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mods of the vestige. ([personal profile] vestigemods) wrote2020-06-22 08:48 pm

APPLICATIONS

APPLICATION
► INFORMATION

APPLICATIONS ARE ALWAYS MOSTLY OPEN.


    IMPORTANT: We are currently still an invite only game, but starting the 15th will be accepting non-invite applications as well!
    They will be processed pretty much whenever I get to them. Currently, we have few enough incoming characters that there is no official introduction log, and folks are welcome to make their own intro log/network post at their leisure. Same goes for OOC intro posts.

THERE IS NO RESERVES PAGE.


    If you'd like to functionally 'reserve' your character, you're welcome to put up a placeholder comment here on the app page and edit the application and/or app link in later.

    If you do this, be sure to include "CHARACTER NAME | CHARACTER CANON | PLACEHOLDER" in the subject line + your name/contact info (plurk, discord, whatever) in the body of the placeholder.

    This will be valid for one week, at which point I'll delete it and free up the character.

APPLICATIONS ARE (MOSTLY) HILARIOUSLY SIMPLE.


    Most everything can be linked or summarized very briefly, with a few key exceptions:

    • CRAU characters need a summary of the changes brought on by their CRAU, since the canon wiki doesn't cover that
    • characters with no good wiki do need a little bit of a summary just so i know what the hell
    • original characters need some sort of infopage to link me and/or a general summary
    • malleable protags (e.g. commander shepard) need a general list of the choices made in canon, since the wiki doesn't cover that either
    Functionally, anything that I can't figure out from a linked wiki, you need to give me a little something for.

THERE'S AN EXTRA CREDIT SECTION.


    This, in effect, helps me keep in mind what flavors of horror will work best on the character cluster that we have in our game. If you don't want to fuck with it, just delete the entire 'extra credit' section. Otherwise, give me the juicy deets for any or all of the questions that strike your fancy.

MORE LINKS TO CHECK OUT, YO.


  • FAQ
  • taken list
  • that's basically it, really, more to come soon (maybe)

► COPYPASTA.

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Nie Huaisang | The Untamed

[personal profile] porndealer 2020-06-23 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Maus
CONTACT: PM or discord
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: No one yet, possibly two more
INVITED BY?: You might not know them, but I think their name is Trace???


CHARACTER.

NAME: Nie Huaisang
CANON: The Untamed
CANONPOINT: Before the ambush at Qiongqi Path and the resulting downfall of Wei Wuxian.

INFO: All the info you could ever need.

SAMPLES:

Network/texty sample
Log/prose sample

ANYTHING ELSE?: He's baby.


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: The inevitable and looming death of his brother due to the nature of using a saber. Though in general he's easily spooked and a very "cowardly" character.

REGRETS?: Not living up to his brother's expectations and generally being seen as a good for nothing in comparison to his brother who is everything a sect leader should be. Not that his brother thinks he's good for nothing, but compared to him he is most definitely weaker and an embarrassment to the family. Wanting to live comfortably and focus on more, no doubt seen as, womanly hobbies and activities. Poetry and painting, caring for pretty birds and collecting fans. Dressing nicely. Instead of focusing on working on his cultivation and training with his saber.

SO YES, he's not ashamed of who he is and what he likes, BUT, he no doubt has regrets for not living up to what a male heir of a sect should be, because it would look bad on his family.

MOTIVATORS?: He would literally leap to his apparent to death to save his brother.
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lalli hotakainen | stand still, stay silent (asgard crau)

[personal profile] skittering 2020-06-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: trace
CONTACT: i live here
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: bringing wei wuxian in about five minutes too
INVITED BY?: i literally live here


CHARACTER.

NAME: lalli hotakainen
CANON: stand still, stay silent
CANONPOINT: end of adventure 1

INFO: his wiki + his asgard app

CRAU INFO: crau from asgard, where he lived from early june 2019 to late february 2020.

  • the biggest change is that he has kind of learned how to people. he's still antisocial, but his support system in asgard was strong enough + the setting itself was non-apocalyptic enough that he could start to... very slowly rewire his built-in 'my only value is in keeping others alive' mindset. this has allowed him to learn how to be more tolerant of others, and then (with increasing familiarity with a person) to meet them partway instead of making them come to him entirely.

  • the above change did have a sort of setback, though - emil did die back in ~october and that really fucked both of them up for a bit. lalli has mostly recovered from that by now, and it seems to impact him very little in daily life, but he does still have a much more 'my only purpose is to keep others alive which i will never be able to do' mindset than he did at the start of his time in asgard. a crack remains in that foundation, only smoothed over by the fact that his generally increasing ability to people has broadened his concept of purpose a bit beyond simply his utility as a guardian.

  • he went through a bit of a crisis of faith. his magic in canon comes from his gods, which he has a distantly familiar working relationship with (there is no proof that they exist, but many other spiritual concepts do + magic in ssss reacts as though controlled by someone/something beyond the mages), but in asgard he was closed off from them entirely and had to learn how to functionally guide himself. he has always thought he was independent, but losing the safety net of his finnish gods taught him that he was less so than he realized. i'm going to play with this in vestige for sure.

