Ruby City App!
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airshipcaptainPLAYER
Name: Cat
Age: 24
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: sunsetavalon@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: DigitalGal619
CHARACTER
Name: Afonso de Silva
Age: 19 EDIT Afonso has since received a canon update! He's now 25.
Appearance: Afonso is surprisingly tall, having had an unexpected growth spurt. He’s still a bit lanky as a result, and still really growing into his limbs. He’s slowly gaining some muscles from his training, but he still looks like a runt compared to his classmates. His brown hair is a bit unruly, and grows frustratingly quickly. He’s gotten in trouble more than once for it being too long. Afonso doesn’t mind how quickly it grows outside of that, especially because he can use his long fringe to hide behind when he’s nervous. He has rich brown eyes that might remind someone of a confused puppy, especially when he is – in fact – confused. His skin is tan, and only gets darker the longer he spends out in the sun.
Generally he can be found wearing the Academy uniform. Nothing too fancy, just crisp grey dress pants, black boots and a white military jacket. Outside of school he prefers wearing much simpler things. Most often he can be found in black pants and a white button down shirt, sometimes with suspenders given how he feels. Most of the time Afonso can be found slouching, hands in his pockets or fiddling with a bracelet that he never takes off.
Afonso only has one or two noticeable quirks, outside of fiddling with his bracelet. When he gets anxious he tends to tug at his hair. The other one is when he’s getting serious about something he straightens up, standing at his full height.
EDIT After his canon update Afonso's returned with one drastic different. He is missing his right leg from the knee down, often pinning up his pant leg. He uses a crutch to get around.
Chosen PB: Marlon Teixeira
Personality:
One of the first things one might realize about Afonso is that he has a large heart. If he sees someone in trouble he’ll want to do something about it. The problem is that Afonso isn’t always capable of helping, despite what he wants. There are multiple reasons for this, but one of the biggest reasons is that Afonso has the habit of second guessing himself. Afonso has the ability to be a great man, and in those moments where he doesn’t second guess himself that fact shines through. He has the ability to become a powerful leader, someone who demands attention – and that is his future. Of course, at age nineteen most people can’t see that. To most Afonso is just a good soldier, someone capable of following orders.
Afonso has a desire to protect people. That’s one of the reasons he wished to join the military Academy, at least one of the biggest reasons. He wants to make the world a better place for his sister and for others. A lot of this desire can be derived from just the way he grew up. He grew up often being told how worthless he was, something that he’s still working on getting over. It was at a very young age he promised himself that he would never be cold or cruel to people, like his parents. He would always do his best to keep others safe, even at the risk of himself.
Of course, Afonso often ends up pushing himself while doing all this. One could describe Afonso as too self-reliant and by far too stubborn at times. He doesn’t like to bother most people with his problems; he’d rather focus on helping others instead of letting people help him. This leads to a great deal of stress. Afonso just doesn’t want to mess up. He's afraid of failing.
He does not think highly of himself most of the time. It’s just a fact for him. In his mind he’s not very good at anything, despite what others say to him. Another reason he decided to join the military was in a way to prove something to himself, but largely because at least in this situation he would be able to be told what to do. There would be far less of a chance that he would mess things up, though the nagging fear always remains. Afonso’s confidence in himself is not very high and he is aware of this and knows deep down that probably isn’t healthy. But it’s hard to change that when the environment he grew up in reinforced the idea that he really wasn’t good at anything. He’s working on it.
However, never doubt that Afonso isn’t intelligent – he managed to secure a scholarship to the Academy after all. He is, however, aware that most people do think that he isn’t intelligent. This is mostly, he supposes, because of his confidence issues on top of his almost constant “confused puppy” expressions. Afonso uses this to his advantage at times, playing dumb in order to lead people to underestimate him. It’s a talent that he develops through life, almost mastering it by the time he’s an adult.
