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Little Hades App
1 September 2016 18:55💀 Player Information
Name: Charlie
Age: 21
Contact: ShreveShreve
Characters In-game: None
💀 Character Information
Name:Gowan Stevens
Canon: William Faulkner's Novels
Canon Point: The trial of the murder of his daughter
Age:28
Description: Gowan has handsome features on a good day, brown hair, pale eyes. He has been known to forget to shave or groom his hair if in a certain mood or state of inebriation. He was a lean man who gained a lot of weight very rapidly in college and has had a difficult time getting it off ever since. He tries to cover this up by wearing meticulously tailored suits, always in the style of the day.
Physical changes: Poor bastard lives in utter fear of getting a forked tongue. His uncle told him that's what happens when you go to Hell.
Powers: None. Maybe he can actually for once hold his liquor, never getting drunk. It's really a curse
History: Gowan as a character deals with alcoholism, racism (given the 1920s Southern setting of the canon), infant death, and the books he comes from, Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun deal with with the subject of rape. The alcohlolism will most likely be approached. I understand if you want to opt out.
Gowan Stevens was the only child of a successful family in Jefferson, Mississippi, located in Yoknapatawpha County. He was groomed to be a good kid, a well mannered type, from a very early age, a gentility that often showed in all of his mannerisms. He attended university in Virginia where he fell into problems with alcoholism, which were only aggravated due to his living in the time of the prohibition. Having returned from college, Gowan courts a young debutant by the name of Temple Drake for a night, which goes horribly, horribly wrong when he crashes his car at the house of a moonshiner. The inconsiderate Gowan leaves Temple the next morning, leading her to be the subject of unspeakable horrors. Plagued by guilt and a self-righteous desire to appear as a hero, saving Temple's honor as a masquerade for preserving his own reputation (now marred by his alcohol-induced outbursts), he marries that very debutant and the two, for the next eight years, put up the facade of a happy marriage, having two children while Gowan remains sober.
Tragedy strikes again when the infant daughter of the couple is smothered in her crib by the nanny. Again, guilt runs amuck and past waters are muddied once more. This is where I come in with adding Gowan's death. Distraught and disillusioned from both the death of his daughter and the crumbling facade of his marriage, Gowan takes up the bottle once more, only to crash his car off the bridge (he would not be the first in Faulkner's canon). And so, the self-righteous, drunken Southerner finds himself dead.
Hell Status: Limbo case
What Brings Them To Hell: Gowan has a history of getting into the wrong place at the wrong time as his actions kickstart a series of unfortunate events. He often does the right, or at least moderately decent, thing for self-righteous and self serving reasons. He's selfish, arrogant, and manipulative, even posing as a local judge because he was suspicious of his wife's intentions and actions. Although these are deceitful actions, Gowan firmly believes he is always in the right. So, because he could go either way, he's a limbo case. However, his plan in the afterlife, motivation if you will, is to desperately seek out his deceased daughter. As she is a child, he knows her to be in Heaven, but he struggles to morally pull his weight to get there.
The Pitch: Gowan Stevens is not a bad person. In fact, he insists he is a gentleman. After all, he attended university in Virginia where he learned to drink like a gentleman. So, you might ask yourself, what's a fine Southern college boy doing in a place like this? You see, that little declaration of holding his liquor like a gentleman? That was a lie, though Gowan was not entirely sure of it at the time. Don’t get me wrong, Gowan has done plenty of good things. He even saved a little lady’s reputation. But just like he had the town think he could drink like a gentleman, he had them think he could marry like one too. In all actuality, this marriage between two people, a gentleman and a damaged young woman, a union that produced both popularity and two children, was a big front for him to feel better about himself. So, our buddy Gowan Stevens is a limbo case because heavens above he knows how to do a decent thing, he just really needs to pop his inflated ego. He needs to learn a lesson or two about serving others instead of just himself. If it works, maybe he gets to see his daughter again. If he doesn’t, he gets to meet the rest of his family. Luckily, as far as he knows, they aren’t in Little Hades.
Setting Fit: Gowan has given up on his sobriety and, upon his entrance into Little Hades, has surrendered to an afterlife as a bar tender, only nursing his own demons (literally). He’s quick at what he does, especially when it comes to moonshine. Gowan knows how to talk to customers just the right amount to keep the evening going, but also make it very clear when enough is enough. In monitoring other people’s limits, Gowan can even learn to focus on his own.
