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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.
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Name: Jae
Contact: plurk @ researchboner
Current Characters: N/A
Name: Mick Rory
Canon: Legends of Tomorrow
Canon Point: Early in S1, after Mick has been taken by the time-masters and brainwashed into hunting his old team.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A
Character History: Linked here
Personality: Mick is a fairly straightforward guy on the surface. In many ways what you see is what you get: a gruff, blunt, hypermasculine villain with a love of fire.
His gruffness and bluntness stem from the same source—a difficulty relating to people and communicating effectively. Mick has always had few real friends, driving most people off through his inability to communicate gently and the overall force of his personality. He’s too honest for his own good, never trying to hide who or what he is from anyone, which means most people are put off by his pyromania and kleptomania. He can act thoughtlessly, fueled by rage or other emotions, burning bridges in a moment of heat that he regrets later. He’s abrupt and vindictive, and it makes him hard to trust.
His armor against disappointment in others, against emotional connection, is his hypermasculine nature. He keeps himself from being hurt, and keeps people at a distance, through his dedication to presenting himself as a beefy meathead, which is only half-true. He’s also highly intelligent, knowing how to repair, enhance, and even rebuild his heat gun. His conditioning with the Time Masters has made that intelligence a more front-and-center thing for him, and he credits them more than he should for developing it and giving him a formal education.
Mick is a pyromaniac. Though his time with the Time Masters has (temporarily) muted his relationship with fire, he still loves it at heart. It fascinates him, enthralls him, to the point of self-harm—he canonically burned himself as a child out of guilt for his parents’ deaths, and it progressed into adulthood to the point where he escaped an ambulance on the way to a hospital to treat third degree burns. He feels at home with fire. It’s pure, clean of emotion, can’t betray or lie. It is what it is, and it’s transformative and purifying in his eyes.
In spite of his gruffness, Mick has a soft heart, which is part of why people refusing to accept him hurts so much. He knows how he comes across, and never expects anyone to see past it—he just hopes they will. He’s lonely, wants the companionship of others, craves a sense of belonging, and hasn’t found that belonging yet with anyone but Leonard Snart. It’s one of the reasons that Mick, as Chronos, is so powerfully vindictive. The only place he thought he belonged, the one person he trusted completely, gets taken from him—and he spends the next 200 years meditating on that betrayal and planning how to get Leonard back for it. If he didn’t have a gentle heart, it wouldn’t have impacted him so severely.
Powers/Abilities:See “powers and abilities” section
Inventory: His armor, a laser pulse rifle, and his heat gun.
Anything Else? N/A
Prose/Brackets Sample: Here
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.