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halfofeverything) wrote2013-12-06 06:18 am
halfofeverything) wrote2013-12-06 06:18 am
APPLICATION
User Name/Nick: vilify
User DW: lavanille
AIM/IM: n/a
E-mail: hatofrabbits @ gmail
Other Characters: Motorcycle Boy, David Cain
Character Name: Alec Trevelyan
Series: James Bond: GoldenEye
Age: In his late 40's or early 50's
From When?: From after he rams James Bond's tank with his train.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Because Alec is a megalomaniac with dreams of destroying London (and then presumably Paris, New York, any major city that's near and dear to people who don't like being extorted by an ex-spy). He turned traitor because his parents were betrayed by the British government and he was just old enough to remember seeing them killed...but he also has a fair amount of greed and lust and pride to top off all that wrath. He's used to the slippery morals of the government, and the blind ignorance of civilian life. Seeing that there's more to society than that will help him to grow.
Abilities/Powers: Alec is just your baseline human with extraordinary training. He's a whiz with weapons, hand to hand fighting, languages, technology, and culture. That being said, he's human, and not only that but a middle-aged human who spent his life in the line of fire...erego he's got some permanent scars and aches and pains.
Personality: MI-6 in the Bond world is said to seek out people with no familial ties. That's how Alec Trevelyan and James Bond both became agents. However, you could say the family the agents have is made among one another; James and Alec certainly seemed to have a brotherhood between the two of them. "You know, James and I shared everything. Absolutely everything."
Over and over through the movie, Alec pushes at the ideals of loyalty and friendship. During the opening scene his dialogue is peppered with inside jokes even as he and James go about setting up bombs and shooting down scientists. Later, he bitterly repeats many of the quips and phrases verbatim, reminding James (and himself, one would think) that Alec was the one left in a missile silo, that James would never have chosen to save Alec's life if it meant endangering the mission.
Following the disaster at the missile silo, Alec takes on the “lone soldier” persona that James has...but it’s only noticeable if you know him. He surrounds himself with people who are loyal to him (General Ourumov, Xenia Onatopp, an army of mercenaries and mobsters). None of these people ever turn on him, even when Alec’s treachery is pointed out to them. When Ourumov begins to doubt, Alec becomes a soothing, steady figure who appeals to Ourumov’s biggest weakness: money. Alec might not be able to trust someone to be loyal out of the bonds of friendship, but he has learned how to make ‘friends’ through other, more powerful motivators.
His own motivations are more complex. He craves fidelity and solidarity, and is capable of offering it in return--James Bond would never have trusted him otherwise. But his parents' deaths must have left a mark since he remembers them clearly, and his life at MI-6 meant knowing one day he would be simply an "anonymous star on the memorial board". His parents, along with all Lienz Cossacks, were all but erased from history when Stalin had them killed. Dying for MI-6 would mean being similarly erased. Because the British were the reason the Cossacks were sent back to Stalin, this fact must have been especially bitter for Alec: the British government was behind every death in his entire family, someday probably even his own. To him the government showed no remorse, and no gratitude, leaving a sense of being used and then discarded.
He has the patience and foresight to work out long-term plans, which means he probably began plotting against the British years before he defected to the Russian mafia. He was willing to set aside his hatred for nearly thirty years while he climbed the ranks of British espionage. Had the silo mission gone differently, had he not come to hate James, it’s hard to say how he would have ended up handling his desire for revenge. He remembers his parents’ murder-suicide, although he was very young; it’s safe to say that with a mind like his, he was thinking of revenge when he allowed MI-6 to recruit and train him.
When he steals the Goldeneye he plans to use it to knock out everything electrical in London, and to steal the wealth of Great Britain. Had the Goldeneye been useful only for destruction, he would have seen it through all the same. As far as Ourumov knows, Alec’s scheme is about money. But when Alec is sniping at James, he focuses on the hatred and pain that MI-6 caused him. He only cares about money as far as it’s convenient to steal it and further devastate any survivors of the Goldeneye blast. What Alec Trevelyan really boils down to is rage and revenge--and under that fear; you don’t come through all that without it.
