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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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cloud strife, final fantasy vii, reserved
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HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: following eve like a puppydog, wanwan...... and also i have a crush on ruxi's writing, so here i am.
CHARACTER: Cloud Strife
CANON: Final Fantasy VII (REMAKE)
CANON POINT: Chapter 18, walked through the white light portal at the end of Midgar's road right before fighting the Whispers.
BACKGROUND: History @ FF Wiki thank god i don't have to write that out what a nightmare. the Crisis Core game is used as the canon structure for his history and much of his personality is extrapolated and applied from the original title.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
Genetic experimentation has made Cloud faster, stronger, more durable, etc. Think "gets thrown through a mountain, and that sucks, but he survives" strong. I'll probably tamper this down quite a bit in the game because he's cute when he suffers.
What it says on the Tin. He inerhited his iconic buster sword from his predecessors and it's an unwieldy thing, but he's adept at using it in close combat for both offense and defense. If he's been in a stressful battle long enough, he may be able to use a Limit Break, which are really just fancy cool finishing moves.
Can use mako/lifestream energy crystallized into magic, abilities, and summons when equipped. See: inventory.
Master motorcyclist, master squatter, chocobo riding, snowboarding, CPR, mountain climbing... dancing... etc. If you put anything physically demanding in front of him he can probably figure it out.
PERSONALITY:
In introducing Cloud, I offer you this quote about him spoken by Cid Highwind from late in the Original game: "Gotta admit, he was a strange dude. Just when you thought he was cool, he'd go and do some damn fool thing. And just when you thought he was smart, he'd show how stupid he was. Everything about him from his movements to his speech were kinda odd."
And that's about the gist of Cloud Strife's character, on a surface level. You know him, you've seen him around on the internet for 25 years, "not interested"ing and "I want my money"ing and doing Real Shit like dumping his dead girlfriend's body in a lake and huffing Sephiroth farts and playing side piece to an Italian senator. He ruffles feathers and smart-alecks his way through most social interactions, gruff and standoffish, staunchly indifferent to personal affairs. Reticent and moody, he's cocky of his skills and loath to take jobs he thinks are 'beneath' his former rank as a SOLDIER First Class, groaning like a petulant kid when asked for help with boring or rudimentary tasks. And he's strong. "Whips around the biggest sword you've ever seen like it's nothing" and "bunny hops skyscrapers" strong. Surely this guy's the hero of such a beloved franchise, right?
Well... the bravado and, uh, charm he has are really just traits he grafted onto himself from his dead mentor and literally the only friend he's ever had in his entire life — an ACTUAL gangster, and said girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. It's very complicated and homoerotic. Even the physical strength is a result of fantasy steroids and monster eugenics, the bitch is fake as fuck. Cloud's just LARPing a real hero who sacrificed himself in front of his eyes and made him swear he'd live on for the both of them. Not that he remembers any of that — trauma's a bitch and all, made worse by a catatonia from severe allergies to the mandatory 'roids that kept him from actually ever getting into SOLDIER in the first place when his mentor broke them out of an inhumane ShinRa lab. After his childhood hero went fucking bonkers and tried to kill everyone with a 97% success rate during his warm-up, that is.
"Knowin' what I do now, I can see why he was that way," is how that Cid quote continues. Understanding Cloud fully means looking beyond his understanding of himself and the well of sensitive, childlike (read: stunted and awkward) emotions he tries to run from: a tried and true unreliable narrator that attempts to mislead others, himself, and even the player. The truth is, Cloud is a weak person. After he failed the only goal he ever allowed himself to set ("To be a hero like Sephiroth", can you believe this dumb bitch), he fell into a pit of depression and shame so severe he was afraid to return to his hometown or even speak to his family. His gorgeous innocent single mother, RIP!!! So when Zack died in front of him, a final nail in a coffin rapidly filling with other sins like watching his hometown get barbequed by a pretty psycho and becoming a piñata filled with sussy alien juice, he subconsciously decided being an impersonal, ruthless jackass on a... very, very obsessive quest for revenge was the more appealing option than feeling his own mediocrity and failure. Hello, maladaptive coping.
"But weak people... like me, get lost in the whole thing. The combination of JENOVA cells, Sephiroth's strong will, and my own weakness are (sic*) what created me. Everyone knew that. I'm... Cloud. The master of my own illusionary world."
* We love OG grammar.
But despite having a personality broken, haphazardly put back together, and given a shoddy new coat of paint with weird odds and ends sticking out of it (kinda like his janky SOLDIER uniform, eh? ehh??), the little boy beneath all the derangement still slips out, and Cloud is still who he always was at his very core: a praise-hungry, isolated young man who had only ever wanted to be noticed by his peers and play with the neighborhood kids he never quite fit in with. He craves a sense of belonging, community, and individual identity that isn't stewed in melancholy and constant self-reproach. He wants to be a hero — and in that vein, it's hard for him to see others truly suffer and will always be the first guy to jump on the grenade whether he's getting paid for it or not. He's kind and sensitive (not just to rejection!) and keeps his promises in spite of his shitty self-esteem and anxious avoidance. He's optimistic, sentimental, and a bit of a hopeless romantic. He's a country bumpkin and a dork who says shit like "let's mosey!"
And, perhaps most important of all, he can be talked into wearing the dress, the tiara, and the lingerie.
SAMPLE: TDM threads 1, 2, SORRY THESE ARE SHORT i had a little hiatus after starting them UHHH a thread with an Aerith...
INVENTORY: feel free to deny me any of this, i just gravitated towards a few Materia i thought would be fun to play around with in the setting, either literally or as items to trade and barter. i plan to be pretty scant and restrictive with these, only able to use one of each of his spells daily at his healthiest, for example. same for Key Items, all of which would fit in his pockets/belt and have been earned by his point in the story
MATERIA SLOT x 2:
Fire Materia, Level 1. Cloud has this equipped by default at the start of the game. Casts weak fires, best used for out-of-combat or enemies weak to fire on limited use.
Healing Materia, Level 1. Given to him by Jessie Raspberry. Casts weak healing (think cuts and abrasions only), on limited use.
MATERIA SLOT x 2:
Steadfast Block Materia, Level 1. Purchased from Chadley. Ups Cloud's defense and allows him to "charge up" quicker.
Time Materia, Level 1. "Missing Children" Quest reward. Casts weak Haste materia, allowing one recipient to move more quickly on limited use.
NOTES: N/A.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? plot-light, please! i'll be on hiatus for a week+ at the end of march, sweats, so i don't want to keep anyone waiting!!
APPLICATION RECEIVED
ACCEPTED
Thank you for your application!
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NOTES
Cloud will be officially introduced as a new member of Ke-Waihu and asked (or tricked) to drink an elixir that will let him take on and atone for the sins of a village ancestor. Cult-bound villagers insist this will allow the past wrongdoings of the community to be gradually. Check out how ancestral curses manifest.
To figure out Cloud’s Ke-Waihu curses, if you can please pick, out of a list comprising pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony/drunkenness, wrath and sloth/indifference:
— two sins that will form the basis of his ancestral curse
— the sin you think Cloud is guiltiest of
To keep things fun for you, aim for no repeats between the sins chosen for the ancestral and the individual curse!
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