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gimmesometassel) wrote2018-01-07 10:28 pm
gimmesometassel) wrote2018-01-07 10:28 pm
The Quiet Place Application
OOC:
Player Name: Infy
Age: 30
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
Infychu @ Plurk, Infychu#4061 @ Discord
IC:
Name: Magic Carpet
Canon: Disney's Aladdin
Canon Point: Post-movie
Age: 10,000 years old minimum--actual age is anyone's guess
Spoken language(s): N/A, mute; might speak Arabic if he ever is able to speak? Potentially other ancient languages too, given his age, like Persian or Sumerian.
Username: rugman
To the Mods: Nothing in particular!
History: [I'm just glossing over the fact that he has no backstory; I can bullshit something up if you'd prefer something more concrete.]
Once upon a time, there was a Magic Carpet. Perhaps it was a natural wonder of the world. Perhaps it was once a man--or woman, for that matter--like any other, subjected to a strange and wonderous transformation. Perhaps it was a humble but magnificent carpet, brought by caravan from distant lands yet unknown, purchased and put to a far greater purpose than its creator had ever intended. Perhaps a great and powerful sorcerer created it wholesale countless millenia ago to do their bidding, as an animate, tireless, arcane servant unlike any other. It's impossible to know for certain the origins or history of this artifact without asking--however the story would be told, though, it's almost certain to be a long one.
Regardless, what's readily discerned is this--the Magic Carpet is a very old, very powerfully magical being, who has no doubt seen and heard a great deal, and who has known and been friends with Genie for over ten thousand years at the very least--and a full ten thousand of those years have been spent trapped in the hidden Cave of Wonders, alone with a sleeping Genie.
It's only been a matter of weeks since that period of imprisonment. Carpet meets Aladdin, the "diamond in the rough" worthy to enter the Cave of Wonders, when he and his pet monkey Abu venture down in search of Genie's lamp. The first thing Carpet does when meeting people for the first time in ten thousand years is..... pull a prank on them, because watching him have a breakdown over millenia of isolation finally being broken wouldn't be nearly as entertaining or family-friendly. His mischief isn't entirely well-received, but starved for companionship as he is, Carpet immediately latches onto this new friendship and is thrilled to lead Aladdin to Genie's lamp. While Aladdin grabs that, Carpet tries and fails to keep Abu from greedily snatching up some forbidden treasure, and the entire cave starts both exploding into magma and collapsing at the same time. Cue the daring rescue and harrowing escape CGI!
After being inevitably betrayed by the royal vizier Jafar and left for dead in the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin accidentally summons Genie, and gets treated to a whole comedy routine, complete with song, dance, 4th wall-straining pop culture references, and lots of nifty magical special effects. Aladdin kicks off his movie-long streak of deceiving his friends and loved ones by tricking Genie into using Carpet to bust them out without using up a wish, and from there, his rather poorly thought out quest to lie his way into Princess Jasmine's heart begins, with Genie, Carpet, and Abu helping to support the illusion of him being a bona fide prince.
The three of them continue to grow increasingly uncomfortable and disillusioned with this charade (and Aladdin being a macho jerk as his lies continually circle back around to bite him in the butt) as Jafar tries and fails to have Aladdin killed. As Carpet is tied in a knot around a tree by some henchman, (which can apparently stop him just as effectively as pinning him under a boulder, I guess? For Reasons?) it's up to Genie to save Aladdin from drowning. They make it back to the palace in time to smash Jafar's kinky mind control staff, free the Sultan from its effects, and save Jasmine from marrying Jafar--but before they can apprehend him, he vanishes, spurred into more overt action by being outed as a traitor. At about this time, Aladdin alienates his friends by yelling at them and refusing to make good on his promise to free the Genie, conveniently paving the way for immediate ironic retribution right as he has a change of heart and decides to come clean. If he hadn't had a falling out with literally everyone at that exact moment, the rest of the movie probably couldn't have happened the way it did.
