Sample Application

Applications on rEvolution are made in the Google Form listed in the #applications channel in Discord. Note that these are only guidelines; for each field you are welcome to be more or less detailed, as you see fit; we don't ask for novels, we ask only that you provide enough to give us a clear concept of your character, and to justify the skills and powers that you want to use once you have been approved.

Below are some applications that have been approved on the game in the past that can be used as examples.

Kitty Pryde - Mutant, FC

any notes about the app could go here. this character has had their app updated since approval -- please see Kitty's page for up to date in game information.

Description

Kitty is short and wiry, all muscle tone and curly brown hair. Standing at 5’2”, she stares people down with big brown eyes and a resting scowl daring people to mess with her. Her forehead is big and a point of adolescent anxiety. She used to care a lot about her appearance - these days she lives in athlesiure wear and messy buns.

Personality

A classic extrovert, Kitty can be incredibly charming when she wants to be - though as she overworks herself more and more, she tends to get snappish. She has incredibly high standards for herself and tries to succeed in all things. She’s starting to burn out from the overextension. She is stubborn and sarcastic. Kitty is solutions-oriented- talk to her if you want advice, not just a hug (intangible hugs aren’t the best.) She sometimes forgives but never forgets - she has held a grudge against a childhood bully for over 20 years now.

Background

Katherine “Kitty” Pryde is the only child of Carmen Pryde and his ex-wife Theresa, second generation Jewish Americans, and the only grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. She grew up in a upper middle class suburb with access to extracurriculars, good public schools, and Jewish community.

Shortly after she turned ten, Kitty was kidnapped after school by members of a Chicago based criminal organization. She was held hostage to threaten her father, who to Kitty’s shock was involved in white-collar crime through the bank he worked at. After her return, Kitty was enrolled in self-defence classes.

After her thirteenth birthday, Kitty began to experience terrible headaches and nightmares of falling through the floor. One day she woke up to find she had fallen through the floor, in the first manifestation of her mutation. She was shortly thereafter recruited to the Xavier School, where she excelled throughout academically. Kitty was fascinated with the X-Men team and joined up as soon as she could.

Though her parents wanted her to return to Chicago for university, Kitty stayed in New York, attending Columbia for undergraduate studies and NYU for her PhD in physics. Even though she had lots of college credit from XS, Kitty still took the full four years to graduate as she tried to balance academics with her obligations as an X-Man. She took a year off after graduation from university to travel and try to regain life balance, something she has always struggled with. Currently she is in year 3 of her PhD in astrophysics at NYU and doing her best.

Skills

Accomplished martial artist - after her kidnapping as a child, Kitty was enrolled in self-defence classes, and arrived at Xavier’s School already familiar with Krav Maga and Brazilian jiujitsu. She took exclusively self-defence and strength classes for her physical education requirement to maintain her aptitude and continues to train.

Flexibility - Kitty began ballet classes at three years old. While she would never get to a competitive level in ballet, her dance training (continued for a time at XS as well) makes her light on her feet in combat and very flexible in general.

Languages - She went to Hebrew School as a child prior to XS and has a good grasp on liturgical Hebrew and a shakier grasp on Modern Hebrew. During her time at XS she took Japanese and has moderate fluency. For her language credit at university, she took Russian, which she has about children’s level fluency in.

Computers - Originally not interested due to her powers interfering with technology, Kitty found herself deeply interested in computer science while at XS. She took extra credits of CS and majored in it for her undergraduate degree.

Leadership - A natural leader, Kitty is quick to identify people’s strengths and weaknesses, which is inherently judgemental. However, she is impatient, a trait that she needs to work on if she wants to lead an X-Team one day. She is good at public speaking.

Powers

Kitty walks through walls. Specifically, Kitty can move the atoms of her body through the atoms of other bodies and objects without destroying or changing them. She can render different parts of her of her body intangible at will, or her whole body to let projectiles pass through her. However, since she learned to control it her phasing has been a conscious ability, so if she is unaware of a projectile it will hit her very tangible body.

After years of training at Xavier School, she has developed control to make objects and other people intangible as long as she is making contact with them. She has only successfully phased two other people with her at a time.

She can only be phased as long as she can hold her breath, since she also passes through air molecules while phased. When she phases through electronics, the current interaction with the displaced atoms tends to short out or damage the device. Denser materials are more difficult for her to phase through, to the point of causing pain. The nature of Adamantium and Vibranium on a molecular level also pose difficulties - phasing through either makes her incredibly ill.

Resources

Financial support from dual-income upper middle class parents. A decent graduate school stipend. The trust of X-Men leadership. A small hatchback car. Access to underworld connections, if she wanted them (she does not).