  • some neat cr developments! he and emil worked their way to one another in an unconventionally romantic way. they're definitely not... a typical couple, but they are each other's Person now - and though lalli is still unconvinced that he is actually legitimately able to meet emil's needs, it's pretty great so far. the two of them somehow managed to become a familial dynamic trio with klaus hargreeves (umbrella academy), and they're pretty ride-or-die for each other. klaus specifically has been interesting cr because he has no trouble pushing lalli (emil still balks at it a little, or at least did until recently), so he has actually done wonders in helping lalli learn how to function more like a normal human being on an emotional level. namine is another great bit of cr, since she is functionally not someone he has any practical reason to ally with but her unexpectedly shrewd brand of kindness has worked her way under his skin and managed to earn her the spot of 'the person lalli hesitates least to talk to about emotion-related topics', even over emil and klaus. the final cr i'm gonna mention is ivar - the two of them threatened each other semi-actively for multiple months, then after a confrontation they accidentally bonded over the inevitability of everyone around them dying, so now there's an odd grudging respect there.

  • he developed the native god magic in asgard via his god honir, achieving two of his three tiers of magic (listed here).


SAMPLES: network post from asgard + tdm top-level and replies

ANYTHING ELSE?: butter good.
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Ian Fowler | OC

[personal profile] wittingly 2020-06-23 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Emmy
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] rifting
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: N/A
INVITED BY?: fuck u it me ya girl


CHARACTER.

NAME: Ian Fowler
CANON: OC
CANONPOINT: pre-apocalypse

INFO: here

SAMPLES: here are a shitload from the TDM

ANYTHING ELSE?: he got special bullshit magic powers idc if u curr


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?:
intimacy - specifically getting attached to someone and them leaving him
he's actually totally a basic bitch so anything viscerally horrifying will fuck him up - less survival horror bc he can navigate that with his bullshit powers but when those creepy doctors were set loose on him he basically pissed himself
if you can throw in some like creepy decrepit alive-but-emaciated rotting corpse of his dead mom somehow that would be pretty dope

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?:
-never knew his father, got that abandonment issues thing
-his mother died of lung cancer and she smoked all the way up until the day she died so he feels like she Left Him
-spent most of his childhood alone and then after his mom died, being alone because a choice so he's afraid to get Close to people

MOTIVATORS?:
-strong morals, ie 'the humane choice' vs. the 'tactical choice'
-a knee-jerk 'helping people' thing
-he's legitimately terrified of most things a normal dude would be so like he'll run tf away from anything scary
-if you force him to bond with someone against his will somehow he'll switch-flip to codependent and latch onto them too hard
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wei wuxian | the untamed

[personal profile] mannerless 2020-06-23 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: trace
CONTACT: it me
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: also apping lalli
INVITED BY?: skeletor


CHARACTER.

NAME: wei wuxian
CANON: the untamed
CANONPOINT: after ep30 (just before the quongqi pass incident)

INFO: wiki (for the books but it's basically the same minus like 20% the evil and 100% of the smut)

SAMPLES: his tdm tl + two idiots argue about a snail

ANYTHING ELSE?: this and this and this and this
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Jiang Cheng | The Untamed

[personal profile] legbreakings 2020-06-23 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Artemis
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] cynicalharlequin
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: -
INVITED BY?: I blame trace


CHARACTER.

NAME: Jiang Cheng / Jiang Wanyin
CANON: The Untamed
CANONPOINT: Episode 33, a couple of days after end of flashback

INFO: Wiki Ryslig app

SAMPLES: dialogue heavy tdm

ANYTHING ELSE?: casually shaming him


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?:
- Klaus taking off more clothes
- Bad things happen to Jin Ling
- Failing his sect/doing anything which leads to them being attacked again
- Learning loved ones were disappointed in him and/or found him wanting
- Losing his core again
- Loss of agency and general feelings of helplessness
- Humiliation
- In context of the game, where he may be reunited with them: bad things happening to family members or other loved ones and he can't prevent it
- Letting people see his vulnerabilities

REGRETS?:
- Everything related to the Yiling Patriarch and Burial Mounds mess, where he saw that trainwreck happening in slow motion and was unable to do a thing to stop it - it feels like every time he tried to fix things he only made them worse
- The destruction of Lotus Pier and that he wasn't there to fight (realistically, he knows he wouldn't have made a difference, he can't help feeling like he abandoned his parents anyway)
- He couldn't protect anyone
- Didn't show his loved ones his appreciation for them better when he still could
- Losing his dogs
- Should have been able to do more to smooth things over in the family
- Shouldn't have resented Wei Wuxian for being loved better by Father
- Should have convinced Wen Qing to go with him back in that dungeon, none of the Bad Things would have happened then
- Didn't appreciate the better/easier times enough

