladies’ man and is a gigantic flirt, but has no actual idea of how to talk to or connect with women; he tries WAY too hard and strikes out more often than not. He goes out of his way to make himself stand out and likes to jazz up his own speech with abbreviations and neologisms that, honestly, nobody really gives a shit about except Tom.
Tom is very much a product of his generation. He embodies and embraces pop culture, especially when it comes to social media. He’s waist-deep in social networking accounts and is on them constantly. He might as well be surgically attached to his iPhone; he’s pretty materialistic and impulse buys shit tons of useless crap, and he has a lot of self-indulgent tendencies when it comes to spending money. He’s completely lost without electronics and the internet; he’s incredibly reliant on modern technology, and while he might be an aficionado of skincare products, he has no idea how to take care of most things himself. If you left him in the woods without a smartphone for two days, he would probably die.
Differences from canon: TOM IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME TBH the only difference is that he’s got superpowers and he’s moved to L.A., and that his business is focused on superheroes rather than middle-school-aged boys. SAME OL’ TOMMY TOM
Power level: E
Powers: Tom Haverford is basically Dazzler, if Dazzler were really into Kanye West and also was completely useless. That is to say, Tom’s powers largely lie in the domain of converting sonic input to photic output, i.e., converting ambient sound into light. This works especially well with music, and Tom has made a little bit of a name for himself in the DJ circuit just because of his light shows, not because his DJing is any good (it isn’t). That is pretty much the extent of what he can do; if pressed he could probably scream and generate enough light to temporarily blind someone, but he is really basically useless in a combat situation. He prefers to use his powers to create little self-made disco lights to dazzle people at presentations, or, you know, just jazz up an ordinary conversation. Swag style.
Team affiliation: N/A
First person sample: MAN I GOT SO MANY TWEETS
Prose sample: Tom chats up Space Ghost.