Siren's Pull Application & IC Information
Player Information
Name: Lyndz
Age: 24
AIM SN: urgentbadtouch
email: princess_kino@hotmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes.
Currrently Played Characters: n/a
Conditional: Activity Check Link: n/a
Conditional: Official Reserve Link: here
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Glee
Canon Format: television series
Character's Name: Rachel Berry
Character's Age: 16
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? It will just look like an iPhone, but it would be gold with sparkles and stars over it.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: She's got an amazing voice and can annoy the Hell out of people with fairly little effort, but nothing beyond that.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? I imagine that Rachel would have the power of suggestion. Canonically she is very good at finding ways to manipulate people into doing what she wants them to do (something that she has issues with realizing is wrong), though it more often than not backfires on her. She would use this ability through her voice. The twist, though, is that her power of suggestion would be completely literal.
Of course I understand that an ability like this would also necessitate a permissions post.
Weapons: n/a
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here It's fairly extensive, but I could elaborate on anything that's needed!
Point in Canon: 2x18 Born This Way
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a
Character Personality:
Rachel Berry is a flawed character. She is seen by most of her classmates and even by the majority of the people that she refers to as her friends to be obnoxious, selfish and annoying. In fact, it's probably a fair assumption to make about her in most situations that she finds herself in. Fortunately for her, though, there are a few things about Rachel that endear her at least to some extent, to the people around her.
It's Rachel's selfish need to prove that she is the best, her drive to succeed at absolutely any cost, her need to control as much of every situation as possible (partially out of the need to get what she wants out of it), her seemingly self involved and diva-like behaviour, as well as her knowledge of just how talented she is that tends to have the most negative effect on possible friendships and the comradeship that she tries to build with her. These character traits never leave her, though they're dulled down just slightly as she grows to develop and maintain a (current) friendship with at least Kurt Hummel from the Glee Club and with her on-again-off-again relationship with Finn Hudson.
For Rachel, her future and finding her dream of performing on Broadway and to be what she has dreamed of for her entire life, is what fuels her. It's what decides most of her actions and feeds most of her behaviour. She is known for being the hardest worker in the Glee Club, but that's certainly not the only way that she has gone about getting what she wants from the club. More than once, Rachel has gone to extreme lengths to make sure that the attention that she's worked to get isn't taken away from her in any possible way. The first example of this is in the first episode, when she tells Figgins that the then Glee teacher had been inappropriately touching one of the male students. This isn't so much in the interest of the other student, but instead because she was jealous of the fact that the solo that she'd wanted had been given away to someone else. Another similar example of this comes from 2x01 "Audition", where Rachel feels threatened by Sunshine when she hears her perform for the Glee Club and sends her to a crack house without thinking about anything other than that she had saved her own amount of solos from being taken away by someone else (this is something that she later makes amends for).
Really, though, the majority of Rachel's quirks come out during Glee Club where she often tries to take control of many of the decisions that come around, and often tries to manipulate her fellow Glee clubbers as well as Schuester to twist things around so that she can have whichever part of the performance that she thinks will give her the best exposure. Sometimes this even goes to the extent that she tries to take control of the club itself. She takes her talent and love for everything that she wants very seriously, and when she feels as though she's being pushed aside for someone else that she doesn't feel has earned it or who doesn't deserve it as much as she does, she feels personally insulted.
On the topic of being insulted, Rachel is one of the members of the club who is extremely used to being bullied. Of course there is the bullying that goes on in the hallways with the slushees being thrown at her or cutting remarks about her clothes and her involvement in the Glee Club, but Rachel also suffers differently than the other Glee Clubbers in that she is the one member of the group who is constantly mocked and bullied inside of the club itself. Of course, she deals with this by reminding herself that people are just jealous of her talent and skill and that just seems to reinforce the behaviour that she is being bullied for in the first place, so where the Glee Club is concerned, it's a kind of ugly cycle.
Outside of things such as performing and the Glee Club itself, Rachel has been known to fight almost as hard and at any cost for other things that she wants. The main example, of course, is Finn Hudson. Since the first episode of the series, Rachel has been openly interested in him despite that he did have a girlfriend (Quinn) at the time. Throughout the first season, while Quinn is pregnant and Finn believes that he is the father, Rachel doesn't stand down until she has a boyfriend of her own. In fact, as soon as that relationship ends, she finds out that Quinn has been lying about who the father of the baby is, Rachel goes out of her way to try to find ways for Finn to find out. This all culminates in her telling him herself, with little care for anything outside of the way that it does, in fact, get her what she wants. Which is Finn.
