Post by Bobby Singer on Jan 14, 2012 23:35:42 GMT -5
Robert S t e p h e n Singer
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{Say if I only could, I'd make a deal with God and I'd get him to swap our places. Be running up that road, Be running up that hill, with no problems...}
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
[/color][/font]Baby take my hand, don't fear the reaper. And she ran to him, then they started to fly.
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Are You There God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
[/color][/font]Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you're done. Lay your weary head to rest.[/center]
Nickname/Alias[/color]: Bobby, Mike Kayser, Old Man
Sex[/color]: Male
Age[/color]: 61
Sexual Orientation[/color]: Straight
Member Group[/color]: Hunter
Canon or Original[/color]: So canon it’s not even funny[/ul][/size]
The Usual Suspects And What Should Never Be
[/color][/font]Sometimes I get a feeling, deep in my soul. Sometimes I get a feeling, deep in my bones.[/center]
Hair[/color]: Bobby has straight, gingery-brown hair peppered with grey in a bit of a receding widow’s peak. It’s usually a bit greasy, scraped back when it isn’t covered by a baseball cap. He has a full beard and mustache with a similar colour mix
Height & Weight[/color]: 5ft 11in, 158lbs
Body Type[/color]: Bobby originally had a stocky muscular body in his youth. Despite the exercise of hunting and schlepping around the junk yard it has now well and truly succumbed to the middle-age spread and years of drinking
Distinguishing Features[/color]: Bobby has lots of minor scars caused by everything from monster claws to botched car repairs. His only deep scars are the knife wounds on his left arm and hand sustained in the fight with his wife.
Face Claim[/color]: Jim ‘the Legend’ Beaver[/ul] [/size]
It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
[/color][/font]I see the bad moon arising. Don't go around tonight, well its bound to take your life.[/i][/center]
Dislikes[/color]: Stupidity or recklessness, being taken for granted, being left alone in a quiet house, having to wash his hair, paralysis, broiled fish with dried seaweed, having to injure or kill possession victims, the way Rufus looks at him most of the time, being tied to Crowley, Meg, the Winchester family stubborn streak, Alexis Sinclair (the woman who owns the land directly behind the scrap yard), M Night Shyamalan (he owes Bobby $8.50 for “Lady in the Water”).
Strengths[/color]: Knowledgeable, years of hands-on experience with the supernatural, highly productive when he wants to be, strong sense of pragmatism, held in high regard among other hunters, carefully maintains links with other occult authority figures (dealers, experts, etc)
Weaknesses[/color]: Struggles with depression and alcoholism, held in low regard by Dakota locals, an aged body that’s struggling to keep up with a very physical lifestyle, dwindling financial resources, a paternal bond with hunters like Sam and Dean that’s exploitable.
Fears[/color]: Fears becoming responsible for the death of innocents or that he’s going to Hell one way or another
Secrets[/color]: After killing his father, Bobby buried the body in the salvage yard. He is haunted by a vague theory that this somehow attracted the demon that possessed his wife years later (which is what first drove him to alcoholism). Although he likes John Winchester as a friend and respects him as a fellow Hunter, there’s a part of Bobby that hates John for the way he raised Sam and Dean.
Habits/Quirks[/color]: Sooner or later, Bobby will call you an Idjit. It will be meant as an insult, a term of endearment, or both. He has a tendency to fall asleep in places/positions not usually associated with sleeping.
Overall Personality[/color]: Bobby gives off the impression that he can stand up to anything life throws at him, and sometimes he can even convince himself of that too. He’s fiercely independent and can’t stand to be reliant on anyone else. Conversely, he’s always trying to help others in his own gruff way. If there were no one left to rely on him, he’d break down in a matter of days. He needs to be useful or else he needs to be dead.
He doesn’t beat around the bush for the sake of being polite and hides his vulnerabilities under a thick layer of ‘grumpy old bastard’. As a Hunter he prefers to tackle things with common sense and at least a little bit of planning because getting caught up in the moment and rushing in guns blazing is what gets innocent people killed. He’s realistic in his expectations, if not pessimistic. He’s seen heroes torn apart often enough to know that sometimes the bad guys win. He also understands that sometimes monsters can be kind; and humans can be monstrous.
