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Eastbound is primarily an invite-only game — each existing player can currently invite up to one person per month, or get in touch about further invites. Existing players can hold two characters in game. A third character can be applied, if players can prove they have met activity requirements for two consecutive months with their existing two characters and have stayed engaged with the game. If you don't have an invite, somehow stumbled upon this neck of the woods, and you’d like to stay, drop the mod journal a line — we'll try to figure it out.
As of Oct. 1, cast/game caps are off. Please note, as of Dec. 1, Eastbound only has 3-4 months of gameplay left.
WHAT CHARACTERS CAN BE APPLIED?
YES: canon and original characters, if they have a solid and consistent personality and background. Characters brought in after they've died are a-okay. For characters taken from a time point just as they're in the process of dying, please read below on meeting medical requirements.
NO (at this time): real people, original characters set in a canon environment, characters from canons or canon instalments that have been released for less than one month, characters with imported development from other games (CRAU), alternate universe, or gender-swapped versions of canon characters.
Children or characters with very specific medical/magical/environment needs: appable, but please make a note of how your character will ICly meet their requirements and stay alive. Likewise, if you are applying for a character taken just as they're dying, provide a suggestion for how they can be kept alive on arrival (this might be easier in some app cycles than others). You can bend the world a little to make miracles happen (ex: a substitute for the medication your character needs to survive can be found for a high price at certain apothecaries, etc.)
Characters that were dropped or swept by activity checks: yes, but they’ll come back without their previous memories, if they are applied in by a different player.
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Beitang Moran | | Oh! My Emperor
CONTACT: lomelinde on plurk
CHARACTER: Beitang Moran
CANON: Oh! My Emperor
CANON POINT: Post-canon/after episode 42
BACKGROUND:
Zodiac Land is a country governed by 13 Star Masters, each of them in control of one Constellation and possessing a specific superpower linked to that Constellation. The power rotates between the Constellations every thousand of years. The country is at odds with the neighboring country, Orion Land, and has been in an on again, off again conflict with them for years. The current Emperor of Zodiac Land is Beitang Yi, Master of the Capricorn constellation. Beitang Moran, Master of the Aquarius constellation, is his uncle. The Empress Dowager, who is Beitang Moran’s mother and Beitang Yi’s grandmother, is originally from Orion Land and married into the Zodiac Land Imperial family for diplomatic purposes. Ten years prior to the beginning story, the previous Emperor Beitang Jing, who was Moran’s older brother, was assassinated by one of the Star Masters, the Master of the Ophiuchus constellation. As a result and because his nephew Beitang Yi was too young to govern on his own, Moran was assigned as a regent and the head of the military power to assist him even though he was only a few years older himself. The Ophiuchus Star Master was executed and his followers are now rejected from society and discriminated against.
One day, Luo Feifei, a girl from the 21st century, is transported to Zodiac Land following a freak accident. Upon her arrival, Beitang Moran’s power activates and he has a vision that indicates this girl will be very important to Zodiac Land in the future, and thus decides to protect her. When the Emperor tries to have her arrested, believing her to be an assassin, he claims that she is a dancer from his palace and brings her back to his place.
Luo Feifei’s arrival exacerbates the tension between The Emperor and his uncle, as Beitang Yi is chafing at having Moran control the military power in his stead. Beitang Yi ends up challenging his uncle to get the military power back and Moran accepts on the condition that his nephew overcomes several challenges, including getting the signatures of 10,000 people in three days and then participating in and winning a mock battle between all the Star Masters. As the challenge progresses, the political division is identified between the Fire and Air signs, who support Beitang Moran, and the Water and Earth signs, who are on the Emperor’s side
Luo Feifei ends up helping the Emperor because she initially confused him with her favorite idol singer Jia Cheng (he looks identical to him) until she finally understood she was in another world. While she is being protected by Moran on several occasions, she ends up falling in love with Emperor Beitang Yi, while Moran falls in love with her (although she does not reciprocate his feelings). The love triangle once more creates tension between Beitang Yi and Moran, as both of them vie for Feifei’s affections.
As the challenges unfold, several things come to light. Luo Feifei is in fact the new Ophiuchus Star Master, and she and the Ophiuchus people possess a unique healing ability. Also, the previous Emperor’s murder was not cold-blood assassination from the previous Ophiuchus Star Master, but a plot from Orion Land who used a special poison to infect the Emperor and drive him crazy, forcing the Ophiuchus Master to kill him to protect Zodiac Land. The goal was to drive a wedge between the Ophiuchus people and the other Star Masters to weaken Zodiac Land and then allow Orion Land to invade and take over down the line. The plot is still being monitored by Orion Land spies who have infiltrated the palace in the guise of the Empress Dowager’s followers and servants. It also becomes apparent that Moran’s challenges to the Emperor’s authority are actually carefully designed for Beitang Yi to make a grab for power, and that Moran’s goal all along has been to assist his nephew and make him worthy of holding the full political and military power.
In the final stage of the challenge, the mock battle, Orion Land attacks and forces both sides to unite against them. Moran acknowledges his nephew’s abilities and relinquishes the military power to him, only for Beitang Yi to be shot through with an arrow by an Orion Land assassin. Feifei saves him thanks to her power, but reveals her identity as the new Ophiuchus Master and the Emperor rejects her and sends her away. As she flees, she is captured by Orion Land and fed their poison so they can use her power against the other Star Masters. She is only stopped when Beitang Yi stabs her, and then imprisoned for treason.
