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riverviewmod) wrote2017-02-05 12:21 am
riverview: applications
Applications will be open from 10:00 PM EST on the 1st of every month until 10:00 PM on the 7th of every month. They will be processed as quickly as possible after they are submitted; if you have not received a response by the 10th of the month, feel free to contact the mod.
Applications will be open from October 1st until December 7th, and will be processed on a first-come first-served basis.
● Please post the entirety of your application in a comment to this entry.
Applications may receive a verdict of Approved, Declined, or Revisions.
● Declined applications can be reworked and resubmitted during the next application cycle. If an application is declined 3 times, it cannot be resubmitted.
● 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.
● There are currently 58 Character Slots still available in the game.
● While the game is close to character cap, reserved applications will be processed before unreserved applications, with unreserved applications being processed at the end of the cycle until cap is reached.
● Application Queue: All applications that would put the game over character cap will be placed in the queue below and processed on a first-come-first-serve basis. Applications in queue will be processed as drops happen, regardless of whether the application cycle is complete.
● Casts at or close to Cast Cap: Marvel Cinematic Universe: 15/15; Marvel Comics: 12/15
● Accepted character types: fandom, original, canon AU
● Non-accepted character types: fandom OC, AU
● The character limit is 2, with 2 apps allowed per month; players can buy up to a maximum of 4 character slots with AC bonus points. There is a cast cap of 15 characters per cast at this time.
● Linked samples should be no older than 1 year.
● Application challenges are not allowed at this time, 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.
● CLARIFICATION ADDED 04/02/2017: Applications must fit in ONE COMMENT on the application page. In special situations such as original characters or canon characters without an information link, please try to keep the summary concise and stick to major turning points. If you have been as concise as possible and it absolutely will not fit in one comment, please store the background section in an entry on your journal/musebox/website and link it to keep the application within one comment.
● CLARIFICATION ADDED 02/03/2018: The Strengths and Weaknesses sections are a stand-in for the usual personality section and should relate to the character's personality strengths and weaknesses. These sections should not include anything related to abilities and the weaknesses should not be 'positives in disguise' (for example, stating that a character has a weakness to iron because they are a fairy would not be an acceptable response to the weaknesses section, nor would stating that a character is too generous). Every character has good and bad personality traits, please include both.
● CLARIFICATION ADDED 03/10/2018: Linked samples must be from a publicly available source. Friends-locked samples are not acceptable for use (via screencaps or other methods), unless they have been unlocked and made public.
● A mod-created sample application can be found here. This is an example of a canon application. The strengths section has been filled out in bullet point form, and the weaknesses have been filled out in paragraph form - both options or a combination thereof are acceptable.
● Sample Applications: Ronan Lynch (Canon Character; Written Background), Yuuri Katsuki (Canon Character; CRAU), Derek Hale (Canon Character; CRAU), Tolemi Pagoda (Original Character), Benjamin Holt (Original Character)
player information
● name: your name or alias
● age: your age (generalizations are fine)
● contact: any way to contact you (PM, plurk, etc.)
● other characters: any other characters you play in Riverview
character information
● name: your character's full name, in Western order
● canon: your character's canon, please specify which if there are multiple versions
● canon point: please state as specifically as possible, with chapter/episode reference, if possible
● age: please clarify if your character is not mentally, physically, and chronologically the same age
● (canon) background: this is for canon characters only; link to a resource or give a quick run-down of your character's involvement in canon
● (original) world: this is for OCs only; please give a succinct rundown of your character's world and your character's place in that world, as well as a brief explanation of their history
● abilities: list your character's abilities including any specialist non-superhuman skills they might have; feel free to link to a wiki or other information source that clearly states them; clearly state if any abilities need to be nerfed
● strengths: list at least 3 personality strengths your character has and elaborate on them; this section should not be more than 300 words
● weaknesses: list at least 3 personality weaknesses your character has and elaborate on them; this section should not be more than 300 words
● job skills (optional): if you would like your character to be placed in a job to start out, list three work-related skills so they can be assigned something suitable; this is different than the abilities section, and should only be three words or very short phrases - the character will not be placed in a job if there are no traits listed here; This is something that is asked in orientation, and would be volunteered by your character. But please feel free to specify if they have a skill they might not mention but that you would like considered in their job placement and I'll take it into consideration as a "funny coincidence."
● housing (optional): tell the mod if you have any preference for where your character is placed in community housing
● network username: provide the username that your character will use when accessing the network; the default is in the form of first initial, last name (j.doe) but your character can pick anything else they like; usernames should have no spaces, but periods are fine
● network sample: write out or link to an example of how your character would communicate over the network; this sample does not have to be long, but it must clearly show your character's personality and a good understanding of their voice; links can be from the test drive meme, other games, PSLs (as long as they are not AU), or memes - but should not break the fourth wall (Dear Player etc.)
