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dealsinshipping) wrote2013-11-16 05:40 am
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PLAYER
Name: Meowzy
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Meowzy
CHARACTER
Name: Varrick
Canon: The Legend of Korra
Gender: Male
Age: No canon age is given, but I’d say he’s in his thirties, so let’s make it 35 to be safe.
Wing Color: Baby blue.
Canon Point: Post season two.
History: Did you say Wikia Link?
Personality:
Varrick is right up there in the ‘weirdest Avatar characters ever’ list along with gems such as the original Bumi, Bumi 2.0, the foaming mouth guy and Gommu the Republic City hobo. On the outside, he’s flamboyant and eccentric, with the occasional mood swing to boot. Deep down on the inside… Well, he’s still an eccentric weirdo, really.
Let’s start from the top! Varrick is a billionaire who has everyone bowing to his whims and because of that, he’s pretty damn spoiled. He can ask Zhu Li to do just about anything and she’ll do it without question. Even flipping a switch is too much work for him. In that scene where he thinks he’s levitating while he’s really just being scammed by some Swami dude, nobody dares to speak up and contradict Varrick. If he says he’s levitating, then by god, he’s levitating. If he’s feeling especially prissy and starts smashing other people’s plates on the floor, nobody breathes a word about it. If he wants an airplane on his ship, he’ll get an airplane on his ship, no questions asked. If he’s hiding out inside a platypus bear, there’s no doubt that Zhu Li will be in there with him to serve him tea, just so he can bitch and moan about how there’s no honey in it. If he gets sent to jail, you can bet it’s the most luxurious, nicely-decorated jail cell you can imagine. Not that he doesn’t respect people who are honest with him- oh no. In fact, the whole reason he grows to like Bolin so much is because he’s the only one who dares to tell Varrick the truth about the levitation.
And of course, being as famous as he is, he knows exactly how to behave himself and what strings to pull. When the presidential elections happened in Republic City, he sponsored both candidates very generously. It didn’t matter who won the elections, because no matter which of the two became President, Varrick would have them in his pocket. When President Raiko shakes Korra’s hand, Varrick’s the one giving her a quick prod in the back so she’ll make a (somewhat) smiling face for the camera. When he’s hiding inside a platypus bear, trying to bypass guards to board his ship, he has Zhu Li dump some money as a distraction. It’s ridiculous, but it works. During the premiere of the final Nuktuk movie, he compliments the President’s wife and the crowd is eating him up during his speech. He’s charming, he’s sympathetic and he’s saying exactly what he knows people want to hear. After everything’s said and done, he says that he’s “truly sorry for the mess he’s caused”, but whether it’s heartfelt or not is another matter entirely.
So on that note, he is incredibly perceptive to people’s needs. That’s what makes him such a successful businessman. Some of his ideas come from random brainstorming sessions, but other ideas have an incredible root of wisdom to them. When the gang arrives in Republic City, he’s the only one to notice Bolin’s feeling abandoned by his pals, so what does he do? He gives up on his pedicure and takes Bolin out for a night on the town. After seeing Bolin address his fans in the Pro-bending Stadium, he recognizes the kid’s true potential. That is, to get people all riled up. President Raiko won’t lend support to the troops? Then get the support of the people instead. The President has to represent the people, after all.
Sadly, Varrick’s main goal isn’t to provide services and inventions for the people. It’s to make money. He provides an interesting contrast to the season’s focus on spirituality by being the biggest materialist possible. He believes in the power of money and his many belongings, not bending or a connection to the spirits or anything like that. It becomes especially obvious when Unalaq’s giving his speech at the Spirit Glacier Festival and Varrick’s not even listening. He then waves the guy’s warnings off and gives the audience a distraction in the form of dancing seal penguins. Of course, that’s only the most minor of his offenses, as things continue to go downhill from there. When Varrick’s character was first revealed, the summary included a note that there were rumors he deals with underworld characters and gangsters if he thinks it will turn a profit. These rumors would be true. Heck, one of his own lines gives him away very early on: “If you can’t make money during a war, you just flat-out cannot make money.” To him, war isn’t about people suffering or picking sides, it’s about potential to sell weaponry and vehicles. He’s willing to go as far as to bomb his own tribe’s cultural center just to fan the flames a bit more. Then he goes out of his way to produce a war propaganda ‘mover’ (movie) series, where he makes money off the movers themselves, inserts some advertising for his own products as he does it, and continues to give people a horrible impression of the Nothern invasion of the South. Similarly, to him, Future Industries going bankrupt isn’t a sign for him to help Asami out. He sees it as an opportunity to rob her blind and then pretend to be the hero by buying her out. Part of him seriously believes he is a hero for buying her out, even if he’s the one who caused her to lose her remaining assets in the first place. When he realizes that Mako’s on to his plans, he first attempts to win the kid’s allegiance by offering him a great job and even threatening his closest companions. When that doesn’t work, he plants some evidence in Mako’s apartment to have him arrested, thereby removing him from the playing field. Not that he does it himself, oh no. He has some shady mooks do the dirty work for him. Heck, considering Varrick Industries built the jailhouse, he had a cell customized just for himself because he had a feeling he’d end up there someday.
