#jimgoop

First session of Goop Casting! Where when I come up with a person/actor that has a good voice/look/vibe for a character, I yap about it.

This session, despite being the first, is surprisingly about more of a minor character in my au! That being Daisy, who's (regrettably) better known as Jimmy's wife!

And the actress I've given her is Stephanie J. Block! Or more specifically, Block's performance as Trina in the Falsettos Musical.

The reason I'm starting with her is because, in comparison to someone like Two Time or Azure,,, it didn't require as much thought lol. Kinda unceremonious, but it's easier for me to choose an actor for a smaller character, rather than one who's deeply personal to me.

Character Analysis/Comparison under the cut! Although admittedly this is less about the actress herself and moreso the character she portrays. This will likely be reoccurring, where an actor's portrayl of their character inspires/reminds me of mine. Or something like that.

Like in the original last guest/forsaken, guest 1337 is.. pretty much perfect. he lived in robloxia so he was a war hero that everyone loved, who's only flaw was he wanted to save more people than he could. Honestly he's kinda a mary sue 😭

but translating that into like. The real world. I dont think it would be as black and white. War vets are treated pretty shittily, and often come back from the war worse than when they started. Thats where ptsd comes from and stuff. But also just because they suffered a lot, dosen't mean they cant be dickish. Especially if they dont get therapy or anything

i think you can tell that jimmy lowk didn't 😭✌ bitch didn't think he needed it

So jimmy goes to war (probably in iran, considering the general timeline) as a young and hopeful soldier who wants to save people after he failed to save his parents. Like a more realistic batman origin story. He's a kind person at heart, and being able to save people (like his family back at home) would make him feel like his life has a real purpose. and so when he's honorably discharged after an incident where he took a bomb for someone, he returns home and expects to feel complete!

... but that's not really what happens. He saved his family. He saved his fellow soliders, and became someone with a truly great legacy. So that left him with a question: now what?

The war and being in the army had conditioned him to feel like he was only good enough when he was fighting for someone. And so that left him constantly restless. He LOVES being a husband and father, dont get me wrong. It's second nature to him. But that restlessness, over the course of a decade or so, ended up with him just feeling really dissatisfied and out of place. Like he was in a time that was passed where he felt like he was useful.

His arc reminds me a lot of Mr. Incredible (from the Pixar movie). An ex-hero with a wife and children who misses the time where he used to save people, and so he tries to relive his glory days but fails because he cant see what REALLY matters to him (aka Daisy and Charlotte).

Like he's not an evil person by any means. But he did a really shitty thing in neglecting his family to try and fix some ex-cultist.

Two Time just fell into his life at a really bad time 😭 like when he was feeling particularly nostalgic/restless—a dangerous combination. And so he tries to save them too. And for all intents and purposes, he does a pretty good job. But as he sees them gain friends and fix things with azure (as in "azure is actually willing to be on speaking terms with them again") largely without his help, he realizes how fleeting it all is and actually tries to be with his family again. And i think it would work! Him and daisy are soulmates idgaf

of course someone might disagree with me on my ranking depending on what their morality is,, so this is just imo. also I like it best when my characters are morally gray so no one on this list is like. The devil incarnate or anything. So this is more or less a list of "how their actions effect their character". Also no minor characters are included or else we all know Amarah and Isaak would be at the top of the list✌

Under the cut cause this is a LONG yap session LOL

So this is basically my list of characters and what they're doing, since they now all live in the pokemon world pokemon in this au lol

Two Time: Not in a cult in this au, but rather a strick religious household. After their mother passed they were sent to live with their uncle (who was the leader of an evil pokemon god-worshipping team, but two time didn't know that until wayyy later). So they still act as nervously and naively as they do in canon since they were kept inside a lot rip. But they eventually met their pokemon partner mimiku by pure chance and their uncle begrudgingly let them keep it. They call it Mimi :)

Azalea: Two Time's gf. I just want ONE au where they can be happy guys let me have this ✌😭 anyway, she was Two Time's nextdoor neighbor turned lover! Azalea loveeessss pokemon and would often sneak into the professor's lab to see what she could find :0 she was given a wooloo when she was little but just wanted to learn about more lol. She ended up finding two pokemon eggs in the woods, which hatched into eevees!! She gave one to two time, and they ended up evolving into Espeon and Umbreon so they matched ‼ she works as the pokemon professor's assistant

Kasey: lowk kinda the same LOLL. From a family of very prestigious (yet very shady) trainers. He had a pikachu as a kid that evolved into a raichu while he was on vacation in alola, and it helps him cheat in gambling and stuff lol. Eventually he was given the family Victini (a mythical pokemon) and he became even more cocky after getting it 😭😭 it is CONSTANTLY tired of his bs bro 🙏 so it tries to run off which causes kasey, not wanting to lose his family pokemon, to fun after it. He ends up finding two time, and they both start travelling together :) kasey wanting to restore his family honor cause he can NOT return home without that thing, and two time wanting to spread the word of their god (they worship Spawnyxous, a pokemon that is only rumored to exist)

Jimmy and Daisy: Jimmy fought in the GREAT POKEMON WAR ‼‼😈 but before that, he was one of the elite four!! He had a powerful team of fighting/fire types, and was really respected ^^ his main pokemon was Arcainine!! He was married to Daisy, an ex-pokemon performer who gave up her dreams of stardom to marry Jimmy and raise their baby. Her and her Primarina were really well known in the town they lived in!! But then Jimmy had to go to war, yada yada, he came back and he was a changed man. He quit battling to become a nurse at the pokemon center, and overworks himself so much that he spends no time at home with his family </3 he meets two time and kasey and decides to join them on their journey to help heal their pokemon and keep them safe. Daisy is NOT happy about ts 💔

Charlotte: Charlotte wanted to be a pokemon master like her dad!! She has a bulbasaur and that's literally it, since after Jimmy left Daisy kinda refuses to let her leave the house. So she likes sneaking out at night and just wandering around trying to figure out ways to train even when she's not allowed ✊