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Character Name: Sir Guy of Gisborne
Fandom: Robin Hood (BBC)
Source: On Wikipedia.
Character History:
Guy of Gisborne's prospects are entirely dependent on the Sheriff of Nottingham. Despite his name (Gisborne, after a village in England), Guy had no land for himself, and instead took fealty to the Sheriff. He was rewarded with custody of the lands of Robin of Locksley, while Robin was away fighting the Crusades. He enjoyed the power, enjoyed his position in life, and though he found the Sheriff distasteful, valued loyalty highly enough that he would not disobey him.
During his time of custodianship, Guy, on orders of the Sheriff, traveled to the Holy Land intending to kill King Richard. In order to cover for his absence, he had a physician pretend that he was ill and forbid anyone from seeing him in his room at the Locksley estate.
At the Holy Land, he and several others disguised themselves as Saracens and slipped into the King's camp; fighting broke out with the sentries, and several of the knights awakened, Robin of Locksley among them.
Robin immediately went for his bow and began shooting the Saracens down, one by one, from in front of the King's tent. The disguised Guy spotted him and stabbed him in the stomach, viciously, using the opening to get into the tent. He nearly killed the King, but Robin stopped him just in time; during the subsequent fight, Robin slashed a knife wound across a tattoo on Guy's arm. Robin never saw Guy's face, but he did remember that tattoo.
A year later, Robin returned to Locksley, and displaced Guy's custody of his lands. However, Robin proved too free-minded to submit to the Sheriff's hold on taxation and punishment over the peasants, and he rebelled. He was subsequently displaced from his mansion, and Guy returned, taking control with a kind of dark satisfaction.
From then on, Robin was an outlaw, and Guy was the man, the Sheriff's right hand, who had to catch him.
When a servant woman became pregnant - from an affair with Guy - Guy reassured her that he would give the child to an abbey, and ensure that its care was provided for. Instead, however, he left the child alone to die in the forest, while out on a mission to catch Robin Hood. He nearly succeeded; however, Robin Hood's men found the child and eventually reunited him with his mother, forever turning the mother against him.
Guy's actions were not entirely devoted towards the Sheriff's ends, however. He was strongly in love with Marian, the daughter of the former Sheriff, and hinted repeatedly that he intended to marry her. Though she hated the idea of marrying him, Marian allowed him to continue visiting her and plying her with gifts, using his connection to her to find out the latest of the Sheriff's plans, and, on occasion, passing them on to Robin Hood.
Eventually, Guy realizes that Robin Hood anticipates his plans, and concludes, rightly, that there must be a spy within his ranks. He first believes it to be his sergeant, and tortures the man to death.
In the course of courting Marian, Guy gifted her with a necklace that he took from a peasant girl. Marian returned the necklace to the girl, through Robin - but then, when Guy spotted the girl wearing the necklace, he realized the truth: the spy wasn't his sergeant all along, but Marian herself. He confronted her in her home and demanded that she produce the necklace; at first she could not, but at the last instant possible, Robin snuck up to the window, slipping the necklace into her hands.
When she showed it to Guy, he was shocked, and freely admitted that he was wrong. But he had already told the Sheriff that Marian was most certainly the spy, and Marian had been under suspicion before - therefore, in order to protect her, he proposed marriage. And with Robin Hood lingering just outside the window, unbeknownst to Guy, Marian accepted, and told Guy that she would marry him on the day King Richard returned to England.
On the day of King Richard's birthday, Guy through a party at Locksley Manor, announcing publicly his engagement to Marian - just in time to be interrupted by Robin Hood, there to relieve the party guests of their valuables. Among other things, Robin stole Marian's engagement ring. Guy was enraged, and attacked Robin - but, in the process, his sleeve ripped, and the scarred tattoo was revealed. All at once, Robin realized that Guy was the man who tried to kill the king.
Guy follows Robin back to the forest, to retrieve the ring, and Robin knocks him down, ready and willing to kill him for being a traitor to the Crown. His outlaws barely stop him, and he ties Guy up, intending to torture him until he confesses to his crime. Guy responds by taunting Robin, and finally, Robin unties him, attacking him. The two fight it out in the forest, but are so evenly matched that they go to the point of exhaustion before Robin knocks Guy out.
Meanwhile, the Sheriff has captured one of Robin's band, so Robin finally, and reluctantly, agrees to exchange Guy for the captured outlaw. During the exchange, he calls the Sheriff out for having tried to kill the king, and points out the tattoo as evidence. The Sheriff retorts with "Tattoo? What tattoo?" and pours acid on Guy's arm, burning off both the tattoo and the scar.
