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Are you over 18: I was 18 in 2006.
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Proof of Reserve: I HAVE FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Character Information
Character Name: Lisa Braeden
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: "Let It Bleed" 6.21, after she gets stabbed and the demon is exorcised
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive...?
History: Lisa Braeden @ Supernatural Wiki
Personality: Lisa is easy to write off as a plot device as a romantic interest for one of the main characters, but I think this really does a disservice to what we do come to understand her as in canon. Before we even meet her we already get to see her through the eyes of Dean in The Kids Are Alright [3.02]; "Gumby Girl" or a hook-up that was the "bendiest weekend of his life". She was a yoga instructor (at the time) which leads to a penchant towards athleticism to a certain degree, enough to make it a profession. Lisa herself admits that she was "wild back then", hooking up with random guys in biker bars, you know "leather jacket, no mailing address". The demon who posses her in Let It Bleed [6.21] goes as far as to call her a slut, though demons also tend to just, you know, say awful things for the sake of saying awful things. Lisa does seem to have gotten around and had a lot of fun doing it. But it was from one of these encounters in her early twenties that led to her son, Ben, who changed her enter life.
Having Ben forced her to grow up. She never names the father on screen, but it's clear that he's not an active part in their lives. Raising a child on your own, especially unexpectedly, is never easy. However, the fact that she decided to do it and has come out of it rather successfully says a lot about her. She's clearly able to support herself and her son well, considering we first meet her having moved into a developing gated community and throwing a huge birthday party for Ben, though we don't know if her previous job as a yoga instructor has anything to do with it. However, the show focuses mostly on her relationship with Ben, not her day job. We are inclined to see her as a mother figure and an active one at that. She is protective of Ben and puts his safety above everything else. Even after spending a good year with Dean, the moment he pushes Ben in Live Free or Twihard [6.05], she knows it's over. Yet it should be noted that she's not over protective, which she expresses annoyance towards Dean when he tries to keep Lisa and Ben in their house for their own safety in Two And A Half men [6.02]. If anything, Lisa shows a remarkable amount of trust through not just allowing but welcoming an acquaintance she knew a decade ago into their lives. This, I believe, hails not just to a maternal instinct that she expresses towards others, but an ability to empathize and understand.
Even early on she tries to sympathize with her friend who lost her ex-husband and the father of her child to an accident, not hesitating at all that they'll "get her some help" to help deal and cope. She's increasingly distracted with worry for that friend until Dean's suggestion that Ben might be his soon shakes her out of it. Dean is arguably the best example, having lived a life that she can't relate to and doesn't want for herself or for Ben, but she is still able to acknowledge that it exists and work with Dean and some of his eccentricities. She doesn't question his advice and urgency when they need to move, having done it more than once in the series (and at least one time on his insistence) and drops everything (likely including work and school) to stay at Bobby's on Dean's request as well. It's only when it moves from safety to paranoia that she puts her foot down, and in a way she acts as a grounding factor and link to the reality that the rest of the world lives in. When Sam reappears, rather than try to hold Dean back, Lisa actually encourages him to go off with his brother because she knows that's what he wants. However, she also offers an unconventional option of having their lives still open to Dean when he can return, and in one piece. This shows that she does not need to follow a set standard--she tried to pick out the more wild and unruly guys to hook up with, remember--but really wants what makes everyone the most content as possible. Dean is important to her and Ben and if his presence makes their lives better, then why should she cut off ties completely? However, when Ben's well-being comes into play and she does, she admits that it's a struggle, that she wants him there but doesn't think that she and Ben can be a part of his life anymore.
In You Can't Handle The Truth [6.06] Lisa shows just how accurate some of her insight is. Dean is cursed to have people tell them the truth as they see it, and Lisa says point blank that she knew Sam's reappearance meant their relationship was over and that the brothers have an unhealthy, messed up co-dependence on each other, something she must have garnered from Dean's side alone since she barley interacted with Sam prior to him going to Hell. (It's uncertain how much Dean has shared with her, but given the implications that Dean keeps things "bottled up" and Winchesters generally being private people, it's not an unlikely assumption that it wasn't much unless she needed to be in the know, and perhaps not even then.) There are things she sees that aren't well in his life, but never once do we see her try to fix or change him. He fit into their lives as well as he could, and she seemed to have accepted him, faults and all. "When the guy who basically saved the world shows up at your doorstep, you expect him to come with a few issues." This doesn't necessarily make her altruistic--she never saw Dean as a charity case--but it does indicate that she sees the good over the bad, an optimism and an enjoyment of the moment for what it is.
