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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[pharadyne]

Player Name: Rafe
Character Name: Norton Folgate
Path to Graduation: Norton's path to redemption was basically "learn to have non-backstabbing relationships and be less murdery." The first one just gradually happened by being stuck with the same people for a long period of time and having to deal with relationship ups and downs. He has proper friends, including people whose happiness he cares enough about to set aside his selfishness for them.

Learning to be less murdery had a few stages. A conversation Zhao Yunlan helped him recontextualize how he thought about collateral damage. Instead of "some collateral damage of civilians is fine so long as you get the job done" Yunlan made the point that "collateral damage of civilians means you fucked up somewhere getting the job done." And it stuck. So even though collateral damage might sometimes happen, instead of shrugging it off as an acceptable outcome, he'll put in proper effort to prevent it.

Lots and lots of conversations with Kiryu (and also an attempt to kill Kiryu) addressed Norton's more personal murdery habits and tendency to use murder as a go-to way to solve problems or address any injustice done to him, often in ways that are unproductive, unnecessary, and result in bad outcomes for him and people he cares about. Kiryu helped Norton conceptualize a sort of positive selfishness. Basically, think through consequences better. Put the focus on protecting the things that matter to him, not destroying things. (And sometimes that might mean killing, but not routinely.)

So when Norton decided not to murder Makima, even though it would have been easy to, and he strongly felt she'd wronged him, it was proof that even under strain he thinks through these situations a bit differently now.

Norton will be staying on as a warden. He's still sharp, still petty, still selfish, but very anti-senseless violence (while being all for violence that makes sense). If an inmate needs to learn consequences, Norton will creatively give them. He'll also probably be a good match for inmates who act out from a sense of rage at injustice or an outsider status. Or for people who need to learn to tone down their "ends justify the means" impulses.

[bargemods]

Unscreened! Please have Norton's warden comment here to finalize what his deal will be.

[lone_horse]

Kiryu would ask that the reputation and career of Shinada Tatsuo be restored and the actual perpetrators of the illegal sports gambling that ruined his life (aka some of his team members and his coach) be the ones caught and banned for their actions.