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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.
Diego Hargreeves 🔪 The Umbrella Academy (Netflix) 🔪 maskormenace CRAU 🔪 Reserved
Name: Kayla
Contact: HMD |
Current Characters: N/A
Name: Diego Hargreeves
Canon: The Umbrella Academy [Netflix]
Canon Point: 1x10, The White Violin; during the space-time-jump on the concert stage.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s):
World Description: N/A
Character History: Character Wiki | Series Wiki
CRAU History:
Upon arrival in this world, Diego woke to a debriefing by a government official, who really gave him almost no information about why or how he was here. But he has a new, digital tattoo on his wrist and nanites injected in his skin. He was handed a file that had information about powers he would have, the job he was assigned, and where his new, government-given housing was located.
The nanites are part of a techno-organic form of stabilization given to all of those displaced into this world, which grants them both the individual powers they're briefed on upon arrival, as well as adaptive healing and regenerative qualities from injury, up to and including death.
As he did not take the opportunity to swear his allegiance to the government that stole him from his home, Diego's tattoo reads UNSETTLED in thick, bold black letters on the inside of his right wrist.
He was first introduced to the weirdness of this new world by waking up in the middle of a dreamscape with two of his siblings, where all of their worst guilt-laced memories were laid on the table for witness. But it would be three days later before Diego found all his siblings and he's since had some up and down with all of them in various ways.
He worked the job he was given, even though he hated it and did everything he could not to really do anything shaped like "settling" there. He doesn't trust anything that's being handed to him because it's all too easy, and there are so few answers to the most important questions. He's made a handful of acquaintances, but has kept rather insular within his family for the most part.
One of the cities had what could only be called an infestation of the re-risen dead. Diego fought in the battle and was nearly drowned by one of them until Shaun and Georgia Mason saved him.
One of Diego's sisters disappeared a week and a half ago, which has only served to increase his distrust of the place. And even more recently, he mysteriously lost an entire day's worth of time-- only to find that when he came to, he had a new power, apparently handed him by the government who brought him here. The last full memory he has from his last world is passing out at work, due to an overload from this newly acquired power.
[Note: I am fine with, and honestly expect, the nanites being defunct here.]
Personality: Short-tempered, brash, and protective are the top three adjectives people might use to describe Diego Hargreeves, but he is a complex, multi-faceted person to navigate and get to know.
One thing Diego finds problematic about himself, is how much and how deeply he cares. Even the harshest-looking actions and sharpest words come from a place of love for those he cares about. His face shows every inch of what he feels, no matter how much he'd like to forever wear a stoic mask. If someone works their way into Diego's inner circle, he's going to protect them. Whether they like it or not. Hope you don't mind the defensive knife boy in your corner now.
Perhaps due to the rigorous training he went through as a child, Diego is incredibly observant and has a penchant for noticing small details. Even when it seems like he isn't paying attention, Diego is taking in every angle of a situation to analyze later.
While he's guarded and it takes a lot for him to let people in, Diego is also a die-hard loyal person when he cares about someone. He takes having trust broken very personally, and very badly because it's something he doesn't hand out freely or easily.
Diego has an immense capability to adapt and will roll with whatever life throws at him with the ease of someone who has never had any other choice. He has lived a life of complete unpredictability and it has afforded him a strong resilience.
Diego can come off very abrasive; it's the way he deals with and interacts with the world. Anger is easier to hold and wield as a weapon than anything else. More than likely, it isn't personal, it's just Diego, who is secretly more bark than bite than he would like people to think.
The big, intricate piece of Diego's personality that spills over and under everything and informs nearly everything he says or does, even in the slightest, vaguest, shadow of a way, is a massive level of insecurity. Having the idea he's second best drilled into his head from early on affected how he sees himself, how he views the world and the colors of it, how he interacts with people. The biggest parts of Diego's insecurity come from being pitted against and compared to his brother, Luther. It doesn't help that he grew up with a stutter that only managed to heighten those insecurities in the most basic of tasks. He's gotten it under control these days and it's only really an issue when he's overly-emotional, but it's a point of contention in him, and at himself, all the same.
Diego can be acutely critical, but people never have to wonder where they stand with him, because he'll tell them in no uncertain terms. He won't play long-games of manipulation, he doesn't have the patience.
He is competitive with the best of them and while this can be a lighter and friendlier trait at times, Diego takes it to the extreme. Everything is a competition, even if it seems like it shouldn't be. Reginald helped nurture this part of his personality into the sharp demand to always be the best (and subsequently always feel second rate).
Overall, Diego has a sharp view of the world and is even more cutting in the way he interacts with it, but behind the fierce persona, there is a good guy with a good heart who will do what he can to protect people who cannot protect themselves.
Powers/Abilities: Canon
Trajectory Curving: The ability to curve the trajectory of anything he throws, though his favorite is knives.
Infinite Knives: Whenever Diego throws one of the vast array of knives he always has concealed on his person, it is auto-magically replaced by another identical one.
Empathy: Includes the following abilities/limitations:
Emotion Sensing: Taking in and feeling the emotions of other people [within a 30ft radius]
if he gets overwhelmed, he may suffer severe, debilitating migraines or in areas of a high volume of people [think a concert hall, moderately-sized movie theater, a mall] he may fall unconscious)
Emotional Projection: a "push" so-to-speak of Diego's own emotions into another person - the effect is temporary and [at affected party's player discretion] may last between 5mins-1hr
This may happen unexpectedly and unintentionally when he is feeling particularly strong emotions.
Emotional Manipulation: The ability to control other's emotions by increasing/decreasing already existing emotions in a target or inducing specific emotions in others, regardless of whether they are already feeling that emotion or not.
limit target number of 4 people at once
Other Notes: People with psychic abilities may be resistant
Beings with no emotions won't be affected
Control of this ability is impacted by mind-altering substances (alcohol, drugs of both recreational and prescription varieties; caffeine not included in this effect, however).
Players can opt-out of Diego's use of this power on their characters, as well. (found here!)
Inventory: Security guard uniform - pressed white shirt with obvious "Security" badge embossed on it, black tie, black slacks/socks/boots
Security guard tools - belt (with flashlight, two-way radio, pepper spray & a baton)
Hidden elsewhere - at least 3 different knives are hidden on his person.
Anything Else? N/A
Prose/Brackets Sample: maskormenace log tag
Accepted.
▶ Join the communities:
▶ 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.
▶ Note: While the tattoo would remain, the nanites' healing functions would be inert upon his arrival in Anchor. However, his additional powers from Mask or Menace would still function.