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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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Skysong "Kitten" | Tortall
Age: 25
Contact: tricia868 (gmail, plurk, DW), trichan868 (AIM)
Other characters: Rosethorn
Character name: Skysong "Kitten"
Series: Tortall (Tamora Pierce), specifically The Immortals and The Dragon's Tale
Canon point: after The Dragon's Tale
Summary: At the battle of Pirate's Swoop, Carthaki red robe mages (not under flag, so no declaration of war), summoned Stormwings, immortals whose bodies are part human, part metal-feathered bird, from the Divine Realms to the Mortal Realms. Since Stormwing eyries border the dragonlands, Kitten's mother was pulled through alongside, the process killing Skysong, still in the womb. The mages told her mother that the residents of the castle were responsible for her child's death. When Kitten's mother turned to attack the castle, the wildmage Verilidaine Sarrassri put her hands on the dragon to try and communicate with her. While her hands were on Flamewing's belly and the two were mindspeaking, Daine inadvertently succeeded in restoring life to the unborn dragon and felt a contraction as Kitten's mother went back into labor.
After giving birth, in defense of the person who returned her child to her, Skysong's mother fought and died. Her last act before her death was to send a vision to Daine of a cave. Waking up days later, Daine searched out the location of the cave. She called the newborn dragon she found there "Skysong," saying that she must have received the name along with the location in Flamewing's final relay of information. They fed her on goats' milk and butter, and Daine adopted the young dragon.
Kitten has stayed with Daine and her teacher Numair since then, living in the royal palace of Tortall or accompanying them on missions. She came along on a trip to unravel the problems of the Long Lake wolf pack, which became a dangerous discovery of treachery. During this trip, she met Tkaa, a basilisk. As basilisks are linguists and cousins to dragons, Tkaa was the first being she met other than the badger god who could understand her speech. He became a mentor to Skysong, teaching her useful small spells, the properties of rocks, and a lot about the other various species of immortal creatures. Skysong learned how to open or break locks, both physical and magical, during this trip, and faced down (before running away from) an extremely dangerous reptilian immortal called a Coldfang. She closely befriended members of the wolf pack and several of the local cats.
On a diplomatic mission to the nearby country of Carthak, Kitten sat in on political talks, learning a lot about the way people and nations interact, and witnessed the unfolding of major events. Daine died briefly while here, before being placed back into her body. As Daine's soul was pulled into the Divine Realms, Skysong demonstrated the ability to travel between Realms, following Daine. The emperor eventually shows himself to be corrupt, then kidnapping Daine and locking up Skysong, keeping them both asleep until he had a chance to remove their friends from the country. When Daine awakened and escaped, she brought the entire palace down, with the help of some temporarily revived dinosaur skeletons, before she managed to reach Kitten. Emperor Ozorne transformed himself into a Stormwing in order to escape, forgetting that he would be trapped in that form and no longer permitted to rule over a land in the mortal realms.
Awhile later, back home in Tortall, the barrier between divine and mortal realms was broken, and Skysong assisted Daine and Numair in protecting the country and its people from ill-intentioned immortals who were now free to wreak havoc. The dragon was particularly useful against wyverns, not requiring assistance from either of the humans to send them on their way. Daine and Numair wound up stuck in the Divine Realms, and Kitten chose to remain in Tortall with Tkaa to look after her, continuing to do what she can to help. Her adoptive parents returned on dragonback, Kitten's grandparents having decided that the caretakers of their grandchild were deserving of assistance. There was a large battle, in which several nations and species of immortal attacked Tortall and their allies, both mortal and immortal. Ozorne was a large influence in the opposing side, and was revealed to be the agent of the gods' opposite, Chaos. When Daine killed this agent and the gods finally were able to intervene in the situation, they took Daine from the Mortal Realms and forced her to make a difficult choice. She could only live in one Realm, either the Mortal Realm where her friends were, or the Divine Realm where her parents resided. Worried about her friend and caretaker, Kitten followed after, accompanied by her grandparents. Skysong immediately lectured Daine, wondering why she was thinking about leaving all of her friends, before realizing that the wildmage's position was not the girl's fault and turning her anger on Mithros, the head of the great gods.
