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Application [Aion Teleos]
PLAYER
CHARACTER
NAME: ??? (most infamous code name: Havoc, lesser known code name: Carmine)
CANON: Darker than Black
CANON POINT: end of ep.6
AGE: Unknown (appears to be in her mid-to-late twenties, but may be younger than she looks due to current state of malnourishment and general poor health- timelines should have her as at least 18 or older)
SPECIES: Human (Contractor/Regressor)
INFORMATION: Havoc's Darker than Black wiki entry is here, and checking out the entry on Contractors in general may also be helpful.
CHARACTER PITCH: Havoc's role in the story serves to show the viewers what can happen to Contractors who lose their powers and return to their more natural human capacity for emotion. She also serves as a foil to the main character, Hei, who is a human who gained Contractor powers and yet ironically had acted more like a cold-hearted Contractor before his powers rather than after. Her arc is all about redemption, guilt, the past catching up, and how futile it sometimes is to try and run from it. Haunted by the memories she retained after losing her powers in a mysterious incident, she goes to ground to try and avoid being found by the various powerful governments/crime syndicates she used to work for, and a woman who was once known as the most feared and destructive Contractor in the world... became a quiet, meek shell overwhelmed by the sudden ability she possessed to feel.
Over time she was able to acclimate to the unfamiliar sensations, and much like a child learning step by step Havoc relearned simple things that come easily to humans, like how to enjoy the flavor of food, how to do things just because you like to do them, how to care what others think, how to care for other people. But you can't run forever, and Havoc is recognized, taken captive, and sold to a U.N. research facility, only to become a chess piece in international faction battles once again. Even when she tries to help redeem her actions by using the powers and memories she'd abandoned to help someone else... she ends up not being strong enough, ending up begging for death rather than a life "lived" once more as an unfeeling Contractor. Though she is offered hope in the form of running away instead, offered help to do so... she's just too potentially dangerous to live by other Contractors on the field, and ends up bleeding out in a back alley. Ironically... the organization that tracks Contractor power use later confirms that her powers had started to become active again before she died... leaving us with the doubt: could she have possibly regained her powers and retained the emotions of a human... ? We'll never know! (Or will we... ?)
To put it in trope terms... as a Contractor, Havoc is a Stoic Tin Woman with Conditional Powers and Lack of Empathy who Ate Babies. As a Regressor, she is an Atoner and Shell Shocked Veteran who just wants to live a quiet life as a Suicidal Pacifist. In-game once her powers fully stablize and she returns more to her Contractor state, but with five years of experience feeling and connecting with others... ?
POWERS: Havoc's Contract allows her to conjure up fields of hard vacuum space. When applied to targets directly, you get physically catastrophic barotrauma due to explosive decompression. When applied to an area, it can cause symptoms of an explosion due to displacing air and propelling unsecured items, or even cause an actual detonation if applied to unstable materials. According to evidence from her work in the Heaven's Gate War, Havoc often utilized her ability on the framework and foundations of buildings or whole rooms to induce earthquake-like damage and bring down the whole place for mass casualty. For in-game power balance purposes, her vacuum's destructive power would be limited to the set "two-story building" size, there will be a little bit of a delay with the activation of the ability (which is accompanied by a visual cue of radiation glowing in her eyes and silhouette) to allow for potential dodging or reaction, and she will need a good visual on any space where she plans to open a vacuum in order to properly actualize the borders of the sphere or risk it collapsing.
As with all Contractor's, Havoc pays a price called an "obeisance" for her Contract, which she is mentally compelled and physically driven to pay after using her powers. Her obeisance is to to drink the blood of children. For the purpose of in-game logistics, how much she needs to consume will be dependent on how much she utilizes her ability. For example, if she briefly uses her ability to open a small vacuum field and kill one person, she might drink a spoonful. If she was involved in an extended fight in which she had to repeatedly open vacuums of varying size and periods without rest, she might need to consume a pint or more.
Contractor's are said to "melt like butter" if they don't fulfill their remuneration, but seeing as no Contrctor in their right mind would willingly do so, it's never been shown clearly what would happen. If Havoc is prevented from drinking appropriate blood, (appropriate meaning belonging to someone physically not an adult and considered "fresh"), whether by means of it not being available or being physically prevented from accessing it, she will eventually begin to experience physical pain and mental strain before eventual madness and/or death if the deprivation continues long-term.
