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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.
Cole | Dragon Age (Asunder, Inquisition) | Not Reserved
Name: Jemi
Contact: discord
Current Characters: n/a
Name: Cole
Canon: Dragon Age (Asunder and Inquisition)
Canon Point: Post Adamant Fortress. Cole went into the fade with the Inquisitor, Greywall and Dorian Pavus.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Drift Fleet: Cole was in the Fleet for a little over a year. He would not be noticed missing in his home world during this time.
World Description: n/a
Character History: Dragon Age Wiki Link
CRAU History: Cole has a firm grasp on the nature of the multiverse and alternate realities due to his time in Drift Fleet. He also has a more advanced understanding of space and technology then would be typically possible in his native world. He has come to understand a bit more how frightening his powers are to others, especially those from worlds without magic or spirits or powers and does try to moderate himself.
Personality:
Compassionate: Cole is above everything else compassionate. He is Compassion personified (with human memories thrown on top) and he feels deeply and genuinely for every living creature he encounters. This does not mean he likes them, or agrees with them, but just that he understands and doesn't wish suffering upon them. If he can help people, he will, especially if they're hurting and he can help that.
Ruthless: Being Compassion does not make Cole a doormat or necessarily pacifistic. He has killed and will kill again if he feels the need. He attempts to cut the throat of a soldier suffering from terrible wounds to give him a quick release and he has killed several suicidal mages AND their tormentor to end the suffering of the tower.
Kind: Cole genuinely wants the best for people. If they hurt, he wants to heal them, or at least alleviate their suffering for a time. Cruelty is completely foreign to Cole and he shows gentleness towards most living things, from spiders and mice to people, even for those he fights, the tries to make their defeat quick and merciful. The only cruelty we see is Cole reminding those who have committed atrocities of them, refusing to let the actions be forgotten until they are confessed and amends made.
Bad at Peopling: Cole has memories of being a person, but that person was very deeply traumatised, depersonalised and died young. Cole can read the very memories and thoughts of a person, but does a terrible job of being one. He speaks in riddles and metaphor without meaning to, makes people forget him when he panics, watches things he should probably not because he doesn't realise he hasn't been noticed (he watches a pair of mages having sex with total disinterest outside 'what are they doing and why?') and blurts out embarrassing, traumatising things about people and doesn't understand why they don't want people knowing things. He's too open and overshares his secrets and everyone else's.
Depersonalised: Cole struggles with expressing his own emotions, when he'll even admit to them. While he can be very sweet and personable, he often speaks of himself like an object and will discomfort and sacrifice himself to help others, or even just avoid discomforting them. While he has all the memories of Cole's suffering, he only talks of them in the third person, 'he' not 'I'. He attributes his own worth to how much alleviation of suffering he can bring, despite having no troubles in seeing worth in every person just for who they are. He allows several party members in game to speak of him as 'it' and 'demon' because it makes them feel better, despite having voiced that he doesn't actually like it, since he isn't a demon.
CRAU Development: Cole became very close with Cullen Rutherford, an Inquisitor from a different world, Jove Lavellen (His own is a dwarf named Nadezhda Cadash) and Elize Lutus from Tales of Xillia, who had effectively become a little sister to him. Due to his powers, Cole does not confuse one person with a duplicate from a different world though. Having a new family had started opening up some of the old wounds of human Cole's life which have been buried, but not dealt with and he's a little more prone to admitting that he has his own feelings, not just other people's or Cole's. To this end, he is less likely to hide or make people forget him as he accepts that he's allowed to be a presence in the world for his own sake.
Powers/Abilities: Cole has only his canon powers, which are primarily based around his spirit nature as Compassion. He can read minds and emotions (telepathy and empathy), usually the more painful, the clearer it is, and with this he can nearly always intuit how to make someone feel better. He can read the history of an object by touching it (psychometry), and can use this to make locks undo themselves to let him through. It is unknown why he can only use this on locks and not manipulate other mechanisms in this way. He cannot project his emotions or thoughts onto others.
Cole can also make people not notice him, or forget that he was there at all. It often takes repeated exposure to Cole to remember who he is and what he looks like, though he's getting better about letting people see and remember him thanks to his time in Drift Fleet.
Lastly, Cole can teleport. Short distances, and not discreetly, as it is accompanied by curls of black green smoke. Cole usually teleports when his emotions are aggravated, be it fear, anger or excitement, and he forgets to move like people do.
As a spirit, Cole technically doesn't need to sleep or eat and generally won't.
Inventory: Cole's terrible civilian clothing (ratty shirt, worn backwards, jacket that is more patches that jacket, shoes with enough holes to be fishnet socks, fingerless gloves that are part glove and part wrappings, pants that don't fit well over surprisingly muscular legs, world's ugliest giant armour hat, corset wide leather belting with pouches full of random things like pebbles, crumbs of cheese), a pair of wickedly long and sharp combat knives and a small, single knife which is actually part of his spirit self (this knife can be manifested or put away at will, but almost exclusively is used to try and put people out of their suffering).
Anything Else? Cole will walk through a game leaving broken feelings everywhere. I'm not sorry.
Or Cole is. Either is just as likely, and it his hat jammed on his head, it's hard to say which of the possibilities is right.
He vanishes from the screen, which continue to broadcast for a while, showing a blank wall. Finally, it gets picked up and Cole is there, the right way up, looking as pallid and gaunt as ever.
He doesn't look at the screen, watching something behind the camera.]
It's too silent. There's words but they're just words, image on nothing, silent, secretive. Empty and eerie, echoing endlessly with voiceless-
[He blinks and looks at the screen finally.]
You can try leaving a message, but I don't really like them. If you need me, I'll know and be there.
[It's not meant to be a threat.
But the screen goes blank for a message to be left anyway.]
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 at the introductory CR & Plotting Meme.
▶ (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.
▶ Note: As discussed, Cole can keep his teleporting ability.