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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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Daenerys Targaryen | A Song of Ice and Fire
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HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: I was encouraged by Katie to apply
CHARACTER: Daenerys Targaryen
CANON: A Song of Ice and Fire
CANON POINT: End of A Dance With Dragons
BACKGROUND: Wiki
ABILITIES | POWERS:
*Daenerys has prophetic dreams, called "Dragon Dreams". They come in allegories for her to figure out. For instance, she dreamed of sprouting wings when she had the dream of how to hatch her dragons.
*Daenerys is a skilled horse rider, having spent a great deal of time on one with the Dothraki
*She's been trained recently in martial strategy
*She's adapt at governing, along with trade, financing and resources.
PERSONALITY:
Daenerys' journey from the first book through the series is one of self discovery. She begins the story "fearful and furtive" as Illyrio Mopatis calls her. She's abused and terrified of her brother, meekly following his plan of selling her in marriage to the Dothraki in exchange for an army to help him win back his throne. It isn't until she is given her dragons eggs as a wedding gift that Daenerys starts to grow and change. She slowly becomes more confident, standing up for herself and beginning to find the stronger aspects of herself. Moving forward, these begin to shape more and guide Daenerys through her journey.
More than anything, Daenerys is a leader. The beginning of this is seen when Drogo dies at the end of the first book and Daenerys seeks to claim the khalasar as her own. After her dragons are born and she begins leading her people towards water and safety, she continually reminds herself that she must be strong for them, that they are looking to her and they need her to survive. Many times Daenerys is offered the chance to go to Westeros, but because she isn't given the resources to take her people with her or is being asked to abandon the city that she is ruling over, she refuses. She puts the needs of her people above her own desires, often agreeing to things that she doesn't want to. She marries Hizdahr zo Loraq to try and stop the violence in Meereen, also agreeing to open up the fighting pits, even though it's a place where slaves are trafficked and forced to fight. She locks up her dragons when she learns that Drogon killed a small girl, choosing to put the safety of her people above her children.
Daenerys is a nurturing woman. Beyond her duty as queen, she cares about the well being of others. During the outbreak of the Bloody Flux in Meereen, Daenerys insists on going among the sick, wanting to tend and care for them. She's so desperate to look after her people and loved ones that it often leads her into drastic decisions. To save Drogo's life, she agrees to let a Magi tend to him, not knowing that when she asks for magic to be performed, she is sacrificing her child or that Drogo would be left in a living coma.
She has strong moral codes regarding slavery as well as honor itself. While she sometimes stoops to ruthless methods, she always tries to reassure herself that it's for her people's benefit. Whenever her advisers push her towards violent actions, she's always the one to resist. Daario urges her to agree to marry Hizdahr, but only to lure the nobles into one place, allowing her to slaughter them (ala Red Wedding). However, Daenerys is appalled by the suggestion and sends Daario away for a time. While she gathers a number of children to act as hostages against the nobles of Meereen, whenever the Sons of the Harpy begin killing her people again, she hesitates and then refuses to harm the children. The whole basis of her plan for taking them in falling apart because she can't bear to hurt the innocent.
This moral code is strongest when it comes to the subject of slavery. We see through the series that Daenerys identifies with the weak in society, whether they are slaves, the poor or the Lhazareen. When Drogo's khalasar defeats Khal Ogo and begin enslaving and raping the women of the Lhazareen village, Daenerys orders the men to stop and takes the women under her protection. When she comes into possession of the Unsullied, she first frees them and calls for them to break the chains of the slaves in the city, killing the Masters. It becomes her mission to free the cities of Slaver's Bay and break the chains of the slaves that have been living in subjugation. When she recognizes that some of her actions have left chaos, rather than abandon the cities she's recently freed, Daenerys stays on as queen to try and ensure that slavery doesn't return to Meereen. Much of her negotiations and continuing resistance to offers of alliance center around the bargains that some want her to make, such as accepting slavery returning to certain parts of Slaver's Bay. Each offer is refused and the number of her enemies grow. It's such a sticking point to her, that it's the root of her troubles in "A Dance with Dragons", her attempts to rule mired in her inability to bring peace to Meereen after uprooting the long standing tradition. However she believes so strongly in freeing the slaves that she doesn't back down.
