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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.

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.

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Player.

Name: Your name or handle.
Contact: The best method of getting hold of you.
Current Characters: Anyone you already play in Redshift, or who you played when you were last with us.

Character.

Name: Character's name (Western order).
Canon: Canon name.
Canon Point: Please give a point in canon and a one-sentence rundown of what's happening.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Please provide the amount of time your character has been out of their home canon and which game or games they are being taken from.

Anything Else? Any extra info we might need about your character, abilities, CRAU, etc. If you're bringing in an original character, a couple of sentences describing who they are would be rad.

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Applications are currently: OPEN.

Shannon Descoteaux | Original Character (Gifted & Talented) | Not Reserved

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Player.

Name: Jae
Contact: researchboner ; jaeled#0935 on discord
Current Characters: N/A - planning to app second character this round

Character.

Name: Shannon Descoteaux
Canon: Gifted & Talented
Canon Point: Current day; she's in the middle of a mission to Moscow to investigate possible connections between an anti-Gifted activist and Russian politicians.

World Description: Shannon comes from a world mostly like our own except for one thing. Magic is not only real, but is largely accepted at this point in history. It's also hereditary; about 12% of the population is born with magic, or "the Gift." Those with magic are officially called the "Gifted," and while magic is no secret, in some areas and with some people it does carry a heavy stigma, and those with it have to deal with some decidedly medieval attitudes. Fortunately, it's gotten a lot better over the last decade, and things continue to improve.

This world has an organization called the MIA, which is something like a cross between the CIA and FBI, in that it handles both domestic and international magical terrorism, and federal magic-based crimes. There's a great deal of suspicion surrounding the MIA, both from the Gifted it helps protect or punish and the general population. Shannon is an agent and asset working directly under one of the MIA's leading specialists, a man named Cameron Waltz.

An extremely thorough guide to the world can be found here, linked with permission from Ros/bardish

Character History: Shannon's young life was one big lie. Her magic manifested at around eight years old, and she opted herself out of early-life training by forging her parents' signatures. She didn't want her parents to know, because her mother was an active member and her father was the founder of an anti-Gifted group.

She stole several textbooks and taught herself a few basic magical principles, hiding the books in the woods behind her house. But as she taught herself and hid it, her father's group began to pull itself together into a more formal militia, with whispers about actions they could take against local Gifted organizations. Shannon caught wind of these whispers, and at age twelve she asked her dad if she could join the group. He was incredibly proud and welcomed his daughter in, showing her the ins and outs of their little militia, and told her about their burgeoning plans, which at that point were just violent mumblings.

It wasn't until almost a year later, when Shannon was thirteen, that the militia planned to make an actual move against a local Gifted charity. Shannon called the police with an anonymous tip, but they did nothing. She then called the MIA, trying to stay anonymous while simultaneously giving them the layout of the militia's compound, and the locations of their weapons and other evidence.

Her parents were arrested and she was removed to live with her grandmother, who wasn't anti-Gifted so much as Gift-confused, but Shannon was allowed to practice her magic openly and received special tutoring to help her catch up with other kids her age.

The rest is pretty straightforward. She went to college locally for all her basic classes, then transferred to a four-year university primarily paid for by scholarships. There she studied linguistics and political theory, and in her third year was scoped by someone in the MIA and offered a position as an agent post-graduation. She jumped on the opportunity.

It didn't take long for her to be assigned domestic infiltration and intelligence gathering, but her first handler almost got her killed on a botched assignment where she ran into one of her dad's old friends. She was promptly reassigned to one of the senior handlers, a man named Cameron Waltz, who took Shannon under his wing as his protege.


Personality:

Loyalty - When someone shows her kindness, or she deems them a good person, she'll protect them with life and limb. She knows she's messed up, and she considers most of the world to be messed up, so those who tip the scales toward goodness are particularly precious to her. She's fine being the one to get her hands dirty to protect the goodness and innocence of someone else. Her loyalty can sometimes border on the disturbing. She'll kill for people she cares about.

Intelligence - She's smart. She started teaching herself magical principles at age eight and kept that self-tutoring up until she was thirteen. Granted, she was a little behind those with formal teaching when she was finally allowed to learn openly, but she caught up and surpassed those around her in short order. She earned her way to college through academic and sports scholarships, and was brilliant enough in her classwork to catch the eye of an MIA recruiter.

Patience - She was "undercover" from age twelve to age thirteen, gathering information about her father's anti-Gifted militia. Her patience has only increased with time. It's one of the things that makes her such an effective agent. She never rushes in, always evaluates her options, the risks, the potential rewards, and forms the lowest-risk plan based on those factors. When she has to act fast, it's never without some kind of plan, even if it's one she has to adapt as the situation progresses.

Humor - In spite of all her more serious traits, she has a lively sense of humor, even if she's amusing no one but herself. That last factor can sometimes lead to jokes that make others uncomfortable, which she finds entertaining and will tease them about before walking back whatever she said that made them uncomfortable in the first place. Her humor is dry, ironic, with a heavy dose of self-awareness that presents itself as in-jokes with herself.

Selfishness - Ever since she was eight, she's looked out for number one. Granted, when she was young it was as much a matter of survival as selfishness, but she had very few qualms about turning her parents over to the authorities in order to protect her own life. As she grew up, the trend continued. She avoided emotional attachments in part because of the sociopathic tendencies described below, and in part because she wanted to protect herself from outside influences and the possibility of harm others might do to her. She didn't (and still doesn't, sometimes) go out of her way to help anyone.

Sociopathy - She's perceptive and shrewd and good at imitating the behavior of those around her, reacting to social cues without emotion behind them. She has difficulty forming emotional relationships with people, viewing others largely as objects to be controlled and moved around in her surroundings. She enjoys outwitting others, manipulating them, and stealing from them--oftentimes returning the items stolen and rearranging the spaces they were taken from just to leave the victim with an uneasy feeling when they look at the spot. She has very little shame or guilt and sees no real reason for it in 90% of what she does, and Cam is one of the few people able to talk her into recognizing and emotionally responding to her mistakes and misdeeds. She doesn't trust, except on very rare occasions, and she keeps her problems, fears, concerns, and illness to herself. She would far rather smile and deal with things by herself. She knows she's broken. She just doesn't care about fixing it.


Powers/Abilities: Shannon is Gifted, which means she has access to magic through a specific "ritual." The ritual is the means by which she casts spells. Shannon's ritual is art, which means everything from random doodles on the corner of a page or scratched into the dirt to complex paintings or sculpture and pottery. The more complex the spell she's trying to cast, the more complex her art has to be.

Telekinesis - A very basic talent for the Gifted. It's one of the first things they learn about when getting control of their abilities. As noted above, she can slide a glass across a table simple by making patterns on the table with a finger, but if she wanted to lift or move something heavy, she would need to create a more complex form of art to do so. She can only lift or move items that are close at hand, and nothing extremely heavy or complex. Lifting a person, for example, would be extremely difficult, because that person can squirm, flail, and otherwise fight her control.

Firestarting - Another very basic spell. See above regarding the power required to start small versus larger fires. These fires don't last unless there's something flammable to fuel them.

Pain infliction - She has a moderate ability to cause pain in others, mostly by using her telekinesis on a very small scale to put pressure on people's nerves. As she's not trying to move the person themselves, this is substantially easier than complex telekinesis. Of course, it's easier if the victim can't move.

Telepathic projection - Shannon's primary talent. This DOES NOT mean she can influence the thoughts or feelings of others; she can simply transmit her own thoughts, feelings, and images into someone else's mind. On the small/weak side of the scale, she can send single words, simple emotions, and still images. On the powerful side she can project whole one-sided conversations, complex feelings, and detailed film-like imagery. It all depends on the complexity of art being exercised at the time. While she CANNOT directly influence the thoughts or feelings of others, she has in the past used her abilities to get people to doubt their own feelings or question their sanity.

Inventory: High-heeled calf-high black leather boots, itty bitty red dress, black leather jacket, purse with typical feminine accessories and a small gun sewn into the bottom, an ipad loaded to the gills with nothing but books, and to her surprise, her cat, a squash-faced white Persian rescue with blue eyes.

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Armitage Hux | Star Wars | Reserved

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Player.

Name: Hebe
Contact: illuminations
Current Characters: N/A

Character.

Name: Armitage Hux
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: End of Episode VIII, when he's on Crait, in the rebel base
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Hux spent about a year and half/two years in hadriel.

World Description: N/A
Character History: here
CRAU History: Durning his time in Hadriel, he worked against the gods who were feeding off his emotions for power (whom he didn't believe were actual gods). He made a deal with the enemy of the gods, the Null, during his first stay in Hadriel. A year later, he returned to Hadriel ready to resume his efforts against the gods. He went on an expedition to find out more about the Null and found a weapon that could be used against the gods. He has no allegiance towards the Null but they also haven't been feeding off his emotions and manipulating him.

