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Occasionally, a rapidly-developing canon like Homestuck or Red vs Blue may throw plot curveballs. For well-established characters, this is not usually a problem, but minor characters may be substantially altered by new information. While not strictly banned, if your character is likely to be affected by revelations in the near future, we ask that you hold off on an application until the story arc is resolved. |
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| playing physically-incompatible characters |
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| apping from alternate universes or timelines |
| Singularity accepts multiples of all characters, but only one "canon"/original universe (OU) version of anyone. All others have to be alternate universe (AU). The least complicated AUs are the canon AUs, like the Kingdom Hearts versions of Square Enix characters or the various Commanders Shepard from Mass Effect. "Canon AU" is something of a misnomer; malleable protagonists and canons with multiple continuities are equally canonical and the apps are judged as such, but any duplicates are considered AUs for game bookkeeping purposes, such as community tags and caps on the number of multiples. Player-made AUs are also appable. However, this doesn't mean that any given player-created AU is going to be a good match for the game. You should be able to explain convincingly why your version of the character fits and will be playable while remaining recognizably a canon character. For instance, Commander Shepard can plausibly be male or female because the setting of Mass Effect is gender-egalitarian and the story does not change more than superficially with the player's choice of gender for their Shepard. On the other hand, an AU where Commander Shepard was not human--say, a Turian--would require the plot of the Mass Effect games to be entirely rewritten because it would change everything about the background and motivations of the character, and would make no sense without substantially altering the sociopolitics of the universe. A case where gender would matter is for a Disney princess like Ariel from The Little Mermaid or Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Because of the gender roles assumed by the setting and the major effect this would have on the character's relationships and the story itself, it goes beyond the scope of an RP character to simply do a gender change. Players may find it easier to app from AUs where one key event from after the story is well underway is altered--for example, if Luke Skywalker had accepted Darth Vader's offer at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. It is a challenge, but not an insurmountable one, to explain why Luke would have chosen differently in the AU. Star Wars would still be recognizable as Star Wars, and Luke as Luke. However, an AU where Luke and Leia were raised by Vader fundamentally alters the premise of the story; the plot of the Star Wars trilogy would be entirely different in a universe where Leia hadn't grown up on Alderaan as the adopted child of a Rebel leader and Luke had never been a farmer on Tatooine or met Ben Kenobi. The idea, while compelling, is material better suited for a fanfic than RP, where you as writer control not only your character, but other characters' reactions to them, and have the opportunity to set the stage for the reader and guide their expectations. RP is a collaborative exercise for creating and exploring stories jointly, and intricate AUs are a bad vehicle for this. Mods and app team members do reserve the right to reject or ask for revisions on an AU app if that app includes AU information that does not seem to make sense for the character/canon being apped. If you are trying to AU a children's movie into an unnecessarily dark scenario with cannibalism and murder and what have you, or you've turned a serious, philosophically-inclined canon with adult themes into a lighthearted slapstick AU universe, you may be asked to change the AU to fit the canon better, or have your application rejected entirely if the mods can't see how the AU could be made acceptable. Keep in mind that canonmates and gamemates in general will be directly affected by your AU, and not everyone may be comfortable with what you've chosen. Signing up your character's canon friends to interact with someone from a world either substantially more horrifying or substantially sillier than their own is not particularly considerate to their existing players, or to any who may app in the future. As a rule of thumb, the more extreme an AU is, the harder it will be for castmates to interact with, and a good AU for the game should not deliberately put castmates off from interacting. Plausibility and interaction dynamics are especially important in AU applications. An individual player is not allowed to app two versions of the same characters, no matter how distinct the AUs may be. If you are at all unsure whether an AU concept is suitable or not for the game, visit the Contact page to discuss it with a mod or app team member. |
| apping from other game canons |
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Every character should have their ways of triumphing and every character should have ways of being defeated, even if they were the most powerful individual in their original setting, because we want to create plots and CR that are more than just ‘this guy is the most powerful guy ever and no one can stop him from doing what he wants.’ This goes for heroes as well as villains. We want to see your suggestions for limitations because you, the player, would know best how to level down a character without making them unrecognizable or unplayable. You are welcome to lock abilities, downgrade overpowered weapons or items, or even AU weaknesses that don’t exist in canon--for example, playing a vampire character who suddenly finds the blood of willing victims far more nourishing than that of the unwilling. 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Moira Brown (Fallout 3) Pt. I
Your Nickname: Bluebird
OOC Journal:
Under 18? Not even.
