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kintsugambol) wrote2020-06-28 03:20 pm
kintsugambol) wrote2020-06-28 03:20 pm
(ooc) erku application
content warning for (mostly implicit) references to the physical/emotional/sexual abuse of a minor by an older partner and the resulting trauma, along with stalking and death.
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Name: zero
Over 18?: yes
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Characters Currently In Game: n/a
Character Info
Name: Blake Belladonna
Canon: RWBY
Canon Point: immediately post-Volume 7 Chapter 13
Age: 19
Background: History on the RWBY wiki
Personality:
Blake Belladonna is quite literally a born activist, with the Belladonna family having held a central role in Menagerie’s politics for generations by the time she was born. In the aftermath of the Faunus Rights Revolution, her father Ghira had founded the White Fang, a roaming advocacy and political group aimed at Faunus equality in the long-term and mutual aid in the present. Splitting her time between Menagerie and the other continents of Remnant as a child, she was immersed in the struggle for Faunus rights from a young age and expected to follow her parents’ lead one day. All of this combined to create an outspoken girl with no tolerance for injustice and a healthy distrust for the powers that be. When she was young, Adam Taurus preyed upon this and manipulated her to his side, trying to mold her into what he wanted, directing that energy towards his own spiteful ends. He succeeded, for a time—but eventually, Blake found the strength to break from Adam, wanting to be better. Her passion for her people’s struggle never went away, unbroken by her abuser’s self-serving goals. This advanced further with the choice to use her skills to become a Huntress, able to protect and fight for everyone better, but with the Faunus struggle closest to her heart.
She’s a survivor. She’s had to be, with her background. Whether it was a clash at a protest, a heist for the White Fang, or just enduring another day of Adam, Blake has hard-learned lessons about when to pick her battles, when to stand her ground, when to run and when to appease someone. She displays a number of reflexive behaviors characteristic of abuse even years after leaving Adam, meant to defend herself or defuse a temper that she may only think is there. She sees her Semblance as a reflection of this, viewing it as a sign of her own weakness at her lowest points—a copy that takes the hit while she runs away. Years of abuse and her stolen childhood heavily skewed her sense of self-worth, causing her to see herself as cowardly and toxic for a long time. She’s working on unlearning this, but it’s slow going. Even in spite of her fear of how she affects other people, she’s fiercely protective of her friends and loved ones—stepping between Adam and a downed Yang in open, angry defiance while unarmed and wounded is a prime example of this.
Blake is pretty outwardly mellow, moody and quiet, with a love for tea and books. Think a full-on fucking Austen or Bronte romantic leading man, gender-flipped, and you’re most of the way there. In volume 1, relatively fresh from leaving Adam and still having heavily internalized his effects on her, she was extremely reluctant to open up to anyone, even hiding her status as a Faunus from her own teammates until they learned the truth. She didn’t want her past to catch up to the people she cared about, and she had convinced herself that no one could understand what she was going through. Even so, she cares, deeply, and demonstrates a dry sense of humor along with her trust and compassion for others. Unlearning the twisted ideas and coping mechanisms Adam left her with has taken time, and it’s still a process.
“I’m not sure there are many good options left for any of us anymore. Keeping secrets, taking lives? It makes you wonder how far we’re gonna have to go to keep doing the right thing.”
Even after leaving Adam’s radicalized blackpill bullshit branch of the White Fang, Blake is willing to take lives if absolutely necessary, but she’ll always do everything in her power to ensure it won’t come to that, hating the act. Still, she recognizes that sometimes there isn’t a choice. She gave Adam every possible chance to leave her alone and back away, but she and Yang were forced to kill him in self-defense; even after everything that he took from her, having that blood directly on her hands badly shook Blake, and it took Yang to pull her out of a breakdown. Later, when Yang and Blake talked about what happened, Blake agreed that they did what they had to do, but said that “Next time, I want to make sure we don’t have to.”
Blake is a leader by nature and training, and for much of her life that was stolen from her, while she was reduced to a prop and possession by a man who wanted to usurp her eventual role for himself. Her journey has been about finding her way back to her path and reclaiming not just her future, but that of her people by extension.
