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APPLICATION

PLAYER INFO
Name: Player name
Preferred pronoun(s):
Contact: Plurk, discord, pm
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CHARACTER INFO
Name: Western order (given name, family name)
Canon:
Canon point:
Age:
History: A link the character's wiki page or briefly summarize in no more than 10 sentences

Personality:
Please describe your character in a minimum of two paragraphs. Good things to include are other people's perception of the character, the character's perception of themselves, how they interact with others, how they interact with the world, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, personal rules and morality, short term and long term goals, etc.

Powers/abilities:
A link to a wiki page or write out as succinctly as possible; may include magical powers, species-specific abilities, mundane skills, etc as you see fit. please note that all characters will be de-powered coming into the game, with the opportunity to regain canon powers/abilities

QUESTIONS
Answers may be written icly as the character or oocly as the player; please limit to maximum 5 sentences each

✽ What does your character consider to be their top three strengths?
✽ What do others consider to be your character's greatest weakness?
✽ What are your character's three greatest fears?
✽ What would your character choose for a last meal?
✽ Has your character ever killed? If so, how did that affect them? If not, how would it affect them?
✽ If your character was given one selfish wish (must be applied to themselves/not affect others), what would it be?

Sample: link to a recent (less than 1 year old) thread of 5 or more comments; cannot purely network

FORM

Please use the following form by commenting below; do not link to your character journal.

Include in the subject line: player name, character name, canon

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PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: Lavvy
Preferred pronoun(s): she/her
Contact:

BlueFlewFedUQueen
Permissions: Link

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Add (real name: Edward Grenore)
Canon: Elsword
Canon point: Mad Paradox route, sometime vaguely after the Elrianode arc
Age: 21
History: Can be summed up by the brief Background sections on these four wiki pages. He is also involved in the main storyline of the game, but as I'm taking him from one of the non-canon routes where it's up in the air whether he even joined the El Search Party or not, it's not really that relevant tbh.
(since I also play Clamor from the same canon, this is me making a note that they have yet to meet/interact since Noah is still off doing his own thing in the main storyline apart from the El Search Party, but as Clamor is a side character and normally incapable of interacting with people besides Noah anyway I feel it's pretty safe to assume there won't be any conflicts there in the future re: me playing both. also this Add is from a timeline where he isn't even in the ESP anymore so, yeah.)

Personality:

Add is a complicated person, to say the least. He had a difficult upbringing: physically and mentally abused by his father, sold into slavery after his parents' deaths, and then trapped in a time-travelling dimensional library for the majority of his teenage years, completely cut off from all human contact. His social skills are practically nonexistent, after all of that. He's incredibly blunt, talks to himself constantly, has difficulty connecting with other people... and so on. He's extremely paranoid, constantly suspecting other people of plotting against him or secretly hating him, but at the same time he craves love and attention more than anything else. He wants to be close to people, to be cared about and loved by others, but he's so terrified of being rejected that he'll sooner burn his bridges to the ground than truly reach out to another person.

And burn bridges he does. Add is obsessed with time travel, and obsessed with "fixing" his own past. By that logic, relationships in the "present" don't matter since they'll cease to be once he succeeds in his goals. This is the rule Add lives by, only allowing others to get close to him on a whim and just as swiftly cutting those ties once he starts to feel threatened. Because of this he comes off as incredibly fickle and short-tempered, not to mention moody. He'll often go out of his way to push people's buttons, intentionally trying to prevent them from getting close to him... but deep down, he does still crave the love and attention. He's constantly fighting with himself, torn between pushing everyone away and having the tiniest bit of faith that maybe, just maybe, this person actually does care about him despite his (numerous) flaws.

Getting close to Add isn't as simple as overcoming a tsundere personality, however. Add is downright dangerous in the extremes he's willing to take. His ability to hop between timelines has largely erased his sense of consequence—if he does something bad or impulsive, it's fine, because he can just hop to the neighbouring timeline where he didn't do that thing, right? He has trouble seeing people as individuals rather than one of many possible timelines, and having already destroyed countless timelines, what's one more? He's unfazed by death, though he will get angry or upset if he's unable to "fix" it, and he does get attached to people quite easily despite his best efforts not to. When things don't go his way, he's prone to violent, childish tantrums. He's petty, spiteful, sadistic, and if you cross him he will hold a grudge.

But for those few who do manage to get close to Add, and who manage to avoid all the numerous death flags his friendship entails... he's an awkward, lonely boy, both prideful and insecure, fiercely protective and dangerously volatile. He thinks machines are incredibly cool and can talk for hours about Nasods and other advanced technology without stopping for breath. He's very clean and particular about how his space is organized. He's ambitious, blindly determined, and an utter perfectionist. He loves cats and thinks they're cute and soft.

Powers/abilities:

I have a detailed write-up here with a bunch of reference links to videos and such, but I'm going to try and make a more brief(?) summary here.

