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Applications
APPLICATIONS
Applications generally always open (unless otherwise announced and noted) and will be processed on a rolling basis, as quickly as possible.
Before applying, please read the FAQ and the Rules. In addition to a lot of other useful information, the Rules page details the caps and restrictions in place for certain character types. Native characters need to conform to Fade Rift's World State and should take a look at the Timeline of major events that have occurred in the game's version of Thedas. You may also want to check out this post about our incorporation of Veilguard canon and characters.
↠ Reserves
↠ Format Notes
↠ Native Application Form
↠ Rifter Application Form
↠ CRAU Application Form
↠ Canon Updates
↠ Apping Previously Played Characters
RESERVES
To reserve a character, you can comment to this page with a blank comment. You'll have one week to edit your comment to link to a completed application. E.g., you can post a blank comment for Dagna at 1 p.m. on June 1 and will have until that same time on June 8 to finish your application and edit the comment to include it. Do not update your comment until your application is complete. Expired reserve comments will be removed after the deadline passes. Consecutive reserves for the same character are not allowed—you must wait at least one week after your reserve expires to reserve the same character a second time.
FORMAT NOTES
Please paste your application into the comment body, rather than linking it. The subject line of your comment should include your character's name and canon (if they have one). Please don't include any images or adjust the app's style—it's plain to make it easy to read. Also, please make sure you're truly finished with your application before you post it; there are no app deadlines to meet so no rush, and we get notifications for every edit you make, which can get annoying very quickly. And note that we do strictly enforce our word count limits, even if you're only a little over!
If you need help with samples, check the the test drive meme for prompts—you're welcome to either link threads or write starters, whichever is easier for you.
NATIVE APPLICATION FORM
PLAYER
Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.
CHARACTER
Name:
Canon/OC:
Journal:
Race:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Division:
Mage or Not:
Age:
History
This section has a 500 word limit. Bullet point timelines are fine! We're less interested in a list of every event in a character's canon/life, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character.
For Dragon Age canon characters, you're welcome to just link to the wiki and then fill in any holes or significant headcanon as needed. If your character has been off-screen for a while since their last canon appearance, please provide a write-up of what they've been doing since their last appearance. For AU'd canon characters, please link to their canon history and write up their AU history. For OCs, just write their history.
Personality
Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance.
Opinions & Affiliations
This section has a 300 word limit. Please briefly note your characters' opinions on topics such as the Chantry, the Qun, the Mage/Templar War, Thedosian race relations, and anything else you feel is worth mentioning for a particular character! If your character is currently or has previously been a member of an IC organization or identifiable group other than Riftwatch, please also briefly describe their relationship with that organization or group. This includes obvious things like Templars, Seekers, Circle Mages, and Grey Wardens, but it can also be used for less organized groups such as Dalish elves, landed nobility, etc., if you have something you'd like to say on the topic that isn't covered in the personality section.
Adaptation Notes
If your character is being AU'd from another canon, please explain in 300 words or fewer how the adaptation you've chosen is a good fit for your character. This should include things like why you've chosen to make them a mage, or a particular race, or a member of a particular organization. How do these choices reflect essential aspects of their canon character? What key features are you adding or subtracting from the canon version of their story and why? There is no single right answer to this question; there may be lots of plausible ways to AU a given character. We're interested in understanding why you've chosen the things you've chosen as part of evaluating your grasp on the character and on the setting.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? How can they assist Riftwatch and where will they be a liability? This can include personality strengths and weaknesses as well as any skills or special abilities. It is not necessary to pick a class or to provide lists of specific Dragon Age skills or skill trees, but you can use classes and skill trees as a reference to discuss what your character is and isn't good at, such as saying a mage is good at primal magic but useless with entropy, etc. It's sufficient to give us a general idea of areas and level of ability, but please make sure you mention any magical ability or significant skill/resource/connection you hope to rely on in-game. Please make sure to read and comply with the FAQ sections on character abilities.
Inventory
Please list any notable objects your character will be bringing with them. This doesn't have to be exhaustive, but weapons, magical objects, and items with plot importance must be listed if you plan to use them in the game.
Motivation
What brings your character to Riftwatch? This can be as brief as "he's got a sliver of weird magic in his hand he'd like Riftwatch to deal with" or "he wants to help," though more complex reasons are welcome, and shouldn't be more than 200 words.
SAMPLES
Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if they're written or linked and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one of your samples must take place in the game world, and at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). They can be of any length, as long as taken together they provide a good sense of your character and your writing ability. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.
RIFTER APPLICATION FORM
PLAYER
Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.
CHARACTER
Name:
Canon/OC:
Canon Point:
Journal:
Age:
Canon World
In no more than 500 words, please describe the world your character comes from. Don't try to cover everything, just focus on the key points that an unfamiliar reviewer would absolutely have to know in order to understand your character and their abilities.
History
Please provide a summary of key points in your character's history in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. If there is a wiki history for your character available, please also provide a link in addition to your summary. We're less interested in a list of every event in a character's canon/life, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character.
Personality
Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? Where can they help and where will they be a liability? Give us a general idea of areas of expertise and level of ability. While this needn't be 100% exhaustive, any powers/magic/significant areas of expertise not listed here cannot later be used in game.
If your character has superhuman abilities, please describe these abilities in plain terms. Although Fade Rift is based on a video game, we don't write about abilities or attacks as if they are occurring in a video game. For example, characters will not have an ability called "Whirlwind" that enables them to spin in a circle and strike things with a sword. Just tell us they can use a greatsword and they're agile enough to spin in circles with it.
Please make sure to read and comply with the FAQ sections on character abilities.
Suggested Nerfs
Many (if not most) abilities from other canons will be nerfed or adapted to Thedas. We want rifters to be unique and retain what makes them fun to play, but not to be so powerful that they render natives and especially unpowered characters superfluous to missions. A list of universally applied power limits is in the FAQ (http://faderifting.dreamwidth.org/966.html#nerfs). These nerfs will apply to all rifters unless we discuss a specific exception with you. Additionally, we may place other limits on rifters' abilities to prevent them from being too powerful compared to natives and unpowered characters. So if you have a high-powered character, we encourage you to use this section of the app to suggest your own nerfs or let us know what's most and least important to you about their powerset so we can take it into consideration when we establish limits.
Arrival Inventory
What will your character have with them in the dream they arrive from? Please go ahead and list weapons, technology, and magical artifacts, though they may disappear in the passage through the Fade. And please note that we do mean what they have with them in their dream; they can arrive in plainclothes with their usual belongings from a dream about buying groceries, or they can arrive in a gorilla suit with a deflated hot air balloon from a dream that was a little less mundane.
Humanization
Please describe any ways that your character's canon form differs from that of a normal real world human. This should include all physiological differences, even if they're purely cosmetic (for instance, hair or eye color if not standard real world colors). Passage through the Fade will convert each character into a Thedas-standard human, elf, dwarf, or qunari. This means that in every physiological respect, both internal and external, they will be a member of one of those races.
If your character is not a human, elf, dwarf or qunari in their canon, which would you like them to exit the rift as?
Fit
Is there a reason you think this character would be particularly interesting in this setting? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Things about your character you think Thedas will help you explore? Will they have a personal connection to an issue, or act as a foil to another character/group/opinion? Give us a sense of what you think your character will bring to the game world and what you think they might take away from it. Basically, why did you choose this character in this game? This shouldn't be more than 300 words.
SAMPLES
Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if they're written or linked and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one must take place in the game world, and at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). They can be of any length, as long as they provide a sense of your character's voice and internal narrative. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.
CRAU APPLICATION FORM
PLAYER
Name:
Age:
Contact:
Other Characters:
Interests: What sort of RP are you hoping for in Fade Rift? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Types of plots or threads you're excited about? Do you love action scenes? Political intrigue? Rescuing lost animals? This doesn't have to be long or complex and there is no right answer—it's to help us make sure our plots stay in line with people's interests.
