Hadlais Application (Urara's Alternate Account)

[Urahra 5781]

Out-Of-Character

Main Minecraft Account Name: dragonhadley

Alternate Minecraft Account Name: Hadlais

In your own words, define what the act of Roleplaying is:Roleplaying is the act of slipping into a fictional character’s skin and interacting with others doing the same. It’s meant to be fun and stimulating, a multi-person improvisational experience with depth and breadth. I’m an experienced roleplayer. I’ve run several small roleplaying forums and I’ve been a member of this server for several months now. I am a member of Shadowclan, a multiple game spanning RP-intensive guild. I was a high ranking member on the WoW branch and I am a high ranking member in the Star Wars: The Old Republic branch. I helped create a large amount of orc lore in the LOTC branch, up to and including things like the Blah and the lore for Dom and Gorkil. My first character helped establish normal behavior for female orcs as well.

In your own Words, define what the act of Metagaming is: Metagaming is the act of using OOC knowledge IC. For instance, if my character was a spy and I heard OOC that there was going to be a meeting between my enemies, it would be metagaming to go to the meeting’s location. My character would not know the meeting was happening unless someone told him to his face or he overheard it somewhere. Metagaming is harmful not only because it breaks character, but it cheapens the RP experience. It can also seriously damage other players, especially if things like money or items are involved.

In your own Words, define what the act of Powergaming is: Powergaming is using the game mechanics to your advantage in an RP experience. It would be powergaming to hide behind a locked door during a PvP battle. Other acts of powergaming include block jumping, breaking blocks, and other misuses of the game mechanics. Things like auto-clickers, fly hacking, and speed hacking can also be considered powergaming, as those are skills that no ordinary character would have.

In-Character:

Character Name: Brunhylde Volsung

What Race are you?: Human

What Sub-Race are you? (note, you aren’t required to have a sub-race): None.

Biography (Please make this at least 2 paragraphs long. This must include the history of your character and his life as well as age, appearance and personality, etc.): Brunhylde, the oldest daughter of the Viking lord, Olaf One-Eye, was born under unusual circumstances. Her father, aging, slightly blind, and slightly senile, mistook her for a son from a young age. Brunhylde spent most of her life living aboard a ship, acting as a cabin boy to her aging father. Her father and many brothers treated her like a boy all through her childhood, teaching her to dress, fight, drink, and generally act like a man. Brunhlyde learned the craft of sailing from a young age. As she grew older, she aided her brothers in maintaining and steering the ship. By the age of ten, Brunhylde could scale the rigging and steer the wheel as well as any of her older brothers. She learned to hold her mead from a very young age, as that was all that they drank while at sea. Anyone who looked at her would think she was the paradigm of a strong young man. Even her brothers, who called her “Brun”, didn’t seem to realize her true gender. But, in their defense, they were often too drunk or too busy to really notice their “brother’s” lack of beard and strangely high pitched voice.

They only began to realize their mistake when Brunhylde hit her late teens. Her female hormones asserted themselves and Brunhylde developed a stocky, but womanly figure that was hard to miss. Her father, still partially blind and very senile, continually mistook her for a boy, even after she started growing her hair longer. In a fit of frustration, Brunhylde finally confronted him and explained her identity as a girl. By this point, even her swarthy brothers had realized her true gender. Brunhylde scolded her father for his ignorance – a bold act, considering Olaf remained one of the fiercest Vikings of the northern sea in spite of his senility. Olaf, realizing he’d ignored his daughter for the better part of nineteen years, quickly tried to make amends. However, at that moment, a storm hit their ship. The waters tossed their boast around violently, sending icy waves of ocean spray over the sides. The crew, all Olaf’s sons, struggled to keep the boat afloat in the violent storm. The struggle lasted for hours, taking the fight out of even the swarthiest of the Viking men. When the storm finally calmed, they found themselves in strange waters far to the south of their icy, northern homeland. They ran aground on a foreign beach. Their boat damaged and their bodies exhausted, the Vikings climbed a nearby hill and began searching for shelter of some kind. After cutting several trees, they erected a makeshift fort with a mead hall in the center. “Volsung Fort,” they called it. The Vikings allowed themselves to rest for some months. Several of the brothers left the fort to scout the nearby coasts. Only three Vikings -- Brunhylde, her sister Freja, and step-brother Dagmar Cleftjaw – remained to watch over the fort.

A few uneasy months passed. Freja, Brunhylde’s younger and more feminine sister, kept busy by tending to a garden she’d planted in the fort. Brunhylde stayed close to her sister’s side, determined not to let her fall prey to any of the new land’s wicked monsters. During this time, Dagmar and Freja struck up a friendship that soon bloomed into love. Brunhylde felt happy for her sister, but at the same time, deeply saddened. Freja and Brunhylde, though quite far apart in age, had lived together as the two females on board the Volsung ship full of men. Freja was the only one among the dozens of men who actually treated Brunhylde as another girl. The two sisters bonded and Brunhylde felt a deep need to care for the younger girl. Brunhylde, who had witnessed the boorishness of her brothers up close for many years, strove to preserve her younger sister’s innocence and virtue. While at first she did not trust Dagmar, Brunhylde eventually warmed up to him. When he and Freja announced their engagement, Brunhylde was overjoyed, if not slightly saddened. Her own boyishness and her father’s ignorance of her gender made it difficult for Brunhylde to find her own love.

