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AIM/IM: mintyfreshevil
E-mail: whiskeybythepint@gmail.com
Other Characters: Beatrix Kiddo, Mark Lilly, Esther Coleman
Character Name: Sterling Malory Archer
Series: Archer
Age: 37
From When?: His temporary drowning (before resuscitation) in "Sea Tunt 2."
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Archer isn't ill-intentioned but he's massively
inconsiderate, self-absorbed, destructive, and abusive largely because he just doesn't understand any other way of going about things. A large part of this may be the company he keeps and the influence of his domineering mother, and time on the Barge may allow him to learn more consideration and humility. Working under a warden will be a challenge all the way for him but with the right approach he may end up working to please a new authority and picking up a few new skills on the way.
Item: Not applicable.
Abilities/Powers: Baseline human, although he is trained in krav maga and proficient with armed weapons of most sorts. He's also good with spycraft in general, having trained under a former black ops field agent and spymaster (his mom). In unusual, if not inhuman, qualities, due to years of alcoholism his liver metabolizes drugs much quicker than the average person, and he appears to be quite resilient to injury.
Personality: The first thing anyone's going to notice about Sterling Archer is his outward confidence, his charismatic and sarcastic veneer, and his enthusiastic approach to countering anything dangerous, threatening, or downright infuriating. Simply put, Archer really enjoys being a secret agent: the intrigue, the appeal, and especially the high stakes. There is nothing he likes more than trotting out his worth as a badass, whether it's free-falling from the top of a skyscraper or shooting an attacking great white shark in the face. Playing up the action-hero stereotype also gives him a great deal of joy, often turning his witty one-liners into geeky references. When not working he is often seducing an endless line of women, relishing the thrill of the chase and taking great pride in his own sexual prowess.
That said, Archer himself admits readily that he is not a happy person. As a child he suffered a great deal of neglect and rejection and as a result a good deal of his persona is overcompensation. His womanizing tendencies (and his disrespect for women in general) stem from his mother's absence in his early childhood and dictatorial parenting in his later and adult years. His brazenly careless attitude and his rudeness towards people who could in some circumstances be called his friends comes from never having had friends growing up and being afraid to show any social vulnerability. His social unease is part of what led to his high-functioning alcoholism, as well: he finds it far easier to ignore or dismiss the unpleasant than to deal with it.
In fact he rarely acknowledges mistakes or regrets at all. It certainly isn't that he doesn't make them: he regularly goes way too far in both his personal and professional lives (not that he admits there is a difference). It's just that he refuses to admit they matter. In his opinion he is still the world's greatest secret agent, regardless of leaving his post to have sex or getting drunk on the job or arguing so loudly with his partners in the field that he gets them captured. The only time his mistakes bother him is when it isn't his fellow agents who have to bail him out, but his mother.
Sterling's relationship with Malory Archer is an extremely complicated one. To describe it as love/hate is overly simplistic. In many ways she is his role model and they share major personality traits: both spies, dangerous, highly sexual, spoiled, dryly and abusively sarcastic, alcoholic. However a great deal of his hero worship is based on the idea of his mother and not her as an actual person, as she is unsupportive and often cruel. Her absence during his first five years, during which he was raised by his valet, is part of what renders Archer so hopeless in the realm of making human connections. Still, she and Sterling show loyalty to each other in between backstabbings, and it is due to her influence that Archer is able to live the high life and hold such a glamorous job.
It isn't that Archer is unskilled. He's definitely talented as a field agent as he
shows when taken by surprise or pursued by multiple enemies, and he has an instinctive awareness of what to do in dangerous situations. It isn't even that he's unintelligent -- despite his self-centered obliviousness and tendency to
blather on about useless pop culture trivia he's shown himself to be surprisingly well-educated and well-read. He is simply massively self-absorbed and doesn't understand how to relate to people at all, finding it far easier to disregard their feelings than consider them. Several times throughout the series he admits he has trouble making friends, having none at all except his ex-girlfriend and fellow field agent Lana Kane -- and even that friendship could not be weirder.
