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madvaporskillz) wrote2014-05-19 04:54 pm
madvaporskillz) wrote2014-05-19 04:54 pm
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App for Asgard
Character Name; Chessur (The Cheshire Cat)
Canon; Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton version)
Canon Point; After Alice’s departure from Underland
Age; Unknown; appears to be an adult cat
House; Loki
Power; Telekinesis
Personality; When you get right down to it, Chessur is the closest thing Underland has to the trickster archetype. Or rather, he’s what would result if one smooshed that archetype together with a cat. Laid-back and eloquent, he’s only as helpful as he ever wishes to be and he’s far more likely to vanish when a battle looms than not. In fact, he seems to find bloodshed almost distasteful, and far prefers to simply vanish instead. While the tendency to avoid the field of battle has no doubt saved him on many occasions, it’s also landed him in hot water on at least one occasion - as the Hatter eventually alludes to (Chessur, for his part, insists that he had nothing to do with the whole affair). Of course, given he’s a cat, this doesn’t have much of a lasting effect on Chessur’s behavior - he’s back to his usual habits mere minutes later. However, despite his habit of vanishing, he should by no means be considered a coward. Not only does he volunteer to be the Champion in Alice’s stead, but he also shows no hesitation in offering to take a beheading for the Hatter. It’s simply that he prefers to not get involved in such things. That or he can’t entirely hide the feline tendency to want to be in the center of things sometimes, but it’s often hard tell just how much of the feline is reflected in him.
In addition to finding battle rather distasteful, he has takes a rather dim view on politics, and endeavors to stay out of them as much as possible. A cat may look at a queen - and that he most certainly does - but he’d much rather leave the arguments and backstabbing to the Queens themselves. He even goes so far as to not join the resistance to the Red Queen’s rule, despite having had a prior affinity to the court of the White Queen. Instead, he helps (the Resistance) and hinders (the Red Queen) as he chooses, grinning all the while. And if that means getting in someone’s way, such is life. In short, he’s essentially a fur-covered troll, although he isn’t malicious about it. No matter how much he may hinder, there’s a good-natured sort of humor to it - not to mention he’s equally likely to help the next day. It’s his own moods that dictate his life and it takes a cat to understand a cat.
However, for all that he’s cryptic at heart and very much prone to being anything but a tame housepet, he’s nice enough. This shows most clearly in his interactions with Alice - he offers to heal the injuries she got earlier from the Bandersnatch within minutes of meeting her again, and bandages them when she declines his aid - but he also seems to care to some extent for the members of the Hatter’s resistance, given that he trades places with Hatter when the latter is facing death by beheading. He even seems to be perfectly at ease with the White Queen, although this may simply be because she’s the lesser of the two evils as far as the Queens of Underland go.
Finally, he seems to have something of a fondness for both hats (especially the Hatter’s own hat) as well as the moon, of all things.
Other/Notes; For details on how he look humanized, go here.
Canon; Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton version)
Canon Point; After Alice’s departure from Underland
Age; Unknown; appears to be an adult cat
House; Loki
Power; Telekinesis
Personality; When you get right down to it, Chessur is the closest thing Underland has to the trickster archetype. Or rather, he’s what would result if one smooshed that archetype together with a cat. Laid-back and eloquent, he’s only as helpful as he ever wishes to be and he’s far more likely to vanish when a battle looms than not. In fact, he seems to find bloodshed almost distasteful, and far prefers to simply vanish instead. While the tendency to avoid the field of battle has no doubt saved him on many occasions, it’s also landed him in hot water on at least one occasion - as the Hatter eventually alludes to (Chessur, for his part, insists that he had nothing to do with the whole affair). Of course, given he’s a cat, this doesn’t have much of a lasting effect on Chessur’s behavior - he’s back to his usual habits mere minutes later. However, despite his habit of vanishing, he should by no means be considered a coward. Not only does he volunteer to be the Champion in Alice’s stead, but he also shows no hesitation in offering to take a beheading for the Hatter. It’s simply that he prefers to not get involved in such things. That or he can’t entirely hide the feline tendency to want to be in the center of things sometimes, but it’s often hard tell just how much of the feline is reflected in him.
In addition to finding battle rather distasteful, he has takes a rather dim view on politics, and endeavors to stay out of them as much as possible. A cat may look at a queen - and that he most certainly does - but he’d much rather leave the arguments and backstabbing to the Queens themselves. He even goes so far as to not join the resistance to the Red Queen’s rule, despite having had a prior affinity to the court of the White Queen. Instead, he helps (the Resistance) and hinders (the Red Queen) as he chooses, grinning all the while. And if that means getting in someone’s way, such is life. In short, he’s essentially a fur-covered troll, although he isn’t malicious about it. No matter how much he may hinder, there’s a good-natured sort of humor to it - not to mention he’s equally likely to help the next day. It’s his own moods that dictate his life and it takes a cat to understand a cat.
However, for all that he’s cryptic at heart and very much prone to being anything but a tame housepet, he’s nice enough. This shows most clearly in his interactions with Alice - he offers to heal the injuries she got earlier from the Bandersnatch within minutes of meeting her again, and bandages them when she declines his aid - but he also seems to care to some extent for the members of the Hatter’s resistance, given that he trades places with Hatter when the latter is facing death by beheading. He even seems to be perfectly at ease with the White Queen, although this may simply be because she’s the lesser of the two evils as far as the Queens of Underland go.
Finally, he seems to have something of a fondness for both hats (especially the Hatter’s own hat) as well as the moon, of all things.
Other/Notes; For details on how he look humanized, go here.