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Character Name: Calvin Series: Calvin and Hobbes Timeline: after the comic ends ("let's go exploring!") Canon Resource Links:Wikia
Personality:
Calvin is a 6 year old boy living in a typical American suburb in the 80's with a mom, a dad, and his best friend, a stuffed tiger named Hobbes. To say that he can be "a bit much" sometimes would be an understatement. Calvin is loud, proud (sometimes for no discernible reason), and in your face... and perhaps a tad too precocious for someone so young. His favored humor edges more often toward the macabre than anything else.
Calvin is an incredibly impulsive boy. While he is more than capable of rational thought, and does so quite often concerning more metaphysical topics, Calvin's typical Modus Operandi in life is to leap before he looks. If he has any interest in doing something, he doesn't consider the potential results of whatever task he happens to be undertaking and simply does it. For this reason, Calvin is often quick to find himself in trouble. He isn't really one for regret though, either.
Another reason Calvin often finds himself in trouble is his distinct lack of respect for authority. He is constantly undermining his parents and doesn't keep quiet whenever he disagrees with a decision they make; which is basically all the time. Calvin will go to extreme lengths to "fight the power", as it were.
His rebellious nature and anti-authority stance doesn't just apply to his parents. In fact, Calvin typically shows even less respect for temporary figures of authority such as his teachers and principal, or his babysitter, Rosalyn. He doesn't like rules, especially ones he had no say in, and at one time demanded to know why "life is never fair in my favor".
However, while Calvin talks big, and may resort to passive aggressive messages through snowman medium, he is in no way, shape or form a violent child. In fact, when faced with a school bully, Calvin chooses to combat him with words, rather than fists. Calvin is far more likely to hurt himself through thoughtless and impulsive actions than he is to hurt another person our of anger.
Calvin is undeniably mischievous. He loves playing tricks and pranks on people and will go to elaborate lengths sometimes to do so. Even his parents aren't safe from him.
One of his favorite victims, and probably the only person his age that Calvin is even remotely close to, is Susie Derkins. While the two appear to be constantly at war with each other, there is no denying that there is an element of schoolyard pigtail pulling at play between the two of them. Susie is the only person besides Hobbes that Calvin plays with regularly.
While Calvin is certainly a bold child, he is in no way fearless. Calvin has many fears and nightmares about monsters living under his bed. He has on several occasions mistaken his father, mother, and Hobbes as monsters and has deep and genuine fears that they will eat him. He combats these fears pro-actively by arming himself with nerf-guns or a baseball bat and preparing for war. His fascination with the macabre outside of these instances is more than likely a way of allowing himself to control the situation in his own mind.
Calvin exhibits little to no interest in school on any given day, but can often be found contemplating deep philosophical concepts, including where we go when we die and predestination. While the argument can be made one way or the other about whether Calvin is book smart, there is no denying that he is highly intelligent, often speaking with an elevated vocabulary and concerning subjects that even adults are sometimes hesitant to address. He's also a big fan of irony.
"Normal" may be something difficult to accurate define, but whatever it is, Calvin isn't. Calvin is a study in contradictions. He loves trashy slasher movies, but discusses philosophy with his stuffed tiger Hobbes. He loves watching television, but if tempted outside can while a whole day away with only his imagination and maybe a beat up little red wagon for company. He claims to want more friends, but feels that people are jerks and makes no actual attempts to befriend anyone himself.
In the end, it's necessary to make the distinction that Calvin is not unmotivated, but self motivated. When it comes to things that Calvin is interested in, he will go to extreme and creative lengths, but he falls significantly short of caring about anything he's not personally invested in.
Perhaps the most noteworthy things about Calvin is his imagination, which is overactive and exuberant. He spends most of his days half living in a fantasy world, perhaps best qualified by the fact that his best friend is his stuffed tiger, for whom he imagines a distinct and individual personality and goes on grand adventures with.
Calvin has also imagined himself in any number of fantastical storylines, but his three most prevalent "alter-identities" are: Tracer Bullet, a Noir Detective;
Spaceman Spiff, an intrepid space explorer who fights aliens, which are often portrayed by the school staff;
and Stupendous Man, a less than impressive superhero who takes his tests for him and gets stuck in the school lockers.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Calvin's biggest strength is undeniably his imagination. There are no limits to his imagination. However this could also be considered a detriment, as it more often than not results in Calvin failing to interact reliably with reality. Reality and Calvin are not friends.
He's highly unmotivated with things like schoolwork or chores, but incredibly self-motivated when it comes to anything he personally finds interesting. As a result, while he doesn't do well in school Calvin is actually an intelligent and articulate boy, prone to philosophical debate with Hobbes.
Calvin has very poor social skills. He has trouble making friends, or being involved in any sort of organization such as sports or cub scouts. He's also highly impulsive and rarely bothers to think things through before he does them.
