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Age: Over 25
Other Characters: Waldo Butters
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Merton J Dingle
Age: 19
Canon: Big Wolf On Campus
Canon Point: End of seasons
Character Information:
Here
Merton Dingle is a pretty normal kid from a small town who was obsessed with horror media, movies and the supernatural. Growing up, he was lonely despite having a younger sister. Once he accidentally brought his imaginary friend to life, then imprisoned him again. (Okay, so maybe Merton isn't that normal.) Merton thinks he once saw Bigfoot and was briefly convinced the neighbor's dog was possessed. However, all of that paled beside the time he thought his high school's star quarterback was a werewolf. Not only was he right, his life was about to get extremely weird. Merton and Tommy met and fought a wild array of monsters and weirdos. Lori Baxter, a girl at school, attempted to prove that Tommy was a werewolf. However, she soon saw that Tommy was actually helping people as a werewolf and she became close friends with Merton and Tommy.
Personality:
Merton is enthusiastic and energetic. He goes after his interests with single-minded devotion, seemingly not caring what anyone thinks of him. Show up at a bowling alley in a frock coat? Hand out leaflets advertising your one-man play to a group of bored and hostile high schoolers? Why not? Surely someone will recognize that all these things are cool and he's cool for liking them. Or so his mental process goes.
Actually, Merton does care a bit. He's slightly sensitive about his status he's gained as school loser. It's just that "toning it down" is not in his vocabulary. He's more of an attention seeker. He doesn't spend much time overall moping about being the only senior to still get stuffed in lockers, but he shows more unhappiness about having had few friends in his life. Merton is eager for friendship, sometimes even willing to go along with people trying to manipulate him. There was that time a group of spider people befriended him because they wanted to eat him and he wouldn't even stop to consider their possible ulterior motives because hey, they accepted him. His approach towards dating is likewise basically "HI, LIKE ME PLEASE. I am cool and what I imagine a suave guy to be like." (At least he knows when to stop trying and doesn't get angry at being turned down?) He's not terribly picky and therefore it's a not surprising the he's gotten manipulated frequently.
When Tommy Dawkins, the school quarterback starts coming to Merton for his advice on being a werewolf, Merton is very excited. Not only because he has his own werewolf to study now, but because Tommy hangs out with him and plays video games and talks about movies. When Lori Baxter joins the friend group, Merton was also pleased but was also initially a little confused because he's a dumb teenage kid and he never had a girl as a friend who he wasn't hoping would become a girlfriend. He eventually figures it out, because Lori is awesome.
As a friend, Merton is loyal. Well, fairly. He does let it slip once that Tommy is a werewolf when he gets pushed for information. On the other hand, one time when he kisses a girl Tommy is interested in, he feels so bad he wants to immediately call Tommy and apologize. Merton is willing to fight for or beside his werewolf friend, though mostly only if he has something to even the fight out, like a holy-water filled Supersoaker. He's not about to charge at someone way more powerful than he is. Though he wants to help, he's realistic about his actual fighting abilities and easily frightened (nervous).
Attention and success can go to Merton's head very quickly. For example, he becomes extremely demanding every time he gets the opportunity to be a director. When he briefly is turned into a werewolf he becomes a jerk who's mad with power. This inflated ego is usually short lived, though he is shown to be aware of his good points and not ashamed to let people know he thinks he's smart.
Merton's brain holds an encyclopedia's worth of weird trivia, especially movies. He's a sponge for random information of all kinds, with an excellent memory. Merton's the kind to try to think his way out of any problems he finds and to plan ahead. He usually has several contingency plans going at once, for every situation from the mundane to the absurd. He has an overactive mind in general and though one of the benefits is creativity, it also has the drawback of making him easily distracted. He regularly loses track of whatever he's talking about.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Attention-seeking
Talkative
Curious
Prepared
Imaginative
Enthusiastic
Nervous
Fairly loyal
Distractible
Vulnerable to ego-inflation
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either
Opt-Outs: None
Roleplay Sample:
[One]
[The monster standing in the street in Bavan has a fly's head and wings that he flutters as he talks. In his hands he holds piles of fliers and he's so eager to approach strangers that he practically drops them several times.]
