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deadlightOOC:
Player Name: Sammy
Age: 27
Contact: deadlit @ plurk
IC:
Name: Beverly Marsh
Canon: IT Chapter One
Canon Point: After defeating IT and making the blood oath
Age: 13
Spoken language(s): English
Username: mollyringwald
To the Mods: N/A
History: Trigger Warning: Bev is a victim of both sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her father. wiki
Although there's no specific "movie" canon page for Beverly Marsh, her history as it appears in the movie is how I'll be playing her, with a couple of things from the book added in:
* Bev has great aim/hand-eye coordination, and is often mocked for being from the poor side of town/poor in general.
Personality: Bev is a quiet one. When we first meet her, she's alone, hiding and smoking in a stall of the girls' bathroom. She doesn't fit in, but more than that, she tries to hide herself away. Like the rest of the Losers in Derry, she's ostracized by her peers, most of whom think she's a slut and regularly having sex with other boys and maybe even men. It's implied that this is a rumor that stems from her kiss with Henry Bowers in a school play - and while Bev is less overtly bullied by Bowers in the movie, it's clear she's a victim of his attentions too. Initially, Bev seems to come down on the side of flight more than fight. In addition to hiding in the bathroom stall, she creeps around her own darkened house like a shadow, taking great care to appease her father at every turn by using a small, soft voice when she speaks to him and calling him "Daddy," to reassure him that she's still his little girl.
Bev's greatest fear is her burgeoning womanhood. Without a mother around to guide her, and no female friends that we see in the film, Bev is entirely alone when she buys tampons for the first time. In addition, IT appears to Bev as a fountain of blood, the imagery clearly representing her growth and her fear of her own changing body and sexuality. Bev is a girl who knows how she's perceived, capably flirting with Mr. Keene the drugstore owner so that the other Losers can steal supplies to fix up Ben. It's both empowering and sad for Bev to successfully pull this off. Empowering because it's an example of her experimenting with that womanhood she so fears, and sad because she shouldn't know that flirting with adult men is even a possibility.
Beneath that surface of calm, however, lies a steady drumbeat of fury. Through her encounters and friendship with the Losers, Bev is given purpose and focus: something she can fight. It's Bev who notices Mike at the mercy of the Bowers gang, and spurs the others from hesitation into action, and after their encounter with Pennywise at the house on Neibolt St., Bev is the only remaining Loser who's willing to keep hunting IT alongside Bill. When questioned about the wisdom of this, Bev states that she wants to run toward something, rather than away. It's implied but never outright stated that the abuse Bev endures at home has inoculated her against what might be a "normal" level of fear for a girl. This isn't to say that Bev doesn't feel fear, she absolutely does, it's just that she's the first of the Losers to stop being afraid of Pennywise specifically. Also of note is the fact that Bev is the first to lash out and attack IT back, impaling Pennywise through the head with an iron fence spike. This is echoed when in the last battle, Pennywise takes on the form of Bev's father and asks if she's still "his girl." Bev's primal cry of rage as she slams the rebar through her "father's" skull says it all. Her anger is a valuable ally against fear, but it's far from enough.
Like all the Losers, Bev's true strength is seen among her friends. She's quick to help the boys steal supplies even though she doesn't know them yet, just because someone's hurt and in need of help. She signs Ben's yearbook and keeps his taste in music a secret between them so as not to open him up to ridicule with the other Losers. This kindness I think indicates demonstrates a certain caring beyond her years. Whether it's because she's used to suffering (and therefore knows what it's like) or she just genuinely wants to help, Bev makes an impression as warm and kind. Later, Bev is the first to take that leap off a high cliff into the water at the quarry. It's a moment of courage and fearlessness more commonly associated with youth, and it shows that Bev doesn't need to draw on her pain and fear to be strong. She's able to just be a kid.
Abilities/Skills: Other than excellent hand-eye coordination, Bev is a normal, human girl. At the end of the movie, she recounts a "vision" she had of the Losers fighting IT as adults, but aside from her (and all the Losers') vague psychic sensitivity*, there's nothing remarkable about her.
*This refers to the 'shining' ability that is referred to in Stephen King's works and perhaps the IT book itself - all the Losers are implied to have some level of latent psychic awareness of each other, but it's more a passive ability than anything else, and is unlikely to come up other than as described: a vague awareness of the other Losers around her.
