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Sleeper
Character: The character's name goes here, obviously.
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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.
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City
Name: This shouldn't allude to their canon name.
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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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ELENA GILBERT ⚜ vampire diaries au ⚜ one
Name: Katz
Username:
Current/former characters: n/a
Sleeper
Character: Elena Gilbert
Username:
Canon: Vampire Diaries (AU)
Canon point:
Age: 16 (mentally 17)
Appearance: Being a doppelganger, Elena is identical to her ancestor, Katherine Pierce. In fact, the only real different is that Elena has straight hair. She has long brown hair, and a slightly darker complexion than most, as a call to her faint Bulgarian ancestry, on the Petrova side. At first glance, this sweet young girl doesn't look very intimidating, or at all out of the ordinary. Elena has a fairly innocent face, except when she vamps out. In that case, her pupils darken, and veins bulge around her eyes, while fangs lower themselves in her teeth.
Because of her sixteen year old appearance, Elena generally dresses in darker colours to make herself look older, for cases where being young just doesn't cut it (i.e. bar picking). And because she is the type to care about her appearance, as we can see from the type of clothing she wore at the very beginning of the series, she's usually dressed fashionably.
Personality: Though Elena is identical in appearance, and nature, to her ancestor, Katherine, she is the exact opposite in personality, even after her transition into a vampire. Elena is at heart, a very friendly person and very loyal. The best friends she had were ones she'd known since they were children, and she'd go to any lengths for the people she cared about. She's shown this numerous times, for Bonnie and Caroline. She was considered one of the most popular girls in school due to this, and had no problem with guys either, seeing as she was going out with the captain of the football team.
Of course, after the car crash that ended her parents' lives, and changed hers forever, she changed considerably from that girl next door. Elena has a tendency to blame things on herself as she cares a lot about other people, even those she probably shouldn't. As a result, she holds a lot of self-hate for what happened that night on Wickery Bridge, since it was because of her that her adopted parents, Miranda and Grayson, had even been out that night. It was her fault that they died, and that Jeremy was left without parents. She manages to bury it deep down, with the aid of her super vampire emotion switch, but sometimes wished that Stefan had saved them instead of her.
Speaking of emotion switch, she has abused this vampiric privilege once. And when she did, surprisingly, she wasn't like Katherine, who was hard and manipulative in a seductive manner. Elena took after Isobel, her biological mother, in that aspect; she became cold and unfeeling, just how she wanted. But after coming back to Mystic Falls and seeing Jeremy again, she realized that she wanted to be a part of his life and now she had the strength to protect him. But to do that, she would have to let her emotions come back. And she's come a long way from how she was then, though at times, Elena still finds it difficult to empathize, or understand why someone would find something so disastrous.
As a vampire, Elena started out with Stefan as her mentor, so naturally, that included the all-animal diet and whatnot, but after that first taste of human blood she had while transitioning, it just wasn't enough. But she put up with it, both because she didn't want to feed from humans, and because she didn't want to alienate Stefan, who was her only companion and the only one who could teach her how to get through this. But after meeting Damon, and after her fairly merciless spree of feedings, Elena learned that you could take pleasure in feeding from humans, and give pleasure back, without killing them. Surprisingly, the most difficult part of the vampire abilities for her to accept, was the ability to compel people. Morally, she was reluctant to control people's minds, except in the case of extreme emergency or need.
[ ALSO RESERVED ] ELENA GILBERT ⚜ vampire diaries au ⚜ two
canon!
the very much non-edited AU history.
Powers/skills: Being a vampire, she has all the perks. This includes super speed, super hearing, super sight, super strength, super anything you name. She also has the ability to compel people, with her vampire mojo, to do whatever she wants. Downside, she has to drink blood regularly to prevent mummification. Because all of this comes with the 'being a vampire' shindig, Elena will be de-powered into being completely human again, upon waking.
City
Name: Chloe Taylor
Position: High school student
History: Chloe was just a normal high school girl, living in the middle ring of Diamond City. Because she was the only child of a loving pair of parents and in middle class, she was just a tad spoiled at times, but fortunately, she was naturally thoughtful of others and reigned this in to the point that it wasn't unbearable. However, when she was fourteen, her mother died in a car accident. After that, Chloe shied away from many social events, and kept to writing in her diary: the one that her mother made her promise to keep up every day. She began to write a lot and even joined the school newspaper.
