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groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
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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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Lee Chang | Kingdom | Please note there are a shit ton of spoilers
CONTACT: daestwen @ plurk and @ gmail
CHARACTER: Crown Prince Lee Chang
CANON: Kingdom
CANON POINT: Season 2, Episode Six, after he declares that between him and the newborn Prince, the baby should be the one to rule.
BACKGROUND: Lee Chang is the Crown Prince of Joseon, approximately around 1600 (as guessed by the proximity to “japanese invasions” in the series which probably line up with the Imjin Wars, where firearms were used extensively). The only son of the king, his inheritance (and his life) lay in a precarious position due to the fact that his mother was a concubine rather than the queen. A summary for the events in the show can be found here.
At his canon point, he has just come to the realisation and then decision that he cannot be the King of Joeson - that if their country has any hope of a peaceful future, it does not rest with a man who beheaded his father, a “bastard son who committed high treason”. Instead, his ‘brother’ - the baby that the queen abducted from Mu-yeong’s wife to masquerade as his own - must rule. He tells the councillor he trusts most to write that he, his father, and the queen were all killed in the war. This means that he - effectively - must die. He does not know what happens after this point. (He goes into exile to find the source of the plague.)
It is important to note that he has been bitten, at this point, and though the ice lake ‘killed’ the parasites, it is shown at the very end of the show that the parasites seem to be able to resurrect sometime later, so it is possible he is still infected.
ABILITIES | POWERS: He is a normal human dude, though he may or may not have latent Zombie issues, we will see next season…
PERSONALITY:
Born a crown prince, Lee Chang was both deeply spoiled his entire childhood, but spent most of it in grave peril due to his status. At a young age, his father the King told him that he had to do anything he could to survive, that his survival was the most important thing. The prince took the warning to heart, and when his father fell ill, his immediate concern was ensuring that the royal line continue through him, rather than his unborn baby brother. At this point in the series, Lee Chang is most concerned for himself and his survival, as is made clear when he does not come forward as part of a mutinous plot, even when dozens of the men who signed up with him are being tortured and killed for their participation.
The only people he trusts are his bodyguard, Mu-yeong, and his childhood Mentor, Lord Ahn. Despite Mu-yeong being of a much lower class than him, Lee Chang has a genuine love for the man, and often teases him or speaks crassly and unbecoming of a Prince to him, both to fluster the man and bond with him. Over the course of their journey, Mu-yeong becomes the person he relies on and trusts the most - and refuses to believe it when it is suggested that Mu-yeong is a spy. Even after the man’s betrayal is revealed, the Prince holds nothing but grief for him, and weeps bitterly over his body as the man dies trying to apologize to him. No one else through the series - before or after - holds as close a relationship with him, and Mu-yeong’s death is the moment where we see the most emotion from the Prince, even compared to when he was forced to behead his father.
At the beginning of the series he has barely stepped outside of the palace, and is openly disgusted by the food that the lower classes eat, and the squalor that they live in. He is rude about it, both to their faces and in private to Mu-yeong, as he is too accustomed to living in the palace and does not understand life outside of it very well. However, after the discovery of the plague, and a harrowing night attempting to save villagers from a zombie-ravaged town after corrupt and inept officials refused to look after their people and instead only saved themselves, he came to have a much deeper understanding of his position and his responsibility to the people who he was born to rule. His disgust turned from them to the rest of the ruling elite, who could have saved far more lives and refused to do so, out of their own self-interest. This is where Lee Chang begins to shed his own self-interest, and realise his place in filial piety: not just commanding the respect of those below him, but also being responsible for their livelihood and well being. He begins to develop a deep righteous indignation for those in high positions who do not work on behalf of the people, whereas before this indignation was more for his own self interest. This culminates in the end of the series where he declares that he must be the one to ‘die’ and leave his life behind, because he knows it would serve the people better than him attempting to continue to rule.
Over the series Lee Chang grows more capable, both as a man and as a commander, as he is faced with increasing responsibility and hardship in the face of a growing plague, political corruption and plots against his life. He becomes a decisive commander, who takes in all of the information he can regardless of the source (the doctor Seo-bi is one of his closest advisors during the plague, as well as a fugitive ex-soldier who refuses to even give his own name). He trusts people who do the right thing, regardless of their status. To his people, he is careful not to waver or doubt himself, as then they would waver and doubt as well. He only voices his doubts to Mu-yeong, and after he dies, to no one else.
In a relaxed state (a very rarely seen condition for him in this series), Lee Chang has a dry, dark sense of humour, and a tendency to slip into informality. When he isn’t seen, he slouches. He has less and less opportunity to do this as time goes on.
By the end of the series he is exhausted by a long campaign against the plague, heart broken at the death of his father, and grief-stricken at his own necessary political ‘death’. He can no longer directly help the Joseon that he has come to deeply love and feel responsible for, so he throws himself into ways to continue helping in the shadows.
SAMPLE: sample one, sample two
INVENTORY:
1. Very very tattered and bloody set of clothes (mourning, so ramie fabric and undyed).
2. One black headband that survived surprisingly well considering the rest of him.
3. One hair piece, black.
4. One set of shoes.
5. A sword.
NOTES: I don’t think there’s any specific accommodations he needs - still just a normal human dude over here. Mostly.
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Aaaaaaaaall aboard… the absentee caravan! Thanks for applying and welcome to the game.
A few loose ends, for your pleasure:
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