application

[growlies]

PLAYER NAME: Rizzy
CONTACT: snowed @ plurk, or pm.
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: I'm already here as Wrath (inferus)

CHARACTER: Red
CANON: OC - > played her in a one-shot of Monsterhearts a Powered By the Apocalypse tabletop rpg - the specific setting of a purgatory-high school was created by Katie (aka our Diego player), and I've gone on to further develop the character and setting since then
CANON POINT: from the end of the one shot

BACKGROUND: Red wasn't born- not really. She was made. As the afterlife changes, the pieces of it change too. Once upon a time, she was Cerberus (an ancient three headed dog, guarding the gates of the afterlife). In the future, there are different version of purgatory, and one of those versions becomes High School to deal with all the souls of teens in the afterlife. Hades wanted a more appropriate vessel for his guard dog in a setting like this one especially since this Purgatory is different than the rest. He made Red out of the soul of a teenager and Cerberus itself (Red was never told about the soul thing). She's a typical teenager except for the fact she has no parents, has never experienced childhood, and is Hades, the god of the Underworld's, lackey. All at once, she's both supposed to fit in by being a teenager who goes to high school classes and she's supposed to be an outcast by being the one and only 'hall monitor' of Purgatory High.

It's her job to keep all of the souls in Purgatory High in line and to help some cross the River Styx which borders the high school once they've graduated. Graduating requires more than simply attending classes for these souls, they have to go on a journey of discovery inside of themselves to really understand why they're here, the choices they made in life, and all the rest. She even gets one of those hall monitor vests to signal her position and how different she is from the rest of the students. Given her 'role' within the high school, most of the teens are intimidated by or even scared of her, and she doesn't make many friends.

However, eventually she does manage to achieve some version of friendships with a couple of the others, because she's human enough to have a heart beneath the rough exterior. These friends are looking for a way out. Some souls in the high school are going missing, and they hear of a way to get out of the afterlife, but they're going to need the help of Cerberus if they've any chance. She's sick and tired of being stuck in high school (being human but not really), and they're the only friends she has. She agrees to help without any hesitation. It's not like she thinks she'll actually be able to get out of this place, but there's something so freeing about making a choice of her own and saying 'fuck you' to Hades in the process.

Turns out escaping involves going to the big dance as a cover, saving Persephone from where she had been trapped and chained in the basement of the high school, and making it past a chimera (her friend beat it relentlessly in a hail of holy-fuck-rage). They narrowly avoid Hades' detection, and they make it to the River Styx. Because Persephone goes with them, she uses her powers to protect them and help them through to the other side, to the living side. Granted, this surprises the fuck out of Red who definitely thought she'd do whatever an immortal being's version of dying is, but now she is alive in a world she's never actually lived in herself, despite all her secondhand knowledge of it. Falling into the actual living world means she's not so immortal any longer, and her Cerberus form can't be as big as it can be in the afterlife.

She doesn't know what it actually means to live, to make connections, to be a part of the real world but she's not alone at least as her friends offer to take her in - cue falling into Eastbound.

ABILITIES | POWERS:

-Can sense if someone has died before/undead/etc as she got a connection to death like that. On that note, she also reeks of death-touched to those sensitive to that. She can also sense if someone is god-like given her whole Hades thing. (Permissions based)

-Can sense people's souls (when I had her in a game previously, this was entirely permissions based, and I let people describe what she would see about the ~color~ of their soul and the insight she'd get about 'em cause of it or just say she'd see nothing at all since she's out of the Underworld).

-Can help spirits move on given her role as a Cerberus, but would need training/to work on it since she's never dealt with souls in the mortal realm. It'd be something for her to work toward being able to do.

-When she's upset or angry, she sometimes unintentionally channels the ancient power inside of her, and it will show up in a psychic kind of growl in their heads where you get the sense you're tangling with something ancient. She used to do this on teens in Purgatory to get information from them or to get them in line. This would be permissions based. She can also channel it to get a temporary boost to her strength or speed.

-Investigative abilities: She has super-intense senses (hearing, scent, sight including being able to see in the dark), and she is exceptionally good at tracking people or objects down if she has a previous scent of them.

-Transformation: Can transform into a three headed dog/Cerberus.
-> For the most part, she will transform into medium sized Cerberus aka about the size of a wolf. Cerberus has enhanced strength, enhanced speed, fierce bite, and breathes a bit of blue fire. She is fully in control of herself.
-> She is limited to how long/how much she can transform before becoming exhausted.
-> Can also transform into v large Cerberus or very small Cerberus but has less control over this and can't hold the form as long.
-> If her Cerberus form dies, she transforms back into herself and is knocked near unconscious, but it doesn't kill her. In her human form, she can die though as she's very mortal now.
-> She is new to having this mortal body and being outside of the Underworld so it will likely take her time to control this transformation really well. Might accidentally transform/transform back when she doesn't mean to, etc.

PERSONALITY:

-Human but not: Red has never really had the human experience, and so she's not used to making connections at all but a certain part of her craves it and always has. She's in a confusing place where she has never lived but still exists within this form that is very teenager, that has insecurities and emotions and anger. Her experience with the living world is so limited in many ways, and she wants more than anything to interact with it and experience that for herself while worrying she'll never really fit in. Cause y'know, ancient three-headed dog.

-Nonchalant/sarcastic: Red treats most situations with a certain level of nonchalance or sarcasm. She has a kind of dry humor that she approaches most situations with, because she's ancient despite being in a teenage body, and it's difficult to surprise her. She tends to give most people she meets nicknames of some kind, and she curses like... a lot.

-Biting: Because she's good at reading people, she's also good at finding the perfect insult to use, the cutting painful remark, or the exact phrase that will really twist the knife in further (to get those teenage souls in line). Monsterhearts has a move called 'Shut someone down', and she's damn good at it.

-Impulsive: Being a teenager with emotions, feeling powerful for most of her existence, she tends to be impulsive. There's not always a lot of strategy that goes into things. She just jumps in head first without warning, without looking.

-Loyal: This might be surprising given she left Hades high and dry, but he never earned her loyalty. When someone does earn her loyalty, she'll fight tooth and nail for them. It's why she crossed the River Styx when her friends did even if she thought doing so might kill her or drag her right back to Hades' feet where he'd remake her again into something that couldn't disobey him. The stakes were high, but her friends were going and so was she.

-Morally Gray: When you've seen all that Red has, right and wrong gets skewed. She doesn't have a strong moral compass. She goes with what she feels is right in her gut/heart. Sometimes people have to be murdered so other people can be protected. Sometimes you have to disobey orders so you can do what's right.

-She talks like Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll tho I'm not always good at emulating that. You should have heard my real life impression of her.

SAMPLE:

Network + Log sample

INVENTORY:

- Picture of her and her friends from the dance

- Pack of cigarettes

- Her lucky flask

- Hall monitor vest

NOTES: None!

IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Open for anything