mask or menace. permissions.
ooc things
backtagging: generally fine! i can often be slow myself due to schedules and timezones.ic things
threadjacking: have at it!
fourth walling: no, please, save for in world knowledge from people of the same setting.
friending: you can add my plurk at withpanache.
generally: unless i state otherwise below, i am oocly fine with whatever actions your character takes, so these are just mainly comments for ic receptiveness and consequence.content warnings
kissing/hugging: daenerys signals her interest levels pretty clearly, but she can be particular about her physical spaces, so waiting for a GO sign is advisable if you wish to avoid her ire.
fighting/violence: she isn't a physical fighter and, coming from a violent world, may or may not already have on hand people who do fighting for her.
hacking: go ahead, if you're tech savvy! dany is not. just let me know what you'd like to do.
injury/death: injury is cool, but let's stay in contact. killing is currently not on the table but i'd be open to it in the future in the course of a plot.
game of thrones is a canon that deals with a lot of potentially triggery content, and daenerys' backstory features rape, abuse, murder, violence, incestuous themes, all of which she has been exposed to at a young age. she doesn't talk about her own experiences very much and has some progressive points of view, but may be blunt talking in these matters should they come up. if you would like me to avoid specific topics or not tag you, just let me know here and i'll do my best to respect this!ability permissions
during her time in mask or menace, daenerys was granted the ability of dreamwalking. see below for a brief on how this ability works and its limitations.Walking: The fundamental component to this powerset is entering the dreams of others. At first, this will be through random chance of anyone within the radius of the city she is in, and then once she is comfortable with the power, she will be able to target people specifically. In order to willingly enter someone's mind, she must know their name and something fundamental about them in terms of having gotten an impression of who they are as a person through interaction, whether that's a piece of dramatic backstory or even just the instinct that someone is more insecure than they let on. This means that outside of random chance, she can only break and enter into the heads of people she knows.
Stage managing: Daenerys' control over the dreaming is complicated, in that she cannot just alter dreams however she likes. That said, when she enters someone's dream, her lucidity immediately makes the dream more vivid, and prefers the summoning of memories rather than pure abstract fantasy. Often, these memories are a collage of many, stitched together and made strange and obscure through their overlapping. Neither Daenerys nor the dreamer have much conscious control over the dream's landscape, but through conversation and prying, Daenerys is able to trigger certain memories. For instance, if she knows someone suffered the loss of a loved one, bringing this up to them is likely to trigger an associated memory and play out in some way. While the character is not in control of this (unless they have special psychic powersof their own), clarity of this is at the discretion of the player.
Avatar: What Daenerys does have control over is how she appears. This may help disguise who she is when she visits people, although it isn't a guarantee. Those who know her well, especially those who have been visited by her before, may be able to identify her even if she conceals her appearance (usually in the form of an animal, or someone meaningful to her or the dreamer). It is through this avatar she can be most powerful, using her own image to cajole, manipulate, comfort, or frighten the dreamer.
Limitations: For random chance encounters, the dreamer must be in the same city. For those she visits wilfully, there is no distance limitation as long as they're in the same country. The subject must be asleep at the time for her to access their minds. While they will sleep deeply for as long as she is in there, they can be woken as if from a regular sleep. If they are interrupted, she will be thrown back into her own mind and become disoriented. While she is dream walking, she, in turn, cannot be woken by conventional means, only waking when she returns or is thrown back. This puts her sleeping body in some danger, as there is no way to contact her while she is dream walking.
This will definitely come with a permissions post, and the caveat that nothing will happen without communication with the other player. Dreams will never be handwaved unless with express permission and communication.
mask or menace. application.
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Brooklyn
AGE: 28
JOURNAL:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
glaswen
IM / EMAIL: neverrryourmask @ gmail
PLURK:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
neveryourmask
RETURNING: Sylar.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Daenerys Targaryen
CHARACTER AGE: 20
SERIES: Game of Thrones
CHRONOLOGY: End of season 5.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Randomise me.
BACKGROUND: Game of Thrones is a grim medieval setting, with a focus on civil war, politics, and the resurgence of magical forces. It primarily takes place in the land of Westeros and its Seven Kingdoms, and indeed, Daenerys' story focuses on her return and her claim to its Iron Throne.
