Snowblind Moderators (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
snowblindmods) wrote2015-04-06 10:43 pm
Application
| Application | |||
Applications are closed permanently. Thank you to everyone who has applied over the years! Before applying for a character, make sure you've read the rules and FAQ. You should also refer to the application guide to see what we're looking for in our applications. You may apply for one character per application cycle and three characters total. Please put your character's name and canon in the subject line of your application comment. Applications must be posted directly to this post and cannot be links. We will screen your application if you request it of us after we review it. Application challenges are allowed, but someone who did not place a reserve challenge cannot challenge a reserved application. Once reservations expire, an application challenge can only be placed before we process the character application of the applicant you would like to challenge. In the event of us nearing our application cap and having more applications than slots, we will attempt to choose the most well-written applications. First-time applicants will be processed first, then applications for second characters, and finally applications for third characters. We may allow more applications to be submitted than we have slots for in the name of greater selection. We will clarify in our response if an application is not being allowed into the game because of the cap or because of issues with the application not meeting the standards of the game. Original Character Application | |||
Amber Volakis | House M.D. | Reserved
Name: Danielle
Age: 24
Contact Info:
Other Characters: Quark (
Character Information
Name: Amber Volakis
Canon: House M.D.
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Season 4 Episode 9
Background Link: here
Inventory: The outfit she was wearing (coral-colored knit shirt and matching coral cardigan, gray button-down jacket, white necklace, mustard-colored corduroy knee-length pencil skirt, flower-shaped silver earrings, brown flats). Her lab coat, a blue pen, her hospital badge.
Personality:
The biggest, most driving part of Amber is definitely her ambition. When she sets her eyes on something, she doesn't care what it takes to make it happen--she'll make it happen. She doesn't care how that makes her look...or what she has to do. Throughout her unofficial employment by House at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, she spends every ounce of her energy trying to be the best candidate. To prove herself. Arguably, she worked harder than anyone else who was trying to win House's favor. Arguably, she was one of his best candidates. She learned at a young age that, as a woman, she'd have to try twice as hard as a man to get far in life--and that she'd have to be twice as ruthless. She contented herself with the fact that she'd never be loved if she wanted respect. Still, she chose respect. Having that was almost more important to her than being liked. By the end of her run in the show in the episode "Wison's Heart", none of her coworkers could boast that they considered her a friend or that they were particularly torn up over what had happened to her, only visiting her as a courtesy (and probably more for Wilson's benefit than anyone else's). House quickly coined the nickname "Cutthroat Bitch" for her, rarely using her actual name in place of it. Although it's a crude thing to call her, she does go the extra mile to get others fired.
But it's not just in her work that Amber shows this side of herself. Her gift for manipulating others is one that she uses for all walks of life, not just as a means to an end in getting House's approval. She puts on the image of the prideful, spurned career-woman to trick eight people into quitting their job, acts like a superstitious, worried friend to Thirteen to try and shake her off of a case, and even pretends to be a broke, pregnant woman in order to con a mattress salesman into cutting the price of one of his wares. She knows how to adapt her personality to fit a situation, and the things to say that are best to her advantage. She's not perfect, of course, and a more perceptive individual is usually able to call her bluffs...at least once they've realized her tendencies to lie to get her way. Amber's not a trustworthy person. That doesn't, however, suggest that she's heartless or completely selfish.
Although she chose respect over likeability, and as a result strives to be the most respected and feared person in the room at any given moment, the confidence she exudes is as much of a coverup as the rest of her facades. She doesn't like that people don't like her--she doesn't think there's anything that she can do to change it, and feels that being smart and terrifying is the only thing she can do to keep herself from being perceived as worthless. Amber figures that if people are going to dislike her no matter what, she has nothing to lose. Sometimes, her own lack of self-esteem can be evident in the way that she treats others. Because she works so hard and sacrifices so much to establish herself, she has no sympathy for those who are stuck in poor situations. She thinks that they're just not trying hard enough to improve themselves, and resents "losers" for their laziness. She acts, generally convincingly, like she doesn't care what people think of her and that she can't be touched because she embraces her backstabbing nature. She definitely does care, as much as it would be easier not to, and this is shown most clearly when House finally fires her and she breaks down into tears, stating that she's "trying not to care" as she does.
Amber's insecurities also manifest themselves in her drive. To her, everything is about winning. She doesn't want to win, she needs to win, and she'll do everything to get that victory. More than once, this fact is shown as being both one of her greatest strengths as well as her ultimate downfall. When the men and the women are split into two teams for a "battle of the sexes", Amber demands to be placed on the men's team as she believes he'd never fire the whole of his male candidates over the female ones. When that backfires and the men are on the verge of getting fired, she forsakes both teams goes rogue, not stopping until she finds a solution to the current diagnostic puzzle. And in the end, her need to be the best is what drives House to fire her, telling her that although they both play the game (and she's often described as House's female counterpart) and play it well, their difference lies in the fact that he can accept when he's wrong or when he's lost, and she can't. Although she doesn't lack in compassion, she definitely suppresses it in favor of that want for victory, and because of that, she's deemed a poor fit as a doctor on his diagnostic team.
Throughout all the trials and tribulations that surround her, both before and after her time as one of the fellowship candidates, Amber remains a wholly independent figure. Although she quickly becomes romantically involved with James Wilson after being fired, and he explains to House that she seemed to "need his help" and that this falls into his pattern of wanting to "save" women, she's never put in a position of needing to be taken care of. She always has a job waiting for her to fall back on in the event that being part of House's team doesn't pan out, she holds her own with House when he tries to sabotage her relationship with Wilson and accuses her of only using him as a means of revenge or leverage, and even challenges Wilson himself when she feels that their dynamic may become co-dependent. He moves into her apartment, she organizes and asserts herself in the walks of their love life, and when she sets him up for a decision to see if he'll act in his best interest or quietly suffer and do whatever she wants, she makes him take it back. Amber explains to Wilson, when he doesn't understand why defaulting to her decision was what she didn't want, that she can take care of herself on her own and he shouldn't do that to himself. In the end, she recognizes he'd only become unhappy and that would cause their relationship to fail. Even in a relationship that committed, she stays true to her core values and never lets herself get put in the backseat.
Flavor Abilities: None.
Suitability: The most exciting thing about having Amber in Snowblind is that, as a doctor, her motivations would be something wholly unique from the rest of the current cast of doctors. She's not as seemingly sketchy or lacking in morals as Stein or House (appears to be)--but far from being as selfless as Wilson or Watson. She'd be a presence who would actively help others...but mostly so she can further help herself in the long run. It would be interesting to play her as a network presence of someone who's putting on a very definite facade to manipulate people into liking her more, and treat the whole survival situation as a game that she needs to win. Not just to get home, but to get answers--and get them before anyone else who might underestimate her. Every scenario, no matter how dire, is one she can use to prove herself.
RP Samples: here and here
ACCEPTED
A small stone building with only one wide, empty room. It's not clear what this building was for, but at least it keeps out the cold. It looks like someone has attempted to hack away at the walls and door with a hatchet, exposing some of the metal the walls and door are made up of.
Please reply to this comment with the journal you will be using for the game. After that, join
Thank you for your interest in our game!
no subject