Communications Officer Doug Eiffel (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
littletonoidea) wrote2026-01-19 10:24 am
littletonoidea) wrote2026-01-19 10:24 am
TLV App 2!!
User Name/Nick: Maniette
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Maniette
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Arthur Lester and the Knight
Character Name: Communications Officer Douglas "Doug" Fernand Eiffel
Series: Wolf 359
Age:32 35 now
From When?: Episode 56 "Idle Hands", after being successfully brainwashed; somewhat AU'd as a post-grad warden
Warden Justification:"Eiffel will be a good warden because he has no filter and too much anxiety and that seems to fit in with most of the warden population." - Kota Despite the amount of disparagement he gets from his superiors about being a nuisance and active detriment to any task he's been assigned to, Eiffel is a kind and empathetic person who's really good at getting under people's skin and prompting outraged yelling fits. He comes across as a layman and a common denominator, who can recognise the value of hard work, and when he decides he likes someone (which honestly doesn't take much) he's all in for better or worse. He's not afraid to call people out on their crap and often has zero filter, but still knows how to engage it and is able to be serious, tactful and even respectful when the situation calls for it. He has strong stances on bodily autonomy, sentience and the capacity for independence and humanity in AI, and a person's place in a fucked-up system.
Item: A wireless headset that answers questions in Hera's voice, glitches and all.
Abilities/Powers: Eiffel is a perfectly normal human dude, who just so happens to be a communications officer on a spaceship. He's got all the basic functionality, skills and training (learned on-site) that astronauts require, is keenly good at doing exactly what he's told (so long as he respects the order giver/sees good reason for it), following his training and avoiding panic instincts in severely high-stakes environments, and has a passionate knowledge of both terrestrial and interstellar communications and radio functions - he is the most competent human to end up in the seat of any kind of communications station, and exhibits intense knowledge of both hardware and software - and has worked previously as a specialist provisional technical sergeant in airforce communications, and also in private surveillance. As a fun bonus, he also has some basic firearms training! And thanks to being the unwitting, unwilling subject of a gross violation of ethics by their resident mad scientist, he has an accelerated rate of natural recovery. Nothing supernaturally fast, but of note is that he is capable of recovering from superficial-to-severe frostbite.
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: Eiffel was on the Barge previously for two and a half years, and with that comes a plethora of experience on Barge Specific Weirdness and how to be an actually decent warden, though through a series of unfortunate circumstances he himself has only graduated one inmate.
Despite the fact he comes from an otherwise (what he thought was) completely mundane world, Eiffel's experience with space survivalism, first alien contact and some genuinely traumatising fuck-ups of his own making, he's pretty experienced overall with whatever bullshit the Barge can throw at them, as well as anything his inmates can give him too. That's not to say he's unflappable or a picture of calm cool collected stoicism - Eiffel is consistently overreactive, even to minor inconveniences, and while he's perfectly capable of pulling it together when it actually matters, he recognises the emotional necessity of having a little shitfit about it first. And predominantly, it's his emotional maturity and intense desire to communicate effectively that makes him a good warden. His major strengths are going to be his approachability, his warmth and genuine empathy, and his nosy desire to learn more about the people he cares about, while also respecting their boundaries when he gets firm pushback. He'll be good for inmates with a stick up their ass, who need to learn how to unwind and enjoy the finer things in life, like not horribly murdering people.
What Eiffel is not, however, is a leader. He can take control of a situation if necessary, he's an extremely quick thinker and able to outwit people who underestimate his genuinely impressive intelligence, but he's not going to seek to take control of anything or anyone under his ostensible command, and that includes his inmate. He will try and be their friend first and foremost, but if he has someone who is particularly domineering or threatening, it's still relatively easy to cow Eiffel into submission. He's a staunch supporter of non-violent solutions and the president of team What's Wrong With Handcuffs, so he may not be suitable for an inmate where violence is an otherwise normalised part of their daily life. He has, however, proven good at being a Voice Of Reason for people who struggle with one of their own, and has a shocking amount of mileage with inmates through the power of 'If I Do A Violence Eiffel Will Be Disappointed In Me', so there's clearly something working there.
