![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alittlehinkyCHARACTER NAME: Cricket Pate
CHARACTER SERIES: Lawless (2012)
THE BASICS: Assistant and mechanic to a family of moonshiners in Franklin County, VA, in the early 1930s. Cricket can work a still or repair an engine with skill beyond his years. He's quiet and a little timid, but he's got a backbone and a subtly smart mouth in moments of crisis.
[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired.
Backtagging: Always.
Threadhopping: Only in memes designed for it, or with prior discussion.
Fourthwalling: In casual memes (TFLN, etc.) yes. Otherwise, no.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Internalized ableism is going to come up with Cricket. He had rickets as a child and uses leg braces to compensate for deformation in his leg bones. He will canonically refer to himself as a 'cripple' although he is clearly able to perform more or less the same physical tasks as the other men around him, just at a slower pace.
[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired. With IC permissions, it's a good idea to elaborate on what other players can expect from your character if they choose to do any of the following:
Hugging this character: Expect bewilderment, but sure!
Kissing this character: See above, only more so.
Flirting with this character: Doesn't particularly know how to flirt, but he'll do his best to respond. As a player, I ship both M/M and M/F. Cricket is more likely to default to M/F due to the era he comes from, but I'm really pretty game for whatever; just talk to me. Also, my headcanon is that he had a one-sided crush on Jack which he would rather have died than admitted to, but he may be drawn to men who remind him of Jack: a little reckless, a lot cocky--that type.
(As a note, the character is played between 19-25 years old. Player is 30+)
Fighting with this character: Yes, and he will participate in a fistfight, but he's not super great at it. He will threaten with, or even shoot a gun if one's handy, but that's a last resort.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): He's a little delicate, but go for it. If it's anything more than a punch or two, better double check with me.
Killing this character: No, thank you.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes. He'll probably be highly creeped out.
Warnings: With Cricket, you're going to see period-typical ableism, including internalized ableism, as mentioned above. Possibly some period-typical homophobia, racism and/or sexism, as well, although due to awareness of his own low social status, he's going to default to soft-spoken and polite and won't be doing any name-calling.
Of note, Cricket does come from the Jim Crow era South, with all the separate-but-not-equal that implies. Again, his own social status is such that he's not going to verbally attack someone or complain about multiracial spaces, but long, puzzled stares could happen.
I do tend to write a lot of introspection in my tags, so while he's not likely to verbally freak out if confronted with things outside the social norms he knows, his reaction may come through in body language and narrative. For my own comfort level I tend to keep this reaction pretty soft, but if you want more gritty realism I can do that, just let me know. And if you want me to SKIP it entirely, I can also do that. Just PM me or add an ooc note.
Parthas-specific: Because of the above, I am adding a note here, if you want to opt out of interacting with Cricket because of the accompanying historical baggage, please let me know by PM, by commenting here, or by commenting on my HMD. No offense will be taken!
Additional: Cricket isn't much of a churchgoer, but he is sort of a Christian. In canon there's a prominent Brethren church in his area, of which he is not a member, but he's pretty familiar with the tenets. I think of him as more of an old-school Methodist, except for the anti-drinking part. Moonshine is a way of life in his community.
Get your own copy of the IC/OOC Permissions meme!
CHARACTER SERIES: Lawless (2012)
THE BASICS: Assistant and mechanic to a family of moonshiners in Franklin County, VA, in the early 1930s. Cricket can work a still or repair an engine with skill beyond his years. He's quiet and a little timid, but he's got a backbone and a subtly smart mouth in moments of crisis.
[OOC]
This is the permissions list for OOC (out of character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired.
Backtagging: Always.
Threadhopping: Only in memes designed for it, or with prior discussion.
Fourthwalling: In casual memes (TFLN, etc.) yes. Otherwise, no.
Offensive subjects (elaborate): Internalized ableism is going to come up with Cricket. He had rickets as a child and uses leg braces to compensate for deformation in his leg bones. He will canonically refer to himself as a 'cripple' although he is clearly able to perform more or less the same physical tasks as the other men around him, just at a slower pace.
[IC]
This is the permissions list for IC (in-character), activity.
Answer the following questions with "yes" or "no", as well as additional information if desired. With IC permissions, it's a good idea to elaborate on what other players can expect from your character if they choose to do any of the following:
Hugging this character: Expect bewilderment, but sure!
Kissing this character: See above, only more so.
Flirting with this character: Doesn't particularly know how to flirt, but he'll do his best to respond. As a player, I ship both M/M and M/F. Cricket is more likely to default to M/F due to the era he comes from, but I'm really pretty game for whatever; just talk to me. Also, my headcanon is that he had a one-sided crush on Jack which he would rather have died than admitted to, but he may be drawn to men who remind him of Jack: a little reckless, a lot cocky--that type.
(As a note, the character is played between 19-25 years old. Player is 30+)
Fighting with this character: Yes, and he will participate in a fistfight, but he's not super great at it. He will threaten with, or even shoot a gun if one's handy, but that's a last resort.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): He's a little delicate, but go for it. If it's anything more than a punch or two, better double check with me.
Killing this character: No, thank you.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Yes. He'll probably be highly creeped out.
Warnings: With Cricket, you're going to see period-typical ableism, including internalized ableism, as mentioned above. Possibly some period-typical homophobia, racism and/or sexism, as well, although due to awareness of his own low social status, he's going to default to soft-spoken and polite and won't be doing any name-calling.
Of note, Cricket does come from the Jim Crow era South, with all the separate-but-not-equal that implies. Again, his own social status is such that he's not going to verbally attack someone or complain about multiracial spaces, but long, puzzled stares could happen.
I do tend to write a lot of introspection in my tags, so while he's not likely to verbally freak out if confronted with things outside the social norms he knows, his reaction may come through in body language and narrative. For my own comfort level I tend to keep this reaction pretty soft, but if you want more gritty realism I can do that, just let me know. And if you want me to SKIP it entirely, I can also do that. Just PM me or add an ooc note.
Parthas-specific: Because of the above, I am adding a note here, if you want to opt out of interacting with Cricket because of the accompanying historical baggage, please let me know by PM, by commenting here, or by commenting on my HMD. No offense will be taken!
Additional: Cricket isn't much of a churchgoer, but he is sort of a Christian. In canon there's a prominent Brethren church in his area, of which he is not a member, but he's pretty familiar with the tenets. I think of him as more of an old-school Methodist, except for the anti-drinking part. Moonshine is a way of life in his community.
Get your own copy of the IC/OOC Permissions meme!