Personality: Young and ruthless for power, Hux sees the galaxy as his to take. While the First Order reveres Imperial figures such as Tarkin and Palpatine, Hux believes in the idea that the First Order will continue the traditions of the Empire built on a stronger, more enduring foundation.

Obsessive, passionate, and driven by his devotion to his beliefs, Hux will sacrifice anything. He gets little sleep and is consumed with plans for the future which keep him constantly restless. He is willing to take whatever measures he has to get what he wants including destroying an entire star system. When it came time to give the order to destroy the system where the Resistance was it was clear that he had no regrets about the steps he was about to take aside from practical matters. Loss of life, even on such a massive scale, is a price he's willing to accept in order to establish order in the galaxy once more.

He saw the galaxy in chaos at the end of the Galactic Empire which gave way to a corrupt, weak New Republic. He grew up among the remains of the Empire, taught by old Imperial officers, and was greatly influenced by them. While he was born just before the Battle of Yavin, in the final days of the Empire, he grew up hearing the stories of the stability the Empire brought to the galaxy after the Clone Wars ravaged many star systems while the Republic was crumbling.

Tradition is important to him but at the same time, Hux is practical and logical in how he goes about establishing a new version of the Empire. He has a strong hatred for the New Republic which he sees as weak and corrupt and is passionate about getting rid of the Senate once and for all.

Hux is young and so he has to ensure that no one questions his authority. Appearances are vital and the image he presents to others is the image of a strong military leader who is in absolute control. However, his facade isn't as perfect as he would like to think it is.

He gets angry when Kylo Ren questions his methods about his soldiers, snapping at him. He also is unsettled when he doesn't know what's going on. Hux is observant and logical, priding himself at being able to predict and understand others. However, when FN-2187 defected Hux was unsettled because there was simply no logical explanation. His world has to have order and when that order is disrupted it throws him off-balance.

His loyalty to the First Order and dedication to Imperial tradition is absolute. Though he has every ambition to one day to rule the galaxy, his commitment to that higher ideal never wavers. He defers to Snoke's orders, despite questioning them at times, and is even able to motivate others to dedicate themselves to the cause. However, he's able to keep the extent of his true ambitions from Kylo Ren and Snoke. He knows that Snoke is manipulating him- Snoke has been denying him the promotion to Grand Marshal that he deserves (and the job he's basically doing). The two of them compete for Snoke's favor and don't work well together. Kylo Ren knows full well that given even the smallest chance, Hux would take him down. When Kylo Ren is unconscious in the throne room, Hux doesn't hesitate to reach for his blaster. While Hux is willing to take responsibility for his own mistakes, he is always more than happy to tear Kylo Ren down at the same time.

CRAU Development: In the course of his stay in Hadriel, Hux had to face a lot about himself that he once repressed. He experienced emotions during events that brought out certain emotions. For example, he had to face the ghost of his father which shook him more than he cared to admit. He learned to make connections with others despite his initial weariness, learning that not everyone was going to exploit that. He's still learning who he is and how to live outside of the First Order, outside his life as a general.

Powers/Abilities: None

Inventory: Hadriel communicator, datapad from home, First Order uniform, clothes he was wearing in Hadriel, blaster, and a monomolecular blade

Anything Else? N/A

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Kabal | Mortal Kombat | Not Reserved

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Player.

Name: Sydney
Contact: filledwithstraw
Current Characters: n/a

Character.

Name: Kabal
Canon: Mortal Kombat
Canon Point: End of Mortal Kombat 11 after Liu Kang defeats Kronika and the sands of time rewind, but before he goes all the way back to the beginning of time.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): n/a

World Description: n/a
Character History: MK Wiki. Note: Ignore the Biography section at the top of this page, as the two blurbs written there contradict each other. Mortal Kombat (2011) is the version I'm using.
CRAU History: n/a

Personality:
Kabal is selfish, greedy and lazy. He started out in the Black Dragon, a mercenary organization that sold weapons to both sides of a war and would do anything to make a profit no matter how illegal or amoral. Money is his main motivation, but he'd backstab anyone else if it benefited him in some way. The rest of the Black Dragon are people he works with in order to facilitate getting money, he doesn't actually like any of them, and particularly hates Kano, their leader. While he talks about wanting to take over the Black Dragon he's very much a follower and not a leader – he's too self-centered to have anyone obey him and long-term strategy is not his strong suit.

After a falling out with Kano, he joined the NY police force as a way to put his skills to use and go legit. He's shown protecting his partner Stryker, but he's antagonistic and sarcastic constantly. This wasn't a complete change of heart for him as he's still looking out for himself and doesn't act how a police officer is expected to. He'd rather avoid conflict and take the easy way out then charge into battle and risk injury to himself.

He curses, he's snarky, he makes smart-ass comments whenever he can and is very self-aware. After being burnt he makes jokes about looking like beef jerky and being the fastest chunk of bbq alive.

While he's definitely not a good person, he does have empathy and sometimes makes decent choices and can play at being the hero. But deep down he's still very selfish and could be easily convinced to do just about anything if the price was right.

Friendships aren't something he values, and instead has a bunch of acquaintances who he can get things out of, though sometimes he'll help them out in return.

Other warriors killed and revived as undead revenants have mental breakdowns or massive amounts of PTSD when reverted back to human. Kabal doesn't care. What he did as a revenant is unpleasant because Shinnok and Kronika aren't people he wants to be serving, but a fight is a fight and he got something out of it, so it's all the same to him. For being so selfish, he's also easy going and even tempered. He's never portrayed as angry because ultimately he simply doesn't care enough about anything to put forth the effort of being mad.

He's not a schemer nor does he plan ahead. None of his motivations are subtle and he will flat-out admit that he doesn't have a shred of decency or selflessness. His laziness is a big hindrance to him moving up the ranks but it's also the reason that he can be convinced into doing the 'right thing' by the good guys. Whatever is easiest is what he'll be doing. If he could get paid to fight all day instead of doing anything else he absolutely would. Other things involve work and planning and he hates both those things. Beating people up is way easier.

To sum up he is lazy, selfish, and amoral, but he's also charismatic, witty, and easy to get along with.

CRAU Development: N/A

Powers/Abilities:
Hooksword Fighting: He's adept at fighting with sharpened hook swords, and is incredibly agile and fast. Here's what they look like.

Speed: He has superhuman speed augmented by Outworld magic from when Shang Tsung healed him after being burnt to a crisp.

Teleportation: He can run so fast that he pops out the other side of the stage in MK. How this would work in a game setting is that he can start running, disappear for a few seconds and show back up a short distance away. It needs to be line of sight, and around 50ish feet at the most. He can't go through walls, but he could run through hindering terrain like boxes or fire. He does need a running start for this so he wouldn't really be able to do it in a normal indoor setting.

Inventory:

Hookswords, two masks (the half mask with teeth, and his default full mask), all the clothing he's wearing here, his Black Dragon jacket, a couple of filter canisters for his respirator, wallet with his police badge and a small pocketsized toolkit (screwdriver, pliers etc.) for working on the respirator.

Anything Else? Kabal's mask is part of a life-support respirator that keeps him alive, without it he'd be unable to breathe properly and would pass out after about ten minutes and eventually die. It helps him breathe and purifies the air, so it would give him moderate protection from airborne poisons or toxins, but it's not a proper filtration system nor is it airtight to his face.

Prior to the sands of time rewinding, Kabal was an undead revenant who was resurrected after his death by the sorcerer Quan Chi to serve the Elder God Shinnok. The revenant process strips them of their humanity and turns them into greedy monsters, but since that's how Kabal is normally, nothing much changed for him. The one headcanon change I'd like for him is that when the sands reverse at the end of the game he becomes human again – mostly because otherwise he wouldn't eat or sleep. Let me know if that's not okay and I can play him as a revenant.

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Network Sample:

Well this sucks. I know I'm just saying what everyone is thinking but it needed to be said. There. Took one for the team. You're welcome.

Anyway.

Who has more information than Mr. In-flight safety video man from when I showed up? Like you know.... food. Food would be good. There's a vending machine full of rotting junk and I didn't even know tortilla chips could mold so that's saying something.

Bar seems fine though. So I guess it's not all bad.

Back on point, if you know anything useful, now's the time. Sharing is caring.


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Alex Kamal | The Expanse | Reserved

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Player.

Name: Tonje/Craftyviking
Contact: TDiscord: Craftyviking#1460 or Plurk un: Craftyviking
Current Characters: None

Character.

