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Player Information
Name: Rinna
Age: eighteen
AIM SN: popecats
email: rinnachu@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? yes'm
Currrently Played Characters: masterbaiting, heartdissonance.
Conditional: Activity Check Link: Here.
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Dogma
Canon Format: film
Character's Name: God (as well as various titles and holy names; Yahweh, I Am that I Am, Father/Abba, King of Kings and Lord of Lords... you know the drill, I'm sure)
Character's Age: She's the Alpha and the Omega!! God is totally eternal.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? And let me tell you, it's got awesome texting capabilities.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: It's easier to list what she can't do- omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and a slew of other omnis, God is the Creator of all, and she's got... well, the whole world in her hands. She can create; she can destroy. She can raise the dead, or she can just reanimate some bones for the heck of it. What God can't do is break promises - nor lie, nor contradict dogmatic law herself. What man holds true on Earth must also apply to Heaven. In a sense, she's bound by humanity's belief in her: some cases have it that the church will lay down God's law, and God will need to follow it.
God is infallible, but this actually places restraints on what she can and can't do at times. The universe itself relies on God's infallibilty- if someone or something were to contradict God, and she was therefore wrong, existence would literally unmake itself. Hey, no pressure, right?
She's also able to soothe most things with only her presence or touch, it seems. This, of course, does rely on the person and their demeanor, much of the time, but it's commonplace for people to find themselves in awe without really knowing why, when looking upon her or feeling her.
By the way, her voice will cause anything not from an ethereal plane to have its organs essentially implode inside of its body. Also, heads will explode. :(
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: Her awesome voice?! Nothing physical.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Just to have it, a list of, er, Biblical canon... As well as Dogma's story. Please let me know if you need elaboration anywhere!
Point in Canon: Almost directly after being released from her temporary stay in 'John Doe Jersey.' After that Earthly body died, God was sent back to Heaven and then immediately reappeared on Earth in order to halt Bartleby's entry into a certain church. The church's doors will open up and she'll land in Canada instead.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: When it comes down to it, Judeo-Christian lore and tradition (on which Dogma's version of God is largely based) don't give us much in the way of God's personal characteristics. Most of what we get consists of' loving, wrathful, and jealous'- insisted perfection aside, that is. These traits, as well as the portrayal in Dogma, make it easy to summarize God as a parent who... might not know exactly what she's doing as she raises her flock. Omnipotence would be a bit much for anyone to deal with, you know? And God, while absolutely a loving figure in Dogma's story, clearly is at least a little irresponsible. There are far too many loopholes left around the whole 'being infallible' thing, and that's not even covering how high-risk her fun-filled sabbaticals can be. But- God's most prominent characteristic is her love - that unfailingly maternal atmosphere - and it's seen she'd likely prefer that over wrathfulness to be the bedrock of how she's perceived.
Though... about that wrath. So, Old Testament God, right: there is most definitely a distinction between God from then and God as she acts in the present. This was a pretty temperamental time for the Creator, as she tried to deal with Lucifer's rebelliousness provoking her easily-sparked fury. With the Morningstar feeling cheated and the Father offended by his audacity, there was essentially a series of tantrums of cosmic proportions, from both sides of the celestial dispute. Hell was born, its purpose being to house those who turned their backs against the Lord. Lucifer was famously foretold to be cast into a lake of burning sulfur, but some would say that a complete absence of God is torture on its own. Once God disowns a creature, it's stripped of the love that was previously such an all-encompassing constant until that moment of damnation. Her love is apparently such that losing it causes incredible pain.
It's not actually all that easy to be rid of that love, by the way. 'New Testament' God is all about redemption, as evidenced by... Jesus, and also by her actions toward Bartleby in the film, where she holds him and kills him mercifully after his heavy crimes against her. God adores humanity so, so much, and she wants it to thrive and live as it chooses. Yes, she wants to be loved in return, and she'll be frightfully envious of anything else that's worshiped - NO IDOLATRY, EVER - but she wants them to be happy with the world she's created for them. This... unfortunately doesn't quite carry over to angels, her infinite fucking patience as Bartleby bitterly calls it; this is where her flightiness really shows, and with it, her distractedness as a 'parent.' She doesn't really care to hide the fact that she plays favorites, and it admittedly doesn't always have things go over very smoothly. God does mean well, but her famous temper and largely hands-off policy have a way of roadblocking relationships.
