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applications.
Applications are currently: OPEN.
As of April 2021, Redshift is a sandbox game! We still have apps for some degree of quality control, but the form has been simplified to streamline the process for new players. Here's how it works:
▶ New Players joining us after April 2021 will need to submit an application for their first character coming into the game by using the appropriate form below. This is so we know who you are, and so we can make sure your character will be a good fit for our players!
▶ Returning/Current Players who have been with us since before April 2021 or are coming back to us only need to claim their character using the form below to bring in new characters. New players may do the same after two months.
▶ Returning/Current Players who have been with us since before April 2021 or are coming back to us only need to claim their character using the form below to bring in new characters. New players may do the same after two months.
Application Guide.
▶ Submission Format: All applications must be posted to this entry, and must fit within one comment with a subject line in the format of "CHARACTER NAME | CANON | RESERVED/NOT RESERVED." While applications should not be linked in the entry, players may link to an alternate source such as a wiki for the character's history and powers; for original characters, the world history may also be linked from an alternate source such as an entry on the character journal.
▶ Accepted Character Types: Fandom Characters, Original Characters; CRAU is welcome and encouraged. Please see the Rules & Game Standards page for more in-depth explanations of appable, non-appable, and case-by-case characters.
▶ Application Verdicts: Applications will receive a verdict of ACCEPTED, REVISIONS, or DECLINED. Revisions must be submitted within 48 hours of the revision request being sent out. If this is impossible due to extenuating circumstances, please contact the mod team. Declined applications can be reworked and resubmitted during the next application cycle. If an application is declined 3 times, it cannot be resubmitted.
▶ App Challenges & Reserves: Redshift will not have application challenges, but if you would like to apply for a character that is on reserve, please submit the application with "not reserved" noted in the subject line, and your application will be considered if the reserved application is declined or not turned in by the end of the application cycle. Applications will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis.
▶ Character Limits: Players may have a maximum of 3 characters in the game; the option to increase the number of character spaces may become available at a later date. A player may submit up to two applications at a time.
▶ Samples: Linked samples should be from a publicly accessible source, and no more than 1 year old. Screencaps or transcripts from locked sources are not acceptable as samples, unless the character is being apped as a CRAU from a locked game, and in these cases permission from the other participant(s) in the thread must be obtained and submitted as screencaps along with the sample. All samples should represent the character as they are being applied for; for example, samples cannot come from an AU setting or break the fourth wall (Dear Player, etc.) As long as they meet this criteria, samples from other games, museboxes, memes, other websites (Tumblr, Insanejournal, etc.) or any other source are acceptable. For CRAU samples a link from the character's original game would be preferable, in the form of a link to their tag on the relevant communities, or specific thread links.
Submit an Application.
To submit an application or claim a character, please fill out the information in the appropriate text box below, and paste it in a single comment in response to this entry. Applications should not be linked, though portions of them may be if a bulky history or world section would put them over the character limit for one comment.
vanya hargreeves / the umbrella academy / reserved
Name: Javid
Contact:
Current Characters: n/a
Name: Vanya Hargreeves
Canon: The Umbrella Academy
Canon Point: S1E9 - Before returning to the Academy
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): n/a
World Description: n/a
Character History: Wiki page
CRAU History: n/a
Personality:
cw: child and domestic abuse, manipulation, gaslighting
For as long as she could remember, Vanya was singled out as someone who didn't matter. Their father kept her siblings separated from her, as she longed only to be included. This informed a lot of her identity growing up: the type to fade into the background, a person with no strong opinions, a person easily ignored.
Her feelings of quiet resentment grew, until she wrote a damning autobiography that her siblings did not take well due to its contents. She seems to only be able to express herself through creativity: the written word and, of course, music, being drawn to the violin from an early age.
While she was medicated, she kept strong feelings from manifesting at all; good or bad. She was essentially a ghost in the background of others' lives.
However, the side effect of not being on these mood stabilizers is that now she is much more liable to lash out emotionally. As her sister Allison starts to notice red flags in a man, Leonard, who is starting to romantically pursue Vanya, Vanya pushes back harder and harder, despite Allison acting out of concern for her safety. Vanya saw it as both an invasion of privacy and a belief that Vanya was helpless when left to her own devices.
