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[series]: Castle
[character]: Richard Castle
[character history / background]:
Castle had fairly unconventional (or perhaps conventional depending on how you look at it) upbringing. His mother was/is an actress and he was raised by a nanny that he leads everyone to believe was less actual nanny, more alcoholic. His mother, Martha Rodgers currently lives with him and his daughter, Alexis whom he has sole custody of. He has two ex-wives, one being Alexis’ mother. He claims to have been kicked out of all of New York’s finer academic institutions at least once and says he picked up speed reading while spending time at the New York City Public Library.
Richard Castle is a New York Times Best Selling author. He’s written 26 mystery novels including a series with Derrick Storm. Just prior to meeting Detective Beckett, Castle is experiencing a bit of a writing drought. However, from the moment he meets Kate Beckett, he knows he has found his muse. Using her as his inspiration, Castle plans an entire series of novels revolving around a character named Nikki Heat. The first novel, Heat Wave, tops out at #6 on the New York Times Best Seller List. The novel stars a character named Jameson Rook who is patterned after Castle himself and the relationship between Nikki and Jameson often mirrors Castle and Beckett’s.
Castle uses his relationship with the mayor to secure a place on the NYPD as a consultant. This allows him to do research for his series. Often, he is actually quite useful to Beckett as he has a seemingly unlimited knowledge of obscure things such as the premiere ‘Fangmaster’ in New York City. He’s also able to occasionally get information from people that they otherwise wouldn’t give by using his fame and his career.
[character abilities]: Tells a great story? Terribly verbose? None really. He’s not even good in a fight.
[character personality]: Castle is fairly childlike. Sometimes he seems stuck at 12 years old. He often ends up being mothered by both his mother and his daughter. He enjoys his fame and has a great sense of humor. He can be arrogant but mostly in a humorous sense rather than in a serious sense. He’s extremely imaginative, often bored with reality and he likes to exaggerate. He’s got a good heart and a knight in shining armor complex a mile wide. He’s a sucker for a damsel in distress, wanting nothing more than to sweep them off their feet to safety. He’s respectful though and while he can make sexist jokes, he’s really not at all. He has no problems being saved by a girl (Beckett—and in fact he’d probably tell her it was hot) and he’s well aware that she’s the most capable at defending herself/him between the two of them. He is quick on his feet, clever and witty. He comes through in a bind because he’s imaginative and quick. He’s very observant and often picks up details that others miss. By his own admission, he’s a wise ass and can even be a jack ass on occasion.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: S1 finale
[journal post]:
Beckett! Where are you! You know I’m counting on you to save my lily white a—
[Castle looks wildly, dramatically around the area, taking stock and noting that he is not in New York City anymore. He’s got his bullet proof vest on that says writer across the front and a gun in a holster on his belt. The safety is on. The safety is always on because Beckett insists]
This is an interesting turn of events. I—uhm—I’m Rick Castle. You might have heard of me before. I am a best selling novelist. You might even recognize me from the ruggedly handsome photo on the back of my books. I’m also a consultant with the NYPD and my partner…she’s going to be mighty upset when she finds out I’ve been kidnapped…
[He pauses again, considering the situation]
Beckett? If this a prank it’s not a very good one.
[third person / log sample]:
There used to be a man, let’s call him…Robert Fort. Robert was a dashing, debonair, charming and incredibly handsome writer. A rockstar of a writer you might say…
That’s not going to work.
Rick Castle. He used to be the Rockstar of crime novels. He used to be concerned with where his book was on the best seller list, who his daughter wasn’t dating and who his mother was. Life was very simple for Rick. He went to promotional parties, drank champagne, danced with the pretty women, signed a couple of autographs and then went home to tuck his daughter in bed. He wrote during the day, figured out how to kill people and how to help the good guys solve it. His life in reality was much less conflicted then life of Derrick Storm and he liked that way.
