what good is what we have if it's what keeps us apart

Verse: GMHogwarts
Timeframe: March 2016
Characters: Farkle and Maya.

[You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind.]

OOC INFORMATION
Name: Kisa
Contact: plurk: farkleuvius
Other Characters: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Farkle Minkus
Age: 14
Canon: Girl Meets World
Canon Point: S2E17: Girl Meets Rileytown Was updated to: S2x28: Girl Meets Money if possible would like to update s3ep13: Girl Meets Great Lady of New York the same updates listed there still applies because disney sitcoms.
Character Information: "So what am I? I am Farkle"

Personality:





Farkle Minkus is hardly what you might consider a normal, every day kid. When he's first introduced he takes over the class in a time dubbed "Farkle Time" and proudly states his undying love and devotion to both Riley and Maya. In the same episode, when Maya accidentally sets off the fire alarm, in a panicked induced state he crawls all over their teacher and only speaks in first person. This is the Farkle that we are introduced to in the first season, but it's not the Farkle he becomes. Farkle is a goofy scientist who often overreacts, but he's also-- and more importantly-- a genius who is loyal and kind.


The most important trait in Farkle is his loyalty. It's easy to say that being intelligent and sometimes manipulative is his domineering traits, but they're not who Farkle is. In "I am Farkle" it's best explained that the person who Farkle is that he can't stop talking about his friends and being with them is the most important thing to him. One of the best definers of this is that, in spite of them rebuffing, Farkle faithfully loves both Maya and Riley. Even when they're off in their own world or taking him for granted, he stands by them and tries to protect them.

In spite of how small and unlikely he appears to be, Farkle will do anything for his friends. He's seen coming face-to-face with a couple boys harassing the girls who are both bigger than him. Even later, still, he ties up Lucas saying that it was to keep him restrained so he wouldn't go after the girls immediately (of course, Lucas is incredibly strong so that didn't last long). His own dream of being a dictator was also, at one point, put to the side because he realized that he wouldn't have friends that way. It's these things that really show the spark of loyalty in him. Things might terrify him or stand in his way, but if his friends need him he'll always drop everything for them.

He does this without expecting anything in return. One of the most telling times is when he does defend the girls and promptly says "you may take me for granted, but I'm Canada, and I'll always be there". In this sense the important thing to Farkle isn't what his friends can do for him-- an important aspect in almost every other thing he does-- but what he can for them. It's the fact they take the time to spend every day with him that he holds onto. That's why he's so loyal to them and will always be on their side.


In spite of this great feeling of loyalty to his friends, Farkle is also kind of a mess of emotions. In season one when he's called "Nothing" this really strikes a chord in him. He goes into hiding and even, for once in his life, stops coming to class. He doesn't seek out his friends and, in fact, tries to shut them out accusing them about why they'd be his friends in the first place. In some ways, it's because while he holds them to this great position he doesn't see himself as equal to that in their eyes.

This goes a little further into "I am Farkle" where they discuss the possibility of Farkle having autism. He doesn't, but there's something important here to note that he says he doesn't understand love, social cues, and a whole checklist worth of things. So, in spite of being so intelligent, in a lot of ways he's pretty socially and emotionally unaware. He's seen calling his friends "dumdums" almost to their face with no remorse. Not because he thinks they are, but because he doesn't really have a filter onto what he says. He's a straightforward person who speaks what he thinks, does what he speaks and has no real in between.

That's the reason everyone thinks him weird. Because he's the kid that at one point spoke in first person, he's the kid that passes out when panicked, and he's also the kid that happily declares he'll take over the world. Most kids don't do all of these things and, if they do, it's only one aspect. During the first season he didn't think anything was wrong with any of these things, but during season two when he's mocked for being the "most likely to Farkle" he decided to change himself completely. Through this he's toned down a lot of his old quirks, but we've still seen them on occasion including when he freaked out about Belgium 1831 and declared he would be Pippin in any play the school put on.

Furthering, even though he may at times be socially unaware, it's never been a matter of cruelty with Farkle. While there are times he's accidentally hurt Riley in his desire to be at the top, but at the end of the day he apologizes and realizes he shouldn't have done it. It's this realization of his actions that are important, but it's not a sudden awareness that brings him to it. It's because he does value his friends and their happiness above even his own. Lucas at one point defines him as the "genius that is loyal and kind" and this is the truest thing that can be said about him.

Farkle is a lot like Riley in the sense that he sees the world in a kind of focalized-scope. While he's not nearly as naive as Riley is, they're much the same in how they feel about their existence in the world and with their friends. So similar to Riley Farkle has a kind of kindness about him that embraces the nature of people and things around him. We don't see him judge people for what they are and it's a part of the reason he states he loves both Riley and Maya equally: Because even though they're different they're both important aspects of the world. Even later, when it's revealed Smackle has autism and she says they can't be together about that he discounts that by saying "but you also showed me compassion and concern, let me do that for you".

It's this nature that overpowers even his social awkwardness among his friends. Because even if the outside observer would often see the silly, goofy kid his friends know the difference. Even their classmates see it as Farkle, especially in recent times, tries to stand up for Cory's lessons and choose the "good" option instead of the "bad" one. Even more still, he's openly asked both Maya and Riley on dates good-naturedly in class knowing they'd deny him. He does all of this very openly, expecting and knowing rejection will come but he's never put off or upset about it. Partly because he considers it "not real" but also because it's that friendship with the girls that overpowers everything else. So, it's why when Riley complains she just wants to be asked to a dance, he does. Because he wants to ask her so someone does-- for her-- but in good-nature expected the no that proceeded.