Bumbling parenthood aside, she seems to be a bit of an airhead on her own anyhow. She's a great fan of games, and of playing hooky from Heaven at times - being the Almighty does get lonely, you know. (Especially when your closest companion is someone who's meant to speak for you!) When God shows up on Earth these days, she wants to have fun. She wants to look closely at the beauty of Creation - and she wants to tumble around in the grass, too, just because she can. Formalities may have been super important in those stuffy Old Testament days, but presently, God prefers a more playful demeanor, fantastically dry expressions and a straight-faced bluntness among this. She teases and jokes, and according to the Metatron, her sense of humor is fantastic. (I mean, just look at things like platypuses, and sex. How is she not hilarious?) But even while speechless towards humans, quirkiness is very evident in the Almighty Father. Omniscience and foresight don't stop God from acting spontaneously; she takes each day and century and every millennium as it comes, and seems content to just roll with the punches and act once she's truly needed. Creating the universe doesn't mean she needs to police its every movement, and she'd much rather watch how humanity adapts and develops on its own.
-She is the Almighty Father, by the way. Just, Mother, too. God primarily 'exists' as a woman - those who wrote for the Bible were just sexist, basically, according to the film - but really, she's not actually anything. She Is that She Is, and that's all that's needed. God is everything, so she'll respond to most anything, if it's needed. Her form needs no gender, nor any set gender. None of that concerns her in the slightest.
So, she's fun-loving, and a little too lonely, and incredibly hard to understand. God is, of course, unfathomable, and this often does manifest in many of her physical actions just seeming really bizarre. She's also much more casual than you might expect the divine Creator to be, and surprisingly mischievous, but this most certainly doesn't mean she can't still be serious when it comes down to it. Her stern faces are intimidating in the way a fierce mother's is, her admonishment can be apparent through only a twitch of her lips, and her disappointment is crushing to behold. God seems to be able to instill a ridiculous amount of validation issues in creatures, be they angel or human, but she's aloof enough to sometimes be very poor at remedying that.
This aloofness seems to be in part rooted in the fact that although she created them, she isn't human herself, and although God knows everything, knowing humanity isn't the same as experiencing it. Her perception is going to be wildly different from a human's no matter which way you slice it, so her judgments, decisions, and movements can look entirely senseless at times. Tying in with this, it's likely that God's sense of time is skewed in general; her punishments for those who've slighted her, or her promises regarding second comings and arrivals of paradise can involve ridiculous amounts of time. The prophet Isaiah famously referred to God as the 'high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,' after all; Heaven doesn't appear to be very temporal.
Of course, then, adoration doesn't mean that she sugarcoats life and the sin it's all fallen into. She will dole out her punishments and she'll act harshly or she won't act at all. But even God can only go so far; she shows her love as much as she's able while refraining from being too coddling a Father to the world. She likes relationships; the Catholic church is just as lonely as Heaven is, to be honest. Through that loneliness, she creates, and God's love is evidenced by her enjoyment of dropping those creations down for us to marvel at as well. (You know she had to have fun with sea life, for instance.) Presently, God is a quirky, wry, fun-loving little thing- just, she's a little melancholy, too. There's nothing that says a deity must be without remorse, after all.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: I intend for her not to go around revealing herself as the Almighty (or a version of thereof) at the drop of a hat- I think there's plenty she'll be able to observe on a more personal basis, and that'd definitely be important to her. (That said, please let me know if you have any concerns regarding her omnipotence; I wouldn't be world/gamebreaking with what she can do, and if anything involving other characters were to come up, I certainly wouldn't plan anything without speaking to everyone first. So yeah!) Basically I'd enjoy for her to go around being ~maternal in her own way - and it's likely she'll be fast friends with at least some of the other deity-types, which I look forward to.