This moment is where he enters the Wake.
Character Personality:
Guy of Gisborne is perhaps a cruel man. He can slaughter without a second thought, torture a man until he breaks from the pain. He has little qualm about killing a child in front of its parent, or conducting an execution. And yet – just there, an instant of hesitation before he takes the final step, there a quiet protest to the Sheriff before obeying an order. Guy does not seem to take joy in his cruelty; he does it out of duty and out of necessity, but he looks as though he finds it distasteful.
Guy is a bully, a man who longs for power and who chafes under another’s. He will exert himself over another simply because he can – but, more often, because there is a purpose behind it. He is second in command to the Sheriff, whom he clearly dislikes, but is equally as clearly subordinate to. He assists the Sheriff in every action of enforcement, and occasionally has difficulty balancing his own wishes with those of the Sheriff.
Manipulating him is maybe a little too easy – he responds easily to thought of humiliation or betrayal, and is almost paranoid in how quick he may suspect someone of treachery. The Sheriff takes great advantage of this, using Guy’s emotional wiles for his own purposes, egging him on, holding him back at key points. Marian does her fair share of manipulation too, using emotional withdrawal and touch to gain what she wants from him.
And Marian, then, becomes the greatest contradiction of Guy’s personality. He is genuinely in love with her, enough that he takes action to win her respect as well as her hand in marriage. He brings her gifts, is undiscouraged if she refuses, and persists in his affections, in stubborn faith that she will someday return them. Maybe this makes Marian his only chance at redemption.
Appearance:
Guy is dark in appearance, dodgy, always constrained within his own space. He is always filmed enclosed within a frame; he doesn’t move freely within it, and he doesn’t break the edge of the frame very often at all. In contrast to Robin and his gang, who often are framed so that they overwhelm any particular camera angle, moving in and out of it with impunity, Guy is usually still, held, almost trapped. He is lit softly, nearly always half-darkness, half-light – and when he is lit harshly, even the brightest light doesn’t manage to break the shadow over his eyes.
He most commonly wears black leather – including gloves – with a sword dangling from his left hip. Long, unruly dark hair falls over his forehead, and his eyes are piercing, alert, watchful. He is not flashy, even when he’s leading a group of men; his movements are always subtle, always with an edge of discomfort. Except, perhaps, when he’s fighting; Guy of Gisborne fights with skill and agility, and absolute, single-minded brutality.
Powers: None. He has a lot of skill with the sword, and with a bow and arrow.
Samples
First person:
I do not know how my suspicions were so wrong. The necklace seemed conclusive proof - and the peasant girl certainly suspicious enough. And Marian, it is as though she has something to hide - and yet, I would rather trust her than not.
Eradicate the source, and the fever will cease. It is Robin Hood that must die; his contagion will perish with him.
Third Person:
Most boldly, he imagines the light in her eyes.
There are other details, of course. His horse’s hooves pound against the path, his hand light on its neck. He takes the road to the house of the former Sheriff at a gallop, fierce and quick. Details like the way the dress might hug her body, the smoothness of her hand against his. The ring, only a trinket, but a trinket that symbolizes, means so much to him.
And the bed they may share, afterward – she is still a maid, he trusts in that, despite his doubts about her connection with Robin Hood. He could be gentle - would be gentle, would not allow himself any other way of touching the woman he holds so beloved.
He draws up the reins, in the palm of his hand, slowing the horse. The house is in sight, and with it, a looming sense of dread.
Still, that is not where his mind drifts, when he sees her. He would have her happy. Would have her choose him above any other. It is difficult to admit, even in the space of his own heart, and near impossible to speak out loud. Impossible indeed, if she has betrayed him. How could he have been taken such a fool?
Marian has taken Guy’s heart. Taken his sensibilities, and his loyalty, and twisted it into something for her own means. The betrayal stings. Guy’s face is impassive, his body as calm as ever, as he dismounts the horse. Stings as though she slipped in a dagger herself.
He imagines the necklace, safe, hidden in Marian’s chambers. He imagines it with the depth and ferocity of a prayer, though he doubts any God would listen.
She must be able to produce the necklace. She must.
And if she does not? asks the voice of doubt, traitorous within him.
What if she cannot? – Indeed, what if?
“No,” Guy murmurs to himself, tying down his horse, the movements of his hands vicious and sharp. Because the answer to that question is easy, isn’t it? She would die for her crimes. And Guy would continue on.
Perhaps the greater question is – what if Guy is wrong?
Guy enters the house, in fury and doubt and hope, suspicion and fear and desperation.
He will not find what he is looking for.