Name: Alex Kamal
Canon: The Expanse (TV series mostly.)
Canon Point: In the series they are inside the ring and the protomolocule have just reduced the speed it allows people to travel at. Alex was knocked unconscious by it.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A


World Description:N/A
Character History: wiki here
CRAU History: N/A


Personality: Alex was someone who didn't want to settle on Mars and dedicate his life to the terraforming project the way Martians are supposed to do, instead he became a pilot. For twenty years he served in the Martian military as a transport pilot and he left with a honorable discharge. But he couldn't settle when he was back on Mars, all he could think about was being a pilot. So he went back out and eventually ended up on the Roci. Flying a battle ship was a dream of his and as he gets used to her it is clear that he loves the ship. He is getting really into the adrenaline of a good fight. He struggles with the knowledge that he should have been a better father and husband to his son and wife and the fact that he views the family he has on the Roci as more of his family than them.


With the team of the Roci, Alex is in many ways the one that reminds them they are a family. He makes food, sharing of his martian traditions and worries about them when they are away. I believe he is also the first one on the show to use the term family about the group. He tries to be a mediator, talking things down when tempers starts to run wild, or reminding Holden (the captain) of the larger picture when he gets too focused on one thing. With that he also blames himself when something goes wrong on a mission, like the time he wasn't able to use the Roci to defend a landing team and 25 men died.


Alex talks a lot, often sometimes it seems like it is just to hear himself talk. He is comfortable in the middle of a crowd, bragging about something they've done. He is also shown not to be faithful, flirting even while wearing a wedding ring.


CRAU Development:N/A


Powers/Abilities: Human. Really good as a spaceship pilot and a good cook but it is all human stuff.
Inventory:His uniform from the Roci including a pair of magnetic boots for use in 0G. His datapad. A picture of his wife and son.


Anything Else? I will not be able to make any revisions until Tuesday 6/11 due to being away all weekend on a workshop

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Network Sample:
[Alex is in his pilot seat at the Rocinante, getting ready to take off from the small moon as soon as all the refugees are settled when he opens the comms to speak to everyone on board.]


Welcome on board the warship Rocinante, boys and girls. We will be taking of in a few minutes, setting a steady course for Tycho station. As you are all aware we will be checking for any illnesses as you get settled, the med bay is open if anyone feels any all sick.


[He gives a nod and then shuts off the feed. He looks over the feeds showing the people coming on board the ship. The pilot frowns and then he opens the crew's private channel.]
Amos, Jim, see those two guys over by the crates? I recognize one of them from back when I was in the MCRN. The tall guy. He's one of Mars' most wanted. Terroist, not OPA. We might not want to bring him on board. Also I am pretty sure I saw a gun on him.


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Ben Hargreeves | The Umbrella Academy | Reserved

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Player.

Name: Rose
Contact: platoapproved#9602 on discord
Current Characters: N/A

Character.

Name: Ben Hargreeves
Canon: The Umbrella Academy
Canon Point: Just after Five attempts to take them all back in time
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A

World Description: N/A
Character History: Here.
CRAU History: N/A

Personality:

LOYAL: Though this is born somewhat out of the unhealthy isolation that the Umbrella Academy kids were raised in, Ben is nonetheless fiercely loyal to his family. Despite being a ghost, he does everything he can to protect his siblings and steer them along the right path, and believes that they are capable of good. When he was younger, Ben looked up to his father and to his other siblings (Luther in particular) and wanted to make them proud.

PASSIVE: Ben displays remarkable passivity, even before he is a ghost. He hates using his powers, but allows himself to be talked into it by his siblings. When there is conflict at home, he escapes into reading a book or into other kinds of silent non-reaction. Ben was never good at standing up for himself, either to his father or his siblings, and went along with them, which it is hinted may have led to his death at a young age. After his death, Ben's only method of influencing the world was through Klaus's actions, doomed to continue being a watcher rather than an active participant.

SARCASTIC: Everyone reacts to abuse in different ways; violence, narcissism, substance abuse - one of Ben's methods appears to be a rather dry and sarcastic way of responding even to very serious situations. His sarcasm can range from light and witty to biting and cruel. Though he is an inherently good person, who cares deeply for others, he is not above saying some very hurtful things.

NAIVE: Ben believes in the best in people. This is both a negative and positive trait - it means that he never gives up on Klaus, no matter how many relapses and poor life decisions he witnesses. But it also leads him to think better of some people (Reginald, Luther, etc) than is perhaps warranted. He shows, at moments, a kind of childish glee that cuts through his overall melancholy.

TRAUMATIZED: Not a lot of details are revealed about how Ben died, but canon does say that it was bad, and none of Ben's siblings seem able to really talk about it. Ben, also, doesn't discuss it as candidly as he does everything else. Like the other Hargreeves children, he was put through harsh and violent training for the whole of his childhood, grew up in an extremely emotionally abusive home, and was likely the subject of various tests and experiments like his other siblings. These things leave marks.

CARING: Ben has a big heart, particularly for his family. He tries to protect him and steer him along the right path, and expresses clear empathy when Klaus is suffering in front of him. Ben dislikes seeing others - particularly those he cares about - in pain, and seems a mature and emotionally-intelligent person, particularly for someone who died as a teenager.


CRAU Development: N/A

Powers/Abilities: Ben's powers allow him to open a portal in his stomach to another dimension inhabited by violent tentacled eldritch monsters. He can summon / control them enough to do massive amounts of bloody violence, though the process seems to be an extremely painful one. His superhero nickname is "The Horror" for a reason folks.

Inventory: Just the clothes on his back! Especially the hoodie we see him wearing throughout the series.

Anything Else? N/A

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eugene hicks | oc

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Player.

Name: Roy
Contact: journal PM
Current Characters: I have a reserve in for Steve Rogers because I can't contain my WW2 feelings ig.

Character.

Name: Eugene Hicks.
Canon: Original.
Canon Point: The year is 1947. Gene is 23 at this time.

World Description: WW2 is done and past, the war in Korea is just getting underway. Gene's world takes place in the financial boom immediately post-war and for the most part, his world looks very much like ours. With the small exception of Gene and his family, that is. All the males of his family line going back to time immemorial have seen ghosts. It's not a traumatic or terrible thing for them, it's just part of their family lore. Everything else — the world, the way of the war, the future up to our present is all the same. I like to think maybe Trump never became president, but. Wishful thinking!

Character History: Gene was born in 1924 to loving parents (and their +1, who was a fond fixture of his childhood he knew as 'Aunt Ysobel') as the oldest son of what would eventually be four boys. His childhood was an idyllic one — endless hours spent playing with his brothers, sitting at his father's knee (or his mother's, or his 'aunt's') to learn about the way of the world. He was bright and adventurous and absolutely fearless, the sort of kid that could break an arm jumping off a bridge and be right back out there the next day to do it all again. He was the hero to his younger siblings in every respect, all of them adored him and tried to emulate him as much as possible.

Seeing ghosts was never treated as an aberration or something to fear so he never really learned to see it that way. It was just a skill he had, like being good at baseball. His mother died when he was eleven and his father was injured in a mining accident shortly thereafter, which resulted in Gene leaving school to find work. Child labour laws of the time were... well, lax. Gene worked in an abattoir for several years at this time, though 'work' is sort of a loose definition. More like, he cleaned up the floors of a slaughter house for pennies and the occasional animal leavings that could be turned into sausage. His mother's ghost stayed around as well to make sure her boys were looked after, and her and her husband's lover Ysobel assisted as well on her meager teacher's salary. They had a few hard, lean years, but they survived, and by the time the nation was crawling out of its economic rut the Hicks' family was doing much the same.

At fifteen, Gene spent the summer in New York with Ysobel's brother doing an apprenticeship in carpentry. He didn't make any money doing this — it was hardship enough just to provide him room and board, but the skills were invaluable. It was here that he met Reggie Holiday, a boy who would become his lifelong friend. Reggie was the son of two affluent British doctors who'd come to New York to chase the American dream. There was a complete difference in class, but they clicked. When Reggie's parents died following a car accident, Reggie came to live with Gene and his family in Agathine for a time, though he eventually went back to Europe to stay with his grandfather. The two kept in touch via letters, sometimes several sent in a week. Gene was barely literate, but would toil over letter-writing for hours to send them off.

On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbour happened. And Gene, like so many other young men of his time, signed up just as soon as he was able, which followed shortly thereafter on his 18th birthday. He served in an airborne infantry unit, one of the first of its kind. Gene was selected to serve as a medic (in those days, an officer pretty much went down the line and went 'congratulations, you're a machine gunner, you're a rifleman, you're a medic') and underwent the requisite 2-3 weeks of first aid training in addition to the typical paratrooper infantry training. His unit was activated on July 6th, 1942.

Gene survived the war, nearly lost a leg at the Battle of the Bulge and later used the GI bill to go to Auburn Polytechnic, where he obtained a degree in veterinary medicine. Afterwards, he opened his own clinic in Agathine.

