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A Gentle Night uses rolling apps. You may post your app at any time as a comment, using Character Name | Canon as the comment's subject line. Paste your full application into the comment. Do not link to your app. Be sure to make your application friendly to those who may be canonblind by explaining canon specific terms.
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MAY APPLICATION QUEUE
CHARACTER
Name Your character's full name.
Canon Your character's canon.
Age Your character's age. Remember: your character must be at least 16 years old or have the mental capacity of a 16 year old.
Birthright Jewel Your character's Brithright Jewel, determined either by you on your own or RNG when you placed your hold.
Dreams made flesh What boon does your character ask for from the Queen of Hayll? Remember, she is not a god and cannot alter reality.
Canon point Describe the point in canon from which your character was pulled. You may lead with an episode name/number or something like "the end of book 2," but please also provide context.
Canon Powers Use this section to talk about your character's superhuman powers. Any mundane skill that can be learned (like being especially sneaky) doesn't need to go here. This means that a character like James Bond or Batman wouldn't need to put anything here, because their abilities (while top-tier) aren't superhuman. Consider how your character's Jewel may impact powers, either by increasing the potency of an ability or weakening it. Remember that Opal is the equivalent to canonical powers, and the Jewel essentially acts as a battery and power source for all powers or magical weirdness. Please do not link to wikis in this section, as the mod team would largely like to see powers divorced from in-universe jargon and such things as game mechanics (for video games and TTRPGs) as those do not exist in Draega.
Personality Describe your character's personality, considering what strengths made the Queen of Hayll select them as a hero and how their weaknesses can be utilized as a character arc for obtaining their Jewel of rank. You need not be explicit about either of those things, but this section of the app should be written with those concepts in mind.
History A link will do just fine. If informational material is scarce or is written laden with canon-specific jargon, please provide a short summary as needed.
SAMPLES
Network Sample Provide a sample of a first-person network-style post. This can be one part of a conversation over psychic threads, or a text or video message via Far-caster. It should be at least 100 words and strongly showcase your character's voice. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 100 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
Log Sample
Provide a sample of a third-person post, either in long form prose or action spam. It should be at least 200 words and strongly showcase your character's voice, personality, and mannerisms. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 200 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
PLAYER
Name Your handle.
Are you 18 or older? Yes/No
Contact How you prefer to be contacted, whether by email, plurk, pm, or other.
Current character Any characters currently in-game.
Name Your character's full name.
Canon Your character's canon.
Age Your character's age. Remember: your character must be at least 16 years old or have the mental capacity of a 16 year old.
Birthright Jewel Your character's Brithright Jewel, determined either by you on your own or RNG when you placed your hold.
Dreams made flesh What boon does your character ask for from the Queen of Hayll? Remember, she is not a god and cannot alter reality.
Canon point Describe the point in canon from which your character was pulled. You may lead with an episode name/number or something like "the end of book 2," but please also provide context.
Canon Powers Use this section to talk about your character's superhuman powers. Any mundane skill that can be learned (like being especially sneaky) doesn't need to go here. This means that a character like James Bond or Batman wouldn't need to put anything here, because their abilities (while top-tier) aren't superhuman. Consider how your character's Jewel may impact powers, either by increasing the potency of an ability or weakening it. Remember that Opal is the equivalent to canonical powers, and the Jewel essentially acts as a battery and power source for all powers or magical weirdness. Please do not link to wikis in this section, as the mod team would largely like to see powers divorced from in-universe jargon and such things as game mechanics (for video games and TTRPGs) as those do not exist in Draega.
Personality Describe your character's personality, considering what strengths made the Queen of Hayll select them as a hero and how their weaknesses can be utilized as a character arc for obtaining their Jewel of rank. You need not be explicit about either of those things, but this section of the app should be written with those concepts in mind.
History A link will do just fine. If informational material is scarce or is written laden with canon-specific jargon, please provide a short summary as needed.
SAMPLES
Network Sample Provide a sample of a first-person network-style post. This can be one part of a conversation over psychic threads, or a text or video message via Far-caster. It should be at least 100 words and strongly showcase your character's voice. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 100 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
Log Sample
Provide a sample of a third-person post, either in long form prose or action spam. It should be at least 200 words and strongly showcase your character's voice, personality, and mannerisms. Test-drive threads used for this sample do not require a single post of 200 words, but should be a minimum of 5 comments from your character and strongly showcase your character's voice.
PLAYER
Name Your handle.
Are you 18 or older? Yes/No
Contact How you prefer to be contacted, whether by email, plurk, pm, or other.
Current character Any characters currently in-game.
