[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Shaz
AGE: 23
JOURNAL: scissorbite
IM: aim - shiny effin curls
E-MAIL: please ask
RETURNING: --



[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Quinlan Vos
FANDOM: Star Wars
CHRONOLOGY: At the end of Clone Wars: Volume 8 - before the execution of Order 66.
CLASS: Hero or Villain, Anti-Hero or Mass Murdering Psychopath, or just pretending to be one while really acting like the other? Will they keep their dog tags, or will they strike out on their own?
SUPERHERO NAME: Your character will be asked to keep a secret identity, but whether they keep to it or not, other Capes will be calling them by their super alias when it’s given out.
ALTER EGO: Your character’s civilian name and job!

BACKGROUND:
What is your character’s world like? What is their role in it? In what major canon events did your character play a part, how did your character affect these events, and vice versa? If applicable, what important relationships do they have with other characters in this series?

This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from, so please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.

PERSONALITY:
What is your character like, in at least two paragraphs? What are their dreams, their fears, their general quirks and the issues that make them, them, and does their personality shift in any way after or before the point you are taking them from? If they are from a different or alternate universe, or if their personality radically shifts due to events during the point in time that you are taking them from, how is their new personality different from their normal one?

POWER:
What is/are your character’s superpower(s)? If they have abilities in their canon source, please list them here. If they do not, please create some! Every character brought into the City must have at least one power, though this may be as useful or as useless as you wish. Please indicate which abilities are canon for your character and which are not.

Additionally, each character is permitted an upper limit of three separate powers. At our discretion, we may request that you reduce, readjust, or otherwise redefine your character’s powers in order to acclimate more readily to the game setting. Characters from more Eastern-style sources are to have their powers adapted to a Western setting – for example, characters from the series “Naruto” would turn their most prominent ninjutsu into the super-powers they receive upon arriving here.



[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: How your character will be addressing the game at large. This sample should follow the same rough format as Cape&Cowl proper — a first-person, text/audio/video-based, intentional post to an internet community. Preferably more than a paragraph in length, this sample is to show us your character's unique voice. If you can make us laugh or outright scare the pants off us, you’re doing a good job!

LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: The name of the game is introspection, folks. This sample will both showcase how you will play in the logs community, and how well you understand your character’s motivations, hopes, dreams, quirks, etc. This sample should be a bit longer than your first, and, again, make us cry, make us laugh, or make us never want to meet your character in a back alley and you’re doing a good job!

A note: In the cases of both first person and third person samples, we do NOT accept links to samples written at other games. If, however, you are a returning player applying for a character that you have played previously at Cape&Cowl, you are allowed to link to posts made by that character in this game.



FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? This field is optional.

A bizarre and incongruous mix of history and sci-fi: old-style Venetian architecture complete with canals but with CPU control panels hidden in bricks in the wall. An AI computer host helps to run the city and citizens can reprogram bits of the buildings and change the weather and things. Occasionally the AI fucks things up and it’s like WHOOPS VIRUS and a mini-event like bodyswap or something is triggered. The city canal water level rises whenever there’s a glitch or virus and everything floods.


The canal water itself is full of security programs designed to look like sharks that prevent people from swimming in the canal and trying to get under the city (strictly forbidden).


The AI that runs the city is a broken but earnest program called Brian (originally called Brain but her name corruption reflects how faulty her coding has become). She welcomes new arrivals and is slowly coding everyone that has ever existed in space and time in order to import them in to the city. Unlike other games where individuals seem to appear in a new place without their canonmates, Brian is quick to reassure all new arrivals that their friends and family will arrive ‘shortly’. Unfortunately, shortly could be anything between a few hours or a few millennia. Lots of things seem to go wrong in the city and invariably they are ALL Brian’s fault, but she’s so well-meaning and apologetic that it’s hard to be angry with her for very long.


Brian created the city back in the 15th century and the complex is an actual physical place: located in the depths of the Mediterranean sea, Brian has been carefully coding the city to the best of her abilities for hundreds of years. The best of Brian’s abilities aren’t that great: the city, much like the real Venice, is a crumbling, decaying wreck. Certain areas are better than others – these are the more desirable places to live in as the code is easier to be edited by citizens and has great potential. On the other end of the spectrum are the ‘badcode’ areas – sections of the city that are darker and more rundown than other districts and are generally thought to be the slum areas.


Brian pretty much sucks and is really useless but she tries so hard to help! She actively encourages all new citizens to edit the buildings to suit their needs but unfortunately a lot of the exterior coding of the buildings was never very secure to begin with and is constantly falling down. A lot of the coding is so botched that it can’t be repaired without restarting the entire city so the outside facades of buildings generally retain their old Venetian style – it’s the insides of the building that are really open for editing (apart from in the badcode areas, where you would struggle to change the colour of the walls). The only thing that cannot be edited on purpose is the floor level/water level elements of the environment: nothing can be edited beneath these are going under the city is strictly forbidden. No basements or cellars are allowed and no swimming in the canals (as previously mentioned) is a firmly upheld law.


The only other things that can’t be edited are the inhabitants. No one has control over person-codes as they are safely kept in something called the Source Code. When people appear in the city their individual person codes have finally been calibrated and are now active in the source code repository (Brian’s code is also stored there). When a character is dropped the in-game reason is that their individual code needs to be recalibrated and has been removed from the Source Code – Brian will reassure their friends that they will return as soon as it has been recalibrated, but unfortunately they may not retain any changes to the code (such as memories) that took place in the city. Brian has limited power over individual citizen’s codes: he can temporarily affect individuals or limit their movements by way of punishment but the code soon reverts to its previous status. Individuals who have been caught attacking others, for example, may find their movements restricted to a badcode area or that they temporarily lose a sense (sight, for example). These punishments do not last longer than a few days.