Entry tags:
app (deerington)
IN CHARACTER
Character Name: Sarah Manning
Canon: Orphan Black
Canon Point: 2x10, before she visits Marian Bowles' mansion
In-Game Tattoo Placement: This style but larger, following her collarbones
Current Health/Status: Alive & healthy
Age: Approximately 30
Species: Human
History: Wiki
Personality:
Sarah is all about fight or flight. Interestingly, she relies on both in equal measure.
With Sarah, her first instinct is to escape. She's always on the lookout for the next good thing. She runs from responsibility, from the fact that she's a clone, from the fact that she's a twin. She'll sometimes set a goal—a pipe dream, like getting rich and moving to Costa Rica—but more often than not it's the simple act of escape that brings relief for Sarah. The thought of committing to a person or a city or an idea brings anxiety—there's a definite fear of attachment with Sarah.
There's anger, too. Sarah grew up an angry kid in foster care wanting to punish the world, and that anger has never gone away—not really. She’s as quick to fight as she is to run, and she’s good at it, able to make weapons out of objects that other people wouldn’t necessarily think of as dangerous. She’s even been known to use sex as a weapon and a tool to manipulate others, and it’s implied that she’s been doing that since her early teens. In fact, her use of sex as a way to placate Paul was one of his first clues that something was not right with “Beth.” With Sarah, the anger and lashing out isn't out of a belief that the world owes her anything—instead it's from the knowledge, learned at a very young age, that nobody saves you. Nobody protects you. The only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt everyone else first.
The anger she feels isn’t just for other people—she turns that feeling inward, as well. Sarah tends to gravitate toward people she feels she “deserves”: drug dealers, abusers, thieves, and other people who are on the outskirts of society through choice or circumstace. While Sarah may not act as if she regrets doing things like robbing people or using them in order to get what she wants, she feels deep guilt in the aftermath, and expresses it through more self-destructive behavior, believing that she deserves whatever she gets. She frequently says that she doesn’t think she’s a good mother, that she regrets many of her past decisions, and that she’s not a good person in general.
Above all else, though, Sarah is incredibly loyal to the people she loves. When the series starts, that number includes only two people: her daughter and her foster brother. After she first meets her fellow clones face to face, she insists to Felix that they aren’t family and that she still plans on escaping with as much cash as she can get her hands on. However, slowly, she learns to let her fellow clones in, as well as Beth’s old partner Art and her estranged foster mother Siobhan, and finds herself forming strong connections with them. Once Sarah trusts someone, she is loyal to them to the point of being willing to sacrifice herself for them. As someone who grew up lacking those familial connections to other people, when Sarah eventually does consider someone part of her family, she loves them unconditionally. Found family is something extremely important to her.
Sarah, on the surface, believes that it's a dog-eat-dog world. That nobody saves you, so you save yourself. You can't trust anyone because they'll only let you down, and it's better to use people than to be used yourself. However, there's a softer, more vulnerable side of Sarah that is perhaps her truer self—a person who has a huge capacity for love and kindness and who believes that everybody should be able to choose what they want from life, and who will fight to make sure that the people in her life are afforded that chance.
A big part of Orphan Black is the nature vs nurture question, and each of the clones have their own distinct personalities and abilities. Some small things that make Sarah unique among the clones are her resourcefulness and acting ability, things she relies on quite often during the series. However, there are also certain traits that the clones all collectively seem to share, things that are apparently more nature than nurtue: they're impulsive, can be frustratingly stubborn, and don't like to admit that they're wrong or apologize.
Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping: n/a
Inventory:
• Clone phone
• A baggie of cocaine
• This outfit
• A pair of innocent and yet slightly creepy looking garden gnomes
• Mrs S's scrapbook/photo album
Writing Samples: One from a previous game; Two from the TDM.
OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Lor
Player Age: 18+
Player Contact:
Other Characters In Game: Brianna Berenson
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Sarah Manning: Lor
Permissions for Character: Here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: Yes
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: Bodysnatching, disease (It Comes At Night), monsters that can't be fought or reasoned with (It Follows), not knowing who you can trust, Lovecraftian-esque "looking at it makes you lose your mind"
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: n/a
Additional Information:
permissions (deerington)
⇓in character⇓
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Go for it, Soft Sarah is my jam.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Go for it. If things are going to get seriously messed up let's talk first though.
ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Go for it.
SEXUAL CONTENT: Sure, just don't spring it on me out of nowhere.
PSYCHIC ABILITIES: n/a on her part, if you want to use an ability on her let's talk, but it'll most likely be fine.
MAGIC/POWERS: n/a
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Sarah is a normal human, aside from perhaps a sliiightly increased healing ability. It's not really anything resembling something miraculous or a superpower—Sarah is still very much able to get badly hurt, ill, or die, just like any other person. But it means she might have a little extra time to drag herself to a hospital/healer/whatever before she does kick it.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Sarah swears a lot. Her canon deals heavily with elements of bodily choice and unethical human experimentation, buuut that's not likely to come up unless Sarah has already broached the clone subject with her CR. However, it might come up in bracket text.
