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Player
Name: What would you like to be called?
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Current/former characters: Are you already in the game? Were you here before?
Sleeper
Character: The character's name goes here, obviously.
Username: username
Canon: What series is your character from? If an original character, feel free to come up with a fake canon name to be listed on the taken page, while also listing "original". Mark AUs here.
Canon point: Where in their story do they come from?
Age: Tell us how old they are. If your character's age would be altered upon acceptance into the game, make sure to note that you are changing it here, and what their new age will be.
Appearance: Height, build, hair and eye colors, demeanor, even a general fashion sense if you want. Tell us what we would see if we took a glance at your character.
Personality: The meat of the application! This should be around four solid paragraphs describing who your character is, both inside and out. We want to make sure you understand the character and will play them accurately to the setting.
If you'd like, you can also include a paragraph on how you see them reacting to the game environment.
History: Your character's life. You may link to a wiki here, but we would love to hear your own take on it! This is nearly as important as personality, as we will be using both sections to compare to the City history and make sure it's appropriate.
Powers/skills: Be sure to explain how they'll be changed or powered down in the case of non-humans turning human or those who are overpowered.
Characters who are canonically powerless may pitch to gain a power here. All new powers need to enhance an aspect the character already has, whether it relates to their personality or lifestyle, and you will have to explain how you believe it fits with this requirement.
Skills gives us a better idea of what this character is good at in mundane terms, so that we can help with a City position if you're coming up blank.
City
Name: This shouldn't allude to their canon name.
Position: Profession or other pigeonholing as necessary. Basically, "What laws do they abide by?" for us mods to consider. This will tell us what job the character will be assigned in the Cave, as well.
History: Two paragraphs minimum, but this section doesn't need to be very long. You can contact the mods to work with us on this. Absolutely needs to relate to the character in some way or another. Ironic placement, while fun, would not work for the setting. Any powers they may have in the Cave will not be present in this history.
Remember that you need permission if you plan to include other PCs in this history.
Proof: This is what will be waiting for a character in their living quarters when they first wake up in the Cave. It should be a photo, a voice clip, a video, etc., anything that would feature the Sleeper in a way that could be recognized. An item that would make a very solid case for your character living in the Diamond City before the Disaster.
Playing
First-person sample: (Should be at least 5 or 6 sentences. Links allowed: 15 comments minimum. If AU, samples must be of the same AU.)
Third-person sample: (At least 300 words. Links allowed. If AU, samples must be of the same AU.)
Did you read the rules? |
Castiel | Supernatural
Name: Gregory Wilton.
Position: A librarian/sometimes teacher.
History:
Gregory is a member of the huge and powerful Wilton family, spearheaded by their wealthy inventor of a father. Out of the tons of children his father produced, Greg is one of the younger boys and generally hasn't had a whole lot of interaction with the four oldest of the family (who are generally regarded as the closest to their father). That said, and in spite of being seen as young and naive and sometimes odd, Greg did have his place in the family. He was a serious, smart kid who didn't have much of a sense of humour, but he was nonetheless content with his life and loyal to his family.
So even after the second oldest threw a fit one day over a new kid and effectively drew a divide through the whole damn family, Greg stayed loyal to his father and the siblings still with him. And for quite some time Greg held onto his family pride. He continued to be obedient and diligently worked away in university, earning himself a constant place on the Dean's List and eventually PhDs in Theology and History.
He was a good student, and a good son -- even though his family was slowly but surely falling apart all around him.
And after years of slowly distancing himself, Daddy dearest finally dropped off the grid altogether. Out of love and lack of knowing anything else, Greg stayed and followed any orders he was given, just as he always had.
However somewhere along the way, Gregory made some new friends who slowly began to help him realize just how ruined his family really was. All the emotions Greg had unknowingly hidden away escaped from their confines, and finally he too decided enough was enough. Like so many brothers and sisters before him, he left as well.
But although he left, the kid hadn't given up hope and it was this lingering faith that led to a number of problems for the next couple of years. While his brothers fought, Greg went on a search for the one person who could put an end to it all -- their father. He stayed resolute and determined about the quest for quite some time. He went through a couple jobs at different libraries, did some teaching of college classes (mostly things like theology, world religions, histories of various countries, some folklore) and a couple high school gigs, never really staying that long before moving on to the next town.
Finally, he was hit with the devastating realization that their father was alive, but that he had stopped caring a long, long time ago. It took him quite a few weeks of drinking to start feeling less depressed about the whole thing. But he still had his friends. And they were once again inspiring him to get his shit together.
He decided that enough was enough. The fighting would never stop until he put an end to it himself.
When Gregory returned to the family, he quickly gathered support among his siblings. But putting together this mess of a family wasn't going to be easy, and Greg would need some help. There were already whispers of Greg dabbling in some... less than honest methods already, but still he found he wasn't strong enough on his own.
And that's why he showed up in Diamond City. He'd heard good things about that place, heard maybe he'd find a brother in hiding if he was lucky. He wasn't there long before the Disaster struck, but alas it's where he was when it did.
Proof: A faculty ID card from the last college he worked at.
Playing
First-Person Sample: shazam
Third-Person Sample:
Gregory Wilton.
Who this man was, Castiel didn't know. All he knew was that the man had a couple degrees or some other documentation that made him a doctor (which he supposed was a respectable achievement for humans, if he recalled correctly) and that apparently, "Gregory" was actually Castiel. Or Castiel was actually Gregory, technically, but the Workers were going to be hard pressed to get the angel to really believe that. Of course, it was curious that he had been rendered human upon arrival -- but there could be more than one reason for that, so it was still a weak argument.
Cas had been mortal once before. It wasn't very pleasant then, and he didn't have high hopes for the second time round either. Even when he was cut off from Heaven, he had at least held onto his wings. He at least wasn't completely useless.
But here... here he wasn't just human, he was somebody else. Not Castiel, not even Jimmy, but some man named Gregory who apparently had a pretty big, difficult family to deal with as well.
And Castiel could only assume that this Gregory fellow was more in tune with the world of humans than Cas was, he thought as he wandered through the library that he supposedly worked in and found himself concerned about the lack of real paper books. Everything was digital. Castiel just barely knew how to operate his cell phone and he hadn't actually used a laptop before, though he knew basically how they worked. So, as he stood off in backwards corner by himself, his head was tilted curiously as he peered into the screen of his e-reader like it held all the secrets of the universe.
He wasn't an idiot and he learned the basics of human products fairly quickly, but the initial introduction to it was a little... confused.
Did you read the rules? Yessums!
Revision
Almost there!
Your application is good! We just have a few questions about your app before we can decide to accept or decline. Please expand on...
Powers
Some of Castiel's abilities as they are presented would be too powerful to allow in game all at once. We ask that you cut down on one all together if possible, most likely his super strength/endurance as they don't necessarily relate to the rest of his powers. Also, Castiel's teleportation in-game would only work in areas outside both the City and Cave if that has any bearing on which powers you would like to keep or power down.
For his soul perception, there are very few truly supernatural creatures. The only things he might see with it would be any ghosts, as all characters are otherwise human. For his touch-based skills, we would be all right with them retaining most of their power as long as they would not be overused. If there are more than the two effects you mentioned, please list them here for us to properly judge.
City history
We'd just like to double-check one thing. Do you have both Pur and Flag's permissions to use this history?
Revision
City History: Sob I realized I forgot to add this part only after I disappeared to work right after submitting the app, but yesyes this here is from the little app discuss page.
accepted!
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Re: accepted!