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name: Kim
are you over 18?: 21
personal dw:solasbeag
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: kujoismydog @ AIM / cupcakepantry @ plurk
characters in abax: I aim to pop my abax cherry with this app. teehee.
in character information.
series: BBC's Sherlock
name: James Moriarty. (alias' include but are certainly not limited to: Richard Brook, Professor Moriarty, Napoleon of Crime, and Jim.)
age: 30.
sex: Male
race: Human
weight: 140 lb.
height: 5'8"
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: Gun-shot wound to the back of head.
canon point: At the end of 2x03 - Reichenbach Fall. **SPOILERS** The very point after James 'shoots' himself in the head **END**
previous cr: None!
history: Here
alternate history: N/A
personality:
Jim Moriarty, while entirely human, is more than a man.
He's a phantom, an idea, genius, mystery; a spider. A story-teller. Sherlock Holmes' mirror. Where Sherlock is on the side of the law -- the angels -- Moriarty is the chaos to his order, but he's a paradox, he's organised chaos. Proof of another kind of order other than good. There is so much about them that is the same, and so much that differs them.
It's possible that Moriarty is even more bored with life than Sherlock. Going so far as to dive into the criminal world for some excitement. He craves competition as well, needs an opponent to pit himself against and validate that he is still the only brilliant mind in the world. All he wants in life is to have that connection to another mind, and then best them. He's greedy for everything but when you live a life where you can have absolutely everything no matter what the law says, no matter who opposes you, no matter where you aim your sight... that's just boring. If chaos is unopposed it is no longer chaos. It just is. If you can have everything, nothing has worth. If everybody had money but no water, which would be more valuable?
Moriarty values competition because he has none. He lives for an opponent and yearns to find that he is not alone in his genius, that he does have someone he can relate to.
Sherlock Holmes has an accurate description of James Moriarty: "He [James Moriarty] isn't a man at all, he's a spider..."
He's right. Moriarty is a spider with many minions, a master of creating webs. His best being the social network of criminals, people who need him dramatically more than he needs them to accomplish what he wants. The simple fact of the matter is that he is the only consulting criminal in the world - as Sherlock is the only consulting detective. And like how the police run to Sherlock for aide when in over their heads - so do common criminals (and normal citizens too) look to James when they need something clever. Which is always.
James is the archetypal villain to the story, the background puppeteer. He always knows something the hero doesn't and is always one step ahead of the hero. This will make his time in Luceti interesting as he would then be one of the pieces on the board, not the chess player as he is accustomed to being.
As Sherlock stated in "The Great Game", James Moriarty prefers not to get directly involved in his work, always in the shadows. "Well usually he [Moriarty] must stay above it all. He organizes these things but no one ever has direct contact." And this is true. Each piece of work that we find is orchestrated by Moriarty, no one ever knows a thing about him. Except his name. He's a great outside observer to everything that occurs.
A disembodied decision maker - Maxwell's demon. In a place like Luceti, where everything is in such close quarters, this will be put to the test. That is how he manages to be so anonymous until Sherlock arrives on the scene, he stays out of the light.
As a intensely manipulative creature, James is constantly on the look-out for strings to pull and things to dangle over peoples heads. Leverage, incentive to do what he wants, encouragement. These are things James gleans from casual observance or some inside information to use against a person. He'd set your house on fire and, for a price, sell you the only fire extinguisher for miles.
Moriarty abhors normality in people and feels he can easily predict someones actions according to the situation. What's truly scary about that is that he can. As an outside observer to humanity, Moriarty has been able to anticipate reactions and actions in people - enough to even play the Holmes brothers as he pleases; who are on the fringes of society themselves. He is disgusted by average. He finds it boring and unsatisfying and frankly not worth his time. Now, he will play at normalcy and do it well! But it's a parody of normal, not a genuine thing. In every disguise he has (that we see) there's a hint of the real creature underneath the man-mask.
