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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
APPLICATIONS
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Post your applications to this entry in the following format: First comment should contain the OOC information section only. Successive comments should be posted in reply to that comment, as many as you need. Moderator responses will be appended to the last comment of the application.
A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
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Character name: Rebecca Gales
Character canon: The Letter | Lockdown CRAU
Canon point: Post-death | R1 Endgame
Physical Description: It’s her!
Rebecca’s a 29-year-old woman who falls under the half realistic half anime art style descriptor. The game’s back and forth on if her hair’s pink or red but I usually just go with red. She stands at 5’5”.
About the Character: why are my wikis never good
This has a lot of BACKSTORY but not history that happens in-game, so. I’ve got a more in-depth rundown, if necessary, but here’s the basics. A WARNING: THIS CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE, IN BOTH CANON AND CRAU SECTIONS.
The Letter takes place over two weeks, with shifting perspectives. In those two weeks, the following has happened to or around Rebecca:
After her neighbor and best friend Isabella sells the supposedly cursed Ermengarde mansion to a rich couple (the Wrights) and discovers an ancient chain letter that she accidentally shows to Rebecca and other friends Ashton and Zachary, the group starts experiencing strange, supernatural events, particularly in the form of a mutilated ghost woman following them around and inciting panic. While Rebecca initially doesn’t believe in anything supernatural, discovering Isabella’s gruesome corpse as a result of the ghost changes that quickly. As she interacts with others entangled in the curse (Hannah Wright, forgotten friend from childhood; Luke Wright, godfather of one of her students; and Marianne McCoullough, chance encounter in the local library), Rebecca tries to understand the circumstances all of them have found themselves in, all the while trying to get Ashton to confront his feelings for the deceased Isabella and learning her own feelings for Ashton are more obsession than love.
In a bold move, Rebecca gains access to restricted research in the local library to try and stop the curse, but the ghost woman (now possessing Hannah) tracks her down and corners her on the roof. Rebecca gives a teary farewell to Ashton over the phone before stepping off the roof, rather dying that way than being tortured. ...But then her soul ends up trapped in the mansion, where she’ll be tortured for all eternity, so… Oops.
That’s the nitty-gritty history all sorted out, so let’s talk about Rebecca as a person.
Rebecca’s a complicated character. Many parts of her personality are contradictory, and part of her story and struggle is sorting through those.
As a teacher, Rebecca is patient to a fault. She’s got that thing down where she can put a cross expression on but keep her tone neutral or pretty much “so I’m counting to ten, children,” and it works wonders to keep her class in line, and to reprimand her friends if they’ve done something stupid. What also helps with that is her fiery temper. Though she was shy and rarely stood up for herself as a child, Rebecca’s cultivated a strong, confidant personality, so she’s very willing to speak her mind...and harshly, if the situation calls for it. It means when she shows signs of getting mad, those who would rather avoid that start trying to work with her instead of against her. It also means, practically speaking, she MAKES herself heard. She’s a woman who won’t let her voice be swallowed up anymore.
...Though sometimes this means she ends up covering up the voices of others. If Rebecca jumps to a conclusion and it makes her angry, it’s almost impossible to stop her roaring rampage. Example: When a hilarious misunderstanding means she believes local douchebag Luke has kidnapped a local student, Rebecca whaps him across the head with a book before stopping to ask questions. Actually, he’s said student’s godfather, lightly complaining about how she wanted to buy something a cafe was out of. OOPS. Her temper and stubbornness can get her into hot water, resulting in some truly amazing fights, even with the people she cares about.
However, that stubbornness also keeps her determined and persistent. She’s not one to sit back and let everyone else take care of things. Whether it’s helping neighbor and best friend Isabella with affording some food (even if Isabella won’t accept it), or chasing after childhood friend Ashton when he goes off to maybe get himself killed at a haunted mansion. Just the little things! It’s the kind of attitude that contributes to her dedication to her loved ones. Even if they fight, it’ll take something monstrous to make Rebecca step away from them. Hell, even if her relationships with her friends completely tank, she still persistently follows them to the final confrontation with the ghost haunting them. It’s this dedication that makes Becca the “mom friend” of her group, always ready to ask about how they’re holding up in stressful situations, make sure they’re getting enough to eat or not stressing themselves out- you know, the usual things.
However, a selfish undercurrent exists in many of Rebecca’s relationships, because she has the tendency to expect something back for the love she gives. This isn’t something she ever voices. She’s never told her parents she’s felt lonely and distant from them, that she’s felt since she was young they put more into their work than their relationship with their only daughter. Maybe if she were more forthcoming with them, it’d change something. It’s the same with Ashton, who she’s been in love with for seventeen years. She waits for him to notice, but grows frustrated when he doesn’t, and that frustration spills over to Isabella. The little inconveniences grow to annoy her because of this internal resentment, and sometimes it can lead to her temper going off prematurely. A bit of a clusterfuck, honestly. The resentment’s something she’s aware of, and she guilts herself for it when the fiery confrontations fade. Her underlying selfishness, however, is something she’s been blind to for many years.
