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° NPCs do take up one of these character slots. They count as AUs.
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♢ Don't worry about apps getting long. If it takes a lot of words to get across what you're trying to say, then go ahead and use them.
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If you're unsure of who to apply, we suggest the potential app discussion page. Filling out the small form might give you a better idea of who would work better for you and the setting!
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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.)
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Thresh, The Hunger Games, 1/2
Name: Gray
Username:
Current/former characters: None
Sleeper
Character: Thresh
Username:
Canon: The Hunger Games
Canon point: After he’s killed Clove, but before his run in with the wolf muttations.
Age: 18
Appearance: At 6’5, Thresh is a massive man. Dark of skin and hair, like most people from his district, he proved physically intimidating enough to have the Career tributes invite him into their pack. His time spent in the fields working game him impressive strength, and it shows, despite his malnutrition. He holds himself with pride, not letting anyone think less of him for all that he came out of an outlying district.
Personality:
If anyone deserves the description ‘strong and silent’, it’s Thresh. In the entirety of the book, he has one line. In his interview with Ceasar Flickerman, he’s described as strong and silent, often only replying with one or two words at a time. His strong, silent, intimidating presence is powerful enough that it convinced the Career tributes, those from the rich districts, to try and bring him into their early alliance, which he turns down instantly, not wanting to ally himself with them, knowing that they would turn on him first.
That said, he has a sound strategic mind, as instead of heading into the bloodbath at the start of the Game, he turns and runs. He finds a wheat field, which is ‘as tall as Peeta’s shoulders’. This field, as well as being a reliable source of food, shelter, and water is also very reminiscent of his home district. This implies that, although he is physically intimidating, he’s not all that intimidating in person. This is combined with the fact that he spared Katniss’ life, simply because Katniss tried to help Rue, the female tribute from his district. That said, however, he isn’t all gentleness, for, just as he spared Katness for helping Rue, he bludgeoned Clove to death with a rock for her part in Rue’s death.
Thresh is from District 11, one of the strictest Districts in the outlying group. If a citizen steals food, they would be whipped. If they steal technology, they would be killed. In District 12, the government is to be laughed at and dealt with. In District 11, it is to be feared. As such, Thresh has a healthy fear of those in power, doing his complete best to not to attract the attention of those in power, although he loves seeing them getting their comeuppance.
On awaking in the Caves, he would react with paranoia, choosing to retreat into his given ‘quarters’ rather than face those around him. He would have a hard time accepting that he dreamt any of his previous life, as, after all, who would choose to dream of servitude, starvation, and certain death? That said, once he realizes that those around him really aren’t going to try and kill him, he will attempt to make a new life for himself in this strange new place.
History: Here
Powers/skills:
Thresh would gain the ability to manipulate his strength and dexterity, so that he’s either average at both, really strong while not that dexterous, or really dexterous while not that strong.
Canonically, he’s extremely strong, for all his malnutrition. His job in his district was most likely in the crop fields.
Thresh, The Hunger Games, 2/2
Name: Dario Montague
Position: Baker in a smallish shop in the middle class district.
History:
Dario is the son of an immigrant to the Diamond city who married into the middle class southeast district. As a child, he’d always be interested in his mother and grandmother’s recipes, trying to replicate, then improve on their work. As he grew older, he got a job as a maintenance man in the apartment building his family lived in, allowing him some disposable income to get more exotic and expensive ingredients to try.
It was around this time that there was an accident at his parent’s workplace that killed them both, leaving just his grandmother and his sister alive. He left his job as a maintenance man for a higher paying one at a bakery, and stepped up into the role of ‘man of the family’, trying to maintain their position in the middle class ring without his sister or grandmother needing to go back into the workforce.
By the time the Disaster hit, things were getting tense, and in an effort to keep up on all of their bills, his sister had gone to work, and they had gone without on tight paychecks, although he always tried to keep food on the table, even if it was the stale leftovers from the bakery.
Proof: A photo of him standing in front of the bakery, covered in flour.
Playing
First-person sample:
If the girl on fire is out there, respond. That cant have been a dream. I dont dream like that.
No one dreams like that. I dont want to go back, I want to get people out.
Third-person sample:
Thresh stared at the photo he had found on the desk. This wasn’t possible. He couldn’t have just imagined his entire life. Who would imagine something like that? If he was going to pick his life, why didn’t he pick the job of a peacekeeper instead of a field worker?
If he was going to imagine his life, he wasn’t going to kill his parents, not from a freak explosion in the flour plant. This had to be a trick, something thought up by the Gamemakers to throw them off. It hadn’t happened before, but they were almost at a Quarter Quell, they had to be coming up with new things.
The photo could be faked, they could do things like that in the Capitol. He supposed it was almost a good sign, he must have survived long enough after all. He had thought he’d counted correctly, he was in the final five, which was far higher than he’d expected. Most of the time, tributes from the lowest districts were the first to die.
Still, he needed to find out what was going on. He pushed away from the desk and started looking around for tools, food, anything that would give him an edge in what was to come. The drawers of the desk came up with nothing, but the food preparation area was a goldmine of supplies, not the least of which was a knife. Thresh grinned and clung tightly to his new found weapon while he searched the remainder of the room for anything of use, eventually turning up nothing.
Finally, he approached the device on the desk, returning to where he had started. The telephone he discarded, he had seen its use at the peacekeeper’s headquarters often enough that he didn’t need to examine it. Instead, he looked over the terminal, exploring its functions and uses. He scrolled through the list of names, not seeing any that he recognized. In the end, he sent out a short message on a location where others seemed to be posting, and went to barricade himself in until he had a better idea of what was going on.
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