Thanks to this little spat, Iago, Jafar's parrot, steals Genie's lamp as Aladdin tries and fails to tell Jasmine the truth about his social status--only to have Jafar do it for him in his big villain musical number. After some scenery-chewing villainy, Jafar blasts Aladdin and Abu off to "the ends of the earth" so they won't interfere with his reign of terror over Agrabah, with Carpet diving in after them at the last moment. Rather than freeze to death in a blizzard, Aladdin and Abu are able to ride Carpet back to Agrabah to confront Jafar and free their friends. All of his friends are taken out of the picture one by one, including Carpet being unraveled entirely--but thanks to some quick thinking on Aladdin's part, Jafar is tricked into wishing to become a genie, and trapped with Iago inside his new lamp, undoing the nefarious magic that incapacitated everyone. Success!
Once Jafar is hidden away in the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin finally wishes Genie free, and the Sultan decides to be a Good Dad and use his absolute authority to change Agrabah's laws so Jasmine and Aladdin can get married. Hooray! (In spite of his earlier declaration of them getting married at once, however, they'll still put off the wedding for another whole movie and animated television series.) That taken care of, Genie zooms off to go on a world tour and probably go to Disney Land, and Aladdin, Abu, and Carpet are left to settle into Palace life. It's the start of a new lease on life for all of them, and things are really looking up..... until Carpet wakes up in a jamjar, because DWRP muses Aren't Allowed to have Nice Things.
Personality: Carpet is a character as vibrant as the colors he sports, forced to exaggerate his own emotions almost theatrically to make himself understood. He’s earnest, energetic, friendly, helpful, honest, eager to please, and quick to get attached, sometimes overly so—thousands of years of solitude makes him value any friends that he gets to the point of intense loyalty and incredibly selfless devotion, but it can also make him a bit shy and sensitive, nervous around people initially until he feels that he can trust them. He also enjoys playing around and pulling pranks, which isn’t too hard, given his magical nature; who would blame the rug on the floor for anything? But even if he is a bit puckish every now and then, he knows when to be serious, and tries never to hurt anyone--his games are never malicious or in mean spirits, and he'd be quite upset if he accidentally did cause anyone harm because of a little sport.
Perhaps most prominent though, is his courage and sense of duty. He tries to do what’s right, and to keep the people around him safe and happy, whatever it takes—after all, his creation and purpose in life is servitude. It’s tempered by a sense of dignity and even indignation though, even if he usually does try to take it in stride—it frustrates him that people have such a hard time understanding him and treat him more as an inanimate object than a thinking, feeling being. Patient and conscientious though he is—after waiting for so long in that cave, hovering in the air for a few hours for friends is nothing—only being disrespected and having his friends used or lied to have provoked him to anger; even then, all he would do is leave to find a more private place to brood, or go find someone who would actually be capable of helping to right the situation.
Unless you hurt his friends, that is--then he gets fighting mad. But seriously, what is a rug going to do to you? At his most menacing, the worst Carpet could manage is probably to drop someone from a good height and make them splatter--and even so, he would probably feel terribly guilty about it afterwards. He's meant to transport, care for, and serve humans, after all, not hurt them--and that natural imperative is part of what drives him to be so interested in understanding, imitating, and befriending humans. Whatever he might have been originally intended for, at this point, he has a conscience and moral compass, as well as a mind and will of his own, and he's learning new things from his friends every day.
Abilities/Skills:
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[Network text post; username: rugman]
would anyone like to practice sign language together
[Would anyone also like to teach Carpet how to use proper capitalization and punctuation? He could use practice actually typing legibly, too.]
Player Name: Infy
Age: 30
Contact:
IC:
Name: Magic Carpet
Canon: Disney's Aladdin
Canon Point: Post-movie
Age: 10,000 years old minimum--actual age is anyone's guess
Spoken language(s): N/A, mute; might speak Arabic if he ever is able to speak? Potentially other ancient languages too, given his age, like Persian or Sumerian.
