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Player Name: Chris E-mail: wildwolf_407@yahoo.com Preferred Contact: Plurk-- ruingaraf Timezone: Eastern Current Characters in Victory Road: Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear).
Character Name: Sunny Gurlukovich Series: Metal Gear Timeline: Pre-MGS4 Canon Resource Links:here, listed under Sunny Emmerich because she's officially adopted by Otacon later down the timeline.
Personality:
As a disclaimer, Sunny is six years old. Her personality, therefore, is not immensely complicated, and this will be a short application.
That said, Sunny is a fairly remarkable six year old, given that she was held hostage from birth by what is pretty much the in-universe equivalent of the Illuminati until about the age of four (the canon timeline is vague). During her time with the Patriots, she was used as a computer programmer, and was kept entirely socially isolated. Yes, you read that correctly, computer programmer. Sunny is beyond a prodigy with computers, and also presumably in general, since she would've had to have learned to read at an absurdly early age. Honestly, I headcanon that she's something like machine code bilingual because it makes slightly more sense.
But I digress. The point is this: Sunny is unbelievably smart. But she has no social skills. In fact, Sunny is debilitatingly shy. Due to spending the first half of her life as a hostage sitting in front of a computer, and the other half seeing the exactly two (2) people who rescued her and kept her in a helicarrier for her own safety, she has zero experience with people or the outside world. As a result, she has a pretty pronounced stutter, and isn't very good with new people. Still, Sunny is a good kid. In fact, she's the in-universe Incorruptible Pure Pureness, and is symbolically representative of the next generation wiping away the sins of their parents, while carrying on the memes worth keeping. And, she saves the world with a badass computer virus this way and destroys the Patriots' AIs (and thus effectively the Patriots) forever.
But she hasn't done that from the canonpoint I'm taking her. Her in-game character arc goes from her being a shy kid who's never seen the outside world to someone who's losing her stutter and embracing life outside. So, while I could take her postgame, I'm not going to in order to have that development here in Johto! Horraaaay!
So she's basically a shy, innocent kid with a heart of gold. What a model person, with no time to be corrupted by the terrible universe she lives in.
PRIMARY MOTIVATION: Sunny is an altruist and wants to make the world a better place, but even more than that she wants to protect those close to her. Because her guardians lead very dangerous lives, she does a lot of worrying, and tries to help them in whatever little ways she can (like a sincerely misguided attempt at cooking). Anyone else she meets and likes will quickly fall into the same category. She's a lover, not a fighter, and is generally adverse to violence and conflict.
STRENGTHS - Kind - Selfless - Determined - Mature-ish for her age (although she is definitely still six)
WEAKNESSES - Shy - Emotional - Stubborn-- can be surprisingly obstinate when she puts her foot down. - Cannot cook but will make you eat her burnt eggs anyway
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Breeder! She's going to raise all the baby Pokemon. Starter: Rotom, female, "Tess" after Nikola Tesla. Sunny's Pokemon are going to have an interesting mixture of nerdy engineering names and stupid six year old names. Password: Atomic Fireball
[enjoy a little girl that doesn't look a day over ten on your feed, fidgeting as she tries to figure out what to say. a Rotom flies around her head, but she pays it little mind.]
T-this is an open n-network, right? I-I've been listening in. A-and I think I must be dreaming, b-because this place is weird, a-and that wasn't my mom. B.. but, maybe I'm n-n-not. So... c-can anyone help me find U-uncle Hal? Or Snake? Uncle Hal has b-brown hair and glasses. S-sometimes people call him 'Otacon'. S-snake has grey hair and looks kind of s-scary, but he's not.
If anyone s-sees them, m-message me, okay? Thank you!
You're almost there!! But before we make our final decision on your application, we would like a revised personality section for Sunny.
While the brevity of the app is certainly understandable, considering the age of the character you're applying, we'd like to see just a bit more in terms of using canon examples to supplement the traits displayed! For instance, you highlight Sunny's purity; are there moments in the game in which her purity stands out to other members of the cast or the player? We'd like to see you dedicate just a bit more time to highlighting these aspects of the character!
You'll have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.
you know, actually, the fact that I owe both this and like nine tags and have owed them for a week is a sign I should not be picking up another character at all!
