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[CRAU] Labyrinthum Application Example
OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Ryn
Pronoun Preferences: they/them
Contact: kermitkin over on plurk
Are you over the age of 18?: very
Invitation Link: I'm in ur game being ur mod
Current Characters: I'm in ur game being ur mod I SAID
Link to Permissions: Permissions.
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Vash the Stampede
Species: Independent Plant
Canon: Trigun Stampede
Canon Point: As he's falling back into Noman's Land's atmosphere (the last like 10 minutes of episode 12)
Character Age: 150
CRAU: Yes
CRAU Explanation: I am applying for Vash with all of his previous Labyrinthum memories. He has had some significant developments in how he views his relationship with his brother and his understanding of his brother's motivations. It has led to a much stronger resolve in trying to reconcile with his brother while he was in the game. He is returning to Labyrinthum after his brother's death, and it has affected him twofold because of it. Vash is also slightly less apt to throw himself in the fray with no regard for himself as he has come to the understanding that when he does this, he hurts the people who care about him. It's still a work in progress, but it's something that is at least on his radar. Vash has also found himself allowing himself to want and desire things. In his previous stay in Labyrinthum, he expressed his desire to stay, rather than to return home.
Character Appearance: Here.
Powers and Abilities: Vash is an Independent Plant. And no, I do not mean those things we keep in planters and ceramic pots. What does this mean? Well:
• Plants are humanoid creatures but are largely confined to pods and are used by humans to produce everything from food and water to any material you can think of. Vash is a *special* kind of plant who can live independently, make their own choices and live outside these pods safely etc. It's stated in canon that without human guidance plants would burn out their energy near immediately. We don't really know if this is true.
• Plants have things called gates, where they draw their power from. Vash's gate is unique in that it can let things pass from and INTO this higher plane they get their near-limitless power from. He is not currently aware of this ability nor does he use it. The only time it manifested when he was younger resulted in it showing up as a black hole effect, sucking unconscious scientists into it and nearly himself until the arm where it manifested was cut off his body by his brother. HOWEVER: Vash has shown the ability to heal plants that are "turning red" aka dying from overusing their energy to support human needs. He has not shown the ability to do this to anything other than plants.
• Plants have super-human abilities: agility, strength, healing factor, intelligence, extended lifespan (virtually immortal) Vash has dodged bullets and can use his gunslinging talents to literally shoot hundreds of missiles out of the air with one shot, etc. He also uses the enhanced agility and speed to dodge a man shooting at him point-blank and has used his strength to heft a plant pod all by himself when a much larger, stronger enemy struggled to do so.
• Plants do not need to eat or sleep, though Vash can and does choose to more often than not. He is more inclined to do so after healing a plant, likely to replace energy he's used to do so. He has been shown to be more prone to the habit of eating and sleeping than his brother, and it is likely that his Gate Ability requires more energy from him in a way that makes this need more apparent in him than in his brother.
• Labyrinthum Powers: Vash originally had a blue potion he never bothered upgrading. I understand that we don't get to keep previous powers and this is fine with me. His re-app would not have this power at all. I'm switching his potion power for something different this time around as well.
What Did Your Character Wish For? To live amongst humans peacefully, just known by the name he was given by them, Vash the Stampede.
What Potion Did They Receive? Gold
Did They Drink It? Yes
If Yes, What Element/Animal? An appropriately limbed orange Maine Coon cat.
Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
Arguably, that would be his brother, Millions Knives. They're exact opposites, actual physical mirror twins, and they couldn't be more different than night and day. But they're also intrinsically linked, bonded despite this. Vash loves his brother dearly, feeling what he's done is misguided. He wants to talk sense into him, to still try and reach his brother and talk sense into him. To help him see that he's wrong about human beings, that they can live together. It's an incredibly complicated relationship that is both full of love and anger, but the thought of losing his brother is also so horrific he doesn't really want to consider it either, despite everything. Considering his canonpoint, and his brother's actual death, this has had a heavy and hard impact on his mental well being. It is something he is still reeling from and will affect his day to day choices.
But someone he misses the most beyond Knives? That would be Rem Saverem, the woman who raised both him and his brother for the first year of their life. So much of Vash's outlook and philosophy is shaped by Rem and how she raised them, it's really easy to say if it had been anyone else, Vash would not be the man he is. Even in death, her memory drives him to put one foot forward, to keep going, to keep trying. Her memory is what wakes him up from the brainwashing Knives puts him through.
