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somnioergosum) wrote2020-03-20 01:47 pm
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Piper 90 Application (CDTH spoilers within)
APPLICATION
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Character Name: Ronan Lynch
Fandom: The Raven Cycle/Dreamer
Character Journal:somnioergosum
Canon, AU, CRAU, or OC? Canon
Canon point: End of Call Down the Hawk
PB: Drawn, PB for Ronan with hair is Oscar Spendrup
SETTING BACKGROUND
Ronan gets two series because he’s extra. Both are mostly set in Virginia, much like the one we live in except magic is real. Most no one knows it or recognizes it though. The ley lines that run through Virginia and the area around Henrietta, Virginia are super magical and Ronan draws power from them. In Henrietta is a magic forest, Cabeswater, which exists outside the bounds of time and was only given form by Ronan but always existed. Also there are tree people and a demon. In this world there are people who can bring back objects and people from their dream into the real world. There aren’t many of them but there is an organization that hunts them down in the Dreamer series because one of their psychics foretold they will bring about the end of the world. The shady side of the world is introduced here, with moving black markets and shady organizations and little of it is explained yet.
HISTORY
➤Ronan was born with the ability to take things from his dream. He dreamed his younger brother, Matthew. His father, Niall, could also dream but never told him how to control it despite Ronan blatantly being his favorite. His older brother, Declan, resents him for this and they’re estranged.
➤Niall is killed by a pissed off client when Ronan’s 16. Ronan finds his mutilated body. Ronan’s brothers are kicked out of their family home because of Niall’s will and Aurora becomes comatose because she’s Niall’s dream.
➤Ronan’s raging PTSD makes him try to be and act as terrifying as possible. Other problems: in his nightmares “night horrors” try to kill him. He’s hospitalized when people think he attempted suicide.
➤He and his friends find a forest, Cabeswater, where time is weird. They later find out Ronan gave it a physical form but it already existed as a weird timeless being.
➤They find out their teacher killed their friend Noah and is trying to use Cabeswater. Only Adam, who Ronan’s totally crushing on, uses it first, becomes psychic and just lets Cabeswater kill the guy.
➤Ronan reveals his powers to his friends when he accidentally brings back night horrors from his dreams.
➤Gray, the hitman this guy called Greemantle hired to kill Niall, is looking for an artifact that is actually Ronan. Gray convinces Ronan to accept his help since his Greenmantle is evil.
➤Ronan steals Gansey’s car and crashes it when a night horror attacks him. Kavinsky, his rival/bully/dude he street races, kills the night horror and reveals he’s a dreamer too. He trains Ronan in the ways of intentionally dreaming things. After a day or so of drugging themselves to sleep, Kavinsky sexually assaults Ronan after giving him a dream pill. Despite this, Ronan dreams a replica of Gansey’s car and leaves. Kavinsky asks Ronan to join him and rule the galaxy together. Ronan’s like “lol, no.” Kavinsky retaliates by kidnapping Matthew. Ronan and friends save Matthew and Kavinsky is killed by his own dream monster.
➤Ronan dreams an amendment to the will so he and his brothers can go home. He takes Aurora to Cabeswater, which brings her out of the coma.
➤Ronan asks Adam for help with Greenmantle. Ronan dreams blackmail material but is attacked by night horrors and has to dream a copy of himself. He ends up bringing back the blackmail and a dying dream-Ronan.
➤Ronan accidentally brings his dream guide, Opal, out of his dreams. He sticks her in Cabeswater. A demon later attacks it. Ronan and Adam get Opal out. Ronan almost dies in the process but Adam saves him.
➤Brief interlude for Ronan and Adam to make out and become a couple. Declan tries to convince Ronan to come with him and Matthew to D.C. but, despite being touched by his brother’s concern, Ronan stays.
➤Interlude over. Ronan visits Cabeswater in a dream and finds Aurora’s corpse. Fuck his life. Because Ronan’s connected to Cabeswater, the demon starts killing him too. Gansey sacrifices his own life to save him. They ask Cabeswater to sacrifice itself to bring Gansey back, which it does.
