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Mun Information
Player name: Mara
Contact: Plurk @ cerebel, AIM @ fishicopter
Timezone: PST
Characters in the Wardrobe Already: None
Character Information
Character Name: Ari Haswari (genderswapped AU)
Species: Human
History: http://ncis.wikia.com/wiki/Ari_Haswari
Not much of the history changes, as a genderswap. Ari is still born to Eli David (alias Dr. Benjamin Weinstein) and Dr. Hasmia Haswari in a Jerusalem hospital. She is still trained from birth to become a Mossad double-agent. She was still a meticulously planned pregnancy so that Eli David, a Mossad agent himself, could have a perfectly loyal spy to use to infiltrate terrorist organizations.
What changes is the connotation.
Eli David expected a boy. Not hoped for, not prayed for: expected. He believed that things would turn out his way, and when they didn't, he stubbornly stuck to the course of his child's life. Ari was named with a primarily masculine name. She wasn't allowed to be a child, much less a little girl.
Ari is raised by her father and his wife, apart from her mother. She has two half-sisters, Ziva and Talia, though Talia (the youngest) is an infant at her canon point. She is raised within the family but apart from it, always her father's responsibility, never his wife's. She loves her sisters, takes care of them, brushes Ziva's hair until it shines. And then, meanwhile, on the weekends, she's picked up by her father, taken to the wilderness, and set loose with no supplies, told to find her way back to their home herself.
It's on one of these wilderness trips that she finds her way into Narnia.
Why this character: Because she could use a little saving. Tossing a character whose life has been so serious and so trying at such a young age into a place like Narnia should be incredibly interesting. Narnia deals with issues of war and death and pain, but it does it in a very sweet, honorable kind of way. Ari has been taught to fight for survival, not honor, and I hope that exploring that contrast might be able to heal her a little, and maybe let her be a kid.
Canon Point: The year 1982. Pre-canon, for NCIS.
Personality: Ari is a quiet, intelligent child; she has dark, piercing eyes, and she's deeply perceptive. Those who meet her find her calm and well-behaved, prim, neat, pretty. She can even be subtly wry and funny, to those she knows well enough to have gauged their sense of humor.
This, however, is all an act. Ari isn't calm on the inside. Her coolness disguises equal measures of hurt, rage and absolutely voracious need. She is a child who has been deprived of a family's love, of one of her parents. Her father constantly puts her through tests, and she has two options: perform adequately and to expectations, or fail. Neither one of those has ever brought her close to earning love from a man who's not emotional or demonstrative.
When she was younger, she would follow at his heels like a puppy, desperate for any scrap of attention. Now that she's growing into a young woman, she's realized that she'll never get what she truly needs from him, and that knowledge has transformed her puppy love into rejected fury. She's been betrayed by the man who was supposed to love her, raise her, support her, and so inwardly she's something of a wounded, stray cat, absolutely suspicious and absolutely untrusting. It doesn't help that Eli has specifically trained up her guarded, suspicious nature, knowing that Ari being a closed-off bastard would give her a better chance at survival and success in the world of international espionage.
Ari has transferred her affection, then, to female figures. Not her step-mother, but her mother, the woman that she's only met a handful of times. She fills in details and emotions and facts about Hasmia Haswari's life, turning her mother into a distant, perfect figure who was heartlessly discarded by Eli David. (While male Ari, in canon, turned into something of a chauvinistic asshole, considering women beneath his time and beneath his attention, this Ari becomes better able to relate to women than she is to men: she has sympathy with her mother, instead of projecting herself onto her father like male Ari would.)
If left unchecked, this Ari will eventually learn to be that perfect spy. In fact, she becomes so good that her father doesn't even realize that she's only in it for one reason: to find a time and a place to betray him, sink the knife so deep in his back that it could only have come from Ari herself. In the future, she will be focused on duty and the mission more than anything else. She'll enjoy the pleasures of life - and also enjoy the pleasures of murder. She'll be evil, enough so that she's eventually killed by Gibbs himself.
But, right now, as young and fragile as she is, she has a chance to heal.
Abilities/Strengths and Weaknesses: Ari is trained in survival, various martial arts, and various weapons. She can speak several languages and knows a lot of random various info, the kind that would be useful in strange, specialized situations. However, she's thirteen, and, as such, very small and slight. She might be agile, but she's easy to overpower in a fight.
Samples:
First Person Sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/1170
Third Person Sample: http://teenagestrays.livejournal.com/16
If linking both of them isn't cool, let me know; I'm happy to write an additional sample!
