Character Applications, Round 2

[yhlee]

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.]

Comments

Re: Late request

[redshiftnova]

Player name or handle: Red, RSN/Reason (since it looks like you have another Red already)

RPG DW account (if separate): I'll make one if it becomes useful.

How can we get in touch with you? (email, DW messaging, other): Email (e dot aufde at the google mail service) or Discord (redshiftnova#4103)

Character name: Shuos Aymad (Evek Aymad)

One-paragraph (100 words) summary of your character.
Aymad is a school administrator and assistant instructor (part time) at Shuos Academy Secondary, which is also where he trained. He tracked as an analyst, worked for a time as part of a hound team on loan to a Kel swarm, and now would really rather be left alone with his syllabus spreadsheets and his hobbies. (Unsurprising for his past career, said hobbies are invariant long-arms marksmanship and competitive nonlethal unarmed combat...) He looks to be in his mid-thirties, on the rounded side of stocky, with the typical tan skin/dark hair/dark eyes combination common across the Hexarchate.

How did your character first learn of the hexarchate?
He is (on his mothers' sides) third-generation Shuos with a boisterous extended family, mostly in faction or faction-adjacent service.

Why did your character join this rebellion?
After falling through a rift and assuming he'd never be able to get home, it was an even mix of 'the h*archate is an unsustainable system built on expansion and murder, this needs optimization' and 'everything is horrible forever I may as well burn it down and see what happens'.

What would make your character consider giving up the cause?
Sufficiently convincing evidence that the task is impossible, or will result in an even more expansionist/heresy-farming successor society. Or, depending on his mental state, a guaranteed trip home back to his original time.

Name something your character does not want to lose.
Perceived personal autonomy. He avoids thinking about the mechanics of formation instinct too deeply. Aymad also has an almost incoherent phobia of psych surgery, even for benevolent reasons.

Name something your character would die for.
Not much. *Probably* sheer spite.

Name something your character would kill for.
The success of any current mission, but not for his own benefit. (Assassination is *work*, and he's picky about what he'll put effort into.)

Who is your character's best friend?
His partner of eight years, a municipal district IT director planetside near Shuos Academy Secondary. The jury is still out on whether they're emotionally healthy for each other, and the end of their contracted marriage is likely why they've been able to remain friends. They're both persnickety about weird work-related minutiae and have somewhat unreasonable tempers. (And hilariously different taste in lovers, which has become a running joke.) Think Statler and Waldorf, but with content warnings and questionable choice in whiskey.

Describe your character's perfect partner (romantic or friend or coworker, your choice).
His ideal coworker is someone with both patience and longer-term planning skill. He meshed well with his moth team because they realized that if they just handed him all the information *first*, he'd spit out assignments and timelines and take care of yelling at the Kel to stop acting like the Shuos had a faction-exotic fixing-your-damn-problems power. He'd love to be able to spend his time creating order out of short-term chaos, and then handing the setup off to someone else for actual execution.

What is your character's secret dream or desire, the one they've never told anyone?
His fondest daydream is to open a hole-in-the-wall bar in a small town (what passes for a small town) somewhere. He knows he'd be horrible at it (he lacks the patience for customers), but planning the building layout and organizing menus and researching shipping costs has been his Soothing Thing for so long he just kinda rolls with it these days. Not even his partner knows.

How will your character die?
Goes for a pint in the wrong section of the station, gets in a shouting match with a boxmoth's crew, successfully initiates a fistfight, does not successfully survive due to being completely hammered. (Or survives, then attempts to continue fighting whatever medical response he receives, gets tranqued for his stupidity, and has a massive anaphylactic reaction to the tranquilizer.)

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

What do you (the player) enjoy most in an RPG?
Solving puzzles! I haven't played a completely text-run RPG in a couple years, so I'm a bit rusty.

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You have 500 words to tell me anything else you want me and the other players to know about your character. Do it here.
I am utterly pants at answering open-ended questions (at least without coffee). I'm trying to avoid looking like Magical Space James Bond, and hopefully it's working?

Apropos of nothing, Aymad is *such* a cat person and has a competence-crush on Zehun approximately the size of the entire Milky Way. His signifier is likely something in the Ashhawk family, and OH MAN if you want to send him flying off the handle tell him what a great Kel he'd make and sound like you mean it. He's skimming third-year ethics course docs off a server at Rahal Academy Prime to keep his grid-diving practice up to date, and this may have something to do with why his loyalty to the Hexarchate snapped so easily.

Re: Late request

[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.