Until she walked in—it’s always a woman with these stories. They wouldn’t be interesting otherwise. Detective Kate Beckett and it was the fault of ‘these stories’ that she’d shown up at all. In honesty, how she came into his life isn’t important. It’s only important that she showed up…
She changed everything and he’s fairly certain she didn’t mean to. In fact, he’s positive she got dragged into this kicking and screaming but then he pegged Beckett from the very beginning as the sort of girl who liked a little kicking and screaming…Sorry, back on track. Kate showed him the seedy side of what he does and it’s not something he can come back from unscathed. He’s a warrior with PTSS…alright, not quite but when he writes the murder scenes he sees faces now instead of words. He sees victims and parents, boyfriends and children that won’t ever see loved ones again. He used to see the damsel and now he sees the distress. Of course the upside to the whole thing is when he writes the sex scenes…
He worries more about Alexis these days; outside of which boy she’s dating. It’s hard not to when he can put faces on his murder victims now and he’s got a good imagination with lots of crooks and crannies he’d rather not explore. That’s not to say he doesn’t trust her or he’s not the child in their relationship half of the time. Beckett may be capable of rousing some life changing things in him but she’s not a miracle worker. At least not yet. She is making him a better writer and maybe a better man but anyone who knows him is aware he had started on that path himself. He just needed the nudge that Kate gives him and it doesn’t hurt that she’s smart and sexy as hell. He’s a man; those are key motivators or at least the second one is. The smart just makes it interesting.
That man…oh let’s just call him Rick Castle…he used to write checks for charity, sign some books and make some stops by the local libraries. Now he chases after criminals, gets punched by thugs and mucks up Beckett’s investigations but occasionally—every once in a while—he comes up with something that helps catch the bad guy or save the damsel. Every once in a while he gets to be a hero instead of writing about heroes.
What kind of self respecting rock star would turn that down?
There used to be a man with a hidden white knight complex. It’s not so hidden anymore and he thinks he likes that about himself. He also thinks he has Beckett to thank for it. Not that he’ll ever say the words. He’s pretty sure a refusal to stay inside the car is worth at least 500 words. He’ll make up the other half in the pages of a book just like that man he used to be.
[personal LJ name]: bashipforever
[other characters currently played]: Inara Serra :: Firefly ::
only_fell & Myrnin :: Morganville Vampires :: trapdoor_spider[e-mail]: writer@allengames.com
[AIM / messenger]: rageiscute
[series]: Castle
[character]: Richard Castle
[character history / background]:
Castle had fairly unconventional (or perhaps conventional depending on how you look at it) upbringing. His mother was/is an actress and he was raised by a nanny that he leads everyone to believe was less actual nanny, more alcoholic. His mother, Martha Rodgers currently lives with him and his daughter, Alexis whom he has sole custody of. He has two ex-wives, one being Alexis’ mother. He claims to have been kicked out of all of New York’s finer academic institutions at least once and says he picked up speed reading while spending time at the New York City Public Library.
Richard Castle is a New York Times Best Selling author. He’s written 26 mystery novels including a series with Derrick Storm. Just prior to meeting Detective Beckett, Castle is experiencing a bit of a writing drought. However, from the moment he meets Kate Beckett, he knows he has found his muse. Using her as his inspiration, Castle plans an entire series of novels revolving around a character named Nikki Heat. The first novel, Heat Wave, tops out at #6 on the New York Times Best Seller List. The novel stars a character named Jameson Rook who is patterned after Castle himself and the relationship between Nikki and Jameson often mirrors Castle and Beckett’s.
Castle uses his relationship with the mayor to secure a place on the NYPD as a consultant. This allows him to do research for his series. Often, he is actually quite useful to Beckett as he has a seemingly unlimited knowledge of obscure things such as the premiere ‘Fangmaster’ in New York City. He’s also able to occasionally get information from people that they otherwise wouldn’t give by using his fame and his career.
[character abilities]: Tells a great story? Terribly verbose? None really. He’s not even good in a fight.
