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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.
Lalli Hotakainen | Stand Still, Stay Silent | Reserved
Name: Sean
Contact: PM or
Current Characters: N/A
Name: Lalli Hotakainen
Canon: Stand Still, Stay Silent
Canon Point: Adventure 2, ch. 5, pg. 147, immediately after disembarking the flashback train
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A
World Description: N/A
Character History: SSSS wiki link
CRAU History: N/A
Personality: Lalli Hotakainen is the kind of person who needs to know exactly what he's doing.
When he's in his element, he's one of the most competent people around. When he's not, he's a total space cadet. He frequently doesn't seem to be aware of what's going on around him and has to have things constantly explained to him. Part of this is a significant language barrier, but a lot of it is just him: the whole premise of the first part of the comic is a months-long expedition into extremely dangerous territory, but he apparently tuned out his cousin discussing preparations for months in advance and thus only realized he was definitely participating literally the night before. And, tellingly, he just rolls with it.
This lack of his own direction means he takes his lead from other people more than is probably healthy. After all, most people don't just take their cousin at her word that you quit your job and signed up for a trip that means a significant disruption to your life. The way that Lalli accepts it without question, though, and the frustration that Tuuri expresses over having to constantly explain these things to him indicate that spacing out over important details and having to be led around by the nose is very common for him.
He also exhibits a lot of behavior that can be politely described as "quirky." He's an extremely picky eater (the only foods he's been shown to willingly eat are meat and sweets), prefers to sleep underneath his bed, doesn't like unnecessary physical contact, and has a tendency to shut down when overwhelmed. Things that can overwhelm him can range from a friendly shoulder punch to being yelled at. And on top of all this, he seems to have zero understanding of social mores: he is regularly perplexed by handshakes, openly stares at people he considers strange, and had to have it explained to him how to politely accept thanks. Once he even straight up bit Reynir for manhandling him.
Put him in the field, though, and he's one of the most reliable people to have on your team. He is an excellent scout, and moreover dedicated: he'll do his job to the point of sleep deprivation if asked, and has very little patience for mistakes. Actually, he's got a bit of a complex about that--his own perfectionism can be detrimental to his health--and as a side effect he displays very little patience for other people's incompetence. Some of this seems to be a result of the kind of harsh training he's been subjected to since childhood, but some of it just seems to be that explaining things is one of the many areas of communication in which he struggles.
And a subtler part of that is that he and his family have lived very harsh and tragic lives. People who have grown up sheltered, like Reynir and Emil, he can often clash with just because their experiences are so different from his--a lot of Lalli's hardness is a survival mechanism, and as a result he has difficulty relating to anyone who's had it significantly easier. In his way of life there is very little leeway for softness, and luxury is foreign to him. Add to this a degree of undersocialization due to his job as a night scout (very dangerous and solitary work), and you get a guy who is very difficult to just have a pleasant conversation with.
CRAU Development: N/A, coming from canon
Powers/Abilities: Wiki link again
Inventory:
Anything Else? None that I can think of
Prose/Brackets Sample: Redshift TDM thread
Accepted.
▶ Join the communities:
▶ Add yourself and your character to the Taken Characters page.
▶ (Optional) Introduce yourself and your character with an entry to the OOC Community, or tag in at the monthly event log.
▶ (Optional) Join Redshift's Discord server by clicking this invite link.
▶ Activity Check Link: Please submit all activity for this character in the character's thread on the activity check post.
▶ For your character's experience upon arrival, please see the Arrival Page.