Player name: Mara
Contact: Plurk @ cerebel, AIM @ fishicopter
Timezone: PST
Characters in the Wardrobe Already: None
Character Information
Character Name: Ari Haswari (genderswapped AU)
Species: Human
History: http://ncis.wikia.com/wiki/Ari_Haswari
Not much of the history changes, as a genderswap. Ari is still born to Eli David (alias Dr. Benjamin Weinstein) and Dr. Hasmia Haswari in a Jerusalem hospital. She is still trained from birth to become a Mossad double-agent. She was still a meticulously planned pregnancy so that Eli David, a Mossad agent himself, could have a perfectly loyal spy to use to infiltrate terrorist organizations.
What changes is the connotation.
Eli David expected a boy. Not hoped for, not prayed for: expected. He believed that things would turn out his way, and when they didn't, he stubbornly stuck to the course of his child's life. Ari was named with a primarily masculine name. She wasn't allowed to be a child, much less a little girl.
Ari is raised by her father and his wife, apart from her mother. She has two half-sisters, Ziva and Talia, though Talia (the youngest) is an infant at her canon point. She is raised within the family but apart from it, always her father's responsibility, never his wife's. She loves her sisters, takes care of them, brushes Ziva's hair until it shines. And then, meanwhile, on the weekends, she's picked up by her father, taken to the wilderness, and set loose with no supplies, told to find her way back to their home herself.
It's on one of these wilderness trips that she finds her way into Narnia.
Why this character: Because she could use a little saving. Tossing a character whose life has been so serious and so trying at such a young age into a place like Narnia should be incredibly interesting. Narnia deals with issues of war and death and pain, but it does it in a very sweet, honorable kind of way. Ari has been taught to fight for survival, not honor, and I hope that exploring that contrast might be able to heal her a little, and maybe let her be a kid.
Canon Point: The year 1982. Pre-canon, for NCIS.
Personality: Ari is a quiet, intelligent child; she has dark, piercing eyes, and she's deeply perceptive. Those who meet her find her calm and well-behaved, prim, neat, pretty. She can even be subtly wry and funny, to those she knows well enough to have gauged their sense of humor.
This, however, is all an act. Ari isn't calm on the inside. Her coolness disguises equal measures of hurt, rage and absolutely voracious need. She is a child who has been deprived of a family's love, of one of her parents. Her father constantly puts her through tests, and she has two options: perform adequately and to expectations, or fail. Neither one of those has ever brought her close to earning love from a man who's not emotional or demonstrative.
When she was younger, she would follow at his heels like a puppy, desperate for any scrap of attention. Now that she's growing into a young woman, she's realized that she'll never get what she truly needs from him, and that knowledge has transformed her puppy love into rejected fury. She's been betrayed by the man who was supposed to love her, raise her, support her, and so inwardly she's something of a wounded, stray cat, absolutely suspicious and absolutely untrusting. It doesn't help that Eli has specifically trained up her guarded, suspicious nature, knowing that Ari being a closed-off bastard would give her a better chance at survival and success in the world of international espionage.
Ari has transferred her affection, then, to female figures. Not her step-mother, but her mother, the woman that she's only met a handful of times. She fills in details and emotions and facts about Hasmia Haswari's life, turning her mother into a distant, perfect figure who was heartlessly discarded by Eli David. (While male Ari, in canon, turned into something of a chauvinistic asshole, considering women beneath his time and beneath his attention, this Ari becomes better able to relate to women than she is to men: she has sympathy with her mother, instead of projecting herself onto her father like male Ari would.)
If left unchecked, this Ari will eventually learn to be that perfect spy. In fact, she becomes so good that her father doesn't even realize that she's only in it for one reason: to find a time and a place to betray him, sink the knife so deep in his back that it could only have come from Ari herself. In the future, she will be focused on duty and the mission more than anything else. She'll enjoy the pleasures of life - and also enjoy the pleasures of murder. She'll be evil, enough so that she's eventually killed by Gibbs himself.
But, right now, as young and fragile as she is, she has a chance to heal.
Abilities/Strengths and Weaknesses: Ari is trained in survival, various martial arts, and various weapons. She can speak several languages and knows a lot of random various info, the kind that would be useful in strange, specialized situations. However, she's thirteen, and, as such, very small and slight. She might be agile, but she's easy to overpower in a fight.
Samples:
First Person Sample: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/1170
Third Person Sample: http://teenagestrays.livejournal.com/16
If linking both of them isn't cool, let me know; I'm happy to write an additional sample!