Threadhopping: I am all for this! Feel free to jump in whenever you feel your character would.

Backtagging: By all means! I will gladly backtag for months and months.

Hugging: You can try, but he'll try to break your character's arm.

Kissing: Same as hugging, only he'll try to break your character's face.

Sex: IC'ly, Rorschach would rather kill everyone around him than have sex with someone, so good luck convincing him to do that. You're welcome to try, though; the goal of BN and Rorschach here is to break the man down, so all the more power to you.
NOTE: While I am willing to play through rape, please contact me well in advance if you want to pursue this path. There will be some pretty serious repercussions for that sort of thing, and I want to make sure we're both down with that before we move forward. That being said, I will not be making a spectacle of this, so let's keep it logical and not just throw the idea around without IC developments.

Fighting: I'm terrible at fightscenes; that being said, Rorschach is not and he'll readily bring the pain if you give him a chance. So yeah, feel free to start a fight with him.

Injuring: By all means! Black eyes, sprained muscles, whatever. Chances are I'll be the one writing those in XD Anything more debilitating, though, drop me a line and I'll make sure he's not going to need whatever limb you destroy. (Please, though, no ripping limbs off. He'll need them eventually.)

Killing: Let's talk about it.

Power Words: Insinuating that his mother is a whore (she was, but he doesn't like reminders), insinuating you want to sleep with him, being a villain, etc. etc. etc.

Anything else, please mention here: If you want to discuss anything in particular/in general, feel free to visit my OOC contact post here!


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1. Player Information
Name (or internet handle): Kurumi
Current characters in Bete Noire: evilismygood & fuckoingoboingo

2. Character Information
Name: Walter Kovacs (ALIAS: Rorschach)
Livejournal Username: amessinside
Fandom: Watchmen (movieverse)
Image: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/98507078/25642425

3. Character Information II
Age/Appearance: Rorschach's 35 years old in the movie universe. He's heavily freckled and has short red hair. He's only 5'3", and he's generally very lean, muscled and sinewy without being disproportionate. He's dirty, with... possibly not the best hygiene, and he wears the same basic outfit time after time. As Walter, he generally wears his alter-ego's trenchcoat, but forgoes the pinstripe pants, mask and hat. His psychologist in prison actually once called him "fascinatingly ugly," which is a pretty good descriptor of him.

History: Watchmen Wiki - hope you like lots of history :|

Personality:
Rorschach is a very blunt, straightforward character who's more than a little socially awkward. He tends to speak only when it's necessary, and rarely participates in smalltalk. Rorschach's primary conversational skills come from his vigilante acts, and therefore he has trouble handling interactions that don't involve exchanging information or punching people in the face. He has no trouble stating his opinion, however; this is most likely because his opinions consist of moral absolutism and he generally regards them as fact. If someone is a criminal, they are always a criminal and should be the first suspects on the list; if someone voted liberally in the past, they are a liberal and possibly a socialist; if someone has sex with more than one person, they are a whore. It's pretty basic, with him - things are one way or another, and it's easy to move from being a "good" person to a "bad" one in Rorschach's books. (Of course, some people can slip back from being "bad" to "good," but nobody hedges their bets on it.)

Rorschach, however, is somewhat influenced by Walter's feelings in these matters; for example, though his partner Nite Owl (Daniel) "abandons" their cause when the Keene Act was passed, and though Rorschach often questions his loyalties and his proclivities (especially when it comes to Laurie), he still considers him his partner and trusts him implicitly. He even goes so far as to apologize to Dan when he ticks him off, indicating that even though Rorschach attempts to be emotionless and impartial, he does still have a "softer" side ("softer" being used extremely liberally here).

Rorschach's philosophy can be easily understood simply from looking at his mask. He's a right-wing extremist who views the world through a very limited, black-and-white moral fiber. Good and evil are clearly defined, and there is no overlap; justice will be served to those who commit crimes (even crimes that seem petty) and the good will prevail. He's paranoid and his theories can often veer wildly into the realm of conspiracy; he tends to believe that the more outlandish explanations are more likely to be true, and while he does seem to acknowledge that mundane situations do occur more often than the improbable, he is never satisfied with the easiest explanation.