Of course it is something similar to this that has her losing Finn early into the second season-- when she finds out that he slept with Santana (before they were together) she does the only thing that she really knows; she finds a way to get back at him by kissing Puck. This effectively ends their relationship until the end of the season. It also gives one of many examples of the fact that while Rachel is flawed, she is also just a teenaged girl, who doesn't entirely understand how things are supposed to work.
Fortunately as the seasons progressed, Rachel seemed to benefit from some character development. The harshness of her need to succeed and to flaunt her talent to to just take whatever she wanted was dulled down slightly by that she was beginning to learn the appropriate ways to go about everything. For one thing, she is one of the first people at every opportunity to stand up for Kurt when she's worried that he's being bullied (though they still maintain the kind of relationship where she isn't afraid to fight him for what she wants... in a more fair kind of way, of course), and has slowly found ways to be supportive of different members of the club when they need it. In fact, Rachel has even calmed down enough to understand that she needs to, on occasion, battle for the solos that she wants (though, admittedly, she still expects to win- and does most of the time).
Part of the development that Rachel has gone through is shown in that, unlike in the first season, when Finn tells her that their relationship is over and that he's interested in Quinn, Rachel actually backs off. She immerses herself in practicing and getting better and actually developing friendships with a few of the other people in the Club. Unfortunately, it also sets off a reaction that has Rachel guessing at her physical attractiveness, which culminates with the episode 2x18 "Born This Way", where Rachel has the opportunity to change her nose to one that she thinks is more attractive (of course she would choose Quinn's, seeing as how she is still comparing herself to Quinn) and doesn't come to the realization that she is liked for herself and that she can be successful and beautiful without plastic surgery, until Kurt and Puck set her up at the mall and really prove it to her.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a
Character Plans: I'd love to have Rachel interacting with anyone and everyone and figuring out going to school and getting a job and just basically being curious about how she got there. She wouldn't be involved in anything too crazy or what have you, because she's just a regular kind of girl.
Appearance/PB: Rachel is portrayed by Lea Michele. here and here
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[the feed turns on to show a teenaged girl with dark hair that's been mussed just a little bit, and just the littlest bit of dirt on her cheeks where she'd obviously wiped at tears. She's standing just outside of the Tower Apartments while she holds the device out to record. It's shaking just a little since she can't keep her hand still.]
I'm in Canada, right? I mean-- I don't know what I'm supposed to do in Canada. I don't know if I'm really there right now-- or is it here? I don't know. I don't know why I'm here. I've never even been to Toronto before, and this isn't... this definitely isn't Toronto. I don't know what I'm supposed to do here, I have dance classes and rehearsals for Nationals.
[she's frowning a little as she shakes her head]
I really need to go home before Mr. Schue gives my solo to somebody else and ruins all of our chances for Nationals, so if this is actually a prank or something-- I'm going to find someone who's actually in charge here, not some crazy person who lives in a baseball field.
[with that, she gives the camera another small frown, shakes her head, takes a deep breath and stands up, just as she presses the feed off]
Third Person Sample
Panting heavily, Rachel pressed herself more tightly against the cold brick of the building that she was currently hiding behind. She couldn't see. Well, not very well, anyways. She had to squint her eyes as she continued to slide her back across the building (and she could feel the fabric of her shirt tearing just a little against the uneven surface of the building and it was her favourite one- something that she filed away in her mind to be very angry about later), a shaking hand reaching out and looking for some kind of door or something... anything, really, to hide her just until that- that thing was gone.
Was that one of those things that she'd heard about? The monsters? Whatever it was, it wasn't something that she'd expected or planned to see in this place in the middle of nowhere Canada (which was way worse than the middle of nowhere Ohio right now). Reaching the end of the building and finding no doors (so was she at the back of the building? She wasn't sure, but she thought that someone should probably have made a sign she could see in the dark. It would have been a lot nicer than this), she sank to her knees, looking for a moment or two to catch her breath before she went back out there to look for somewhere else to hide. It wouldn't do her any good to breathe too heavily when she was running- who even knew what was in the air here, and who knew if it was anything that could have damaged her vocal chords and if that was the case... well really, Rachel knew that she might as well have let that monster eat her. Or whatever it was that monsters here did.
