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SOMNIA | APPLICATION
PLAYER INFO
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Age: I am in my 30s.
Invite Link: here
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Lortel Kehelland
Canon: The Extra’s Academy Survival Guide
Age: 17
If Under 16, why is this character a good thematic fit for Somnia?: N/A
Canon Point: Chapter 73 of the manhwa.
Wiki Link(s): A wiki exists for her, and it’s decently thorough, but let me know if you need more from me. (The spelling of her name is pulled from the official translation.) link
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
What might draw her? A wound, a wish, and a weakness all three. Because for Lortel, all three of those things are the same. She seeks revenge-revenge on her adopted father, the man who killed her parents. She has spent most of her life scheming to take him down and usurp his company from beneath him. She would chase that dream with intense tenacity if it meant getting what she wanted. These desires all stem from the same source: her wound is her festering hatred, her wish her father’s death, and her weakness her single-minded devotion to this goal. Despite being a survivor through and through, she would, and has, race into the flames for the chance to succeed at her scheming.
2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
Perhaps it’s once again all three. Lortel is a natural fighter, and she hates not being in control of the chess board. She’s exceptionally intelligent and rather clever—and has adapted over and over to surprises and changes big and small, pleasant and less so, for as long as she’s been alive. But when pressed—when betrayed when she least expected it—she entirely fell to pieces, because in the end she is still a girl who wants to trust and be trusted, love and be loved. Whether Somnia would drive her to her knees is difficult to say without knowing exactly what challenges she’ll be presented with—but even if she falls, she’ll get up, if only to run. She will do anything to survive—even learning to live with being … changed.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
Fast, burning, wary, and desperate. Lortel is friendless, loveless, and has been so her whole life. She is close to none. All of her relationships are transactional, bought by influence or gold or the power of her name. She falls easily, and hard, for anyone who shows her affection without requirement of reciprocity—kindness. Genuine, unselfish sentiment that is for her sake instead of her wallet’s contents. She is terribly weak to unconditional kindness. But she trusts little and lets her guard down even less. If she does form bonds, she has a tendency to want to do everything for them—everything that’s within her power to do. For faith unquestioned, she would be willing to move mountains—or burn them down. The force of her feeling alone could shape the very nature of sleep, and how her dreams in this world will take form.
4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
Her reckless and insatiable desire for love and loyalty versus her cool and pragmatic logical mind. Lortel desperately wants to trust and to love—someone, anyone who is worthy, and who will reciprocate without need for incentive. This in complete contradiction to all her good sense telling her bonds that are bought are those which are safest, because she has gold to spare—so why wouldn’t she secure her position with those around her? The flip side being, of course, that this pragmatism leaves her terribly alone in a life filled and defined by transactional relationships. She’s a girl with powerful emotions who has never been loved by anyone—and she has before and will again abandon all good reason just for the merest crumbs of affection from someone she truly loves.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token or Offering? Offering
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? “Offerings are the Vessels who have forsaken human form in favor of survival” — this, and this alone. Lortel is, above all other things, a survivor. Though she is a powerful mage in canon, Offering suits her best.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Merrow! (I'd like to change from her previous subtype! Let me know if you'd like a justification, I'm happy to provide!)
Name: Em/Pip
Preferred Contact:
Age: I am in my 30s.
Invite Link: here
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Lortel Kehelland
Canon: The Extra’s Academy Survival Guide
Age: 17
If Under 16, why is this character a good thematic fit for Somnia?: N/A
Canon Point: Chapter 73 of the manhwa.
Wiki Link(s): A wiki exists for her, and it’s decently thorough, but let me know if you need more from me. (The spelling of her name is pulled from the official translation.) link
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia— a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
What might draw her? A wound, a wish, and a weakness all three. Because for Lortel, all three of those things are the same. She seeks revenge-revenge on her adopted father, the man who killed her parents. She has spent most of her life scheming to take him down and usurp his company from beneath him. She would chase that dream with intense tenacity if it meant getting what she wanted. These desires all stem from the same source: her wound is her festering hatred, her wish her father’s death, and her weakness her single-minded devotion to this goal. Despite being a survivor through and through, she would, and has, race into the flames for the chance to succeed at her scheming.
2. Somnia is a slow unraveling—of worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
Perhaps it’s once again all three. Lortel is a natural fighter, and she hates not being in control of the chess board. She’s exceptionally intelligent and rather clever—and has adapted over and over to surprises and changes big and small, pleasant and less so, for as long as she’s been alive. But when pressed—when betrayed when she least expected it—she entirely fell to pieces, because in the end she is still a girl who wants to trust and be trusted, love and be loved. Whether Somnia would drive her to her knees is difficult to say without knowing exactly what challenges she’ll be presented with—but even if she falls, she’ll get up, if only to run. She will do anything to survive—even learning to live with being … changed.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character form— fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
Fast, burning, wary, and desperate. Lortel is friendless, loveless, and has been so her whole life. She is close to none. All of her relationships are transactional, bought by influence or gold or the power of her name. She falls easily, and hard, for anyone who shows her affection without requirement of reciprocity—kindness. Genuine, unselfish sentiment that is for her sake instead of her wallet’s contents. She is terribly weak to unconditional kindness. But she trusts little and lets her guard down even less. If she does form bonds, she has a tendency to want to do everything for them—everything that’s within her power to do. For faith unquestioned, she would be willing to move mountains—or burn them down. The force of her feeling alone could shape the very nature of sleep, and how her dreams in this world will take form.
4. What are two major forces in your character’s personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
Her reckless and insatiable desire for love and loyalty versus her cool and pragmatic logical mind. Lortel desperately wants to trust and to love—someone, anyone who is worthy, and who will reciprocate without need for incentive. This in complete contradiction to all her good sense telling her bonds that are bought are those which are safest, because she has gold to spare—so why wouldn’t she secure her position with those around her? The flip side being, of course, that this pragmatism leaves her terribly alone in a life filled and defined by transactional relationships. She’s a girl with powerful emotions who has never been loved by anyone—and she has before and will again abandon all good reason just for the merest crumbs of affection from someone she truly loves.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Token or Offering? Offering
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character? “Offerings are the Vessels who have forsaken human form in favor of survival” — this, and this alone. Lortel is, above all other things, a survivor. Though she is a powerful mage in canon, Offering suits her best.
Choose one OR list three subclass options within your chosen Vessel type that you think would suit them: Merrow! (I'd like to change from her previous subtype! Let me know if you'd like a justification, I'm happy to provide!)