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ACTIVITY PROOFS: [REDACTED]
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Connor Walsh
CANON: How to Get Away with Murder
AGE: 26
APPEARANCE: Connor 3.0, sadder and scruffier edition
CANON POINT: Season 3, Episode 5
BACKGROUND: From the HTGAWM Wikia.
PERSONALITY:
Connor presents himself as a confident, and at times cocky, law student. He graduated at the top of his class in undergrad and often brags about how he does not need to study while teasing those who do. Due to his own academic success and the ease with which he comes by it, he does come off as condescending toward those who cannot achieve at the same level that he does or those who must work harder to do so. For example, in Season 1 he blatantly questions Wes’s legitimacy on Professor Keating’s team of select interns due to the fact that he was waitlisted for acceptance into the university, and he even coins the nickname “Waitlist” for him. He displays just as much confidence in the arena of flirting, using his good looks and charm to gain what he wants.
It would not be inaccurate to describe Connor as an asshole. He can be catty and petty, often pushing people’s buttons just to get a rise out of them. He tends to be deeply pessimistic, dismissing a situation as hopeless as soon as the difficulty begins to mount too high and rolling his eyes at those who openly display more idealistic tendencies. So too, he is deeply self-serving and his ambitions are such that he is willing to step on others to get where he needs to be. This manifests itself both in small ways, such as his competitiveness with his classmates, and in much starker ways, such as his complicity in allowing Nate to be wrongly arrested for Sam’s murder in his and his classmates’ stead. All of this, combined with his heavy reliance on sarcasm, can make him a rather difficult person to deal with.
He does, of course, have a softer, more compassionate side once his prickly outer rind is peeled away. Despite his habit of dishing out caustic remarks to his classmates, he does display concern for their well-being too. For example, after Asher’s father dies in Season 2, he welcomes Asher to stay with him and Oliver until he can get back on his feet. Although Connor later admits that he did so mostly out of pity, this shows that he at least wants to make the effort to be a good person when he can. At times he becomes emotionally attached to Annalise’s clients too, guided by his conventional morals which demand justice for those who are wronged. One such client is a woman who was sentenced to life in prison 30 years prior for killing her abusive husband. He seems to be highly sensitive to victims of what he perceives as bullying, which perhaps shows the viewer that the reason he comes to empathize so strongly with this particular client is because he himself has experienced bullying to some degree. In the end, he too is human and is most likely to reach out to those who reflect some aspect of himself.
Also lying beneath his smug, confident exterior is a deeply anxious person whose success comes by sheer force of his neurotic personality. As Annalise herself puts it, the only way he knows how to accomplish anything is by worrying his way through it, which gains him what he needs but leaves him exhausted. When put this way, it seems that he is successful because he fears failure, which can be inferred from the way he is cowed when criticized by Annalise – and thus he does all that he can to avoid it. In addition to his anxiety, Connor is host to a bevy of other emotional issues. He seems to have spent much of his life avoiding becoming close to anyone, and until he met Oliver had no interest in steady, committed relationships. He has difficult trusting others, which is highlighted in the aftermath of Sam’s murder when he grows increasingly paranoid that Annalise will turn in him and the others in order to protect herself. He is given to questioning the motives of not only Annalise but also his fellow classmates, even as it becomes increasingly necessary for them all to work together. Finally, he harbors a deep self-loathing that grows more apparent as time goes on and stems from his involvement in legally and morally reprehensible acts.
Ultimately, Connor is tethered to a conventional set of morals. He judges the clients who do not adhere to his moral standards, even though it is his job to help them. He is initially perturbed by Annalise’s willingness to bend or outright break rules in order to get what she wants, and as time goes on he grows to despise her for her underhanded dealings and for involving him in her schemes. Yet even so, when given the opportunity to shoot her, he refuses. More than once he considers turning himself into the police for his involvement in Sam’s murder and the cover-up thereof, so heavily his guilt weighs on him. For all of this he considers himself to be a bad person, yet he still has the conscience to acknowledge this.
SUITABILITY: At first, Connor would be resistant to cooperating as a part of the team, largely due to being overwhelmed by how extraordinary the circumstances are and how ordinary he is. He is distrustful of ALASTAIR’s motives and all around paranoid. However, given some time to settle in and figure himself out, I believe he would eventually come around: initially for the pragmatic reason of not wanting to be a liability or become a casualty, and then, depending on the nature of the mission, out of a growing desire to help in whatever way he can. When it comes down to it, he possesses a conventional sense of morality and desires justice for those who lack it. He would just need to figure out how he can contribute in a meaningful way. Furthermore, although he is a civilian, he has dealt with high-stress situations in canon, including the cover up of two murders. Although these events have left him with obvious psychological and emotional scars, he was still able to get done what needed to be get done.
ABILITIES: Connor possesses no special powers; he is an ordinary sack of flesh through and through. All that he has going for him is a fit body, and he apparently enjoys running.
INVENTORY: He will come in with nothing but the clothes on his back and the phone in his pocket.
WRITING SAMPLES.
