http://heartstrine.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] heartstrine.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] houseofcardsooc2012-03-08 10:03 am
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Cooper Thane - CR Anyone?

Hello, my lovelies. This is Song with her fifth character, Cooper (Coop) Thane, a returning Deck baby and new 8 of Hearts.

Coop, 33, grew up a Club. His parents are still alive and kicking. His mother, Fiona, is a 3rd Gen Spade who fled that Suit during the old regime. She probably would have returned when David took over, but by then she had met and married Ross Thane (a first generation [Australian] Club). Fiona is a gardener and Ross an accountant. They had three children. Cooper is the middle kid.

Cooper is a guy. He likes to drink, he likes to fight (friendly most times) he likes sports, the outdoors. He's not too interested in fashion. He's happier doing than thinking, though he's actually quite clever. He keeps that close to his chest and is generally friendly, though he's not above slipping in the occasional sarcasm. He's a people watcher, always looking below the surface. He doesn't talk about his emotions or get emotional (or tries not to). He has no patience for whiners or any gender, and he likes people who take care of themselves. No wilting flowers for Coop, thanks. Oh, and don't change his name to Copper. He'd have to deck you.

Growing up, Cooper excelled in sports. The Deck isn't conducive to team sports (though Coop is a huge fan of the Broncos, Lions and Reds). His father started him in boxing. Coop's size and speed (and the fact that he's a southpaw) helped him immensely. He's also a devilishly fast swimmer and an ace tennis player.

Riley, his older sister, left the Deck at 20 after a failed challenge. Jack, the baby, was injured (and later died) in a freak training accident (he landed wrong after a judo throw and broke his neck). He was barely fifteen.

Cooper spiraled into a depression and eventually left the Deck, returning to his grandparents in Brisbane. He and his grandfather, Wil, a retired detective, became quite close (love of sports and cooking). Coop followed his grandfather's footsteps and entered a career in law enforcement. Cooper rose swiftly in the ranks, becoming a detective at 23 and assigned first to Narcotics and later to Homicide. He lost the taste for his job when he took on a case where a father had systematically planned out the murder of his wife and three small children. Thoroughly burned out by death, he returned to the Deck after his mother contacted him and told him his father had had a heart attack. Cooper was 25.

His father lived, but Cooper wanted to be nearer his parents and decided to give the Deck another go. He's still giving it a go after eight years. He didn't want to live in his parents' pockets (plus the Clubs reminded him too much of his dead brother) and joined the Hearts as a Two. He chose the Hearts because he liked their Queen and King. Besides, he has the sneaking suspicion he should probably arrest most of the Spades on general principles and the Diamonds are too caught up in appearances for his liking.

Cooper's an excellent cook, supplementing his early cooking lessons from Ross with classes in his spare time. He works in the kitchens (runs them if there isn't anyone else).

So, CR? Anyone want to volunteer to have accidentally killed poor Jack? Could be from any Suit, but a Club is most likely. Any Club want to have pummelled Riley out of the Deck? Is there someone else in charge of the Heart kitchens?

Hit me!

(In case you're interested, here's a list of challenges: Battleship, Sudoku, Best Souffle, 400M medley (swimming), Boxing, Archery)

[identity profile] somuchheart.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
He and Blythe are probably acquainted-if-not-friends~ fellow Hearts, represent! :D

And also. Battleship. Trolololol. That would be such an intense challenge. :||

[identity profile] theloudestroar.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh gosh. I can only imagine.

[identity profile] cipherspeak.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Helloooo there. /ogling /ahem

I'm sure he must know Jordan somehow since he's an Eight and Jordan's a Nine.

I had Zoë working in the Heart kitchens in between tutoring until she was a Five and entered the world of accounting. If he's been in the kitchens the whole time, he may have helped her not scorch the mirepoix and garlic while she was on Soup Duty. She was only there for a year, but. Could work? Oh, Zoë also plays tennis, so they could have that in common.

He might know Avery, since she's in and out of Heart Castle a lot and did his job for the Diamonds up until when she rose to Ten. Baking friends?
Edited 2012-03-08 16:20 (UTC)

[identity profile] brightbutler.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I presume he knows Wren, who for the last eight years (at least) has been climbing the Heart ranks. She will love him for cooking her things and will try to repay him with fashion advice... but mainly in jest. I assure you. Is he part of her wild party gang or more for just pubbing it?