CHARACTER
Name:
Canon/OC:
Last Canon Point:
Previous Game:
Arrival Point: (At what point in the past game is your character arriving in Thedas?)
Journal:
Age:
Canon World
In no more than 500 words, please describe the world your character originally comes from. Don't try to cover everything, just focus on the key points that an unfamiliar reviewer would absolutely have to know in order to understand your character and their abilities.
Canon History
Please provide a summary of key points in your character's history in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. If there is a wiki history for your character available, please also provide a link in addition to your summary. We're less interested in a list of every event in a character's canon/life, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character.
Past Game History
Please provide a link to the main navigation for the game your CRAU character is arriving from, as well as a summary of key points in your character's prior game history, in no more than 500 words. Bullet points are fine. (There's no need to recount the basics of the game setting, we'll get that from the link.) We're less interested in a list of every event, and more interested in a description of key moments that shaped the character into who they are now.
Personality
Please describe your character's personality in 300-500 words. No need to touch on every aspect of their being, but do hit the key traits and motivations (as you see them) and demonstrate balance. Please make clear which aspects of their personality are from canon and which have changed as part of the CRAU. While it's expected that characters will have changed as a result of their experiences in other games, we expect that they will still remain true to the fundamental nature of the canon character, and that any development will logically follow from the events described in your history sections.
Prior CR
Please list 2 to 5 of your character's closest relationships (of any kind--canonmates or cross-canon, platonic or antagonistic or romantic) from their past game and briefly explain what that relationship was and how it influenced the character's development. This section shouldn't exceed 300 words.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Basically, what are they best at, and what are they worst at? Where can they help and where will they be a liability? Give us a general idea of areas of expertise and level of ability. While this needn't be 100% exhaustive in detail, any powers/magic/significant areas of expertise not listed here cannot later be used in game.
Please note which skills or abilities are from canon and which were developed in your prior game. If your character has superhuman abilities in canon, in their past game, or both, you can choose (1) to keep their canon power set, (2) to keep their game power set, or (3) to lose both. Your character cannot keep both game-granted abilities and canon abilities. If your character's canon abilities were removed in their previous game, you can choose to have them regain them in FR.
If your character has superhuman abilities, please describe these abilities in plain terms. Although Fade Rift is based on a video game, we don't write about abilities or attacks as if they are occurring in a video game. For example, characters will not have an ability called "Whirlwind" that enables them to spin in a circle and strike things with a sword. Just tell us they can use a greatsword and they're agile enough to spin in circles with it. And while we don't want to hear about saving throws or hit points, we do want a sense of the scale of their abilities, so please do include some ballpark parameters for stuff like how big a thing can they lift, how big a ring of fire can they create, how long can they stay transformed into a spider, etc.
Please make sure to read and comply with the FAQ sections on character abilities.
Suggested Nerfs
Many (if not most) abilities from other canons will be nerfed or adapted to Thedas. We want rifters to be unique and retain what makes them fun to play, but not to be so powerful that they render natives and especially unpowered characters superfluous to missions. A list of universally applied power limits is in the FAQ (http://faderifting.dreamwidth.org/966.html#nerfs). These nerfs will apply to all rifters unless we discuss a specific exception with you. Additionally, we may place other limits on rifters' abilities to prevent them from being too powerful compared to natives and unpowered characters. So if you have a high-powered character, please use this section of the app to suggest your own nerfs and let us know what's most and least important to you about their powerset so we can take it into consideration when we establish limits.
Arrival Inventory
What will your character have with them in the dream they arrive from? Please go ahead and list weapons, technology, and magical artifacts, though they may disappear or be bricked or altered by their passage through the Fade.
And please note that we really do mean what they have with them in their dream. They can arrive in plainclothes with their usual belongings from a dream about buying groceries, or they can arrive in a gorilla suit with a deflated hot air balloon from a dream that was a little less mundane. Since your character is arriving from a dream, they may be able to regain canon items, animals, etc. that were not permitted in their previous game.
