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 | |||
H.G. Wells | Warehouse 13
Name: Anne
Age: 30
Contact Info: Email: buriedandreset[at]aol[dot]com Plurk:
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Helena "H.G." Wells
Canon: Warehouse 13
Age: 148, technically speaking. If asked, she'll say 38 which is her physical age
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Post-series
Background Link: Wiki page
Inventory: Sleeveless white shirt, scarf, sleeveless grey vest, dark denim skinny jeans, ankle boots, pair of pearl earrings (real saltwater pearls), two studded earrings and one small hoop earring (those three are for cartilage piercings on her ears), bracelet, locket, and a ring
Personality: Helena is a genius, first and foremost, and she will not hesitate to flaunt her intelligence where she can. But being a genius, she does need a constant challenge otherwise she will bore easily and sometimes bad things may result. In this, her genius is both a blessing and a curse. She has invented many things, including a psychometric time machine, as well as written science fiction novels. Hers is an active imagination, one that she cannot turn off even if she wishes too. There's always ideas bouncing around in her mind for better or for worse. She can be susceptible to becoming obsessed with her projects, such as time travel used to be an unhealthy obsession of hers. She has a great love of the sciences and mathematics, though much of what she knows about them she taught to herself or learned from friends who had knowledge in those fields.
Patience, however, is not exactly Helena's virtue. She can exercise patience, but it is certainly not something she has an endless supply of. Her patience has a limit, which can be shortened if she's dealing with someone whom she does not like or get along with for one reason or another. She does, however, have a large amount of patience when it comes to those she cares for. She isn't typically quick to anger, but if she does become angry, it is best to get out of her way. Helena can have quite a nasty temper when it is roused, and she is most certainly not the forgiving type. She will hold grudges for quite a while, and she is notorious for holding onto her anger and hate.
Extremely charismatic, Helena knows how to talk to people. She is a social creature and it takes little effort on her part to earn favorable opinions from others. Helena knows the importance of a well placed compliment or coy smile. Out-going more often than not, Helena has a very charming smile and a glint in her eye to match. Helena is flirtatious by nature. Also having been born and raised in Victorian England, Helena has extremely proper manners. Even in the modern day, she can still act quite Victorian in her mannerisms. Another thing she enjoys about the modern day is how sexual orientation is, at least for the most part, accepted and not kept completely quiet as it was in Helena's day. She herself identifies as bisexual and has had many lovers of both genders.
She was a woman born far ahead of her time, and she is bit of a dual person because of it. She feels more comfortable in modern times with intelligent women being far more accepted in society than they were in her day. Yet at the same time, she feels so very out of place in the modern world. Ever since she was unbronzed, Helena has been playing catch up in learning about the things she missed during the one hundred and ten years she spent in the Bronze Sector. She hasn't really found anywhere to truly call "home" since she awoke in the 21st Century. Inwardly, she does want to be able to put down roots, so to speak, and have a home somewhere, to feel as though she belongs somewhere. As it stands, she doesn't feel as though she really has a place she belongs, and it tends to make her feel disquiet. Though these aren't exactly things she has expressed to anyone, at least not until very recently to Myka.
However, Helena has a dark side. She is a cold-blooded murderer, though this did not come about until after her daughter was murdered. Helena sought vengeance, hunted down, tortured and killed the men who had killed her daughter. The act left her forever tainted with darkness, and she has since taken the lives of other people, both directly by her own hand, or indirectly because of her actions. She has killed both the innocent and the guilty. In the present day, she carries the weight of guilt for these actions on her shoulders, though she will never regret what she did to Christina's murderers. Everything else, she feels deep guilt and regret for. She makes a conscious choice every day to not be that person any longer, and the psychological effects from her anger and hate will always be with her. This is something she has started to come to terms with and accept about herself. She is forever changed by the events of her life, and after spending time being both psychotic and deeply regretful, she has finally found some balance within her between the dark part of herself and the lighter part. She is neither black nor white, she is, by her own view, a dark shade of grey.
Christina's death has also left her with a deep-seeded grief that she had largely been unable to let herself feel. Grief was not something she knew how to handle, and in the 1890s she buried her grief and embraced her hate and anger. While she has come to terms and let herself grieve for her daughter, Helena will always carry the pain of loss that is easily seen by others who know that similar pain of loss. Also despite progress she has made in accepting her grief and who she is, Helena does, at times, still possess a highly negative and extremely critical view of herself. While she has a great capacity for love, Helena can still feel as though she ruins the lives of everyone she comes in contact with.
Emotions can be both Helena's undoing and her salvation. When she feels strongly, her emotions can control her if she is not careful. Her anger and hate controlled her when she didn't keep them under control, and that ultimately led to her trying to destroy the world. However, she also has given up her life selflessly to save her friends, though that particular event was erased when Artie used Magellan's Astrolabe. She has come to a more emotionally stable ground recently, which was helped by her deciding to retire from the Warehouse and making personal connections outside of the Warehouse. To an extent, Helena does fear her emotions, but she now has a far better grasp on them so she can keep herself balanced instead of going to extremes.
Even though she is a deeply emotional person, Helena very rarely lets others see her softer emotions. She will hide her pain and sadness, all of the emotions that make her feel vulnerable and weak. While this is partly just who she is by nature, it is also what she was raised to do. Victorians were not open about their emotions, so Helena learned early on to keep her emotions close to her heart and put on a mask. Helena does not let people in easily and she does not show her vulnerabilities to everyone she chooses to open up to. She strongly dislikes feeling weak, and expressing her sadness and pain makes her feel weak. This, however, is something she can get past if someone is patient enough and understands her well enough to know when to push her to talk and when not to. She is innately stubborn and if she is pushed when she doesn't want to be, she will push back and dig her heels in on the matter.
Flavor Abilities: She's a baseline human, despite her age. Unless being a genius and a prolific inventor (including having built a time machine, shrink ray and a rocket in 1893, among others) count. She's also very adept at the martial art of kenpo.
Suitability: Helena is the type of person that needs puzzles and challenges, and she is an expert at unweaving both. Back home, she worked for a place in which she had to track down and acquire dangerous objects. However, she is also a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. She's a scientist (mostly biology and chemistry), she's an inventor, she's an author. She's resourceful and is not afraid to strike out into the unknown for the simple sake of gathering information or exploring new places. She loves adventure. She also has some baggage in regards to feeling alone, and pushing that button is all too much fun.
RP Samples:
Test Drive #1 | Test Drive #2 (Not quite to ten comments from my character but better idea of how she'd be in the setting with her memory intact.) | Network-style post Content Warning for some discussion of the symptoms of cholera in one of the threads
ACCEPTED
A standard single-story house with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and bedroom. All the furniture here is modern in style--metal or plastic with either very sharp lines or no lines at all. There are framed movie posters and paintings that seem suited to a college town cafe everywhere.
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