Kylo (IT'S NOT A PHASE, DAD) Ren (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
killthepast) wrote2017-12-07 02:05 pm
killthepast) wrote2017-12-07 02:05 pm
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player information
● name: Ros
● age: 32
● contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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● other characters: Chase Collins. I also put in an app for Jefferson from OUAT, but I'm withdrawing it from this round because... I somehow got it in my head that there was a 3 character cap, not a 2 character cap. \o/
character information
● name: Kylo Ren (formerly: Ben Solo)
● canon: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
● canon point: Immediately after the movie. (ie getting his ass kicked and face sliced open by Rey)
● age: 29
● (canon) background: BOOM
● (original) world: N/A
● abilities: Like the other Skywalkers, Kylo Ren's Force-sensitive, possessing a great degree of raw power and potential. Here's an overview of Force abilities! In Ren's case, he's trained with both the Light and the Dark Sides of the Force, and is shown excelling in telekinesis and telepathy. Specifically, he can use the Force to freeze people in place, stop a blaster bolt mid-air, and forcefully (heh) throw them around like ragdolls. With telepathy, Ren doesn't seem to rely on subtler techniques like Jedi mind tricks, but rather takes an invasive approach, favoring probing the minds of his victims to take the information he desires. Because he lacks the self-control of, say, Darth Vader, his own uses of the Force are more explosive, blunt, and heavy handed than his grandfather's more impassive cruelty.
He's also a skilled lightsaber combatant, and he possesses a breadth of knowledge about the Force, both from his Jedi training and his research into the Dark Side.
● strengths: The strengths that Kylo Ren possesses are, generally speaking, aimed in all the wrong ways and applied to all the wrong things. However, they point to a capacity to be truly great, if only he'd pull his head out of his ass.
AMBITIOUS: In order to achieve his level of control over the Force, Kylo Ren is clearly somebody who possesses not only raw talent, but the drive to keep studying, training, and pushing himself to master his abilities. He isn't content to sit on his laurels; he must excel. As the rightful heir to Darth Vader's legacy, he must finish what his grandfather started. He must bring order to the galaxy. His ambitions are cruel and, frankly, terrible, but they also show that he's somebody who can't and won't be complacent. In this sense, he's very much like his mother.
DISCIPLINED: His bearing suggests some degree of discipline, which ties back to his driven nature. Ren is somebody who can (with effort) push aside sentimentality to make difficult decisions and achieve what he believes must be done. Again, the problem is that he applies this in the wrong way, but if he were to dedicate himself to something worthwhile, then this aspect of his personality would be a remarkable asset, the mark of a true leader.
PULLED TO THE LIGHT: Leia's hope that a part of her son still lives isn't unfounded. For all his cruelty and viciousness, for all of the terrible acts he commits (and they are many), that flicker of goodness inside of him still refuses to be snuffed out. Where his grandfather was seduced by the Dark Side, Ren's seduced by the Light. He's not beyond saving; he has the potential to turn back, and he knows it (and fears it).
● weaknesses: Kylo Ren's weaknesses exist on the same spectrum as his strengths, just at opposite ends, resulting in a constant struggle to overcome them and achieve his full potential. He's constantly picking at the wounds of his past, from growing up feeling neglected in the shadows of his parents' passions and ambitions, leaving them raw, exposed and unable to heal. This is what lies beneath many of his weaknesses.
MYOPIC: Ren's full of rage and resentment, leading to a sort of tunnel vision where he refuses to see past his own sense of having been wronged by his parents. In his mind, whatever he does is just and right, and he won't listen to anything else. When his father points out that Snoke is using him for his power, he won't hear it.
TEMPERAMENTAL: Ren feels things very strongly, and while being emotional isn't-- in and of itself-- a weakness, it is when taken to the extremes that he does. He's given to explosive fits of rage, and throws tantrums so often that even amongst the lowest rungs of the First Order see it as business as usual (and know to avoid him in this state).
CONFLICTED: As previously stated, Ren's aware of his pull to the Light, and he fears it. This leads him to lash out and overcompensate in his attempts at cutting out the good in him, resulting in him choosing to murder his own father. He struggles between love and hatred, light and dark, etc., and he repeatedly makes the conscious decision to pick hatred, anger, darkness, and evil. He also has fears of inferiority inherent in his conflict, worrying that he'll never be as strong as Darth Vader, who he admires but also views critically for allowing emotions to override his commitment to the Dark Side.
● job skills (optional): Combat skills (specifically with the lightsaber), piloting (and some mechanics/engineering to go with that), and uh nerdy arcane research.
● housing (optional): Probably best not to house him with any castmates, PLS AND THX.
