jim hawkins
Aug 9, 2010 13:51:40 GMT -5
Post by auryn991 on Aug 9, 2010 13:51:40 GMT -5
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age: fifteen
species: human
birthplace: Montressor
movie: Treasure Planet (2002)
title: I’m still here.
why: I’m a big fan of space stuff, a huge fan of pirates, and a gi-normous fan of renegade characters. The fact that Jim is such a juvenile delinquent draws me to him. His constant attitude issues swing home for me (both my brother and I have attitude problems and have gotten in trouble for them), and I have been in the position where the whole world gives up on you. I’ve had to prove myself the way Jim does so many times that this just feels like home.
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facial description/mood expressions: Jim Hawkins has by far one of the most expressive faces known to man. His angular features and heavy brows make him hard to miss anyway, and when he scowls, you’d better watch out. The sunken-in circles of his eyes show his stress, trying to show the world that he can be a good man. On the rare occasion that you catch Jim smiling, it’s like seeing a whole different side to him. He lights up, every edge on his face softens, and he looks like a different person entirely.
clothing style: Jim never did put a ton of thought into his clothes- he just wears what’s comfortable and practical. A basic tan or black peasant-style shirt with olive-drab cargo pants and an ordinary brown belt make up his ensemble. Usually, he throws his dad’s old brown leather jacket on top. Jim’s feet are almost always to be found in his old brown leather combat boots, which appeared in his room one day with no explanation (Sarah Hawkins still has no idea how they got there). Upon his return from his voyage on the Legacy, Jim was gifted with a new white and gold dress outfit, but he really hates to wear it. Only when his mother makes him.
body build: In terms of body build, Jim is what most of us would call “painfully average”. He is not large, being only fifteen, but neither is he excessively slender. True, it is somewhat difficult to judge him through his baggy clothes, but this is the conclusion most reach. Jim shows the signs of being a strong and able man later in life, and his present dexterity is truly remarkable. As famous pirate John Silver stated, “If I could maneuver a skiff like that when I was [Jim’s] age, they’d be bowin’ in the streets when I walk by today!” Sarah Hawkins expects her son to look much like his father when he becomes an adult.
any unique traits (optional): Jim’s most striking features are his eyes. Electric blue, they are a stark contrast to his generally dark appearance. If he’d stop racing around and let his guard down long enough for a girl to get a good look at those eyes, no doubt he’d be attached before you know it.
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history: Jim was born to very young parents- lovely, innocent Sarah and her husband Edward Hawkins, a retired spacer-turned-innkeeper who had stolen her heart. For seven years they lived happily, then Edward grew restless. Sarah begged and pleaded for him to stay, and he did for two more years. However, the year Jim turned nine, his father revealed that he was leaving and going back to open space as an Admiral in the Montressor Navy. Jim refused to believe it until the morning he woke up to find that his father had already left. He ran down to the docks to see him and only just missed his ship as it launched.
Though Edward’s disappearance was hard for both Jim and Sarah, they managed alright. Sarah took over as both the chief innkeeper and a full-time single mom. Jim didn’t adapt nearly as well- he took to acting out, getting into trouble while his mother was so busy. He was even put on probation, pretty much the waiting list for juvenile hall. The only thing Jim appeared to be any good at was mechanics. As the man of the house, Jim was responsible for all of the ‘handy-man’ jobs around the Benbow Inn, which got him started in playing with mechanics. He took old parts from around the inn and wherever else he could find and he made things, for example, he built his own solar-surfer (which was impounded less than a week after its completion).
Shortly after Jim turned fifteen, he was undergoing yet another row with his mother about his behavior when a ship crashed to a landing outside the Benbow. The pilot stumbled out, injured and dying, and Jim helped him into the inn. It wasn’t enough. Billy Bones, the ship’s pilot and one of the dreaded Capt. Flint’s pirate crew, was beyond helping. He took a small brass sphere from a locked chest, gave it to Jim, and said, “Beware the cyborg”. A fiery blaster-attack later, Jim and Sarah took shelter at a friend’s house, the celebrated astronomer Dr. Delbert Doppler. Jim soon discovered that the brass sphere Bones gave him was actually a 3-dimensional treasure map that worked like a spherical Rubix Cube and led to Treasure Planet. Seeing this as an amazing opportunity to make things right for his family and himself, Jim took to space on the R.L.S. Legacy (with Dr. Doppler as a chaperone).
On the Legacy, Jim was placed in the care of the ship’s cook, Long John Silver. An interesting character from stem to stern, Silver was a cyborg that Jim initially treated with caution, then eventually grew to trust. Silver acted for Jim in the way that his father should have, teaching him about how to keep a ship up and running and about how to be a man. It wasn’t terribly much of a shock when Jim discovered that Silver and the crew had once been Captain Flint’s men, and that they planned a mutiny to steal the treasure. When they reached Treasure Planet itself, Jim, Dr. Doppler, Captain Amelia, and their new friend B.E.N. (a robotic navigator marooned on the planet, a leftover from Captain Flint’s crew) went up against the mutinous crew of the Legacy in an explosive battle for life and treasure, which Jim and his fellows won. Silver managed to escape, the scalawag, but he disappeared and never returned. Jim returned to his mother on Montressor with a small fortune in his pocket, which they used to rebuild the Benbow Inn.
Since then, Jim has enrolled at the Interstellar Academy (with a stunning recommendation from Captain Amelia) and is to start his courses there in two months. Or was…
ambitions:
-to become captain of his own ship someday
-to take his mother into space with him
-to be legally allowed to own a weapon (not that he doesn’t own several anyway)
-to find his father and show him what he never should have left behind
strengths && abilities:
-confidence
-excellent handyman
-good at thinking on his feet, good improvisor
-highly intelligent (often masked by attitude)
flaws:
-attitude issues (limited sense of tact)
-anger management problems
-occasional arrogance
-problems with authority
likes:
-mechanics
-solar-surfing
-inventing
-making believe/acting (who knew, right?)
-telling stories
dislikes:
-straight happiness (bubbles, sunshine, rainbows, etc.)
-finding out he’s wrong
-menial tasks that seem unrelated to what he cares about (i.e. washing dishes, making food)
-babies (Jim works well with kids- but not babies)
fears:
-abandonment (serious issues here)
-failing at everything he attempts
-becoming a responsible adult
-lack of control (Jim hates when he can’t do anything to influence what goes on around him, he can’t stand being helpless)
what makes this character unique: Jim is not your average Disney princess character. Though Disney features many characters with questionable attitudes (Meg, Kenai, etc.), Jim is the only true juvenile delinquent. He doesn’t just deal with being left by his family, like Cinderella or Hercules, but reacts negatively as a real teenager would. He’s not one of those characters you just imagine an age for because you don’t know- he’s a real fifteen-year-old with real problems. The good part? He also comes with real solutions, real emotions, and my favorite aspect ever: Jim is not handsome, he doesn’t win a princess, and the story still has a happy ending. He makes his own fortunes.
RP SAMPLE:
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This was his place- the first place in his own home that he had felt comfortable in the last six years. His one little patch of rooftop, where he could see what he used to think was the most impressive expanse of sky. Of course, having flown through most of the galaxy, it wasn’t nearly as impressive now, it just filled him with a sense of longing to be back out there.
Not too long, kid, he told himself with a smug grin, thinking of the raving review Captain Amelia had sent in the direction of the Interstellar Academy. They had immediately responded with an offer for him to attend, full scholarship. It was the bright future his mother had always dreamed for him…so close he could taste it.
Jim laughed when he heard his mother and Dr. Doppler talking downstairs. They obviously didn’t realize how sound traveled when the vents were open.
“Delbert, have you seen Jim?”
“I can’t say that I have, Sarah. He’s not missing again?”
“I really think he’s been doing better, but if he’s out there getting into some kind of trouble, I swear-”
“At least check everywhere before you make any assumptions. Where does he usually turn up?”
“I don’t know where he’d be, he’s changed so much since he came back-”
“Well, where would he have been before?”
“The roof, probably.”
A moment later, the kitchen window opened, and Jim heard his mother calling him.
“Jim? Jim, are you up there?”
He sighed. “Yeah, Mom.”
“Well it’s time for the dinner rush, could you come help me out? I think B.E.N. short-circuited again, you’ll have to take a look at him.”
Grinning, Jim hopped straight off the roof edge, nudging his way through the kitchen door to give his mother a kiss on the cheek.
“No problem, Mom.”