It probably says something that Archer has no issue teasing Lana, mocking her for her love life, and belittling her as an agent. Awkwardly, what this says is that he values her deeply but has never progressed past the playground age emotionally. In fact, this is the kind of attention he pays to everyone he works with or meets socially (save women he's trying to seduce): he simply does not understand people and has never learned how to relate to them maturely. Lana theorizes at one point that he has a type of atypical autism, a thought he later admits may be valid.
It's insecurity that drives a great deal of Archer's personality. He doesn't know where he stands with his mother, he rarely has agreeable relationships with women,
he's afraid to let friends see him vulnerable. The one upside of this is that he's built up the unshakeable belief that he is amazing and everyone is jealous or somehow pettily relating to him, even when the truth is entirely different. This manufactured overconfidence is what drives him to destructive action fairly often, never hesitating to jump into a fight or life-threatening danger. The plus side is he's almost never afraid; the downside is he can't work with normal people who are. People upset about the damage caused by his actions are likewise, in his eyes, entirely overreacting even if human injury or death is involved (and it frequently is). But at heart, he is not a bad person but merely an overexcited and nervous little boy in an adult body. What Archer needs more than anything is to learn to grow up.
Barge Reactions: When he arrives on the Barge Archer will probably react with a mixture of outrage at his circumstances and childish glee: he is a geek, so characters with permissions for fourth-walling will be fanboyed or baited at his discretion. He'll show some fascination with the non-humans, fuck with the humans, learn to hate the Admiral early on, and likely bait quite a few Bargeites in his ramblingly offensive way. Still, if there are chances to look like a hero or badass, he will go after them wholeheartedly and pigheadedly.
He will not be nice to the robots. His thing about robots involves a vacuum cleaner and a hospital visit and he prefers not to talk about it.
Path to Redemption: If they can use sufficient badassery skills, patience, and support to get through Archer's thick skull, the right warden or authority figure could reshape his worldview enough to allow for more consideration toward others. Through a mixture of talking and taskwork, he could learn to take responsibility for his past harmful actions -- although it would need to be a careful approach so as not to guilt him into reconsidering, which he would resist.
Getting away from the ISIS environment and particularly Malory's grasp could give him a fresh perspective, and if he can be guided into making connections a little more carefully than he does back home he'd have to start working up more emotional maturity. At his best Archer may not ever be a good person, but it is entirely likely that with the right guidance and teaching he could go from being a bad person to a decent one.
History: Please see this post.
Sample Journal Entry: Voice test thread
Sample RP:
“Okay, this can’t be too hard.” Archer pulled on his turtleneck, smoothing down the slightly darker black cashmere and checking in his full-length mirror to ensure the lines of the outfit were correct. “I’ve got my turtleneck, a metal pen, a… basic idea of the shape of the ship, and a target. Mission: Trafalgar is under way. …Not that I view myself as Napoleonic, because obviously I’m not.” Yeah, he was ready. Though everyone on board had immediately informed him that going after the Admiral was completely futile, nobody else on board was Sterling Archer, the world’s greatest spy.
The mission was simple: infiltrate the Barge’s ventilation system and travel through the shafts toward the nose of the ship, heading upwards to where he assumed the bridge would be. Then, he was going to make that idiot in the driver’s seat turn straight around and sail home, however he had to do it.
It turned out he had to balance a nightstand on his bed in order to reach the air vent grate in his ceiling, and prying it loose with the tip of a ballpoint pen proved a lot harder than he anticipated. He’d have killed for a knife, and probably would later, but for now he just grabbed onto the grate and lifted himself up, dangling from it for a few seconds before the screws gave and both it and he fell tumbling onto the bed.
“Fuck you, Admiral,” Archer groaned, slowly sitting up from his place bent over the nightstand. “Fuck you right in your giant oversized vagina. You did that on purpose.”
Special Notes:
User DW:
huddleAIM/IM: mintyfreshevil
E-mail: whiskeybythepint@gmail.com
Other Characters: Beatrix Kiddo, Mark Lilly, Esther Coleman
Character Name: Sterling Malory Archer
Series: Archer
Age: 37
From When?: His temporary drowning (before resuscitation) in "Sea Tunt 2."
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Archer isn't ill-intentioned but he's massively
inconsiderate, self-absorbed, destructive, and abusive largely because he just doesn't understand any other way of going about things. A large part of this may be the company he keeps and the influence of his domineering mother, and time on the Barge may allow him to learn more consideration and humility. Working under a warden will be a challenge all the way for him but with the right approach he may end up working to please a new authority and picking up a few new skills on the way.
Item: Not applicable.
Abilities/Powers: Baseline human, although he is trained in krav maga and proficient with armed weapons of most sorts. He's also good with spycraft in general, having trained under a former black ops field agent and spymaster (his mom). In unusual, if not inhuman, qualities, due to years of alcoholism his liver metabolizes drugs much quicker than the average person, and he appears to be quite resilient to injury.
Personality: The first thing anyone's going to notice about Sterling Archer is his outward confidence, his charismatic and sarcastic veneer, and his enthusiastic approach to countering anything dangerous, threatening, or downright infuriating. Simply put, Archer really enjoys being a secret agent: the intrigue, the appeal, and especially the high stakes. There is nothing he likes more than trotting out his worth as a badass, whether it's free-falling from the top of a skyscraper or shooting an attacking great white shark in the face. Playing up the action-hero stereotype also gives him a great deal of joy, often turning his witty one-liners into geeky references. When not working he is often seducing an endless line of women, relishing the thrill of the chase and taking great pride in his own sexual prowess.
That said, Archer himself admits readily that he is not a happy person. As a child he suffered a great deal of neglect and rejection and as a result a good deal of his persona is overcompensation. His womanizing tendencies (and his disrespect for women in general) stem from his mother's absence in his early childhood and dictatorial parenting in his later and adult years. His brazenly careless attitude and his rudeness towards people who could in some circumstances be called his friends comes from never having had friends growing up and being afraid to show any social vulnerability. His social unease is part of what led to his high-functioning alcoholism, as well: he finds it far easier to ignore or dismiss the unpleasant than to deal with it.
In fact he rarely acknowledges mistakes or regrets at all. It certainly isn't that he doesn't make them: he regularly goes way too far in both his personal and professional lives (not that he admits there is a difference). It's just that he refuses to admit they matter. In his opinion he is still the world's greatest secret agent, regardless of leaving his post to have sex or getting drunk on the job or arguing so loudly with his partners in the field that he gets them captured. The only time his mistakes bother him is when it isn't his fellow agents who have to bail him out, but his mother.
Sterling's relationship with Malory Archer is an extremely complicated one. To describe it as love/hate is overly simplistic. In many ways she is his role model and they share major personality traits: both spies, dangerous, highly sexual, spoiled, dryly and abusively sarcastic, alcoholic. However a great deal of his hero worship is based on the idea of his mother and not her as an actual person, as she is unsupportive and often cruel. Her absence during his first five years, during which he was raised by his valet, is part of what renders Archer so hopeless in the realm of making human connections. Still, she and Sterling show loyalty to each other in between backstabbings, and it is due to her influence that Archer is able to live the high life and hold such a glamorous job.
It isn't that Archer is unskilled. He's definitely talented as a field agent as he
shows when taken by surprise or pursued by multiple enemies, and he has an instinctive awareness of what to do in dangerous situations. It isn't even that he's unintelligent -- despite his self-centered obliviousness and tendency to
blather on about useless pop culture trivia he's shown himself to be surprisingly well-educated and well-read. He is simply massively self-absorbed and doesn't understand how to relate to people at all, finding it far easier to disregard their feelings than consider them. Several times throughout the series he admits he has trouble making friends, having none at all except his ex-girlfriend and fellow field agent Lana Kane -- and even that friendship could not be weirder.
It probably says something that Archer has no issue teasing Lana, mocking her for her love life, and belittling her as an agent. Awkwardly, what this says is that he values her deeply but has never progressed past the playground age emotionally. In fact, this is the kind of attention he pays to everyone he works with or meets socially (save women he's trying to seduce): he simply does not understand people and has never learned how to relate to them maturely. Lana theorizes at one point that he has a type of atypical autism, a thought he later admits may be valid.
It's insecurity that drives a great deal of Archer's personality. He doesn't know where he stands with his mother, he rarely has agreeable relationships with women,
he's afraid to let friends see him vulnerable. The one upside of this is that he's built up the unshakeable belief that he is amazing and everyone is jealous or somehow pettily relating to him, even when the truth is entirely different. This manufactured overconfidence is what drives him to destructive action fairly often, never hesitating to jump into a fight or life-threatening danger. The plus side is he's almost never afraid; the downside is he can't work with normal people who are. People upset about the damage caused by his actions are likewise, in his eyes, entirely overreacting even if human injury or death is involved (and it frequently is). But at heart, he is not a bad person but merely an overexcited and nervous little boy in an adult body. What Archer needs more than anything is to learn to grow up.
Barge Reactions: When he arrives on the Barge Archer will probably react with a mixture of outrage at his circumstances and childish glee: he is a geek, so characters with permissions for fourth-walling will be fanboyed or baited at his discretion. He'll show some fascination with the non-humans, fuck with the humans, learn to hate the Admiral early on, and likely bait quite a few Bargeites in his ramblingly offensive way. Still, if there are chances to look like a hero or badass, he will go after them wholeheartedly and pigheadedly.
He will not be nice to the robots. His thing about robots involves a vacuum cleaner and a hospital visit and he prefers not to talk about it.
Path to Redemption: If they can use sufficient badassery skills, patience, and support to get through Archer's thick skull, the right warden or authority figure could reshape his worldview enough to allow for more consideration toward others. Through a mixture of talking and taskwork, he could learn to take responsibility for his past harmful actions -- although it would need to be a careful approach so as not to guilt him into reconsidering, which he would resist.
Getting away from the ISIS environment and particularly Malory's grasp could give him a fresh perspective, and if he can be guided into making connections a little more carefully than he does back home he'd have to start working up more emotional maturity. At his best Archer may not ever be a good person, but it is entirely likely that with the right guidance and teaching he could go from being a bad person to a decent one.
History: Please see this post.
Sample Journal Entry: Voice test thread
Sample RP:
“Okay, this can’t be too hard.” Archer pulled on his turtleneck, smoothing down the slightly darker black cashmere and checking in his full-length mirror to ensure the lines of the outfit were correct. “I’ve got my turtleneck, a metal pen, a… basic idea of the shape of the ship, and a target. Mission: Trafalgar is under way. …Not that I view myself as Napoleonic, because obviously I’m not.” Yeah, he was ready. Though everyone on board had immediately informed him that going after the Admiral was completely futile, nobody else on board was Sterling Archer, the world’s greatest spy.
The mission was simple: infiltrate the Barge’s ventilation system and travel through the shafts toward the nose of the ship, heading upwards to where he assumed the bridge would be. Then, he was going to make that idiot in the driver’s seat turn straight around and sail home, however he had to do it.
It turned out he had to balance a nightstand on his bed in order to reach the air vent grate in his ceiling, and prying it loose with the tip of a ballpoint pen proved a lot harder than he anticipated. He’d have killed for a knife, and probably would later, but for now he just grabbed onto the grate and lifted himself up, dangling from it for a few seconds before the screws gave and both it and he fell tumbling onto the bed.
“Fuck you, Admiral,” Archer groaned, slowly sitting up from his place bent over the nightstand. “Fuck you right in your giant oversized vagina. You did that on purpose.”
Special Notes:
