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Requested apartment: N/A
Character Name: Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett
Canon: Orange is the New Black
Canon Point: 1x12, "Fool Me Once", right before attempting to "baptize" Piper
And I have two notes before I got into the app itself! Note one: a content warning applies to pretty much all of this app. Tiffany is a meth addict in prison for murder, and she has many offensive beliefs and opinions (including those involving homophobia, transphobia, and casual racism). If she's accepted into the game, I'll make heavy use of a permissions post, and won't have her bring up any potentially uncomfortable topics without permission from the player(s) I'm threading with. I'll also allow a general opt-out for people who would rather not thread with her at all.
And note two: this show is inspired by a memoir of the same name, which leads some people to wonder if playing from it is a form of real-person RP, especially since there are some characters from the book that have counterparts (albeit heavily fictionalized counterparts) in the show. However, Tiffany isn’t really one of those characters. There is a minor character in the book that has the same nickname (“Pennsatucky”), but they’re nothing alike, and the book’s author has said that Tiffany’s character on the show isn’t actually based on the real-life Pennsatucky.
Background/History: Wikipedia gives the most straightforward and detailed summary of her backstory and canon appearances, but she has a page on the OITNB wiki too.
Personality:
Tiffany Doggett appears to be the poster child for religious extremism. She can spout the party line, knows all the buzzwords, and can turn anything into a preachable moment. She has an unsettling amount of fans and encouragers who write her letters, and she dutifully responds to them all (though it frustrates her that there are too many for her to keep all of their names and stories straight). If someone offered her her own conservative talk radio show, she would probably die of happiness.
But the truth is, religion is just a tool for her. That's not to say she doesn't truly believe it-- she does, at least right now-- but she believes it because she likes the attention and validation it gives her (or rather, the attention and validation that other people who believe the same things give her). In a flashback scene where she sees her little fanclub-- cheering, clapping, waving signs with her name and face on them-- for the first time, it's clear by the look on her face that she's thrilled. But without people who do that kind of thing for her, her "convictions" waver incredibly quickly. A few days alone in psychiatric lock-up had her declaring that there was no God (then, after a discussion with her lawyer, she was back to being a whole-hearted believer; she's a big flip-flopper, too), and if enough time without reinforcement and validation went by she'd likely abandon religion entirely and glom onto some other cause or belief. Even now, her understanding of Christianity seems to be rather shallow, so she's probably not all that familiar with the Bible or the intricacies of Christian religion outside of what her lawyer has told her (though she does have a Bible in prison that she reads from time to time). Her actress describes her as "lost and confused", and I'm inclined to agree. It seems like nothing in her mind is set in stone. She doesn't like or believe in things because she enjoys them or they give her personal fulfillment-- she likes or believes in things based on what will earn her a significant amount of attention (preferably positive, but she seems okay with negative attention too), because she enjoys and gets personal fulfillment from that and that alone. She's very emotionally immature, and as a result, she's very gullible and easily manipulated. It's hinted (and stated outright in a couple interviews with the writers, if information from those can be considered canon) that she grew up in a large family and got little in the way of parental attention, which goes a long way towards explaining some of her issues.
All that said, Tiffany is definitely not a harmless eccentric. She's clearly damaged, which is sad and sympathy-inducing, but she's done (and continues to do) terrible, inexcusable things, and she's in prison for a reason. A violent offender, she's vindictive, impulsive, and has some serious anger issues-- three things that, in combination, make her pretty damn dangerous. She's perfectly capable of being calm and easy-going-- even good-natured-- and her default state tends to lean more towards neutral... but her emotions can and do change on a dime, which means you really never know how she's going to react to something. Hating someone and wanting to literally kill them is not necessarily a permanent state, and she's capable of coming back from it abnormally quickly. Likewise, the opposite is true: she can go from liking someone and wanting to be their friend to despising them and throwing around genuine death threats in 0.5 seconds if she believes she's been slighted somehow. Her reactions aren't really very consistent, either: she shoots and kills a clinic nurse for making a rude joke about how many abortions she's had, but there are other times when someone will make a far worse comment that she won't react violently to. The one constant is that she rarely plans her actions or thinks about the consequences, no matter how important or serious they may be. She's in prison for murdering someone who made a snide comment at her expense, she repeatedly threatened and attempted to kill someone in prison because they refused her offer to make amends by baptizing them, and she's endangered other characters more than once. In all of these situations, her actions were the result of spur-of-the-moment anger-- she pretty much never acts in cold blood, but that's only because she doesn't think long-term enough to do much of anything with premeditation. She does whatever the fuck she feels like at any given moment, whether it's letting someone's comment roll off her back by reminding herself that they're is "hellbound" and she isn't, or threatening them with a filed-down toothbrush. There's a lot about Tiffany that comes off as contrary and contradictory. She does a lot of bad things (ranging anywhere from harmless pranks to full-blown murder), but she's not manipulative or a schemer. She's bossy even on a good day and likes having people listen to her, but she's not really a leader. She plays at confidence and determination, but it doesn't take much to damage her faith in herself and her beliefs. When it comes down to it, she's really not confident in anything, and even though she tries to convince herself otherwise there's a part of her that knows it. She's more than capable of being a dangerous, violent person, and that should not in any way be overlooked or excused-- but her thought processes and emotions are in many ways those of a petty, immature, insecure child. Her biggest weakness is that she's mentally weak. The only reason she's the "leader" of her first-season group of friends is that she was lucky enough to find people even more lost than she is.
