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| Maurice Joly; One of the Friends of the ABC. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 8 2009, 03:31 PM (59 Views) | |
| Technicolor-werewolf | Sep 8 2009, 03:31 PM Post #1 |
 
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FIRST NAME Maurice ×MIDDLE NAME Hilaire ×NICKNAME/ALIAS Les Amis d’l’ABC often refer to him as “Jollly”. His mother calls him Hilaire. LAST NAME Joly ×PREFIX "Monsieur" will do. GENDER Male AGE Twenty-three APPEARANCE Between his almost unusual physical appearance and his excitable manner, Maurice Joly is not a man to be forgotten. He’s an inch or so below average height, but Nature made up for the slight by giving him a (neatly-trimmed) hedge of vivid orange hair and charming, expressive green eyes. He owns a pair of nearly useless glasses that he nevertheless wears at all times. His posture is always erect, never slouched, and he tries his hardest to be neatly dressed – though he’s hardly a fashion plate, as he’s concerned that the tight waists now popular will interfere with his lung function and favors looser overcoats worn directly against the shirt and waistcoat. His coats, which give him the air of an old man, provide a humorous contrast to his youth and have confused more than one passerby on a rainy day. He’s usually to be seen carrying a cane and on occasion a black doctor’s bag, slightly too big for him to carry comfortably and in truth inherited from a (rather larger) great-uncle. ×HEIGHT 165 cm/ 5’ 5” ×BUILD Joly is thin, but it’s a wiry thin that has nothing to do with the wasting disease he diagnosed himself with last week. He holds himself up very straight (chronic hunching leads to permanent spine curvatures) and this helps somewhat with his relatively short stature. ×SKIN A pale but pleasing hue that is inclined to freckle, much to his horror (the appearance of spots is a primary symptom of an assortment of skin diseases). He insists by turns that his skin is tinged with yellow or green and that the endearingly pink coloration of his cheeks is actually a sign of a fever coming on. ×HAIR Joly’s lively orange hair is the only thing about him that’s actually odd. He wears it short in accordance with the fashion and also because it is easier to keep clean that way. ×EYES Green; he wears small, thin-lensed rectangular glasses for what is in reality a very slight case of myopia requiring no more than the occasional squint at a particularly miniscule line of print. ×ACCENT/PHONETICS He speaks normally, though with a slight southern accent, unless his nasal cavities happen to be blocked by the malign workings of a cold or some other fatal disease – in which case he speaks as if someone were pinching his nose. No one knows for sure how much of it is real and how much of it is affected. xFACE CLAIM Simon Woods OCCUPATION Medical student HISTORY He was born and raised in a sizable town in southern France and christened Maurice Hilaire Joly in the little church of Saint-Boniface – an auspicious start on life. This last according to his mother Amélie, a too-young widow who desperately needed the joy she hoped her deceased husband’s son would bring. Young Maurice was indeed a cheerful child, and she took to using his middle name in order to remind herself of this rather than of the husband he was named for. However, he was also exceedingly friendly and was already also variously known to a wide array of playmates as well as adults – anyone who would listen to him, really – by his Christian or family name. He was never confused by the difference in names and easily kept them all straight, which convinced Amélie that he was a very bright child as well. He and his mother were supported by his uncle Robert, who with some help from Amélie’s side work as a seamstress was able to give them a relatively stable middle-class life. Maurice was intended to follow his uncle into business until he caught a young friend’s measles at age ten. Following two weeks of Amélie hovering over his bed, worried sick, and the doctor sitting at his bedside and patiently answering the myriad questions the boy and his mother posed, he emerged from the sickroom with his mind made up: he was going to be a doctor too. His mother and uncle were both delighted, as the local physician was aging and would doubtless be looking to pass on the practice within twenty years. The boy was duly schooled and finally sent to the Université in Paris to formally study medicine. Classes at the Université were nothing like Joly would have imagined. He hadn’t given much thought to either the actual causes and effects of disease or the great variety of human ills, and he suddenly remembered his mother’s constant worries over his health. Could it be she had been right? No sooner had a professor lectured on the tongue as the organ that reflects the state of the entire body than he took to carrying a small hand mirror to check his own tongue for signs of disease. The pattern was to be repeated as he progressed in his studies and quickly developed full-blown hypochondria. He fell in with Les Amis de L’ABC through a pamphlet handed him by a law student whose already-sparse hair was thinning far too quickly for its own good. Joly stopped to chat with Lesgle about possible causes and ended up in the back room of the Café Musain among a hushed group of students and workers, listening to a young god offer an argument for revolution. This group was Les Amis and this god was Enjolras. In the short time it took for the few remaining strands of Lesgle’s hair to fall out, Joly was well established as one of Enjolras’ lieutenants and providing a home and bed to his lovely mistress Musichetta. He often makes room in the apartment also for the ever-hapless Lesgle, to whom Courfeyrac jokes he is joined at the hip. His mother, whose constant worries have remarkably not aged her, is recently remarried in what she tells him is a love match with a business connection of Robert’s. ×RELATIONSHIPS Father, Maurice Joly, deceased Mother, Amélie Arceneaux Joly LeCarte, forty-one Uncle, Robert Arceneaux, forty-five Stepfather, Jean Lecarte, forty-four Belle: Musichetta PERSONALITY Joly is one great bundle of contradictions: sickly, healthful, joyous, an overall eccentric. He is extremely gullible when it comes to his health, but knows exactly where to stand with his politics. Firmly convinced that he’s due to die (or at least become bedridden) any minute now, he is nevertheless constantly cheery, even excited. All these qualities agree astonishingly well with each other and together form the dynamic, dramatic, and completely irrepressible persona that is Maurice Joly. Though he distrusts patent medicines, he’s highly susceptible to the wiles of fad diets for the improving of one’s health and once went an entire week on the ‘vegetarian’ diet, much to his friends’ amusement and Musichetta’s frustration. Joly is an enthusiastic soul who seizes on everything from revolution to castor oil with the same devoted fervor – and happily for the Amis, he laughs in the face of the National Guard just as easily as he laughs in the face of an impending coronary thrombosis. He's also somewhat of a deist, mostly because he's more comfortable seeing the universe as a well-ordered machine than as a (more than likely chaotic) mystery. He has his occasional "moments of weakness", when he gets too worried about the machine breaking down, but on the whole he prefers to place his trust in the infallible laws of science. ×QUIRKS Hypochondria. That’s a big one. He has the habit of rubbing his nose with his cane while he’s thinking and of checking his tongue for evidence of disease, and he insists upon sleeping with his head to the south so that the earth’s magnetic field won’t interfere with his circulatory system. He’s also got a bit of a fetish for necks. ×SEXUAL ORIENTATION If he thought about it long enough he'd realize he was bisexual. So far, though, he hasn't. LIKES
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Edited by Technicolor-werewolf, Nov 18 2009, 08:10 PM.
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| Alandree | Sep 8 2009, 03:43 PM Post #2 |
 
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:D Hooray another Joly at last! He looks good, dearie. ACCEPTED! |
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| Technicolor-werewolf | Nov 18 2009, 12:34 PM Post #3 |
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Edited and expanded to reflect all the things I never knew about dear Joly when I first started playing him. |
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