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indigo_league) wrote2016-05-03 09:48 pm
APPLICATIONS!
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Name: Chris
E-mail: wildwolf_407@yahoo.com
Preferred Contact: Plurk-- ruingaraf
Timezone: Eastern
Current Characters in Victory Road: Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear).
Character
Name: Sunny Gurlukovich
Series: Metal Gear
Timeline: Pre-MGS4
Canon Resource Links: here, listed under Sunny Emmerich because she's officially adopted by Otacon later down the timeline.
Personality:
As a disclaimer, Sunny is six years old. Her personality, therefore, is not immensely complicated, and this will be a short application.
That said, Sunny is a fairly remarkable six year old, given that she was held hostage from birth by what is pretty much the in-universe equivalent of the Illuminati until about the age of four (the canon timeline is vague). During her time with the Patriots, she was used as a computer programmer, and was kept entirely socially isolated. Yes, you read that correctly, computer programmer. Sunny is beyond a prodigy with computers, and also presumably in general, since she would've had to have learned to read at an absurdly early age. Honestly, I headcanon that she's something like machine code bilingual because it makes slightly more sense.
But I digress. The point is this: Sunny is unbelievably smart. But she has no social skills. In fact, Sunny is debilitatingly shy. Due to spending the first half of her life as a hostage sitting in front of a computer, and the other half seeing the exactly two (2) people who rescued her and kept her in a helicarrier for her own safety, she has zero experience with people or the outside world. As a result, she has a pretty pronounced stutter, and isn't very good with new people. Still, Sunny is a good kid. In fact, she's the in-universe Incorruptible Pure Pureness, and is symbolically representative of the next generation wiping away the sins of their parents, while carrying on the memes worth keeping. And, she saves the world with a badass computer virus this way and destroys the Patriots' AIs (and thus effectively the Patriots) forever.
But she hasn't done that from the canonpoint I'm taking her. Her in-game character arc goes from her being a shy kid who's never seen the outside world to someone who's losing her stutter and embracing life outside. So, while I could take her postgame, I'm not going to in order to have that development here in Johto! Horraaaay!
So she's basically a shy, innocent kid with a heart of gold. What a model person, with no time to be corrupted by the terrible universe she lives in.
PRIMARY MOTIVATION: Sunny is an altruist and wants to make the world a better place, but even more than that she wants to protect those close to her. Because her guardians lead very dangerous lives, she does a lot of worrying, and tries to help them in whatever little ways she can (like a sincerely misguided attempt at cooking). Anyone else she meets and likes will quickly fall into the same category. She's a lover, not a fighter, and is generally adverse to violence and conflict.
STRENGTHS
- Kind
- Selfless
- Determined
- Mature-ish for her age (although she is definitely still six)
WEAKNESSES
- Shy
- Emotional
- Stubborn-- can be surprisingly obstinate when she puts her foot down.
- Cannot cook but will make you eat her burnt eggs anyway
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder! She's going to raise all the baby Pokemon.
Starter: Rotom, female, "Tess" after Nikola Tesla. Sunny's Pokemon are going to have an interesting mixture of nerdy engineering names and stupid six year old names.
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: here
Victory Road Sample:
H-hi! U-um.
[enjoy a little girl that doesn't look a day over ten on your feed, fidgeting as she tries to figure out what to say. a Rotom flies around her head, but she pays it little mind.]
T-this is an open n-network, right? I-I've been listening in. A-and I think I must be dreaming, b-because this place is weird, a-and that wasn't my mom. B.. but, maybe I'm n-n-not. So... c-can anyone help me find U-uncle Hal? Or Snake? Uncle Hal has b-brown hair and glasses. S-sometimes people call him 'Otacon'. S-snake has grey hair and looks kind of s-scary, but he's not.
If anyone s-sees them, m-message me, okay? Thank you!
REVISIONS
While the brevity of the app is certainly understandable, considering the age of the character you're applying, we'd like to see just a bit more in terms of using canon examples to supplement the traits displayed! For instance, you highlight Sunny's purity; are there moments in the game in which her purity stands out to other members of the cast or the player? We'd like to see you dedicate just a bit more time to highlighting these aspects of the character!
You'll have one week to complete these requests before the character is available again.
Re: REVISIONS
thank you anyway!