First of all, Add is not human. He used to be human, but after messing with timetravel and taking numerous trips to Henir's space over several years, his body became corrupted by the energies there and began to break down. Eventually, his body was completely destroyed by this... but instead of dying, Add adapted. He basically reconstructed his body out of billions of scattered pieces by sheer force of stubborn will, reforming it into his current body. It is very unstable, as evident from the glowing cracks and broken segments of his body, but he is effectively immortal and capable of shapeshifting at will. He has two appearances. It's unclear if he's locked into these two forms somehow or if he could make himself look differently if he wanted to, but I'm just going to assume for now that he's not skilled enough to shapeshift into other people or creatures or w/e.

His main abilities, besides being a weird void entity, are in manipulating time, space and gravity. He can levitate freely, and many of his offensive abilities involve creating intense gravity fields to lift or crush his enemies or violently drawing objects towards himself or a specific point in space. He can teleport or create portals between two locations by smashing through cracks in reality. He can also use these cracks for... well. Smashing other things, since having reality destroyed in the space you're currently occupying would be very painful. These sorts of attacks tend to be VERY painful but since reality heals itself up quickly, they're not actually as deadly as they might appear—though he can certainly kill a person with them if he just goes at it for long enough.

His third specialty, time, comes in the form of... literally being able to time travel and worldhop across dimensions. He is limited in when he can travel to, however (and lbr this is getting nerfed anyway). He cannot go back to his own past via normal time travel, ie. he can't actually change his past or affect the present this way. What he can do, though, is apply an ability of his called Seal of Time that "saves" a point in time for him (or another person!) to revert back to in case of death. This only rewinds the affected person's physical state, activates automatically upon that person receiving a fatal injury, and doesn't affect anyone else (so time as a whole isn't being rewound, just this one person's). Seal of Time is simple enough to apply (has to be within a couple meters of Add, more or less), but has a time limit of 10~20 seconds before it wears off. It can be reapplied as needed if Add is able to, but once it does go off, the revived person won't be able to be revived again for awhile afterwards (I'm going to say a few hours minimum, depends on the injury). SO BASICALLY... you get one (1) redo, you're going to feel sick as hell afterwards, and don't fuck it up a second time.

Weird spacetime shit aside, Add is also an extremely skilled engineer and inventor who specializes in... well, machines that fuck with timespace, obviously? In his current state he doesn't need his tools as much as he normally would, but he does still rely heavily on his six hovering drone assistants, Dynamo, to keep his body stable and support his abilities. Without them, while he can still manipulate time and space he's also a lot more likely to just start crumbling apart from the strain, so. He prefers to have his machines to help him, thanks. Aside from assisting with the abilities listed above, Dynamo also functions as a computer with the expected features, can project cool holoscreens for him to look at, and is linked to him telepathically via... well it was a brainchip but now he's all weird so look don't ask me how it works it just does.

He's also invented several killer robots, one murderous AI hologram, and a very advanced bugzapper. He's very accomplished. If he tries to build anything crazy or weird you can bet your ass I'll be all over the mod inbox.

RE: his appearance, I'll be having him arrive in his "younger" form because being short would annoy him now that he can't levitate or shapeshift.

ALSO i almost forgot, but since Add's body is weird and kind of... falling apart... I'd like to keep that aspect to a degree, because I think it'd be fun to mess with, so if it's alright I'm going to say that the parts of his body that are normally falling apart are still crystalline-looking and probably have an uncomfortably prickly texture or w/e and would crack like a rock when injured, but otherwise he's still just "normal". also his blood is weird colours don't worry about it. it's fine.

Questions:
✽ What does your character consider to be their top three strengths?

Intelligence. Ingenuity. Determination.

✽ What do others consider to be your character's greatest weakness?

Either his unwillingness to open up to other people, or his complete disregard for his own life. Once Add has a goal in his sights, he'll stop at absolutely nothing to achieve that goal, even when it ends up endangering (or outright ending) his own life.

✽ What are your character's three greatest fears?

Failure. To be rejected by the people he cares about. ~~Ghosts~~ Things that cannot be explained scientifically, which is nothing, because EVERYTHING can be explained by science and he will fight anyone who tells him otherwise.

✽ What would your character choose for a last meal?

"Last meal" is a meaningless phrase to him considering he's an immortal timespace anomaly that, as far as he's concerned, cannot actually die. But he would take a chocolate bar.

✽ Has your character ever killed? If so, how did that affect them? If not, how would it affect them?

:) He's taken it upon himself to personally destroy multiple alternate timelines out of spite for himself, so. If we're counting all the bystanders, his kill count would be several times larger than the entire population of his world. At this point, he doesn't really care or even acknowledge when people die, because to him death itself has become meaningless since it can all be undone just by rewinding the timeline or hopping to a different one. He would not hesitate to kill anyone.

✽ If your character was given one selfish wish (eg. must be applied to themselves and not affect others), what would it be?

To "fix" his own timeline, erasing his current self from existence and returning to a version of his past where he was just a normal, innocent boy and his mother was alive.

Sample: TDM toplevel

Edited 2021-05-24 10:19 (UTC)

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