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?:
- Not being good enough in general, even his imposter syndrome has imposter syndrome
- Wei Wuxian liked the Wen Remnant better than him
- Jiang Yanli liked the peacock better than him
- Wen Qing thinking he wouldn't do shit for her
- His 1000 parent-related self-esteem issues, really
- Whether loved ones actually return his affection and want him around, or do they only suffer his presence?
- His youth and inexperience as sect leader
- Yunmeng Jiang being smaller than the other four sects, needing to prove himself equal
- He pushes people away and the more he is scared of that the more he pushes them away and he knows this is a problem but can't stop it

MOTIVATORS?:
- Safety of his loved ones in the game
- Chance to fix past mistakes
- Dogs
- Going home
- Loved ones not being dragged into the technicians' games
- Pride
Edited 2020-06-23 12:58 (UTC)
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Wen Ning | The Untamed

[personal profile] lookslikeacinnamonroll 2020-06-24 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Chris
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] objectpermanence/millennial falcon#9103
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: N/A
INVITED BY?: Kat


CHARACTER.

NAME: Wen Ning (courtesy name Wen Qionglin)
CANON: The Untamed
CANONPOINT: Episode 45, sitting on the docks outside Lotus Pier with Lan Sizhui

INFO: wiki + Voidtreckers app

SAMPLES: action TDM thread (cw: character death) + tfln thread (rule 63 account but same character)

ANYTHING ELSE?:



EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: failure, loss of control, loved ones dying, hurting people he cares about.

REGRETS?: killing Jin Zixuan and setting in motion the events that led to his family's deaths. not being able to protect the people he loved. letting himself be used as a weapon.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: that he holds no value as a person and only exists to be used as a weapon by people more powerful/important/worthwhile than him.

MOTIVATORS?: loyalty (to Wei Wuxian above all), duty, holding onto what little family he has left.
Edited 2020-06-24 00:26 (UTC)
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emil västerström ▶ stand still, stay silent ▶ crau

[personal profile] enflame 2020-06-25 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Pia
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] ships or blush#3016
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: N/A at the moment
INVITED BY?: Trace

CHARACTER.

NAME: Emil Västerström
CANON: Stand Still, Stay Silent
CANONPOINT: End of Adventure 1 | CRAU: ~February 16th in Asgard

INFO: character wiki & asgard app

CRAU INFO:
A foundational mechanic of Asgard was characters receiving three spells as a gift from the game's gods. Emil had unlocked two before dropping, and his initial discovery that he was capable of magic at all was...jarring, to say the least. While his canonpoint meant that he'd seen quite a bit of magic and held respect for at least one person who could wield it, magic was still a point of ignorance in his life. He's certainly not the best when it comes to using his spells, but he's willing to learn how to hone and grow the skills he has now.

In canon, Emil has effectively made one friend in his entire life, which allowed him to grow his empathy and understanding of others an immense amount. However, that was limited without variety, something that Asgard gave him. It's impossible to unlearn 19 years of selfishness and spoiled behavior in such a short amount of time, but he's certainly on the road to being a more well-rounded person. He's attained a very close friend in Klaus Hargreeves, someone who he certainly feels a fondness for, but there are also complexities to their relationship that Emil hasn't experienced with other relationships before, mostly having to do with Klaus' free-spirit and substance addiction issues.

With the smaller changes out of the way, the two biggest life-altering incidents in Asgard for Emil are his death and his relationship with Lalli Hotakainen:

1) During a game event in with White Walkers and the Night King from Game of Thrones made themselves present in Asgard, Emil was killed and turned into a White Walker himself. Basically undead and blood-thirsty, Lalli had no choice but to kill Emil in his turned state. Despite being without control of his body as a White Walker, Emil has complete memory of both of his deaths. This was a major point of contention between the two for a while, and still has a residual effect on their relation, as well as on Emil's psyche in general. He also has semi-consistent migraines and physical head pain from the incident.

2) Lalli was Emil's first and only friend at the beginning of Asgard, and even though his list of acquaintances grew Lalli still continued to be the person he appreciated the most. A lack of language barrier meant their relationship could grow positively, as well as create more opportunities for conflict. Despite a couple fights and disagreements, it only solidified to Emil that Lalli was someone he could never hold anything against, let alone not see as a friend in his life. He eventually accepts that the feelings he holds for Lalli are romantic in nature, finally confessing them and to his total surprise, they were reciprocated. Their romantic relationship is somewhat atypical, and it's only about ~3 months old, but it'll certainly be one of things that Emil is most sure about in his newfound situation.


SAMPLES: tdm top level + text thread from asgard; sorry all the network shit we did was gay.....

ANYTHING ELSE?: struggling himbo swede reporting for duty
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Naminé | Kingdom Hearts

[personal profile] lethechained 2020-06-29 05:36 am (UTC)(link)

PLAYER.

NAME: Kitty
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] nonabridged
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: None!
INVITED BY?: I think you know the answer to this one.


CHARACTER.

NAME: Naminé
CANON: Kingdom Hearts
CANONPOINT: Near the end of Kingdom Hearts 2, when she merges with Kairi.

INFO: Wiki

SAMPLES: Action | Text

ANYTHING ELSE?: I'd link that silly disco icon here but I'm not sure how and at this point I'm too sleepy to try to figure it out.