She does have a temper that flares in the face of cruelty, especially towards women and slaves. The most notable example is her retribution for the 163 slave children that were nailed to milestones along the route. When the city is taken by Daenerys's forces, she nails 163 slave masters outside of the Great Pyramid as punishment. While Daenerys has a forgiving and tender heart, there is a part of her that can hold a grudge. When she learns that Jorah Mormont had been working with Varys and sent him information about her pregnancy (that lead to an assassination attempt), she sends him to attack Meereen through the sewers, hoping partly that he will be killed. He returns, but remains unrepentant. While she can't execute him, she does exile him and refuses to forgive him for his actions. She also uses more ruthless means, allowing a wine seller (who is suspected of harboring Sons of the Harpy) to be tortured. She can be stubborn as well. While she will listen to her advisers, she stands firm in what she thinks is the right course, no matter if it turns out to be a bad decision or not. One of the earlier examples is when she trusts Mirri Maz Duur to treat and cure Drogo. While there are signs of his rapid decline, she refuses to think that Mirri has betrayed her or listen to her bloodriders. She even ignores the cost of a blood ritual, despite being warned that only death could pay for life. She dismisses Jorah's appeals to sail to Westeros, focusing instead on Slaver's Bay, refusing to abandon the people despite the ever worsening situation she finds herself in. The costs are too high for her and she refuses to abandon what she thinks is right.
Daenerys is connected to magic in the ways of the ancient Targaryens. She possesses dragon dreams that give her glimpses of the future. An example of this are the dreams she had of her dragon eggs and how eventually she was able to hatch them, giving life to dragons again. Magic is rooted to much of Daenerys' story. She has visions of Quaithe who urges her to Asshai, she tries to deal with the Warlocks of the House of the Undying and experiences visions there of events that come later in the book and moments from the past. The most notable moment is when she was able to enter Drogo's funeral pyre and emerge from the flames with three newly hatched dragons. Daenerys isn't skeptical and believes in her dreams and the visions, but often puts those aside for the more pressing issues. Rather than embrace what Quaithe has said of going to Asshai, she instead takes the Unsullied and marches through Slaver's Bay. By the end of the book, however, it seems that she is starting to give into her visions as Quaithe comes to her while she's sick and dying.
There is a divide between Daenerys the Queen and Daenerys the Woman. She has dreams of a simple life, wanting more than anything to find the House with the Red Door (which represents her lost childhood) and marry a man she loves, being a normal woman. However, she understands that those desires are selfish and puts the needs of her people first. This is especially prominent when she imagines Daario stopping her wedding to Hizdar and stealing her away, the two of them living like smallfolk. The dream is ignored though and she marries a man she doesn't love. She sometimes contemplates giving it all up or how deep down all she really wants is someone to love her for herself. Beneath her crown and queenly exterior, Daenerys is still a young girl trying to find her way in the warning and still testing her strengths.
SAMPLE: Springwood TDM, Spingwood, PSL
INVENTORY: Only her Dothraki leather vest and pants, as well as grass sandals.
NOTES: N/A
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot heavy, if that's possible, but if it's not, I'm okay either way.
APPLICATION RECEIVED
no subject
However, I'm open to making an exception in this case, since I realise that so much of Daenerys' character and psychological welfare are linked to her dragons. If you want her to have Drogon with her, I can approve him to come in, although he would have to be sized down to his much younger form (say, all the way down to when Daenerys can still carry him on her shoulder, or perhaps no taller than reaching her knees).
Let me know if that's something you'd like, since I'd have to incorporate him in Daenerys' Taravast identity. And, of course, we'd be happy to have Daenerys without her dragon too.
no subject
Shoulder or knee, I'll let you guys decide. Either way, I'm just happy to have him with Dany.
ACCEPTED
Thank you for your application!
ADMIN
NOTES
Unlike their water-born kind, pure dragons with the capacity for flight have not been seen in Taravast for decades. Drogon awes them, and they interpret his appearance here and now as a sign that Taravast will prevail despite its recent hardships. Band leader Rosso Capello and several of the
cravenstravellers repent of their brief episode of cowardice, determined to reconquer the citadel with the help of this mysterious nymph who speaks in tongues and her dragon....as it happens, by the time they crawl back to Taravast, the citadel has already been purged of the undead, and the merchants apply themselves to building Daenerys (and especially her dragon) a reputation as a nymph embodying purity, virtue, conquest and stalwart bravery. The last-minute branding doesn’t exactly harm their ask price, when they sell both Daenerys and Drogon to the household of Vannozza Spina — who accepts the transaction less for Daenerys’ prospects in determining the tides of war, and more because dragons have historically sometimes helped cure eerie sicknesses. The lady, it will become apparent later in the month, is afflicted. ( Daenerys might get a plot roll closer to the moment when either Vannozza's sickness is revealed, or when the lady Spina begins to desperately try her luck at whatever cures are available. )
Once slated for Vannozza’s wing of the Palace of the Doxe, Daenerys is intercepted by the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the group. She recognises Daenerys as a newcomer to the world and provides her a communication and translation device, so that Daenerys can finally master the local tongue. Karsa discloses Daenerys’ whereabouts and recounts the story so far.
Karsa can also explain the piazza — a style of communicating to the city at large, with an eye to influence public opinion.
Re: ACCEPTED