Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Head Honcho

Character Profile #1



Name: Lord Chaos

Identity: James Cavaliere Jr.
- not public

Occupation: Career Criminal
- Boss of the Chaos Organization

Appearance:
- Height: 6' 0"
- Weight: 170
- Features: Long scar over left side of face from hairline, through left eye, to chin. Secondary scar that of a bullet wound over left eye. Missing left eye. Brown hair (natural, hair changes when he needs to). Missing left arm.
- Attire: Suit, dress shirt, tie, dress shoes. Suit is missing left arm.

Family: James Cavaliere Sr. (father, deceased), Joanne Cavaliere (mother, deceased), Anthony Cavaliere (brother)

Ability: Generation of constructs
- Power manifests in the form a black mist from his body. The mist is shaped and formed into solid form constructs powered by imagination.
- Ability acts as a reflex, protecting him from external harm
- His twisted psyche makes his constructs appear as things of deepest nightmares
- Constantly has a form of a mask over his face and appendage where his missing arm should be. Ability swirls around him in a chaotic storm of black horrid figures.

Psychological profile: Accident in past has caused damage to his left frontal lobe. His twisted sense of morality was caused by this incident such in the case of Phineas P. Gage. He is a sociopath and revels in his odd and diabolical agenda of world conquest or destruction, which ever comes first.
- Shows open concern for only other members of the Chaos Organization, he has even shown to put himself at risk to protect them.
- Charisma and persuasiveness, to a deadly degree, is the only way to explain how he was able to form the Chaos Organization out of the criminals that are a part of it.

History: James and Joanne Cavaliere were two of the finest officers in the history of the Justice Agency. Their two sons, both with amazing abilities, were also on their way to becoming fine officers as well. Enrolling early in the Justice Agency Powered Placement Program it seemed that Anthony had inherited his mother's sensory perception, an ability to be completely aware of all things happening within 15 feet of him, as well as heightened agility and James had received his father's invulnerability and heightened strength. They went through officer training and were on their way to becoming full fledged officers at age 18. Their parents died in a confrontation with a career criminal known as Doctor Phantom, a member of the Council when Anthony was 16 and James was 14.
They soldiered on through their parents death, Anthony becoming an officer and eagerly awaiting to work with his brother. On James's officer examination there was an accident in the live fire range. A series of bullets were deflected off his body, as per usual with his ability, but this time one got through, lodging itself into his frontal lobe. James was rushed to the emergency ward and went into a coma for 2 months. This was the birth of Lord Chaos. The damage to his frontal lobe damaged the moral center of his brain, twisting his entire personality. When he woke up he knew nothing of who he was other than that his brother was Anthony. He killed the men attending him and made his way out of the Justice Agency headquarters.
With his twisted morality and ability he turned to organized crime for a way of life. He worked as a goon for several years until he gained the attention of Doctor Phantom. Through him he gained knowledge about his true ability, construct generation. His invulnerability was simply his body generate small force fields around him large enough to block whatever was going to impact him. He expanded his ability to create full form constructs, giving form to twisted images that filled his dark imagination.
With his new fame as Doctor Phantom's number 1 in the organized crime world he started to appear on the Justice Agency's radar. During an attempt to arrest Doctor Phantom a squad of Justice Agency police came into contact with James, now with the moniker of Lord Chaos. Of this group his brother, Anthony, was the leader of the operation, taking on his first big mission as the new Swordsman of the Justice Agency, the title given to the head of the force. Chaos's new grasp on his ability was too much for the force and the brothers were soon face to face. Chaos wanted to destroy the last nagging bit of his old life that he could remember and struck quick and hard at Anthony. On his back and pinned, Chaos's hands wringing Anthony's throat he had no choice but to reach for one of his tactical knives and bring it up to knock Chaos off. The knife ripped through the left side of Chaos's face and destroyed his eye. He reeled back in pain and Anthony reached for the only item, his sword, used mostly for show, and brought it down on his brother in frantic need to save his own life. The blade slashed through skin and bone and lobbed Chaos's left arm clear off. The knife having cut Chaos's mask from his face Anthony could see that he has just maimed his own brother. Not wanting to lose his best asset, Doctor Phantom formed a distraction and made a get away with Chaos in toe.
Years have passed and Lord Chaos has resurfaced. His goal, complete and utter domination of everything on this earth. He has a plan, a diabolical and convoluted plan and this time there will be no failure.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Problem solved... kinda...

Greetings folks!

This is Fiore here asking, how are you?

So from last we talked it seems that my project has gone through a evolution of sorts. Still is a narrative story, still is an installation, but the problem of how to best get the audience involved is being addressed more as the key problem to solve. I have been looking heavily into the artist Deb Sokolow

Portfolio site located at: http://debsokolow.com/home.html

She creates installations that bring detective stories told through the second person to interact with the audience. They move through the space and uncover evidence and interact with the installation itself to solve the story and get to one of the multiple endings.

I wanted the audience to interact with my piece but the monotony of shuffling though papers to solve the mystery would never hold the attention of the average person for long. Now the installation will become a sort of "choose your own adventure" mystery involving the characters I've established for the story. There will be several set junctures in the story, those already established in previous posts, but there will also be parts that change the story and inevitably alter the ending.

Still working on Character sketches
Still reading a few books
Gonna start working on a layout sketch to replace the model I made before of the old installation.