Yoga indicates health of the body, but she's also a healthy soul. Breaking off a relationship is never easy, but it was the decision she made for what she saw as the best for her son. They both have to get over him, and Lisa tries to do just that; we don't see her lamenting every second. Instead, she opens herself up and starts dating again. Though she actively tells Dean through the process she wants to be with him but knows she can't, she doesn't once try to rekindle that relationship. She's strong and she needs time to heal, but who doesn't? She sticks to her guns and goes through the motions that are necessary. Ex-lover tropes are easy to fall into but Lisa deftly avoids them because her decisions aren't backed by a need to be vindictive or angry, but out of love. It's the love of her son that she both welcomed Dean into her life and asked him to leave it. "You know what I wanted more than anything? Was a guy that Ben could look up to."
That isn't to say she doesn't take risks, and she does. She didn't really know Dean and while she trusted him to be safe around herself and her son, she knew the possibility of him snapping some day. Not many people would do that. Lisa is a straight-forward person in most respects, though she knows how to phrase things gently when she needs to. However, if she's embarrassed she's liable to dance around the subject and avoid eye contact. She's friendly, social given how many people attended Ben's birthday party and plays a good hostess. She can be prone to sarcasm, but tries to very honest with herself and with others in regards to her own thoughts and feelings, whether good or bad. When she's upset or angry, she has absolutely no problem letting you know. Unfortunately, while she's normally a reasonable person, if she's convinced of something it's hard to shake her of it. Partly as a defense mechanism, Lisa was unwilling to hear Dean's side of things when she was trying to break things off between them. Lisa's emotions are often easy to read on her face, and though her expressions are not extreme, she doesn't often try to hide them. She understands that you have to work for what you want but she's an optimistic realist at the end of the day.
Items on your character at canon point: Just her clothes...
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: As a human, Lisa doesn't have any particular supernatural abilities, and consequently has all the disadvantages one might have against those that do. In Two And A Half Men it's shown that she knows how to use a gun and has at least learned some warding against spirits or demons from Demon like using salt, but she is by no means an expert. She wasn't able to stop a demon from coming in and killing her boyfriend, kidnapping herself and Ben, after all. She is flexible and stays in good shape, self-confident and empathetic. Lisa lived more dangerously in her younger years, having an inclination towards unconventional people and situations. Ben is the most important thing in her life, making him her greatest asset in trying to protect him and also could easily make him her greatest weakness, as she'd do anything for him.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
☛ Dear_Mun Post and subsequent conversation with a grown up Ben
☛ Meme w/ Dean as memory loss!Lisa
If these aren't adequate I'd be more than happy to write something up
Prose Log Sample: (( I tried to set this the day before she and Ben get kidnapped...ish. ))
It had started with the scratching. The sound of nails or maybe claws tapping against the glass pane of her window. In her sleep she heard it, processing it in some drowsy state. Perhaps, years ago, she may have turned it into a beat, a tap dance or something of that ilk and let the dreams follow. But not anymore. Her life changed on Ben's eighth birthday when she found out the boogie man was real and could find it's way in your home. In her home, and it had. So there was no innocuous rhythm, but she heard claws and a threat. It jolted her awake.
Lisa took in a gasp and sat right up, her hair a mess as she looked out towards the window. Of course, there were no claws, no long-fingered hands trying to pry their way inside the safety of her house. (Her third house in the past few years, it's worth mentioning.) Just a cherry blossom tree that had decided to say "hello". Her heart pounded in her chest and she took a few deep breaths, running her hands through her hair. A small smile played on her lips, but it wasn't happy. Dean may be gone, but there's something he left behind even before he came to her doorstep the second time. There's that hesitation, that lurking fear in the back of her mind that what was once simple may not be so easy to explain anymore. Things she didn't want to know or understand have inevitably become a part of her life. But for the life of her she couldn't say she regretted it. Not everything.