Email/IM: Gchat: fluffysparkle@gmail.com; AIM fluffysparkle
NOTE: gmail is the best way to reach me. Or just pop me an LJ message!
Characters Played at Singularity: n/a
Character Information ;
Name: Moira Brown
Name of Canon: Fallout 3
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: Canon
Reference: Wikia! (http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3)
Also has a... distinct voice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdfFCSan-wg) that I swear I'm not making up.
Canon Point: Any time before or after The Power of the Atom. Assumes player never completes said quest.
Setting: Pretend with me a moment. Envision a world where the Bay of Pigs totally happened (ideologically speaking), and in terms of social structure and mores, it is permanently the 1961 ...Of...The Future! Sorry, Pop, no flying cars, but we do have jetpacks and household robots to do the cleaning for us.
Or we did. Before the bombs dropped.
The Fallout series is a science-fiction alternate history fueled by 1950's Americana, a world where Wonder Bread was good for you, McCarthyism was your patriotic duty, and everyone's parents said their prayers at night in separate beds, under the covers with the lights off.
Fallout history holds that China, not Russia, was the major opposing nuclear superpower of the day. Tensions escalated to the proverbial Global Thermonuclear War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames). (2070's, in game-time, if I recall correctly.) Nearly everyone was wiped out. It was the end of life as we knew it, and the beginning of life in the Wasteland.
The Vaults were America's Answer! To The Nuclear Threat! A series of large-scale underground bunkers funded by VaulTec, the Vaults were designed to provide all the comforts of home for upwards of a thousand per facility, depending on geographic location.
That was how it was supposed to be.
In reality, the Vaults were part of a massive government project/social experiment to test how citizens would react to various conditions of the apocalypse. Vault 13 was rigged with a faulty water purifier. In Vault 106, psychoactive drugs were released into the air recyclers soon after the doors were sealed. Vault 101 gave complete control to the Overseer. Legend has it that one Vault is populated entirely by clones of one man, all named Gary...
In Fallout 3, the player is centrally located in an area spanning the Maryland/Virginia corridor near Washington, D.C.--a demilitarized zone crawling with supermutants, slavers, mirelurks, and similar big nasty things that all want to eat you. Such towns as still exist are sparse, small, and far apart.
There are no governments, only factions. The Enclave will tell you differently and promise you a down-home slice of the good ol' red white and blue, but they're all a bunch of robots anyway. Really. Just ask President John Henry Eden. God bless America, and good luck getting out alive. You'll need it.
Moira is an NPC, first encountered by the player in the survivor city of Megaton, which gets its name from the undetonated atomic bomb sticking up from the mud in the middle of town. Don't worry, everyone’s sure it's a dud. Besides, the local Children of Atom cult worships the thing, and they helped build the town, so...
Moira is a merchant. It's in her blood--she was born in Canterbury Commons, a small caravan community. Going purely on that connection, she may or may not be related to Manya and Nathan Vargas, an old-coot couple in Megaton, though not enough is known about this in canon.
Note: Megaton sprang up over the bomb site after the Overseer of 101 refused to let anyone in or out of the Vault, including his own citizens. The Overseer eventually approved minor trade expeditions to Megaton, but details on the situation are scarce and password-locked to his personal terminal.
Note the Second: This version of Moira is canon, but assumes the player does not complete The Power of the Atom quest. (No zombie!Moira for yoooou.)
Re: Moira Brown (Fallout 3) Pt. II
She’s an eternal optimist with the heart of a researcher, and just slightly loony. Raised in the scrap-built town of Megaton, she's learned how to barter, borrow, find, and make everything from food to furnishings. She knows how to put together assorted broken crap to make something useful--or at least something that runs.
The Rock-It Launcher, a gun made from an old vacuum cleaner that slings toasters with the force of a small cannon, is a prime example of this. While Moira can't reliably build weapons, and is not some kind of scary ninja gunsmith, she can fix or mod them pretty well, depending on what she has on hand.
In Fallout 3, Moira lives above her shop, Craterside Supply, which she never leaves. She dispenses sunny, quirky advice to all customers, and will try to convince the player to share her dream of completing The Wasteland Survival Guide.