Humanization
Please describe any ways that your character's canon form differs from that of a normal real world human. This should include all physiological differences, even if they're purely cosmetic (for instance, hair or eye color if not standard real world colors). Passage through the Fade will convert each character into a Thedas-standard human, elf, dwarf, or qunari. This means that in every physiological respect, both internal and external, they will be a member of one of those races.
If your character is not a human, elf, dwarf or qunari in their canon, which would you like them to exit the rift as?
Fit
Is there a reason you think this character would be particularly interesting in this setting? Are there particular aspects of the world you're hoping to dig into? Things about your character you think Thedas will help you explore? Will they have a personal connection to an issue, or act as a foil to another character/group/opinion? Give us a sense of what you think your character will bring to the game world and what you think they might take away from it. Basically, why did you choose this character in this game? This shouldn't be more than 300 words.
SAMPLES
Please provide 2 samples. It doesn't matter if you write a fresh top-level style starter for the app or link us to existing threads, and we don't care if you prefer brackets or normal punctuation, but at least one must be a log rather than network tags (or their setting-appropriate equivalent). One must take place in the world of Fade Rift, and the other in your previous game. They can be of any length, as long as they provide a sense of your character's voice and internal narrative. If we feel they aren't sufficient, we'll ask you for more.
CANON UPDATES
Once in Thedas, rifters don't return to their home universes unless they are dropped and later reapped by the same person. However, your character may acquire new memories from time after their originally apped canon point while asleep and traveling in the Fade. (If your character is a dwarf, please contact us for alternate options.) Your character will not change physically--no new scars, no overnight aging--but the memories will feel as real as if they've experienced them directly. This option is available to both canon and original rifter characters.
If you would like to use this mechanism to update your character, you can do so by submitting the following form as a comment during the rifter application period.
APPING PREVIOUSLY PLAYED CHARACTERS
We allow reapps of dropped characters by both the previous player and new players. Unless their players make other arrangements, dropped native characters generally fade into the background or are sent away on long-term missions. Dropped native AU characters may be reapped by their previous players with their in-game memories intact or by both previous and new players as a new person entirely, with a clean slate. Dropped rifters will have disappeared mysteriously from Thedas, unless killed off in-game prior to a drop. Previously played rifters may be reapped by their previous players with their in-game memories intact, or by both previous and new players with a clean slate.
Dropped Dragon Age canon characters are a little trickier. For characters who were only briefly present in the game or who were dropped a long time ago, it may be possible to retcon their involvement entirely and allow a new player to start fresh. For characters that were around for a while and may have established CR that other characters can't easily retcon, you can work with other players to determine what to keep and what to discard from character histories, and we can work with new players to allow for (selective) memory loss via an in-game mechanic.
If you plan to app a Dragon Age character, we recommend checking for a tag to see if they've previously been played, then contacting us to let us know if you're interested in a clean slate. If you don't want an entirely clean slate, most players who app previously played DA canon characters make OOC posts after acceptance to ask people to recap their previous CR, if any, and decide what CR to keep or change on a chase by case basis.
Dante Sparda | Devil May Cry
Name: Citrine
Age: 25+
Contact: PM
Other Characters: NA
Interests: Dante will navigate political intrigue like a rooster in socks, but he's definitely here for the action, he is the point guard, give him a direction he should be swinging his sword and he'll swing. Also he's here to ruffle the feathers of everyone within arms reach, specifically Orlesians and all manner of highfalutin types. He'll make it his life's mission to teach Ferelden every single one of Michael Jackson's dance moves.
Name: Dante Sparda
Canon/OC: Canon
Last Canon Point: After his fight with Urizen in DMC 5 when he's knocked into a coma
Previous Game: NA
Arrival Point: NA
Journal:
Age: 43-ish
Canon World
Dante's world is broken up into two planes of existence the Human World, or Earth, and the Demon World. It's uncertain whether this Earth is the same one as ours as many of the locations are fictional and not relative to commonly known locations. Dante's world has many of the same modern conveniences of our own world while having a renaissance/european village style feel to it. Furthermore there are Hell Gates present in various locations allowing demons to pass through, lesser demons tend to travel further away from these hell gates, creating trouble for humans, while powerful demons tend to set up territories closer to these gates. Most of these gates are artificial save for the true hell gate created by devil worshippers. This gate is the true entry point into the demon world and was sealed by a demon who woke up to justice, the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, Dante's father.
