(no subject)
player.
NAME/HANDLE: Abe
PERSONAL JOURNAL: n/a
ARE YOU 16 OR OVER?: Yes
CONTACT: PM, aim: abielf@rocketmail.com
OTHER CHARACTERS: n/a
character.
CHARACTER NAME: Cave Johnson
SERIES: Cave and Portal
CANON POINT: 1980, just after the initial tests with moonrocks and conversion gel but before any diagnosis.
AGE: 60 years old.
APPEARANCE: Prepare your eyes
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: n/a
PERSONALITY:
Arrogant, overly ambitious and an ego that has it's own zip code. A lifetime of nothing but success and fortune despite living through the great depression has given Cave an overconfident, egomaniacal view on life. He does what he wants, when he wants, and let's be honest, you aren't man enough to stop him. He's a firm believer of 'doing', not believing in the why or the how.
Cave does not care for safety. At all. He has a harsh disdain for safety regulations, going as far as firing a man on the spot for mentioning it. He seems to tie in recklessness with real success, and to embrace safety measures would be to purposely limit his company's prosperity. Cave's severe dislike of safety seems to be coupled with a dislike of following rules in general. He fires a handicapped man rather than conforming to discrimination laws. He yells at his researchers for telling him to avoid talking about the control group, and insists that he will continue contaminating future tests. He shuns all previously known science, using the term "no hand holding". Most telling, despite the social norms of the era, he proudly proclaims that a woman is the backbone of the facility.
At the center of Cave's being, the one thing he cares about more than all else, is Aperture Science itself. His pride and joy. Over the course of his several recordings, this theme is the one most prevalent. If he calls himself by name, he mentions his ownership of the company soon after. It's highly likely his rick taking personality was augmented by the amount of pride he had in Aperture Science. The pride he had is HIS company that HE built. Despite the number of patents and inventions his company created, he never named a single one after himself.
Cave will be coming from a point shortly after an experiment with moon rocks. An experiment which he himself funded because the company had no money to fund it, and would ultimately result in him contracting "lunar poison" and becoming deathly ill. This one act speaks volumes about Cave's temperament. The idea that he himself underwent testing is stated very nonchalantly, as though it were a common occurance. Despite the outrageous nature of the risk, and the deadly nature of the result of taking that risk, everything is treated as though this is normal. In fact, the first thing Cave begins talking about after mentioning the contraction of his illness is testing the conversion gel. No hospitalization, just straight to testing.
Cave was a lead proponent in the human testing program, a program which began with him gathering some of the country's finest possible human specimens (astronauts, Olympians, soldiers, etc). He showed a large amount of respect for these men and women, due to what they accomplished and the risks they all took to get where they were. What he doesn't show is any kind of remorse or empathy from the dangers he repeatedly put these people through. The canon is simply littered with numerous instances of randomly changing tests, bombarding subjects with radiation, subjects undergoing injuries which could have easily been prevented, implanting devices, etc, etc. He instead embraces these moments, citing them as informative for the good of science. Even after he undergoes senate hearings for missing astronauts (likely to have gone missing during early portal testing), he refuses to shy away from human based testing. In his mind, the pain and suffering these tests caused were easily outweighed by the rapid progress the provided science, and in turn, provided his company. Later he would use the homeless, orphans, psychiatric patients and the elderly. He only stopped testing once it threatened employee retention. I.E., once it threatened to hurt his company.
Cave's biggest fear doesn't appear to be anything of the norm for a businessman, like death or poverty. I think all he fears is the end of his precious company. The only reason he became interested in brain mapping isn't just so he could live forever depite his disease, but so he could run Aperture forever. And the first thing he mentions after that is, should he not be successfully loaded into a computer than he wants Caroline to undergo the process in his stead. He doesn't care what she wants in this situation. She's the only one he trusts to run the place in his absence, so if he can't do it, then it MUST be her. He cannot stand the thought of leaving behind his company to anyone else.
ABILITIES: Other than an unstoppable desire to succeed and get some science done, Cave doesn't hold any other extraordinary abilities. Just a normal old man.
POSSESSIONS:
Some samples of repulsion gel dietary supplement.
samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE:
Over Here
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
Darkness. Silence. The scent of rust and salt water mingled in his nostrils. A chill was in the air. And suddenly, light.
Cave awoke with a start, surprised by the change in his surroundings. Perhaps the lack of a bed tipped him off. He took his time to stand, back aching from laying on the cold metal ground for so long.