The movie only offers a few hints at the sort of person Alec was before he became Janus. To be friends with someone like James Bond is difficult. To be his best friend, his main confidant, is nearly impossible--other than Alec, we only see him become that close with one person in other films (Vesper Lynd).
The fact that Alec did become so close with someone who was loyal to the British government says a lot about who Alec is underneath his vendetta. For everything he’s done, or ends up planning to do, Alec wants a friend. He wants the safety of knowing that someone will side with him despite their ideals, and he wants someone who is at least as capable and self-sufficient as he is. This isn’t out of arrogance so much as professionally trained scrutiny, and it’s a fair trade because he offers back the same things he demands.
He is someone methodical enough to learn what a person truly wants, and to care enough to make them feel safe with him. And he is loyal when it comes down to it. Although James accuses Alec of being completely disloyal (“He’ll betray you, just like everyone else”) Alec never really does turn on his partners. He is ruthless, yes, and he will allow them to be killed in the line of duty--just as MI-6 would--but he never betrays them.
He's keenly aware of other people, but not inclined to analyze himself. Alec never seems to understand that he betrayed James first. It's not that he doesn't care that he did; it's that he honestly seems to think that James should have understood what Alec was doing and why, when he staged his own death. The one time the subject is touched, all Alec says is that he "knew" James would never have stuck with him.
Alec is deeply pragmatic, except when his emotions are involved; then nothing gets through except the concept of evening the score. He's even willing to risk his life just to prove he's unwilling to back down or surrender, like when he literally rams an empty tank with a bullet train--with himself still inside.
He has other weaknesses as well, which tend to mirror James's: he is fond of good food and nice clothing, he wants money--a lot of money, all the money in the world--so that he can have an even greater level of power. And, of course, he can't resist a pretty face. As a Double-Oh agent, and then later as head of a faction of the Russian mafia, Alec has access to most of those things whenever he likes. After the life-threatening, thankless and often pointless tasks he completed for MI-6, it makes sense that he would need to indulge in some form of escapism, and that he would seek out a form of control previously denied to him by his career.
As far as strengths go, he has the obvious skillset given to him by his run as 006. And he also clearly has the capacity to do good, and even to form lasting friendships, if he can figure out how to stop putting himself first.
Barge Reactions: Alec is highly adaptable so floods and ports and the like won't scare him off. He'll also be quite at home figuring out how to deal with so many different backgrounds and cultures. He will, however, attempt to cause trouble when and if it suits his needs.
Path to Redemption: Although Alec clearly and openly cares about the fact he's an orphan, and although he blames the government (sometimes rightly) for having failed people, that's not the way to get to him. Sharing war wounds will only inspire him to try to manipulate the other person. What will work on him is being in the heat of battle, and finding out that his warden will actually fight alongside him rather than leaving him to fix things on his own (or leaving him for dead). He's not empathetic, and doesn't respond well to others who are--someone who operates like he does, pragmatically and ruthlessly, will get his respect. Especially since loyalty does matter to him, and if you can be loyal and ruthless at the same time, you're probably going to win him over.
History: Alec Trevelyan was born in Russia to two Lienz Cossacks--Russians who sided with Nazi Germany to try to take down Stalin. Toward the end of the war, the Cossacks surrendered and many fled to Britain. Following the end of the War, the British gathered them up and gave them all back over to Stalin, who executed or shipped them off to gulags in Siberia and the northern USSR. Alec's parents survived and had their only son, but shortly after, his father decided to end his own life, and his wife's.
The British government took in the newly orphaned Alec and groomed him to be an agent for their side, presumably because they thought Alec was too young to remember his parents' murder-suicide. While training or shortly after earning his double-oh number, he met and befriended James Bond. The two of them went on missions together, "toppling dictators", "undermining regimes", and sneaking into missile silos.
