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Characters you have in the game: George Parley
Character Name: Police Commissioner Sam Vimes
Character Canon: Discworld
Canon Background: http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Samuel_Vimes
Omegafriends Background: More or less identical, save that he lives in Venture City instead of Ankh-Morpork. Also he's a distant descendant of Oliver Cromwell, the roundworld person that Suffer Not Injustice Vimes, Vimes' infamous ancestor, is based off of.
Personality: Samuel Vimes does not believe he is a good person, and this has become a huge basis of what he is like. As a police officer, he has seen some of the worst humanity has to offer, and feels that most people are just a step away from wild beasts, himself included, and that those who are legitimately good hearted are too rare to meaningfully effect the world.
Some people like that are poised on the precipice of sliding down into black depression and madness that ends in going on some kind of rampage, but not Vimes. Vimes thinks that just because people are nasty by nature is no reason to punish them. You may as well punish cats for being aloof. So he does what he can to keep people under control. He believes in the system. He believes that the when the rules work, even if people are nasty, they'll still get to live relatively peaceful lives.
So though he has darkness in him, and sometimes wants to toss out the rules and just END some people that the world would be better off without, Vimes keeps himself tightly under control at all times. He created a watchman in his mind to watch him, in answer to the old question: Who watches the watchman? When he needs to, he lets the rage and darkness help him, but when the time come, the watchman claps it in irons and puts it away.
As a cop, Vimes is very much about knowing which rules to break, which to bend, and when to do either. He wants a watchman's armor to be battered, because if no one is battering it than why bother having it (Obviously less relevant in a modern AU, but still a thing.)? He is staunchly against taking bribes, but is generally okay with occasionally accepting a free drink or some donuts, describing such minor perks as "The grease that keeps the wheels of justice spinning smoothly." He doesn't approve of cops bringing non-standard equipment to work, but if he believes they're responsible enough (and he's usually a pretty good judge of character), he'll carefully look the other way.
Vimes thinks of himself as racist (or speciesist, as it would be in Discworld). He thinks all people, regardless of color, shape, or species, is probably going to be a nasty bastard on some level (as mentioned above), but he also feels that he's ALLOWED to think that because he deals with all kinds of people. So when someone starts mouthing off about some other race out of ignorance, Vimes' temper starts going apeshit. He might make a disparaging comment about some group in the heat of the moment, but in his mind it's different when he does it.
There are two groups of people that Vimes legitimately does dislike, though. The first is The Rich. The fact that Vimes is married to one of the richest women inAnkh-Morpork Venture City has not changed this. A lot of his life has had a theme of rubbing into his face how the upper classes have the power to ignore the laws, and now that he has power himself, he's taken a huge amount of pleasure in being able to bring the law to them.
The second is Vampires. Specifically, he hates the fact that they are supernatural predators who prey on humans but that people still have a weird love affair with them because they're cool. The second they make even the slightest effort to turn their back on their bloodthirsty nature, everyone praises them with piles and piles of sympathy about how noble they are and it makes him sick. Vampires are probably marginally less common in Omegafriends, so in this case it will be a more generalized dislike of metahumans and superheroes. Any vampires there ARE will get the normal treatment, though.
Vimes is a recovering alcoholic. The logic was that normal people naturally produce a bit of mental alcohol to blanket themselves from the world as it actually is. Pretty little illusions that make life seem less empty and awful. Vimes' brain doesn't do this, and is perpetually about two drinks under par. He tried to drink his way back up to normal, but kept getting the dosage wrong, which would leave him lying in gutters at odd hours of the night. Since he got married, though, Vimes has quit drinking entirely. He goes to meetings, he switched to cigarettes (cigars in canon, but cigarettes feel more appropriate to a modern day setting), and doesn't touch the stuff anymore. Because he doesn't trust himself anymore than he trusts anyone else, though, he keeps a bottle of nice whiskey in the bottom drawer of his desk as a "permanent test."
Powers: Vimes has no supernatural powers. Just sheer bloodymindedness. I might EVENTUALLY have the Summoning Dark thing happen and leave him with darkvision.