Appearance/PB: Though sometimes she prefers tutus.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
Hi!
So, I've just come here. It was shocking. :( But this is enjoyable weather! I'm glad with the air here, or most of it. There are concerned parts, but it must be as little as my toes are large.
Since I'm brand new as far as it goes here, it might be nice to say hello. I thought as much which is why I decided to. If you want to, too, I think I'll be happy. :) Even if this is absolutely weird for me, I'll get used to it, so I might as well start. Do you want to introduce yourself? Do you have anything about here that you're glad about in particular?
There's another thing I thought of, too. It must be harrowing for people and that's uneasy:
The Darkness is heavy. D:
Third Person Sample
There's dirt underneath her feet. She takes half a step forward, and then a full step back, and feels some bit of stray gravel dig into the soft flesh of her heel. Oh, oh, she thinks, and nothing is said because her Voice isn't nearby. There are daisies in her hands and she holds onto them very tightly.
God can recall horror - Lucifer's outbursts, her Son's sacrifice - but never terror so much as this, when she looks around herself and realizes that she has no idea what's just gone on. Death, yes, and then a moment in Heaven, but New Jersey was supposed to come after- New Jersey and a foolish not-angel. This was completely not in her plans, and that's the exact sort of thing that isn't supposed to happen at all. It's actually enough to make her flinch; her plans are gone wrong, so how will existence weather-
Nothing happens. Things are definitely still alive.
With a great exhale, her shoulders drop, and the daisies do too.
She's asked: Are you all right? She's told: Here's what's happened. In response, she nods and she gestures and she takes everything in, but this feels so far from right and she'd love to at least will Metatron here to give her thanks and blessings. This is out of her sphere, she recognizes. She'll deal with that.
She presses a white carnation into the greeter's hands, shakes her head with a tight smile, and settles for doing cartwheels across the baseball field. It's a good start, she thinks as she tumbles. She hadn't made this island herself, but it'll make it that much more exhilarating to wander.
-If not just a little bit daunting. The Creator will have to get used to this nervousness, it seems.
Name: Rinna
Age: eighteen
AIM SN: popecats
email: rinnachu@gmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? yes'm
Currrently Played Characters: masterbaiting, heartdissonance.
Conditional: Activity Check Link: Here.
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Dogma
Canon Format: film
Character's Name: God (as well as various titles and holy names; Yahweh, I Am that I Am, Father/Abba, King of Kings and Lord of Lords... you know the drill, I'm sure)
Character's Age: She's the Alpha and the Omega!! God is totally eternal.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? And let me tell you, it's got awesome texting capabilities.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: It's easier to list what she can't do- omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and a slew of other omnis, God is the Creator of all, and she's got... well, the whole world in her hands. She can create; she can destroy. She can raise the dead, or she can just reanimate some bones for the heck of it. What God can't do is break promises - nor lie, nor contradict dogmatic law herself. What man holds true on Earth must also apply to Heaven. In a sense, she's bound by humanity's belief in her: some cases have it that the church will lay down God's law, and God will need to follow it.
God is infallible, but this actually places restraints on what she can and can't do at times. The universe itself relies on God's infallibilty- if someone or something were to contradict God, and she was therefore wrong, existence would literally unmake itself. Hey, no pressure, right?
She's also able to soothe most things with only her presence or touch, it seems. This, of course, does rely on the person and their demeanor, much of the time, but it's commonplace for people to find themselves in awe without really knowing why, when looking upon her or feeling her.
By the way, her voice will cause anything not from an ethereal plane to have its organs essentially implode inside of its body. Also, heads will explode. :(
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: Her awesome voice?! Nothing physical.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Just to have it, a list of, er, Biblical canon... As well as Dogma's story. Please let me know if you need elaboration anywhere!