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: Being trapped (again), being forced to harm others (again, especially people she cares about), her own self-perceived weakness of character. Not big on creeping vines, aggressive plants or mysterious figures in dark coats, and is probably more comfortable around people her age than proper adults.

REGRETS?: So Many Regrets. The whole manipulating Sora thing was bad enough, but considering that the fallout from that went on a whole year and involved both Roxas and Xion having to be returned to Sora in order to wake him up, it really snowballed into a regret avalanche.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: Naminé's spent her whole existence being told and or shown by basically everyone that she's not important as anything other than a tool, so there are definitely some self-esteem issues going on there. She's very surprised when someone treats her kindly, but because she really needs that, she's also afraid that they'll change their minds about her over time/if they find out more about her, or if she's no longer useful to them. (Thank you, DiZ.) She's also quite concerned that someone else might try to use her for her powers, since that's... happened pretty much constantly, in her experience. Mostly she's just hoping it won't be for anything bad next time.

MOTIVATORS?: She has a pretty strong dedication to looking after various people in her canon, Sora especially. Really, though, she's a very kind-hearted person and tends to take on other people's problems if she feels like there's some way she can help, regardless of whether or not said other person is a stranger. On some level she's got amends to make for past mistakes, but mostly she's just developed a pretty strong (if occasionally a bit grey) moral fiber after everything that happened in the early part of her life. She's seen some crud and honestly the more people she can keep out of trouble the better.
Edited 2020-06-29 05:37 (UTC)
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jiang yanli ▶ the untamed

[personal profile] soups 2020-06-30 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Pia
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] ships or blush#3016
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: apping in himbo swede
INVITED BY?: Trace


CHARACTER.

NAME: Jiang Yanli
CANON: The Untamed
CANONPOINT: The start of Episode 24

INFO: WIKI; very novel centric but like y'all know

SAMPLES: tdm top level + texting thread

ANYTHING ELSE?: yanli_daddyshirt.jpg


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: being separated from her family, losing more than she's already lost, especially feeling further alienated from wwx

REGRETS?: being incapable of saving/protecting her family, as well as her beloved home

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: her lacklustre cultivation capabilities, what she has to offer to others as a person, that she doesn't have the same power or ability to act as her brothers do

MOTIVATORS?: the safety of her family, overall prosperity and fairness; she would die if it meant jwy or wwx could live instead.
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klaus hargreeves ☂ the umbrella academy (crau)

[personal profile] channellings 2020-06-30 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: kat
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] totalfruitcup or totalfruitcup#8284
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: just this idiot for now but i'll be bringing in soft bunny boy here shortly
INVITED BY?: do i live here too?? if not, i was invited by my gals


CHARACTER.

NAME: klaus hargreeves
CANON: the umbrella academy
CANONPOINT: the end of season one, episode ten: the white violin (and asgard crau will be put below)

INFO: klaus's asgard app and the umbrella academy wiki.

CRAU INFO:
crau from asgard (june 2019 to end of march/aprilish 2020)

• klaus's main development came after he experienced some bizarre and-slash-or traumatic events after his arrival in asgard. some dragon hole shenanigans, a white walker war (and some others i'd have to go back and find, just work with me—) plus a few other things (such as scouting and plant-testing) led to an extremely solid friendship between himself, lalli hotakainen and emil västerström. together, they ended up building a house with a couple friends (tuuri, reynir) where they all lived together for a while. by the end, klaus had a menagerie house before he, too, left asgard and ended up in the hellhole that is vestige.

• reliving things during cave hallucinations eventually allowed him to somewhat forgive himself (and sharing said things with emil and lalli at one point was a big factor) for things that'd happened back in his homeworld and accept making new friends wouldn't be the worst thing. witnessing emil's death – while being unable to stop it – was another turning factor when it came to his decision that protecting those he cares about is far better than running the other way.

• other mentionable people he became close to are rhys strongfork (borderlands) and ivar the boneless (vikings). the former he maybe kinda-sorta developed a friends with benefits thing with at first, but when it came to emil's death, rhys was there to help comfort and reassure him despite everything. that alone solidified their friendship, given how much trust he had to put into letting that be a Thing. ivar, however, is a stranger case in the sense they've got a tentative, tumultuous friendship (???) that's developed from a mutual understanding of one another (and mushrooms and right-proper viking makeovers in klaus's case). oh, and klaus also helped ivar discover his magic after a pep talk, which might've had something to do with it? just maybe, that is.

• and i suppose alongside regaining his mediumship, evocation and astral projecting, he's got his asgard magic: healing spirit (which is in the form of moths) and telekinesis.

SAMPLES: text & action

ANYTHING ELSE?: you already know way too much about a dumbass
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Bucky Barnes | MCU

[personal profile] freightcars 2020-06-30 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Em
CONTACT: rifting@plurk
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: Ian Fowler
INVITED BY?: i invite myself, oh thank u self i accept


CHARACTER.