He has an undeniable artistic talent, best portrayed by the unique snowmen he makes in the Winter.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Tropius Password: Ginger Snaps
Samples First Person Sample: [Video] [Calvin is squinting down at his Pokedex, in particular at the Happy Birthday message he just received. More than finding himself in a strange new world with a strange new mom, this message seems to bother him most of all.] ... I don't get it. How did I just turn 10 when I was 6 before this?
[A loud thudding sound just out of sight has Calvin looking up and away and for a moment, his face is so blank that he can only be rebooting. In the next heartbeat though his expression turns indescribable. It's like Christmas and his birthday both happened at the same time. Or, I guess, like four birthdays happened all at once.]
IT'S A DINOSAUR!
[With a gleeful shout Calvin throws himself at a placid looking Tropius, which for someone as short as Calvin, might as well be the size of a Brontosaurus. Sure it looks a little weird, but he's not going to be picky when it's a real actual dinosaur, okay.] Oh man Hobbes is going to be so jealous.
[But he doesn't care. Because dinosaur. Pokemon adventure? What Pokemon adventure?]
Third Person Sample: The downside, Calvin decided, to having such a rich and original imagination as he did, was that when he found himself in instances like this it was difficult to tell whether they were actually happening or he was just imagining them. He had a personal dinosaur, which was a tally mark in the imagination side because it was precisely the sort of thing that Calvin would choose to imagine. And he supposed that the weird sort of like animals but not quite things weren't beyond the stretches of his imagination, but he was far more likely to dream up aliens or zombies than the pink fluffy thing that was bouncing around and squeaking angrily at him right now.
Ben Copernicus (what. it was a good name. and apparently you were supposed to name these almost animal things when they belonged to you. Ben Copper for short. He was Tracer Bullet's old partner before he quit the force to work the private sector.) didn't seem to know what to do with the pink thing either, besides step gingerly around it and try not to squish it. Ben was a good guy like that. Personally, Calvin figured a squished pink thing would just look like a squished marshmallow, but what did he know? Ben was clearly the seasoned veteran here; he was just the rookie.
There didn't seem to be a whole lot of peril going on in this world, though, which was a pretty huge mark against this place being something that Calvin created. Stuff just wasn't very interesting without a little peril, in his opinion. Either way, he was stuck in this place for the time being. Stuck being yelled at by a giant pink marshmallow. That was weird even for Calvin.
"Look, go away!" Calvin shouted down from where he was perched comfortably on Ben Copper's back. "Whatever you're selling, we don't want any of it!" That always seemed to work for his dad when pink fluffy things (girls) showed up at their door squeaking about things and he wanted them to go away because he had a headache.
No the headache wasn't Calvin's fault, why would you think that?
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Character
Name: Calvin
Series: Calvin and Hobbes
Timeline: after the comic ends ("let's go exploring!")
Canon Resource Links: Wikia
Personality:
Calvin is a 6 year old boy living in a typical American suburb in the 80's with a mom, a dad, and his best friend, a stuffed tiger named Hobbes. To say that he can be "a bit much" sometimes would be an understatement. Calvin is loud, proud (sometimes for no discernible reason), and in your face... and perhaps a tad too precocious for someone so young. His favored humor edges more often toward the macabre than anything else.
Calvin is an incredibly impulsive boy. While he is more than capable of rational thought, and does so quite often concerning more metaphysical topics, Calvin's typical Modus Operandi in life is to leap before he looks. If he has any interest in doing something, he doesn't consider the potential results of whatever task he happens to be undertaking and simply does it. For this reason, Calvin is often quick to find himself in trouble. He isn't really one for regret though, either.
Another reason Calvin often finds himself in trouble is his distinct lack of respect for authority. He is constantly undermining his parents and doesn't keep quiet whenever he disagrees with a decision they make; which is basically all the time. Calvin will go to extreme lengths to "fight the power", as it were.
His rebellious nature and anti-authority stance doesn't just apply to his parents. In fact, Calvin typically shows even less respect for temporary figures of authority such as his teachers and principal, or his babysitter, Rosalyn. He doesn't like rules, especially ones he had no say in, and at one time demanded to know why "life is never fair in my favor".
However, while Calvin talks big, and may resort to passive aggressive messages through snowman medium, he is in no way, shape or form a violent child. In fact, when faced with a school bully, Calvin chooses to combat him with words, rather than fists. Calvin is far more likely to hurt himself through thoughtless and impulsive actions than he is to hurt another person our of anger.
Calvin is undeniably mischievous. He loves playing tricks and pranks on people and will go to elaborate lengths sometimes to do so. Even his parents aren't safe from him.
One of his favorite victims, and probably the only person his age that Calvin is even remotely close to, is Susie Derkins. While the two appear to be constantly at war with each other, there is no denying that there is an element of schoolyard pigtail pulling at play between the two of them. Susie is the only person besides Hobbes that Calvin plays with regularly.
While Calvin is certainly a bold child, he is in no way fearless. Calvin has many fears and nightmares about monsters living under his bed. He has on several occasions mistaken his father, mother, and Hobbes as monsters and has deep and genuine fears that they will eat him. He combats these fears pro-actively by arming himself with nerf-guns or a baseball bat and preparing for war. His fascination with the macabre outside of these instances is more than likely a way of allowing himself to control the situation in his own mind.
