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Other Characters: Jason Compson IV
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Temple Drake
Age: 25
Canon: Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner
Canon Point: Immediately prior to the trial in Requiem for a Nun
Character Information:
CONTENT WARNING: Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun are both books that deal significantly, and not always sensitively (especially Requiem) with the theme of rape. Temple is a human trafficking victim. Any posts in the game that may touch on that part of her history will be appropriately marked and she will have an opt-out. The following app will have references to the events, and the summaries do contain descriptions of the act, so proceed with care.
Sanctuary Plot Summary, Requiem for a Nun Plot Summary
Personality: In a vacuum, Temple Drake would be a good person. She expresses empathy for the injured and sick, approaches people with a friendly attitude, and is polite and generous. She reaches out to others to make friends, looking for understanding and shared compassion. She feels guilt and outsized responsibility for tragedies that have come in her wake, and often wishes not to change the past for her own sake but to spare others. Her moral compass points towards, if not kindness, at least a sort of benign gentleness.
Temple Drake does not, however, live in a vacuum; instead, she lives in a world that started with repressive social expectations of the wealthy only daughter of a judge, hit a nadir of human trafficking and extreme sexual trauma, and ended with an unhappy, loveless marriage of convenience and a dead infant. Temple has never had the willpower or commitment to morals to follow through on that promise of goodness, and so she falls into the worst trappings of humanity with relatively little struggle.
She sees herself as two separate people - the Temple Drake of secret, a lusty, sneaky, savage girl who could only be drawn to and thrive in sin, and the Temple Stevens of her public face trying to hide and repair the damage that Temple Drake’s worst impulses wreaked across her life. It’s not a split personality so much as just the way she understands herself, between the person she wants to be and the person she knows herself to have been. Temple Stevens is known to everyone as the well-to-do wife of a businessman, prim and proper despite a sordid and scandalous history of extreme abuse. Temple Drake is a human incarnation that Temple wishes to consign the hardest and most morally unpleasant parts of her life to, as if to place all these traits and memories into someone who lives in the past would allow her to eventually cut that receptacle away like a bad hairstyle. Because of the social pressures of the time and Temple’s own need to create a narrative she can live with about her rape, Temple blames herself for her own abuse, or rather, blames the person she believes she was and no longer wishes to be.
Temple Drake never fit into the expectations one would have for a young woman of her station, and at seventeen was already starting to rebel against her restrictive older brothers and father. A reputed ‘fast girl’ whose name was scrawled across the men’s bathrooms, Temple went out of her way looking for adventure and excitement by flirting with and looking for attention from older men. As she grew older she found herself unable to fit into the role of upper class housewife that was designated for her, and acted out with an attempt at an affair and running away, even if it meant abandoning her two children. She has sexual needs, and more pressingly, needs for stimulation and excitement instead of contentment.
Temple is an extremely self-absorbed woman, who often sees the consequences of her actions as problems for other people to manage rather than her own responsibility until well after it’s too late to change her decisions. Guilt is a retroactive burden for her, rather than a potential that she considers before she acts, but when it strikes her she becomes penitent with complete earnestness, far beyond what the average person would consider reasonable (for example, when her child is murdered, she is convinced she bears equal fault with the murderer largely because she went on a date with her future husband eight years prior, setting in motion the chain of events). In Temple's mind, it will always come down to her, either as the locus of culpability or her own best friend and ally whose needs and wants rule supreme.
She is a woman of passions, capable of whirlwind love affairs and violent rage, of complete detachment or of crippling self-loathing. This passion can extend, most importantly, to her love for survival - not a joie de vivre but a scrappy, flinty need to persist breathing even in the face of utmost despair. She will lie, cheat, steal and play dead to protect her own skin. Another character once commented that she would throw her own child in front of danger to save herself.
Temple goes beyond merely coquettish and is outright manipulative, thinking that she has no power to do things herself and must wheedle, berate and scheme what she wants out of others, particularly men. Her arsenal is filled not just with sexual charms but also class entitlement, a vicious tongue, and a difficult-to-deny learned helplessness. Temple never does anything for herself that she can convince others to do for her, and in her relatively coddled social position, that means that basic things such as calling a car for herself or cooking her own food can seem beyond her reach. She rarely goes wanting, however, because of her charisma and doe eyes, and she isn’t above playing herself up as pitiful and needy to get what she wants. When backed into a corner, this attitude becomes a vital defense mechanism, and Temple is willing to lie (including perjure, as she does in Sanctuary), blackmail (her ‘lover’ in Requiem) and pit others against each other (Red and Popeye in Sanctuary) to try and survive.
Ultimately, Temple is someone who wants to be better than what she is, who is dragged down into bad behavior not only by the circumstances that surround her but also by her own inclinations towards the easy, self-serving road. She will never fit into what is expected of her because she is unable to let go of her role, exaggerated or not, in the past, and because she is convinced that the only way to get what she wants is by underhanded methods that she is all too willing to use. She is damned to an unhappy life, and, unfortunately, one in which she drags down the people around her into her schemes and guilt.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Selfish, Helpless, Manipulative, Weak-Willed, Rebellious, Entitled, Good-Natured, Libidinous, Corrupted, Guilty
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits
Opt-Outs: Nymph, Faerie, Arachne, Goblin, Troll
Roleplay Sample: Test Drive Sample
Name: Lisa
Contact:
Other Characters: Jason Compson IV
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Temple Drake
Age: 25
Canon: Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner
Canon Point: Immediately prior to the trial in Requiem for a Nun
Character Information:
CONTENT WARNING: Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun are both books that deal significantly, and not always sensitively (especially Requiem) with the theme of rape. Temple is a human trafficking victim. Any posts in the game that may touch on that part of her history will be appropriately marked and she will have an opt-out. The following app will have references to the events, and the summaries do contain descriptions of the act, so proceed with care.
