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Feb. 14th, 2017 09:48 amGeneral Info
Roland Deschain is a character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. He's very pragmatic, very no-nonsense, and he believes deeply in the importance and power of love, so those are concepts I like to play with in PSLs and whatever else. His canon allows for multiple realities which contain different versions of the same characters and it allows for travel between those realities, so I'd be happy to play either an AU Roland or a canon Roland who has somehow just ended up in the canon of some other show or book or whatever. I'm up for any genre except one-on-one fight threads.
Abilities
Learned abilities include absolutely ridiculous amounts of hand/eye coordination, along with some ridiculously quick reaction time to go with it. Special Ops Boyscout is the theme of the day here.
He has what he calls a learned ability to go long amounts of time on little to no water, and a natural psychic ability that he was trained to use. He can hypnotize people (although he could have issues if they have a strong will and don't want to cooperate) in a way that looks very like stage magician hypnosis - he runs some shiny object (usually a bullet) over the backs of his fingers and uses that as a focus for his abilities to put a person under, and from there he can get them to tell him their memories, recover certain memories, block memories out, that sort of thing. When he takes mescaline (or, presumably, any hallucinogenic drug) his abilities allow him to communicate with and fight the minds of certain creatures directly, although it isn't clear what else those chemically-assisted abilities could do with the mind of someone/something that wasn't telepathic itself.
Appearance
Edited post-movie to add: In the movie he looks like Idris Elba. This would be great except for how thinking about the Dark Tower movie only makes me sad and none of the images of Elba's Roland that I can find have him making any expression at all. I made the Elba icons, but decided they were pretty boring to look at compared to the icons I already had. So, if you're here wondering why this Roland doesn't look like the one in the Dark Tower movie, I answer you: What Dark Tower movie?
Okay. Back to the original description.
To quote a friend: He looks like the weight of the world is slowly pulling him closer to hell.
He looks older than he is - as I've figured his timeline, anyway. In any case he's somewhere in middle age and looks like he's spent half that time baking in the sun. He wears thick, worn jeans, a shirt laced up with rawhide cord, old well-used cowboy boots, a neckerchief, and a hat. He carries a bag, the rawhide lacing up its sides and at its mouth obviously broken and carefully knotted back up in many places. He might carry a bedroll and at least one canteen, and unless otherwise mentioned he will definitely be wearing his guns. They're long and heavy six-guns, blue-grey metal with fine grained sandalwood handles, and are obviously well cared for. He rarely lets anyone look closely at them but if he does they'll see this fancy little wingding etched near the end of each muzzle. If I'm playing him from during or after the second book he'll only be wearing a gun and holster on his left side, while the right leg of his jeans have a pale strip rubbed into the denim where he used to tie down that holster, and his right index and middle fingers will be gone with ragged, puckered scars in their place. Also he doesn't get the opportunity to wash as often or as thoroughly as most characters might be used to so he won't exactly smell like he just stepped out of a bubble bath, if smell is a factor in your character's general first impression.
Smut
While I'm interested in learning to play sex stuff I'm not usually into smut for its own sake and am typically only going to be up for gen. If I do, though, I play Roland as asexual, into sex for a feeling of emotional intimacy rather than for any physical attraction to the other person, and he'll be likely to mostly follow along with whatever the other person seems to want. I'm not very knowledgeable about kink but as far as I'm aware my only hard no is pedophilia and my only maybe-but-probably-no is noncon, so if you're ok with that and you're up for giving me constructive feedback on how to write smut while we thread I'll probably be up for it.
If there's anything you'd like to play, a scenario you'd like to talk out or a meme that catches your eye, either pm me about it or let me know on this page. If I've left any info out or if you have any questions pm me or comment here.
Roland Deschain is a character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. He's very pragmatic, very no-nonsense, and he believes deeply in the importance and power of love, so those are concepts I like to play with in PSLs and whatever else. His canon allows for multiple realities which contain different versions of the same characters and it allows for travel between those realities, so I'd be happy to play either an AU Roland or a canon Roland who has somehow just ended up in the canon of some other show or book or whatever. I'm up for any genre except one-on-one fight threads.
Abilities
Learned abilities include absolutely ridiculous amounts of hand/eye coordination, along with some ridiculously quick reaction time to go with it. Special Ops Boyscout is the theme of the day here.
He has what he calls a learned ability to go long amounts of time on little to no water, and a natural psychic ability that he was trained to use. He can hypnotize people (although he could have issues if they have a strong will and don't want to cooperate) in a way that looks very like stage magician hypnosis - he runs some shiny object (usually a bullet) over the backs of his fingers and uses that as a focus for his abilities to put a person under, and from there he can get them to tell him their memories, recover certain memories, block memories out, that sort of thing. When he takes mescaline (or, presumably, any hallucinogenic drug) his abilities allow him to communicate with and fight the minds of certain creatures directly, although it isn't clear what else those chemically-assisted abilities could do with the mind of someone/something that wasn't telepathic itself.
Appearance
Edited post-movie to add: In the movie he looks like Idris Elba. This would be great except for how thinking about the Dark Tower movie only makes me sad and none of the images of Elba's Roland that I can find have him making any expression at all. I made the Elba icons, but decided they were pretty boring to look at compared to the icons I already had. So, if you're here wondering why this Roland doesn't look like the one in the Dark Tower movie, I answer you: What Dark Tower movie?
Okay. Back to the original description.
To quote a friend: He looks like the weight of the world is slowly pulling him closer to hell.
