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underhound) wrote2011-06-03 07:41 pm
underhound) wrote2011-06-03 07:41 pm
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the bed was misshaped, and awkward, and tall
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CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Giovanni
✧ SERIES: DOGS: Bullets and Carnage
✧ HISTORY: DOGS is set in a post-apocalyptic world where technology is top-notch, but for only those extremely rich. Crime is widespread and accepted. There are two levels to the City in which all of the action has been set so far - the Aboveground and the Underground. The Underground is much, much worse in almost all aspects - kidnappings, murder, rape are all commonplace, along with other, equally unsavory things, and there is no sense of law at all. Aboveground, while the destruction of what is referred to as a nuclear disaster is obviously visible, life is set in a fairly constant routine, and the police do what they can to preserve the fragile peace. As the series progresses, however, there appears to be someone set on destroying what order there is.
Giovanni's history is woven tightly into the plot. Though the past of almost all characters in DOGS is fairly spotty, much of Giovanni's past can be pieced together from what is written out. Professor Angelika Einstürzen, a brilliant and skilled scientist, organized the Kerberos Project, in which clones were created and taught to be invincible super soldiers. Each of the clones were implanted with something called the Kerberos Spine, a piece of technology placed in their spine and probably extending into their brains. Marked by a heavy, metal, collar-like ring around the neck, the Spine is eventually refined down to a metal plate and much smaller metal ring.
Giovanni was one of those clones. He woke up in a room with about twenty or so other children, all roughly seven to ten years old. With no memories of anything before the room, Giovanni was confused and afraid. At that moment, the professor herself walked in. With a great big smile and a cheery laugh, she announced that she was their 'physician' and 'mother' and it was time for their morning exercises.
Unfortunately, the morning exercises involved ripping huge beasts, four or five times the size of the children, into pieces with their bare hands.
Giovanni was terrified. Unlike most of the other children, his Spine did not 'awaken,' leaving him without the berserker strength and killing intent that marked other subjects of the project a success. At this point, Giovanni was capable of speech and thought average to a normal child of his apparent age, but he had nothing in his memories aside from what he had seen for the past few minutes - which was other kids being torn apart, smashed against walls, and then getting back up to tear and bite that beast from limb to limb.
Experiments of this kind go on for years. Giovanni and the other children become familiar with one another, as the only other people they see aside from the professor, other scientists, and the humanoid beasts they are forced to kill. His spine has still not awakened, and as the other children become used to killing (with guns, eventually, but still reverting to their hands when nothing else is at hand) and the blank spots of memory that occur every time the Spine kicks in to keep them alive, Giovanni stays timid and withdrawn.
Einstürzen tried to goad him into fighting, often referring to Heine, another one of the experiments, as the favorite and the one they should imitate, but Giovanni stayed back. He was only shown trying to fight back once, when Lily, one of his closest friends went mad when the Spine took control and tried to attack even her friends. Without the power of the Spine, Giovanni is quickly overpowered. Heine, the most successful of the subjects, has to step in and stop her.
Months, maybe years pass. The children plan to escape, but it seemed hopeless, with the laboratory entirely below ground and their knowledge of the outside world almost non-existent. During this time, Heine is chosen by Einstürzen to receive the Ruler Spine, which will give him the power to control all of the other subjects of the Kerberos Project. Believing that obtaining the Ruler Spine will help him save the other children (and especially Lily), he agreed. While the surgery is underway, Einstürzen tells the other children that they are no longer necessary, but if they fight each other, the one who survives will be allowed to stay alive. At this point, Lily goes completely insane under the stress of the Spine and hearing that Heine has left them behind. The room in which all of the children are in is plunged into chaos, with Lily being the strongest of all the children and killing everyone - apparently including Giovanni, who is shown having his eyes gouged out. As his Spine is still inactive, he cannot even fight back.
After this point, the happenings are somewhat unclear. Heine, upon awakening and seeing the carnage, murdered Lily and escaped the laboratory. Giovanni recovered one way or another and his Spine finally activates. He stayed in the laboratory, either unable to flee or unwilling to. Einstürzen brings him up as the only remaining member of the Kerberos Project, which had apparently been the most successful of her experiments so far. The next time (chronologically speaking) that Giovanni appears, he is an adult (in his early twenties) and ruthless. He tracks down Heine on Einstüzen's orders and fights him one-on-one, escalating into a rooftop standoff. After saying hello to Heine and getting shot through the chest several times, he bids Heine a goodbye, grinning at him confidently, a far cry from the way he hid from the experiments in the laboratory. Once he says farewell, Giovanni steps backwards off the building and falls, but before he disappears, he tells Heine that things are changing and he'll have to act fast if he wants to stop them.
