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bythe_books) wrote2008-08-18 07:16 pm
bythe_books) wrote2008-08-18 07:16 pm
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E-mail: rosloops at gmail dot com
Other Characters: A billion. Er, Major West, the Master, Donna Noble, and Han Solo.
Character Name: DCI/DI Sam Tyler (depends on the year. DCI in 2006, DI in 1973)
Series: Life on Mars
Age: 37, but he looks and seems a little younger, mainly when compared to the harder, manlier men of the 1970s (they just don't understand the sensitive, modern man!)
From When?: Series 2, Episode 5, when he slips deeper into his coma from an OD (rather than the "lights" coming back on after Annie and the rest solve the kidnapping crime, Sam experiences the television going out, trapping him in darkness-- until he wakes up here. I bet that sentence made no sense to ANYBODY).
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Sam's really interested in the redemption of others; there are multiple points in the series where he gets totally shafted trying to help people redeem themselves and lead a better life. While he gets frustrated and will resort to high-and-mighty judgmental snark when he's (inevitably) betrayed, it doesn't stop Sam from trying to help others from getting on the right path. PLUS, he's got his whole coma-alive-dead-insane? dilemma, and maybe this can help him sort it out.
Item: A notepad. For proper policing!
How Long Have You Been Here?: Just arrived. In fact, he's so new he has NO IDEA why he's here, and thinks it's just another insane coma hallucination. This COULD lead others to suspect he's an inmate at first. It doesn't help that he is, in appearance, identical to the Master (well, the Master doesn't have sideburns...).
Abilities/Powers: Sam Tyler is a trained police officer, and he carries with him roughly 18 years of experience policing and detecting. While he's not a burly man, he's a fairly skilled fighter, and his size and general good health makes him a bit quicker than most of his opponents. Sam's greatest asset, however, is his mind. He's very clever, and he has the advantage of modern police tactics to help him along in 1973-- of course, on the Barge, this isn't that much of an asset. He has no superhuman strengths or abilities; Sam is your ordinary copper in a coma.
Personality:Yeah, so you know how I make West a whiny, emo bastard? Multiply it by TEN THOUSAND. Sam Tyler is a good, upstanding guy who plays by the rules. This tends not to endear him to others, since it means: more work, more paperwork, and less pub time! Sam is a very stand-up guy, and he's seen as almost incorruptible; he won't take bribes or falsify evidence (except in extremely rare cases where he's not thinking clearly/is relying on his emotions), and he will not try to arrest and convict an individual without evidence (even if he knows they're guilty). As such, his methods of policing clash wildly with the more fist-oriented, gut-feeling policing Gene and the rest of CID rely on. He's very strict, both in adhering to his morals, and in keeping others in line.
Sam appears insane and vulnerable to those who'd like to underestimate him, and he seems very "soft" when compared to the men of 1973-- this tends to result in others mistaking him for a 'poof' from time to time. He has very modern sensibilities, and is far more accepting of things considered shocking or taboo to people in 1973. Sam will not discriminate based on gender, race, or sexuality. While Sam will (generally) exasperatedly allow Gene to call him all manner of insulting names (like "Gladys" or "great, soft, sissy, girlie, nancy, French, bender, Man United supporting poof"), he's no pushover, and will stand up for himself and his ideals when challenged, going so far as to strike out his own path and alienate everybody else.
Like Gene, Sam is very stubborn, and he's certainly not entirely innocent during their many experiences butting heads. He can be quite outwardly smug and condescending to his colleagues and the general time period, and doesn't much like to admit that he's wrong. Sam can, in fact, be quite callous, openly referring to others as hallucinations, calling them "thugs" from his subconscious, and he'll frequently (accidentally) push those who want to help him away.
When not stressing out over his coma/time travel situation, Sam can actually be quite relaxed and fun; however, the only person who ever really sees this side of him is Annie Cartwright, his colleague and closest friend in 1973. And he has a tendency to sabotage his chances with her. Still, Sam tries to be sweet with her, when he's not ranting about "when" he's "really" from, but he sort of has a tendency to take her understanding nature for granted. As far as the team goes, while Sam does bitch them out constantly and like to act as though he's superior and separate from them, he does feel a strong sense of camaraderie and will usually come around in the end for them (going so far as to committing suicide in 2006, after waking up from his coma, to return to 1973 and save them).
Because Sam has just slipped deeper into his coma prior to arriving here, he's going to react very, very badly to the Barge at first. Like "screaming and hitting the walls and pulling his hair" badly. And he'll probably think that everybody else is a hallucination-- ESPECIALLY Gene, lawl. So, he's sort of looped back into his Series 1, Episode 1 crazy desperation. Eventually, he'll settle in like he did in 1973, but will probably come across as a totally unstable nutcase to most people, as he'll continue to call this a coma and talk about 2006 and 1973.