Lifting a hand to brush her hair from her face, Rachel heard something... some sort of wailing or moaning or something and she jumped back up to her feet, feeling her tights stretching in all the ways that she knew that they were torn as she closed her eyes and wondered if she could just wish to be back home or wish for Finn to be there, to protect her from whatever monster was after her (and it was probably chasing her because she'd been humming to herself before-- probably only thought of her because it wanted to suck the talent right out of her or something.) the way that guys like him were supposed to do for their girlfriends (and it didn't really matter if he was her boyfriend right now, not when there were monsters chasing after her).
The wailing seemed to be getting closer, though, and so Rachel turned the corner of the building, her heart still pounding even faster than it had the first time she'd had a solo in a school production (she'd been in pre-school and it was that experience that had cemented exactly how talented that she was) or even the first time that she'd let Finn put his hand in her shirt (which really hadn't felt like much of anything, but he'd been willing to do pretty much anything for her after that). She didn't really want to die-- not before she'd been able to accomplish all of the things that she'd set out to do in life. Definitely not before she'd been able to meet Barbra Streisand and definitely, definitely not in Canada.
Another moment passed before she made it around the other side of the building and though she could still hear the sound of the monster, she couldn't see it (not that she could see anything at all, anyways. It was darker than the auditorium had ever been any of the times that she'd broken into it to sneak a practice with all the right acoustics). Pausing again and trying to calm down, she dropped the hand that had been moving along the wall and almost jumped a little when it brushed against the side pocket of her dress. Reaching into it, she pulled out the first thing she'd been able to see anything of all night.
The phone thing they'd given her in the baseball field (and that even felt like a million years ago, even though it had only been a few hours) glittered back at her in whatever faint light she hadn't been able to see before. The moon or... something. Maybe even her imagination (which was more vivid than was even really all that healthy, or so her dads had always said).
If she was trapped here and those creepy guys had said that there were other people here and she'd introduced herself earlier-- she turned it on and focused whatever of the video she could on herself, hoping that other people would be able to see it. She would call for help and someone would save her and then everything was going to be fine, and it really was that simple. Rachel believed it, she had to.
Name: Lyndz
Age: 24
AIM SN: urgentbadtouch
email: princess_kino@hotmail.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes.
Currrently Played Characters: n/a
Conditional: Activity Check Link: n/a
Conditional: Official Reserve Link: here
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Glee
Canon Format: television series
Character's Name: Rachel Berry
Character's Age: 16
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? It will just look like an iPhone, but it would be gold with sparkles and stars over it.
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: She's got an amazing voice and can annoy the Hell out of people with fairly little effort, but nothing beyond that.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? I imagine that Rachel would have the power of suggestion. Canonically she is very good at finding ways to manipulate people into doing what she wants them to do (something that she has issues with realizing is wrong), though it more often than not backfires on her. She would use this ability through her voice. The twist, though, is that her power of suggestion would be completely literal.
Of course I understand that an ability like this would also necessitate a permissions post.
Weapons: n/a
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here It's fairly extensive, but I could elaborate on anything that's needed!
Point in Canon: 2x18 Born This Way
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a
Character Personality:
Rachel Berry is a flawed character. She is seen by most of her classmates and even by the majority of the people that she refers to as her friends to be obnoxious, selfish and annoying. In fact, it's probably a fair assumption to make about her in most situations that she finds herself in. Fortunately for her, though, there are a few things about Rachel that endear her at least to some extent, to the people around her.
It's Rachel's selfish need to prove that she is the best, her drive to succeed at absolutely any cost, her need to control as much of every situation as possible (partially out of the need to get what she wants out of it), her seemingly self involved and diva-like behaviour, as well as her knowledge of just how talented she is that tends to have the most negative effect on possible friendships and the comradeship that she tries to build with her. These character traits never leave her, though they're dulled down just slightly as she grows to develop and maintain a (current) friendship with at least Kurt Hummel from the Glee Club and with her on-again-off-again relationship with Finn Hudson.
