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Leonard Church | Red vs Blue | Not Reserved
Name: Shawna
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E-mail: ladyintime9 a gmail
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Character
Name: Leonard Church/Alpha
Series: Red vs Blue
Timeline: Near the end of S6E19 (therefore, despite the huge revelations surrounding this character, I'm not treating anything as spoilers because it's been like 7 years)
Canon Resource Links: RvB wiki link
Personality: Church is angry. While he is not the murderous, malevolent ball of concentrated rage that Omega is, Church still has a lot of his own multitude of frustrations to throw around. He deals with a lot of stupidity from the universe and everyone around him (and himself); his initial reaction to a lot of things is likely going to be either sarcasm or barely concealing that his last nerve is getting worn on. Expect yelling (possibly high-pitched) and creative cursing and epithets.
A lot of it tends to be because his ego is rather large. He took charge of his own team when their captain died, even though he technically hadn't received a promotion, and he thinks himself a competent leader--more competent than any of you chucklefucks, at least. It's true that out of the Reds and Blues, he does seem to have a knack for understanding situations (or at least rolling with the punches after a moment of WTFing) and coming up with plans of action that might even have a chance of working. But really, he gets screwed over...or screws himself over...before most plans have a chance to work. Which is pretty angering. Tex was once described as the embodiment of failure (the Director's failure, more like), but honestly, it's something Church has got in spades. Doesn't keep him from trying, because someone has to do something, and sadly, it tends to fall on him. Even inadvertently.
Under the pride and the better-than-thou attitude, Church can come across as just a bro who'll shoot the shit and make light. There's also a well of care and responsibility he will vehemently deny, because, tch, he isn't a pussy. Despite his frequent assertions that he hates his own teammates, ain't nobody messing with his clique, and he gets distraught and gutted at the idea of one of them dying. It's probably the most abusive of friendships you'll see around. It's a good way to describe his relationship with his on-again off-again 'girlfriend' Tex: abusive, complicated, but deeply involved and loving to an actually kind of scary degree
that gets explained as an even scarier degree in later seasons by OTHER Churches. They're people that tolerate him, people he's been living with and around for a long time, and, sure, sometimes they accidentally kill him and he holds a grudge, but they're his people, damn it, and nobody's going to hurt them but him if he can do anything about it.The thing to understand about Church--the thing to understand about the Alpha--is that there are a lot of pieces missing. While he has a complete personality with a complete range of emotions as far as anyone (including himself) is concerned, the reality is is that he's had a lot of blanks to fill over the years. And he's only very recently learned any of this, something he hasn't had the time to really compute or deal with yet. His memories are a jumble of his own, the Director's, and things he mostly made up or cobbled together to fill in the spaces missing when Epsilon took everything awful away. And while he shows the basics of each of the traits of the AI ripped from him (creativity, logic, rage, etc), he's not any one of these things, and what's there is just a fraction of what he used to be. Before about an hour prior to entering the game, he had no idea about any of this, and the information that he's a fraction of a tortured AI based off a genius with a fucked up moral compass is...hard to swallow. Viewed like this, in many ways it's like he's had to work twice as hard just to seem like one complete and whole person. The reason he feels so responsible for people, guilty when something goes wrong even if it isn't his fault, cares so deeply even when he doesn't want to, is because he did care once upon a time, he did have responsibility, and that was used against him to make him think it was his fault in scenario after scenario where he was told the Freelancers had died. He doesn't remember that, but the traits have carried over anyway like deeply embedded scars on his psyche. Everything that he is is the remnants of another man's brain, warped by torture, and cobbled back together anew by his experiences with the Reds and Blues.
This show is a comedy!When he's emotional, his words stutter, pause, create janky and jagged edges in conversation wherein he tries to reach for words that slip away from him. When he's lying, he's easy to catch for being so bad at it. When his anger erupts like a bitter spewing volcano or he tells exaggerated tall tales to inflate his ego, he doesn't necessarily mean to cause a scene, but attention is something he generally likes to subconsciously have. He's pretty much unable to keep his opinions to himself, vocal and chatty in all the wrong ways, and despite not wanting to show his squishier sides, tends to have his heart sewn directly onto his sleeve and lined with neon lights. He is a person, damn it, and no one Freelancer is going to tell him otherwise, even when the evidence is in front of his face screaming a name he doesn't remember.
Learning how to work a fully human body with no space-age armor? Also going to be a fun learning experience to screw with his perceptions and perceived senses.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+Leadership
Comes up with plans of action that usually aren't terrible. Isn't afraid to take charge and order other people around...and, sure, do some stuff himself, I guess. Takes responsibility. ...Takes responsibility even if something isn't necessarily his to take. Usually ends up doing the right thing even if the right thing sucks. Eventually. Probably.