Now, if his large heart was the first thing people notice about Afonso the second thing should be how loyal he is to his friends and comrades. He is the sort to not really defend himself, if people think poorly of him, let them there might be some truth to it after all. However, if he hears someone insult his friends? Or God forbid his little sister? Well then Afonso will tear into them, and if he sees a friend in trouble, in a fight, he will drop what he is doing to help them.
And in many ways, while he doesn’t seem to understand or realize it, all of this seems to draw people to him. Afonso really doesn’t understand why, and in many ways he feels uncomfortable with the few loyal friends he has gained. He hasn’t done anything special, he believes. He’s just doing what he believes is right.
World Information:
Afonso’s world is very much like our own, with familiar looking cites and customs that mirror our own. Of course though they are not the same, and not just because that his world is reliant on steam power.
He was born in a small rural town of Mayra in the Millean Republic. His town was not very big, it was one of those towns where everyone knew everyone. The town was known for its apple orchards, and most ended up working in them. It is vastly different from Corine where he would spend the school term. Corine is a bustling city, full of people of all different ethnicities that have gathered to attend either the university or the military Academy. It was a culture shock for Afonso, as until he came to Corine he had never even seen a omnibus let along a automobile in person.
The republic itself was made up of what were once several smaller countries. It was formed over a century before Afonso’s birth, but he grew up learning it was a necessary unification for them in order to fight the stronger powers of the Elaysia Kingdom to the west and the allied forces of Stagna and the Ilyse Empire to the east.
Needless to say there’s still some tension between the four. Even before Afonso joined the Academy there were whisperings of a war brewing – especially as airships became more prominent, the different sides toeing the lines of air borders. By the time Afonso entered his second year at the Academy the Millean Republic was preparing itself. Afonso is very sure by the time he graduates it is only to be shipped off to war.
History:
Afonso was born to a couple who really should have never become parents. This became apparent at a very young age, for Afonso, but more importantly when his younger sister Rosa was born. Afonso was seven, already use to his parents reminding him that he was an accident, use to the neglect and (thankfully) rare abuse. But when Rosa was born he was suddenly very aware that he shouldn’t be use to this. In many ways that was when what little childhood he had ended as Afonso became Rosa’s protector and really was one of the reasons she grew up as well adjusted as she did. He shielded her from the ‘accident’ comments, from drunken beatings and harsh words. When Rosa would cry he would shush her, telling her stories about a brave princess named Gracia. The stories always soothed her.
When he was eight, however, his life changed for the better. It had been a rare day where his stories could not stop Rosa’s tears because he himself was crying. It was a moment of weakness. A moment of weakness that sent him fleeing in fear from their home, one that lead to him hiding in a bush beneath an old woman’s window; an old woman who naturally found them.
The woman had taken one look at the scrawny boy and squirming baby with a raised eyebrow, then invited them in for tea.
It didn’t take long for the old woman to become Nana.
A room was set up in her small home for the two and Rosa grew up truly believing that the woman was their biological grandmother. Afonso and Nana never thought to correct her. By the time Afonso was fourteen they were practically living with Nana, their parents only occasionally bothering to force them home, and that mostly was to save what little reputation they had.
But Afonso hardly cared what they thought, at least most days. He continued to take care of Rosa, at least when he wasn’t teasing her like a true older brother. There were times, of course, where he felt older then he was and Nana would shake her head at him with a sad little smile. He never understood that smile, and he always felt like he should apologize even though she told him there was nothing to apologize for.
He was fourteen when the notion of joining the military crossed his mind. Foolishly he’d shared the idea during an oddly peaceful time with his parents, a time where they felt like parents. His father had called him an idiot, telling him there was no way he could ever make it into the Academy. His mother remarked how he’d only get himself and others killed.
Afonso decided to prove them both wrong.