"Damn it..." Lisa exhaled slowly, running her hands along her face and pushing her hair back. A quick glance at the clock read 12:38 AM. Much too early to start the day now that she's awake and much too late to give into nightmares. Another soft breath and she pushed herself out of bed. Maybe she should check on Ben. Was she paranoid? No, but even when it wasn't the ghost in the closet and the monster under the bed that tried to keep you up at night, there was nothing quite as reassuring as knowing that her son was safe. On quiet feet, Lisa crossed the hallway to Ben's room, cracking the door open slightly.
And there he was, undisturbed. Just as he should be. After all, the tree wasn't much of a threat, was it?
You're being ridiculous, is what she told herself, even if it was only a half-truth. Part of her rationalized the longer they simply lived, the further away all the stuff of nightmares would slowly fade into the background just as it had been years and years ago. She could hope.
Then why did it still bother her?
At twelve in the morning there weren't many people who would answer her call. Her sister? Well, probably, but that's not the sort of thing she could really talk with her about, especially considering the baby was just over a year old. (Getting sleep around a child that young is a miracle that Lisa couldn't bring herself to rob.) Matt? "Dr. Matt", Dean had sarcastically called him. Well, he might, but what could she say? He was nice, he was normal, adjusted to normal things. What could he possibly have to offer her when she told him she was imagining the tree out front as a monster trying to get in? Probably tell her to stop watching horror movies.
Freddy Krueger never knocks.
Lisa shook her head and turned back towards the hallway, but bed just seemed out of the question. She was thinking, letting her thoughts flow freely in ways she couldn't own up to during the day. For however well-adjusted, how much she felt she was moving forward with her life again, sometimes things would creep back in and remind her of what had happened, what didn't, and what still could. She wasn't sure if it was her heart that was playing with her more or her mind.
Maybe a glass of wine after midnight wasn't too taboo. As they say, "it's five o'clock somewhere."
Player name: Freya
Contact:
Are you over 18: I was 18 in 2006.
Characters in the game already: N/A
Proof of Reserve: I HAVE FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Character Information
Character Name: Lisa Braeden
Canon: Supernatural
Canon Point: "Let It Bleed" 6.21, after she gets stabbed and the demon is exorcised
Is your character Dead, Undead or Alive: Alive...?
History: Lisa Braeden @ Supernatural Wiki
Personality: Lisa is easy to write off as a plot device as a romantic interest for one of the main characters, but I think this really does a disservice to what we do come to understand her as in canon. Before we even meet her we already get to see her through the eyes of Dean in The Kids Are Alright [3.02]; "Gumby Girl" or a hook-up that was the "bendiest weekend of his life". She was a yoga instructor (at the time) which leads to a penchant towards athleticism to a certain degree, enough to make it a profession. Lisa herself admits that she was "wild back then", hooking up with random guys in biker bars, you know "leather jacket, no mailing address". The demon who posses her in Let It Bleed [6.21] goes as far as to call her a slut, though demons also tend to just, you know, say awful things for the sake of saying awful things. Lisa does seem to have gotten around and had a lot of fun doing it. But it was from one of these encounters in her early twenties that led to her son, Ben, who changed her enter life.
Having Ben forced her to grow up. She never names the father on screen, but it's clear that he's not an active part in their lives. Raising a child on your own, especially unexpectedly, is never easy. However, the fact that she decided to do it and has come out of it rather successfully says a lot about her. She's clearly able to support herself and her son well, considering we first meet her having moved into a developing gated community and throwing a huge birthday party for Ben, though we don't know if her previous job as a yoga instructor has anything to do with it. However, the show focuses mostly on her relationship with Ben, not her day job. We are inclined to see her as a mother figure and an active one at that. She is protective of Ben and puts his safety above everything else. Even after spending a good year with Dean, the moment he pushes Ben in Live Free or Twihard [6.05], she knows it's over. Yet it should be noted that she's not over protective, which she expresses annoyance towards Dean when he tries to keep Lisa and Ben in their house for their own safety in Two And A Half men [6.02]. If anything, Lisa shows a remarkable amount of trust through not just allowing but welcoming an acquaintance she knew a decade ago into their lives. This, I believe, hails not just to a maternal instinct that she expresses towards others, but an ability to empathize and understand.
