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CHARACTER INFO
Name: Teal'c of Chulak
Gender: Male
Age: 158
Source: Stargate SG-1
Canon Point: Post series finale "Unending", pre movie "Ark of Truth"
CANON
History: Wiki page
Personality: Teal'c was raised to be a Jaffa, a warrior in service to a 'god'. He spent close to a century in service, becoming the First Prime of Apophis. Apophis, like most of the Goa'uld, is evil by the standards of most of the universe. While he never cared much for Apophis, his goal then was to kill the Goa'uld who executed his father. While many of the Jaffa feel blind obedience to their god and never question it, Teal'c is a rebel in his heart for many years. Teal'c race are mainly used as incubators for the infant Goa'uld, who take on hosts as they reach maturity. In return, they provide the Jaffa with an advanced immune system, slow aging, much longer lifespan, and greater healing (without a goa'uld, they die). In one of his morally grey moments, he tells the dying Apophis that one day, the Jaffa will use the infant Goa'uld as they, the Jaffa, are used and upon maturity, the Goa'uld will be slain.
In most things, however, Teal'c is a very moral person. He questions the plans of the Goa'uld from a young age, although he is warned by Bra'tac, his father figure and mentor, that to speak these things openly is to invite death. It's shown though his body language in the first episode that what Apophis wants bothers him greatly. He is visibly upset by Apophis' casual slaughter of the women who his mate does not want for her host and again when Sha're is taken as a host. He wants to fight and try to stop Apophis, but he knows that he does not have the power to and can do nothing but watch. He was also invaded once by a parasite that would feed on him and a flock of its children would burst out of him. In order to keep others safe, he fled and hid himself.
Going along with this is his lawful nature. He is recognized on one world as the man who came to their world and killed one man's father. The trial is called Cor-ai and in it the defendant must convince the one they wronged (who is judge and jury) of their innocence. Teal'c, remembering the man and his father, refused to speak on his own behalf because he was guilty. It comes out later that the reason he killed that man was because he was crippled and the village would not hide unless they could hide everyone. Killing him saved many villagers. When other Jaffa come to the village, he fights against them without being asked to but because it is the right thing to do. He does not enjoy killing other Jaffa - they are brothers in arms, essentially, but he would not let innocents be harmed. This extends even to humans. He prevented an assault once, taking on three men at once, and stopped a purse-snatcher by throwing an avocado from a long distance and striking him in the head.
His main goal for most of SG1 is the liberation of his people. They are slaves and he wants better for his people. They are treated as disposable things by the Goa'uld. He was shown by Jack O'Neill that liberation was possible and fought for it everywhere he could. His society does not tolerate rebellion and those who rebel are named shol'va - traitor - and their families made outcasts. The Goa'uld are very aware that their strength is their Jaffa army and Teal'c - with a growing following - tries to make this as obvious to his people as he can.
He is a very loyal man. Once he makes an oath, that's it. He took an oath to serve Apophis, as much as he disliked him, and followed that (while doing little things like killing that one villager so the others could escape) until he met Jack O'Neill. His order had been to kill the others who would not be taken as hosts and Teal'c turned on his fellow Jaffa and helped O'Neill escape with the others. He was ready to die after because he had killed other Jaffa. He would follow O'Neill - who he has more or less made a new oath to - into Hell (and he pretty much does) and follows him obediently, even going on fishing trips (that he is not fond of) because Jack says to. He offers to pledge his allegiance to all of Earth and is surprised when that isn't enough to convince the military that he is on their side. A word should be a bond, and to him it is.
In new situations, he tends to become more stoic. It took him years to loosen up with the SG team. When he is uncertain of people and his surroundings, he goes back to being stoic. It is not a matter of being shy, but simple uncertainty. He has spent the better part of 100 years having to watch his every move, every word, every action. It is a difficult reaction to let go of.
He will often give bits of Jaffa wisdom to the SG team. He never cites exactly who has said these things, merely calling them a great Jaffa. Daniel Jackson comments that Teal'c is really 'deep' because of this. His wisdom, along with his warrior's code, seems to stem from Sun Tzu's 'Art of War'. As much as he can, he lives by honor that is fueled by a warrior's wisdom. His warrior's code will not allow him to die on his knees. He would prefer to turn and fight an enemy he has no hope in winning against rather than being cut down while in hiding. If a point in such a battle arises where he can sacrifice himself to kill the enemy so that his allies can live, he will do it without hesitation.
