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App for Somnia WIP
PLAYER INFO
Name: Basil
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woodrift
Age: too close to 40 oh my God
Invite Link: Right here.
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Shelley Lang
Canon: Original
Age: 45
If Under 16, why is this character a good thematic fit for Somnia?: n/a
Canon Point: During the blizzard and power outage they they found themselves in, after he shot a man he thought was his friend for putting his young employer and his assistant in danger.
Wiki Link(s): Here.
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
For Shelley this is a unique experience because this is effectively his second near death experience in the span of a month. He's at a point in his life where he's too tired to fight the ridiculous, unnatural experiences that he has and greets them with curiosity instead of rejection or denial. His overall reaction to the world is 'okay, this is a thing." He instead shrugs over it and asks questions instead. 'what is going on?' and 'why is this happening?'
The question of why is an effect of his job as a detective. 'Why' leads to figuring out the reasons why an incident happened, and by proxy reveals who the culprit is.
2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
An overall theme in Shelley's life is running away as an excuse to not deal with his personal problems, rebuilding his identity in a new location so that he isn't faced with the daily reminders of what he's lost or has missing in his life. Other people problems are easier to deal with than his own, and in his current timeline he has no choice but to actually face a variety of problems that are beyond his control- nearly dying from his immune system rebelling and attacking a vital process necessary to survive, vision issues that come with this as a result of ignoring his problems for too long.
He also has a lack of self worth that goes along with his, which amounts to a self destructive streak that results in him ignoring his needs and boundaries.
This will be a good lesson in being mindful about what HE needs- as if the vision issues that cause him to be unable to identify fine details around him or even read properly aren't enough.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
His connections to others run hot and fast- its why he was effectively part of a polycule with two of his school mates when he was younger, and why he left town when one of them died of slow progressing illness in their 20s. He's not very good at verbalizing his emotions, and the depth of that he feels at times leaves him unsettled. Dipping into the woods for a weekend without telling too many people was a common strategy when he was younger- but the death of a peer, one he loved, was more than he knew how to deal with.
This is incidentally why he plays instruments. It's not an act for performance, it's an act of safe emotional expression, not unlike seeing characters like Tony Shalhoub's in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, when he aggressively plays the piano in academic and fatherly rage.
4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
There is a lot of logic vs. emotion going on with Shelley. On one hand, his job of choice is reliant on his ability to discern the truth through an understanding of how people work and his ability to recognize patterns in real time to deduce the next rational beat- but a lot of it is in an effort to keep his own emotions compartmentalized, because the same critical thinking that he uses to be successful in his field can quickly be twisted and turned against himself if he's not careful. Anxiety and depression are common friends of his, and his lack of self worth manifests in a self deprication that may or may not just be a joke.
He knows the rational thing is to take better care of himself so that he can better send the community he finds himself in, but what that looks like for himself is often quite different from how it looks for others- he needs time to himself or in the wilderness, to focus on what is tactile and tangible.
People are people and people are messy. He doesn't like messy. But, building a fire to make himself a cup of coffee while he strums on the ukulele that lives in his campervan while the sun sets is real- more real than the increasingly loud world with 24 hour news cycles and airbrushed social media that lives in everyone's pockets instead of a room in the house.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token or Offering? Token
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? Token is appropriate because one of the ongoing questions in his storyline which directly afrects his young partner is the question of humanity- what it means and it's impacts on the larger picture. His partner is a young nature spirit in the form of a shapeshifting bird whom Shelley has dubbed Lola, and, while she acts as his eyes for both the literal and metaphorical fog Shelley finds himself in while trying to solve the disappearance and probably murder of his childhood friend, she lacks the insight and understanding of the world that Shelley has.
Lola's Mother specifically chose Shelley to investigate the manner in which her well was polluted by being used to hide a body specifically for his love of nature but also his humanity. It's important that he keeps it.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Aquamancer- because the last time he ran into an Eldritch and Powerful Lady, she was the embodiment of an old mountain spring and he nearly drowned.
