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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.
Alex Kamal | The Expanse | Reserved
Name: Tonje/Craftyviking
Contact: TDiscord: Craftyviking#1460 or Plurk un: Craftyviking
Current Characters: None
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
[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.
Prose/Brackets Sample: From the TDM
Accepted.
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▶ Add yourself and your character to the Taken Characters page.
▶ (Optional) Introduce yourself and your character at the introductory CR & Plotting Meme.
▶ (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.