Personality: Gene is a polite, forthcoming man. He's of gentle character not because he is innately gentle but because he made the decision to be so, because he sees it as an attribute of value. He's quite sheltered (he'd never had alcohol before his enlistment, and he didn't have significant exposure to Humans Being Terrible at least in a personal sense, though he of course had access to ghosts and all their sundry stories) but not terribly naive in any which way. He tends to believe the best of people, which means he's easier than he'd probably like to be to manipulate.

Gene is soft-spoken but very stern, and he's very difficult to intimidate or fluster. Call it a side-effect of his upbringing, where his parents both taught him to stand up for himself and those who may be in need of protection, these teachings were later augmented by the War. Gene Does Not take other people's shit in any respect, but due to his being quiet and calm people are often lead to assume he's a pushover too. These people learn otherwise the hard way — Gene may be a peaceable man without much inclination towards violence, but he asserts himself with ease and confidence when necessary.

He looks out for those around him, occasionally to his own detriment. Gene has a meticulous and nurturing nature, and has no especial fear of death. When you've been surrounded by it all your life, it doesn't really amount to much in the long run.

He's friendly and genuinely cares for others, but he's not really friends with people by and large. Being a medic meant he had to hold himself apart from other men in the war, and he finds great satisfaction in his own company. It's a rare person that can get Gene to open up emotionally to the point where he considers them a friend. Reggie was his First and Only, and when he died in the War, Gene didn't feel the need to seek another soul out to replace him. As a result he can seem kind of remote and untouchable. There's not really any question that he cares about others, but it's also obvious that he doesn't really let them in.

Powers/Abilities: Gene can see ghosts! There's no big hurrah over this, it's not a point of angst or terror for him. It's just a Thing he can do. Occasionally, skin-to-skin contact with others can result in them seeing ghosts too. They're like a weird STD. I usually say he has no control over this part of the ability, and therefore tend to limit it to very close CR or use it for plot purposes rather than just willy-nilly throwing it out there. Happy to impose whatever limits on this the modship deems necessary.

He's a medic. Limited of course by the antiquity of his time, he's nevertheless very skilled at critical injury care. Spend a few years patching up bullet holes and you would be too! He may not have furthered his training in a human sense, but he's also completed his degree in veterinary medicine, which means he's capable of performing surgery on animals legally and ethically, and humans... in a pinch. He's literally had his hands inside men's chest cavities, okay. He knows his way around this business! He can also, you know, jump out of planes and not break both legs on landing.

He's a decently skilled carpenter, a fair hand with any of the half-dozen languages he'd have encountered in the War (French, German, some Dutch, the tiniest bit of Russian) and he makes a mean buttermilk pie.

Inventory: Honestly, all I want is a bag of ww2 medic gear. As well as his clothing (+ dress uniform maybe?) and a cane, since he walks with a bit of a limp especially in damp or cold weather.

Anything Else? Gene's best friend Reggie Holiday died in the war, a real Baker Street Irregular, and his ghost has been a near-constant presence in Gene's life ever since. He followed the 505th around, warning Gene of any impending ambushes and the like, and passing critical information along to better serve the war effort. If possible I'd like him to be Nebulously Around? I can play Gene without him, but he'd feel more comfortable/at home with Reggie around looking out for him. If you guys are cool with Gene keeping the whole 'I can share ghosts via skin contact' thing, other PCs would potentially then be able to see/interact with Reggie as long as they were in physical contact with Gene. Reggie is a very cavalier guy, bright and vivacious despite the whole 'dead' thing, but if he were to crop up in a thread in that way he'd be less than fifteen percent of the overall interaction. I have some examples of how I utilize Reggie in the linked sample threads.

samples

Network Sample:

( wow, is it clear he doesn't have a clue what he's doing or what? gene is holding the damn thing upside down, a slight frustrated furrow to his brow as he pokes at it. when he thinks he's got it mostly figured out (he doesn't) he clears his throat.

still upside down. screen auto orientation when? . he speaks it's in an even tone, soft and sure. ain't no bare hint of unease, and his accent is thickly southern. alabama, for those skilled at picking up on that manner of thing. )

Ah. Hey, all. Won't say it ain't weird to be transmittin' out into the ether and hopin' some other soul picks up on it, but — my name's Gene. Eugene Hicks. If'n anyone finds themselves needin' medical attention, please don't you hesitate to seek me out.

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Kylo Ren | Star Wars | Reserved

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Player.

Name: Kelly
Contact: drummingmagpie
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Character.

Name: Kylo Ren
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: Kylo will be from the end of The Force Awakens, after the destruction of Starkiller Base and having been defeated in battle against Rey.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Kylo has been out of his canon timeline for approximately 7 months and has been in Hadriel for that time.

Character History: I'll show you the dark side.
CRAU History: During his time in Hadriel, Kylo had the opportunity to bond with his grandfather as well as find out what happens to himself in the future through memories taken from the minds of Finn and Poe. He learned that his galaxy - and all of his family's business - is known to people in other galaxies, which was particularly difficult for him to stomach. As far as experiences are concerned, he went on an expedition with General Hux to find out more about the Null and discovered a weapon. Similar to Hux, he had no particular feelings on the Null, though he's fairly certain they had been feeding off of his emotions, particularly his anger and rage.

Personality:
To those who don't know him, Kylo Ren appears menacing, terrifying, a force to be reckoned with. And, in many aspects, he's exactly that. He's incredibly powerful and intelligent, he's known to torture people and known for his skills in combat. He boldly walks on to the battlefield, confident in his powers knowing that very little stands in his way. He wears a mask made to resemble the battle gear of the Knights of Ren in order to conceal his identity; there are few within the First Order and on board the Finalizer that know who he is with the exception of General Hux and Leader Snoke and none are permitted to utter his former name. He's very cut and dry when speaking, voice masked by a modulation device. He takes every measure necessary to be what his grandfather was as Darth Vader. He's passionate, yes, and that passion along with his anger has been honed to make him a weapon for use by the First Order.

With the Force also comes enhance combat skills and the ability to wield a lightsaber. Kylo Ren uses what he has learned from both the Light and the Dark Side of the Force to guide him in combat. His skills with a lightsaber in combat ultimately brought an end to the Jedi (with the exception of his uncle), earning him the nickname 'Jedikiller.'

Kylo Ren is quick to act on his emotions and doesn't really know how to control that. He struggles to control his temper, failing to do so in the face of criticism or in dealing with unexpected setbacks. This can be seen in the form of temper tantrums which are far more destructive than the average tantrum. He's seen several times destroying property with the use of his lightsaber or assaulting crew members using the Force; this happens frequent enough that stormtroopers don't even give it a second glance, continuing to walk past as if nothing were out of the ordinary. He has a severe lack of patience, which likely contributes to his emotional outbursts.

The fact that Kylo Ren is easily manipulated can be seen as far back as his childhood. He's the embodiment of conflict, hovering right between the darkness and the light and Snoke could easily exploit that. Kylo was looking for acceptance, love, and leadership and Snoke knew exactly what to say and do to get Kylo's full devotion.

Kylo's connection to his family is something he struggles with, something that weakens him, and something that he can never escape despite trying his hardest. He tried to bury his past, changing his name and removing himself from every part of his family with the exception of his grandfather, Darth Vader. He believed his mother and father abandoned him, lied to him, and failed as parents. However, despite what he may say and do, Kylo loves his family. He killed his father at Snoke's guidance and the act did nothing but weaken Kylo, leaving him even more emotionally damaged than before.

A summary: He's a Skywalker.

CRAU Development: His relationships with Poe, Finn, and Rey are exactly the same as one would expect: awful. He tortured both Poe and Finn during his stay in Hadriel. Being forced to live and cooperate with Hux far more than he ever had during their time serving the Supreme Leader found them actually getting along and not absolutely hating each other's company. They were led to believe they were soulmates for a month. The one thing that affected the way Kylo acted in Hadriel was the presence of his grandfather, somebody whose approval and guidance he'd been seeking since he knew his true identity. Having Anakin accept him and understand his motivations and the reasons behind his actions really helped him work past some of his issues with himself and his family.

Powers/Abilities:
Kylo Ren is strong in the Force, described by his master as having raw, untamed power.

With the Dark Side of the Force flowing through him, Kylo Ren is a proficient user of telekinesis. Making use of this ability during combat, Kylo Ren uses it to enhance his attacks and defenses as well as halting those attacking him. He's seen halting a blaster bolt using telekinesis alone.

He uses his telekinesis to harm others outside of combat, easily able to cut off their airway without laying a hand on them. He's also able to summon an object by concentrating on it, bringing it right into his hand without having to physically get up and get it. Though, if he's weakened by any means, whether it be physically or mentally, his telekinetic abilities aren't as strong and he may not be able to accomplish what was once considered simple.

