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waxwingedflight) wrote2011-11-10 12:50 am
waxwingedflight) wrote2011-11-10 12:50 am
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Character Name: Nicholas Rush
Series: Stargate Universe
Age: Late 40's.
From When?: After 1x10 "Justice" when Rush was left on a planet to die
Inmate/Warden: Inmate- Rush is a manipulative bastard who cares about scientific discovery over the safety of the people around him. He dialed the Stargate to an old and falling apart spaceship during an attack on the base they were at just because he didn't want to miss the chance to do so. Also, he has framed someone for murder just to get them out of the way, as well as manipulating someone to sit in a device that basically turned them into a vegetable just so that Rush could gain information about the ship from it.
Item: [Wardens Only -- What Gives you Your Information While Here? Examples -- a compass, a book, a palm pilot, a tarot card, etc.]
Abilities/Powers: Rush is a very intelligent man, having degrees in both mathematics and astrophysics as well as dabbling about in numerous other subjects, though he'd usually use his intelligence mainly for attempting to manipulate people. Other than that, he's a regular human, if a bit on the underfed and weak side of the scale.
Personality: The first thing people notice about Rush is that he's not the type who likes to deal with other people. He prefers to isolate himself from other people and instead do science, but he will deal with people if he absolutely has to, although he's not very pleasant to them. Most of his isolation and general need to be alone stems from the death of his wife, which happened two years prior to the series and has affected him greatly, not only making him isolate himself, but to also make himself more unlikable than he was before her death. Also, he claims he lost all of his morality with the death of his wife, which allows him to go through with most of the things he does.
He is not someone people would choose to deal with when Rush does force himself to play with others. He constantly judges people, a right which he believes he has earned due to the fact that he has escaped from his poor childhood. Most people on the ship he tends to either outright ignore or snap at in a sarcastic manner or is just blunt about the fact they have no idea what they're doing. It's very rare when a person can get Rush to rage as much as he does when it involves the colonel, where at one point it escalated from words to physical violence. He's very stubborn and will rarely back down to an authority figure. Rush will also never follow orders if it doesn't suit him or if he just thinks the order is just plain stupid.
Rush cares only for "the greater good," which can either mean the survival of people "important" to the ship or anything having to do with the safety of the ship itself, to the point where he manipulates situations into his favor, like when he knew an experiment would destroy the ship and deliberately rigged it so that it would scare off the scientists in charge and allow him to stop the test before the ship was damaged. When blocked from something he wants to study, Rush has no qualms about doing horrible things to get people out of the way or manipulating others to do dangerous tasks Rush would never do himself. Even though he may manipulate situations that involve people dying, Rush himself will not actually kill them, though it's a fine line he's quite aware of.
In his quest to learn about the ship, he has also tried to get people to commit suicide to save others, in one example succeeding and another failing. He will never willingly put himself into a situation where he would get himself killed, as his reason for staying alive is to study the Destiny and explore the universe. Those two things the most important things in his life after his wife died and if he has lost the chance to do both, he will let himself die, unless he can see a way of gaining those chances back and he will do everything in his power to make sure he can.
Deep down and hidden behind his defenses, Rush is someone who cares a lot about the safety of other people. While his "greater good" ideas are mostly about the ship, they do extend to the crew and their safety. He doesn't wish for other people to die and when they do, it hits him just as hard as anyone else, though he prefers to keep that hidden. When one his people is injured (the scientists and a couple of the soldiers), he secretly worries about them and will go visit them to make sure they're okay, but he'll usually hide it behind his jerkass personality. The only person he obviously cares about is Eli Wallace, a young genius that solved something Rush couldn't, and he tries to take a parental/mentor role towards him, but at the same time, Rush is jealous of him and his natural genius, which would beat Rush's intelligence easily if Eli had the proper schooling.
