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[Player information]
Player Name: Trek
Age: 20
E-mail: trekfaerie@gmail.com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: N/A
[Character information]
Name: Norman Bates
Canon: Psycho (1960 movie)
Canon Point: After disposing of Marion’s body.
Age: Mid-20s
Appearance: Norman is a handsome, clean-cut young man who looks like your average boy-next-door. He dresses rather shabbily. He has very intense eyes.
Inventory: A brown paper bag filled with candy corn.
Abilities: None
History: link
Personality:
On the surface, Norman seems to be a rather normal young man, though he acts more like teenagers from his era (30s-40s) than a full-grown man. He’s shy and polite, often stumbling over his words, stuttering, and apologizing for himself. But, underneath the endearing sweetness is a definite darkness: Norman has a child’s temper, lashing out when others do things he doesn’t agree with. He also has a slight problem with alcohol, and will drink excessively when stressed, often to the point of losing consciousness. (These blackouts will often lead to the appearance of Mother, who you will read about next.) His sexuality has been repressed terribly by his mother’s abuse, and while he acts like a smitten teenager with girls he likes, he also spies on them undressing in their motel rooms through a hole in the wall...
When Norman was a child, he was severely emotionally abused by his overbearing, domineering mother, who taught him that all women (besides her) are whores. She isolated him from the world and made him depend on her. This backfired on her when she took a lover when Norman was a teenager; in his jealousy (he has a very Oedipal relationship with her, and some sources imply that he was also sexually abused by her), Norman poisons the both of them. The death of his mother by his own hand drives Norman into shock, for which he is hospitalized; after he’s released, he goes home with his mother’s corpse and continues to care for it as if she were still alive.
Norman is believed to have schizophrenia, passed down to him from his mother, and has many of the common symptoms of the disease, including hallucinations and delusions in the form of Mother. After murdering his mother, Norman developed a second personality based on her that often takes control of him, especially when a woman is around. This personality is violent and manipulative, and continues the emotional abuse of Norman that his mother did in life. Nothing that Norman does while he is Mother is acknowledged by him; he, apparently, has no memory of it, and truly believes his mother to still be alive. While Mother, Norman also dresses in her clothes and makeup, and wears a wig.
A thing I’ve had to think about with this app is what Norman’s reaction to being, for the second time in his entire life, separated from Mother, as a corpse isn’t generally something you’d consider “on your person.” I believe he would struggle with it, though he would suffer from fewer auditory hallucinations due to not being around the trigger object of her body and the environment of his house/the motel. The rest of his personality would be intact, but Mother would have less of an appearance until instigated by some kind of outside force.
[Samples]
1. prose
Norman is near the start of the woods, fingering the kitchen knife he's looped onto his belt. In truth, he's supposed to be hunting for food and contributing to the town, but... Well, once the meat was gone, nobody would really mind what he did with the body, right? And a man needed something to do to pass the time.
He sees a bird preening on a tree branch-- a turtle dove, if he's not mistaken. He stops for a bit, admiring its sad little song... It gives him some cover as he creeps up to the tree...
He grabs the bird roughly with both hands, silencing its shrieks with a sharp crack.
Smiling, he puts the dead bird into his jacket pocket, so its twisted little neck pokes out, and walks back to town.
2. action
Tomorrow's a very important day, you know. Based on my reckoning, it's the first Sunday of May. Mother's Day.
A lot of people here don't honor their mothers, just because they're not here. They think that they just won't know.
[He smiles. It's just slightly creepy.]
They do, of course. All mothers know when their sons are misbehaving. They know it in their hearts.
So, mind your mother today-- and every day, really. You wouldn't want to break her heart.
3. thread
Anything Else? Will there ever be a chance for Norman to regain Mother’s corpse? (Like, a game I used to play in sometimes gave characters things from home.) Does this ever happen here? I don’t believe I read anything confirming or denying this in the game information.
Also, a friend is apping Carrie White into this game this round as well. Could they be housed in house four together, please? Thank you.