Much of her sense of morality is, in a way, a reaction to her trauma; one largely driven by her desire to separate her path from Adam's and to make up for her own wrongdoings, perceived or otherwise. This has led to her over-correcting her stances in the past, similar to the pattern of appeasing behavior that she has fallen back into at times. Blake’s politics and worldview have been warped significantly in different directions as a result of her abuse at her former mentor’s hands—after her return to Menagerie, she initially bounced too far in the other direction, back to the passive stances that her father had withdrawn into—and much of her journey going forward has been about trying to find a new way for the movement to operate. While Blake has stepped away from politics and activism to go on World-Saving Adventures with her team, she's slowly coming to believe that neither the way her father eventually did things or the guerrilla warfare of Sienna Khan, which was co-opted by Adam’s self-aggrandizing campaigns of spite and hatred, will work. Her ethics may be based first and foremost on love, trust, and kindness, but they aren't soft by any means.
Since Adam’s death, she’s become more comfortable in her own skin. Trauma doesn’t leave people, but her abuser is gone and can’t hurt her or anyone she cares about again. Blake’s gotten out of her own head, laughing and smiling more and much more willing to have fun. She’s reaffirmed her loyalty and commitment to those she cares about, and is determined not to let her fear push her away from them again.
Powers:
• Training: Along with her weapons training, Blake is shown to be incredibly strong and agile; she's generally fast and light on her feet. She relies on speed, stealth and trickery in most cases, but she’s more than capable of brute force when it’s called for. Full on ninja bullshit. She's also skilled with infiltration tactics.
• Semblance: Blake’s Semblance, Shadow, allows her to create illusory copies of herself that push her in the direction of her choice. She can use these for distraction, taking hits in her place, or a mobility boost. With Dust cartridges in Gambol Shroud, she can imbue her clones with different elemental traits: fiery clones that explode on contact, solid clones of ice or stone to form obstacles or entrap opponents, etc.
• Aura: The manifestation of the soul in RWBY, Blake can project this from her body for defense, amplifying attacks, or healing. It isn’t infinite, so Blake can only take a few attacks that would be otherwise fatal or debilitating before her Aura is fully depleted. It recharges over time, however.
• Faunus traits: As a cat Faunus, Blake’s hearing is more sensitive than a human’s, and she can see easily in the dark.
Inventory:
• Gambol Shroud and two extra magazines
• Outfit
• Scroll (sci-fi smartphone, basically)
• Crate of Dust ammunition
Samples:
TDM thread with Ilia
TDM thread with Yang
Player Info:
Name: zero
Over 18?: yes
Contact:
Characters Currently In Game: n/a
Character Info
Name: Blake Belladonna
Canon: RWBY
Canon Point: immediately post-Volume 7 Chapter 13
Age: 19
Background: History on the RWBY wiki
Personality:
Blake Belladonna is quite literally a born activist, with the Belladonna family having held a central role in Menagerie’s politics for generations by the time she was born. In the aftermath of the Faunus Rights Revolution, her father Ghira had founded the White Fang, a roaming advocacy and political group aimed at Faunus equality in the long-term and mutual aid in the present. Splitting her time between Menagerie and the other continents of Remnant as a child, she was immersed in the struggle for Faunus rights from a young age and expected to follow her parents’ lead one day. All of this combined to create an outspoken girl with no tolerance for injustice and a healthy distrust for the powers that be. When she was young, Adam Taurus preyed upon this and manipulated her to his side, trying to mold her into what he wanted, directing that energy towards his own spiteful ends. He succeeded, for a time—but eventually, Blake found the strength to break from Adam, wanting to be better. Her passion for her people’s struggle never went away, unbroken by her abuser’s self-serving goals. This advanced further with the choice to use her skills to become a Huntress, able to protect and fight for everyone better, but with the Faunus struggle closest to her heart.
She’s a survivor. She’s had to be, with her background. Whether it was a clash at a protest, a heist for the White Fang, or just enduring another day of Adam, Blake has hard-learned lessons about when to pick her battles, when to stand her ground, when to run and when to appease someone. She displays a number of reflexive behaviors characteristic of abuse even years after leaving Adam, meant to defend herself or defuse a temper that she may only think is there. She sees her Semblance as a reflection of this, viewing it as a sign of her own weakness at her lowest points—a copy that takes the hit while she runs away. Years of abuse and her stolen childhood heavily skewed her sense of self-worth, causing her to see herself as cowardly and toxic for a long time. She’s working on unlearning this, but it’s slow going. Even in spite of her fear of how she affects other people, she’s fiercely protective of her friends and loved ones—stepping between Adam and a downed Yang in open, angry defiance while unarmed and wounded is a prime example of this.
