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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.
onni hotakainen ❄ stand still stay silent ❄ unreserved
Name: coffee
Contact: PM,
Current Characters: Klaus Hargreeves
Name: Onni Ukko-Pekka Hotakainen
Canon: Stand Still. Stay Silent
Canon Point: Adventure 2, Page 48 - After leaving Iceland and his cousin Lalli behind, he's heading home to Saimaa to settle some things from his family's past.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): n/a
World Description: n/a
Character History:
Wiki Links: Plot Outline ❄ The Rash ❄ The Known World ❄ Onni Hotakainen
Informational Comic Pages: SSSS About Page
CRAU History: n/a
Personality:
❄ Loyal: Onni cares deeply about the people in his life and readily adopts people that his loved ones start to care for as well, extending his circle of people he shows concern for. His loyalty to his family and extended circle of people is so strong that it overcame his fear, to the point he was able to travel not only to Sweden, where he protected the adventuring crew from two countries away via magic, but further to Iceland to pick up Lalli and meet the other members of the crew that he's spoken to on the radio only a few times, or met in dreams.
❄ Inclusive: As mentioned in the previous point, Onni has little problem expanding the circle of his people, including even people he's never met in person. For example, while the rest of the cast finds untrained mage and non-immune Reynir to be a burden, and often call him stupid or useless, Onni is the one person who listens to Reynir, discusses serious topics with him, and asks his opinion. While he might be annoyed with other people if they show a lack of intelligence or foresight, or be blunt with certain opinions, Onni is never against asking other people's opinions or input, protecting people even if he barely knows them, or generally treating others like human beings first and foremost.
❄ Protective: Onni has a protective streak a mile wide. While he generally defaults to being protective (maybe a little overprotective) of his younger sister Tuuri and his cousin Lalli, he doesn't hesitate to protect most people he's around, even if he doesn't know them. His job with the military is protective spells intended to keep his community safe, and during the comic, he consistently and reliably responds to calls for help from the expedition and follows through. While interacting with Reynir, who he's only met once or twice and who actively annoyed him on a couple of occasions, Onni immediately takes steps to protect him when they run into what Onni assumes is a dangerous spirit. Instead of letting someone else get hurt, he is willing to step into danger despite his fear.
❄ Inertia: Onni lives in a constant state of inertia, mostly due to anxiety. Without being prodded, Onni would never leave his comfort zone of complete safety. He has almost no inner motivation or ambition, and is content to simply exist, avoiding any kind of risk or danger. While he will shake off his inertia and take steps to do things outside of his comfort zone if there is some other compelling and unavoidable reason to do so, he wouldn't be able to find it within himself to do it for his own benefit.
❄ Stubborn: While he has no problem admitting when he doesn't know something, Onni has a very particular way of living his life and interacting with others - he doesn't say something unless he means it, he is a pessimist who values safety over almost everything else - and won't change those aspects of himself no matter how alternatives are presented to him. Even when he acts contrary to one of these core aspects of himself, it's because he is forced to choose between two of them, for example choosing between his desire to protect his family and his desire to stay where it's safe.
❄ Oversensitive/Emotional: Despite being outwardly stoic, Onni doesn't keep his feelings to himself because he lacks any intensity of them. Having spent nearly half his life as a guardian to his younger sister and cousin, however, he's learned to put on a stoic exterior, to set a good example for them, but beneath that, Onni is sensitive and easily hurt or overwhelmed by strong emotion, anxious and constantly worrying, and he rarely gets to express or really experience them unless he's fighting them.
CRAU Development: n/a
Powers/Abilities: Finnish Mage Ability Information ❄ Luonto (Spirit) ❄ Onni's Abilities @ SSSS Wiki
Inventory: Onni will arrive wearing a fur cape over a tunic, pants, boots, gloves, and belt. He carries a wooden spear, and was in the midst of an outdoors trip, so he'll have a leather and canvas bag containing survival/camping gear (supplies to cook over a fire and hunt/trap game, dried or preserved rations, a method of making fire, etc.) but no tent or bedding, as he usually sleeps outdoors in his fur cape. He'll also have at least one change of clothes.
Anything Else? Onni's powers are deeply connected to the Finnish gods, so he would be pretty crippled at first without them. His luonto would come with him, as it's connected to his physical body, and he would be able to use the power of that right away. With mods' permission, I was hoping there could be some higher or spiritual powers present in Anchor that he could learn to draw on instead, so he can become as powerful in game as he is in canon.
Prose/Brackets Sample: TDM
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