Much later on, Giovanni returns to confront Heine once again, this time standing behind rows of soldiers wearing dog-like masks. After another violent confrontation, Giovanni tells Heine that he's too late. Explosions rock the city, and Giovanni disappears, leaving Heine with no clue as to what is going to happen.
✧ TIMELINE: End of Chapter 47, just after he leaves Heine behind.
✧ PERSONALITY: Giovanni is a very complicated character. Beginning in the laboratory, Giovanni's emotional growth is severely stunted. He has no environment aside from the blank white rooms to interact with others in, and only the other subjects of the Kerberos Project to interact with, and all of them are in the same circumstances as he. Einstürzen insists that she is their 'mother,' but tells him that she'll only love him if he kills everyone else. When he doesn't fight, she calls him 'trash' and insultingly compares him to Heine, Lily, and the others. This leads to Giovanni's childhood attitude - one of fear and timidity.
When he reappears to fight Heine, Giovanni appears confident and cocky, mocking his 'brother' incessantly even while dodging bullets. This part of his personality arises in part from his inferiority complex. He calls Heine 'Mother's favorite' and grins when Heine reacts aggressively. The enjoyment Giovanni derives from fighting Heine seems to come entirely from the violence and the equal level of their skill. Furthermore, Giovanni views Heine, in part, as the person he was meant to be - a soldier with no fear and only a thirst for blood. He acts to see Heine react, as evidenced by how disappointed he seems when Heine's reflexes are too slow, or when Heine doesn't fight back with as much power as he can. It is at these points that Giovanni seems to be telling himself that he is now superior to Heine rather than lesser - he is a perfect soldier, he is not confused like Heine, he is not weighed down by the humanity that Heine has gained - and yet he still compares himself to his 'brother.'
On his own, Giovanni has little to no attitude. In some parts of the manga he is seen sitting silently in a white, almost empty room, as a camera records his every move. His personality is shaped entirely by others. From Einstürzen, he receives a twisted form of love that makes him cold, stiff, and devoted to her every order. But from his interactions with Heine, Giovanni clearly knows that what Einstürzen bestowed upon them was anything but love.
Though loyal to Einstürzen, Giovanni has his own agenda. He toys with Heine as long as he can, showing what might be a form of admiration. He considers Heine his equal in combat ability, but is constantly reminded that Heine was always the favorite, always better than him in the professor's eyes, and that he is only talking to Heine because the professor wants him to bring Heine back to the laboratory. His fights with Heine, however, are the only time in which Giovanni seems to be any sort of pleased, and the glee that is apparent when they fight is slightly unsettling.
Outside of his interactions with Heine, Giovanni is calm and collected. He when he speaks to the professor(s), Giovanni is markedly polite. He doesn't make eye contact, instead staying perfectly neutral. He does very little, despite his apparent wealth of free time between Einstürzen's orders. He is sometimes seen standing on rooftops or in shadows, usually watching Heine. In action, he is constantly mocking, as if believing himself to be better than the others. Giovanni appears displeased when others insult him, but that manifests in a slight downturn of his mouth and then a carefully crafted, sneering reply, accompanied by the smirk that appears only whenever he's with other people.
Other facets of Giovanni's personality are noticeable in some of his less noticeable habits. Giovanni holds himself straight but not proudly, a posture that is almost reminiscent of a military man's. He gains some feral traits - or rather, loses a few human ones - when fighting, baring his teeth and growling. Unlike Heine, however, Giovanni restrains himself as much as he can. The idea is evident even in his clothing. Giovanni is usually seen in a carefully turned out suit, obviously tailored specifically for him, and even complains when Heine shoots him until his jacket and shirt are torn to shreds. Giovanni is composed, smooth, and controlled, but beneath that suit and sunglasses is an individual who knows very well that he was made to be a soldier and nothing else.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Because of the Kerberos spine, Giovanni's body will regenerate from any injury within minutes. This includes headshots and amputated limbs, the latter of which will grow back. The spine also gives him enhanced strength, speed, and possibly reflexes, seeing as he avoids an almost point-blank shot more than once. Giovanni is also incredibly flexible and resilient in combat, due to a combination of the spine and his experience.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Night.
