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justmakemoney) wrote2022-07-29 07:51 pm
justmakemoney) wrote2022-07-29 07:51 pm
application; (Better Call Saul spoilers within)
OOC Info
Name: Jordan
Age: 32
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Current Characters: N/A
IC Info
Name: Saul Goodman (real name: James Morgan McGill)
Canon: Breaking Bad
Age: 49
Appearance: like this. Standing at around 5'9", he's your average middle-aged balding guy in gaudy, colorful suits.
Canon Point: Between Ozymandias and Granite State, packing up his office and ready to run.
Background: Better Call Saul spoilers uh oh
CRAU: N/A
Personality:
Picture a sleazy ambulance-chaser lawyer that could double as a less-than-upstanding used car salesman, and you've got Saul Goodman. Everything about Saul is something that makes lawyers look bad. He's the sort of lawyer guilty people hire; not just a criminal lawyer, he's a criminal lawyer. But of course, this is Breaking Bad, so this well-crafted image is (mostly) just an act and intentionally playing up some of his worst personality traits.
Underneath the Saul Goodman mask is Jimmy McGill, a far more subdued man compared to his business persona. Make no mistake, the worst parts of Saul Goodman are still part of Jimmy McGill, but he's also more of an actual, rounded person capable of showing more complex emotions and less of the stereotype of a lawyer that he puts on for his customers. Saul's more normal self is only rarely shown to his clients, usually saved for the rare people he's actually close to. These days, compared to his appearance in Better Call Saul, Jimmy is more bitter, jaded, and depressed, due to the events of the final season.
Irreverent: Saul's job has him defending the worst of Albuquerque's worst, and he speaks of the crimes they commit as if they're not serious at all. He comes up with witty little quips and metaphors to describe murder, he laughs and claims people "love to take credit for the fun ones" about one of his clients, and he shows up to visit Jesse in the hospital after he was beaten by Hank Schrader and remarks that Walt "is now the cute one" after looking at Jesse's face.
Glib: Multiple people in canon remark about how Saul has a mouth on him, and it's the truth. He likes to hear the sound of his own voice, and he bounces many ideas off of other people, but often it's questionable whether he really means what he says casually.
Confident and Showy: Saul knows how to capture a room's attention. He dresses in gaudy, brightly-colored suits, and he makes his presence known. He is charismatic and good at coming off friendly and likable when he needs to. A majority of the time, dealing with his criminal clientele, he doesn't really need to schmooze, but he's good at it and even a sort of charming when he needs or wants to be. Occasionally this confidence is to his detriment because he can and does push scams he's trying to run to the limit where he's likely to be found out.
Shameless: Saul doesn't have much guilt or remorse about the jobs he's done as Saul Goodman. He has forged evidence and used connections to get people falsely accused and arrested of serious crimes, and it doesn't seem to bother him one bit. It's part of the job he's paid to do, and for the most part, he will happily accept a large sum of money to do the jobs he's hired for. Not to mention opportunistically searching for family of victims of a plane crash to file a class-action lawsuit, and immediately jumping at the chance to adjust contracts that might earn him more money.
Cowardly: When things are going his way, Saul is confident, but when threatened with bodily harm or risk to his business, he's quick to panic and cover his tracks. He is easily bullied into compliance or spinning some wild story to try and talk his way out of any actual consequences when threatened.
Shrewd and Intelligent: He dresses like a clown and acts skeevy, but Saul does know how to do his job well. He is well versed in the law and he is good at reading situations legally and figuring out what options are in front of him and his clients and what might need to be fudged to get to that point. You have to know the law well to know how to break it without getting caught, and that's Saul at his most basic. He also knows how to watch and read people, and run a scam smoothly as a result.