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NAME: Kath
CONTACT:
CURRENT CHARACTERS: [REDACTED]
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CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Connor Walsh
CANON: How to Get Away with Murder
AGE: 26
APPEARANCE: Connor 3.0, sadder and scruffier edition
CANON POINT: Season 3, Episode 5
BACKGROUND: From the HTGAWM Wikia.
PERSONALITY:
Connor presents himself as a confident, and at times cocky, law student. He graduated at the top of his class in undergrad and often brags about how he does not need to study while teasing those who do. Due to his own academic success and the ease with which he comes by it, he does come off as condescending toward those who cannot achieve at the same level that he does or those who must work harder to do so. For example, in Season 1 he blatantly questions Wes’s legitimacy on Professor Keating’s team of select interns due to the fact that he was waitlisted for acceptance into the university, and he even coins the nickname “Waitlist” for him. He displays just as much confidence in the arena of flirting, using his good looks and charm to gain what he wants.
It would not be inaccurate to describe Connor as an asshole. He can be catty and petty, often pushing people’s buttons just to get a rise out of them. He tends to be deeply pessimistic, dismissing a situation as hopeless as soon as the difficulty begins to mount too high and rolling his eyes at those who openly display more idealistic tendencies. So too, he is deeply self-serving and his ambitions are such that he is willing to step on others to get where he needs to be. This manifests itself both in small ways, such as his competitiveness with his classmates, and in much starker ways, such as his complicity in allowing Nate to be wrongly arrested for Sam’s murder in his and his classmates’ stead. All of this, combined with his heavy reliance on sarcasm, can make him a rather difficult person to deal with.
He does, of course, have a softer, more compassionate side once his prickly outer rind is peeled away. Despite his habit of dishing out caustic remarks to his classmates, he does display concern for their well-being too. For example, after Asher’s father dies in Season 2, he welcomes Asher to stay with him and Oliver until he can get back on his feet. Although Connor later admits that he did so mostly out of pity, this shows that he at least wants to make the effort to be a good person when he can. At times he becomes emotionally attached to Annalise’s clients too, guided by his conventional morals which demand justice for those who are wronged. One such client is a woman who was sentenced to life in prison 30 years prior for killing her abusive husband. He seems to be highly sensitive to victims of what he perceives as bullying, which perhaps shows the viewer that the reason he comes to empathize so strongly with this particular client is because he himself has experienced bullying to some degree. In the end, he too is human and is most likely to reach out to those who reflect some aspect of himself.
Also lying beneath his smug, confident exterior is a deeply anxious person whose success comes by sheer force of his neurotic personality. As Annalise herself puts it, the only way he knows how to accomplish anything is by worrying his way through it, which gains him what he needs but leaves him exhausted. When put this way, it seems that he is successful because he fears failure, which can be inferred from the way he is cowed when criticized by Annalise – and thus he does all that he can to avoid it. In addition to his anxiety, Connor is host to a bevy of other emotional issues. He seems to have spent much of his life avoiding becoming close to anyone, and until he met Oliver had no interest in steady, committed relationships. He has difficult trusting others, which is highlighted in the aftermath of Sam’s murder when he grows increasingly paranoid that Annalise will turn in him and the others in order to protect herself. He is given to questioning the motives of not only Annalise but also his fellow classmates, even as it becomes increasingly necessary for them all to work together. Finally, he harbors a deep self-loathing that grows more apparent as time goes on and stems from his involvement in legally and morally reprehensible acts.
Ultimately, Connor is tethered to a conventional set of morals. He judges the clients who do not adhere to his moral standards, even though it is his job to help them. He is initially perturbed by Annalise’s willingness to bend or outright break rules in order to get what she wants, and as time goes on he grows to despise her for her underhanded dealings and for involving him in her schemes. Yet even so, when given the opportunity to shoot her, he refuses. More than once he considers turning himself into the police for his involvement in Sam’s murder and the cover-up thereof, so heavily his guilt weighs on him. For all of this he considers himself to be a bad person, yet he still has the conscience to acknowledge this.
SUITABILITY: At first, Connor would be resistant to cooperating as a part of the team, largely due to being overwhelmed by how extraordinary the circumstances are and how ordinary he is. He is distrustful of ALASTAIR’s motives and all around paranoid. However, given some time to settle in and figure himself out, I believe he would eventually come around: initially for the pragmatic reason of not wanting to be a liability or become a casualty, and then, depending on the nature of the mission, out of a growing desire to help in whatever way he can. When it comes down to it, he possesses a conventional sense of morality and desires justice for those who lack it. He would just need to figure out how he can contribute in a meaningful way. Furthermore, although he is a civilian, he has dealt with high-stress situations in canon, including the cover up of two murders. Although these events have left him with obvious psychological and emotional scars, he was still able to get done what needed to be get done.
ABILITIES: Connor possesses no special powers; he is an ordinary sack of flesh through and through. All that he has going for him is a fit body, and he apparently enjoys running.
INVENTORY: He will come in with nothing but the clothes on his back and the phone in his pocket.
WRITING SAMPLES.
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LOG SAMPLE: [REDACTED]