● prose/action sample: write out or link to an example of how you write your character in interactions; this sample should be a bit longer and can be done in prose or action bracket style and can be set in the game or your character's canon, though please avoid over-use of NPCing other characters - this is about your character; links can be from the test drive meme, other games, PSLs (as long as they are not AU), or memes - but should not break the fourth wall (Dear Player etc.)
Please fill out the information in the form below and submit it in its entirety in one comment to this entry. If your application doesn't fit in one comment, it needs to be trimmed - application standards are weighted to quality rather than quantity.
Reaper / Gabriel Reyes | Overwatch | Reserved
● name: Gaacha
● age: 29
● contact: vicninty @ plurk , thegaathing @ aol.com
● other characters: n/a
character information
● name: Reaper / Gabriel Reyes
● canon: Overwatch
● canon point: Infiltration (short)
● age: Est. 56
● (canon) background: Here.
● CRAU: Eluvio
↪ Arriving to the Eluvio had been a strange experience for Reaper--as a mercenary he first thought he had been captured by an enemy. He was held in quarantine due to his body being dead but walking--but once the medical staff deemed him not a danger of infecting others with his body’s strange rapid regen/decay, he was allowed free reign of the ship like all others who arrived.
↪ Space travel isn’t a hugely documented thing in his world apart from the Moon Base’s colony of Superintelligent Gorillas (seriously) but getting used to the idea that there’s life far from Earth took a bit of getting used to. Also getting used to the fact that being a dead man walking isn’t the weirdest thing to exist took some getting used to, too.
↪ Being away from home become, on one side of things, a bit of a point of uncertainty for Reaper. He has goals, ambitions, and things he feels he must finish before whatever’s keeping him alive gives up the goat and his life truly ends. However, given that he’s friends with Sombra, the super-hacker, he felt as if they would eventually find a way home. This was enough to make him not worry about being far from home--because he doesn’t exactly have any connections other than goals to take care of there.
↪ He has a distrust of governments and authoritative figures as a basis due to his history, but within the first few weeks of his arrival, he learnt that the people spirited away onto the ship were being used for missions of a questionable nature. His own ally from home, Sombra, being one of them. When learning she was rewarded for the possible genocide of an entire planet, he decided it was the first step to distrusting the government/people in charge here to. So much so that he even killed some of the aliens that had been brought aboard the ship during evacuation alongside another untrusting crew member he’d made an alliance with.
↪ Within the next few weeks when murders started happening on board the Eluvio, as well as technical failures and sabotaged systems including life support and artificial gravity, Reaper began to suspect the ‘rescued’ aliens alongside a great number of other members.
↪ During this, he was forced to interact with a great number of individuals, both combat trained and common civilian alike. Being a man who was once a soldier and a leader, he took it on himself to (reluctantly) teach a few of those on board basic self defense and how to handle small-scale weaponry to avoid being the next victim of the ‘random murders’ happening on board.
● abilities:
Wraith
”Looks like you’ve seen a ghost.”
It’s not entirely clear to what exactly Reaper is thanks to the limited information Blizzard has released about their character, but given what we know of the lore of Overwatch and the science that exists within it, it’s easy to put the pieces together. Reaper was brought back to life by scientific means, and whatever procedure that was conducted on his body simply went wrong, and has caused his body to become something twisted and out of human shape. While it’s unknown what his face looks like, it’s clear from the comic, the game, and even the animated shorts that he can turn his body into a gaseous cloud--speculated to be a cloud of nanomachines that keep his body regenerating from its constant degeneration--and into human form again. He can travel distances unnoticed by taking this form, as well as avoid taking damage from enemy attacks. His speed is also greatly increased in this form and he can slip between the cracks and get into places one normally wouldn’t be able to.
Reaping
”The few bodies recovered of his victims were pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation.”
While it’s not entirely clear what Reaper’s body is--science or supernatural--if there’s one thing that’s clear it’s that he can drain the life from those he defeats in battle. Leaving lifeless husks of those who die in battle against him, he takes on their energy for his own, referring to the energy as the ‘souls’ of the fallen. Though, whether or not the energy he takes is actually a person’s soul or just that he can steal the remaining vitality from fresh corpses is uncertain, it’s at least clear that he takes energy from the bodies of the dead.
Shadow Step
”From the shadows.”
Relating back to Reaper’s Wraith form, his Shadow Step ability allows him to move from one place to another with relative ease. However, this ability is limited to its short range and is restricted to Reaper’s line of sight. For example, he could use this ability to ‘teleport’ to the top of a building as this can be within his line of sight. However, if his destination is for example, behind a door or wall, he cannot simply teleport inside a building because his destination isn’t one he can see.
