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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.
Cho Takahashi | original character | eudio CRAU | not reserved
Name: Ophelia
Contact: PMs to the journal are fine
Current Characters: none
Name: Cho Takahashi
Canon: original character
Canon Point: She left her original world at 22 years of age. At that time, she was still living in New York, working toward getting her doctorate, still avoiding thinking about moving home to Japan.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): She spent a year and a half in Eudio.
World Description: Cho’s world is 99.9% identical to our world. The changes are small and mostly won’t make the slightest bit of difference to anyone else. The companies her family own are actually owned by other people or don't exist, and NYU doesn’t actually have a marine biology program. When it comes down to brass tacks, the Japan she grew up in is essentially our modern Japan, and the New York she was living in is essentially our modern New York.
Character History: here
CRAU History: The super short and dirty rundown:
Cho turned up in Eudio after agreeing to help power the city with physical affection in exchange for the incentive of losing the negativity and pain associated with remembering her former best friend. She fell in love with him, feelings were not reciprocated, she was cut out of his life, it sucked a lot. She wouldn’t have wanted to make him love her, even if she could have, because it wouldn’t have been real. She didn’t want to forget him entirely, because he helped her shape so much of the person she became, and she likes who she became. She just wanted to be able to look back on it all fondly.
For her first few months, she was fairly sad, but she was determined to make the most of her time in the city. She attended lots of mixers, went exploring, got a job at the Aquarium, and decided to keep working on her doctorate. Even though a degree obviously would not transfer, she’d be able to take all the knowledge home with her, so it wouldn’t be a waste.
Her first incentive was earned pretty quickly, and once she was no longer hip deep in heartache, she really blossomed in Eudio. She got promoted, started really settling in and expanding her friend group, even had a few relatively innocent romantic attachments. She decided to stay on in the city, feeling a little guilty that her first incentive had been purely selfish. For her next, she chose something much bigger, something that would benefit everyone - the discovery of a way to end and reverse the ill effects of global warming. If it wouldn’t make sense for her to be a part of this discovery, she was all right with that. She just wanted to help the world heal itself a little. For the next year, she threw herself even more fully into her job, her studies, her friends, prepared to be in Eudio for a pretty long time, since her newest incentive was a big one, and she wasn’t having sex in order to produce the energy required.
When the Eudio officials told everyone that they the city was fully powered and wouldn’t need them any more, she chose to go home, even though the offer was made to continue to live in Eudio. She missed her family, her friends, and she was very eager to get back to the world now that the future was a little more hopeful.
Personality: Cho is a kind person, though she's not very good at dealing with new people in casual situations. She got more comfortable with them after living in New York for grad school, and is even more comfortable still after her time in Eudio. Still, she has to fight against an instinct to withdraw, and it’s difficult. She often doesn't know what people are talking about, and can be embarrassed by this, but tries not to let it show. In more formal situations, social training kicks in, and she knows how to behave, though she also seems to lose a lot of herself in these interactions. This didn’t bother her until she realized that she did actually have a personality and an opinion all her own. Cho started discovering at 19 what most people start figuring out at about 3. She’s behind on a lot of things, because she’s so far ahead on others.
She’s more likely to get mad or assertive for someone she cares about than she is for herself. She hasn’t really learned how to care for things just a little, so when she finds something she’s passionate about, she takes it to the extreme. Rather than mellowing her out, being in Eudio with people who supported and accepted her and her passions only magnified her intensity. She doesn’t always know how to switch off. She’s also not great at doing things in half measures.
Cho has recently discovered that she has a very curious nature. She wants to experience new things and catch up on her life now that she's realized just what it is she's been missing. That means she’s very likely to take on too much, get in over her head, make mad choices for her physical and mental well-being, and get very easily caught up in the plans and enthusiasm of others.
She can be naive to a fault. She trusts people easily, believes in the inherent good of humanity, and always sees the glass as half full. Always. This has gotten her into trouble more than once when the people she trusts aren't always worthy of it. She thinks people deserve second, third, fourth chances. She believes in God and true love and soul mates, and while she has the logic to understand that not everyone gets a happy ending, and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it, it doesn't stop her from being absolutely certain that some people do get to ride off into the sunset with everything they ever wanted. It’s a childish and innocent view to have of the world, but it’s hers, and not likely to change.
The further removed she becomes from the stifling influences of her family, the more of her natural bubbly personality re-surfaces, and the more that happens, the more she realizes that she likes this version of herself so much more than the one they were trying to shape her into. Get her happy an comfortable enough with herself and she might never be able to go back to the life they have planned for her. Of course, the reverse side of the coin is how easily that personality was suffocated once before, how easily it could potentially happen again. Cho is very heavily influenced by the moods and actions of those around her. Even if she realizes the extent of it some day, she’ll be unable to do anything about it. It’s the way she was molded from a very young age, it’s part of who she is now.
CRAU Development: I don’t think Cho is really different so much as just a little amplified. Her personal growth was sped up as a result of being in such a safe, accepting, stimulating environment. She had people who cared about her and believed in her, who wanted to help her achieve her goals and dreams. It let her believe that she might deserve it all, that she was worth enough to go after what she wanted, and not just try to help her family achieve the things that they wanted.
Powers/Abilities: She has an eidetic memory. I wouldn’t really consider that a power, but I like to err on the side of caution.
Inventory: She thinks she’s leaving Eudio to return home, so she has luggage. A lot of it is her wardrobe and mementos. I’m happy to break it down into each article of clothing if you’d like me to.
A pair of rolling suitcases of clothes/shoes/accessories and knick-knacks
Portfolio of the exhibits and enclosures she’s designed for the aquarium
A large photo album
Small Chinese style tea set
Memory book
Large-ish animal carrier with a ginger cat and a small and lazy caterpie in it.
Messenger bag
- water bottle
- laptop
- cell phone
- e-reader
- camera
- ipod
- tablet
- notebooks
- pens/pencils
- normal purse stuff (wallet, makeup, hair ties, mints, etc.)
Anything Else? not that I can think of
[ When her video feed opens, it’s of a slightly off center roof tile a bit of a dark blur at one edge as her bangs fall barely into the camera’s range. Her device is sitting in her hands, which are resting in her lap, and the front facing camera is capturing what’s directly above her. The only sound is of her slightly uneven breathing. She’s trying to work up the energy to say something, and grasping for anything worth saying. ]
Does anyone know what’s-- I don’t understand how… How did we get here?
[ The camera finally shifts, hands that shake slightly hold it up so that Cho can look into it. Her eyes are red-rimmed, her hair the kind of messy that hair only gets when someone has been running their hands through it for quite a while. She looks like she’s been crying for a very long time, because she’s been crying for a very long time. it’s subsided now, but it’s still written all over her face. ]
The man in the video. He didn’t say. Not really. I was supposed to go home.
[ She sure does look like she’s about to cry again, lip trembling and eyes glossing over with that bright sheen of un-shed tears. ]
I just don’t understand…
Prose/Brackets Sample: here
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