Inferiority Complex: As Saul, this flaw of his is mostly overshadowed with his flamboyant showy confidence exemplified by his bright suits and loud tv ads and presence. But underneath his Saul persona, he has a massive inferiority complex brought on by growing up with his brother Chuck. Chuck was a talented lawyer who was mostly on the correct side of the law, whereas Saul was always dabbling on the illegal side of things, even before passing the bar. Nothing Saul did ever seemed good enough for Chuck and his approval, even becoming a lawyer wasn't enough, because he didn't do it correctly by Chuck's standards. This leads to him assuming others in his profession look down on him, or that they, like Chuck, were working to keep him down and only occasionally throwing him a bone to keep him in line.
Loyal (to those he actually cares about): There aren't many people this applies to in Saul's life anymore, but he will go above and beyond to help the people he loves in his own way. For years, he brought food and other necessities to his mentally ill brother and worked to try and get his brother the money he was owed, despite his brother working against Saul's interests. He later forges documents to make his brother look incompetent and ensure a large client decides to return to his girlfriend for representation. He even goes beyond a typical lawyer-client job by hand delivering money from Jesse Pinkman to his ex girlfriend, offering advice to Jesse that maybe he'd be better off actually talking to the lady himself. He isn't always the most upstanding and moral about how he shows this loyalty, but he does look out for people that matter to him.
In a blend of his own loyalty and sense of justice and his inferiority complex regarding his brother and all the betrayal involved in that relationship, Saul also has a streak of wanting to stand up for or at least help the underdog. Before becoming Saul Goodman, he specialized in elder law, noticing that many of his clients were being robbed by their care facility. He also is the only one to advocate for a scholarship recipient who had an arrest record, arguing that the viewpoint she provides is unique and that out of all the applicants, she needs the help the most, despite knowing that people like her (and in effect like him) will always be looked down upon because of the circumstances of their past decisions.
Weaknesses/Temptations: Honestly, it's not hard to lead Saul off the path of good, he's been basically cemented there for more than a few years in canon. A good business opportunity, ensuring his own safety, even just a chance to screw over someone he dislikes, anything like that is enough to get Saul to go along with most temptation. When things go bad for Saul personally? His favorite hobby to take his mind off of it is to throw himself into some variety of sinful behavior. On the other hand, when things get too real or there's too much of a risk to his own safety, though, that's what can scare him straight. Or scare him into another branch of damnation, depending on which way out seems easier at a moment's notice.
Sins:
1. countless years of petty scams
2. many counts of theft
3. fraud
4. falsifying evidence
5. witness tampering
6. money laundering
7. lying
8. friend of the cartel
9. identity theft
10. destruction of property
11. bribery, accepting and offering
12. gaslighting and manipulation, particularly of the elderly
13. involvement in the production and sale of methamphetamine
14. indirectly caused the death of several individuals
(Specific names: [blacked out oocly for better call saul spoilers] McGill, Charles; Hamlin, Howard.)
15. self-serving cowardice
16. defecating through a sunroof
17. greed
18. destruction of evidence
19. breaking and entering
20. general hedonism
21. inability to accept responsibility for actions
Powers/Abilities: He is a completely normal human man with no special powers whatsoever.
Items: Just the clothes he's wearing: some gaudy colorful suit and a pinky ring.
SAMPLES
Network:
[You know those really cheesy commercials that run on tv at impossible o'clock in the morning? Yeah, that's the exact sort of tone of voice now coming at you through your phone.]
Lawyers, am I right? I'm surprised there's not more of us down here.
[After all, lawyers, hell, it's an easy joke set-up. But unfortunately, he continues on--]
"Saul," I hear you starting, "we're all already in Hell. Who cares about lawyers? We don't need that here!" And I'm here to tell you, that's where you're wrong. Frivolous lawsuits and false class-action claims may not be necessary here, but you know what else us lawyers can do for you? Advice.
Looking for a sounding board to hear your latest bad decision? Easily confused by demonic wordplay? Luckily for you: Saul Goodman and Associates is looking to expand its business, all to help your immortal soul. Deals this good don't come around more than once in an afterlife, so don't delay!