The Demon World is a remnant of the darkness that originally covered the universe before light blotted it out. The demon world exists alongside the human world on a separate plane of existence and is the home of natural demons, like Sparda, with extraordinary and monstrous abilities. Much like the Fade of Dragon Age, the Demon World does not follow the natural laws of Earth, it shifts and changes. The Demon World is typically ruled by the most powerful demon at the time and also operates as a kind of Hell for humans who have engaged in evil activities in their lifetime.
Canon History
Detailed history.
⦁ Dante was born in Red Grave City, the son of Sparda and Eva and twin brother to Vergil.
⦁ At some point in their early childhood Sparda would disappear and later died to unknown circumstances. On their 8th birthday Eva gave her sons half of the Perfect Amulet, the key to the demon world.
⦁ Dante's home would later be attacked by Demons Resulting in Eva’s death and Dante believing Virgil to be dead.
⦁ Dante became a mercenary and during this period in his life he befriended Nell Goldstein who would create the handguns Ebony and Ivory for him.
⦁ Vergil would reappear in Dante's life to take his amulet.
⦁ Thus begins the events of DMC 3. Dante stops Vergil and Arkham from opening a portal to the demon world, but in the process loses his brother who opts to stay in the demon world.
⦁ Dante's shop is christened Devil May Cry.
⦁ Years later the events in DMC 1 occur. Dante meets Trish, a woman who resembles his mother, who comes to him telling Dante she needs his help to stop Mundus, emperor of the demon world, from opening the gate to the demon world.
⦁ Dante goes to Mallet Island where he ends up fighting his brother under control of Mundus. He also fights and defeats Mundus.
⦁ Dante and Trish team up and rename his shop into Devils Never Cry, a name that doesn't stick as seen in the animated series which is basically just DMC: A Slice of Life.
⦁ In between DMC and DMC2 are a series of Drama CDs and a novel. Basically the adventures of Dante that go into details as to why Dante is perpetually in debt, more demon slaying, and dangerous demon relics.
⦁ The events of DMC 2, loved by few, basically a new demon king takes over and Dante kicks more ass.
⦁ In DMC 4 Dante learns learns about a Sparda cult infiltrated with Demons who want to create a bunch of artificial Hell Gates that would allow more demons in the human world. Dante predictably kicks some more ass and discovers that he has a nephew.
⦁ In DMC 5 Dante's broke ass is hired by the mysterious V who needs Dante to destroy a giant, blood sucking demon tree and kill the new Demon King, Urizen. Urizen turns out to be Vergil, but V also turns out to be Vergil.
⦁ Dante gets his ass kicked by Urizen, ends up in a coma, wakes up a month later to slap the cheeks, learn some dance moves, save his friends who have been absorbed by demons, and continue his never-ending rivalry with Vergil after V and Urizen unite again.
⦁ The day is saved by Nero, a father and son reunion happens, Vergil and Dante go to the Demon World together to do some weed whacking as a cooperative duo. Cooperation lasts about two seconds then back to the regularly scheduled program.
Cont.
⦁ Devil May Care
Owing to the fact that his demon heritage grants him abilities that not only make him heartier, but allow him to recover from most injuries, Dante has fostered a degree of recklessness that borders on arrogance. When Dante enters into a battle he rarely enters with thoughts of his own safety in mind, but with the thrill of the battle or the safety of others taking precedence. He frequently makes light of the threats most enemies pose to his safety, often playing with them or putting himself in harm's way deliberately just for cheap, boyish thrills.
Aside from his disregard for his own safety and overconfidence, Dante’s devil may care outlook manifests in his frivolous disregard.