History: It's difficult to put down Sam's life in chronological order, since he basically lives through the year 1973 twice, once as a 4 year old, and once as a 37 year old, so he undergoes/alters a few experiences twice. I'm just a filthy cheater, so here, have some Wikipedia.
Key Time Travel Points in his Life!I stole this idea from Jack...
-Son of Vic and Ruth Tyler, born in 1969. Sam and his mum always thought Vic was a traveling salesman, but when Sam was 4 years old, his father went on a "trip" and never came back.
-On the day of his father's disappearance at a family wedding, Adult Sam tells Child Sam to stay at the wedding and don't go looking for him.
-Adult Sam meets his father in 1973, in connection with a string of crimes, and absolutely refuses the possibility that Vic could actually be involved as anything other than an innocent bystander. It turns out, however, that Vic is not only involved, but he's the criminal mastermind behind it. Sam refuses to act against him until he witnesses Vic about to viciously beat WPC Annie Cartwright (altering the future, perhaps. Throughout the first series, he had a suppressed memory from his childhood of witnessing his father kicking a woman in red-- possibly to death. This was then prevented by Adult Sam telling 4 Year Old Sam to stay at the wedding), and even then, offers his father another chance to prove himself a decent man. His father responds by trying to shoot him in the head. Sam, despite knowing what a reprehensible person his father really is, gives him a chance to flee, rather than have his younger self and his mum endure the knowledge of what Vic really is. OH, SAM! YOU AND YOUR FORGIVENESS!
-In 2006, Tony Crane tries to torture and kill Sam's comatose body, the effects of which Sam can feel in 1973. This occurs because, prior to the events of the show, Present Day Sam set up what he thought was a water-tight case to bring crime-lord-syndicate Tony Crane down. However, Crane managed to rape and murder his own wife during that time-- much to Sam's horrible guilt-- and in 2006 was able to get out of prison.
-In 1973, Sam becomes obsessed with bringing down budding-crime-lord-syndicate Tony Crane and saving his wife Eve from her inevitable rape and murder. He manages to turn the tables on him by convincing CID and everybody else that Crane is insane. Crane still tries to kill Sam in 2006, but this time as a psychiatric patient, implying that the lives he managed to destroy and end in the 33 years in between have been saved.
-In 1973, Sam meets a younger Glenn Fletcher, the man who would go on to be Sam's mentor in the regular timeline. Being the first black detective in the division, Glenn faces racism from the others and responds by playing up stereotypes and allowing the jokes, to "fit in". 1973 Sam encourages Glenn to stand up for himself and not take any of that crap, which might have been an influencing factor in Fletcher's commanding attitude when the Sam in the regular timeline meets him. CONFUSED YET?
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 Sentences]
I wake up, and I'm still here. Same flat, same year: 1973-- only now the telly won't work. No more contact with the real world, just this journal. But I'm not dead, the OD didn't do it-- they must've brought me out.
The coma within the coma.
WHY couldn't they wake me completely?!
I just want to go backplease please please send me back. Wake me up. Oh God, please get me out of here.
Nonononono... wait. The door doesn't take me to anywhere or anything I know.
This isn't 1973. This isn't... anywhere.
GET ME OUT OF HERE!
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV] (I totally forgot where the tv is in relation to his bed)
Sam Tyler didn't know what to expect when the television went out. He stood up abruptly, shouted in protest, slammed the palms of his hands into the wall.
"Nonono, I'm still here. I'm still here!" he cried, leaning into the wall, pressing his forehead into the cool bricks. But then: darkness enveloped him and he lost consciousness-- a joke. Did he ever have consciousness?
Did he finally die in that hospital bed? No, couldn't be... he could still think. He was awake-- well. Was he really awake? Was he free from this mad world where common sense and logic were strange, new concepts?
A part of him didn't want to be. He wanted to see Annie's smiling face beaming down at him when he opened his eyes, but then he has to remember: she's not real. She never was. Just something... conjured up to keep him company in a hostile, backwards world. A distraction, even. She wasn't real.
Please be home, please be home, he thought urgently, fists clenching as he finally decided to open his eyes.
He was in his flat-- dingy, small, with his clothes still lying rumpled on the ground. The television was still off.
"What--?" He sat up slowly, still sweating all over, as though he'd just come out of a nasty fever. Did they carry him back, drop him off at his flat? That didn't seem right, though-- tossing an unconscious man away like that was irresponsible, even for Gene Hunt and his crew of crack detectives. Sam ran a hand through damp hair, then crawled forward on the bed, towards the television. Reaching out-- really stretching to do this-- he turns the knob, but nothing happens. Broken, not even any static.
