app them now, srsly.

[starbolts]

Hello everyone!

As you may know, applications open once again on June 1st. That's in...precisely two weeks! New crew members abound! They don't actually get to play until July, but it's never too early to start thinking about characters you may want to apply for. If you already have your idea, great!

If not, well, sit back and allow us to provide some suggestions.

For this...is...ENABLING NIGHT! ((Offer does not expire at midnight. Enable as long as necessary.))

Use this post to tell us why the canon you love and character you want are so spectacularly fantastic that they deserve another chance. That this ship will wither and die without their vital, life-giving presence. That they are worthy of being picked up and applied for.

How can you accomplish this? However you like! Essays extolling their virtues, your very best pictures of them, your favorite music videos, EXTREME ADVERTISING, and whatever else you have are all welcomed here! Let's make this ~fun~.

Good luck and happy apping! I'll have example comments up very shortly.

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GARGOYLES - CHARACTERS

[not_the_philistine]

AND NOW FOR SOME PEOPLE YOU MIGHT APP!

The Clan -

I'm starting with Elisa because I would be lying if I said I didn't want her most.



Elisa Maza is one of the very few humans to reach out to and befriend a clan of gargoyles. She's a detective of the NYPD, and is a badass normal in a world where you can have wings and claws and still be normal. This is a woman who, when cornered by a werewolf without her gun, doesn't scream for her monster buddies to come save her - she grabs whatever happens to be nearest and hits the werewolf in the face.

At the same time, she's also a warm, compassionate, humorous person. She's a detective because she cares about people, and believes in upholding justice to make the city a safer place for upstanding, moral citizens to live.

Elisa and Goliath have pretty much been in love with each other since night two. They spend most of the series dancing around their UST, being best friends who love and support each other even when they disagree and generally having THE LONGEST Disney courtship, while still also having this strangely mature and functional relationship-that's-not-a-relationship, since, you know, interspecies. It's kind of a complication.

If Elisa was on the ship, she and Goliath would be the most awesome badass normal battle couple, and also he would be about a 110% less sad. Also, the Meatship would be about 10% more awesome by my count, since Elisa is easily one of the greatest female characters in western animation, and I would totally play her myself, if I wasn't already playing her not-boyfriend.



THE TRIO

They're very confused as to why nobody's apped them yet, when they're so great.

Left to right, Broadway, Brooklyn, and Lexington. These guys are the younger members of Wyvern Clan. They each range across being serious young warriors and gargoyle youths with their own foibles and areas of interest.

Broadway, the big guy, is the group sweetheart. He likes westerns and detective noir films, and is the most interested in Elisa's job as a detective, going so far as to follow her around on duty once every now and then. He's also got a hate-on for guns, and is surprisingly scary when he's angry, in a beware-the-nice-ones kind of way.

Brooklyn is the fan-favorite, a bit of an adrenaline junkie, and probably the one of the trio who has the most problems with Manhattan, where humans are even more scared of gargoyles than they were in Scotland. He just wants to fit in and chill out, bros. =\ Brooklyn is the second-in-command after Goliath, and has skills as a military tactician. Also, sarcasm.

Lexington is word-of-Gay and the Smart Guy of the trio. He's a genius-level engineer, and picks up mechanics and computer science really quickly. He's somehow learned to type with four fingers. Also, surprisingly good with kids. But probably not as good as he is at building motorcycles after riding them once.



HUDSON.

He's old, and he's a badass. Kinda more into staying back and guarding the castle/clocktower/whatever we're guarding these days while the younger clan goes out on patrol, but still. He's an old badass. Every game needs more of these.

Re: GARGOYLES - YET MORE CHARACTERS

[not_the_philistine]

DEMONA.

AKA WORST. EX-MATE. EVER.

So yeah this is Demona. She is Goliath's ex. They kind of broke up when she wanted him to help her destroy all humans, and he decided genocide really wasn't his bag, so she shot him. A couple times. And tricked Brooklyn into putting him under a mind-control spell. And tried to kill Hudson. And tried to kill Elisa. And tried to commit genocide of the human race. A COUPLE OF TIMES.

She's crazy, immortal, driven by vengeance and hatred, has a complicated past, and is generally really good at making Goliath's life complicated. Mostly involving shooting.

She is a pretty awesome villain, and man, if you could play her on a ship CONSTANTLY SURROUNDED by humans, all of whom she hates with a passion, hey, that could be pretty awesome.



DAVID XANATOS.

App him for the beard.

App him for the motherfucking beard.

But seriously, Xanatos is a schemer, to the core. Everything is part of his plan. You reading this post is part of his plan. You being in your seat at the time you are now in your seat to read this post is part of his plan. YEAH. IT'S LIKE THAT.

I mean, look at the trope named after him.

He's also a self-made millionaire thanks to a time loop. Because that is how Xanatos rolls.



Back to some non-villains with ANGELA.

Angela is Goliath and Demona's biological daughter. She was raised by humans on the island of Avalon, on which time moves much more slowly than in the real world, meaning she reached adulthood by the time the clan woke up in Manhattan, as opposed to being long dead. She and Goliath have an interesting relationship, mostly involving her wanting him to acknowledge her as his daughter, and him being more comfortable with the gargoyle method of parenting, in which all adult gargoyles raise all gargoyle children communally. She's clever and sweet, on the inexperienced side due to being raised in fairyland (you heard me), and can still crumple a car like a beercan.

There are more characters - like Matt Bluestone, Elisa's partner, and Owen, Xanatos' Assistant-with-a-Secret, and Thailog, Goliath's evil clone, but you should probably watch the show to get a handle on these awesome dudes.