His cheeky, irreverent, and carefree attitude lends his character a great deal of charm, he can ebb and flow in most any situation, but the downside to that is a shirking of many of his adult obligations. His business often suffers from an inability to pay the bills leaving him with no power and no running water from time to time. His carefree attitude also leads him to neglect advice from others, yank the chains of anything within a 10 foot radius, and overestimate his own capacity in a given situation. On the positive side embarrassment is for rookies and Dante is not afraid to lay on the full force of his personality because he has zero fucks to give.
⦁ Compassionate
Underneath his flippant, dismissive, and carefree attitude is someone who genuinely cares about those around him and the consequences of his actions. Over and over again he accepts his brother, even the worst aspects of him, despite having to stop him. We learn through supplemental material that the reason why Dante is perpetually broke all the time is that he’s constantly taking responsibility for the things that happen around him. He pays for any collateral damage he causes, he pays Enzo (who appears to be extorting Dante) because he cut his friend’s arm off to save him, and he continues to support the daughters of his deceased partner Grue.
⦁ Antagonistic
Dante is unironically antagonistic. With people he likes or cares for it typically manifests in playful banter and needling, with his enemies he goading and trying to piss them off. Part of it is just for the fun of it and part of it is strategy, riling up his enemies gives him the advantage of having a calmer head. If he thinks he can get a rise out of an enemy he has no problem mocking, degrading, dismissing, and waving himself around like a tempting piece of meat until they take the bait.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Powers
⦁ Superhuman Strength
⦁ Superhuman Speed
⦁ Superhuman Agility
⦁ Superhuman Stamina
⦁ Superhuman Durability
⦁ Accelerated Healing
⦁ Demonic Power Mainipulation
⦁ Telekinesis
Abilities
⦁ Skilled hand-to-hand combat
⦁ Weapons proficiency
⦁ Swordsmanship
⦁ Marksmanship
⦁ Intelligent with regards to his analytical abilities
⦁ Musical aptitude
Devil Trigger
⦁ Dante is able to release his demon form through the use of his Devil Trigger, his demon aspect that amplifies all of his abilities.
Weaknesses
⦁ Dante's weakness has less to do with physical weakness and more to do with emotional fragility. Dante will not hurt non-demons in any way, shape, or form even if he's betrayed. Dante prefers to operate alone, it takes a lot for someone to prove they can handle themselves on their own to the extent that he can trust them in battle. He's lost people around him before and he'd rather not take the risk and he would put himself at risk for the wellbeing of others.
Suggested Nerfs
Dante is definitely GOAT, he knows he's GOAT, he's going to deal with being nerfed like toddler trying to reach for the tall shelf.
⦁ Superhuman Strength - Scale him down to a Dragon Age level tank with Qunari degrees of physical strength. Can bust down walls and swing around absurdly heavy weapons, etc.
⦁ Superhuman Speed - Limited to the degree of Fadestep.
⦁ Superhuman Agility - Peak human ability.
⦁ Superhuman Stamina - Peak human ability.
⦁ Superhuman Durability - Peak human ability.
⦁ Accelerated Healing - I will defer to mod suggestions for this one.
⦁ Demonic Power Mainipulation - With respects to manipulating the shape of the Devil Sword Sparda and nothing else if permissable.
⦁ Telekinesis - Throw it in the garbage, he doesn't need it.
⦁ Devil Trigger - I was thinking this could be much like the power of Blood Ability, that accessing this ability will grant him the power but at the cost of physical damage to himself making it a temporary boon with an extensive recovery period. Again open to suggestions.
Arrival Inventory
⦁ Ebony & Ivory both blocked
⦁ The Devil Sword Sparda.
⦁ The clothing on his back.
⦁ Photo of his mother.
Humanization
Dante is half-demon, but from his Devil Trigger, Dante looks perfectly human.
Fit
Dante is a demon hunter with a business that specializes in dealing with Demons so he'll be down for beating some demon ass and mowing down darkspawn. Don't know if they'll sense he's also demonic on some level or how that will play out, but he'll definitely be comfortable with that aspect of being in Thedas.
