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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.
Julie Grigio | Warm Bodies (Hadriel CRAU) | Not Reserved
Name: Fiona
Contact: PM character account or at
Current Characters: n/a
Name: Julie Bastet Grigio
Canon: Warm Bodies
Canon Point: The Burning World, approx. ⅓ into the book. Julie’s entire life has been turned upside-down with the reappearance of a pre-apocalypse corporate militia.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): 21 months in
Character History: Warm Bodies | The Burning World (from canon update, there is no wiki for this book)
CRAU History: During her time in Hadriel, Julie mostly just worked to stay alive. She made some good friends, and lost some good friends, and went through a string of ill-fated romantic relationships that all ended in the person she was gaining affection for being taken away from her by the whims of whatever magic held the place together.
She was passionate in voicing her opposition to the Null, enough that they added her to a ‘hit-list’, and she searched for one defected Null with the intent of destroying it. Following a canon update, her attitude towards that particular Null shifted more towards sympathy, but she never stopped hating the race as a whole. She had several conversations with their ‘hosts’, even growing to somewhat understand a couple of them, but she never considered herself to be on their side.
Hadriel was a terrible place, and though it wasn’t as terrible as what could and did happen to her in her own home, she was still eager to get back to her own fight once the Door opened to let them leave.
Personality: At nineteen, Julie is vivacious and passionate, but a difficult childhood has taken its toll on her personality. Despite the constant oppressive presence of her father, Julie grew into a capable, confident adult who rarely takes no for an answer and dislikes admitting that she has any kind of limitations. Despite her position as the de facto leader's daughter, she still insisted on taking part in supply runs in full knowledge of the danger that leaving the safety of the settlement walls brought with it. When she knows that she wants something, she pushes for it, even to the point of pushing away the people around her. This runs into the good and bad, both decisive and incredibly stubborn with an assertive, almost abrasive streak when people try to stand in her way. Julie is of the firm opinion that no one knows what's better for her than herself, and she isn't afraid to let (most) people know.
Her fearlessness isn't without its limits. Any smart person is afraid of the Dead that roam the now abandoned streets and alleys of the city around the stadium that can claim to be the last bastion of the Living in the area. When a group of them burst in on her and the supply group she's with, she doesn't just watch, but she does freeze with terror when one of them approaches her and strangely saves her... because that is the sensible thing to do.
But even in the middle of a zombie hive, there isn't a lot that can dampen her independent spirit. She demands to be let go, certain she can make it, but reasonable enough to understand that she needs to wait. She soon grasps that the zombie who rescued her is different to the others, but it takes time for her to develop patience and her curiosity mounts not long after as she takes the new situation in stride. Though she is prone to hot-headed decisions, Julie is practical and rational at her core and very self-reliant, disliking leaning on others to make her decisions. As a result, she comes across as far more mature than her years and is always asking questions, always wondering why something must be a certain way when she can see a way that it could be different, or better. She challenges almost everyone around her, even her father. Much like her mother, Julie is a freethinking, conscientious person with a colourful imagination and a compassionate courage that sometimes leads her to strange places.
On the surface, atop the myriad of complicated emotions, Julie appears a clever, perceptive and enthusiastic young woman who is always outspoken and highly reactionary to her surroundings and to new situations. She doesn't like to sit still and seems to do everything with a sense of purpose. A side of her not too often seen by those around her, save for by her best friend Nora, is her romantic side. Julie is a dreamer like her mother was and hoped that she might have had a future with Perry before he was killed. Later, that wish to protect and feelings of affection move over to R.
Julie is genuine and often humble, and beneath her daring facade she is the kind of person who can take too much into themselves, particularly when it comes to self-blame. She can be somewhat irrational in the pursuit of trying to make things right. This is where her determination can become a fault - Julie doesn't know when to stop, and her strong will can turn in on itself to become something damaging.
CRAU Development: Even through the trials she suffered during her stay in Hadriel, Julie’s overall personality changed very little. She remains a sometimes hot-headed person who keeps her cards close to her chest save for those who know her best. What has changed, perhaps, is an increase in the way in which she will reach out for intimacy and closeness with others, even while knowing that in a place like that they can be gone the moment you turn you back.
Powers/Abilities: None.
Inventory: A crossbow and a few fire-enchanted bolts, an assault rifle (no ammo), clothes from Hadriel, a few joints.
Anything Else? n/a
Prose/Brackets Sample: Link
Accepted.
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▶ Add yourself and your character to the Taken Characters page.
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▶ 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.