In fact, it is that very insecurity that sparked the relationship with Leonard. While he used his background knowledge of her to his advantage, she was mainly blinded by the fact he was the first person in her life to seem to appreciate her for herself. The only person to say she was special in her own way. This led to her being easy to manipulate into becoming Leonard's pet project for revenge against Vanya's family.
As she starts to tap more into the power she never knew she had, she is more vulnerable than ever, but also more dangerously volatile. At this canon point, she feels more guilt and fear regarding her siblings than anything else. Fear that they will ostracize her for her mistakes and powers and guilt that she could ever blame them for their father's abuse and grooming.
She does, in fact, love her siblings, Allison and Five in particular. She's the first person Five goes to when he feels he needs to talk, and they were close as children before he had disappeared. Allison, meanwhile, is a more recent relationship; now that Allison has grown, she wants to extend the olive branch and they have become closer, but Vanya can't help but feel misplaced jealousy towards her. Still, they can joke and talk about their emotions like sisters now, and if it were not for Leonard, they may have become inseparable.
Vanya is a very anxious and insecure person, but the type who doesn't show it until the breaking point. She will stay quiet and take any insult, keeping everything bottled up until she outright explodes and cannot control her impulses to lash out. She can be utterly cruel if she deigns to, but it all comes from a place of pain and loneliness. She can and will cling to the first person who shows her kindness, blind to any faults that might be obvious to an outside perspective.
However, she is also genuinely thoughtful when given the opportunity, and is not so completely shy that she'll never approach anyone. Right now, though, she is at a crossroads and is having difficulty understanding who she is without the medication and with these dangerous powers.
CRAU Development: n/a
Powers/Abilities: Vanya's powers rely on the absorption of any sound she can hear as well as heightened emotional states. This includes positive emotional states, but more often we see the effects of negative emotion: distress, fear, and anger. However, nothing can result from emotion alone without sound as a catalyst. Since part of her powerset includes heightened hearing, she can even use something such as her own heartbeat or the sound of chimes from miles away.
There are two ways we have seen to completely stop her abilities: by deafening her (such as firing a gun right by her ear) or by dampening her emotions (such as the strong mood-stabilizing medication she had previously been on since she was a child).
When she has access to her abilities, she can manipulate sound waves to move objects (or, later, people) akin to telekinesis, project sound waves as forces of pure energy, and even simply crumple buildings and cause explosions. Sometimes this can be done without her even being aware of it happening if she is particularly emotional. The energy waves she projects can either come out in short, less-controlled bursts, or if she is at full power, she can even use them to drain the life from multiple people at once.
Additionally, she seems to have some kind of control over the weather, unintentionally causing rain when she's upset, as well as creating strong winds around her during a panic attack. The wind can be strong enough to even collapse branches from trees. Often, when she is using her power this way, distant thunder is heard as well, so that likely means lightning can feature.
When she has full access to her powers in a state of pure rage, the irises of her eyes will turn white. As her power builds, this bleaching of color extends to her clothing and also her violin, until she is in all white.
There doesn't seem to be an upper limit to this, as she was single-handedly responsible for the apocalypse in most timelines in canon. The reason she was put on the medication and magically forced to forget her power in the first place was because her father feared what she could do at full strength.
However, since it would be very game-breaking if she were to just like, explode the planet randomly, I would suggest her powers being more limited in the context of the game. My thought is giving her destructive powers a proximity clause (such as only being able to affect a certain radius around her), but if the mods have any thoughts as to what else I could do to better suit the game, I invite more nerfs as needed. I'm not interested in powergaming here!
Inventory:
▸ Her violin, as well as its case.
▸ The clothes on her back, i.e. a grey-blue sweatshirt over a plain black top, black jeans, black and white sneakers. She probably has a hair tie on hand as well, since she tends to prefer to pull her hair back.
Anything Else? n/a
Prose/Brackets Sample: Thread w/ Ben on an open post
Accepted.
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