Log: Test Drive!
Name: Jordan
Age: 32
Contact:
Current Characters: N/A
IC Info
Name: Saul Goodman (real name: James Morgan McGill)
Canon: Breaking Bad
Age: 49
Appearance: like this. Standing at around 5'9", he's your average middle-aged balding guy in gaudy, colorful suits.
Canon Point: Between Ozymandias and Granite State, packing up his office and ready to run.
Background: Better Call Saul spoilers uh oh
CRAU: N/A
Personality:
Picture a sleazy ambulance-chaser lawyer that could double as a less-than-upstanding used car salesman, and you've got Saul Goodman. Everything about Saul is something that makes lawyers look bad. He's the sort of lawyer guilty people hire; not just a criminal lawyer, he's a criminal lawyer. But of course, this is Breaking Bad, so this well-crafted image is (mostly) just an act and intentionally playing up some of his worst personality traits.
Underneath the Saul Goodman mask is Jimmy McGill, a far more subdued man compared to his business persona. Make no mistake, the worst parts of Saul Goodman are still part of Jimmy McGill, but he's also more of an actual, rounded person capable of showing more complex emotions and less of the stereotype of a lawyer that he puts on for his customers. Saul's more normal self is only rarely shown to his clients, usually saved for the rare people he's actually close to. These days, compared to his appearance in Better Call Saul, Jimmy is more bitter, jaded, and depressed, due to the events of the final season.
Irreverent: Saul's job has him defending the worst of Albuquerque's worst, and he speaks of the crimes they commit as if they're not serious at all. He comes up with witty little quips and metaphors to describe murder, he laughs and claims people "love to take credit for the fun ones" about one of his clients, and he shows up to visit Jesse in the hospital after he was beaten by Hank Schrader and remarks that Walt "is now the cute one" after looking at Jesse's face.
Glib: Multiple people in canon remark about how Saul has a mouth on him, and it's the truth. He likes to hear the sound of his own voice, and he bounces many ideas off of other people, but often it's questionable whether he really means what he says casually.
Confident and Showy: Saul knows how to capture a room's attention. He dresses in gaudy, brightly-colored suits, and he makes his presence known. He is charismatic and good at coming off friendly and likable when he needs to. A majority of the time, dealing with his criminal clientele, he doesn't really need to schmooze, but he's good at it and even a sort of charming when he needs or wants to be. Occasionally this confidence is to his detriment because he can and does push scams he's trying to run to the limit where he's likely to be found out.
Shameless: Saul doesn't have much guilt or remorse about the jobs he's done as Saul Goodman. He has forged evidence and used connections to get people falsely accused and arrested of serious crimes, and it doesn't seem to bother him one bit. It's part of the job he's paid to do, and for the most part, he will happily accept a large sum of money to do the jobs he's hired for. Not to mention opportunistically searching for family of victims of a plane crash to file a class-action lawsuit, and immediately jumping at the chance to adjust contracts that might earn him more money.
Cowardly: When things are going his way, Saul is confident, but when threatened with bodily harm or risk to his business, he's quick to panic and cover his tracks. He is easily bullied into compliance or spinning some wild story to try and talk his way out of any actual consequences when threatened.
Shrewd and Intelligent: He dresses like a clown and acts skeevy, but Saul does know how to do his job well. He is well versed in the law and he is good at reading situations legally and figuring out what options are in front of him and his clients and what might need to be fudged to get to that point. You have to know the law well to know how to break it without getting caught, and that's Saul at his most basic. He also knows how to watch and read people, and run a scam smoothly as a result.