2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Loss. He's been called a coward over it more than once, and it's something that Knives uses against him when he's mentally breaking him. To experience loss, to be responsible for the end of someone's life, or even if he's not directly responsible -- it tortures him. The same goes for seeing people in pain he feels he can help. He's so desperate to protect and elevate people who are suffering that he takes very little actual care of himself. The knowledge (fake as it may be) that HE was responsible for the crashing of the SEED ships and all those people being Stranded on No Man's Land is so absolutely devastating to him that it shatters him. It's a huge theme in the series that Vash will one day have to pick a side (between the plants and humans). He still struggles with picking, because he doesn't want to lose either.
3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
Vash is a staunch pacifist. This means that he is very VERY apt to let himself get hurt before he will lay a finger on anyone if it can be helped. He will fight if he has to, especially to protect OTHER PEOPLE, just not himself. He lets himself get shot, beaten up, tossed around, and so much more instead of using his ability to harm anyone. Even people who are willing to turn him in for money -- he doesn't hesitate to turn around and help them when they're in trouble. It's definitely a combined set of weaknesses that's mental and emotional versus physical. Physically he's kind of a doofass, though a lot of that is played up to make himself less threatening. Vash does bleed and likely can die, especially without his plant powers. He also suffers the occasional need to eat, drink and sleep unlike his brother. To plants this is a definite weakness, though to normal human beings it isn't. Perhaps that's why he gravitates to them so.
4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
Oh this is so complicated when it comes to him. Outwardly Vash is goofy, playful and outgoing to an extent, and he will make a play at being kind of unhinged and a little pathetic. The cowardice is played up to some extent, but is also the root of the truth. Vash was a very brightly happy young boy when he was a child, but as time has gone on he harbors instead a great sadness instead. Largely, his show of playful energy and goofy antics is often a show for others. In part, to keep people from worrying about him and to hold people at arm's length in order to protect them and himself. It's also an attempt to keep himself from seeming dangerous.
As an Independent Plant, he is definitely "other" and he holds onto that warily. He's also incredibly observant, especially when it comes to people. He often picks up on subtleties going on with people with seemingly little interaction. He picks up on Wolfwood's nature almost immediately and knew that Wolfwood was there to take him to Knives as well. He understood then, that Wolfwood had something he needed to protect, and it wasn't actually him. Vash struggles greatly with self-worth, his attitude towards life is that every person's life is precious and important, except for his. This means he will throw himself into situations without thinking about how it will affect himself in the long run. He takes hits when he feels he deserves them, and has the tendency to self-punish by not eating when he's feeling particularly melancholy about a situation.
He's also got a bit of a temper that he desperately tamps down, but it takes a lot and certain situations to bring it out. His brother and really dire situations tend to be what brings it out most clearly. There are comical moments, however, where it can flare up in a more minor way.
5. What would make them happiest and why?
Peace. It's such a simple answer at face value, but it's also something that's pretty impossible given the nature of his planet and the fact that humans are not perfect enough for the kind of peace he would want. It's almost unobtainable permanently, but I also feel he can find little bits of peace even in his chaotic life that give him hope. He's so full of determination and hope and love that eventually, in a way, I think he could find a KIND of peace he could be happy with. I think also he wants peace between the plants and humans, and between himself and his brother.
6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?
Vash isn't exactly LOOKING for romance, so his ideal platonic partner is someone he can trust. Someone who can keep up with him. It's so hard for Vash to stick around and keep people in his life for long amounts of time because it's just not safe for them. If something were to happen to people he cares about (and man, he cares about everyone, deeply, honestly) it would be devastating, on top of Vash actively blaming himself for it, even if it's not his direct fault.
During his time in Labyrinthum he found himself bonding closely with his brother, and also with Dolph Laserhawk, both of whom have these particular characteristics. His brother of course he's so intertwined with their relationship is borderline unhealthy and codependent, but with Dolph they seem to meet each other at the same level, and Vash feels as though Dolph can keep up with and understands him on a level that most other people don't seem to or are allowed to.
7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?
Are you fucking kidding me? Oh let me count the ways and how intensely he would do this. Vash would throw himself in the line of fire for anyone or anything if he could. His self worth is so abysmally low when it compares to his reverence for the sanctity of anyone else's life. His time in Labyrinthum has evened this out a little, but it's hard to get over the way he's prioritized people for over a hundred years in just a year and a half. So largely, yes he would and it's because he has little self worth or value and puts all of his energy into protecting others. It's all a very twisted way to punish himself for what happened with the SEEDS ships, as well to atone for what his brother has done and continues to do.
8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?
