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TLV Mods ([personal profile] bargemods) wrote2013-03-05 11:33 pm
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TLV - Graduations & Demotions

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



DEMOTION




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[personal profile] sanityinruins 2022-03-01 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Alec
Character Name: Ye Zun
Path to Graduation:
Change would be something that lesser beings would admit to, but Ye Zun has become less prickly when it comes to other races, especially humans. He still isn't one to easily call humans the best thing ever, but he has come to appreciate them and find them less than hateful for the most part. It does help that he has found himself befriending a few of them - like the monster hunter Trevor and a couple others who have now left the Barge. He still finds them to be annoying but instead of feeling all must be gutted, he feels more like an old immortal watching the folly of children. He won't go out of his way to actively give them a hand but he is willing to bend his high and mighty ways to just chill with them and share things that he enjoys.

Meeting up with another ancient being full of anger and talking to them has also helped. Dracula might be of a different place and time than him, but there is a feeling of common goals and anger in the ancient vampire that he found comforting. Watching him find a form of peace helped him look at his own anger and realize that it was that of a child's temper really, and made him actually more willing to reach out to his twin for help. After that, there is also the disappearance of Zhao Yunlan and while he doesn't like the human, Ye Zun knows that the human was taken back by the true source of his pain and anger. Having more of a goal to focus on, to want to get rid of those things, helped him work out any lingering hesitation to tackle his own problems head on.

Outside of his more benevolent attitude towards the human populace (barring those few he thinks are not going to ever learn unless they get their brains beaten out), his biggest change is how he feels towards his brother. The hate has been purged before this, but he had a lot of bitter and poisonous thoughts towards his brother's dating another person and treating the rest of the world more important than him. He still finds some of that a bit troublesome, mainly because of how readily his twin is willing to throw himself in the path of danger, but he is now less likely to get prickly over his brother's attentions landing elsewhere and he is willing to actually help his brother - granted with a snarky comment or two. Part of that acceptance has been shown by his willingness to change the name he has been going by for centuries and to use one that he shares with his brother - and not only that, he actually let his brother choose his given name. No longer Ye Zun - at least to those that matter - he is Shen Jiye and has been reborn to a much kinder self.

In all honesty though, he was here first and foremost to learn how to control his abilities and once he and his brother worked on them - plus the year long crash where he had to learn how to feed his hunger without the Barge - he found a balance with his hunger and his own native skills. He doesn't need the rush of power any more, he can survive without killing someone. He doesn't need to kill, and can in fact use his ability to take sips of actual energy sources without any human touch. He still will use it for defense, but it's not an addiction, nor does he need it as he did before.

But even though he is able to have control over himself, he is not going to leave just yet. He needs to stay for his brother, who is reaching a critical stage of his own by being made into an inmate and all that entails. He also has a desire to even the field back home and if this Barge can grant him that? He will take it. What they left behind between the Haixing and the Dixing was not stable enough, especially since the biggest power is fueled by a single soul. He will need both his brother and a deal to fix things on their home world.

So what he will bring to the table for an inmate? Two things really. Like Dracula, he is an old creature of unlimited power who is quite capable of ignoring the worse that anyone can do so long as they do not touch his bottom line (his brother) and if they do touch it? He is capable of using tricks he's learned over the years to contain and diffuse. He won't stoop as far as using his own mental abilities on someone unless they give him no choice, but what he wants to do is give them an opportunity to see the actual harm they are doing to themselves and to others. He can also help in setting up ways to show them that they will not need to change who they are, only how they react to the negative. He is also of the age and skill where he can help those people who are over whelmed or drowning in their own abilities and help them claim their skills from the wild chaos that makes them.
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[personal profile] colorofthesky 2022-03-01 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Zack’s deal will be to eliminate Jenova’s mimetic legacy in the Lifestream.