As for her purely physical capabilities, Havoc was once a trained operative in a high-stakes undercover war, and likely had the training similar to that of an assassin, with emphasis on stealth and remaining undetected. However, she has only recently regained her memories and her body is nowhere near the condition it used to be in, so until she regains weight and muscle mass, as well as reconditions herself, she won't be nearly as effective in a purely physical fight. At current, she is much weaker than the average person.
CANON: Darker than Black
CANON POINT: end of ep.6
AGE: Unknown (appears to be in her mid-to-late twenties, but may be younger than she looks due to current state of malnourishment and general poor health- timelines should have her as at least 18 or older)
SPECIES: Human (Contractor/Regressor)
INFORMATION: Havoc's Darker than Black wiki entry is here, and checking out the entry on Contractors in general may also be helpful.
CHARACTER PITCH: Havoc's role in the story serves to show the viewers what can happen to Contractors who lose their powers and return to their more natural human capacity for emotion. She also serves as a foil to the main character, Hei, who is a human who gained Contractor powers and yet ironically had acted more like a cold-hearted Contractor before his powers rather than after. Her arc is all about redemption, guilt, the past catching up, and how futile it sometimes is to try and run from it. Haunted by the memories she retained after losing her powers in a mysterious incident, she goes to ground to try and avoid being found by the various powerful governments/crime syndicates she used to work for, and a woman who was once known as the most feared and destructive Contractor in the world... became a quiet, meek shell overwhelmed by the sudden ability she possessed to feel.
Over time she was able to acclimate to the unfamiliar sensations, and much like a child learning step by step Havoc relearned simple things that come easily to humans, like how to enjoy the flavor of food, how to do things just because you like to do them, how to care what others think, how to care for other people. But you can't run forever, and Havoc is recognized, taken captive, and sold to a U.N. research facility, only to become a chess piece in international faction battles once again. Even when she tries to help redeem her actions by using the powers and memories she'd abandoned to help someone else... she ends up not being strong enough, ending up begging for death rather than a life "lived" once more as an unfeeling Contractor. Though she is offered hope in the form of running away instead, offered help to do so... she's just too potentially dangerous to live by other Contractors on the field, and ends up bleeding out in a back alley. Ironically... the organization that tracks Contractor power use later confirms that her powers had started to become active again before she died... leaving us with the doubt: could she have possibly regained her powers and retained the emotions of a human... ? We'll never know! (Or will we... ?)
To put it in trope terms... as a Contractor, Havoc is a Stoic Tin Woman with Conditional Powers and Lack of Empathy who Ate Babies. As a Regressor, she is an Atoner and Shell Shocked Veteran who just wants to live a quiet life as a Suicidal Pacifist. In-game once her powers fully stablize and she returns more to her Contractor state, but with five years of experience feeling and connecting with others... ?
POWERS: Havoc's Contract allows her to conjure up fields of hard vacuum space. When applied to targets directly, you get physically catastrophic barotrauma due to explosive decompression. When applied to an area, it can cause symptoms of an explosion due to displacing air and propelling unsecured items, or even cause an actual detonation if applied to unstable materials. According to evidence from her work in the Heaven's Gate War, Havoc often utilized her ability on the framework and foundations of buildings or whole rooms to induce earthquake-like damage and bring down the whole place for mass casualty. For in-game power balance purposes, her vacuum's destructive power would be limited to the set "two-story building" size, there will be a little bit of a delay with the activation of the ability (which is accompanied by a visual cue of radiation glowing in her eyes and silhouette) to allow for potential dodging or reaction, and she will need a good visual on any space where she plans to open a vacuum in order to properly actualize the borders of the sphere or risk it collapsing.
As with all Contractor's, Havoc pays a price called an "obeisance" for her Contract, which she is mentally compelled and physically driven to pay after using her powers. Her obeisance is to to drink the blood of children. For the purpose of in-game logistics, how much she needs to consume will be dependent on how much she utilizes her ability. For example, if she briefly uses her ability to open a small vacuum field and kill one person, she might drink a spoonful. If she was involved in an extended fight in which she had to repeatedly open vacuums of varying size and periods without rest, she might need to consume a pint or more.
Contractor's are said to "melt like butter" if they don't fulfill their remuneration, but seeing as no Contrctor in their right mind would willingly do so, it's never been shown clearly what would happen. If Havoc is prevented from drinking appropriate blood, (appropriate meaning belonging to someone physically not an adult and considered "fresh"), whether by means of it not being available or being physically prevented from accessing it, she will eventually begin to experience physical pain and mental strain before eventual madness and/or death if the deprivation continues long-term.
