The Covenant: Pogue Parry RP's
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cupidandpsychoThese are just some RP ficlets I wrote back in 2008 for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
theatrical_muse. My character was Pogue Parry from the 2006 film, The Covenant. I wanted to get these here and add them to my masterlist in the event I ever delve back into the fandom.
For those who haven't seen the film, here's the synopsis stolen straight from imdb.com.
To the students of the Spenser Academy, the Sons of Ipswich are the baddest boys on campus. But that's not all they share. The four friends also share a 300-year-old secret: they're warlocks, the teenage descendants of a 17th-century coven of witches. So when the long-banished fifth son suddenly appears and threatens to kill their loved ones, they realize they must face their enemy in order to prevent him from stealing their powers and shattering the covenant forever.
Pogue is the second oldest of the four Sons, with an affinity for crotch rocket motorcycles and his girlfriend, Kate Tunney.
Describe an individual who has scared you.
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They say absolute power corrupts absolutely and I only need to look at myself to see how true that is. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson after seeing what happened to Caleb's father. If that didn't do it, I probably should have gotten it through my thick skull after Chase nearly killed us all because of his addiction to The Power.
It's funny that it's been Reid, the one of us that we all thought would become addicted, that hasn't used after all that drama and he never even got a taste of what could happen to us. I nearly lost Kate. I nearly lost Caleb. I nearly died because of Chase's addiction and I can't even stop myself from "encouraging" the traffic light on MacGuffin Road to stay green so I won't be late to class. The addiction itself isn't even the worst part. I'm not stupid enough to believe I couldn't get addicted to any drug if I tried it and liked it enough. I just thought I'd be smart enough to stop when the drug started killing me and... I'm not.
I'm still using now that I've ascended and I'm using for the dumbest reasons. I know I'm shaving however many minutes hours off my life every time I use and, yet, sometimes I can't bothered to move my ass from the couch to the fridge to get a soda. Nope. That football game or MotoGP race I'm watching is so much more important than my life.
Describe someone that has scared me? How about someone that scares me every day? That would be the guy that looks back at me every time I look in the mirror.
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Write about a time you were the bearer of bad news.
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"I’m sorry, Abi. I couldn’t bring Honeybun back."
Hard as I tried, I couldn’t do it. And I wish I could have. Anyway, I have always wondered if the result would have been different if I’d had more time to try. But Dad caught us down in the basement, Abi still crying her crocodile tears and me doing all I could to force my Power into the damn thing trying to make it just breathe already when he snatched me up by the back of my neck and starting wailing on me.
It was the first and last time my Dad ever beat my ass. I’d never seen him so angry, hitting me and screaming at me that what I was trying to do wasn’t magic of our kind and that, “… Parry’s can’t use their Power to commit such acts!”
‘Course, I always wondered if he meant we can’t resurrect things because we don’t have the power for it or if we just shouldn’t. Based on Dad’s reaction, I’m thinking it’s the latter. Either way, I’m just too scared to try again.
I still wish I could have brought that damn rabbit back. You try being a hard-ass when your little sister is sobbing her eyes out, begging you to bring her dead pet back to life. I couldn’t wouldn’t just tell her no.
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What principles are sacrosant in your opinion?
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I'll just pretend I didn't have to look 'sacrosanct' up to learn what it meant.
Are anyone's principles really sacrosanct? Under the right circumstances, I think anyone could break their own set of rules. Or maybe that would be the wrong circumstances? I mean, my best friend Caleb wouldn't normally hurt a fly much less a human being. But he's had to hurt people. He even had to kill a guy once. It was self-defense and, really, in the defense of us all but, had anyone asked him if he could kill someone before it happened, he would have said hell no. But who can really say they would never do something and know with 100 percent positivity that it will be true forever? You might mean it today, tomorrow or six months from now. But something might happen a year from now that turns you into a liar.
So I suppose I'll just say that my sacrosanct principle today is:
1) I have no sacrosanct principles.
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What would be your Olympic event and why?
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Swimming definitely would have been my Olympic event. Hell yeah.
Had I been more disciplined in my training, I probably could have made the Olympic team but, really, it wasn't about the competition for me. Sure I liked kicking the next guy's ass. What guy doesn't like that feeling?
[locked] But, for me, the swim team was about doing something and being good at it without the help of The Power. I always knew that, win or lose, I was the one responsible for it. Just me. [/locked]
Plus, I liked the fact that I was better at something than any of the other guys. Sure, we all had our own best swims but it was me, not Reid or Tyler or Caleb, that Coach Miznick tagged for the individual medley. It was me, Pogue Parry, that got the gold medal three times at State and none of the other guys can say that.
