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Oct. 8th, 2018 07:23 pm⇓in character⇓
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: People are welcome to have a go of it, but he is prone to violence.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: This is his bread and butter, so yes, come at him with everything that you are and everything that you've got. He will engage just as fiercely in return, and there are no take-backs.
ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Yes, but why would anyone want to at this point?
SEXUAL CONTENT: Yes, but why would anyone want to at this point? Also good luck convincing him.
PSYCHIC ABILITIES: He is not immune to psychic abilities. Any emotion or thoughts in his replies are considered to be fair game for a psychic to pick up on.
MAGIC/POWERS: This will likely lead to a fight of some sort, but he has no means of resisting, depending on the power in question.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Reaper has been subjected to a super-soldier enhancement program as well as countless voluntary experiments which have left his cells in a hyperactive state of constant regeneration and decay.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Reaper is not easily triggered by offensive content. He can be gruff and cutting with his words, and he has seen a lot of terrible things during war. He can handle a lot of punishment.
⇓out of character⇓
BACKTAGGING: Yes, I will backtag up to a point. Threads that are months old will likely have to be wrapped up, unless it's a PSL in which I will go for as long as the thread has steam. I don't find this as easy in games as plots change month per month and I like to have my character development chug along around the same rate.
FOURTH WALLING: I generally don't do fourth walling unless another character does so in canon. My view is that most of the characters I play will be disparaging about it anyway and unless there is solid proof given to them, they will likely disbelieve or brush off attempts to expose them to the truth.
THREADHOPPING: Network threads, by all means without a need for permission. Log threads I generally ask for permission in order to properly insert the other character in question in a timely and proper place (and so everyone is on the same page).
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Fingernail/toenail pulling.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: Nothing that I can think of, but I will update as subjects that I find bothersome come up.
ANYTHING ELSE: Answer here
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: People are welcome to have a go of it, but he is prone to violence.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: This is his bread and butter, so yes, come at him with everything that you are and everything that you've got. He will engage just as fiercely in return, and there are no take-backs.
ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Yes, but why would anyone want to at this point?
SEXUAL CONTENT: Yes, but why would anyone want to at this point? Also good luck convincing him.
PSYCHIC ABILITIES: He is not immune to psychic abilities. Any emotion or thoughts in his replies are considered to be fair game for a psychic to pick up on.
MAGIC/POWERS: This will likely lead to a fight of some sort, but he has no means of resisting, depending on the power in question.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Reaper has been subjected to a super-soldier enhancement program as well as countless voluntary experiments which have left his cells in a hyperactive state of constant regeneration and decay.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Reaper is not easily triggered by offensive content. He can be gruff and cutting with his words, and he has seen a lot of terrible things during war. He can handle a lot of punishment.
⇓out of character⇓
BACKTAGGING: Yes, I will backtag up to a point. Threads that are months old will likely have to be wrapped up, unless it's a PSL in which I will go for as long as the thread has steam. I don't find this as easy in games as plots change month per month and I like to have my character development chug along around the same rate.
FOURTH WALLING: I generally don't do fourth walling unless another character does so in canon. My view is that most of the characters I play will be disparaging about it anyway and unless there is solid proof given to them, they will likely disbelieve or brush off attempts to expose them to the truth.
THREADHOPPING: Network threads, by all means without a need for permission. Log threads I generally ask for permission in order to properly insert the other character in question in a timely and proper place (and so everyone is on the same page).
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Fingernail/toenail pulling.
CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: Nothing that I can think of, but I will update as subjects that I find bothersome come up.
ANYTHING ELSE: Answer here
Deerington Application
Oct. 5th, 2018 06:25 pmIN CHARACTER
Character Name: Gabriel Reyes (Alias: Reaper)
Canon: Overwatch
Canon Point: Overwatch Issue #13 - Doomfist: Masquerade
In-Game Tattoo Placement: Because Reaper is in a state of constant regeneration and degeneration, with MOD permission, I would like his antler tattoos to be on the move with every activation of his abilities. If this is a no go, his tattoo would be on the left side of his hip. The tattoo would be two antlers tangled together as if fighting.
