diadem:: application.

[primepool]

Player Information

Player: Hannah
Contact: scathefire
Invitation OR characters played: I invited myself.
Are you over 18?: Yes


Character Information

Character: Wade Winston Wilson, aka Deadpool
Canon: The ending of Deadpool&Wolverine
Age: Not given canonly, so I made him 48, the same as his actor
History: Wiki link here.
Possessions: While the contents of his pouches are generally Unknown, I request the following for comedy:
+ a wrapped Twinkie
+ a handful of toonies
+ probably some cheese
+ miscellaneous, useless items, such as paperclips, dustbunnies, and probably M&M's he found on the floor
Weapon: Twin katanas made of adamantium; one has "DR" on the end pommel and the other has "BS" in the same location

Powers/Abilities:

++ REGENERATION/HEALING FACTOR. While not immune to actually being injured, every wound inflicted on Wade will heal; the more intense or traumatic, the longer it takes to heal. He can fully regrow limbs if torn off akin to a starfish, survive being torn in half, blown up, stabbed, set on fire, etc. As long as a drop of Wade's blood still exists, he can regenerate from it. He can also reattach limbs if removed and have them heal and be fully functional much faster than regenerating them completely. This also leads to him having an immunity to other diseases, poisons, and toxins, and he has to imbibe a significant amount of alcohol or drugs to feel their effects. However, anyone with superhuman senses would still be able to detect he's a walking meatsack of super cancer still.

++ TELEPATHIC RESISTANCE. Sure, Deadpool is not completely immune to telepathy, but being in his brain can be a very confusing and disturbing experience. Delve too deep into his thoughts and you may have to come to terms with the knowledge that the entirety of your world is a fictional work made by the people... out there. And that's on top of all his very loud emotional instability, the trauma of his torture, a mind that somewhat borders psychopathy, and the ceaseless regeneration of his cells washing his brain around in a constant state of flux.

++ STRENGTH. While far from the strongest mutant around, Deadpool's strength about doubles that of a normal human's, allowing him to easily break bones, bust down doors, or carry certain 400 pound neanderthals.

++ PAIN RESISTANCE. It ties in a bit to his regeneration in a “strength of mind” kind of way, because he can also withstand enough pain to saw off one of his hands without much struggle, for example. Most of the time this is used for comedy, so his reactions to pain can be mixed (depending on what is funnier in the scenario) but I think enough traumatic injuries have happened to him on screen (with not a ton of reaction) that he has this naturally to a noticeable degree.

++ ENHANCED AGILITY/REFLEXES. While debatable whether this is considered another facet of his mutation (especially after the deletion of Wolverine: Origins from his timeline, where he originally had this power), Deadpool is extremely quick in a fight, and can slice at least one bullet shot his way with his swords and dodge swipes or shots from some of the quickest fighters out there. His fighting style involves a lot of gymnastics-like moves and he uses his agility to his advantage -- even when him getting hit by a weapon doesn't really matter in the long run. It still hurts, though!


Application Questions

Who is the most important person in their life and why? What might be different if this person hadn't been around?

The most important person in Wade's life is Vanessa, his girlfriend through Deadpool 1 and 2. She is basically the force he keeps living for. Though Vanessa isn't perfect, she is perfect to Wade. Before her, all he was was a merc who was helping kids deal with stalkery boyfriends (and maybe occassionally killing if the time called for it.) He had no direction in life. Though we don't spend a lot of time with Wade prior to his mutation in Deadpool 1, there was this sense that he would just sort of drift through his life from job to job and drinking at St. Margaret's without anything else to really offer the world. He had one friend (who was a bastard) and no one else to speak of.

Then he meets her, and they move in together, and a montage is shown of them just completely adoring each other. Wade and Ness also have a sort of catchphrase between them: "your crazy matches my crazy." Wade was always shown to be a little off, but with Vanessa, he never had to worry, because they were on the same level. She was a weird fuck like he was. She respected his weird interests, his sexual proclivities, his mercing job.

Then, Wade suddenly succumbs to the cancer he didn't know he had, and he succumbs hard. His health starts declining rapidly, and through that, Vanessa still stays with him. Even when they get to the point where it's clear he's not going to survive, Vanessa stays. Wade accepts that he's going to die, but Vanessa never does. He loves her for it, which is why he leaves her.

And then we turn to his mutation, where he is tortured to the point of activating a dormant mutant gene in him that completely corrupts his physical appearance, mottling all his skin and making him lose his hair, his nipples, and his navel. While his mutation keeps Wade alive, he's not sure what he has to live for beyond revenge. And Ness? God, he's terrified she won't be able to look at him.

