TLV - Graduations & Demotions

[bargemods]

GRADUATIONS & DEMOTIONS

Inmate graduation is a vital aspect of the game, and occasionally, warden demotion crops up in play as well. If you're planning to graduate your inmate or demote your warden in the near future, please fill out this short form!

Graduations and demotions are character decisions made at player discretion, but in the rare situation that we find ourselves concerned that a graduation or demotion is premise-breaking, the player will be contacted privately. Once we've read through a comment and confirmed that it doesn't contain anything premise-breaking, we'll reply with a confirmation.

Once a graduation comment has been confirmed, the warden of the graduating inmate should reply to their inmate's comment either confirming that their character will be fulfilling the deal laid out in their application, or - in situations where they changed their mind about their deal during their time in-game - receive a verdict about whether the new deal idea is doable.

GRADUATION

<b>Player Name</b>: <b>Character Name</b>: <b>Path to Graduation</b>: How have they changed while aboard the Barge, and what helped cause this change? What were their key milestones? What have they come to regret about their past, and what are they going to do differently now going forward? If they're going to be staying on as a warden, what do they have to offer an inmate? We're not looking for more than a paragraph or two of basic overview here, but if you'd like to TL;DR at us, feel free!

DEMOTION

<b>Player Name</b>: <b>Character Name</b>: <b>Path to Demotion</b>: What actions or choice(s) are causing their demotion, and how did they get to this point? What makes them no longer suited for wardenhood, and what issues will they need to work on as an inmate? We're not looking for more than a paragraph or two of basic overview here, but if you'd like to TL;DR at us, feel free!

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[fifthofthecovenant]

Player Name: Gail
Character Name: Chase Collins
Path to Graduation: Chase will admit, both to himself and in public, that he has friends (Yelena and Wen Ning; he's less likely to admit to anyone else, but it is still a big step!). He has taken responsibility for one of his own very big mistakes, and tried to correct it (the spider explosion). He has confronted the idea that he does kind of want to die, and been confronted with the idea that there are people who don't want him to die (Yelena, Wen Ning, and Ashton). He's aware of how much he actually does hate himself for turning himself into a monster, in his own words, but he's had the two most important people in his Barge life (Yelena and Wen Ning, again) both basically say he's not that much of a monster and not be particularly shocked by his kill count of four, three of which were mostly accidental. He's not sure he believes them, but their lack of reaction helped him learn he's not that special.

Most importantly, he's also decided that he kind of doesn't want to die anymore. Talking to Yelena's mother and putting up his own 4th wall message that resulted in not hearing from his parents at all proved to him just how much he misses them, and how he wants to see them even if they do wind up hating him for killing them and then murdering more people to get them back. This is the thing he really needed to be able to move on: being willing to actually have a future, and be willing to stick to that future even if that future isn't the one he most wants.

He still has other things to work through, such as his addiction to magic and that he still has problems being empathetic and compassionate with people he doesn't know well. However, as he fully intends to stay on as a warden, he knows he has to work on at least the second one of those, and he will do so, as much because he does want to be worthy of his parents' forgiveness as because he figures it'll be necessary to help other inmates.

The things he has to offer to an inmate are... admittedly limited. Mostly right now, they sum up to his experiences as an inmate, wanting to die out of guilt and fear but learning to accept love anyway, and issues with magic. As he is going to be continuing to work on himself to make himself a better person, though, he will be able to work alongside an inmate to help them with similar issues to the ones he has. He won't work well with all inmates, but he doesn't have to: he just needs to work well with one, in the end.

[bargemods]

Approved! Please have Chase's warden comment here to finalize their deal.

[verynormalturnipseller]

Wen Ning's deal is to have the Wen survivors disappear from Carp Tower right before their executions, to be transported to somewhere remote in the northwest where they can live anonymously and in safety.