INTO THE HEDGE
Seeming: Possession
Role: A Ma'Tok staff
Abilities: Plasma blast
Description: As a staff
Spirit form: His eyes and the golden tattoo are both the same shade of purple that the staff has. His skin has darkened so that it is more black-grey than golden-bronze. There are darker marks resembling the ridges on the staff in his hair (as darker streaks) and going down his jawline (as discolored marks) to his chin. These look (and feel) almost like metal, but they move with his skin. The strips in his hair, however, stay as they are even should his hair move. The tips of his fingers have slight points to them, similar to the point of the staff.
Reasoning: It is the field weapon of choice for the Jaffa and Teal'c still uses one. And unless the Keeper steals another Jaffa, he/she/it probably wouldn't have a Ma'Tok staff.
MEMORIES
First Memory: Refusing to kill a group of innocents and, instead, trusting in O'Neill to get them out safely.
Another Five: -Jack O'Neill, as a Relationship
- Samantha Carter, as a Relationship (it was felt by the actors that Teal'c and Carter got together during the 50 years on the Odyssey, even if it was not overtly stated)
- his 50 years on the Odyssey, as a Concept
- his family - including Bra'tac, as a Group
- Goa'uld, as a Concept
SAMPLES
[A note pre-sample: Teal'c tends to speak names as one word, Jacko'neill, Danieljackson, and so on. When I write prose with him, I write names that way.]
Option C: focusing on their internal life and thought process
Teal'c was in the training room again, working on the same complex form over and over. He had the form down, and he knew it, but the ritualized movements left his mind free to wander and people in general left him to himself when they saw him training.
It was a good set up for when one wished to meditate on the past. Certainly, he could have gone to his room and actually meditated, but he expected that Valamaldoran would be lurking nearby. She had been approaching him every so often, asking different questions of him in an attempt to gain an answer about the fifty years he had experienced.
He had no real desire to be more forceful in his rebukes. It was, like so many other things, a game of hers. She would eventually tire of it and Teal'c would allow her to play until then. She was his friend and he held some faith that she would back down if she felt he truly wished it.
It was those fifty years he wished to think on, the fifty years that he had lived through with the other members of SG1 and now he alone retained knowledge of. He had spent part of those years with Samanthacarter. Not in the way that he had spent that time with the rest of SG1, but in a closer sense.
He had loved her.
There had been few options for romantic liaisons with only two women and four men. At least, four men until General Landry had died. There had been no courting, no direct overtures of intent. It had simply come to be overtime. She would come to him to talk, he would go to her. Then the day came when she had cried against him and he had felt the protector's instincts rise up in him in a way they never had.
Still, he had said nothing. It would have gone against his code of honor. Not because they were warriors in arms together or because her rank was generally above his. His brother had such feelings toward her and despite the fact that Jackoneill was not trapped on the Odyssey, he did not wish to approach the woman he knew his brother desired.
How it had progressed from there, he could not say. It simply had. It was never what Danieljackson and Valamaldoran had, but all the same it was more. And he could not deny that he wished to have it back. To have her come to him as a woman and lay in his arms, to worry about the future together and how their problems could be resolved.
Here, such things were not likely to be and he would content himself with her friendship. It was the best and logical choice. He would not put false hopes in fate, for he no longer believed things were fated to be. He would simply put his thoughts and feelings into his training until the conquered them.
Option D) focusing on them interacting with external objects and/or people
This was a thing that Teal'c would never understand, although he would participate as needed. Jacko'neill enjoyed fishing in a lake with no fish. It seemed to Teal'c to be a waste of time and skill. They both sat in chairs on the dock, chairs where the seats where - as O'Neill put it - comfortably worn in. To Teal'c, they seemed too soft and too low. But he still sat in it.
There was much he would do because his brother asked it of him. It was what one did out of loyalty, respect, and love.
"Pass me another beer, T."
He reached into the cooler and pulled another bottle out, handing it to O'Neill. He sometimes considered drinking alcohol, simply to see what such a popular beverage type was like. He had never tried such because it would have adverse effects upon his symbiote. Now that he took injections, he suspected that he could without the adverse effects, save for intoxication.
Still, he had no great desire and he returned to fishing.
"O'Neill, would this not be more effective if there were fish in the pond?"
O'Neill sighed in that way of his which indicated that he knew such was true but had his own reasons. "Well, yeah, T. But they're, well, pesky."
"Pesky," he repeated flatly. Jacko'neill had called the fish 'pesky' before and he still did not understand how fishing for them made them 'pesky'.
"Yeah, pesky."
He watched O'Neill for a moment longer before reeling his line in. He cast it again, free of bait and free of any potential fish with a look that might have been a hidden smile or a look of mild exasperation. Perhaps both.
Even so many years later, they were still alien to each other in some ways.
Name: Mary
Preferred pronoun: She/her
Preferred means of contact:
Any other characters currently in-game? Kieri Phelan/
redfoxoflyonyaCHARACTER INFO
Name: Teal'c of Chulak
Gender: Male
Age: 158
Source: Stargate SG-1
Canon Point: Post series finale "Unending", pre movie "Ark of Truth"
CANON
History: Wiki page
Personality: Teal'c was raised to be a Jaffa, a warrior in service to a 'god'. He spent close to a century in service, becoming the First Prime of Apophis. Apophis, like most of the Goa'uld, is evil by the standards of most of the universe. While he never cared much for Apophis, his goal then was to kill the Goa'uld who executed his father. While many of the Jaffa feel blind obedience to their god and never question it, Teal'c is a rebel in his heart for many years. Teal'c race are mainly used as incubators for the infant Goa'uld, who take on hosts as they reach maturity. In return, they provide the Jaffa with an advanced immune system, slow aging, much longer lifespan, and greater healing (without a goa'uld, they die). In one of his morally grey moments, he tells the dying Apophis that one day, the Jaffa will use the infant Goa'uld as they, the Jaffa, are used and upon maturity, the Goa'uld will be slain.
In most things, however, Teal'c is a very moral person. He questions the plans of the Goa'uld from a young age, although he is warned by Bra'tac, his father figure and mentor, that to speak these things openly is to invite death. It's shown though his body language in the first episode that what Apophis wants bothers him greatly. He is visibly upset by Apophis' casual slaughter of the women who his mate does not want for her host and again when Sha're is taken as a host. He wants to fight and try to stop Apophis, but he knows that he does not have the power to and can do nothing but watch. He was also invaded once by a parasite that would feed on him and a flock of its children would burst out of him. In order to keep others safe, he fled and hid himself.
Going along with this is his lawful nature. He is recognized on one world as the man who came to their world and killed one man's father. The trial is called Cor-ai and in it the defendant must convince the one they wronged (who is judge and jury) of their innocence. Teal'c, remembering the man and his father, refused to speak on his own behalf because he was guilty. It comes out later that the reason he killed that man was because he was crippled and the village would not hide unless they could hide everyone. Killing him saved many villagers. When other Jaffa come to the village, he fights against them without being asked to but because it is the right thing to do. He does not enjoy killing other Jaffa - they are brothers in arms, essentially, but he would not let innocents be harmed. This extends even to humans. He prevented an assault once, taking on three men at once, and stopped a purse-snatcher by throwing an avocado from a long distance and striking him in the head.
His main goal for most of SG1 is the liberation of his people. They are slaves and he wants better for his people. They are treated as disposable things by the Goa'uld. He was shown by Jack O'Neill that liberation was possible and fought for it everywhere he could. His society does not tolerate rebellion and those who rebel are named shol'va - traitor - and their families made outcasts. The Goa'uld are very aware that their strength is their Jaffa army and Teal'c - with a growing following - tries to make this as obvious to his people as he can.
He is a very loyal man. Once he makes an oath, that's it. He took an oath to serve Apophis, as much as he disliked him, and followed that (while doing little things like killing that one villager so the others could escape) until he met Jack O'Neill. His order had been to kill the others who would not be taken as hosts and Teal'c turned on his fellow Jaffa and helped O'Neill escape with the others. He was ready to die after because he had killed other Jaffa. He would follow O'Neill - who he has more or less made a new oath to - into Hell (and he pretty much does) and follows him obediently, even going on fishing trips (that he is not fond of) because Jack says to. He offers to pledge his allegiance to all of Earth and is surprised when that isn't enough to convince the military that he is on their side. A word should be a bond, and to him it is.
In new situations, he tends to become more stoic. It took him years to loosen up with the SG team. When he is uncertain of people and his surroundings, he goes back to being stoic. It is not a matter of being shy, but simple uncertainty. He has spent the better part of 100 years having to watch his every move, every word, every action. It is a difficult reaction to let go of.
He will often give bits of Jaffa wisdom to the SG team. He never cites exactly who has said these things, merely calling them a great Jaffa. Daniel Jackson comments that Teal'c is really 'deep' because of this. His wisdom, along with his warrior's code, seems to stem from Sun Tzu's 'Art of War'. As much as he can, he lives by honor that is fueled by a warrior's wisdom. His warrior's code will not allow him to die on his knees. He would prefer to turn and fight an enemy he has no hope in winning against rather than being cut down while in hiding. If a point in such a battle arises where he can sacrifice himself to kill the enemy so that his allies can live, he will do it without hesitation.