● network username: ren
● network sample: Riverview TDM
● prose/action sample: Voice test set in Riverview
● name: Ros
● age: 32
● contact:
● other characters: Chase Collins. I also put in an app for Jefferson from OUAT, but I'm withdrawing it from this round because... I somehow got it in my head that there was a 3 character cap, not a 2 character cap. \o/
character information
● name: Kylo Ren (formerly: Ben Solo)
● canon: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
● canon point: Immediately after the movie. (ie getting his ass kicked and face sliced open by Rey)
● age: 29
● (canon) background: BOOM
● (original) world: N/A
● abilities: Like the other Skywalkers, Kylo Ren's Force-sensitive, possessing a great degree of raw power and potential. Here's an overview of Force abilities! In Ren's case, he's trained with both the Light and the Dark Sides of the Force, and is shown excelling in telekinesis and telepathy. Specifically, he can use the Force to freeze people in place, stop a blaster bolt mid-air, and forcefully (heh) throw them around like ragdolls. With telepathy, Ren doesn't seem to rely on subtler techniques like Jedi mind tricks, but rather takes an invasive approach, favoring probing the minds of his victims to take the information he desires. Because he lacks the self-control of, say, Darth Vader, his own uses of the Force are more explosive, blunt, and heavy handed than his grandfather's more impassive cruelty.
He's also a skilled lightsaber combatant, and he possesses a breadth of knowledge about the Force, both from his Jedi training and his research into the Dark Side.
● strengths: The strengths that Kylo Ren possesses are, generally speaking, aimed in all the wrong ways and applied to all the wrong things. However, they point to a capacity to be truly great, if only he'd pull his head out of his ass.
AMBITIOUS: In order to achieve his level of control over the Force, Kylo Ren is clearly somebody who possesses not only raw talent, but the drive to keep studying, training, and pushing himself to master his abilities. He isn't content to sit on his laurels; he must excel. As the rightful heir to Darth Vader's legacy, he must finish what his grandfather started. He must bring order to the galaxy. His ambitions are cruel and, frankly, terrible, but they also show that he's somebody who can't and won't be complacent. In this sense, he's very much like his mother.
DISCIPLINED: His bearing suggests some degree of discipline, which ties back to his driven nature. Ren is somebody who can (with effort) push aside sentimentality to make difficult decisions and achieve what he believes must be done. Again, the problem is that he applies this in the wrong way, but if he were to dedicate himself to something worthwhile, then this aspect of his personality would be a remarkable asset, the mark of a true leader.
PULLED TO THE LIGHT: Leia's hope that a part of her son still lives isn't unfounded. For all his cruelty and viciousness, for all of the terrible acts he commits (and they are many), that flicker of goodness inside of him still refuses to be snuffed out. Where his grandfather was seduced by the Dark Side, Ren's seduced by the Light. He's not beyond saving; he has the potential to turn back, and he knows it (and fears it).
● weaknesses: Kylo Ren's weaknesses exist on the same spectrum as his strengths, just at opposite ends, resulting in a constant struggle to overcome them and achieve his full potential. He's constantly picking at the wounds of his past, from growing up feeling neglected in the shadows of his parents' passions and ambitions, leaving them raw, exposed and unable to heal. This is what lies beneath many of his weaknesses.
MYOPIC: Ren's full of rage and resentment, leading to a sort of tunnel vision where he refuses to see past his own sense of having been wronged by his parents. In his mind, whatever he does is just and right, and he won't listen to anything else. When his father points out that Snoke is using him for his power, he won't hear it.
TEMPERAMENTAL: Ren feels things very strongly, and while being emotional isn't-- in and of itself-- a weakness, it is when taken to the extremes that he does. He's given to explosive fits of rage, and throws tantrums so often that even amongst the lowest rungs of the First Order see it as business as usual (and know to avoid him in this state).
CONFLICTED: As previously stated, Ren's aware of his pull to the Light, and he fears it. This leads him to lash out and overcompensate in his attempts at cutting out the good in him, resulting in him choosing to murder his own father. He struggles between love and hatred, light and dark, etc., and he repeatedly makes the conscious decision to pick hatred, anger, darkness, and evil. He also has fears of inferiority inherent in his conflict, worrying that he'll never be as strong as Darth Vader, who he admires but also views critically for allowing emotions to override his commitment to the Dark Side.
● job skills (optional): Combat skills (specifically with the lightsaber), piloting (and some mechanics/engineering to go with that), and uh nerdy arcane research.
● housing (optional): Probably best not to house him with any castmates, PLS AND THX.
● network username: ren
● network sample: Riverview TDM
● prose/action sample: Voice test set in Riverview