James seems placid, like a pretty little lake with ducks and everything. But underneath is something more tumultuous. More sinister and bloodthirsty than it looks. It is often commented upon; the streak of violence in this man. Where smarts should have negated the criminal strain, it instead amplified it. And with it came the brutality. James Moriarty chillingly remarks at one point that he doesn't like getting his hands dirty. He never mentions that he won't.
One of James' fatal shortcomings is - like Sherlock - he gets bored easily. But rather than turning to drugs or recreational target practice, James will go from one great challenge to the next. It doesn't matter if it's as modest as sitting in a bar pretending to be someone else or as grand as robbing Fort Knox. If it will relieve his boredom, he'll do it. This doesn't mean that he's impatient, however. James can wait months, years, for a scheme to fall through. In canon he plots and plans for 18 months for his game with Sherlock to come to it's end. Most of those months were spent in secret; waiting.
It's not a subject of argument whether or not James Moriarty is insane. The proof is in the pudding and we see it peek out at the audience constantly through his moments in the series. From his utterly horrifying outbursts at the pool scene, to his strangely convincing guises as Jim from IT and Richard Brook and intensely complicated and elaborate plan to bring Sherlock to his demise - it is clear that he is psychologically disturbed. If there was any clear example, it would have to be his grand reveal in "The Great Game" from the very moment we discover he murdered a boy for allegedly laughing at him with a poison put into the child's eczema medication when he was very young (his age is approximated at 9 at the time) we know that James isn't right in the head.
Moriarty is a fickle and unpredictable character. He can, at one moment, be amiable and charming; then switch face to something cruel and truly terrifying. He is at both times a smiling gentleman in a buttoned up suit and wild animal. He's a contradiction, like Sherlock, only where Sherlock puts on the front of disregard - James pretends to care wholeheartedly when he couldn't be less interested.
It's rather eerie how like the snake in the garden of Eden James is like. Two-faced and altogether filled with ulterior motives. He even has this little habit (that is capitalized upon in the BBC adaption - Thank God) in the original canon where his head 'oscillates' from side to side like a reptile. The Moriarty in the BBC television series does this frequently during tense moments or when he's pleased with himself.
abilities/powers:
Of course, James Moriarty's massive intellect cannot go unmentioned. If he had a superpower - it would be his brains. He - in the original canon - was originally a professor of astro-physics in a highly esteemed (but anonymous) university. He also wrote (again in the original canon) 'A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem' at the age of 21, which won him his position as a chair of mathematics. Later on in life he wrote a book called, 'The Dynamics of an Asteroid' which is apparently so complex and amazing that no one can critique it. Of course, these are in the original canon and go to show just what an amazing mathematician and scientist Moriarty is. I mention this because those smarts are in the BBC adaption's James Moriarty. The books his original counterpart wrote have made no mention in the series unfortunately. But they are worth noting when considering that the intelligence of this character has been consistent with each version in interpretation. BBC's current James Moriarty shows off his penchant for amazing schemes, explosives, computers, poisons and acting ability - his intelligence cannot be doubted there.
Moriarty has some of the greatest acts and disguises in the series. And I am not talking about physical disguises like the ones we find in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. I mean the kind of disguise where Moriarty could look exactly the same, and simply put on a convincing enough act to make you think he was someone else entirely. Sherlock Holmes' first encounter with James Moriarty is completely underwhelming as James is donning the persona of 'Jim from IT'. 'Jim' is a quiet, nervous, very nice young man who is dating Molly Hooper. He appears for a grand total of about one minute. Long enough for Sherlock to log that he is gay, but not long enough to leave a lasting impression on the genius detective. Upon James Moriarty's actual reveal as the consulting criminal even Sherlock Holmes - with his gift for faces and recall - is stumped for a very short period of time. Then stunned that such a creature could hide under the face of a man like Jim.