For the next four years Afonso studied everything he could find, and when he exhausted their town’s small library, walked the five miles to the next town and continued reading. Rosa became his personal cheerleader, even if she demanded piggyback rides when she accompanied him to the next town. Nana would make sure he remembered to eat, taking away his books when he needed a break. She road with him on the train to the city of Corine, where the prestigious military Academy was. Afonso was a nervous wreck, second guessing himself at every step during the tests from physical to written. When he emerged from the imposing building he was sure that he had failed. His head was hung low. Nana gave him the warmest hug he’d ever received. Afonso did his best to fight down tears.
His parents were right.
That was what he thought for the next two months, barely finding the motivation to do anything. It was only when Rosa came rushing to find him a letter in hand, that Afonso discovered he had – in fact – passed the entrance exams. He had passed it and earned a scholarship.
Afonso didn’t fight down his tears that day, leading Rosa to panic before he explained they were happy tears.
That fall found him boarding a train with a battered trunk. Rosa’s tears almost made him change his mind, but Nana gave him a firm push onto the train. He boarded, waving to them until he could no longer see them. He returned to Corine, the fear of failure appearing again. When he arrived in the dormitories he met his roommate, Remington Bates (or Remmy as he preferred). Almost immediately Remmy took Afonso under his wing, showing Afonso around the city once he discovered Afonso had grown up in a small rural town and had never really seen a city. In their classes he met Isabella Chevalier, the first woman to jointhe Academy. It didn’t take long for the three to become inseparable. Afonso wasn’t sure he’d ever been so happy. Life was perfect.
And then it wasn’t.
Nana passed away that November and Afonso’s world shattered.
Afonso fell into a deep depression, coupled with the constant worry as Rosa found herself back in the care of their parents. His grades suffered and Afonso became convinced that he was going to fail, to flunk out. The overwhelming stress, the empty hole Nana left behind, and the worry made it hard to get out of bed some days. It was during one of his darkest times that Afonso found that alcohol worked to numb the pain quite a bit.
It was also during this time, during one of his drunken nights, that he met a man named Rhyleigh Ayers. A man who very unintentionally pulled Afonso from the hole he’d fallen into.
Life didn’t get better magically, of course, but each day was another step. Isabella and Remmy worked with him to bring his grades up, Rhyleigh antagonized him but also offered company, Rosa radio’d him every night assuring him she was okay. Somehow he passed the term, returning home with a great deal of questions he couldn’t begin to sort out.
The biggest being why in the world did his stomach flip flop whenever he was with Rhyleigh?
Actually, that had been an easy question to solve, but admitting he was gay took a great deal of effort. Afonso feared how his friends would react, felt disgusted even. He supposes it was a good idea that it was Isabella who he told first, and her reaction was to just hold him as he broke down telling him that nothing was wrong with him. When he told Remmy his best friend just nodded, and then informed him he better ask Rhyleigh out and even suggested a nice restaurant to go too.
Actually asking him out took more nerve then Afonso anticipated. He spent days thinking it all over in his head but, in true to their friendship, Afonso ended up blurting out his question in the middle of an argument. What surprised him, though, was Rhyleigh agreed.
Abilities: Afonso doesn’t have any really special abilities – in his opinion. He can’t shoot lasers or do anything fancy. He’s just an ordinary human, though he has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, machinery, strategy and how to fire a gun. That all comes with training to be a soldier, of course. Outside of that though Afonso is an excellent cook and also gives very nice hugs.
First Person: Here!
Third Person:
There are a lot of strange things in Ruby City, but Afonso’s happy to see that at least the grocery store is mostly familiar. Mostly. He’s more use to open aired markets, but food is food. He’s walking down the aisles with a basket thinking of what to make for dinner that evening. A fond smile forms when he begins looking through the apples, searching for the perfect shade of red just like Nana had taught him to do.
He could try making an apple pie, maybe. Afonso wasn’t very good at baking, generally he burned whatever he tried to make. It was worth a shot, though. He would warn his neighbors just in case. The last thing he wanted to do was upset anyone.
And hey, if it was good he could offer them some. Maybe he would meet some new people that way…
… Or not. A stranger offering pie might be weird.
