Clockbox Application

[franciscoramon]

PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Rose
AGED 18+? Yes
RESERVED? Yes
IN-GAME CHARACTERS: Invite from Era.

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Cisco Ramon
CANON: The Flash (TV)
CANON POINT: Post- 2x09
ARRIVAL TYPE: Accidental
IC USERNAME: goodvibrations
HISTORY: here
PERSONALITY:

Cisco is a funny, exuberant, enthusiastic person who takes great joy in many things. He's fast-talking and informal and always has a wise-crack ready. Often, Cisco treats strangers as if they are friends almost immediately, and spends a lot of his time trying to make the people around him laugh. Pretty often, he does this with a mix of sassiness, self-deprecation, and nerdy pop-culture references. Around people that he finds attractive, Cisco can become awkward and even inappropriate, (though never in a malicious way): he lacks the verbal filter to not stick his foot in his mouth. In short: he has absolutely no game. None.

It would be easy for someone who did not know Cisco very well to write him off as a goofy, weird, but ultimately harmless guy. But, of course, there is much more to him beneath the surface. To begin with, Cisco is a genius. He is a mechanical engineer capable of building particle accelerators, anti-mind-control devices, and time machines at the drop of a dime. He is also a very skilled hacker, programmer, and computer specialist - perhaps not quite on the same level as Felicity, but still miles ahead of everyone else. Cisco is good at problem-solving and coming up with innovative solutions even in extremely stressful situations.

Cisco's intelligence is also linked with his isolation from the people around him. Growing up, Cisco was bullied and had no friends, since, as he put it, "even the nerds hated" him. He must have skipped several grades to get his job at S.T.A.R. Labs at his age (20 or so when he started). Despite his brilliance, however, his family never had an appreciation for his talents, misunderstanding and underestimating him in favor of his older brother, Dante. Cisco talks about how much better he gets along with his family now that he sees them rarely, which of course implies getting along with them badly when he had to be around them all the time.

In many ways, Cisco just doesn't fit in. To his family, his job and his nerdiness and his love of science are incomprehensible, making him an outsider. At S.T.A.R. Labs, in turn, where those aspects of Cisco make sense, he is still several years younger than all of coworkers, and the only person of color shown working there.

As a result of this lack of friends growing up and lack of familial support, Cisco craves validation and approval from the people around him. Much of that initially comes from Harrison Wells, who appreciates his abilities and praises him for them. Wells becomes a mentor, a father figure, and a friend to Cisco, but also manipulates him emotionally, his warm veneer very occasionally giving way to cold anger, disappointment, and intimidation. Caitlin, Ronnie, Barry, Felicity, and Joe all regard Cisco as a friend, but can be dismissive of him from time to time when he is in need - something that is not helped by the fact that Cisco so often presents himself to them as fun and even frivolous, and tends to keep his vulnerabilities hidden, not seeking out help even when he clearly needs it.

In many ways, Cisco is the most idealistic and most naive member of Team Flash. He sometimes lets the fun of it all get away with him, giving murderers cute code names and showing enthusiasm for powers and weapons that can cause a great deal of death and destruction. But his naivety is not as complete as it may seem: he builds a cold gun capable of stopping Barry should they ever need to, turns Rathaway's cochlear assistive devices into weapons to be used against him, and puts a tracker on Wells' wheelchair when he starts to suspect him.

Despite this, Cisco has a very strong moral compass. Before Wells, Caitlin, or Joe were on board with Barry being The Flash and saving people, Cisco was helping him. He earnestly believes in the importance of doing good, and in the need for heroes. Cisco is also terribly brave and self-sacrificing (bluffing Snart with a vacuum, willing to die himself rather than give up Barry's identity, facing Wells in the trap, stopping a robot bee from stinging Ray). That bravery, plus his incredible loyalty, mean that Cisco will go to great lengths to help anyone he considers a friend. He is willing to put himself into situations that he even admits are extremely traumatic in order to try to help Barry.

INVENTORY:

- a hairtie
- headphones ( these )
- a tootsie pop ( blue raspberry )

CHANGES: None needed! Cisco has visions, object-reading, can remember alternate timelines, but none of it would break the game.

SAMPLES

ONE: several test drive threads here
TWO: a fic here (I know the pairing is terrible ok I know)
THREE: The thing was, Cisco wanted to understand everything. He still remembers the moment, when he was nine years old, when he realized that the world was not a chaotic mess of unknowable, random forces. It was governed by predictable laws - and when those predictable laws fell short, new ones could be found. There were explanations everywhere, and made the world around him all the more magical once he understood them.

So as soon as he found out that there was some connection between his thoughts and desires and the way that this space arranged itself, he wanted to get to the bottom of it. How was it possible that it could interpret the thoughts of its occupants? Did it only produce environments and objects that were desired, or merely ones that were thought of? What distinction was drawn between conscious and subconscious desires? What powered this place? Did time have any effect on the proceedings - were there any hours of sluggishness, or particular productivity? Did time even really pass here?

Cisco was a scientist. He didn't just ask himself questions and let them linger. He experimented. He took notes. He asked anyone who would stay still for long enough to tell him about their experiences here. Second-hand accounts weren't as reliable as his own observations, of course, but they were still worth recording.

Sometimes, Cisco thought that there wasn't anything in the world that he loved so much as a mystery that needed solving.