APPLICATION.
PLAYER
Player Name: pel
Pronouns: he / him.
Are you over 18? y
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vocative
Current Characters: no current characters, but i used to play here (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
poleaxed).
Triggers: please no transformation into or ingestion of bugs. arachnids are fine tho. not a huge fan of consuming rotting flesh, but normal cannibalism (you know what i mean) is fine.
Pronouns: he / him.
Are you over 18? y
Contact:
Current Characters: no current characters, but i used to play here (
poleaxed).Triggers: please no transformation into or ingestion of bugs. arachnids are fine tho. not a huge fan of consuming rotting flesh, but normal cannibalism (you know what i mean) is fine.
STATISTICS
Character Name: Lucy MacLean
Character Canon: Fallout (TV)
Character Age: Early 20s.
Canon Point: End of S2.
Link to History: heyoo.
Skills: Lucy is an average human with no supernatural abilities, though she is above average in several areas. She's shown to be an excellent marksman, with a strong knowledge of mechanical repair, applied science / scientific technology (think vacuum tubes and electrical currents; she has little knowledge of anything digital). She is shown to have hand-to-hand combat training, as well as fencing and gymnastics-- this mostly means that despite her small frame she's fairly agile and knows how to use her weight in a fight. It can be inferred from her time in the Wasteland that she knows a variety of survival techniques, like how to filter water, build a fire, process an animal carcass, or preserve food.
Her education is excellent compared to the average post-apocalyptic Wastelander, but a little below average compared to our own; she is for example a teacher of US history (with a focus on ethics!) in her Vault, but since her texts would be rife with prewar jingoism, they're probably not very accurate (nevermind the fact that she's from an alternate history significantly different from our own). She's shown to have a broad knowledge of history beyond just US history when she, for example, corrects on the dating of the primae noctis ritual (medieval, not Ancient Roman); however, this is proven kind of faulty because she doesn't seem to know that the concept is ahistorical and never existed.
(Also despite the fact that she recognizes some Latin, she clearly hasn't studied it because she makes some really simple mistakes. Things that only matter to me. Sorry.)
tl;dr she has strong STEM skills, knows basic survivalism, and is good at Phys Ed & combat, but despite knowing some history and moral philosophy, her soft sciences need work.
Abilities: No special powers or abilities.
Curse Mark: Wilk trampstamp :')
Character Canon: Fallout (TV)
Character Age: Early 20s.
Canon Point: End of S2.
Link to History: heyoo.
Skills: Lucy is an average human with no supernatural abilities, though she is above average in several areas. She's shown to be an excellent marksman, with a strong knowledge of mechanical repair, applied science / scientific technology (think vacuum tubes and electrical currents; she has little knowledge of anything digital). She is shown to have hand-to-hand combat training, as well as fencing and gymnastics-- this mostly means that despite her small frame she's fairly agile and knows how to use her weight in a fight. It can be inferred from her time in the Wasteland that she knows a variety of survival techniques, like how to filter water, build a fire, process an animal carcass, or preserve food.
Her education is excellent compared to the average post-apocalyptic Wastelander, but a little below average compared to our own; she is for example a teacher of US history (with a focus on ethics!) in her Vault, but since her texts would be rife with prewar jingoism, they're probably not very accurate (nevermind the fact that she's from an alternate history significantly different from our own). She's shown to have a broad knowledge of history beyond just US history when she, for example, corrects on the dating of the primae noctis ritual (medieval, not Ancient Roman); however, this is proven kind of faulty because she doesn't seem to know that the concept is ahistorical and never existed.
(Also despite the fact that she recognizes some Latin, she clearly hasn't studied it because she makes some really simple mistakes. Things that only matter to me. Sorry.)
tl;dr she has strong STEM skills, knows basic survivalism, and is good at Phys Ed & combat, but despite knowing some history and moral philosophy, her soft sciences need work.
Abilities: No special powers or abilities.