➤Ronan drops out of high school and refines his dreaming abilities at home. He gets depressed that all his friends are leaving. He stops dreaming and starts dying. Opal tells him he’ll die if he stops dreaming things. Ronan dreams a new magic forest.
➤Ronan visits Adam at Harvard, intending to move into an apartment there, but he accidentally brings dream monsters back. He gets banned from visiting. He finds out he also needs to be around the Blue Ridge Mountains to dream and therefore not slowly die. He blames Bryde, a voice in his dreams for all this because he’s rational like that.
➤Declan takes Ronan to a black market where they also sell magic artfacts. Ronan runs into-- his mom! No, it’s actually Declan’s mom. Aurora was her dream clone. Also there’s a dream clone of Niall. Ronan almost dies while tracking them down since he hasn’t dreamed in too long. His not-mom and not-dad take him back to the Blue Ridge area and Bryde saves Ronan’s life by dreaming something for him.
➤Bryde tries to convince him to basically stop acting like a limited human and give into his abilities. He sends Ronan to save another dreamer, Hennessy from drowning in dream-water. Ronan gives her dreaming lessons.
➤Moderators, professional dreamer killers, try to kill Matthew and Declan and kill all but one of Hennessy’s dream clones. They regroup and decide to contact Bryde for help.
➤Ronan and Hennessy dream and hold back Hennessy’s dream-monster long enough for Bryde to appear. Moderators surround them. Bryde appears and helps them escape.
PERSONALITY
Ronan has his own principles. Not everyone believes him, but he never lies. In canon, he’s only made a couple exceptions, usually to protect someone. Whether or not it’s due to his Catholic guilt or a reaction to his father’s deceptions, Ronan is honest about even the hardest subjects. He would rather avoid answering than lie, as when Kavinsky accuses him of being gay, or he makes his response sound sarcastic, like when his brother about his ambitions in life.
Ronan’s bravery can be mistaken for recklessness but even on the rare occasion he is fully aware of the consequences, he will risk his life to save those he cares about. This ties into his protectiveness. When he loves someone, he’s devoted. He doesn’t seek recognition for stowing away epipens for Gansey nor does he tell Adam about bribing his landlord so Adam can afford to attend school.
A dreamer, Ronan is by necessity creative. He can create fantastic monsters but also beauty in the form of Cabeswater and other unusual objects. He is an artist who uses dreams as a medium to fashion breathtaking works of horror and wonder. His determination, while directed at few things, strengthens this talent. He spends months dreaming and refining his magic. He calls it his work. He longs for an understanding of these abilities, knowing he could be something more. This is why he’s so eager to listen to Bryde.
Despite Ronan’s crudeness and off-putting demeanor, he can be tender hearted and sentimental. He dreams hand lotion to give to Adam, having noticed his chafed hands. He also hand feeds the baby raven every two hours until she’s grown. When he thinks about Adam, his inner narrative becomes rich, metaphorical, comparing his love like an oil spill on fire and that he would wage wars for his smile. While the language is violent, the grandness of his descriptions show he’s something of a hidden romantic.
Ronan’s way of showing what respect and affection is odd and affected by his PTSD. He seldom demonstrates affection physically and teases and mocks his friends. He has gotten better at putting in effort to get along with people. When he visited Adam at Harvard, he played a game with Adam’s friends instead and when he meets Hennessy’s dream-clones, he indulges them and shows off for them. Inside, there is someone who really wants to be understood and to belong to friends as unreal as himself. He tells Hennessy that he hasn’t really met anyone else like him and it’s the closest he comes to telling her how lonely he felt without knowing another dreamer.