NAME: Bucky Barnes
CANON: MCU
CANONPOINT: Post IW pre Endgame

INFO: das wiki

SAMPLES:
bleep
bloop

ANYTHING ELSE?: I feel like everybody know this fool at this point the market is over-saturated and I contribute to it rip


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?:
-getting brain-controlled
-murdering his close cr

REGRETS?:
-all that murdering he did that one time

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?:
-he can't trust himself, he's like super guilty of a lot of terrible stuff and does not believe he deserves nice things

MOTIVATORS?:
-he would do literally anything to avoid getting his brains messed with
-he would also do literally anything for Steve so if u wanna do some skinwalker stuff with that idk
Edited 2020-06-30 08:47 (UTC)

Re: TIME TO BUCKY-LE UP

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Rhys Strongfork | Borderlands (Asgard CRAU)

[personal profile] theprezident 2020-06-30 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Tossino
CONTACT: PM, [plurk.com profile] Tossino or discord at Tossino#3597
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: N/A
INVITED BY?: Trace ig


CHARACTER.

NAME: Rhys Strongfork
CANON: Borderlands
CANONPOINT: End of Borderlands 3

INFO:
Borderlands wiki
Tales from the Borderlands wiki
Malleable protag in Tales, choices here


CRAU INFO: Asgard CRAU! He gained enchantment magic and this blood transference spell. I assume he can keep these even though he technically went home in between.

As for the changes, Asgard mostly helped him develop in the same way he did in his original canon. He grew to become Less Of A Douche. In canon he seems to have decided that he doesn't need to be a complete asshole to be a CEO and seems to be genuinely appreciated and liked by his employees. So, basically, he's stopped trying to act like Handsome Jack and lets people know when he actually appreciates them. With Asgard's development with him as well, he'll actually be kind of nice to be around, and an actually good and reliable person to lean on if you need to.

Even if he can't really like. Fight monsters or anything. Can't help you there.

However, something Asgard did that the Borderlands couldn't really, was teach him to dare to trust people more. As much as he probably does trust his employees even in canon, he wouldn't be shocked if any of them decided to stab him in the back, even if he'd stubbornly protest the very notion. In Asgard he learnt that, wow, people can actually be decent - or even good - and trustworthy. This means he doesn't keep people at an arm's length as much as he used to. He'll scratch your back and trust that you might just scratch his in turn.

SAMPLES: TDM

Asgard network

Here's your gd oral sex reciprocation proof

ANYTHING ELSE?: The pornstache is here to stay probably.


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: Betrayal by very very close friends (like Klaus for example). He might scream at a lot of gross stuff but overall he deals with things pretty okay so that's like. His one huge fear tbh.
Oh, also Handsome Jack, honestly.

REGRETS?: Stanning Jack. His own greed and the friendships he fucked up because of it.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: That he's still a greedy and untrustworthy bastard. He tries so hard to be good, you guys.

MOTIVATORS?: To stay alive, honestly. But also to keep his most important people and their most important people alive. The friends he does have he wants to protect.
Edited 2020-06-30 08:58 (UTC)
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Geralt of Rivia | The Witcher

[personal profile] coolmotivestillevil 2020-06-30 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Tossino
CONTACT: PM, [plurk.com profile] Tossino or discord at Tossino#3597
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: Also apping my boy Rhys
INVITED BY?: Trace


CHARACTER.

NAME: Geralt of Rivia
CANON: The Witcher
CANONPOINT: Season 1, Episode 4

INFO: Wiki

SAMPLES: TDM

Musebox thread. The link is a few tags in because the first few tags are very introspection heavy. After that comment is more dialogue heavy.

ANYTHING ELSE?: Hm.


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: Kind of fears destiny honestly.

Also losing people he cares about. He trusts that he can handle dangers but other people are a different matter.

REGRETS?: Kind of regretting pulling that Law of Surprise bullshit on himself tbh.

Aside from that he doesn't have much this early in life I'll be real. Might feel regret that he's not getting more out of life sometimes but it's fine, really, it only needs to be monsters and money.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: That he's just a shit person to be around, nvm the fact that he also makes an effort to be. It's fine.

That he is the monster people try to claim he is.

MOTIVATORS?: Protecting others, first and foremost. But he won't go total martyr because he is also very invested in keeping himself alive too.
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Vanya Hargreeves | The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

[personal profile] misplayedmelody 2020-06-30 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Fox
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] fantomfox
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: n/a
INVITED BY?: Kat


CHARACTER.

NAME: Vanya Hargreeves
CANON: The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
CANONPOINT: post-season 1

INFO: wikia link + deer app (for more info, especially re: powers because I don't like the one on the wiki)


SAMPLES:
bracket sample #1 (tag-in)
bracket sample #2 (starter)
texting sample

ANYTHING ELSE?:



EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: Vanya is claustrophobic, cleithrophobic, and she fears silence. She has various fears concerning her family, but these change over time and are not worth mentioning in specifics here.

REGRETS?: She regrets attacking her sister Allison (but not the "final battle" against them all). She also regrets her poor relationship with her siblings (not entirely her own fault, but definitely partly her own fault).

