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dressrobes2012-04-25 10:13 am
harlequinzel) wrote in dressrobes2012-04-25 10:13 am
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Character: Harley Quinn (Batman: The Animated Series version)
Mun: Kabby
Plot details: Trying to figure out how to translate canon.
So, for those who aren't familiar with Harley... She's the Joker's "girl"; in an incredibly twisted sense. She was a psychologist brought to work at Arkham, but she sympathized with the Joker and ended up falling for him in the most twisted of ways. She starts off pretty flat as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, but once she becomes Harley Quinn, she's bouncy, perky, and morally twisted. (Let's ignore the number of times I just used the word 'twisted'.)
I definitely want to play this version of Harley -- The self-deluded, upbeat girl who writes off harming others as a joke. That's who Harley Quinn is.
However, I don't want to depend on an NPC or even another in-game character for her personality to remain as it is. Still, Harley needs a reason to her madness.
There have been times when she's given up the Joker, as short-lived as they are, and remained the same person, so I'm not concerned about her personality remaining the same. It's triggering her in the first place that's my concern.
Now, I could simply write that as being Harley's personality in this AU, but I'm not certain about that. It doesn't feel true to the character. Other ideas I've had are simply having her no longer be involved with the crazed delinquent who turned her into what she is, or -- and this one's odd in an Electra complex-but-not-really kind of way -- having her father be some nutjob criminal, and Harley having been influenced by him, without any actual incestuous feelings, of course.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Mun: Kabby
Plot details: Trying to figure out how to translate canon.
So, for those who aren't familiar with Harley... She's the Joker's "girl"; in an incredibly twisted sense. She was a psychologist brought to work at Arkham, but she sympathized with the Joker and ended up falling for him in the most twisted of ways. She starts off pretty flat as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, but once she becomes Harley Quinn, she's bouncy, perky, and morally twisted. (Let's ignore the number of times I just used the word 'twisted'.)
I definitely want to play this version of Harley -- The self-deluded, upbeat girl who writes off harming others as a joke. That's who Harley Quinn is.
However, I don't want to depend on an NPC or even another in-game character for her personality to remain as it is. Still, Harley needs a reason to her madness.
There have been times when she's given up the Joker, as short-lived as they are, and remained the same person, so I'm not concerned about her personality remaining the same. It's triggering her in the first place that's my concern.
Now, I could simply write that as being Harley's personality in this AU, but I'm not certain about that. It doesn't feel true to the character. Other ideas I've had are simply having her no longer be involved with the crazed delinquent who turned her into what she is, or -- and this one's odd in an Electra complex-but-not-really kind of way -- having her father be some nutjob criminal, and Harley having been influenced by him, without any actual incestuous feelings, of course.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
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But if you were thinking of making her, say, a muggleborn to fit with her original origins, you could make it so that she found out she was a witch, and a family friend of her dad/or neighbor could be some crazy wizard guy who lives not exactly on the right side of the law. If you want to avoid the kinda incestyness, that is. He could have seen her do accidental magic in her backyard and took her under his wing. If you want him in and out of her life, he could move away or what have you.
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