Current Health/Status: Alive and well. (see abilities section)
Age: 56 years old
Species: Human
History: History
[Extra background information: Overwatch, Blackwatch]
Personality:
Gabriel Reyes is a man who has lived most of it in conflict. As a career soldier, he has been shaped by the near continual exposure to conflict, planning for the next conflict, or subduing conflict temporarily. Such a life has left him battle-hardened, no-nonsense, and cynical while at the same time being a realist. He understands that hard, often dirty action is required for similar action from the enemy. In war, the rules of engagement is whoever outsmarts the enemy is the winner. Seeing as he served much of his career in black op missions, he has developed a unique perspective on the bloody underbelly of infiltration, espionage, interrogation and even assassination.
In many ways, he knows that in order to make an omelette, you have to break however many eggs necessary in whatever fashion the situation requires. He is not afraid to take decisive action, to use any tactical situation to his advantage even if it rubs political feathers the wrong way. He makes no apologies for getting the job done, and he respects sovereign borders only when there is no enemy that requires action against. He considers himself accountable only to his own conscience, which has been several damaged and jaded over seeing so much war and death. His code of conduct starts and ends with seeing the mission to its completion, and he lets those who have to play by the rule book to answer or cover what he has done.
Along that vein, Reyes isn’t afraid to use his intelligence to manipulate those around him to continue to have relative free reign to operate off the books. He makes several comments about how much information he will pass along to Jack Morrison, and he also uses the grief of dead agents to nudge Morrison into turning a relative blind eye to his activities against terrorists. This likely is also a subtle attempt on his part to protect those that he cares about, doing the dirty work so they can continue to smile and concentrate on keeping the politics out of operations.
He is a leader who never shirks stepping into the action first. Likely he is the man who is first on the field and last to step off of it. This accords him much respect, and during wartime, he lead the super soldiers initiative and the beginnings of Overwatch during the First Omnic crisis. His leadership skills continue to remain sharp with his command of Blackwatch, and he isn’t afraid to recruit individuals who would otherwise be sidelined. He is difficult to impress, works his people hard but expects nothing of them that he wouldn’t otherwise give of himself. He also isn’t afraid to mentor, to raise up the next generation of covert op specialists, as he did with Jesse McCree.
His sense of humor is dry, sharp and often sardonic. His often flippantly snide wit hides under it both a flare for drama but also hides a deeper conflict within him. He has seen as much loss as he has saved, and his humor is just another weapon in his arsenal to keep people from digging too deeply into his personal affairs or sense of being. He also uses his humor to disparagingly put down what he considers useless political dithering or red tape.
While he has discarded his former friends and colleagues for various reasons, his relationship with them are a statement of his character. Both Jack Morrison and Ana Amari are his closest friends, and they have a back and forth with him that speaks of depth of their respect for one another. These two individuals also cover for him when his covert actions get a little too much blow back, settling things down politically while he continues to operate. While he takes in Jesse McCree with the coercion of an ultimatum, they build a mentorship that can almost be fond even if there is likely some bitterness over the recruitment. He seems to have had a good working relationship with many Overwatch agents, including Angela Ziegler. He seems to have respect and a business like arrangement with Moira O’Deorain.
However, of all the people he has a relationship with, it is likely Jack Morrison who he has been closest to. They entered, trained under and were sent into combat from the military super soldier program, and while they both excelled, it may be that Gabriel suffered. While not explicitly stated, it is unclear any side-effects of the program, and it may be true that Reyes began to manifest some of his abilities gradually. Morrison, being the only other known super soldier, would likely be the only one to understand the suffering of losing slow and gradual control. It may be why Morrison was so willing to continually cover for Reyes when his no-holds-barred methods landed Overwatch in trouble.
In the end, Gabriel Reyes is a man who has also performed a lifetime of great personal sacrifice. He has served his country with distinction, volunteered for questionable experimentation, has been passed over for promotion for lead of Overwatch (he is only mildly bitter over that), seen his friends and allies injured or killed, and has experienced his very life coming apart one cell at a time. He has given everything he is to seek a profound peace, and when it the chips are down, the very governments he has little respect for the hand-wringing of shuts down the organization he helped to see successful. Yes, he likely understands that his own actions contributed to this, but slowly but surely he watches as his friends and allies turn their backs on him as tensions rise.