[character personality]: Castle is fairly childlike. Sometimes he seems stuck at 12 years old. He often ends up being mothered by both his mother and his daughter. He enjoys his fame and has a great sense of humor. He can be arrogant but mostly in a humorous sense rather than in a serious sense. He’s extremely imaginative, often bored with reality and he likes to exaggerate. He’s got a good heart and a knight in shining armor complex a mile wide. He’s a sucker for a damsel in distress, wanting nothing more than to sweep them off their feet to safety. He’s respectful though and while he can make sexist jokes, he’s really not at all. He has no problems being saved by a girl (Beckett—and in fact he’d probably tell her it was hot) and he’s well aware that she’s the most capable at defending herself/him between the two of them. He is quick on his feet, clever and witty. He comes through in a bind because he’s imaginative and quick. He’s very observant and often picks up details that others miss. By his own admission, he’s a wise ass and can even be a jack ass on occasion.
[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: S1 finale
[journal post]:
Beckett! Where are you! You know I’m counting on you to save my lily white a—
[Castle looks wildly, dramatically around the area, taking stock and noting that he is not in New York City anymore. He’s got his bullet proof vest on that says writer across the front and a gun in a holster on his belt. The safety is on. The safety is always on because Beckett insists]
This is an interesting turn of events. I—uhm—I’m Rick Castle. You might have heard of me before. I am a best selling novelist. You might even recognize me from the ruggedly handsome photo on the back of my books. I’m also a consultant with the NYPD and my partner…she’s going to be mighty upset when she finds out I’ve been kidnapped…
[He pauses again, considering the situation]
Beckett? If this a prank it’s not a very good one.
[third person / log sample]:
There used to be a man, let’s call him…Robert Fort. Robert was a dashing, debonair, charming and incredibly handsome writer. A rockstar of a writer you might say…
That’s not going to work.
Rick Castle. He used to be the Rockstar of crime novels. He used to be concerned with where his book was on the best seller list, who his daughter wasn’t dating and who his mother was. Life was very simple for Rick. He went to promotional parties, drank champagne, danced with the pretty women, signed a couple of autographs and then went home to tuck his daughter in bed. He wrote during the day, figured out how to kill people and how to help the good guys solve it. His life in reality was much less conflicted then life of Derrick Storm and he liked that way.
Until she walked in—it’s always a woman with these stories. They wouldn’t be interesting otherwise. Detective Kate Beckett and it was the fault of ‘these stories’ that she’d shown up at all. In honesty, how she came into his life isn’t important. It’s only important that she showed up…
She changed everything and he’s fairly certain she didn’t mean to. In fact, he’s positive she got dragged into this kicking and screaming but then he pegged Beckett from the very beginning as the sort of girl who liked a little kicking and screaming…Sorry, back on track. Kate showed him the seedy side of what he does and it’s not something he can come back from unscathed. He’s a warrior with PTSS…alright, not quite but when he writes the murder scenes he sees faces now instead of words. He sees victims and parents, boyfriends and children that won’t ever see loved ones again. He used to see the damsel and now he sees the distress. Of course the upside to the whole thing is when he writes the sex scenes…
He worries more about Alexis these days; outside of which boy she’s dating. It’s hard not to when he can put faces on his murder victims now and he’s got a good imagination with lots of crooks and crannies he’d rather not explore. That’s not to say he doesn’t trust her or he’s not the child in their relationship half of the time. Beckett may be capable of rousing some life changing things in him but she’s not a miracle worker. At least not yet. She is making him a better writer and maybe a better man but anyone who knows him is aware he had started on that path himself. He just needed the nudge that Kate gives him and it doesn’t hurt that she’s smart and sexy as hell. He’s a man; those are key motivators or at least the second one is. The smart just makes it interesting.
That man…oh let’s just call him Rick Castle…he used to write checks for charity, sign some books and make some stops by the local libraries. Now he chases after criminals, gets punched by thugs and mucks up Beckett’s investigations but occasionally—every once in a while—he comes up with something that helps catch the bad guy or save the damsel. Every once in a while he gets to be a hero instead of writing about heroes.
What kind of self respecting rock star would turn that down?
There used to be a man with a hidden white knight complex. It’s not so hidden anymore and he thinks he likes that about himself. He also thinks he has Beckett to thank for it. Not that he’ll ever say the words. He’s pretty sure a refusal to stay inside the car is worth at least 500 words. He’ll make up the other half in the pages of a book just like that man he used to be.
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