As a Force user, Kylo Ren is able to use the Force to enhance the world around him as well as his own abilities. He can detect shifts in the Force as it's connected to other Force sensitive individuals and those he shares some sort of relationship or bond with. He's able to detect the ability to use the Force in others and he's able to detect the presence of somebody he is or was close to (an example would be the ability to know his father was present on the same planet he was on without having seen him).

With the Force also comes enhance combat skills and the ability to wield a lightsaber. Kylo Ren uses what he has learned from both the Light and the Dark Side of the Force to guide him in combat. His skills with a lightsaber in combat ultimately brought an end to the Jedi (with the exception of his uncle), earning him the nickname 'Jedikiller.'

Kylo Ren uses his telepathic ability to invade the minds of others whether willing or not. He specifically uses this one to invade the minds of prisoners as a form of psychological torture, a method to get information from them regardless of whether or not they were willing. Depending on how deeply he delves into the mind of another, it may or may not be felt by the person whose mind is being invaded. The deeper he has to look for the information he seeks, the more painful it becomes. If the thoughts or information being sought after are things on the surface, it's likely the other person wouldn't know their thoughts have been invaded by Kylo Ren.


Inventory: Clothes, his lightsaber, his helmet, cellphone from Hadriel

Anything Else? Pretty sure the main points were covered.

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Poe Dameron || Star Wars || CRAU || Reserved

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Player.

Name: Jae
Contact: researchboner @ plurk
Current Characters: Shannon Descoteaux (OC)

Character.

Name: Poe Dameron
Canon: Star Wars
Canon Point: He's from right at the end of The Last Jedi, during the escape from Crait.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Riverview: November 2017 - November 2018; Hadriel: December 2018 - June 2019

Character History: Wookieepedia link

CRAU History: Poe came into Riverview fresh from seeing Rey off to Ahch-to and right before the Resistance evacuated its bas on D'qar, and was Mad About It. Purposeless and cut off from most of his friends and allies, he resisted adapting to his new environment, telling himself and everyone else that it was a temporary situation and he wasn't going to get comfortable. He started a casual relationship with fellow pilot John Sheppard in January, which helped settle him some, until Leia and Rey concocted a plan to bring Kylo into the fold and informed Poe and Finn that they would go ahead with it regardless of the two men's opinion. Poe walked out of that meeting and didn't speak to either Rey or Leia again, and since neither of them moved forward to mend the breach, this meant when they disappeared that Poe still hadn't spoken to them. He became convinced that the Leia was from a different world than his, which only made him feel more unsettled and eager to be home. That feeling intensified after he had a canon update, reliving the events of The Last Jedi.

In the wake of his canon update, Poe confronted Kylo Ren face-to-face while the man was drunk. They nearly killed each other, only stopped by the intervention of John Sheppard. Poe confessed to both of the people that he was falling for (Karen Page and John Sheppard) that he was in no position to love someone right now, not knowing that he could leave at any time, not with knowing how desperate his people were at home and how many of them had been lost.. Karen cut off contact, but Sheppard convinced Poe that he didn't have to stand alone. They had a brief, passionate relationship before Poe once again started thinking about the fact that he would have to leave Riverview, and he ended their relationship.

In March, just after the breakup, Poe went off the rails, picking fights in bars and regularly getting himself pummeled by everyone from brawlers to off-duty city guardsmen. When Finn confronted him about his behavior he broke down, admitting that he was afraid they were never going to get home, that they would be stuck in Riverview forever while their people needed them. He felt useless and like a coward, hiding in a small paradise while everyone else was at risk, even if the administrators of Riverview had told them all that they would be replaced exactly where they'd been taken from, at the very moment they had been taken. He spent several weeks in deep depression, only coaxed out of it by Finn and, ironically enough, John Sheppard.

Poe started to settle down after this point, at least for a while, retreating to think and collect himself. He only really talked to Finn, Cassian Andor, and Jyn Erso, in addition to messaging Sheppard more than once. While it was clear to outsiders that they still had feelings for each other, they both assumed the other wouldn't want things to take that path again. A few quiet months passed until Poe was kidnapped along with a number of other people from Riverview, imprisoned, and beaten, in preparation for sacrifice to the city's dead gods by a cult. Rescued by Finn and Sheppard, Poe had recovery time to consider his place in Riverview, the good things the place had to offer, the friends he'd made and the things he'd seen and done. Finn had gone from passionate acquaintance to best friend, and while his feelings about Sheppard were still ambiguous, he thought that they could at least be friends.

Poe settled into life in Riverview, and after nine months finally started to relax into the possibility of being there for a while, maybe even years. It didn't make him a traitor to enjoy life while he could. He finally saw past the fact that he was trapped to the fact that it was a second chance for some people, including Cassian and Jyn, two of his closest friends on the moon.

In October, on a mission gone wrong, he and Sheppard confessed continuing feelings for each other, neither one of them sure they'd make it out of the situation alive. They were just starting to figure things out again, taking it slow this time where before they'd started at third base and ran past home, when Poe realized he and Finn were coming up on a year in Riverview.

He threw a Finnday party, celebrating a year of Finn being Finn instead of a set of letters and numbers, and Finn reminded him that meant he'd had a birthday, too. For the first time Poe felt truly at home in Riverview, rested, and ready to return to fight and lead his people when the time was right. That's about when the Riverview administrators informed Poe and Finn they could return home through the portal. Which is when they ended up in Hadriel.

Drawn there by the gods who ruled the city, Poe discovered that the gods themselves needed to feed on the emotions of the people they kidnapped, in order to sustain themselves. These gods were fighting creatures called the Null, an emotionless robot hivemind that believed emotions were a disease to be eradicated.

Hadriel was hell. It was seven relentless months of emotional manipulation and helplessness, with the threat of annihilation by a vastly superior force hanging over his head. He couldn't fight, couldn't fly, and was constantly reminded of the torture he'd been through himself. The final battle between the gods, the Null, and the residents of Hadriel determined the fate of that galaxy--and opened the way home for Poe and the others there, supposedly.

Personality: He’s passionate, loyal, and has a love for creation that outstrips his sense of self-preservation. He’s turned his pilots back to fight a pirate fleet to save murderous convicts (Poe Dameron 6: Lockdown, Part III), runs out of hiding to try and save a man who’s already dead (The Force Awakens), and tells C-3PO no one is expendable when the droid offers to sacrifice himself to help Poe escape a bad situation (Poe Dameron 12: The Gathering Storm, Part V). He also values a person’s actions over their history. Finn, for example—a tool of the First Order, but also the embodiment of the possibility for goodness to survive in dark places.

Counter to what people seem to think, he’s humble in spite of his confidence. He regularly insists that every pilot he works with is his equal, particularly when they try to put him on a pedestal, and reinforces the necessity of having a good team at every opportunity (I’m not citing all the places this happens JUST TRUST ME). He has a sharp sense of humor, but one that’s kindly used, and he frequently turns it on himself. He’s a caretaker, which is part of what makes him such a good commander—he knows his people, and people in general, well enough to tell when they’re hurting or withdrawing, and will make his presence known as a confidant without pushing anyone to say what they’re not ready to. He’s incredibly patient with people, for all that he’s impatient in general, wanting to act as soon as the opportunity presents itself.

He’s getting better about that. Slowly. And he does have a strategic mind, in spite of projecting the attitude of Idiot Hotshot. He’s proven himself politically (Poe Dameron 13), and in terms of his operational planning skills and ability to adapt (Poe Dameron 6). As he puts it, “It’s all flying, and I can fly anything.”

He doesn’t think about life after victory. It could be said he lives for the moment, but the truth of it is simply that he can’t contextualize himself in a galaxy without war. That’s part of the reason he gets close to people fast, and calls his squadrons family, but avoids the commitment of a significant other. Connections are important - but the likelihood of losing those connections is high enough that it’s best to stick to people who face the same risks

He's impulsive to an almost dangerous degree, acting without always thinking through the personal consequences (see his reaction to watching Lor San Tekka get murdered by Kyle Ron at the beginning of TFA). Ninety-five percent of the time, his instincts are good — but when they’re bad, they’re really, really bad.

His dedication to the Resistance borders on the fanatical, a dedication that’s beginning to cause internal conflict with his passion for life. It’s hard to deal with “necessary sacrifices” when every sacrifice feels like a personal failing. The other side of that is the fact that he can find reason to pin almost every death, loss, or failure on the First Order (even while blaming himself), reinforcing his need to bring them down (Before the Awakening; Poe Dameron 13: The Gathering Storm, Part VI; The Last Jedi). His passion for justice has an unhealthy tendency to lapse into hate, which drives him to make decisions based on passion instead of good sense. A prime example being the bombing run he led at the beginning of The Last Jedi, which caused the death of numerous pilots and the loss of the Resistance's entire bombing fleet. He defended his decision at the time, but it still resulted in the deaths of dozens, and he carries that fact heavily.

