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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.
Finn | Star Wars | CRAU | Reserved
Name: dani
Contact:
Current Characters: n/a
Name: Finn
Canon: Star wars
Canon Point: Post- 'The Last Jedi'; crammed onto the Falcon with the other 15 people left in the Resistance.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): 1 year in
Character History: finn's wiki page details it nicely! it bears noting that while i do incorporate the tie-in novel, before the awakening, as canon, i do not incorporate the star wars adventures comics content as canon. they don't quite mesh with the material the films provide.
CRAU History:
Personality: At heart, Finn is first and foremost a kind individual. The First Order viewed sympathy and empathy as weaknesses, but no amount of training could take those out of him. His instinct when seeing someone struggling is to try to help. He's a compassionate and genuine person, to say nothing for being especially expressive and easy to read. He finds himself getting attached to and relying on others without really thinking about it. And of course, once attached, Finn's devotion is ride or die. He cares fiercely for his friends, of which he's made very few, and would do just about anything for them. Hand in hand with that undying loyalty is dedication and follow-through, plain and simple.
When Finn makes up his mind to do something, he will do it. If he makes a promise or agrees to an exchange, he keeps up his end of the bargain. Loyalty and dedication can sort of boil down to the same root: stubbornness. Finn is as bullheaded as they come. He can be argumentative to a fault. Petty bickering and stressed yelling at people is one of his refined crafts, and he knows how to dig his heels in like you wouldn't believe.
Finn is also an incredibly brave person. Not just in terms of being willing to charge into battle for people he cares about or impulsively trying to help when he sees a person in trouble. He's willing to step back into the heart of the First Order to help others, and willing to use his extensive knowledge of how things work to give the Resistance the best chance of success. Many of his actions are directly driven by fear, but you can't have bravery without fear.
While fear isn't always a weakness, the way that it impacts Finn's choices through canon does tend to hold him back. From the second he decides to leave the First Order, fear of their retribution pushes his every action through most of The Force Awakens. His primary long-term concern is getting himself as far away as possible, and that doesn't change for a while (except to include Rey). Even when he's charging back into Order territory to save a friend, that fear remains. It takes a lot of personal growth for him to officially switch over from running to wanting to stand and fight.
Like a lot of the heroes of Star Wars, Finn has a running habit of acting without thinking things through. He's extremely goal-oriented, but he'll often only end up planning to a certain extent on how to achieve it. For example, he promised to get the shields lowered on Starkiller Base, but his only real plan in going there was finding Rey and saving her. Even if he had some vague ideas about how they might manage it, the part where he got the shields lowered was pretty much improvised. Finn tends to follow impulse and risk his life without a second thought; it's sort of second nature for him to consider himself disposable.
So basically, Finn is a pretty good dude. He's a smart, capable soldier. He's goal-oriented, and often seeks out short-term goals to hop between to keep himself active and occupied. He's stubborn, argumentative, and impulsive, with a lot of anger/trauma beneath the surface that he isn't very good at coping with. He's also kind and compassionate in a way that his upbringing was unable to quash. Finn seeks out common ground with others and, at the end of the day, is in search of a feeling of belonging.
CRAU Development:
Powers/Abilities: The wiki outlines the bulk of Finn's canon abilities really well. He was trained to be a soldier from early childhood- strategy, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, melee weapons, small-unit tactics, etc.- and consistently scored in the top 1% of his tests and evaluations during that training. His performance was notable enough to earn him the position of team leader on his old fire-team. He learns and adapts to new situations relatively quickly, if he's in the right mindset.He's not infallible or perfect by any means (there are numerous points in canon where people get the better of him, particularly where hand-to-hand/melee combat are concerned), and he's exactly as vulnerable to getting killed as any other squishy human, but he's definitely known to be a skilled soldier. It's kind of the only thing he does know.
He learned some piloting during his time in
Inventory:
Anything Else? I don't think so!
Prose/Brackets Sample: Here
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