Player Name: Trek
Age: 20
E-mail: trekfaerie@gmail.com
Other characters played at Cape Kore: N/A
[Character information]
Name: Norman Bates
Canon: Psycho (1960 movie)
Canon Point: After disposing of Marion’s body.
Age: Mid-20s
Appearance: Norman is a handsome, clean-cut young man who looks like your average boy-next-door. He dresses rather shabbily. He has very intense eyes.
Inventory: A brown paper bag filled with candy corn.
Abilities: None
History: link
Personality:
On the surface, Norman seems to be a rather normal young man, though he acts more like teenagers from his era (30s-40s) than a full-grown man. He’s shy and polite, often stumbling over his words, stuttering, and apologizing for himself. But, underneath the endearing sweetness is a definite darkness: Norman has a child’s temper, lashing out when others do things he doesn’t agree with. He also has a slight problem with alcohol, and will drink excessively when stressed, often to the point of losing consciousness. (These blackouts will often lead to the appearance of Mother, who you will read about next.) His sexuality has been repressed terribly by his mother’s abuse, and while he acts like a smitten teenager with girls he likes, he also spies on them undressing in their motel rooms through a hole in the wall...
When Norman was a child, he was severely emotionally abused by his overbearing, domineering mother, who taught him that all women (besides her) are whores. She isolated him from the world and made him depend on her. This backfired on her when she took a lover when Norman was a teenager; in his jealousy (he has a very Oedipal relationship with her, and some sources imply that he was also sexually abused by her), Norman poisons the both of them. The death of his mother by his own hand drives Norman into shock, for which he is hospitalized; after he’s released, he goes home with his mother’s corpse and continues to care for it as if she were still alive.
Norman is believed to have schizophrenia, passed down to him from his mother, and has many of the common symptoms of the disease, including hallucinations and delusions in the form of Mother. After murdering his mother, Norman developed a second personality based on her that often takes control of him, especially when a woman is around. This personality is violent and manipulative, and continues the emotional abuse of Norman that his mother did in life. Nothing that Norman does while he is Mother is acknowledged by him; he, apparently, has no memory of it, and truly believes his mother to still be alive. While Mother, Norman also dresses in her clothes and makeup, and wears a wig.
A thing I’ve had to think about with this app is what Norman’s reaction to being, for the second time in his entire life, separated from Mother, as a corpse isn’t generally something you’d consider “on your person.” I believe he would struggle with it, though he would suffer from fewer auditory hallucinations due to not being around the trigger object of her body and the environment of his house/the motel. The rest of his personality would be intact, but Mother would have less of an appearance until instigated by some kind of outside force.
[Samples]
1. prose
Norman is near the start of the woods, fingering the kitchen knife he's looped onto his belt. In truth, he's supposed to be hunting for food and contributing to the town, but... Well, once the meat was gone, nobody would really mind what he did with the body, right? And a man needed something to do to pass the time.
He sees a bird preening on a tree branch-- a turtle dove, if he's not mistaken. He stops for a bit, admiring its sad little song... It gives him some cover as he creeps up to the tree...
He grabs the bird roughly with both hands, silencing its shrieks with a sharp crack.
Smiling, he puts the dead bird into his jacket pocket, so its twisted little neck pokes out, and walks back to town.
2. action
Tomorrow's a very important day, you know. Based on my reckoning, it's the first Sunday of May. Mother's Day.
A lot of people here don't honor their mothers, just because they're not here. They think that they just won't know.
[He smiles. It's just slightly creepy.]
They do, of course. All mothers know when their sons are misbehaving. They know it in their hearts.
So, mind your mother today-- and every day, really. You wouldn't want to break her heart.
3. thread
Anything Else? Will there ever be a chance for Norman to regain Mother’s corpse? (Like, a game I used to play in sometimes gave characters things from home.) Does this ever happen here? I don’t believe I read anything confirming or denying this in the game information.
Also, a friend is apping Carrie White into this game this round as well. Could they be housed in house four together, please? Thank you.