In the second season (past my canon point for her, but still relevant to her characterization), she drops her vendettas against a couple of the other characters and backs off on the religion a bit, though her beliefs and cause du jour continue to yo-yo around. Her first big influencer is one of the COs, who fear-mongers to her about lesbians and gets her to believe that they're trying to take over the world; then, after falling out with him, she moves on to one of her fellow prisoners who convinces her to "join the gay agenda" (whether or not this means Tiffany is fully over her homophobia remains to be seen). She get some help with anger management, which is a good sign-- but given her track record, I'd hesitate to say that this means that she's easily "cured". It shows she's capable of beginning to learn how to control herself-- but not that she won't make any backslides.
Abilities/Powers: Nothing notable or supernatural.
Items/Weapons: Outside of her clothes (a prison uniform and a sweatshirt), just her cross necklace, which she will be wearing.
Sample Entry:
Let me tell you something, I ain't never been this far underground before. I know there's caves and shit, you know, like in national parks-- and you can go and visit and get a guided tour and all, but I never went, and I sure as hell never lived in one. But it's good, you know? Gonna get me some exercise climbing up and down all those stairs.
I was real pissed off when I woke up here-- thought I'd been drugged and stolen away in the night. Which I guess I was, but it's a different situation, you know? Now that I know it's something magical and not the act of Man, I can only assume that this is the work of the Lord, and who am I to be angry at that? He works in mysterious ways and we-- we don't always understand it at first, but sooner or later, with enough time, we'll figure it out. If that's His will.
[She pauses, then nods-- pleased with her own words.]
So I ain't mad anymore.
[She stops again, gaze sliding towards something that's mostly off-screen. A wooden pole of some sort-- a table leg?-- is the only part that's visible. One end of it is broken and ragged, like someone kicked it or snapped it in half.]
And I'll try and fix that chair.
Sample Entry Two:
Pretty much everyone hated Haven; that was just a fact. There was, after all, a lot to hate: it was dirty and smelly, it was more cramped and crowded than even she was used to, and there definitely wasn't enough food to give everyone three squares a day. But there was one big plus: they were free.
Oh sure, most people didn't see it that way-- they'd been brought here against their will, and they couldn't leave the city unless the people in charge let them. But if you thought about it, was Haven really that different from anywhere else in that respect? Back in the USA, you couldn't leave your city if you didn't have money for gas or a bus. You couldn't leave the country without a passport and a visa. If not being able to leave whenever you wanted meant you were trapped, then hell, everyone everywhere was trapped. At least here you were in charge of your own life, which was what real freedom was anyway.
It was this that she reflected on as she knelt by her bed, closed her eyes, and began to pray.
"Lord, I pray for this whole world; this whole-- whole dimension full of people who have never heard Your name. I thank you, Lord, for this opportunity You're giving me as one of your chosen, a-and I pray for You to send Your guidance and wisdom down upon me. Amen."
She paused for a few seconds, then repeated emphatically: "Aaaaaamen."
Another pause. Her roommates were quiet. There was the creak of a mattress as somebody rolled over.
"Can I get an amen, brothers and sisters!"
The shoe that came flying her way wasn't much of a surprise, really. God had sent her to live with heathen roommates-- that much was clear. It was all a part of his test-- and she knew, deep in her heart, that she would pass.