Curse Mark: Wilk trampstamp :')
CHARACTERIZATION
FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES:
PHILOSOPHY: People are inherently good deep down, where it counts. You should always help people, think the best of them, and try to be friendly and polite. Reason and goodness should be appealed to; violence and double dealing should only be used as a last resort. Lucy calls this the "golden rule". Applying this morality can make her look kind of naive sometimes, but Lucy is making the active choice to operate this way, rather than doing it out of a lack of understanding other options. She knows she could be more jaded, but chooses not to be.
DESIRES: In the first episode, Lucy expresses two main desires-- to fit in with her community, and to experience new things. Though Lucy doesn't realize it at the time, these are conflicting desires; her vault is extremely conformist, and she would eventually have needed to settle into the same monotonously domestic existence as her peers to remain there. It's no surprise that she eventually leaves the vault, no surprise that she never really expresses a concrete desire to physically return (though she clearly misses the feeling of understanding the world around her). Perhaps because of the conformity of her upbringing, she never consciously realized she wanted to discover new things and meet new kinds of people, and the Wasteland's cruelty makes it difficult to appreciate, but she is consistently shown to have no hesitation when facing something new. She wants to understand, but she also wants to impose her morality on a world that doesn't have much use for it, to understand it through her preexisting framework of the world-- another conflicting desire, which she has yet to fully realize in herself. She wants to see new things, but she also wants to be validated by them.
FEARS: When she's kidnapped, Lucy doesn't express fear at being dragged away to an unknown location by a stranger; she's instead upset that a man she thought was becoming kinder betrayed expectation. She is very afraid that her morality and her understanding of the world is wrong, that it can't be salvaged. Her father's true nature underpins this-- was the morality he instilled in her as false as he ended up being? When he attempts to brainwash her, this crystalizes into a fear that all kindness may be hollow; he says the brainwashing will 'make her [his] little girl again', before she learned the truth. Does that mean that her cherished, comfortable, nostalgic upbringing was just another form of brainwashing?
Growing up in a vault, Lucy has been exposed to propaganda her whole life, about America, history, her father, and authority in general. While she's left that physically, she very much carries it in her mind, and has never really unpacked or interrogated it. She's afraid that, deep down, she's a false person, and her attempts to understand the world are inherently broken-- and if they are, who is she without them?
WRONGS: Lucy's thought process bears a striking similarity to Americans of the past, with their excesses, the warmongering, imperialist attitudes that lead to war. To be clear, Lucy's kindness isn't surface-level, but its motivation is less than pure. Her desire is to experience new things and be validated by them-- to have new experiences prove her instilled values are correct-- is a deeply imperialist urge: Lucy wants to see the world, but she doesn't actually want to be changed by it. She doesn't really think she needs to change. While she says that she tries not to be judgemental of 'other cultures' in the Wasteland, it's clear she thinks her culture is superior.
Her upbringing maps pretty well to a sort of 'gifted child' education where she was told constantly that she's special, and she's loathe to lose that. Her perfectionism is rooted in ego. Her culture must be good, because otherwise, she might not be good. She's afraid of her morality being hollow because of what that would mean for her identity, rather than it the fact that, in carrying out a false morality, she might have been hurting people all along. Indeed, the latter has never occurred to her.
- THE VAULT: - In an underground vault, Lucy receives an extremely safe and comfortable upbringing compared to the post-apocalyptic wasteland above ground. Her father Hank is the overseer (head honcho) of her vault, and she looks up to him immensely.
- THE WEDDING: - Lucy volunteers to marry a member of another vault in a program to encourage genetic diversity. Her new husband & his friends turn out to be a raiders from the surface, who attempts to murder everyone in the vault. Most of the vault survives, but Hank is kidnapped.
- THE WASTELAND: - Lucy leaves her vault to search for her father. She finds a strange world and a variety of people, most of whom have a system of morality totally opposite from what she was brought up with-- they take advantage where she would help, and believe the worst in people rather than the best. In one instance, she is deeply betrayed by a companion, who sells her out to kidnappers. Later on, the same man saves her when it's of no benefit to him, which reaffirms her belief in the basic decency of people.
