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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.
Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor) | Assassin's Creed 3 | Not Reserved
Name: Tossino
Contact: PM,
Current Characters: N/A
Name: Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor)
Canon: Assassin's Creed 3
Canon Point: End of the DLC The Tyranny of King Washington. Ratonhnhaké:ton has just escaped from an alternate timeline that he was brought into by a powerful artifact, and has now dropped said artifact to the bottom of the sea.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): 4 months in City of Sin
Character History: Here!
CRAU History: When Ratonhnhaké:ton first arrived in the City, it was in the middle of an ice storm (in August). He was informed it was some sort of punishment for other characters doing something they weren't allowed to do, and also that the punishment was carried out by the City. He rather doubted this, but suspected that it could be the work of an Isu artifact. During this time, he met his grandfather, Edward Kenway, who died before he was born. He moved in with him and, when he disappeared from the City, inherited his ship "The Jackdaw".
He was invited to a party held by one of the leaders of the City, the Magistrates. It wasn't just any Magistrate, but the biggest and baddest one known as The Emperor. He was reluctant to go, but did so in the hopes of learning something. Unfortunately, he didn't really learn anything.
During this first month, he'd meet the three people who would become like family to him: Jacob Frye, another Assassin but from further into the future; Charles Smith; and Angel. When Angel and he first met, the City was under a sort of spell that made characters inclined to flirt, which was the start of what would quickly develop into real romantic interest, and then a relationship.
During this time, travel to different planets became available. There were three: A jungle planet, an ocean planet, and a desert planet. While exploring the jungle planet, one character (Wanda Maximoff) discovered aliens, and was subsequently captured. Ratonhnhaké:ton joined the rescue mission to get her out of there. It succeeded.
Then, his father showed up in the City. His father who he had killed years prior, not out of hatred but simply out of necessity. It was difficult, but the two managed to discuss the problem and decide to take this for what it was: A second chance at actually being father and son. It was going well. His father disappeared fairly soon, unfortunately, but it still gave him some measure of a peace of mind.
Angel's father, Handsome Jack, also appeared, which would change a lot for them. Jack is quite overprotective, not to mention very dangerous and manipulative. She immediately made plans to cut off everyone out of her life and deal with the situation. Ratonhnhaké:ton wouldn't have it, and made her agree to instead work together to keep him in check.
He made plans to explore the sea. He gathered a crew of both PCs and NPCs from the job he had at the docks. The City would get wares and supplies by sea, as any other route was blocked. Since he had a ship, he thought he could see how far they could get. When sailing far out only turned them around back to the City, he instead made plans to look under the surface using The Jackdaw's diving bell. This second expedition wasn't particularly successful, as it offered little in the way of answers. What it did insteas was awaken an elder god - Cthulhu - that was sleeping in the ocean. They quickly returned to shore, and he thought that was it, but a few days later Cthulhu attacked the City.
The Cthulhu attack is quickly followed by another problem: Angel's monster form given to her in Ryslig. She suddenly lost herself and attacked several other characters in the City. She got very hurt by people trying to defend themselves, and while he nursed her back to health, she expressed concerned that she would one day hurt him. He doesn't really share that concern, and insisted that he would stick with her.
Sometime later, the aliens of the jungle planet would make their return. Wanda and Angel had set up an expedition there to explore further, and found a cult of some kind underneath the earth. Angel called for help, so of course Ratonhnhaké:ton went. He hadn't been told of what Wanda and Angel had been doing, and wasn't too happy about it. As soon as the immediate danger had passed and people escaped mostly unharmed, he questioned her about it.
Then, a sort of curse struck the City. People found themselves appearing in other people's dreams. It would give Charles and Angel a new insight into the war between the Assassin Brotherhood and Templars. While he'd already told them some parts about it, it was such an ancient war that it was difficult to cover everything at once.
Personality: Depending on the situation, the first impression you get of Ratonhnhaké:ton can differ. He is always rather quiet, which you might interpret either as simply a character trait, or as a sign that he doesn't like you. Often, he's skeptical of other people and instinctively wary, and may not look at you too kindly. Barring the stink-eye, he might seem contemplative or thoughtful, and that's the reason for his silence, which would actually be closer to the truth.
He has been taught that silence is valuable, that listening is important, and that you shouldn't put too much merit on your own words. When he does speak, it is often very short. Whenever he speaks for a long amount of time, his words are usually carefully selected.
Despite that, he is actually a pretty rash person. Now that he's growing older, he's calmed down considerably, but he is still hot-headed and impulsive. He has a very strong sense of what is right and wrong and very quick to act accordingly, no matter what risks or consequences there may be. If he really wants to punch a person in the face, he doesn't bother reading the room or situation before trying to punch that person in the face.
He's a very honest man. If he likes you, you'll know it. If he doesn't like you, you'll know that too. His face is often set in a careful expression of complete neutrality, but even if he doesn't show how much he hates you with his face, he will let you know with his words. Or his fists. Or his hidden blade. If he loves you, he may not often smile at you, but he will prioritise you over almost anything else if you need help and protect you fiercily. To him, there is no better way to show how much you care for someone than through the time you offer them, whether it's simply giving them company or helping them with something.
He is also immensily stubborn. If there is a wrong to right, he will do everything in his power to right it. If he disagrees with someone on the best way to go about something, he will argue and scowl and struggle very hard to agree to another method. This, too, has mellowed with age, but his first instinct is always to resist any kind of criticism or alternate suggestions.
This might just be linked to his insistence to take everything on his own shoulders. His main motivation for the choices he makes isn't only that he believes them to be right, but also that he perceives it as reality that if he doesn't do something about it, no one else will. He had to leave his village to try to save his people from being removed by the ever encroaching colonists. He had to take out the major Templar targets and personally see to it that the order was destroyed, despite having recruited several others to the Brotherhood. When he has decided something is his responsibility, he's reluctant to accept any help, always ready to put himself at risk but not so much anyone else.
CRAU Development: During his time in the City of Sin, the most major change in Ratonhnhaké:ton is his attitude to responsibilities. While he's had the idea for most of his life that he's the one who needs to carry the burdens and solve the problems, and that he alone has to do it, it's started to change. His closest CR has regularly insisted that he lets them help him just as much as he insists they let him help them. Like, you know, friends have a mutual exchange as far as helping each other goes.
Another major change is the fact that he's in a romantic relationship at all. He knows that eventually he has to go back home, and Angel is dead in her canon. She can't really go with him back even if that were to be possible, because she's half minotaur and would definitely be hunted. So it's guaranteed to be a temporary and fleeting thing where they get left alone, and Angel, who grew up isolated and went through a lot of suffering in her life, doesn't deserve that pain at all, according to Ratonhnhaké:ton. Angel, however, wouldn't have it and would rather take the opportunity to have something good that makes them happy no matter how temporary it ends up being. After an argument, he relented, and it's somewhat led to a change in his attitude towards life, even if it's never exactly been all that pessimistic.
Powers/Abilities: Eagle Vision
Inventory:
- Claw, a gun made for him by Angel, that shoots lightning.
- Hidden blade, AKA the pivot blade
- Bow and arrows
- Tomahawk
- An 18th century pistol
- Smoke bombs
- Rope darts
- Snares
- Throwing knives
- Poison throwing knives (which I assume will be removed during decontamination)
- Lockpicks
Anything Else? N/A
Prose/Brackets Sample: Here
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