Contact Info: ZieglerFan719@gmail.com /
Other Characters Played: Pitch Black |
fearbringerRequested apartment: N/A
Character Name: Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett
Canon: Orange is the New Black
Canon Point: 1x12, "Fool Me Once", right before attempting to "baptize" Piper
And I have two notes before I got into the app itself! Note one: a content warning applies to pretty much all of this app. Tiffany is a meth addict in prison for murder, and she has many offensive beliefs and opinions (including those involving homophobia, transphobia, and casual racism). If she's accepted into the game, I'll make heavy use of a permissions post, and won't have her bring up any potentially uncomfortable topics without permission from the player(s) I'm threading with. I'll also allow a general opt-out for people who would rather not thread with her at all.
And note two: this show is inspired by a memoir of the same name, which leads some people to wonder if playing from it is a form of real-person RP, especially since there are some characters from the book that have counterparts (albeit heavily fictionalized counterparts) in the show. However, Tiffany isn’t really one of those characters. There is a minor character in the book that has the same nickname (“Pennsatucky”), but they’re nothing alike, and the book’s author has said that Tiffany’s character on the show isn’t actually based on the real-life Pennsatucky.
Background/History: Wikipedia gives the most straightforward and detailed summary of her backstory and canon appearances, but she has a page on the OITNB wiki too.
Personality:
Tiffany Doggett appears to be the poster child for religious extremism. She can spout the party line, knows all the buzzwords, and can turn anything into a preachable moment. She has an unsettling amount of fans and encouragers who write her letters, and she dutifully responds to them all (though it frustrates her that there are too many for her to keep all of their names and stories straight). If someone offered her her own conservative talk radio show, she would probably die of happiness.
But the truth is, religion is just a tool for her. That's not to say she doesn't truly believe it-- she does, at least right now-- but she believes it because she likes the attention and validation it gives her (or rather, the attention and validation that other people who believe the same things give her). In a flashback scene where she sees her little fanclub-- cheering, clapping, waving signs with her name and face on them-- for the first time, it's clear by the look on her face that she's thrilled. But without people who do that kind of thing for her, her "convictions" waver incredibly quickly. A few days alone in psychiatric lock-up had her declaring that there was no God (then, after a discussion with her lawyer, she was back to being a whole-hearted believer; she's a big flip-flopper, too), and if enough time without reinforcement and validation went by she'd likely abandon religion entirely and glom onto some other cause or belief. Even now, her understanding of Christianity seems to be rather shallow, so she's probably not all that familiar with the Bible or the intricacies of Christian religion outside of what her lawyer has told her (though she does have a Bible in prison that she reads from time to time). Her actress describes her as "lost and confused", and I'm inclined to agree. It seems like nothing in her mind is set in stone. She doesn't like or believe in things because she enjoys them or they give her personal fulfillment-- she likes or believes in things based on what will earn her a significant amount of attention (preferably positive, but she seems okay with negative attention too), because she enjoys and gets personal fulfillment from that and that alone. She's very emotionally immature, and as a result, she's very gullible and easily manipulated. It's hinted (and stated outright in a couple interviews with the writers, if information from those can be considered canon) that she grew up in a large family and got little in the way of parental attention, which goes a long way towards explaining some of her issues.
All that said, Tiffany is definitely not a harmless eccentric. She's clearly damaged, which is sad and sympathy-inducing, but she's done (and continues to do) terrible, inexcusable things, and she's in prison for a reason. A violent offender, she's vindictive, impulsive, and has some serious anger issues-- three things that, in combination, make her pretty damn dangerous. She's perfectly capable of being calm and easy-going-- even good-natured-- and her default state tends to lean more towards neutral... but her emotions can and do change on a dime, which means you really never know how she's going to react to something. Hating someone and wanting to literally kill them is not necessarily a permanent state, and she's capable of coming back from it abnormally quickly. Likewise, the opposite is true: she can go from liking someone and wanting to be their friend to despising them and throwing around genuine death threats in 0.5 seconds if she believes she's been slighted somehow. Her reactions aren't really very consistent, either: she shoots and kills a clinic nurse for making a rude joke about how many abortions she's had, but there are other times when someone will make a far worse comment that she won't react violently to. The one constant is that she rarely plans her actions or thinks about the consequences, no matter how important or serious they may be. She's in prison for murdering someone who made a snide comment at her expense, she repeatedly threatened and attempted to kill someone in prison because they refused her offer to make amends by baptizing them, and she's endangered other characters more than once. In all of these situations, her actions were the result of spur-of-the-moment anger-- she pretty much never acts in cold blood, but that's only because she doesn't think long-term enough to do much of anything with premeditation. She does whatever the fuck she feels like at any given moment, whether it's letting someone's comment roll off her back by reminding herself that they're is "hellbound" and she isn't, or threatening them with a filed-down toothbrush. There's a lot about Tiffany that comes off as contrary and contradictory. She does a lot of bad things (ranging anywhere from harmless pranks to full-blown murder), but she's not manipulative or a schemer. She's bossy even on a good day and likes having people listen to her, but she's not really a leader. She plays at confidence and determination, but it doesn't take much to damage her faith in herself and her beliefs. When it comes down to it, she's really not confident in anything, and even though she tries to convince herself otherwise there's a part of her that knows it. She's more than capable of being a dangerous, violent person, and that should not in any way be overlooked or excused-- but her thought processes and emotions are in many ways those of a petty, immature, insecure child. Her biggest weakness is that she's mentally weak. The only reason she's the "leader" of her first-season group of friends is that she was lucky enough to find people even more lost than she is.
