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pickedpockets) wrote2019-04-26 12:32 am
pickedpockets) wrote2019-04-26 12:32 am
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Character Name: Juno Steel
Series: The Penumbra Podcast
Age: 39ish.
From When?: Following Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship.
Inmate/Warden: Juno would definitely be a Warden. He has a strong moral compass and is not afraid to call other people out on their shit (even if he's complete garbage at acknowledging his own.) Juno's primary motivation in life has always been other people above himself; for all of his cynicism, he wanted to be part of the police force as an agent of good.
Item: A small hand-held comms, very similar to a modern cellphone.
Abilities/Powers: N/A. He's got a keen mind and a dry wit, but nothing supernatural.
Personality:
Juno Steel is a private eye with a good heart and a solid self-destructive streak, but he's working on that last part. He is very much a product of his environment, or at least has always assumed as much; he and his twin brother grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in their city on Mars. Their mother was over-worked, negligent, and frequently allowed her overindulgence in alcohol to tip her to the 'outright abusive' side of the scale. She murdered Juno's twin brother when they were nineteen years old, wiping out the yang to his yin, and he never fully recovered from that. He hated his mother for the longest time, as afraid as he was of becoming all of the worst parts of her.
Just like the script quote above says: Juno sank, and has only recently begun to figure out how to do more than just tread water. He was beyond gutted when Benzaiten died, but still determined to make the world a better place, which is why he joined up with the Hyperion City Police Department. Notably corrupt, he had lofty aims to make it better, and he had some of the skills to back up his pride, too -- he won the HCPD sharpshooting contest three times in a row, and got promoted all the way to captain (for one day) before he royally fucked up a case and was unceremoniously fired, which led him to eventually begin work as a private detective.
Because he really does enjoy helping other people. Juno doesn't think much of himself: he's depressed, a borderline alcoholic, and generally considers himself not much fun to be around, but he's incredibly invested in Doing the Right Thing and protecting those that need to be protected. Juno has a self-sacrificial streak a mile wide. He swallowed a mystery alien pill in order to keep it out of the "wrong hands," with no idea what it would do to his body; he locked himself in the room with what he believed to be a nuclear bomb in order to keep it from theoretically wiping out humanity; he walked out on the love of his life because he simply believed that he didn't deserve that sort of happiness, thought that he was tethered to the city of Hyperion, bound to protect it as long as little affection as he had left for it.
At his core, Juno is still a really hopeful dame. This ties into his stupid, reckless sense of self-sacrifice; he's not just pointlessly suicidal, but he is willing to sacrifice his own life if he believes that it might be a catalyst for positive change. As cynical as he can be, Juno still ultimately ends up suckered by a manipulative politician acting as an agent of good, just because part of him so desperately hopes that good change can happen, that the world can be a better place.
Ultimately, Juno Steel is a good, clever, stubborn person, mired in his own depression and utter obliviousness. The point I'm bringing him from is near the end of the mid season 3, when he has worked most of his way through the realizationthat he really does have people around him who care about him. He has accepted the fact that his life and his worth aren't necessarily chained to the state of Hyperion City. Hyperion doesn't need him, and it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it comes with a freedom that he is cautiously eager to explore.
Barge Reactions: Juno has dealt with enough strange things in canon - Martian artifacts, teleportation chambers, psychic mind prosthetic eyeballs, giant sewer rabbits - that he won't really have much trouble adjusting to the strange things and people he will encounter on the Barge. Outright magic may blow his mind a little at first, but he'll deal. No weirder than having a parasite in your brain.
Deal: He wants his brother returned to life.
History: Link!
Sample Journal Entry: You think you'd get used to the general concept of ships, right? Whether you're sailing through regular space or the place between dimensions, it's not like you get to go poking around outside your window every day. And this one's not bad. Hell, it's a paradise compared to where I - we - were at before. [ is juno nervous? his affect is flat, but he's rambling, so- must be. ] Peace like you wouldn't believe between all the disasters that pop up. Don't know why I can't shake this feeling of - is "doom" too dramatic? I feel like it might be too dramatic. [ he pauses, then adds with an exhale, exasperated with himself: ] Christ. Maybe I'll try meditation again.
Sample RP: link!
