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Soulgemmed Mods ([personal profile] soulmods) wrote2015-11-25 05:46 pm

Applying

Applications are currently OPEN and will be processed on weekends. Please note that players who had an app declined must wait two weeks to resubmit an app for the same character, while players who have idled out for the first time must wait a week.

An sample application can be found here!

Application Guidelines

Player name: Your name.
Contact info: Your preferred method of contact.
Other characters currently played: Please include other Soulgemmed characters only.

Character name: Your character's full name in Western order (given name, then surname).
Age: Your character's age. If unknown, please give us a rough estimate.
Canon: Your character's canon. CRAUs and AUs must specify.
Canonpoint: A brief description of which point in their canon the character is being taken from.

Background:
Wiki links are allowed. OCs will need to go in-depth and provide a description of the world that they are from so that a greater understanding of its culture and history can be gleaned.
CRAUs must provide a bullet point list of their previous game history and explain how their characters have been affected by these new experiences.

Personality:
Describe your character's personality in detail - their motivations, their worldview, their strengths and flaws. Use evidence from canon to support your points. Please try not to exceed 1500 words.

Wish:
What wish does your character make to end up here? How do you want it granted? The wish is the most important part of the application. Please describe the thoughts and feelings behind the wish in as much detail as possible, as well as what led the character to making this wish and how it will be granted. Be sure to choose a wish suited to your character's personality or else you will be asked to revise. Please provide the exact wording of the wish in quotation marks. Refer to the wishes section of this entry for more information.

Passive ability & Active ability:
Which abilities would you like your character to be given on arrival? Your character gets both an active and passive ability. The nature of the abilities must relate in some way to the wish made. Please explain how your abilities relate to your wish, even if you feel that the correlation is obvious. If your abilities are meant to be versatile, please be thorough in describing the ways in which you intend to utilize said powers. Describe its limitations in depth. You will be expected to rigidly adhere to the description you give here of the power's utility.

Please look under "power breakdown" for information on this. If you're in need of ideas, try the superpower wiki!

Weapon:
The weapon your character gains the ability to summon. No need to go into detail. It would just be a regular weapon with no additional abilities, unless you want to dedicate a power to infusing it with magical abilities later.

Sample:
Both threads and third person samples are allowed. Threads must contain at least ten comments from your character. Third person samples must contain at least two lines of character dialogue so that we can determine your grasp on your character's voice.

Application Form



Please do not edit your application after it has been submitted.
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Player name: Bill
Contact info: Plurk is Grimdork
Other characters currently played: None

Character name: Garviel Loken (Cerberus)
Age: Unknown, looks to be in his 30s (Over a century, though)
Canon: Horus Heresy
Canonpoint: Just after the novel Vengeful Spirit

Background: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Garviel_Loken
(Lexicanum tends to be up to date, but warhammer wikia is more detailed)
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Garviel_Loken

Personality: Garviel is motivated primarily by faith in the secular truth of the Imperium of man, and that man has a destiny outside the ignorance and superstition of old night. He is impelled onward by loyalty, a desire for vengeance against Chaos and the corruption of man to dark powers. Everything he does is to make a better world for humanity, and avenge his fallen brothers who were destroyed by treachery and superstition.

Garviel is quiet at first, given to introspection, but will speak a great deal with anyone if he has to debate a philosophical point, or to analyze a battle. He is capable of eloquent speech, as indicated during his valediction to horus during the battle on the vengeful spirit.

He is an example of what is best within the Imperium of man during the great crusade. He is a man who is both a weapon and a thinking being of conscience, who had been raised to the status of a superhuman hero and yet remained attached to humanity, both in personal relations and in his moral choices. He represents the pinnacle of a golden age of a secular empire, only a moment before it descended into a brutal civil war that forever damned it to decay and cruel oppression.

He is extremely distrustful of magic and aliens, having compromised with them only once, on Caliban, (during the events of the audiobook Grey Angel) in order to continue his mission in the name of the Emperor and humanity, the two things he is unfailingly loyal to. Obviously, making a deal with Kyubei will require a similar leap of faith.

He has a warrior's pride and passion in what he does. Garviel is a warrior born, since his days as a gang member on Cthonia, and he never, ever stops fighting, even if he spends much of this time outside of battle brooding over the results of the war. He's an excellent leader, putting himself at the fore of his battles, and has a keen tactical mind, as demonstrated during the subjugation of 6319, where he fights and defeats both dug in and powerful sentry guns, and a force of invisible and armored warriors known as the Invisibles, and actually confronted the False Emperor before Horus arrived to destroy him. He was a captain of the 10th Company of Luna Wolves, which is a force of somewhere over 1,000 Space Marines (Or Adeptus Astartes). When in battle, he fought with purpose and tactical skill towards the objectives he was given, often succeeding in his later battles despite being set up to fail by traitorous commanders (Such was the case at Istvaan 3).

Garviel is capable of forming strong ties of friendship, such as with his subordinate, Nero Vipus, a dear friend with whom he shares private jokes. His close friends also include Ezekyle Abaddon, the choleric leader of the 1st company, and later Warmaster in his own right, whom he had a bit of a joking rivalry with that turned into hatred as Abaddon sided with Horus and the other traitors, and tried to kill him twice, once in the ruins of IStvaan 3, and again on the Vengeful spirit. His closest Astartes connection is probably to Tarik Torgaddon, who was killed during the culling at Istvaan 3 by his other close friend, Horus Aximand (little horus), who Garviel hated from that day forward. This mess of betrayal and his own physical trauma (He had a cathedral dropped on him and was then hit by an orbital strike) combined to drive garviel to a sort of psychotic break. He imagined himself Cerberus, a wolfhound at the gates of hell, the last loyal man in a galaxy of traitors, and went around the shattered world slaying demons and disloyal Astartes until he was brought home and to some sense of sanity by three other knights-errant of Malcador. His friendship with Torgaddon extended even after death, as he spoke to his corpse during his madness, and was haunted by his ghost during his stay on Luna at the behest of the sigilite. He fights to avenge the desecration of Tarik's soul during the events of the novel Vengeful Spirit, and does manage to eke out some measure of revenge against Tormageddon, the demonically returned form of his battle-brother. He was also casually close with Horus himself, and impressed Rogal Dorn, one of the other Primarchs, with his honesty and honor.

Garviel also surprisingly forms many bonds with common humans, including Mersadie Oliton, his personal documentarist, with whom he fell in love, though he didn't realize this until the events of Vengeful spirit. He didn't act on them, as Astartes have been hypno-programmed to sublimate most emotions of this nature into brotherhood and battle-readiness instead of romantic attachment, so the fact that he was able to realize even in passing that he felt love speaks to his deep humanity. He was also close with the poet Ignace Karkasy, appreciating his honesty, and was close with Euphrati Keeler as well, the first saint of the late Imperial Creed. He mentor-student relationship with Kyril Sindermann, primary iterator of Horus' fleet as well, often attending Sindermann's lectures and asking him questions of morality and philosophy.

Garviel is unquestionably a man of honor. He gives his word to numerous people throughout the heresy, and never breaks an oath to the Emperor and humanity, though many around him betray their oaths.

His strengths are loyalty, conscience, and insight. He never betrayed the Emperor, even as his own gene-father and his brothers within his Legion turned to the worship of the dark gods, and away from their humble service to humanity towards self-aggrandizing lordship of the mortals. His insight was recognizes by Horus (his gene father and commander) who appointed him to the role of the mournival, one of his four advisors, and acknowledged him as the quiet one, since he seldom spoke as expansively as his brothers Torgaddon and Abaddon (Though Aximand was nearly as quiet as he was.). His conscience was demonstrated constantly, when he regretted fighting brothers during the battle at the Whisperheads, when one of his brothers was possessed by a daemon, and in his every action with the humans like Kyril Sindermann, where he questions if the Imperium might not be able to leave other human societies that are self-sufficient alone.

