Post by JEAN-HENRI THENARDIER on Aug 18, 2013 0:33:41 GMT -5
Jean-Henri Thenardier
"Master of the House!"
OOC: Mark, 38, 1 or 2 years, Retrograde affiliation, I think.[/center]
Canon: Les Miserables
Face-claim: Al Pacino
Social Status: Middle class. He has never wanted to work in his life, so he steals and sells drugs instead. It helps that he has a bar and grill on the lower West side of New York to help as a front for his illegal activities.
Occupation: Bar owner.
Age: 56
Appearance: He’s a messy man even when he wears a suit and tie. His hair is usually unkempt. His clothes are usually two or three sizes too big; he looks like if he’s playing dress up with his big brother’s clothes. And if everything does fit and his hair is combed nice and neat, you can see that his pants and suit are dirty here and there.
He’s a short man, about 5’8â€, tanned mainly from being sprayed in salons, so he has an orange tint. He doesn’t try hard enough to keep himself fit and he doesn’t care about his appearance. Why should he? He rules his domain. Who’s going to say anything about the way he looks who’ll survive to see the next morning?
Overall Personality:He’s a criminal, lower class version of Basil Fawlty. He insults people as much as says hello to them. He wants your money and doesn’t care what he does to get it. No, I don’t mean he’ll show you a good time and give you the best customer service in New York. I mean he’ll sooner kill you than talk to you, but will talk to you because it’s the only way to get your money. He’s not so stupid that he’ll land in trouble if he does kill you. And certainly won’t kill you even if he wanted to if it meant he would go to prison.
He doesn’t even care about his family. He hasn’t seen his wife for years. She probably took off with the old manager of the bar. Where the hell is Eponine? Where did she go off to? If you don’t come into the bar regularly, he won’t know who you are. And he’ll only care about you if you’re in there to spend money. If you’re an employee, good luck to you. He’ll pay you if you remind him enough and threaten to leave if he doesn’t. And then again, you better make sure you have a witness or five, or he might just kill you to save the money he’d otherwise have to give you.
Likes, dislikes: He likes drugs, money, and his bar and grill. He hates the police, people in general, and working in the bar and grill.
Goals: His long term goal is to become a big time gangster. And he has even joked that he’d be mayor one day. His short term goal is to find someone he can trust so he doesn’t have to work and he can do his criminal activities. The only problem is he didn’t even trust his wife and that’s why he left him.
Overall History: Jean-Henri Thenardier was born and raised in New York City. His family moved here almost two hundred years ago from being run out of Paris because of their criminal dealings there. Unfortunately, the Thenardiers know nothing else but the criminal underworld. It’s where they have always flourished and always will flourish.
Thenardier’s little bar and grill might be breaking even financially, but that’s not where he makes his money. Oh no! He has a drug ring, a prostitution ring, he fences stolen goods and always finds a way to pay at least half of what the thing is actually worth. And if anything should go wrong with any transaction, his first response is to take out a gun and shoot the offender and have his men dump the body in the nearby Hudson River. His family knew that from being the leaders of one of the most dangerous gangs in the infamous Five Points a century ago.
Most Influential Event: What one event in your character’s past has influenced or changed them the most? He doesn’t trust anyone at all. He used to trust his wife and manager, until they left him and moved in together.
Sample Writing:
Thenardier looked at the customer up and down. He didn’t like him at all, but he was going to pay in cash, not credit. He had him vetted and he came out clean. He wasn’t a cop, at least not that the three people he asked about him knew. And these people knew everyone in New York’s criminal world. He was a legit criminal. And he wanted to buy some crack. Thenardier saw the money. He wanted the money. He didn’t want to lose the product, but that’s what this was a business. People bought what he had and he took their money and very reluctantly gave them the product. See, what I forgot to mention was that Thenardier was also an addict. And he actually wanted the product more than he wanted the money he was going to get for – fuck it, he took out his gun and shot the blighter and stole his money. He told one of the bar’s employees to get someone to help him get rid of the body.
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