Ultimately, Bobby will always be pushing a boulder up a hill - trying to make up for the death of his wife and their unborn child, to make up for the loss of the life they should have had together. When he saw Karen possessed it was like something vital in the world had broken down and, in his own way, the poor mechanic has been trying to fix it ever since.[/ul][/size]
There Is A Monster At The End Of The Book
[/color][/font]You're as cold as ice, you're willing to sacrifice our love. You know that you are.[/center]
Mothers Name[/color]: Maria Singer
Fathers Name[/color]: Edward Singer
Siblings[/color]: None
Overall History[/color]: Bobby was born in 1950, and his childhood was not a happy one. His father, a Dakota scrap merchant, was frequently drunk and constantly abusive to both his wife and son. During a particularly bad drunken row Bobby shot Edward in an attempt to protect his mother. Despite still only being in his teens, Bobby covered up the murder and buried his father in the grounds of their Salvage yard. Feeling the urgent need to get away, he dropped out of high school and joined the Marine Corps where he trained as a mechanic. Serving in Korea, he did not do well or climb the chain of command and was labelled as a beatnik by the other grunts. After a few years service, he was informed that his mother had died and Bobby returned to Sioux Falls to make necessary arrangements. He worked hard on successfully re-establishing the Singer family junk yard for both scrap salvage and mechanic work. After a few years he fell in love with Karen Adams, a local woman slightly older than himself. They eventually got married and used what was left of Bobby’s meager inheritance to honeymoon in the Caribbean.
The happiest moment of Bobby Singer’s life was when Karen told him they were going to have a baby. But a few months later came the worst day - Karen was possessed by a vicious Demon, and Bobby’s world fell apart. A Hunter, Rufus Turner, had been tracking the creature, but didn’t find the Salvage Yard until Bobby was already half-mad from the demon’s torment. Rufus exorcised the demon and helped the inconsolable mechanic cover up the nature of Karen's death. It was all too much like history repeating for the crimes against his father and, consumed by grief, Bobby felt the need to escape again.
Rufus had warned Bobby that once you know the truth it has a tendency to bite you in the ass. Bobby ignored him. Leaving the Hunter and Sioux Falls in his rear-view mirror, the mechanic headed out to San Francisco and convinced the drunken first mate of a Japanese freight ship called the Nishigo Maru to take him on as an extra crew hand. The skipper in charge was having none of it but let Bobby stay as a passenger once he’d been handed the keys to the Chevelle.
The only person Bobby really spoke to during the stormy journey was Keiko, the aging chef working in the galley. She was the first person to listen to Bobby’s (somewhat edited) story but didn’t judge and calmed him with stories about her own seafaring family. Just as Rufus had predicted, the supernatural world was about to bite him in the ass again. To his growing horror, Bobby discovered that Keiko was an Ondine, a man-eating mermaid who was feeding the crew one by one to the rest of her tribe. Keiko planned to turn Bobby and the ship’s skipper into Ondines too, and it was only the skipper’s intervention that saved Bobby from a life underwater. It was Bobby’s first real hunt and it ended in disaster. The Nishigo Maru sunk and everyone else died, although he never did find out what happened to Keiko. When the rescue boat hauled him up from the sea they asked him where he wanted to go. Bobby said Tokyo.
In such an alien culture, the steep learning curve took Bobby’s mind off thoughts of Karen. He decided to investigate an odd series of deaths in between the mechanic repair work paying for a shoebox flat in the city - after pestering librarians for translations of lore books and trying to interview victims in broken Japanese, Bobby was taken in by a clan of “Hantaa”, Japan’s version of Hunters. The clan elder declared that Bobby had a dark spot on his soul that drove him to hunt. They explained to Bobby that the recent deaths were an Okami but they weren’t going to help him kill it because he was a crappy hunter who needed to get better quick or die trying. Bobby prevailed and studied with the Hantaa for about a year before returning to America. The Chevelle was right where he left it, and lucky he’d had sense to grab the keys back during the Ondine incident.
Wanting to get back in touch with Rufus, the rookie hunter fed stories of mutilated cattle and smog monsters to the local press. Within three days, Rufus Turner was back on his doorstep. The older hunter only had three questions. “Are you willing to die for this?”, “Are you willing to kill me if I ask you to?” and “Do you like disco?” They traveled the country together, hunting monsters and living on scams and bar game bets just as Dean and Sam would do years later.