Path to Redemption: Most of Rush's problems stem from the death of his wife (which he claims made him lose his morality), the fact he believes he has nothing to live for anymore beyond his work on Destiny, and that he's just an outright dick to people. He would need someone stubborn enough to push back his defenses and get to the squishy center of feelings and emotions he keeps hidden from everyone. Even once past the issues of his wife, Rush will still be as manipulative as before, willing to sacrifice people for science. Forcing him to realize that he's hurting people and for reasons that aren't as important as he might think will help him out along more, though it'll be a fight as Rush is perfectly content to stay the way he is.
History: http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Nicholas_Rush
Sample Journal Entry: While I'm quite glad to be saved from a certain and agonizing death, I believe I'd rather die down there than lose the chance to continue my work on Destiny. But as I'm sure you won't just drop me back off to die, I might as well ask for a few things, first of which being a doctor. I had been trapped on a planet with no food or water for the past few days and I would like to be checked over. Secondly, I would like to know where I can get food and water, since as stated before, I have been without either. And lastly, is there coffee and cigarettes here that I may have? It's a long shot, but I would like to know just in case there is some.
Sample RP: The night was brighter than it was back on Earth, the sky filled with stars. Rush wasn't looking at them as he stared up, his mind filled with despair. He had been left behind, the colonel had left him here. That fact would have driven a lesser man mad, but Rush was no lesser man.
Besides, Rush was a bit mad to begin with. He pulled himself together and grabbed his pack to see what meager supplies he had with him. Nothing that would last him beyond a day or two if he rationed it carefully, a few instruments to help with studying the downed ship. He runs a hand through his hair and sighs.
"Well, let's see if I can use this ship to get myself off this planet before I die," he says to the air as he picks up his pack and slings it over his shoulder. Rush walks over to the downed craft and makes his way underneath it where the hatch hung over a small ledge. Setting the pack down next to him, he opens it up and pulls out a few tools.
"Wouldn't that be such a surprise for the colonel, me showing up after repairing this craft. What would he even say to that? 'Oh sorry Rush, didn't expect you'd be alive after I stranded you on that planet. Maybe we can fix things between us.'" Rush snorts as he pokes the hatch, looking for a power source. "Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what he'll do. And Dr. Jackson will stop dying and coming back to life repeatedly."
Special Notes:
User LJ:
solidiAIM/IM: requicksilvered
E-mail: liquidsnakeisastalker[at]gmail[dot]com
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Nicholas Rush
Series: Stargate Universe
Age: Late 40's.
From When?: After 1x10 "Justice" when Rush was left on a planet to die
Inmate/Warden: Inmate- Rush is a manipulative bastard who cares about scientific discovery over the safety of the people around him. He dialed the Stargate to an old and falling apart spaceship during an attack on the base they were at just because he didn't want to miss the chance to do so. Also, he has framed someone for murder just to get them out of the way, as well as manipulating someone to sit in a device that basically turned them into a vegetable just so that Rush could gain information about the ship from it.
Abilities/Powers: Rush is a very intelligent man, having degrees in both mathematics and astrophysics as well as dabbling about in numerous other subjects, though he'd usually use his intelligence mainly for attempting to manipulate people. Other than that, he's a regular human, if a bit on the underfed and weak side of the scale.
Personality: The first thing people notice about Rush is that he's not the type who likes to deal with other people. He prefers to isolate himself from other people and instead do science, but he will deal with people if he absolutely has to, although he's not very pleasant to them. Most of his isolation and general need to be alone stems from the death of his wife, which happened two years prior to the series and has affected him greatly, not only making him isolate himself, but to also make himself more unlikable than he was before her death. Also, he claims he lost all of his morality with the death of his wife, which allows him to go through with most of the things he does.
He is not someone people would choose to deal with when Rush does force himself to play with others. He constantly judges people, a right which he believes he has earned due to the fact that he has escaped from his poor childhood. Most people on the ship he tends to either outright ignore or snap at in a sarcastic manner or is just blunt about the fact they have no idea what they're doing. It's very rare when a person can get Rush to rage as much as he does when it involves the colonel, where at one point it escalated from words to physical violence. He's very stubborn and will rarely back down to an authority figure. Rush will also never follow orders if it doesn't suit him or if he just thinks the order is just plain stupid.
