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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.
arya stark | a song of ice and fire (clockbox crau) | not reserved
Name: floral
Contact: pm
Current Characters: allison hargreeves
Name: arya stark
Canon: a song of ice and fire
Canon Point: end of a dance with dragons. arya, as part of her training with the faceless men, has just been told that she will pose as a child actor named “mercy.”
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): arya spent about 8 months in clockbox, then returned home for about 6 months.
Character History: wiki link
CRAU History: in clockbox, arya reuinted with her brother jon and her sister sansa. she learned how to use the network, take selfies, and use emojis. she learned about other aspects of earth pop culture, including movies like miami vice and princess mononoke. she made several friends, who taught her about science and helped her begin to work through her trauma. she attempted to assassinate two characters, leonard snart and mick rory, and through that learned about the responsibilities she has to help keep the peace, and how that is another way to keep her loved ones safe. she celebrated valentine’s day and had fun exploring several parts of the clock, including ice cream parlors, costume closets, and a really cool waterpark.
Personality:
strengths:
curious: arya loves to explore, meet new people, and learn about the world. as a young girl in winterfell, one of her nicknames was “arya underfoot,” and while she’s not the same happy-go-lucky child she used to be, the basic idea behind the nickname still very much applies. arya loves to learn about new places and people, and some of her happiest moments in canon include going on journeys with her friends and trying out new professions, like clam-seller, in new places. in lockbox, arya was very eager to learn all about the different worlds that other characters came from, including earth. she loved learning about movies and how to use emojis, and also enjoyed learning about the science done on earth.
outgoing: arya is talkative, and makes friends easily. unlike many westerosi highborn people, she doesn’t resist talking to non-noble people. she’s doesn’t really accept the whole higher born/lower born distinction set within westerosi society — she doesn’t care that jon snow or gendry are bastards, for example, and befriends people unlike her all throughout canon, whether it’s the butcher’s boy mycah, or the prisoner jaqen h’ghar. she’ll start up a conversation with anyone, and loves to learn from everyone. that doesn’t mean she’s friendly, however. arya is generally blunt and to the point, but she has a very social nature, which tends to serve her well.
loyal + just: arya has a very strong moral compass. much of this was taught to her by her father — honor is very important to the starks. but much of this is also innate, and strengthened by her time on the road. arya firmly believes that murdering innocents is wrong, that those who commit heinous crimes should pay, and that many seemingly horrible people (although not all) deserve the gift of mercy. she’s loyal to her friends, and will do anything to protect them. she remains by hot pie and gendry’s side when they flee from harrenhal, even though the two boys are just slowing her down, calling them “her pack.” in clockbox, arya does whatever she deems necessary to protect her friends, including attacking people she thinks might hurt them. and of course, justice, and how in her mind, it’s mixed with vengeance, is a major theme throughout her story. arya plans to kill those who hurt her family and hurt her — she doesn’t want to let a single crime go unpunished.
resourceful: arya is a survivor. she was raised in the relative comfort and luxury of a westerosi noblewoman, but after her father was executed for treason, she had to go on the run. since then, she’s picked up many survival skills. she’s learned how to catch and cook food for herself, how to escape a heavily guarded castle, and more. she’ll often use a little trickery to make up for her small size, feinting people out when she fights, and tricking jaqen h’ghar to kill more people for her when she was worried she’d whispered the wrong names.
intelligent: arya catches on quick — she’s had to. as a child, she was good at the little academic education she was given, and is a good reader, writer, and good at arithmetic. she’s quick to learn more physical skills too, like swordplay. despite her age, arya can hold conversations with adults pretty well, and was quick to learn and adapt to various earth-cultures during her time at clockbox.
weaknesses:
stubborn: arya argues a lot, and almost never admits that she’s wrong. she’s like this especially with her older sister sansa, and her friend gendry, insisting that of course they’re going the right way, of course she knows what she’s doing. she’s quick to call people “stupid” when they don’t agree with her, regardless of whether or not she’s right. it’s one of arya’s more childlike qualities, and has unfortunately persisted with all her changes in names, scenery, and trauma.
combative: arya is quick to fight, and is not usually one to use calm, reasoned discussion to work out a conflict. she’ll shove someone in order to get the upper hand in minor disagreements, for example, but this trait goes deeper than that. arya, fundamentally, believes that she can solve violence with violence, that killing someone will resolve the horror of a previous murder. arya keeps a list of all the people who have seriously hurt her or her family, and it’s a list of people she intends to kill, thinking that she can make the pains of war go away if she just takes these people out. that particular view has been challenged a little from her time in clockbox — she learned that violence can sometimes make things worse — but more often than not, she still believes that violence is the answer, and will gladly take an eye for an eye.
reckless: arya is smart, but she’s also stubborn, with a flair for adventure, and that makes her do stupid things. when arya gets an idea in her head or feels strongly about something, she tends to act, regardless of whether or not that’s a good idea. she’s impulsively killed people and destroyed property but regretted it later, escaped from harrenhal only to put herself in more danger, and more.
traumatized: at the end of the day, arya is a young girl who’s been caught in the middle of a war since she was eight. she’s seen and heard of some horrifying things: murder, torture, rape, and all kinds of suffering. her list of people she’s going to kill isn’t just a quest for revenge: it’s a prayer, a coping mechanism she’s developed to survive the war, a way to find some control in a life full of horrific upheaval. that’s not her only unhealthy coping mechanism, however. arya has been more or less on the run for many years, and during that time, she’s had to conceal her identity over and over again, making up new names and sometimes personalities. this culminates in her stay with the house of black and white, during which she has to shed all of those and become “no one,” a person without any kind of identity at all. arya has difficulty with this, but also leans into it, using it as a way to distance herself from the horror’s of arya’s old life, to numb the pain at the cost of herself.
CRAU Development: in clockbox, arya reunited with part of her family: her brother jon, and her sister sansa. she also made several other friends throughout the game. these relationships helped arya work though some of her trauma: she’s much less sad, cold, and detached than she appears at the end of a dance with dragons. she uses her name, and has begun to reclaim much of her personal identity. as a result, she’s more friendly and talkative, similar to how she appears in the first book. she’s also incorporated a bit of an earth-like sense of humor — she’s a little sassier, and skilled at using emojis to mess with people on the internet. in many ways, arya is still a traumatized child with her guard up, but since clockbox, she’s let down her sword a little (literally and metaphorically). she’s learned that violence doesn’t solve every problem, and that keeping the peace is important. she’s learned that there are people out there she can trust, and that she has a chance to have friends again, and maybe even a somewhat-safe life.
Powers/Abilities:
skinchanger: arya has the ability to possess other animals. she is the best at possessing her direwolf, nymeria, and frequently does this in dreams. she has also been able to possess cats.
combat: arya has been trained in the braavosi style of sword fighting, called water dancing. she is also able to fight with smaller knives, staffs, and bows and arrows. between her training with syrio forel, being on the run during wartime, and her training with the faceless man, arya has become very good at combat and fighting in general.
Inventory: one small sword named needle, an iron coin, and a miniaturized version of her direwolf, nymeria, who will now be the size of a golden retriever.
Anything Else? i can include clockbox samples if you need them, but they are over a year old!
Prose/Brackets Sample: tdm top-level
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