During this time, a camp appeared on the shore below the fort. Out of curiosity, Brunhylde left the fort to explore the camp. There, she encountered the people of the Subudai, a band of nomads who claimed that the shoreline was their ancestral camping grounds and that they’d lived on the land since long before the Vikings arrived. Brunhylde, perplexed, told them that there’d been no camp on the shore when they built the fort. The Subudai accused her of lying. They grew angry, saying the fort violated nature and prevented the normal herds of animals from entering their hunting grounds. Brunhylde insisted that they had nowhere else to go, saying their ship was still damaged and that the Subudai could tear down the fort when the Vikings left. Unfortunately, the Subudai were not that patient. Due to a combination of poor diplomacy and miscommunication, the Subudai attempted to ambush the fort. Brunhylde, Freja, and Dagmar barely escaped with their lives. The Subudai burned the fort, leaving the Vikings without a home. Brunhylde, Freja, and Dagmar fled to the Cloud Temple sanctuary. Later, they met their brother, Vidarr, and settled in the country of Renatus. Things have been rough, but so far, the four have been living and growing stronger. (As a note: I have been playing Brunhylde already as an alt character on my main account, so all of this actually happened in RP.)

For a Viking, Brunhylde is remarkably polite. She has a strong sense of honor and duty. She always respects her betters and strives not to offend those of other cultures. She is quick to trust others. She will never forgive anyone who betrays her trust, though. That’s why the Subudai ambush scarred her so badly. Before they attacked and tried to kill them, Brunhylde had spent several days among the Subudai, getting to know the men and women of the camp. When they betrayed her trust, she flew into a rage and swore revenge on them. Brunhylde loves her sister deeply and strives to protect her at all times. Brunhylde was denied her life as a woman, so she strives to give Freja the life she missed out on. Brunhylde regrets missing out on her womanhood. Women in her Viking culture are generally more submissive and marry off early. Brunhylde sees herself as too boyish and old to appeal to a man now, even though she’s only twenty five years old. However, this doesn’t stop her from hoping.

What is your Character's ambitions?: Brunhylde, still seething from being driven from her only home on Asulon, wants revenge on the leader of the Subudai, the man who ambushed them and drove them out. She also wants to protect and care for her younger sister, Freja. Secretly, she also wishes she could find love like her younger sister, though she fears that dream is impossible. She also tends to mistrust men. Her brothers were mostly crude, violent, slobby people and this has colored her view of men. She tends to think most men are pigs and is genuinely surprised when a man acts nobly and kindly. While her fear and mistrust is not quite phobia-level, Brunhylde still gets very tense around men she doesn’t know.

A screenshot of your skin (must be in proper format):

Other Information about your Character: N/A

Open-Response-Questions

Answer at least three out of five listed

Whilst traveling from the Cloud Temple you see a small halfling, being harassed by two armed warriors. They appear to be trying to steal money from him, how does your character respond?

Brunhylde would intervene, of course. She would first attempt to interject peacefully, but if the warriors brushed her off or insulted, she wouldn’t hesitate to get violent. Brunhylde has spent her entire life watching over her younger sister, so she’s developed little tolerance for bullies. Growing up with six older brothers has made her intolerant of people who push others around. However, she’s not stupid. If she was unarmed, she’d try to distract the two men or disarm them before telling the Halfling to flee. Being a swarthy Viking maiden, she’s not afraid of taking on men who are armored or well armed.

Whilst wandering in the wilds, your character comes across a small hut, which looks abandoned. Inside it you see a chest containing a few iron bars, and a golden sword. How would your character respond?:

Brunhylde wouldn’t even check the chest. She tends to snoop, yes, but she has enough restraint not to go digging through other peoples’ possessions. She certainly wouldn’t take them. While she often participated in raids as a Viking, she still has a sense of honor that would prevent her from stealing from someone who couldn’t protect their possessions. At most, she would use the hut for a resting place during her travels and move on.

You hear word that bandits occupy the road outside the town in which you have been staying. The town guards have gathered, and are asking for assistance to help eliminate them. The leader of the party is offering a reward for any who offer their support. How does your character act on this information?:

After losing their fort to the Subudai, the Volsung Vikings were left without a home. Without money to repair their ship or compensate for their lost goods, it seemed as though they might not make in the wild lands of Asulon. Brunhylde would volunteer herself almost immediately, for both the money and the honor of defending the town. She would serve very faithfully and not stop until the bandits were eradicated.

[Hylian the Heretic 233]

Yub.

[Hylian the Heretic 233]

Moved to Accepted Forum

[Alan 1815]

Implemented