APPLICATION CODE
Peter B. Parker / Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse | Reserved
Name Peter B. Parker | Spider-Man
Canon Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Age 38
Birthright Jewel Sapphire
Dreams made flesh He'll ask that when it's all over to 1) be sent back to the time and place he left, and 2) to be sent back with some kind of spell or magic or tech device that lets him travel between worlds without causing damage to their boundaries, just so he can visit his otherdimensional spider-buddies. If she can't provide that, he won't ask for anything else because helping a world not die - and/or helping all the people who signed on to stop it - is just the right thing to do.
Canon point Peter was pulled from the climax of the movie, right when Miles Morales puts the goober in the super-collider's controls and regains control of the beam so the different Spider-people can be sent back to their home dimensions.
Canon Powers Oh boy, here we go.
I'm going with a basic Spider-Man power set, with the strength limits determined by the feats displayed by Peter and his dimensional alternate from Miles' universe. Peter B. and the other Peter were treated as if they were identical other than age and eye and hair color, so I'm going with the idea that they have the same powers.
Superhuman strength: Though it's not at Superman levels, the alternate Peter was shown holding onto two city buses dangling off a bridge at the same time, and Peter is likely at the same level of strength (though it'd be a touch harder for him due to his age). With his sapphire jewel, I figure a feat like that will now be just slightly easier - difficult, but no longer something that pushes him to his absolute limits. Rather than being able to lift a car over his head without much difficulty, now he could maybe manage a city bus even if it'd be still be a big exertion.
Sixth sense ("spider-sense"): Peter has a sixth sense that warns him that danger is approaching. After 22 years of having this power, he's very good at instinctively reacting to it to dodge incoming attacks and even to simply sense the approach of people who mean him harm. He can use this to judge the severity of the threat and sometimes the exact person that's a threat, but not what the actual threat is. If a threat is severe enough, this tingling can be almost painful and can cause Peter to dodge or move away from the threat reflexively.
With his sapphire, this sense will be even more sensitive, which can be useful in perceiving more subtle threats, but will be offset by being oversensitive at times, causing him to reflexively move even if he wants to stay still. This can be little embarrassing or can even be used against him to get him to move in a predictable way that lets him get tagged because of dodging right into a second blow.
Perfect balance and equilibrium: Peter has the unconscious ability to maintain perfect balance and equilibrium no matter what position he's in. This gives him the freedom to mouth off to bad guys and distract them while he's fighting, without losing his own concentration.
Superhuman speed and agility: Peter isn't as fast as a speedster but has superhuman speed and agility, allowing him to perform feats of extreme athleticism beyond the skill of a baseline human gymnast. I figure the sapphire will let him go to greater extremes but still well below the ability of a speedster. A very skilled baseline human fighter could still manage to get the occasional hit in.
Wall-clinging: Peter can cling to walls like a spider, allowing him to scuttle over most surfaces. This includes more than just crawling: he has enough core strength to walk up and down vertical surfaces like he's simply walking across the ground.
Healing Factor: Peter has a mild healing factor that allows him to heal from injuries faster than the average human. In canon, he's shown being dragged for blocks by a train and slamming into cars and road signs. Afterward his severe bruises and swollen eye gradually clear up over the space of a conversation (though he needed to eat a huge meal afterward).
I figure Peter's healing will be slightly ramped up, with him able to heal from minor bruises in minutes and more severe soft tissue injuries within an hour. Serious injuries like being stabbed might take days. He wouldn't heal fast enough to survive a fatal injury (like a stab wound to a major artery) without medical intervention of some kind, though the healing factor could help it slightly heal faster after it's stabilized.
A major weakness to Peter's powers would be his insane need for calories. Peter overeats slightly because he's depressed but his base caloric intake is genuinely pretty huge compared to a normal human. With that as a starting point, the increased calorie needs from his jewel will stack on top, making it so Peter needs to eat nearly constantly. While the initial acts of physical abilities (or large uses of magic) might make him more powerful than in canon, the trade off is a greater vulnerability to collapsing from weakness and hunger after exertion, and greater risk of having his body cannibalize itself.
Personality "Alright, people, let's do this one last time..."
When Peter was sixteen years old, he was granted superpowers by the bite of a radioactive spider, and he's spent the last 22 years helping people as Spider-Man - and receiving more than one person's share of hard knocks.
Selflessness: After losing his uncle to the actions of a robber Peter could have stopped, he dedicated himself to his uncle's lesson: "With great power comes great responsibility." He's spent most of teen years and all of his adult life responsibly using his superpowers to protect other people from an assortment of supervillains, criminals, and other dangers. He often carries his selflessness to profound extremes, causing him to very casually take on risk if it'll help protect others. In situations where someone has to potentially sacrifice their life to save others, he's often the first to volunteer.