Then came Omaha. Bobby and Rufus were up against a fierce beastie that was way above Bobby and Rufus’ usual mark. Bobby called all the usual suspects for help - John Winchester, Martin Creaser, Daniel Elkins - but none of them could make it in time. Out of desperation, Bobby called the only other person he could think of: Rufus’ daughter. Rufus was furious but Bobby assured him they only needed a look-out and driver; Bobby never put a gun in the girl's hands. But perhaps that was the mistake. The Hunters killed the Beastie, but not before it had murdered their young helper.
That case was the last time Bobby was regularly on the road. Rufus went his own way and Bobby put himself into a self-imposed exile back in Sioux Falls, glad that the Hantaa couldn’t see what he’d become. Bobby and Rufus remained best friends despite also becoming enemies who didn’t speak again for fifteen years. When they were reunited it was mostly because the end of the world seemed to be riding on it.
Bobby continued to act as a back-up Hunter and began collecting a library’s worth of books on occult lore. He often provided research or a helping hand for friends like Bill Harvelle, Isaac & Tamara Foster or Gordon Walker. Being one of the few Hunters to maintain a fixed base of operations made him the ‘go-to’ guy for many and a makeshift babysitter for single parents like Wil Croft or John Winchester during hunts. Bobby built up an extremely good name for himself within the Hunter community but what many didn’t see were the days he spent deep in depression or alcohol binges, pining for Karen or guilt-tripping over those he’d gotten killed or failed to save.
Although Bobby had known Dean and Sam Winchester as a sort of surrogate uncle-turned-babysitter since 1988 (playing catch with Dean, taking the brothers deer hunting, helping Sam pick a Christmas present for his father etc) his volatile relationship with John Winchester prevented him from seeing the boys on a regular basis. But when John finally tracked down the demon Azazel in 2005 the ensuing shit-storm drove the Winchester boys to seek Bobby out. After John’s death Bobby tried to offer them some semblance of stability and Singer’s Salvage Yard became their home away from home. Against his better judgement, Bobby came to love Dean and Sam like the children he and Karen never had the chance to raise. He even had Dean listed as his official next of kin.
In 2009, during a run-in with Meg, Bobby was possessed by a demon and stabbed himself in order to prevent the demon from killing Dean. Castiel was unable to help and the wound left Bobby paralysed from the waste down. He struggled to find the will to live, genuinely contemplating suicide on a daily basis. After ‘lending’ his soul to Crowley in exchange for information that would help fight the Apocalypse, the Crossroads King returned Bobby to full mobility. Although Bobby was enraged to discover the loan was actually a non-returnable trade, he couldn’t deny he was still grateful to be walking again. He owed heartfelt gratitude to Castiel too, for his resurrection after Lucifer had snapped his neck.
After being freed from Lucifer’s cage, a soulless Sam sought out Bobby who agreed to keep the boy’s return a secret from Dean. He could sense there was something a little off and still wanted to give the older brother a chance at a normal life. Sam later tried to murder Bobby as part of a plan to counter the return of his mangled soul. Following Death’s intervention, Bobby found it difficult to be around Sam - to him being soulless was very different to a demonic possession and while it was flattering that some part of Sam saw him as a father, it was terrifying that part of Sam could then coolly opt to kill him, out of pure self-interest. John Winchester’s unexpected resurrection also made Bobby feel awkward around the boys. In years gone by he had several disagreements with John on how Sam and Dean had been raised; and had stepped into the Winchester father figure role not giving two hoots about what John would have done in the same situation. Feeling torn on where he stood, Bobby came to the conclusion that it was best to throw himself into his hunting until he was called for. The Mother of All had left plenty of monsters to take care of and there were strangers out there who needed him badly even if his surrogate family didn’t.[/ul][/size]
Dream A Little Dream Of Me, Bloody Mary
[/color][/font]I never meant to be so bad to you, one thing I said that I would never do.[/center]
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Can I just say see Edra, Patrick or Mal for now?
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This application was made by JUL!ET. She worked really hard on
this and watched seasons one through three of Supernatural in 3 days.
She's so hardcore.And you wouldn't want to make
Dean Winchester Romeo mad by stealing it now would you?
He'd have to come after you with a stick. It wouldn't be pretty,
now go play nice and don't steal her stuff.
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This application was made by JUL!ET. She worked really hard on
this and watched seasons one through three of Supernatural in 3 days.
She's so hardcore.And you wouldn't want to make
He'd have to come after you with a stick. It wouldn't be pretty,
now go play nice and don't steal her stuff.
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