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harrisonwells) wrote2016-05-10 07:48 pm
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MoM: App
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Myriad
AGE: 25+
JOURNAL:
IM / EMAIL: voxmyriad@gmail.com
PLURK:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
voxmyriad
RETURNING: No, brand new!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Harrison Wells
CHARACTER AGE: 53
SERIES: CW's The Flash
CHRONOLOGY:After Episode 2x19 Post-Season 2
CLASS: Hero, reluctantly
HOUSING: Heropa, and if it's possible to be housed with his daughter Jesse Wells (quickgenius) if her app is approved. Jesse's player and I have talked about it, and at their mutual canon point, Harrison and Jesse have just been reunited (for the second time in as many months) and would prefer not to be separated again.
BACKGROUND: (Harrison Wells (Earth-2) at Arrow Wiki for greater reference)
Dr. Harrison Wells is a particle physicist and the founder of STAR Labs on Earth-2. On Earth-1, the STAR Labs particle accelerator failed on purpose because Eobard Thawne needed to create the Flash. On Earth-2, the STAR Labs particle accelerator failed because Harrison Wells hadn't seen the warning signs, but he was able to vent the dark matter explosion underground and cover up the accident. As a result, STAR Labs stayed operational, publicly working to combat the metahuman threat Harrison Wells had secretly created.
When his daughter Jesse was kidnapped by Zoom, Harrison dedicated every second to finding a way to defeat Zoom and get her back. He left Earth-2 to recruit Barry Allen, Earth-1's Flash, in his fight, impatiently pushing the Flash to get faster. Zoom's obsession with speed led him to blackmail Harrison into finding a way to steal the Flash's speed, and he warned Barry to his face that he was going to betray him. Barry still trusted him, and as a result Harrison joyfully succeeded in siphoning 2% of Barry's speed and planned to steal all of it, but his guilt got the better of him when Barry wasn't fast enough to prevent someone he cared about from being injured.
After mounting a mostly successful rescue mission to Earth-2 with Barry and Cisco, Harrison and Jesse both continued to work with Team Flash while trying to acclimate to their new lives on Earth-1 until Jesse uncovered evidence that Harrison had killed a man. Angry and afraid, she left him a message that she was leaving to explore Earth-1 on her own, and Harrison refocused most of his attention on trying to find her again, but he was taken hostage by a metahuman and Jesse immediately teamed up with Barry and Cisco to find him.
When Harrison arrives in Heropa, he's coming off a year of living in a different world, and has just gotten Jesse back for the second time.
PERSONALITY:
"Our Dr. Wells might've been evil, but yooou're just a diiick." -- Cisco Ramon
Cisco is right, Harrison Wells is a dick. He's a very outward-focused person, everything just beneath the skin. He doesn't fake what he's thinking or feeling, he doesn't put on a happy face for anyone, his anger is quick to show up again and comes out in large gestures and loud noises, throwing things, grinding his teeth. He doesn't lie well when it annoys him to need to try, but when he does think it's necessary, he's very good at keeping secrets. He has no qualms about keeping people in the dark if he doesn't think they need to know all the details, and as a genius who ran a successful company for 25 years, he naturally feels that his solutions are the best solutions and has very little patience for questions from people who don't understand his methods or who find them "too dangerous."
At first glance (and second and third), Harrison Wells is blunt and abrasive, brilliant, impatient, quick to anger, but it stems from a desperate depth of caring. He has his priorities and the few things that he loves, and it's a challenge for him to widen that scope because he's very reluctant to let himself care, because when he cares, he cares too much. It takes time to find your way to a place where Harrison will care obviously, he isn't a demonstrative man toward anyone except his daughter Jesse, but he often surprises people with compliments or coming to their defense when the person in question was under the impression that he didn't care for them. Even when he doesn't care for someone, he will still side with them if they're in the right, but he cares a great deal more than he lets on.
He's adaptable, but he'll bitch about it the whole way, nothing is ever good enough or how it should be. It took time for him to integrate into Team Flash, largely due to the fact that he was trying not to care about Barry Allen, or Cisco Ramon, or Caitlin Snow, or anyone else in Barry's life. He was genuinely surprised that after his betrayal, Barry not only forgave him for it but insisted he and Harrison and Cisco travel to Earth-2 together to rescue Jesse. That gesture and their help in getting Jesse back swept Team Flash straight into the inner circle of people Harrison Wells cares about...at least until they made the wrong decision again.