Inferiority Complex: As Saul, this flaw of his is mostly overshadowed with his flamboyant showy confidence exemplified by his bright suits and loud tv ads and presence. But underneath his Saul persona, he has a massive inferiority complex brought on by growing up with his brother Chuck. Chuck was a talented lawyer who was mostly on the correct side of the law, whereas Saul was always dabbling on the illegal side of things, even before passing the bar. Nothing Saul did ever seemed good enough for Chuck and his approval, even becoming a lawyer wasn't enough, because he didn't do it correctly by Chuck's standards. This leads to him assuming others in his profession look down on him, or that they, like Chuck, were working to keep him down and only occasionally throwing him a bone to keep him in line.
Loyal (to those he actually cares about): There aren't many people this applies to in Saul's life anymore, but he will go above and beyond to help the people he loves in his own way. For years, he brought food and other necessities to his mentally ill brother and worked to try and get his brother the money he was owed, despite his brother working against Saul's interests. He later forges documents to make his brother look incompetent and ensure a large client decides to return to his girlfriend for representation. He even goes beyond a typical lawyer-client job by hand delivering money from Jesse Pinkman to his ex girlfriend, offering advice to Jesse that maybe he'd be better off actually talking to the lady himself. He isn't always the most upstanding and moral about how he shows this loyalty, but he does look out for people that matter to him.
In a blend of his own loyalty and sense of justice and his inferiority complex regarding his brother and all the betrayal involved in that relationship, Saul also has a streak of wanting to stand up for or at least help the underdog. Before becoming Saul Goodman, he specialized in elder law, noticing that many of his clients were being robbed by their care facility. He also is the only one to advocate for a scholarship recipient who had an arrest record, arguing that the viewpoint she provides is unique and that out of all the applicants, she needs the help the most, despite knowing that people like her (and in effect like him) will always be looked down upon because of the circumstances of their past decisions.
Weaknesses/Temptations: Honestly, it's not hard to lead Saul off the path of good, he's been basically cemented there for more than a few years in canon. A good business opportunity, ensuring his own safety, even just a chance to screw over someone he dislikes, anything like that is enough to get Saul to go along with most temptation. When things go bad for Saul personally? His favorite hobby to take his mind off of it is to throw himself into some variety of sinful behavior. On the other hand, when things get too real or there's too much of a risk to his own safety, though, that's what can scare him straight. Or scare him into another branch of damnation, depending on which way out seems easier at a moment's notice.
Sins:
1. countless years of petty scams
2. many counts of theft
3. fraud
4. falsifying evidence
5. witness tampering
6. money laundering
7. lying
8. friend of the cartel
9. identity theft
10. destruction of property
11. bribery, accepting and offering
12. gaslighting and manipulation, particularly of the elderly
13. involvement in the production and sale of methamphetamine
14. indirectly caused the death of several individuals
(Specific names: [blacked out oocly for better call saul spoilers] McGill, Charles; Hamlin, Howard.)
15. self-serving cowardice
16. defecating through a sunroof
17. greed
18. destruction of evidence
19. breaking and entering
20. general hedonism
21. inability to accept responsibility for actions
Powers/Abilities: He is a completely normal human man with no special powers whatsoever.
Items: Just the clothes he's wearing: some gaudy colorful suit and a pinky ring.
SAMPLES
Network:
[You know those really cheesy commercials that run on tv at impossible o'clock in the morning? Yeah, that's the exact sort of tone of voice now coming at you through your phone.]
Lawyers, am I right? I'm surprised there's not more of us down here.
[After all, lawyers, hell, it's an easy joke set-up. But unfortunately, he continues on--]
"Saul," I hear you starting, "we're all already in Hell. Who cares about lawyers? We don't need that here!" And I'm here to tell you, that's where you're wrong. Frivolous lawsuits and false class-action claims may not be necessary here, but you know what else us lawyers can do for you? Advice.
Looking for a sounding board to hear your latest bad decision? Easily confused by demonic wordplay? Luckily for you: Saul Goodman and Associates is looking to expand its business, all to help your immortal soul. Deals this good don't come around more than once in an afterlife, so don't delay!
Log: Test Drive!