She is, now, the only surviving Targaryen, a once-royal family whose dynasty in Westeros lasted for three centuries. A rebellion headed by the noble Houses Stark and Baratheon sacked the capital of King's Landing while Daenerys' mother was still pregnant with her, and fled with her son Viserys to the Free Cities across the Narrow Sea, while almost every other living Targaryen was slaughtered. On the night Daenerys was born, her mother died, leaving Dany and Viserys orphans whose survival hinged on the kindness of Targayren loyalists. While the rebellion itself had justice in it (Daenerys' father, Aerys, was known as the Mad King for a reason), Dany was taught for much of her childhood of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, and made to believe that the throne would one day be reclaimed by Viserys.
These loyalists soon became opportunists, happy to entertain the two Targaryen children while it profited them to do so. Viserys was unsuccessful in trying to raise support for his retaking of the Iron Throne, but clung to this destiny with a white-knuckled grasp, and infused in Daenerys these beliefs and desires (or at least, he attempted to). As her only constant, Viserys half-raised his little sister, but did so with emotional abuse and utter control. It should be noted that the Targaryen line was notorious for its inbreeding, and Viserys exhibited attraction for Dany as she matured, which was not returned. Attempts to assert herself were met with physical abuse and threats thereof, and she grew up in the shadow of her brother's tyrannical nature.
Born in the east, her screentime is spent entirely on the eastern continent of Essos, a land patchworked with different self-governing regions known as the Free Cities, under no single unity. Slavery, an illegal trade in Westeros, is rife in the Free Cities (ironically), and much of the accumulated power is found either in the roaming horselord armies, the Dothraki, or powerful merchants and slavers that run the various cities. It is here that Daenerys' comes of age, and in a few short years, gathers to her the loyalty, army, wealth, and reputation needed to sail back across the Narrow Sea and take, for herself, the Iron Throne.
That story can be found here. Her canon point extraction will be the end of season five.
PERSONALITY: It's said that when a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin, and depending on the side, this child will grow up to be a genius, or mad. Sometimes, there is a fine line between either.
Who Dany will be is yet to be seen, but who Daenerys has been so far is someone with a natural tactical brilliance that has allowed her, in her latter teenage years, to conquer multiple cities that had, for a long time, hid behind their own massive walls, and go from the little sister of the Beggar King to the Queen of Meereen and Mother of Dragons. It's hard to credit anything other than sheer destiny when considering the quiet girl she'd been under her older brother's control, and her massive transformation, but in a way, it's the dramatic frameshift she experienced with regard to the shame and death of Viserys that began her journey and development.
He had been, up until these moments, her entire world. Although niggling doubt had seeded already when Viserys would talk of his kingly destiny, she hadn't the words to give voice to this doubt. When the hardships of the Dothraki existence exposed him for a weakling, when her own elevation as Khaleesi drove him mad with jealousy, and when he was struck down by one of Drogo's bloodriders for assaulting her, her world began to break open into something less claustrophobic than what Viserys had envisioned it to be. She stopped fearing him, and would never fear anyone again who exhibited even a little of Viserys' tyranny. She learned that many men were fundamentally cowards, and that her wrath was something to be feared, and her status as Khaleesi could, in fact, make good on this power.
When the khalasar abandoned her in the wake of Khal Drogo's death, she no longer had her Dothraki horde, nor her husband, nor her unborn child, who was promised as the stallion that would mount the world, a king of prophecy to unite the Grass Seas of the Dothraki. But she did, not long after, have her dragons, and the reputation they granted her. Eventually, they would come of age and be able to burn armies where they rode at her command, but until then, they marked her as the Mother of Dragons, instilling her name with intrigue and honour, and at the very least, they were immensely valuable. More personally, they are, to Dany, her power made into flesh and fire. Where Drogo and her son had promised her a future, her dragons promise even greater things, and act as an extension of her will.
In theory, anyway. Separate to all of that, dragons are also giant ill-tempered fire-breathing animals with their own moods and desires and dangers, sometimes challenging or disobeying her. At her canonpoint, two remained confined within the catacombs of Meereen to protect her citizens, and the third, Drogon, returned only when Dany needed him most.
Currently, she is learning to be a queen, instead of only a conqueror. Dany frequently demonstrates some naivety behind both her ideals as well as her brutality. While ruling Meereen, she is shocked to learn of slaves, whom she freed, that wish to enter back into the service of their masters due to better than average treatment and unsatisfactory law-keeping under her command. The longer term effects of her decisions and what it really means to rule can escape her, but she's made the decision to learn. When she does attempt compromise, she will still voice her objections and dig in her heels, having little patience for democratic solutions when so many successes in her world have come as a result of fire and blood, but makes a point to have advisers on hand whom she can ignore or listen to as needed. When it came to light that Ser Jorah, a Westerosi knight and longtime adviser, had initially acted as a spy against her and then never told her, her reaction was utterly uncompromising, running both hot and cold. Her decree to banish was as much an order from a queen as it was her own sense of personal betrayal.