Point in Canon: Almost directly after being released from her temporary stay in 'John Doe Jersey.' After that Earthly body died, God was sent back to Heaven and then immediately reappeared on Earth in order to halt Bartleby's entry into a certain church. The church's doors will open up and she'll land in Canada instead.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality: When it comes down to it, Judeo-Christian lore and tradition (on which Dogma's version of God is largely based) don't give us much in the way of God's personal characteristics. Most of what we get consists of' loving, wrathful, and jealous'- insisted perfection aside, that is. These traits, as well as the portrayal in Dogma, make it easy to summarize God as a parent who... might not know exactly what she's doing as she raises her flock. Omnipotence would be a bit much for anyone to deal with, you know? And God, while absolutely a loving figure in Dogma's story, clearly is at least a little irresponsible. There are far too many loopholes left around the whole 'being infallible' thing, and that's not even covering how high-risk her fun-filled sabbaticals can be. But- God's most prominent characteristic is her love - that unfailingly maternal atmosphere - and it's seen she'd likely prefer that over wrathfulness to be the bedrock of how she's perceived.
Though... about that wrath. So, Old Testament God, right: there is most definitely a distinction between God from then and God as she acts in the present. This was a pretty temperamental time for the Creator, as she tried to deal with Lucifer's rebelliousness provoking her easily-sparked fury. With the Morningstar feeling cheated and the Father offended by his audacity, there was essentially a series of tantrums of cosmic proportions, from both sides of the celestial dispute. Hell was born, its purpose being to house those who turned their backs against the Lord. Lucifer was famously foretold to be cast into a lake of burning sulfur, but some would say that a complete absence of God is torture on its own. Once God disowns a creature, it's stripped of the love that was previously such an all-encompassing constant until that moment of damnation. Her love is apparently such that losing it causes incredible pain.
It's not actually all that easy to be rid of that love, by the way. 'New Testament' God is all about redemption, as evidenced by... Jesus, and also by her actions toward Bartleby in the film, where she holds him and kills him mercifully after his heavy crimes against her. God adores humanity so, so much, and she wants it to thrive and live as it chooses. Yes, she wants to be loved in return, and she'll be frightfully envious of anything else that's worshiped - NO IDOLATRY, EVER - but she wants them to be happy with the world she's created for them. This... unfortunately doesn't quite carry over to angels, her infinite fucking patience as Bartleby bitterly calls it; this is where her flightiness really shows, and with it, her distractedness as a 'parent.' She doesn't really care to hide the fact that she plays favorites, and it admittedly doesn't always have things go over very smoothly. God does mean well, but her famous temper and largely hands-off policy have a way of roadblocking relationships.
Bumbling parenthood aside, she seems to be a bit of an airhead on her own anyhow. She's a great fan of games, and of playing hooky from Heaven at times - being the Almighty does get lonely, you know. (Especially when your closest companion is someone who's meant to speak for you!) When God shows up on Earth these days, she wants to have fun. She wants to look closely at the beauty of Creation - and she wants to tumble around in the grass, too, just because she can. Formalities may have been super important in those stuffy Old Testament days, but presently, God prefers a more playful demeanor, fantastically dry expressions and a straight-faced bluntness among this. She teases and jokes, and according to the Metatron, her sense of humor is fantastic. (I mean, just look at things like platypuses, and sex. How is she not hilarious?) But even while speechless towards humans, quirkiness is very evident in the Almighty Father. Omniscience and foresight don't stop God from acting spontaneously; she takes each day and century and every millennium as it comes, and seems content to just roll with the punches and act once she's truly needed. Creating the universe doesn't mean she needs to police its every movement, and she'd much rather watch how humanity adapts and develops on its own.
-She is the Almighty Father, by the way. Just, Mother, too. God primarily 'exists' as a woman - those who wrote for the Bible were just sexist, basically, according to the film - but really, she's not actually anything. She Is that She Is, and that's all that's needed. God is everything, so she'll respond to most anything, if it's needed. Her form needs no gender, nor any set gender. None of that concerns her in the slightest.
So, she's fun-loving, and a little too lonely, and incredibly hard to understand. God is, of course, unfathomable, and this often does manifest in many of her physical actions just seeming really bizarre. She's also much more casual than you might expect the divine Creator to be, and surprisingly mischievous, but this most certainly doesn't mean she can't still be serious when it comes down to it. Her stern faces are intimidating in the way a fierce mother's is, her admonishment can be apparent through only a twitch of her lips, and her disappointment is crushing to behold. God seems to be able to instill a ridiculous amount of validation issues in creatures, be they angel or human, but she's aloof enough to sometimes be very poor at remedying that.