Ruthless of an asshole as he is, his eccentric traits aren’t a cover up for his darker nature at all; They’re genuine moments of weirdo. After all, there’d be no need to still keep such a façade up in his jailcell after the truth about him’s come out. When Asami tries to convince him to go into business with her, he decides to have a very intense stare-down with her in which no words are spoken, after promptly deciding they’ve got a deal. Radios for pets? Sure, that’s a great idea! Not to mention, his battleship Zhu Li is equipped with the oddest, most pointless things, ranging from extravagant coats to funhouse mirrors to a whole deck of cat gators. He offers rocket boat rides to total strangers, goes through the trouble of putting a captain’s hat on his platypus bear disguise once they’ve boarded his ship, claims the Fire Nation makes ‘the best red stuff’ and states that he named the Rocky Bottom after his mother.He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. He sneaks his way into scenes in the most comedic ways possible and has some moments where he really is so impulsive that he makes dumb decisions. Seriously, who installs an airplane on his ship and then forgets to build a runway for it? It sure seemed like he believed he was actually levitating, too. Most of the time when he has a sudden realization, he asks Zhu Li to make a note for him so she can get to it later. He’s just very easily distracted.
The biggest danger with Varrick is that he can go from being chummy to being pissy in a moment’s notice. One second he’s got an arm around someone’s shoulder, the next he’s barking at Zhu Li for getting him the wrong tea. One second he’s glaring down at Bolin for diverting from the Nuktuk script, the next he realizes that the improvisation isn’t such a bad thing and he gets completely giddy at the prospect. Furthermore, he has very little respect for personal boundaries. He won’t hesitate to get up in person’s face- literally- or sling an arm around them. He won’t hesitate to mention things like itchy rashes, neck hair issues or foot fungus, either. Sometimes his brain to mouth filter is close to non-existent.
Ultimately, despite the charge list of terrorism, blackmail, bribery, grand theft mecha tank, two attempted kidnappings and lord knows what else he’s done, Varrick can’t be called a villain, per se. While he doesn’t truly regret the things he’s done, he still went out of his way to avoid hurting people and does attempt to make up for the mess he’s caused. … Sort of. While he works hard to gather wealth, he also likes to share it with people. Just as long as people know he’s the benefactor, that is. He’s not a villain, he’s just a bad guy.
Strengths
Physical: Lazy as he seems to be, there are times when he’s actually surprisingly spry. Noteworthy is the scene where he hangs himself upside down from a rack for his ‘idea storm’, then jumps back down with a backflip, landing on his feet perfectly. He’s doing some exercises in his cell right before he breaks out, leaning down all the way to touch his toes. Also he… uh… can fire a bow and arrow (with questionable results while blindfolded), and walk across hot coals…? …Yeah, I got nothin’.
Mental: Varrick knows his stuff. He makes money because he sees business opportunities at every turn and he knows where the demand lies. He gets the people on his side because he says what they want to hear and he knows exactly how to turn the situation in his own favor. He makes sure the blame for catastrophe is shifted onto someone else and that he comes out looking like the victim. He likes to prepare for any situation or emergency- as much as he can foresee anyway. Who would even think to keep a kind of backpack glider ready in their jail cell just in case the outer walls get broken? Varrick would, and he’s even got some fashionable goggles to go with them.
Emotional: He’s a generous dude, that’s for sure. While it’s true that he actively gathers wealth, he doesn’t mind sharing it, either. Bolin receives a snowmobile and a snowsuit after only having known the guy for about a day. Heck, he gives Team Avatar an enormous battleship (and everything on it) without so much as a second thought. As Bolin laments later, Varrick knows how to make a long trip interesting. His impulsive nature, odd sense of humor and tendency to look on the bright side of things makes him a great companion. He can tell what people need and, if possible, he’ll provide it. That’s why he takes Bolin out for a night on the town after realizing the kid’s feeling neglected. That’s also why he tries to appeal to the President’s kind nature with the finale of the Nuktuk series. You can tell that, for a moment, President Raiko actually does feel torn up about the refusal to send troops to the South.