The next important traits after Farkle's dealings with friendship and people is his intellect. Farkle is actually canonly categorized in the superior range when given an IQ test, making him an actual genius (better than Einstein, Mozart, and Jobs he'd like to add). He always knows every answer to the questions in class to the point that his friends actually bet on if he was a real boy and not a robot or a clone. Particularly, in this case, the robot thing is even used as a gag in a recent episode where he near instantly calculated the physics and geometry needed for an impossible shot through a computerized-lens (so maybe he really is a robot).

This scary amount of intelligence also comes into play in the fact that, in spite of all of his social awkwardness, he's really observant of his friends and the situations around him. He knows Maya snooped around in her family history and knew, even before she said it, that May Clutterbucket was her grandmother and demanded she say it. Even later he was the first to realize Riley was being bullied and knew how to handle each of his friends to try and make things go as smoothly as possible. Unfortunately, that didn't go as well as he planned with Lucas.

Still, sometimes he's rather clueless and in a lot of ways this comes back to his inability to understand some social cues. But it's also another sense of his likeness to Riley that-- in some ways-- he can be a bit naive himself. While he's not full-blown the world is full of sunshine and rainbows, he doesn't necessarily see things as immediately bad unless they obviously are. In the first season this was seen in a few occasions: Once, when Riley lied to him and told him he was a decent actor he trusted her enough to believe it true and made that his aspiration in life. Later, still, in the same season he somehow thought it was okay to put a goldfish in both a birdbath and a cat's water dish.

He wants to believe things will be all right. Maybe it's not to the extremities as Riley gives off, but he does believe in things. Even after the class confronts his bully, the first thing he does when Billy realizes his wrongs is... essentially ask to be friends by doing a handshake. Especially in season two he's often seen piping up that things have changed, but that doesn't make them bad. This is seen in moments where Riley herself isn't okay with things. This is because, in the end, Farkle strives for his friends' wellbeing and trying to make sure things are okay and encourages that when it's needed.

On the same vain, sometimes he wants to strike a little bit of realism in them. This goes back to the mentions above where at times he's way too blunt for his own good, but Farkle may believe in things turning out all right but he's certainly not clueless. As the son of a man who owns a huge corporation and plans on taking that over as well as the world he's hyper aware of the state of things. When his friends all try to do the right thing in a business project he laughs in their face and says that's not the way the world works at all. Worse yet, he doesn't tell Riley whats in the cupcakes they're selling and then just kind of cackles when she gets upset about it saying that corporate America doesn't care about the consumer. Ultimately, he fires her to show what down-sizing is.

All of this shows another side in Farkle: He's very good at manipulation when he wants to be. It doesn't mean he isn't completely obvious, because he is, but he knows what people go for and what they want. He knew well enough that the way to a bunch of middle schooler's hearts was too free stuff. When confronting the school board he knew then that people would prefer dance to numbers and that's exactly how he proved his point.And even with Lucas he knew that his friend would change the instant he told him bad things were going on so he tried to manipulate the situation into something more preferable.

The point being is that all of his intellect and somewhat trouble with emotions has actually made him pretty decent at seeing a situation from an outside angle. He may not understand why movies and sports are more fun, but he can understand that if you really want to get to a person giving things or taking them away is kind of the perfect way to do it. He doesn't thing a situation can't be solved if it has a purpose-- just sometimes you need to answer it differently in a way than you might not usually. And perhaps sometimes this isn't the most kind of ways.


In all, Farkle is actually fairly well confident in who he is as a person. That's not to say he doesn't have fears or uncertainties-- he does. He doesn't think that "most likely to be Farkle" is a good thing at all. He changes himself completely because of this. Even in the first season he decides to stop wearing turtle necks and going to class because someone called him a "nothing". It hurt him a lot to feel like both of these things and it's something he struggles with. Unlike his friends, he didn't come back from when he changed in Girl Meets Yearbook. He decided he needed to explore who he was outside of what everyone thought "Farkle" was. Because, ultimately, while he's unafraid to declare he will one day be dictator he is afraid to be nothing to the people around him-- and that's a very distinct difference in the mind of a thirteen/fourteen year old boy.

Ultimately, one of the most important things to realize about Farkle at his current point in life is that he's all of the things listed above and sometimes none of them at all. Yes, he's still a scientist. Yes, he still wants to rule the world one day. And, yes, maybe he's a little too obsessed with the idea of being Pippin. But something pivotal happened in Yearbook in that he did decide that maybe he should figure out more of who he is. So he's experimenting and trying new things. That's important to him. He wants to be comfortable with who he is as person and so things may change with him. Already he's learned maybe sports aren't so bad and that love is something he can do and does have. He's expanding his horizons and trying new things. That doesn't mean he always succeeds, sometimes he's still just a little too "Farkle-y", but at least for now he's trying to figure who exactly that will be.

...Unfortunately, maybe he didn't anticipate getting sent to a place where growing was going to take on a whole new meaning. Oh well.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
Kind
Loyal
Intelligent
Confident
Insecure (In the sense of how people feel about him)
Blunt/No filter
Awkward
Manipulative


Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Fits
Opt-Outs: N/A

Roleplay Sample:
Musebox Testdrive with Maya
Musebox testdrive with Riley
Lucas
Shawn
Riley

for practically married riarkle things