Aemeath2501

What is your Minecraft account name? Aemeath2501 What is your age? (Be truthful, we do not discriminate based on age) 20 What timezone do you use? GMT-5:00 What previous experience have you had as a roleplayer? I currently roleplay as Selphie Tilmitt in the Final Fantasy Generations and Final Fantasy Craft minecraft servers, and my dad has taught me a lot about Dungeons and Dragons that he used to play as a teenager. When you think of roleplaying, what comes to mind? Roleplaying conjures the image of creating a new home and name for myself -- I can leave behind temporarily whatever troubles me in my daily life and adopt the best qualities of my own personality. I believe that people tend to rp as players they relate to, and amplify the qualities they see in common between themselves and the persona. Studies have shown that when people read books, they tend to act more like the characters who personify character traits they relate to, empowering people to be the best they can be, even after they've set the book down, or ended their immersion in an rp environment. So for me roleplay isn't just about being this overpowered Mary Sue-type character who is the best human being possible; it's about developing my own strengths and weaknesses as a person through finding the best emotional fit with my character. How did you hear about Gaia Life RPPVP? I heard about this server through various members of the server I call home, Final Fantasy Generations, who've successfully applied. Phrack50, or Reno Sinclair, OwnerofAllGames, or Hubb Lebowski, Bayoshu, and Sagentine all give glowing recommendations of the server. Have you read the basic Gaia Life lore, and hereby swear to abide by it? I have read the lore of the server extensively; I am aware of the conflict between Helios Inc. and Adversum Statum, I've perused the seven races, understand that only certain ones are available to regular members, and I've browsed through the various city descriptions, excited to see them all. Have you the rules governing this server, and understand them? I have read the rules surrounding chest locking - placing a block over the chest on your own property - warfare and declarations of war, consentual pvp, requesting permission to enter someone's property, rules surrounding breaches of property; land scarring, and exterior work. I understand and am happy that insults and any of the "-isms" are not tolerated on this server. To verify that you read the links in this application's intro, please give a brief summary of what they discuss. The first link discusses god-modding, which is generally looked down upon in roleplay servers or environments. It consists of a few things: Making your character too powerful for the rules of the universe so that they're capable of incredible feats without any prior knowledge of the skill, or so that they rarely struggle with any task is god-modding. It can also include putting words in other characters' mouths or making them perform actions to further the god-modder's gameplay. These actions are disruptive to the flow of the narration other characters are trying to create collaboratively, and can make a character "boring and predictable". Meta-gaming is similar to god-modding, in that it involves a character who has advanced knowledge of something in their environment that is not warranted by their character. This out-of-character knowledge can be obtained through a person-to-person conversation outside the roleplay that the character shouldn't know about, but the roleplayer makes their character aware of. In-Character Information Please make sure your character name is something you can live with in-game. Character Name: Silène Messiaen (the accent can be typed with ALT+138, or the ? key on a French keyboard if the name must be set up by a mod; otherwise I'm happy to forgo it) Character Age: 19 Character Race: Human Character Biography and Description: Silène is a young human woman with sandy blonde hair, half-shaved with a long braid hanging down the right side of her body. She is modestly tall with few curves that she hides beneath baggy clothing to keep the seedier denizens of Midgar from noticing. She comes from a middle-class family, her mother working in distribution of newspaper flyers and coupons, and her father a moderately successful composer who makes his living sporadically when his music catches the eye of a patron. Just as her father before her, Silène has a strong passion for music and an appreciation for the arts; she is an adept saxophonist, and is studying to reach even greater heights. However, she struggles with crippling doubts about her playing ability and occasionally breaks down during her private lessons in front of her tutor. She is quite clever, however, and is seen frequently perusing books on the repair of musical instruments, on which she loves to tinker! She aspires to be a music teacher, and perhaps some day a scholar, to pass on her burning enthusiasm to the youth of Midgar. Is this your first attempt with our application? If not, please list other attempts. No, I have applied before, unaware that Weavers were not a races available to members, I wrote my bio and meta responses as a Weaver, until a friend made me aware of this fact last minute. I made really quick changes that were poorly thought out and was rejected, so now I'm taking much more time to make my application thorough. Meta Questions In this section, your character will be placed into a set of hypothetical situations. Please consider your answers carefully. You stumble upon a small group of soldiers, approximately three counted among this group. They are harassing a middle aged street thug about some missing bronze machine parts