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joseph kavinsky ([personal profile] pillz) wrote2017-01-22 12:21 pm
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[community profile] maskormenace cr chart

cw parent jokes, age gaps, drug use, murder, suicide, physical harm/non-graphic mention of body horror, other criminal behavior

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☑ Did Occur/Yes
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As usual, my CR chart is a huge pain in the ass to update. As a result, it will include only CR that has 100+ comments exchanged, and/or has some impact, and involved some in-game activity in the 2 months prior to the latest update (1/22/17).

I know this is kind of lame, but please PP or PM me if you believe our CR meets the above criteria! I have a bad memory for my CR charts while I'm RPing, and for my RP while I'm CR charting. It's absolutely not that I don't care.

❦ Collateral damage— CR, especially longer-term CR, doesn't exist in a vacuum. Has this character relationship directly affected others?

❦ Creepy dream gifts— has Kavinsky dreamed objects and then gifted them to this person?

❦ Met at work— including but not limited to our crime buddies, such as Constellation and drug deal clients. Kavinsky tends to meet people by paying for their services and marketable skills.

❦ Murdered by— has this person murdered Kavinsky.

❦ Wanna bone/d— has Kavinsky had sex with this person, or would he like to? Per canon, this interest sometimes drives a lot of Kavinsky's behavior, dysfunctional or otherwise.
Gabriel Grey
Thank you for making me feel like I'm guilty.
[personal profile] bosewicht
☑ Collateral damage
☐ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☑ Murdered by
☒ Wanna bone/d
Gabriel "Sylar" Grey killed Kavinsky in order to take his invulnerability power. Despite that Kavinsky had previously, personally engaged in similar Kavinsky-killing activities for a different reason, he has taken a lot of offense. Maybe it was the way that Sylar did it-- cutting his skull open while he was still awake, fiddling with his brain. Or maybe it's the fact Sylar then went after some of Kavinsky's closest associates— while Kavinsky did nothing to warn them.

Anyhow, Kavinsky is planning to super kill him.

They have some marked similarities, such as problematic mothers, extremely poor impulse-control, supervillainy, and black hair. But none of that is particularly interesting, if you ask Kavinsky. What's important to him is whether or not he's going to be able to pull off his first ever premeditated murder on time and in style. Sure, he knows Sylar will come back, just like he came back. But that seems like destiny, to be stuck in a cycle of endless revenge, in a world where permanent death is not an option. Why not kill people to kill time.
Jesse Pinkman
I want love to: roll me over slowly, stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.
[personal profile] hostage
☑ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☑ Wanna bone/d
Kavinsky met Jesse during the Russian invasion, an ally of Robert Callaghan, part of the more discreet resistance effort. It wasn't long before he came to understand Pinkman was involved with the Xavier Institute where he was attending his final year of high school, as well as crime, which Kavinsky wanted to return to. It's not like he had college plans. He asked to get hooked up, and the rest, they say, is history.

Although I guess history doesn't always involve threats to person that would have killed an ordinary man, gifts of dust storms, elaborate mind games of chicken with moral boundaries in the middle, and murder.

As a general rule, Kavinsky doesn't trust anybody, least of all a drug kingpin with stupid arbitrary rules about hurting kids and zero refractory period between his guilt-fuelled boners. Still, Jesse has earned his grudging loyalty. No matter how weak or hypocritical Kavinsky finds the details of Jesse's philosophy, the older man proved himself beyond reliable when Kavinsky died and came back to life in his care. Jeese has also been a solid source of income, good sex, even protection, and entertainment, whether Kavinsky is victimizing him in a mind game or more straightforwardly lonely.

Jesse has a gift for avoiding escalation, and Kavinsky plays along in kind. Kavinsky is careful not to look too closely at Pinkman's claims of affection. The hard choices will come. Until then, you need something— or someone to do.
Jack (Cain)
Thirteenth apostle knocking at my door telling me that I can't play with you no more.
[personal profile] neverdied
☑ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☑ Wanna bone/d
It started with an accidental, mind-controlled murder attempt and is pending with a dinosaur. Specifically, Jesse went berserk at Persephone's concert and attacked Kavinsky, and Jack just happened to be present and able to separate them, freeing them from the musical spell. Furious, Kavinsky actually took a shot with a pistol at his boss, but Jack intercepted the bullet. With his own chest. Subsequent meetings revealed that Jack is a cannibal, difficult to impress, and thousands-of-years-old Biblical figure.

At some point along the way, Kavinsky came to recognize that Jack is both heinously terrible and a better person than some of those Kavinsky's doubtless going to end up in prison with someday. He is living testament that, if you're actually stuck staying alive long enough, shitty behavior eventually catches up with you.