His newfound need to connect to others comes up against his increasing suspicion. First, he had to keep the secret of what he can do from everyone. Now he knows that not only might people want to exploit and kill them, but there is an entire organization dedicated to the death of him specifically and his family as bonus points. Naturally, the moment anyone says anything he perceives as a threat, he goes into fight or flight mode. That said, people can bypass this reaction by connecting to him, as Bryde does by appealing to Ronan’s dreamer side. Using that, he is able to get Ronan to trust him.
Ronan begins the series hating himself, which causes the night horrors to attack him. He overcomes this and yet he still has a poor sense of self preservation. When he is on the verge of death and needs to dream to save himself, he chases down someone he thinks is his mother instead of taking care of himself. To say he has poor long term thinking is an understatement. In fact, the only career he has in mind is to resurrect his father’s farm and live off his inheritance, with the idea that he can rely only on that and his dreams to sustain himself.
CANON POWERS
Ronan can take things from his dreams. To do this, he must be in a lucid dream. There are two clear rules for this power. One, he has to clearly feel the object using all the senses and hold it in his mind while he wakes up. It’s easy to get the details wrong, so the objects are often imperfect. The objects do not have to abide by the rules of the real world for example, a working car without an engine or an orb that creates light. He can bring the dream magic itself back although he hasn’t mastered this and the only effects are to briefly awaken inactive dream creatures, which leads to the next rule. Two, when the dreamer dies, all dreamed animals or beings fall into a permanent sleep unless they are brought to a fully powered leyline.
If he doesn’t use these powers for a long enough time, he will start to die.
POWER SELECTION
Noospheric Powers
Because Ronan has the powers of a god and he will literally die if he can’t use them, I’m going with noospheric powers affecting his own magic. The noospheric powers can also feed off the hope and gentleness Ronan has. He can create a lot of dark things, but a lot of his better creations are made out of light-- a tiny sun, floating orbs, fireflies, and a sword of blinding light. So instead of having to dream to bring something to life, he can create light anytime he needs to and that will satisfy his magic need to create.
Yes, light. He is Dagger only less cool and he can’t create a physical weapon out of light. He can create a blinding flash of light or something with the intensity of a flashlight. The light can shoot out of his hand or he can place a light in any location as long as he knows exactly what is there (so either he’s seen the place recently or he is standing there). The light can hover in place or he can move it. He can put the light out whenever he wants to, otherwise it extinguishes when he stops thinking about it. If he practices enough, he can figure out how to put light directly into someone’s eyes so it only blinds them and doesn’t risk collateral damage.
ABILITIES
His father trained him to box since he was young (moderate skill level).
He knows how to handle and shoot a gun (moderate skill level).
He knows basic wilderness survival skills because he’s been around Gansey and must’ve gone on overnight trips looking for Cabeswater (and lives on a farm.)
He can take care of livestock and basically knows how to run a farm (just not the finances).
He can speak and write Latin and Greek.
He is amazing and lucid dreaming and creating and controlling dreams, provided he’s not in a depressed state.
He’s also observant and good at sizing up objects so he can possibly replicate or draw inspiration from them in dreams (so memorizing dimensions, looks, etc.). His observational skills extend to people, even if he doesn’t always draw the correct conclusions.
SETTING/SUITABILITY
➤ How do you expect your character to respond to the setting? Even if they plan to rebel in the long term, will they be able to at least obey enough to not get shocked to death?
Ronan knows that if he dies, his brother will go into a coma. Since he really doesn’t want that, he won’t rebel enough to die. He will fight back at first and keep pushing the boundaries, but the shocks will be effective and if he thinks he’s going too far he will scale back.
➤ What do you hope to do with your character long-term?
He was softening up and opening himself up more in the last book and I’d like to continue that. I’d also like to explore how he copes with no longer being a dreamer since that defined him for so long, for better or worse.
➤ Does your character currently have skills that would allow them to adapt, survive, and do the heroic things being asked of them? If your character doesn't, do you think they'd have the capacity to learn quickly?
Yes, he can hold his own in most fights and is always ready to learn new ways to beat people up. He’s also willing to jump into a pool of acid to save a dream creature so, you know, he’s plenty heroic in an impulsive way.