CRAU Development: While Poe gained confidence and a sense of peace from his development in Riverview, Hadriel just about broke him. Months of inactivity in the face of a threat as great as the First Order left him restless, feeling useless, and the disorder and rivalries of the people in Hadriel made him miss the Resistance more than ever. Worse, the gods ground him down month by month, manipulating people's emotions to force the population to offer them sustenance. The worst blow came when Tranquility took the emotions of part of the population, including Poe's. The brief escape from everything was a blessing in the moment, but when everything came back, he wanted to die. It was too much to be hit with all at once. The fight against the Null brought back some fragments of hope and confidence, but he's still severely fucked up, and the passion he's so known for back home is almost extinguished.

Powers/Abilities: Poe is frequently called the best pilot in the Resistance, both in movie canon and in the comics. He's a proficient hand-to-hand fighter, though he's more of a brawler than anything else. That said, he did train at the New Republic Naval Academy, so he's required to have a certain degree of skill. He's a fantastic marksman in a cockpit and a good one outside of it, but really, give him wings and he's the best.

Inventory: The clothes on his back, the gun on his hip, and a small, magic-tech photo of himself and his mom. Also: his droid, an astromech that goes by the designation BB-8.

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Julie Grigio | Warm Bodies (Hadriel CRAU) | Not Reserved

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Name: Fiona
Contact: PM character account or at hardtostarboard
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Character.

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 hadriel

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

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Character.

Name: Klaus Hargreeves
Canon: The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Canon Point: End of S1E10; immediately as the siblings attempt to time travel after failing to save the world from the apocalypse.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): Klaus has been in Hadriel for approximately two months, and will be coming from the end of Hadriel's endgame.

World Description: n/a
Character History: Klaus at Umbrella Academy Wiki. This link only has Klaus-specific synopses of the first four episodes, so I've listed out anything that was not covered in the Wiki and compiled it in this entry on Klaus' journal.

CRAU History: Klaus was only in Hadriel for a couple of months, but quite a bit happened. After being rescued from the coliseum where he arrived, he got settled in and made a few friends, and discovered that he'd arrived in Hadriel during the build up to a final war between the gods who run Hadriel and the Null, a robotic enemy race bent on killing them all. He was involved in an event where his fears were heightened and fought the ghosts of the Hosts that he could see, and this spurred him into asking whether anyone could help him train with his abilities so he can make a bigger difference during the final battle. When the Null arrive, he is participating in the guerrilla warfare taking place in the jungle, where he is using the knowledge he gained in Vietnam to help weaponize the terrain. He is going to be evoking two monster ghosts during the battle.

Personality: Klaus is a highly emotional and sensitive person who isn't afraid to express his fear or affection, and doesn't try to stop himself from crying. He also has a tendency to be very open about less appealing reactions, frequently pouting, becoming stubborn, and throwing tantrums. He can be a handful with his quickly changing and explosive emotions, but he can also be incredibly warm and soothing with his capacity to care and forgive.

Sensitive and compassionate (at least when he's sober), Klaus is always the first to comfort his siblings with a gentle touch or a hug or even by pressing a hand against their shoulders during times of stress. Both through his words and actions he shows a lot of empathy for the people he cares about, and has a very powerful capacity to forgive. Klaus is an addict, and with addiction comes a whole slew of terrible habits and traits - stealing from people you care about, being flaky and out of contact, relying too heavily on the kindness of family. Klaus has done bad things, and so he understands how people can do bad things, and is far more likely to overlook or forgive bad behaviour on the part of people around him. Klaus gets it, how people can mess up spectacularly and still not be bad people.

Klaus takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' both mentally and physically - during the show, he's kidnapped and tortured, goes through withdrawals twice, and survives 10 months in the Vietnam war. Despite all this, and despite a lot of complaining, whining, and often crying, he's on his feet, mobile, and ready to help save the world, even when his siblings don't necessarily think he's capable of helping them. Klaus might not be ambitious, but he's willing to try new things, and if they backfire, he's got a high tolerance for the fallout. He might want to quit, but he very rarely actually does.

Klaus is adaptable, but the other side of that coin is that he's also inconsistent and unreliable. He has a tendency to wander off when he's on lookout duty, to not show up, to change his mind and swing rapidly back and forth between opinions. Everything about him is built on this changeable base, and as a result, he tends to be unstable, flaky, and erratic. It's chaotic and not always enjoyable to either for Klaus himself or for the people around him. Also, while Klaus is intelligent enough, but he's always a little fried, a little frazzled, a little distracted, either by intoxicants or seeing the dead, being dope sick or grieving or in pain or any number of other things. He tends to live his life by impulse, driven by emotion, jumping into things full throttle, changing his mind on a whim and diving into things whenever he wants. Klaus isn't the type to move through life methodically, with a plan or any perception of actions and consequences, he just barrels forward, stumbles through life and goes with the flow.

Finally, while he is incredibly resilient and has a great capacity to survive, Klaus is not exactly an optimist. His default is to assume that things are going to turn out for the worst, and he frequently voices it in a sarcastic, slightly cynical way. Klaus plays it off as a joke, but he genuinely seems to think that life is inherently difficult, the future is not bright, and people are going to be assholes. As much as he likes being proven wrong, he doesn't ever really expect to.

CRAU Development: Not a lot has changed in Hadriel to alter Klaus' personality itself. He's gained a bit of confidence in himself and his abilities after spending two months alone in a strange alternate world - he's made his own friends, kept himself mostly sober, lived in an apartment by himself without burning it down, trained to use his ability, and used his knowledge to help fight a war. In canon, Klaus said that he wanted to be taken seriously, and some of the people in Hadriel have done so, which has given him the push he needed to advance himself a little. Still, he's only at the very beginning first few steps of that particular character arc and has a long way to go still.

Powers/Abilities: Klaus has the ability to see and interact with dead people. When he isn't inebriated or in an altered state of mind, Klaus can see people in the afterlife, and interact with them visually and verbally. The spirits take a variety of forms - most often semi-transparent horror visions of the dead that scream and whisper his name or apparitions that seem to interact with him verbally and visually as if they were actually present with him. Most of these apparitions show any visible signs of any injuries or conditions that led to their deaths and speak the languages that they spoke in life, which sometimes means that Klaus can't understand them. The exception to his is his brother, Ben, who he has been seeing whenever he was sober since shortly after Ben died. Ben appears perfectly normal with no outward sign of how he died, and seems to be solidly visible, audible, and present sooner after Klaus stops drugs than any of the other apparitions.

Klaus also has the ability to interact physically with the dead, and to conjure spirits and allow them to manifest into the physical world. He has, at several points, allowed Ben to interact with the physical world - Ben punched him in the face, he allowed Ben to drag Diego to safety, and in a fight where the siblings were badly outnumbered, Klaus pulled Ben into the physical world and allowed Ben to use his eldritch horror ability to save them. This physical use of Klaus' ability is rare, takes a lot of effort, and requires at least a day or two of solid sobriety to manage.

Having spent most of his life trying to dull his abilities, not train in them, he has very little control beyond the passive seeing of spirits that he can't 'turn off' without being intoxicated. It is stated by his father that he has barely scratched the surface of what he can do, but at this point he (and the audience) is unaware of what else he might be capable of.

Klaus trained a bit with his ability in Hadriel, but it was very short-term training and didn't advance his abilities much. It's slightly easier for him to physically manifest ghosts, and he managed two evocations of ghostly monsters in extremely desperate circumstances. If he was a level 1 before, he's now a level 1.5. Maybe 2, tops.

Inventory: Items currently on his person: grey V-neck T-shirt, Vietnam-era US Army jacket with sleeves torn off, dog tags belonging to his dead lover Dave, black leather pants that lace up the sides, floral-print Doc Marten boots, a small hand axe, several knives, a half-empty lighter, two and a half joints; a beat up black canvas backpack containing some extra clothing and items from home: his Walkman and headphones, a couple mix tapes of assorted music (mostly oldies), a pair of beaded womens sandals, a pair of off-brand Converse-style canvas shoes, a bottle of black nail polish, a pink cap-sleeve crop top with the word 'UGLY' in black text across the front, an oversized bright blue mesh tank top, a gothic style black mesh crop top, a black and grey striped long-sleeve T-shirt, a pair of knee-length pink sweatpants, a pair of distressed black skinny jeans, a few pairs of underwear and socks, his patchwork jacket with fur trim from home.

Anything Else? Klaus has a couple of issues that are worth mentioning but that aren't exactly personality aspects.

Addiction: For basically his entire life, Klaus has struggled with addiction. He's addicted to pretty much any substance you can be addicted to, and the moment the going gets tough he tends to default to a desperate scramble for drugs that overrides most other instincts he has. This is something he's been (moderately) successful in fighting, though it's still an ongoing problem. He managed 30 days of sobriety in Hadriel before he backslid into using pot on a semi-regular basis, but hasn't resumed alcohol or any harder drugs. Arguably, he hasn't had the temptation since there aren't harder drugs in Hadriel, but it's something.