I think if Vash could he would warn himself about the plan his brother hatches. He would definitely try to talk to his younger self about trying to get through to Knives before that tragedy could take place. I don't think he really considers the ramifications of doing something like that or if it is even possible, but it is something he would definitely want to talk to his younger self about. Perhaps he would talk to an older-younger him about not wholly rejecting his brother that day they meet in proto-july and see all of the dying plants. He has spent time with Knives in Labyrinthum that has taught him a lot about his brother, more than he ever really understood before his stay in game, and while he still struggles to see where it really truely started, he has a better idea of how to go back and really talk to him.
I think also, he would just want to tell his younger self to not give up hope, beyond all of the desire to fix things. Just more words to compound on the lessons and impact Rem has already had on him.
9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?
Despite what you may think it would be fight but how it presents just highly depends on context. When facing his brother who he is arguably terrified of at the time, Vash chooses to confront him despite his fear, though it does cause him to freeze up in the moment. However, when it comes to most humans he errs on the side of pacifism and using his words vs. physically fighting. This isn't always the case, however, as there are moments when he will fight though never to the point of being lethal. He has taken characters in choke holds, and physically fought others. However, with his gun, he always tries to find a way to use it that won't end someone's life, like shooting an object to make it fall and knock someone out vs. shooting the person themselves.
10. Why did your character make the wish they did?
Because, in the end it's what he most desperately wants. He's a coward despite his bravery and stubbornness. He just wants to be side by side with humans, to live with them in peace and see them come to their true potential. In a way this really reflects back on how non independent plants really rely on humans to regulate the use of their power (if that isn't a lie). Vash's need and desire for approval from humans is root deep and often motivates a lot of his actions. It's both a boon and a huge character flaw, as often his desire for approval and his staunch desire to fix things for everyone means he makes promises and attempts to do things that he cannot actually keep or do. The opportunity to live at peace and return to the relatively much more stable life in Labyrinthum is appealing to him in that way. It also gives him a chance to bury his head in the sand regarding certain recent developments in his canon.
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Player Name: Ryn
Pronoun Preferences: they/them
Contact: kermitkin over on plurk
Are you over the age of 18?: very
Invitation Link: I'm in ur game being ur mod
Current Characters: I'm in ur game being ur mod I SAID
Link to Permissions: Permissions.
IC INFORMATION
Character Name: Vash the Stampede
Species: Independent Plant
Canon: Trigun Stampede
Canon Point: As he's falling back into Noman's Land's atmosphere (the last like 10 minutes of episode 12)
Character Age: 150
CRAU: Yes
CRAU Explanation: I am applying for Vash with all of his previous Labyrinthum memories. He has had some significant developments in how he views his relationship with his brother and his understanding of his brother's motivations. It has led to a much stronger resolve in trying to reconcile with his brother while he was in the game. He is returning to Labyrinthum after his brother's death, and it has affected him twofold because of it. Vash is also slightly less apt to throw himself in the fray with no regard for himself as he has come to the understanding that when he does this, he hurts the people who care about him. It's still a work in progress, but it's something that is at least on his radar. Vash has also found himself allowing himself to want and desire things. In his previous stay in Labyrinthum, he expressed his desire to stay, rather than to return home.
Character Appearance: Here.
Powers and Abilities: Vash is an Independent Plant. And no, I do not mean those things we keep in planters and ceramic pots. What does this mean? Well:
• Plants are humanoid creatures but are largely confined to pods and are used by humans to produce everything from food and water to any material you can think of. Vash is a *special* kind of plant who can live independently, make their own choices and live outside these pods safely etc. It's stated in canon that without human guidance plants would burn out their energy near immediately. We don't really know if this is true.
• Plants have things called gates, where they draw their power from. Vash's gate is unique in that it can let things pass from and INTO this higher plane they get their near-limitless power from. He is not currently aware of this ability nor does he use it. The only time it manifested when he was younger resulted in it showing up as a black hole effect, sucking unconscious scientists into it and nearly himself until the arm where it manifested was cut off his body by his brother. HOWEVER: Vash has shown the ability to heal plants that are "turning red" aka dying from overusing their energy to support human needs. He has not shown the ability to do this to anything other than plants.
POSSIBLE NERFS/CONSIDERATIONS: I have no plans to/interest in playing with Vash's gate simply because it's not something he himself shows much desire to deal with. He does, however have the potential power to nuke a city from orbit giving the right circumstances. This is something I WOULD NEVER DO in a game, and if I were to ever play with ripping into his gate at ALL I would severely want to limit it in scope and power for his own mental health sake let alone the risk and consequences for others and the game setting. I would approach the mods about this before considering it regardless.