Character Name: Juno Steel
Series: The Penumbra Podcast
Age: 39ish.
From When?: Following Juno Steel and the Shadows on the Ship.
Inmate/Warden: Juno would definitely be a Warden. He has a strong moral compass and is not afraid to call other people out on their shit (even if he's complete garbage at acknowledging his own.) Juno's primary motivation in life has always been other people above himself; for all of his cynicism, he wanted to be part of the police force as an agent of good.
Item: A small hand-held comms, very similar to a modern cellphone.
Abilities/Powers: N/A. He's got a keen mind and a dry wit, but nothing supernatural.
Personality:
"Benten’s brother, with just as quick a wit, but bent toward critical, impatient introspection. The introspection kept him sinking, sinking – and without Ben to balance him out, he sunk too far."
Juno Steel is a private eye with a good heart and a solid self-destructive streak, but he's working on that last part. He is very much a product of his environment, or at least has always assumed as much; he and his twin brother grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in their city on Mars. Their mother was over-worked, negligent, and frequently allowed her overindulgence in alcohol to tip her to the 'outright abusive' side of the scale. She murdered Juno's twin brother when they were nineteen years old, wiping out the yang to his yin, and he never fully recovered from that. He hated his mother for the longest time, as afraid as he was of becoming all of the worst parts of her.
Just like the script quote above says: Juno sank, and has only recently begun to figure out how to do more than just tread water. He was beyond gutted when Benzaiten died, but still determined to make the world a better place, which is why he joined up with the Hyperion City Police Department. Notably corrupt, he had lofty aims to make it better, and he had some of the skills to back up his pride, too -- he won the HCPD sharpshooting contest three times in a row, and got promoted all the way to captain (for one day) before he royally fucked up a case and was unceremoniously fired, which led him to eventually begin work as a private detective.
Because he really does enjoy helping other people. Juno doesn't think much of himself: he's depressed, a borderline alcoholic, and generally considers himself not much fun to be around, but he's incredibly invested in Doing the Right Thing and protecting those that need to be protected. Juno has a self-sacrificial streak a mile wide. He swallowed a mystery alien pill in order to keep it out of the "wrong hands," with no idea what it would do to his body; he locked himself in the room with what he believed to be a nuclear bomb in order to keep it from theoretically wiping out humanity; he walked out on the love of his life because he simply believed that he didn't deserve that sort of happiness, thought that he was tethered to the city of Hyperion, bound to protect it as long as little affection as he had left for it.
At his core, Juno is still a really hopeful dame. This ties into his stupid, reckless sense of self-sacrifice; he's not just pointlessly suicidal, but he is willing to sacrifice his own life if he believes that it might be a catalyst for positive change. As cynical as he can be, Juno still ultimately ends up suckered by a manipulative politician acting as an agent of good, just because part of him so desperately hopes that good change can happen, that the world can be a better place.
Ultimately, Juno Steel is a good, clever, stubborn person, mired in his own depression and utter obliviousness. The point I'm bringing him from is near the end of the mid season 3, when he has worked most of his way through the realizationthat he really does have people around him who care about him. He has accepted the fact that his life and his worth aren't necessarily chained to the state of Hyperion City. Hyperion doesn't need him, and it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it comes with a freedom that he is cautiously eager to explore.
Barge Reactions: Juno has dealt with enough strange things in canon - Martian artifacts, teleportation chambers, psychic mind prosthetic eyeballs, giant sewer rabbits - that he won't really have much trouble adjusting to the strange things and people he will encounter on the Barge. Outright magic may blow his mind a little at first, but he'll deal. No weirder than having a parasite in your brain.
Deal: He wants his brother returned to life.
History: Link!
Sample Journal Entry: You think you'd get used to the general concept of ships, right? Whether you're sailing through regular space or the place between dimensions, it's not like you get to go poking around outside your window every day. And this one's not bad. Hell, it's a paradise compared to where I - we - were at before. [ is juno nervous? his affect is flat, but he's rambling, so- must be. ] Peace like you wouldn't believe between all the disasters that pop up. Don't know why I can't shake this feeling of - is "doom" too dramatic? I feel like it might be too dramatic. [ he pauses, then adds with an exhale, exasperated with himself: ] Christ. Maybe I'll try meditation again.
Sample RP: link!