➤ If they're not used to cooperating with others, what makes you think they'll be able to adapt to cooperating with the group?
Ronan doesn’t get along with most people but he works best in a team or group of friends, as long as they can tolerate him. He’s actually pretty lonely and eager to meet other people who have strange powers like him so he’s likely to not be as much of a jerk.
➤ Will your character have long-term plans to rebel against Jorgmund? If so, how? Will they betray the other PCs and cooperate with Jorgmund? If so, how do you plan to handle the negative CR that might arise?
Yes, he will want to rebel. Until he sees evidence otherwise. The Stuff reminds him too much of how his dreams work and he’s not a fan of their mission statement. However, he knows that he’s not a strategist or even a thinker, so he will be more of a follower and try to find people organizing the fight (and really rely on Adam for decisions, as always).
SAMPLES
Network Sample
[Ronan sits still in his chair or almost still. His muscles coil and bunch to the point that they spasm every now and then. His jaw seems particularly vulnerable, twitching before his lip curls in disdain.
As the questions begin, he scratches his neck occasionally as if that simple gesture could claw the shock collar out of him.
A disembodied voice comes from whoever sat across from him.]
“If you were a kitchen appliance, which kitchen appliance would you be and why?”
[Ronan stares for a long moment. That stare conveys a lot: disdain, resentment, and the clear message he is not going to talk. At least not until something off camera causes him to scratch harder at his neck before he pulls his hand away.]
I don’t want a job.
[The screen flickers. Ronan is still seated but he has shifted to the right instead of the left. His eyes simmer with anger but he looks even more exhausted.]
An oven so I could burn the shit out of idiots who mess with me.
[The polygraph deems the answer satisfactory, so the next question begins.]
“What are three positive character traits you don't have?”
[Ronan rolls his eyes.]
Responsibility, anger management, and bullshitting.
[Beep! The other voice demands clarification. “Tell me the truth.”
Ronan looks insulted]
I don’t lie.
[Beep!
Ronan leans forward in his seat. His hands clench into fists.]
I don’t!
[There’s another cut and Ronan is sitting stiffly in his seat, but no longer menacing.]
Anger management, playing nice, and brains.
[Evidently, that’s better.
“If you could get rid of any one of the US states, which one would you get rid of and why?”]
Oh Jesus, West Virginia. Everyone’s like “oh West Virginia’s Virginia, it’s all the same.” Bullshit. They’re different and just because I live close to it doesn’t mean I’ve got anything in common with them.
And you know what they say about how they all marry their--
[The interviewer cuts in, sounding uncomfortable. “Right. That’s all I need.”]
Prose Sample
Ronan’s TDM one of the prompts was just shy of 200 but this tag in the Stacia thread hits it.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Could Ronan bring his sword VEXED TO NIGHTMARE? (Yes, all caps cause it’s special, not to be called that again unless Ronan is being pretentious.) He dreamed it immediately before the canon point I’m taking him from. It’s a sword and scabbard with the sword “made of the sky” and with the sun “blasted along every inch” (so, dream logic). It blasts sunlight when he swings it, blinding people and its gleam can be similarly blinding.
FINAL QUESTIONS
➤ Will your character suspect some kind of guiding intelligence has brought them to the game? Or will they think it was random or done by Jorgmund?
Given Ronan’s history of people seeking him out because he’s a dreamer and the weird magic that looks/acts like fate, he definitely thinks someone has chosen him. He’ll think it’s almost definitely someone at Jorgmund.
➤ If they think it was something other than Jorgmund, like God or some other force of fate, what character traits do they think of that intelligence as having? Is it cruel or kind? Capriciously punishing them or doing it for good reason?
Ronan isn’t sure if fate or God has had a hand in this. He thinks fate is weird, unpredictable, and not always benign. He hasn’t figured out where he stands with God, so his concept of him is loving but he’s not sure how vengeful vs. merciful God is. God is a mystery to him.