"After we lost your mother, something inside me just broke." -- Harrison Wells
He closed himself off after Jesse's mother died, but inside a lot of scar tissue is the rest of his heart, and inside his heart is Jesse. His daughter is his world, Jesse is his heart in human form and he can't protect her enough, but he'd do anything to keep her safe. He's killed for her, something he never wanted her to learn, but he knew he'd do it again if he had to.
When Jesse uncovered the truth and left to explore Earth-1 on her own, Harrison had to go after her and try to find her, there was nothing else he could do even if he'd wanted to, but now he has her back and he's at the hardest point in any parent's life: he needs to let go. It doesn't matter how much she's gone through already and how much danger she's in, he needs to let her live her life and make her mistakes, but he's trying. It shocked him through every nerve when Jesse confessed that she was as afraid of him as she was of Zoom because of what he'd done to protect her, and now he's going to work as hard as he can to make up for that, whatever it takes. Having Jesse back is worth the struggle of letting her be her own person at the same time.
POWER: None of these are canon, Harrison has no canon powers except science and exasperation.
Power Negation
-- Harrison generates a power-null field between 5-10 feet in diameter that dampens the powers of anyone standing in it to about 50%. It's an involuntary field, always on even when he's asleep or unconscious, but with practice and concentration he can expand or contract the size of the field and intensify it to entirely negate someone's powers, or shut it down entirely so he doesn't affect anyone around him unless he wants to. [Note: If it's easier to switch it off when he's asleep or unconscious, that's no problem! I just like the inconvenience of having it low-level active unless he's thinking about it.]
Gravity Manipulation
-- Gravitational upforce and downforce (increasing or decreasing the gravitational pull in a certain area), and levitation by manipulating the gravitational pull on objects or people. This is a conscious power and has a small range to begin with, only within his visual range inside 50 feet, and he can only reduce gravity to approximately ⅙ Earth gravity, and increase it to approximately 3 Earth gravities, uncomfortable and incapacitating but not lethal.
Increased Hearing
-- The normal human hearing range is between 20 Hertz and 20 kiloHertz. Harrison is able to detect sounds below 20 Hertz and up to approx 65 kiloHertz. This is more of a weakness than a power until he grows used to the vast array of sounds he can hear now and begins to learn to ignore them and filter them out. Hopefully no enemies find out about this one and get themselves a dog whistle.
If any of these need opt-out or permissions posts I am happy to provide!
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[When the screen blinks on, the sender—lanky, black sweater, glasses being slipped off—is already centered and ready for it, clearly very familiar with the technology already, and he starts speaking immediately, quick and terse as if this is already taking up too much of his time.]
Good evening imPorts, my name is Dr. Harrison Wells. It is a...supreme...irony that I'm asking this, but to those of you who left your worlds as ordinary humans and arrived here with new abilities.
[There's a pause, Harrison's fingers tapping lightly against his lips, as he considers the reception he'd experienced on his arrival. Not cold, not remotely, but…knowing. Everyone he's seen in Heropa seems to know what he is, and that's...new. New and unpleasant. And he's reluctantly beginning to understand what the metahumans in Central City had gone through, being watched and whispered about.
How do you cope?] I'm curious how you mastered them.
[It's a much more dismissive tone than the beginning of that sentence, very clearly not what he'd originally intended to say. The glasses go back on and he moves to switch off the transmission, then taps his finger against the edge of the screen, speculative.]
Also anyone who understands a reference to S.T.A.R. Labs. And I am...taking recommendations. On the best fast food in the area.
[He looks like he’s going to add something else, then rethinks it. The screen blinks to black without another word.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
It's been a week since his own metahuman-detection watch had displayed his name against a red background and chirped itself into being violently silenced. A little too violently, maybe, but at the time, Harrison had never heard a sound as piercing as that alarm. He's getting around to repairing it now, repairing and upgrading. Its effectiveness is going to be impaired unless he can program it to ignore his own brand-new metahuman signature.
His. Metahuman. Signature. He's already read the file he'd been given cover to cover several times, looking for answers somewhere beneath the extensive information provided on his new powers. Gravitic Manipulation. Power Negation. Increased Auditory Range. He knows exactly why there are too many sounds in the background—persistent nagging whines, chirps and squeaks at the edge of hearing, a high-pitched screee that's breaking through every attempt he's making to concentrate—thanks to the detailed entry beneath that third heading, but that doesn't mean he's going to be happy about it.
