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Player Information

Name: Leah
Age: 22
AIM SN: haaaaaaaaahahaha
email: I prefer AIM or a plurk @ shardsofwinter
Have you played in an LJ based game before? YEP
Currrently Played Characters: Souji Seta
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Character Information

General
Canon Source: Breaking Bad
Canon Format: Television series
Character's Name: Walter White
Character's Age: 50
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played.

What form will your character's NV take? A cell phone like this

Abilities

Character's Canon Abilities:
Walt is a chemist in canon and has experience both in research and in industry. He can synthesize organic compounds as well as analyze them and unknown compounds if he has the right equipment and materials.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Walt will be able to rearrange chemical compounds so long as he has the material to do so. When he thinks about what he wants an object to transform into, he touches the material, and it rearranges. However, the rearrangements aren’t limited to transforming one object into another. If the appropriate atoms are present, he will be able to rearrange the actual chemical structure. For example, if he has a piece of graphite, he can create diamond since the graphite and diamond are both made of carbon—the arrangement of the bonds is different. With these kinds of chemical transformations, he will be tired for a bit afterwards because he will need to add energy in order to do the rearrangements.

Weapons: A small vial of ricin

History/Personality/Plans/etc.

Character History:
Link here
Point in Canon:
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history:

Character Personality:

Walt is a desperate and prideful man. He discovered that he had terminal lung cancer and refused to tell his family for a month because he was afraid of their reactions, mostly because he knew they would want him to seek treatment. He didn’t want to spend his last couple of years suffering from the side effects of chemotherapy if he was going to die anyway, since his cancer was inoperable. He even shaved his head before the chemotherapy, which he later started, could cause him to bald.

Because he feared for his family’s financial future without him around to provide, he decided to enter the drug trade in order to make as much money in as little time as possible. Throughout the series, he constantly acts through desperation and pride, though he evolves to act more out of pride as the series continues. He refused to allow his former business partner and his wife Elliot and Gretchen pay for his cancer treatment out of pride, despite lying to his wife Skyler, telling her that they were paying for it.

Walt enters into the drug trade to provide a stable financial future for his family when he dies. However, he lies to his wife from the very beginning, even about his lung cancer. He lies to everyone around him, saying that he just goes on walks to clear his head to account for his odd absences at home when he’s really out either synthesizing meth or doing something related to it, such as meeting up with his partner-in-crime, Jesse Pinkman. When his wife finds out about his meeting up with Pinkman, he lies yet again, telling her that Jesse dealt him marijuana and that was the extent of their relationship. He continues to spin the web of lies, including the lie to himself—that he was a good person and providing for his family and that everything he did was for his family. While it’s technically true that he does provide for his family using the money he earns from producing the drug, he cannot come anywhere close to claiming innocence.

He has turned into an extremely manipulative person in order to make sure things get done his way and correctly. Walt purposely poisoned Jesse’s girlfriend’s son, then blamed it on his boss Gus in order to manipulate Jesse into helping him kill Gus. He used to simply command his partner Jesse into doing whatever he needed to be done, but since Gus had started to drive a wedge in between the two, simple command doesn't work on Jesse anymore. Walt will sacrifice almost anyone in order to protect himself and those he cares about.

He is a very meticulous and precise person, having been trained as a chemist in both research and corporate settings. When synthesizing methamphetamine, he takes great caution with anything that could affect the purity or the yield of product. He spends half of a day in his laboratory attempting to capture and get rid of a fly, fearing that it could contaminate the product. This is how he has been able to achieve his 99.1% pure meth, solidifying his status as the best “cook” in the area as identified by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Not to mention his attention to detail has saved his life on multiple occasions, such as when he collapsed in front of Krazy-8 and a ceramic plate was broken. After throwing away the remains of the plate, he came back to collect the pieces from the garbage and put them together and noticed that a large shard was missing, then realizing that Krazy-8 would kill him the moment he came near despite almost letting him go.

Walt has lost sight of clear definitions of right and wrong after being in the drug business for so long. In Season 4, while rehearsing yet another lie to tell his extended family, he refuses to even admit in the lie that he was ashamed of his actions. He insists that he is providing for his family and that he is not ashamed of that, despite the fact that at that point, he had killed at least 5 people. He is also still worried that his wife’s slant on Walt’s “business dealings” could make him appear more twisted than he believes he is. His lack of self-awareness of his descent into immorality is driven by both pride and trauma—pride in that he does not want to believe that he has become such a heartless criminal, and trauma in that at certain points, he had no other choice. However, he has started to lose regard for human life, making choices that would sacrifice innocents. For example, he was worried that his house was being searched by enemies. In order to make doubly sure, he called his next door neighbor to ask if she could check the house for him, knowing full well that she might not come out alive—all for his own sake and safety. He believes subconsciously that so long as his family has money and they’re safe, ends justify means.

