Post by Professor Martin Torque on Aug 12, 2020 7:13:29 GMT -5
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Introduce yourself
Hey, howdy, hey! The name's FloTheJungleDal, and I wished upon a star from this site. My other imaginary friends include Mowgli, Little John, Patch, Heckler, and Nakoma. Professor Martin Torque and I are so very eager to join the Worlds of Disney circle of life!
Character basics
Character name: Professor Martin Torque
Age: 32
Species: Dog (Doberman)
Birthplace: The suburbs of Cape Suzette
Movie: TaleSpin
Custom title: That Lousy Inventor
Why'd you pick this character? There’s a number of one-shot characters in TaleSpin, and I want to give one of them some growth. I think this character will be the best choice for that. He’s cute, he’s into building robots that can help people with tasks, and he’s always hungry for money. That’s a kind of character that interests me enough to work with.
Character appearance (try to get at least 2 or 3 sentences for each section)
Hair description: Professor Martin Torque has no head hair like that of a human. However, he does have brown fur, except on his eyes, hands, feet, and the area that starts at his muzzle and goes down his neck, chest, and belly, all of which he has tan fur.
Facial description/mood/expressions: Professor Martin Torque has plain black eyes, tan eye patches, ears that are always pointed up, a black nose, and a tan muzzle (except at the area above the nose). He often feels and expresses pride, annoyance, shock, and cowardice.
Clothing style: As an inventor who likes to sell his inventions to the public, Professor Martin Torque always dresses professionally. He usually wears suits, ties, and fedoras, and he always wears colors of black, white, gray, cream, and almond. Whenever he wears a fedora, his ears go through it between the band and the brim.
Body build: Professor Martin Torque is tall and slender. He is not strong at all, as he easily gets hurt in physical attacks, which usually sends him flying several feet backwards before he lands or crashes somewhere.
Any unique traits (optional): None.
Original character analysis (In your own words and please be thorough)
Personality:
Professor Martin Torque is mean, greedy, and selfish. While he is an inventor and likes to invent things and sell his inventions, he only does this for a whole ton of money, and he never chooses to give customers refunds if there are any flaws in his inventions, that is, unless any said customers do something that threatens or intimidates him, like Shere Khan. He also insults anyone working in other companies in the industry that he’s inventing for and anyone he’s using his inventions to replace with, like Baloo and other pilots in the case of the latter.
While he is an inventor with the title of “professor”, he really isn’t that smart. With every invention that he has worked on, there’s a glaring flaw in what he designs that invention to do, such as when he has invented the Auto-Aviator and has designed it to stick to its flight path and never deviate from it, meaning that it can’t handle any emergency situations that call for a course change, such as when Shere Khan’s plane was attacked by Don Karnage and his crew of Air Pirates. He never notices the flaw in each one of his inventions until it’s too late, and when he finally does notice the flaw in that invention, he repeatedly tries to control it, only to end up failing each time.
He can also be cowardly. Whenever there’s something or someone that scares him, no matter how big or small it is, he will back away and protect himself by blocking it with his arms, lose his cool and panic or scream or shout, run away from it, or lie his way out of it. One of the biggest demonstrations of his cowardly behavior is during the attack caused by the Air Pirates when he and Shere Khan were on the tiger’s plane; during that situation, he panickingly cried for help on the radio, and when that situation was over, he cowered when he was being confronted by Shere Khan for disappointing him agreeing in panic to take back all the Auto-Aviators and give back all the money when he was held outside the plane by the tiger.
History:
Professor Martin Torque was born and raised in the suburbs of Cape Suzette. As a child, Martin was raised by his father, who was an inventor and salesman. He was also taught by his father how to invent and sell things, and taken to places where inventions were worked on and business was done to watch how things worked in his father’s job so he would know exactly what to do when he got older and started working that job himself.
When Martin was in his late teens, he started working the same job his father worked. The first invention that he worked on and sold was the Multi-Cooker; this was invented to cook many different kinds of food at the same time. While the Multi-Cooker grabbed the attention of many people and made a lot of money for Martin, the one flaw that it had was that it had only one cooking method, and the cooked food almost always ended up coming out wrong as a result. The Multi-Cooker flopped within less than a day, and it made Martin’s father be very disappointed in him.
Ever since the failure of the Multi-Cooker, Martin had been struggling to come up with more ideas for inventions. When he became an adult and started living on his own, he worked on many throwaway inventions and hoped that something good would come out of them. As the years went by, he did get some good ideas for inventions, and he worked on several of those inventions, sold them, and made a good amount of money from them. However, with every product he invented and sold, the same results as those of the Multi-Cooker were met: each invention had a glaring flaw that he never noticed until after customers who bought that invention experienced it themselves, and Martin had no choice but to take it back and give them their money back.
Martin had been down on his luck for those years, but when he went to Louie’s one day and heard two groups of pilots, the Freelancers and Khan’s Pilots, brag to each other about who were the best pilots, he was inspired to come up with something that could be very useful and profitable in the aviation industry. So, he asked Louie which pilots were the best, and he got his answer, which was Baloo, when the bear arrived. He then disappeared from sight and took some notes just as he was about to be introduced to Baloo by Louie, and he spent the entire night at home inventing the Auto-Aviator, a robot pilot designed to never eat, never sleep, and never deviate from its flight path.