His hands move fast over the array of components, reassembling the pieces with the ease of familiarity, and he can hear it when the battery kicks in again, even before the screen lights up with the new setting: a white background for a whitelist of non-threatening metahumans, a requirement now that they've changed him. 'Improved,' that's the patriotic rhetoric he's been fed since he'd arrived in Heropa, they've improved him and now he can join the rest of the heroes in the fight against...what, exactly? What is this world fighting? And what do they expect him to do about it?
Power Revisions:
I'd like to change the power nullification ability to contact-only, so it won't interfere with the people around him unless they touch him, and the ability to generate a power-dampening field at will, 5-10 feet in diameter. I will definitely include an opt-in post with options to opt-in for only one or both of these variations.
I will also nix the metahuman detector, it isn't necessary and it would only keep detecting him and going off over and over. If he had it with him, he probably would have crushed it through sheer frustration before it had a chance to detect anyone else, so he can be brought in without it, not a problem at all.
Canon Update: September 2016
When Harrison first arrived in MoM, the last thing he'd experienced was being rescued from a metahuman who had kidnapped him, and being reunited with his daughter Jesse. When he goes back home, the first thing he'll do is propose that he build another particle accelerator to give the Flash his powers back. Which is dismissed for…about a week, until Zoom comes back to Earth-1 intending to take it over once and for all this time. The new particle accelerator experiment appears to vaporize Barry Allen, but he is absorbed into the Speed Force and eventually emerges again with his speed intact. Zoom brings an army of Earth-2 metahumans through the breaches onto Earth-1 until Harrison and Cisco find a plan to knock every person from a different Earth unconscious. Zoom escapes the trap and emerges to put his true plan into action, with Barry's unwilling help, but is finally defeated when Time Wraiths from the Speed Force emerge to collect him. Afterward, Harrison and Jesse are able to return to their world together. The Porter is going to catch him right after he's said his goodbyes to Team Flash (end of season 2).
Being whisked back to Heropa right before he finally gets to go back to his own world and start helping to rebuild it is going to make him furious for a little while, but watching his greatest enemy face a fate worse than death is going to give Harrison a sense of peace. As the months have gone by, Harrison has spent less time thinking about Zoom and more time focusing on his own powers and working on adjusting to being an imPort. When he gets back, he'll be a more dedicated member of his team, more willing to jump in and help save the day when it needs saving. It will be easier for him to think of Heropa as home.
NAME: Myriad
AGE: 25+
JOURNAL:
IM / EMAIL: voxmyriad@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: No, brand new!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Harrison Wells
CHARACTER AGE: 53
SERIES: CW's The Flash
CHRONOLOGY:
CLASS: Hero, reluctantly
HOUSING: Heropa, and if it's possible to be housed with his daughter Jesse Wells (
quickgenius) if her app is approved. Jesse's player and I have talked about it, and at their mutual canon point, Harrison and Jesse have just been reunited (for the second time in as many months) and would prefer not to be separated again.BACKGROUND: (Harrison Wells (Earth-2) at Arrow Wiki for greater reference)
Dr. Harrison Wells is a particle physicist and the founder of STAR Labs on Earth-2. On Earth-1, the STAR Labs particle accelerator failed on purpose because Eobard Thawne needed to create the Flash. On Earth-2, the STAR Labs particle accelerator failed because Harrison Wells hadn't seen the warning signs, but he was able to vent the dark matter explosion underground and cover up the accident. As a result, STAR Labs stayed operational, publicly working to combat the metahuman threat Harrison Wells had secretly created.
When his daughter Jesse was kidnapped by Zoom, Harrison dedicated every second to finding a way to defeat Zoom and get her back. He left Earth-2 to recruit Barry Allen, Earth-1's Flash, in his fight, impatiently pushing the Flash to get faster. Zoom's obsession with speed led him to blackmail Harrison into finding a way to steal the Flash's speed, and he warned Barry to his face that he was going to betray him. Barry still trusted him, and as a result Harrison joyfully succeeded in siphoning 2% of Barry's speed and planned to steal all of it, but his guilt got the better of him when Barry wasn't fast enough to prevent someone he cared about from being injured.
After mounting a mostly successful rescue mission to Earth-2 with Barry and Cisco, Harrison and Jesse both continued to work with Team Flash while trying to acclimate to their new lives on Earth-1 until Jesse uncovered evidence that Harrison had killed a man. Angry and afraid, she left him a message that she was leaving to explore Earth-1 on her own, and Harrison refocused most of his attention on trying to find her again, but he was taken hostage by a metahuman and Jesse immediately teamed up with Barry and Cisco to find him.