Blake is pretty outwardly mellow, moody and quiet, with a love for tea and books. Think a full-on fucking Austen or Bronte romantic leading man, gender-flipped, and you’re most of the way there. In volume 1, relatively fresh from leaving Adam and still having heavily internalized his effects on her, she was extremely reluctant to open up to anyone, even hiding her status as a Faunus from her own teammates until they learned the truth. She didn’t want her past to catch up to the people she cared about, and she had convinced herself that no one could understand what she was going through. Even so, she cares, deeply, and demonstrates a dry sense of humor along with her trust and compassion for others. Unlearning the twisted ideas and coping mechanisms Adam left her with has taken time, and it’s still a process.
“I’m not sure there are many good options left for any of us anymore. Keeping secrets, taking lives? It makes you wonder how far we’re gonna have to go to keep doing the right thing.”
Even after leaving Adam’s radicalized blackpill bullshit branch of the White Fang, Blake is willing to take lives if absolutely necessary, but she’ll always do everything in her power to ensure it won’t come to that, hating the act. Still, she recognizes that sometimes there isn’t a choice. She gave Adam every possible chance to leave her alone and back away, but she and Yang were forced to kill him in self-defense; even after everything that he took from her, having that blood directly on her hands badly shook Blake, and it took Yang to pull her out of a breakdown. Later, when Yang and Blake talked about what happened, Blake agreed that they did what they had to do, but said that “Next time, I want to make sure we don’t have to.”
Blake is a leader by nature and training, and for much of her life that was stolen from her, while she was reduced to a prop and possession by a man who wanted to usurp her eventual role for himself. Her journey has been about finding her way back to her path and reclaiming not just her future, but that of her people by extension.
Much of her sense of morality is, in a way, a reaction to her trauma; one largely driven by her desire to separate her path from Adam's and to make up for her own wrongdoings, perceived or otherwise. This has led to her over-correcting her stances in the past, similar to the pattern of appeasing behavior that she has fallen back into at times. Blake’s politics and worldview have been warped significantly in different directions as a result of her abuse at her former mentor’s hands—after her return to Menagerie, she initially bounced too far in the other direction, back to the passive stances that her father had withdrawn into—and much of her journey going forward has been about trying to find a new way for the movement to operate. While Blake has stepped away from politics and activism to go on World-Saving Adventures with her team, she's slowly coming to believe that neither the way her father eventually did things or the guerrilla warfare of Sienna Khan, which was co-opted by Adam’s self-aggrandizing campaigns of spite and hatred, will work. Her ethics may be based first and foremost on love, trust, and kindness, but they aren't soft by any means.
Since Adam’s death, she’s become more comfortable in her own skin. Trauma doesn’t leave people, but her abuser is gone and can’t hurt her or anyone she cares about again. Blake’s gotten out of her own head, laughing and smiling more and much more willing to have fun. She’s reaffirmed her loyalty and commitment to those she cares about, and is determined not to let her fear push her away from them again.
Powers:
• Training: Along with her weapons training, Blake is shown to be incredibly strong and agile; she's generally fast and light on her feet. She relies on speed, stealth and trickery in most cases, but she’s more than capable of brute force when it’s called for. Full on ninja bullshit. She's also skilled with infiltration tactics.
• Semblance: Blake’s Semblance, Shadow, allows her to create illusory copies of herself that push her in the direction of her choice. She can use these for distraction, taking hits in her place, or a mobility boost. With Dust cartridges in Gambol Shroud, she can imbue her clones with different elemental traits: fiery clones that explode on contact, solid clones of ice or stone to form obstacles or entrap opponents, etc.
• Aura: The manifestation of the soul in RWBY, Blake can project this from her body for defense, amplifying attacks, or healing. It isn’t infinite, so Blake can only take a few attacks that would be otherwise fatal or debilitating before her Aura is fully depleted. It recharges over time, however.
• Faunus traits: As a cat Faunus, Blake’s hearing is more sensitive than a human’s, and she can see easily in the dark.
Inventory:
• Gambol Shroud and two extra magazines
• Outfit
• Scroll (sci-fi smartphone, basically)
• Crate of Dust ammunition
Samples:
TDM thread with Ilia
TDM thread with Yang