✧ MASK DESIGN: Reminiscent of those of the dog soldiers in his home world. The dog-like mask is metallic and made of some sort of dark, steel-like material.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE:
✧ NAME: Khet
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bonehaus ✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): tekkinator @ plurk
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: N/A!
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Giovanni
✧ SERIES: DOGS: Bullets and Carnage
✧ HISTORY: DOGS is set in a post-apocalyptic world where technology is top-notch, but for only those extremely rich. Crime is widespread and accepted. There are two levels to the City in which all of the action has been set so far - the Aboveground and the Underground. The Underground is much, much worse in almost all aspects - kidnappings, murder, rape are all commonplace, along with other, equally unsavory things, and there is no sense of law at all. Aboveground, while the destruction of what is referred to as a nuclear disaster is obviously visible, life is set in a fairly constant routine, and the police do what they can to preserve the fragile peace. As the series progresses, however, there appears to be someone set on destroying what order there is.
Giovanni's history is woven tightly into the plot. Though the past of almost all characters in DOGS is fairly spotty, much of Giovanni's past can be pieced together from what is written out. Professor Angelika Einstürzen, a brilliant and skilled scientist, organized the Kerberos Project, in which clones were created and taught to be invincible super soldiers. Each of the clones were implanted with something called the Kerberos Spine, a piece of technology placed in their spine and probably extending into their brains. Marked by a heavy, metal, collar-like ring around the neck, the Spine is eventually refined down to a metal plate and much smaller metal ring.
Giovanni was one of those clones. He woke up in a room with about twenty or so other children, all roughly seven to ten years old. With no memories of anything before the room, Giovanni was confused and afraid. At that moment, the professor herself walked in. With a great big smile and a cheery laugh, she announced that she was their 'physician' and 'mother' and it was time for their morning exercises.
Unfortunately, the morning exercises involved ripping huge beasts, four or five times the size of the children, into pieces with their bare hands.
Giovanni was terrified. Unlike most of the other children, his Spine did not 'awaken,' leaving him without the berserker strength and killing intent that marked other subjects of the project a success. At this point, Giovanni was capable of speech and thought average to a normal child of his apparent age, but he had nothing in his memories aside from what he had seen for the past few minutes - which was other kids being torn apart, smashed against walls, and then getting back up to tear and bite that beast from limb to limb.
Experiments of this kind go on for years. Giovanni and the other children become familiar with one another, as the only other people they see aside from the professor, other scientists, and the humanoid beasts they are forced to kill. His spine has still not awakened, and as the other children become used to killing (with guns, eventually, but still reverting to their hands when nothing else is at hand) and the blank spots of memory that occur every time the Spine kicks in to keep them alive, Giovanni stays timid and withdrawn.
Einstürzen tried to goad him into fighting, often referring to Heine, another one of the experiments, as the favorite and the one they should imitate, but Giovanni stayed back. He was only shown trying to fight back once, when Lily, one of his closest friends went mad when the Spine took control and tried to attack even her friends. Without the power of the Spine, Giovanni is quickly overpowered. Heine, the most successful of the subjects, has to step in and stop her.
Months, maybe years pass. The children plan to escape, but it seemed hopeless, with the laboratory entirely below ground and their knowledge of the outside world almost non-existent. During this time, Heine is chosen by Einstürzen to receive the Ruler Spine, which will give him the power to control all of the other subjects of the Kerberos Project. Believing that obtaining the Ruler Spine will help him save the other children (and especially Lily), he agreed. While the surgery is underway, Einstürzen tells the other children that they are no longer necessary, but if they fight each other, the one who survives will be allowed to stay alive. At this point, Lily goes completely insane under the stress of the Spine and hearing that Heine has left them behind. The room in which all of the children are in is plunged into chaos, with Lily being the strongest of all the children and killing everyone - apparently including Giovanni, who is shown having his eyes gouged out. As his Spine is still inactive, he cannot even fight back.
After this point, the happenings are somewhat unclear. Heine, upon awakening and seeing the carnage, murdered Lily and escaped the laboratory. Giovanni recovered one way or another and his Spine finally activates. He stayed in the laboratory, either unable to flee or unwilling to. Einstürzen brings him up as the only remaining member of the Kerberos Project, which had apparently been the most successful of her experiments so far. The next time (chronologically speaking) that Giovanni appears, he is an adult (in his early twenties) and ruthless. He tracks down Heine on Einstüzen's orders and fights him one-on-one, escalating into a rooftop standoff. After saying hello to Heine and getting shot through the chest several times, he bids Heine a goodbye, grinning at him confidently, a far cry from the way he hid from the experiments in the laboratory. Once he says farewell, Giovanni steps backwards off the building and falls, but before he disappears, he tells Heine that things are changing and he'll have to act fast if he wants to stop them.
