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IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Baby (Miles)
Canon: Baby Driver
Canon Point: Post-film

In-Game Tattoo Placement: Behind his ear, in this style
Current Health/Status: Suffers from tinnitus, hard of hearing. Mentally sound aside from some mild job-related PTSD
Age: 20
Species: Human

Content Warnings: Canon contains car-related violence and death.

History: Information about Baby can be found here and here.

CRAU History and Impact: N/A
Personality: Baby is a good kid who did something stupid when he was young, and spent the rest of his life up until now paying for it. He hotwired the wrong person's car, and ended up being the getaway driver for a group of rotating criminals, lead by a man named Doc.

Although Baby probably could have walked away, he had his adoptive father, Joe to take care of. Joe is Deaf and wheelchair-bound, and Baby loves him far too much to let anything happen to him. Their bond can be seen in the way they joke around with each other, in the way Joe worries after Baby, and in the way that Baby takes care of Joe in return. When he gets into more trouble than he can handle, he uses most of his money from the heists to put Joe in a retirement home, in order to keep him safe while he tries to make his escape. He also leaves a tape recording telling the staff Joe's hobbies and how he likes to have his sandwiches made. This attention to detail shows how well Baby knows his dad, and how he wants to keep providing for him, even if he can't be around.

Baby has a big heart. He wants to do good by people, but he can't always, because he made a stupid mistake that lead to him being tangled up in a life of crime. When he thought his debts were clear, he tried to walk away and live a normal life, delivering pizza and taking his girlfriend Deborah out on dates. But Doc pressured him back in, threatening both Deborah and Joe's lives if he didn't agree. So Baby went back, despite not wanting to, in order to keep his loved ones safe.

He's not just kind to his loved ones, he's also kind to complete strangers. At a heist, knowing that one of the men running it was violent and could potentially hurt people, Baby signaled the bank teller as she was going in to warn her of the danger. He did this at the risk of ruining the heist, which did happen, and everything sort of fell apart after that. While making his getaway with Deborah from the sole remaining team member, Buddy, he was forced to steal a woman's car to try and outrun Buddy. He did, however, make sure to get her purse back to her.

Last but not least, he loves music. Normally this isn't really a personality trait, but Baby's love of music runs so much deeper than just a hobby. It's what made him notice Deborah. It's what he keeps with him as a memory of his mother, who died in a car crash when he was young. It's what he occupies almost all his time with outside of driving for Doc. Either he's in the record store, listening to records at home, or making his own music. Baby records conversations and clips from his every day life and turns them into songs like this. In the opening scene, he's unable to start a heist until he has the right music playing. His music, in fact, is organized not only into different playlists, but onto dozens of different iPods, all with different covers and designs to designate what mood that iPod has. Music isn't just Baby's hobby, 

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping: N/A, Baby has no powers.

Inventory: - One standard outfit (jeans, t-shirt, baseball style jacket, sneakers, sunglasses)
- One red iPod
- One iPod decorated with pink rhinestones
- One cassette tape labeled MOM
- One backup pair of sunglasses
- One extra backup pair of sunglasses

Writing Samples: - February TDM Top Level
Thread forward-dated to Post-Rapture (with permission from Simcha)
TDM Thread with Obi-Wan
TDM Thread with Stephen Strange

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Mimi
Player Age: 32
Player Contact: PM this journal, or wherethefigslie

Other Characters In Game: River Tam, Cecil Palmer
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Baby: Mimi
Permissions for Character: Baby's permissions can be found here.
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: That is perfectly fine.
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: I am most interested in exploring psychological situations. I love puzzle solving. Anything that forces a character to look inside themselves and really evaluate where they stand, what their morals and beliefs are. I also love situations in which characters have to do something in order to protect those they care about.
All that said, a good old monster hunt is always fun. Baby hasn't really experienced many "horrors", unlike my other characters. He has has bad things happen in his life, but they're rather mundane in comparison to the others I play here. I'm interested to see how he reacts, compared with River or Cecil

Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: I am fine with violence, dub-con, and non-con related threads. I am uncomfortable but can participate in threads that are drugs and alcohol related. I will have a hard time on threads with attempted suicide but can play it if it is absolutely necessary to the plot.

I draw a hard line at subjects involving successful suicide. Please mark your content accordingly

Additional Information: I work full time and also attend school, so tags are mostly in the evenings and on weekends. If I am not tagging in a timely manner, please give me a poke and I will rectify it.