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CONTACT/TEAM PREFERENCES

A comment separate from your app with your name, email, and team preferences. Making it a separate comment lets us keep it screened, thus keeping your team preferences private.

For the time zone field, feel free to make a note if working bizarre hours makes you effectively on a different time zone than stated.

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THE APP

Character Name: self-explanatory
Canon: If the canon has multiple versions, please be specific.
Reference Link: A wiki link is preferable, but anything that has a summary of the canon works. If there is no picture on your link, please provide a reference picture as well. If there is really nothing to link, write a short (no more than 200 words) description of the canon and character appearance.

Character History: A brief summary of your character's background. Only the highlights, please! This section should not be more than 300 words long.
Personality: Can be longer than the history, if necessary, but again, please try to be succinct.

Writing Sample: For this section, you have two choices:

1. Fill out an IC survey (copypaste below)
2. Write a first or third person sample on the subject of your choice. (~300-500 words)

C&P

THE SURVEY

REAPPS

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Character Name:
IC day they were dropped:
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- It's light 24/7
- Subjects live in solitary Relaxation Vaults
- You were testing one specific product (the product will be provided when your app is accepted)
- You probably saw these two bozos running around

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character Name: Echo
Canon: Dollhouse
Reference Link: At the Dollhouse wiki!

Character History:
Echo's history, by and large, begins with Eleanor Penn. It's sometime during or shortly before the Cristejo engagement that Echo begins to become self-aware and remember bits and pieces of engagements. For example, at the end of 1x02 "The Target," she performs the gesture the client had when referring to his life mantra, 'shoulder to the wheel.' Before that self-awareness, she had been a doll, a fully-programmable 'person' who can be imprinted with different personalities for various clients of the Dollhouse. Often, she's imprinted for romantic engagements, where she's essentially programmed to love the client. On other occasions, she's imprinted with a task of some kind, such as 'protect the client at all costs' in the case of 1x03 "Stage Fright" or, in many romance engagements, to love the client above all else. However, early on, Echo displayed some signs of being 'special' in that she thought outside of the box in regards to those tasks.

When Alpha breaks into the Dollhouse for the first time, he ends up dumping all of Echo's imprints into her, trying to make a composite like himself. While she does become a composite of sorts, she doesn't adopt the same superiority complex as him; instead of seeing the extra minds as a reason to feel superior, she uses the extra skillets to help others. After defending her house multiple times from outside threats, Echo meets Bennett, an old friend of Caroline's who tortures Echo for that resemblance to Caroline. In the process of this torture, Bennett gives Echo a memory of Caroline, which triggers Echo's ability to control the imprints at will, albeit incredibly shakily at first. Shortly after, Echo escapes and hitch-hikes to Medina, Texas where she develops these skills further with the help of Paul Ballard. It's only three months, though, before she's brought back to the Dollhouse and faces the threat of Alpha again. However, her canon point is just before she enters the memory-wiping room of Topher's lab. As a reference, Echo will still get headaches if she tries to access too many things at once or too quickly.

Personality:
Separate from the 36+ imprints in her head, Echo does have her own personality that isn't just the innocent, child-like doll state. Instead, she's grown from that blank slate she was meant to be. At first, it was small things, recognizing others, but grew much more into a deep, unbridled passion to help others. She goes out of her way to help others who desperately need it, especially other Actives such as Victor/Anthony and Sierra/Priya. Another example is Joel Mynor, who Echo early on wants to finish her engagement with so he can have his happy ending as well as later on when she learns he's in danger. She respects many of the imprints lingering in her mind and, if she can, she'll fulfill their wishes, but not at cost to herself. Over time, Echo has developed a distinct sense of self-preservation This not only involves the ability to lie to the others' faces and altogether pretend she's still memoryless and blank but also worrying about what Caroline taking her body might mean. She knows what having Caroline might mean and, logically, she's a little afraid that it might mean the end of her (Echo).

However, this is not to say that Echo lacks assertiveness. She regularly faces down incredible odds with determination and ingenuity, especially once she starts to control the personalities better. When in danger, Echo's just as capable as witty one-liners as others and has learned over time other mannerisms such as the occasional sarcasm and a more and more developed sense of humor. Still, Echo is more serious and reserved than a wise-cracking, pun-wielding type. There's a time and a place for joking and Echo's time and place usual revolves around the company. If she's with someone (or someones) she trusts, she's more likely to make jokes and really be herself.

Writing Sample:
Sometimes remembering to breathe was the hard part. Cycling through personalities and letting them flow through her had slowly become easier and easier, but sometimes the essentials get lost in the mix. Come on, Echo she'd tell herself underneath the din of the extra voices all trying to talk at once, how could you forget how to breathe? Still, as Roma Klar clicked back into her place in the back of Echo's mind, Echo took a deep breath and straightened and pressed her hands around the digital lock on the door. Alright, she'd seen something like this before, shouldn't be too hard.

Looked like there was a place to pop open the box underneath if she could find something to pry it open with. Her fingers won't do the trick here. Quickly, she patted herself down, trying to find something possibly in the pockets of her uniform. Underwire, she'd used that before, she'd just need to get the underwire out without being ogled by any of her teammates. After all, she didn't know them, didn't know if she could trust them, but she knew she had to get them out of here. Seeing them hurt or seeing them in pain just made her feel almost incompetent. She could help them, she could save them from this place if she could find a way out.

For now, though, she needed to figure out the lock and get them to the next stage of the test in order to try and prevent any of them from getting hurt again; if she was fast enough, strong enough, then she could get the necessary points to survive here. Survival, it seemed so far, was the best they could really do so far.

"Keep an eye on the door and I'll get this open," she spoke quickly and effectively, no time for keeping up the innocent, blank state she'd been trying for the past couple weeks. She needed to get them out of there and, well, maybe the cat was out of the bag now, but their lives were more important than her secret. Maybe she could help more if they knew what she could do.

CONGRATULATIONS.
Your application to be a test candidate for the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center has been accepted.

Join the main comm (

enrichment_center) and OOC comm (

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Apps

Echo - Dollhouse

ACCEPTED