Much later on, Giovanni returns to confront Heine once again, this time standing behind rows of soldiers wearing dog-like masks. After another violent confrontation, Giovanni tells Heine that he's too late. Explosions rock the city, and Giovanni disappears, leaving Heine with no clue as to what is going to happen.
✧ TIMELINE: End of Chapter 47, just after he leaves Heine behind.
✧ PERSONALITY: Giovanni is a very complicated character. Beginning in the laboratory, Giovanni's emotional growth is severely stunted. He has no environment aside from the blank white rooms to interact with others in, and only the other subjects of the Kerberos Project to interact with, and all of them are in the same circumstances as he. Einstürzen insists that she is their 'mother,' but tells him that she'll only love him if he kills everyone else. When he doesn't fight, she calls him 'trash' and insultingly compares him to Heine, Lily, and the others. This leads to Giovanni's childhood attitude - one of fear and timidity.
When he reappears to fight Heine, Giovanni appears confident and cocky, mocking his 'brother' incessantly even while dodging bullets. This part of his personality arises in part from his inferiority complex. He calls Heine 'Mother's favorite' and grins when Heine reacts aggressively. The enjoyment Giovanni derives from fighting Heine seems to come entirely from the violence and the equal level of their skill. Furthermore, Giovanni views Heine, in part, as the person he was meant to be - a soldier with no fear and only a thirst for blood. He acts to see Heine react, as evidenced by how disappointed he seems when Heine's reflexes are too slow, or when Heine doesn't fight back with as much power as he can. It is at these points that Giovanni seems to be telling himself that he is now superior to Heine rather than lesser - he is a perfect soldier, he is not confused like Heine, he is not weighed down by the humanity that Heine has gained - and yet he still compares himself to his 'brother.'
On his own, Giovanni has little to no attitude. In some parts of the manga he is seen sitting silently in a white, almost empty room, as a camera records his every move. His personality is shaped entirely by others. From Einstürzen, he receives a twisted form of love that makes him cold, stiff, and devoted to her every order. But from his interactions with Heine, Giovanni clearly knows that what Einstürzen bestowed upon them was anything but love.
Though loyal to Einstürzen, Giovanni has his own agenda. He toys with Heine as long as he can, showing what might be a form of admiration. He considers Heine his equal in combat ability, but is constantly reminded that Heine was always the favorite, always better than him in the professor's eyes, and that he is only talking to Heine because the professor wants him to bring Heine back to the laboratory. His fights with Heine, however, are the only time in which Giovanni seems to be any sort of pleased, and the glee that is apparent when they fight is slightly unsettling.
Outside of his interactions with Heine, Giovanni is calm and collected. He when he speaks to the professor(s), Giovanni is markedly polite. He doesn't make eye contact, instead staying perfectly neutral. He does very little, despite his apparent wealth of free time between Einstürzen's orders. He is sometimes seen standing on rooftops or in shadows, usually watching Heine. In action, he is constantly mocking, as if believing himself to be better than the others. Giovanni appears displeased when others insult him, but that manifests in a slight downturn of his mouth and then a carefully crafted, sneering reply, accompanied by the smirk that appears only whenever he's with other people.
Other facets of Giovanni's personality are noticeable in some of his less noticeable habits. Giovanni holds himself straight but not proudly, a posture that is almost reminiscent of a military man's. He gains some feral traits - or rather, loses a few human ones - when fighting, baring his teeth and growling. Unlike Heine, however, Giovanni restrains himself as much as he can. The idea is evident even in his clothing. Giovanni is usually seen in a carefully turned out suit, obviously tailored specifically for him, and even complains when Heine shoots him until his jacket and shirt are torn to shreds. Giovanni is composed, smooth, and controlled, but beneath that suit and sunglasses is an individual who knows very well that he was made to be a soldier and nothing else.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Because of the Kerberos spine, Giovanni's body will regenerate from any injury within minutes. This includes headshots and amputated limbs, the latter of which will grow back. The spine also gives him enhanced strength, speed, and possibly reflexes, seeing as he avoids an almost point-blank shot more than once. Giovanni is also incredibly flexible and resilient in combat, due to a combination of the spine and his experience.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Night.
✧ MASK DESIGN: Reminiscent of those of the dog soldiers in his home world. The dog-like mask is metallic and made of some sort of dark, steel-like material.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: