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Mar. 4th, 2014 08:42 pmPlayer Name: Kris
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Is the player at least 18 years of age? Yes
Character's Full Name: Henry Mills
Canon Once Upon a Time
PB/Actor: David Lambert
Character's Starting Level: 5
Character Age: 20
Physical Description: Henry stands at 6" tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and a tattoo on his wrist.
Character's Species/Race (aka human, elf, dragonblood human, etc): Human
Character History (Pre-Veil): LINK!
Post Veil History: Henry Mills came through the Veil when he was thirteen years old, right after having to say goodbye to his entire family, and his adoptive mother, Regina Mills, so that she could cast a counter-curse and defeat Pan. Given that he had just recently been reunited with his family after being kidnapped and taken to Neverland, Henry was understandably frustrated. But he's always been a smart, resourceful, optimistic kid, and he channeled that frustration into something useful and productive, doing what he could to find himself a place to stay. One of his flaws is trusting too easily - and oftentimes the wrong people - so his first year in this new world was fraught with obstacles and a few close calls.
He finally found a small, rural town in New England to settle into for a long time, living in a boarding house run by an old woman (PB: Maggie Smith) who generally hated most people, but had a soft spot for Henry because he was genuinely kind, trustworthy, could be sassy when necessary and not take it to heart, and was never duplicitous in his interactions with people; Henry, unlike so many people he's met, doesn't hide his true feelings. If he feels a certain way about you, you're sure to know it.
He grew up in the town, making friends with some of the people who turned a blind eye to where he'd come from and who he was, and when he was old enough and sure enough of himself, he set out to explore. He's kept his family in his heart, in his thoughts, every minute of his life, but he also doesn't want to make the mistake of holding onto the past, tarnishing his good memories by dwelling on things he can't change. He can't ever get back to them, but he can always love them, keep them with him, and learn from what they've taught him.
By age eighteen, Henry makes his way to New York, building on and honing self-defense skills he learned from the people he's spent the last five years with. He can protect himself, take care of himself, and he wants to see the world now. He settles into a routine in the big city, taking a few entry-level jobs just to make it work. At nineteen, he picks up a security guard job at a small little market in a more unsafe area of the city. It's at age twenty-one that he's noticed by one of the Knights. On this particular day, there was a robbery at the market, and though Henry wasn't authorized to carry a weapon - off duty, he could handle a few different weapons, but was only allowed to carry a nightstick and pepper spray on duty - he chased down the perpetrator on foot, tackling him to the ground and stopping him before he could shoot an innocent bystander. This catches the attention of one of the Knights, and Henry is approached later on. A conversation ensues about Henry's self-defense skills, and any other skills he might already have, and he knows instantly that this is what he's supposed to do. So, he journeys to England, meets with Wynn, and agrees to become a Knight.
Chosen Canon Point: At the very end of Season 3, Episode 10, just prior to losing all of his memories.
Personality and Psychology:
Henry is a thoughtful, brave, kind young boy filled with hope and a firm belief in always doing what's right. Despite the terrible things he's seen and been through, he manages to maintain an unwavering feeling of hope, something which he's clearly inherited from his grandmother, Snow White. He's also similar to Snow White in the way he regards his adoptive mother, Regina Mills; they haven't always had the easiest or closest relationship since Emma Swan arrived in town, but when Henry sees that she's making an effort to be good, he believes in her when no one else will, and in Season 3, even tells her that she's a hero now.
Henry has a fearless personality, which is seen in the way he runs away to Boston at age ten to find his birth mother, just believing that things would turn out the way they should. He's also patient and kind, knowing Emma needs time to open up to him, telling her she's not ready to hear his name for her (mother), but seemingly alright with that, willing to let her open up on her own terms. It's enough to him that she stays, and that she wants to know him, and eventually, the two form a close bond.
Though forgiving, Henry doesn't tolerate lies very well at all, which is seen in the way he gives Emma the cold shoulder after discovering she'd lied to him about his father being dead. He does forgive her eventually, and doesn't seem to hold grudges at all. Once he sees that Regina is truly changing, he's simply eager to help her, to have a good, loving relationship with her, rather than refusing to move past the things she did to him in the past.
He loves to read about heroes in books and comic books, and is eager to be one. He's brave and loyal, which is why he sacrifices his heart in Neverland. He wants to help everyone, wants to be the one doing the saving, and he trusts easily, which is why he was so easily misled by Pan. He tries to just see the good in people.
He can be a bit sassy and likes to joke sometimes, which he likely inherited from Regina. But he's a genuinely kind, thoughtful, and curious boy who's simply eager to make friends and help others.
Motivations:
Henry is motivated by a deeply rooted conviction that people should try to do good, and help other people as much as they can. Even as a young boy, he so often selflessly thought of other people and how he could help them, not the other way around. This isn't to say that in the course of growing up, he's never once thought of himself and his own needs, but Henry will happily self-sacrifice if it means helping the people he cares about, and even people that he might not know well, but wants to help. He wants to be a hero, and that means helping everyone, standing up for what's right, not just picking and choosing who to help and who to disregard.
He is also motivated by a fierce love for family, and for Henry, family isn't just blood. For a long time, his closest friend was Archie Hopper, and other people in Storybrooke not related to him by blood, but the bonds they'd formed were just as important to him.
Influences:
He is influenced by so many people, but especially the members of his family. For a long time, I think he was influenced by Regina in how not to be, how to not react to situations. Seeing her impulsive, quick temper has made Henry grow into a young man who's generally more patient (he could also be more impatient when he was young), more apt to listen and hear everyone's perspective before judging a decision or situation, and he's careful not to dwell in the past. He doesn't hold grudges, he doesn't hold onto bad things or things that have hurt him, and that's something that took him a few years to really wrap his head around, but he sees what living in the past did to his mother. On the other hand, Henry has also inherited some good things from Regina, like her ability to love deeply, with her entire soul. He's passionate about what he loves, very protective, and isn't at all timid.
He's gentle in the way he approaches people, but like both of his mothers, Henry has a strong personality. He can be straightforward in the way he speaks and addresses people and gets his ideas across, and is confident about the things he knows he does well.
Like both of his moms, he can be sassy at times, and sarcastic, showing affection for someone at times by just teasing them.
Like his grandmother and grandfather, though, Henry believes in happy endings, and very much like his grandmother, he believes that people can be good. As he's grown into a young man, he understands a bit more that sometimes to help foster the goodness in people, it really takes someone remaining steadfast, stubbornly supporting them no matter what. He's not naive enough to believe that everyone who's done evil could be a good person, it depends on if they truly want to redeem themselves or not. But if they've expressed a desire for redemption, he'll support them, he'll believe in them.
Strengths:
Henry has a deep, abiding love for people. He's changed a lot from when he was young, when he felt that his adoptive mother didn't love him and was only capable of horrible things, and pushed aside the love he'd once felt for her. He's seen what believing in her could do, and now that he's older, he's more apt to hold onto his belief and love in people, even when they might not always deserve it, because he knows how much it helps when they have someone believing in them and loving them no matter what.
He's also not the type of person to be afraid of new situations, eager to lead and eager to help. He's happy to do whatever he can to protect people, even if it means risking his own life.
Henry has a strength of spirit, not one to become easily discouraged, and stubborn when he feels it's for a good cause.
Weaknesses:
When he was still young, Henry struggled with whether or not he'd given his heart to Pan because he just truly thought he was saving magic, or if there was a part of him that questioned whether he could believe them all (Emma, Regina, Neal), after being lied to by them all in various ways. He had wanted to just accept what they were telling him, but he didn't know, and he hated that those were his last memories before being taken from them. Around the age of seventeen, he made a conscious decision to stop questioning his motives, coming to the conclusion that he was dwelling in the past and it would destroy him. But from that, he learned that he holds people to such high standards sometimes, standards that maybe aren't always realistic, and he's done it at times for reasons not purely selfless, not for them, but for him. A good example of this is when he got upset with Emma for not telling him the truth about his father. As time has worn on, he understands now why she did it, but at the time, he'd been so upset that she'd lied, not realizing that the lie wasn't intentionally trying to hurt him, and that he sometimes needs to stop and evaluate how he's judging a person or situation.
Another weakness of his, even to this day, is that he can trust sometimes too easily. He wants to believe the best about people, and this can still get him into trouble. He's not naive, but sometimes too idealistic for his own good.
He's spent a lot of time alone, even growing up with a few close people, he's still been lonely, away from his family for so long, and without quite realizing it, he's just gotten used to it. It's not that he believes he'll always be alone, but that he's just so used to it now, he's never sought to change it, just accepting that's the way things are, so he needs to get better about remembering that it's okay to get close to people again.
Memories Retained or Lost: With his canon point, Henry should have known that his family had rescued him, they'd made it safely back to Storybrooke, and Regina was sacrificing the one thing she loved the most - him - in order to cast a counter-curse to defeat Pan. Instead, Henry has forgotten all of that transpired, and he only remembers seeing his moms and his dad in the cave with Pan, just as he'd been about to give Pan his heart. I feel it'll actually be good potential growth for him in the game to remember that his family did come for him, but he was still conflicted enough to not believe all three of them, and want to trust Pan instead. And so in the course of growing up, he's had a lot of time to think about everything that happened, and why he doubted the three of them, and how he can grow and learn from that.
Powers and Abilities:
Henry does have some magical abilities, but it's not clear the extent of them. Had he grown up around Regina and Emma, that would have been explored more, but he's not the biggest fan of using magic since he's so often seen it used to do bad things. He knows, of course, that there's light magic, that not all magic is bad, but he hasn't been eager to explore it much yet. We know he can take his own heart out, which is something a non-magic user could do. He would likely have some of the same magic Emma has, though this would need to be explored more, and since we haven't seen canonical evidence, I wouldn't be having him use magic in a way that hasn't been explicitly stated yet, but the potential is there, and he won't explore it until we have more to go on.
He is great at self-defense, a more elegant style, like martial arts. He's taught himself to use a sword, and has basic knowledge with a bow and arrow.
Roleplay Samples
Link to a sample of your character in action: HERE!
Link to a sample of your prose writing style: LINK!
Any other important information (including special inventory items in their possession): Henry has his fairtyale storybook, the one given to him by his grandmother, Snow White, though it's just a book now, and not enchanted in any way.
Why do you think this character would join/work with the Knights?
Henry has always wanted to be a hero and help people, and what better way to accomplish this? From the moment he first started believing that his mother had cast a dark curse, he wanted to help break it in the only way he knew how, by finding his biological mother, the savior, and trying to convince her that she had to break the curse. He did this to help people, to make sure everyone got their happy endings back. As he's grown, he's become more protective of the people he loves, wanting to step in and help rather than always be the one on the sidelines. Joining the Knights would be fulfilling a lifelong dream for him, and help him feel closer to the family he lost.
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Player E-mail: thisgray [at] gmail.com
Instant message contact (AIM/MSN/etc): the music lasts (AIM)
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Is the player at least 18 years of age? Yes
Character's Full Name: Henry Mills
Canon Once Upon a Time
PB/Actor: David Lambert
Character's Starting Level: 5
Character Age: 20
Physical Description: Henry stands at 6" tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes, and a tattoo on his wrist.
Character's Species/Race (aka human, elf, dragonblood human, etc): Human
Character History (Pre-Veil): LINK!
Post Veil History: Henry Mills came through the Veil when he was thirteen years old, right after having to say goodbye to his entire family, and his adoptive mother, Regina Mills, so that she could cast a counter-curse and defeat Pan. Given that he had just recently been reunited with his family after being kidnapped and taken to Neverland, Henry was understandably frustrated. But he's always been a smart, resourceful, optimistic kid, and he channeled that frustration into something useful and productive, doing what he could to find himself a place to stay. One of his flaws is trusting too easily - and oftentimes the wrong people - so his first year in this new world was fraught with obstacles and a few close calls.
He finally found a small, rural town in New England to settle into for a long time, living in a boarding house run by an old woman (PB: Maggie Smith) who generally hated most people, but had a soft spot for Henry because he was genuinely kind, trustworthy, could be sassy when necessary and not take it to heart, and was never duplicitous in his interactions with people; Henry, unlike so many people he's met, doesn't hide his true feelings. If he feels a certain way about you, you're sure to know it.
He grew up in the town, making friends with some of the people who turned a blind eye to where he'd come from and who he was, and when he was old enough and sure enough of himself, he set out to explore. He's kept his family in his heart, in his thoughts, every minute of his life, but he also doesn't want to make the mistake of holding onto the past, tarnishing his good memories by dwelling on things he can't change. He can't ever get back to them, but he can always love them, keep them with him, and learn from what they've taught him.
By age eighteen, Henry makes his way to New York, building on and honing self-defense skills he learned from the people he's spent the last five years with. He can protect himself, take care of himself, and he wants to see the world now. He settles into a routine in the big city, taking a few entry-level jobs just to make it work. At nineteen, he picks up a security guard job at a small little market in a more unsafe area of the city. It's at age twenty-one that he's noticed by one of the Knights. On this particular day, there was a robbery at the market, and though Henry wasn't authorized to carry a weapon - off duty, he could handle a few different weapons, but was only allowed to carry a nightstick and pepper spray on duty - he chased down the perpetrator on foot, tackling him to the ground and stopping him before he could shoot an innocent bystander. This catches the attention of one of the Knights, and Henry is approached later on. A conversation ensues about Henry's self-defense skills, and any other skills he might already have, and he knows instantly that this is what he's supposed to do. So, he journeys to England, meets with Wynn, and agrees to become a Knight.
Chosen Canon Point: At the very end of Season 3, Episode 10, just prior to losing all of his memories.
Personality and Psychology:
Henry is a thoughtful, brave, kind young boy filled with hope and a firm belief in always doing what's right. Despite the terrible things he's seen and been through, he manages to maintain an unwavering feeling of hope, something which he's clearly inherited from his grandmother, Snow White. He's also similar to Snow White in the way he regards his adoptive mother, Regina Mills; they haven't always had the easiest or closest relationship since Emma Swan arrived in town, but when Henry sees that she's making an effort to be good, he believes in her when no one else will, and in Season 3, even tells her that she's a hero now.
Henry has a fearless personality, which is seen in the way he runs away to Boston at age ten to find his birth mother, just believing that things would turn out the way they should. He's also patient and kind, knowing Emma needs time to open up to him, telling her she's not ready to hear his name for her (mother), but seemingly alright with that, willing to let her open up on her own terms. It's enough to him that she stays, and that she wants to know him, and eventually, the two form a close bond.
Though forgiving, Henry doesn't tolerate lies very well at all, which is seen in the way he gives Emma the cold shoulder after discovering she'd lied to him about his father being dead. He does forgive her eventually, and doesn't seem to hold grudges at all. Once he sees that Regina is truly changing, he's simply eager to help her, to have a good, loving relationship with her, rather than refusing to move past the things she did to him in the past.
He loves to read about heroes in books and comic books, and is eager to be one. He's brave and loyal, which is why he sacrifices his heart in Neverland. He wants to help everyone, wants to be the one doing the saving, and he trusts easily, which is why he was so easily misled by Pan. He tries to just see the good in people.
He can be a bit sassy and likes to joke sometimes, which he likely inherited from Regina. But he's a genuinely kind, thoughtful, and curious boy who's simply eager to make friends and help others.
Motivations:
Henry is motivated by a deeply rooted conviction that people should try to do good, and help other people as much as they can. Even as a young boy, he so often selflessly thought of other people and how he could help them, not the other way around. This isn't to say that in the course of growing up, he's never once thought of himself and his own needs, but Henry will happily self-sacrifice if it means helping the people he cares about, and even people that he might not know well, but wants to help. He wants to be a hero, and that means helping everyone, standing up for what's right, not just picking and choosing who to help and who to disregard.
He is also motivated by a fierce love for family, and for Henry, family isn't just blood. For a long time, his closest friend was Archie Hopper, and other people in Storybrooke not related to him by blood, but the bonds they'd formed were just as important to him.
Influences:
He is influenced by so many people, but especially the members of his family. For a long time, I think he was influenced by Regina in how not to be, how to not react to situations. Seeing her impulsive, quick temper has made Henry grow into a young man who's generally more patient (he could also be more impatient when he was young), more apt to listen and hear everyone's perspective before judging a decision or situation, and he's careful not to dwell in the past. He doesn't hold grudges, he doesn't hold onto bad things or things that have hurt him, and that's something that took him a few years to really wrap his head around, but he sees what living in the past did to his mother. On the other hand, Henry has also inherited some good things from Regina, like her ability to love deeply, with her entire soul. He's passionate about what he loves, very protective, and isn't at all timid.
He's gentle in the way he approaches people, but like both of his mothers, Henry has a strong personality. He can be straightforward in the way he speaks and addresses people and gets his ideas across, and is confident about the things he knows he does well.
Like both of his moms, he can be sassy at times, and sarcastic, showing affection for someone at times by just teasing them.
Like his grandmother and grandfather, though, Henry believes in happy endings, and very much like his grandmother, he believes that people can be good. As he's grown into a young man, he understands a bit more that sometimes to help foster the goodness in people, it really takes someone remaining steadfast, stubbornly supporting them no matter what. He's not naive enough to believe that everyone who's done evil could be a good person, it depends on if they truly want to redeem themselves or not. But if they've expressed a desire for redemption, he'll support them, he'll believe in them.
Strengths:
Henry has a deep, abiding love for people. He's changed a lot from when he was young, when he felt that his adoptive mother didn't love him and was only capable of horrible things, and pushed aside the love he'd once felt for her. He's seen what believing in her could do, and now that he's older, he's more apt to hold onto his belief and love in people, even when they might not always deserve it, because he knows how much it helps when they have someone believing in them and loving them no matter what.
He's also not the type of person to be afraid of new situations, eager to lead and eager to help. He's happy to do whatever he can to protect people, even if it means risking his own life.
Henry has a strength of spirit, not one to become easily discouraged, and stubborn when he feels it's for a good cause.
Weaknesses:
When he was still young, Henry struggled with whether or not he'd given his heart to Pan because he just truly thought he was saving magic, or if there was a part of him that questioned whether he could believe them all (Emma, Regina, Neal), after being lied to by them all in various ways. He had wanted to just accept what they were telling him, but he didn't know, and he hated that those were his last memories before being taken from them. Around the age of seventeen, he made a conscious decision to stop questioning his motives, coming to the conclusion that he was dwelling in the past and it would destroy him. But from that, he learned that he holds people to such high standards sometimes, standards that maybe aren't always realistic, and he's done it at times for reasons not purely selfless, not for them, but for him. A good example of this is when he got upset with Emma for not telling him the truth about his father. As time has worn on, he understands now why she did it, but at the time, he'd been so upset that she'd lied, not realizing that the lie wasn't intentionally trying to hurt him, and that he sometimes needs to stop and evaluate how he's judging a person or situation.
Another weakness of his, even to this day, is that he can trust sometimes too easily. He wants to believe the best about people, and this can still get him into trouble. He's not naive, but sometimes too idealistic for his own good.
He's spent a lot of time alone, even growing up with a few close people, he's still been lonely, away from his family for so long, and without quite realizing it, he's just gotten used to it. It's not that he believes he'll always be alone, but that he's just so used to it now, he's never sought to change it, just accepting that's the way things are, so he needs to get better about remembering that it's okay to get close to people again.
Memories Retained or Lost: With his canon point, Henry should have known that his family had rescued him, they'd made it safely back to Storybrooke, and Regina was sacrificing the one thing she loved the most - him - in order to cast a counter-curse to defeat Pan. Instead, Henry has forgotten all of that transpired, and he only remembers seeing his moms and his dad in the cave with Pan, just as he'd been about to give Pan his heart. I feel it'll actually be good potential growth for him in the game to remember that his family did come for him, but he was still conflicted enough to not believe all three of them, and want to trust Pan instead. And so in the course of growing up, he's had a lot of time to think about everything that happened, and why he doubted the three of them, and how he can grow and learn from that.
Powers and Abilities:
Henry does have some magical abilities, but it's not clear the extent of them. Had he grown up around Regina and Emma, that would have been explored more, but he's not the biggest fan of using magic since he's so often seen it used to do bad things. He knows, of course, that there's light magic, that not all magic is bad, but he hasn't been eager to explore it much yet. We know he can take his own heart out, which is something a non-magic user could do. He would likely have some of the same magic Emma has, though this would need to be explored more, and since we haven't seen canonical evidence, I wouldn't be having him use magic in a way that hasn't been explicitly stated yet, but the potential is there, and he won't explore it until we have more to go on.
He is great at self-defense, a more elegant style, like martial arts. He's taught himself to use a sword, and has basic knowledge with a bow and arrow.
Roleplay Samples
Link to a sample of your character in action: HERE!
Link to a sample of your prose writing style: LINK!
Any other important information (including special inventory items in their possession): Henry has his fairtyale storybook, the one given to him by his grandmother, Snow White, though it's just a book now, and not enchanted in any way.
Why do you think this character would join/work with the Knights?
Henry has always wanted to be a hero and help people, and what better way to accomplish this? From the moment he first started believing that his mother had cast a dark curse, he wanted to help break it in the only way he knew how, by finding his biological mother, the savior, and trying to convince her that she had to break the curse. He did this to help people, to make sure everyone got their happy endings back. As he's grown, he's become more protective of the people he loves, wanting to step in and help rather than always be the one on the sidelines. Joining the Knights would be fulfilling a lifelong dream for him, and help him feel closer to the family he lost.
Do you have a preference for which NPC brought in your character? No preference!
