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tripled_mods) wrote in ddd_news2012-01-01 12:59 pmAPPLICATIONS | 2012; 01
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Player LJ:
Way to contact you:
Email: andrusi@gmail.com
AIM: Andrusi
Other:
Are you at least 15?: I'm nearly twice that.
Current Characters: Karen Minazuki
Character: Andrusi
Fandom: Drama Drama Duck OOC Comm
Character Notes:
History: On February 1, 1984, a boy named Andrew was born in the city of Durham, North Carolina. He was a fat, ugly little baby, so his parents were forced to escape to the smaller North Carolina city of Concord. Nothing much happened until he was around five, when he developed ridiculous obsessions with computers and little robot toys called Transformers. Even then, his life appears to have been fairly ordinary, and by 2001 or so he was the oldest of three brothers, and had taken on the nickname Andrusi for his various Internet-related pursuits.
For reasons that have never been adequately explained (Transformers?), Andrusi decided to apply to college with the intention of becoming a mechanical engineer, which he began in 2002. At this point he promptly began performing embarrassingly in class (including his archnemesis Chemistry, which he had to take three times!), but after an eye-opening discussion with his parents, he decided to embrace his true self and change majors to computer science. This went a lot more smoothly, and he graduated in 2007. During his time in college, one good(?) thing that happened to him was that he discovered a weird magical girl anime called Pretty Cure, which he quickly began to enjoy on a similar level to his still-growing collection of Transformers.
Unfortunately, the job market for computer programmers in Concord was not so great, and Andrusi found himself with a lot of free time. As his job search began to seem more and more futile, he began to seek other things to do with his time, which led him to apply for a character in, of all things, an Internet roleplaying game. Naturally he picked someone from Pretty Cure, one "Karen Minazuki," and dove right in. In a telling sign of things to come, the first things he had Karen do were talk to Detective Conan characters and make vague lesbian advances towards a princess. I guess this must have provided him with renewed enthusiasm or something, because in 2009 he ended up finally getting a job, though he worked at a theme park for a season before I guess the writers finally remembered he was supposed to be a programmer and had him start working in IT doing something called "application support and license management" which appears to actually be "whatever we feel like having him do today." And that's the situation he's in at the start of the series proper, where I'm taking him from.
Personality: The first thing to note about Andrusi is that he's all about the terrible jokes. Puns are his favorite, but he makes jokes of all kinds, up to and including apping himself at a Dreamwidth roleplay. One of his favorite dumb jokes goes: "Only one, but he'd better be careful about it, or this could get confusing. How many time travelers does it take to change a light bulb?" He's also kind of obsessed with Transformers and Pretty Cure--he goes to Transformers conventions regularly and watches Pretty Cure religiously. Andrusi is also, unapologetically, a huge pervert. He usually overtly acts perverted towards other female characters, but only ones he already knows aren't interested, and in person he sure seems to like hanging out with his male co-workers a lot, so I dunno what that says about him. That said, he's generally friendly outside of his various quirks, and he seems to like helping people out with his computery skills (as especially seen during the Release 88 arc), though it seems like there's probably a "showing off" aspect to that too.
Also, he seems to think the word "hug" is really funny, for reasons that haven't been explained yet.
Other: Andrusi appears to get his copies of Microsoft operating systems, Sonic games, etc. from an alternate universe where they all aren't nearly as terrible as people on the Internet seem to think he's required to believe. I believe this means he has a canon basis for being able to worldhop.
Additional Links:
First Person (entry type):
Okay, I need someone to explain this to me. Why do people find it so objectionable that someone doesn't like the same foods as them?
I mean, I don't like onions. What's wrong with that? It isn't even that I dislike the taste, I just think the texture is weird. Why is this a problem? Because apparently it really bothers some people.
Or pizza. I like thick-crust pizza, the sort of thing you get from most pizza restaurant chains. My dad likes New York style pizza. That's fine, right? No, apparently he thinks that means he's "failed" me, because only the pizza he likes--which still isn't anything like an actual Italian pizza--is "real" pizza, somehow.
Why is this an issue? Seriously?
Third Person:
Urgh. Where had the weekend gone? Here it was, Sunday afternoon already, and Andrusi was sitting in his bedroom with a slight headache (the Tylenol hadn't helped much). To make matters worse, writing the first-person sample for his application had made him hungry. And his Pepsi Throwback stash was gradually being depleted again.
Adjusting his glasses yet again (there seemed to be something off about the frames, he needed a new set), he sat back for a moment, looking around for inspiration. Oh, there were the Transformers on his desk. He really needed to talk himself into putting some of those away at some point, since new stuff was coming out and he needed to make room. Ironhide would go in the box, probably. Maybe Warpath too.
There was his 3DS, sitting on top of an external hard drive. The game machine always worked nicely, and was perhaps the most reliable piece of electronic equipment he owned, which was much appreciated since he was in love with the little thing. The hard drive, less so. He'd run into disk errors trying to watch Heartcatch episode 28, much to his frustration. And then he'd gone and downloaded Smile episode 9 to the same drive. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Finally, it hit him. He was apping himself as an April Fools's Day joke. Why not just write his third-person sample about his attempt to come up with a third-person sample? So that was what he did.
Rejected