Name: Cat
Age: 24
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: sunsetavalon@yahoo.com
AIM/MSN/etc: DigitalGal619
CHARACTER
Name: Afonso de Silva
Age: 19 EDIT Afonso has since received a canon update! He's now 25.
Appearance: Afonso is surprisingly tall, having had an unexpected growth spurt. He’s still a bit lanky as a result, and still really growing into his limbs. He’s slowly gaining some muscles from his training, but he still looks like a runt compared to his classmates. His brown hair is a bit unruly, and grows frustratingly quickly. He’s gotten in trouble more than once for it being too long. Afonso doesn’t mind how quickly it grows outside of that, especially because he can use his long fringe to hide behind when he’s nervous. He has rich brown eyes that might remind someone of a confused puppy, especially when he is – in fact – confused. His skin is tan, and only gets darker the longer he spends out in the sun.
Generally he can be found wearing the Academy uniform. Nothing too fancy, just crisp grey dress pants, black boots and a white military jacket. Outside of school he prefers wearing much simpler things. Most often he can be found in black pants and a white button down shirt, sometimes with suspenders given how he feels. Most of the time Afonso can be found slouching, hands in his pockets or fiddling with a bracelet that he never takes off.
Afonso only has one or two noticeable quirks, outside of fiddling with his bracelet. When he gets anxious he tends to tug at his hair. The other one is when he’s getting serious about something he straightens up, standing at his full height.
EDIT After his canon update Afonso's returned with one drastic different. He is missing his right leg from the knee down, often pinning up his pant leg. He uses a crutch to get around.
Chosen PB: Marlon Teixeira
Personality:
One of the first things one might realize about Afonso is that he has a large heart. If he sees someone in trouble he’ll want to do something about it. The problem is that Afonso isn’t always capable of helping, despite what he wants. There are multiple reasons for this, but one of the biggest reasons is that Afonso has the habit of second guessing himself. Afonso has the ability to be a great man, and in those moments where he doesn’t second guess himself that fact shines through. He has the ability to become a powerful leader, someone who demands attention – and that is his future. Of course, at age nineteen most people can’t see that. To most Afonso is just a good soldier, someone capable of following orders.
Afonso has a desire to protect people. That’s one of the reasons he wished to join the military Academy, at least one of the biggest reasons. He wants to make the world a better place for his sister and for others. A lot of this desire can be derived from just the way he grew up. He grew up often being told how worthless he was, something that he’s still working on getting over. It was at a very young age he promised himself that he would never be cold or cruel to people, like his parents. He would always do his best to keep others safe, even at the risk of himself.
Of course, Afonso often ends up pushing himself while doing all this. One could describe Afonso as too self-reliant and by far too stubborn at times. He doesn’t like to bother most people with his problems; he’d rather focus on helping others instead of letting people help him. This leads to a great deal of stress. Afonso just doesn’t want to mess up. He's afraid of failing.
He does not think highly of himself most of the time. It’s just a fact for him. In his mind he’s not very good at anything, despite what others say to him. Another reason he decided to join the military was in a way to prove something to himself, but largely because at least in this situation he would be able to be told what to do. There would be far less of a chance that he would mess things up, though the nagging fear always remains. Afonso’s confidence in himself is not very high and he is aware of this and knows deep down that probably isn’t healthy. But it’s hard to change that when the environment he grew up in reinforced the idea that he really wasn’t good at anything. He’s working on it.
However, never doubt that Afonso isn’t intelligent – he managed to secure a scholarship to the Academy after all. He is, however, aware that most people do think that he isn’t intelligent. This is mostly, he supposes, because of his confidence issues on top of his almost constant “confused puppy” expressions. Afonso uses this to his advantage at times, playing dumb in order to lead people to underestimate him. It’s a talent that he develops through life, almost mastering it by the time he’s an adult.
