PLAYER NAME: Chinatown AGE: 30+ CONTACT: amaebi INVITED BY: Self
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Joseph Kavinsky CANON: The Raven Cycle CANON POINT: End of The Dream Thieves, Book 2 CRAU: Yes AGE: 20 BACKGROUND:
Wiki Link — Note that the Wikipedia writers are phrasing with certainty what is actually only rumor and speculation in the books. Kavinsky has almost zero confirmed and corroborated backstory, and just as little narrative. However, based on the rumors, my interpretation includes:
His father was not a Bulgarian mob member, but mob-affiliated. Mr. Kavinsky was not necessarily trying to murder his son, as accused, but he was abusive, based largely on a homophobic reaction.
Kavinsky attempted to kill his father, but contrary to his claims, he actually failed. Kavinsky is not a talented enough dream thief to have created a convincing doppelganger.
Kavinsky is bisexual
Multiple teenagers in Henrietta are dead or have been hospitalized because of exposure to Kavinsky's drugs (overdoses), including Prokopenko himself
In their final dream encounter, Ronan's observations that Kavinsky's nightmare dragon hates Kavinsky himself is accurate and reflects the underlying mechanics of Kavinsky's mental health problems. Specifically, while he is entitled, violent, and harmful to others, he hates himself more.
With regard to CRAU, Kavinsky
arrived in Eudio at moment of death, regretting his suicide and incentivized to have a "do over" in his life where external factors would be changed (still avoiding responsibility). He obtained help for his addictions accordingly, discovering among other things he had only 25% of his liver functioning.
blackmailed former castmate, Ronan, into helping him dream-create a pure-spirited water dragon to protect him from his nightmares. Specifically, he knew he would lose control but was too selfish to risk giving up his powers.
thus avoided working on his deeper-rooted psychological problems, until he accidentally created the monster that ransacked part of the city in March 2015, targeting people he liked. Note, the water dragon ultimately destroyed it, but not before many were injured. In punishment, the representatives stripped him of his dream thief powers for over 6 months. He also did community service, went to therapy, and took medications.
fell in love once more in Eudio, and it ended badly, but not as badly.
more importantly, made friends based on genuine emotional connections for the first time in his life, rather than fear and narcotic addictions and control. These friends included his roommates, Ash, Minho and Newt, brief girlfriend Bliss, Eponine, Caroline Forbes the vampire, Rafaello and Vex ("mom and dad"), Amanda, John Murphy, and others.
sought and obtained agreement from the vampire Rafaello to turn him into a vampire-dream thief hybrid (mods OOCly approved). However, he will be ejected from Eudio before this can happen.
is in the process of falling in love some more. As a general rule, Kavinsky gets worse before he gets better
POWERS: Kavinsky is a dream thief, which means he can utilize ambient energy to manifest physical objects from his dreams. These objects can subvert physics or even include sentient beings. However, as I plan to have him gain vampire hybrid powers in-game, I am happy to have these nerfed. It could be helpful to go off some of the limits imposed by the Eudio reps, such as they blocked him from creating sentient creatures and any single object larger than a car. STARTING EQUIPMENT:
Clothing, bits of jewelry
His daemon, Moonshined, the dog his ex-lover gave him
Several dreaming pills
Semi-automatic pistol from canon engraved with 'Dreamkiller,' and ammunition
EXIT STRATEGY: In Eudio, D.E.S.T.I.N.Y manifested itself in national disasters, including severe earthquakes. Kavinsky was with Murphy at the time and he used his dream powers to manifest something that would help them to escape-- it turned out to be one of Xistentia's white elk, suggesting F.A.T.E.S.' intervention more than Kavinsky's genius. Seconds before they would absolutely have to flee, Aric apeared on his horse, and the three were able to leave together with their animals.
MORALITY: Kavinsky remains a tremendous asshole, though he's grown up since canon. The worst of his old, shock-value, impulsive repertoire is gone-- he's unlikely to punch or sensually touch anybody's back without consent, or at least not without reasons comparable to the other children in his canon; he's even less likely to kidnap someone in hysterical gay revenge. However, these visible improvements conceal the fact most of his underlying personality dysfunction is still there. His worst trait is that he tries hardest to hurt those he cares about most. His dramatic self-loathing is a way he avoids honestly taking responsibility for the wrong he has done and still does, from the little ways he tries to offend people every day to those who died because of him in Henrietta.
