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APPLICATIONS -- 2009; 001

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Aquaman App 1/2

[identity profile] devilishkurumi.livejournal.com 2009-05-17 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Player nickname: Kurumi
Player LJ: [livejournal.com profile] devilishkurumi
Way to contact you:
Email: devilishkurumi @yahoo .com
AIM: KurumiRP
Other:
Are you at least 15?: Yes, but I'm young at heart.
Current Characters: Joker, Blair, Emoticon, Bowser, Joel and HAL-9000

Character: Aquaman
Fandom: ...Aquaman. DC Comics, JLA, whatever.
Character Notes:
History:
Aquaman is one of the founding members of the JLA's original incarnation, and has been one of the MOST AWESOME SUPERHEROES EVER. Born to Atlantian parents who abandoned him on a reef because of his blond hair, "Orin" was taken in by a lighthouse operator named Arthur Curry, who named the child in his name. When his adoptive father disappeared from his life one day in his teens, he set out on his own to take in the sights of the world - somewhere along the way he banged an Inuput woman, but generally he stayed out of the way of other people until he stumbled upon Atlantis. After a major scuffle there, he decided to play superhero and became Aquaman - of course, the Flash had just a little influence over this idea.

When he eventually returned to Atlantis, the citizens there welcomed him with open arms. Oh yeah, that major scuffle was him fighting for his life under a totalitarian dictatorship. When did Batman do that? Anyway, he took on the mantle of King of Atlantis after it was revealed that his mother was a previous Queen - he used his time ruling to introduce policies that would reintegrate Atlantis with the surface world until he was ousted by Shark. After that, he decided to do the Aquaman thing, not the king thing. Oh yeah, and he married a queen from an alternate dimension named Mera, who he had a son with.

Unfortunately, Black Manta (one of Aquaman's big bads) kidnapped Aquaman's son and ended up suffocating him as Aquaman fought to free him. Mera, insane from grief, was committed. After beating back an outside force from Atlantis, Arthur decided to resign from the JLA, becoming king once more - the longer this lasted, however, the more involved in his work he became. Eventually, the chaos of his life caused him to turn into a hermit, bailing on Atlantis and the JLA. It's around this time period that he rips off Thor's hair and beard and loses his hand to a team of piranhas.

Skipping ahead a bit, Aquaman was eventually returned to the throne and then ousted by a group of sorcerers who wanted revenge on the surfacedwellers for polluting the ocean and the world in general. The sorcerers used magic to turn every living creature in the ocean against Aquaman, leaving him to die on Traitor's Reef. Delirious from pain and suffering from being unable to return to the ocean, Aquaman stumbled upon the Lady of the Lake, who healed his wounds and replaced his harpoon hand with a hand made out of the waters of the Secret Sea. This hand allows him to use the Sea's healing powers to heal people and eradicate black magic; however, when used in violence, there's a problem. Basically, using the hand in violence releases the Thirst, who tried to drain the four river goddesses so that he could drink from the Secret Sea at his leisure. It was only after Aquaman confronted the fact that balance was the key to becoming the true Waterbearer for the Lady of the Lake that he managed to overcome the Thirst -

And that's where I'm taking him from.

Personality: Arthur is known to have a "chip on his shoulder" according the the JLA members. He's hardheaded and tries to do everything himself, whether or not he actually can. He's also quick to anger if the right buttons are pushed, but he's learning to overcome his hotheadedness in order not to resort to using his healing hand for ill. He's also not entirely comfortable on land, but he's friendly enough towards surfacedwellers.

Additional Links: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman) has some stuff, and if you're really interested, here's Aquaman's Wiki! (http://aquaman.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaman_Wiki)

Aquaman App 2/2

[identity profile] devilishkurumi.livejournal.com 2009-05-17 09:13 am (UTC)(link)

First Person (entry type): (100)
There's nothing quite like the ocean - I feel like it's been decades since I've gotten to swim in it, instead of a few short weeks. Living on the surface is much harder than I remember it being; I suppose after so long...

Ah, right. I'm contacting this community from a JLA base; I'll be honest, I was looking for news on Atlantis-related goings on, but the computer doesn't seem to want me to. It keeps redirecting me to this site, so I assumed I'd have to join and ask what, exactly, is going on. If this is the Flash's attempt at some kind of joke...

So, ah - a little help, here?


Third Person: (150)
The folks up at Mizenhead didn't understand at first why Arthur was so pleased that the shower at the lighthouse used only seawater. It didn't matter to him; they'd find out eventually who he really was, but until then, it was fine to be just Arthur - Arthur, the strange blond man who took long seawater showers. It wasn't too odd, even; surfacedwellers took long showers all the time. He supposed it was just the fact that it was a saltwater shower that threw off the old man and his woman friend. Ah, well. They couldn't understand... even if they knew he could only live on land for so long without water, even if they knew who he really was - if they believed him about it - they would never fully understand what the ocean's water meant to him.

He leaned back against the wall of the shower and smiled. Even exiled from the ocean, hunted by every living creature beneath its tumultuous surface, nearly killed by the new Atlantian reign, he knew that the ocean would never abandon him.

APPROVED

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