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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.
Gorō Majima | Yakuza 0 | RESERVED
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Current Characters: N/A
Name: Gorō Majima
Canon: Yakuza 0
Canon Point: Endgame, after Majima receives instructions from Sera to kill his boss.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Approximately six months, Aefenglom.
Character History: http://yakuza.wikia.com/wiki/Goro_Majima
CRAU History:
Majima ended up trapped in a magical city (Aefenglom), stripped of his original powers and told that he was now a witch and that no one knew how to send him home. Monthly, characters were subjected to dream events that hinted at the past of Aefenglom and how a disease called the Cwyld eventually isolated civilized society until the city was one of the few places left in which witches and monsters could live in relative safety. Without an ETA on whether he'd even be able to make it back to Japan, Majima subsequently began studying magic and taking on odd jobs, but largely kept his head down and steered clear of getting heavily involved in governmental sticky situations.
Personality:
Majima is an outwardly rough-around-the-edges, cynical ex-criminal who acts like he doesn't care. He actually cares a lot, which makes his life a trash fire while he tries to help victims of crime and/or the tide of incurable weirdos that inhabit his home city.
Some quick bullet points:
• When he’s off-duty, Majima comes off as serious and a little rough around the edges – polite enough when he needs to be, but possessed of a veneer of cynicism with which he’s just as likely to brush someone off as give them advice. Engage him in conversation, however, and he can be kind, helpful, and surprisingly soft-hearted. He has a particular soft spot for kids and the vulnerable, and the lengths to which he’ll go to support someone with a dream is at odds with his admittedly intimidating appearance.
• Majima is clever, possessed of a combination of unusual social/emotional intelligence, business sense, and street smarts. A survivor who tends to land on his feet. His code-switching from rough thug to gracious host is A+; he knows when to intimidate and when to be polite. He also knows when to cut loose and when to toe the line.
• Majima is surprisingly goofy in practice, fond of terrible puns ("Wanna avoid dangerous cults? Just practice safe sects!"), karaoke (“I’m gonna sing my heart out!”), and all manner of games. He also has a tendency to get caught up in completely trivial nonsense; when he hears one of his friends listening to a radio show that offers a prize for submitting personal stories, for instance, he will not stop until his post cards are featured so he caN WiN.
• Majima values personal relationships and loyalty above all else. For those who he feels truly close, Majima is extremely, intensely, crazy devoted, hellbent on making good on his promises even at great personal harm.
• The downside to that devotion is the extreme to which Majima will take his sense of duty. He remains so uncontrollable after being captured during the Ueno Seiwa incident in 1985, for instance, that a dude has to stab him in the eye to subdue him. He then proceeds to (a) get tortured and super ultra triple banished, (b) devote years of his life to trying to make things up to his brother Saejima by getting back into his old crime gang, (c) follow up by doing his best to help both Saejima's little sister and former boss in the aftermath. Nevertheless, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER, he still frames that day as 'betraying' Saejima and literally will not tell the guy what actually happened until Saejima beats him in a knife fight (you know, just in case his bro would rather stab him to death guilt-free).
• Beneath Majima's typical cool demeanor is a love of violence and a tendency to slip into being a Chaotic Blood Knight. His boss mentions that he's surprised Majima emerged from his torture sane ("How you made it through without cracking's a mystery"), but mid-fight, Majima occasionally lets out the sort of unhinged laughing or wild scream that suggests he... didn't, quite.
Though he attempts to act put upon when people pick fights with him, hints throughout Yakuza 0 reflect a growing acceptance of his love of fighting for its own sake. Nowhere does this shine through more clearly than in his adoption of his final battle persona, the infamous 'Mad Dog of Shimano', which he carries through the rest of the Yakuza series: that of a cackling, unpredictable knife nut who revels in his ruthlessness and whose mannerisms seem designed expressly to inspire fear in his opponents.
CRAU Development: Majima has grown to accept the existence of other worlds and a wild array of characters from different species, about half of which in Aefenglom transformed into 'monsters' (vampires, fae, etc.). Generally speaking, he's more open to extreme possibility and trying to adapt himself to novel settings and customs besides 1980's Japan. He's also grown to enjoy studying and experimentation in the magical arts significantly more now that he's had to opportunity to do so freely and without the background of constant criminal drama and the pressure to make a living. Personal growth!
His most significant CR was probably with Justine from the Dresden Files, whom he ended up trusting enough to form a kind of empathic bond with (largely out of necessity, as witches in Aefenglom lack magical stability due to their tendency to accumulate excess energy); while they were never an official item, she was one of the few characters he trusted with details of his background under the understanding that their bond would be dissolved once either of them managed to leave the city.
Overall, he's settled down a little, but he's still basically his old twentysomething crime man self.
Powers/Abilities: Magic
Mad Dog of Shimano(Combat skills)
Lord of the Night (Assorted skills)
Inventory:
- Demonfire Dagger, an unbreakable tantō
- An unbreakable baseball bat
- Makoto's watch
- Suit
- Peerless Pole, a fishing rod
- Sunglasses
- Business cards
Anything Else? N/A
Prose/Brackets Sample: https://middaeg.dreamwidth.org/8649.html
Accepted.
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