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Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
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Heather Mason | Silent Hill | Reserved
Contact Info:
AIM: CorsetJinx
Email: Beloved-Belial@hotmail.com
Plurk:
Other Characters Played: N/A for now
Preferred Apartment: None
Heather Mason | Silent Hill | Reserved
Canon: Silent Hill 3
Background/History: Here
Previous Game History: N/A
Personality:
When you think of a teenager you tend to think of a moody, impulsive little brat. Or something close to that. That age where everything is changing and wildness, and confusion has rooted itself into the hearts and minds of every nice girl. Yeah, that’s pretty much Heather in a nutshell, at least on the outside. She’s pretty complex for such a young woman. And given everything she goes through it’s a wonder how she still manages to get back on her feet at the end of the day.
But it is true, Heather is, or at least was, a really ordinary young woman. She is moody, as to be expected from a 17-year-old and she can be a little impulsive at times. But she’s just like everyone else. She loves to shop, to go out with friends, and the like. And like any other seventeen year old she is ruled largely in part by her emotions. Really, what do you expect? And being such an emotional woman she isn’t afraid to be blunt about what she’s feeling, when she’s feeling it. She will be more or less brutally honest in her emotional displays. Be it in the form of physical manifestations of her anger to full on public displays of her sorrow, such as bursting into tears or saying things with such venom.
She’s playful, of course. Willing to throw some fake punches or play some silly pranks. It’s easier to be so completely relaxed around people she knows all too well, from family to the few friends she has. Which, after a while, includes the detective Douglas. He’s a good man, and although she doesn’t trust him at first, she is quick to develop an almost father-daughter relationship with him. Even hinting at potentially wanting to be taken in by the older man when all is said and done. After all, Heather has no one else. All that aside, Heather is a humorous young woman, though her humor may not always be… amusing to others. In fact, some may find Heather to be a little too sarcastic at times and her jokes don’t always have the best timing. Like when she came back to Douglas in the end, acting as if she were going to kill him. Of course it was a joke, she would never think of killing the man! Not after everything they’ve been through. Not after deciding to go back to being called Cheryl, her real name.
Even though Heather is fairly emotional it does not mean that she is reckless-though some may consider several of her previous actions as such. This young woman is quick to accept the situation for what it is and figure out just as quickly what needs to be done. She can keep a clear head when it counts although her personal vendettas may end up getting in the way more often than not. But Heather does try to keep her head above the water and see the situation for what it really is. Some hopeless, monstrous nightmare may have swept in and pulled her under, but she knows she’ll get back on her feet and she can survive. It’s all a matter of trying.
When it comes to the bizarre, to the strange, Heather is quick to adapt. Her love of the occult and her sarcastic streak may have much to do with this. But even still, the events that took place upon her exploration of Silent Hill have, as Heather expressed during the events in question, numbed her.
On the other end of the emotional spectrum, Heather holds a deep love for her father Harry Mason. He is the only man Heather has ever cared about and is willing to defend him at all costs. (Although this changes much later on, the words still hold true.) She even will go so far as to bring in the possibility of physical violence if someone so much as dares to insult his reputation. Because of Heather’s unstable upbringing, hiding away from the Order for so long, Harry was the only stable thing in her life. Due in part to this, she is slow to trust people she doesn't know. She also won’t pretend that she will offer any trust the first time she meets anyone new. And if she doesn't trust someone, she'll be very obvious about it.
Her distrust of others often makes it a little difficult for her to make friends, although she gets by fairly well this way. Should you gain Heather's trust she tends to grow quite attached, and, in a way, you become family to her. This means she’s willing to throw her life on the line for you and will do her hardest to protect you. And those few people that she trusts are perhaps the only people allowed to call her by the name her father originally gave her, Cheryl, but this requires quite a fair bit of trust. Going so far as to nearly die because of her. Not that such goes un-repaid. Heather would quickly throw herself in the line of fire for the ones she loves and trusts.
Heather has a dislike for mirrors and her reflection. She is noted as saying that she feels her reflection is a false image of some sort. This eisoptrophobia (fear of mirrors) has led her to avoid looking in the mirrors. In one instance during her adventures in Silent Hill, Heather ends up trapped in a storage room and is faced with a floor to ceiling length mirror on the far end of the wall. This mirror shows a darker version of the room and it quickly sets into motion Heather’s phobia. But Heather’s comment about her reflection is quite possibly due in part to what remains of Alessa. It is safe to say that Heather will, at best, avoid major reflective surfaces. Furthermore it is implied throughout the events of Silent Hill that Alessa's original personality traits and memories have begun to surface in Heather. This may at times cause Heather to reveal certain personality traits and quirks that are unlike her. A mild fear of dogs may pop up now and again due in part to Alessa’s fear of canines. A hatred/dislike for hospital rooms and hospitals, even nurses, in general may make itself known. Although Alessa did like Lisa, she still did not enjoy her
Heather is also, due in part to the abilities she succeeded from Alessa, able to tell who has been affected or drawn in to Silent Hill. This may cause her to act differently toward these people than others. Depending on the person and how they are tied to that place Heather may react with a slight defiance, mild sympathy or outright hostility.