first person sample:
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third person sample:
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case no:
07 - 11 - 83
name: Kim
are you over 18?: 21
personal dw:
solasbeagemail/msn/aim/plurk/etc: kujoismydog @ AIM / cupcakepantry @ plurk
characters in abax: I aim to pop my abax cherry with this app. teehee.
in character information.
series: BBC's Sherlock
name: James Moriarty. (alias' include but are certainly not limited to: Richard Brook, Professor Moriarty, Napoleon of Crime, and Jim.)
age: 30.
sex: Male
race: Human
weight: 140 lb.
height: 5'8"
[OPTIONAL] cause of death: Gun-shot wound to the back of head.
canon point: At the end of 2x03 - Reichenbach Fall. **SPOILERS** The very point after James 'shoots' himself in the head **END**
previous cr: None!
history: Here
alternate history: N/A
personality:
Jim Moriarty, while entirely human, is more than a man.
He's a phantom, an idea, genius, mystery; a spider. A story-teller. Sherlock Holmes' mirror. Where Sherlock is on the side of the law -- the angels -- Moriarty is the chaos to his order, but he's a paradox, he's organised chaos. Proof of another kind of order other than good. There is so much about them that is the same, and so much that differs them.
It's possible that Moriarty is even more bored with life than Sherlock. Going so far as to dive into the criminal world for some excitement. He craves competition as well, needs an opponent to pit himself against and validate that he is still the only brilliant mind in the world. All he wants in life is to have that connection to another mind, and then best them. He's greedy for everything but when you live a life where you can have absolutely everything no matter what the law says, no matter who opposes you, no matter where you aim your sight... that's just boring. If chaos is unopposed it is no longer chaos. It just is. If you can have everything, nothing has worth. If everybody had money but no water, which would be more valuable?
Moriarty values competition because he has none. He lives for an opponent and yearns to find that he is not alone in his genius, that he does have someone he can relate to.
Sherlock Holmes has an accurate description of James Moriarty: "He [James Moriarty] isn't a man at all, he's a spider..."
He's right. Moriarty is a spider with many minions, a master of creating webs. His best being the social network of criminals, people who need him dramatically more than he needs them to accomplish what he wants. The simple fact of the matter is that he is the only consulting criminal in the world - as Sherlock is the only consulting detective. And like how the police run to Sherlock for aide when in over their heads - so do common criminals (and normal citizens too) look to James when they need something clever. Which is always.
James is the archetypal villain to the story, the background puppeteer. He always knows something the hero doesn't and is always one step ahead of the hero. This will make his time in Luceti interesting as he would then be one of the pieces on the board, not the chess player as he is accustomed to being.
As Sherlock stated in "The Great Game", James Moriarty prefers not to get directly involved in his work, always in the shadows. "Well usually he [Moriarty] must stay above it all. He organizes these things but no one ever has direct contact." And this is true. Each piece of work that we find is orchestrated by Moriarty, no one ever knows a thing about him. Except his name. He's a great outside observer to everything that occurs.
A disembodied decision maker - Maxwell's demon. In a place like Luceti, where everything is in such close quarters, this will be put to the test. That is how he manages to be so anonymous until Sherlock arrives on the scene, he stays out of the light.
As a intensely manipulative creature, James is constantly on the look-out for strings to pull and things to dangle over peoples heads. Leverage, incentive to do what he wants, encouragement. These are things James gleans from casual observance or some inside information to use against a person. He'd set your house on fire and, for a price, sell you the only fire extinguisher for miles.
Moriarty abhors normality in people and feels he can easily predict someones actions according to the situation. What's truly scary about that is that he can. As an outside observer to humanity, Moriarty has been able to anticipate reactions and actions in people - enough to even play the Holmes brothers as he pleases; who are on the fringes of society themselves. He is disgusted by average. He finds it boring and unsatisfying and frankly not worth his time. Now, he will play at normalcy and do it well! But it's a parody of normal, not a genuine thing. In every disguise he has (that we see) there's a hint of the real creature underneath the man-mask.