But none of the above is from a place of petty pride or tyranny. She has the capacity for love and kindness, and while the single-minded goal to claim the Iron Throne is the kind of goal possessed by many greedy, entitled men across the Narrow Sea, she imagines a world where the senseless violence of a fractured kingdom is stopped. She learned an extreme loathing for injustice as a result of the treatment at the hand of her brother, and learned to be powerful after her assimilation into the incredibly masculine Dothraki culture, and her reforging of what being a Khaleesi means, i.e., not simply the wife and mother of kings.
In day to day conversation, she comes across as quiet and thoughtful, her poise held like an indrawn breath. She does not raise her voice as much as she used to only a few years ago. Anger and such strong shows of emotion are vices that can get the best of her upon gaining the sudden freedom to express them at age sixteen, and the past few years have been a lesson in how she can wield them, even if she is never quite able to hide them. She can demonstrate an ease and a humour in the appropriate context, usually in the form of dry commentary, teasing prods, or amusement for the charms of others. Her trust and friendship are hard earned, which makes genuine interaction with her feel somewhat intimate, usually on her own terms.
POWER:
FIRE CANNOT KILL A DRAGON: As per canon, Daenerys is immune to high temperatures as is characteristic of many Targaryens. But unlike many Targaryens, she is completely invulnerable to fire. Even her hair doesn't burn. She can't control fire, but she can withstand it, and has in the past used this to her advantage.
DROGON: One of the three dragons that Daenerys hatched and raised, and is currently about this big as of canonpoint. He is tough, strong, and deadly, but is still susceptible to ordinary injury, such as spears, swords, or bullets. His favourite hobbies are sleeping and eating and then sleeping again. Much like his mother, he's invulnerable to fire, and in fact breathes it in fiery blasts that reach about twenty feet. He can fly, and Dany is capable of riding him at his behest, usually during moments of rescue, although in the future, she will be able to do this more frequently.
At the moment, trust between girl and dragon is fractured. Drogon is at an adolescent kind of stage and challenges Dany's authority, and has spent some time away from her until recently. Nevertheless, he understands some basic commands, such as 'dracarys', which instructs him to breathe fire. More time spent between them will allow Dany to better manage his behaviours.
Within a year, he will grow larger.
Third powerslot is kept empty for now.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
My name is Daenerys Stormborn. [ It seems like a good enough beginning for her first address, and it's also been a long time coming. She is dressed in her native dress, hair braided in native fashions, but her throat and hands are unadorned of finery. Her natural formality is (adorably) undermined by her own camera work, a little amateurish and selfie-like as she uses a mirror to assist in getting herself in view of its frame, phone clutched visibly in her hands.
Still, she persists. Determined. ] There are those of you for whom this place is near identical to the land you hail from. For myself, and others like me, it's as strange as it is fantastic. The willingness to learn of its ways can only come after acceptance that we must remain here for some time.
And for now, you are my people. As I am yours.
[ This comes out a little stilted, as if Dany were still getting used to the sentiment. ]
I know we have our own representatives for the cities who have opened their gates to us. While I would welcome the opportunity to speak to these representatives myself, I would like now to speak to everyone else. I would like to know why they inspired your vote.
[ Now, finally, a tinge of a smile, warm at her eyes; ] Or, if you pledged yourself to another, why they failed to.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test Drive threads.
FINAL NOTES: To accommodate the Porter and Drogon's large size, he will have shapeshifting powers available to him that can make him shrink to the size of a surly housecat, and grow back to his normal size. He will arrive, therefore, much smaller than he is naturally, and while he will not be easy on attempted handlers (some may come away with less eyebrows than with which they began), Daenerys will demonstrate ability to wrangle him, along with a wealth of fierce protectiveness.
Upon seeing the sky, Drogon will revert to his usual size, and take off on his own for a while.
If it's cool with the mods, I'd like him to retain his shrinking ability for ease of future management, even if it's not quite within his or Dany's control yet, but I'm good with it being a one off too.
NAME: Brooklyn
AGE: 28
JOURNAL:
glaswenIM / EMAIL: neverrryourmask @ gmail
PLURK:
RETURNING: Sylar.
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Daenerys Targaryen
CHARACTER AGE: 20
SERIES: Game of Thrones
CHRONOLOGY: End of season 5.
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Randomise me.
BACKGROUND: Game of Thrones is a grim medieval setting, with a focus on civil war, politics, and the resurgence of magical forces. It primarily takes place in the land of Westeros and its Seven Kingdoms, and indeed, Daenerys' story focuses on her return and her claim to its Iron Throne.
She is, now, the only surviving Targaryen, a once-royal family whose dynasty in Westeros lasted for three centuries. A rebellion headed by the noble Houses Stark and Baratheon sacked the capital of King's Landing while Daenerys' mother was still pregnant with her, and fled with her son Viserys to the Free Cities across the Narrow Sea, while almost every other living Targaryen was slaughtered. On the night Daenerys was born, her mother died, leaving Dany and Viserys orphans whose survival hinged on the kindness of Targayren loyalists. While the rebellion itself had justice in it (Daenerys' father, Aerys, was known as the Mad King for a reason), Dany was taught for much of her childhood of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, and made to believe that the throne would one day be reclaimed by Viserys.
These loyalists soon became opportunists, happy to entertain the two Targaryen children while it profited them to do so. Viserys was unsuccessful in trying to raise support for his retaking of the Iron Throne, but clung to this destiny with a white-knuckled grasp, and infused in Daenerys these beliefs and desires (or at least, he attempted to). As her only constant, Viserys half-raised his little sister, but did so with emotional abuse and utter control. It should be noted that the Targaryen line was notorious for its inbreeding, and Viserys exhibited attraction for Dany as she matured, which was not returned. Attempts to assert herself were met with physical abuse and threats thereof, and she grew up in the shadow of her brother's tyrannical nature.
Born in the east, her screentime is spent entirely on the eastern continent of Essos, a land patchworked with different self-governing regions known as the Free Cities, under no single unity. Slavery, an illegal trade in Westeros, is rife in the Free Cities (ironically), and much of the accumulated power is found either in the roaming horselord armies, the Dothraki, or powerful merchants and slavers that run the various cities. It is here that Daenerys' comes of age, and in a few short years, gathers to her the loyalty, army, wealth, and reputation needed to sail back across the Narrow Sea and take, for herself, the Iron Throne.
That story can be found here. Her canon point extraction will be the end of season five.
PERSONALITY: It's said that when a Targaryen is born, the gods toss a coin, and depending on the side, this child will grow up to be a genius, or mad. Sometimes, there is a fine line between either.
Who Dany will be is yet to be seen, but who Daenerys has been so far is someone with a natural tactical brilliance that has allowed her, in her latter teenage years, to conquer multiple cities that had, for a long time, hid behind their own massive walls, and go from the little sister of the Beggar King to the Queen of Meereen and Mother of Dragons. It's hard to credit anything other than sheer destiny when considering the quiet girl she'd been under her older brother's control, and her massive transformation, but in a way, it's the dramatic frameshift she experienced with regard to the shame and death of Viserys that began her journey and development.
He had been, up until these moments, her entire world. Although niggling doubt had seeded already when Viserys would talk of his kingly destiny, she hadn't the words to give voice to this doubt. When the hardships of the Dothraki existence exposed him for a weakling, when her own elevation as Khaleesi drove him mad with jealousy, and when he was struck down by one of Drogo's bloodriders for assaulting her, her world began to break open into something less claustrophobic than what Viserys had envisioned it to be. She stopped fearing him, and would never fear anyone again who exhibited even a little of Viserys' tyranny. She learned that many men were fundamentally cowards, and that her wrath was something to be feared, and her status as Khaleesi could, in fact, make good on this power.
When the khalasar abandoned her in the wake of Khal Drogo's death, she no longer had her Dothraki horde, nor her husband, nor her unborn child, who was promised as the stallion that would mount the world, a king of prophecy to unite the Grass Seas of the Dothraki. But she did, not long after, have her dragons, and the reputation they granted her. Eventually, they would come of age and be able to burn armies where they rode at her command, but until then, they marked her as the Mother of Dragons, instilling her name with intrigue and honour, and at the very least, they were immensely valuable. More personally, they are, to Dany, her power made into flesh and fire. Where Drogo and her son had promised her a future, her dragons promise even greater things, and act as an extension of her will.
In theory, anyway. Separate to all of that, dragons are also giant ill-tempered fire-breathing animals with their own moods and desires and dangers, sometimes challenging or disobeying her. At her canonpoint, two remained confined within the catacombs of Meereen to protect her citizens, and the third, Drogon, returned only when Dany needed him most.