Weaknesses
Physical: Alas, Varrick is not a bender. He’s just a very lithe guy who, if it came down to it, couldn’t fight his way out of a paper bag. Heck, sometimes he’s downright lazy. Even flipping a switch is too much of a chore when he can just have Zhu Li do it for him. Legend has it he started his business from a single canoe, but he’s just not used to real hard work anymore. Plus, he’s got a few odd physical problems going on, from itchy rashes to foot fungus.
Mental: Varrick can be a huge idiot sometimes. Again, there’s the airplane without a runway on his ship and getting duped by Swami, but that’s not all. While summing up all the good things he’s done after he’s been arrested, he stupidly adds that he got Mako thrown in jail, which really wasn’t a very good thing to do at all. Trusting Bolin to take care of bribing the right people during the rebels’ trial was a pretty questionable decision too. Nor was trusting the mooks he hired to kidnap the President, because those guys sure did blurt out pretty fast that it was Varrick who hired them. Not to mention some of the things that came out of his idea storm, which he still expects to see prototypes of within a week.
Emotional: Varrick is incredibly selfish. He’s willing to hire the shadiest people and sink to extreme lows just to make a profit for his company. Blowing up his own heritage is no problem, having an innocent person thrown in jail is no problem and robbing his business associate of her assets is no problem either. He doesn’t truly see his mistakes either, instead just turning things around to make himself look good. His defense to planning to kidnap the President is: “I wasn’t going to hurt him, I just needed to start a war.” He doesn’t exactly take responsibility for his actions either. When he’s arrested for his crimes, he doesn’t put up a fight at all. Why should he, when it’s basically a trip to a resort for him? He’s even got a kind of backpack delta flyer ready as one of his (presumably several) escape plans. There’s hardly any repercussions for him, aside from his company losing credibility, but even then he’s probably still got more than enough money to live the life of luxury. Not that he welcomes being sent to prison, of course. When his rebels are arrested earlier in the series, he tries to rig the trial and get them out of trouble, but even so he actively avoids being tossed in prison with them. There’s a very strong sense of self-preservation there. In fact, even when it comes to something like clingy girlfriends, Varrick’s advice is to ‘simply disappear’. He has no regard for anyone’s feelings, not even Zhu Li’s. He yells at her for the most minor of things and even calls her a “cold, heartless war machine” while she’s standing right next to him. Getting away with anything has severely muted his voice of conscience. Of course, he can throw some of the biggest fits when he doesn’t get what he wants. The harbor lockdown, for instance, seriously gets his underpants in a twist. He’s a spoiled brat who revels in the attention he gets from people, whether it’s because he hands out free stuff or because they want to go into business with him.
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CHARACTER
Name: Varrick
Canon: The Legend of Korra
Gender: Male
Age: No canon age is given, but I’d say he’s in his thirties, so let’s make it 35 to be safe.
Wing Color: Baby blue.
Canon Point: Post season two.
History: Did you say Wikia Link?
Personality:
Varrick is right up there in the ‘weirdest Avatar characters ever’ list along with gems such as the original Bumi, Bumi 2.0, the foaming mouth guy and Gommu the Republic City hobo. On the outside, he’s flamboyant and eccentric, with the occasional mood swing to boot. Deep down on the inside… Well, he’s still an eccentric weirdo, really.
Let’s start from the top! Varrick is a billionaire who has everyone bowing to his whims and because of that, he’s pretty damn spoiled. He can ask Zhu Li to do just about anything and she’ll do it without question. Even flipping a switch is too much work for him. In that scene where he thinks he’s levitating while he’s really just being scammed by some Swami dude, nobody dares to speak up and contradict Varrick. If he says he’s levitating, then by god, he’s levitating. If he’s feeling especially prissy and starts smashing other people’s plates on the floor, nobody breathes a word about it. If he wants an airplane on his ship, he’ll get an airplane on his ship, no questions asked. If he’s hiding out inside a platypus bear, there’s no doubt that Zhu Li will be in there with him to serve him tea, just so he can bitch and moan about how there’s no honey in it. If he gets sent to jail, you can bet it’s the most luxurious, nicely-decorated jail cell you can imagine. Not that he doesn’t respect people who are honest with him- oh no. In fact, the whole reason he grows to like Bolin so much is because he’s the only one who dares to tell Varrick the truth about the levitation.