Even early on she tries to sympathize with her friend who lost her ex-husband and the father of her child to an accident, not hesitating at all that they'll "get her some help" to help deal and cope. She's increasingly distracted with worry for that friend until Dean's suggestion that Ben might be his soon shakes her out of it. Dean is arguably the best example, having lived a life that she can't relate to and doesn't want for herself or for Ben, but she is still able to acknowledge that it exists and work with Dean and some of his eccentricities. She doesn't question his advice and urgency when they need to move, having done it more than once in the series (and at least one time on his insistence) and drops everything (likely including work and school) to stay at Bobby's on Dean's request as well. It's only when it moves from safety to paranoia that she puts her foot down, and in a way she acts as a grounding factor and link to the reality that the rest of the world lives in. When Sam reappears, rather than try to hold Dean back, Lisa actually encourages him to go off with his brother because she knows that's what he wants. However, she also offers an unconventional option of having their lives still open to Dean when he can return, and in one piece. This shows that she does not need to follow a set standard--she tried to pick out the more wild and unruly guys to hook up with, remember--but really wants what makes everyone the most content as possible. Dean is important to her and Ben and if his presence makes their lives better, then why should she cut off ties completely? However, when Ben's well-being comes into play and she does, she admits that it's a struggle, that she wants him there but doesn't think that she and Ben can be a part of his life anymore.
In You Can't Handle The Truth [6.06] Lisa shows just how accurate some of her insight is. Dean is cursed to have people tell them the truth as they see it, and Lisa says point blank that she knew Sam's reappearance meant their relationship was over and that the brothers have an unhealthy, messed up co-dependence on each other, something she must have garnered from Dean's side alone since she barley interacted with Sam prior to him going to Hell. (It's uncertain how much Dean has shared with her, but given the implications that Dean keeps things "bottled up" and Winchesters generally being private people, it's not an unlikely assumption that it wasn't much unless she needed to be in the know, and perhaps not even then.) There are things she sees that aren't well in his life, but never once do we see her try to fix or change him. He fit into their lives as well as he could, and she seemed to have accepted him, faults and all. "When the guy who basically saved the world shows up at your doorstep, you expect him to come with a few issues." This doesn't necessarily make her altruistic--she never saw Dean as a charity case--but it does indicate that she sees the good over the bad, an optimism and an enjoyment of the moment for what it is.
Yoga indicates health of the body, but she's also a healthy soul. Breaking off a relationship is never easy, but it was the decision she made for what she saw as the best for her son. They both have to get over him, and Lisa tries to do just that; we don't see her lamenting every second. Instead, she opens herself up and starts dating again. Though she actively tells Dean through the process she wants to be with him but knows she can't, she doesn't once try to rekindle that relationship. She's strong and she needs time to heal, but who doesn't? She sticks to her guns and goes through the motions that are necessary. Ex-lover tropes are easy to fall into but Lisa deftly avoids them because her decisions aren't backed by a need to be vindictive or angry, but out of love. It's the love of her son that she both welcomed Dean into her life and asked him to leave it. "You know what I wanted more than anything? Was a guy that Ben could look up to."
That isn't to say she doesn't take risks, and she does. She didn't really know Dean and while she trusted him to be safe around herself and her son, she knew the possibility of him snapping some day. Not many people would do that. Lisa is a straight-forward person in most respects, though she knows how to phrase things gently when she needs to. However, if she's embarrassed she's liable to dance around the subject and avoid eye contact. She's friendly, social given how many people attended Ben's birthday party and plays a good hostess. She can be prone to sarcasm, but tries to very honest with herself and with others in regards to her own thoughts and feelings, whether good or bad. When she's upset or angry, she has absolutely no problem letting you know. Unfortunately, while she's normally a reasonable person, if she's convinced of something it's hard to shake her of it. Partly as a defense mechanism, Lisa was unwilling to hear Dean's side of things when she was trying to break things off between them. Lisa's emotions are often easy to read on her face, and though her expressions are not extreme, she doesn't often try to hide them. She understands that you have to work for what you want but she's an optimistic realist at the end of the day.