Currently, she is learning to be a queen, instead of only a conqueror. Dany frequently demonstrates some naivety behind both her ideals as well as her brutality. While ruling Meereen, she is shocked to learn of slaves, whom she freed, that wish to enter back into the service of their masters due to better than average treatment and unsatisfactory law-keeping under her command. The longer term effects of her decisions and what it really means to rule can escape her, but she's made the decision to learn. When she does attempt compromise, she will still voice her objections and dig in her heels, having little patience for democratic solutions when so many successes in her world have come as a result of fire and blood, but makes a point to have advisers on hand whom she can ignore or listen to as needed. When it came to light that Ser Jorah, a Westerosi knight and longtime adviser, had initially acted as a spy against her and then never told her, her reaction was utterly uncompromising, running both hot and cold. Her decree to banish was as much an order from a queen as it was her own sense of personal betrayal.
But none of the above is from a place of petty pride or tyranny. She has the capacity for love and kindness, and while the single-minded goal to claim the Iron Throne is the kind of goal possessed by many greedy, entitled men across the Narrow Sea, she imagines a world where the senseless violence of a fractured kingdom is stopped. She learned an extreme loathing for injustice as a result of the treatment at the hand of her brother, and learned to be powerful after her assimilation into the incredibly masculine Dothraki culture, and her reforging of what being a Khaleesi means, i.e., not simply the wife and mother of kings.
In day to day conversation, she comes across as quiet and thoughtful, her poise held like an indrawn breath. She does not raise her voice as much as she used to only a few years ago. Anger and such strong shows of emotion are vices that can get the best of her upon gaining the sudden freedom to express them at age sixteen, and the past few years have been a lesson in how she can wield them, even if she is never quite able to hide them. She can demonstrate an ease and a humour in the appropriate context, usually in the form of dry commentary, teasing prods, or amusement for the charms of others. Her trust and friendship are hard earned, which makes genuine interaction with her feel somewhat intimate, usually on her own terms.
POWER:
FIRE CANNOT KILL A DRAGON: As per canon, Daenerys is immune to high temperatures as is characteristic of many Targaryens. But unlike many Targaryens, she is completely invulnerable to fire. Even her hair doesn't burn. She can't control fire, but she can withstand it, and has in the past used this to her advantage.
DROGON: One of the three dragons that Daenerys hatched and raised, and is currently about this big as of canonpoint. He is tough, strong, and deadly, but is still susceptible to ordinary injury, such as spears, swords, or bullets. His favourite hobbies are sleeping and eating and then sleeping again. Much like his mother, he's invulnerable to fire, and in fact breathes it in fiery blasts that reach about twenty feet. He can fly, and Dany is capable of riding him at his behest, usually during moments of rescue, although in the future, she will be able to do this more frequently.
At the moment, trust between girl and dragon is fractured. Drogon is at an adolescent kind of stage and challenges Dany's authority, and has spent some time away from her until recently. Nevertheless, he understands some basic commands, such as 'dracarys', which instructs him to breathe fire. More time spent between them will allow Dany to better manage his behaviours.
Within a year, he will grow larger.
Third powerslot is kept empty for now.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
My name is Daenerys Stormborn. [ It seems like a good enough beginning for her first address, and it's also been a long time coming. She is dressed in her native dress, hair braided in native fashions, but her throat and hands are unadorned of finery. Her natural formality is (adorably) undermined by her own camera work, a little amateurish and selfie-like as she uses a mirror to assist in getting herself in view of its frame, phone clutched visibly in her hands.
Still, she persists. Determined. ] There are those of you for whom this place is near identical to the land you hail from. For myself, and others like me, it's as strange as it is fantastic. The willingness to learn of its ways can only come after acceptance that we must remain here for some time.
And for now, you are my people. As I am yours.
[ This comes out a little stilted, as if Dany were still getting used to the sentiment. ]
I know we have our own representatives for the cities who have opened their gates to us. While I would welcome the opportunity to speak to these representatives myself, I would like now to speak to everyone else. I would like to know why they inspired your vote.
[ Now, finally, a tinge of a smile, warm at her eyes; ] Or, if you pledged yourself to another, why they failed to.
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Test Drive threads.
FINAL NOTES: To accommodate the Porter and Drogon's large size, he will have shapeshifting powers available to him that can make him shrink to the size of a surly housecat, and grow back to his normal size. He will arrive, therefore, much smaller than he is naturally, and while he will not be easy on attempted handlers (some may come away with less eyebrows than with which they began), Daenerys will demonstrate ability to wrangle him, along with a wealth of fierce protectiveness.
Upon seeing the sky, Drogon will revert to his usual size, and take off on his own for a while.
If it's cool with the mods, I'd like him to retain his shrinking ability for ease of future management, even if it's not quite within his or Dany's control yet, but I'm good with it being a one off too.