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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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hua cheng ( tgcf )
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HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Ruxi kept poking me!!
CHARACTER: Hua Cheng (San Lang, Hong-er)
CANON: Tian Guan Ci Fu
CANON POINT: Post-series
BACKGROUND: Here.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
Ghost: As a ghost, Hua Cheng doesn't age, doesn't need food or sleep, and can't actually die unless his ashes are destroyed. And since no one but he and Xie Lian know where his ashes are, well.. he's pretty safe. He can be drained to the point of essentially disappearing, of course, which then takes time to recover from.. but that takes something really extraordinary.
Spiritual Powers: He's a Devastation/Calamity rank ghost, so he has a lot--A LOT--of spiritual power, which he uses for various, mostly unspecified things. In particular, he uses his abilities to manifest his Wraith Butterflies, which are more or less what it says on the tin. They're beautiful, glowing silver butterflies that act as offense and defense (their wings can cut like razors), and can also do recon work for him (like following people and transmitting and recording voices). Additionally, he turned his despised right eye into E-Ming, his sentient, cursed scimitar. A cut from E-Ming usually means an opponent will be poisoned and die, and even if they survive such a fate, Hua Cheng can will any healed cuts from E-Ming open again to bleed out at any time he wishes.
This is all very OP, even in his actual canon, but he basically doesn't do much with his abilities that Xie Lian doesn't specifically ask of him. His husband is a very good collar and leash.
PERSONALITY:
Polite: One thing that's immediately and easily noticeable is the fact that Hua Cheng is actually very polite-- even when he's being extremely impolite. He smiles and he's genteel in most of his language, and he has a way of saying things that one can't really fault even when one knows he's actually insulting everyone (except Xie Lian) around him.
Dauntless: It's only very rare throughout the novels for Hua Cheng to lose his cool. He always seems at least one step ahead of everyone else--often several steps--and he observes things that other people don't notice, especially in dangerous or stressful situations. He has absolute faith in his abilities, and given his massive amounts of spiritual energy, it's no wonder, really. Only Xie Lian in danger can truly ruffle or scare him-- and it's rare for him to show it even then.
Brilliant: There's absolutely no doubt about one thing, at least: Hua Cheng is extremely talented and intelligent. He doesn't exactly believe that, especially when compared to his god, but the fact remains that he's the only person that could basically go toe to toe with Jun Wu on his own, and even as a Supreme Ghost King, the wealth and power he's accumulated over the centuries is enough to bankrupt heaven if he wants.
Insecure: Despite all his projected confidence and power, not all that deep down, Hua Cheng is deeply insecure about himself. He believes he's ugly and unworthy of being loved, and has based everything he's done, his entire personality and reason for existence, on his quiet service to Xie Lian. He was perfectly satisfied to never be acknowledged, to always exist in the shadows of his god's life, worshiping and protecting him wherever possible, never opposing him-- only trying to help and guide when Xie Lian needed those things.
Single-minded: As mentioned, everything he's done in the last 800 years has been for Xie Lian's sake. The prince was kind to him for a few hours in Hua Cheng's childhood at his very lowest point, and he's never, ever forgotten that. Even when Xie Lian forgot him--not once, but several times--Hua Cheng continued to do his best to serve him and provide for his needs. He remembers everyone who's ever done Xie Lian wrong, and he despises them for it. He hates the heavenly realm for its abandonment and mocking of his god, and he in fact severely punished 33 gods in particular that once crossed and humiliated Xie Lian. In some ways, you might call Hua Cheng a bit.. obsessive, though thankfully not in a creepy way (despite what certain gods might think).
Soft: Now that he and Xie Lian are married, Hua Cheng has shown his husband a side of himself that no one else gets to see. He finds it completely wondrous, impossible to believe at times, that Xie Lian loves him even a little-- much less enough to marry him. He still teases and charms and seduces, but he also allows himself to be more vulnerable around him, the quiet, reserved young man he'd been before he'd died. He still struggles to admit to his fears and doubts, and he's terrified of not being worthy, of failing his husband somehow, and he's very unlikely to communicate those things, but he's.. trying..
SAMPLE: Here.
INVENTORY:
- E-Ming, his cursed, pseudo-living scimitar.
- A pair of his teleporting dice.. with limited teleportation capabilities (whatever the mods deem suitable).
NOTES: N/A.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot-light.. pls..
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Re: hua cheng ( tgcf )
Thank you for your application!
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NOTES
INTRO
Since you’d rather take a lighter route with his intro, just assume he came in with the latest event. If you change your mind, since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.
If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of his biggest regrets.
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2. i'm down! it probably won't take him long to invite himself into wherever his hubs is staying tho.
3. not to sound like a broken record, but most of his regrets have to do with xie lian. i'd say probably the biggest one is not being strong enough at the time to protect him from being tortured by white no-face and losing hope/falling into a vengeful state against yong'an.
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