"Where in the hell am I?", he muttered to no one in particular. He racked his memory, trying to recall his last moments before consciousness. A party? No, a celebration. His precious company had just been presented with an award, for best
NAME/HANDLE: Abe
PERSONAL JOURNAL: n/a
ARE YOU 16 OR OVER?: Yes
CONTACT: PM, aim: abielf@rocketmail.com
OTHER CHARACTERS: n/a
character.
CHARACTER NAME: Cave Johnson
SERIES: Cave and Portal
CANON POINT: 1980, just after the initial tests with moonrocks and conversion gel but before any diagnosis.
AGE: 60 years old.
APPEARANCE: Prepare your eyes
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: n/a
PERSONALITY:
Arrogant, overly ambitious and an ego that has it's own zip code. A lifetime of nothing but success and fortune despite living through the great depression has given Cave an overconfident, egomaniacal view on life. He does what he wants, when he wants, and let's be honest, you aren't man enough to stop him. He's a firm believer of 'doing', not believing in the why or the how.
Cave does not care for safety. At all. He has a harsh disdain for safety regulations, going as far as firing a man on the spot for mentioning it. He seems to tie in recklessness with real success, and to embrace safety measures would be to purposely limit his company's prosperity. Cave's severe dislike of safety seems to be coupled with a dislike of following rules in general. He fires a handicapped man rather than conforming to discrimination laws. He yells at his researchers for telling him to avoid talking about the control group, and insists that he will continue contaminating future tests. He shuns all previously known science, using the term "no hand holding". Most telling, despite the social norms of the era, he proudly proclaims that a woman is the backbone of the facility.
At the center of Cave's being, the one thing he cares about more than all else, is Aperture Science itself. His pride and joy. Over the course of his several recordings, this theme is the one most prevalent. If he calls himself by name, he mentions his ownership of the company soon after. It's highly likely his rick taking personality was augmented by the amount of pride he had in Aperture Science. The pride he had is HIS company that HE built. Despite the number of patents and inventions his company created, he never named a single one after himself.
Cave will be coming from a point shortly after an experiment with moon rocks. An experiment which he himself funded because the company had no money to fund it, and would ultimately result in him contracting "lunar poison" and becoming deathly ill. This one act speaks volumes about Cave's temperament. The idea that he himself underwent testing is stated very nonchalantly, as though it were a common occurance. Despite the outrageous nature of the risk, and the deadly nature of the result of taking that risk, everything is treated as though this is normal. In fact, the first thing Cave begins talking about after mentioning the contraction of his illness is testing the conversion gel. No hospitalization, just straight to testing.
Cave was a lead proponent in the human testing program, a program which began with him gathering some of the country's finest possible human specimens (astronauts, Olympians, soldiers, etc). He showed a large amount of respect for these men and women, due to what they accomplished and the risks they all took to get where they were. What he doesn't show is any kind of remorse or empathy from the dangers he repeatedly put these people through. The canon is simply littered with numerous instances of randomly changing tests, bombarding subjects with radiation, subjects undergoing injuries which could have easily been prevented, implanting devices, etc, etc. He instead embraces these moments, citing them as informative for the good of science. Even after he undergoes senate hearings for missing astronauts (likely to have gone missing during early portal testing), he refuses to shy away from human based testing. In his mind, the pain and suffering these tests caused were easily outweighed by the rapid progress the provided science, and in turn, provided his company. Later he would use the homeless, orphans, psychiatric patients and the elderly. He only stopped testing once it threatened employee retention. I.E., once it threatened to hurt his company.
Cave's biggest fear doesn't appear to be anything of the norm for a businessman, like death or poverty. I think all he fears is the end of his precious company. The only reason he became interested in brain mapping isn't just so he could live forever depite his disease, but so he could run Aperture forever. And the first thing he mentions after that is, should he not be successfully loaded into a computer than he wants Caroline to undergo the process in his stead. He doesn't care what she wants in this situation. She's the only one he trusts to run the place in his absence, so if he can't do it, then it MUST be her. He cannot stand the thought of leaving behind his company to anyone else.
ABILITIES: Other than an unstoppable desire to succeed and get some science done, Cave doesn't hold any other extraordinary abilities. Just a normal old man.
POSSESSIONS:
Some samples of repulsion gel dietary supplement.
samples.
JOURNAL ENTRY SAMPLE:
Over Here
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
Darkness. Silence. The scent of rust and salt water mingled in his nostrils. A chill was in the air. And suddenly, light.
Cave awoke with a start, surprised by the change in his surroundings. Perhaps the lack of a bed tipped him off. He took his time to stand, back aching from laying on the cold metal ground for so long.
"Where in the hell am I?", he muttered to no one in particular. He racked his memory, trying to recall his last moments before consciousness. A party? No, a celebration. His precious company had just been presented with an award, for best