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let's set d o w n some ([personal profile] groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
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APPLICATIONS


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.


APPLICATION FORM & INSTRUCTIONS

EXISTING / RETURNING PLAYERS



NEW PLAYERS



APPLICATIONS CLOSED


NAVIGATION MENU

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Vanya | The Umbrella Academy

[personal profile] remugient 2021-05-07 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER NAME: Kalyn
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] ovals
INVITE STATUS: Existing player ypp

CHARACTER: Vanya Hargreeves
CANON:The Umbrella Academy
CANON POINT: Season 2, end of episode 10, right when Five is jumping them to the present

BACKGROUND: https://umbrellaacademy.fandom.com/wiki/Vanya_Hargreeves_(Netflix)#Biography

ABILITIES | POWERS: https://umbrellaacademy.fandom.com/wiki/Vanya_Hargreeves_(Netflix)#Powers_and_Abilities

Essentially Vanya can channel sound into a weapon, has telekinesis, and the weather tends to be tied to her emotions. She also has the ability to change her clothes into a sick white suit upon fully activating her powers, and it turns her violin white too.

Also able to 'gift' her abilities to others, though the method for how she does so is unknown.

As for nerfing, probably...Gonna make her ability just peter out once she gets to "destroy the moon and cause the apocalypses" levels of it. Just sudden cut off like pulling a power cord.

PERSONALITY: Vanya is someone who tries to keep putting one foot in front of the other to keep moving on, but ultimately always ends up stumbling somewhere down the line. Vanya's isolation from her family defines her at first. It's always The Umbrella Academy + 1, and that +1 just wasn't interesting or worth anyone's time. Being constantly pushed aside, the neglect of her father and lowgrade bullying from her siblings gave Vanya deep-seated issues with her own supposed 'averageness'.

While mild-mannered and almost bland at first, Vanya just drifts through life feeling like an outsider to everyone she meets, and it's because of her trauma that she falls so easily for others' manipulation. She wanted desperately to feel needed and special to someone, so when Leonard came along and gave her all the praise she'd missed, she latched onto it almost obsessively.

All of her anger and hurt that had been brimming under the surface and suppressed thanks in part to the pills her father put her on suddenly began to bubble up. The powers Vanya didn't know she had began to manifest again and Vanya, completely unprepared for it, began to lash out violently against perceived threats and the power she'd been denied so long.

It isn't until her siblings knock her out and she ends up losing her memory that she begins to heal. In a safer environment, feeling loved and happy, Vanya is able to cope better once Five shatters the bubble she'd enclosed herself in. Her siblings actually try to empathize with her and take responsibility for their own actions towards her, and she in turn takes responsibility for her destructive powers and they're able to forgive each other.

Vanya is loyal and hard-working, passionate about music and dedicated to her craft, to the point her violin is the main focal point for her sound-based abilities. While Vanya doesn't have the greatest control over it, she's quick to learn about it and has grown comfortable enough to joke with her siblings about it, or prank them.

However, in a lot of ways Vanya is still a ticking time bomb. Triggered the wrong way, or when she gets too emotional and overwhelmed, Vanya's powers begin to manifest without her input and can quickly go wildly out of control if someone isn't able to talk her down from the ledge. When in control of her powers, though, Vanya is deadly and protective, pushing her and her abilities beyond what she might normally in order to save those she cares about (such as pushing all the water out of the lake ala Moses to save Harlan).

SAMPLE: https://westwhere.dreamwidth.org/2035.html?thread=227827#cmt227827

INVENTORY: - A violin

NOTES: Vanya will try very, very hard not to start an apocalypse for the THIRD time.
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Re: APPROVED

[personal profile] remugient 2021-05-09 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... #concern.

Let's say she visited...5 times?? is that a good number or is that too much/too little ksdjg

1. Forgot romantic moments w/Sissy
2. Lost the sound manipulation
3. Lost the "weather tied to emotions" stuff
4. Forgot Ben helping her out of her torture from the CIA
5. Forgot Allison rumor-ing away her ability
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[personal profile] remugient 2021-05-09 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
nah this is fine! i'll stick with it!
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[personal profile] remugient 2021-05-18 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
whOOPS did that....sorry!