His flaws are a tendency not to act on his instincts. Garviel was aware that Erebus was up to something sleazy, but he was unwilling to move against his fellow legion-brother without more evidence, which he didn't receive until well after Horus had already been corrupted. This cost him dearly, because his hesitance to act swiftly may also have kept him from acting more to save Horus from corruption, though the case for this is less than clear.
Wish:
The thoughts behind this wish are simple. Horus, Garviel's gene-father and son of the Emperor of mankind, has turned utterly against humanity and the Emperor, in cooperation with the Dark Gods of chaos. Garviel has already sworn to oppose him at every turn, at every wall, in every way, until the battle reaches Terra. (This is detailed in his speech during the novel Vengeful spirit). Garviel's state of mind is complex, however. He's just confronted horus after his friend Iacton Qurze was murderd by Horus on the deck of the Vengeful spirit, and sworn everlasting vengeance and opposition to him, even as Horus offered him a chance to rejoin the brotherhood of the mournival at the price of betraying the Emperor and humanity. He was frozen by his own trauma, and post-traumatic stress from the battle of Istvaan 3, where he lost his brother, but seeing Horus callously murder Iacton made his choice now and forever.
"I wish that we would defeat Horus, and protect humanity against Chaos forever."
The effect of this wish is as follows: As in canon, the Emperor wins the battle of Terra blasting Horus out of existence with psychic mind bullets (NO REALLY), but is reduced to a vegetative state, and the Grey Knights, without the now-absent Loken, become the protectors of humankind against chaos. They will become, as the Emperor himself said," "One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, One last blade forged in defiance of fate, Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, And my final gift to the species I failed." They protect a humanity that slowly becomes a hyper superstitious and religious parody of everything that Garviel held dear during his time as a member of the great Crusade, and forget even about the Grey Knights, who become secrets held so dearly that no one knows or recognizes their sacrifice. His face will never grace a statue of their tombs on the moon of Titan, but instead, he will pass as an unknown warrior into a new world, to fight against nightmares in the name of humanity elsewhere, content in the knowledge that his sacrifice has saved the Imperium, even as it was damned by the slipperiness of his wish into being something anathema to what it was when he served and loved it.

Garviel's wish is mostly selfless in nature, for while he wishes to help defeat horus, his true goal is to protect humanity forever, which is selfless, and it is in the basic desire of the astartes as they were intended, to serve humanity first as warriors, then as governors and administrators.

Passive ability:
Aegis: Garviel's own faith in humanity, the nature of his wish, and his desire to bring a secular light to the universe make him extremely resistant to magical control or corruption. Even the blandishments of his own gene-father empowered as a godling by the forces of Chaos couldn't sway his loyalty in his previous life. his passive power makes him that much more wilfull now. This doesn't stop him from being deceived or tricked, but direct manipulation or control is nigh until impossible.
Active ability: Fatebreaker: Garviel's swordsmanship, already honed from a life as an Astartes, is raised to fate-defying levels. He can deflect bullets, even magic, and cut right through it, or objects far beyond what even his chainsword could normally cut, empowered by his wish, his everlasting desire to protect humanity against the supernatural power of Old Night, of Chaos, and his father Horus. This ability was granted because it's a natural extension of his abilities as an Astartes, honed to a supernatural level and specialized in a way that couldn't have happened even as an enhanced warrior of the Emperor.

Weapon: His Paragon blade, a chainsword. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chainsword It's basically a big old sword with chainsaw blades an monomolecular teeth.

Sample: Garviel is no longer an Astartes. This fact is.... simultaneously devastating and freeing. He is no longer a being of transhuman power and terror, made only for war and service. And yet.... His oaths are clear. Serve humanity and the Imperial truth, even in a world of magic. Even if he made a deal with a Xenos. His own desperation and hypocrisy made manifest. But still, this is his penance for the loss of Tarik, Vipus, and the other brothers of Istvaan and the Luna Wolves.
And so, he watches the monsters within a Nightmare approach, his chainsword giving a low growl as he holds it in a two-handed grip. They skitter forward on caliper-like legs, somewhere between a machine and a spider, and his anger, his recognition of some lost whisper of his own nightmares, his own madness prickle his mind. "I am the Storm's Blade, I am justice." He hisses, as he hurls himself towards them, cleaving, cutting, butchering these tenebrous forms in a way that suggests that his madness is still upon him.

Eventually, the monster dissipate, and Garviel's powerful, though now human form stands gasping. "Funny I..." He wheezes, "I forgot what it's like to be so tired." He says, his own anger fading, his own pain slipping away, and he makes a face that suggests a certain wry amusement as his newfound abilities and losses. The source of the Nightmare itself awaits. A human, or a Magi, and he must save them, as Nathaniel Garro once saved him from his own madness, pullling him back from a precipice of darkness where he was the only loyal son left, to a world of struggle, but one that also had hope. He can still offer that, and it pushes him on, despite the weariness which has beset his muscles, lactic acids burning them as he exerts himself night after night in an eternal struggle.
He seeks to redeem the victim of this Nightmare beset by their own doubts and fears, their anger and pain. He approaches the center of this expression of pain, and says, "I am here, I have come to carry a torch, even into this darkest of places. Come with me, and I'll do what I can for you." And in that moment, the edges of his lips turn into a rare smile. Because he means it.

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So I've had a little troubles thinking of appropriate powers according to his wish, but I'm still not 100% if this is acceptable? Please feel free to tell me if I need to revise it though.

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