Kitten remained with Daine and Numair, her adoptive parents. She refers to them as Mama and Papa, species an unimportant distinction when it comes to family. She has lived in Tortall, typically in the royal palace, since then. A few significant events during the intervening time include a Grand Progress through the kingdom and a war with Scanra, their neighbor to the north. Kitten was never on the front lines during this war, but her parents were, presumably leaving her in Tkaa's care during their absences. Kitten has done what she can to help her friends and family in Tortall, whether that is lighting the stones on a battlefield or sending wyverns away.
Her parents married and have had two children since, Rikash and Sarralyn, who are currently two and three, giving Kitten a brother and sister. Kitten has frequently accompanied her parents when they traveled, being useful if she can manage it along the way. Most recently, she and her parents returned to Carthak and were traveling with the new Emperor on a tour of his lands. Daine and Numair's other children were left with Daine's mother and father in the Divine Realms, but Kitten stayed with her parents. She did regret the decision for a time, unspeakably bored and frustrated with villagers who fear her for her reptilian resemblance to a crocodile.
On their trip through the country, Kitten found a human mother and baby in need of help. She made them her project, bringing them food and trying to coax them out of a magically protected cave. In the process, she awakened an opal dragon who had slumbered there for millenia. A nice long nap. The magical protections belonged to Kawit, this dragon, and she agreed to join Kitten's family in their travels. Kawit also gifted Kitten with one of her scales, commanding that she eat it. When Kitten complied, she developed mindspeech, a skill that the dragons of her own kind had told her she was far too young to learn. This eliminated the biggest and most constant frustration of Kitten's life.
Dragons are curious about nearly everything by nature, and Kitten is no exception. Skysong is clever, intelligent, and curious, and will keep track of everything that goes on around her, whether anyone tells her what's happening or not. She loves secrets and knowledge of all sorts, and has been known to take an interest in everything from political negotiations to the properties of different rock types. Now that she can talk, people ought to expect long strings of questions about any new bit of knowledge.
Generally cheerful and helpful, Kitten is still very young and can be impatient and petulant, prone to the same type of sulking that a child will do when she does not get her way. Kitten doesn't throw full-out tantrums, but she has been known to shriek in frustration or to use preventing frustrated shrieks as license to cause trouble. She's playful, and is sad when people or animals around her won't include her in their activities. Not to mention bored; Kitten has to have something to keep her interested, or her frustration mounts until she wanders off to find something. Books, people to socialize with, and self-assigned projects are all good ways to occupy her time. Sometimes that project is a worthy cause or a person that needs a champion. While she won't quite go looking for trouble, she will go looking for something interesting to do. Funny how often those two things have the potential to overlap.
She forms definitive opinions of people and creatures, demonstrating without a doubt when she likes someone and not hesitating to tell off anyone who deserves it, even if he happens to be a god or an emperor. Kitten is the opposite of diplomatic. She can see through falsehoods well enough now that she's had exposure to humans and politics, but dragons in general are known for neither subtlety nor diplomacy. She does not really understand the motivations behind these machinations, by nature straightforward to a fault.
Possessing a strong sense of justice and logic, Kitten gets angry when she sees anyone treated unfairly. She does not understand certain human thought processes and prejudices. Fearing someone with magic, or treating someone as less than a person simply because of their station never goes over well with her, and Kitten occasionally makes it her job to protect people who need it. Especially when the social hierarchy in human society works against them. She does waver between wanting support and assistance and wanting to do things on her own. This means she can wind up in situations over her head, particularly without her usual support systems in place.
Her mental acuity definitely at least matches that of intelligent adult humans, her knowledge limited only by how little time she has had to acquire it. Emotionally, she often seems to be at a child's level, although her intelligence and logic sometimes temper that. The biggest frustration in her life was her inability to effectively communicate with those around her. She is so used to communicating nonverbally and spending time in a world where no one has ever met another baby dragon that she has developed a certain flexibility of thinking. Her grandfather has remarked upon how very advanced for her age Kitten is, citing her time spent around mortals as the cause. If a situation seems difficult, she finds a different way to come at it, and she only asks for help if it's absolutely necessary. She will be incredibly grateful for the ability to speak, but don't think that's completely eliminated her childish side.