And of course, being as famous as he is, he knows exactly how to behave himself and what strings to pull. When the presidential elections happened in Republic City, he sponsored both candidates very generously. It didn’t matter who won the elections, because no matter which of the two became President, Varrick would have them in his pocket. When President Raiko shakes Korra’s hand, Varrick’s the one giving her a quick prod in the back so she’ll make a (somewhat) smiling face for the camera. When he’s hiding inside a platypus bear, trying to bypass guards to board his ship, he has Zhu Li dump some money as a distraction. It’s ridiculous, but it works. During the premiere of the final Nuktuk movie, he compliments the President’s wife and the crowd is eating him up during his speech. He’s charming, he’s sympathetic and he’s saying exactly what he knows people want to hear. After everything’s said and done, he says that he’s “truly sorry for the mess he’s caused”, but whether it’s heartfelt or not is another matter entirely.
So on that note, he is incredibly perceptive to people’s needs. That’s what makes him such a successful businessman. Some of his ideas come from random brainstorming sessions, but other ideas have an incredible root of wisdom to them. When the gang arrives in Republic City, he’s the only one to notice Bolin’s feeling abandoned by his pals, so what does he do? He gives up on his pedicure and takes Bolin out for a night on the town. After seeing Bolin address his fans in the Pro-bending Stadium, he recognizes the kid’s true potential. That is, to get people all riled up. President Raiko won’t lend support to the troops? Then get the support of the people instead. The President has to represent the people, after all.
Sadly, Varrick’s main goal isn’t to provide services and inventions for the people. It’s to make money. He provides an interesting contrast to the season’s focus on spirituality by being the biggest materialist possible. He believes in the power of money and his many belongings, not bending or a connection to the spirits or anything like that. It becomes especially obvious when Unalaq’s giving his speech at the Spirit Glacier Festival and Varrick’s not even listening. He then waves the guy’s warnings off and gives the audience a distraction in the form of dancing seal penguins. Of course, that’s only the most minor of his offenses, as things continue to go downhill from there. When Varrick’s character was first revealed, the summary included a note that there were rumors he deals with underworld characters and gangsters if he thinks it will turn a profit. These rumors would be true. Heck, one of his own lines gives him away very early on: “If you can’t make money during a war, you just flat-out cannot make money.” To him, war isn’t about people suffering or picking sides, it’s about potential to sell weaponry and vehicles. He’s willing to go as far as to bomb his own tribe’s cultural center just to fan the flames a bit more. Then he goes out of his way to produce a war propaganda ‘mover’ (movie) series, where he makes money off the movers themselves, inserts some advertising for his own products as he does it, and continues to give people a horrible impression of the Nothern invasion of the South. Similarly, to him, Future Industries going bankrupt isn’t a sign for him to help Asami out. He sees it as an opportunity to rob her blind and then pretend to be the hero by buying her out. Part of him seriously believes he is a hero for buying her out, even if he’s the one who caused her to lose her remaining assets in the first place. When he realizes that Mako’s on to his plans, he first attempts to win the kid’s allegiance by offering him a great job and even threatening his closest companions. When that doesn’t work, he plants some evidence in Mako’s apartment to have him arrested, thereby removing him from the playing field. Not that he does it himself, oh no. He has some shady mooks do the dirty work for him. Heck, considering Varrick Industries built the jailhouse, he had a cell customized just for himself because he had a feeling he’d end up there someday.
Ruthless of an asshole as he is, his eccentric traits aren’t a cover up for his darker nature at all; They’re genuine moments of weirdo. After all, there’d be no need to still keep such a façade up in his jailcell after the truth about him’s come out. When Asami tries to convince him to go into business with her, he decides to have a very intense stare-down with her in which no words are spoken, after promptly deciding they’ve got a deal. Radios for pets? Sure, that’s a great idea! Not to mention, his battleship Zhu Li is equipped with the oddest, most pointless things, ranging from extravagant coats to funhouse mirrors to a whole deck of cat gators. He offers rocket boat rides to total strangers, goes through the trouble of putting a captain’s hat on his platypus bear disguise once they’ve boarded his ship, claims the Fire Nation makes ‘the best red stuff’ and states that he named the Rocky Bottom after his mother.
