Player Name: LuckyLadybug E-mail: lucky_ladybug7@yahoo.com Preferred Contact: PM this journal or mine, insaneladybug Timezone: Mountain Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name: Radley Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Timeline: Post-Crash Town arc, after episode 92 Canon Resource Links:https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Radley There are two Wikis, but this is the better of the two. Neither is written that well, but this one at least doesn't actually give more drastic misinformation like the other one, which lists something as being canon to the anime when it's only canon to the separate game verse.
Neither Wiki explains this right, but Radley and his rival, Malcolm, fight each night to win new labor for the mine. Each puts up a Duelist and they play the Duel Monsters card game. The loser goes to work for the boss of the winner. The Duelists agree to these conditions.
Personality: Radley is young and charismatic, a motorcycle gang leader who also runs the town's diner and restaurant. Unlike stereotypical motorcycle gangs, Radley's Bunch doesn't rip up the town or terrorize the people, the latter of which Radley's rival Malcolm allows his gang to do. Apparently this is not part of what Radley teaches or allows. Radley treats his gang members as equals and enjoys hanging out with them at the diner every day.
He is a friendly, sociable person, but if he doesn't like you, he isn't above mocking you and your behavior. He can come across as immature with this quirk, but he considers that he is putting bullies in their place. If he wants to make friends with someone and they repeatedly reject him, he becomes very hurt and even bitter.
He loves making money, and as one of the two leaders in town vying for full control of a valuable mine, he is already quite rich. Unlike his rival Malcolm, his part of the mine is not shown in canon and there is no proof that he tortures his miners like Malcolm's gang does to theirs. Radley seems to be a sound businessman, and even if he has no moral objection, he likely would object on the grounds of it being bad business.
Radley may have a darker side, as he does threaten his employee Kalin Kessler that if he tries anything funny in a duel, the duel gun he's playing cards with will explode and probably take off his arm. There is, however, no proof that this isn't a desperate lie made up to keep Kalin in line when he thinks he will lose Kalin. Kalin is his hope for holding onto control of the town and keeping Malcolm from taking over, and with Kalin admitting he wants to lose, it's believable Radley might use such a lie out of desperation. Given his personality through the episodes, and the Bunch's goodness, to me it is not believable that he means what he says.
He is calm, cool, and collected unless pushed to his limits. He believes in Kalin despite the gruesome threat and stops one of the Bunch from taking over Kalin's duel. But when everything falls apart, Kalin loses, and Malcolm's brother Lawton unfairly beats Radley in a one-turn-kill duel, Radley snaps and screams at Kalin when they and Yusei Fudo are dragged to the mines to be tortured as Malcolm's slaves. Radley is terrified at the prospect of being stranded there for life and physically shakes from fear.
Radley has an affinity for jewelry and is never without an earring in his left ear and an arrowhead pendant around his neck. His leather jacket is studded at the lapels and his black hair is long and shoulder-length. He and the Bunch are very clean, as opposed to how many motorcycle gangs have greasy, torn, and stained clothes. His appearance combined with the fact of him owning an eatery suggests he is not a typical motorcycle gang leader. The diner also looks very clean and he likely keeps it in good, sanitary condition.
He waxes philosophical at times and has a good command of the English language. He doesn't speak like an uneducated thug at all. His past is mysterious, but it wouldn't be surprising if he comes from a background far different than the life he has chosen for himself.
Taking all of his personality into account, and the fact that canon never shows us any proof that he is a cruel taskmaster in the mines as Malcolm is, I choose to play Radley as a good person who was trying to protect his town from Malcolm's cruel takeover. He has his faults, but he is noble at heart. I also play him as being of Spanish descent, because of his original name being Ramon (which is often a Spanish name) and because he looks Spanish to me.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder Starter: Eevee would be my preference. In the Over the Nexus game, Radley uses a Crystal Beast deck. One of the monsters, Ruby Carbuncle, looks a lot like Eevee's evolution Espeon. Radley's deck is not shown in the anime, so I accept his game deck as being what he uses in the anime too. This deck is the source of his journal name too. Password: Atomic Fireball
Victory Road Sample: Radley slowly stirred, opening his eyes as he adjusted to the room around him. He was laying in bed, as usual, and he was hugging the pillow as usual, but this was not his room.
He was up like a shot, staring in disbelief at his surroundings. Everywhere he looked, there were Pokemon figures, plushies, and posters. It looked like Ash Ketchum's room come to life.
He rubbed his eyes in bewildered disbelief. Was Scotch playing a silly joke on him? No, Scotch might do this with one of the other Bunch, but not with Radley. Scotch idolized Radley too much. But if this wasn't his room, and it wasn't anyone else's room in town, then ...
"Eevee?"
