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In order to apply for a canon character, please fill out the information below and post it in a comment in this entry. For an OC, please apply using the OC information. Please do not link to applications, all applications must be posted here. Please do not delete your applications; if you do not want it to be seen, you can request for it to be screened after a decision is made.
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If you are asked for revisions, please don't panic! It doesn't mean the mods don't like you, only that we probably need more information before making a decision. If you are asked for revisions, you will have one week to supply them.
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Applications are open constantly, but are only processed every other Friday at 7PM EST. The Saturday following acceptance, an IC mingle log will be posted for characters to be introduced to the game.
We now have a test drive community athaventest which is continuously open. Posts there may be used in lieu of a sample in the application. You may also link posts, logs, or threads from other games and memes in lieu of samples, though we ask that they be no more than one year old.
To see what we are looking for:
Canon Characters:
Sample Application (Faith Lehane)
Sample Application (Iroh)
Original Characters:
Sample Application (Mors)
Sample Application (Vera de Barr)
Previous Game History:
Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
Sample Application (Bolin/Discedo)
Applications will be processed on the following dates:
11th October
25th October
8th November
22nd November
6th December
20th December
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Re: -> REVISE
Initially, in AC2 and Brotherhood - and even the first couple chapters of the Lost Archive – what we “see” of Clay is someone who’s genuinely curious about what he’s learned in the Animus, but also that he’s rather rapidly losing his grip on reality. It’s expanded on a bit in TLA, where his personality even seems meek at first, and it’s basically stated flat out that he’s never exactly been the picture of mental health. (Granted, depression is a far cry from hallucinations and what basically amounts to DID, but. It probably didn’t help.) He was always kind of pushed into things he didn’t necessarily want to do, mostly by his father, but a little bit with Bill and the Assassin Order too, which is never a good starting point. It’s also worth noting that he quit taking the medication his (admittedly really dickish) psychiatrist prescribed him when he joined up with the Assassins, figuring that he was totally fine now.
Fast forward a bit to his time at Abstergo. First off he was there for a year and a half. Let’s compare that real quick to Desmond’s week there. Within a week Desmond was already experiencing some of the less detrimental parts of the Bleeding Effect, what with him spontaneously developing Eagle Vision and all, and he was let out every night to sleep. Clay was a little less lucky with that. He was stuck in the Animus for days at a time, and never really got a break, even after the nice people at Abstergo started giving him antipsychotics. Because really, you would think they’d stop once they caused psychosis, but. Abstergo decided to carry on. For science, I guess.
During one of his little episodes, Juno essentially told him that he needed to kill himself in order to help this guy that will keep the apocalypse from happening. In other words, what basically amounts to a figment of his imagination told him that he was more useful dead. He initially refused, still under the assumption that his “kidnapping” by the Templars was something he was in control of due to Lucy being on his side. …That rather quickly ended once Clay realized that, no, Lucy was actually a Templar for realsies now. This was basically the straw that broke the camel’s back. There was no point in trying to pretend he was sane, or trying to actually keep himself sane because, fuck it, he wasn’t leaving Abstergo alive anyway. What’s even the point. And while he’s at it, might as well listen to the glowing Roman goddess in his head and at least help someone else out and paint some pretty pictures.
And then he got to spend a couple months completely by himself as a computer program. Just to rub a little more salt into the wound.
The bitchiness that we see in Revelations is basically just Clay giving a big ol’ middle finger to the world because he’s sick and tired of the universe’s shit by this point. He’s 100% done, but he still has to deal with some ungrateful jackass who doesn’t realize how easy he got off, so he comes across as a real asshole. He’s channeling all his energy into helping Desmond the only way he knows how: Keeping him from dying, and giving him a serious kick in the ass now and then.
He says it himself, he feels like he wasted his life and basically just feels incredibly fucked over by fate or whatever you want to call it. So he’s bitter and angry, and it comes off as sarcastic and acidic at a level that he wasn’t quite at when he was alive. The meanness could even partially be a really latent burst of independence (or anger at his prior lack of independence even) and his way of trying to go against all the things he's been told to do by his father, Bill, and Juno by trying to prove he's grown a spine since dying.
When he’s in a better mood, it’s more of a joking sarcasm, but it’s still pretty angry under the surface, and acts like a defense mechanism. He can’t be alive or sane, so he cracks jokes about being insane and dead. Because if he can laugh about it, then he won’t have a complete mental breakdown about it. Yes, his life sucked, but he still has work to do, so he needs to try and keep it together as best he can. And his way of doing that happens to be with bad jokes and snarky comments.
And then of course Clay’s actually just. Mental due to the Bleeding Effect, which accounts for his occasional bursts of aggressiveness and probably is at least partially accountable for the mood swings. He’s better than he was in the Truth puzzles, but he’s still not quite all there in the head. His personality shifts just enough to be unsettling each time Desmond talks to him, and it really gives Clay the feeling of being pretty unstable.
-> ACCEPTED
Re: -> ACCEPTED