After the Auto-Aviator was completed, Martin took it over to a cargo delivery business called Higher For Hire the next morning and rented the cargo plane there called the Sea Duck for a large amount of money to test his invention, only to be interrupted and confronted by Baloo, who thought that the plane was being stolen. After the misunderstanding was cleared up by Rebecca Cunningham, the owner of Higher For Hire, Martin finished up making adjustments to his invention and explained to Baloo that it represented the future of aviation, and that it was designed to repulse interference and never deviate from its flight path. Martin then vowed to one-up Baloo in terms of cleverness after being whacked on the floor repeatedly by the back of the pilot seat when the bear tricked the Auto-Aviator to press a button that caused that to happen.
Martin tested the Auto-Aviator for hours, and it flew the Sea Duck perfectly without a single incident. After the test, he was met by reporters whom he called earlier and by Baloo. With the reporters present, Martin announced Baloo to them as the best pilot there ever was, but then went on to insult Baloo by referring to him as “the pilot of the past” being replaced by “the pilot of the future”, brushing off the bear’s point about real pilots handling storms and Air Pirates with his explanation of the Auto-Aviator’s purpose, and comparing real pilots to dinosaurs, resulting in the Doberman being punched in the left eye by the bear as pictures were taken for the front page.
Martin later went on to discuss with Shere Khan at the tiger’s office about Baloo’s behavior and an offer of multiple Auto-Aviators to the tiger. He was taken aback when Shere Khan told him that Baloo may have had a point about the robots not being able to control all situations, and that the tiger would consider buying a thousand of those robots if the invention was put to the test against a real pilot and won. So, Martin accepted a challenge from Baloo the next day after being seen by then with a client of his (a turkey who was supposed to be Rebecca’s client), with the winner of that challenge being the world’s best pilot.
The challenge, which was a race to Tundra City and back to Cape Suzette within forty hours (with cargo picked up from the competitors’ destination), was won by the Auto-Aviator due to it sticking to its flight path the entire time without stopping for anything along the way and Baloo feeling tired, falling asleep after flying for so many hours, and running out of fuel at some point during the flight. This put all the the pilots in Cape Suzette out of work and all the cargo delivery businesses in the city out of business; with that, Auto-Aviators were built in one of the factories in Khan Industries, and Martin made a whole lot more money from the Auto-Aviator than he ever made from all his other inventions and celebrated the success of it with Shere Khan at the tiger’s plane with a toast to it.
When the toast to the Auto-Aviator was interrupted by the Air Pirates, Martin handled the situation very poorly, especially when Baloo came into Shere Khan’s plane and handled it properly. This included physically making a turn to dodge the attacks from the Air Pirates, panicking when calling for help, blocking the door when the thought the Air Pirates were going to break in, and attacking Baloo for destroying the Auto-Aviator by spraying a bottle of soda pop on it, all of which were met with bad results. Once the situation was handled, Martin was confronted by Shere Khan for disappointing him and held outside the plane by the tiger, which was enough to convince the Doberman that it sounded fair that he gave back all the tiger’s money and took back all his robots. After all that was settled, all cargo delivery services were back in business, all cargo pilots were back to work, and Martin and the Auto-Aviators were all banished from Cape Suzette to Thembria, where he reprogrammed the robots as Mechani-Maids.
Martin had the Mechani-Maids for sale outside a train station in a blizzard, but everyone passing by either were uninterested in the robots when they saw them or didn’t even bother to pay any attention. As Martin stood out in the harsh cold even longer, he became very desperate for money to be made from his robots and ended up catching a cold. The freezing weather had gotten even worse for him to the point where he ended up very sick, penniless, and unconscious. While he was out cold, everything around him changed, and he saw and felt all the changes around him hours after he woke up. He found himself in a place that appeared to have some interesting machines he wished he invented himself.
Ambitions:
Professor Martin Torque’s ambitions are to invent things that he hope will be flawless and make a whole lot of money from them. If he ever manages to achieve that, he hopes to keep all the money he will possibly make from those inventions and not be made to give it back to the customers who will have bought them.
Strengths & abilities:
Professor Martin Torque is capable of inventing things that can make lives easier for people, and he is able to make a whole lot of money from what he invents and sells. He can be creative with the things he invents, and he can think of good ideas for inventions by just listening, watching, and taking notes on things going on around him that are worth paying attention to.
Flaws:
Professor Martin Torque is very physically weak; not only does he easily get hurt in physical attacks, but he also isn’t good at attacking someone else at all, such as when he tried to attack Baloo for destroying his Auto-Aviator with sprayed soda pop by grabbing the bear’s nose and pulling his ear, all while calling him a barbarian. He also doesn’t take any time to think about or notice any of the flaws in what he designs his inventions to do; he always thinks that his inventions are perfect, and he never notices the flaws in any of his inventions until after they have been bought and used by customers. The Auto-Aviator not deviating from its flight path to handle any situations is one of the biggest examples of this. Even worse, he never learns from his mistakes when it comes to inventing things; not only does he keep failing to notice the flaws in his inventions until it’s too late, but he also keeps making the same attempt to control each invention over and over, failing each time and not making any progress. The biggest example is when he tries to get the Auto-Aviator to make a turn during the attacks from the Air Pirates by grabbing the wheel and trying to steer it, only to end up being electrocuted by his invention, flying backwards across Shere Khan’s plane, and landing on his back near the tiger each time.
Likes:
Money, his inventions being successful, orange drinks in tall glasses, putting competitors out of work/business
Dislikes:
Being broke, his inventions being failures, competitors still in work/business, violence used on him
Fears:
Being out of work/business, being penniless, being confronted by dissatisfied customers or anyone tougher than him
Anything to add?:
None.
RP SAMPLE:
PAST TENSE ONLY. MUST BE ABOUT THE CHARACTER FOR WHOM YOU ARE APPLYING.
See Mowgli.
