BIO: Barney Stinson

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BARNEY STINSON

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Barney Stinson

"That was the night I was born. I rose like a phoenix from her mentholated bosom and strode into the world, Armani-clad and fully awesome."

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NAME: Barney Stinson

FANDOM: How I Met Your Mother

PB: Neil Patrick Harris

NICKNAMES: Swarley. Use it often.

SPECIES: Human

HEIGHT: 6'0" // 1.83m

BIRTHDAY: June 15, 1976

SEXUALITY: Heterosexual

HAIR: Dyed blond

AGE: Around 33

JOURNAL:

EYES: Blue

CANON POINT: Usually pre-Sandcastles in the Sand in S3, but I am prone to slipping up

appearance

Barney is of about average height, standing at 6'0" with or without the suit, which he is always wearing. It doesn't matter the occasion, he will wear a suit and tie and appear to be the most classy individual there until he opens his mouth (unless it's a funeral - suits are to be reserved for happy occasions only). He is often wearing a smug, self-satisfied smile and has an easy going nature. He oozes confidence, and maintains that he can get any girl into bed that he wants to - though that remains to be seen.

skills

HUMAN: Barney is completely and totally human, though he would like it to be made known that he is not at all speciest when it comes to getting laid.

history

Barney was born in 1976 and was raised in Staten Island. In Barney's family life was defined by his mother, who was a promiscuous woman who claimed that his father was Bob Barker, longtime host of The Price Is Right. Barney also has a brother, James who, unlike Barney, is African American and gay. He apparently also has a younger sister. He lived a fairly normal childhood, wanting to be a violinist and coping with unmedicated ADHD while getting excellent marks in school with very little effort. 

During his teenaged years, Barney worked in a coffee shop and wanted to be a peace activists. He and his girlfriend of the time, Shannon, were set to ship off with the Peace Corps to help the Nicaraguans when Shannon told Barney that her father would not let her go. He was confused, and brokenhearted, but when he dug deeper he discovered that it wasn't Shannon's father at all - but her married boyfriend. Shannon's insults and hurtful actions towards Barney forever changed his life, and he "suited up" for the first time, creating a new image for himself in the likeness of Shannon's boyfriend. To this day, no one is quite sure if this is a facade that Barney puts on to avoid allowing people to get close, or the real person that he has become. 

Barney currently lives in New York, and has made a noticeable effort to downplay what, exactly, he does for a living. The company he works for is called Altracell, which is best known as the largest producer of the yellow fuzzy stuff on tennis balls (but obviously the company's main profits come from less respectable means). He makes enough money to fund a fantastic apartment, half a million dollars worth of suits, and the ability to pretty much do as he pleases with his life.

Barney is a man who likes to create crazy situations and then sit back and watch it all go down. In the show, Barney is a confident womanizer in his early thirties who almost always wears a suit, likes girls with Daddy issues and is always willing to offer his (sometimes hypocritical) opinion. He tends to be opportunistic and manipulative, and will attempt to manipulate a situation so that it goes his way. He is also highly competitive, and will take on "challenges" to complete (sometimes) outlandish tasks in order to prove his worth. He is proud/stubborn and attempts to stand by his word no matter what. He does, however, have a softer, more gentle side that sometimes becomes apparent - particularly when he's spending time with people who are close to him.

GAME: DauphineMare / Riverfell and Dauphinmare

The characters were drawn together to aid in the battle between Chaos and Order. The characters were pawns in a game played by the Powers, though the rules are always changing.

GAME: Island House

The year is 2365, and the United Academy of Science has developed the ability to travel through time - and the knowledge of alternate dimensions and timelines. Two overly ambitious men, Josef Sommer and Erik Lehrer, have banded together to create a social experiment.

For two years, the two men worked together on outfitting a house on a foggy island. Cameras and two-way mirrors were installed, secret passageways were created. Precautions were taken against most known forms of mutation and magic. The island was isolated, miles from any other land form, in the southern area of the Arctic Ocean, near Europe.

