TLV - Graduations & Demotions

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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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[major_rawne]

Player Name: Lydia
Character Name: Elim Rawne
Path to Graduation:
When Rawne arrived on the Barge, he was an angry, grieving mess. He'd lost his home planet and been sent out to die in the Sabbat Crusade and, as of his arrival on the Barge, had died. The only way he knew how to express his grief was anger. The only way he knew to express most things was anger. He didn't trust anyone, he didn't have friends, he didn't know what to do with kindness directed at him, because it was such a rarity.

What Rawne needed first was to actually, truly grieve. To allow himself to feel sadness about the fact that everyone he'd ever known was dead. Once that block was out of the way, he could start figuring out emotions and forming connections with other people. The emotions thing was the most difficult for him, but time and Quentin making the watch for him were what finally did it. Making friends was a good and bad thing, because he did backslide some by hiding things (the bootlegging) from his warden, but he needed those connections to keep him from falling back into isolation and to realize that other people have uses beyond being used. That also led to him becoming a better leader/officer-type because he wasn't just looking at what he got out of a situation, but how to get the best outcome from it. Working in maintenance also helped, both because he was working with people he (generally) liked, and because it taught him a bit of humility. He's come around to the idea that there's no work that's unimportant or below him.

Once Rawne graduates, he's going to get a canon update, so he'll have some additional things to offer his inmate once he becomes a warden. The update is going from the third book (Necropolis) to the eleventh book (Only in Death). He's gone through several traumatic experiences and is much more at ease with himself. He's still prickly and sardonic (he always will be), but he's grown into his ability to be a good officer and friend. At the same time, he remembers what it's like to be miserable and so used to misery that any change seems impossible. He can offer understanding and a way out. He's not afraid to yell at his inmates or push them to face what they've done, but he'll make sure they know he's not going to abandon them. He remembers that Quentin was like that and he remembers how much it helped, to have someone in his corner like that.

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