Items on your character at canon point: Just her clothes...
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: As a human, Lisa doesn't have any particular supernatural abilities, and consequently has all the disadvantages one might have against those that do. In Two And A Half Men it's shown that she knows how to use a gun and has at least learned some warding against spirits or demons from Demon like using salt, but she is by no means an expert. She wasn't able to stop a demon from coming in and killing her boyfriend, kidnapping herself and Ben, after all. She is flexible and stays in good shape, self-confident and empathetic. Lisa lived more dangerously in her younger years, having an inclination towards unconventional people and situations. Ben is the most important thing in her life, making him her greatest asset in trying to protect him and also could easily make him her greatest weakness, as she'd do anything for him.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample:
☛ Dear_Mun Post and subsequent conversation with a grown up Ben
☛ Meme w/ Dean as memory loss!Lisa
If these aren't adequate I'd be more than happy to write something up
Prose Log Sample: (( I tried to set this the day before she and Ben get kidnapped...ish. ))
It had started with the scratching. The sound of nails or maybe claws tapping against the glass pane of her window. In her sleep she heard it, processing it in some drowsy state. Perhaps, years ago, she may have turned it into a beat, a tap dance or something of that ilk and let the dreams follow. But not anymore. Her life changed on Ben's eighth birthday when she found out the boogie man was real and could find it's way in your home. In her home, and it had. So there was no innocuous rhythm, but she heard claws and a threat. It jolted her awake.
Lisa took in a gasp and sat right up, her hair a mess as she looked out towards the window. Of course, there were no claws, no long-fingered hands trying to pry their way inside the safety of her house. (Her third house in the past few years, it's worth mentioning.) Just a cherry blossom tree that had decided to say "hello". Her heart pounded in her chest and she took a few deep breaths, running her hands through her hair. A small smile played on her lips, but it wasn't happy. Dean may be gone, but there's something he left behind even before he came to her doorstep the second time. There's that hesitation, that lurking fear in the back of her mind that what was once simple may not be so easy to explain anymore. Things she didn't want to know or understand have inevitably become a part of her life. But for the life of her she couldn't say she regretted it. Not everything.
"Damn it..." Lisa exhaled slowly, running her hands along her face and pushing her hair back. A quick glance at the clock read 12:38 AM. Much too early to start the day now that she's awake and much too late to give into nightmares. Another soft breath and she pushed herself out of bed. Maybe she should check on Ben. Was she paranoid? No, but even when it wasn't the ghost in the closet and the monster under the bed that tried to keep you up at night, there was nothing quite as reassuring as knowing that her son was safe. On quiet feet, Lisa crossed the hallway to Ben's room, cracking the door open slightly.
And there he was, undisturbed. Just as he should be. After all, the tree wasn't much of a threat, was it?
You're being ridiculous, is what she told herself, even if it was only a half-truth. Part of her rationalized the longer they simply lived, the further away all the stuff of nightmares would slowly fade into the background just as it had been years and years ago. She could hope.
Then why did it still bother her?
At twelve in the morning there weren't many people who would answer her call. Her sister? Well, probably, but that's not the sort of thing she could really talk with her about, especially considering the baby was just over a year old. (Getting sleep around a child that young is a miracle that Lisa couldn't bring herself to rob.) Matt? "Dr. Matt", Dean had sarcastically called him. Well, he might, but what could she say? He was nice, he was normal, adjusted to normal things. What could he possibly have to offer her when she told him she was imagining the tree out front as a monster trying to get in? Probably tell her to stop watching horror movies.
Freddy Krueger never knocks.
Lisa shook her head and turned back towards the hallway, but bed just seemed out of the question. She was thinking, letting her thoughts flow freely in ways she couldn't own up to during the day. For however well-adjusted, how much she felt she was moving forward with her life again, sometimes things would creep back in and remind her of what had happened, what didn't, and what still could. She wasn't sure if it was her heart that was playing with her more or her mind.
Maybe a glass of wine after midnight wasn't too taboo. As they say, "it's five o'clock somewhere."