On their last mission together they slipped into a Soviet military base, and were tasked with blowing it up. Bond was unaware that at this point, Alec had already defected and arranged a way to fake his own death and escape into Russia's underbelly. Unfortunately for Alec, Bond set their explosive timers for 3 minutes instead of the agreed-upon 6 minutes. While Bond escaped, Alec was left in the blast zone. He recovered, but is permanently scarred on the right half of his body.
After his recovery, he assumed the name of Janus and began forming his own faction of the Russian mafia. And that's what brings James Bond and the British government back into his life, so many years later...
Sample Journal Entry: Now this...this I did not expect. [He's up on the deck, observing the stars, tapping a fist against the ship.] Fitting sort of prison though, very state of the art, isn't it? And the international flavor is... [his upper lip twitches, and he licks it, seeming at once disdainful and pleased] well, it's unique, isn't it?
Altruistic of you, Admiral, to think so many of us might get along on such a little tugboat. Of course, you might be right. Isolate people and they either band together or tear each other apart. Either way, it makes for a very captivating story for you lot, doesn't it?
Sample RP: Alec was already used to the finest pleasures in the bleakest settings. He had, after all, made his living in the most destitute countries on earth. He had sipped Krug Clos Du Mesnil while he watched the ruins of Soviet countries zip past his window. Being in a space prison, having access to a library and spa, to undiscovered worlds and endless adventure, that seemed--as he'd said--fitting for someone with his background.
Locking up a Double-Oh agent in a conventional prison and expecting anything but mayhem was just ludicrous. At least here, he could be distracted, maybe even put to use. Not that he planned on being useful to anyone. The Admiral was giving him enough rope that Alec could hang the whole ship with it, given time. And what did he have, if not time?
The one place he had no interest in using was the weight room (or whatever they called it on board). But that was the first place he went, anyway, to see what tools were there, and what people made use of them. He didn't have high hopes for recruiting any followers here, not with Wardens being bribed by the Admiral and Inmates being watched so closely, but it would be remiss of him not to at least check.
User DW: lavanille
AIM/IM: n/a
E-mail: hatofrabbits @ gmail
Other Characters: Motorcycle Boy, David Cain
Character Name: Alec Trevelyan
Series: James Bond: GoldenEye
Age: In his late 40's or early 50's
From When?: From after he rams James Bond's tank with his train.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Because Alec is a megalomaniac with dreams of destroying London (and then presumably Paris, New York, any major city that's near and dear to people who don't like being extorted by an ex-spy). He turned traitor because his parents were betrayed by the British government and he was just old enough to remember seeing them killed...but he also has a fair amount of greed and lust and pride to top off all that wrath. He's used to the slippery morals of the government, and the blind ignorance of civilian life. Seeing that there's more to society than that will help him to grow.
Abilities/Powers: Alec is just your baseline human with extraordinary training. He's a whiz with weapons, hand to hand fighting, languages, technology, and culture. That being said, he's human, and not only that but a middle-aged human who spent his life in the line of fire...erego he's got some permanent scars and aches and pains.
Personality: MI-6 in the Bond world is said to seek out people with no familial ties. That's how Alec Trevelyan and James Bond both became agents. However, you could say the family the agents have is made among one another; James and Alec certainly seemed to have a brotherhood between the two of them. "You know, James and I shared everything. Absolutely everything."
Over and over through the movie, Alec pushes at the ideals of loyalty and friendship. During the opening scene his dialogue is peppered with inside jokes even as he and James go about setting up bombs and shooting down scientists. Later, he bitterly repeats many of the quips and phrases verbatim, reminding James (and himself, one would think) that Alec was the one left in a missile silo, that James would never have chosen to save Alec's life if it meant endangering the mission.
Following the disaster at the missile silo, Alec takes on the “lone soldier” persona that James has...but it’s only noticeable if you know him. He surrounds himself with people who are loyal to him (General Ourumov, Xenia Onatopp, an army of mercenaries and mobsters). None of these people ever turn on him, even when Alec’s treachery is pointed out to them. When Ourumov begins to doubt, Alec becomes a soothing, steady figure who appeals to Ourumov’s biggest weakness: money. Alec might not be able to trust someone to be loyal out of the bonds of friendship, but he has learned how to make ‘friends’ through other, more powerful motivators.
His own motivations are more complex. He craves fidelity and solidarity, and is capable of offering it in return--James Bond would never have trusted him otherwise. But his parents' deaths must have left a mark since he remembers them clearly, and his life at MI-6 meant knowing one day he would be simply an "anonymous star on the memorial board". His parents, along with all Lienz Cossacks, were all but erased from history when Stalin had them killed. Dying for MI-6 would mean being similarly erased. Because the British were the reason the Cossacks were sent back to Stalin, this fact must have been especially bitter for Alec: the British government was behind every death in his entire family, someday probably even his own. To him the government showed no remorse, and no gratitude, leaving a sense of being used and then discarded.
He has the patience and foresight to work out long-term plans, which means he probably began plotting against the British years before he defected to the Russian mafia. He was willing to set aside his hatred for nearly thirty years while he climbed the ranks of British espionage. Had the silo mission gone differently, had he not come to hate James, it’s hard to say how he would have ended up handling his desire for revenge. He remembers his parents’ murder-suicide, although he was very young; it’s safe to say that with a mind like his, he was thinking of revenge when he allowed MI-6 to recruit and train him.
When he steals the Goldeneye he plans to use it to knock out everything electrical in London, and to steal the wealth of Great Britain. Had the Goldeneye been useful only for destruction, he would have seen it through all the same. As far as Ourumov knows, Alec’s scheme is about money. But when Alec is sniping at James, he focuses on the hatred and pain that MI-6 caused him. He only cares about money as far as it’s convenient to steal it and further devastate any survivors of the Goldeneye blast. What Alec Trevelyan really boils down to is rage and revenge--and under that fear; you don’t come through all that without it.
The movie only offers a few hints at the sort of person Alec was before he became Janus. To be friends with someone like James Bond is difficult. To be his best friend, his main confidant, is nearly impossible--other than Alec, we only see him become that close with one person in other films (Vesper Lynd).
The fact that Alec did become so close with someone who was loyal to the British government says a lot about who Alec is underneath his vendetta. For everything he’s done, or ends up planning to do, Alec wants a friend. He wants the safety of knowing that someone will side with him despite their ideals, and he wants someone who is at least as capable and self-sufficient as he is. This isn’t out of arrogance so much as professionally trained scrutiny, and it’s a fair trade because he offers back the same things he demands.
He is someone methodical enough to learn what a person truly wants, and to care enough to make them feel safe with him. And he is loyal when it comes down to it. Although James accuses Alec of being completely disloyal (“He’ll betray you, just like everyone else”) Alec never really does turn on his partners. He is ruthless, yes, and he will allow them to be killed in the line of duty--just as MI-6 would--but he never betrays them.
He's keenly aware of other people, but not inclined to analyze himself. Alec never seems to understand that he betrayed James first. It's not that he doesn't care that he did; it's that he honestly seems to think that James should have understood what Alec was doing and why, when he staged his own death. The one time the subject is touched, all Alec says is that he "knew" James would never have stuck with him.
Alec is deeply pragmatic, except when his emotions are involved; then nothing gets through except the concept of evening the score. He's even willing to risk his life just to prove he's unwilling to back down or surrender, like when he literally rams an empty tank with a bullet train--with himself still inside.
He has other weaknesses as well, which tend to mirror James's: he is fond of good food and nice clothing, he wants money--a lot of money, all the money in the world--so that he can have an even greater level of power. And, of course, he can't resist a pretty face. As a Double-Oh agent, and then later as head of a faction of the Russian mafia, Alec has access to most of those things whenever he likes. After the life-threatening, thankless and often pointless tasks he completed for MI-6, it makes sense that he would need to indulge in some form of escapism, and that he would seek out a form of control previously denied to him by his career.