INTO THE HEDGE
Seeming: Possession
Role: A Ma'Tok staff
Abilities: Plasma blast
Description: As a staff
Spirit form: His eyes and the golden tattoo are both the same shade of purple that the staff has. His skin has darkened so that it is more black-grey than golden-bronze. There are darker marks resembling the ridges on the staff in his hair (as darker streaks) and going down his jawline (as discolored marks) to his chin. These look (and feel) almost like metal, but they move with his skin. The strips in his hair, however, stay as they are even should his hair move. The tips of his fingers have slight points to them, similar to the point of the staff.
Reasoning: It is the field weapon of choice for the Jaffa and Teal'c still uses one. And unless the Keeper steals another Jaffa, he/she/it probably wouldn't have a Ma'Tok staff.
MEMORIES
First Memory: Refusing to kill a group of innocents and, instead, trusting in O'Neill to get them out safely.
Another Five: -Jack O'Neill, as a Relationship
- Samantha Carter, as a Relationship (it was felt by the actors that Teal'c and Carter got together during the 50 years on the Odyssey, even if it was not overtly stated)
- his 50 years on the Odyssey, as a Concept
- his family - including Bra'tac, as a Group
- Goa'uld, as a Concept
SAMPLES
[A note pre-sample: Teal'c tends to speak names as one word, Jacko'neill, Danieljackson, and so on. When I write prose with him, I write names that way.]
Option C: focusing on their internal life and thought process
Teal'c was in the training room again, working on the same complex form over and over. He had the form down, and he knew it, but the ritualized movements left his mind free to wander and people in general left him to himself when they saw him training.
It was a good set up for when one wished to meditate on the past. Certainly, he could have gone to his room and actually meditated, but he expected that Valamaldoran would be lurking nearby. She had been approaching him every so often, asking different questions of him in an attempt to gain an answer about the fifty years he had experienced.
He had no real desire to be more forceful in his rebukes. It was, like so many other things, a game of hers. She would eventually tire of it and Teal'c would allow her to play until then. She was his friend and he held some faith that she would back down if she felt he truly wished it.
It was those fifty years he wished to think on, the fifty years that he had lived through with the other members of SG1 and now he alone retained knowledge of. He had spent part of those years with Samanthacarter. Not in the way that he had spent that time with the rest of SG1, but in a closer sense.
He had loved her.
There had been few options for romantic liaisons with only two women and four men. At least, four men until General Landry had died. There had been no courting, no direct overtures of intent. It had simply come to be overtime. She would come to him to talk, he would go to her. Then the day came when she had cried against him and he had felt the protector's instincts rise up in him in a way they never had.
Still, he had said nothing. It would have gone against his code of honor. Not because they were warriors in arms together or because her rank was generally above his. His brother had such feelings toward her and despite the fact that Jackoneill was not trapped on the Odyssey, he did not wish to approach the woman he knew his brother desired.
How it had progressed from there, he could not say. It simply had. It was never what Danieljackson and Valamaldoran had, but all the same it was more. And he could not deny that he wished to have it back. To have her come to him as a woman and lay in his arms, to worry about the future together and how their problems could be resolved.
Here, such things were not likely to be and he would content himself with her friendship. It was the best and logical choice. He would not put false hopes in fate, for he no longer believed things were fated to be. He would simply put his thoughts and feelings into his training until the conquered them.
Option D) focusing on them interacting with external objects and/or people
This was a thing that Teal'c would never understand, although he would participate as needed. Jacko'neill enjoyed fishing in a lake with no fish. It seemed to Teal'c to be a waste of time and skill. They both sat in chairs on the dock, chairs where the seats where - as O'Neill put it - comfortably worn in. To Teal'c, they seemed too soft and too low. But he still sat in it.
There was much he would do because his brother asked it of him. It was what one did out of loyalty, respect, and love.
"Pass me another beer, T."
He reached into the cooler and pulled another bottle out, handing it to O'Neill. He sometimes considered drinking alcohol, simply to see what such a popular beverage type was like. He had never tried such because it would have adverse effects upon his symbiote. Now that he took injections, he suspected that he could without the adverse effects, save for intoxication.
Still, he had no great desire and he returned to fishing.
"O'Neill, would this not be more effective if there were fish in the pond?"
O'Neill sighed in that way of his which indicated that he knew such was true but had his own reasons. "Well, yeah, T. But they're, well, pesky."
"Pesky," he repeated flatly. Jacko'neill had called the fish 'pesky' before and he still did not understand how fishing for them made them 'pesky'.
"Yeah, pesky."
He watched O'Neill for a moment longer before reeling his line in. He cast it again, free of bait and free of any potential fish with a look that might have been a hidden smile or a look of mild exasperation. Perhaps both.
Even so many years later, they were still alien to each other in some ways.
