application # exsilium

[lazyinlove]

» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Kama
Current AGE: 1989
Player TIME ZONE: US Pacific (GMT -8 or GMT -7 during daylight savings)
Personal JOURNAL: likepolaris ...but it's totally empty. whoops. sorry.
IM & SERVICE: ask if you need it and I'll cough it up, I promise.
Player PLURK: cupideros
Current CHARACTERS: nope

» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Stanley Lucerne
Canon & MEDIUM: Skins, U.S. (which is a shitty remake of a UK TV series by the same name)
Canon PULL-POINT: Toward the end of episode 1, "Tony." Just as the stolen car is sinking into the river.
Character AGE: 16
Character ABILITIES: He's a pretty awesome buttmonkey...so, no. Just a normal human adolescent boy.
Character HISTORY: The wiki has lots of info for the UK, but not as much for the US. Sid is Stanley's UK name, if you do read the UK stuff.

At his pull point, Stanley has already had more adventure for the day than he really cared for. His best friend Tony took it into his head that Stanley still being a virgin was pathetic, and decided to get a friend to hook him up with a girl who would be willing to help. Tony's girlfriend Michelle, who Stanley happened to be childhood friends and secretly in love with, showed up with some good news and some bad news.

There was a girl who would do it if Stanley could get his hands on "some really good narcotics," and she was beautiful. She was also unstable, recently released from a mental hospital. When Stanley went to go talk to the girl, Cadie (Cassie in the UK) she was in the home ec kitchen, playing with knives. After a hopeful if awkward conversation around vegetable statuettes Cadie had carved into phallic shapes, Stanley left with instructions from Tony on how to acquire some really good narcotics, sans cash.

This advice landed Stanley in an eclectic house full of interesting characters, from the companions who greeted him with "Britney and Whitney special, right?" to the volatile drug dealer who threatened to take his payment in the form of Stanley's family jewels if he didn't get his money for the drugs. Apparently, Tony hadn't made the arrangements he'd led Stanley to believe he'd made.

Bits all in tact for the moment, Stanley met up with Tony again and was promptly informed that they didn't need the weed anymore. The party was already over saturated with drugs, there was no way they could sell the excess. Stanley glumly set aside the horror that awaited him later and promptly set to attempting to shake off his virginity, getting drunk and stoned wit Cadie. As they wandered outside and started playing on a trampoline, Cadie informed Stanley that if he wanted to sleep with her, he'd better hurry. She'd taken a lot of pills.

Stanley recognized that as a dangerous thing when Cadie fell unconscious. He picked her up and brought her inside to his friends, shouting for them to help get her to a hospital. Chris, one of Stanley's friends, grabbed some car keys from a dish on the table and they "borrowed" a car to get Cadie help. As they were pulling up to A&E however, Cadie woke up again, saying simply "I have to pee."

As Cadie stepped out of the vehicle to relieve herself in some nearby bushes, Stanley reminded Tony that he was going to lose his favorite possessions soon if they couldn't sell the weed. Another friend, Daisy, conveniently had cousins that would buy it off of him, and for a moment all seemed well. They decided to roll a blunt to celebrate an evening in which no one died of an overdose and Stanley got to keep his junk, and Tony told Stanley to get some rolling papers out of his pocket for him since his hands were full.

Stanley complained, but he reached to do so. In the process, he accidentally bumped the gearshift. The car rolled forward, directly into the river.

Character PERSONALITY: Stanley is the boy next door character. He's not ambitious, to the point where he routinely sleeps through homeroom. He doesn't bother trying very hard at school, or doing his homework, because he doesn't see the benefit. (In spite of being quite intelligent. He can do an entire semester's studying and assignments in a weekend if necessary, and even has advice on how best to invest one's birthday money.) It doesn't interest him. At his age, when everyone else is starting to think about the future, Stanley is still clinging to happy memories of the past and doing his best to be oblivious to the changes happening in his own life.

His response to stress is usually to sleep, or in one case, to literally hide under his bed from it for three days. He's not at all an action hero type of guy, and mostly just wants to daydream his way through life. His best friend Tony is most of the reason he ever bothers to do much of anything, otherwise Stanley would spend most of his time sleeping and partying.