that have gone missing from a local machine shop. What do you do? Silène becomes quite nervous, having never encountered soldiers before, and cowers back from the shouting match between the two parties. She wonders to herself how she would feel if any of her repair pieces for her instrument went missing, and feels a pang of worry. Slightly paranoid as she is, she speeds up her walk home from her saxophone tutor's residence to count her parts collection. As you are walking down the street, you notice some smugglers moving crates of what is clearly marked as "Ordnance" through an alleyway. The building they are moving said crates into is in-fact the only school in the sector, and if lost, would be irreplaceable. How do you approach the situation? Silène feels immediate panic, noticing the smugglers are skulking around her home high school before she graduated and commenced her private study of music. It's after hours, so there's no way she could phone the school's office and advise them to call the police, so she takes it upon herself to make the call. Dialing on her dated cell phone, her hands start shaking and her voice quavers as she reports the incident to the emergency operator. The woman on the other end of the line speaks with a calm, collected voice, and tells Silène to move away from the danger area, and assures her the authorities are on the way. Silène, still heady from the adrenaline rush in watching what just transpired, wobbles over the threshold of her front door and rushes to tell her parents what happened. Later that night, a news report details the events, saying that a large section of the gymnasium was burnt down due to the explosives, but the school as a whole was safe. Silène breathes a sigh of relief, but feels an inkling of guilt for her former gymnasium. You have been kicked out of your home. As you walk down the street, people and soldiers snicker at you as you pass by. Your own family wont even talk to you or read your messages. Somewhere along the line, you have done something so horrible that society would rather let you live, so that you can serve as a constant reminder of the evil of men. What have you done? Silène has always dreamt of going to a big university in the city to pursue a degree in musical performance and follow in her father's footsteps. However, these dreams are shattered when her applications for a student loan are repeatedly denied and the banks refuse to lend to a young woman with no credit or income. Her parents have enough to worry about in taking a second mortgage out on the house, and can only pay a small portion of the exorbitant fees. Desperate to make money in any way that she can, Silène dons the tight velvet dress she wore for her high school graduation and pulls sweatpants and a baggy tee over top, heading to the seedier part of town to apply at the strip clubs. She's hired simply for her youth, no great looks about her, and a few days in she learns the horrifying truth that the club is merely a guise for an illegal brothel. Working as an "exotic dancer", she pays her way through an exhausting first year, sleeping with mostly off-duty soldiers on leave and cheating husbands, but is forced to drop out when her manager forces her to begin working days. Her parents she through her flimsy excuse that she just wasn't cut out for the university lifestyle, seeing day after day of bags under her eyes and bruises. When Silène finally comes clean, her father kicks her out for being a "disgusting slut" and her mother flees into her room, crying, never imagining the truth could be this bad. The streets are the last place she wants to be, recognised for her form by half the men in the slums, but what else can she do, except head back out onto the streets and face those ghastly people back at the brothel. No one would kill a hooker, she thinks, not even worth the time. A speck of dirt, a foul dreg of society. You're approached by a street thug, clearly much stronger than you are. He demands everything valuable that you're carrying. What do you do? The only possession Silène is carrying on her is her saxophone, a Selmer Mk. 6, strapped to her back in a backpack-like case. She attempts to lie to the man, telling him it's just her school bag and that she has no money on her, being a poor student, but he sees through her guise. For lying, he punches her in the face, dropping Silène to the ground. She clutches the already swelling mark in shock and the thief rips the instrument from its straps, running off before she can react. Silène curls into a ball on the ground and begins to cry spasmodically, unable to comprehend what just happened. Two plumbers walk into a bar and promptly start a fight. What do you do? Silène is a social drinker, and only ever has one or two shots at special occasions when out with friends at their favourite hang, The Fox and the Fiddle. Tonight was different when two burly men began raising their voices over some dispute about a "sexy woman on the tramway". The exchange quickly led to blows, and the sound of breaking glass was audible even over the din of the bar -- these types of exchanges were not unheard of at the FF. Silène suggests to her friends that they leave out the back door, signalling to the barkeep their intentions. Her friend slips him a 50 note to cover the night's drinks and a silent thank-you as the rest clamber down the exit onto the street. Finally... Have you +1'd our modpack on the Technic Platform? Yes, and I have made an account under the same name, Aemeath2501, on the site. Have you posted a copy of this app onto the Technic Forums? You can do this after you submit to make it easier to copy and paste! I will do so after submitting the application.