James McKinnley's Civil Authority ApplicationOOC Name: Sheo
IC Character Name: James McKinnley
1) Please write a minimum of 3 paragraphs OOC'ly detailing why your character wishes to join the Combine Civil Authority and what lead your character to do so.First off, I'd like to begin by saying I do not meet the requirement of having been here for two weeks. I'd like to be honest about that, but please don't stop here, I'd like to prove to you why I'm fit for CCA, because I truly believe I am, and that I could provide a beneficial role as a Civil Protection Unit.
EDIT: As stated before, my post count IS bugged, if someone could aid me in fixing it that'd be appreciated.
2) Please detail your characters traits. (Eg, Pure, Lawful, Trustworthy)James' McKinnley is a complex person. He's hotheaded when confronted, yet calm and collected when faced with a problem. He's inhumanly loyal to whoever he perceives as his friend, even to the very lengths of completely trusting a stranger after only speaking a few minutes with them.
He also has an old world sense of honor, and integrity. He believes that problems should be faced with courage and determination, and is head strong in that manner, unwilling to accept defeat.
Some of these qualities would make him a good unit, or a good leader, but due to experiences before the 7 hour war, he would find himself unable to inflict harm upon someone he perceives as defenseless, or to kill someone, regardless of whether it was in cold blood or not without specialized attention and conditioning that the Civil Protection could provide.
3) Please provide 2 paragraphs about what you are expecting the Combine Civil Authority to be like for you and your character.McKinnley at heart is a good person. In his heart, he believes that the CCA is where he belongs, to help protect the city from who he perceives as terrorist scum due to early experiences with citizens who took advantage of his naiive loyalty to harm him and take everything he had. McKinnley took these people to be rebels, and immediately branded them in his mind that he would set out to make sure that they couldn't harm anyone else.
I expect his stay in the CCA to be a good one. Rough at first though, because of his inability to harm or kill anyone on orders. If the CCA can condition him to pass that blockage of his, I believe he could become an exemplary unit, sharp witted, quick to obey, and rather quick to inflict physical harm on anyone that arouses his suspicion as a potential rebel or terrorist.
For me, the man behind the character, I believe that I will enjoy it because I will be actually able roleplay something I take great pleasure in. I'm at heart a gung-ho kind of guy who would rather protect someone in the heat of the moment than leave them twisting in the wind. The CCA would allow me to do that, by helping my fellow Civil Protection, helping the occasional citizen, and by kicking the shit out of rebel trash.
4) Please provide a detailed back-story from an out-of-character perspective on your applying character. This section must be detailed and consist of a minimum of 300 words.A few years before the 7 hour war, James McKinnley was a young man with a bright mind, he was athletic, quick witted, and was an exemplary young man to everyone he met. But he had a naiive point of view on life, looking for what a lot of young men would at his age. "Action".
The desire to fight, to be a soldier, to be a 'hero'. McKinnley was convinced by his parents that the military wouldn't be a good choice for his career because legally they would own him through out his contract.
So he took the next best thing and joined a Private Security Company called "Windbolt Security". It was a large, and very professional company, ex-military and law enforcement personnell were hired as instructors, teaching James how to defend himself, how to handle a weapon, and physically conditioning him to be in the shape of his life.
He was eager for action when he finally graduated and had his 'Armed Private Security License', and immediately took the first job he could find as one; an armed guard on a merchant vessel destined to pass by Somolian waters, an area where pirates could still operate. He went looking for action, and what he found without the discipline that the military would have provided, scarred his mind, and he immediately resigned and flew back home to live alone as an unarmed security guard for a casino, and for several years did good work in that profession, until the 7 hour war hit. James hid, he didn't know what the hell was going on, but shit was hitting the fan, that much he knew, and by the time he'd gotten his wits about him, he was rounded up into an internment city before he could even blink. He was orginally in City 82, located where Las Vegas used to be. The City was very overcrowded, and confusing for James until a few years later he was deported here, to City 45 as a part of a isolation operation to relieve some of the over crowding in his previous city.
((That background is based on my Auth app, and is still being reviewed, but it has support.))
((The following paragraphs will be detailing only IC encounters and experiences that happened in the server from this point on.))
Just a few minutes after he stepped off the train, tired and sleep deprived, he sat on a bench in the town square, his head in his hands wearily.
A large man approached him, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Hey, you there.. You want to make a few tokens without waiting for the rations?" The large man asked.
James blinked a couple times, looking up and rubbing his eyes. "What...?"
The man took a look at him, noticing the dark rings around his eyes.
"Jeez man, you need to get some sleep..."
"No no, I meant about the tokens, you said something about being able to get some?" He asked, as curious as he could be in his weary state.
"Yeah," The man said. "I've got a fridge that I need someone to help me move." He said with a slight smile. "You sure you can work like this buddy? You seem pretty out of it."
James nodded, standing up and rubbing his eyes.
"So what's your name?" The man asked.
"James."
"Huh.. Okay James, well, my apartment is on the second floor, as long as you don't pass out on the stairs we'll be fine."
As they reached his apartment, the man slipped a couple tokens into the combine lock on the door. James would have thought it suspicious, but in his restless state he hardly noticed. The man pointed to the side of the fridge. "Alright, you lift from that side, I'll lift from this side." He said. James nodded with a tired sigh, squatting down beside the fridge and waiting for the man to get to the other side and help. After a few seconds, he didn't, and James turned to see what he was doing and the man bashed him in the back of the head with a piece of rebar, splitting his head open and rendering him slumped against the fridge, unconscious, with blood pouring out of the back of his head.