As for her purely physical capabilities, Havoc was once a trained operative in a high-stakes undercover war, and likely had the training similar to that of an assassin, with emphasis on stealth and remaining undetected. However, she has only recently regained her memories and her body is nowhere near the condition it used to be in, so until she regains weight and muscle mass, as well as reconditions herself, she won't be nearly as effective in a purely physical fight. At current, she is much weaker than the average person.
QUESTIONNAIRE
What is the worst or most malicious thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?
The worst thing Havoc did was, honestly, her entire career as a Contractor... but most of the atrocities her infamous reputation as a "perfect Contractor" were based on were committed in the bloody covert war that took place in South America around a place numerous powerful governments and criminal organizations were trying to control called Heaven's Gate. As a Syndicate operative in that war she was responsible for murdering countless people; the United Nations investigation lists her kill count as somewhere in the realm between a few hundred to a few thousands (presumably varying depending on whether you count only direct murder or include collateral damage). I addition to this, she paid for her powers by consuming the blood of children, and while she sometimes had the luxury to bleed children and leave them alive... sometimes she didn't. That was just the life of a Contractor, and as a Contractor it didn't bother her in the slightest. But as a Regressor, she feels instense guilt over her actions as a Contractor, and she would do almost anything, including ending her own life, to prevent herself from becoming that person again.
What is the most altruistic or selfless thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?
The most selfless thing that Havoc ever did was promising to help main character Hei, a former fellow Syndicate member from her cell operating in the Heaven's Gate War, try to find out what happened to his sister. This involved letting him take her close to Hell's Gate in the hopes that she might regain her powers and, with them, the more complete memories of the Heaven's Gate War that she lost in the misunderstood process of becoming a Regressor. Havoc had just enough memories of that war (blood, destruction at her hands, murder) to know she didn't want to know more, and she knew that the last thing she wanted was to become a Contractor again and lose all of the emotional capacity she'd gained as a Regressor... but she still offered, in the hopes that she might do something good, might make up just a little for all the horibble things she'd done in her life. Her entire life as a Regressor had been a love letter to tiny acts of redemption, but something this grand and risky was uncharacteristic of her, and only offered because she saw Hei, ostensibly being a Contractor and yet also emotional, which made her think that maybe she could do it, too. But it's worth noting that she made Hei promise her... that if she failed, if she wasn't able to keep hold of her emotions with her powers, that Hei would kill her instead of letting her live that way. When in her Regressor state, Havoc would not regret trying, even if she would regret how it forced Hei into position to feel hurt having to kill her/seeing her die. In her Contractor state, however... Havoc would view those actions through a far more cutthroat and rational lens, and struggle to even begin to understand why someone would put themselves in such a high-risk situation just to help an old co-worker.
What do they desire above all else? How far would they go to accomplish their goals or fulfill those desires? Do they have lines they wouldn't cross?
What Havoc desires the most changes dramatically whether we're talking about her in her Contractor state or her Regressor state. Since both states are possible in-game based on her attunement status, I will break it down:
As a Contractor, Havoc's primary desire is just to ensure her continued survival. And seeing as she views her life in her own world as nearly ended and also saw a dream hinting that the world itself might be in danger or already destroyed... She is invested in doing that survival in Horos. She has no moral qualms about killing to keep herself alive or even just killing for money, perks, or shows of loyalty/obedience to someone who can help ensure her position. As long as what she was required to do didn't risk her own life or well-being uneccesarily, she would care very negligably (if at all) about how cruel, sociably unacceptable, or controversial the things she had to do were.
As a Regressor, Havoc only desires to live an unassuming life in which she can relish quietly in the emotional capacity she regains with the loss of her powers. It was only after she became a Regressor that she came to understand very simple things such as eating just because food tasted good, being able to dream, and experiencing feelings of fondness towards others... but though she feels an intense desire to protect that life, she also isn't really willing to do anything that might hurt another person in order to do so, especially not a child. She is willing to kill herself, rather than lose that ability by becoming a Contractor again, she's willing to go on the run, try to hide, change her name, and move.... but she won't do anything remotely like a Contractor would. Like "Havoc" or "Carmine" would. That would make all of it pointless.