⇓out of character⇓
BACKTAGGING: Always! Although I may drop things after a month or so unless it's a really important thread. If there's something you are really keen to continue, please let me know!
FOURTH WALLING: Go for it!
THREADHOPPING: Y although I'd prefer not to have characters doing a completely unrelated thread with each other in a post I made, but if it relates to my character or the post in general, go for it!
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS/TRIGGERS: I prefer not to read about animal abuse/animal torture unless it's plot important. It's not a trigger, just upsetting to me.
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Go for it, Soft Sarah is my jam.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Go for it. If things are going to get seriously messed up let's talk first though.
ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Go for it.
SEXUAL CONTENT: Sure, just don't spring it on me out of nowhere.
PSYCHIC ABILITIES: n/a on her part, if you want to use an ability on her let's talk, but it'll most likely be fine.
MAGIC/POWERS: n/a
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Sarah is a normal human, aside from perhaps a sliiightly increased healing ability. It's not really anything resembling something miraculous or a superpower—Sarah is still very much able to get badly hurt, ill, or die, just like any other person. But it means she might have a little extra time to drag herself to a hospital/healer/whatever before she does kick it.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Sarah swears a lot. Her canon deals heavily with elements of bodily choice and unethical human experimentation, buuut that's not likely to come up unless Sarah has already broached the clone subject with her CR. However, it might come up in bracket text.
⇓out of character⇓
BACKTAGGING: Always! Although I may drop things after a month or so unless it's a really important thread. If there's something you are really keen to continue, please let me know!
FOURTH WALLING: Go for it!
THREADHOPPING: Y although I'd prefer not to have characters doing a completely unrelated thread with each other in a post I made, but if it relates to my character or the post in general, go for it!
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS/TRIGGERS: I prefer not to read about animal abuse/animal torture unless it's plot important. It's not a trigger, just upsetting to me.
Entry tags:
warner isle app;
Online handle: Lor
Age: 31
Preferred contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
errorchord
Character name: Sarah Manning
Canon and canon point: 3x04, when she's knocked out by a Castor clone.
History: Wiki here, though it only goes up to the end of season two. In the first four episodes of S3, Sarah's daughter is threatened and she sends her to Iceland in hiding; Sarah goes searching for both her twin sister and for the original genome, hoping that it will provide a cure for the clones' degenerative illness; and Sarah discovers that the Castor clones are the Leda clones' biological siblings, before she's captured by one of them.
Personality:
Sarah is all about fight or flight. Interestingly, she relies on both in equal measure.
With Sarah, her first instinct is to escape. She's always on the lookout for the next good thing. She runs from responsibility, from the fact that she's a clone, from the fact that she's a twin. She'll sometimes set a goal—a pipe dream, like getting rich and moving to Costa Rica—but more often than not it's the simple act of escape that brings relief for Sarah. The thought of committing to a person or a city or an idea brings anxiety—there's a definite fear of attachment with Sarah.
There's anger, too. Sarah grew up an angry kid wanting to punish the world, and that anger has never gone away—not really. She’s as quick to fight as she is to run, and she’s good at it, able to make weapons out of objects that other people wouldn’t necessarily think of as dangerous. She’s even been known to use sex as a weapon and a tool to manipulate others, and it’s implied that she’s been doing that since her early teens. In fact, her use of sex as a way to placate Paul was one of his first clues that something was not right with “Beth.”
The anger she feels isn’t just for other people—she turns that feeling inward, as well. Sarah tends to gravitate toward people she feels she “deserves”: drug dealers, abusers, thieves, and other people who are on the outskirts of society. While Sarah may not act as if she regrets doing things like robbing people or using them in order to get what she wants, she expresses her guilt through more self-destructive behavior, believing that she deserves what she gets. She frequently says that she doesn’t think she’s a good mother, that she regrets many of her past decisions, and that she’s not a good person in general.
Above all else, though, Sarah is incredibly loyal to the people she loves. When the series starts, that number includes only two people: her daughter and her foster brother. After she first meets her fellow clones face to face, she insists to Felix that they aren’t family and that she still plans on escaping with as much cash as she can get her hands on. However, slowly, she learns to let her fellow clones in, as well as Beth’s old partner Art and her estranged foster mother Siobhan, and finds herself forming strong connections with them. Once Sarah trusts someone, she is loyal to them to the point of being willing to sacrifice herself for them. As someone who grew up lacking those familial connections to other people, when Sarah eventually does consider someone part of her family, she loves them unconditionally.
What are they in for? Identity theft, possession/sale of illegal substances, abandonment of her daughter, grievous bodily harm, shoplifting, theft of over $10,000.
Pick a number from 1-99: 22!