Name: Mara
Age: 19
Personal LJ:
cerebelEmail / AIM / MSN: chimera1070
Character Information
Character Name: Sir Guy of Gisborne
Fandom: Robin Hood (BBC)
Source: On Wikipedia.
Character History:
Guy of Gisborne's prospects are entirely dependent on the Sheriff of Nottingham. Despite his name (Gisborne, after a village in England), Guy had no land for himself, and instead took fealty to the Sheriff. He was rewarded with custody of the lands of Robin of Locksley, while Robin was away fighting the Crusades. He enjoyed the power, enjoyed his position in life, and though he found the Sheriff distasteful, valued loyalty highly enough that he would not disobey him.
During his time of custodianship, Guy, on orders of the Sheriff, traveled to the Holy Land intending to kill King Richard. In order to cover for his absence, he had a physician pretend that he was ill and forbid anyone from seeing him in his room at the Locksley estate.
At the Holy Land, he and several others disguised themselves as Saracens and slipped into the King's camp; fighting broke out with the sentries, and several of the knights awakened, Robin of Locksley among them.
Robin immediately went for his bow and began shooting the Saracens down, one by one, from in front of the King's tent. The disguised Guy spotted him and stabbed him in the stomach, viciously, using the opening to get into the tent. He nearly killed the King, but Robin stopped him just in time; during the subsequent fight, Robin slashed a knife wound across a tattoo on Guy's arm. Robin never saw Guy's face, but he did remember that tattoo.
A year later, Robin returned to Locksley, and displaced Guy's custody of his lands. However, Robin proved too free-minded to submit to the Sheriff's hold on taxation and punishment over the peasants, and he rebelled. He was subsequently displaced from his mansion, and Guy returned, taking control with a kind of dark satisfaction.
From then on, Robin was an outlaw, and Guy was the man, the Sheriff's right hand, who had to catch him.
When a servant woman became pregnant - from an affair with Guy - Guy reassured her that he would give the child to an abbey, and ensure that its care was provided for. Instead, however, he left the child alone to die in the forest, while out on a mission to catch Robin Hood. He nearly succeeded; however, Robin Hood's men found the child and eventually reunited him with his mother, forever turning the mother against him.
Guy's actions were not entirely devoted towards the Sheriff's ends, however. He was strongly in love with Marian, the daughter of the former Sheriff, and hinted repeatedly that he intended to marry her. Though she hated the idea of marrying him, Marian allowed him to continue visiting her and plying her with gifts, using his connection to her to find out the latest of the Sheriff's plans, and, on occasion, passing them on to Robin Hood.
Eventually, Guy realizes that Robin Hood anticipates his plans, and concludes, rightly, that there must be a spy within his ranks. He first believes it to be his sergeant, and tortures the man to death.
In the course of courting Marian, Guy gifted her with a necklace that he took from a peasant girl. Marian returned the necklace to the girl, through Robin - but then, when Guy spotted the girl wearing the necklace, he realized the truth: the spy wasn't his sergeant all along, but Marian herself. He confronted her in her home and demanded that she produce the necklace; at first she could not, but at the last instant possible, Robin snuck up to the window, slipping the necklace into her hands.
When she showed it to Guy, he was shocked, and freely admitted that he was wrong. But he had already told the Sheriff that Marian was most certainly the spy, and Marian had been under suspicion before - therefore, in order to protect her, he proposed marriage. And with Robin Hood lingering just outside the window, unbeknownst to Guy, Marian accepted, and told Guy that she would marry him on the day King Richard returned to England.
On the day of King Richard's birthday, Guy through a party at Locksley Manor, announcing publicly his engagement to Marian - just in time to be interrupted by Robin Hood, there to relieve the party guests of their valuables. Among other things, Robin stole Marian's engagement ring. Guy was enraged, and attacked Robin - but, in the process, his sleeve ripped, and the scarred tattoo was revealed. All at once, Robin realized that Guy was the man who tried to kill the king.
Guy follows Robin back to the forest, to retrieve the ring, and Robin knocks him down, ready and willing to kill him for being a traitor to the Crown. His outlaws barely stop him, and he ties Guy up, intending to torture him until he confesses to his crime. Guy responds by taunting Robin, and finally, Robin unties him, attacking him. The two fight it out in the forest, but are so evenly matched that they go to the point of exhaustion before Robin knocks Guy out.
Meanwhile, the Sheriff has captured one of Robin's band, so Robin finally, and reluctantly, agrees to exchange Guy for the captured outlaw. During the exchange, he calls the Sheriff out for having tried to kill the king, and points out the tattoo as evidence. The Sheriff retorts with "Tattoo? What tattoo?" and pours acid on Guy's arm, burning off both the tattoo and the scar.