But it was working just fine this morning...
Special Notes: Apparently (or at least it's heavily implied by the show's creators), 1973 is supposed to be the "Afterlife," but... I'm not going with that interpretation. It's implied that the things Sam has done in 1973 had an effect on 2006. As such, I'm going with the "Time Travel" interpretation (because, honestly, the idea that Gene Hunt and the rest of CID never existed except as "ghosts" or figments upsets me).
Feel free to mistake him for the Master (and vice versa) and subsequently abuse him.
User LJ:
pyroslutAIM/IM: pyrocornflakes
E-mail: rosloops at gmail dot com
Other Characters: A billion. Er, Major West, the Master, Donna Noble, and Han Solo.
Character Name: DCI/DI Sam Tyler (depends on the year. DCI in 2006, DI in 1973)
Series: Life on Mars
Age: 37, but he looks and seems a little younger, mainly when compared to the harder, manlier men of the 1970s (they just don't understand the sensitive, modern man!)
From When?: Series 2, Episode 5, when he slips deeper into his coma from an OD (rather than the "lights" coming back on after Annie and the rest solve the kidnapping crime, Sam experiences the television going out, trapping him in darkness-- until he wakes up here. I bet that sentence made no sense to ANYBODY).
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Sam's really interested in the redemption of others; there are multiple points in the series where he gets totally shafted trying to help people redeem themselves and lead a better life. While he gets frustrated and will resort to high-and-mighty judgmental snark when he's (inevitably) betrayed, it doesn't stop Sam from trying to help others from getting on the right path. PLUS, he's got his whole coma-alive-dead-insane? dilemma, and maybe this can help him sort it out.
Item: A notepad. For proper policing!
How Long Have You Been Here?: Just arrived. In fact, he's so new he has NO IDEA why he's here, and thinks it's just another insane coma hallucination. This COULD lead others to suspect he's an inmate at first. It doesn't help that he is, in appearance, identical to the Master (well, the Master doesn't have sideburns...).
Abilities/Powers: Sam Tyler is a trained police officer, and he carries with him roughly 18 years of experience policing and detecting. While he's not a burly man, he's a fairly skilled fighter, and his size and general good health makes him a bit quicker than most of his opponents. Sam's greatest asset, however, is his mind. He's very clever, and he has the advantage of modern police tactics to help him along in 1973-- of course, on the Barge, this isn't that much of an asset. He has no superhuman strengths or abilities; Sam is your ordinary copper in a coma.
Personality:
Sam appears insane and vulnerable to those who'd like to underestimate him, and he seems very "soft" when compared to the men of 1973-- this tends to result in others mistaking him for a 'poof' from time to time. He has very modern sensibilities, and is far more accepting of things considered shocking or taboo to people in 1973. Sam will not discriminate based on gender, race, or sexuality. While Sam will (generally) exasperatedly allow Gene to call him all manner of insulting names (like "Gladys" or "great, soft, sissy, girlie, nancy, French, bender, Man United supporting poof"), he's no pushover, and will stand up for himself and his ideals when challenged, going so far as to strike out his own path and alienate everybody else.
Like Gene, Sam is very stubborn, and he's certainly not entirely innocent during their many experiences butting heads. He can be quite outwardly smug and condescending to his colleagues and the general time period, and doesn't much like to admit that he's wrong. Sam can, in fact, be quite callous, openly referring to others as hallucinations, calling them "thugs" from his subconscious, and he'll frequently (accidentally) push those who want to help him away.
When not stressing out over his coma/time travel situation, Sam can actually be quite relaxed and fun; however, the only person who ever really sees this side of him is Annie Cartwright, his colleague and closest friend in 1973. And he has a tendency to sabotage his chances with her. Still, Sam tries to be sweet with her, when he's not ranting about "when" he's "really" from, but he sort of has a tendency to take her understanding nature for granted. As far as the team goes, while Sam does bitch them out constantly and like to act as though he's superior and separate from them, he does feel a strong sense of camaraderie and will usually come around in the end for them (going so far as to committing suicide in 2006, after waking up from his coma, to return to 1973 and save them).
Because Sam has just slipped deeper into his coma prior to arriving here, he's going to react very, very badly to the Barge at first. Like "screaming and hitting the walls and pulling his hair" badly. And he'll probably think that everybody else is a hallucination-- ESPECIALLY Gene, lawl. So, he's sort of looped back into his Series 1, Episode 1 crazy desperation. Eventually, he'll settle in like he did in 1973, but will probably come across as a totally unstable nutcase to most people, as he'll continue to call this a coma and talk about 2006 and 1973.
History: It's difficult to put down Sam's life in chronological order, since he basically lives through the year 1973 twice, once as a 4 year old, and once as a 37 year old, so he undergoes/alters a few experiences twice. I'm just a filthy cheater, so here, have some Wikipedia.