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: Being ordinary in a family of super powered people and all the fallout that stemmed from that. The aftermath of the above-mentioned final battle. She's also insecure in using her powers now that she has them.

MOTIVATORS?: She wants to be accepted. By family, friends, job, anything.
Edited 2020-06-30 10:18 (UTC)
deferences: (♪ crosstalk)

lan sizhui ♪ the untamed

[personal profile] deferences 2020-06-30 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: kat
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] totalfruitcup or totalfruitcup#8284
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: just klaus's fool ass before this tiny soft boy
INVITED BY?: yeah, sure, i live here


CHARACTER.

NAME: lan sizhui
CANON: the untamed
CANONPOINT: episode 45 (for now)

INFO: here's his wiki.

SAMPLES: text & action

ANYTHING ELSE?: am super-soft baby, thank you :') and this one was hilariously simple, imagine that!!!
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eliot "absolutely nothing in moderation" waugh | the magicians

[personal profile] sybaritic 2020-07-01 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.


NAME: Lynn
CONTACT: you know where i live, brah
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: none yet!
INVITED BY?: the owner of the asshole into which i frequently yodel
CHARACTER.


NAME: Eliot "Flaming Disaster" Waugh(luigi)
CANON: Syfy's The Magicians (TV)
CANONPOINT: 4x13, immediately post spoilers
INFO: you would not believe how much less this version sucks than the one i linked for pines

SAMPLES: prose heavy: rainbow shitting and surprise sex unicorns

dialogue heavy: why NOT a fetish bar

ANYTHING ELSE?: this motherfucker is a] 6'5" and b] currently using a cane. he's in possession of a never ending liquor flask, and is, to quote, "pretty badass with a broadsword."


EXTRA CREDIT.


FEARS?: Happiness, real love, his father & brothers, the a lot of frankly terrible shit he has done becoming common knowledge, that there is no actual person under all the affectation and eyeliner, being separated from/losing the few people he genuinely cares about, and. butterflies. this is not a joke, it's canon.

REGRETS?:


...no, seriously, most of this can be summarized by his tendency to screw up his own life spilling out and hurting other people. and doing meth. twice.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: the reason both happiness and being really loved terrify eliot is that he thinks he's not worthy of either; also his weight, his upbringing, and going more than twenty seconds without being emotionally validated in some way.

MOTIVATORS?: the opportunity to do something good/heroic, protecting his friends (especially q because spoilers), and despite how he would say he'd do anything to stay alive, like. that is a lie. he feels tremendously guilty for various reasons and would probably welcome a chance to just fling himself into a blender to make up for that. the constant lowkey death wish doesn't help! hooray!
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jaskier | the witcher

[personal profile] viscountbuttercup 2020-07-01 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: mel
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] itsmel
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: none yet my dude
INVITED BY?: i don't know if you've heard of her... someone called trace


CHARACTER.

NAME: "Jaskier" Julian Alfred Pankratz, Viscount de Lettenhove
CANON: The Witcher (TV)
CANONPOINT: End of episode 4

INFO: what up


SAMPLES: tdm tl.

    network.
      [ it's a video post from our resident bard, because figuring out how to turn on a camera is slightly easier than navigating a full text message for one, but more importantly because if jaskier is given an opportunity to perform for an audience, he's going to take it.

      unfortunately, while he has managed to figure out he video chat function with a small bit of coaching, he clearly has yet to actually master it, if the way his beaming face is only half framed in the feed is any indication.

      unless he's just going for something artful, anyway, which isn't completely out of the question but slightly more unlikely when it involves depriving the other residents of his beautiful face. ]


      I'm lead to understand that this delightful little device it meant to communicate with others across long distances and doesn't even require that the user be adept in the art of magic and I. Am. Excited.

      Hello darlings, I am the renowned bard Jaskier and I am aroused to such heights of creativity by this fascinating little place and all the beautiful people in it. If any of your are interested in having any of your past feats of glory epitomized in epic verse, I would love to hear all about it!

      [ and here, a wink to help entice anyone that might be slightly on the fence at the moment. ] Call me!

ANYTHING ELSE?:



EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: Jaskier's fears are... sort of difficult to pin down as anything specific. He doesn't really let himself linger over anything that would upset him that way enough for it to actually develop into a fear. He lives for distraction and excitement, and all of that helps him to avoid tackling such topics. Sure, he'll run away from a dangerous monster, same as anyone else, but that's not really fear, just common sense.

REGRETS?:


PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: That said, if one had to pin down what would upset him most, being pinned down, for one. Not in a place like Vestige, no, there will be more than enough interesting people and things going down in Vestige for him to not mind so much being unable to leave. But there's a reason he holds a Viscount title but travels the world under a stage name.

He also doesn't like having his love thrown back in his face in unkind ways, which is why he tends to be so... traveled and busy in that regards.

MOTIVATORS?: He needs love and attention to flourish, needs to give that love and attention in return.
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Reynir Árnason | (CRAU) SSSS

[personal profile] draumstafir 2020-07-01 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: mel
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] itsmel, mel#0452
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: does my npc count
INVITED BY?: u know


CHARACTER.