Kitten possesses a lot of power for someone who is still very much a child. She does not have anywhere near the emotional control an adult would, even if she is mature for her age in personality as well as power. If Kitten's temper is tried too far, or she acts without thinking in a fit of emotion, she could easily wind up doing something she regrets.
Family is very important to the dragon, and she sees her adoptive human family as her parents and siblings regardless of any difference in species. They care for her, and she loves them unconditionally. That family is larger still when you take into account the many animals who congregate around Daine. Especially in light of the language barrier, her family always helped her interface with the world in addition to being a support system. She won't cope well with their absence.
Powers: Always active: Kitten is an Immortal, which means she will live forever unless she is killed. She is strong for her size, and her hearing and sense of smell are somewhat above human levels. Her claws are strong and sharp enough to gouge deep marks into stone. Kitten's scales change color from their usual gold-tinged sky blue with her mood: white when exhausted, yellow when embarrassed, red when angry, pink when frightened, and grey when sulking. Kitten also has a bit of an iron stomach; she can ingest a box of myrrh with no more adverse effects than burping smoke for a week. Based on the fact that she took falling into a pond very calmly in spite of the fact that she cannot swim, I assume she does not actually require air to survive. The same may go for food, but she definitely eats and enjoys doing so.
Kitten can understand the speech of both humans and animals. Her own vocal language is unintelligible to almost everyone, but she just acquired mindspeech and can now speak directly into the minds of those around her.
She can sense magic if she tries and reveal where it is being used, with a particular talent for finding spells of listening and espionage. She naturally senses illusions, and chances are if you're skulking about invisibly she'll bite you if you refuse to show yourself when she calls you out. This affinity to illusions and disguise carries over into her own abilities. Kitten can make deliberate color changes to her scales as well as involuntary ones, using a chameleon-like camouflage when desired.
Kitten can breathe fire, and the air around her reddens and heats when she's angry.
3 per day: Kitten can unlock doors and barriers, both physical or magical, through use of her voice. She can also perform concealment and illusion spells designed to fool even powerful magic users, a necessary component of childhood mischief considering her parents' magical power. Kitten can use silence spells, and, with a good deal of concentration, a spell to call up a mini tornado for wiping away tracks behind her.
Kitten also possesses magics that are useful in a combative sense, either to counter existing magic, to defend from attack, or to attack or destroy. A series of vocal spells of varying intensity performs a large range of functions. Among these are a squawk that can destroy a bridge or a mid-level barrier spell, a whistle that can split or shatter bone, another whistle that can reduce rock to gravel, and a screech that destroys weapons. Kitten can call fire to an area around her, and make air around her red with her anger. In an emergency, a desperate yowl can deflect a magical attack. She can prepare a spell, released with a hiss, that will eat away at magical barriers like acid does at objects. Finally, she can create an effective shielding spell.
A few other handy abilities include reaching into the ground to sense disturbances and faultlines, testing water for contamination, calling light to rocks, neatening up a person's hair and clothes with a whistle, putting out the lights with a sound, and a spell to lift things off the ground temporarily. Some powers that will likely be of no use to her are her ability to easily cross borders like those that divide the Mortal and Divine Realms and her ability to control wyverns.
Entry: She can get to the Bastion on her own.
Other: A note on dragon ages: Kitten is currently 16 years old. Infancy lasts until around the age of 30, and adulthood is not reached until into their centuries. Kitten's grandfather, for instance, is considered venerable but not entirely ancient at about 59 centuries old, and they do keep track of age in centuries rather than years. Dragon infants are vastly more capable than the word infant would generally lead one to think though.
Also! I'd like to wait on introing her until after the 26th. Either in the last couple days of the month or at the beginning of February. I'm moving (again) on the 25th to my placement city. So take your time with the app, and if she's accepted, please schedule her arrival for around then. Thanks!
ACCEPTED
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- Make an entry in your journal to keep track of all Shards, Abilities, Talents, and Items your character acquires within the game.
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