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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.
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Name: Rose
Contact: platoapproved#9602 on discord
Current Characters: Ben Hargreeves
Name: Reynir Árnason
Canon: Stand Still Stay Silent
Canon Point: Page 150 (Current page); the team are searching for Onni in Finland and Reynir has just seen the fate of the village where Lalli, Onni, and Tuuri grew up.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A
World Description: N/A
Character History: Wiki!
CRAU History: N/A
Personality:
POSITIVE TRAITS:
FRIENDLY: Reynir loves people, and makes friends easily. He has a warm heart and cares for people quickly and genuinely; chatting to new people is easy for people and he wins them over sooner or later. Reynir also doesn't take friendship lightly - he has a great desire to be supportive and helpful to his friends, both practically and emotionally as well. Reynir would help you move the week after he met you. His cheerful disposition and extroversion make him a charismatic and likable young man.
RESILIENT: He adapts remarkably well to the stressful and chaotic situation of being stuck in the Silent World. From discovering his mage abilities to teaching himself how to draw runes, to keeping going even in awful circumstances - Reynir is good at surviving even when things get tough. He may succumb some to depression along the way, but he holds on and sooner or later finds a way to salvage a situation. Even when others believe a task is hopeless or don't think he is up to it, Reynir has the grit to keep on trying, no matter what.
OPEN-MINDED: Despite growing up in such a small and rural setting, Reynir is open to all kinds of new experiences and types of people. He becomes very interested in Finnish mages, as well as the cultures of his other teammates. He learns quickly and doesn't judge right away; this is apparent in his reaction to Anne, the ghost of a Christian who asks his aid in guiding ghosts to the afterlife. All this is new to him, not really his culture or background, but he finds a way to help regardless. While others in the same comic are more hardened by the world and unwilling to find innovative and unusual solutions or see things in new ways, Reynir is willing to try.
NEGATIVE TRAITS:
NAIVE: Reynir has seen little of the world or hardship or violence before the first adventure. His optimism can occasionally verge into foolishness. He makes impulsive choices and ends up regretting them. He lacks both knowledge and experience. He thought there were palm trees in Denmark. Reynir's education has been limited and from ignorance come all manner of problems.
OVERENTHUSIASTIC: Because of his affectionate nature, Reynir can become annoying to those around him. He gets caught up in ideas he thinks are good and then is in over his head. He tampers with magic he doesn't understand yet, he takes risks. This is the other side of his cheerfulness: sometimes it is too much for those around him.
APOLOGETIC: Reynir has a tendency to let others treat him badly without questioning it. He is not a doormat and can be stubborn when he feels it is important, but he is still constantly apologizing and assuming other people don't care about or forget him. His teammates see him as a pushover. He sees himself as less important, less useful, and has some self-esteem issues. These are better than they were at the start of the adventure but the tendencies remain.
CRAU Development: N/A
Powers/Abilities: See abilities section in wiki linked above.
Inventory: A mask, basic camping / survival gear in a backpack, a map of Finland, brush and paint for drawing runes, some anti-ghost runes on various pieces of paper, and most important: Kitty!
Anything Else? Braid for daaays.
Prose/Brackets Sample: Here
Accepted.
▶ Join the communities:
▶ Add yourself and your character to the Taken Characters page.
▶ (Optional) Introduce yourself and your character with an entry to the OOC Community, or tag in at the monthly event log.
▶ (Optional) Join Redshift's Discord server by clicking this invite link.
▶ Activity Check Link: Please submit all activity for this character in the character's thread on the activity check post.
▶ For your character's experience upon arrival, please see the Arrival Page.