- THE FINALE (x2): - When she finds her father, it's revealed to her that he is not the good man she thought he was; he killed her mother, and thousands of other people, in a small scale nuclear attack. Her father escapes this confrontation, but when she catches up to him the second time, she discovers that he's also been brainwashing people to do his bidding. Unable to kill him, she instead uses his brainwashing technology against him-- effectively erasing his memory and forcing him to become the kind, decent person she once thought he was-- at the price of his memories. He is no longer her father; he no longer remembers who she is.
PHILOSOPHY: People are inherently good deep down, where it counts. You should always help people, think the best of them, and try to be friendly and polite. Reason and goodness should be appealed to; violence and double dealing should only be used as a last resort. Lucy calls this the "golden rule". Applying this morality can make her look kind of naive sometimes, but Lucy is making the active choice to operate this way, rather than doing it out of a lack of understanding other options. She knows she could be more jaded, but chooses not to be.
DESIRES: In the first episode, Lucy expresses two main desires-- to fit in with her community, and to experience new things. Though Lucy doesn't realize it at the time, these are conflicting desires; her vault is extremely conformist, and she would eventually have needed to settle into the same monotonously domestic existence as her peers to remain there. It's no surprise that she eventually leaves the vault, no surprise that she never really expresses a concrete desire to physically return (though she clearly misses the feeling of understanding the world around her). Perhaps because of the conformity of her upbringing, she never consciously realized she wanted to discover new things and meet new kinds of people, and the Wasteland's cruelty makes it difficult to appreciate, but she is consistently shown to have no hesitation when facing something new. She wants to understand, but she also wants to impose her morality on a world that doesn't have much use for it, to understand it through her preexisting framework of the world-- another conflicting desire, which she has yet to fully realize in herself. She wants to see new things, but she also wants to be validated by them.
FEARS: When she's kidnapped, Lucy doesn't express fear at being dragged away to an unknown location by a stranger; she's instead upset that a man she thought was becoming kinder betrayed expectation. She is very afraid that her morality and her understanding of the world is wrong, that it can't be salvaged. Her father's true nature underpins this-- was the morality he instilled in her as false as he ended up being? When he attempts to brainwash her, this crystalizes into a fear that all kindness may be hollow; he says the brainwashing will 'make her [his] little girl again', before she learned the truth. Does that mean that her cherished, comfortable, nostalgic upbringing was just another form of brainwashing?
Growing up in a vault, Lucy has been exposed to propaganda her whole life, about America, history, her father, and authority in general. While she's left that physically, she very much carries it in her mind, and has never really unpacked or interrogated it. She's afraid that, deep down, she's a false person, and her attempts to understand the world are inherently broken-- and if they are, who is she without them?
WRONGS: Lucy's thought process bears a striking similarity to Americans of the past, with their excesses, the warmongering, imperialist attitudes that lead to war. To be clear, Lucy's kindness isn't surface-level, but its motivation is less than pure. Her desire is to experience new things and be validated by them-- to have new experiences prove her instilled values are correct-- is a deeply imperialist urge: Lucy wants to see the world, but she doesn't actually want to be changed by it. She doesn't really think she needs to change. While she says that she tries not to be judgemental of 'other cultures' in the Wasteland, it's clear she thinks her culture is superior.
Her upbringing maps pretty well to a sort of 'gifted child' education where she was told constantly that she's special, and she's loathe to lose that. Her perfectionism is rooted in ego. Her culture must be good, because otherwise, she might not be good. She's afraid of her morality being hollow because of what that would mean for her identity, rather than it the fact that, in carrying out a false morality, she might have been hurting people all along. Indeed, the latter has never occurred to her.
GAMEPLAY
SUITABILITY: As you can probably tell from her desires and wrongs sections above, going into a different context from how she was raised is essential to her character. Really, Rubi is in some ways more intense than the Wasteland, because there's no shared cultural context between her and the majority of the native (or even the Void-touched) population. Personally, I want to see Lucy's rather inflexible morality be tested, especially since in this world she's not, actually, the protagonist of the story; she will have to make compromises where she otherwise wouldn't on Jeff Bezo's internet marketplace. If she doesn't-- and she will resist it for as long as she can-- she will have to face serious consequences, which I'm pretty excited for.
