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Please post character applications as comments here.

~~I will make a note when we close to new applications. We are currently looking for six to eight new players.~~

EDIT, 11/14/2018: We are now closed to player applications. Thank you!

[For reference: Character Applications, Round 1.]

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From:

redsixwing

Player name or handle: redsixwing, preferred short form "Six"

RPG DW account (if separate): n/a; I'll update if that changes.

How can we get in touch with you? (email, DW messaging, other): DW messaging, email at redsixwing at redsixwing dot com, Discord

Character name: Shuos Reshad

One-paragraph (100 words) summary of your character.
Reshad was just shy of adulthood when her world was annexed. A pliable, intelligent youth, she was taken from her family, relocated, and reeducated in a Vidona school. She aimed to join the Shuos as her best shot at attaining any level of influence within the conquering hexarchate. She couldn't beat them, so she joined them, and harbored a secret fury.

After a disastrous first mission, she was remade, renamed, and reassigned. She became an infiltrator, shifting between social classes, genders, and societies as required, studying the enemy to become them, and shedding whole identities when they are done.

NOTE: In the following section, limit your answers to up to 100 words per question.
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How did your character first learn of the hexarchate?
When the Andan appeared with promises of improved lifestyles, powerful exotics, and social harmony. The government of her nation was receptive to the messages of the hexarchate, and helped them to annex the world.
Only when the Kel and Vidona advanced from their landing site in her capital city did she realize that the means of the easy life promised by the Andan were torture and repression. She was a child; she still blames herself for not doing anything as her society was altered beyond recognition.

Why did your character join this rebellion?
She hates the requisite uniformity of the hexarchate, but still wants the luxuries afforded to the favored citizen.
She's worked herself around to believing that the latter can be had without the former. (Whether she's right or not is another question.)

What type of role would your character play in a mission?
In Shadowrun terms, she's the Face.
Reshad is good at speeding the wheels of bureaucracy, causing officials to look the other way at the right moment, and getting herself and her team in- and out- of danger. Weak in a fight, she's more likely to manipulate than shoot, more likely to brazen her way through with social engineering than hide. Her charisma is her weapon, and understanding her enemy her greatest shield.

What kinds of missions would your character like to see? (e.g. spying, opportunities for romance, intrigue, diplomacy, etc.)
Spying, intrigue, infiltration, exfiltration are all things she'd enjoy. She idolizes the historical, terrifying Shuos Jedao, so she'd likely enjoy a mission with the Kel even if she's temperamentally a poor fit with the conformist, rigid military.

What is your character's secret dream or desire, the one they've never told anyone?
She wants to be deeply understood, to have someone - even an enemy - who can pierce the layered masks and know who she is at the core, and accept the complexity of a person whose vocation and career are built on deception.

How will your character die?
She considers it likely that some day, her cover will be compromised, and she'll be made an example by whatever group she was attempting to infiltrate. (If she's working against the hexarchate, she's at some point going to have to face the idea of being tortured as a heretic. She really doesn't want to think about that.)

Does your character have any powers that the hexarchate would consider "exotic" (magical)?
No.

What do you (the player) enjoy most in an RPG?
I love character play and the details of worldbuilding. Small, slice-of-life moments in other worlds are a favorite too. Conflicting loyalty, failure and recovery, and general angst are favorite plot elements. RP is escapism for me, so I do like to see Our Heroes succeed in the end, but the path can be torturous and I'll be on board for it.

You have 100 words to tell me anything else you want me and the other players to know about your character. Do it here.
Reshad runs on loyalty. Earn it, and she'll move the stars for you.
She misses her family terribly, and won't admit it even to herself. Someone who knows of them and their fate would have a significant lever to apply.
She has at least two prior names, one of which was her birth name. Using those will get a strong reaction, although what kind depends entirely on context.

Edited Date: 2018-11-08 05:27 pm (UTC)

From:

yhlee

Hello, and welcome to the game! Please follow the comm with whatever relevant account(s) once you get a chance; I also recommend tracking posts/comments.

There is a new player welcome post for out-of-character and in-character introductions. I'll be updating the player list shortly.