Player Name/Handle: Subby
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Character Name: Ronan Lynch
Fandom: The Raven Cycle/Dreamer
Character Journal:
somnioergosumCanon, AU, CRAU, or OC? Canon
Canon point: End of Call Down the Hawk
PB: Drawn, PB for Ronan with hair is Oscar Spendrup
SETTING BACKGROUND
Ronan gets two series because he’s extra. Both are mostly set in Virginia, much like the one we live in except magic is real. Most no one knows it or recognizes it though. The ley lines that run through Virginia and the area around Henrietta, Virginia are super magical and Ronan draws power from them. In Henrietta is a magic forest, Cabeswater, which exists outside the bounds of time and was only given form by Ronan but always existed. Also there are tree people and a demon. In this world there are people who can bring back objects and people from their dream into the real world. There aren’t many of them but there is an organization that hunts them down in the Dreamer series because one of their psychics foretold they will bring about the end of the world. The shady side of the world is introduced here, with moving black markets and shady organizations and little of it is explained yet.
HISTORY
➤Ronan was born with the ability to take things from his dream. He dreamed his younger brother, Matthew. His father, Niall, could also dream but never told him how to control it despite Ronan blatantly being his favorite. His older brother, Declan, resents him for this and they’re estranged.
➤Niall is killed by a pissed off client when Ronan’s 16. Ronan finds his mutilated body. Ronan’s brothers are kicked out of their family home because of Niall’s will and Aurora becomes comatose because she’s Niall’s dream.
➤Ronan’s raging PTSD makes him try to be and act as terrifying as possible. Other problems: in his nightmares “night horrors” try to kill him. He’s hospitalized when people think he attempted suicide.
➤He and his friends find a forest, Cabeswater, where time is weird. They later find out Ronan gave it a physical form but it already existed as a weird timeless being.
➤They find out their teacher killed their friend Noah and is trying to use Cabeswater. Only Adam, who Ronan’s totally crushing on, uses it first, becomes psychic and just lets Cabeswater kill the guy.
➤Ronan reveals his powers to his friends when he accidentally brings back night horrors from his dreams.
➤Gray, the hitman this guy called Greemantle hired to kill Niall, is looking for an artifact that is actually Ronan. Gray convinces Ronan to accept his help since his Greenmantle is evil.
➤Ronan steals Gansey’s car and crashes it when a night horror attacks him. Kavinsky, his rival/bully/dude he street races, kills the night horror and reveals he’s a dreamer too. He trains Ronan in the ways of intentionally dreaming things. After a day or so of drugging themselves to sleep, Kavinsky sexually assaults Ronan after giving him a dream pill. Despite this, Ronan dreams a replica of Gansey’s car and leaves. Kavinsky asks Ronan to join him and rule the galaxy together. Ronan’s like “lol, no.” Kavinsky retaliates by kidnapping Matthew. Ronan and friends save Matthew and Kavinsky is killed by his own dream monster.
➤Ronan dreams an amendment to the will so he and his brothers can go home. He takes Aurora to Cabeswater, which brings her out of the coma.
➤Ronan asks Adam for help with Greenmantle. Ronan dreams blackmail material but is attacked by night horrors and has to dream a copy of himself. He ends up bringing back the blackmail and a dying dream-Ronan.
➤Ronan accidentally brings his dream guide, Opal, out of his dreams. He sticks her in Cabeswater. A demon later attacks it. Ronan and Adam get Opal out. Ronan almost dies in the process but Adam saves him.
➤Brief interlude for Ronan and Adam to make out and become a couple. Declan tries to convince Ronan to come with him and Matthew to D.C. but, despite being touched by his brother’s concern, Ronan stays.
➤Interlude over. Ronan visits Cabeswater in a dream and finds Aurora’s corpse. Fuck his life. Because Ronan’s connected to Cabeswater, the demon starts killing him too. Gansey sacrifices his own life to save him. They ask Cabeswater to sacrifice itself to bring Gansey back, which it does.
