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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.
Deputy Pratt || Far Cry 5 || Hadriel CRAU || Not Reserved
Name: Sydney
Contact:
Current Characters: Kabal
Name: Staci Pratt
Canon: Far Cry 5
Canon Point: After he helps the player character escape, but before he's rescued. Currently tied to a chair starving to death.
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): He spent a year in
World Description: N/A
Character History: Wiki
CRAU History: He's stopped being a panciky ball of nerves (for the most part) because several people have made the effort to befriend him. He's a lot more like the deputy he once was than Jacob Seed's pet. He set up a firing range, started teaching people to fight, and went on several player-driven plot excursions in order to help people. He's also slightly more outgoing meaning he isn't gonna stay in his house and never leave. Which for him is a pretty big change.
Personality:
Submissive - Pratt's entire canon revolves around being tortured and brainwashed by a man obsessed with the strong culling the weak and he's been thoroughly convinced that he's weak and only through training and hunting down Sinners will he be strong. He'll become submissive in the presence of anyone he thinks is stronger than him (which is kind of a lot of people) and will back down if threatened by them. He's also very much a follower and doesn't do well in a leadership position.
Nervous - To the casual observer Pratt acts like a skittish, abused dog. He's a tightly wound coil of stress which makes him jittery and jumpy and he acts like he's always being watched and judged. When stressed he's a nervous wreck, panicking and not knowing what to do. He has to make his own decisions again, and he can only assume what Jacob would want him to do which will cause him to freeze and be tentative. This usually leads to him doing nothing at all, just frozen and waiting for something to happen. He'll also babble about strength and culling and weakness because the words bring comfort to him now - even though he desperately wishes they didn't.
Helpful - He's genuinely trying to help people (even though he does say in game that he joined the police force to get laid) so he'll go out of his way to assist people or act selflessly. He also thinks because he's weak that he's worthless so he will put himself in dangerous situations to help out not caring that he might be killed. This is a little in contrast to his view of needing to cull the weak, but without Jacob's constant influence over him he's reverted mostly back to the deputy he once was.
Pessimistic & Depressive - After his time in the cult he's realized that people are capable of monstrous things and he sees the worst in people all the time. He always assumes that everything will go wrong, that people will betray and hurt each other, and that most people are horrible. This doesn't stop him from being helpful when he sees a need, but it does mean he can be a downer to be around.
CRAU Development: The longer he's away from Jacob the less of a mess he is. His year in Hadriel has made him significantly less jittery to the point where he actually made three whole jokes near the end of his stay there. He's also more talkative and while he's still pretty depressing to hang out with, he does have his moments where he's sorta the charismatic ladies' man he was prior to the cults interference. Hadriel helped him to understand a little bit more about who he's become and be more accepting of it. While he's very aware that he's not okay and actually views himself as a potential danger, he's gone a whole year now without doing anything completely crazy so maybe there's hope for him still.
Powers/Abilities:
Helicopter Pilot: He's a trained helicopter pilot and has decent knowledge of all aircraft
Police Force: As a deputy he's gone through Law Enforcement basic training which includes firearms training, deescalation, and knows all about applicable laws
Basic Human from Montana: while he doesn't have any special abilities he has basic knowledge of a lot of random outdoorsy activities: Hunting, fishing, riding horses, ATV's, wilderness survival, target shooting, location of all Staggering Ox restaurants, etc.
Survival: Not really an ability but he has lots of experience pushing himself far past exhaustion and starvation and still being somewhat functional.
Inventory:
-His deputy outfit
-A rock with a healing glyph (this was made for him by a close friend in
-Metal canteen
-Hunting knife
-This very happy shovel
-CT-107 the Judge - She's a white wolf missing her tail. The judges are very bloody and gnarly looking but his first order of business will be giving her a bath so she'll just look like a wolf without a tail and with a chain and leather collar.
The Judges are wolves that Jacob tortured and drugged to turn them into very intelligent and obedient tools of death. She's incredibly smart for a wolf, but not as smart as a human. For example she could understand the commands "Bring me my gun." or "Take this bottle to Hudson." but not anything overly complex. He couldn't have her get things out of drawers or open doors or do anything more than a highly trained dog would. She's also obedient and will listen to her handler (Pratt) so she's not going to attack anyone without commands.
Anything Else?
Conditioning - While he's not exactly a sleeper agent, he's been tortured and clasically conditioned via a specific song that Jacob used to train his brainwashed killing machines. It won't turn Pratt into a mindless killer like it does the Player Character in the game, but will make him stop functioning normally and lash out at anyone close or anyone who touches him. It causes him physical pain and he'll do a whole lot of screaming if the song is played at him. The purpose is to make him return to Jacob, but since Jacob is in Montana and Pratt very much isn't, it would make him try to get to him by throwing himself out an airlock or something. His brain doesn't work when he's like that so he'd make all the worst choices, but not remember anything when he woke up from it.
Prose/Brackets Sample: Hadriel Network Post
Accepted.
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