Once the Empress Dowager learns of Feifei’s identity, she attempts to have her executed and Moran only manages to save Feifei by claiming she is his fiancée and he will die too if his mother wants to kill her. Moran and Feifei have to maintain the charade of being engaged for a while, which is hard for Moran because he is aware that Feifei is not in love with him, but he is still committed to protecting her no matter what. However, he is unwilling to force her into a marriage she does not want, and in the end manages to use his mother’s animosity towards Feifei to get the wedding ceremony postponed indefinitely. After that, he ends up watching the relationship between Feifei and his nephew develop, and tries to keep a little distance while still helping Feifei regain her status as a Star Master, and working to get the Ophiuchus name cleared of wrongdoing in his brother’s death. Afterwards, Moran leaves Zodiac Land for a solitary trip to sort out his feelings and make peace with his unrequited love.
After the plan to drive a wedge between the Ophiuchus and the rest of the Star Master fails, Orion Land sets another plot in place and asks for another diplomatic marriage, sending their princess Xia Bing as a bride. As the Empress Dowager has now outwardly become accepting of the Emperor’s and Feifei’s relationship, the Emperor’s younger brother Beitang Tang, Master of the Pisces Constellation, volunteers to marry Xia Bing, whom he has met and fallen in love with before while investigating Orion Land and a double wedding is organized for the imperial brothers.
However, Orion Land ends up attacking during the wedding ceremony, poisoning and killing the people assembled to celebrate. Some Star Masters are poisoned during the banquet, while others are gravely injured or killed while fighting back. Beitang Yi, Beitang Tang and Beitang Moran are among the Masters who are killed in battle. Feifei was originally poisoned, but her healing power saved her. Once she sees what happened, she and her people immediately start healing the people of Zodiac Land, but they use too much of their powers bringing everyone back from the dead, and all of them end up fading away from existence while saving Zodiac Land from ruin. Feifei is sent back to her own 21st century life (where she ends up meeting the reincarnated forms of the Star Masters), and Zodiac Land can now begin rebuilding itself.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
- Moran’s Star Master’s superpower is precognition. He gets visions of the future. However, his ability is entirely passive, as in he cannot willingly activate it himself. As such, any visions involving other characters’ canon future or important game future events will be subject to player/mod permission. Smaller visions like making someone move out of the way of a falling object might happen at random. Like all Star Masters, using his powers too much can result in his life force/energy being drained.
When Moran’s power activates, his constellation symbol starts glowing on his forehead and his eyes glow silver as well.
- He can play the guqin with excellent proficiency.
- He can ride horses and sword fight at a good level, and his abilities are slightly above normal human ability since he can defy gravity slightly when fighting (this is, however, considered normal in his world and not a superhuman feat).
- He is an extremely good chess player.
PERSONALITY:
Beitang Moran is the Master of the Aquarius Constellation, and as such shares many personal quirks of the associated star sign.
While he can outwardly appear cold, aloof, obstinate and slightly sarcastic, he is very focused on the greater good, especially where his country is concerned. All of his actions towards Beitang Yi are taken with the goal of making him a good Emperor whose power is uncontested, even if that must make Moran himself appear like the villain. He does not mind taking on that role as long as it will benefit Zodiac Land in the long run. Even when the tension was high between himself and his nephew due to their love triangle and he had personal rivalry with Beitang Yi up to verbal fights, he did not let that cloud his assessment that his nephew was ready to be a good Emperor and take full control of the country.
In love, he is loyal and committed but not at all possessive, ready to give independence to his partner and consider them as equals. While he fell in love with Luo Feifei and saw the Emperor as his rival in love, he was always aware that she did not return his feelings. He held some hope after he saved her life and pretended that she was his fiancee that she might fall in love with him, but she ended up shutting him down very directly, at which point he admitted that he knew she did not love him. The unrequited love takes a toll on him, and he continues to act to protect Feifei even after she has rejected him, including opposing plans that might put her in more danger. At one point, he admits that he still loves Feifei even if he knows she does not love him back.
In contrast, he is unaware of the Cancer Star Master’s Xie Yanran's feelings towards him. Although she has been in love with him for ten years, he never noticed and sees her mostly as a little sister rather than a love interest. He is likewise outwardly unaware of the feelings of Su Xunxian, who has been by his side as a loyal subordinate for years and obeys his every order and even lends him money whenever needed, even though Xunxian is the one who understands him the best. He can be blind to things that are very close to him as he is more focused on the big picture, and can lose himself in single-minded pursuits to the exclusion of everything else. He can also be pretty obstinate and certain that he is correct, but he can be convinced to change his mind if the opposing viewpoint is demonstrated properly.
Intellectual stimulation is important to him. He is a keen reader and has an avid interest in many things, including literature, history and science. He is extremely intelligent and smart with words, able to quickly adapt to a situation and use words to turn it to his advantage. He is an accomplished strategist capable of thinking several steps ahead as demonstrated by his mastery of the game of chess that he often plays with both Su Xunxian and his nephew (they have never beaten him at it).
He can be biting and cold when he is irritated, but he is however capable of being very giving and warm to people to whom he has given his affection. He gave Feifei many gifts and affectionately referred to her as his ‘little money grubber’ while hosting her in his mansion. While he couldn’t return Yanran’s feelings, he still holds affection for her. Once his nephew Beitang Yi assumes the full power, he supports him every step of the way, and he is visibly proud of his achievements and good judgement in leading the country.
When he needs to regroup emotionally, he tends to isolate himself even from his closest friends, requiring time and space on his own to process. To get over his unrequited love, he went on a trip on his own and rejected his best friend Su XunXian who offered to come with him. In the same way, he coldly rejected Su XunXian’s offers to help distract him when he was pining, going as far as scolding him for being too considerate and all but ordering him to leave him alone.
SAMPLE: here
INVENTORY:
a set of grey silk robes
a guqin
a writing set containing two brushes, an ink stone and an inkwell
A dark green silk fan with a white lotus and cloud motif
a sword
NOTES: N/A
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