On the other hand Dante will have a complex when it comes to killing humans/humanoid beings, he'll either pass on missions that involve that kind of confrontation or he will disarm rather than kill. It'll be interesting to explore that aspect of his humanity complex.
Game world sample.
Meme comm sample
TDM for another community, slightly NSFW for naughty hijinks (no smut or anything like that)
ACCEPTED + NOTES
Your application has been approved, with the following notes:
Welcome to Fade Rift! Before you start playing, please:You're then welcome to post an introduction to the OOC comm! Since your character is arriving via rift, you're welcome to post a rift arrival log or to begin RP in the Gallows and simply handwave that members of Riftwatch met your character on their arrival through the rift, helped them close it, and brought them to Kirkwall. If you have any questions, let us know.
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In DMC5 Dante has access to two DTs. There's his standard Devil Trigger and there's Sin Devil Trigger, he does not have access to the Sin Devil Trigger at the point where he's taken from in cannon.
I would say that Dante's baseline when he's not using his DT form is supernatural and while in his DT it's absolute in terms of power scaling. So as it stands now Dante's baseline outside of DT would be peak human condition. That gives us something to scale him at outside of his DT state.
Dante is definitely one of those characters that is difficult to pin down a power cap on because he never uses his full strength, if he's not using his DT he's not taking a fight seriously. That's the problem with Saitama syndrome.
Does his DT give him other abilities? Yes and he can activate those abilities without actually taking on the DT form and that's where things get dicey. He can slow down time and create doppelgangers this just severely muddies the waters so I'll focus strictly on what the move sets allow for while he's in this form and then negotiate the power cut-off from there.
So when he shifts into DT his strength, agility, stamina, defense, speed, an vitality etc. increase. Yes he does have wings and he can glide, not necessarily fly, but the ability to glide is within his move set. There's also Trigger Heart which is not an ability it's just depletion rate for the DT gauge and since the goal is for Dante to actually experience consequences for accessing this ability it's of no relevance.
So looking at a basic attribute scale where his strength, agility, stamina, defense, speed, an vitality etc. would typically fall between supernatural and absolute, his baseline would be peak human. Should his Devil Trigger with all of the limitations and conditions involved in using it would put him at enhanced strength, agility, stamina, defense, speed, an vitality etc.
This is his Devil Trigger appearance in DMC 5. There are various forms from various games and mediums, each one having a different stylistic appearance, but there's an overall reptilian look about it.
I think it's also important to note that many of the additional abilities tied to Dante's use of the DT are tied to various Devil Arms that he collects, but the only one he'll have with him is the Devil Sword Sparda.
Devil Sword Sparda
In regards to Dante's sword it's a versatile weapon that is imbued with Sparda's power so there's demonic magic attached to it that allows the sword to reshape itself into a spear or a scythe and grant certain abilities like air hike, round trip, and stinger.
Air hike is a double jump technique that temporarily grants Dante a platform to jump to a higher level, but limited to two jumps. It used to be that this ability was attached to the Devil Sword Sparda now he's able to do the air hike independently. If it's reasonable to revert that ability back to being reliant on the Devil Sword Sparda or just eliminating that skillset altogether, I am fine with either, but it was an ability originally associated with the sword.
Round trip is when the sword reshapes itself into a scythe that can be thrown where it will shred into an enemy before boomeranging back to Dante.
Stinger enables the sword to reshape into a spear for quick stabbing attacks that appear to pull Dante forward.
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Please also list out all capabilities you want him to keep in Fade Rift and how they work/what their limits are (like gliding, slowing time, or creating doppelgangers). Remember that unless an ability is explicitly listed and described here in your app and approved, your character will not be able to use it in game.
Translating things into narrative terms this way will allow us to more quickly evaluate whether additional nerfing is required. Thanks!