Kavinsky both hates and is intrigued by this concept, much like he hates himself but refuses on a day-to-day basis to climb out of the pit of vile behavior. Facing his own guilt seems like a lot of work. Granted, so does chasing Jack into bed for gay fucking. But between the two of these options, Kavinsky would absolutely try some off-again efforts to bone a monster. And so you have it. He's dreamed a dinosaur for Cain, and his plans don't stop there.
Kotetsu Kaburagi
I wish that I was half as good as you think I am.
[personal profile] earnedmystripes
☐ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☒ Wanna bone/d
Kotetsu is one of maybe two people in the entire world who has faith in Kavinsky's potential to be a better person. This is obviously a huge mistake, especially considering the lack of structured intervention for "at risk" ImPort youth, and Kavinsky has zero motivation to change. However, their paths cross less and less often these days, allowing them both to enjoy plausible deniability and the opportunity to coexist queasily in opposite social spheres. Kotetsu used to be Kavinsky's teacher at the Xavier Institute, but Kavinsky graduated earlier in 2016 and then became a criminal.

Nonetheless, Kotetsu is on the back of Kavinsky's mind often. The man's aptitude with instruction and knowledge of powers gave him an edge, where Kavinsky otherwise would have easily dismissed him. His stubborn fixation on morality and justice seems naive to Kavinsky, who's pretty sure that Kotetsu just hasn't suffered enough from legitimate personal demons to understand the sincere urge to hurt other people. However, not even Kavinsky is too cynical to deny that Kotetsu seemed genuinely worried about him at multiple times. Certainly, Kotetsu put more effort than he needed to into teaching Kavinsky and finding ways to help him reduce the risks of his power.

In secret, Kavinsky hopes that Kotetsu gets to be happy. And now and then, when he gets involved in investigating crimes (committed by someone other than himself) or saving the world (from someone other than himself), Kavinsky's mind goes back to his old teacher. For no particular reason.
Erik Lehnsherr
I'd rather live all my days as a lion than a thousand as a lamb.
[personal profile] incogneto
☐ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☒ Wanna bone/d
Magneto was originally interested in obtaining a miniature dragon from Kavinsky on the Internet, but settled for a dream bird that does not poo. When they met up to make the exchange, he then demonstrated a fantastic power, raising Kavinsky's car off the parking lot asphalt and so far up in the sky it looked like a toy.

Predictably, Kavinsky was hugely impressed. From that moment on, Magneto got an automatic couple of free take his shit seriously points whenever he said some things.

But Magneto's been dealing with shitty teenage narcissists for a long time. Even though he's semi-reformed from his old villainous ways, he knows better than to push too hard when Kavinsky says loud stupid shit about nihilism. And Kavinsky says a lot of loud, stupid shit about nihilism. He actually exposed his gun-running ways to Magneto early on, boasted about starting an arms race— against himself, that he was certain could win. It's probably just as well he told Magneto, of anyone. If there is an ImPort capable of keeping an experienced eye and an even hand on that shit, it's going to be Magneto.

One could argue that there's already been a little payoff. Kavinsky actually helped dream furniture and architecture for the foundation he co-founded to bridge the sometimes strained politics between ImPorts and natives.
Frederick Chilton
Your past-times consisted of the strange, twisted and deranged.
[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt
☐ Collateral damage
☐ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☐ Wanna bone/d
Kavinsky is pretty crazy so it's probably a good idea for him to be seeing someone about his mental health. It probably should not have been Dr. Chilton, but given the psychiatrist's preoccupation with the criminally insane, it's a perfect coincidence that they found each other.

Thus far, Kavinsky has spoken to Chilton a couple of times on the Internet, and started working in an ImPort criminal organization with the doc's girlfriend. However, he's come into the office exactly once, and he did so with a pretty clear agenda: to get him some ketamine. Dr. Chilton had a good time, examining Kavinsky's haphazard gestures of aggression and loud edgelord statements. Chilton's notes say 'poor impulse control' or something like that. 'Depressive.' Whatever.

The reality is, it takes precisely this sort of dubious character to have Kavinsky even begin to court the concept of honesty in mental health 'treatment.' He's pretty sure Chilton isn't going to call the cops, and he has an entertaining tale or five himself, to tell about Heisenberg and his own exploits.
Petyr Baelish
Black black heart why would you offer more?
[personal profile] baetiful
☐ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☐ Wanna bone/d
Maurtia Falls' very own Petyr Baelish is one of Kavinsky's business associates. In fact, he bribed a vote for his political leadership out of Kavinsky back during the race for his term.