PTSD: Whenever there are loud noises, flashing lights, or he's confined in a small dark place, Klaus starts getting flashbacks - visual, auditory, the whole works. These episodes can cause him to panic and completely lose the thread of whatever he's doing, generally rendering him incapable of standing or moving or doing anything but crouching down with his arms around the back of his neck crying.

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Finn | Star Wars | CRAU | Reserved

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Contact: comatoseroses
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Character.

Name: Finn
Canon: Star wars
Canon Point: Post- 'The Last Jedi'; crammed onto the Falcon with the other 15 people left in the Resistance.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): 1 year in riverview (Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2018) + 6 months in hadriel (December 2018 - June 2019)

Character History: finn's wiki page details it nicely! it bears noting that while i do incorporate the tie-in novel, before the awakening, as canon, i do not incorporate the star wars adventures comics content as canon. they don't quite mesh with the material the films provide.
CRAU History:

-Riverview: Of the two games Finn is bringing in CRAU from, Riverview's timeline is arguably the least (significantly) eventful. Riverview was a fairly well-maintained city isolated on a quarantined moon (with quite a bit of jungle containing dangerous creatures and ruins beyond the walls). Finn was offered a position with the Perimeter Guard (a relatively small militia aimed at protecting the city from various threats that might arise) on his arrival, and accepted that offer within his first two weeks in-game. He did the boot camp, went on some pretty standard perimeter-check missions with the Guard, and wound up ultimately joining John Sheppard's RR-1 unit, which was angled towards a lot more proactive recon missions, search and rescues, exploration, etc.

Apart from that he was mostly living his life? Going to parties/festivals, meeting new people, trying out new experiences he'd never gotten the chance to try back home, etc. There were some smatterings of your standard DWRP events and drama-- friends getting attacked and/or nearly dying, stepping back from a friendship he considered very important because of a bit of a "don't go where I can't follow" morality clash. Nanite viruses putting people into comas, a week-long span of ghosts appearing and walking among the living, huge wild hogs overrunning parts of the quarantine enclosure for unknown reasons. The most particularly notable game event was about a month-long run of people being abducted and held captive by essentially a cult, where a fair few people he cared about a lot were among those taken.

He canon updated from the end of The Force Awakens to the end of The Last Jedi about 3 months after his arrival, but it didn't have a very big impact on his day to day life or CR.

Finn spent his year in Riverview in that classic ping-pong between dramatic events and slice of life action, with the undercurrent of knowing that as soon as the scientists said they could fix the Portal to send him (and anyone from his world) home, he would have to go so he could take care of unfinished business and take care of his friends. When the Portal got lined up, he went through, and that was when he wound up in Hadriel.

-Hadriel: Hadriel made for a big initial change, as the game setting was more dilapidated and had a lot more of a modplot/event focus. Dive from slice of life right into survival, it's fine.

Hadriel's plot focused around a set of gods (who may or may not actually be gods) who fed on, and therefore tended to cause game events to directly create or inspire, specific emotions for power. On the other side of that coin were the Null, emotionless robots hell-bent on destroying pretty much any trace of emotion and humanity that they could come across, to a pretty successful degree of conquering multiple galaxies. There were events at least once per month that revolved around forcing characters to feel certain ways or deliberately doing things to incite those specific feelings.

Finn didn't really enmesh himself in the overarching plot while he was in this game. Based on the evidence exploration teams found, he generally fell to the side of deciding that the gods were a lesser of two evils, and zeroed a lot more of his focus in on trying to protect and take care of other people in-game who weren't so big on the soldiering/fighting. Just sort of trying to get by. Emotion-driven events tended to have a lot of emotional fallout, especially for Finn, who already had control issues of his own. The most heavily personally impacting thing in this timeline for Finn was the Predator vs. Prey event early in 2019: where he nearly killed and had his mind forcibly invaded by Kylo Ren. (Well, the almost-dying thing, while obviously not a good time, doesn't bother him nearly as much as the mind probing. But it's still relevant.)

The Null made their final endgame attack prior to Finn's departure, for the whole big fate of the galaxy and whether or not everyone got to use the Door home gambit. And that'll be about where Redshift comes in!

Personality: At heart, Finn is first and foremost a kind individual. The First Order viewed sympathy and empathy as weaknesses, but no amount of training could take those out of him. His instinct when seeing someone struggling is to try to help. He's a compassionate and genuine person, to say nothing for being especially expressive and easy to read. He finds himself getting attached to and relying on others without really thinking about it. And of course, once attached, Finn's devotion is ride or die. He cares fiercely for his friends, of which he's made very few, and would do just about anything for them. Hand in hand with that undying loyalty is dedication and follow-through, plain and simple.

When Finn makes up his mind to do something, he will do it. If he makes a promise or agrees to an exchange, he keeps up his end of the bargain. Loyalty and dedication can sort of boil down to the same root: stubbornness. Finn is as bullheaded as they come. He can be argumentative to a fault. Petty bickering and stressed yelling at people is one of his refined crafts, and he knows how to dig his heels in like you wouldn't believe.

Finn is also an incredibly brave person. Not just in terms of being willing to charge into battle for people he cares about or impulsively trying to help when he sees a person in trouble. He's willing to step back into the heart of the First Order to help others, and willing to use his extensive knowledge of how things work to give the Resistance the best chance of success. Many of his actions are directly driven by fear, but you can't have bravery without fear.

While fear isn't always a weakness, the way that it impacts Finn's choices through canon does tend to hold him back. From the second he decides to leave the First Order, fear of their retribution pushes his every action through most of The Force Awakens. His primary long-term concern is getting himself as far away as possible, and that doesn't change for a while (except to include Rey). Even when he's charging back into Order territory to save a friend, that fear remains. It takes a lot of personal growth for him to officially switch over from running to wanting to stand and fight.

Like a lot of the heroes of Star Wars, Finn has a running habit of acting without thinking things through. He's extremely goal-oriented, but he'll often only end up planning to a certain extent on how to achieve it. For example, he promised to get the shields lowered on Starkiller Base, but his only real plan in going there was finding Rey and saving her. Even if he had some vague ideas about how they might manage it, the part where he got the shields lowered was pretty much improvised. Finn tends to follow impulse and risk his life without a second thought; it's sort of second nature for him to consider himself disposable.

So basically, Finn is a pretty good dude. He's a smart, capable soldier. He's goal-oriented, and often seeks out short-term goals to hop between to keep himself active and occupied. He's stubborn, argumentative, and impulsive, with a lot of anger/trauma beneath the surface that he isn't very good at coping with. He's also kind and compassionate in a way that his upbringing was unable to quash. Finn seeks out common ground with others and, at the end of the day, is in search of a feeling of belonging.

CRAU Development:

- Riverview: At his core, Finn is still very much the same person written in the Star Wars sequel trilogy to date. He's expressive, stubborn, argumentative, brave, compassionate, and kind at heart. He's tense at a default and still not especially good at making himself relax. Always just a little on edge, always sort of terrified something horrible and deadly is about to happen. He still has a lot of issues that stem from how he was raised, and he deftly avoids addressing them by giving himself one goal after another to focus on achieving. He's a fast learner, a very good soldier, impulsive to a fault, and extremely loyal. There's a running trend of stressed yelling in his life.

Essentially, the entirety of his canon personality is intact as outlined in the appropriate section! Finn is definitely still Finn.

The only significant changes to Finn as a person came from having a year's worth of time to get to actually... be a person, instead of a disposable serial number. He had a lot more varied experiences, both good and bad, and was able to start relaxing into his own skin, so to speak. He got to connect with people, to make some real genuine friends/found family, outside of the relatively unbroken stretch of stressful near-death experiences that canon afforded him. While he still has a lot of issues as far as considering himself disposable, leaning towards pessimism, etc. (more or less anything that falls under the unfortunate umbrella of "20 years of conditioning is hard to bust out of entirely even after you've refused to murder people"), they've softened at the edges a bit with time.

By the time he left Riverview, he'd basically just got his living-like-a-normal-human sea legs under him, which makes talking to new people a slightly smoother road when things aren't exploding around them, and which has given him a broader set of life experiences to draw on when he's trying to adapt to something new. Also he learned what emojis are. He's only ever used one. And then after being assured that the Portal was calibrated to send him home when he stepped through, he wound up in...

- Hadriel: Being a lot more driven by an inevitable huge battle on the horizon as well as gods with a penchant for manipulating people to feel very specific emotions (to say nothing for being a much more dilapidated city), Hadriel was almost immediately a bit of a backslide for Finn in terms of stress/tension and broad paranoia. Kind of a shift from slice of life to survival horror.