➤Ronan drops out of high school and refines his dreaming abilities at home. He gets depressed that all his friends are leaving. He stops dreaming and starts dying. Opal tells him he’ll die if he stops dreaming things. Ronan dreams a new magic forest.
➤Ronan visits Adam at Harvard, intending to move into an apartment there, but he accidentally brings dream monsters back. He gets banned from visiting. He finds out he also needs to be around the Blue Ridge Mountains to dream and therefore not slowly die. He blames Bryde, a voice in his dreams for all this because he’s rational like that.
➤Declan takes Ronan to a black market where they also sell magic artfacts. Ronan runs into-- his mom! No, it’s actually Declan’s mom. Aurora was her dream clone. Also there’s a dream clone of Niall. Ronan almost dies while tracking them down since he hasn’t dreamed in too long. His not-mom and not-dad take him back to the Blue Ridge area and Bryde saves Ronan’s life by dreaming something for him.
➤Bryde tries to convince him to basically stop acting like a limited human and give into his abilities. He sends Ronan to save another dreamer, Hennessy from drowning in dream-water. Ronan gives her dreaming lessons.
➤Moderators, professional dreamer killers, try to kill Matthew and Declan and kill all but one of Hennessy’s dream clones. They regroup and decide to contact Bryde for help.
➤Ronan and Hennessy dream and hold back Hennessy’s dream-monster long enough for Bryde to appear. Moderators surround them. Bryde appears and helps them escape.
PERSONALITY
Ronan has his own principles. Not everyone believes him, but he never lies. In canon, he’s only made a couple exceptions, usually to protect someone. Whether or not it’s due to his Catholic guilt or a reaction to his father’s deceptions, Ronan is honest about even the hardest subjects. He would rather avoid answering than lie, as when Kavinsky accuses him of being gay, or he makes his response sound sarcastic, like when his brother about his ambitions in life.
Ronan’s bravery can be mistaken for recklessness but even on the rare occasion he is fully aware of the consequences, he will risk his life to save those he cares about. This ties into his protectiveness. When he loves someone, he’s devoted. He doesn’t seek recognition for stowing away epipens for Gansey nor does he tell Adam about bribing his landlord so Adam can afford to attend school.
A dreamer, Ronan is by necessity creative. He can create fantastic monsters but also beauty in the form of Cabeswater and other unusual objects. He is an artist who uses dreams as a medium to fashion breathtaking works of horror and wonder. His determination, while directed at few things, strengthens this talent. He spends months dreaming and refining his magic. He calls it his work. He longs for an understanding of these abilities, knowing he could be something more. This is why he’s so eager to listen to Bryde.
Despite Ronan’s crudeness and off-putting demeanor, he can be tender hearted and sentimental. He dreams hand lotion to give to Adam, having noticed his chafed hands. He also hand feeds the baby raven every two hours until she’s grown. When he thinks about Adam, his inner narrative becomes rich, metaphorical, comparing his love like an oil spill on fire and that he would wage wars for his smile. While the language is violent, the grandness of his descriptions show he’s something of a hidden romantic.
Ronan’s way of showing what respect and affection is odd and affected by his PTSD. He seldom demonstrates affection physically and teases and mocks his friends. He has gotten better at putting in effort to get along with people. When he visited Adam at Harvard, he played a game with Adam’s friends instead and when he meets Hennessy’s dream-clones, he indulges them and shows off for them. Inside, there is someone who really wants to be understood and to belong to friends as unreal as himself. He tells Hennessy that he hasn’t really met anyone else like him and it’s the closest he comes to telling her how lonely he felt without knowing another dreamer.
His newfound need to connect to others comes up against his increasing suspicion. First, he had to keep the secret of what he can do from everyone. Now he knows that not only might people want to exploit and kill them, but there is an entire organization dedicated to the death of him specifically and his family as bonus points. Naturally, the moment anyone says anything he perceives as a threat, he goes into fight or flight mode. That said, people can bypass this reaction by connecting to him, as Bryde does by appealing to Ronan’s dreamer side. Using that, he is able to get Ronan to trust him.