Eventually, at the climax, she does. And she doesn't reject him. She accepts him back pretty damn fast considering he abandoned her for over a year without contact and the whole time she assumed he was dead from his cancer.

Like, is there a more perfect woman? She doesn't care he's ugly, that he's a murderer, that he's a weird fuck. And they eventually talk about having a family together. That's how committed she is to staying with him, even though he's a mutant now in a world that treats mutants with a high degree of suspicion (more in the X-Men movies than in the Deadpool ones, but there are hints from it that are shown, and both franchises occur in the same world.)

If he had never met Vanessa, it fully seems like Wade would simply have given in to his cancer and died. He would've had no reason to try to keep living (which is why he submits himself to the shady practices in the Workshop that turn him into a mutant), or to keep searching out cures -- Vanessa is the one who pushes him into this. Even Wade's "best friend" says things like, "I should take a picture of you now so I remember you after you die from cancer." He would've never become a mutant, so he never owuld've survived his cancer, and he would never have been an X-Man or tried to be a hero... and he never would've made Disney a billion dollars.

Is there an event in your character's life that they'd do differently? How so and why?

There is indeed! Actually, there's an entire movie about this. In Deadpool 2, Vanessa dies specifically because of men coming after Wade because he failed to kill one of his targets during a merc hunt, and they followed him home. She's unfortunate collateral when they attack him at his front door, and dies from a stray bullet.

While Wade did change this event (eventually he used a time traveling device and changed the moment she died so she would live and the man killing her would die), there is no undoing the guilt he lives with. For a long period in his life, he did live knowing she was dead, and that it was his fault, and the majority of that time he spent trying to kill himself so he wouldn't have to live without her. It was the lowest point of his life. Even though he can't die, his life as a mercenary is lonely and brutal. Vanessa was this bright spark -- the thing he came home to every day that put a smile on his face. Even a lot of his work as a merc was for them so he could put food on the table for the two of them... and so they could start a family.

This is the real crux of his failure to protect her. Originally, the night she died, they were already planning on attempting to get her pregnant, to have children and start a family. Obviously, her dying ruined this chance. But even after Wade brought her back, there are some indications (by the way she treats him in DP&W, and their subsequent breakup and how he reacts to both) that Wade believes she blames him for it. Her dying, whether she's alive now or not, ruined Wade's chances for having a happy life with a family with her. He's never going to think of anyone or love anyone the way he loves her, and his breakdown between that and feeling like a failure eventually led to their breakup, which remains in place even in his current canon.

If he could change anything, he would have made it so it never happened in the first place -- he would've finished his job, he would've been quicker, he would've protected her first thing instead of trying to make a joke. Who he is as a person is the reason she died, and nothing he can change in the timeline will change that fact.

What's the greatest challenge you foresee your character facing in the setting?

Honestly, and in a funny way, it's dealing with other people. Or, rather, making connections with other people. The horror of the place won't phase him, and Wade's already a mutant mercenary, so he's dealt with shitty politics and people trying to murder him. He has few social connections in canon, but they're VERY important to him. It just usually takes some sort of traumatic event for them to be established.

Wade doesn't hate people or actively dislike them, but he's unfortunately A Lot to Deal With and an asshole to boot. Not only does he incessantly talk and make references to an excrutiating degree, but he's often callous about other people's feelings or traumas -- most of his jokes are at other people's expense. And if he doesn't like someone? He's not even blinking an eye if they die. It doesn't help on top of that that he's a merciless killer and does not hesitate to commit further murder when it will solve a problem faster.

In fact, he's very much the opposite of Batman: if you kill your villains immediately, then you save future headaches! There's an infinite number of British villains to face off against, anyway.

What's the easiest thing you foresee your character adapting to in the setting?

The world itself! Being a Marvel character makes a lot of things easy to digest -- they had a whole arc of evil aliens committing genocide, after all -- so any weird cosmic monsters will be digestable. People dying? Yeah, that happens a lot. And Wade himself kills a lot of people. He's also timetraveled, attempted to kill baby Hitler, hopped through different universes and been killed by variants of a movie hero... the works!

Also, specifically for Wade, since he has the ability to "see" the fourth wall -- that is, he knows specifically he is a fictional comic book/movie character -- a lot of things don't really phase him anymore. He deals with this through humour and, probably, from being a little off his rocker himself. The strange happenings of cosmic storms will be just another RP event to him! After all, he'll know he's in a written roleplay medium now.

Otherwise, Wade, as a mutant, has also dealt with discrimination; he was once thrown in a jail specifically made for mutants, strapped in a collar that erased his mutation which essentially led to him slowly dying of cancer. He's been through a lot, and to keep the narrative interesting, knows he'll be dealing with a lot more.


Samples

Sample: Had a top level on the TDM here!