I maintain that at the end of the day, he's still the same person in general. Empathetic, intense, serious, impulsive.

The noteworthy changes I can think of are that when it comes to the basic premise of not being able to get back to his own world once again, Finn is much more tired. He's made the shift from outright offense and frustration with it to feeling a bit more resigned than anything, regardless of the fact that he tries not to admit to it. He's burnt out on being optimistic about it, as optimism was never his strongest suit to begin with. If he gets into Redshift, he'll more likely than not start to operate under the assumption that actually getting home just... isn't gonna happen for him.

And, in the wake of the game event that capped off with Kylo Ren nearly murdering him and digging through his memories, Finn's taken a bit of a backslide into overdoing it on attempting to be cagey about himself and his past. He was already prone to some issues with control after his upbringing, but now he's a lot more determined to make sure people learn things about him on his terms whenever he can help it. A lot of bad memories and traumatic experiences that he spent over a year pushing back and calling them dealt with (not the healthiest of coping mechanisms) sort of wound up getting refreshed for him. He's been having problems figuring out how to work through that.

Powers/Abilities: The wiki outlines the bulk of Finn's canon abilities really well. He was trained to be a soldier from early childhood- strategy, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, small-unit tactics, etc.- and consistently scored in the top 1% of his tests and evaluations during that training. His performance was notable enough to earn him the position of team leader on his old fire-team. He learns and adapts to new situations relatively quickly, if he's in the right mindset.He's not infallible or perfect by any means (there are numerous points in canon where people get the better of him, particularly where hand-to-hand/melee combat are concerned), and he's exactly as vulnerable to getting killed as any other squishy human, but he's definitely known to be a skilled soldier. It's kind of the only thing he does know.

He learned some piloting during his time in riverview, but he only really had time to get a grasp on the basics of the one type of shuttle they had. It's not super likely to come in handy.

Inventory:

+ a relatively beat-up holoprojector with a custom-fitted chain. it just displays a personnel photo of an old teammate.

+ a pendant that casts the DnD spell Fire Shield (or more or less its equivalent, limited to one use per day) on him when he says the relevant activation phrase! the phrase is sort of specific to prior cross-canon cr, and if anyone apps that character to the game I'll be sure to ask if it's still okay or if they'd like it changed, etc.

+ the clothes on his back

Anything Else? I don't think so!

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Diego Hargreeves 🔪 The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) 🔪 maskormenace CRAU 🔪 Reserved

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Player.

Name: Kayla
Contact: HMD | loyalwolf on plurk | loyalwolf#3540 on discord
Current Characters: N/A

Character.

Name: Diego Hargreeves
Canon: The Umbrella Academy [Netflix]
Canon Point: 1x10, The White Violin; during the space-time-jump on the concert stage.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): maskormenace - May 2019-June 2019

World Description: N/A
Character History: Character Wiki | Series Wiki
CRAU History: maskormenace
Upon arrival in this world, Diego woke to a debriefing by a government official, who really gave him almost no information about why or how he was here. But he has a new, digital tattoo on his wrist and nanites injected in his skin. He was handed a file that had information about powers he would have, the job he was assigned, and where his new, government-given housing was located.

The nanites are part of a techno-organic form of stabilization given to all of those displaced into this world, which grants them both the individual powers they're briefed on upon arrival, as well as adaptive healing and regenerative qualities from injury, up to and including death.

As he did not take the opportunity to swear his allegiance to the government that stole him from his home, Diego's tattoo reads UNSETTLED in thick, bold black letters on the inside of his right wrist.

He was first introduced to the weirdness of this new world by waking up in the middle of a dreamscape with two of his siblings, where all of their worst guilt-laced memories were laid on the table for witness. But it would be three days later before Diego found all his siblings and he's since had some up and down with all of them in various ways.

He worked the job he was given, even though he hated it and did everything he could not to really do anything shaped like "settling" there. He doesn't trust anything that's being handed to him because it's all too easy, and there are so few answers to the most important questions. He's made a handful of acquaintances, but has kept rather insular within his family for the most part.

One of the cities had what could only be called an infestation of the re-risen dead. Diego fought in the battle and was nearly drowned by one of them until Shaun and Georgia Mason saved him.

One of Diego's sisters disappeared a week and a half ago, which has only served to increase his distrust of the place. And even more recently, he mysteriously lost an entire day's worth of time-- only to find that when he came to, he had a new power, apparently handed him by the government who brought him here. The last full memory he has from his last world is passing out at work, due to an overload from this newly acquired power.

[Note: I am fine with, and honestly expect, the nanites being defunct here.]

Personality: Short-tempered, brash, and protective are the top three adjectives people might use to describe Diego Hargreeves, but he is a complex, multi-faceted person to navigate and get to know.

One thing Diego finds problematic about himself, is how much and how deeply he cares. Even the harshest-looking actions and sharpest words come from a place of love for those he cares about. His face shows every inch of what he feels, no matter how much he'd like to forever wear a stoic mask. If someone works their way into Diego's inner circle, he's going to protect them. Whether they like it or not. Hope you don't mind the defensive knife boy in your corner now.

Perhaps due to the rigorous training he went through as a child, Diego is incredibly observant and has a penchant for noticing small details. Even when it seems like he isn't paying attention, Diego is taking in every angle of a situation to analyze later.

While he's guarded and it takes a lot for him to let people in, Diego is also a die-hard loyal person when he cares about someone. He takes having trust broken very personally, and very badly because it's something he doesn't hand out freely or easily.

Diego has an immense capability to adapt and will roll with whatever life throws at him with the ease of someone who has never had any other choice. He has lived a life of complete unpredictability and it has afforded him a strong resilience.

Diego can come off very abrasive; it's the way he deals with and interacts with the world. Anger is easier to hold and wield as a weapon than anything else. More than likely, it isn't personal, it's just Diego, who is secretly more bark than bite than he would like people to think.

The big, intricate piece of Diego's personality that spills over and under everything and informs nearly everything he says or does, even in the slightest, vaguest, shadow of a way, is a massive level of insecurity. Having the idea he's second best drilled into his head from early on affected how he sees himself, how he views the world and the colors of it, how he interacts with people. The biggest parts of Diego's insecurity come from being pitted against and compared to his brother, Luther. It doesn't help that he grew up with a stutter that only managed to heighten those insecurities in the most basic of tasks. He's gotten it under control these days and it's only really an issue when he's overly-emotional, but it's a point of contention in him, and at himself, all the same.

Diego can be acutely critical, but people never have to wonder where they stand with him, because he'll tell them in no uncertain terms. He won't play long-games of manipulation, he doesn't have the patience.

He is competitive with the best of them and while this can be a lighter and friendlier trait at times, Diego takes it to the extreme. Everything is a competition, even if it seems like it shouldn't be. Reginald helped nurture this part of his personality into the sharp demand to always be the best (and subsequently always feel second rate).

Overall, Diego has a sharp view of the world and is even more cutting in the way he interacts with it, but behind the fierce persona, there is a good guy with a good heart who will do what he can to protect people who cannot protect themselves.

Powers/Abilities: Canon
Trajectory Curving: The ability to curve the trajectory of anything he throws, though his favorite is knives.

maskormenace specific powers
Infinite Knives: Whenever Diego throws one of the vast array of knives he always has concealed on his person, it is auto-magically replaced by another identical one.

Empathy: Includes the following abilities/limitations:
Emotion Sensing: Taking in and feeling the emotions of other people [within a 30ft radius]
if he gets overwhelmed, he may suffer severe, debilitating migraines or in areas of a high volume of people [think a concert hall, moderately-sized movie theater, a mall] he may fall unconscious)

Emotional Projection: a "push" so-to-speak of Diego's own emotions into another person - the effect is temporary and [at affected party's player discretion] may last between 5mins-1hr

This may happen unexpectedly and unintentionally when he is feeling particularly strong emotions.

Emotional Manipulation: The ability to control other's emotions by increasing/decreasing already existing emotions in a target or inducing specific emotions in others, regardless of whether they are already feeling that emotion or not.
limit target number of 4 people at once

Other Notes: People with psychic abilities may be resistant
Beings with no emotions won't be affected
Control of this ability is impacted by mind-altering substances (alcohol, drugs of both recreational and prescription varieties; caffeine not included in this effect, however).
Players can opt-out of Diego's use of this power on their characters, as well. (found here!)

Inventory: Security guard uniform - pressed white shirt with obvious "Security" badge embossed on it, black tie, black slacks/socks/boots
Security guard tools - belt (with flashlight, two-way radio, pepper spray & a baton)
Hidden elsewhere - at least 3 different knives are hidden on his person.

Anything Else? N/A

samples

Network Sample: maskormenace network tag

Prose/Brackets Sample: maskormenace log tag