WAR ATTITUDES: Though he's yet to murder anyone yet, righteous violence has always come quite easily to Kavinsky. In canon, he escalates beyond any sense of reason. Post-CRAU, he is less likely to act out so badly, but he still has fewer limits than most people in Henrietta when it comes to violence. He is also depicted as being oddly efficient in the face of a non-human monster attack where others panic, killing the creature nonchalantly, and this aspect isn't gone from him just because he's mad Eudio has pooped out. Though he has no formal tactical training, he is a good shot and can handle himself without freezing.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Physical intimacy is much easier for Kavinsky to accomplish than genuine emotional connections. He is terrible at vulnerability. That being said, he does tend to have a lot of strong emotions and thoughts about people, under his veneer of rude indifference. He is capable of friendships, but grief over the loss of Eudio will lead to spiteful and nasty self-protective measures, exacerbated by the loss of his psychiatric medications. His CR is likely to be more mixed than ever!
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: The current plan is to outfit most if not all of the city with vehicles and transportation, then live indefinitely off business services and goods on 'payment plans.' Short of or apart from that, Kavinsky held several legitimate jobs in Eudio for the first time in his life, mostly in nightlife and entertainment and enjoyed that. He is also likely to contribute to construction and other community development to stroke his own ego by showing off his powers. Alternatively, he likes going out and exploring and killing stuff because he's bored.
cw drugs, kidnappings, other felonies
PLAYER NAME: Chinatown
AGE: 30+
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: Self
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Joseph Kavinsky
CANON: The Raven Cycle
CANON POINT: End of The Dream Thieves, Book 2
CRAU: Yes
AGE: 20
BACKGROUND: POWERS: Kavinsky is a dream thief, which means he can utilize ambient energy to manifest physical objects from his dreams. These objects can subvert physics or even include sentient beings. However, as I plan to have him gain vampire hybrid powers in-game, I am happy to have these nerfed. It could be helpful to go off some of the limits imposed by the Eudio reps, such as they blocked him from creating sentient creatures and any single object larger than a car.
STARTING EQUIPMENT:
SAMPLES: TDM log thread and TDM network
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: In Eudio, D.E.S.T.I.N.Y manifested itself in national disasters, including severe earthquakes. Kavinsky was with Murphy at the time and he used his dream powers to manifest something that would help them to escape-- it turned out to be one of Xistentia's white elk, suggesting F.A.T.E.S.' intervention more than Kavinsky's genius. Seconds before they would absolutely have to flee, Aric apeared on his horse, and the three were able to leave together with their animals.
MORALITY: Kavinsky remains a tremendous asshole, though he's grown up since canon. The worst of his old, shock-value, impulsive repertoire is gone-- he's unlikely to punch or sensually touch anybody's back without consent, or at least not without reasons comparable to the other children in his canon; he's even less likely to kidnap someone in hysterical gay revenge. However, these visible improvements conceal the fact most of his underlying personality dysfunction is still there. His worst trait is that he tries hardest to hurt those he cares about most. His dramatic self-loathing is a way he avoids honestly taking responsibility for the wrong he has done and still does, from the little ways he tries to offend people every day to those who died because of him in Henrietta.
WAR ATTITUDES: Though he's yet to murder anyone yet, righteous violence has always come quite easily to Kavinsky. In canon, he escalates beyond any sense of reason. Post-CRAU, he is less likely to act out so badly, but he still has fewer limits than most people in Henrietta when it comes to violence. He is also depicted as being oddly efficient in the face of a non-human monster attack where others panic, killing the creature nonchalantly, and this aspect isn't gone from him just because he's mad Eudio has pooped out. Though he has no formal tactical training, he is a good shot and can handle himself without freezing.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Physical intimacy is much easier for Kavinsky to accomplish than genuine emotional connections. He is terrible at vulnerability. That being said, he does tend to have a lot of strong emotions and thoughts about people, under his veneer of rude indifference. He is capable of friendships, but grief over the loss of Eudio will lead to spiteful and nasty self-protective measures, exacerbated by the loss of his psychiatric medications. His CR is likely to be more mixed than ever!
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: The current plan is to outfit most if not all of the city with vehicles and transportation, then live indefinitely off business services and goods on 'payment plans.' Short of or apart from that, Kavinsky held several legitimate jobs in Eudio for the first time in his life, mostly in nightlife and entertainment and enjoyed that. He is also likely to contribute to construction and other community development to stroke his own ego by showing off his powers. Alternatively, he likes going out and exploring and killing stuff because he's bored.