• Plants have super-human abilities: agility, strength, healing factor, intelligence, extended lifespan (virtually immortal) Vash has dodged bullets and can use his gunslinging talents to literally shoot hundreds of missiles out of the air with one shot, etc. He also uses the enhanced agility and speed to dodge a man shooting at him point-blank and has used his strength to heft a plant pod all by himself when a much larger, stronger enemy struggled to do so.
• Plants do not need to eat or sleep, though Vash can and does choose to more often than not. He is more inclined to do so after healing a plant, likely to replace energy he's used to do so. He has been shown to be more prone to the habit of eating and sleeping than his brother, and it is likely that his Gate Ability requires more energy from him in a way that makes this need more apparent in him than in his brother.
• Labyrinthum Powers: Vash originally had a blue potion he never bothered upgrading. I understand that we don't get to keep previous powers and this is fine with me. His re-app would not have this power at all. I'm switching his potion power for something different this time around as well.
What Did Your Character Wish For? To live amongst humans peacefully, just known by the name he was given by them, Vash the Stampede.
What Potion Did They Receive? Gold
Did They Drink It? Yes
If Yes, What Element/Animal? An appropriately limbed orange Maine Coon cat.
Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
Arguably, that would be his brother, Millions Knives. They're exact opposites, actual physical mirror twins, and they couldn't be more different than night and day. But they're also intrinsically linked, bonded despite this. Vash loves his brother dearly, feeling what he's done is misguided. He wants to talk sense into him, to still try and reach his brother and talk sense into him. To help him see that he's wrong about human beings, that they can live together. It's an incredibly complicated relationship that is both full of love and anger, but the thought of losing his brother is also so horrific he doesn't really want to consider it either, despite everything. Considering his canonpoint, and his brother's actual death, this has had a heavy and hard impact on his mental well being. It is something he is still reeling from and will affect his day to day choices.
But someone he misses the most beyond Knives? That would be Rem Saverem, the woman who raised both him and his brother for the first year of their life. So much of Vash's outlook and philosophy is shaped by Rem and how she raised them, it's really easy to say if it had been anyone else, Vash would not be the man he is. Even in death, her memory drives him to put one foot forward, to keep going, to keep trying. Her memory is what wakes him up from the brainwashing Knives puts him through.
2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Loss. He's been called a coward over it more than once, and it's something that Knives uses against him when he's mentally breaking him. To experience loss, to be responsible for the end of someone's life, or even if he's not directly responsible -- it tortures him. The same goes for seeing people in pain he feels he can help. He's so desperate to protect and elevate people who are suffering that he takes very little actual care of himself. The knowledge (fake as it may be) that HE was responsible for the crashing of the SEED ships and all those people being Stranded on No Man's Land is so absolutely devastating to him that it shatters him. It's a huge theme in the series that Vash will one day have to pick a side (between the plants and humans). He still struggles with picking, because he doesn't want to lose either.
3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
Vash is a staunch pacifist. This means that he is very VERY apt to let himself get hurt before he will lay a finger on anyone if it can be helped. He will fight if he has to, especially to protect OTHER PEOPLE, just not himself. He lets himself get shot, beaten up, tossed around, and so much more instead of using his ability to harm anyone. Even people who are willing to turn him in for money -- he doesn't hesitate to turn around and help them when they're in trouble. It's definitely a combined set of weaknesses that's mental and emotional versus physical. Physically he's kind of a doofass, though a lot of that is played up to make himself less threatening. Vash does bleed and likely can die, especially without his plant powers. He also suffers the occasional need to eat, drink and sleep unlike his brother. To plants this is a definite weakness, though to normal human beings it isn't. Perhaps that's why he gravitates to them so.
4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?
Oh this is so complicated when it comes to him. Outwardly Vash is goofy, playful and outgoing to an extent, and he will make a play at being kind of unhinged and a little pathetic. The cowardice is played up to some extent, but is also the root of the truth. Vash was a very brightly happy young boy when he was a child, but as time has gone on he harbors instead a great sadness instead. Largely, his show of playful energy and goofy antics is often a show for others. In part, to keep people from worrying about him and to hold people at arm's length in order to protect them and himself. It's also an attempt to keep himself from seeming dangerous.