Her favourite place to write, and just think in general, is a sweets bakery near her neighbourhood. It's her usual haunting place, as opposed to the mall, which she used to frequent regularly with her friends. It definitely helped that the shop owner, Sylvester, was such a witty guy that it was hard not to enjoy chatting with him. Plus, the delicious baked goods were a definite bonus.
Proof: Diary.
Playing
First-person sample: So... I'm just supposed to believe my entire life was just some messed up dream? Because I have an incredibly masochistic subconscious if that's the case.
I'm not sure what to believe right now, but I found this diary. And it says my name's supposedly Chloe Taylor. So if anyone knows her, give me a call. And if anyone out there knows an Elena Gilbert, then definitely find me.
Third-person sample:
A dream. Just a dream. It sounded like something right out of a horror movie, where the ending was that the protagonist was just dreaming everything. And when he woke up, everything was normal and he lived happily ever after. Instead, Elena got this. From vampirism and Salvatores to some post-apocalyptic world with a life that she didn't even remember.
She looked down at the diary in her hands; the one she'd been reading through for a good part of the last hour, and still wasn't done. It was her handwriting, but she had no memory of writing any of it and she didn't live that life either. She never survived past sixteen, and she sure as hell wasn't an only child. But facts were facts. And facts were, Elena could stand in the sun without being burned, even though Bonnie's Grams hadn't made her that daylight ring. She was human again, pure and simple.
As much as Elena would've loved to take this new life and hold it to herself and maybe somehow she would mold into it, a part of herself just couldn't accept it. Because she had been less than (or more than, depending on who you asked) human, and she couldn't shake off that now-present feeling of being smaller than she felt. It just didn't... feel right. It was like someone offering her water in the middle of miles of desert all around; just a mirage. And as surprising as it was, Elena had grown fond of Damon, and reluctantly opened up to Stefan again. She didn't want to accept that none of that had been real- that they weren't real.
Elena stood up and brushed herself off. It was highly unlikely that she was going to find answers to any of her questions here. Maybe if she found some more people in the same situation as her, they could bond or... something.
Did you read the rules? Yep!
Revisions
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...
Personality
You mention that Elena has a personality change of some sort after the death of her parents. Could you please elaborate on what changed in her, what stayed the same, and if any of that changed after she became a vampire?
Powers
We just want to clarify on this one: when you say she will be human, will she also be completely powerless, or retaining some of her super-[thing] powers even while human?
REVISIONS
Okay, this can get pretty messed up.
The first change happened after her parents' death, which was also when she first became a vampire. She became more withdrawn, quiet, and at the same time, confused and frustrated as she adjusted to her new undead nature. The former being a natural mourning phase after losing her parents, and the latter faded as she eased into her vampirism. After a period of adjustment, I imagined Elena to be sort of akin to how she was in canon, under the watchful eye of Stefan. She's friendly enough, though she doesn't purposely go out and try and engage people like before. And because vampirism amplifies all emotions you had previously, Elena cares a lot.
The second change came after she found the picture of Katherine, and she flipped her emotion switch. Like I talked about, Elena took after her biological mother in the sense that she became very cold and unfeeling. She didn't take any particular delight or sorrow in seeing people's happiness or suffering, and just did whatever she had to, which is all a complete flip from her normal self. During this period, she also met Damon, who lent a hand in helping her develop as a vampire. As a result, she has a mixture of both his and Stefan's attitudes towards the use/misuse of vampire abilities, such as compulsion and blood drinking.
However, after returning to Mystic Falls, her emotions have been slowly slipping back in, both because Elena consciously tries and she doesn't stop it when it does happen. This is because she realized that there was no way she could face Jeremy, or Jenna, in the current state that she was in. She's more straight forward and blunt, though still with a certain degree of tact, and she's more willing to sacrifice something or someone she's not as close with, to get something done in the big picture. But other than that, she still does care about the people she loves, and she's still pleasant enough to talk to.
POWERS
While she'll be fully human at first, I'd like for Elena to gain back her super-skills, watered down slightly, minus compulsion.
SIDE NOTE
After a tip, I've decided to put in a couple pictures into Chloe's diary, of her with family and/or friends.
accepted!
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