And he and Isaac have probably worked together with whole-Deck events. If he's good at cooking, Isaac will leave off the being annoying. Mostly. But probably acted creepy as all get-out to avoid socialising.

[identity profile] sevenbyright.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
ADKSDLF COOK.

I mean, oh hey Coop. Want to make friends with the head of the Club bakers? And soon to be the head of the Club Kitchens? He and Dafydd might get along like whoa.

Midterms eated me and then I have travel and spring break woooo, but CR. Coop probably doesn't really know Sieben, but he might know Frankie in passing. He could be someone she adopted. She has a lot of them. She would have

[identity profile] bare-your-heart.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Cooper and Val might know each other, since he's working in the kitchens. Where there is food, there is Val!

[identity profile] headfollowheart.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
/checks Jordan's challenges

Let's see, Jordan's 25 and challenged for Nine two years ago and Eight the year before that. Seven five years ago, when he was 20. And I daresay Fiona and Laureline are acquainted in SOME way, at least.

Zoe was 12 eight years ago. XD That's also when Georgios first got sick, so if they met then, it was a twelve year old girl wandering into the kitchens to try not to think too much about certain diagnoses. She would have been in the kitchens at fifteen, which was five years. But in any case: tennis. Yes. It's the one sport Zoe really likes to play and she's pretty good at it, so they could have met on the courts.

Avery would love to be barbie buddies with Cooper. It makes me wish I'd made her Australian like her PB is. XD

[identity profile] brightbutler.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Wren could deal with that. A more relaxed evening of pool and exaggerations... before she crashes off to the nightclub. Friends, then?

If Coop ever articulates that thought, Isaac will eviscerate him. With his eyes.

[identity profile] cardstitcher.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Cooking AND rugby? Coop, will you be Dafydd's best friend? He really needs one. He's putting up a post tomorrow about having been challenged for Five, and his girlfriend has essentially broken up with him.

I have always timey-wimeyed Frankie's intervals when she's off-Deck, so she can definitely have been around for poor Jack's death. Frankie would have done what she could, which wasn't really anything at all, and then adopted Coop afterward. And she would have worried while he was off-Deck, and possibly even visited. I cannot brain age-calculations at the moment but will work these things out.

[identity profile] headfollowheart.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine Jordan was giving him side-eye, yeah. Six challenges in eight years? Jordan totally would have considered him competition. But he would have been polite about it, I imagine. I think he just missed Where's Waldo, which was nine years ago. Might have heard about it though.

He could have made moussaka and spanokopita for Georgios while he was on chemotherapy, which kills the appetite. It's likely that he and Zoe bonded over tennis around then, as it would have given her something to talk about other than her father and horses. They might have watched the major tournaments together, that kind of thing? Likely she didn't become his tennis partner for a couple more years, once she was mostly grown up and her game was more polished, but I could see him giving her pointers.

Avery would love to be an honorary sheila and she'll bring him her barbecue sauce recipe.

[identity profile] cardstitcher.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Elisha will be happy that Coop follows the football. Not enough footballers in the Deck. Dafydd doesn't follow cricket as much as he follows rugger, but he wouldn't have survived expensive British public school Rugby College without learning it. Could they get a side together?

All the cooking. All the baking. All the tea from Isaac. Then all the training and all the ass-kicking. The challenge post itself isn't going up until...probably Friday the 23rd, after all my crazy is done.

If he's 33 now...she's about 20 years older, so yes, she would have been back in the Deck and taking care of her Clubs by then. Possibly arrived back after her first sabbatical just in time for Jack's challenge to go horribly wrong.

[identity profile] brightbutler.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Wren is a slave to her figure and always trying ridiculous diets. Would he indulge her?

Imagining Isaac in a rugby game makes part of me go "aww" and want to cuddle him, and part of me laugh helplessly.

[identity profile] heartsthespades.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The Where's Waldo challenge made Jordan wonder why they couldn't have gone to the Diamonds where things were at least taken seriously. But he's chilled significantly since he was sixteen.

Oh, it has to be Rafa all the way. No one has that energy. XD

Sounds like a plan, Coop. Make sure you've got whiskey for her. It's an essential component.

[identity profile] hairicando.livejournal.com 2012-03-08 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, hello there fellow Eight of Hearts!

I'm sure Beth knows him due to her over-friendliness with absolutely everyone and anyone. I'm not sure about Noah since he's new but I'm sure they'll come across each other at some stage. And Siobhan? When has she ever had CR with anyone? XD

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