He jumped a mile. A small brown furry critter was standing at the end of his bed, tilting its head as it looked curiously at him.
He slumped back. "Okay, now what are you? Some kind of animatronic? A hologram? Is Industrial Illusions going into Pokemon now?" He reached for it and his hands went firmly around its middle. It certainly wasn't a hologram. And as he lifted it up, it was also immediately clear that it was not an animatronic. He was holding a living being.
Now he could only stare. "What the . . . ?!"
"Radley?" a completely unfamiliar voice called. "Are you up yet? It's time to go!"
"Go?! Go where?!" He stumbled out of bed, shaking off the covers as he tried to hold on to the Eevee, which wasn't hard as it was already snuggling him. "Who are you? What's going on here?"
A woman he had never seen before in his life opened the door. "Oh good, Eevee found you! Hurry and get dressed! Today's the day you start on your Pokemon journey!" She beamed and clasped her hands. "I'm so proud!"
"Today's the day I what?!" Radley just gawked at her. Something was very, very wrong. If he hadn't hit his head, he must either be sick or in some bizarre experiment. If it wasn't for realizing the Eevee was real, he would . . . well, he wasn't sure what he would do. This lady was loco, but he was holding something living and breathing that wasn't even supposed to exist. That added a whole new unbelievable level of weird to this situation.
"I've made you lunch! Go on, get your clothes!" She practically flung some clothes at him, and he had to balance Eevee to grab them with one hand. At least, he noted, these were indeed his clothes, a black leather jacket and pants and a gray tank top. Eevee batted at a sleeve.
"Hey, be careful with that," he lightly scolded. He set Eevee on the bed. "Okay, I'll get dressed, but will you please leave the room first?"
The woman pouted. "I've seen you in your underwear before! But oh, if you insist, son!" She closed the door.
"SON?!" Radley almost fell over from shock.
One way or another, he had to find some answers to this mess. It didn't look like he was going to get any from this woman, so maybe he would have to play along until he found someone more reasonable to talk to.
His hands shaking, he slowly pulled off his sleep pants and grabbed for the leather. He was stuck in a weird house, with a weird lady claiming to be his mother, with a weird but cute animal standing on his bed watching him pull on his pants.
"What the hell is going on around here?!" he cried aloud.
Radley | Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds (reserved)
Name: LuckyLadybug
E-mail: lucky_ladybug7@yahoo.com
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Timezone: Mountain
Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character
Name: Radley
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds
Timeline: Post-Crash Town arc, after episode 92
Canon Resource Links: https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Radley There are two Wikis, but this is the better of the two. Neither is written that well, but this one at least doesn't actually give more drastic misinformation like the other one, which lists something as being canon to the anime when it's only canon to the separate game verse.
Neither Wiki explains this right, but Radley and his rival, Malcolm, fight each night to win new labor for the mine. Each puts up a Duelist and they play the Duel Monsters card game. The loser goes to work for the boss of the winner. The Duelists agree to these conditions.
Personality: Radley is young and charismatic, a motorcycle gang leader who also runs the town's diner and restaurant. Unlike stereotypical motorcycle gangs, Radley's Bunch doesn't rip up the town or terrorize the people, the latter of which Radley's rival Malcolm allows his gang to do. Apparently this is not part of what Radley teaches or allows. Radley treats his gang members as equals and enjoys hanging out with them at the diner every day.
He is a friendly, sociable person, but if he doesn't like you, he isn't above mocking you and your behavior. He can come across as immature with this quirk, but he considers that he is putting bullies in their place. If he wants to make friends with someone and they repeatedly reject him, he becomes very hurt and even bitter.
He loves making money, and as one of the two leaders in town vying for full control of a valuable mine, he is already quite rich. Unlike his rival Malcolm, his part of the mine is not shown in canon and there is no proof that he tortures his miners like Malcolm's gang does to theirs. Radley seems to be a sound businessman, and even if he has no moral objection, he likely would object on the grounds of it being bad business.
Radley may have a darker side, as he does threaten his employee Kalin Kessler that if he tries anything funny in a duel, the duel gun he's playing cards with will explode and probably take off his arm. There is, however, no proof that this isn't a desperate lie made up to keep Kalin in line when he thinks he will lose Kalin. Kalin is his hope for holding onto control of the town and keeping Malcolm from taking over, and with Kalin admitting he wants to lose, it's believable Radley might use such a lie out of desperation. Given his personality through the episodes, and the Bunch's goodness, to me it is not believable that he means what he says.
