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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.
adam parrish | the raven cycle | fresh from canon | not reserved
Name: coffee
Contact: Discord: coffee #6251
Current Characters: Klaus Hargreeves (Hadriel CRAU)
Name: Adam Parrish
Canon: The Raven Cycle
Canon Point: End of the companion book Opal, which is set in the year after graduation from Aglionby.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A
World Description: N/A
Character History: The Raven Cycle @ Wikipedia, Adam Parrish @ The Raven Boys Wiki
CRAU History: N/A
Personality:
Intelligent/Analytical: Adam is an intelligent young man who thinks in an analytical, logical way. Eminently practical, he makes decisions based on facts and logic rather than emotion. Having had to mature far earlier than most people due to his abusive home life, Adam is ready and willing to tackle all the adult tasks that come with balancing his part-time jobs, school, and finances. He is also top of his classes at the expensive private school he attends, which is no small feat.
Independent/Principled: More than anything else, Adam's desire to be his own person and to make his own way in the world is his most defining feature. He refuses to limit himself because of where he comes from, but he also refuses to take any hand outs from his incredibly wealthy friends, which he believes would come with an unspoken expectation that he owes them, whether monetarily or by allowing them to have a level of input into how he lives his life that he is not comfortable with. Adam hates pity and charity, and insists on living his life on his own terms, and has shown that he is willing to suffer in the short term to accomplish this.
Driven/Hard-Working: The school that Adam attends is incredibly expensive, and though he has a partial scholarship, there is a significant amount of money that he has to pay out of pocket. This is where Adam's hardworking and driven nature comes in. Besides school and his regular outings to investigate the more supernatural aspects of the story, Adam also has three part-time jobs which he juggles along with school assignments and helping his friends. Ambitious and eager to accomplish more with his life than his background affords him, Adam works incredibly hard for what he wants.
Stubborn/Inflexible: Adam is very stubborn, determined to do everything in his own way. Oftentimes, he takes this too far, refusing to accept even support or gifts that wouldn't constitute handouts. When Adam gets stubborn about these things, refusing to bend his inflexible opinions about how the world works, it is often to his detriment. He gets in arguments with friends (sometimes quite serious arguments) or suffers through difficulties, debts, and pain that he might not otherwise have had to deal with.
Angry/Aggressive: Raised in an extremely abusive household where he was beaten by his father and emotionally abused by his mother, Adam has spent his entire childhood learning that the way to be strong is to be violent, and the way to be heard is to be vicious. This often comes out in his interactions with other people. When he feels threatened or is pushed too hard, he can lash out, sometimes physically (though he is learning to keep a firm handle on this). More often, he lashes out with words, saying hurtful things and abusing his knowledge of the people around him to hurt them.
Self-Conscious/Shy: Adam is ashamed of where he came from. He's ashamed of the trailer park he grew up in, his parents, and his financial situation, and he does everything he can to hide his roots. Suppressing his natural accent, he tries to sound like his more affluent friends, and tries to mimic their body language and the way they speak and move to try to leave his past and the place he came from behind. Despite all this effort, Adam generally believes that everyone around him will see through him and realize that he is actually worthless. This is something he struggles with a great deal, and often uses his anger and sarcasm to cover.
CRAU Development: N/A
Powers/Abilities: Adam does not currently have any particularly superhuman abilities besides the vague 'being a psychic' that is a real phenomenon in The Raven Cycle. However, being almost completely untrained at anything to do with being psychic, he can't even do tarot readings for other people. The main benefit that this will bring him is that he can 'sense' magical things (ley lines, things that were created through magic, etc.) and being able to scry in bowls of water or other similar surfaces, which entails looking for signs while his soul leaves his body. It's not likely he'll be scrying, since it's unclear how well it would work without the presence of the ley line or Cabeswater, and because it is quite dangerous.
On a non-superhuman level, Adam is intelligent, scrappy, and is actually an excellent mechanic.
Inventory: The clothes he was wearing, likely jeans, a T-shirt with the Coca-Cola logo on the front, and sneakers. He will also have his messenger bag that he got as a gift from Gansey, which will have Persephone's tarot card deck, and a full container of the cream Ronan dreamed for his hands, as well as a perfect dream replica of the leather bracelets Ronan always wears. He'll also have a few college applications half filled out, a ledger for budgeting, and several cheap ballpoint pens.
Anything Else? Adam is completely deaf in his left ear.
Prose/Brackets Sample:
It's been a long time since Adam's life was surreal.
Or rather, it's been a long time since Adam's life was surreal in an unexpected way, a way that wasn't the inherent nature of The Barns or Ronan's dreamthings or Opal's outbursts. A lot of his life is surreal, but this is...it's unexpected. Adam doesn't like it. He doesn't like things that don't make sense, and he can't really find sense in this, or at least, his mind hasn't worked out the sense yet.
After waking up in that room, he'd sat there staring at the cracked screen for two repetitions of the welcome video before he'd gotten up, taken a sat phone, and gone through the decontamination process. Too stunned to be embarrassed about it, he'd slid back into his clean clothes and collected his bag full of things, and walked out into the sun. He's walked aimlessly as far as the garage before he squats down and opens the bag, digs through it and finds some papers, a deck of tarot cards he knows like he knows his own skin. He finds the bracelets and that little tub of cream with Ronan's writing on the bottom, and then his vision goes foggy with tears. They don't fall.
Shoving everything back into the bag, he walks into the garage, looking around with his face set in a serious expression, mouth drawn as straight as a ruler, pale brows furrowed a little. Three working sci fi Jeeps, two that are obviously broken. This much, at least, is familiar, and it's comforting in its familiarity, so he puts his bag down and walks across the garage. Pops the hood of one of the Jeeps. Loses himself in learning the workings of these new machines so he doesn't have to think about anything else. Not yet.
Accepted.
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