Player Name: Krystal E-mail: chronicfangirl@gmail.com Preferred Contact:Plurk! Timezone: EST Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character Name:Old Man McGucket Fiddleford McGucket Series: Gravity Falls Timeline: Right before Northwest Mansion Mystery. Canon Resource Links:This one is very thorough.
Personality: Hoo boy. Old Man McGucket is, as they say, a piece of work. At his point in the timeline, he's spent thirty years being straight-up insane, and only recently has he begun to put himself back together. The process is far from complete, but he has the potential to make a near-total recovery.
Let's start with Sane McGucket. The man's a certifiable genius. Raised dirt poor on a Tennessee hog farm, he had a lot to prove when he went off to college, but he never once felt ashamed of where he came from. Don't write him off as a stupid hick -- he's a brilliant hick. With his banjo and his drawl and his chewing tobacco habit, Fiddleford was unapologetically Southern. What he wanted most was to invent devices to improve people's lives, and maybe make enough money off the patents to live simply but comfortably. (He could have been Steve Jobs if Ford Pines, Professional Life Ruiner, hadn't pulled him into the portal project.) Despite a temper and a tendency towards spiteful retribution when he's been insulted, Fiddleford is a good dude. He really does want to help people, both in the abstract and specific: he's a darned good friend, and he'll work himself to absolute exhaustion for someone he cares about. He'll also resort to underhanded means to achieve goals: he started the most well-intentioned cult I think anyone's ever seen, and he erased the memory of his best friend in order to keep his memory gun invention. Fiddleford's a coward when it comes to real danger, not just interpersonal conflict: he's more than willing to let sleeping dragons lie rather than poke them with the scientific-inquiry stick. He's prone to panic and anxiety and nervous tics. He keeps his space neat, and disorder is a bad sign: if his cubik's cube is left unsolved, something is very wrong.
Insane McGucket happened because he couldn't stop using the memory gun. The cumulative effects broke his mind: within two years, he was divorced, kicked out of his own house, and entirely unhinged. Now Old Man McGucket lives in the junkyard, more than half feral, living off of whatever meat he finds and unable to recognize his own reflection. His Southern traits are exaggerated -- he'd be a caricature of a crazy hillbilly, except for the fact that he still invents and builds giant robots. He has zero social graces, saying whatever pops into his mind, and is happy just to have people pay attention to him. He knows on a real level that he's an embarrassment and a bother, but McGucket doesn't know another way to be, so he keeps on being him. He's easily manipulated and a poor judge of character, but he's also braver than before -- McGucket rushes in where angels fear to tread.
There are some key traits that surface in both mental states. One, McGucket will eat anything, and I mean anything. Irradiated milk, an entire raccoon, roadkill, his way out of a dinosaur's stomach -- it's frankly terrifying. Two, he desperately wants attention, and will do just about anything to get it. He's also always been kind of prone to oversharing. Three, his family matters to him very deeply, and even though they're estranged and he's been forced out of his son's life, McGucket still wants to be part of it very badly. Four, he's got a vindictive streak -- he can be petty, bitter, and mean. He's always been capable of justifying his means (see: the memory-wipe cult), and when his inhibitions are gone, there's nothing stopping him from destroying ten city blocks because someone didn't come to his retirement party. And speaking of, five: he's a brilliant inventor and mechanic, and he's never stopped inventing and building. Trouble is, he's only recently started remembering things from before 1982, and he has a hard time still with technology he didn't build.
He wants to remember, though: that's one key difference between Fiddleford as a young man and as an old one. McGucket wants to put himself back together, and has made strides toward restoring his sanity. However, even if his mind comes back completely, Fiddleford will never be entirely the same as he was: he's spent a long time being what he is, and he'll always be both braver and weirder than he was before. Oh, and he's never making himself wear shoes again, not for man nor beast nor devil triangle. I'm not one hundred percent sure how long he's going to last in Team Rocket, but I'm really interested in finding out. He'll probably work a lot on the science side of things. He can build you giant Pokemon-stealing robots, okay, he's a valuable asset.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Rocket. Starter: Main starter is Porygon, supplementary starter is Trubbish. Password: Atomic Fireball!
Victory Road Sample: [Network post] SHARE [F/:IDDLEFORD]? ROUTE [29]* UNDELETE DOT EXE AW HORSEFEATHERS FORGET IT HOWDY I'M TYPING WORDS INTO THIS HERE MACHINE CAN YOU SEE THEM ? IF YOU CAN'T I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN TYPE LOUDER, BUT I CAN TRY ! RETURNRETURN ANYWAY ABOUT THAT MUSIC I BEEN HEARING IT EVER SINCE I GOT HERE I FIGURED IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHAT ONLY HAPPENS IN MY HEAD, LIKE DREAMS AND AIR RAID SIRENS, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE SOME OF YOU FELLAS ARE HEARING IT TOO ! THAT MUST MEAN IT'S REAL AFTER ALL ! RETURNRETURN OR THAT YOU'RE A BUNCH OF PSYCHICS AND YOU'VE BEEN PICKING UP MY BRAINWAVES ! GET YOUR OWN MIND MUSIC, YOU CLAIRVOYANT CREEPS !!PVB!YLZIW;NZHS!!
Fiddleford McGucket | Gravity Falls
Name: Krystal
E-mail: chronicfangirl@gmail.com
Preferred Contact: Plurk!
Timezone: EST
Current Characters in Victory Road: None
Character
Name:
Old Man McGucketFiddleford McGucketSeries: Gravity Falls
Timeline: Right before Northwest Mansion Mystery.
Canon Resource Links: This one is very thorough.
Personality: Hoo boy. Old Man McGucket is, as they say, a piece of work. At his point in the timeline, he's spent thirty years being straight-up insane, and only recently has he begun to put himself back together. The process is far from complete, but he has the potential to make a near-total recovery.
Let's start with Sane McGucket. The man's a certifiable genius. Raised dirt poor on a Tennessee hog farm, he had a lot to prove when he went off to college, but he never once felt ashamed of where he came from. Don't write him off as a stupid hick -- he's a brilliant hick. With his banjo and his drawl and his chewing tobacco habit, Fiddleford was unapologetically Southern. What he wanted most was to invent devices to improve people's lives, and maybe make enough money off the patents to live simply but comfortably. (He could have been Steve Jobs if Ford Pines, Professional Life Ruiner, hadn't pulled him into the portal project.) Despite a temper and a tendency towards spiteful retribution when he's been insulted, Fiddleford is a good dude. He really does want to help people, both in the abstract and specific: he's a darned good friend, and he'll work himself to absolute exhaustion for someone he cares about. He'll also resort to underhanded means to achieve goals: he started the most well-intentioned cult I think anyone's ever seen, and he erased the memory of his best friend in order to keep his memory gun invention. Fiddleford's a coward when it comes to real danger, not just interpersonal conflict: he's more than willing to let sleeping dragons lie rather than poke them with the scientific-inquiry stick. He's prone to panic and anxiety and nervous tics. He keeps his space neat, and disorder is a bad sign: if his cubik's cube is left unsolved, something is very wrong.
Insane McGucket happened because he couldn't stop using the memory gun. The cumulative effects broke his mind: within two years, he was divorced, kicked out of his own house, and entirely unhinged. Now Old Man McGucket lives in the junkyard, more than half feral, living off of whatever meat he finds and unable to recognize his own reflection. His Southern traits are exaggerated -- he'd be a caricature of a crazy hillbilly, except for the fact that he still invents and builds giant robots. He has zero social graces, saying whatever pops into his mind, and is happy just to have people pay attention to him. He knows on a real level that he's an embarrassment and a bother, but McGucket doesn't know another way to be, so he keeps on being him. He's easily manipulated and a poor judge of character, but he's also braver than before -- McGucket rushes in where angels fear to tread.
There are some key traits that surface in both mental states. One, McGucket will eat anything, and I mean anything. Irradiated milk, an entire raccoon, roadkill, his way out of a dinosaur's stomach -- it's frankly terrifying. Two, he desperately wants attention, and will do just about anything to get it. He's also always been kind of prone to oversharing. Three, his family matters to him very deeply, and even though they're estranged and he's been forced out of his son's life, McGucket still wants to be part of it very badly. Four, he's got a vindictive streak -- he can be petty, bitter, and mean. He's always been capable of justifying his means (see: the memory-wipe cult), and when his inhibitions are gone, there's nothing stopping him from destroying ten city blocks because someone didn't come to his retirement party. And speaking of, five: he's a brilliant inventor and mechanic, and he's never stopped inventing and building. Trouble is, he's only recently started remembering things from before 1982, and he has a hard time still with technology he didn't build.
He wants to remember, though: that's one key difference between Fiddleford as a young man and as an old one. McGucket wants to put himself back together, and has made strides toward restoring his sanity. However, even if his mind comes back completely, Fiddleford will never be entirely the same as he was: he's spent a long time being what he is, and he'll always be both braver and weirder than he was before. Oh, and he's never making himself wear shoes again, not for man nor beast nor devil triangle. I'm not one hundred percent sure how long he's going to last in Team Rocket, but I'm really interested in finding out. He'll probably work a lot on the science side of things. He can build you giant Pokemon-stealing robots, okay, he's a valuable asset.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket.
Starter: Main starter is Porygon, supplementary starter is Trubbish.
Password: Atomic Fireball!
Samples
RP Sample: Test drive thread!
Victory Road Sample: [Network post]
SHARE [F/:IDDLEFORD]?
ROUTE [29]* UNDELETE DOT EXE
AW HORSEFEATHERS FORGET IT
HOWDY
I'M TYPING WORDS INTO THIS HERE MACHINE
CAN YOU SEE THEM ?
IF YOU CAN'T I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN TYPE LOUDER, BUT I CAN TRY !
RETURNRETURN
ANYWAY ABOUT THAT MUSIC
I BEEN HEARING IT EVER SINCE I GOT HERE
I FIGURED IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHAT ONLY HAPPENS IN MY HEAD, LIKE DREAMS AND AIR RAID SIRENS, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE SOME OF YOU FELLAS ARE HEARING IT TOO !
THAT MUST MEAN IT'S REAL AFTER ALL !
RETURNRETURN
OR THAT YOU'RE A BUNCH OF PSYCHICS AND YOU'VE BEEN PICKING UP MY BRAINWAVES !
GET YOUR OWN MIND MUSIC, YOU CLAIRVOYANT CREEPS !!PVB!YLZIW;NZHS!!