In the second season (past my canon point for her, but still relevant to her characterization), she drops her vendettas against a couple of the other characters and backs off on the religion a bit, though her beliefs and cause du jour continue to yo-yo around. Her first big influencer is one of the COs, who fear-mongers to her about lesbians and gets her to believe that they're trying to take over the world; then, after falling out with him, she moves on to one of her fellow prisoners who convinces her to "join the gay agenda" (whether or not this means Tiffany is fully over her homophobia remains to be seen). She get some help with anger management, which is a good sign-- but given her track record, I'd hesitate to say that this means that she's easily "cured". It shows she's capable of beginning to learn how to control herself-- but not that she won't make any backslides.
Abilities/Powers: Nothing notable or supernatural.
Items/Weapons: Outside of her clothes (a prison uniform and a sweatshirt), just her cross necklace, which she will be wearing.
Sample Entry:
Let me tell you something, I ain't never been this far underground before. I know there's caves and shit, you know, like in national parks-- and you can go and visit and get a guided tour and all, but I never went, and I sure as hell never lived in one. But it's good, you know? Gonna get me some exercise climbing up and down all those stairs.
I was real pissed off when I woke up here-- thought I'd been drugged and stolen away in the night. Which I guess I was, but it's a different situation, you know? Now that I know it's something magical and not the act of Man, I can only assume that this is the work of the Lord, and who am I to be angry at that? He works in mysterious ways and we-- we don't always understand it at first, but sooner or later, with enough time, we'll figure it out. If that's His will.
[She pauses, then nods-- pleased with her own words.]
So I ain't mad anymore.
[She stops again, gaze sliding towards something that's mostly off-screen. A wooden pole of some sort-- a table leg?-- is the only part that's visible. One end of it is broken and ragged, like someone kicked it or snapped it in half.]
And I'll try and fix that chair.
Sample Entry Two:
Pretty much everyone hated Haven; that was just a fact. There was, after all, a lot to hate: it was dirty and smelly, it was more cramped and crowded than even she was used to, and there definitely wasn't enough food to give everyone three squares a day. But there was one big plus: they were free.
Oh sure, most people didn't see it that way-- they'd been brought here against their will, and they couldn't leave the city unless the people in charge let them. But if you thought about it, was Haven really that different from anywhere else in that respect? Back in the USA, you couldn't leave your city if you didn't have money for gas or a bus. You couldn't leave the country without a passport and a visa. If not being able to leave whenever you wanted meant you were trapped, then hell, everyone everywhere was trapped. At least here you were in charge of your own life, which was what real freedom was anyway.
It was this that she reflected on as she knelt by her bed, closed her eyes, and began to pray.
"Lord, I pray for this whole world; this whole-- whole dimension full of people who have never heard Your name. I thank you, Lord, for this opportunity You're giving me as one of your chosen, a-and I pray for You to send Your guidance and wisdom down upon me. Amen."
She paused for a few seconds, then repeated emphatically: "Aaaaaamen."
Another pause. Her roommates were quiet. There was the creak of a mattress as somebody rolled over.
"Can I get an amen, brothers and sisters!"
The shoe that came flying her way wasn't much of a surprise, really. God had sent her to live with heathen roommates-- that much was clear. It was all a part of his test-- and she knew, deep in her heart, that she would pass.