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Name: Kathryn
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Other Characters: None in this game.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Peter Vincent
Age: 39
Canon: Fright Night (2011)
Canon Point: Post-movie
Character Information:
This wiki entry summarizes his lifestyle and what is known about his pre-movie history pretty well, but gets excessively detailed about everything he does in the film starting three paragraphs into the 'History' section. A briefer summary of his role in the movie:
Peter meets a teenager named Charley Brewster with a vampire problem and initially writes him off as a nutter. When faced with evidence that the kid is telling the truth, Peter's conscience gets the better of him and he invites Charley (and Charley's girlfriend Amy) to his penthouse to offer them information (though he explicitly refuses to help beyond that before they can even ask). He then inadvertently invites a vampire into his own penthouse because he is dumb, and his assistant/live-in frenemy with benefits, Ginger, is killed as a result.
Charley returns from a night of running away from vampires and losing his girlfriend to same to find Peter packing up to go on the run, at which time Peter reveals the whole orphaned by vampire attack thing. Rather than flee, though, Peter eventually decides to join Charley on what is likely a suicide mission to kill the lead vampire, Jerry…who turns out to be the same vampire that killed Peter's parents. The two succeed in killing Jerry and returning the vampire's victims to humanity, with Peter mostly playing a supporting role. During the fight Peter is bitten and experiences a partial transformation, but he reverts once Jerry is dead. At the end of the movie, it appears that Peter is now friends with Charley and Amy, because a man near forty hanging out with teenagers is not so weird once they've survived a vampire attack together.
Personality:
Peter has lived most of his adult life in a state of denial. While he is aware that there was nothing he could do when a vampire killed both his parents when he was still a child, he has been haunted by survivor's guilt and feelings of weakness since then. He believes that the only reason he survived was because he "had the good sense to hide," but he is not proud of having survived, nor does he always feel that he should have survived. The adults responsible for his care wrote his story off as a child's attempt to cope with reality by inventing a fantasy version of events, and Peter eventually buried the memory as best he could and did his best to believe that they were right.
For all that he attempted to distance himself from the reality of the vampire attack, however, Peter has held a lifelong obsession with the occult. He has poured vast amounts of time and money into his efforts to educate himself on matters supernatural and to build a large collection of relevant weapons and artifacts; while his efforts appeared on the surface (and he could almost convince himself really were) down to a desire to create a certain image of himself for public consumption, he knew on some level that he was preparing to defend himself from further attacks. As for insisting that his penthouse come equipped with a panic room, well, that could be explained away as defense against robbers and insane fans, couldn't it? His other main focus is stage magic; he is an accomplished illusionist (though likely not a particularly innovative one). He is the creator of a stage show hosted by the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel, in which he stars as a leather-clad vampire slayer (and that's clearly not the slightest bit Freudian). In other words, he's built his career on making a farce of his own childhood trauma.
Peter vastly overcompensates for his fear and self-hatred. Vanity is a major force in his life; he enjoys the fact that scholars consult him regarding the supernatural and he has a fake honorary college diploma hanging on the wall of his penthouse. If he has any body shame it is yet to be discovered; he shows no compunctions about wandering around the penthouse in an open robe and underpants when he invites Charley and Amy up to try to help them. While the persona he tries to present in his stage shows and in the media is that of a sensitive artist (the film's special features include an in-character TV spot in which he spews pretentious bullshit for several minutes), in person he is highly abrasive and self-important. He throws hissy fits whenever things go wrong in rehearsals, makes sexually aggressive remarks to journalists (or, in Charleys case, high schoolers disguised as journalists), calls the woman with whom he has a pseudo-romantic relationship by terms like "you lazy cow" (fortunately she doesn't take him anywhere near as seriously as he takes himself), and generally takes out every one of his frustrations on other people. At home he can more or less get away with all of this this because of his money and fame; adjusting to a more humble station in life will be a struggle for him.