As far as strengths go, he has the obvious skillset given to him by his run as 006. And he also clearly has the capacity to do good, and even to form lasting friendships, if he can figure out how to stop putting himself first.
Barge Reactions: Alec is highly adaptable so floods and ports and the like won't scare him off. He'll also be quite at home figuring out how to deal with so many different backgrounds and cultures. He will, however, attempt to cause trouble when and if it suits his needs.
Path to Redemption: Although Alec clearly and openly cares about the fact he's an orphan, and although he blames the government (sometimes rightly) for having failed people, that's not the way to get to him. Sharing war wounds will only inspire him to try to manipulate the other person. What will work on him is being in the heat of battle, and finding out that his warden will actually fight alongside him rather than leaving him to fix things on his own (or leaving him for dead). He's not empathetic, and doesn't respond well to others who are--someone who operates like he does, pragmatically and ruthlessly, will get his respect. Especially since loyalty does matter to him, and if you can be loyal and ruthless at the same time, you're probably going to win him over.
History: Alec Trevelyan was born in Russia to two Lienz Cossacks--Russians who sided with Nazi Germany to try to take down Stalin. Toward the end of the war, the Cossacks surrendered and many fled to Britain. Following the end of the War, the British gathered them up and gave them all back over to Stalin, who executed or shipped them off to gulags in Siberia and the northern USSR. Alec's parents survived and had their only son, but shortly after, his father decided to end his own life, and his wife's.
The British government took in the newly orphaned Alec and groomed him to be an agent for their side, presumably because they thought Alec was too young to remember his parents' murder-suicide. While training or shortly after earning his double-oh number, he met and befriended James Bond. The two of them went on missions together, "toppling dictators", "undermining regimes", and sneaking into missile silos.
On their last mission together they slipped into a Soviet military base, and were tasked with blowing it up. Bond was unaware that at this point, Alec had already defected and arranged a way to fake his own death and escape into Russia's underbelly. Unfortunately for Alec, Bond set their explosive timers for 3 minutes instead of the agreed-upon 6 minutes. While Bond escaped, Alec was left in the blast zone. He recovered, but is permanently scarred on the right half of his body.
After his recovery, he assumed the name of Janus and began forming his own faction of the Russian mafia. And that's what brings James Bond and the British government back into his life, so many years later...
Sample Journal Entry: Now this...this I did not expect. [He's up on the deck, observing the stars, tapping a fist against the ship.] Fitting sort of prison though, very state of the art, isn't it? And the international flavor is... [his upper lip twitches, and he licks it, seeming at once disdainful and pleased] well, it's unique, isn't it?
Altruistic of you, Admiral, to think so many of us might get along on such a little tugboat. Of course, you might be right. Isolate people and they either band together or tear each other apart. Either way, it makes for a very captivating story for you lot, doesn't it?
Sample RP: Alec was already used to the finest pleasures in the bleakest settings. He had, after all, made his living in the most destitute countries on earth. He had sipped Krug Clos Du Mesnil while he watched the ruins of Soviet countries zip past his window. Being in a space prison, having access to a library and spa, to undiscovered worlds and endless adventure, that seemed--as he'd said--fitting for someone with his background.
Locking up a Double-Oh agent in a conventional prison and expecting anything but mayhem was just ludicrous. At least here, he could be distracted, maybe even put to use. Not that he planned on being useful to anyone. The Admiral was giving him enough rope that Alec could hang the whole ship with it, given time. And what did he have, if not time?
The one place he had no interest in using was the weight room (or whatever they called it on board). But that was the first place he went, anyway, to see what tools were there, and what people made use of them. He didn't have high hopes for recruiting any followers here, not with Wardens being bribed by the Admiral and Inmates being watched so closely, but it would be remiss of him not to at least check.