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⦁ Supernatural Strength
⦁ Supernatural Speed
⦁ Supernatural Agility
⦁ Supernatural Stamina
⦁ Supernatural Durability
⦁ Supernatural Senses
⦁ Accelerated Healing
⦁ Demonic Power Mainipulation
⦁ Telekinesis
⦁ Styles
⦁ Devil Arms are weapons that are essentially manifestations of a deceased or a defeated demon's powers and possess varying degrees of sentience depending on whether or not the demon was defeated and opted to become a Devil Arm or whether the demon is dead. The only Devil Arm that Dante will have access to is the Devil Sword Sparda and apart from being a manifestation of Sparda's power, concealing Dante's presence from other demons, and changing its shape, the Devil Sword Sparda has no sentience about it. It cannot speak to him the way other Devil Arms throughout the series have been able to.
⦁ Devil Trigger
Abilities that will not be kept
⦁ Demonic power manipulation: Due to being a nebulous ability with an infinite number of immeasurable moving parts this one is easily scrapped.
⦁ Telekenesis: another ability that is easily taken off of the table because of its lack of relevance and overall use.
⦁ Styles: is another one that can easily be knocked off of this list for the simple fact that Dante likely wouldn't use some of them anyway, does not use them consistently, or cannot use them i.e. gunslinger. It's also a lot to stack on top of what he already has and he won't suffer without it..
Abilities that will be kept and how they will be nerfed
⦁ Strength: Dante's strength would not be outside the realm of human capability, for example he would be able to overhead lift and deadlift within the capacity of what a human could lift which is 500 lbs and and 1000 lbs respectively and he would have a leg press capacity of about 2,200 lbs within the scope of human capability. As for materials he would be able to punch through Dante wouldn't be beyond the skill level of a martial artist who could punch through wood, concrete, or stone. He could likely go toe-to-toe with a Qunari and knock down unstable walls.
⦁ Speed: This one we've determined is limited to what a Fade-Step could achieve.
⦁ Agility: Dante's agility would give him the skills of someone who engages in competitive parkour as opposed to the supernatural, gravity defying acrobatics he would normally be prepossessed of. He would also be an expert swordsman and his precision with hitting a target would still be accurate, but not in the sense that he could do a flip in mid air while shooting a target through a hole he made in a research paper. It would be more akin to what archers are able to do while holding still and aiming, they can shoot an aspirin out of the air. He would actually have to try and aim and he would actually have to relearn how to do things like shoot since Ebony and Ivory are bricked.
⦁ Stamina: Dante could cover a lot of ground in a day, around 100 miles without need for rest or food but he would be subject to the rules of three. Instead of not needing oxygen he would require it after 3 minutes, he would need water after 3 days, he would need food after 3 weeks. While Dante would be able to take hits he wouldn't be able to sustain several severe wounds and continue to press on.
⦁ Durability and Healing: We've touched on this and I'll lump durability with healing because in this sense what he can recover from is related to what he's able to take in terms of damage. As a recap he will not be able to heal severe wounds or reattach severed limbs. His healing capacity can be exhausted so one small wound would heal fine, but consecutive small wounds would take longer to heal or would stop healing completely until he's had the time to rest. He can recover from one would-be-fatal wound per day. If he receives enough injuries in a short amount of time he would succumb to death. He is not immune to the blight or red lyrium.
⦁ Senses: I would reduce this from seeing attacks coming from miles off to intuiting when someone will attack and having a general aptitude for sensing the space around him when he's fighting.
So aside from durability/healing Dante currently falls into the realm of what human beings can do.
⦁ Devil Arms: the Devil Arm Sparda would be able to reshape itself into a spear or a scythe. The sword can also grant him Air Hike and the ability to disguise Dante's presence from Demons, I am not wholly attached to these abilities so if you want to eliminate them or limit them I leave that entirely to your discretion.
⦁ Devil Trigger: I would like to incorporate his devil trigger with extreme limitations and power capping of course.
So sorry this is so long, I wanted to cover the breadth of his abilities, some things have been left out because they are just too obscure or too elaborate and span outside of the games for me to consider them. Hopefully I've provided enough information about his powers and abilities and a more detailed method for scaling them down.
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