Active Regeneration
”That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.”
Hard to kill what’s already dead, isn’t it? Even harder when what you’re trying to kill doesn’t exactly have a body that’s always tangible enough to shoot down with bullets or even destroy with a Tesla Cannon. In the short ‘Recall’, Reaper is literally obliterated by a high-energy electric cannon and comes back later without a scratch. His body turning into a cloud when he sustains enough damage to literally explode, he survives and regenerates later, suggesting that it’s harder to kill him then one might think. He is a ghost, after all.
Firearms - Hell Shotguns
”Death Blossom is Ready.”
Probably one of the biggest jokes in Overwatch is that ‘Reaper doesn’t know how to reload’. Which is due to his personal reload animation that causes him to throw down his current guns and pull out an entirely new set from under his coat. How many he has on his person is anyone’s guess, and why he doesn’t reload like a normal human being is a mystery, too. But that aside, his weapon of choice ARE two huge, double-barrelled shotguns with intense kickback. They can tear though both people and even anti-omnic tanks like in the ‘Infiltration’ short, but are extremely short-ranged and require Reaper to get up into the face of his foe in order to do any significant damage. Not that he has a problem with that.
When facing multiple foes, as well, he is capable of unleashing an ability which makes him shoot off a flurry of shrapnel in every direction, causing massive damage to anything and everyone within range. While using this ability, Reaper is nothing more than a vague blur of smoke and bullets until he’s wiped out everything around him.
● strengths:
Leadership: He used to be one of the co-founders of the heroic international group called Overwatch. He was a driven force and a competent leader, and was liked by many of the people who worked under him. Noted as being the main driving force behind the end of the Omnic Crisis, his leadership abilities are second to none. These skills as a competent leader to haven’t faded--capable of teaching others how to handle themselves in battle and protecting those he considers allies is second nature, as a good leader never leaves anyone behind.
Drive: Not too many people can continue on working towards their goals even after they’ve died, but this is the main strength Reaper has going for him. Back in his younger days as a military leader, he had a drive to do what was right, even if it was unsavory (Like killing a man instead of capturing him because it was more effective). That drive lived on after death just as he has, and he now uses it to push himself forward, even if it means being the bad guy. Throwing himself into situations where he could even lose his life AGAIN; so long as he can attain his goals and get where he wants.
Resilience: He’s been knocked down and thrown around, people have tried to bury him, kill him, and keep him down. Like a coil, no matter the situation Reaper is thrown in, he always manages to bounce back--even being blown up in a military base, he gets up and continues forward. Attacking the Overwatch Museum to steal tech only to be beaten? Fine, he’ll attack a base in Gibraltar to steal information. Get electrocuted to death again by a tesla cannon? Fine, he’ll get up and go attack Russia’s main weapon base to kill the most powerful woman in Russia. He’ll always get back up.
● weaknesses:
Holds Grudges: He used to be a hero, and a well-known one. He was surrounded by many friends and allies, and yet at the end of it all, everything was taken away from him. Now as the terrorist reaper, he’s turned his back on all those who turned their back on him, and he’s not so quick to forgive those who wronged him. Killing ex-Overwatch agents systematically, having a list of names that were his old friends--he holds a grudge against all of them and probably will until the bitter end.
Fixated on Suffering: He wears a mask. His body is constantly deteriorating and rotting and healing in a mad cycle that never ends. It’s suggested that living is painful for him, his body a constant ache. Because of this, he uses his sufferings and pains as a fixation point. Telling those he holds grudges against that his suffering is their fault, that he was hurt so he will hurt those who caused it in return. He hides his disfigured body and laments being killed, so much so that he drives others away from him simply by being some ‘horrifying monster’.
Impatient/Irritable: He’s a military man with a very low sense of humor and even less patience for people who play around when there’s work to be done. Having to growl at his allies to ‘focus on the mission’ or to ‘stop fooling around’ are extremely common phrases for him to throw around, and barking out his annoyance for tomfoolery of those he’s working with is pretty much the norm for him. If there’s a job to do, do it fast, and don’t mess around.
● skills (optional):
Fluent in both English and Spanish
Skilled in heavy and light weaponry, close ranged combat, mid-ranged combat.
Leadership skills in a militaristic setting
Sewing/Crafting/making own clothing/accessories (I’m serious)
Black Ops operations (Locating, Capturing, Interrogation, and all that nasty stuff that goes with it)
● housing (optional): Anywhere is fine.
● network username: GraveMistake
● network sample: Inbox thread and Eluvio thread..
● prose/action sample: Eluvio thread aaaand another Another Eluvio thread
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