Sanctuary Plot Summary, Requiem for a Nun Plot Summary
Personality: In a vacuum, Temple Drake would be a good person. She expresses empathy for the injured and sick, approaches people with a friendly attitude, and is polite and generous. She reaches out to others to make friends, looking for understanding and shared compassion. She feels guilt and outsized responsibility for tragedies that have come in her wake, and often wishes not to change the past for her own sake but to spare others. Her moral compass points towards, if not kindness, at least a sort of benign gentleness.
Temple Drake does not, however, live in a vacuum; instead, she lives in a world that started with repressive social expectations of the wealthy only daughter of a judge, hit a nadir of human trafficking and extreme sexual trauma, and ended with an unhappy, loveless marriage of convenience and a dead infant. Temple has never had the willpower or commitment to morals to follow through on that promise of goodness, and so she falls into the worst trappings of humanity with relatively little struggle.
She sees herself as two separate people - the Temple Drake of secret, a lusty, sneaky, savage girl who could only be drawn to and thrive in sin, and the Temple Stevens of her public face trying to hide and repair the damage that Temple Drake’s worst impulses wreaked across her life. It’s not a split personality so much as just the way she understands herself, between the person she wants to be and the person she knows herself to have been. Temple Stevens is known to everyone as the well-to-do wife of a businessman, prim and proper despite a sordid and scandalous history of extreme abuse. Temple Drake is a human incarnation that Temple wishes to consign the hardest and most morally unpleasant parts of her life to, as if to place all these traits and memories into someone who lives in the past would allow her to eventually cut that receptacle away like a bad hairstyle. Because of the social pressures of the time and Temple’s own need to create a narrative she can live with about her rape, Temple blames herself for her own abuse, or rather, blames the person she believes she was and no longer wishes to be.
Temple Drake never fit into the expectations one would have for a young woman of her station, and at seventeen was already starting to rebel against her restrictive older brothers and father. A reputed ‘fast girl’ whose name was scrawled across the men’s bathrooms, Temple went out of her way looking for adventure and excitement by flirting with and looking for attention from older men. As she grew older she found herself unable to fit into the role of upper class housewife that was designated for her, and acted out with an attempt at an affair and running away, even if it meant abandoning her two children. She has sexual needs, and more pressingly, needs for stimulation and excitement instead of contentment.
Temple is an extremely self-absorbed woman, who often sees the consequences of her actions as problems for other people to manage rather than her own responsibility until well after it’s too late to change her decisions. Guilt is a retroactive burden for her, rather than a potential that she considers before she acts, but when it strikes her she becomes penitent with complete earnestness, far beyond what the average person would consider reasonable (for example, when her child is murdered, she is convinced she bears equal fault with the murderer largely because she went on a date with her future husband eight years prior, setting in motion the chain of events). In Temple's mind, it will always come down to her, either as the locus of culpability or her own best friend and ally whose needs and wants rule supreme.
She is a woman of passions, capable of whirlwind love affairs and violent rage, of complete detachment or of crippling self-loathing. This passion can extend, most importantly, to her love for survival - not a joie de vivre but a scrappy, flinty need to persist breathing even in the face of utmost despair. She will lie, cheat, steal and play dead to protect her own skin. Another character once commented that she would throw her own child in front of danger to save herself.
Temple goes beyond merely coquettish and is outright manipulative, thinking that she has no power to do things herself and must wheedle, berate and scheme what she wants out of others, particularly men. Her arsenal is filled not just with sexual charms but also class entitlement, a vicious tongue, and a difficult-to-deny learned helplessness. Temple never does anything for herself that she can convince others to do for her, and in her relatively coddled social position, that means that basic things such as calling a car for herself or cooking her own food can seem beyond her reach. She rarely goes wanting, however, because of her charisma and doe eyes, and she isn’t above playing herself up as pitiful and needy to get what she wants. When backed into a corner, this attitude becomes a vital defense mechanism, and Temple is willing to lie (including perjure, as she does in Sanctuary), blackmail (her ‘lover’ in Requiem) and pit others against each other (Red and Popeye in Sanctuary) to try and survive.
Ultimately, Temple is someone who wants to be better than what she is, who is dragged down into bad behavior not only by the circumstances that surround her but also by her own inclinations towards the easy, self-serving road. She will never fit into what is expected of her because she is unable to let go of her role, exaggerated or not, in the past, and because she is convinced that the only way to get what she wants is by underhanded methods that she is all too willing to use. She is damned to an unhappy life, and, unfortunately, one in which she drags down the people around her into her schemes and guilt.
5-10 Key Character Traits: Selfish, Helpless, Manipulative, Weak-Willed, Rebellious, Entitled, Good-Natured, Libidinous, Corrupted, Guilty
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, EITHER, or opt for 100% RANDOMIZATION? Fits
Opt-Outs: Nymph, Faerie, Arachne, Goblin, Troll
Roleplay Sample: Test Drive Sample