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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: Undyne
Character canon: Undertale
Canon point: Immediately after the end of her boss fight in the No Mercy route.
Physical Description: Six feet of pretty blue scales and muscle mass, well-built
with a surprisingly nice figure for someone who isn't even a mammal. Dark red hair, green eyes with yellow sclera and cat-like pupils, sharp teeth and nails. Fingers and toes are webbed, has fins instead of ears. Left eye covered with a patch at all times, likely missing or nonfunctional due to old injuries. She appears to be able to make the eye glow when she chooses to. No canon age given, but I headcanon her as roughly twenty-seven years old.About the Character: As per the backstory of Undertale, humans and monsters once lived peacefully together on the Surface, only for humans to declare war upon discovering that a monster could potentially claim a human's soul for power. In their fear of this possibility, they defeated monsterkind thoroughly and sealed the few survivors underneath a mountain via a magic barrier that could only be broken by the power of seven human souls.
One day long after the War ended, a human child fell through the Barrier and was adopted by the royal family. At first, there was hope that this might represent a chance to reunite peacefully with humanity, but these hopes were shattered when both the child and their adoptive brother died in a misguided plan to try and free monsterkind, leading the king to declare that he would kill any human who fell into the kingdom.
Undyne is a character who has grown up long after that fateful event, in a kingdom deeply shaped by tragedy but still trying to survive. Six humans have already died, their souls claimed by the king... and now a seventh has fallen.
She cares greatly for the people and is an extremely passionate, hot-tempered woman, first coming to King Asgore's attention as a young girl by challenging him to a fight. Under his tutelage, she became a skilled fighter and rose to claim the position of Captain of the Royal Guard.
Though Undyne fights for her king and her country, she may have to question whether they're truly doing the right thing after her fight is over. If she survives it.
It would not be inaccurate to say that Undyne is, at heart, a hot-blooded shounen protagonist in fish monster form.
Unfortunately for her, she turned out to be from a somewhat less forgiving genre.
While there are happier timelines, this version of Undyne is from a timeline where the player of Undertale, the seventh fallen human, choose to kill every single monster they could hunt down in their journey across the Underground, culminating in using their power to erase their entire world.
Full of righteous fury and faith in her cause, Undyne attempts to defeat them... only to be killed herself, after a great battle. On coming to PhanRift, she will have to cope with the memory of her death, meeting human beings in a hopefully less hostile context, and her newfound painful knowledge of the limits of heroism.
Character abilities: Monstrous nature- All monsters are born with the ability to use magic, which is linked to the soul. Like any monster, Undyne can sense the soul of a sapient being, and is capable of using this power to CHECK them (seeing various details about them and their nature) or to FIGHT them (by pulling out the soul and attacking it directly). In addition, they are themselves beings of magic, which means that they're based more on energy than biology. They are thus unaffected by diseases or poisons that would harm a human, although by the same token they are far weaker to attacks that contain negative emotions.
Green magic- A more advanced ability than the normal magic every monster is born with, green magic is the magic of shielding and healing, and gains its' power from the virtue of kindness. Undyne is extremely skilled with it, and can make shields not only to protect herself from oncoming blows, but can also form them around opponents to hem them in and keep them from escaping, although this does have the side effect of making them harder to hit. Though she does not do so in canon, we can assume that this level of skill with green magic means that she can also heal others.
Water magic- The ability to summon and control water. Many monsters in Undertale are shown to have various types of elemental abilities, especially ones linked to their own appearance, such as snowy monsters having ice magic. This kind of affinity is apparently commonplace enough that fire magic is regularly used in home cooking, according to Undyne herself. Undyne is a fish monster living in the extremely watery area of Waterfall, a location in which multiple enemies have some variety of water magic, so I believe that she likely has at least some degree of ability in it herself.
Strength- This is a woman who literally suplexes giant boulders in canon just for fun. She was mentioned, offscreen, as having picked up the entire rest of the main cast all at once in order to prove that she could, and apparently only started having trouble when she tried to figure out how to put them back down. Onscreen, she picks up the main character with one hand and then leaps clear across the room while holding them. She is buff as fuck.
Energy spears- Capable of summoning spears made out of magical energy and can choose to either hold them and wield them like a physical weapon or to send them flying at a target, including having them come rising out of the floor.
Combat training- Captain of the Royal Guard, the organization dedicated to defending their kingdom, and personally trained by their king. Undyne is a skilled and capable fighter, both in terms of physical ability and strategic thinking, although the latter has an unfortunate tendency to go out the window if she gets frustrated and loses her temper.
Amphibious- As a fish monster, Undyne has gills and is capable of breathing both air and water. She canonically lives in what appears to be a freshwater marsh, but is shown at the beach in the True Pacifist ending, suggesting that she is also capable of breathing saltwater without difficulty.