Now, if his large heart was the first thing people notice about Afonso the second thing should be how loyal he is to his friends and comrades. He is the sort to not really defend himself, if people think poorly of him, let them there might be some truth to it after all. However, if he hears someone insult his friends? Or God forbid his little sister? Well then Afonso will tear into them, and if he sees a friend in trouble, in a fight, he will drop what he is doing to help them.
And in many ways, while he doesn’t seem to understand or realize it, all of this seems to draw people to him. Afonso really doesn’t understand why, and in many ways he feels uncomfortable with the few loyal friends he has gained. He hasn’t done anything special, he believes. He’s just doing what he believes is right.
World Information:
Afonso’s world is very much like our own, with familiar looking cites and customs that mirror our own. Of course though they are not the same, and not just because that his world is reliant on steam power.
He was born in a small rural town of Mayra in the Millean Republic. His town was not very big, it was one of those towns where everyone knew everyone. The town was known for its apple orchards, and most ended up working in them. It is vastly different from Corine where he would spend the school term. Corine is a bustling city, full of people of all different ethnicities that have gathered to attend either the university or the military Academy. It was a culture shock for Afonso, as until he came to Corine he had never even seen a omnibus let along a automobile in person.
The republic itself was made up of what were once several smaller countries. It was formed over a century before Afonso’s birth, but he grew up learning it was a necessary unification for them in order to fight the stronger powers of the Elaysia Kingdom to the west and the allied forces of Stagna and the Ilyse Empire to the east.
Needless to say there’s still some tension between the four. Even before Afonso joined the Academy there were whisperings of a war brewing – especially as airships became more prominent, the different sides toeing the lines of air borders. By the time Afonso entered his second year at the Academy the Millean Republic was preparing itself. Afonso is very sure by the time he graduates it is only to be shipped off to war.
History:
Afonso was born to a couple who really should have never become parents. This became apparent at a very young age, for Afonso, but more importantly when his younger sister Rosa was born. Afonso was seven, already use to his parents reminding him that he was an accident, use to the neglect and (thankfully) rare abuse. But when Rosa was born he was suddenly very aware that he shouldn’t be use to this. In many ways that was when what little childhood he had ended as Afonso became Rosa’s protector and really was one of the reasons she grew up as well adjusted as she did. He shielded her from the ‘accident’ comments, from drunken beatings and harsh words. When Rosa would cry he would shush her, telling her stories about a brave princess named Gracia. The stories always soothed her.
When he was eight, however, his life changed for the better. It had been a rare day where his stories could not stop Rosa’s tears because he himself was crying. It was a moment of weakness. A moment of weakness that sent him fleeing in fear from their home, one that lead to him hiding in a bush beneath an old woman’s window; an old woman who naturally found them.
The woman had taken one look at the scrawny boy and squirming baby with a raised eyebrow, then invited them in for tea.
It didn’t take long for the old woman to become Nana.
A room was set up in her small home for the two and Rosa grew up truly believing that the woman was their biological grandmother. Afonso and Nana never thought to correct her. By the time Afonso was fourteen they were practically living with Nana, their parents only occasionally bothering to force them home, and that mostly was to save what little reputation they had.
But Afonso hardly cared what they thought, at least most days. He continued to take care of Rosa, at least when he wasn’t teasing her like a true older brother. There were times, of course, where he felt older then he was and Nana would shake her head at him with a sad little smile. He never understood that smile, and he always felt like he should apologize even though she told him there was nothing to apologize for.
He was fourteen when the notion of joining the military crossed his mind. Foolishly he’d shared the idea during an oddly peaceful time with his parents, a time where they felt like parents. His father had called him an idiot, telling him there was no way he could ever make it into the Academy. His mother remarked how he’d only get himself and others killed.
Afonso decided to prove them both wrong.