He realizes that he brings misfortune upon himself and his family because of the choices he’s made and states that he stands by the choices he’s made, despite their consequences. So, even though he realizes that everything that happens and has happened is his fault, he can no longer feel remorse about his actions and, again because of pride, refuses to admit that he’s made mistakes.

All of this said, he does care a lot about his family and about Jesse. Many times he could have let Gus do away with Jesse when he was still a drug addict, and honestly it would have made Walt's job easier not having to worry about him. However, Walt made sure that he wasn't done away with, saying to Gus that Jesse was integral to help him, even though Walt could easily make all of the meth with someone else. Walt also wanted Jesse to get clean, mostly because it would help their image in Gus's eyes, but also because Jesse would be less careless off of the drugs which can be viewed as a way of caring. Walt also cares about his family--enough that he was willing to throw away the life he had in order to protect them by going into a type of witness protection. This action could also be viewed as selfish because if he hadn't made the choices he had, his family wouldn't be in such danger, nor would they have to drop their lives to hide with him.


Conditional: Personality development in previous game:

Character Plans:

Walt will eventually learn about SERO’s involvement in the drug trade and he will probably sink right back in to producing methamphetamine for them, especially after discovering his new power.

Appearance/PB:

Note: Walter White does not have an Emmy

First Person Sample

[Voice]

[The voice is low and sounds furious, at some points sounding as though he’s speaking through clenched teeth.]

Jesse, where the hell are you?! I was on top of the parking deck a couple of minutes ago and now I’m in some city I don’t recognize. Why aren’t you answering your goddamned phone?! And where the hell did your voicemail go?
I rescued you after you went and got yourself kidnapped not a few hours ago and now you won’t pick up? If you ruined this by getting yourself kidnapped again--[He stops abruptly, too seemingly angry to complete his thought.]

Call me back the second you get this.

Third Person Sample

“I won” were the last words he remembered saying when he felt a violent lurch and suddenly landed on the grass of what appeared to be a baseball field. The dizziness and the strong pull in his chest made him think something was seriously wrong—and wouldn’t that be his luck? Dropping dead of a heart attack as soon as he emerged victorious, despite the fact that his lung cancer was almost a non-worry at that point. After all that, wouldn’t that be just perfect? Probably bad karma, he thought bitterly.

He slowly stood up not noticing anything else wrong. Well, anything physical. When he stopped worrying about a heart attack, he looked around, not recognizing a thing. He had just been at the top floor of the hospital parking deck, about to start reveling in his victory. And on top of that, the kid wasn’t going to die, even though Walt was counting on him to be a sacrifice to save everyone else, so that was just a bit of icing on the cake. Here he was in the middle of what looked like an unused baseball field in the middle of a dreary city that looked and felt nothing like Albuquerque.

After all that, after everything he went through, he ends up somewhere that he doesn’t recognize somehow, with nothing but the clothes on his back, and what was in his pockets? A small part of his mind was telling him he should be more worried and panicked than angry, but he couldn’t help the rage that was welling in his chest. This was ridiculous. He went through hell and back, fearing for his and his family’s lives for the past year, stealing, murdering, lying, and now that it was done…This. Some godforsaken hellhole of a place. How did he get there anyway? He didn’t drive there, walk there…The more he thought about it, the more pissed off he became.

He let out a yell of frustration and kicked up some of the dirt from the infield. An idea came to him and he patted around his pockets until he found what he was looking for—his cell phone. He had been with Jesse not a couple of minutes ago. Opening it, he held down the speed dial button for his partner’s phone and held the phone to his ear. There was no ringing. That was odd. No familiar Hey it’s me. Wait for the thing. He looked at the screen, then held it back to his ear, deciding to start talking anyway with more venom in his voice than he meant. The panic was starting to set in and it showed in his voice. And that pissed him off even more. He just wanted to sit at home with his family and bask for a bit. Just a little bit. He felt he deserved that much.

Looking around again, he saw an opening in the fence with a couple of smiling people standing there. He stomped off, sincerely hoping they didn't try to talk to him for their own sake.