Hello Everyone
Kinda new around here just looking for some inspiration for an RP character on RD2, There is a form I have to fill out to play and There is a section requiring back story, unfortunately during my last applications process I was denied. I feel I answered all rule based questions correctly so it must have been that my characters backstory was not unique enough and had probably already been done in some way so I have to re apply in 30 days so when I do I want to have a stronger and more Unique backstory fitting the wild west time period for a British male who has landed in the crossing (The fictional location)

@FullInitiation Maybe it'd be a good idea to post the CS/backstory so people have an idea of what you already tried/have to work with.

Can't work off much without the app, chief.

That said I probably wouldn't worry too much about originality, personally. But I don't know the GM or the group or anything. Instead I'd be focused more on how the character reacts to circumstances and how this built them as an individual going in, what flaws they have and would propel them through the plot; consider how these can be resolved and in what way and how these create new conditions to move the character in another way.

But really lacking details on anything over all to say in confidence what you should look at and consider. But if this is reflective of anything, it's that you didn't do a detailed enough character and presented a barely formed mass.

Character Idea:

The British Army sent observers during the civil war. You were sent to observe but got swept up in a whirlwind romance with a southern bell, unfortunately your heart was really with the Union and against orders found yourself giving advice to and then eventually actively leading union troops. This all came to a head and your commanding officer cashiered you for exceeding your orders and teh brothers of your bell found out you were fighting for the union and planned a trap for you using your GF as bait. You showed up and fought it out with the brothers saved from an ambush by your GF warning you at the cost of her own life. Your commission stripped from you, your love dead, you head out for the frontier.

@Sapphira

If we're going with an actual historical direction and not a comparable fiction, then I guess I can have some fun too:

You are a former Chartrist from the West Midlands who owing to political pressures from the government between 1840 and sometime after 1850 have pulled up stakes and left the Black Country for the United States, landing in the East Coast. There you lead a workingman's life. Marry, have a family, and vibe. But at the outbreak of war you are not able to escape the eventual draft and are inevitably picked up by Union Recruiters as a conscript and sent to war where you serve in the Army of the Potomac. Enter some begrudging loathing of the Irish because Anglican-Catholic disputes but you serve valiantly through the war and retire a decorated war hero.

However, because of the retreat of the Southern gentry class from American politics because of the war, and with the west being opened up, you can take your family west, and you strike out to homestead being fed up with the impoverished living of a factory laborer and seeking your own free land in the vast trans-Mississippian interior.

To add more spice: a veteran of the Crimean War and arriving and living in New York City are eventually join the New York British Volunteers, eventually absorbed by the 36th New York. You serve the full two year enlistment, going home just before Gettysburg but not without first bloodying your already colorful reputation by repressing the New York draft riot and eventually retiring westward out of shame.

You might ask yourself what you want to do with that character too.

Then ask yourself is this always what the character wanted to do or is it a new thing? Maybe it's a British soldier who came to America and instead of soldiering now wants to document the birth of a new nation. Maybe your soldier wants to make a fortune off the gold rush. Maybe your character met French fur traders and wants to claim a chunk of that business for Ye Olden Queen Mum.