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Player
Name: What would you like to be called?
Username: ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) username
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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Re: Revisions (SORRY had to repost due to italics fail)
Age:
I think canonwise he's about 250-300? It is really difficult to pinpoint his age haha, let's say 275.
Personality:
He doesn't tend to get involved because he believes that, no matter what he does, he won't be able to change history, and that trying would be a lesson in futility, as he explained to Barbara when she tried to change the Aztecs. Whether or not he can alter the timeline, he believes he is dutybound not to. There are occasions where he will, but this usually happens because he finds himself stuck in a situation where the only way out is to fight, for one side or the other. Self-preservation seems to overrule his sense of duty.
He is far from modest. Often he can be heard tooting his own horn about his intelligence and his superiority. However, he tends to prefer helping others learn for themselves, testing their own minds and ways of thinking. He seems to think others races need to be taught, and takes it upon himself to do the teaching, trying to guide them towards the right path rather than leading them there by the hand.
Having never really been alone in his life up to this point, it's difficult for him to be content as a solitary person over long periods of time. He'll seek out companionship, winding up with someone to travel with - first his granddaughter, then Ian and Barbara. It can take time for him to warm up to someone, seeming distrustful or callous at first, but in time they'll grow on him and he'll be more forthcoming, more willing to help them understand things, so long as they don't ask too many foolish questions.
He has a problem with common ground - since he grew up on Gallifrey, has many years of experience in the galaxy, and is well older than any human, or some other species for that matter, it can be difficult for them to see things the same way as him, to understand how things work. Many don't share the same interests, and it can be difficult to make friends with someone who seems to have nothing in common with you - if it weren't for his adventures, and those he winds up with enjoying the thrill of travel and the unknown, he'd likely travel alone. And he knows that he'll far outlive those around him, so can be reluctant to become to close to others. He feels out of place in much of human society, and this puts a damper on his willingness to connect.
The human population has promise. There's nothing inherently wrong with them. They're young, and this comes with all the problems of youth - they're judgemental, impresionable, rash, impulsive, and have difficulty seeing beyond their own scope of vision. Much of humanity would sooner see an alien tested on in a lab than make friends with them.
As to being human himself... He likely won't believe it ever. He'll laugh it off. If proof is ever shown, however, he won't take it well - how does one handle being proven that their entire life was a lie? With difficulty. Especially for someone who always thought he was superior to humanity - to find out he's one of them, he's one of the young race of rash and judgemental people he's always held to be beneath him - it will be quite the discovery, and will be very difficult for him to overcome. He will likely try to excuse it - the tests were faked, something was done to him to make him human, perhaps the body he's in was a clone made to look like him - whatever he can until there really is no way to continue claiming it as a falsehood.
City Proof:
I was going to include a photo and forgot to add it in :( So yeah, let's go with that. Maybe a family photo of him and his children/grandchildren?
accepted!
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Re: accepted!