Ronan begins the series hating himself, which causes the night horrors to attack him. He overcomes this and yet he still has a poor sense of self preservation. When he is on the verge of death and needs to dream to save himself, he chases down someone he thinks is his mother instead of taking care of himself. To say he has poor long term thinking is an understatement. In fact, the only career he has in mind is to resurrect his father’s farm and live off his inheritance, with the idea that he can rely only on that and his dreams to sustain himself.
CANON POWERS
Ronan can take things from his dreams. To do this, he must be in a lucid dream. There are two clear rules for this power. One, he has to clearly feel the object using all the senses and hold it in his mind while he wakes up. It’s easy to get the details wrong, so the objects are often imperfect. The objects do not have to abide by the rules of the real world for example, a working car without an engine or an orb that creates light. He can bring the dream magic itself back although he hasn’t mastered this and the only effects are to briefly awaken inactive dream creatures, which leads to the next rule. Two, when the dreamer dies, all dreamed animals or beings fall into a permanent sleep unless they are brought to a fully powered leyline.
If he doesn’t use these powers for a long enough time, he will start to die.
POWER SELECTION
Noospheric Powers
Because Ronan has the powers of a god and he will literally die if he can’t use them, I’m going with noospheric powers affecting his own magic. The noospheric powers can also feed off the hope and gentleness Ronan has. He can create a lot of dark things, but a lot of his better creations are made out of light-- a tiny sun, floating orbs, fireflies, and a sword of blinding light. So instead of having to dream to bring something to life, he can create light anytime he needs to and that will satisfy his magic need to create.
Yes, light. He is Dagger only less cool and he can’t create a physical weapon out of light. He can create a blinding flash of light or something with the intensity of a flashlight. The light can shoot out of his hand or he can place a light in any location as long as he knows exactly what is there (so either he’s seen the place recently or he is standing there). The light can hover in place or he can move it. He can put the light out whenever he wants to, otherwise it extinguishes when he stops thinking about it. If he practices enough, he can figure out how to put light directly into someone’s eyes so it only blinds them and doesn’t risk collateral damage.
ABILITIES
His father trained him to box since he was young (moderate skill level).
He knows how to handle and shoot a gun (moderate skill level).
He knows basic wilderness survival skills because he’s been around Gansey and must’ve gone on overnight trips looking for Cabeswater (and lives on a farm.)
He can take care of livestock and basically knows how to run a farm (just not the finances).
He can speak and write Latin and Greek.
He is amazing and lucid dreaming and creating and controlling dreams, provided he’s not in a depressed state.
He’s also observant and good at sizing up objects so he can possibly replicate or draw inspiration from them in dreams (so memorizing dimensions, looks, etc.). His observational skills extend to people, even if he doesn’t always draw the correct conclusions.
SETTING/SUITABILITY
➤ How do you expect your character to respond to the setting? Even if they plan to rebel in the long term, will they be able to at least obey enough to not get shocked to death?
Ronan knows that if he dies, his brother will go into a coma. Since he really doesn’t want that, he won’t rebel enough to die. He will fight back at first and keep pushing the boundaries, but the shocks will be effective and if he thinks he’s going too far he will scale back.
➤ What do you hope to do with your character long-term?
He was softening up and opening himself up more in the last book and I’d like to continue that. I’d also like to explore how he copes with no longer being a dreamer since that defined him for so long, for better or worse.
➤ Does your character currently have skills that would allow them to adapt, survive, and do the heroic things being asked of them? If your character doesn't, do you think they'd have the capacity to learn quickly?
Yes, he can hold his own in most fights and is always ready to learn new ways to beat people up. He’s also willing to jump into a pool of acid to save a dream creature so, you know, he’s plenty heroic in an impulsive way.