It's eventually shown that Stanley does have a lot going on beneath the surface, especially after his mother leaves and (ultimately,) after the death of his father. Which the US version doesn't cover, because it happens in series 2, around when he (Sidney,) turns 17. What we do see about Stanley in the US series is that he's capable of rising to every occasion, however reluctantly.

He won't stand up to Tony until the guy gleefully jumps back and forth across every line there is to cross several times, but eventually even Stan gets fed up. Which is a big deal for both of them, because without Tony Stanley is a bit lost as to who he actually is, and without Stanley Tony has no willing sheep to shepherd and no built in audience. Tony eventually does push Stanley to his limit, and a distance grows between them. Tony becomes isolated and desperate, because no one else is willing to let him burn them the way that Stanley always did.

In fact, later in the series when Tony does call for help with something serious, Stanley is still the guy who comes to the rescue. Almost in time...

He's a snarky guy, and generally quite sad below the surface. It doesn't come up often, though. And he's never going to cop to it out loud unless someone really gets close to him and in his face about it, which is unlikely. From basic interactions with Stanley, people can expect mostly a humorous indifference, though a generally friendly reception.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Stanley's weapon is an inner sort of weapon, and it's simply amplified from its canon source. He has the Power of Being Useful. Meaning that he's able to perform tasks that he's not naturally able to perform when the power is engaged, but only when, where, and how it is called upon by someone else. No matter how he tries, the power can never be used to his own advantage, only to help others with the things that they require.

This sort of power seems like it doesn't even exist at first. He will initially blame his sudden leaps of intuition or mechanical knowledge or whatever have you on being desperation in tough situations, and it will be a difficult thing to master. He will not be able to channel it at all in the beginning. With time, he will become better at calling it out when it is needed, instead of having to wait for someone to invoke it for him. However, no matter how advanced it becomes, he won't be able to use the power to grant his own desires. It will only work in necessary situations.

For example, he wouldn't be able to fly a spaceship suddenly if he wanted to do it to impress a girl. However, if he needed to do it to save his own life or especially the lives of others around him, he would have the knowledge necessary for the exact amount of time in which it was needed, and would not retain it for later. His power will always be strongest when it's used for the good of someone else, especially someone he has developed a loyalty to, over his own wants and needs.
Character INVENTORY: Besides the clothes on his back, Stanley arrives with half his body weight in narcotics. And the beginning of a pretty epic hangover. Plus the contents of his wallet and school bag, which are just as likely porn as textbooks. He probably has a comb and some breath mints if anyone needs them.

» SAMPLES
First PERSON: O.k. so we're supposed to save the world? Worlds? Worlds. That's cool. One problem, tho. I'm not a superhero.

Hello? Can anybody read this? No offense but you got the wrong guy. Maybe you wanted to fuck the universe over instead? Cos in that case I might know someone.

Not that I'm complaining. I'm here now. Might as well keep me here since you can't send people home, right? Hi everyone who can see this. I'm Stanley. Spare me the Eminem jokes if you're old.

If you want to chill hit me up. But don't call me if you need to kill people. I don't do that.
Third PERSON: Stanley was not a stranger to waking up in places he didn't remember going to sleep in. He was a normal guy, maybe even boring, objectionably speaking, but he did like to party. So yeah, he sometimes woke up with his head in a trash can or to find himself in someone's backseat speeding along a blurry highway at what always looked like warp speed to his drug addled mind. But he'd never once found himself in a post apocalyptic dystopian future, before.

Shit. What exactly was in the drinks at that party last night? Tabbitha or Samantha or Cassandra or whatever her name had been wouldn't even let them smoke up in the house. How was it possible that she had spiked the drinks with something hard? Because it would have to be some hard stuff. Stanley was used to the gateway drugs. Anyway, no one ever hallucinated stuff like this when they were stoned.

Frowning, he followed his nose to the scent of the free, freshly baked cookies that were there to greet newcomers, and grabbed one. Hey, maybe putting something on his stomach would help. Usually when he was out of his element, he'd just wait for Tony to show up and tell him what was going on, but he was starting to get the feeling that Tony wasn't here. Would he really have to figure all of this out for himself?

...Well, shit.