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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.
Rey | Star Wars | Reserved
Name: Elizabeth
Contact:
Current Characters: n/a
Name: Rey
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: during The Last Jedi, near the end of the throne room scene aboard the Supremacy before the lightsaber is broken. Rey and Ben Solo have defeated Snoke and his Praetorian Guard, but now he's going all Kylo Ren on her again, and. Girl is disappoint.
Character History: Wiki
Personality: It takes a special kind of adaptability to be able to survive (and thrive) in a dangerous wasteland like Jakku, but Rey does it in spades. Presumably left by her parents on the scavenger planet at a very young age (4 or 5 years old), Rey is left in the supervision of a junk dealer, braving the harsh environment and inherent dangers of Jakku in order to collect pieces of scrap metal and electronics pilfered from the carcasses of downed Imperial Star Destroyers that litter the desert planet’s landscape for food. Part of that bravery stems from a strong sense of self-preservation, having had to depend solely on herself for fourteen long years; she is a "scrapper" in the most literal sense there is, and attacks aren’t taken lying down. Those fourteen long years have lent her a devastating loneliness, though, and she is desperate for personal connections, finding a temporary surrogate father in Han Solo and fearing the visceral memories of her abandonment.
Despite that, Rey embodies the very definition of someone who tenaciously clings to hope. She hopes, for fourteen long years, that her family will return for her; she counts each and every day she’s stranded on Jakku diligently, as though to someday relay it to someone. Through the shadow of her loneliness she’s bolstered by the fact that she finds a genuine, loyal friend in Finn, who goes to retrieve her from Starkiller Base. She is still capable of kindness and compassion as well as a fierce determination to protect, such as when she takes up Skywalker’s lightsaber after swearing never to touch it again to protect both herself and Finn from Kylo Ren. Her compassion even ends up extending to Kylo Ren himself, when upon development of a long-distance bond between the two of them through the Force, they expound on one another’s mutual loneliness and feelings of abandonment by their respective families.
And yet, she still harbors intense anger, as well as a nearly-reckless impulsiveness. She taps into something dark and powerful during her duel with Ren in the forest, which gifts her with the strength to defeat him despite being wholly untrained. After having been trapped for so many years on Jakku due to her own circumstances, running from the revelation she would have rather not faced – that her family wasn’t returning for her, as Maz gently reveals to her on Takodana – Rey decides that she'll no longer allow herself to live under the pretenses of lies, told from others nor ones she'd tell to herself. Her steps to seek out the reclusive Luke Skywalker are a testament to her dogged determination to do both what she believes is right, as well as to uncover the truth; once she finds Luke, however, she’s angered not only by his reluctance to accompany her back to their allies or to train her as a Jedi herself, but also when she finds out his role in turning his nephew Ben Solo to the Dark Side. Rey attacks him with her own staff and then Luke’s lightsaber, in an effort to get him to reveal the entirety of it. She rushes impulsively off to Snoke’s flagship, the Supremacy, emboldened by her contact through the Force bond with Ben and convinced she can bring him back to the Light. Fortunately, she’s only partly wrong; the compassion and trust she shows Ben ends up unifying them against Snoke and his Praetorian Guards, but it’s not enough to get Ben to spare the Resistance when the battle in the throne room is finished.
Powers/Abilities:
Inventory: Clothes: grey tunic, grey cargo pants, vest, boots and arm coverings.
Quarterstaff.
nn-14 blaster.
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. (still intact, given her timepoint.)
Prose/Brackets Sample: 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.