The worst thing Havoc did was, honestly, her entire career as a Contractor... but most of the atrocities her infamous reputation as a "perfect Contractor" were based on were committed in the bloody covert war that took place in South America around a place numerous powerful governments and criminal organizations were trying to control called Heaven's Gate. As a Syndicate operative in that war she was responsible for murdering countless people; the United Nations investigation lists her kill count as somewhere in the realm between a few hundred to a few thousands (presumably varying depending on whether you count only direct murder or include collateral damage). I addition to this, she paid for her powers by consuming the blood of children, and while she sometimes had the luxury to bleed children and leave them alive... sometimes she didn't. That was just the life of a Contractor, and as a Contractor it didn't bother her in the slightest. But as a Regressor, she feels instense guilt over her actions as a Contractor, and she would do almost anything, including ending her own life, to prevent herself from becoming that person again.
What is the most altruistic or selfless thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?
The most selfless thing that Havoc ever did was promising to help main character Hei, a former fellow Syndicate member from her cell operating in the Heaven's Gate War, try to find out what happened to his sister. This involved letting him take her close to Hell's Gate in the hopes that she might regain her powers and, with them, the more complete memories of the Heaven's Gate War that she lost in the misunderstood process of becoming a Regressor. Havoc had just enough memories of that war (blood, destruction at her hands, murder) to know she didn't want to know more, and she knew that the last thing she wanted was to become a Contractor again and lose all of the emotional capacity she'd gained as a Regressor... but she still offered, in the hopes that she might do something good, might make up just a little for all the horibble things she'd done in her life. Her entire life as a Regressor had been a love letter to tiny acts of redemption, but something this grand and risky was uncharacteristic of her, and only offered because she saw Hei, ostensibly being a Contractor and yet also emotional, which made her think that maybe she could do it, too. But it's worth noting that she made Hei promise her... that if she failed, if she wasn't able to keep hold of her emotions with her powers, that Hei would kill her instead of letting her live that way. When in her Regressor state, Havoc would not regret trying, even if she would regret how it forced Hei into position to feel hurt having to kill her/seeing her die. In her Contractor state, however... Havoc would view those actions through a far more cutthroat and rational lens, and struggle to even begin to understand why someone would put themselves in such a high-risk situation just to help an old co-worker.
What do they desire above all else? How far would they go to accomplish their goals or fulfill those desires? Do they have lines they wouldn't cross?
What Havoc desires the most changes dramatically whether we're talking about her in her Contractor state or her Regressor state. Since both states are possible in-game based on her attunement status, I will break it down:
As a Contractor, Havoc's primary desire is just to ensure her continued survival. And seeing as she views her life in her own world as nearly ended and also saw a dream hinting that the world itself might be in danger or already destroyed... She is invested in doing that survival in Horos. She has no moral qualms about killing to keep herself alive or even just killing for money, perks, or shows of loyalty/obedience to someone who can help ensure her position. As long as what she was required to do didn't risk her own life or well-being uneccesarily, she would care very negligably (if at all) about how cruel, sociably unacceptable, or controversial the things she had to do were.
As a Regressor, Havoc only desires to live an unassuming life in which she can relish quietly in the emotional capacity she regains with the loss of her powers. It was only after she became a Regressor that she came to understand very simple things such as eating just because food tasted good, being able to dream, and experiencing feelings of fondness towards others... but though she feels an intense desire to protect that life, she also isn't really willing to do anything that might hurt another person in order to do so, especially not a child. She is willing to kill herself, rather than lose that ability by becoming a Contractor again, she's willing to go on the run, try to hide, change her name, and move.... but she won't do anything remotely like a Contractor would. Like "Havoc" or "Carmine" would. That would make all of it pointless.
GAME DETAILS
LEGACY: The Innocent. When Havoc's emotions aren't suppressed by her Contract, as a human/Regressor, she dreams of a life of peace and quiet happiness, of a small place to live and a garden to tend and decent food to eat and moments when she interact with other people and think "ah... they're happy". Her desires are simple, and because she knows how tenuous that sort of life is, because she had her experience as a Contractor to educate her, she is not easily tempted or corrupted. Because of those same Contractor experiences, she treats even the simplest of emotions and discoveries with wonder and gratitude. Havoc isn't naive, she knows better than most about the dark side of people and the world at large... but she has cultivated a resignation towards her status as a Regressor, knowing that she has almost no control over her fate... and she must simply enjoy being "human" as long as she possibly can. I chose the Innocent because, even though Havoc will become a Contractor again in-game and the legacy may no longer seem fitting, Innocent fits her Regressor/human personality, and that is technically her "base/real" personality, in addition to being her status when she first comes into game and legacies claim the aions.)