Heeey there! New play today: the Bavan theater company are taking on An American Werewolf in Kulen!
[He spreads his arms wide, then pulls his hands in as if looking through a viewfinder.]
Picture this: a lonely farming village is shaken up by the arrival of a strange monster who brings them rock and roll and a serious hunger for life! Also, the townsfolk teach her about love and family and the Day God and blah, blah, blah, okay I didn't write all of this, but it's a great play. You should check it out.
[Most of the citizens he accosts just scuttle away from him.]
Next week we're doing The Raven III: The Revenge of Annabelle Lee. It'll be much better!
[Two]
[It's storming outside and in one corner of a Bavan coffeeshop a kid with a fly's head and a frock coat sits staring moodily out the window and slurping up a sandwich. Merton could really use a distraction, so anyone stepping in gets all his attention.]
Hey, do you have a newspaper?
[Three]
CW: Death
[Merton was crouched down in an alley.
He'd meant to teleport away. He thought he was simply going to teleport away, but no. When the time came and he saw the woman walking alone he'd moved towards her not away. And then she'd screamed and he'd wanted to tell her hush, there are hunters around. He wanted to tell her he was a good guy, really. He wouldn't hurt her.
But by then it was too late. He had already sucked out her life and she was slumping against him. In the light from the window above, he could see brown curls falling out of her kerchief and into her face. God, with a slight change of clothing and hairstyle she could be somebody's mom from his world. Actually, no. She could be somebody's mom right here. And now she was dead and he felt fully alive again. He didn't even actually feel bad. Bad enough, anyway. It was probably impossible to feel bad enough.
Merton slumped against the bricks of the alleyway. not even caring about the mud seeping into his coat or who might find him or the woman's body.
Name: Patina
Contact:
Age: Over 25
Other Characters: Waldo Butters
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Merton J Dingle
Age: 19
Canon: Big Wolf On Campus
Canon Point: End of seasons
Character Information:
Here
Merton Dingle is a pretty normal kid from a small town who was obsessed with horror media, movies and the supernatural. Growing up, he was lonely despite having a younger sister. Once he accidentally brought his imaginary friend to life, then imprisoned him again. (Okay, so maybe Merton isn't that normal.) Merton thinks he once saw Bigfoot and was briefly convinced the neighbor's dog was possessed. However, all of that paled beside the time he thought his high school's star quarterback was a werewolf. Not only was he right, his life was about to get extremely weird. Merton and Tommy met and fought a wild array of monsters and weirdos. Lori Baxter, a girl at school, attempted to prove that Tommy was a werewolf. However, she soon saw that Tommy was actually helping people as a werewolf and she became close friends with Merton and Tommy.
Personality:
Merton is enthusiastic and energetic. He goes after his interests with single-minded devotion, seemingly not caring what anyone thinks of him. Show up at a bowling alley in a frock coat? Hand out leaflets advertising your one-man play to a group of bored and hostile high schoolers? Why not? Surely someone will recognize that all these things are cool and he's cool for liking them. Or so his mental process goes.
Actually, Merton does care a bit. He's slightly sensitive about his status he's gained as school loser. It's just that "toning it down" is not in his vocabulary. He's more of an attention seeker. He doesn't spend much time overall moping about being the only senior to still get stuffed in lockers, but he shows more unhappiness about having had few friends in his life. Merton is eager for friendship, sometimes even willing to go along with people trying to manipulate him. There was that time a group of spider people befriended him because they wanted to eat him and he wouldn't even stop to consider their possible ulterior motives because hey, they accepted him. His approach towards dating is likewise basically "HI, LIKE ME PLEASE. I am cool and what I imagine a suave guy to be like." (At least he knows when to stop trying and doesn't get angry at being turned down?) He's not terribly picky and therefore it's a not surprising the he's gotten manipulated frequently.