As an Independent Plant, he is definitely "other" and he holds onto that warily. He's also incredibly observant, especially when it comes to people. He often picks up on subtleties going on with people with seemingly little interaction. He picks up on Wolfwood's nature almost immediately and knew that Wolfwood was there to take him to Knives as well. He understood then, that Wolfwood had something he needed to protect, and it wasn't actually him. Vash struggles greatly with self-worth, his attitude towards life is that every person's life is precious and important, except for his. This means he will throw himself into situations without thinking about how it will affect himself in the long run. He takes hits when he feels he deserves them, and has the tendency to self-punish by not eating when he's feeling particularly melancholy about a situation.
He's also got a bit of a temper that he desperately tamps down, but it takes a lot and certain situations to bring it out. His brother and really dire situations tend to be what brings it out most clearly. There are comical moments, however, where it can flare up in a more minor way.
5. What would make them happiest and why?
Peace. It's such a simple answer at face value, but it's also something that's pretty impossible given the nature of his planet and the fact that humans are not perfect enough for the kind of peace he would want. It's almost unobtainable permanently, but I also feel he can find little bits of peace even in his chaotic life that give him hope. He's so full of determination and hope and love that eventually, in a way, I think he could find a KIND of peace he could be happy with. I think also he wants peace between the plants and humans, and between himself and his brother.
6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?
Vash isn't exactly LOOKING for romance, so his ideal platonic partner is someone he can trust. Someone who can keep up with him. It's so hard for Vash to stick around and keep people in his life for long amounts of time because it's just not safe for them. If something were to happen to people he cares about (and man, he cares about everyone, deeply, honestly) it would be devastating, on top of Vash actively blaming himself for it, even if it's not his direct fault.
During his time in Labyrinthum he found himself bonding closely with his brother, and also with Dolph Laserhawk, both of whom have these particular characteristics. His brother of course he's so intertwined with their relationship is borderline unhealthy and codependent, but with Dolph they seem to meet each other at the same level, and Vash feels as though Dolph can keep up with and understands him on a level that most other people don't seem to or are allowed to.
7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?
Are you fucking kidding me? Oh let me count the ways and how intensely he would do this. Vash would throw himself in the line of fire for anyone or anything if he could. His self worth is so abysmally low when it compares to his reverence for the sanctity of anyone else's life. His time in Labyrinthum has evened this out a little, but it's hard to get over the way he's prioritized people for over a hundred years in just a year and a half. So largely, yes he would and it's because he has little self worth or value and puts all of his energy into protecting others. It's all a very twisted way to punish himself for what happened with the SEEDS ships, as well to atone for what his brother has done and continues to do.
8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?
I think if Vash could he would warn himself about the plan his brother hatches. He would definitely try to talk to his younger self about trying to get through to Knives before that tragedy could take place. I don't think he really considers the ramifications of doing something like that or if it is even possible, but it is something he would definitely want to talk to his younger self about. Perhaps he would talk to an older-younger him about not wholly rejecting his brother that day they meet in proto-july and see all of the dying plants. He has spent time with Knives in Labyrinthum that has taught him a lot about his brother, more than he ever really understood before his stay in game, and while he still struggles to see where it really truely started, he has a better idea of how to go back and really talk to him.
I think also, he would just want to tell his younger self to not give up hope, beyond all of the desire to fix things. Just more words to compound on the lessons and impact Rem has already had on him.
9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?
Despite what you may think it would be fight but how it presents just highly depends on context. When facing his brother who he is arguably terrified of at the time, Vash chooses to confront him despite his fear, though it does cause him to freeze up in the moment. However, when it comes to most humans he errs on the side of pacifism and using his words vs. physically fighting. This isn't always the case, however, as there are moments when he will fight though never to the point of being lethal. He has taken characters in choke holds, and physically fought others. However, with his gun, he always tries to find a way to use it that won't end someone's life, like shooting an object to make it fall and knock someone out vs. shooting the person themselves.
10. Why did your character make the wish they did?
Because, in the end it's what he most desperately wants. He's a coward despite his bravery and stubbornness. He just wants to be side by side with humans, to live with them in peace and see them come to their true potential. In a way this really reflects back on how non independent plants really rely on humans to regulate the use of their power (if that isn't a lie). Vash's need and desire for approval from humans is root deep and often motivates a lot of his actions. It's both a boon and a huge character flaw, as often his desire for approval and his staunch desire to fix things for everyone means he makes promises and attempts to do things that he cannot actually keep or do. The opportunity to live at peace and return to the relatively much more stable life in Labyrinthum is appealing to him in that way. It also gives him a chance to bury his head in the sand regarding certain recent developments in his canon.
Samples:
Log
Network