Hmm... maybe it was about the competition after all.
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theatrical_muse. My character was Pogue Parry from the 2006 film, The Covenant. I wanted to get these here and add them to my masterlist in the event I ever delve back into the fandom. For those who haven't seen the film, here's the synopsis stolen straight from imdb.com.
To the students of the Spenser Academy, the Sons of Ipswich are the baddest boys on campus. But that's not all they share. The four friends also share a 300-year-old secret: they're warlocks, the teenage descendants of a 17th-century coven of witches. So when the long-banished fifth son suddenly appears and threatens to kill their loved ones, they realize they must face their enemy in order to prevent him from stealing their powers and shattering the covenant forever.
Pogue is the second oldest of the four Sons, with an affinity for crotch rocket motorcycles and his girlfriend, Kate Tunney.
Describe an individual who has scared you.
**************
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely and I only need to look at myself to see how true that is. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson after seeing what happened to Caleb's father. If that didn't do it, I probably should have gotten it through my thick skull after Chase nearly killed us all because of his addiction to The Power.
It's funny that it's been Reid, the one of us that we all thought would become addicted, that hasn't used after all that drama and he never even got a taste of what could happen to us. I nearly lost Kate. I nearly lost Caleb. I nearly died because of Chase's addiction and I can't even stop myself from "encouraging" the traffic light on MacGuffin Road to stay green so I won't be late to class. The addiction itself isn't even the worst part. I'm not stupid enough to believe I couldn't get addicted to any drug if I tried it and liked it enough. I just thought I'd be smart enough to stop when the drug started killing me and... I'm not.
I'm still using now that I've ascended and I'm using for the dumbest reasons. I know I'm shaving however many minutes hours off my life every time I use and, yet, sometimes I can't bothered to move my ass from the couch to the fridge to get a soda. Nope. That football game or MotoGP race I'm watching is so much more important than my life.
Describe someone that has scared me? How about someone that scares me every day? That would be the guy that looks back at me every time I look in the mirror.
******
Write about a time you were the bearer of bad news.
******
"I’m sorry, Abi. I couldn’t bring Honeybun back."
Hard as I tried, I couldn’t do it. And I wish I could have. Anyway, I have always wondered if the result would have been different if I’d had more time to try. But Dad caught us down in the basement, Abi still crying her crocodile tears and me doing all I could to force my Power into the damn thing trying to make it just breathe already when he snatched me up by the back of my neck and starting wailing on me.
It was the first and last time my Dad ever beat my ass. I’d never seen him so angry, hitting me and screaming at me that what I was trying to do wasn’t magic of our kind and that, “… Parry’s can’t use their Power to commit such acts!”
‘Course, I always wondered if he meant we can’t resurrect things because we don’t have the power for it or if we just shouldn’t. Based on Dad’s reaction, I’m thinking it’s the latter. Either way, I’m just too scared to try again.
I still wish I could have brought that damn rabbit back. You try being a hard-ass when your little sister is sobbing her eyes out, begging you to bring her dead pet back to life. I couldn’t wouldn’t just tell her no.
******
What principles are sacrosant in your opinion?
******
Are anyone's principles really sacrosanct? Under the right circumstances, I think anyone could break their own set of rules. Or maybe that would be the wrong circumstances? I mean, my best friend Caleb wouldn't normally hurt a fly much less a human being. But he's had to hurt people. He even had to kill a guy once. It was self-defense and, really, in the defense of us all but, had anyone asked him if he could kill someone before it happened, he would have said hell no. But who can really say they would never do something and know with 100 percent positivity that it will be true forever? You might mean it today, tomorrow or six months from now. But something might happen a year from now that turns you into a liar.
So I suppose I'll just say that my sacrosanct principle today is:
1) I have no sacrosanct principles.
******
What would be your Olympic event and why?
******
Swimming definitely would have been my Olympic event. Hell yeah.
Had I been more disciplined in my training, I probably could have made the Olympic team but, really, it wasn't about the competition for me. Sure I liked kicking the next guy's ass. What guy doesn't like that feeling?
[locked] But, for me, the swim team was about doing something and being good at it without the help of The Power. I always knew that, win or lose, I was the one responsible for it. Just me. [/locked]
Plus, I liked the fact that I was better at something than any of the other guys. Sure, we all had our own best swims but it was me, not Reid or Tyler or Caleb, that Coach Miznick tagged for the individual medley. It was me, Pogue Parry, that got the gold medal three times at State and none of the other guys can say that.
Hmm... maybe it was about the competition after all.
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