He is calm, cool, and collected unless pushed to his limits. He believes in Kalin despite the gruesome threat and stops one of the Bunch from taking over Kalin's duel. But when everything falls apart, Kalin loses, and Malcolm's brother Lawton unfairly beats Radley in a one-turn-kill duel, Radley snaps and screams at Kalin when they and Yusei Fudo are dragged to the mines to be tortured as Malcolm's slaves. Radley is terrified at the prospect of being stranded there for life and physically shakes from fear.
Radley has an affinity for jewelry and is never without an earring in his left ear and an arrowhead pendant around his neck. His leather jacket is studded at the lapels and his black hair is long and shoulder-length. He and the Bunch are very clean, as opposed to how many motorcycle gangs have greasy, torn, and stained clothes. His appearance combined with the fact of him owning an eatery suggests he is not a typical motorcycle gang leader. The diner also looks very clean and he likely keeps it in good, sanitary condition.
He waxes philosophical at times and has a good command of the English language. He doesn't speak like an uneducated thug at all. His past is mysterious, but it wouldn't be surprising if he comes from a background far different than the life he has chosen for himself.
Taking all of his personality into account, and the fact that canon never shows us any proof that he is a cruel taskmaster in the mines as Malcolm is, I choose to play Radley as a good person who was trying to protect his town from Malcolm's cruel takeover. He has his faults, but he is noble at heart. I also play him as being of Spanish descent, because of his original name being Ramon (which is often a Spanish name) and because he looks Spanish to me.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Eevee would be my preference. In the Over the Nexus game, Radley uses a Crystal Beast deck. One of the monsters, Ruby Carbuncle, looks a lot like Eevee's evolution Espeon. Radley's deck is not shown in the anime, so I accept his game deck as being what he uses in the anime too. This deck is the source of his journal name too.
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample:https://ohmyarceus.dreamwidth.org/20816.html?thread=4906576#cmt4906576 I play Radley a lot, but usually only in private RPs. I try to run a public RPG playing him, but that's from another point in canon. I hope this thread is good enough....
Victory Road Sample: Radley slowly stirred, opening his eyes as he adjusted to the room around him. He was laying in bed, as usual, and he was hugging the pillow as usual, but this was not his room.
He was up like a shot, staring in disbelief at his surroundings. Everywhere he looked, there were Pokemon figures, plushies, and posters. It looked like Ash Ketchum's room come to life.
He rubbed his eyes in bewildered disbelief. Was Scotch playing a silly joke on him? No, Scotch might do this with one of the other Bunch, but not with Radley. Scotch idolized Radley too much. But if this wasn't his room, and it wasn't anyone else's room in town, then ...
"Eevee?"
He jumped a mile. A small brown furry critter was standing at the end of his bed, tilting its head as it looked curiously at him.
He slumped back. "Okay, now what are you? Some kind of animatronic? A hologram? Is Industrial Illusions going into Pokemon now?" He reached for it and his hands went firmly around its middle. It certainly wasn't a hologram. And as he lifted it up, it was also immediately clear that it was not an animatronic. He was holding a living being.
Now he could only stare. "What the . . . ?!"
"Radley?" a completely unfamiliar voice called. "Are you up yet? It's time to go!"
"Go?! Go where?!" He stumbled out of bed, shaking off the covers as he tried to hold on to the Eevee, which wasn't hard as it was already snuggling him. "Who are you? What's going on here?"
A woman he had never seen before in his life opened the door. "Oh good, Eevee found you! Hurry and get dressed! Today's the day you start on your Pokemon journey!" She beamed and clasped her hands. "I'm so proud!"
"Today's the day I what?!" Radley just gawked at her. Something was very, very wrong. If he hadn't hit his head, he must either be sick or in some bizarre experiment. If it wasn't for realizing the Eevee was real, he would . . . well, he wasn't sure what he would do. This lady was loco, but he was holding something living and breathing that wasn't even supposed to exist. That added a whole new unbelievable level of weird to this situation.
"I've made you lunch! Go on, get your clothes!" She practically flung some clothes at him, and he had to balance Eevee to grab them with one hand. At least, he noted, these were indeed his clothes, a black leather jacket and pants and a gray tank top. Eevee batted at a sleeve.
"Hey, be careful with that," he lightly scolded. He set Eevee on the bed. "Okay, I'll get dressed, but will you please leave the room first?"
The woman pouted. "I've seen you in your underwear before! But oh, if you insist, son!" She closed the door.
"SON?!" Radley almost fell over from shock.
One way or another, he had to find some answers to this mess. It didn't look like he was going to get any from this woman, so maybe he would have to play along until he found someone more reasonable to talk to.
His hands shaking, he slowly pulled off his sleep pants and grabbed for the leather. He was stuck in a weird house, with a weird lady claiming to be his mother, with a weird but cute animal standing on his bed watching him pull on his pants.
"What the hell is going on around here?!" he cried aloud.