Rush cares only for "the greater good," which can either mean the survival of people "important" to the ship or anything having to do with the safety of the ship itself, to the point where he manipulates situations into his favor, like when he knew an experiment would destroy the ship and deliberately rigged it so that it would scare off the scientists in charge and allow him to stop the test before the ship was damaged. When blocked from something he wants to study, Rush has no qualms about doing horrible things to get people out of the way or manipulating others to do dangerous tasks Rush would never do himself. Even though he may manipulate situations that involve people dying, Rush himself will not actually kill them, though it's a fine line he's quite aware of.
In his quest to learn about the ship, he has also tried to get people to commit suicide to save others, in one example succeeding and another failing. He will never willingly put himself into a situation where he would get himself killed, as his reason for staying alive is to study the Destiny and explore the universe. Those two things the most important things in his life after his wife died and if he has lost the chance to do both, he will let himself die, unless he can see a way of gaining those chances back and he will do everything in his power to make sure he can.
Deep down and hidden behind his defenses, Rush is someone who cares a lot about the safety of other people. While his "greater good" ideas are mostly about the ship, they do extend to the crew and their safety. He doesn't wish for other people to die and when they do, it hits him just as hard as anyone else, though he prefers to keep that hidden. When one his people is injured (the scientists and a couple of the soldiers), he secretly worries about them and will go visit them to make sure they're okay, but he'll usually hide it behind his jerkass personality. The only person he obviously cares about is Eli Wallace, a young genius that solved something Rush couldn't, and he tries to take a parental/mentor role towards him, but at the same time, Rush is jealous of him and his natural genius, which would beat Rush's intelligence easily if Eli had the proper schooling.
Path to Redemption: Most of Rush's problems stem from the death of his wife (which he claims made him lose his morality), the fact he believes he has nothing to live for anymore beyond his work on Destiny, and that he's just an outright dick to people. He would need someone stubborn enough to push back his defenses and get to the squishy center of feelings and emotions he keeps hidden from everyone. Even once past the issues of his wife, Rush will still be as manipulative as before, willing to sacrifice people for science. Forcing him to realize that he's hurting people and for reasons that aren't as important as he might think will help him out along more, though it'll be a fight as Rush is perfectly content to stay the way he is.
History: http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Nicholas_Rush
Sample Journal Entry: While I'm quite glad to be saved from a certain and agonizing death, I believe I'd rather die down there than lose the chance to continue my work on Destiny. But as I'm sure you won't just drop me back off to die, I might as well ask for a few things, first of which being a doctor. I had been trapped on a planet with no food or water for the past few days and I would like to be checked over. Secondly, I would like to know where I can get food and water, since as stated before, I have been without either. And lastly, is there coffee and cigarettes here that I may have? It's a long shot, but I would like to know just in case there is some.
Sample RP: The night was brighter than it was back on Earth, the sky filled with stars. Rush wasn't looking at them as he stared up, his mind filled with despair. He had been left behind, the colonel had left him here. That fact would have driven a lesser man mad, but Rush was no lesser man.
Besides, Rush was a bit mad to begin with. He pulled himself together and grabbed his pack to see what meager supplies he had with him. Nothing that would last him beyond a day or two if he rationed it carefully, a few instruments to help with studying the downed ship. He runs a hand through his hair and sighs.
"Well, let's see if I can use this ship to get myself off this planet before I die," he says to the air as he picks up his pack and slings it over his shoulder. Rush walks over to the downed craft and makes his way underneath it where the hatch hung over a small ledge. Setting the pack down next to him, he opens it up and pulls out a few tools.
"Wouldn't that be such a surprise for the colonel, me showing up after repairing this craft. What would he even say to that? 'Oh sorry Rush, didn't expect you'd be alive after I stranded you on that planet. Maybe we can fix things between us.'" Rush snorts as he pokes the hatch, looking for a power source. "Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what he'll do. And Dr. Jackson will stop dying and coming back to life repeatedly."
Special Notes: