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Feb. 1st, 2019 07:31 pmUser Name/Nick: Steph
User DW: none
E-mail: underwater.owl@gmail.com
Other Characters: Quentin Coldwater and Darlene Alderson
Character Name: Peter Nureyev
Series: the Penumbra Podcast
Age: 34
From When?: In the period between his fabulous disappearance and his recent reappearance. No spoilers for the recent season finale (and arriving before it in compliance with our thirty day new content rule.)
Inmate: Peter Nureyev is a master thief and general outlaw. He kicks off the main arc of season one of Juno Steel by taking on a contract stealing ancient martian artefacts, technologies and weapons for your classic shadowy supervillain. He's your classic charming outlaw with a heart of gold but just a little too far outside the law, in that his actions cause lots of damage to the structure of society- and also he murders people a lot while he's robbing them.
Arrival: He was brought here in what he's going to presume was a sudden accident with his space ship. He'll stay to try to get his way back to life.
Abilities/Powers: None. Standard high end human.
Personality:
You root for Peter Nureyev, even when he’s robbing you blind. Peter is affable, quick with a joke, but never mean-spirited. He’s usually got a smile at the corner of his mouth and a glint in his eyes. Sure, he leaves a trail of destruction and deception in his wake, but short of the people who he’s seriously double crossed, people who know him remember him fondly. He invites people in on the joke, and they remember that about him.
He's also an incurable romantic. Peter Nureyev falls in love quickly. He’s got an active imagination and an eye for a story. He’ll listen to your deepest secrets, empathize, ache for you, and be absolutely on your side from then on. Peter sees a lot of beauty in fleeting human connection and it makes him really memorable to be around (so long as you don’t expect him to STAY, or plan to do anything silly like count on him.) It's a bit silly, but it's also a very nice part of his personality, that he's so able to be enamoured with the good parts of the people he meets.
He’s an untarnished optimist. He moves from planet to planet because he really believes each one is more beautiful than the last. He fancies himself a bit of a Robin Hood, a revolutionary (though he seldom gets as far as actually donating the spoils of his thefts), and although he’s wise and sly he’s never jaded. He spent part of his childhood on the streets in a world suffering from literally crushing oppression, but instead of becoming murderous or enraged he turned that into an appreciation for the beauty the whole galaxy has to offer.
If you’re going to be in a crisis, there’s no one you’d rather have at your back (up until the moment he stabs up in it.) Peter thinks fast, assesses the situation coolly and quickly, and absolutely never panics. He’s a good shot, and even better with a knife. He’s usually got a plasma torch or some other useful gizmo tucked in a back pocket. He ends up facing certain death far more often than is strictly healthy, but arches an eyebrow at it every time and keeps his head just enough to manage the daring escape.
All these charming qualities aside, Peter is a devious son of a bitch. He's definitely a thief. He is perpetually where he shouldn’t be, doing something he shouldn’t, taking something he isn’t his, with zero respect for personal property or the law of the land. It’s cute, until it’s your prized possession he’s wandered off with. The robbing of banks, the raiding of museums, it all creates a lot of chaos for other people and Peter does not spend a lot of time pausing to empathize with them.
He’s also terminally dishonest. Peter’s apt to use aliases with everyone he meets, and crafts and inhabits different identities so thoroughly as to be a little bit worrying. The kind of behavior where a fandom has sprung up around the idea that he kind of dissociates when he’s being Rex Glass, or being Duke Rose. I personally don’t think it goes that deep psychologically, but it is definitely a disconcerting habit and nasty to find yourself that thoroughly lied to.
As well as dishonest, Peter is also very manipulative. He gets away with it in the stories because he’s such a charmer, but he seamlessly guides the people around him into behaving exactly the way he wants. There’s a lot of “I trusted you, now why won’t you trust me?” and selective withholding of information. As much as he might fall in love with people, he remains very determined to get what he wants from them. His favourite thing to do is to drag people into harebrained schemes without pausing to explain all the variables to them, so that half way through the get-away chase they learn they're going to have to leap out of a moving car, or some other extremely alarming development. Textbook 'easier to ask for forgiveness than permission' thinking.
Barge Reactions: Peter is a charmer and an absolute glutton for new sights and sounds and people to meet. He's going to take to the barge like a duck to water and will be delighted by the day to day operations of it. The only thing that's going to be tough for him about it is how private he is, plus the severity of his control issues. Seeing the galaxy and meeting people from across the multiverse will be absolutely delightful, but his first truth flood he will literally jump overboard.
Path to Redemption: Peter's path to redemption is going to involve a lot of the standards- healing up from a good bit of brutal early childhood and adolescent trauma that impacts his ability to make meaningful and healthy connections with people, developing a moral code that is a little less on the stabby side, and figuring out a place in the galaxy that doesn't necessarily put him on the right side of the law but doesn't make him an agent of the wrong kind of chaos.
In a sense, he needs to replicate the arc he went through in season one of the Juno Steel story- except in that one he failed to stick the landing, probably because he hung his hopes entirely on a passionate and sudden true-love-at-first-sight connection with a lawman who ended up leaving him. Thus abandoned, Peter hared back off into the galaxy and back into a life of theft and speaking is true name to not a single other soul, and to hell with this heroing business. Peter needs to heal that broken heart, and circle back round to the idea of doing good, even if his last try at saving the world turned out to be a bit of a bust.
History: Link
Sample Entries: many text, much action
Special Notes: None.
User DW: none
E-mail: underwater.owl@gmail.com
Other Characters: Quentin Coldwater and Darlene Alderson
Character Name: Peter Nureyev
Series: the Penumbra Podcast
Age: 34
From When?: In the period between his fabulous disappearance and his recent reappearance. No spoilers for the recent season finale (and arriving before it in compliance with our thirty day new content rule.)
Inmate: Peter Nureyev is a master thief and general outlaw. He kicks off the main arc of season one of Juno Steel by taking on a contract stealing ancient martian artefacts, technologies and weapons for your classic shadowy supervillain. He's your classic charming outlaw with a heart of gold but just a little too far outside the law, in that his actions cause lots of damage to the structure of society- and also he murders people a lot while he's robbing them.
Arrival: He was brought here in what he's going to presume was a sudden accident with his space ship. He'll stay to try to get his way back to life.
Abilities/Powers: None. Standard high end human.
Personality:
You root for Peter Nureyev, even when he’s robbing you blind. Peter is affable, quick with a joke, but never mean-spirited. He’s usually got a smile at the corner of his mouth and a glint in his eyes. Sure, he leaves a trail of destruction and deception in his wake, but short of the people who he’s seriously double crossed, people who know him remember him fondly. He invites people in on the joke, and they remember that about him.
He's also an incurable romantic. Peter Nureyev falls in love quickly. He’s got an active imagination and an eye for a story. He’ll listen to your deepest secrets, empathize, ache for you, and be absolutely on your side from then on. Peter sees a lot of beauty in fleeting human connection and it makes him really memorable to be around (so long as you don’t expect him to STAY, or plan to do anything silly like count on him.) It's a bit silly, but it's also a very nice part of his personality, that he's so able to be enamoured with the good parts of the people he meets.
He’s an untarnished optimist. He moves from planet to planet because he really believes each one is more beautiful than the last. He fancies himself a bit of a Robin Hood, a revolutionary (though he seldom gets as far as actually donating the spoils of his thefts), and although he’s wise and sly he’s never jaded. He spent part of his childhood on the streets in a world suffering from literally crushing oppression, but instead of becoming murderous or enraged he turned that into an appreciation for the beauty the whole galaxy has to offer.
If you’re going to be in a crisis, there’s no one you’d rather have at your back (up until the moment he stabs up in it.) Peter thinks fast, assesses the situation coolly and quickly, and absolutely never panics. He’s a good shot, and even better with a knife. He’s usually got a plasma torch or some other useful gizmo tucked in a back pocket. He ends up facing certain death far more often than is strictly healthy, but arches an eyebrow at it every time and keeps his head just enough to manage the daring escape.
All these charming qualities aside, Peter is a devious son of a bitch. He's definitely a thief. He is perpetually where he shouldn’t be, doing something he shouldn’t, taking something he isn’t his, with zero respect for personal property or the law of the land. It’s cute, until it’s your prized possession he’s wandered off with. The robbing of banks, the raiding of museums, it all creates a lot of chaos for other people and Peter does not spend a lot of time pausing to empathize with them.
He’s also terminally dishonest. Peter’s apt to use aliases with everyone he meets, and crafts and inhabits different identities so thoroughly as to be a little bit worrying. The kind of behavior where a fandom has sprung up around the idea that he kind of dissociates when he’s being Rex Glass, or being Duke Rose. I personally don’t think it goes that deep psychologically, but it is definitely a disconcerting habit and nasty to find yourself that thoroughly lied to.
As well as dishonest, Peter is also very manipulative. He gets away with it in the stories because he’s such a charmer, but he seamlessly guides the people around him into behaving exactly the way he wants. There’s a lot of “I trusted you, now why won’t you trust me?” and selective withholding of information. As much as he might fall in love with people, he remains very determined to get what he wants from them. His favourite thing to do is to drag people into harebrained schemes without pausing to explain all the variables to them, so that half way through the get-away chase they learn they're going to have to leap out of a moving car, or some other extremely alarming development. Textbook 'easier to ask for forgiveness than permission' thinking.
Barge Reactions: Peter is a charmer and an absolute glutton for new sights and sounds and people to meet. He's going to take to the barge like a duck to water and will be delighted by the day to day operations of it. The only thing that's going to be tough for him about it is how private he is, plus the severity of his control issues. Seeing the galaxy and meeting people from across the multiverse will be absolutely delightful, but his first truth flood he will literally jump overboard.
Path to Redemption: Peter's path to redemption is going to involve a lot of the standards- healing up from a good bit of brutal early childhood and adolescent trauma that impacts his ability to make meaningful and healthy connections with people, developing a moral code that is a little less on the stabby side, and figuring out a place in the galaxy that doesn't necessarily put him on the right side of the law but doesn't make him an agent of the wrong kind of chaos.
In a sense, he needs to replicate the arc he went through in season one of the Juno Steel story- except in that one he failed to stick the landing, probably because he hung his hopes entirely on a passionate and sudden true-love-at-first-sight connection with a lawman who ended up leaving him. Thus abandoned, Peter hared back off into the galaxy and back into a life of theft and speaking is true name to not a single other soul, and to hell with this heroing business. Peter needs to heal that broken heart, and circle back round to the idea of doing good, even if his last try at saving the world turned out to be a bit of a bust.
History: Link
Sample Entries: many text, much action
Special Notes: None.
Who is Peter Nureyev?
Sep. 10th, 2018 08:33 pm1. Who is Peter Nureyev?
Peter Nureyev is a master thief from the Penumbra Podcast, specifically the Juno Steel stories. His wikipedia describes him as a 'god-tier Disaster Gay' and there is no lie there.
2. What's the sixty second backstory? (spoilers)
Was raised to be a revolutionary and overthrow a dictatorial government! Left to strike out on his own after a difference in opinion re; collateral damage. Now works as a professional thief, sometimes world-saver. If this were D&D he'd play a rogue, chaotic good.
3. Wait, but he said one thing here and another thing there...
He's lying.
4. Is he named Peter Nureyev or Rex Glass?
He goes by Rex Glass. Like 'has only told one person in the last twenty years his name is Peter Nureyev' goes by Rex Glass. Does not show up in the planetary database of scary omniscient facial recognition under any known alias.
5. What's going on with his orientation/gender expression/etc etc?
One of the charming things about the podcasts is it envisions a future on Mars where people shrug vaguely at gender norms and keep walking. Most characters are queer. The protagonist, Juno Steel, has a male voice actor, uses he/him/his pronouns, and also is described by everyone who knows him as a lady. 'Buy the lady a drink?' 'Come along, ladies,' when he's working with his colleague Alessandra. It's just not an issue.
So Peter is unlikely to say he prefers 'men,' because he wouldn't necessarily sort the people he's attracted to along those lines, but he does operate down on the end of the spectrum that involves a more masculine gender expression.
He's open to more technical s&m threads with strictly female/feminine characters, but they're likely to be platonic; everyone's pants will stay on.
6. What's up with his PB?
It's a podcast, but for a while they had an official artist, the fabulous Mikaela Buckley. The podcast creators have stated her depiction of Peter is canon. His IC contact post uses her work.
Peter Nureyev is a master thief from the Penumbra Podcast, specifically the Juno Steel stories. His wikipedia describes him as a 'god-tier Disaster Gay' and there is no lie there.
2. What's the sixty second backstory? (spoilers)
Was raised to be a revolutionary and overthrow a dictatorial government! Left to strike out on his own after a difference in opinion re; collateral damage. Now works as a professional thief, sometimes world-saver. If this were D&D he'd play a rogue, chaotic good.
3. Wait, but he said one thing here and another thing there...
He's lying.
4. Is he named Peter Nureyev or Rex Glass?
He goes by Rex Glass. Like 'has only told one person in the last twenty years his name is Peter Nureyev' goes by Rex Glass. Does not show up in the planetary database of scary omniscient facial recognition under any known alias.
5. What's going on with his orientation/gender expression/etc etc?
One of the charming things about the podcasts is it envisions a future on Mars where people shrug vaguely at gender norms and keep walking. Most characters are queer. The protagonist, Juno Steel, has a male voice actor, uses he/him/his pronouns, and also is described by everyone who knows him as a lady. 'Buy the lady a drink?' 'Come along, ladies,' when he's working with his colleague Alessandra. It's just not an issue.
So Peter is unlikely to say he prefers 'men,' because he wouldn't necessarily sort the people he's attracted to along those lines, but he does operate down on the end of the spectrum that involves a more masculine gender expression.
He's open to more technical s&m threads with strictly female/feminine characters, but they're likely to be platonic; everyone's pants will stay on.
6. What's up with his PB?
It's a podcast, but for a while they had an official artist, the fabulous Mikaela Buckley. The podcast creators have stated her depiction of Peter is canon. His IC contact post uses her work.
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