When Tommy Dawkins, the school quarterback starts coming to Merton for his advice on being a werewolf, Merton is very excited. Not only because he has his own werewolf to study now, but because Tommy hangs out with him and plays video games and talks about movies. When Lori Baxter joins the friend group, Merton was also pleased but was also initially a little confused because he's a dumb teenage kid and he never had a girl as a friend who he wasn't hoping would become a girlfriend. He eventually figures it out, because Lori is awesome.
As a friend, Merton is loyal. Well, fairly. He does let it slip once that Tommy is a werewolf when he gets pushed for information. On the other hand, one time when he kisses a girl Tommy is interested in, he feels so bad he wants to immediately call Tommy and apologize. Merton is willing to fight for or beside his werewolf friend, though mostly only if he has something to even the fight out, like a holy-water filled Supersoaker. He's not about to charge at someone way more powerful than he is. Though he wants to help, he's realistic about his actual fighting abilities and easily frightened (nervous).
Attention and success can go to Merton's head very quickly. For example, he becomes extremely demanding every time he gets the opportunity to be a director. When he briefly is turned into a werewolf he becomes a jerk who's mad with power. This inflated ego is usually short lived, though he is shown to be aware of his good points and not ashamed to let people know he thinks he's smart.
Merton's brain holds an encyclopedia's worth of weird trivia, especially movies. He's a sponge for random information of all kinds, with an excellent memory. Merton's the kind to try to think his way out of any problems he finds and to plan ahead. He usually has several contingency plans going at once, for every situation from the mundane to the absurd. He has an overactive mind in general and though one of the benefits is creativity, it also has the drawback of making him easily distracted. He regularly loses track of whatever he's talking about.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
Attention-seeking
Talkative
Curious
Prepared
Imaginative
Enthusiastic
Nervous
Fairly loyal
Distractible
Vulnerable to ego-inflation
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Either
Opt-Outs: None
Roleplay Sample:
[One]
[The monster standing in the street in Bavan has a fly's head and wings that he flutters as he talks. In his hands he holds piles of fliers and he's so eager to approach strangers that he practically drops them several times.]
Heeey there! New play today: the Bavan theater company are taking on An American Werewolf in Kulen!
[He spreads his arms wide, then pulls his hands in as if looking through a viewfinder.]
Picture this: a lonely farming village is shaken up by the arrival of a strange monster who brings them rock and roll and a serious hunger for life! Also, the townsfolk teach her about love and family and the Day God and blah, blah, blah, okay I didn't write all of this, but it's a great play. You should check it out.
[Most of the citizens he accosts just scuttle away from him.]
Next week we're doing The Raven III: The Revenge of Annabelle Lee. It'll be much better!
[Two]
[It's storming outside and in one corner of a Bavan coffeeshop a kid with a fly's head and a frock coat sits staring moodily out the window and slurping up a sandwich. Merton could really use a distraction, so anyone stepping in gets all his attention.]
Hey, do you have a newspaper?
[Three]
CW: Death
[Merton was crouched down in an alley.
He'd meant to teleport away. He thought he was simply going to teleport away, but no. When the time came and he saw the woman walking alone he'd moved towards her not away. And then she'd screamed and he'd wanted to tell her hush, there are hunters around. He wanted to tell her he was a good guy, really. He wouldn't hurt her.
But by then it was too late. He had already sucked out her life and she was slumping against him. In the light from the window above, he could see brown curls falling out of her kerchief and into her face. God, with a slight change of clothing and hairstyle she could be somebody's mom from his world. Actually, no. She could be somebody's mom right here. And now she was dead and he felt fully alive again. He didn't even actually feel bad. Bad enough, anyway. It was probably impossible to feel bad enough.
Merton slumped against the bricks of the alleyway. not even caring about the mud seeping into his coat or who might find him or the woman's body.