She is also, I'm going to be frank here, super horny. I said above that Lucy expresses a desire to experience new things in the first episode, and she does! She specifically says, though, that she wants to have new sexual experiences, and it's part of the motivation behind her getting married (a super sad sentence to write!) I think you can infer that she wants to experience new things in general from that line, but it sticks out that her main motivation, up until her husband tries to kill her, is getting laid. When she leaves the vault, there isn't much time for getting down, but as soon as she feels relatively safe, she immediately propositions someone for sex. Lucy is from a conformist culture, and she follows their rules about sexual expression, but she's still a gal with a high sex drive, and it makes her pretty forward about her desires. I'm interested to see how horny brainworms affect her in evil hornytown. I think it'll be fun.
SAMPLE: No CWs, just two dudes in a cave sitting 6 feet apart because they're not gay.
MONSTER: Because I don't want her to turn into a radiated cockroach or something, I'm going to go a little symbolic with this, combining Lucy's conformity ('pack mentality'), her fear of change (slow transformation), trauma over her marriage (heat, breeding), 1950s monster movies, and moral philosophy she might be familiar with from her education ((man is wolf to man)). Or, Lucy is going to turn into a pretty classic werewolf, with some twists.
Both stages have heightened senses and night vision. Both are stronger and faster than the average human, stage two especially so. Stage Two also has canine colorblindness.
She is also, I'm going to be frank here, super horny. I said above that Lucy expresses a desire to experience new things in the first episode, and she does! She specifically says, though, that she wants to have new sexual experiences, and it's part of the motivation behind her getting married (a super sad sentence to write!) I think you can infer that she wants to experience new things in general from that line, but it sticks out that her main motivation, up until her husband tries to kill her, is getting laid. When she leaves the vault, there isn't much time for getting down, but as soon as she feels relatively safe, she immediately propositions someone for sex. Lucy is from a conformist culture, and she follows their rules about sexual expression, but she's still a gal with a high sex drive, and it makes her pretty forward about her desires. I'm interested to see how horny brainworms affect her in evil hornytown. I think it'll be fun.
SAMPLE: No CWs, just two dudes in a cave sitting 6 feet apart because they're not gay.
MONSTER: Because I don't want her to turn into a radiated cockroach or something, I'm going to go a little symbolic with this, combining Lucy's conformity ('pack mentality'), her fear of change (slow transformation), trauma over her marriage (heat, breeding), 1950s monster movies, and moral philosophy she might be familiar with from her education ((man is wolf to man)). Or, Lucy is going to turn into a pretty classic werewolf, with some twists.
- STAGE ONE: Physical changes come on slow, and sometimes in different order. It can be little things: her eyes change, her canines elongate, she becomes prone to panting. Sometimes the change is more obvious: Her ears get weird and her snout elongates, fur begins to grow.
Lucy will go into 'heat' and have the overwhelming desire to be 'bred'. This will only last 30 minutes to 2 hours (depending on how fast and how much she gets laid) and will sometimes be skipped if her transformation is forced by some outside influence.
At this stage, choosing herself above others can end the transformation; she is responding to the pack's need to propagate itself, and showing some sign of selfishness or cruelty can halt the transformation, showing she's not a part of the 'pack'. - STAGE TWO: The wolfman with bendy legs and waist training. Howls at the moon. Bites people. Marks territory (BY SCRATCHING OR RUBBING AGAINST STUFF, 2026 is bad enough without making me write about pee.)
Little of Lucy's personality remains. Instead, it's inverted, and the wolf is cruel and domineering. Rather than be bred, it seeks to breed, and will fuck people with its hyena-like pseudo-penis. It has no sense of mercy, and will attack strategically, trying to either kill (and eat) or fuck anything it sees as a threat to secure its territory and build its pack.
At this stage, anything that breaks 'alpha' status will end the transformation: being penetrated, losing a fight, being isolated (away from 'the pack') or separate from its 'territory', or being kind to another at the expense of itself. If none of this happens within 42 hours, the wolf will transform back after running itself to exhaustion and maybe eating somebody.
Both stages have heightened senses and night vision. Both are stronger and faster than the average human, stage two especially so. Stage Two also has canine colorblindness.
