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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 |
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| Application: OC |
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Black★Rock Shooter [AU] - REVISED
Date: 2015-04-25 05:04 am (UTC)Player name: Solmedes (Sol)
Age: 29
Contact:
Other characters: At the time of writing, none at Bastion. Each of my character journals has a copy of my muselist in them, though.
Character name: Black Rock Shooter.
Series: OVA.
AU info: This AU mainly comes in the form of post-canon developments; it'll be covered in more detail below.
Summary: (First, some wiki links: series and character.)
Shooter hails from a dimension parallel to Earth known as the Otherworld; within it, there are beings seemingly tied to counterparts in the real world. They are often shown at conflict with one another in the OVA, and no real rhyme or reason is ever given in the context of it (save one, but we'll get to that). Yheir abilities and even parts of their aesthetic seem geared around the concept of combat, and each seems to possess at least one signature weapon. Shooter herself carries the Rock Cannon, her presumed namesake.
(The Otherworlders never speak in the OVA, though it can be somewhat unreliably inferred from Shooter herself that they are capable of it.)
Within the OVA's context, what one can infer of Shooter's personality and motives comes largely from a single circumstance: her pursuit of Dead Master. The real-world counterparts of the two: schoolgirls by name of Mato Kuroi and Yomi Taknashi, respectively, who happen to be good friends...until their relationship starts to decline, thanks in part to Yomi's jealousy of Mato's budding friendship with another girl named Yuu. Dead Master apparently takes advantage of this and possesses Yomi, spiriting her away to the Otherworld. Poor Mato, of course, didn't get the memo and has no idea what's going on; she's heartbroken and sick with grief that a person so dear to her had disappeared without a trace.
Not long after is where Shooter herself comes in, reaching out to her Otherself and merging with her in similar fashion to Dead Master. It can be inferred from Shooter herself that the primary motivation is Mato: she misses Yomi deeply and wants her returned, and for Shooter, that seems to be well and good enough.
If you take the OVA at face value, much of what goes on with the Otherworlders as it relates to their personalities is up to interpretation, and a chunk of that can come from their battles with one another. Shooter herself gives the impression of someone without a lot of rambunctiousness or fire (as opposed to Othertypes like Black Gold Saw); she's calm, controlled, and direct. Her manner of communication appears to be so as well, as seen when she speaks with Mato. It appears that when she has a purpose in mind, she is dedicated entirely to it; when confronting Dead Master, her aim was never truly to destroy her, but rather persuade her to release Yomi, and she seemed to grasp the idea that simply beating her down wasn't necessarily the best way to achieve that.
When the confrontation with Dead Master reaches its conclusion, Shooter appears to show sorrow - something that no Otherworlder, to this point, had been shown to display. (This could be Mato's influence, or it could be Shooter herself; from the OVA alone, it's unclear.)
(With some irony, Shooter can be seen as a far closer match in personality to Strength [often abbreviated STR], the apparent Otherself of Yuu, than either Saw or DM.)
*--*
Canon section cuts off here; now we talk AU.
The aftermath of the ordeal with Dead Master was not particularly kind to Shooter. Brief though it was, her fusion with Mato had left behind an imprint of humanity, felt all the more keenly now that the two were no longer one. Her vast and barren world suddenly felt as lonely as it looked, and though she'd always known isolation, never before had she truly grasped what it meant. She wandered as she always had, but now her steps were heavy and painful; there was no defense against the grief, and it could not simply be beaten down.
Yomi's safe return was consolation at first, but it grew smaller over time. Mato had her friend again and that was well, but Shooter had no one. Even the heat of battle, so integral a part of her existence since earliest memory, felt so very hollow now. The contest could not soothe, nor the victory satisfy. Sometimes grief would become rage; on other occasions it would deepen. The fire of emotion brought victory to some bouts, and defeat to others. With the echoes of Mato yet to leave her, she could no longer do battle for its own sake; now there had to be a reason, a justification beyond survival, and none could ever be found here. There was no recourse...nothing left but suffering.
And so time passed. With no one to hear her burden, no one to tell who would care or soothe, Shooter's heart grew sick.
Over time, the land began to change as well. In the vast fields of rocky terrain, the ruins of man-made structures began to appear. Not the ancient, regal-looking architecture that one could find in the Otherworld, but more recent, more modern-looking designs. As well, the many chasms began to rise up, their depths lessening - and in some cases peeling away to reveal a strange, violet fluid. The mesas and peaks began to erode away, becoming ruins themselves. Shooter, who might not have noticed such changes before, found herself greatly distressed by these changes, but again could do nothing for it, save destroy the new structures in fits of rage - even that did little good, for the original ruins were fading, and there was no way to protect them.
But greater still were the changes in Shooter's neighbors.
The fighters of the Otherworld (and indeed the Otherworld itself) may have been dangerous, but they were all she had ever known, and in the wake of the upheavals they were her only source of stability. She came to realize this, and sought out their company. Even should battle be their only language, even if there could be no true companionship, Shooter could find the semblance of comfort in them, in the rivalry inspired by their contests - the one thing that seemed to remain normal.
If, of course, she could find them. In time, that came to be her purpose: the closest thing that she'd known to a real sense of it since Mato's fusion. If she could get one of them to understand more than battle...perhaps they could address the strange occurrences in their shared home. Perhaps they could agree on the importance of a shared threat...and answer it together.
