Alright, I made this is two sittings, and I'm never quite as confident when I have to do that, but hopefully everything's up to snuff. Doesn't really need to be said, but critique is welcome.
Name: Sarah Blaise
Alias in the DgtWld: Serenade
Age: 23
Average Appearance:Corrector Appearance:Weapon of Choice: Spear, as in the picture.
Serenade is a lancer, and specializes in combat using a large two-handed cross-spear, which she considers a versatile and well-rounded weapon. Her seniority has ensured that she is updated frequently, and over time she has developed the ability to create smaller spears and javelins, as well as other polearms such as halberds or tridents (though making anything particularly exotic requires a decent amount of time and mental fortitude.) As she gained experience, her defenses improved and she became more capable of defending her comrades. She has learned tactics and stances that minimize the damage done to her or her teammates, and has developed into sort of a 'tank' role as her fighting style evolved, though she can also perform as a heavy attacker. Despite her purported versatility, however, she has not trained her speed, and because of the weight of her weapons, she often puts herself in the way of danger, and has a difficult time running from an attack or a group of enemies.
Cell Phone: (Couldn't find a good picture of what I imagined)Sarah's cell phone is nothing particularly new or exciting. It has a flat touchscreen interface that networks with a pair of visor-like glasses that she wears, sending data to be streamed right in front of her eyes, when she's not completely immersed in Cnnt.
Personality: + Loyal -- Sticks with her friends and unflinchingly follows orders
+ Agreeable -- Likes people and is friendly toward strangers
+ Impassive -- Doesn't react strongly to things, allowing calm thought in any situation
+ Tenacious -- Pursues any goals she sets for herself until they are completed, no matter how big or small.
- Quiet -- Tends not to speak unless it's necessary (communicates in other ways when possible)
- Oblivious -- Often gets lost in thought, tends to stop paying attention if something doesn't hold her interest
Background: Sarah Blaise's parents were not pioneers in child abandonment, but for the first ten years or so of Sarah's life they would prove to be heavy contenders in that field. Not for lack of love or lack of effort, it simply seemed that one or both of them were always at work. Adult life is hard, Sarah was taught, and things didn't always work out the way you wanted them to. With no other frame of reference, the young child accepted this as simply the norm, and quickly grew to near-independance. She walked to her nearby school every day in the morning after making her lunch, and was picked up afterward by her mother. After bringing her the short distance home, her mother would leave for her second job and her father would come home, exhausted from his own long work hours. He would prepare and eat dinner, and then sleep for the rest of the evening.
Sarah had always had a cell phone. It was necessary to support her family dynamic. So when the emerging trend of MChips finally reached the shores of Canada, she was one of the first people in the country to latch on to the tech. And when the Canadian Government started to follow the US's example and hire Correctors, she was quickly sought out. Her psych profile fit what they were looking for exactly. Quiet. Loyal. Willing to take on any job for low or no pay. And of course, she never asked any questions. Because of her early enlistment, rather than being paired with a Senior Correcter (since there weren't really any who were more senior) she was put into a small group of novices under the care of a Gvn Agent. After two years, she was the only person in that group to still be willing and able to do the job.
During her five years of service, she has been assigned several novices who grew to be successful in their own right, and she became something of an icon to the Canadian DgtWld users. To those who know about Correctors, including new blood, she is a minor celebrity. Not only that, but her real life appearance is often used as a 'model' for various Canadian-based advertising campaigns as well, especially by the Government. She is recognized for her distinctive headphones - an odd choice of hardware when music can be streamed directly into your brain. While it would be rare to know who exactly she is or what she does, many Canadian DgtWld users would probably know her face. Because of this, Sarah began spending more and more time in the DgtWld, taking as many jobs as she could, and dropping out of school. Her real life time was spent in various Gvn offices doing photoshoots or signing paperwork and release forms, and her time in the DgtWld was spent doing her Corrector work and other odd jobs for the Gvn. Pursuing your career above all else was just the normal course of things, just like Sarah learned when she was young.
Her current life mostly revolves around her duties as a Corrector, tutoring rookies and performing her other tasks as efficiently as she can manage. She lives with her parents still, and in her off hours she tidies the house and makes sure everything runs smoothly. Modelling is mostly her cover job, since her parents don't know about her actual, more dangerous work, and it is the reason they let her drop out of school. She is almost always plugged into her music, and while she doesn't have a specific genre preference, she often uses it as a sort of emotional regulator. Her own dulled emotions respond the greatest to musical stimulus, so she relies on that same stimulus when she needs to feel a certain way. This is the reason that her Avatar wears headphones as well.
She has been called into Tokyo for work, and with her flight expenses paid, her parents had little say in stopping her (and they might not have even noticed her absence if she hadn't said anything.) All of her stuff was shipped to a luxury hotel in Tokyo and it serves as her base of operations for now.
Do you want our characters to already know each other? Yeah, or at least assume they've already been introduced. Awkward introductions slow the beginning pace of an RP, and I think more people drop during this time than most other times.
Do you often frequent an OOC of a RP you're in? Pretty much whenever I'm online. Making long posts takes time, but just chatting the OOC is a good way to keep people interested and reassure them that we're still active.
How active can you see yourself being in this RP? A post every couple of days, probably. My work schedule's fickle, but I can usually give warning if I'm going to be away for a week (and it usually is just a week at a time.) If I'm at work it might be one post a week, but I'm pretty open to other people taking over my character if I'm not around, either to get her out of the way, or to polish off an interaction they might be stuck in.
Any questions you have for me?Not that I can think of. I'm the type to figure things out by doing them, so I'll pick it up as I go.
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Future Genres: I'm pretty cool with whatever happens down the line. If you think you have a good reason to make a genre shift, I'm open to it. But I don't think I'd like to see something shoehorned in. Especially post-apoc. Frankly, there's too many samey post-apoc stories in advanced for my tastes and - like anything overused - I'm not super hype about the idea. That said, if that's the turn it happens to take, and we take a logical path in that direction, I'll be happy enough.
Post Frequency: As much as maybe twice a day, and my minimum is probably closer to twice a week. I work shifts and contracts, so I can't honestly promise anything more specific than that. If I don't work on a given day, I'll be happy to post as many times as needed. But if I have work throughout the whole week, I don't necessarily have time to post every day. For the immediate future, I don't work until much closer to the end of the month, so you can expect a strong start from me.
Post Amount: Unless I'm really pressured to squeeze something out in a time limit, I like to post several paragraphs (
This is a pretty good example of my average I think.) I'll match and/or try to slightly exceed what's presented to me though. If everyone writes 9 pages, I can match that without much trouble. But if everyone's posting 2-3 paragraphs, well, of course it becomes hard to keep up, and I'm forced to slim down my word count.
