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Player Name: Lisa
Plurk Handle: hotpinkcoffee
Character Name: Jason Dixon
Fandom: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Character Journal:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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OU, AU, or OC? OU
If canon, canon point: End of film
PB: Sam Rockwell
History: spoilers for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Personality: Dixon's not a particularly pleasant person. Since his graduation from police academy, which he only succeeded at by the skin of his teeth, Dixon's rested pretty on the powers that being a law enforcement officer in a small town in Missouri has given him. He's abused his power time and again, knowing that he's always had privilege and his position to fall back on. He's sheltered under the wing of his far-too-forgiving chief, not only toeing the line but crossing it a few times, aware that he can press the boundaries with a soft-hearted superior and can lord over anyone beneath him with swagger and the force of law.
He doesn't inherently care about others. He doesn't really see the world beyond his own emotions and concerns. If he grieves, it's because of what the deceased meant to him in terms of comfort and support. If he loves, it's as a tit-for-tat "what can you do for me?" sort of dependence, something birthed from the positives someone provides him rather than appreciation for their own personhood. His perception of events is similarly limited; he doesn't think ahead and has little, if any, ability to foresee what consequences exist in his future. He's impulsive and driven by his own emotions, even though he doesn't see himself as a touchy-feely sort of person.
Much of his behavior falls back on his sense of futility; while he dreams of more, he's let his dreams go stagnant to the point where they aren't ambitions but fantasies. The rest falls on a sort of resentment that he's the sole caretaker for his mother and that he's internalized that he's stupid and bad at things due to struggling in school. He feels limited in his options, not just in terms of his career but in terms of his mode of expression; aside from drinking (his primary mode of dealing with anything negative), he's violent when the mood strikes him and he can get away with it.
Which is to say: Dixon's a raging alcoholic who has few other hobbies beyond watching the TV shows his mother puts on; staying out late getting drunk to the point of incapacitation and losing at pool is his idea of a night to himself. And his other form of expression is straight-up violence; because he's so infrequently faced actual consequences, Dixon's never bothered to rein in his temper, which ranges from furiously brutal to just plain pettily cruel. He hits people, threatens people, beats people in his custody, throws someone through a window when he's grieving.
Recently, he's had a change of heart in that he's trying to do things for the right reasons - but his default is still to turn to violence and alcohol. He may switch to targeting wrongdoers for his impulsive wrath, but it still all comes down to what makes him feel temporarily better. He's a violent fuckhead doing as violent fuckheads do, only nowadays he finds socially acceptable excuses for torture and murder.
Deep down, it does go down to an inability to honestly reckon with hard emotions. Dixon became a lazy, incompetent brute because he didn't know how else to respond to his father's death; he became an increasingly volatile headcase because he didn't know how to honestly grieve his chief. In the wake of his chief's death, he's been trying to turn himself into a "good man", but he has no idea what that looks like and is really just knuckling down on his existing bad habits.
As someone who's never left his small town of Ebbing, a one-stoplight town off the interstate in rural Missouri, Dixon has a very closed and smallminded world view. It's not just that he hasn't been outside his small town; it's that he doesn't even see the point. He's not someone who ever looked at the stars and wondered what it was like out there. He's not someone who ever even imagined leaving Ebbing. The rest of the country, and the world, may as well be some kind of dream for as much as it means to him. It also means he's hella bigoted in a racist, sexist, ableist and homophobic way, and while the film never touches on his feeling for trans people it's probably safe to assume he's prejudiced against them too.
Canon Powers: None
Freebie Powers: None
Power Selection: Magic Weapon
Shield, in the shape of his Ebbing PD badge. The shield is sharp enough to be used to cut like a blade.
Game Powers:
The shield will provide complete invulnerability for up to an hour, ten minutes at a time, with a minimum of five minutes between bursts of invulnerability. In turn, during use, Dixon will feel increasingly inebriated to the point of incapacitated, and his skin will start to burn off.
Non-Powered Abilities: Dixon knows how to fire a gun and hit something (usually). He also can do a pullup. That's about it.
Setting/Suitability: Beyond originally starting with disbelief, Dixon will adapt to the setting as challenge he hopes to meet. As of the end of the film, he's looking for some sort of purpose in his life to replace the hopelessness he felt back home. Unfortunately, he's not particularly good at deciding how one can "choose love" and be a better person, and will fall into plenty of the same old vengeful, violent traps he originally ended up in. This may be good for convincing him to kill orcs. Who knows?
Dixon's pretty damn inept, but he's able to learn, and right now is in a particularly good mindset to do so. He's capable of heroism but is incapable of distinguishing it from things that just feel good, so whether he does the heroic thing is a matter of circumstance and mood. As a former beat cop he responds well to structure and orders, and is happy to execute the commands of another, so he won't be totally useless so long as he has decent leadership.