Heather Mason | Silent Hill | Reserved
Heather doesn’t have much in the way of magical abilities. Although there is a chance that she can develop strong psychic abilities if she really focused. It is never exclusively stated how much of Alessa’s abilities have crossed over to Cheryl/Heather since the events of her father’s adventure in Silent Hill. But it is known that Heather has very limited precognitive powers. And it would not be too farfetched for her have almost sensitivity toward spirits and unnatural things. Possibly due in part to Alessa, and more likely due to previously having God inside of her.
Heather has some fantastic survival skills thanks in part to her adventure through Silent Hill. She is capable of wielding a normal hand gun, shotgun, and submachine gun. She can use a pipe to defend herself, and she already knew how to defend herself with a knife. Heather has also picked up some better dodging skills during her fight with God, learning how to keep distance with her target and find weaknesses that she can use.
Heather Mason | Silent Hill | Reserved
[ Heather glances at her phone whilst sitting outside in the snow. It's cold, she's so not dressed for the cold, and nothing makes sense. She doesn't even know where she is. Or what to do with this phone. ]
Someone better know what's going on. Maybe...
Has anyone seen an old guy, his name is Douglas, and he looks like one of those comic book detectives? If you have tell him that this isn't funny. I don't like suddenly being left alone in a weird town without a reason. Silent Hill was different, okay- I had a reason for that. I mean, there was a reason. But this isn't funny.
Sample Entry Two:
Without a doubt, Heather knew she was alone now. And it’s not that she didn't mind, it’s just the fact that she was afraid. She was afraid to be alone because her father had always been there for her. He had always known what to do. Harry had been the only one she could turn to when it was dark outside and the tree was scraping against her window like some monster outside waiting to snatch her up and take her away. He had always said he would protect her. He had promised that he would never leave her alone.
He didn’t mean to lie.
Tears streamed down her cheeks as she collapsed. It was all over. He was gone. God was dead and no one cared. None of it really mattered; anyone could see this if they had lived through what she had. The monsters, the people. God, she'd fired her first gun at a creature she didn't believe could be real. She had sworn to kill a person. Sworn to kill someone who had gotten her father killed. Heather couldn't believe any of it. She didn't want to believe any of it. Sure, she had a taste for the bizarre, for reading ghost stories, but that was because none of it was real. None of it was supposed to be real. Hell, what she had been through shouldn't have been possible and she knew it. She damn well knew it. But... oh god, it really was. Her eyes swung back to look at the monstrosity that was God. The face that had mimicked Alessa's. The grotesque body that was flesh and bone and just wrong. It was all the proof she needed. It was all the proof that told her none of this had been just any nightmare.
Heather had to look away. She was going to be sick. She was tired, upset and she was going to be sick. And she was alone. Utterly alone in this hideous darkness with a rotting corpse. Her father wasn't going to appear to her, tell her everything was going to be okay. Douglas was waiting for her, but he wasn't Harry. He wasn't her father. She trembled as she tried to keep the sobs at bay. “Dad… dad…”
All she wanted in the world was her father. To just see him again. Smile at him. Hold his hand and hug him, tell him over and over again that she loved him. But that was never going to happen. Never again. It was too late and it was killing Heather inside. None of this should have happened. And somehow it was Heather's fault. She wasn't going to shy away from the thought. If she'd been there earlier than she could have saved him? Maybe. But it was no use. You can't change the past. You can only live in the present. Heather knew that. She knew it and she hated it all the same.
“Dad…”
She had to get up, she had to leave. She couldn't stay here anymore and wallow in her sorrows, in her pain. There was nothing left for her here. She had to adapt and move on even if everything hurt so damn much. She might be numb to most of the monstrosities she had seen, but what she had come to experience was going to haunt her for years to come. She had to move on and live for him, for her father. She had to... she had to live with all of this. Every bit of truth that no other would believe unless they had witnessed it all first hand.
Heather dug her hands into the rusty floor, pushing herself up onto quivering legs. She looked into the darkness ahead of her. Swallowing her pain, her sorrow, she had to move on.
-> ACCEPTED
-> NOTE
Thank you.