But it was not to be.
The individuals she could find had also been overtaken by this mysterious force corrupting the land. Twisted, mutated, hideous things: Her neighbors had become demons, with hunger and ferocity beyond their original selves, and to Shooter this was more horrible than anything Dead Master had meted out. Fighters she didn't recognize began to manifest in the world as well, more monster than anything resembling human, and in all instances she was forced to destroy them completely - right down to their remnants - else they rise again and again.
Right about this time was when the dreadful metamorphosis began to crack the sky, showing a twisting blackness beyond the rifts and warping the checkerboard pattern that had always been there. When the semblance of true and lasting night came to the land, Shooter into the dark until she at last found some semblance of the old world, the crumbling ruins...
And through the emotion Mato had awakened in her, she would weep - but her eyes would make no tears, for they were not designed for them. In her own way, without she spoken language of man which had been brought to her...she called out, cried out, for everything she'd known before - even that which she'd known to be dangerous. She called out for what was dear to her. She called for Dead Master.
With the last shreds of her strength and hope, she called for Mato.
No one answered.
Day returned only briefly, growing dimmer and dimmer with each cycle. Shooter hunted down the corrupted fighters where she could, and tried to appeal to those she precious few she recognized, but even she knew it to be a useless cause. She destroyed them time and again, learning with horror that she could not truly put them to rest. More and more, suspected the corruption would only spread - that all the strength she could marshal against it was useless.
And as the hatred in her began to deepen, to spread into a form she could not recognize save the hunger and madness she saw in fellows, she began to suspect that it was only a matter of time before she was claimed as well.
The deep and starless darkness above her soon took on the power and quality of a void, instilling one with the feeling of being drawn up toward it, great and terrible into nothing. Not long after that, she saw the last struggle of the dim light that belonged in this world: the final cycle of day.
In her heart, she knew that what was truly behind this would show itself soon. Whatever came now, she would stand and fight - even if there was no hope, even if her strength could not see her through. Once before, with Mato, she'd fought for something that mattered. With the humanity left in her, she yearned for that union again, hoped the final hope that if they could somehow reunite, they could accomplish together what Shooter alone could not.
If that was to be, there wasn't a lot of time left to accomplish it.
And so Shooter returned to the depths of the dark, in pursuit of her last hope.
*--*
The Personality:
OVA as a base. She has much stronger 'evil' tendencies (to coin a phrase) than her canon counterpart; much more likely to start combat for its own sake, bringing her type closer to Gold Saw. When a given person catches her interest, she will stalk them in order to observe them, and in particular cases isn't opposed to getting all up in their space, even (especially!) in manners that might be seen as unwelcome or hostile.
(It's kinduva running thing - in a positive way, be assured - among those that have played against her that she is a serious creepr. |D)
The big thing about my Shooter is that she very much Does What She Wants: a True Neutral type with tendencies both evil and good. If she wants to fight you, she'll fight you; if she wants to creep, she'll creep; if she wants to stalk, she'll stalk. (In an IC sense, of course; OOCly it's always with permission of the other players.) This can go the other way too: if she wants to protect you, she'll protect you, and she'll help if she pleases. She can save your life or leave you to die, and her reasons are her own.
What makes her True Neutral and not Chaotic Neutral, IMO, is the fact that she's not totally prone to random impulse and is in fact capable of thinking ahead. Whether or not she does this often is another matter, but so far, her urges - while certainly random at times - are not necessarily wholly destructive. Most of the time she does her own thing and goes off on her own, minding her own business and not necessarily getting involved in that of others. But if she should decide, on her own accord, that she wants to jump right in...
Considering that, she might well be Chaotic Neutral after all; while she's not necessarily an active or energetic presence, she *is* very much about her individual freedom and doing her own thing. She takes offense to even the suggestion of being controlled and if you so much as try it, prepare for battle. (You can ask, but it's important that you not command; she distinguishes between the two and even if she agrees with you, she might well fight you on principle - even in a dangerous situation where it would be unwise.)
On that note, she seems to have a streak of volatility in her and does not seem to well-accept the concept of taking no for an answer. Careful communication is often necessary.
*Powers*
Always On: Superhuman strength, agility, and endurance. Able to jump - and fall from - great heights without harm; for that matter, being able to withstand (and despite her appearance, potentially inflict) damage that would drop normal humans, even particularly hardy ones.
3x Daily: At-will manifestation of the Rock Cannon, which appears to provide its own ammunition. Headcanon says the rock bullets are ordinarily strong enough to easily shred through buildings and the like: the destructive power equal to explosive rockets with controllable splash. (For Bastion's purposes, the offensive punch of this weapon can be weakened, requiring prolonged barrages to achieve the same effect..) Additionally, the Rock Cannon can transfigure itself into a spiked form, more suitable for melee; for purposes of daily uses, I would this as separate from the cannon's manifestation.
Entry: She's quite capable of taking care of herself, barring overwhelming odds; even weakened, I'd wager she could arrive at the Bastion on her own, and no worse for the wear.
Other: Some additional recommended reading (crafted by folks better at this whole BRS thing than I am):
Headcanon essay
Mallowhallow application
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ACCEPTED
Date: 2015-05-06 02:28 am (UTC)Congratulations, your character have been accepted into The Bastion! They will be entering the game on Day 307.
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