James seems placid, like a pretty little lake with ducks and everything. But underneath is something more tumultuous. More sinister and bloodthirsty than it looks. It is often commented upon; the streak of violence in this man. Where smarts should have negated the criminal strain, it instead amplified it. And with it came the brutality. James Moriarty chillingly remarks at one point that he doesn't like getting his hands dirty. He never mentions that he won't.
One of James' fatal shortcomings is - like Sherlock - he gets bored easily. But rather than turning to drugs or recreational target practice, James will go from one great challenge to the next. It doesn't matter if it's as modest as sitting in a bar pretending to be someone else or as grand as robbing Fort Knox. If it will relieve his boredom, he'll do it. This doesn't mean that he's impatient, however. James can wait months, years, for a scheme to fall through. In canon he plots and plans for 18 months for his game with Sherlock to come to it's end. Most of those months were spent in secret; waiting.
It's not a subject of argument whether or not James Moriarty is insane. The proof is in the pudding and we see it peek out at the audience constantly through his moments in the series. From his utterly horrifying outbursts at the pool scene, to his strangely convincing guises as Jim from IT and Richard Brook and intensely complicated and elaborate plan to bring Sherlock to his demise - it is clear that he is psychologically disturbed. If there was any clear example, it would have to be his grand reveal in "The Great Game" from the very moment we discover he murdered a boy for allegedly laughing at him with a poison put into the child's eczema medication when he was very young (his age is approximated at 9 at the time) we know that James isn't right in the head.
Moriarty is a fickle and unpredictable character. He can, at one moment, be amiable and charming; then switch face to something cruel and truly terrifying. He is at both times a smiling gentleman in a buttoned up suit and wild animal. He's a contradiction, like Sherlock, only where Sherlock puts on the front of disregard - James pretends to care wholeheartedly when he couldn't be less interested.
It's rather eerie how like the snake in the garden of Eden James is like. Two-faced and altogether filled with ulterior motives. He even has this little habit (that is capitalized upon in the BBC adaption - Thank God) in the original canon where his head 'oscillates' from side to side like a reptile. The Moriarty in the BBC television series does this frequently during tense moments or when he's pleased with himself.
abilities/powers:
Of course, James Moriarty's massive intellect cannot go unmentioned. If he had a superpower - it would be his brains. He - in the original canon - was originally a professor of astro-physics in a highly esteemed (but anonymous) university. He also wrote (again in the original canon) 'A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem' at the age of 21, which won him his position as a chair of mathematics. Later on in life he wrote a book called, 'The Dynamics of an Asteroid' which is apparently so complex and amazing that no one can critique it. Of course, these are in the original canon and go to show just what an amazing mathematician and scientist Moriarty is. I mention this because those smarts are in the BBC adaption's James Moriarty. The books his original counterpart wrote have made no mention in the series unfortunately. But they are worth noting when considering that the intelligence of this character has been consistent with each version in interpretation. BBC's current James Moriarty shows off his penchant for amazing schemes, explosives, computers, poisons and acting ability - his intelligence cannot be doubted there.
Moriarty has some of the greatest acts and disguises in the series. And I am not talking about physical disguises like the ones we find in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. I mean the kind of disguise where Moriarty could look exactly the same, and simply put on a convincing enough act to make you think he was someone else entirely. Sherlock Holmes' first encounter with James Moriarty is completely underwhelming as James is donning the persona of 'Jim from IT'. 'Jim' is a quiet, nervous, very nice young man who is dating Molly Hooper. He appears for a grand total of about one minute. Long enough for Sherlock to log that he is gay, but not long enough to leave a lasting impression on the genius detective. Upon James Moriarty's actual reveal as the consulting criminal even Sherlock Holmes - with his gift for faces and recall - is stumped for a very short period of time. Then stunned that such a creature could hide under the face of a man like Jim.
first person sample:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ]
third person sample:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ]
case no:
07 - 11 - 83