He also still speaks predominantly in Pop Culture Slang, and while he's less aggravating about it than he was when he first arrived, it's still an extremely well-formed habit, to the point that when Eiffel stops talking in references, something is wrong. He can also still be something of a jaded asshole, and persistent about petty grudges; if you do something to genuinely annoy him, you'll never hear the end of it.
Deal: Acquire a means to travel between dimensions so he can visit his friends.
History: Eiffel's wiki page! Plus a year or so on the Barge!
Sample Network Entry/RP: TDM thread!
Special Notes: Please wtach the Live Show
User DW:
manietteE-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Arthur Lester and the Knight
Character Name: Communications Officer Douglas "Doug" Fernand Eiffel
Series: Wolf 359
Age:
From When?: Episode 56 "Idle Hands", after being successfully brainwashed; somewhat AU'd as a post-grad warden
Warden Justification:
Item: A wireless headset that answers questions in Hera's voice, glitches and all.
Abilities/Powers: Eiffel is a perfectly normal human dude, who just so happens to be a communications officer on a spaceship. He's got all the basic functionality, skills and training (learned on-site) that astronauts require, is keenly good at doing exactly what he's told (so long as he respects the order giver/sees good reason for it), following his training and avoiding panic instincts in severely high-stakes environments, and has a passionate knowledge of both terrestrial and interstellar communications and radio functions - he is the most competent human to end up in the seat of any kind of communications station, and exhibits intense knowledge of both hardware and software - and has worked previously as a specialist provisional technical sergeant in airforce communications, and also in private surveillance. As a fun bonus, he also has some basic firearms training! And thanks to being the unwitting, unwilling subject of a gross violation of ethics by their resident mad scientist, he has an accelerated rate of natural recovery. Nothing supernaturally fast, but of note is that he is capable of recovering from superficial-to-severe frostbite.
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: Eiffel was on the Barge previously for two and a half years, and with that comes a plethora of experience on Barge Specific Weirdness and how to be an actually decent warden, though through a series of unfortunate circumstances he himself has only graduated one inmate.
Despite the fact he comes from an otherwise (what he thought was) completely mundane world, Eiffel's experience with space survivalism, first alien contact and some genuinely traumatising fuck-ups of his own making, he's pretty experienced overall with whatever bullshit the Barge can throw at them, as well as anything his inmates can give him too. That's not to say he's unflappable or a picture of calm cool collected stoicism - Eiffel is consistently overreactive, even to minor inconveniences, and while he's perfectly capable of pulling it together when it actually matters, he recognises the emotional necessity of having a little shitfit about it first. And predominantly, it's his emotional maturity and intense desire to communicate effectively that makes him a good warden. His major strengths are going to be his approachability, his warmth and genuine empathy, and his nosy desire to learn more about the people he cares about, while also respecting their boundaries when he gets firm pushback. He'll be good for inmates with a stick up their ass, who need to learn how to unwind and enjoy the finer things in life, like not horribly murdering people.
What Eiffel is not, however, is a leader. He can take control of a situation if necessary, he's an extremely quick thinker and able to outwit people who underestimate his genuinely impressive intelligence, but he's not going to seek to take control of anything or anyone under his ostensible command, and that includes his inmate. He will try and be their friend first and foremost, but if he has someone who is particularly domineering or threatening, it's still relatively easy to cow Eiffel into submission. He's a staunch supporter of non-violent solutions and the president of team What's Wrong With Handcuffs, so he may not be suitable for an inmate where violence is an otherwise normalised part of their daily life. He has, however, proven good at being a Voice Of Reason for people who struggle with one of their own, and has a shocking amount of mileage with inmates through the power of 'If I Do A Violence Eiffel Will Be Disappointed In Me', so there's clearly something working there.
He also still speaks predominantly in Pop Culture Slang, and while he's less aggravating about it than he was when he first arrived, it's still an extremely well-formed habit, to the point that when Eiffel stops talking in references, something is wrong. He can also still be something of a jaded asshole, and persistent about petty grudges; if you do something to genuinely annoy him, you'll never hear the end of it.
Deal: Acquire a means to travel between dimensions so he can visit his friends.
History: Eiffel's wiki page! Plus a year or so on the Barge!
Sample Network Entry/RP: TDM thread!
Special Notes: Please wtach the Live Show