INTRODUCTORY SECT: Kenoma. Because Havoc's powers will return when she reaches Tier 1 attunement, no matter the sect, I think she should start in Kenoma because... the rational, hyper-logical thinking of a Contractor would lead her to identify very quickly that the safest and most taken care of place to be as an aion would be under the rule of the Regent. Since this would lead to her attempted defection a bit too quickly, so it makes better sense for her to start in Kenoma. Though she wouldn't neccesarily believe in all of the ideology, since she has little concern for worlds as a whole or judging the mortality of them, her willingness to engage in destruction, murder, and other negative acts under the orders of a more powerful handler who in exchance offers her room, board, and protection is very par for the course for Contractors.
SUITABILITY: I'd like to play Havoc here in order to explore the Contractor side of her nature and how five years living as a Regressor would affect the Contractor behavior, as one of the underlying plot points throughout Darker than Black is the question of just how monstruous Contractors are. It's easy to believe that they're just the killing machines everyone says, that they're just cold, emotionless tools, but different story arcs constantly hinting that Contractors might not be what everyone believes, that there might be a bit more there, that maybe the real monsters are those who use Contractors, that we maybe ought to wonder if it's better to feel or not to feel. I would absolutely love to do an arc of her establishing herself in Kenoma using the act of "Carmine the Regressor", unassuming and quiet and maybe she almost doesn't seem to other Kenoma as if she belongs there, when in actuality... she would be "Havoc the Contractor", and be a very loyal servant of the Regent. Though I don't have a specific plan for her to defect... a Contractor follows whoever can provide them with what they want, whether that's safety, power, a comfortable life, or just base survival, so if something happened in-game that meant following the Regent was no longer the most safe option for her (for example, a new more powerful ruler on the scene)... Havoc would defect without a second glance. As for future plans, one thing I know I'm already interested in playing is that I see some higher tier powers will enable characters to knock others down in their attunement levels... and if Havoc was knocked down to Tier 0 she would become a Regressor again, and likely attempt to find a way to permadeath herself before she could lose her emotions again. Whether she succeeded would be very dependent on the circumstances of how the attunment loss happened (and if I was willing/wanting to wrap Havoc's arc in game on an OOC level)... but I think having that happen would present a very deep and fun moral dilemma for other characters, so in the future I am definitely interested in doing something with that.
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INTRODUCTORY SECT: Kenoma. Because Havoc's powers will return when she reaches Tier 1 attunement, no matter the sect, I think she should start in Kenoma because... the rational, hyper-logical thinking of a Contractor would lead her to identify very quickly that the safest and most taken care of place to be as an aion would be under the rule of the Regent. Since this would lead to her attempted defection a bit too quickly, so it makes better sense for her to start in Kenoma. Though she wouldn't neccesarily believe in all of the ideology, since she has little concern for worlds as a whole or judging the mortality of them, her willingness to engage in destruction, murder, and other negative acts under the orders of a more powerful handler who in exchance offers her room, board, and protection is very par for the course for Contractors.
SUITABILITY: I'd like to play Havoc here in order to explore the Contractor side of her nature and how five years living as a Regressor would affect the Contractor behavior, as one of the underlying plot points throughout Darker than Black is the question of just how monstruous Contractors are. It's easy to believe that they're just the killing machines everyone says, that they're just cold, emotionless tools, but different story arcs constantly hinting that Contractors might not be what everyone believes, that there might be a bit more there, that maybe the real monsters are those who use Contractors, that we maybe ought to wonder if it's better to feel or not to feel. I would absolutely love to do an arc of her establishing herself in Kenoma using the act of "Carmine the Regressor", unassuming and quiet and maybe she almost doesn't seem to other Kenoma as if she belongs there, when in actuality... she would be "Havoc the Contractor", and be a very loyal servant of the Regent. Though I don't have a specific plan for her to defect... a Contractor follows whoever can provide them with what they want, whether that's safety, power, a comfortable life, or just base survival, so if something happened in-game that meant following the Regent was no longer the most safe option for her (for example, a new more powerful ruler on the scene)... Havoc would defect without a second glance. As for future plans, one thing I know I'm already interested in playing is that I see some higher tier powers will enable characters to knock others down in their attunement levels... and if Havoc was knocked down to Tier 0 she would become a Regressor again, and likely attempt to find a way to permadeath herself before she could lose her emotions again. Whether she succeeded would be very dependent on the circumstances of how the attunment loss happened (and if I was willing/wanting to wrap Havoc's arc in game on an OOC level)... but I think having that happen would present a very deep and fun moral dilemma for other characters, so in the future I am definitely interested in doing something with that.
SAMPLES:
SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 2