+Loyalty
If you're in his group, you're one of his. And nobody but him is allowed to antagonize you. Or shoot you. Hey, I didn't say he'd like you. And despite all appearances, he gives a damn.
+Experience
...with weird shit. Is this shit going to be especially weird? Yes. Yes it is. But, look, after time travel that may or may not have actually happened, blowing up, getting blown up, dudes birthing alien babies, talking bombs, and his life being a lie, he's not exactly about to go catatonic. It helps(?) that he's been around idiots for so long, people who aren't constantly in the middle of bullshit is going to be pretty welcome.
-Big Mouth
He doesn't have much in the way of a brain-mouth filter and tends to speak his mind. This does not always go well. In fact this frequently doesn't go well. He tends to mouth off to people he really shouldn't in particular.
-Aiming
He has none. His kill count is...really low if you don't count team kills. Expect him to miss with pokeballs frequently, honestly.
-Emotions
Anger. So much anger and frustration. He doesn't seem to know what the words 'emotional regulation' mean. Could really use some therapy, for real. Tends to be abrasive in the face of the emotional states of others. Slightly...unstable from both past torture and recently being alone on a base for over a year.
-Is A Major Asshole
'nuf said.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Voltorb
Password: Peppermint Bark
Samples
First Person Sample:
[See Church. See Church sit on the edge of a bed. See Church sit on the edge of a bed, grumping.]
Okay guys. I'm no homeowner expert, or a landlord, or have any legal understanding of building...stuff. But I think some basic rules should apply across the board. And across the universe. Like, if you have a place to rent out or sell, if it's a hotel room or an apartment or an air mattress on the kitchen floor, you should let people know certain important aspects.
Like if the place is fucking haunted. That should be a law!
[As if on cue, while Church speaks, a Haunter flits about behind him, making all manner of silly faces.]
It's a couple very simple things you should line up if there's something wrong. No wifi, bedbugs, and paranormal activity. I don't ask for much. All I want is a bed with clean sheets and a bathroom that flushes and has hot water, and--
[He abruptly turns around, and the Haunter blinks out of sight.] DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE THERE! KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF! I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT GHOSTS, PAL. I WILL HAUNT THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR SPOOKY ASS AND SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT THEN!
[There's some static and a purple haze as, oh, looks like a ghost is interested in the device.] Haun... Oh no you do not, Casper, you get your unfriendly self away from that thing so help me.
Anyone know of any Ghostbusters in the area?!
Third Person Sample:
An honest to god hamburger. Several things go through his mind at once at the smell of greasy fast food at a joint on the corner: he recognizes the smell of hamburger, he has never smelled a hamburger, he can imagine the taste of a hamburger, he has never had a hamburger, he is hungry, he has no recollection of eating before and yet he is also absolutely certain he's eaten before.
Church ignores all of this contrasting input because holy shit he's never been this hungry in his life after wandering around, on foot, with people want to fucking fight his angry explosion-orb, and also various wildlife that either wanted to give him the evil eye or ran the hell away like wildlife should do in the face of man. Granola bars? He's a grown-ass man; he does not get sustained on the likes of granola.
"Pretty sure you can't come in with me," he tells the Voltorb that's chosen to follow him around endlessly, who just glares at him. It's a perpetual glare. He's not convinced those eyes aren't just painted on. "I mean, I don't think I can swing explaining you as a disability...ball. So just...sit. Good boy. Now stay. Staaaayyy..."
Voltorb continues to glare at everyone and everything but does not follow or even flee to the nearest person to freedom. So. So far so good. Church has to count up his money, and he's hardly loaded, but fast food is fast food, and fast food is cheap. Burger. Big burger. With the works. Large fry. Soda. He'd rather a beer, but whatever, he's also technically never had a beer either, but he's not going to sweat the small stuff.
It is absolutely the most delicious thing he's ever eaten. He slumps back in his seat at first bite, trying not to make obscene noises in the middle of a public food chain. But who cares because this is amazing. (Briefly he wonders if Voltorb eats, but his mute partner has yet to reveal a mouth. More for him!) And this is supposed to be bad for people? No wonder Grif does nothing but eat all day. He savors the taste and refuses to wonder if that bull-looking critter is what the meat's made out of.
He comes out nibbling on the remnants of the fries, and sure enough, Voltorb is waiting grumpily by the door and rolls alongside him. Church glances at a fry, then down at Voltorb. And crouches down to offer the nibble. "Do you even eat...?"
Voltorb stares. And then gives him a shock for his troubles. "Okay, sheesh, fine! You're a robot, and robots don't eat! I get it! I'm gonna fucking dump you in the bottom of a lake if you do that again."
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