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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.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
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Cassian Andor | Star Wars
CONTACT: daestwen#6257 on discord
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: a little birds told me (I’ve been here more than a few times)
CHARACTER: Cassian Andor
CANON: Star Wars
CANON POINT: at the end of the first season of Andor
BACKGROUND:
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cassian_Jeron_Andor
ABILITIES | POWERS: He is a normal human despite sometimes exaggerated claims to the contrary.
PERSONALITY: Cassian is a man of deep passionate conviction wrapped up in trauma and abandonment issues with a veneer of desperately not wanting to care what he desperately cares about.
He cares a lot about people, even when he doesn’t want to. All his main motivations generally boil down to wanting to take care of the people he loves, even if he does it in completely stupid and disreputable ways. His drive for money is mainly to give his adopted mother a decent life, his drive for information to help him track down to the sister he was forced to abandon. He goes out of his way to look after people even if he has convinced himself he shouldn’t - this is clearest during the escape from Aldahni - he barely thinks twice before risking them all in a bid to save Nemik from dying of his wounds. Though all of his interactions with the crew until that point paint him as a mercenary - only there for the money - when given the option to take more of it at the detriment of people he has never claimed were his friends, he chooses option three: shoot the man who would otherwise betray them.
His sense of Justice is ultimately his primary motivator, even if it often gets displayed as displaced aggression or anger. When he was young he had no way of tempering this - the unjustified death of a loved one threw him into a violent temper that utterly changed his life twice. He didn’t learn his lesson. He’s since managed to keep his instinct for violence mostly tamed, but given a situation where he has no time to think, he doesn’t hesitate to take the lethal option.
He despises oppression in all its forms, but spent much of his life convinced he could do nothing about it. Any time he raised his head to fight back it landed him in worse trouble than before. He tried to focus himself on running away - of purely fleeing the oppressors than trying to fight - but ultimately realized the Empire could not be outrun. I am taking him from right after his decision to join the Rebellion for good - at the risk of being killed if he wasn’t accepted. After losing his mother, he can no longer ignore the injustice that she raged against as well.
He has a very earned reputation for borrowing money and never returning it - though there are ample clues in the show that this is entirely dependent on how much he likes a person. Those that he respects he always makes sure to repay.
He has an extended sense of found family - especially since he was literally found and forcefully adopted into his. He makes close connections with people and cares deeply about their welfare, and considers both his friends and his mother’s as extensions of their family unit. However, he also has a tendency to make a lot of enemies: he isn’t shy to make it clear when he doesn’t respect someone, and once that respect is lost he has no qualms in cheating them or even stealing from them.
He doesn’t like to be the lead man on something - preferring instead to be the moral support for someone else to be the Face of a movement. This was first displayed in Rogue One with Jyn, but it’s echoed again as a younger man during the prison escape in the episode One Way Out. Instead of trying to take charge for himself, he instead goes out of his way to convert Kino to the cause and then support him and raise him up into a heroic figure head. It echoes nicely as a metaphor for his work with Rogue One later - he is not the face hero, he is one of the men behind the scenes that helps heroes happen.
He is described as a bit of a womanizer by his mother - she accuses him of having been with more girls that she could remember or name - but from his relationship with Bix (an ex and now friend/business partner) it’s clear that it isn’t based on a disrespect for women. While he certainly has used at least one as a port in a storm so to speak, I consider this more as a continuation of his emotional nature. In Rogue One he clearly falls for Jyn very quickly, and so I extrapolate this to mean that he is someone who falls in and out of love frequently and often - though he is careful not to have it interfere with his work. He has no displayed male attraction but also no clear indicator that is isn’t an option, so: bi until proven otherwise.
SAMPLE: https://westwhere.dreamwidth.org/45698.html?thread=6035586#cmt6035586
INVENTORY: A couple credits, a data pad with Nemik’s rebellion manifesto, the clothes on his back.
NOTES: Nope
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? is there a plot medium option please
APPLICATION RECEIVED
ACCEPTED
Thank you for your application!
ADMIN
NOTES
INTRO
The scroll message is short, sweet and direct:
They say Alem brews a tea of tears for every day of siege.
Let us drink a cup together and break bread at last.
Remember: Rakkathu’s bark is not the bite.
Matthias