When Harrison arrives in Heropa, he's coming off a year of living in a different world, and has just gotten Jesse back for the second time.
PERSONALITY:
"Our Dr. Wells might've been evil, but yooou're just a diiick." -- Cisco Ramon
Cisco is right, Harrison Wells is a dick. He's a very outward-focused person, everything just beneath the skin. He doesn't fake what he's thinking or feeling, he doesn't put on a happy face for anyone, his anger is quick to show up again and comes out in large gestures and loud noises, throwing things, grinding his teeth. He doesn't lie well when it annoys him to need to try, but when he does think it's necessary, he's very good at keeping secrets. He has no qualms about keeping people in the dark if he doesn't think they need to know all the details, and as a genius who ran a successful company for 25 years, he naturally feels that his solutions are the best solutions and has very little patience for questions from people who don't understand his methods or who find them "too dangerous."
At first glance (and second and third), Harrison Wells is blunt and abrasive, brilliant, impatient, quick to anger, but it stems from a desperate depth of caring. He has his priorities and the few things that he loves, and it's a challenge for him to widen that scope because he's very reluctant to let himself care, because when he cares, he cares too much. It takes time to find your way to a place where Harrison will care obviously, he isn't a demonstrative man toward anyone except his daughter Jesse, but he often surprises people with compliments or coming to their defense when the person in question was under the impression that he didn't care for them. Even when he doesn't care for someone, he will still side with them if they're in the right, but he cares a great deal more than he lets on.
He's adaptable, but he'll bitch about it the whole way, nothing is ever good enough or how it should be. It took time for him to integrate into Team Flash, largely due to the fact that he was trying not to care about Barry Allen, or Cisco Ramon, or Caitlin Snow, or anyone else in Barry's life. He was genuinely surprised that after his betrayal, Barry not only forgave him for it but insisted he and Harrison and Cisco travel to Earth-2 together to rescue Jesse. That gesture and their help in getting Jesse back swept Team Flash straight into the inner circle of people Harrison Wells cares about...at least until they made the wrong decision again.
"After we lost your mother, something inside me just broke." -- Harrison Wells
He closed himself off after Jesse's mother died, but inside a lot of scar tissue is the rest of his heart, and inside his heart is Jesse. His daughter is his world, Jesse is his heart in human form and he can't protect her enough, but he'd do anything to keep her safe. He's killed for her, something he never wanted her to learn, but he knew he'd do it again if he had to.
When Jesse uncovered the truth and left to explore Earth-1 on her own, Harrison had to go after her and try to find her, there was nothing else he could do even if he'd wanted to, but now he has her back and he's at the hardest point in any parent's life: he needs to let go. It doesn't matter how much she's gone through already and how much danger she's in, he needs to let her live her life and make her mistakes, but he's trying. It shocked him through every nerve when Jesse confessed that she was as afraid of him as she was of Zoom because of what he'd done to protect her, and now he's going to work as hard as he can to make up for that, whatever it takes. Having Jesse back is worth the struggle of letting her be her own person at the same time.
POWER: None of these are canon, Harrison has no canon powers except science and exasperation.
Power Negation
-- Harrison generates a power-null field between 5-10 feet in diameter that dampens the powers of anyone standing in it to about 50%. It's an involuntary field, always on even when he's asleep or unconscious, but with practice and concentration he can expand or contract the size of the field and intensify it to entirely negate someone's powers, or shut it down entirely so he doesn't affect anyone around him unless he wants to. [Note: If it's easier to switch it off when he's asleep or unconscious, that's no problem! I just like the inconvenience of having it low-level active unless he's thinking about it.]
Gravity Manipulation
-- Gravitational upforce and downforce (increasing or decreasing the gravitational pull in a certain area), and levitation by manipulating the gravitational pull on objects or people. This is a conscious power and has a small range to begin with, only within his visual range inside 50 feet, and he can only reduce gravity to approximately ⅙ Earth gravity, and increase it to approximately 3 Earth gravities, uncomfortable and incapacitating but not lethal.
Increased Hearing
-- The normal human hearing range is between 20 Hertz and 20 kiloHertz. Harrison is able to detect sounds below 20 Hertz and up to approx 65 kiloHertz. This is more of a weakness than a power until he grows used to the vast array of sounds he can hear now and begins to learn to ignore them and filter them out. Hopefully no enemies find out about this one and get themselves a dog whistle.
If any of these need opt-out or permissions posts I am happy to provide!