It’s worth noting that, with a damn-needed wakeup call, she DOES grow aware and critical of this part of herself, though that’s not at the start of her canonpoint, gosh no. Basically, Rebecca has the potential to change and say “ok no, THAT has to fucking stop,” because she WANTS to be the person others can depend on, even though she also desperately wants love and affection. The problem with her thought-process to begin with regarding love is it’s incredibly idealistic. She’s never let it mature from childhood, and it’s this that made her believe she deserves to receive love and appreciation by giving it, even if she doesn’t voice it. That whole “he’ll notice one day” thing you have going on in, like, grade school. It’s lead to her indulging more in jealousy for those who receive what she wants in this department--love and affection from those she desires it from. Again, this is something she CAN recognize, given the opportunity.
Coexisting with all these flaws, however, is her observant nature. While she’s a bit blind to her own faults in some areas, and somewhat willfully ignorant to the love she can’t receive, Rebecca is remarkably observant, and with that comes a great memory, be it for historical facts or decades old memories or a specific way a friend reacts to a negative situation. Becca watches and listens when she can, be it with friends she’s known for years or new acquaintances, who she quickly picks up on how to interact with, like Luke.
That confident and forceful nature of hers also means she tends to be brutally honest at times. When those temper flares happen, she doesn’t mince words, unless they have to do with her own carefully hidden feelings. If she’s got a critique or a suggestion? She’ll just let it out. While sometimes these are things people need to hear, other times they’re unnecessarily blunt. Especially if she’s in a bad mood when she’s speaking her mind.
Basically put all this together and you’ve got a woman who has her life together in some ways, knows she doesn’t have it together in others, and is completely blind to the other various ways she’s a hot mess. Yay????
LOCKDOWN INFORMATION:
So here’s where we enter Lockdown. Somehow, Rebecca was revived after being trapped in the mansion and pulled to another world. Along with twenty-four other people, she was locked in Fayflower University and told they were there to help with a potentially multiverse ending problem. The administration proceeded to be less than forthcoming about anything, including a mysterious not-quite-virus called D-756 that took over anyone who went over the wall surrounding the school, inspiring homicidal, suicidal, and all-out paranoid behavior. As weeks went on, even approaching the wall filled everyone with a foreboding and haunting feeling.
In any case, some who had been involved in an “entrance exam” months prior informed the rest of the group they’d been given a motive, encouraged to kill one another, and sent to a twisted trial where they had to find the guilty.
Naturally, history repeated itself. Despite the altruistic explanation, it became clear that all of them were just being psychologically tortured to find a large number of people who were “pure” or immune to the virus...so they were told. While dealing with her own grief and being thrown back into it by remembering more of what she’d forgotten each week, Rebecca took it upon herself to look after the teenagers there, insulted that a place calling itself a school would put them through all of this. She also took to communicating with assigned Professor, Han Young, who had confided in her that he was a spy. It lead to her doing some digging, after losing people she’d come to care about, week after week. She had a clear fixation, after realizing she was dead back home, on finding the technology the administration had used to revive her and use it on the ones here and her friends back home. It was this and the group learning those who had died here had their consciousnesses uploaded to a simulation and could still communicate with them that ultimately doomed her.
Rebecca received a note during their sixth week at the school from the Headmaster, ordering her to go to the wall, with a knife, and she would receive the information she wanted...and if she told anyone, the dead would pay for it. At this point, many of the people in the simulation were people she’d come to care about. Combined with the incredible survivor’s guilt she’d started harboring after realizing her friends back home weren’t given the same second chance she had been, she was trapped. It was a set-up, to get Han there, so the infected (or “hijacked” as they referred to it) Rebecca would kill him. She regained just enough control and awareness over herself to restrain from going after the small crowd that had gathered, and Rebecca killed herself, not wanting to be used to hurt any of them.
...And she woke up in the simulation, where she reunited with the people she’d lost and really avoided Han, because the guilt of killing someone she considered a friend made it too much for her to face him. While in the simulation, she spent the time trying to cope with everything...mostly by vigorously ignoring anything that could remind her of her death (either of them) and adjusting to life as an AI. (By holding hands with Viral, who she’s slowly allowing herself to have a crush on.)
So. Rebecca’s development in Lockdown. You know that damn-needed wakeup call, mentioned above? Well, seeing herself in the more selfish of the culprits (Grantaire, how 2-D presented himself) and actually letting herself interact with people she could be romantically attracted to made her realize a) she’s got A LOT of selfish thoughts and actions and b) she has denied herself a lot of potential friends, interaction, experiences--all because she’s been waiting on one person who she won’t even tell her feelings to. Those things she’s not self-aware about, she’s incredibly self-aware about now, to the point that while she’s actively trying to fix them, but they also play into her survivor’s guilt. Rebecca mentions blaming herself, quite a lot, in canon for Isabella’s death and the whole mess to begin with, even though she takes it out on other people.
With the trauma of killing herself twice, being tortured in the ghost’s mansion, and losing just about everyone close to her, there’s a lot more self-hatred and self-blame swirling around her head, especially about anything she could perceive as selfish.
Character abilities:
Inventory:
- Core Drill: A drill on a string necklace. Feathers have been strung on to the necklace as well, in memoriam of a lost love.
- Clothing: As pictured in the character appearance link.
Samples:
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For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
Crystal Flowers: A pair of roses, made of sparkling crystal, one blue and one pink. The stems are made from rose gold, appropriately enough.
One Giant Leap For Mankind: A bright orange wearable sleeping bag -- it's got arms and legs so once you're zipped up, you can get up and move around. There seems to be some sort of enchantment on it, as it will be a cozy fit for whoever climbs into it, regardless of height and build.