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Mods ([personal profile] modblob) wrote2019-04-22 09:58 pm

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.


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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Arthur Morgan // Red Dead Redemption // Not reserved

[personal profile] towhatmatters 2020-03-08 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)

Player.

Name: Tossino
Contact: [plurk.com profile] Tossino and Discord @ Tossino#3597
Current Characters: Ratonhnhaké:ton / Connor

Character.

Name: Arthur Morgan.
Canon: Red Dead Redemption (2).
Canon Point: End of Chapter 6. Arthur has just sent John Marston away to join his family and get away from the law, while holding the law and allies turned enemies off, and then succumbed to tuberculosis.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A

World Description: N/A
Character History: Wiki.
CRAU History: N/A

Personality: The life of an outlaw is all Arthur Morgan has ever known. His mother died when he was very young, and his father was an outlaw himself. When his father also then died when he was a teenager, he was doomed to be an outsider in society. He got used to fend for himself, and still largely does, even if after he was saved by Dutch Van der Linde and Hosea Williams he gained a family to look after. This has created a man that is both a rough tough outlaw and a sort of warm and caring family man.

Dutch and Hosea raised him to believe in the possibility of a world where people can be truly free, instead of the reality of society as it is, which is corrupt and selfish and keeps people prisoner as they work for and serve their supervisors. In the early days of the Van Der Linde Gang, they would essentially steal from the rich and give to the poor in an attempt to tip the scales. However, Arthur lost faith that true freedom could ever be found. Instead, the only thing he believe in was the gang, who quickly became a close-knit family of people who had been shunned by society or needed help.

This doesn't mean that Arthur cares for no one but the members of the gang. He cares quite a lot and will help more or less anyone in trouble. He might piss and moan about it, because he likes to piss and moan, but he will help. Maybe he'll ask for money as compensation - in fact, that's pretty likely - but he's not going to leave someone to the wolves for not paying him.

For being born in the 19th century, he's also very open-minded. Not perfect by any means and still has this idea that a woman can't be a gun in a robbery but more of a bait or distraction, but he overall believes that everyone is capable and everyone deserves to be treated decently. Racial superiority is bullshit and people can love and be attracted to whomever they please. No one has the right to tell anyone how to live, as long as they aren't exploiting other people.

The truth is Arthur isn't a very pleasant person to be around a lot of the time. He's often grumpy or angry, and when he isn't that, he will insult you at every turn anyway. Depending on what he thinks of you, the insults will be either scathing or teasing, and even around loved ones they may be truly unkind at times. Some might call it "snark" or "sass" but, at the end of the day, it's just kind of rude. The fact that he spent the last weeks of his life slowly dying from tuberculosis might have done something to change this, but not completely.

Speaking of the last weeks of his life … He told John Marston, who he essentially watched grow up, that loyalty used to be all he knew. As Dutch slowly lost his mind and turned more and more selfish and paranoid, that loyalty no longer mattered. Despite being an outlaw, Arthur has a firm moral code. For example, he doesn't agree with stealing from the destitute, or killing people who aren't a threat. When Dutch's methods started truly threatening the lives of those who were already suffering and didn't deserve it, not to mention the lives of the rest of the gang, Arthur decided he could no longer follow. His code matters more than loyalty.


CRAU Development: N/A

Powers/Abilities: Eagle Eye and Dead Eye.

However, I would say Eagle Eye is more of a "superpower," whereas I personally see Dead Eye as more of a game mechanic that shows how Arthur Morgan and John Marston see the battlefield when they focus. They're just that good gunslingers.

Inventory: Calloway's Revolver
Ammunition

Anything Else? N/A

samples
Network Sample: [ He's needed some help to work out how this communication device works. Now, he wouldn't think that he doesn't keep up with new developments, even if science is beyond him, but this is something else. At least now he can work this enough to make it record, and he actually doesn't look awkward doing it.

Though, he is very careful not to move the device around too much, so he definitely feels awkward when he doesn't feel free to move his hands. ]


I've been told this is kind of like a 'telephone', but it ain't nothing like no telephone I ever seen. I'd ask how it works, but I won't pretend I'd understand it.

Name's Arthur Morgan. I'm from America, the year was 1899, so let's just say all of this is a little new to me. But, believe it or not, I have seen a robot before, though it weren't called that. Met a man named Marko Dragic who claimed that he could create life and invited me to visit his, uh ... laboratory. Now, science ain't really my thing, but he'd built this metal man and used the power of lightning to ... Well, it moved a couple of steps and then fell over.

I'll admit, I wasn't very impressed, but he certainly was. Think he had some big ideas about where he could take it from there. Now that I've seen what this place got, it got me thinking.

[ He pauses for a moment, and finally gives into the urge to move, removing one hand from the device to scratch his thumbnail under his chin in thought. ]

Dragic seemed to think he'd found the secret to life, so ... Are these 'robots' alive?

Prose/Brackets Sample: TDM