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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.
Annie Cresta | The Hunger Games | Reserved
Name: Ash
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Current Characters: None
Name: Annie Cresa
Canon: The Hunger Games
Canon Point: Mockingjay Chapter 17, soon after Annie and Finnick's wedding
CRAU Timeline/Game(s): N/A
Character History: HERE
CRAU History: N/A
Personality: Annie is frequently dismissed by those who don't know her. Upon hearing of her mental breakdown during her games, Katniss Everdeen immediately labels her a “poor, mad girl”. Later in canon President Alma Coin (who only knows of Annie via reputation) calls Annie the “the mad girl” before adding that Katniss' bargaining for clemency isn't necessary: “we don’t make a habit of punishing anyone that frail.” But Katniss, a harsh judge of people, changes her opinion once she spends a few hours alone with Annie: she's not mad, more unstable. Given this verdict is delivered after Annie's been tortured repeatedly, her reputation is vastly exaggerated.
Which isn’t to say that Annie’s perfectly well. She had a very public mental breakdown five years ago, triggered by an intensely traumatic experience. The way Finnick talks about her asking what's real and what's not implies that this is an issue she's had for years. Annie also has issues in concentration, laughs at the wrong places in the conversation. For RP purposes, I play her as having Generalised Anxiety rather than PTSD (See: the Anything Else section).
Annie is, of course, far more than the 'poor mad girl' her society likes to box her in as. In the face of highly traumatic experiences and a completely shattered reputation, she does more than just survive. She consistently reaches out to other people in canon or in her canon background, no matter her own circumstances. To Mags and Finnick after her games, to Peeta during their torture, presumably to Mrs Everdeen given Mrs Everdeen moves to District Four at the end of the books. At her core, underneath her nervousness, Annie is made of compassion – and steel.
She has drive and resilience enough not only to navigate a mental breakdown in an arena, to push her body past its limits to live, but also to survive the later cost. In becoming lovers with Finnick, not only does she show a compassionate understanding of the realities of his situation (it cannot be easy, having a secret relationship with a man forced to play the sexpot rake in the Capitol) but also that she knows how to enforce boundaries. To make herself a support for him as much as he's a support for her, shows that she knows what is needed, and that she can do it. How quickly Finnick falls apart without her is a testament to how much he relies on her and how much he can rely on her.
Her inner steel is also made up of her principles, seen in two apparently contradictory areas. In canon (after her game canon-point) the grieving Annie argues against retaliation against innocents. For such a shy, socially awkward woman, speaking up clearly and firmly, in a meeting against a leader of the revolution, shows just how strongly she feels on this.
The other area is in her being a Career. Careers are usually thought of in Panem as gloryhounds, and not without reason. But the truth it, most Careers die; yet they do it anyway. A district with a victor gets more food for a year. A victor goes into the Capitol, a victor has wealth. A victor can do an awful lot to protect their district. However, a dead Career has also protected someone – they have protected the other district children. While I have Annie has a washed-out Career, this is still how she’s been trained to think and what she believes in. Being a Career also makes her calculating underneath her shy sweetness, occasionally ruthless, and does nothing to help her anxiety’s paranoia.
CRAU Development: N/A
Powers/Abilities: Annie has been raised in a seaside fishery in Panem's fishing district. Panem’s education is focused on the district’s industry, so as well as learning about fishing, fishing equipment and boats, Annie has studied maintaining and managing fish populations, marine biology, and farming-related ecology. She also knows how to make nets, traps and fishhooks.
As a Career victor, she's been trained in small-group tactics and the Games, putting together patterns and analysing them. She can analyse groups and group-behaviour, and try and piece together the motivations/intent of Gamemakers. She can also fight, and has learned some basic survival training.
Inventory: 1 x black boots, 1 x grey socks, 1 x set of plain underwear, 1 x grey trousers, 1 x grey shirt, 1 x grey jacket, 1 x pair of black fingerless gloves, 1 x black hair tie, 1 x plain gold wedding ring.
Anything Else? For RP purposes, I play Annie as having Generalised Anxiety rather than PTSD. Anxiety makes her rewrite the past and present until she has to ask a trusted person to tell her what is actually going on, without it actually being an issue of delusion or ongoing psychosis. Anxiety also explains her issues in concentration and her odd laughter, and helps fuel her social shyness and awkwardness. I also play her as having the occasional issue with stress-induced hallucinations, but more often, she has problems with intrusive thoughts.
Each Victor has a ‘talent’ they are supposed to develop: I’ve headcanoned that Annie chose glassmaking. Random, but potentially useful in the setting.
(She's taken the time to braid her hair. It's all she can do. It's made her feel a little better.)]
So. Um. Hi.
[Then she stops because her voice was a tiny squeak and she's not doing this again, this is ridiculous. She could ask Finnick to do this, but she can do it. She can.]
Hi. So, uh. I'm Annie. Finnick and I, we're from District Four. Panem? Panem. But no one else has, or, or um, seems to have heard of it. So.
Where's everyone from?
Prose/Brackets Sample: HERE
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