For Rachel, her future and finding her dream of performing on Broadway and to be what she has dreamed of for her entire life, is what fuels her. It's what decides most of her actions and feeds most of her behaviour. She is known for being the hardest worker in the Glee Club, but that's certainly not the only way that she has gone about getting what she wants from the club. More than once, Rachel has gone to extreme lengths to make sure that the attention that she's worked to get isn't taken away from her in any possible way. The first example of this is in the first episode, when she tells Figgins that the then Glee teacher had been inappropriately touching one of the male students. This isn't so much in the interest of the other student, but instead because she was jealous of the fact that the solo that she'd wanted had been given away to someone else. Another similar example of this comes from 2x01 "Audition", where Rachel feels threatened by Sunshine when she hears her perform for the Glee Club and sends her to a crack house without thinking about anything other than that she had saved her own amount of solos from being taken away by someone else (this is something that she later makes amends for).
Really, though, the majority of Rachel's quirks come out during Glee Club where she often tries to take control of many of the decisions that come around, and often tries to manipulate her fellow Glee clubbers as well as Schuester to twist things around so that she can have whichever part of the performance that she thinks will give her the best exposure. Sometimes this even goes to the extent that she tries to take control of the club itself. She takes her talent and love for everything that she wants very seriously, and when she feels as though she's being pushed aside for someone else that she doesn't feel has earned it or who doesn't deserve it as much as she does, she feels personally insulted.
On the topic of being insulted, Rachel is one of the members of the club who is extremely used to being bullied. Of course there is the bullying that goes on in the hallways with the slushees being thrown at her or cutting remarks about her clothes and her involvement in the Glee Club, but Rachel also suffers differently than the other Glee Clubbers in that she is the one member of the group who is constantly mocked and bullied inside of the club itself. Of course, she deals with this by reminding herself that people are just jealous of her talent and skill and that just seems to reinforce the behaviour that she is being bullied for in the first place, so where the Glee Club is concerned, it's a kind of ugly cycle.
Outside of things such as performing and the Glee Club itself, Rachel has been known to fight almost as hard and at any cost for other things that she wants. The main example, of course, is Finn Hudson. Since the first episode of the series, Rachel has been openly interested in him despite that he did have a girlfriend (Quinn) at the time. Throughout the first season, while Quinn is pregnant and Finn believes that he is the father, Rachel doesn't stand down until she has a boyfriend of her own. In fact, as soon as that relationship ends, she finds out that Quinn has been lying about who the father of the baby is, Rachel goes out of her way to try to find ways for Finn to find out. This all culminates in her telling him herself, with little care for anything outside of the way that it does, in fact, get her what she wants. Which is Finn.
Of course it is something similar to this that has her losing Finn early into the second season-- when she finds out that he slept with Santana (before they were together) she does the only thing that she really knows; she finds a way to get back at him by kissing Puck. This effectively ends their relationship until the end of the season. It also gives one of many examples of the fact that while Rachel is flawed, she is also just a teenaged girl, who doesn't entirely understand how things are supposed to work.
Fortunately as the seasons progressed, Rachel seemed to benefit from some character development. The harshness of her need to succeed and to flaunt her talent to to just take whatever she wanted was dulled down slightly by that she was beginning to learn the appropriate ways to go about everything. For one thing, she is one of the first people at every opportunity to stand up for Kurt when she's worried that he's being bullied (though they still maintain the kind of relationship where she isn't afraid to fight him for what she wants... in a more fair kind of way, of course), and has slowly found ways to be supportive of different members of the club when they need it. In fact, Rachel has even calmed down enough to understand that she needs to, on occasion, battle for the solos that she wants (though, admittedly, she still expects to win- and does most of the time).
Part of the development that Rachel has gone through is shown in that, unlike in the first season, when Finn tells her that their relationship is over and that he's interested in Quinn, Rachel actually backs off. She immerses herself in practicing and getting better and actually developing friendships with a few of the other people in the Club. Unfortunately, it also sets off a reaction that has Rachel guessing at her physical attractiveness, which culminates with the episode 2x18 "Born This Way", where Rachel has the opportunity to change her nose to one that she thinks is more attractive (of course she would choose Quinn's, seeing as how she is still comparing herself to Quinn) and doesn't come to the realization that she is liked for herself and that she can be successful and beautiful without plastic surgery, until Kurt and Puck set her up at the mall and really prove it to her.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a
Character Plans: I'd love to have Rachel interacting with anyone and everyone and figuring out going to school and getting a job and just basically being curious about how she got there. She wouldn't be involved in anything too crazy or what have you, because she's just a regular kind of girl.