The biggest danger with Varrick is that he can go from being chummy to being pissy in a moment’s notice. One second he’s got an arm around someone’s shoulder, the next he’s barking at Zhu Li for getting him the wrong tea. One second he’s glaring down at Bolin for diverting from the Nuktuk script, the next he realizes that the improvisation isn’t such a bad thing and he gets completely giddy at the prospect. Furthermore, he has very little respect for personal boundaries. He won’t hesitate to get up in person’s face- literally- or sling an arm around them. He won’t hesitate to mention things like itchy rashes, neck hair issues or foot fungus, either. Sometimes his brain to mouth filter is close to non-existent.
Ultimately, despite the charge list of terrorism, blackmail, bribery, grand theft mecha tank, two attempted kidnappings and lord knows what else he’s done, Varrick can’t be called a villain, per se. While he doesn’t truly regret the things he’s done, he still went out of his way to avoid hurting people and does attempt to make up for the mess he’s caused. … Sort of. While he works hard to gather wealth, he also likes to share it with people. Just as long as people know he’s the benefactor, that is. He’s not a villain, he’s just a bad guy.
Strengths
Mental: Varrick knows his stuff. He makes money because he sees business opportunities at every turn and he knows where the demand lies. He gets the people on his side because he says what they want to hear and he knows exactly how to turn the situation in his own favor. He makes sure the blame for catastrophe is shifted onto someone else and that he comes out looking like the victim. He likes to prepare for any situation or emergency- as much as he can foresee anyway. Who would even think to keep a kind of backpack glider ready in their jail cell just in case the outer walls get broken? Varrick would, and he’s even got some fashionable goggles to go with them.
Emotional: He’s a generous dude, that’s for sure. While it’s true that he actively gathers wealth, he doesn’t mind sharing it, either. Bolin receives a snowmobile and a snowsuit after only having known the guy for about a day. Heck, he gives Team Avatar an enormous battleship (and everything on it) without so much as a second thought. As Bolin laments later, Varrick knows how to make a long trip interesting. His impulsive nature, odd sense of humor and tendency to look on the bright side of things makes him a great companion. He can tell what people need and, if possible, he’ll provide it. That’s why he takes Bolin out for a night on the town after realizing the kid’s feeling neglected. That’s also why he tries to appeal to the President’s kind nature with the finale of the Nuktuk series. You can tell that, for a moment, President Raiko actually does feel torn up about the refusal to send troops to the South.
Weaknesses
Mental: Varrick can be a huge idiot sometimes. Again, there’s the airplane without a runway on his ship and getting duped by Swami, but that’s not all. While summing up all the good things he’s done after he’s been arrested, he stupidly adds that he got Mako thrown in jail, which really wasn’t a very good thing to do at all. Trusting Bolin to take care of bribing the right people during the rebels’ trial was a pretty questionable decision too. Nor was trusting the mooks he hired to kidnap the President, because those guys sure did blurt out pretty fast that it was Varrick who hired them. Not to mention some of the things that came out of his idea storm, which he still expects to see prototypes of within a week.
Emotional: Varrick is incredibly selfish. He’s willing to hire the shadiest people and sink to extreme lows just to make a profit for his company. Blowing up his own heritage is no problem, having an innocent person thrown in jail is no problem and robbing his business associate of her assets is no problem either. He doesn’t truly see his mistakes either, instead just turning things around to make himself look good. His defense to planning to kidnap the President is: “I wasn’t going to hurt him, I just needed to start a war.” He doesn’t exactly take responsibility for his actions either. When he’s arrested for his crimes, he doesn’t put up a fight at all. Why should he, when it’s basically a trip to a resort for him? He’s even got a kind of backpack delta flyer ready as one of his (presumably several) escape plans. There’s hardly any repercussions for him, aside from his company losing credibility, but even then he’s probably still got more than enough money to live the life of luxury. Not that he welcomes being sent to prison, of course. When his rebels are arrested earlier in the series, he tries to rig the trial and get them out of trouble, but even so he actively avoids being tossed in prison with them. There’s a very strong sense of self-preservation there. In fact, even when it comes to something like clingy girlfriends, Varrick’s advice is to ‘simply disappear’. He has no regard for anyone’s feelings, not even Zhu Li’s. He yells at her for the most minor of things and even calls her a “cold, heartless war machine” while she’s standing right next to him. Getting away with anything has severely muted his voice of conscience. Of course, he can throw some of the biggest fits when he doesn’t get what he wants. The harbor lockdown, for instance, seriously gets his underpants in a twist. He’s a spoiled brat who revels in the attention he gets from people, whether it’s because he hands out free stuff or because they want to go into business with him.