➤ If they're not used to cooperating with others, what makes you think they'll be able to adapt to cooperating with the group?
Ronan doesn’t get along with most people but he works best in a team or group of friends, as long as they can tolerate him. He’s actually pretty lonely and eager to meet other people who have strange powers like him so he’s likely to not be as much of a jerk.
➤ Will your character have long-term plans to rebel against Jorgmund? If so, how? Will they betray the other PCs and cooperate with Jorgmund? If so, how do you plan to handle the negative CR that might arise?
Yes, he will want to rebel. Until he sees evidence otherwise. The Stuff reminds him too much of how his dreams work and he’s not a fan of their mission statement. However, he knows that he’s not a strategist or even a thinker, so he will be more of a follower and try to find people organizing the fight (and really rely on Adam for decisions, as always).
SAMPLES
Network Sample
[Ronan sits still in his chair or almost still. His muscles coil and bunch to the point that they spasm every now and then. His jaw seems particularly vulnerable, twitching before his lip curls in disdain.
As the questions begin, he scratches his neck occasionally as if that simple gesture could claw the shock collar out of him.
A disembodied voice comes from whoever sat across from him.]
“If you were a kitchen appliance, which kitchen appliance would you be and why?”
[Ronan stares for a long moment. That stare conveys a lot: disdain, resentment, and the clear message he is not going to talk. At least not until something off camera causes him to scratch harder at his neck before he pulls his hand away.]
I don’t want a job.
[The screen flickers. Ronan is still seated but he has shifted to the right instead of the left. His eyes simmer with anger but he looks even more exhausted.]
An oven so I could burn the shit out of idiots who mess with me.
[The polygraph deems the answer satisfactory, so the next question begins.]
“What are three positive character traits you don't have?”
[Ronan rolls his eyes.]
Responsibility, anger management, and bullshitting.
[Beep! The other voice demands clarification. “Tell me the truth.”
Ronan looks insulted]
I don’t lie.
[Beep!
Ronan leans forward in his seat. His hands clench into fists.]
I don’t!
[There’s another cut and Ronan is sitting stiffly in his seat, but no longer menacing.]
Anger management, playing nice, and brains.
[Evidently, that’s better.
“If you could get rid of any one of the US states, which one would you get rid of and why?”]
Oh Jesus, West Virginia. Everyone’s like “oh West Virginia’s Virginia, it’s all the same.” Bullshit. They’re different and just because I live close to it doesn’t mean I’ve got anything in common with them.
And you know what they say about how they all marry their--
[The interviewer cuts in, sounding uncomfortable. “Right. That’s all I need.”]
Prose Sample
Ronan’s TDM one of the prompts was just shy of 200 but this tag in the Stacia thread hits it.
ADDITIONAL INFO
Could Ronan bring his sword VEXED TO NIGHTMARE? (Yes, all caps cause it’s special, not to be called that again unless Ronan is being pretentious.) He dreamed it immediately before the canon point I’m taking him from. It’s a sword and scabbard with the sword “made of the sky” and with the sun “blasted along every inch” (so, dream logic). It blasts sunlight when he swings it, blinding people and its gleam can be similarly blinding.
FINAL QUESTIONS
➤ Will your character suspect some kind of guiding intelligence has brought them to the game? Or will they think it was random or done by Jorgmund?
Given Ronan’s history of people seeking him out because he’s a dreamer and the weird magic that looks/acts like fate, he definitely thinks someone has chosen him. He’ll think it’s almost definitely someone at Jorgmund.
➤ If they think it was something other than Jorgmund, like God or some other force of fate, what character traits do they think of that intelligence as having? Is it cruel or kind? Capriciously punishing them or doing it for good reason?
Ronan isn’t sure if fate or God has had a hand in this. He thinks fate is weird, unpredictable, and not always benign. He hasn’t figured out where he stands with God, so his concept of him is loving but he’s not sure how vengeful vs. merciful God is. God is a mystery to him.