Samples: TDM Toplevel
Name: Basil
Preferred Contact:
Age: too close to 40 oh my God
Invite Link: Right here.
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Shelley Lang
Canon: Original
Age: 45
If Under 16, why is this character a good thematic fit for Somnia?: n/a
Canon Point: During the blizzard and power outage they they found themselves in, after he shot a man he thought was his friend for putting his young employer and his assistant in danger.
Wiki Link(s): Here.
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
For Shelley this is a unique experience because this is effectively his second near death experience in the span of a month. He's at a point in his life where he's too tired to fight the ridiculous, unnatural experiences that he has and greets them with curiosity instead of rejection or denial. His overall reaction to the world is 'okay, this is a thing." He instead shrugs over it and asks questions instead. 'what is going on?' and 'why is this happening?'
The question of why is an effect of his job as a detective. 'Why' leads to figuring out the reasons why an incident happened, and by proxy reveals who the culprit is.
2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
An overall theme in Shelley's life is running away as an excuse to not deal with his personal problems, rebuilding his identity in a new location so that he isn't faced with the daily reminders of what he's lost or has missing in his life. Other people problems are easier to deal with than his own, and in his current timeline he has no choice but to actually face a variety of problems that are beyond his control- nearly dying from his immune system rebelling and attacking a vital process necessary to survive, vision issues that come with this as a result of ignoring his problems for too long.
He also has a lack of self worth that goes along with his, which amounts to a self destructive streak that results in him ignoring his needs and boundaries.
This will be a good lesson in being mindful about what HE needs- as if the vision issues that cause him to be unable to identify fine details around him or even read properly aren't enough.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
His connections to others run hot and fast- its why he was effectively part of a polycule with two of his school mates when he was younger, and why he left town when one of them died of slow progressing illness in their 20s. He's not very good at verbalizing his emotions, and the depth of that he feels at times leaves him unsettled. Dipping into the woods for a weekend without telling too many people was a common strategy when he was younger- but the death of a peer, one he loved, was more than he knew how to deal with.
This is incidentally why he plays instruments. It's not an act for performance, it's an act of safe emotional expression, not unlike seeing characters like Tony Shalhoub's in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, when he aggressively plays the piano in academic and fatherly rage.
4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
There is a lot of logic vs. emotion going on with Shelley. On one hand, his job of choice is reliant on his ability to discern the truth through an understanding of how people work and his ability to recognize patterns in real time to deduce the next rational beat- but a lot of it is in an effort to keep his own emotions compartmentalized, because the same critical thinking that he uses to be successful in his field can quickly be twisted and turned against himself if he's not careful. Anxiety and depression are common friends of his, and his lack of self worth manifests in a self deprication that may or may not just be a joke.
He knows the rational thing is to take better care of himself so that he can better send the community he finds himself in, but what that looks like for himself is often quite different from how it looks for others- he needs time to himself or in the wilderness, to focus on what is tactile and tangible.
People are people and people are messy. He doesn't like messy. But, building a fire to make himself a cup of coffee while he strums on the ukulele that lives in his campervan while the sun sets is real- more real than the increasingly loud world with 24 hour news cycles and airbrushed social media that lives in everyone's pockets instead of a room in the house.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token or Offering? Token
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? Token is appropriate because one of the ongoing questions in his storyline which directly afrects his young partner is the question of humanity- what it means and it's impacts on the larger picture. His partner is a young nature spirit in the form of a shapeshifting bird whom Shelley has dubbed Lola, and, while she acts as his eyes for both the literal and metaphorical fog Shelley finds himself in while trying to solve the disappearance and probably murder of his childhood friend, she lacks the insight and understanding of the world that Shelley has.
Lola's Mother specifically chose Shelley to investigate the manner in which her well was polluted by being used to hide a body specifically for his love of nature but also his humanity. It's important that he keeps it.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Aquamancer- because the last time he ran into an Eldritch and Powerful Lady, she was the embodiment of an old mountain spring and he nearly drowned.
Samples: TDM Toplevel