The man searched him, stealing all of his tokens from his pockets and anything else he could find. Just a few seconds later, he dragged McKinnley's body up the stairs, leaving him unconscious on the top floor and fled the scene.
A few seconds later, he stirred to see a concerned young lady looking down at him, who helped him to his feet and down to the plaza, McKinnley looking worse by the minute as he stumbled, pale from bloodloss and his serious concussion.
A Civil Protection immediately noticed him and took him into his care , laying him down on a plaza bench and putting pressure on the wound. He hazily saw another unit approach the one tending to him. The conversation was just a blur to his memory, but his mind distinctly remembers the Unit calling his caretaker "392".
He was taken to the hospital by a shield unit, who promptly abandoned the confused, injured man when finding out that the doors were locked. Then 392 came back, with some sort of special unit with him, determined to help. They unlocked the hospital doors and brought him inside, 392 diligently insisting that they help him and not leave him to die, even persuading his superior to lend a hand a bit. James didn't understand at first why this CCA was so determined to save his life. He looked up, not at the mask, but at the man behind the mask and simply asked "Why?"
The CCA stared back at him for a moment before replying "Because I care."
This experience had a profound impact on James when he recovered from his injury, with an ugly scar on the back of his head to remind him of it. He began approaching CCA whenever he could, his sense of honor demanding that he had a debt to pay, finding loyalist work from the units who would give it out, rounding up other citizens to do patrols and search for anyone committing m,alcompliance deeds, but above all worshipping the very ground the CCA walked, determined to become one of them.
5) Have you ever had a CCA character here at Catalyst Gaming? If so, explain why it was removed.No, I have not.
OOC Details1. How long have you played on role-playing servers in general?I don't consider my time roleplaying to have begun on a server, but rather on a forum, in full-literate, serious roleplay about 4 or 5 years ago.
2. How long have you played on serious servers?1 or 2 years.
3. How long have you played on Catalyst Gaming? A few days.
4. What Time zone are you in?Central Standard Time
5. In what country do you live?USA
6. How old are you?16
7. What�s your most memorable quality RP experience?I was the leader of a Enclave Sigma Squad in Fallout New Vegas roleplay. I used completely underhanded tactics to take advantage of my enemies, I had a vertibird at my disposal and made a 'deal' with the Legion that if they gave me the warheads they had been storing, I'd drop them on the NCR during the upcoming battle from the vertibird.
I then promptly convinced the NCR I would help them wipe out the legion in exchange for acquittal of the rest of the Enclave with my vertibird and the bombs I had acquired should they not side with the brotherhood during the battle.
I then proceeded to level the NCR, take control of the town, shut out the legion and maintained a short raid until people decided that the NCR was stupid for the oversight that allowed me to take control of the town. I disbanded the Enclave, took over the NCR, and ran a tighter ship, and made things as canon as possible, running it like a conventional military, and actually keeping discipline throughout the ranks, unlike the previous leader before me.
8. Do you consider yourself a good listener?Yes
IC SectionFull Name: James McKinnley
CID: 53304
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Height: 6 Foot 2 Inches
Hair Colour Dark Auburn
Eye Colour: Pale blue
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Weight: 170lbs
Mental Distinctions: Sharp witted, rational, but friendly
Mental Defects: Loyal to the point of it being a disadvantage, Hot-headed, unable to harm the defenseless, or to kill on orders.
Mental Advantages: Extremely loyal and trustworthy, courageous, hardworking, intelligent.
Notable Qualities: Has training with assault level firearms, and basic hand to hand combat ((That Auth app is still being reviewed, but it has support.))
1. Have you ever been detained or apprehended for a Sociostability Infringement before? If so, explain?No
2. Do you regularly eat Combine Civil Authority Issued Rations? A CCA officer once told me that I needed to be well-fed, and strong to serve them in the best capacity I could. I exercise regularly and eat rations as often as possible to provide the protein needed to sustain the growth of my muscles and my body.
3. Are you willing to give your life to the cause of the Universal Union?At the drop of a dime, yes.
4. Do you as a Citizen and future Civil Protection Member accept ALL actions performed by you and those under your command as your OWN responsibility?Of course. My actions, both good and bad are mine, no one elses.
5. Will you remain loyal and faithful to the Universal Union as long as you live?Until my last breath.
6. Why do you want to join the Combine Civil Authority?I believe in helping people, in righting wrongs, in protecting them from the foul people that would take advantage of innocent, and good people.
I owe a debt to the Combine Civil Authority. I owe them my life. I am here to deliver on that debt, and for what it is worth, it is yours.
Please sign the attached oath using only
blue or black pen.
I, James McKinnley hereby swear my mind, body and soul to the Universal Union forever so long as I draw breath. I do so knowing that my actions will be held accountable to me and solely myself. I also declare my knowledge that as a Member of The Universal Union that I will be required to perform tasks above and beyond as well as perform ANY task ordered to by ANY commanding person(s). I hereby acknowledge the fact that as a Civil Protection Task-force Unit that I will be losing most, if not all, communication and or past relationship with anyone outside of the Universal Union's operational bounds.
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