As a minor character, Moira's family background is basically a blank slate. Going reasonably from canon, she's probably related to the Vargas family in some way. She would have had as ordinary a childhood as possible for someone who grew up scavenging a post-nuclear hell for survival, but she seems fixated on the idea of the Wasteland as dangerous, so it's possible moving to Megaton wasn't all sunshine and
rosesgiant killer radscorpions.She basically wants for everyone to get along and not get killed, both of which are rarities where she comes from. The fact that she sometimes contributes to others' survival problems, however, is completely lost on her.
Re: Moira Brown (Fallout 3) Pt. III
STRENGTH 3
PERCEPTION 3
ENDURANCE 9
CHARISMA 7
INTELLIGENCE 7
AGILITY 5
LUCK 6
Weaknesses:
Moira is NOT A FIGHTER. She likes the idea of guns and knows how they should work, but she's a wimp and a lousy shot. Crying behind the counter with her hands over her face is her idea of a good defense. Throwing things that explode or spew fire (hopefully at the bad guys) and THEN crying behind the counter is Moira's idea of a really, really good defense.
She has decent Charisma: boy, is she cheerful, and she always has something good to say about everyone. Yes, everyone. She always initially likes everyone she meets. Always.
Dramatically not Perceptive, she’s slow to notice if someone doesn’t like her back; breaking it to her can take days, weeks, months…forever… She could lie, but it doesn't occur to her. (Again: smart, but not at all perceptive.)
She's pretty bright--she's been taking things apart and putting them back together most of her life. Although she's better at taking things apart. Heh. When confronted with computers, especially ones as advanced as she’d likely find on Sacrosanct, she’d assess their physical structure and try scrapping them for parts. Hacking isn't her expertise, unless you mean literally.
She can type well enough to keep a computer log of The Wasteland Survival Guide, so she knows what an interface is and how to use one, but she's also the kind of person who is convinced that "PASSWORD 4321" is the best password ever, no one will ever guess it.
She never suspects anyone and would never for a moment believe (or understand) that someone was lying to her. Her survival instinct is permanently broken in the direction of “Ooh, a shiny!”.
Strengths
Moira’s pretty smart, with a head full of trivia from both before and after the War, but she’s so unperceptive that it's mostly useless info, or she can't locate it when she needs it, or she'll get some critical facts mixed up at just the wrong moment.
She has decent Agility:
if she can dodge a wrench, she can dodge a ball,she can repair things well, and she could probably pick the hell out of locks if it ever occurred to her to try.Moira is like a happy-go-lucky savant variation of McGuyver: she could make a frag grenade out of chewing gum and a toaster. Of course, being both weak and clumsy, she’d then likely fumble it and KILL US ALL.
Happily, her decent Luck helps rescue her from her worst accidents. Most of the time.
She can Endure a lot and is often heard to remark "Gee, maybe that's a bad one," while sporting cuts or burns that should really alarm any sane person. Understandably, she knows a decent amount of first aid, including stitches. Heal thyself, right?
This helps her survive, despite her curiosity re: all things explosive and burny, combined with her amazing lack of preservation instincts and general inability to tell when she's in real danger.
Inventory:
Fallout 3 character weight limits are ridiculous. With a Strength of 3 and no other modifications, Moira's Fallout base carry-weight in canon is 180 lbs.
Now that we've established how crazy that is, let's consider what she's carrying:
(1) Huge-ass field backpack (guess what all her stuff is in)
100) Bottlecaps
(1) Frag Grenade
(1) Cherry Bomb
(1) 10 mm Pistol
(80) 10 mm Rounds
(12) Shotgun Shells
(3) Energy cells
(1) Conductor
(1) Sensor Module
(2) Iguana on a Stick (mmm, Soylent Green)
(1) Lunchbox
(1) Fancy Lads Snack Cakes
(6) Stimpacks
(1) Mentats
(2) Rad-Away
(1) Jet
(1) Radiation Suit
(1) Armored Vault Jumpsuit
(1) RobCo Jumpsuit
(1) Big Book of Science
(1) Schematics for Rock-It Launcher
(1) Schematics for Bottlecap Mine
(1) Floor Plan for Love Machine Theme to A Megaton House
(1) Floor Plan for Science Theme to A Megaton House
and
(1) copy of The Wasteland Survival Guide, First Ed.
