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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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APPLICATIONS
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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
[CANON] Anita Blake | Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter | Not Reserved | 1 of 2
Name: Christine
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CHARACTER
Name: Anita Blake
Canon: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
Timeline: After the events of The Killing Dance (Book Six)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A!
Personality: Very plainly, Anita is an extremely straightforward woman, sometimes to the point of being impatient. Especially when she’s on a case, she is very information-driven and doesn’t appreciate being jerked around by people who think they can outsmart her. She usually doesn’t care for people who beat around the bush, feeling it doesn’t accomplish much of anything. She goes to great lengths to make herself appear as a hardass when she’s on the job, since her very small stature as well as being a civilian and a woman are all pretty much major foils when it comes to earning professional respect. Thankfully, her deeds are pretty well-known throughout the underground culture in St. Louis, and almost every vampire and lycanthrope knows who she is – they certainly all know of The Executioner, if not “Anita Blake.”
Though she is very direct while on the job (aside from the occasional sarcastic comment for seasoning; she does have a tendency to be flippant), she is actually a fairly laid-back person in her every day life – not that she gets much downtime to begin with. She likes quiet things, like spending an afternoon in her apartment with a book, and loves musicals and traditional theater. She is also very athletic, and works out with her best friend, private detective Veronica Sims, several times a week, running together when the weather is warm and hitting the gym in the winter. Since her work for the police force and work as an executioner require her to be physical so often, she puts a very high premium on physical fitness and making sure she’s always in good shape to chase down or outrun anyone or anything she might have to. Though most people who know her professionally would never guess, she is kind of a huge dork, making a lot of pop culture references or sarcastic comments that often only end up being funny to her, since she is usually making them in the company of centuries-old vampires who wouldn’t know comedy if it walked right up to them and yanked on their overly-frilly cravat.
Anita is also much, much more old-fashioned than most people would expect. She is a very devout Christian, formerly a Catholic until the Vatican decided to excommunicate and condemn all animators. She now classifies herself as an Episcopalian. She never misses church on Sunday mornings if she can help it, and places a lot of stock in her strong faith. At the very least, it has kept her safe on countless occasions, since crosses and other such holy symbols are only effective as a ward against a vampire if the bearer truly believes in the source of its power. Despite being a dedicated Christian, however, her language is still pretty bad sometimes, especially when under stress. She does not drink alcohol and, on the whole, disapproves of it, finding drunkenness unattractive and feeling that hindering your own senses is rather foolish. She is very traditional concerning sex, and is waiting for a committed relationship, if not marriage. Her current boyfriend, Richard, has gotten her pretty close, though they have some hurdles to clear before she’ll be willing to go through with it. She has had sex in the past, when she was in college and engaged, but her fiancé broke the engagement because his family disapproved of her ethnicity. Since then, she has chosen not to give herself freely, feeling that sex is a very serious and personal matter.
She also collects stuffed penguins. They are her favorite animal, and her only vice. Her penguin collection is only rivaled by her collection of coffee mugs with hokey or vaguely-offensive slogans on them, which she primarily gathers just to bring into the office and irritate her boss, Bert. She keeps track of brownie points people earn and lose for various behaviors in her head, unbeknownst to the receivers, and loves coffee more than just about anything else under the sun. She dresses very plainly in jeans, running shoes, and polo shirts or plain tee-shirts, having little interest in fashion and preferring to keep things simple and easy to move in.
[CANON] Anita Blake | Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter | Not Reserved | 2 of 2
Dolph, it’s me. I’ve been looking at the pictures I took earlier. It looks like the work of a lycanthrope on the surface. They all look pretty roughed up; it would be a lot neater if the culprit had used a knife. These are tears, not cuts. At least the first two are recognizable as people – second one, only barely. They’re getting progressively worse – they’re getting rougher with their toys.
There aren’t any sure signs of anything else supernatural here. They’re torn up like they were hit by animals, but some parts have obviously been eaten, and there are no critters local to the area big enough to do this. I hate to shove the blame on lycanthropes so soon, and there’s nothing concrete yet. I’m going to do a little more investigating. Call me as soon as you get this, let me know what your boys have found.
[She hangs up without saying another word. Dolph never says goodbye. It was starting to rub off.]
Third Person: Always. Always when she had somewhere to be. It was like Bert had a sixth sense about it. Anita has a date tonight? Great, let's schedule a late meeting after work. To top it off, let's make it mandatory. Can't cancel, can't postpone. Just going to have to keep your prior engagements waiting, Ms. Blake.
Thanks, Bert.
She liked to think that she didn't ask for much in the long run. She did her job and did it well; she wasn't too humble to say that she was the best animator on payroll at Animators, Inc. She knew it, Bert knew it, John and Jamison knew it. She didn't consider it being full of herself, all it took was a look at the appointment book, and the fact that Bert was willing to bargain almost anything with her to keep her on staff. But tonight, tonight was non-negotiable. Why?
Because there was a new animator coming on-board.
Wasn't that just keen. Since Larry had taken off his training wheels and stepped up to being a Big Boy Animator, it was time for her to take on another apprentice.
Because that's exactly what she needed. Someone else to look out for. Larry had let go of the apron strings some, though he went with her on routine executioner business now and then, but more than once his sense of stupid nobility nearly got the both of them killed. It took a lot to keep an eye on someone like him. Someone green.
And now she got another. Well. On the upside, she couldn't say she wasn't very fond of Larry. She was. He was like a kid brother at this point, really, and she'd do about anything for him. She really couldn't complain that they were bringing someone else on payroll, either. There were just too many appointments for the staff to handle as-is. They needed more people. They were booked solid every week, and with some of her extra-vocational activities, she wasn't exactly flexible these days.
She supposed her only real gripe was that this meeting meant she would be running late. Late for a date with the Master of the City. Jean-Claude did not like to be kept waiting. Not under any circumstances
... she would call him on her way out the door. Should have been enough.
She heard a quiet buzz from the phone; the night secretary had paged her. "Anita, Mr. Miles Kelley is here for your appointment."
"Thanks. Send him in."
Let the hazing begin.
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