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applications.
Applications are currently: OPEN.
As of April 2021, Redshift is a sandbox game! We still have apps for some degree of quality control, but the form has been simplified to streamline the process for new players. Here's how it works:
▶ New Players joining us after April 2021 will need to submit an application for their first character coming into the game by using the appropriate form below. This is so we know who you are, and so we can make sure your character will be a good fit for our players!
▶ Returning/Current Players who have been with us since before April 2021 or are coming back to us only need to claim their character using the form below to bring in new characters. New players may do the same after two months.
▶ Returning/Current Players who have been with us since before April 2021 or are coming back to us only need to claim their character using the form below to bring in new characters. New players may do the same after two months.
Application Guide.
▶ Submission Format: All applications must be posted to this entry, and must fit within one comment with a subject line in the format of "CHARACTER NAME | CANON | RESERVED/NOT RESERVED." While applications should not be linked in the entry, players may link to an alternate source such as a wiki for the character's history and powers; for original characters, the world history may also be linked from an alternate source such as an entry on the character journal.
▶ Accepted Character Types: Fandom Characters, Original Characters; CRAU is welcome and encouraged. Please see the Rules & Game Standards page for more in-depth explanations of appable, non-appable, and case-by-case characters.
▶ Application Verdicts: Applications will receive a verdict of ACCEPTED, REVISIONS, or DECLINED. Revisions must be submitted within 48 hours of the revision request being sent out. If this is impossible due to extenuating circumstances, please contact the mod team. Declined applications can be reworked and resubmitted during the next application cycle. If an application is declined 3 times, it cannot be resubmitted.
▶ App Challenges & Reserves: Redshift will not have application challenges, but if you would like to apply for a character that is on reserve, please submit the application with "not reserved" noted in the subject line, and your application will be considered if the reserved application is declined or not turned in by the end of the application cycle. Applications will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis.
▶ Character Limits: Players may have a maximum of 3 characters in the game; the option to increase the number of character spaces may become available at a later date. A player may submit up to two applications at a time.
▶ Samples: Linked samples should be from a publicly accessible source, and no more than 1 year old. Screencaps or transcripts from locked sources are not acceptable as samples, unless the character is being apped as a CRAU from a locked game, and in these cases permission from the other participant(s) in the thread must be obtained and submitted as screencaps along with the sample. All samples should represent the character as they are being applied for; for example, samples cannot come from an AU setting or break the fourth wall (Dear Player, etc.) As long as they meet this criteria, samples from other games, museboxes, memes, other websites (Tumblr, Insanejournal, etc.) or any other source are acceptable. For CRAU samples a link from the character's original game would be preferable, in the form of a link to their tag on the relevant communities, or specific thread links.
Submit an Application.
To submit an application or claim a character, please fill out the information in the appropriate text box below, and paste it in a single comment in response to this entry. Applications should not be linked, though portions of them may be if a bulky history or world section would put them over the character limit for one comment.
Doctor K | Power Rangers RPM | Reserved
Name: Alexis
Contact: punnyinpink @ plurk
Current Characters: N/A
Name: Doctor K — she doesn't remember her real name
Canon: Power Rangers RPM
Canon Point: Post-series. Venjix was defeated, K officially disbanded the team, and intends to spend the next few years of her life teaching biofield physics to kids in the school she will co-run with Ziggy, former green ranger.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A, she's coming in canon fresh. :')
Character History: Doctor K @ RangerWiki
CRAU History: N/A
Personality:
Before Alphabet Soup, K was a friendly, curious child—so much so that she smiled and offered chalk to the agents who kidnapped her. Sure, she drew complex equations on the sidewalk rather than hearts and rainbows, but she played nonetheless, in her own way. Life was good.
Her safe world destroyed when she was abducted, K shut down emotionally to protect herself. Her handlers didn't love her, and the other kids were competition, not friends, not until Gem and Gemma became her suit testers. Her work was her safe place, the math consistent in every way where life wasn't. Then, when her bid to go outside resulted in the apocalypse, and cost her the only friends she had, she shut down further. She'd suffered enough loss.
The guilt over releasing Venjix gave her purpose: fight back, save the world. The problem was how unhealthy it became. No fun allowed, long stretches without sleep, a less than ideal diet, and continued social isolation. In K's mind, she deserved to endure any hardship, for the sake of the species she (accidentally) nearly wiped out.
Yet Alphabet Soup and her guilt were able to kill K's creativity. She designed tech according to the Soup's specifications, but she put her own touch into them: animal motifs for the suits and googly eyes for the zords. They took her as a child, and she subconsciously clung to the innocence she had at the time, a defense and a sign of resilience.
Further, they weren't able to kill her spirit. Hidden behind all those walls was a young girl who wanted friends who were family, and who wanted to repair the damage she'd unwittingly caused. Her trust in her team—her family—and their love for her and each other, helped K's wish come true. Millions died at her creation's hand, but the species will rebuild thanks to her work, brought to full life by her loved ones.
CRAU Development: N/A
Powers/Abilities: Technically not a superpower, but she is far, far above average intelligence and almost completely responsible for the discovery of the biofield, which enabled her to create ranger tech and probably tons of other things. She's got skills in math, physics, chemistry, computer science, computer programming, and engineering. Biology too, though less so than the other areas mentioned. Oh and she plays the piano and the violin.
Inventory: What she's wearing, plus her violin.
Anything Else? Doing some math based off the info in her wiki page, we arrive at K's age being 18. However, because she both looks and acts so childlike when not doing science things, she is usually seen and treated as a minor. She doesn't seem to mind.
Prose/Brackets Sample: brackets sample
Revisions.
▶ Before we can proceed with your application, please provide the following revisions within 48 hours: Please rework your personality section to focus more on personality traits (strengths, flaws, etc.) rather than events from canon.
Re: Revisions.
This is extremely valid crit. Life is Happening too much for me to get these done in a reasonable time, alas. But thank you for the opportunity. I'll try during another app round. Best wishes for the game!