Samples: tdm post
action thread
Player Name: Sammy
Age: 27
Contact: deadlit @ plurk
IC:
Name: Beverly Marsh
Canon: IT Chapter One
Canon Point: After defeating IT and making the blood oath
Age: 13
Spoken language(s): English
Username: mollyringwald
To the Mods: N/A
History: Trigger Warning: Bev is a victim of both sexual and physical abuse at the hands of her father. wiki
Although there's no specific "movie" canon page for Beverly Marsh, her history as it appears in the movie is how I'll be playing her, with a couple of things from the book added in:
* Bev has great aim/hand-eye coordination, and is often mocked for being from the poor side of town/poor in general.
Personality: Bev is a quiet one. When we first meet her, she's alone, hiding and smoking in a stall of the girls' bathroom. She doesn't fit in, but more than that, she tries to hide herself away. Like the rest of the Losers in Derry, she's ostracized by her peers, most of whom think she's a slut and regularly having sex with other boys and maybe even men. It's implied that this is a rumor that stems from her kiss with Henry Bowers in a school play - and while Bev is less overtly bullied by Bowers in the movie, it's clear she's a victim of his attentions too. Initially, Bev seems to come down on the side of flight more than fight. In addition to hiding in the bathroom stall, she creeps around her own darkened house like a shadow, taking great care to appease her father at every turn by using a small, soft voice when she speaks to him and calling him "Daddy," to reassure him that she's still his little girl.
Bev's greatest fear is her burgeoning womanhood. Without a mother around to guide her, and no female friends that we see in the film, Bev is entirely alone when she buys tampons for the first time. In addition, IT appears to Bev as a fountain of blood, the imagery clearly representing her growth and her fear of her own changing body and sexuality. Bev is a girl who knows how she's perceived, capably flirting with Mr. Keene the drugstore owner so that the other Losers can steal supplies to fix up Ben. It's both empowering and sad for Bev to successfully pull this off. Empowering because it's an example of her experimenting with that womanhood she so fears, and sad because she shouldn't know that flirting with adult men is even a possibility.
Beneath that surface of calm, however, lies a steady drumbeat of fury. Through her encounters and friendship with the Losers, Bev is given purpose and focus: something she can fight. It's Bev who notices Mike at the mercy of the Bowers gang, and spurs the others from hesitation into action, and after their encounter with Pennywise at the house on Neibolt St., Bev is the only remaining Loser who's willing to keep hunting IT alongside Bill. When questioned about the wisdom of this, Bev states that she wants to run toward something, rather than away. It's implied but never outright stated that the abuse Bev endures at home has inoculated her against what might be a "normal" level of fear for a girl. This isn't to say that Bev doesn't feel fear, she absolutely does, it's just that she's the first of the Losers to stop being afraid of Pennywise specifically. Also of note is the fact that Bev is the first to lash out and attack IT back, impaling Pennywise through the head with an iron fence spike. This is echoed when in the last battle, Pennywise takes on the form of Bev's father and asks if she's still "his girl." Bev's primal cry of rage as she slams the rebar through her "father's" skull says it all. Her anger is a valuable ally against fear, but it's far from enough.
Like all the Losers, Bev's true strength is seen among her friends. She's quick to help the boys steal supplies even though she doesn't know them yet, just because someone's hurt and in need of help. She signs Ben's yearbook and keeps his taste in music a secret between them so as not to open him up to ridicule with the other Losers. This kindness I think indicates demonstrates a certain caring beyond her years. Whether it's because she's used to suffering (and therefore knows what it's like) or she just genuinely wants to help, Bev makes an impression as warm and kind. Later, Bev is the first to take that leap off a high cliff into the water at the quarry. It's a moment of courage and fearlessness more commonly associated with youth, and it shows that Bev doesn't need to draw on her pain and fear to be strong. She's able to just be a kid.
Abilities/Skills: Other than excellent hand-eye coordination, Bev is a normal, human girl. At the end of the movie, she recounts a "vision" she had of the Losers fighting IT as adults, but aside from her (and all the Losers') vague psychic sensitivity*, there's nothing remarkable about her.
*This refers to the 'shining' ability that is referred to in Stephen King's works and perhaps the IT book itself - all the Losers are implied to have some level of latent psychic awareness of each other, but it's more a passive ability than anything else, and is unlikely to come up other than as described: a vague awareness of the other Losers around her.
Samples: tdm post
action thread
