Name: Arthur Hastings Canon: We Happy Few Age: 31 Links:Info Page
About: Arthur is a mildly neurotic English everyman from a bizarre English dystopia. In his world, history diverged back in the 1930s. WWII was much different, and was a land grab war primarily between Germany and England. Arthur was a child during WWII, where a lot of really awful things happened in his community - a collection of villages spread across a handful of little islands in the channel - that resulted in them isolating themselves. And outlawing bad feelings. And making it law that everyone takes a pill that makes them happy and causes them to repress bad memories. This goes about as well as you'd expect.
Arthur woke up to reality and went through a traumatic adventure to escape, only he ended up here. Which is probably for the best. He is carrying an entire luggage car's worth of baggage. He's grown up in and existed in a society where he spent over a decade on a pill that screwed up his head, abiding by arbitrary and bizarre rules, and fearing death from stepping out of line. That is the world he knew, and what is still the normal for him. He can be eerily cheerful and polite.
He is also riddled with all kinds of guilt, self hatred, and existential dread! He wrestles with a pronounced selfish streak he's well aware of and is ashamed of, but has difficulty overcoming. But he's also terribly helpful, he tends to like helping people if it's 1) not very out of his way or 2) it would be helpful for him in turn. And often ends up doing it even if those two things aren't true, though he'll complain about it a lot.
He has no idea how to connect with other people on more than a surface level, but he's trying to get over that. He knows how screwed up he is, how screwed up the society he came from is. He's unlearned so much in regards to emotional and social development and he's got a lot of catching up to do. He is, however, pretty observant. He was a journalist for years, and a very good one according to his boss. He likes to know things and often can't fight his own curiosity.
He loves books and music, and has a degree in mechanical engineering and is surprisingly athletic. He was quite the lawn darts champion back in the day! He is not a very good driver. He is arguably a good poet - he won an award once.
Wanted CR: All of the things! Arthur is suddenly outside of a very homogenous, very conformist society. He does not know how to be friends with people, friendships in his society are very shallow things. I am up for basically anything. This man just needs to interact with people.
Plots/Plans: Arthur is finally putting his degree to use! While cars were defunct since he was a kid, he has a vague knowledge of how they work and he is good at learning things. He's gotten himself a book on car maintenance and he is learning all about how to maintain and repair vehicles. He's mostly just trying to get his feet under him and figure out how to exist in this very strange new place with all kinds of rules (or lack thereof) he doesn't know or understand yet. He's also going to be trying to stick close to Sally Boyle, his childhood best friend and lifelong crush he's been estranged from for fifteen years.
Limits: Just not into negative CR that comes out of nowhere. I am very down for negative CR that develops naturally, though!
Arthur Hastings | We Happy Few
Character
Name: Arthur Hastings
Canon: We Happy Few
Age: 31
Links: Info Page
About: Arthur is a mildly neurotic English everyman from a bizarre English dystopia. In his world, history diverged back in the 1930s. WWII was much different, and was a land grab war primarily between Germany and England. Arthur was a child during WWII, where a lot of really awful things happened in his community - a collection of villages spread across a handful of little islands in the channel - that resulted in them isolating themselves. And outlawing bad feelings. And making it law that everyone takes a pill that makes them happy and causes them to repress bad memories. This goes about as well as you'd expect.
Arthur woke up to reality and went through a traumatic adventure to escape, only he ended up here. Which is probably for the best. He is carrying an entire luggage car's worth of baggage. He's grown up in and existed in a society where he spent over a decade on a pill that screwed up his head, abiding by arbitrary and bizarre rules, and fearing death from stepping out of line. That is the world he knew, and what is still the normal for him. He can be eerily cheerful and polite.
He is also riddled with all kinds of guilt, self hatred, and existential dread! He wrestles with a pronounced selfish streak he's well aware of and is ashamed of, but has difficulty overcoming. But he's also terribly helpful, he tends to like helping people if it's 1) not very out of his way or 2) it would be helpful for him in turn. And often ends up doing it even if those two things aren't true, though he'll complain about it a lot.
He has no idea how to connect with other people on more than a surface level, but he's trying to get over that. He knows how screwed up he is, how screwed up the society he came from is. He's unlearned so much in regards to emotional and social development and he's got a lot of catching up to do. He is, however, pretty observant. He was a journalist for years, and a very good one according to his boss. He likes to know things and often can't fight his own curiosity.
He loves books and music, and has a degree in mechanical engineering and is surprisingly athletic. He was quite the lawn darts champion back in the day! He is not a very good driver. He is arguably a good poet - he won an award once.
Wanted CR: All of the things! Arthur is suddenly outside of a very homogenous, very conformist society. He does not know how to be friends with people, friendships in his society are very shallow things. I am up for basically anything. This man just needs to interact with people.
Plots/Plans: Arthur is finally putting his degree to use! While cars were defunct since he was a kid, he has a vague knowledge of how they work and he is good at learning things. He's gotten himself a book on car maintenance and he is learning all about how to maintain and repair vehicles. He's mostly just trying to get his feet under him and figure out how to exist in this very strange new place with all kinds of rules (or lack thereof) he doesn't know or understand yet. He's also going to be trying to stick close to Sally Boyle, his childhood best friend
and lifelong crushhe's been estranged from for fifteen years.Limits: Just not into negative CR that comes out of nowhere. I am very down for negative CR that develops naturally, though!