Username: rugman
To the Mods: Nothing in particular!
History: [I'm just glossing over the fact that he has no backstory; I can bullshit something up if you'd prefer something more concrete.]
Once upon a time, there was a Magic Carpet. Perhaps it was a natural wonder of the world. Perhaps it was once a man--or woman, for that matter--like any other, subjected to a strange and wonderous transformation. Perhaps it was a humble but magnificent carpet, brought by caravan from distant lands yet unknown, purchased and put to a far greater purpose than its creator had ever intended. Perhaps a great and powerful sorcerer created it wholesale countless millenia ago to do their bidding, as an animate, tireless, arcane servant unlike any other. It's impossible to know for certain the origins or history of this artifact without asking--however the story would be told, though, it's almost certain to be a long one.
Regardless, what's readily discerned is this--the Magic Carpet is a very old, very powerfully magical being, who has no doubt seen and heard a great deal, and who has known and been friends with Genie for over ten thousand years at the very least--and a full ten thousand of those years have been spent trapped in the hidden Cave of Wonders, alone with a sleeping Genie.
It's only been a matter of weeks since that period of imprisonment. Carpet meets Aladdin, the "diamond in the rough" worthy to enter the Cave of Wonders, when he and his pet monkey Abu venture down in search of Genie's lamp. The first thing Carpet does when meeting people for the first time in ten thousand years is..... pull a prank on them, because watching him have a breakdown over millenia of isolation finally being broken wouldn't be nearly as entertaining or family-friendly. His mischief isn't entirely well-received, but starved for companionship as he is, Carpet immediately latches onto this new friendship and is thrilled to lead Aladdin to Genie's lamp. While Aladdin grabs that, Carpet tries and fails to keep Abu from greedily snatching up some forbidden treasure, and the entire cave starts both exploding into magma and collapsing at the same time. Cue the daring rescue and harrowing escape CGI!
After being inevitably betrayed by the royal vizier Jafar and left for dead in the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin accidentally summons Genie, and gets treated to a whole comedy routine, complete with song, dance, 4th wall-straining pop culture references, and lots of nifty magical special effects. Aladdin kicks off his movie-long streak of deceiving his friends and loved ones by tricking Genie into using Carpet to bust them out without using up a wish, and from there, his rather poorly thought out quest to lie his way into Princess Jasmine's heart begins, with Genie, Carpet, and Abu helping to support the illusion of him being a bona fide prince.
The three of them continue to grow increasingly uncomfortable and disillusioned with this charade (and Aladdin being a macho jerk as his lies continually circle back around to bite him in the butt) as Jafar tries and fails to have Aladdin killed. As Carpet is tied in a knot around a tree by some henchman, (which can apparently stop him just as effectively as pinning him under a boulder, I guess? For Reasons?) it's up to Genie to save Aladdin from drowning. They make it back to the palace in time to smash Jafar's kinky mind control staff, free the Sultan from its effects, and save Jasmine from marrying Jafar--but before they can apprehend him, he vanishes, spurred into more overt action by being outed as a traitor. At about this time, Aladdin alienates his friends by yelling at them and refusing to make good on his promise to free the Genie, conveniently paving the way for immediate ironic retribution right as he has a change of heart and decides to come clean. If he hadn't had a falling out with literally everyone at that exact moment, the rest of the movie probably couldn't have happened the way it did.
Thanks to this little spat, Iago, Jafar's parrot, steals Genie's lamp as Aladdin tries and fails to tell Jasmine the truth about his social status--only to have Jafar do it for him in his big villain musical number. After some scenery-chewing villainy, Jafar blasts Aladdin and Abu off to "the ends of the earth" so they won't interfere with his reign of terror over Agrabah, with Carpet diving in after them at the last moment. Rather than freeze to death in a blizzard, Aladdin and Abu are able to ride Carpet back to Agrabah to confront Jafar and free their friends. All of his friends are taken out of the picture one by one, including Carpet being unraveled entirely--but thanks to some quick thinking on Aladdin's part, Jafar is tricked into wishing to become a genie, and trapped with Iago inside his new lamp, undoing the nefarious magic that incapacitated everyone. Success!