Compassion: Though the years and some hard times have caused him to get more cynical and hard, the person who cares deeply about the people around him is still there just underneath, easily provoked into peeking out. Recent events in his canon have especially helped shake off the jaded outer crust, woken up Peter's compassion again, and helped him reconnect with the world around him.
When he's not being old man cranky, he can be very gentle, nurturing, and supportive to others, with a sense of empathy honed by years of occasional hardship. He also takes it extremely hard anytime he can't save someone, though he's learned over the years how to move on from painful moments like these - enough to be able to offer comfort to others when they face similar grief.
Humility: Despite all his extraordinary acts of selflessness, Peter thinks he's an ordinary person and that anyone could get behind the mask and be a hero - he was just the one that happened to get bit by the spider. He's usually blind to how exceptional a person he is, never quite able to see himself the way others often see him. Due to being slightly neurotic and caught in a stage of his life where he's been a bit beaten down, it's even more difficult for him to see himself in a particularly positive light. Fundamentally, Peter believes acts of kindness and heroism should be pretty much par for the course as normal human decency.
Determination: Peter is incredibly tough and determined. In a long life of crimefighting, danger, and stress, it was a mix of injury, money troubles, the loss of his beloved Aunt May, and his recent divorce from Mary Jane that caused him to finally break down a little. Before that, he spent a lifetime getting back up every time he was knocked down and part of why he's lasted so long as a hero is that he's incredibly scrappy and adaptable.
Brains: Another reason he's lasted so long as a hero is because he's a genius. Skilled in mechanical engineering, chemistry (his specialty and what his degrees are in), biology, mathematics, and even some physics and computer science, Peter is something of a multi-disciplinarian when it comes to the sciences - mostly by necessity - and this has served him well in his superheroing career.
His science skills were good enough that he was able to design his webshooters and web fluid when he was just 16. The web fluid is particularly impressive, an industrial-strength adhesive stronger than steel that dissolves without a trace after 1 hour.
Sass: "Don't watch the mouth, watch the hands."
Another thing that's helped him survive so long is his big mouth. Half defense mechanism, half offense mechanism, Peter pretty much never shuts up. As his natural equilibrium means he can run his mouth during fights without losing concentration, this gift of gab is partly to entertain himself and partly to distract his enemies. He he often uses his words to goad his enemies and provoke them into getting sloppy or falling into traps he's set.
But the endless chattering and sarcasm can't entirely cover up the...
Depression: Money trouble and injuries wore him down, and Aunt May's death and the divorce nearly broke him, reducing him to a deeply depressed state where he was often too depressed to get out of bed. (He was even crying and eating pizza in the shower in full Spider-Man costume.)
In the course of the movie's events, he was a little overly willing to sacrifice his life to shut down the dimensional super-collider, even trying to do so after Miles Morales demonstrated that he was ready to fight Kingpin and shut down the collider on his own after sending Peter home. Miles had to physically disable Peter and force him to push through his fear of going home and messing his life up again.
Peter is from juuuust before that canon point, though, so while he made great strides in the movie, he hasn't quite had that come-to-God moment where he's ready to face his fears, go home, and try to fix his messed up life and relationships.
Through the course of the game I'd like to have him continue the process started in the movie of connecting with other people again, fighting through his depression to a healthier state of mind, and rekindling the old fires of idealism and empathy that got covered with a jaded crust. Meeting Miles and the others changed him and reminded him why he became Spider-Man, but fixing himself is still going to take time and hard work, especially since he's fallen into bad habits of not even bothering with any self-care (hence his sloppy appearance and slobby manners).
Peter will ultimately answer the call to help the game universe to prolong his avoidance of his old, broken life, and the game may introduce new troubles and hardships he has to fight through, but at some point Peter needs to stop running from his problems and fully pick himself up off the mat.
History
Movie Wiki
Peter's background is mostly a pastiche of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies and classic comic book stuff. Beyond him facing his usual rogue's gallery, fighting evil blah blah blah, the only events that really stand out from his personal history in the movie are Peter breaking his back, Peter getting hit in the face with a drone (which may be the cause of the crooked nose that his dimensional alternate doesn't have), Aunt May's death (most likely of old age), and his estrangement and divorce from MJ because he wasn't ready to have kids.
SAMPLES
Network Sample
"There’s always a little bit of time before everybody dies, and that’s when I do my best work."
Log Sample
"Step Six: I grab a bagel from the cafeteria and run."
PLAYER
Name Korel
Are you 18 or older? Yes
Contact PM and Plurk
Current character Nope.
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