Once they thought the house was fit, they began to import people from different times and places and realities. The new residents of the house would wake up in a strange room, often decorated in a style similar to the norm for their time and culture - but still not their room. No explanation would be given as to why they were here, or even where 'here' is.

They were left to fend for themselves, to sink or swim among the other residents of the house.

GAME: Escape Mechanism

Not so very long ago, the Powers that Be decided it was time to decide which force should be ruling the Multiverse: the force of Order and light, or the force of Chaos and darkness. So the Powers set up two worlds inside of two bubbles, and picked their chosen representatives from various realities and points in time. Time rolled on, but after only three and a half weeks, they decided the forces were not balanced. That the pawns, the players in their cosmic war, were not equally matched. So they re-evaluated the people they'd chosen, shuffling some into the other bubble. They realized too late that some people had formed bonds in the short time they'd been in these worlds between worlds, nearly unbreakable bonds, and they would not be swayed so easy to their newly chosen side.And so, on midnight of the twenty-fourth day of the war, the Powers that Be sent most of their chosen warriors and catalysts to a new reality, merging the two existing bubbles. They have decided to start drawing in more people, letting bonds form with no barriers between the sides. Chaos' warriors are mingling with Order's chosen, and new people are being brought in on the whims of the Powers.

GAME: Ipswich RPG

Returning from his three year stint in Hell, Chase is pissed. He’s not alone, either – in his epic escape from Hell, he managed to rift time and space, opening gaps to other worlds … and letting people from all across time, space, and reality into Ipswich.

GAME: In Darkness

They’d started their ‘social experiments’ a quarter of a century ago, give or take. First it was locals, volunteers, and then ... they weren’t volunteers, but people that the Heads thought would be good candidates. In 2032, they developed the technology to rift space and time, and as they honed the technique to pinpoint characteristic held by people across realities. 

GAME: Beyond the Black

Miranda wasn't the first, last, or only cover-up the Alliance was involved in ...

GAME: Underworld Angel

Morality comes in shades of grey, and none know it quite so well as the Alliance. Exposed for their crimes, they curl up to lick wounds and regroup. Humanity is still in desperate need of betterment, and those who don't leave the establishment in disgust after the origin of Reavers is leaked unite to rebuild a better, more elaborate project. What better way to skirt by the principles of morality than by choosing test subjects who technically shouldn't even exist?

Nobody knows for certain just how the technology was acquired, but cleverly reverse-engineered alien - some might say, Time Lord - tech allowed the same projects responsible for River Tam to continue unscathed. Drawing people from other points in time within parallel universes meant having no family or friends to answer to when those test subjects were harmed during experimentation - and having access to a vast array of natural talents unavailable in humans of their home world.

It worked, initially, but over time the lab rats began to grow discontent. Subjects from the same realities grew closer, patients with similar augmentations began training together in secret, and ultimately the Alliance learned an extremely important lesson: when you mistreat people with incredibly powerful abilities, you will get burned. Those dragged into a world where they never belonged have taken up residence on the once-abandoned planet of Miranda and, with great effort, hijacked the technology used to bend reality. They may not be able to seal the rifts in time and space, but they have been able to prevent the world from collapsing and redirect most rifts to the commandeered planet so newcomers aren't stranded without assistance in a vast, new universe.

Though it took years of war and unfathomable losses, the military compounds which once experimented upon innocent other-worlders have been destroyed. Project: Paradise Lost, the origin of River Tam, has finally seen its last day in the sun and, as far as the 'verse as a whole knows, things have gone quiet on the human augmentation front. Deep in a secret facility, however, Project: Odyssey has taken root - and with it, the Alliance has begun cannibalizing its own military forces, drawing in new recruits who show potential in further experimentation with enhanced powers. Perhaps it's true, what they say: war never changes.

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