Once Jafar is hidden away in the Cave of Wonders, Aladdin finally wishes Genie free, and the Sultan decides to be a Good Dad and use his absolute authority to change Agrabah's laws so Jasmine and Aladdin can get married. Hooray! (In spite of his earlier declaration of them getting married at once, however, they'll still put off the wedding for another whole movie and animated television series.) That taken care of, Genie zooms off to go on a world tour and probably go to Disney Land, and Aladdin, Abu, and Carpet are left to settle into Palace life. It's the start of a new lease on life for all of them, and things are really looking up..... until Carpet wakes up in a jamjar, because DWRP muses Aren't Allowed to have Nice Things.
Personality: Carpet is a character as vibrant as the colors he sports, forced to exaggerate his own emotions almost theatrically to make himself understood. He’s earnest, energetic, friendly, helpful, honest, eager to please, and quick to get attached, sometimes overly so—thousands of years of solitude makes him value any friends that he gets to the point of intense loyalty and incredibly selfless devotion, but it can also make him a bit shy and sensitive, nervous around people initially until he feels that he can trust them. He also enjoys playing around and pulling pranks, which isn’t too hard, given his magical nature; who would blame the rug on the floor for anything? But even if he is a bit puckish every now and then, he knows when to be serious, and tries never to hurt anyone--his games are never malicious or in mean spirits, and he'd be quite upset if he accidentally did cause anyone harm because of a little sport.
Perhaps most prominent though, is his courage and sense of duty. He tries to do what’s right, and to keep the people around him safe and happy, whatever it takes—after all, his creation and purpose in life is servitude. It’s tempered by a sense of dignity and even indignation though, even if he usually does try to take it in stride—it frustrates him that people have such a hard time understanding him and treat him more as an inanimate object than a thinking, feeling being. Patient and conscientious though he is—after waiting for so long in that cave, hovering in the air for a few hours for friends is nothing—only being disrespected and having his friends used or lied to have provoked him to anger; even then, all he would do is leave to find a more private place to brood, or go find someone who would actually be capable of helping to right the situation.
Unless you hurt his friends, that is--then he gets fighting mad. But seriously, what is a rug going to do to you? At his most menacing, the worst Carpet could manage is probably to drop someone from a good height and make them splatter--and even so, he would probably feel terribly guilty about it afterwards. He's meant to transport, care for, and serve humans, after all, not hurt them--and that natural imperative is part of what drives him to be so interested in understanding, imitating, and befriending humans. Whatever he might have been originally intended for, at this point, he has a conscience and moral compass, as well as a mind and will of his own, and he's learning new things from his friends every day.
Abilities/Skills:
- Flight: Naturally, Carpet can fly through magical means. He can go really far really fast, if the movie is any indication; the only time we see him exhausted is flying from "the ends of the earth" back to Agrabah (presumably from one of the Poles or Antarctica to somewhere in the Middle East) in an unspecified amount of time, presumably between a handful of hours to a day or so. That's bound to be several hundred miles per hour.
- Games: Carpet is a pretty good chess and poker player! Good enough to beat the pants off a genie, at least. He's probably pretty good at games in general, and would be quick to pick up new ones if he had someone to practice with. (Any Yu-Gi-Oh characters want to teach him Duel Monsters?)
- ~Disney Magic~: Got a visual gag, musical/dance number, or some other scene you want to set up? Carpet's your man. (Rug. Whatever.) He seems to have an instinctive talent for being a set piece, background actor, or just all-around facilitator for making things go smoothly.
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[Network text post; username: rugman]
would anyone like to practice sign language together
[Would anyone also like to teach Carpet how to use proper capitalization and punctuation? He could use practice actually typing legibly, too.]