Determination- Something that appears to be more the emotion that it is named for, a quality that is also a substance produced by human souls. Vast amounts of it allow Undertale's main character, as well as one of the major villains, to manipulate time itself, but monsters cannot normally take high concentrations of determination without losing their grip on their physical forms and melting into beings called Amalgamates, and do not normally produce any metaphysically significant amount of DT. Undyne briefly manages to break this restriction somehow during her boss fight in the No Mercy route, using Determination to reform herself as the more powerful Undyne the Undying after taking a fatal blow. Ultimately, however, it is still not enough and she melts in a similar manner to an Amalgamate upon dying. This ability is not one that Undyne understands or knows how to use in any real way at this point, only being vaguely aware that she tapped into a power she hadn't been previously aware of.
Piano- Can play piano. Actually pretty good at it.
Inventory:
-Grey jeans, plain white one-piece swimsuit worn like it's a tank top, red boots, green hair elastic, dark grey eye patch, brown leather jacket. (...it's literally just the clothes she was wearing under her armor.)
-Two gold coins in pocket change.
-A cell phone with dimensional box feature, allowing her to store up to twenty items in some kind of video game hammerspace inventory. It also has a camera feature, containing many pictures of strange monsters from Undyne's home, especially one who appears to be a kind of yellow lizard in a labcoat. Sadly, none of the numbers in the contacts list are within range of the phone, so no calling or texting. UnderNet access is also right out for similar reasons, can't connect to a network that's not even in this world, no matter how good your data plan is.
-The damaged remains of some elaborately spiky armor. It's not usable anymore, most of it has been battered to pieces and there's a giant rent across the front of the breastplate, like it's been cleaved through with a bladed weapon.
-One teacup shaped like a fish (in her phone's dimensional box).
-One box of golden flower tea (in dimensional box).
Samples: On the Test Drive Meme, my toplevel and a tagout.
REVISIONS REQUEST
-> We'd like to see more information on Undyne's personality traits and motivations in detail.
Please respond to this comment within 72 hours with these changes!
Re: REVISIONS REQUEST
Kindness is not always a soft and gentle thing- as not only a member of the Royal Guard but it's leader, Undyne is prepared to unflinchingly defend the kingdom from any and all threats. Including- or perhaps especially- any humans that fall down through the Barrier. The Barrier can only be broken with the power of seven human souls, and Undyne has grown up knowing that they had six already, believing strongly in King Asgore and his plan to claim their power and free their people, taking the Surface back from humanity.
She hates seeing the way her people suffer down in the Underground, hates anyone being in pain when there's nothing she can do about it.
The only problem is... she can't quite stomp out the knowledge that humans are people, too. She tries very hard to, going through some fairly elaborate mental gymnastics to justify attempting to kill the player character and take their soul for the king, no matter how kind or cruel they've been in that particular playthrough, and trying to excuse her fondness for 'human culture' (read: anime DVDs and manga that fell down into the Underground from the dump, because even though she's badass Undyne is a complete nerd) by saying that she's studying the enemy to better understand a dangerous opponent, but at the end of the day? She knows that what they're planning isn't justice so much as revenge, inflicting pain on others as punishment for the pain they've endured. However much she stubbornly doubles down on her dislike of humans, refusing to admit to admiring them for fear of betraying her people's trust in her, she can't deny her doubts.
And once the No Mercy route comes around, she doesn't even bother with that- when she confronts the player character as Undyne the Undying, she outright states (correctly) that they're a threat to both humans and monsters, and that she'll fight them for the sake of the whole world, not just her own people. This is a noble realization, the willingness to put aside her old grudges and uncertainty in favor of truly defending all those in need, so it's a bit of a shame that even that wasn't enough to actually win that fight.
Other routes will show her softer side, if befriended- her love of cooking even though she's hilariously bad at it, her patience with Papyrus even when he's not terribly competent, her admiration for and raging crush on timid but brilliant scientist Dr. Alphys... but even in the heat of battle, her love for her friends is explicitly what motivates her, and her final words are that she trusts Asgore and Alphys to fight back against the player character, and save everyone despite her failure.
As the game puts it "she's loud, rude, and beats up anyone who gets in her way"... but she's also a hero. And she understand that it's a hero's job to fight for their people, no matter the cost.
Outside of battle, befriending her will reveal an excitable, melodramatic woman who loves, in no particular order, a good fight, a good meal, beautiful ladies, seeing other people get excited about the things they're passionate about, anime or literally any kind of fiction that involves hot girls with swords, and music.
In all honesty, Undyne can get pretty passionate about most things- if she doesn't already have a very strong opinion on something, give her five minutes to think about it and she'll be shouting on the topic soon enough. The fact that she's arrived here just after dying has knocked some of the wind out of her sails, but given a little bit of time to find her bearings and come to terms with the fact that she's alive again, and she'll be back to her old excitable self pretty quickly.
After all, she's determined like that.
ACCEPTED
Additionally, if you use a secondary journal for icon space or other purposes, please respond to this comment with it so that we can get it included!
For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
-> This fine ankle chain - delicate silver, with alternating bars and loops - is strung with a cluster of white and silver feathers near the clasp. When worn, it causes the wearer to fall more slowly - not enough to prevent all damage, but enough to make falls of up to twenty feet or so perfectly safe.
-> Two Mean Cuisine boxes. One of them is macaroni with bacon bits, and the other is some sort of chicken garlic pasta. Both single-serving sized.