Better Learn to Go It Alone

Player Name: Chris
Player Journal: fairytalelie
Player Age: 24
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Character Name: Juliet Burke, nee Carlson
Canon: LOST
Medium: Live Action TV

Character Age: 36
Canon Point: 3X18: DOC. (Although, technically after the "Operation: Sleeper" mobisode, in which she admits to Jack that she's been a double agent and wants to fully defect.)

Why did you choose this character?: Juliet is a fascinating character and I've never had the opportunity to play her from such an early canonpoint, so it'll be interesting to see her develop just when she's finally getting accustomed to the idea of not being a part of Ben's insanity any longer. Also, we seriously need more doctor characters. And I love her.


Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Wary, at first, but then relieved, because even creepy as shit, IT'S NOT THE ISLAND, and she hasn't been in a real city in three years, so she'll be diving headfirst into everything like a kid at Christmas until the shock sets in- from there, she'll want to continue what she planned on doing on the island- help people any way she can, which means she'll likely get work at a clinic or start one up with any of the other doctor characters.

History: Lostpedia is s-so comprehensive.



Personality: Juliet started out as a timid, shy little thing, constantly bullied and pushed around and pretty much allowing herself to be a doormat. Her older sister Rachel was the assertive one in the family and Juliet was merely the one who went along with everything that was asked of her. This extended to her adult life, as well. All through college, she was the mousy, studious one, the one who was wary of dating, the one who wouldn’t go to parties, etc. Although, she tried to break out of that shell in her Sophmore year, leading to a downward spiral of debauchery that caused her grades to suffer until she pulled herself out of it. She went back to being the shy, mousy girl, but that period of wickedness where she wasn’t “the good girl” would later make it easier to fall back into that lifestyle when she arrives on the island.

To her husband Edmund Burke, she was the quiet trophy wife, up until he found someone younger and insisted on divorcing her. Like the good doormat that she was, Juliet agreed and never put up a fuss when Edmund insisted on flaunting his new younger girlfriends around her. He kept her firmly under his thumb until the moment of his death, which Juliet blamed herself for, because she’d practically wished it on him. Even hating him, she couldn’t bring herself to do anything with that hatred and the thought that she might have inadvertently done something pained her greatly.

And then the island happened. At first, Juliet stayed her doormat self, until three years embittered her and she became a harder, colder person. She slept around with a married man and while she was determined to keep it a secret and felt some shame for it, she didn’t stop. She learned how to become manipulative, how to hide her emotions with the best of them, and even when the stress of living among the Others got too much for her, she still pretended like she was one of them, even though she never felt like she truly belonged there.

At her core, Juliet is an emotional woman, even though she’s tried to hide this side of herself, to avoid falling back into the easily manipulated woman she once was and seems to idle along on “emotionally neutral”- often choosing to walk away when she starts to actively get emotional about something where people can see it and only showing emotion in extreme situations. Every patient she has, she becomes close to and she can't seem to shut off that empathy and disengage, so losing a patient hits her extremely hard. While she can be blunt and to the point, she cares deeply about what happens to people under her care and will not hesitate to be tactless or forceful when it comes to their own safety. She loves strongly and passionately, but has a cynical outlook on romance, due to her parents’ divorce and her own failed marriage. She finds it hard to trust men not to abandon her, especially when the one person who would have been good for her and not leave her (Goodwin) was killed by Ben... sadly, she has yet to get into her relationship with Sawyer that proves she can have ~happiness~ so she's just bitter and jaded forever.

She can be manipulative, she can lie, and she can pretend her loyalties don’t lie with anyone but herself, and feel almost no shame in it. She’s been manhandled emotionally and she’s gotten to a point where she won’t stand for it. While she hides this attitude from Ben and pretends to be his partner and lapdog, much like she did with Edmund, she wound up doing to him everything that she never got to do to her ex-husband- shoving him so far back in his place that she eventually severs her ties with him so completely that he never comes looking for her. If she doesn't feel she has to lie or manipulate people, she won't. It's only when these things are necessary to her own comfort and stability that she finds them necessary.

She can be caustic and snarky and has a dry, deadpan sense of humor that not everyone can appreciate. While it’s hard to believe, considering some of her past actions, she is a noble and kind-hearted woman and would do anything for the people she cares about. Although, she isn’t the sort to go running after people who insist on being stupid- she expects people to listen to her and if they don’t, then they’ve clearly got to learn from their own mistakes and she’ll just sit back and worry herself to death over them. For a fertility doctor, she doesn’t have much of a maternal streak- it’s more of an older sister complex. She also won’t hesitate to call someone’s bluffs or bullshit, and because people have acted suspiciously of her in the past, she has a low tolerance for allowing suspicious behavior to go unchecked.




First Person Sample: [Juliet is pissed, although you can't really tell, because she's... So neutral all the time, right down to her tone of voice.] Stop. Just... Stop. I don’t want hear that. I don’t want to hear that she doesn’t deserve our help because she’s one of them. Maybe they’d be less hostile if people like you didn’t act like every one of them is a threat. [Being oversensitive? Yep. All thing considering, she's owed that.] She can’t do anything to us right now in her condition and if you think I’m going to stand here and let you leave an injured girl to die, no matter what she is, you’re wrong.

I have shot people for a lot less than this. [She tilts her head and, in case you thought it wasn't possible, her voice gets even calmer] Now please step away from her, so I can help her or I’ll have to waste time that could be spent getting her stable to make sure you don’t bleed to death.

[She almost smirks. Almost.] And if that's not convincing enough, consider this: I can live with blood on my hands- can you?




Third Person Sample: In which Juliet is accosted by a robot and is, BTW, in Torchwood.