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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.
Hanzo Shimada | Overwatch | Not Reserved
Name: Diya
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Name: Hanzo Shimada
Canon: Overwatch
Canon Point: Post Recall, prior to the cinematic "Dragons".
Character History: Link
Personality: As the scion and heir apparent to the Shimada family -- and connected crime syndicate -- Hanzo grew up with both a great sense of responsibility and duty as well as a measure of entitlement and arrogance. Neither are traits he's entirely grown out of, though his birthright has long been stripped from him. He does not take slights lightly, and can be quick to anger when treated with less respect than he thinks he deserves.
Hanzo prides himself on his sense of discipline. His dedication to his studies and to his craft as an assassin for the Shimada clan were considered his measure of worth, growing up, so a great deal of emphasis was put on being the absolute best. Anything less was unacceptable. As a result of that upbringing Hanzo is measured, focused, and seeks perfection in all things. He also tends to be stubborn and inflexible, seeing things in absolutes. Something is correct or incorrect. It is right or it is wrong. An odd stance to taken for someone who was raised to be an assassin, perhaps, but Hanzo's father instilled in him a strong sense of honor as well. As such, when Hanzo realizes that following the clan's directive compromised his honor, he became conflicted and abandoned them. Now, seeking redemption and a path forward is his sole purpose.
Having grown up with such an extensive focus on his studies, and a distance maintained from others due to his elevated social position, Hanzo is not very adept in social skills. He is intelligent, refined, and eloquent, but he has little sense of how to empathize with others. He is far too honest and blunt to maintain any real sense of guile or subterfuge. His manner tends to be dismissive and brusque by default. Due to this self-perceived weakness, Hanzo prefers working alone to reliance on anyone else. He is also generally very serious in nature, his brief flashes of humor rather dry and sometimes cruel.
He is his own worst critic, however. He is aware to some extent that he needs to adapt and grow. There is a part of him that is selfless, that remembers leadership starts with looking after people, and that duty should be to more than just oneself. When he accepts that he has committed a wrong against someone, there is little he will not do in order to correct it, or at the very least to show humility and contrition. There are seeds of a good person within him, a potential that exists in who would sacrifice everything to do what is necessary.
However, only time will tell if he decides that cause leads him into the light or back down into the shadows.
Powers/Abilities: Hanzo was trained to be a literal ninja assassin. So that comes with the sort of skill set one would expect. He's stealthy, nimble, can run up walls and even change the direction of a jump midway through. He's also skilled with a number of weapons, though his real strength was through his sword -- which he no longer uses, after having thought to have killed his brother -- and his marksmanship with a bow and arrow.
Even with a normal bow and arrow, he would be deadly. But Hanzo's arrows have a number of different uses, from being able to send out a sonic wave that lets Hanzo zero in on a target's location even if he cannot see them, to breaking into fragments that ricochet to strike from several angles. These abilities are of course limited by the number of these special arrows he carries.
The most dangerous of Hanzo's abilities is his Dragonstrike. Little is known of this ability's origin or function (the writers of Overwatch have only said it is not magical in nature) but it appears that Hanzo can harness the tattoo on his arm to channel two large light-construct dragons to rush towards his enemies, dealing a great deal of damage as they pass through them, after which they will fade from sight and disappear. Hanzo mentions in the "Dragons" cinematic that 'the dragons' are only able to be controlled by a Shimada, and seem to be based on a story passed down by the Shimada family about the dragon gods their crest is based on.
Inventory: His default clothes and armor, his Storm Bow and a quiver of 20 high-tech arrows (capable of his Sonic Arrow and Scattershot abilities), a bottle of sake, and a bag with a change of clothes, and a box containing his offerings to his 'dead' brother (incense stand, brass bowl, and a sparrow's feather).
Anything Else? So every ability in Overwatch thus far is technologically based in nature. With one big glaring exception.
The Shimada dragons remain a mystery even after several years, unfortunately. There's a lot about them that simply has to be headcannoned in. My working theory is that there's some sort of nanite tech in the ink that goes into Shimada tattoos, allowing the dragons to manifest as hard-light technology during their attack. But there's also an amount of reverence given to them, and they're not regarded simply as a tool but as a part of the family's history, and likely have spiritual significance attached to them.
Hanzo definitely regards them as spiritual in nature, rather than mechanical. In fact he directly calls them 'spirit dragons' in one of his dialogue options. He has to concentrate in order to give them their corporeal state, and so he does not often do so outside of battle. Should he choose to, they would likely appear much more compact, about the size of housecats (anything larger would take too much out of him) and would behave in a manner consistent with that appearance.
Network Sample: TFLN
Prose/Brackets Sample:
[ He believes it be a trick, at first. How could he not? To suddenly come to in such a place, to be told there is no way out but he is welcome just the same, it makes no sense that he can rationalize. There is also the condition of the room, the cracked and dusty glass. It is a place that has seen neglect, certainly no measure of supervision or maintenance that he can see.
He is very apprehensive when it comes to surrendering his weapons in order to undergo the decontamination process.
It is only knowing that they could have taken them at any time, while he was unconscious and unaware, that keeps him from stubbornly holding fast to them. Some measure of cooperation is clearly expected and perhaps even necessary. So surrender them he does, his expression grave all the while. But no attack comes while he is unarmored and defenseless -- or as defenseless as they could ever make him -- and so he is merely left with a feeling of unease as he gathers his clothes and belongings after.
Anchor, they called it. So it seems that he is to be anchored in place, and his days of roaming the world like some fleeting shadow are done. Perhaps it was time. He had not seen fit to remain in one place for very long in some time. Years, in fact.
So. Time then to venture into the colony proper, and see what would be made of his time here.
The first glimpse did not seem promising, although given the condition of the room he'd woken in that was perhaps to be expected. The air is thick with dust and uncomfortable to breathe. Lifting his sleeve to cover the lower half of his face in a makeshift mask, he presses on. Perhaps there is someone to be found on the lower levels of...whatever is left of his place. ]
Accepted.
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