NAME: Reynir Árnason
CANON: Stand Still Stay Silent
CANONPOINT: End of Chapter 3 in Adventure II

INFO: Adventure I

CRAU INFO: Reynir spent a handful of months in Asgard with a handful of his friends from back home and made a handful of new ones as well.
  • Reynir gained the ability to summon his fylgja into the physical world for stretches of time, as well as the ability to see through the fylgja's eyes if he focused.
  • Reynir developed an incredibly close friendship with Klaus, to the point where Klaus is hands down the first person he comes to when he's looking for comfort or a hug.
  • He made friends with Namine as well, but not to the extent to where he would usually seek her out.
  • Lalli and Emil have stopped being explicitly horrible to Reynir and actually try to make an effort to include him in things now. They're still not the best of friends by any stretch of the imagination, and Emil still definitely winds up annoyed with Reynir more than anything, but he at least feels like he can talk with Lalli about things sometimes and it's progress.

SAMPLES: log sample
network sample

ANYTHING ELSE?:



EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: His dreams and malicious ghosts.

REGRETS?: Tuuri, basically. Not that there was very much he could have done there to help things, but it's still a regret. Logic doesn't really operate here. He also sort of regrets the way he was thrown into the adventuring party, since it led to a whole lot of resentment in all of them suddenly being forced to protect him, but he can't regret the trip itself since it sort of made him who he is today and he can't imagine going back to simply being a shepherd.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: Listen he just really wants his friends to actually like and want him around, is that so much to ask? He knows, alright? He knows at this point they're keeping him around more because he's useful than anything else, but that doesn't mean he can't convince them to like him just for him too, right? Right?

MOTIVATORS?: He wants to make friends and be useful, it's really that simple.
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Number Five | The Umbrella Academy

[personal profile] callidus 2020-07-01 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Shannon
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] bandakar or discord @ Bandakar#9753
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: Nada
INVITED BY?: Traaace <3


CHARACTER.

NAME: Number Five
CANON: The Umbrella Academy
CANONPOINT: The end of 1x10 - The White Violin

INFO: My info page

SAMPLES: A texty sample and a not so text sample

ANYTHING ELSE?: Please be nice to him he is just a sweet innocent boy trying to make it in the world!
Edited (i'm sorry for the second edit i left the first line in the app about the subject line and i hated it! ) 2020-07-10 03:24 (UTC)
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graham casner | the white vault

[personal profile] casner 2020-07-01 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: Lynn
CONTACT: same as it ever was
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: Eliot Waugh


CHARACTER.

NAME: Graham Casner
CANON: The White Vault (podcast)
CANONPOINT: 3x10, after he's returned to Halifax but before the Documentarian contacts him again.

INFO: The White Vault is a tale of woe involving a group of scientists sent on what was sUPPOSED to be a short, simple jaunt to repair machinery and collect data from a remote Antarctic outpost. Graham was their survival guide, aka don't let all the squishy sciency tech people accidentally freeze to death or get eaten by a polar bear or something.

Unnnnfortunately, said jaunt was neither short, nor simple, and, as one piece of official merch says, the characters "just wished there were polar bears." INSTEAD there were creepy radio transmissions! and a bizarre abandoned village below the glacier! and an anatomical theater where they found a whole bunch of boxes filled with human hearts and teeth! and a monster! who slowly picked them off one by one! graham is the only survivor, and that was more luck than skill. he is currently drowning in ptsd and survivor's guilt, so that's fun!

personality wise he's taciturn and to the point, occasionally blackly, stabbily funny, and yet despite that driven almost entirely by caring for and keeping his charges safe. congratulations, you're all his charges now.

SAMPLES: TEXTING: shippety ship ship ship

ACTION: well, shit.

ANYTHING ELSE?:


EXTRA CREDIT.

FEARS?: Currently there's just about nothing that doesn't remind him of Fristed, and while those things do painfully unsettle him the actual fear is that these aftereffects (being abruptly unbalanced by everything from dark rooms to the sound of cracking ice) won't ever go away.

REGRETS?: Being a less than present partner and father, any illness or injury any of his clients have ever sustained, the deaths at Outpost Fristed, abandoning his team at Outpost Fristed even though that's arguably like, not what happened at all, and probably not bringing more and larger guns to Outpost Fristed.

PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: anything that qualifies was covered in fears; otherwise he is disgustingly self-assured.

MOTIVATORS?: Everyone he has decided he's responsible for (which is everyone) must be kept safe and ideally at least kind of sane!!!!!! This includes not only their literal, physical lives, but also the promise of, say, additional supplies. Better food, all weather clothing, medical equipment, etc.
Edited 2020-07-01 23:40 (UTC)
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petra seydoux damerel | original character

[personal profile] chaleureuse 2020-07-05 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
PLAYER.

NAME: libby!
CONTACT: lilpantsunicorn#8828 / [plurk.com profile] keanuleaves
CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: soon
INVITED BY?: bitch it was u


CHARACTER.

