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metalldammerungName: Karra
Email: bornpang@hotmail.com
AIM: brundle324
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Munhead or previous character journals (optional):
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Rory Williams (Doctor Who): http://yourentirelife.livejournal.com/profile
Whiskey (Dollhouse): http://was-sleeping.livejournal.com/profile
Allison Young (Terminator): http://afromp.livejournal.com/profile
John Connor (Terminator): http://rompot-iisous.livejournal.com/profile
Sam (Joan of Arcada/Mythology): http://fervens-deus.livejournal.com/profile
Timezone: EST
-THEM-
Character name: John Connor
Series: Terminator
Character history:
Good lord, where do you even start? This human trainwreck's personal history has been changed and varied so much by timeline interference that it's almost laughable. But one thing stays the same, over and over again. Well. Almost always stays the same, anyway. John Connor is the future leader of the Human Resistance.
The son of Sarah Connor (a waitress) and Kyle Reese (a soldier sent from the future to protect his mother from robotic assassination), John spent most of his formative years either on the run from machines intent on killing him or his mother's legal problems. Moving from city to city, from name to name, and barely settling down before having to move again. The most settled he ever got was with a foster family that was prompty killed by yet another machine sent back to kill him. The only reason that he himself was not killed was that his future self sent back another machine to protect himself and his mother.
Funny how often that seems to happen.
In 1999, it happened again. Another chance at stability when his mother got engaged to the man she'd been dating for over a year. A man, Charlie Dixon, who had become a sort of father figure to John. Someone he could trust, someone who didn't know a thing about his past. Someone who loved his mother, all her...quirks included.
And then Sarah got spooked. Packed them up (two bags, plus the guns), and drove off. Went to a new town, a new name and started over. Again. Without Charlie. Without that new stability.
And then, of course, another machine that came after John, another machine sent back to protect him. A machine that looked like a teenage girl this time, by the name of Cameron. Her method of protection involved bringing him and Sarah to the year 2007, skipping over the death of Sarah Connor and changing the future once again.
There, time is mostly spent in attempts to stop the war against machines, in stopping the Skynet AI from being built and going insane. In school, for a time, until he decides to switch to homeschooling. Getting to know the uncle he never knew he had, watching his mother become obsessed with a trifecta of bloody dots on a wall.
Dealing with his mother, who he loves. With her quirks, her almost infectious paranoia. Her obsessions, and trying not to let it completely overrun his life, as it had for so many, many years. Failing, really, for the most part. Dealing with Cameron, and his conflicted and varying feelings for and about her. Her many, many glitches after an explosion that had caused her to attempt to kill him. The glitches that came after a car accident that managed to jolt that assassination personality out of her. After faulty repairs.
Dating, and discovering that his girlfriend was from the future as well. A girl planted to drive a wedge between him and Cameron, his protector because some people in the future (a lot of them, in fact) don't trust John Connor anymore. Seems he surrounds himself with machines.
Mourning, for a time, the death of this girlfriend. A death designed to further alienate him from Cameron, not that this really succeeds. Exactly. The death of pseudo-father figure. The death of his uncle. Rapid-fire changes to his life that only serve to illuminate how much of a trainwreck it's become.
His mother arrested for murder, bank robbery and plethora of other charges, and they break her out. Of course they break her out. Break her out, and follow a trail to another AI. John Henry. An AI created to help John Connor fight the machines. A TDE machine that John Henry uses to go to the future after removing a chip from Cameron's body. Apparently willingly.
A TDE machine that John uses to follow.
Character personality:
What's he like? John...blends, and he blends well. Into his surroundings, into new identities. He blends. Tries to be not himself to the extent where he can come off as too quiet, too weird or just...an ass. He tries to push people away, having gotten much too used to his friends and family dying all around him for comfort. So he pushes, and he generally suceeds.
Not that it doesn't still hurt when they die. Or when they disappoint him or betray him or try to kill him. It hurts, possibly more than if he kept them close. Somehow more. The way he sees it, keeping them away is the best way to protect them from his life.
If they die, or anything else? That was a major failure. He blames himself with people die because of him, because of the future. "He's here for me. Those people are dead because of me."
John is stubborn, but smart. Ridiculously smart and amazing with computers. He was hacking ATMs at age 9, seriously complicated computer systems, encrypted hard drives and the LAPD Database by age 11. Reprogramming metal? Not a difficult issue. Unlike his mother, he's almost passionate about technology. which occasionally gives him a...unique point of view where Cameron and other machines that have been sent back by his future self are concerned. Allowing him to look beyond their mechanical nature.
In addition to his computer skills, he's also a skilled marksman. Better with a rifle than with a handgun, and capable of training others with the same.
A traumatic event involving an attack on his mother, which resulted in him having to kill his mother's assailant, coupled with the trauma of dealing with a glitchy and reset Cameron attempting to kill him resulted in filling him with the need to rebel against his mother and her wishes, her way of dealing with 'The Future'. His first act of rebellion was to aim a gun at his family, reinserting her possibly damaged chip, despite a lack of assurance that she was safe to be around. It was probably only luck that he was right.
He has a hell of a case of PSTD thanks to the attack on his mother, and his own actions, and has on at least one occasion subconsciously tried to die. His safety does not really seem to be an important issue to him. Because his life changes at such a rapid pace, he has gotten very good at adapting. However, this also means he has absolutely nothing to hold onto, and he feels like he has no one or nothing to really depend on. That when he finds someone that he can depend on, can trust? They're almost immediately taken away from him. Like Charlie. Like his uncle, who he once trusted enough to tell him that he sometimes felt like his life was one insanely long nightmare that he just wanted to finally wake up from.
A psychiatrist that he saw for a very brief time, Dr. Sherman, compared his behavior and personality to that of a returned war veteran, noting his tendency to check the exits whenever he enters a room.
-SAMPLES-
Journal entry sample:
[_search_thread_"Sarah+J+Connor"_|"Cameron+Phillips OR Baum"_|Catherine+Weaver|John+Henry_] [_search_results_negative|negative|negative|negative_]
Dammit.
Fictional. I'm not fictional. My life is not a story. If my life is a story, I would sure as hell love a rewrite, because I am not happy with the plot focus. At all. So if I could, you know, go? That'd be great. Awesome, even.