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| Before you app |
| Applications are always open, but are processed every other Saturday. You can apply for any character from any canon as an OU or AU. You can also apply for an OCs. Be sure to copy the correct form below when you go to write your app. Currently there can be only one version of each character within the Bastion. That character can be either OU or AU. This is subject to change at a later date. The character limit is currently three. You can app up to two characters from the same canon, so long as the characters do not interact in canon and would not interact within the game. Exceptions to this rule will be allowed for special cases, so if you think you have a possible exception please contact a mod about it. If you would like to app a fourth character, you must have passed the previous two ACs in order to do so. If you did not pass the previous two ACs, then we will reject your application. Apps will be read in the order they are posted. If two people app the same character, we will make a decision on the first application before reading the second. The only exception to this rule is in the case of a reserve, where we will read the app from whoever has the reserve first. There are no app challenges. Please read the rules, FAQ, and setting pages before applying. Also be sure to check the reserves page and taken page. Please finish your app before posting. Once you are finished, post your application here. If you need more than one comment to post it, then respond to your first comment to finish your application. If your application is accepted, be sure to read all the information and follow all of the steps in the acceptance post. If we ask you for revisions, you will have 72 hours to post those revisions. If you are rejected, you must wait two weeks before applying again. As a note, OCs will be held to high standards. Do not skimp on details in any section of the application if you are planning to app an OC. |
| 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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River Tam | Firefly | OU
Date: 2015-03-14 05:01 pm (UTC)Age: 27
Contact:
Other characters: Zuko
Character name: River Tam
Series: Firefly
Canon point: Following the bar fight in Serenity where River attacks everyone.
Summary:
River was born with privilege--she had both a wealthy family and an astounding intellect, as well as an older brother who would do anything for her. She loved learning and took full advantage of every opportunity available to her. At three, she was correcting her brother Simon's spelling, at eight she was correcting his textbooks, and by fourteen, she was already in a graduate program. That was when she heard about a special, government-sponsored academy, which she entered with the same enthusiasm.
The unfortunate reality was that the academy was a government research facility, where they experimented on the would-be students, altering their brains and conditioning them to be assassins and covert operatives. In River's case, she was also turned into a psychic. She eventually managed to send a coded letter to Simon telling him to get her out. Their parents didn't believe the message, and it took Simon two years and all of his considerable fortune to form the right contacts and plans to do it. Having smuggled her to the outer planets, Simon shipped out with the crew of the Serenity.
An Alliance agent had tracked them there and outed them as fugitives to the crew. Luckily for the Tams, Captain Reynolds was not especially Alliance-friendly, and after Simon proved his worth as a medic, he allowed the siblings to stay on board. During their eight months on Serenity, they managed to stay out of Alliance hands, but always remained somewhat alienated from the crew. Simon's focus was always too much on taking care of River to turn to his own needs or wants, and as for River, her mental state made it difficult for the others to bond with her, although she got to know the crew and the ship and came to love them.
Their presence did have its impact on the crew. A heist they pulled at a hospital on one of the central planets proved helpful for diagnosing River, but it also led to an incredibly close call with the Alliance operatives hunting her. Afterwards, the Serenity took jobs farther and farther out to avoid Alliance patrols. Eventually, the captain decided it was time River earn her keep by accompanying them on one of their jobs. When an attack by reavers turned the routine theft far more dangerous than any of them had anticipated, Simon decided Serenity was no longer a safe place for him and his sister. They got off at the next spaceport. River wandered out of Simon's watch and into a bar, where an advertisement subliminally triggered her combat skills. She took down nearly all of the bar's patrons, fighters or no, before Simon arrived to say the safe word and put her to sleep.
Personality
Above all, River has an insatiable curiosity and an eagerness to experience and learn. In her lucid moments, she's playful, compassionate, and friendly. She loves make-believe and revels in activity, especially dance. The few times we see her really smile during the series are when she's dancing or when she gets to see Simon excel at being a doctor. They share a deep love for each other, and seeing him fulfilled makes her happy. She does enjoy study, but she enjoys it most when it's unconventional, learned in the field or together with friends. She is completely aware of how much smarter she is than other people; Simon describes her as "a real brat," and she gets a kick out of trolling people.
Her personality, however, is complicated by her condition. Her positive traits often retreat behind a much more morbid and pessimistic exterior. Knowing what others are thinking and having no way to filter it out means that she is constantly aware of their darkest thoughts, however fleeting or uncharacteristic. Because of what was done to her brain, she also has very little control over her reaction to those thoughts. If something scares her, she can't push that feeling aside and maintain her focus; she has to feel scared. This makes her incredibly unpredictable, even to herself, as she could be triggered at any time by something someone around her says, does, or thinks. In spite of this, she is not sentimental, and she views the world with an analytical mind. When she's lucid, this means she can easily see the best solution or most likely outcome of a scenario. She just does the math. Unfortunately, she doesn't always process the world around her as it really is. She might see a gun as a stick or a book as the imagery it describes rather than sheets of paper.
River remembers how she used to be, and she is aware that her mind no longer functions the way it did, and it frustrates her. She can't rely on her own perceptions, and she often finds herself torn between following her gut, and believing what others tell her is actually going on. She trusts Simon, and he will nearly always try to calm her down from her outbursts and assure her that everything is fine; sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't, and she can never be completely sure when what she's feeling is real and when it's just her mind playing tricks on her. She is understandably slow to trust people, as they could use this against her, but it also makes it difficult for her to trust herself.
After all of this, she considers herself to be "broken." She knows that, if she were in full control of herself, she could easily outdo anyone at just about anything. But she isn't. At times she fears this makes her a burden or even a danger to those around her, and she believes they would be better off without her. Although she knows that people care about her, she worries that she no longer really belongs anywhere and that she will never be well enough to belong. Even her good days she sometimes hates, because she knows they won't last. She desperately wants to be well and whole again, for herself and also so that the people around her don't have to spend so much energy taking care of her.
Powers:
River has no magical powers, but her brain has been surgically altered to turn her into a psychic. She can pick up on the thoughts of people around her, most commonly if she is in the same room with them, although she seems to pick up on more violent thoughts from farther away, as when she detected Reavers approaching the planet or the Hands of Blue men entering the hospital on Ariel. This is not an ability that she can control or even understand 90% of the time, so it would be always-on, but of course used with the permission of other players.
River has also been embedded with certain behavioral conditioning. The right trigger can turn her into a human weapon, an expert in martial arts and weapons combat, basically unstoppable. She engaged an entire room full of Reavers single-handedly, slaughtered them all, and came out of it ready to take on a platoon of Alliance soldiers. At her canon point, this is not a skillset she has easy access to. When faced with violence, she is more likely to wind up cowering on the floor than fighting back. If something triggers the behavior, she is also at risk of harming allies.
She's also just really, really smart.
Entry: River will need help getting to the Bastion. She's going to be kind of an emotional mess and also handcuffed.
ACCEPTED
Date: 2015-03-15 06:06 pm (UTC)Congratulations, your character have been accepted into The Bastion! They will be entering the game on Day 290.
Please follow these steps:
- Comment to the taken page.
- Join
- If you use plurk, add
- Re-read the FAQ, rules, and timeline .
- Go to the housing post and fill out the form there.
- Go to the shard post and make a comment to keep track of your character's shards.
- 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
- Once it reaches Day 290 in-game, intro your character at
If you have any other questions, feel free to post them here.
Thank you for applying, and enjoy your stay at The Bastion!