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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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Character Name: Abriel Nei Debrusc Borl Paryun Lafiel (Abriel Lafiel, since Abh all have tl;dr names)
Canon: Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars/Seikai trilogy. Specifically the manga version, but there's not too much difference between novels/anime/manga besides 'how much was adapted'.
Reference Link: http://seikai.wikia.com/wiki/Abriel_Lafiel

Character History: Lafiel was born into the ruling family of the Abh, genetically-engineered humans that have conquered half the galaxy. Her father has an interesting sense of humor (read: is a bit of a troll) who traumatized her by telling her that he used the cat's genes to conceive her (this is taboo, but not actually impossible for Abh science). Lafiel proved to be a prodigy pilot, but had trouble making deep friendships because everyone knew she could be empress someday.

When Lafiel was completing her pilot's training, her ship (captained by her mother) was called to escort a nobleman's son to the capital for school. Enter Jinto, whose dad sold out his planet to the Abh when Jinto was a kid. Jinto had no clue how to be a proper Abh noble. Lafiel actually liked that he didn't know much (when she wasn't frustrated by it), because Jinto was the first non-family member who formed an opinion of her without knowing she was a princess.

Anyway, the other big human civilizations decided that shooting down Lafiel's mom's ship in a SNEAK ATTACK! was the best way to start a war and wipe the pretty space elf menace out. Lafiel is ordered to get the civilians (read: Jinto) to safety. This happens… eventually, after lots of people try to capture and/or kill them. Lafiel gets quite attached to Jinto as they work together to not get captured/killed and promises him that when he graduates and she gets a captaincy, he can be her supply officer.

This happens three years later. Lafiel gets command of a small ship and has to actually make commander-type decisions. Jinto, in addition to being supply officer, ends up as her moral support. The rest of Lafiel's crew finds this amusing, as Lafiel is a bit intimidating and Jinto is… well, not.

Lafiel's first command ends with a battle in which her ship is destroyed defending a strategic spot -- Lafiel, Jinto and Jinto's cat barely make it to the escape pods. The next mission we see involves Lafiel having to set up a colonial government on a newly-captured prison planet… and then evacuate the population, deal with a revolt, and temporarily leave Jinto (who was a hostage in the revolt and then went out of contact when he escaped) missing on the surface while an enemy fleet is prowling the area.

After all that excitement, Jinto takes some extended leave to go see about visiting his homeworld, which was recently reconquered. Lafiel offers to accompany him, partly because she likes him, and partly because Jinto's track record for walking into situations where people might want to shoot at him isn't good.

Personality: Lafiel was raised knowing she'd be in a position of power. Her family has a reputation for not crying, for instance, because an Empress who cries for one citizen must cry for everyone. So Lafiel's default-to-strangers face is usually polite, serious or annoyed. She's not a very warm person in general, though she can get attached, even strongly, to friends, crew and family.

Lafiel is also a very proud person. She's generally confident, occasionally to the point of impulsiveness, and will fake confidence when she does get worried. She also can and does hold a grudge and doesn't mind being lethal about it if she feels like the offense calls for that response. Given that the Abh generally assume anything severe enough to be a crime is severe enough that you are wasting oxygen and food by continuing to live, this can discomfort non-Abh. Actually, she can be vengeful and generally scary if you touch her precious people.

Lafiel took quite well to the military; she despises servility, and isn't terribly fond of her duties as princess. She's far more comfortable with the hierarchy of the military (where officers are required to only be insane in ways that do not interfere with their duties) than the nobility. She also finds diplomacy tiresome and generally will start cutting people off or bossing them around when pressed. She's capable of making tough decisions about her subordinates, and even her loved ones, even if the decisions tear her heart out.

If you do get into Lafiel's good graces, expect some teasing and some prickliness, but a lot of genuine warmth and loyalty. While she has enough of duty drummed into her that she's not prone to needless self-sacrifice, she will pull every string and push every limit she has to help someone she cares about.

Writing Sample: http://entanglement-rp.dreamwidth.org/66433.html?thread=2331265#cmt2331265
http://entanglement-rp.dreamwidth.org/78282.html#comments
http://entanglemessages.dreamwidth.org/49473.html?thread=563521#cmt563521

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