Appearance/PB: Rachel is portrayed by Lea Michele. here and here
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[the feed turns on to show a teenaged girl with dark hair that's been mussed just a little bit, and just the littlest bit of dirt on her cheeks where she'd obviously wiped at tears. She's standing just outside of the Tower Apartments while she holds the device out to record. It's shaking just a little since she can't keep her hand still.]
I'm in Canada, right? I mean-- I don't know what I'm supposed to do in Canada. I don't know if I'm really there right now-- or is it here? I don't know. I don't know why I'm here. I've never even been to Toronto before, and this isn't... this definitely isn't Toronto. I don't know what I'm supposed to do here, I have dance classes and rehearsals for Nationals.
[she's frowning a little as she shakes her head]
I really need to go home before Mr. Schue gives my solo to somebody else and ruins all of our chances for Nationals, so if this is actually a prank or something-- I'm going to find someone who's actually in charge here, not some crazy person who lives in a baseball field.
[with that, she gives the camera another small frown, shakes her head, takes a deep breath and stands up, just as she presses the feed off]
Third Person Sample
Panting heavily, Rachel pressed herself more tightly against the cold brick of the building that she was currently hiding behind. She couldn't see. Well, not very well, anyways. She had to squint her eyes as she continued to slide her back across the building (and she could feel the fabric of her shirt tearing just a little against the uneven surface of the building and it was her favourite one- something that she filed away in her mind to be very angry about later), a shaking hand reaching out and looking for some kind of door or something... anything, really, to hide her just until that- that thing was gone.
Was that one of those things that she'd heard about? The monsters? Whatever it was, it wasn't something that she'd expected or planned to see in this place in the middle of nowhere Canada (which was way worse than the middle of nowhere Ohio right now). Reaching the end of the building and finding no doors (so was she at the back of the building? She wasn't sure, but she thought that someone should probably have made a sign she could see in the dark. It would have been a lot nicer than this), she sank to her knees, looking for a moment or two to catch her breath before she went back out there to look for somewhere else to hide. It wouldn't do her any good to breathe too heavily when she was running- who even knew what was in the air here, and who knew if it was anything that could have damaged her vocal chords and if that was the case... well really, Rachel knew that she might as well have let that monster eat her. Or whatever it was that monsters here did.
Lifting a hand to brush her hair from her face, Rachel heard something... some sort of wailing or moaning or something and she jumped back up to her feet, feeling her tights stretching in all the ways that she knew that they were torn as she closed her eyes and wondered if she could just wish to be back home or wish for Finn to be there, to protect her from whatever monster was after her (and it was probably chasing her because she'd been humming to herself before-- probably only thought of her because it wanted to suck the talent right out of her or something.) the way that guys like him were supposed to do for their girlfriends (and it didn't really matter if he was her boyfriend right now, not when there were monsters chasing after her).
The wailing seemed to be getting closer, though, and so Rachel turned the corner of the building, her heart still pounding even faster than it had the first time she'd had a solo in a school production (she'd been in pre-school and it was that experience that had cemented exactly how talented that she was) or even the first time that she'd let Finn put his hand in her shirt (which really hadn't felt like much of anything, but he'd been willing to do pretty much anything for her after that). She didn't really want to die-- not before she'd been able to accomplish all of the things that she'd set out to do in life. Definitely not before she'd been able to meet Barbra Streisand and definitely, definitely not in Canada.
Another moment passed before she made it around the other side of the building and though she could still hear the sound of the monster, she couldn't see it (not that she could see anything at all, anyways. It was darker than the auditorium had ever been any of the times that she'd broken into it to sneak a practice with all the right acoustics). Pausing again and trying to calm down, she dropped the hand that had been moving along the wall and almost jumped a little when it brushed against the side pocket of her dress. Reaching into it, she pulled out the first thing she'd been able to see anything of all night.
The phone thing they'd given her in the baseball field (and that even felt like a million years ago, even though it had only been a few hours) glittered back at her in whatever faint light she hadn't been able to see before. The moon or... something. Maybe even her imagination (which was more vivid than was even really all that healthy, or so her dads had always said).
If she was trapped here and those creepy guys had said that there were other people here and she'd introduced herself earlier-- she turned it on and focused whatever of the video she could on herself, hoping that other people would be able to see it. She would call for help and someone would save her and then everything was going to be fine, and it really was that simple. Rachel believed it, she had to.