Samples:
TDM Sample
Canon Based thread
Name: Charlie
Age: 21
Contact: ShreveShreve
Characters In-game: None
💀 Character Information
Name:Gowan Stevens
Canon: William Faulkner's Novels
Canon Point: The trial of the murder of his daughter
Age:28
Description: Gowan has handsome features on a good day, brown hair, pale eyes. He has been known to forget to shave or groom his hair if in a certain mood or state of inebriation. He was a lean man who gained a lot of weight very rapidly in college and has had a difficult time getting it off ever since. He tries to cover this up by wearing meticulously tailored suits, always in the style of the day.
Physical changes: Poor bastard lives in utter fear of getting a forked tongue. His uncle told him that's what happens when you go to Hell.
Powers: None. Maybe he can actually for once hold his liquor, never getting drunk. It's really a curse
History: Gowan as a character deals with alcoholism, racism (given the 1920s Southern setting of the canon), infant death, and the books he comes from, Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun deal with with the subject of rape. The alcohlolism will most likely be approached. I understand if you want to opt out.
Gowan Stevens was the only child of a successful family in Jefferson, Mississippi, located in Yoknapatawpha County. He was groomed to be a good kid, a well mannered type, from a very early age, a gentility that often showed in all of his mannerisms. He attended university in Virginia where he fell into problems with alcoholism, which were only aggravated due to his living in the time of the prohibition. Having returned from college, Gowan courts a young debutant by the name of Temple Drake for a night, which goes horribly, horribly wrong when he crashes his car at the house of a moonshiner. The inconsiderate Gowan leaves Temple the next morning, leading her to be the subject of unspeakable horrors. Plagued by guilt and a self-righteous desire to appear as a hero, saving Temple's honor as a masquerade for preserving his own reputation (now marred by his alcohol-induced outbursts), he marries that very debutant and the two, for the next eight years, put up the facade of a happy marriage, having two children while Gowan remains sober.
Tragedy strikes again when the infant daughter of the couple is smothered in her crib by the nanny. Again, guilt runs amuck and past waters are muddied once more. This is where I come in with adding Gowan's death. Distraught and disillusioned from both the death of his daughter and the crumbling facade of his marriage, Gowan takes up the bottle once more, only to crash his car off the bridge (he would not be the first in Faulkner's canon). And so, the self-righteous, drunken Southerner finds himself dead.
Hell Status: Limbo case
What Brings Them To Hell: Gowan has a history of getting into the wrong place at the wrong time as his actions kickstart a series of unfortunate events. He often does the right, or at least moderately decent, thing for self-righteous and self serving reasons. He's selfish, arrogant, and manipulative, even posing as a local judge because he was suspicious of his wife's intentions and actions. Although these are deceitful actions, Gowan firmly believes he is always in the right. So, because he could go either way, he's a limbo case. However, his plan in the afterlife, motivation if you will, is to desperately seek out his deceased daughter. As she is a child, he knows her to be in Heaven, but he struggles to morally pull his weight to get there.
The Pitch: Gowan Stevens is not a bad person. In fact, he insists he is a gentleman. After all, he attended university in Virginia where he learned to drink like a gentleman. So, you might ask yourself, what's a fine Southern college boy doing in a place like this? You see, that little declaration of holding his liquor like a gentleman? That was a lie, though Gowan was not entirely sure of it at the time. Don’t get me wrong, Gowan has done plenty of good things. He even saved a little lady’s reputation. But just like he had the town think he could drink like a gentleman, he had them think he could marry like one too. In all actuality, this marriage between two people, a gentleman and a damaged young woman, a union that produced both popularity and two children, was a big front for him to feel better about himself. So, our buddy Gowan Stevens is a limbo case because heavens above he knows how to do a decent thing, he just really needs to pop his inflated ego. He needs to learn a lesson or two about serving others instead of just himself. If it works, maybe he gets to see his daughter again. If he doesn’t, he gets to meet the rest of his family. Luckily, as far as he knows, they aren’t in Little Hades.
Setting Fit: Gowan has given up on his sobriety and, upon his entrance into Little Hades, has surrendered to an afterlife as a bar tender, only nursing his own demons (literally). He’s quick at what he does, especially when it comes to moonshine. Gowan knows how to talk to customers just the right amount to keep the evening going, but also make it very clear when enough is enough. In monitoring other people’s limits, Gowan can even learn to focus on his own.
Samples:
TDM Sample
Canon Based thread