FYI the song is shippy because most songs are, I don't know what else to pick. In a peculiar twist of fate, Baelish is one of those handsome, dark-haired men who Kavinsky is not actively trying to bone, for reasons that he couldn't tell you if you asked. Something about Baelish is too polished, too premeditated, too obviously political and therefore honed for public consumption. It's difficult to unnerve Kavinsky, but Baelish does. Kavinsky is a creature of obvious hostility and unsavory character. Savvy chameleons like this one get under his skin.

But they're also useful. Kavinsky holds a fair number of meetings at Baelish's strip club, The Iron Maiden, and gun sales have benefited from the association. He's done his best to ensure that Baelish recognizes him as an asset too, gifting him a small device that can detect and even track magic and a free lesson in shooting handguns. Mutual prosperity is in the cards.
Sarah Manning
I've had a chance to be insane, asylum from the falling rain. I've had a chance to break.
[personal profile] coppelganger
☑ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☐ Wanna bone/d
Kavinsky and Sarah are on the outs right now. They were never exactly on the ins, mind you, but she was looking for some narcotics while wearing his bodyguard's face, and he was pushing stuff you could only dream of (heh heh). It wasn't until later that he found out how interconnected their circles were; that she saw Sarissa as her sister, and worked for the same man, Jesse Pinkman.

It's not that she trusted him, but she hadn't thought he'd do something as royally horrific as create a series of corpses that look just like her and her sisters, and leave them lying around ImPort cities. It came to light when her friend, Rose, literally sniffed it out.

Understandably, Sarah was pissed. However, Kavinsky is always competing in the grand finals for unable to grasp the obvious. He is fairly squarely stuck in a defensive, blame-deflecting, adolescent position about, "How dare they accuse me with so little fucking evidence (even though it true)" and "Nobody got hurt so what the Hell is her problem (I would have been pissed too)" and "She bitchslapped me (and probably would've done worse)."

Maybe someday he will apologize and explain. For all of Sarah's flaws, she more than deserves it.
Sarissa Theron
We complement each other just like Satan and Christ.
[personal profile] magnitudes
☑ Collateral damage
☐ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☐ Wanna bone/d
Kavinsky hired Sarissa to be his bodyguard as he embarked on his criminal career in Maurtia Falls, running guns. She proved herself quickly to be an asset in the field, thanks to her powers and a history of violence.

But more than that, Sarissa tried hard to be a friend. She immediately saw him as more of a screwed up child than an evil mastermind, for better or worse. Soon after, she started to exert a corrective influence as subtly as she could. She was there to ask him for sms pictures of his toothbrush to check if he needed a new one, inviting him over for dinner, verifying he knew how to use a laundry machine or hire a cleaning lady. He came to rely on her for these little tokens of normalcy in his otherwise completely abnormal life.

But he ruined it. After Sylar killed him, Kavinsky resorted to secrecy and paranoid efforts to defend himself. In fact, he tried to dream more Sarissas to protect him. Much to his frustration, Kavinsky confirmed that he was unable to create sentient beings. Instead, they came out as corpses which were soon discovered by the public. When Sarissa and Sarah confronted him, he refused to explain, transmuting his guilt and fear into shitty, defensive irritation. When Sylar then killed Sarissa herself, it got worse.

These days, they don't talk much. Kavinsky is plotting his revenge on Sylar. But that can only hold for so long.
Kitty Jones
It's not quite paradise, but it sure feels like home.
[personal profile] rathercommon
☑ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☐ Wanna bone/d
Sometimes Kitty is a young girl, and sometimes she's an old woman. Sometimes she's a mouse. Other times, she's a fucking dragon. All the Bulgarian folk tales were wrong; shapeshifters aren't seductive murder tricksters, amoral and inscrutable. They are paramilitary double-agents with a proclivity for lecturing you about political correctness and probably some backup protein bars in her pocket.

Kavinsky does not exactly appreciate Kitty Jones' Kitty Jonesing, but it is clear that he does tolerate her around and does not actively try to torment her most of the time, political correctness aside. The fact is, he admires her resolve and willingness to die for a cause. He is that way, himself! It's just that his causes are, you know, really ill-conceived and benefit literally no one including himself. He does think that her taste in weapons could use a contemporary upgrade, but whatever. Knives have their own aesthetic. In general, he does not try very hard to understand her. Very little of her life experiences and personal philosophy appear to apply to his interests.

However, it should be noted that she also helps him with things like getting tattoos, using her own power to nullify his invulnerability. And she's kind of cute, for a mouse.
Daisy Johnson
You know the one thing you're fighting to hold will be the one thing you've got to let go.
[personal profile] morethan084
☑ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☒ Wanna bone/d
Daisy is to Jesse as a wife is to their husband, if Kavinsky happens to be the other woman. It's not actually a great analogy because there are absolutely no formal agreements or even real expectations of fidelity anywhere involved. Still, it kind of fits. They were or are or will at some point again fuck Jesse Pinkman, and Daisy kind of hates him.