Key Time Travel Points in his Life!
-Son of Vic and Ruth Tyler, born in 1969. Sam and his mum always thought Vic was a traveling salesman, but when Sam was 4 years old, his father went on a "trip" and never came back.
-On the day of his father's disappearance at a family wedding, Adult Sam tells Child Sam to stay at the wedding and don't go looking for him.
-Adult Sam meets his father in 1973, in connection with a string of crimes, and absolutely refuses the possibility that Vic could actually be involved as anything other than an innocent bystander. It turns out, however, that Vic is not only involved, but he's the criminal mastermind behind it. Sam refuses to act against him until he witnesses Vic about to viciously beat WPC Annie Cartwright (altering the future, perhaps. Throughout the first series, he had a suppressed memory from his childhood of witnessing his father kicking a woman in red-- possibly to death. This was then prevented by Adult Sam telling 4 Year Old Sam to stay at the wedding), and even then, offers his father another chance to prove himself a decent man. His father responds by trying to shoot him in the head. Sam, despite knowing what a reprehensible person his father really is, gives him a chance to flee, rather than have his younger self and his mum endure the knowledge of what Vic really is. OH, SAM! YOU AND YOUR FORGIVENESS!
-In 2006, Tony Crane tries to torture and kill Sam's comatose body, the effects of which Sam can feel in 1973. This occurs because, prior to the events of the show, Present Day Sam set up what he thought was a water-tight case to bring crime-lord-syndicate Tony Crane down. However, Crane managed to rape and murder his own wife during that time-- much to Sam's horrible guilt-- and in 2006 was able to get out of prison.
-In 1973, Sam becomes obsessed with bringing down budding-crime-lord-syndicate Tony Crane and saving his wife Eve from her inevitable rape and murder. He manages to turn the tables on him by convincing CID and everybody else that Crane is insane. Crane still tries to kill Sam in 2006, but this time as a psychiatric patient, implying that the lives he managed to destroy and end in the 33 years in between have been saved.
-In 1973, Sam meets a younger Glenn Fletcher, the man who would go on to be Sam's mentor in the regular timeline. Being the first black detective in the division, Glenn faces racism from the others and responds by playing up stereotypes and allowing the jokes, to "fit in". 1973 Sam encourages Glenn to stand up for himself and not take any of that crap, which might have been an influencing factor in Fletcher's commanding attitude when the Sam in the regular timeline meets him. CONFUSED YET?
Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 Sentences]
I wake up, and I'm still here. Same flat, same year: 1973-- only now the telly won't work. No more contact with the real world, just this journal. But I'm not dead, the OD didn't do it-- they must've brought me out.
The coma within the coma.
I just want to go back
No
This isn't 1973. This isn't... anywhere.
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV] (I totally forgot where the tv is in relation to his bed)
Sam Tyler didn't know what to expect when the television went out. He stood up abruptly, shouted in protest, slammed the palms of his hands into the wall.
"Nonono, I'm still here. I'm still here!" he cried, leaning into the wall, pressing his forehead into the cool bricks. But then: darkness enveloped him and he lost consciousness-- a joke. Did he ever have consciousness?
Did he finally die in that hospital bed? No, couldn't be... he could still think. He was awake-- well. Was he really awake? Was he free from this mad world where common sense and logic were strange, new concepts?
A part of him didn't want to be. He wanted to see Annie's smiling face beaming down at him when he opened his eyes, but then he has to remember: she's not real. She never was. Just something... conjured up to keep him company in a hostile, backwards world. A distraction, even. She wasn't real.
Please be home, please be home, he thought urgently, fists clenching as he finally decided to open his eyes.
He was in his flat-- dingy, small, with his clothes still lying rumpled on the ground. The television was still off.
"What--?" He sat up slowly, still sweating all over, as though he'd just come out of a nasty fever. Did they carry him back, drop him off at his flat? That didn't seem right, though-- tossing an unconscious man away like that was irresponsible, even for Gene Hunt and his crew of crack detectives. Sam ran a hand through damp hair, then crawled forward on the bed, towards the television. Reaching out-- really stretching to do this-- he turns the knob, but nothing happens. Broken, not even any static.
But it was working just fine this morning...
Special Notes: Apparently (or at least it's heavily implied by the show's creators), 1973 is supposed to be the "Afterlife," but... I'm not going with that interpretation. It's implied that the things Sam has done in 1973 had an effect on 2006. As such, I'm going with the "Time Travel" interpretation (because, honestly, the idea that Gene Hunt and the rest of CID never existed except as "ghosts" or figments upsets me).
Feel free to mistake him for the Master (and vice versa) and subsequently abuse him.