He looks older than he is - as I've figured his timeline, anyway. In any case he's somewhere in middle age and looks like he's spent half that time baking in the sun. He wears thick, worn jeans, a shirt laced up with rawhide cord, old well-used cowboy boots, a neckerchief, and a hat. He carries a bag, the rawhide lacing up its sides and at its mouth obviously broken and carefully knotted back up in many places. He might carry a bedroll and at least one canteen, and unless otherwise mentioned he will definitely be wearing his guns. They're long and heavy six-guns, blue-grey metal with fine grained sandalwood handles, and are obviously well cared for. He rarely lets anyone look closely at them but if he does they'll see this fancy little wingding etched near the end of each muzzle. If I'm playing him from during or after the second book he'll only be wearing a gun and holster on his left side, while the right leg of his jeans have a pale strip rubbed into the denim where he used to tie down that holster, and his right index and middle fingers will be gone with ragged, puckered scars in their place. Also he doesn't get the opportunity to wash as often or as thoroughly as most characters might be used to so he won't exactly smell like he just stepped out of a bubble bath, if smell is a factor in your character's general first impression.
Smut
While I'm interested in learning to play sex stuff I'm not usually into smut for its own sake and am typically only going to be up for gen. If I do, though, I play Roland as asexual, into sex for a feeling of emotional intimacy rather than for any physical attraction to the other person, and he'll be likely to mostly follow along with whatever the other person seems to want. I'm not very knowledgeable about kink but as far as I'm aware my only hard no is pedophilia and my only maybe-but-probably-no is noncon, so if you're ok with that and you're up for giving me constructive feedback on how to write smut while we thread I'll probably be up for it.
If there's anything you'd like to play, a scenario you'd like to talk out or a meme that catches your eye, either pm me about it or let me know on this page. If I've left any info out or if you have any questions pm me or comment here.
Roland is from Stephen King's Dark Tower series - the books, not the movie, since no one knows too much about the movie-verse yet. Once the movie comes out we'll see if the movie-version's personality and history are similar enough that I feel comfortable playing him, and also if I can bear to delete my approximately nineteen billion Lou Diamond Phillips icons.
Anyway, on to looks: Roland is about 6'3" and skinny, a big old beanpole with skin the texture of beef jerky and no beard or body hair to speak of. Usually I play him looking about mid fifties. His hair is black and goes at least down to his shoulderblades, if not a bit longer, and even when he was young it had a bit of gray in it. Once he's into middle age there's even more gray there, especially at his temples. Depending on whether you want to go by the books or by my PB, his eyes are either pale blue or dark brown.
He dresses like a cowboy who wandered into a ren faire, with thick blue jeans, beaten up cowboy boots, a leather hat, and an old shirt that laces up with rawhide cord halfway down his chest. Usually he carries at least one canteen, a bedroll, and what looks like a handmade messenger bag.
If I take him from during or after the second book he'll only wear one gunbelt and one holster on his left side, while his right hand has scars where the index and middle fingers used to be. Someone observant could probably tell he used to wear two, because the holster of the other wore marks over the right thigh of his jeans. If I do take him from after this canon point I'll usually find a way to work a mention of his fingers into first threads somewhere, so you don't have to worry about figuring that out.
His guns are long, heavy six-shooters, something like the Colt Single-Action Army model revolver. Their metal is blue-grey steel, and their handles are smooth old sandalwood. There's a symbol etched near their muzzles, seen only on the rare occasion anyone is allowed to inspect one.
He travels a little too much to bathe often, although he does the hygiene thing as well as he can, so neither he nor his breath will smell exactly pristine. Other than that he probably smells like gun-oil and - well I'm tempted to say dust, even though that doesn't really mean anything. What the hell, it sounds nice, doesn't it? Gun oil and dust. With a hint of BO. Exquisite.
Here's a description of some of his abilities that I wrote up for a comm I had Roland in a while back.
Anything I wasn't clear on, or anything else you're curious about? Let me know.
Anyway, on to looks: Roland is about 6'3" and skinny, a big old beanpole with skin the texture of beef jerky and no beard or body hair to speak of. Usually I play him looking about mid fifties. His hair is black and goes at least down to his shoulderblades, if not a bit longer, and even when he was young it had a bit of gray in it. Once he's into middle age there's even more gray there, especially at his temples. Depending on whether you want to go by the books or by my PB, his eyes are either pale blue or dark brown.
He dresses like a cowboy who wandered into a ren faire, with thick blue jeans, beaten up cowboy boots, a leather hat, and an old shirt that laces up with rawhide cord halfway down his chest. Usually he carries at least one canteen, a bedroll, and what looks like a handmade messenger bag.
If I take him from during or after the second book he'll only wear one gunbelt and one holster on his left side, while his right hand has scars where the index and middle fingers used to be. Someone observant could probably tell he used to wear two, because the holster of the other wore marks over the right thigh of his jeans. If I do take him from after this canon point I'll usually find a way to work a mention of his fingers into first threads somewhere, so you don't have to worry about figuring that out.
His guns are long, heavy six-shooters, something like the Colt Single-Action Army model revolver. Their metal is blue-grey steel, and their handles are smooth old sandalwood. There's a symbol etched near their muzzles, seen only on the rare occasion anyone is allowed to inspect one.
He travels a little too much to bathe often, although he does the hygiene thing as well as he can, so neither he nor his breath will smell exactly pristine. Other than that he probably smells like gun-oil and - well I'm tempted to say dust, even though that doesn't really mean anything. What the hell, it sounds nice, doesn't it? Gun oil and dust. With a hint of BO. Exquisite.
Here's a description of some of his abilities that I wrote up for a comm I had Roland in a while back.
Anything I wasn't clear on, or anything else you're curious about? Let me know.