Plurk Handle: hotpinkcoffee
Character Name: Jason Dixon
Fandom: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Character Journal:
awfulcerOU, AU, or OC? OU
If canon, canon point: End of film
PB: Sam Rockwell
History: spoilers for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Personality: Dixon's not a particularly pleasant person. Since his graduation from police academy, which he only succeeded at by the skin of his teeth, Dixon's rested pretty on the powers that being a law enforcement officer in a small town in Missouri has given him. He's abused his power time and again, knowing that he's always had privilege and his position to fall back on. He's sheltered under the wing of his far-too-forgiving chief, not only toeing the line but crossing it a few times, aware that he can press the boundaries with a soft-hearted superior and can lord over anyone beneath him with swagger and the force of law.
He doesn't inherently care about others. He doesn't really see the world beyond his own emotions and concerns. If he grieves, it's because of what the deceased meant to him in terms of comfort and support. If he loves, it's as a tit-for-tat "what can you do for me?" sort of dependence, something birthed from the positives someone provides him rather than appreciation for their own personhood. His perception of events is similarly limited; he doesn't think ahead and has little, if any, ability to foresee what consequences exist in his future. He's impulsive and driven by his own emotions, even though he doesn't see himself as a touchy-feely sort of person.
Much of his behavior falls back on his sense of futility; while he dreams of more, he's let his dreams go stagnant to the point where they aren't ambitions but fantasies. The rest falls on a sort of resentment that he's the sole caretaker for his mother and that he's internalized that he's stupid and bad at things due to struggling in school. He feels limited in his options, not just in terms of his career but in terms of his mode of expression; aside from drinking (his primary mode of dealing with anything negative), he's violent when the mood strikes him and he can get away with it.
Which is to say: Dixon's a raging alcoholic who has few other hobbies beyond watching the TV shows his mother puts on; staying out late getting drunk to the point of incapacitation and losing at pool is his idea of a night to himself. And his other form of expression is straight-up violence; because he's so infrequently faced actual consequences, Dixon's never bothered to rein in his temper, which ranges from furiously brutal to just plain pettily cruel. He hits people, threatens people, beats people in his custody, throws someone through a window when he's grieving.
Recently, he's had a change of heart in that he's trying to do things for the right reasons - but his default is still to turn to violence and alcohol. He may switch to targeting wrongdoers for his impulsive wrath, but it still all comes down to what makes him feel temporarily better. He's a violent fuckhead doing as violent fuckheads do, only nowadays he finds socially acceptable excuses for torture and murder.
Deep down, it does go down to an inability to honestly reckon with hard emotions. Dixon became a lazy, incompetent brute because he didn't know how else to respond to his father's death; he became an increasingly volatile headcase because he didn't know how to honestly grieve his chief. In the wake of his chief's death, he's been trying to turn himself into a "good man", but he has no idea what that looks like and is really just knuckling down on his existing bad habits.
As someone who's never left his small town of Ebbing, a one-stoplight town off the interstate in rural Missouri, Dixon has a very closed and smallminded world view. It's not just that he hasn't been outside his small town; it's that he doesn't even see the point. He's not someone who ever looked at the stars and wondered what it was like out there. He's not someone who ever even imagined leaving Ebbing. The rest of the country, and the world, may as well be some kind of dream for as much as it means to him. It also means he's hella bigoted in a racist, sexist, ableist and homophobic way, and while the film never touches on his feeling for trans people it's probably safe to assume he's prejudiced against them too.
Canon Powers: None
Freebie Powers: None
Power Selection: Magic Weapon
Shield, in the shape of his Ebbing PD badge. The shield is sharp enough to be used to cut like a blade.
Game Powers:
The shield will provide complete invulnerability for up to an hour, ten minutes at a time, with a minimum of five minutes between bursts of invulnerability. In turn, during use, Dixon will feel increasingly inebriated to the point of incapacitated, and his skin will start to burn off.
Non-Powered Abilities: Dixon knows how to fire a gun and hit something (usually). He also can do a pullup. That's about it.
Setting/Suitability: Beyond originally starting with disbelief, Dixon will adapt to the setting as challenge he hopes to meet. As of the end of the film, he's looking for some sort of purpose in his life to replace the hopelessness he felt back home. Unfortunately, he's not particularly good at deciding how one can "choose love" and be a better person, and will fall into plenty of the same old vengeful, violent traps he originally ended up in. This may be good for convincing him to kill orcs. Who knows?
Dixon's pretty damn inept, but he's able to learn, and right now is in a particularly good mindset to do so. He's capable of heroism but is incapable of distinguishing it from things that just feel good, so whether he does the heroic thing is a matter of circumstance and mood. As a former beat cop he responds well to structure and orders, and is happy to execute the commands of another, so he won't be totally useless so long as he has decent leadership.