There is some divergence between "Rorschach" and "Walter" as far as personality goes; while both share all these traits, Walter is considered the "weaker" of the two egos. He is more prone to compromise than Rorschach, though not by much; he's more likely to be influenced by his emotions and allow some things to slide just a bit more than Rorschach ever would. Walter believes that he is Rorschach, however, and that any soft or emotional side of him died during his fateful investigation of the Blair Roche case. This is seen to be untrue as canon progresses, because there are several times where Walter does seem to bleed into Rorschach's decisions (especially by the end of his canon, and in parts stated above).

It's hard to pinpoint an exact moment where Walter began to have the philosophies that later formed Rorschach. While I believe that Walter most likely had his more extreme outlook from an early age, there is no canon evidence of this. It's likely, however, that no matter what he believed during his formative years, his mother's abuse and her prostitution led him to associate negativity with prostitutes (as well as women in general), which then led him to associate it with other professions with equal ill-repute. This, combined with a strict moral code, most likely led to his seeing the world as separated into good and evil.

Even after seeing this definition, however, Walter did not become Rorschach solely because of his mother. It was because of the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese; in Watchmen canon, Genovese was murdered while screaming for help, and all her neighbors did was watch. This triggered a sort of ultimatum within Walter's psyche, where he realized that people were ugly things hiding behind masks and led him to create his Rorschach persona in order to help fight those in society who failed to reform themselves.

Walter was still himself, though; he was "softer" on criminals, preferring to let them live and allowing them to be dealt with in the manner society saw fit. This was until the Roche case. In 1975, Walter ("pretending to be Rorschach" at this point) found himself confronted by the unrepentant murderer of a six year old girl he had been search for. When the murderer realized Rorschach knew that he had not only murdered, but fed Roche to his dogs, he attempted to reason with him, suggesting that he "needed help" and that he should go to prison, or a hospital. Walter suffered a mental break at this point, and the unrepentant, no-evil-will-go-unpunished Rorschach truly came into form. Instead of allowing the man to go through the justice system (a weak and wrecked system by his standards), Rorschach took justice into his own hands and murdered the man.

While they're by no means two "separate" personalities (Walter is simply more likely to let people live, rather than a completely different person), Walter takes great pains to separate himself from his alter-ego. He consistently refers to each as though they are their own separate person, and when he's speaking to the psychologist, he points out that his name is Rorschach, not Walter. Because of this, it's likely that Walter uses Rorschach as a sort of coping mechanism, through which he can deal with the world. Because of all of the above events in his life (his mother, Kitty Genovese and Blair Roche), he finds himself too overwhelmed with the negativity of life and therefore uses Rorschach as a way to combat the things in society that make him despair.

Sexual Preferences/Orientation: Rorschach's views on sex are puritanical, to say the absolute least. Sex is a dirty thing for him - this is in part influenced by his childhood; his mother was a prostitute, and he came to associate all of her negative aspects (of which there were many) and her job with sex in general, making it a shameful act. He's extremely homophobic and erotophobic, and he resists any and all advances that might come his way. He's extremely repressed, to say the least.

Because of how intensely against sex Rorschach is, it's hard to pinpoint any sort of sexual orientation. His mother affected him so greatly that it's hard to think that Rorschach would ever feel comfortable with a woman, as he generally believes that any sexual advances by a woman, including makeup or clothing choices (and possibly even briefly touching an arm or something similar), mean that they're sexually promiscuous and a prostitute. Meanwhile, he calls homosexuality a deviancy and as an extremely right-wing character, it's hard to believe that he would fall into that particular orientation. It does stand to note that his relationship with Daniel does tend to have homoromantic undertones, but this can be attributed to Rorschach's social awkwardness just as much as it could be attributed to some underlying romantic affection for his partner. Chances are, though, he's straight.

Powers: He's an excellent fighter and excels at boxing gymnastics, but he's not supernaturally strong.