This aloofness seems to be in part rooted in the fact that although she created them, she isn't human herself, and although God knows everything, knowing humanity isn't the same as experiencing it. Her perception is going to be wildly different from a human's no matter which way you slice it, so her judgments, decisions, and movements can look entirely senseless at times. Tying in with this, it's likely that God's sense of time is skewed in general; her punishments for those who've slighted her, or her promises regarding second comings and arrivals of paradise can involve ridiculous amounts of time. The prophet Isaiah famously referred to God as the 'high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,' after all; Heaven doesn't appear to be very temporal.
Of course, then, adoration doesn't mean that she sugarcoats life and the sin it's all fallen into. She will dole out her punishments and she'll act harshly or she won't act at all. But even God can only go so far; she shows her love as much as she's able while refraining from being too coddling a Father to the world. She likes relationships; the Catholic church is just as lonely as Heaven is, to be honest. Through that loneliness, she creates, and God's love is evidenced by her enjoyment of dropping those creations down for us to marvel at as well. (You know she had to have fun with sea life, for instance.) Presently, God is a quirky, wry, fun-loving little thing- just, she's a little melancholy, too. There's nothing that says a deity must be without remorse, after all.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: I intend for her not to go around revealing herself as the Almighty (or a version of thereof) at the drop of a hat- I think there's plenty she'll be able to observe on a more personal basis, and that'd definitely be important to her. (That said, please let me know if you have any concerns regarding her omnipotence; I wouldn't be world/gamebreaking with what she can do, and if anything involving other characters were to come up, I certainly wouldn't plan anything without speaking to everyone first. So yeah!) Basically I'd enjoy for her to go around being ~maternal in her own way - and it's likely she'll be fast friends with at least some of the other deity-types, which I look forward to.
Appearance/PB: Though sometimes she prefers tutus.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
Hi!
So, I've just come here. It was shocking. :( But this is enjoyable weather! I'm glad with the air here, or most of it. There are concerned parts, but it must be as little as my toes are large.
Since I'm brand new as far as it goes here, it might be nice to say hello. I thought as much which is why I decided to. If you want to, too, I think I'll be happy. :) Even if this is absolutely weird for me, I'll get used to it, so I might as well start. Do you want to introduce yourself? Do you have anything about here that you're glad about in particular?
There's another thing I thought of, too. It must be harrowing for people and that's uneasy:
The Darkness is heavy. D:
Third Person Sample
There's dirt underneath her feet. She takes half a step forward, and then a full step back, and feels some bit of stray gravel dig into the soft flesh of her heel. Oh, oh, she thinks, and nothing is said because her Voice isn't nearby. There are daisies in her hands and she holds onto them very tightly.
God can recall horror - Lucifer's outbursts, her Son's sacrifice - but never terror so much as this, when she looks around herself and realizes that she has no idea what's just gone on. Death, yes, and then a moment in Heaven, but New Jersey was supposed to come after- New Jersey and a foolish not-angel. This was completely not in her plans, and that's the exact sort of thing that isn't supposed to happen at all. It's actually enough to make her flinch; her plans are gone wrong, so how will existence weather-
Nothing happens. Things are definitely still alive.
With a great exhale, her shoulders drop, and the daisies do too.
She's asked: Are you all right? She's told: Here's what's happened. In response, she nods and she gestures and she takes everything in, but this feels so far from right and she'd love to at least will Metatron here to give her thanks and blessings. This is out of her sphere, she recognizes. She'll deal with that.
She presses a white carnation into the greeter's hands, shakes her head with a tight smile, and settles for doing cartwheels across the baseball field. It's a good start, she thinks as she tumbles. She hadn't made this island herself, but it'll make it that much more exhilarating to wander.
-If not just a little bit daunting. The Creator will have to get used to this nervousness, it seems.