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| Application: OU |
| Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly Age: 17 and up please! Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you. Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play. Character name: Series: If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from. Canon point: Please keep in mind that there is no way to canon-update your character when you choose a canon point to take them from. Summary: Sum up the character's history and personality. This doesn't have to be long, a few paragraphs should be fine. Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found here. Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you. |
| Application: AU |
| Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly Age: 18 and up please! Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you. Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play. Character name: Series: If there is more than one version of canon, please specify which one you will be playing from. AU info: Please describe how the AU differs from canon Summary: Sum up the character's history and personality. Be sure to include how the AU has affected the character you are apping. Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found here. Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you. |
| Application: OC |
| Player name: whatever name you want to go by OOCly Age: 18 and up please! Contact: A personal journal, a plurk name, an email, whatever. We just need some way to contact you. Other characters: Please list all the characters you currently play. Character name: OC info: Please describe the world the OC is from. This section should be a couple paragraphs long at a minimum. Summary: Describe the character's history and personality. Both should be covered in this section, but more attention should be paid to personality. Powers: If your character has canon powers, please describe them and how they will be changing to fit within the setting. More information on powers can be found here. Entry: How will your character be entering the game? They can either find their way to the Bastion on their own, or they can be found on the Skyway by someone else. This is not a sample! This is to tell us if your character will need to be rescued from the Skyway, so we can arrange that. Don't put the day of entry in your app, we will do that for you. |
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Date: 2013-04-27 05:24 am (UTC)Age: 22
Contact:
Other characters: N/A
Character name: Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, alias Alucard
Series: Castlevania, going by the original continuity, not the Lords of Shadow reboot.
Canon point: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, post Dracula fight
Summary: Once upon a time known as the Fourteen Hundreds, Dracula - vampire of many titles and eternal enemy of the Belmont clan - fell in love with a human woman by the name of Lisa. The two came to have a son they named Adrian. The boy spent his earliest years with his mother, who was a skilled healer, and loved her dearly. Tragically, these same skills in medicine that had save the lives of others lead to her being mistaken as a witch, and subsiquently executed by the villagers for it. Severely traumatized by having had to watch his beloved mother burn at the stake, and having been raised to be a warrior for his grieving father's war against God and humanity, Adrian grew to be cold, pessimistic, and mistrustful. However, he had taken his mother's dying words to heart; he did not hate humanity as his father did, and eventually disappeared for a time when he could not stand to take part in what would grow to be a war against humanity.
He would reappear again in 1476 under the alias of "Alucard" - a name chosen to reperesent his opposition to Dracula's philosophy - seeking to stop his father's reign of terror through whatever means necessary. Alucard appeared to a vampire hunter of the Belmont clan named Trevor, and after ascerning his worthiness in battle, joined him and his other two companions to destroy the lord of Castlevania. Although they were successful, Alucard felt overwhelming guilt for his part in destroying the only living family he had left. Unable to cope with this, he sealed himself away in what was intended to be an eternal sleep.
Three hundred years and a number of clashes between the Belmonts and the forces intent on resurrecting Dracula (some attempts even briefly successful) later, something goes wrong in the year 1797, causing Alucard to awaken. Realizing that his father's castle has once again risen, he sets off to investigate, feeling it his duty to stop whatever dark designs have caused it to reappear. Early in his exploration of the castle and the trials to regain the powers and equipment - his mother's sword especially - Death had stolen from him, he meets a young woman named Maria who is searching for Richter Belmont who disappeared one year previous. He shows little care to her cause, having actively been closing himself off from human attachments since not long after his mother's death, knowing that he would inevitably outlive them for one reason or another. Eventually, after finding out that the apparent new lord of the castle is in fact the missing Belmont, Maria manages to convince him not to take his original intended course of action and instead seek to free Richter from the curse he's under.
Surprise, surprise, it was a plot by the ghost of the dark priest Shaft to resurrect Dracula, which Alucard and Maria find out after Richter has been freed from Shaft's control. To prevent the plan's success, Alucard follows Shaft into an inverted version of Castlevania, leaving Maria behind with Richter. This was no longer their fight. Just his, and his alone. Alas, though he struggled through the castle and even defeats Shaft, he was too late to prevent his father's revival. Though it pains him, Alucard fights and destroys his father once again, although not after finally delivering his mothers last words to Dracula.
That is the last thing he remembers before waking up...
Powers:
Weapons Master: Thanks to the the training he went through early in life, Alucard is skilled with a variety of weapons, although he is most masterful with the sword he inherited from his mother.
Vampiric Traits: Being a Dhampir, Alucard has inherintly superiour strength, speed, and durability to a normal human. He's fortunate in that he has no need to drink blood or breathe, and sunlight is no worse for him than it would be for an albino basement dweller. The downside? He can't come into contact with running water without it injuring him. (He's possibly weak to holy elemental things, although I'm still trying to find a difinitive answer either way.) These are always on.
Relics: Certain powers of his are enhanced (such as his already fairly impressive jumping ability being upgraded) , or in the case of his inability to touch running water, negated. Some are utterly useless outside of his homeworld though (or are things the player rather than he would see). All are auto-effect, but can be stolen if someone is so inclined to do so.
Magic: He has a number of spells he can do, including throw fireballs, heal himself by getting blood splashed on him, summon one or four spirits to attack, or directly sap the life energy from nearby enemies. He also has the ability to shapeshift into a wolf, a bat, or mist. These are all limited to the thrice a day category.
Familiar: Although he has multiple familiars, the only one that came with hims is the Sword.
Entry: Arrives on Day 61
Other: Alucard can and will eat anything that happens to be available, even if it's rather... questionable if it's fit for human consumption anymore. Including meat found in a wall, or a banana a skeleton was holding. Yeah, this series is kinda weird.
REVISION
Date: 2013-04-27 05:42 am (UTC)Thank you for applying at The Bastion. Before we can accept you, there are a few points we need clarified.
-You did a good job of detailing his history, but we would like to hear more about his personality. Based on his actions in the game, what kind of person is he? You can either add more separate from his history, or mix in more of his personality with what you have so far.
You have 72 hours to post your revisions. Please post them as a reply to this comment.
If you have any questions about the revision request, please feel free to contact us.
Re: REVISION
Date: 2013-04-27 10:29 pm (UTC)Still, even with his allegiance firmly on the side of humanity, he does not trust them enough as a whole to willingly live among them. Given what they did to his mother, how could a creature such as he, far less a creature of the light than Lisa had been, possibly live amongst those that had extinguished her radiance because they suspected her of being a witch? And even if he were to find someone amongst the humans that he could trust as anything more than a ally in battle, they would only die long before him, whether through violence, sickness, or simply old age. Much better to close off his heart and focus only on the goal at hand, no matter the cost. Although it doesn't happen on the timeline this particular Alucard is from (multiple endings and all), this single-mindedness is demonstrated in the event that conditions to see the spirit controlling Richter are not met, which end with Alucard killing the Belmont. In the worst ending, he expresses no remorse over this; in the bad ending, he expresses a small amount, but only in the sense of "what unfortunate circumstances these were" rather than any particular care for the fact that he'd had to kill what was once a good man. Even on the timeline set for the True Ending (the canon ending, and the one he's from), Alucard sees no point in refraining from returning to his eternal sleep until the world needs him again until Maria somehow manages to convince him otherwise in the post-game. He's from before that time though, so... not a whole lot of emotion expressed. He's marginally more emotional inwardly, but not by all that much.
He's not completely a cold fish though. Just as his mother is the driving reason behind his eternal battle to protect humanity from the forces of darkness, so too is she the one subject that is guaranteed to get him to show emotion. This is most evident throughout the entire event where a succubus draws him into a nightmare and poses as his mother on the day she burned to convince him back to the side of Dracula. He begins with a frantic attempt to free her, although the moment she starts telling him to take vengeance for her, he realizes that the succubus is not his beloved mother. Thereafter is the only boss battle that Alucard ever enters in a state of anger. He doesn't even simply kill her at the end, but makes sure that her soul will be forever trapped within the dream world despite her pleading for her life. Long story short, disrespecting Alucard's mother is a horrible idea.
ACCEPTED
Date: 2013-04-27 10:37 pm (UTC)Congratulations, your character have been accepted into The Bastion! They will be entering the game on DAY 61.
Please follow these steps:
- Comment to the taken page.
- Join
- Re-read the FAQ, rules, and timeline .
- Go to the housing post and fill out the form there.
- Check the calendar to see what day it is in-game.
- Make an entry in your journal to keep track of all Shards, Abilities, Talents, and Items your character acquires within the game.
- Introduce yourself in
- Go participate in the opening event log.
If you have any other questions, feel free to post them here.
Thank you for applying, and enjoy your stay at The Bastion!