Re: Moira Brown (Fallout 3) Pt. IV
Well, maybe Lindsay Lohan (http://www.wingfantasy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Lindsay-Lohan.jpg) is a mutant, even if she's special for who she is waaay down deep inside, somewhere, but Moira totally isn't. A mutant. Or special. The mayor had her tested.
Age: 24
OC/AU Justification ;If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
I did this anyway, running roughly on how I plan to play her, and got an 8? Mostly for her (totally canon) RELENTLESS OPTIMISM.
There were SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ~ROMANCE~, it's really amazing.
Re: Moira Brown (Fallout 3) Pt. V (that's all, I swear.)
Log Sample:
Somewhere between hanging up her mop for the day and rebooting her computer, Moira noticed that it was dark. It usually got dark, after sunset, with it being night and all, but this was completely dark darkness. Like the inside of a locker. Like the one that Billy had stuffed her into, that one time.
He was dead now. Oh, not because of her! That would be terrible. No, no, he'd mouthed off to some raiders. Or so she'd heard. She tried to stay away from that kind of--
Moira was alone in the dark. And she was falling. Fast.
Ouch! Whatever that was, it was sharp, and made of metal, and hit her really hard. Hard enough to send her spinning into something else sharp and made of metal.
She flung her arms over her head, duck, and cover--kind of a cute song for such an awful thing, but she didn't have time to think about it, too busy screaming and trying to hang on and cover her eyes at the same time and--
She'd left the store unlocked. Again. Darn it.
She didn't want to die.
She tumbled end over end, still screaming, and finally hit solid ground. With her feet and her skull. At the same time. Hard enough to make her fireflies come out to play; they were best friends with the bells in her head. In her head was a magical, comforting place to be. But not right now. On account of landing flat on it.
She sobbed, moaning, and tried to curl up. Curling was a natural defense used by wolves in the wild and an Olympic sport in Canada. Only she was still numb from the impact, so it was more of a flop than a curl. At least her ribs were okay.
Well, no bones about it--and none of them broken, thank goodness! Except maybe her nose? No, it was just bleeding a little. Well, that was nothing to cry over.
No bones about it. She was not in Kansas anymore. Not that she'd ever been to Kansas. Unless Kansas was fictional, like China. Moira wiped her nose on her sleeve, shook away her brain bells, and staggered upright. Right as rain! Everything was going to be fine, she just knew it.
Moira smiled. Ow.
Maybe Kansas had been a dream.
Network Sample:
[audio: static, screeching, a warbling crackle of tones and frequencies as the device is adjusted]
Wow, a personal assistant! Sure beats that old holotape recorder. I just wish [fizzle pop FEEDBACK SKREEEEREEEEEEEEE] Ouch! Eardrums! Ow ow ow. [hiss] I wish I knew how to turn it on.
[long pause] Oooh! What does this button do?
[You're treated to a GIANT CLOSEUP of Linday Lohan's left eye, blinking at you rapidly.] Hmm. I don't see how it—oh, more buttons!
[The device pops in and out of holographic mode, with and without audio, then stabilizes in video, tilted slightly because she's trying to figure out where the watch is on this thing.]
Maybe it’s a micro-holotape? Well, it's definitely on. Okay.
[She smiles, though you're unsure if it’s because she knows it's a vid screen, or because Moira's the kind of person who smiles at all her appliances. And names them. She will call this wristband George.]
Hi there! I'm Moira. Uh, I mean *ahem* Moira Brown, recording. The Wasteland Survival Guide: Research and Field Notes.
Item: I fell on my head. Note: 'fall on head' not a new item, originally part of a set, but I've lost terminal access. We'll tag this incident Fall1 for further study.
Item: I have no idea where I am.
Item: There's a lot of metal, all piled at angles from the...Is this dirt? Hang on, I'll collect a sample. [This consists of scooping some of the might-not-even-be-dirt into the pocket of her jumpsuit with her bare hands.] Samples are very important in research and should be taken whenever possible.
Item: I fell from--up there. Craterside Supply, just over the... [View wobbles crazily as she turns, staring up into the gloom.] Oh my! There seem to be other things falling from the—[camera bouncing; hard panicked breathing] oh. Oh. Oh dear. This is bad. This is very. Very. Bad. [As she brings her arm up, again, to guard her face, the screen is filled with wide blue eyes staring in fear.]
Item: Urgent message for anyone in the Craterside area! Urgent message for Craterside! The sky is falling. I say again, the sky is falling!
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