This moment is where he enters the Wake.
Character Personality:
Guy of Gisborne is perhaps a cruel man. He can slaughter without a second thought, torture a man until he breaks from the pain. He has little qualm about killing a child in front of its parent, or conducting an execution. And yet – just there, an instant of hesitation before he takes the final step, there a quiet protest to the Sheriff before obeying an order. Guy does not seem to take joy in his cruelty; he does it out of duty and out of necessity, but he looks as though he finds it distasteful.
Guy is a bully, a man who longs for power and who chafes under another’s. He will exert himself over another simply because he can – but, more often, because there is a purpose behind it. He is second in command to the Sheriff, whom he clearly dislikes, but is equally as clearly subordinate to. He assists the Sheriff in every action of enforcement, and occasionally has difficulty balancing his own wishes with those of the Sheriff.
Manipulating him is maybe a little too easy – he responds easily to thought of humiliation or betrayal, and is almost paranoid in how quick he may suspect someone of treachery. The Sheriff takes great advantage of this, using Guy’s emotional wiles for his own purposes, egging him on, holding him back at key points. Marian does her fair share of manipulation too, using emotional withdrawal and touch to gain what she wants from him.
And Marian, then, becomes the greatest contradiction of Guy’s personality. He is genuinely in love with her, enough that he takes action to win her respect as well as her hand in marriage. He brings her gifts, is undiscouraged if she refuses, and persists in his affections, in stubborn faith that she will someday return them. Maybe this makes Marian his only chance at redemption.
Appearance:
Guy is dark in appearance, dodgy, always constrained within his own space. He is always filmed enclosed within a frame; he doesn’t move freely within it, and he doesn’t break the edge of the frame very often at all. In contrast to Robin and his gang, who often are framed so that they overwhelm any particular camera angle, moving in and out of it with impunity, Guy is usually still, held, almost trapped. He is lit softly, nearly always half-darkness, half-light – and when he is lit harshly, even the brightest light doesn’t manage to break the shadow over his eyes.
He most commonly wears black leather – including gloves – with a sword dangling from his left hip. Long, unruly dark hair falls over his forehead, and his eyes are piercing, alert, watchful. He is not flashy, even when he’s leading a group of men; his movements are always subtle, always with an edge of discomfort. Except, perhaps, when he’s fighting; Guy of Gisborne fights with skill and agility, and absolute, single-minded brutality.
Powers: None. He has a lot of skill with the sword, and with a bow and arrow.
Samples
First person:
I do not know how my suspicions were so wrong. The necklace seemed conclusive proof - and the peasant girl certainly suspicious enough. And Marian, it is as though she has something to hide - and yet, I would rather trust her than not.
Eradicate the source, and the fever will cease. It is Robin Hood that must die; his contagion will perish with him.
Third Person:
Most boldly, he imagines the light in her eyes.
There are other details, of course. His horse’s hooves pound against the path, his hand light on its neck. He takes the road to the house of the former Sheriff at a gallop, fierce and quick. Details like the way the dress might hug her body, the smoothness of her hand against his. The ring, only a trinket, but a trinket that symbolizes, means so much to him.
And the bed they may share, afterward – she is still a maid, he trusts in that, despite his doubts about her connection with Robin Hood. He could be gentle - would be gentle, would not allow himself any other way of touching the woman he holds so beloved.
He draws up the reins, in the palm of his hand, slowing the horse. The house is in sight, and with it, a looming sense of dread.
Still, that is not where his mind drifts, when he sees her. He would have her happy. Would have her choose him above any other. It is difficult to admit, even in the space of his own heart, and near impossible to speak out loud. Impossible indeed, if she has betrayed him. How could he have been taken such a fool?
Marian has taken Guy’s heart. Taken his sensibilities, and his loyalty, and twisted it into something for her own means. The betrayal stings. Guy’s face is impassive, his body as calm as ever, as he dismounts the horse. Stings as though she slipped in a dagger herself.
He imagines the necklace, safe, hidden in Marian’s chambers. He imagines it with the depth and ferocity of a prayer, though he doubts any God would listen.
She must be able to produce the necklace. She must.
And if she does not? asks the voice of doubt, traitorous within him.
What if she cannot? – Indeed, what if?
“No,” Guy murmurs to himself, tying down his horse, the movements of his hands vicious and sharp. Because the answer to that question is easy, isn’t it? She would die for her crimes. And Guy would continue on.
Perhaps the greater question is – what if Guy is wrong?
Guy enters the house, in fury and doubt and hope, suspicion and fear and desperation.
He will not find what he is looking for.
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