NAME: Petra Celine Seydoux Damerel
CANON: Original
CANONPOINT: the year 2020.

INFO: philanthropic wealthy french it girl accidentally becomes gangster's moll, what is this, lord of war. (let me know if this extremely sparse timeline isn't enough.)

SAMPLES:
  • a text thread.
  • meeting graham, tdm.


    ANYTHING ELSE?: no magic, no fancy powers, knows how to load, dismantle, reassemble and maintain a variety of firearms. has partaken of recreational drug use (marijuana when she was ~younger~, non-habitual use of cocaine). smokes cigars very rarely, never cigarettes. can drink most grown men under the table and cannot, to save her life, cook worth a damn. hobbyist photographer.
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    gwenaëlle vauquelin | original / the stand-ish.

    [personal profile] hedoniste 2020-07-05 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
    PLAYER.

    NAME: libby
    CONTACT: ^ see above
    CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: SOON
    INVITED BY?: still u bitch


    CHARACTER.

    NAME: Gwenaëlle Clothilde Decima Vauquelin
    CANON: The Stand, ish.
    CANONPOINT: shortly after the world ended.

    INFO: cw: pandemic apocalypse, substance abuse, attempted suicide, mental illness, authority figure sexualizing a minor, murder.


    SAMPLES:
  • the twins reunite.
  • this is a different gwen, but i promise the energy is the same.

    ANYTHING ELSE?: her real super power is hurting people's feelings.
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    Ash Starmer 2.0 | Black Mirror (maskormenace CRAU)

    [personal profile] subroutined 2020-07-06 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
    PLAYER.

    NAME: Chris
    CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] objectpermanence
    CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: Wen Ning
    INVITED BY?: I'm already here, bitches


    CHARACTER.

    NAME: Ash Starmer (2.0)
    CANON: Black Mirror
    CANONPOINT: end of episode 2x01

    INFO: here's an old app with history and personality already written

    CRAU INFO: Ash spent over a year in the alternate-America of Mask or Menace, where he was given some superpowers (see the above app), and where he was able to grow as a "person" and develop an identity outside of the man he's a clone of. He took on the name "Green Newman" instead of Ash Starmer, and was able to make his first real adult friends (a few people from the Pokemon universe, among others), as well as meet other inorganic life forms (including a Transformer and the living embodiment of the X-Men Danger Room). He made friends with General Hux from Star Wars because they shared a face, but later realized that Hux was taking advantage of him and was never actually his friend. When he confronted Hux about this, Hux used his technopathic powers to deactivate Ash/Green and left him in a ditch. His body wasn't discovered until days later.

    SAMPLES: old TDM actiony thread + old MoM network post

    ANYTHING ELSE?: sad robot boy is sad


    EXTRA CREDIT.

    FEARS?: being shut down, abandonment, confined spaces (like attics)

    REGRETS?: not being able to be the man Martha wanted him to be, the real Ash Starmer

    PERSONAL INSECURITIES?: he's still in love with the woman who locked him in an attic for ten years, even though logically he knows he probably shouldn't be. he's too kind, and easily taken advantage of.

    MOTIVATORS?: survival, friendship, kindness.
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    jonah "wight" reid ▶ no end

    [personal profile] halfface 2020-07-06 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
    PLAYER.

    NAME: Pia
    CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] ships ■ blush#3016
    CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: Emil Västerström, Jiang Yanli
    INVITED BY?: Trace


    CHARACTER.

    NAME: Wight | Previously Jonah Reid
    CANON: No End
    CANONPOINT: Page 3

    INFO: an old app; please don't ask me why duplicity is this way

    SAMPLES: action & prose

    ANYTHING ELSE?: 👁️💋👁️


    EXTRA CREDIT.

    FEARS?:
    ■ never being accepted anywhere ever again
    ■ not ever seeing his sister again

    REGRETS?:
    ■ bad horny decisions
    ■ bad job decisions
    ■ bad everything decisions
    ■ involving his family in said bad everything decisions

    PERSONAL INSECURITIES?:
    ■ being dead
    ■ being disfigured
    ■ a past full of awful decisions he can't rectify
    ■ his capability to truly showcase change

    MOTIVATORS?:
    ■ the protection of his family
    ■ staying alive to see his sister again
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    enfys eddings | original character

    [personal profile] arhydynos 2020-07-06 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
    PLAYER.

    NAME: libby
    CONTACT: you know
    CHARACTERS IN VESTIGE: petra + gwen


    CHARACTER.

    NAME: Gates Enfys Moninne Eddings, nee Keel
    CANON: Original
    CANONPOINT: tyool 2005.

    INFO: just your ordinary average every day sane psycho supergoddess.

    SAMPLES:
  • pussy jokes, bono jokes, casual axe throwing.
  • But I don't want you to have any illusions about what that means for you. You fuck up, I won't call Security.” (she's ten years older here.)

    ANYTHING ELSE?: during her marriage enfys used to occasionally wear the leia bikini for her husband. she has never actually seen star wars.
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