fandomhigh_ooc | Sample Teacher Application

PLAYER DETAILS

Player Name: Sam
Player Age: 32
Contact Email: samuel.mackenzie@gmail.com
AIM: rocketshippendant
Other Characters Played At Fandom High: Kuzco, Alonzo Solace

CHARACTER DETAILS

Character Name: Joe 'Coop' Cooper
Potential Character LJ Handle: bigsportsbar
Fandom: BASEketball
Age: 29

We're going to ask you a few questions about your character and their canon. These questions are designed to give us an idea of what you know about your canon and your character, as well as an indication of how the character might work at Fandom High and what plans or ideas you have for them.

1. Assume we've never even heard of your show/movie/game/book/comic/play (known as 'canon' from now on). Explain it to us and how your character fits into the scheme of things.

BASEketball is a comedy movie that mocks professional sports, slackers, terminally ill children, hospital dramas, Christian Slater and anything else it can get its hands on. It was released in 1998 and starred Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame. The story revolves around Joe Cooper and Doug Remer, childhood slacker friends who never did anything with their lives. One day, they created a game called BASEketball (a combination of baseball, basketball and HORSE) that led to a neighborhood league and then to the National BASEketball League where they were slacker sports stars. They're followed through a season and have to deal with the death of the league founder, someone trying to overthrow the game and change all the rules and finding true love all in the most irreverant way possible. Coop is the lead character.

2. Now onto your character. Please tell us about them. Appearance, personality, how they react to others. Describe the character to us so we can get an idea of who's joining the community.

Joe Cooper is an everyman. He's a slacker who's wasted most of his life hanging out playing Nintendo and drinking lots of beer. He lived with his two best friends, Doug Remer and Squeak Scolari and did pretty much nothing of interest until he became captain and then owner of the Milwaukee Beers BASEketball team. He's blonde, is average in height and weight and looks a lot like Trey Parker. He often has no clue what's going on, but generally gets along with most people. Those that he doesn't get along with usually get called names and made fun of behind their back. He generally won't cause any trouble. Coop doesn't usually make things happen. Things happen to him and he goes along with it.

3. Powers! Does your character have any abilities (powers, skills, training or weapons) that go beyond what a normal Earth adult would have?

He is a ninja at playing Nintendo and he's a great BASEketball player (considering the game involves practically no movement, just really good aim and strategy), but other than that, he's pretty below average at everything except bringing the funny.

4. Why is your character coming to Fandom and what kind of situation are they leaving behind at home? (ie: where in the canon timeline do they come from?)

Towards the end of the movie, Coop learns that the Milwaukee Beers merchandise is produced using child labor. He disappears from the US and goes to India to stop that from happening to impress a woman he likes. He later returns to set things straight with his jerk of a best friend who ruined everything and win the championship game. In this case, however, rather than returning from India, he gets lost and ends up in Fandom. He'll try to get in contact with people back home, but will learn that they already lost the championship game without him and will stay in Fandom in a gesture of "fine! Well you don't need me anyway!" like the mature adult he is. He may, at some stage, return to canon to fix things next season as a plot.

5. Is there any reason that they might cause trouble to other characters in the Fandom High setting due to behavior or abilities? How would you account for that to make the character work well in a group-intensive environment?

Coop is a smart-ass and a pain in the ass, but generally he'll get along with people due to apathy. He might get in trouble for not doing his job right if he gets into a funk, but generally he'll do just enough to get by. OOCly he'll live up to the requirements of the game. He's not anti-social, just lazy, so he'll probably make most of his friends at the local bar.

Links to character/series information:
Please provide 2-3 links to information about your character and their canon. If you cannot find any links because your fandom is too obscure, please let us know where we can get our hands on your canon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASEketball
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131857/
http://www.spscriptorium.com/Treats/BBsecrets.htm
http://www.baseketball.spalliance.net/

Problem Solving: You don't get what you want. How will you react out of character as a player? How will you have your character react?
Tell the truth, guys!

Writing Sample: Please write at least 300 words *in character* having your character do something, anything, at Fandom High. Please write in third person. You may borrow other characters in the game for the purpose of this writing sample.

"Hey everyone. This is Gym for the Average Guy, Girl or Other since apparently that's important around here. I'm Joe Cooper. Call me Coop, please, or Professor Coop if you have to, but Professor Cooper makes me think I should be growing hair out of my nose, take up the not fun version of pipe smoking and using big words like I'm on a pretentious TV show that only airs on HBO because no one really cares about it. Okay, so, I'm captain of the Milwaukee Beers. That's a BASEketball team which apparently means as much here as evidence in the OJ Simpson trial.

If I can help it, we won't be doing a lot of running or jumping or moving in this class. You don't have to do all that to have fun with sports. Anyway, today we're going to be doing something that I can't remember because I was drunk when I wrote the syllabus, but I wrote it all down in case I forgot." He pulled out a crumpled cocktail napkin and held it up to read. The back had 'Emma Frost' written in female handwriting and a phone number. "Okay, so, Beer Pong. This is a school and I haven't gotten an allowance for this class to buy supplies yet, so there's no real beer, but we'll use lemon juice mixed with mayonnaise from the cafeteria so you can all suffer if you lose like in a real game. Great. There's tables and cups and everything and the TA will explain- is already giving you flyers with the rules. Cool. Turns out having a TA is a lot like having a towel boy without the inappropriate real person fan fiction on the internet."

Coop went to set up the tables, explaining how to shoot, how to win, how to use a wash cup, how to avoid using the wash cup when the opponent you hated wasn't looking. "Okay, team up, play each other and get a tournament going. Winner gets a genuine Milwaukee Beers oversized foam hand. Next week we'll do something messier and more organized if I don’t have a hangover."

Course Description: State what you intend to teach in your new class - ie: show evidence that you know what you're doing and actually have an idea of what you want to teach. Please include details both for regular classes resume in the fall, and the summer "camp" session. See current teachers' journals (available through the LJ community) for examples if needed.

Gym for the Average Guy, Girl or Other
Each week, students will be given a new slacker sports-type game to learn. Often it will involve trash talk, psyching each other out and ways to make a physical subject more talk and interaction intensive. Games will include BASEketball, Beer Pong (without actual alcohol), a Danger Shop version of Mario Bros, dodgeball with food dye balloons, charades with props, possibly a LARP, other variations of normal games and things stolen from Nickelodeon and Japanese game shows. Also, possibly Jumanji one week with permission.