For the next four years Afonso studied everything he could find, and when he exhausted their town’s small library, walked the five miles to the next town and continued reading. Rosa became his personal cheerleader, even if she demanded piggyback rides when she accompanied him to the next town. Nana would make sure he remembered to eat, taking away his books when he needed a break. She road with him on the train to the city of Corine, where the prestigious military Academy was. Afonso was a nervous wreck, second guessing himself at every step during the tests from physical to written. When he emerged from the imposing building he was sure that he had failed. His head was hung low. Nana gave him the warmest hug he’d ever received. Afonso did his best to fight down tears.
His parents were right.
That was what he thought for the next two months, barely finding the motivation to do anything. It was only when Rosa came rushing to find him a letter in hand, that Afonso discovered he had – in fact – passed the entrance exams. He had passed it and earned a scholarship.
Afonso didn’t fight down his tears that day, leading Rosa to panic before he explained they were happy tears.
That fall found him boarding a train with a battered trunk. Rosa’s tears almost made him change his mind, but Nana gave him a firm push onto the train. He boarded, waving to them until he could no longer see them. He returned to Corine, the fear of failure appearing again. When he arrived in the dormitories he met his roommate, Remington Bates (or Remmy as he preferred). Almost immediately Remmy took Afonso under his wing, showing Afonso around the city once he discovered Afonso had grown up in a small rural town and had never really seen a city. In their classes he met Isabella Chevalier, the first woman to jointhe Academy. It didn’t take long for the three to become inseparable. Afonso wasn’t sure he’d ever been so happy. Life was perfect.
And then it wasn’t.
Nana passed away that November and Afonso’s world shattered.
Afonso fell into a deep depression, coupled with the constant worry as Rosa found herself back in the care of their parents. His grades suffered and Afonso became convinced that he was going to fail, to flunk out. The overwhelming stress, the empty hole Nana left behind, and the worry made it hard to get out of bed some days. It was during one of his darkest times that Afonso found that alcohol worked to numb the pain quite a bit.
It was also during this time, during one of his drunken nights, that he met a man named Rhyleigh Ayers. A man who very unintentionally pulled Afonso from the hole he’d fallen into.
Life didn’t get better magically, of course, but each day was another step. Isabella and Remmy worked with him to bring his grades up, Rhyleigh antagonized him but also offered company, Rosa radio’d him every night assuring him she was okay. Somehow he passed the term, returning home with a great deal of questions he couldn’t begin to sort out.
The biggest being why in the world did his stomach flip flop whenever he was with Rhyleigh?
Actually, that had been an easy question to solve, but admitting he was gay took a great deal of effort. Afonso feared how his friends would react, felt disgusted even. He supposes it was a good idea that it was Isabella who he told first, and her reaction was to just hold him as he broke down telling him that nothing was wrong with him. When he told Remmy his best friend just nodded, and then informed him he better ask Rhyleigh out and even suggested a nice restaurant to go too.
Actually asking him out took more nerve then Afonso anticipated. He spent days thinking it all over in his head but, in true to their friendship, Afonso ended up blurting out his question in the middle of an argument. What surprised him, though, was Rhyleigh agreed.
Abilities: Afonso doesn’t have any really special abilities – in his opinion. He can’t shoot lasers or do anything fancy. He’s just an ordinary human, though he has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, machinery, strategy and how to fire a gun. That all comes with training to be a soldier, of course. Outside of that though Afonso is an excellent cook and also gives very nice hugs.
First Person: Here!
Third Person:
There are a lot of strange things in Ruby City, but Afonso’s happy to see that at least the grocery store is mostly familiar. Mostly. He’s more use to open aired markets, but food is food. He’s walking down the aisles with a basket thinking of what to make for dinner that evening. A fond smile forms when he begins looking through the apples, searching for the perfect shade of red just like Nana had taught him to do.
He could try making an apple pie, maybe. Afonso wasn’t very good at baking, generally he burned whatever he tried to make. It was worth a shot, though. He would warn his neighbors just in case. The last thing he wanted to do was upset anyone.
And hey, if it was good he could offer them some. Maybe he would meet some new people that way…
… Or not. A stranger offering pie might be weird.
