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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.
Aziraphale | Good Omens (TV) | Not reserved
Name: Tossino
Contact:
Current Characters: Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor) & Arthur Morgan
Name: Aziraphale
Canon: Good Omens (TV)
Canon Point: End canon (episode 6)
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Taken from
Character History: Wiki
CRAU History: The first new thing Aziraphale had to do was find a job. Now, he may not necessarily need things like food or books, but he wants them. So a job was necessary.
Aside from that, he also found himself in the new situation of having the freedom to decide for himself. When people would get in trouble, he'd have the option to help simply because he wanted to, and not have to consider how directly involved he should get. Because angels don't always do things directly so much as make humans do better. During his time in the City, he helped when a few characters got in trouble with a sort of dangerous cult and a god that the cult worshipped, and joined in on a plan to overthrow someone who was clearly trying to become the sole ruler of the City. The last one, especially, was very strange, as he usually leave things like that to humans to deal with.
He also actually participated in a party and started talking to people more as a whole, which he'd kind of stopped doing in the past century or so.
Personality: It's important to note that Aziraphale is a very bad angel. All angels that we meet in Good Omens have quirks of their own, but Aziraphale has according to the archangels spent too much time on Earth. Angels are supposed to be obedient and loyal, and obviously not sinful in any way. They shouldn't have desires or, if they do, at least not indulge in them. Aziraphale tries his best to be these things, but has often questioned whether Heaven and/or God is truly good, and frequently indulges in worldly desires like good food and expensive clothes.
That said, he is very concerned about being good, both in the way that his own morals say but also in the way Heaven would tell him that he should be. These often conflicted with each other, which left him conflicted too, and this conflict ultimately ended with him branding himself as a traitor in Heaven's eyes, but also deciding that he frankly doesn't want anything to do with Heaven anyway. As far as he is concerned, the "greater good" is not an excuse to destroy worlds and kill people, despite knowing that, well, there is an afterlife and the souls of humans will live on. It's not worth sacrificing lives for the sake of eradicating all evil from existence.
Before the relative freedom of being thrown out by Heaven, he used to be very anxious about the things he would do that he knew was wrong. Especially when talking to other angels, he was always nervous and uncomfortable, not to mention afraid that they'd figure out what a bad angel he was. This is contrast to what he'd be like around his one and only friend, the demon Crowley, when he'd not only freely indulge in things and joke about being 'tempted', but even be borderline dastardly sometimes. One might argue that an executioner taking pride in chopping the heads off dozens of aristocrats deserved being sent off to the guillotine himself, but being as nonchalant about the fact as he was might not be seen as particularly angel-like.
His love and care for humanity did undoubtedly come from exposure. After thousands of years on Earth, he's grown fond of many things, and one might argue that he decided to turn his back on Heaven for selfish reasons. Heaven doesn't have alcohol, it doesn't have theatre, it doesn't have music, not to the extent that Earth (and Hell) does. He likes human creativity, especially books. He also likes food, and clothes. He likes small restaurants where they know him. And he wanted to keep these things.
He's also kind of ... lazy. He made an 'arrangement' with Crowley that sometimes they'd do each other's jobs. Angel and demon miracles aren't all that different. If both of them had a job in Scotland, what's the point in both of them going if only one of them can do both their jobs?
At the core, however, he truly does care about people and all living things. He will frivolously perform miracles to save animals and help others, including adding gears to a bike that didn't use to have them. He wants to help and do good, which is largely what alienated him from Heaven in the end, less so than his love for food and books.
CRAU Development: In the City, Aziraphale was faced with a new disconnect to Heaven along with his new title of Banished Angel. This gave him freedom that he isn't used to having, and he will still find himself marvelling and occasionally struggling with it when he comes to Anchor. He did take advantage of this new freedom, however, to do things that he felt were necessary, to try and protect innocent and good people from things that might harm them. Now that there is no sense of duty or loyalty tying him down and giving him reason to not act, act is precisely what he will do, even if it feels strange and he might occasionally wonder if he truly is doing the right thing. He's started learning to follow his own moral compass, rather than that of Heaven and what he believed to be God's.
He also got the opportunity to indulge in something else that he never let himself do: His relationship to Crowley. Before Heaven banished him, he was constantly trying to keep Crowley at arm's length, constantly wary and afraid that they'd be caught and punished. Now that both Heaven and Hell know about them, there's nothing stopping them from doing whatever they like. He's stopped pretending he doesn't love Crowley as much as he does, and they have the freedom to explore this in any way they feel like. Including very human and mortal ways like physical intimacy.
Powers/Abilities: : As an angel, Aziraphale does miracles. These include but are not limited to:
> Creating clothes out of raw material (Aziraphale prefers to shop and go to tailors)
> Summoning money
> Teleportation
> Exchanging clothes between two people
> Changing your physical appearance (Aziraphale prefers going to barbers and getting manicures)
> Stopping time
> Creating light
> Healing wounds and broken bones etc.
> Fixing broken items (and sometimes you add gears to a bike that didn’t have gears, and then you take them away after the owner of said bike told you it didn’t use to have gears)
> Unlocking locks
> Possessing people
> Making people sort of ‘shut down’ so they can’t really do anything but answer your questions and, perhaps, follow your orders
> Teleporting people elsewhere (without necessarily being sure of exactly where)
Overall, his miracles aren’t super powerful (read: he can’t just alter reality like God or the Antichrist can). Do let me know if anything would be limited.
Aside from the miracles, he’s also able to sense love, both around people and places. This isn’t a science and a bit unclear, but the village where the Antichrist Adam Young grew up, Tadfield, was particularly obvious to him. Adam’s innate power to influence reality around him meant that Tadfield was a very picturesque and ideal for a child. It never changed, and it always had perfect weather for the time of year. Aziraphale felt this influence in an air of love that surrounded the area.
Inventory: The clothes on his back, basically.
Anything Else? Nah.
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. Activity for this character will be due by the end of July.
▶ For your character's experience upon arrival, please see the Arrival Page.
▶ Special Notes: There will, unfortunately, be a few nerfs on Aziraphale's abilities, but we've tried to make them as non-invasive as possible.
Teleportation: Aziraphale would be able to teleport to any place within the city that a character could normally access. For example, he could teleport from the park to the agricultural area, but not into the locked down family dwellings.
Stopping Time: Aziraphale will still be able to do this, but for a maximum of 5 seconds only.
Unlocking Locks: Intact, but not applicable to the areas that are currently non-accessible in the city. Go wild with other locked doors though!
Possessing People/Enforcing Will On People/Teleporting People to Random Places: Totally fine, but only with the permission of the other player.