Sample: Whammo
Notes: Only possible problem I can think of is that "Police Commissioner" apparently basically means top dog among the city's police force. While it's the IC rank for Vimes to have, you might not want a PC to have that much IC authority.
Player Contact:
Characters you have in the game: George Parley
Character Name: Police Commissioner Sam Vimes
Character Canon: Discworld
Canon Background: http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Samuel_Vimes
Omegafriends Background: More or less identical, save that he lives in Venture City instead of Ankh-Morpork. Also he's a distant descendant of Oliver Cromwell, the roundworld person that Suffer Not Injustice Vimes, Vimes' infamous ancestor, is based off of.
Personality: Samuel Vimes does not believe he is a good person, and this has become a huge basis of what he is like. As a police officer, he has seen some of the worst humanity has to offer, and feels that most people are just a step away from wild beasts, himself included, and that those who are legitimately good hearted are too rare to meaningfully effect the world.
Some people like that are poised on the precipice of sliding down into black depression and madness that ends in going on some kind of rampage, but not Vimes. Vimes thinks that just because people are nasty by nature is no reason to punish them. You may as well punish cats for being aloof. So he does what he can to keep people under control. He believes in the system. He believes that the when the rules work, even if people are nasty, they'll still get to live relatively peaceful lives.
So though he has darkness in him, and sometimes wants to toss out the rules and just END some people that the world would be better off without, Vimes keeps himself tightly under control at all times. He created a watchman in his mind to watch him, in answer to the old question: Who watches the watchman? When he needs to, he lets the rage and darkness help him, but when the time come, the watchman claps it in irons and puts it away.
As a cop, Vimes is very much about knowing which rules to break, which to bend, and when to do either. He wants a watchman's armor to be battered, because if no one is battering it than why bother having it (Obviously less relevant in a modern AU, but still a thing.)? He is staunchly against taking bribes, but is generally okay with occasionally accepting a free drink or some donuts, describing such minor perks as "The grease that keeps the wheels of justice spinning smoothly." He doesn't approve of cops bringing non-standard equipment to work, but if he believes they're responsible enough (and he's usually a pretty good judge of character), he'll carefully look the other way.
Vimes thinks of himself as racist (or speciesist, as it would be in Discworld). He thinks all people, regardless of color, shape, or species, is probably going to be a nasty bastard on some level (as mentioned above), but he also feels that he's ALLOWED to think that because he deals with all kinds of people. So when someone starts mouthing off about some other race out of ignorance, Vimes' temper starts going apeshit. He might make a disparaging comment about some group in the heat of the moment, but in his mind it's different when he does it.
There are two groups of people that Vimes legitimately does dislike, though. The first is The Rich. The fact that Vimes is married to one of the richest women in
The second is Vampires. Specifically, he hates the fact that they are supernatural predators who prey on humans but that people still have a weird love affair with them because they're cool. The second they make even the slightest effort to turn their back on their bloodthirsty nature, everyone praises them with piles and piles of sympathy about how noble they are and it makes him sick. Vampires are probably marginally less common in Omegafriends, so in this case it will be a more generalized dislike of metahumans and superheroes. Any vampires there ARE will get the normal treatment, though.
Vimes is a recovering alcoholic. The logic was that normal people naturally produce a bit of mental alcohol to blanket themselves from the world as it actually is. Pretty little illusions that make life seem less empty and awful. Vimes' brain doesn't do this, and is perpetually about two drinks under par. He tried to drink his way back up to normal, but kept getting the dosage wrong, which would leave him lying in gutters at odd hours of the night. Since he got married, though, Vimes has quit drinking entirely. He goes to meetings, he switched to cigarettes (cigars in canon, but cigarettes feel more appropriate to a modern day setting), and doesn't touch the stuff anymore. Because he doesn't trust himself anymore than he trusts anyone else, though, he keeps a bottle of nice whiskey in the bottom drawer of his desk as a "permanent test."
Powers: Vimes has no supernatural powers. Just sheer bloodymindedness. I might EVENTUALLY have the Summoning Dark thing happen and leave him with darkvision.
Sample: Whammo
Notes: Only possible problem I can think of is that "Police Commissioner" apparently basically means top dog among the city's police force. While it's the IC rank for Vimes to have, you might not want a PC to have that much IC authority.