Calvin exhibits little to no interest in school on any given day, but can often be found contemplating deep philosophical concepts, including where we go when we die and predestination. While the argument can be made one way or the other about whether Calvin is book smart, there is no denying that he is highly intelligent, often speaking with an elevated vocabulary and concerning subjects that even adults are sometimes hesitant to address. He's also a big fan of irony.
"Normal" may be something difficult to accurate define, but whatever it is, Calvin isn't. Calvin is a study in contradictions. He loves trashy slasher movies, but discusses philosophy with his stuffed tiger Hobbes. He loves watching television, but if tempted outside can while a whole day away with only his imagination and maybe a beat up little red wagon for company. He claims to want more friends, but feels that people are jerks and makes no actual attempts to befriend anyone himself.
In the end, it's necessary to make the distinction that Calvin is not unmotivated, but self motivated. When it comes to things that Calvin is interested in, he will go to extreme and creative lengths, but he falls significantly short of caring about anything he's not personally invested in.
Perhaps the most noteworthy things about Calvin is his imagination, which is overactive and exuberant. He spends most of his days half living in a fantasy world, perhaps best qualified by the fact that his best friend is his stuffed tiger, for whom he imagines a distinct and individual personality and goes on grand adventures with.
Calvin has also imagined himself in any number of fantastical storylines, but his three most prevalent "alter-identities" are: Tracer Bullet, a Noir Detective;
Spaceman Spiff, an intrepid space explorer who fights aliens, which are often portrayed by the school staff;
and Stupendous Man, a less than impressive superhero who takes his tests for him and gets stuck in the school lockers.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Calvin's biggest strength is undeniably his imagination. There are no limits to his imagination. However this could also be considered a detriment, as it more often than not results in Calvin failing to interact reliably with reality. Reality and Calvin are not friends.
He's highly unmotivated with things like schoolwork or chores, but incredibly self-motivated when it comes to anything he personally finds interesting. As a result, while he doesn't do well in school Calvin is actually an intelligent and articulate boy, prone to philosophical debate with Hobbes.
Calvin has very poor social skills. He has trouble making friends, or being involved in any sort of organization such as sports or cub scouts. He's also highly impulsive and rarely bothers to think things through before he does them.
He has an undeniable artistic talent, best portrayed by the unique snowmen he makes in the Winter.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Tropius
Password: Ginger Snaps
Samples
First Person Sample: [Video]
[Calvin is squinting down at his Pokedex, in particular at the Happy Birthday message he just received. More than finding himself in a strange new world with a strange new mom, this message seems to bother him most of all.] ... I don't get it. How did I just turn 10 when I was 6 before this?
[A loud thudding sound just out of sight has Calvin looking up and away and for a moment, his face is so blank that he can only be rebooting. In the next heartbeat though his expression turns indescribable. It's like Christmas and his birthday both happened at the same time. Or, I guess, like four birthdays happened all at once.]
IT'S A DINOSAUR!
[With a gleeful shout Calvin throws himself at a placid looking Tropius, which for someone as short as Calvin, might as well be the size of a Brontosaurus. Sure it looks a little weird, but he's not going to be picky when it's a real actual dinosaur, okay.] Oh man Hobbes is going to be so jealous.
[But he doesn't care. Because dinosaur. Pokemon adventure? What Pokemon adventure?]
Third Person Sample: The downside, Calvin decided, to having such a rich and original imagination as he did, was that when he found himself in instances like this it was difficult to tell whether they were actually happening or he was just imagining them. He had a personal dinosaur, which was a tally mark in the imagination side because it was precisely the sort of thing that Calvin would choose to imagine. And he supposed that the weird sort of like animals but not quite things weren't beyond the stretches of his imagination, but he was far more likely to dream up aliens or zombies than the pink fluffy thing that was bouncing around and squeaking angrily at him right now.
Ben Copernicus (what. it was a good name. and apparently you were supposed to name these almost animal things when they belonged to you. Ben Copper for short. He was Tracer Bullet's old partner before he quit the force to work the private sector.) didn't seem to know what to do with the pink thing either, besides step gingerly around it and try not to squish it. Ben was a good guy like that. Personally, Calvin figured a squished pink thing would just look like a squished marshmallow, but what did he know? Ben was clearly the seasoned veteran here; he was just the rookie.
There didn't seem to be a whole lot of peril going on in this world, though, which was a pretty huge mark against this place being something that Calvin created. Stuff just wasn't very interesting without a little peril, in his opinion. Either way, he was stuck in this place for the time being. Stuck being yelled at by a giant pink marshmallow. That was weird even for Calvin.
"Look, go away!" Calvin shouted down from where he was perched comfortably on Ben Copper's back. "Whatever you're selling, we don't want any of it!" That always seemed to work for his dad when pink fluffy things (girls) showed up at their door squeaking about things and he wanted them to go away because he had a headache.
No the headache wasn't Calvin's fault, why would you think that?