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[When the screen blinks on, the sender—lanky, black sweater, glasses being slipped off—is already centered and ready for it, clearly very familiar with the technology already, and he starts speaking immediately, quick and terse as if this is already taking up too much of his time.]
Good evening imPorts, my name is Dr. Harrison Wells. It is a...supreme...irony that I'm asking this, but to those of you who left your worlds as ordinary humans and arrived here with new abilities.
[There's a pause, Harrison's fingers tapping lightly against his lips, as he considers the reception he'd experienced on his arrival. Not cold, not remotely, but…knowing. Everyone he's seen in Heropa seems to know what he is, and that's...new. New and unpleasant. And he's reluctantly beginning to understand what the metahumans in Central City had gone through, being watched and whispered about.
How do you cope?] I'm curious how you mastered them.
[It's a much more dismissive tone than the beginning of that sentence, very clearly not what he'd originally intended to say. The glasses go back on and he moves to switch off the transmission, then taps his finger against the edge of the screen, speculative.]
Also anyone who understands a reference to S.T.A.R. Labs. And I am...taking recommendations. On the best fast food in the area.
[He looks like he’s going to add something else, then rethinks it. The screen blinks to black without another word.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Alert: Metahuman detected.
Name: Wells, Harrison.
Class: Unknown.
Caution recommended.
It's been a week since his own metahuman-detection watch had displayed his name against a red background and chirped itself into being violently silenced. A little too violently, maybe, but at the time, Harrison had never heard a sound as piercing as that alarm. He's getting around to repairing it now, repairing and upgrading. Its effectiveness is going to be impaired unless he can program it to ignore his own brand-new metahuman signature.
His. Metahuman. Signature. He's already read the file he'd been given cover to cover several times, looking for answers somewhere beneath the extensive information provided on his new powers. Gravitic Manipulation. Power Negation. Increased Auditory Range. He knows exactly why there are too many sounds in the background—persistent nagging whines, chirps and squeaks at the edge of hearing, a high-pitched screee that's breaking through every attempt he's making to concentrate—thanks to the detailed entry beneath that third heading, but that doesn't mean he's going to be happy about it.
His hands move fast over the array of components, reassembling the pieces with the ease of familiarity, and he can hear it when the battery kicks in again, even before the screen lights up with the new setting: a white background for a whitelist of non-threatening metahumans, a requirement now that they've changed him. 'Improved,' that's the patriotic rhetoric he's been fed since he'd arrived in Heropa, they've improved him and now he can join the rest of the heroes in the fight against...what, exactly? What is this world fighting? And what do they expect him to do about it?
Power Revisions:
I'd like to change the power nullification ability to contact-only, so it won't interfere with the people around him unless they touch him, and the ability to generate a power-dampening field at will, 5-10 feet in diameter. I will definitely include an opt-in post with options to opt-in for only one or both of these variations.
I will also nix the metahuman detector, it isn't necessary and it would only keep detecting him and going off over and over. If he had it with him, he probably would have crushed it through sheer frustration before it had a chance to detect anyone else, so he can be brought in without it, not a problem at all.
Canon Update: September 2016
When Harrison first arrived in MoM, the last thing he'd experienced was being rescued from a metahuman who had kidnapped him, and being reunited with his daughter Jesse. When he goes back home, the first thing he'll do is propose that he build another particle accelerator to give the Flash his powers back. Which is dismissed for…about a week, until Zoom comes back to Earth-1 intending to take it over once and for all this time. The new particle accelerator experiment appears to vaporize Barry Allen, but he is absorbed into the Speed Force and eventually emerges again with his speed intact. Zoom brings an army of Earth-2 metahumans through the breaches onto Earth-1 until Harrison and Cisco find a plan to knock every person from a different Earth unconscious. Zoom escapes the trap and emerges to put his true plan into action, with Barry's unwilling help, but is finally defeated when Time Wraiths from the Speed Force emerge to collect him. Afterward, Harrison and Jesse are able to return to their world together. The Porter is going to catch him right after he's said his goodbyes to Team Flash (end of season 2).
Being whisked back to Heropa right before he finally gets to go back to his own world and start helping to rebuild it is going to make him furious for a little while, but watching his greatest enemy face a fate worse than death is going to give Harrison a sense of peace. As the months have gone by, Harrison has spent less time thinking about Zoom and more time focusing on his own powers and working on adjusting to being an imPort. When he gets back, he'll be a more dedicated member of his team, more willing to jump in and help save the day when it needs saving. It will be easier for him to think of Heropa as home.