Peter thinks he likes the finer things in life, but he suffers from a general lack of taste. His penthouse is "gothic" in style, meaning everything is very black and shiny, and one end of his living room is devoted to an enormous, well-stocked bar. As many options as he keeps on hand, he mostly drinks Midori…and he drinks it straight. He has a high tolerance for alcohol, seeing as he drinks quite a lot of it; he's rarely drunk but he's very frequently tipsy. Peter would not classify himself as an alcoholic, but he would be wrong.
The events of the movie have somewhat mellowed Peter and smoothed out some of his many bad traits, though it is likely he will largely revert to being an asshole upon being dumped into a horrible alternate universe. Jerry's death brought him closure as well as two actual friends in Charley and Amy, but Ginger's death remains a tragedy for which he has no choice but to blame himself (the parallels to his parents' death particularly haunt him, as both times Peter ran and hid while someone he loved got killed). He at least no longer needs to hide the truth about his past from himself, but memories of violent deaths in the family and a lifetime of semi-self-imposed emotional isolation are not things that ever really go away. Peter discovered courage he never knew he had when he stormed Jerry's basement with Charley--having finally faced his personal (and literal) demon, he is no longer ashamed to be alive. That's not to say he wants to make a habit of fighting monsters. Peter is not a skilled fighter and is very keenly aware that he survived the fight through luck and Charley's ingenuity rather than his own abilities. He is still afraid of vampires and other monsters and will continue to prefer flight over fight.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Abrasive
Accomplished (as an illusionist and as an expert on the supernatural)
Addictive Personality
Cowardly Lion
Emotionally Scarred
Ostentatious
Self-Centered
Self-Loathing (somewhat less so after the events of the movie)
Temperamental
Vulgar
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits!
Opt-Outs:
Vampire
Nymph
Goblin
Demon
Faerie
Roleplay Sample:
Three threads: with Conan Edogawa, with Eren Jaeger, and with Ginko.
Name: Kathryn
Contact:
Other Characters: None in this game.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Peter Vincent
Age: 39
Canon: Fright Night (2011)
Canon Point: Post-movie
Character Information:
This wiki entry summarizes his lifestyle and what is known about his pre-movie history pretty well, but gets excessively detailed about everything he does in the film starting three paragraphs into the 'History' section. A briefer summary of his role in the movie:
Peter meets a teenager named Charley Brewster with a vampire problem and initially writes him off as a nutter. When faced with evidence that the kid is telling the truth, Peter's conscience gets the better of him and he invites Charley (and Charley's girlfriend Amy) to his penthouse to offer them information (though he explicitly refuses to help beyond that before they can even ask). He then inadvertently invites a vampire into his own penthouse because he is dumb, and his assistant/live-in frenemy with benefits, Ginger, is killed as a result.
Charley returns from a night of running away from vampires and losing his girlfriend to same to find Peter packing up to go on the run, at which time Peter reveals the whole orphaned by vampire attack thing. Rather than flee, though, Peter eventually decides to join Charley on what is likely a suicide mission to kill the lead vampire, Jerry…who turns out to be the same vampire that killed Peter's parents. The two succeed in killing Jerry and returning the vampire's victims to humanity, with Peter mostly playing a supporting role. During the fight Peter is bitten and experiences a partial transformation, but he reverts once Jerry is dead. At the end of the movie, it appears that Peter is now friends with Charley and Amy, because a man near forty hanging out with teenagers is not so weird once they've survived a vampire attack together.
Personality:
Peter has lived most of his adult life in a state of denial. While he is aware that there was nothing he could do when a vampire killed both his parents when he was still a child, he has been haunted by survivor's guilt and feelings of weakness since then. He believes that the only reason he survived was because he "had the good sense to hide," but he is not proud of having survived, nor does he always feel that he should have survived. The adults responsible for his care wrote his story off as a child's attempt to cope with reality by inventing a fantasy version of events, and Peter eventually buried the memory as best he could and did his best to believe that they were right.
For all that he attempted to distance himself from the reality of the vampire attack, however, Peter has held a lifelong obsession with the occult. He has poured vast amounts of time and money into his efforts to educate himself on matters supernatural and to build a large collection of relevant weapons and artifacts; while his efforts appeared on the surface (and he could almost convince himself really were) down to a desire to create a certain image of himself for public consumption, he knew on some level that he was preparing to defend himself from further attacks. As for insisting that his penthouse come equipped with a panic room, well, that could be explained away as defense against robbers and insane fans, couldn't it? His other main focus is stage magic; he is an accomplished illusionist (though likely not a particularly innovative one). He is the creator of a stage show hosted by the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel, in which he stars as a leather-clad vampire slayer (and that's clearly not the slightest bit Freudian). In other words, he's built his career on making a farce of his own childhood trauma.
Peter vastly overcompensates for his fear and self-hatred. Vanity is a major force in his life; he enjoys the fact that scholars consult him regarding the supernatural and he has a fake honorary college diploma hanging on the wall of his penthouse. If he has any body shame it is yet to be discovered; he shows no compunctions about wandering around the penthouse in an open robe and underpants when he invites Charley and Amy up to try to help them. While the persona he tries to present in his stage shows and in the media is that of a sensitive artist (the film's special features include an in-character TV spot in which he spews pretentious bullshit for several minutes), in person he is highly abrasive and self-important. He throws hissy fits whenever things go wrong in rehearsals, makes sexually aggressive remarks to journalists (or, in Charleys case, high schoolers disguised as journalists), calls the woman with whom he has a pseudo-romantic relationship by terms like "you lazy cow" (fortunately she doesn't take him anywhere near as seriously as he takes himself), and generally takes out every one of his frustrations on other people. At home he can more or less get away with all of this this because of his money and fame; adjusting to a more humble station in life will be a struggle for him.
Peter thinks he likes the finer things in life, but he suffers from a general lack of taste. His penthouse is "gothic" in style, meaning everything is very black and shiny, and one end of his living room is devoted to an enormous, well-stocked bar. As many options as he keeps on hand, he mostly drinks Midori…and he drinks it straight. He has a high tolerance for alcohol, seeing as he drinks quite a lot of it; he's rarely drunk but he's very frequently tipsy. Peter would not classify himself as an alcoholic, but he would be wrong.
The events of the movie have somewhat mellowed Peter and smoothed out some of his many bad traits, though it is likely he will largely revert to being an asshole upon being dumped into a horrible alternate universe. Jerry's death brought him closure as well as two actual friends in Charley and Amy, but Ginger's death remains a tragedy for which he has no choice but to blame himself (the parallels to his parents' death particularly haunt him, as both times Peter ran and hid while someone he loved got killed). He at least no longer needs to hide the truth about his past from himself, but memories of violent deaths in the family and a lifetime of semi-self-imposed emotional isolation are not things that ever really go away. Peter discovered courage he never knew he had when he stormed Jerry's basement with Charley--having finally faced his personal (and literal) demon, he is no longer ashamed to be alive. That's not to say he wants to make a habit of fighting monsters. Peter is not a skilled fighter and is very keenly aware that he survived the fight through luck and Charley's ingenuity rather than his own abilities. He is still afraid of vampires and other monsters and will continue to prefer flight over fight.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Abrasive
Accomplished (as an illusionist and as an expert on the supernatural)
Addictive Personality
Cowardly Lion
Emotionally Scarred
Ostentatious
Self-Centered
Self-Loathing (somewhat less so after the events of the movie)
Temperamental
Vulgar
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits!
Opt-Outs:
Vampire
Nymph
Goblin
Demon
Faerie
Roleplay Sample:
Three threads: with Conan Edogawa, with Eren Jaeger, and with Ginko.