So when he has nothing left, and he’s considered dead to the world: he does what he needs to. He enters back into covert action to steer the world towards that necessary peace without the rules of the UN to hold him back. And joining the enemy? They might just give him the tools he needs to kill two birds with one stone: seek peace through any means necessary and to make certain that no bastardization of the organization he helped create and run comes to light.
What else does one do when it’s questionable if they can even die anymore? It leaves him in a unique position to push the limits with fewer soldiers to put in the line of fire. It also puts him in position to takes risks and fight until he has nothing left, aware it likely won’t kill him anyway. Combining a jaded will to see things done with suicidal reckless makes him both highly effective and unpredictably dangerous to any who may cross him.
Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses & Warping:
• Super soldier - During the First Omnic Crisis, Gabriel was one of a handful of soldiers of the United States military chosen to participate in a super soldier program. In this program, the men were experimented on and enhanced to increase their physical and mental capacities. Reyes was known as Soldier 24 under the program. He was considered a success, and he served in combat. However, the side-effects were not known and likely individual, likely with the slow and gradual manifestation of some of his other abilities.
• The Reaping – After continual experimentation on behalf of his own government and voluntary experimentation at the hands of Moira O’Deorain, his physical form has entered a state of hyperactive systematic degeneration and regeneration. A side effect that allows him to sustain himself, Reaper drains the life energy of those that he attacks, and the more he harms them, the more that he absorbs the energy into himself to sustain and heal his own body.
• Wraith Form – Reaper is able to willfully allow his cells to separate and enter a mist-like state where he can pass under doors, sneak into tight spaces, glide across the floor. He can completely dissolve his entire body into this form, or he has developed enough control of it that he can alter parts of himself such as his legs. Once he decides to reform, it takes mere seconds to do so. In this form, he is immune to damage, and he seems to have enough control of himself that he is not easily blown away in even wind.
• Shadow Step – Much like his wraith form, Reaper is able to enter his mist form and translocate himself from one location to another. This new location must be line of sight for him, cannot be through doors or windows unless they are open. He can translocate himself up or down the outside of buildings, over rough terrain. This is used to place him in a tactical advantage to strike at enemies.
• Death Blossom – Much like a real military death blossom, Reaper rapidly empties his shotguns in many directions, twisting and turning as he does so. His mist form obscures him, allowing him faster motion as he shoots 360 degrees and causing massive damage to anyone within his range.
• Immortality? - With his body in a constant state of regeneration and decay, there is debate if Reaper can actually die. In the animated short “Recall”, he was blown apart by Winston but still survived in a mist that took him from the area. He also has a line in the game after he respawns where he says “This is my curse”, indicating that he hasn’t yet found a way to die. A similar line was used in a dialogue with Jack Morrison where he says that death “didn’t take”. While the game lines are not exclusively considered canon, they do indicate a continual theme of everything but him dying.
Warping
• The Reaping: Friends Like These – This power will continue as usual until his ally or opposite suffers from critical damage in which his ability will suddenly work in reverse: his life force will transfer to the wounded to keep them alive and transfer some of their wounds to him.
• Immortality? Genie in a bottle - If Reaper suffers catastrophic damage and is forced into a mist form to fully regenerate again, he is obligated to perform a single service for the closest person or dreamscape monster. This service needs to be close-ended and reasonable, such as retrieve a certain item, clean the dishes, be my body shield for the next fight.
Inventory:
-Clothing (Military fatigues, shirt, body armour, leather trench coat, gloves, boots, mask and too many belts to make it easy to use the bathroom)
-Hellfire Shotguns
-Shotgun shells
Writing Samples:
Reaper on the TDM
OUT OF CHARACTER
Player Name: Vette
Player Age: >20 years old
Player Contact: PM journal,
Other Characters In Game: None
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Reaper; Vette
Permissions for Character: Here
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: For game element purposes, I approve of fourth-walling to knock him off of his game. For player purposes, it would depend on the situation. He would likely be disparaging and nasty about it unless real proof was presented and then he'd probably just shoot the other character (he might just shoot them anyway).
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most?: I enjoy most characters forced to struggle with their own personal demons and confronting their own decisions turned against them. I also enjoy body horror and sensory/psychological manipulations.
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: No, horror in writing is my jam. I should probably have a warning against the community. I enjoy both psychological and physical horror and how it challenges the minds of a character. Give me everything you've can!
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