Inventory:
• Photo of Kira
• A cell phone
• Leather jacket
Age: 31
Preferred contact:
Character name: Sarah Manning
Canon and canon point: 3x04, when she's knocked out by a Castor clone.
History: Wiki here, though it only goes up to the end of season two. In the first four episodes of S3, Sarah's daughter is threatened and she sends her to Iceland in hiding; Sarah goes searching for both her twin sister and for the original genome, hoping that it will provide a cure for the clones' degenerative illness; and Sarah discovers that the Castor clones are the Leda clones' biological siblings, before she's captured by one of them.
Personality:
Sarah is all about fight or flight. Interestingly, she relies on both in equal measure.
With Sarah, her first instinct is to escape. She's always on the lookout for the next good thing. She runs from responsibility, from the fact that she's a clone, from the fact that she's a twin. She'll sometimes set a goal—a pipe dream, like getting rich and moving to Costa Rica—but more often than not it's the simple act of escape that brings relief for Sarah. The thought of committing to a person or a city or an idea brings anxiety—there's a definite fear of attachment with Sarah.
There's anger, too. Sarah grew up an angry kid wanting to punish the world, and that anger has never gone away—not really. She’s as quick to fight as she is to run, and she’s good at it, able to make weapons out of objects that other people wouldn’t necessarily think of as dangerous. She’s even been known to use sex as a weapon and a tool to manipulate others, and it’s implied that she’s been doing that since her early teens. In fact, her use of sex as a way to placate Paul was one of his first clues that something was not right with “Beth.”
The anger she feels isn’t just for other people—she turns that feeling inward, as well. Sarah tends to gravitate toward people she feels she “deserves”: drug dealers, abusers, thieves, and other people who are on the outskirts of society. While Sarah may not act as if she regrets doing things like robbing people or using them in order to get what she wants, she expresses her guilt through more self-destructive behavior, believing that she deserves what she gets. She frequently says that she doesn’t think she’s a good mother, that she regrets many of her past decisions, and that she’s not a good person in general.
Above all else, though, Sarah is incredibly loyal to the people she loves. When the series starts, that number includes only two people: her daughter and her foster brother. After she first meets her fellow clones face to face, she insists to Felix that they aren’t family and that she still plans on escaping with as much cash as she can get her hands on. However, slowly, she learns to let her fellow clones in, as well as Beth’s old partner Art and her estranged foster mother Siobhan, and finds herself forming strong connections with them. Once Sarah trusts someone, she is loyal to them to the point of being willing to sacrifice herself for them. As someone who grew up lacking those familial connections to other people, when Sarah eventually does consider someone part of her family, she loves them unconditionally.
What are they in for? Identity theft, possession/sale of illegal substances, abandonment of her daughter, grievous bodily harm, shoplifting, theft of over $10,000.
Pick a number from 1-99: 22!
Inventory:
• Photo of Kira
• A cell phone
• Leather jacket
Entry tags:
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Basics
| NAME: Sarah Manning AGE: 30 NATIONALITY: Born in the UK, moved to Canada when she was 12 (her accent is English, her vocab tends to be a mix of both.) RACE: Human OCCUPATION: As if, tbh. TITLE/RANK: n/a |
HEIGHT: 5'4" BUILD: Small, wiry HAIR: Brown, messy/wavy EYES: Brown SKIN: Pale BEARING: Closed off, tense |
| DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: n/a | |
Status
who knows
Reputation
Shares a face with Helena and Cosima.
Hooks
*** ANY PLOT IDEAS YOU HAVE OR THINGS YOU ARE WANTING TO EXPLORE WITH THE CHARACTER SO LIKEMINDED FOLKS CAN HIT YOU UP WITHOUT WAITING FOR A CR MEME. ***
backdated to 11/7
[late that night, after all the drama with the cure, Sarah knocks lightly (so lightly, like part of her is hoping that Cosima won't hear it) on the door to Cosima's room. she still looks exhausted and now, additionally, it's obvious that she's been crying. so that's pitiful.]
Entry tags:
cr chart - MoM
cosima niehaus
clone
alison hendrix
clone
sarissa theron
"clone"
rachel duncan
clone
clara oswald
friend
breeze
niece?
chloe price
friend
ruby lucas
??? oh god
jesse pinkman
boss
daisy johnson
friend
elliott alderson
friend
joseph kavinsky
wanker
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cawaii
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[it's time to stop being an avoidant tit and actually talk with cosima, so sarah waits until she's pretty sure cosima is alone in her lab before going down there and knocking on the door]
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p.s. watch orphan black
ALSO since I'm at like 14k comments and everybody is ICly on vacation does anyone want to do a question meme? :> (Yes, the answer is yes.)
christmas shenanigans
Brianna and Sarah have maybe gotten stuff for your character, so comment here and I'll tell you what! Because lists are for more motivated people (hi ashley).