It shouldn't surprise anybody that Kavinsky doesn't dislike her nearly as much as she does him. After all, her reasons include the fact that he is a creepy little asshole, and she isn't one of those.

The truth is, Kavinsky likes the concept of her. She is one of the people that he follows most closely in celebrity culture. He consumes media about her complex and sometimes self-contradictory persona hungrily. From the fame of her powers to the spite in her attitude, how readily the public seems to identify her as a hero when he knows she's involved with one of Maurtia Falls' premier crimelords. Is she settling for the dysfunctional loyalty Jesse offers her, or is it what she truly wants? Is she truly that self-righteous, or does she just need a good lay?

He will probably just annoy her forever, and that's okay.
Chloe Price
Seven days ago the Earth could have eaten me but, I'm still alive.
[personal profile] helladoomed
☑ Collateral damage
☐ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☐ Wanna bone/d
Chloe is Kavinsky's tattoo artist. He met her when he first arrived in this world. The most noticeable thing about her is that, of course, she's covered in awesome ink. Less obviously, said ink is actually magical. The most memorable thing she's ever done is punch Kitty Jones in the face about some aspect of the Russian invasion that Kavinsky hadn't been paying attention to.

The most memorable thing she's ever said to him is that she died back home, too.

Thanks to Kavinsky's tendency to narcissistically interpret everybody else's experiences as teeny tiny versions of his own, he thinks that's more important than anything-- a real connection. Not the kind of thing you forge friendships over, but nonetheless a truly meaningful frame of nihilism to look at the world through. It doesn't hurt that she also hates the Russians. However, the most important factor where Chloe is concerned is actually the fact that his dumb shit rolls off her like water. He appreciates it when people can watch him blow himself up and go on doing their own thing.

And yeah, she's a little young to be categorized with his other 'parents,' but let's be real. None of this has anything to do with family, and it doesn't take much to qualify as more mature than he is.
Reggie Mantle
Don't fret precious, I'm here, step away from the window, go back to sleep.
[personal profile] mantlepieces
☐ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☐ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☑ Wanna bone/d
Reggie is just like Kavinsky. Close enough. He is vain as well as arrogant in other ways, selfish, lonely, and remorseless to the pain they might wreak upon others. He's probably a little less actively harmful, though; after all, he works as a secretary instead of an illegal arms dealer. Still, there's enough there that Kavinsky recognizes a great deal of himself in the other young man.

Kavinsky likes him. And hates him. But it's not nearly as intense as the liking and loathing he feels for himself, so Reggie is a comforting distraction when he isn't in the mood to be judged or protected or argued with. Of late, Reggie is a particularly good distraction when he is in the mood to do a line of cocaine off somebody's naked belly and then get off. They are two peas in a pod.

But if you ask Kavinsky, he's the slightly bigger pea. He likes that too, the wary edge with which Reggie watches him. Kavinsky is the more violent of the two, the more miserable, the more reckless— and it makes him feel like he's the more powerful. There's obviously more than a little homophobic repression going on Reggie's psyche, and Kavinsky likes to run his nails down that as much as he likes to scratch lines into Reggie's back. These differences make it easier to ignore the fact that Reggie sometimes seems to genuinely care for Kavinsky and his wellbeing, in his own way.

Friendship needs nothing else.
Billy Kaplan
I bought a new shirt and I got new socks, but my skin's still made of memories.
[personal profile] inmyothertights
☑ Collateral damage
☑ Creepy dream gifts
☑ Met at work
☐ Murdered by
☑ Wanna bone/d
Technically, Kavinsky didn't meet Billy at work so much as that he drops by the Wiccan's shop whenever it's time to troll a magician, sell him drugs, or together, save the world. There are only so many magical brunette gay boys left in the world, and they must unite in solidarity. Or close enough.

Kavinsky very much enjoys the mess of experimentation that comes of their ill-defined powers. Billy is generally susceptible to his terrible advice and risky encouragements, which has led to such adventures as: temporarily removing Kavinsky's soul, oceanic overflights, condom boxes for dimensional storage, and the corporeal phantom of the Hulkling derived from a psychedelic hallucination. What else are you supposed to do with a broken heart? Kavinsky's pretty sure there's more shenanigans where that came from, and he loves that. He loves magic anyway.

He'd probably have sex with Billy if that were an option, but there are a number of funny obstacles. For one, they're typically both tops. For another, Billy doesn't seem like the kind of person who'd hurt you on purpose or with intent. Nor does he seem to want it return. That is unmistakably something Kavinsky looks for-- even when he's looking in the wrong places. In absence of a ready fuck, what remains looks an awful lot like affection.

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