Riverview Application
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satansnieceplayer information
● name: Jay
● age: 31
● contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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● other characters: None!
character information
● name: April Ludgate-Dwyer
● canon: Parks and Recreation
● canon point: Episode 5x2, Soda Tax
● age: 23
● (canon) background: http://parksandrecreation.wikia.com/wiki/April_Ludgate
● (original) world: n/a
● abilities: She's just a regular human.
● strengths:
Intelligence/Creative point of view: April is an effective problem solver, often coming up with a compromise no one else thought of with seemingly minimal effort. She prefers to use her intelligence to either troll people or get herself out of doing any actual work, but it's there.
Knowledge of the occult and macabre: Though not everyone might think of this as a particular strength, April certainly would. She enjoys anything gross, frequently references ritual sacrifice in a manner that makes it unclear whether she's joking or not, seems to know an unsettling amount about serial killers, and generally appreciates anything avant garde or weird.
A big heart: Though she hides it well and reserves it for a select few, the people April chooses to love benefit from deep loyalty, unconditional caring, and willing self-sacrifice.
● weaknesses:
Hates People: Though she has some close personal relationships that mean a great deal to her, April largely hates people, interacting with people, dealing with people, meeting new people, speaking to people, and can consequently be extremely abrasive because she genuinely doesn't care much about anyone, and makes this abundantly clear to most who cross her path. She becomes a more effective communicator over the years, but her underlying reluctance to deal with others remains a dominant trait of her personality.
Generally bad attitude: This is, of course, relative, but most people would perceive her demeanor as rude, uncaring, strange, and generally unpleasant. Her efforts in this regard are carefully curated and it's all quite intentional, rest assured.
Impulsive: It's not something April sees an issue with and it would seem that she's been really lucky with her spontaneous choices working out for her, but she doesn't tend to think things through, makes huge decisions on short notice with little thought, and bails on things quickly if she doesn't like them. She got married at the casual suggestion of her very new boyfriend, she decided not to attend Veterinary school after attending a few hours of orientation after spending months trying to get in, and she decided to become a full time Parks Department employee pretty much just to be close to her crush at the time - also her future husband, but that's beside the point.
● job skills (optional):
Administrative/Government: At this point, she has successfully stepped in and taken over most of Leslie Knope's Deputy Director duties during her run for City Council.
Politics/Campaign Management: At her canon point, she is working for Ben Wyatt in Washington D.C., assisting him with running a senate campaign. (Read: Terrifying entitled interns into doing their jobs)
Animals: She demonstrates an aptitude for handling and helping animals, has run a (somewhat) successful adoption fair, and later goes on to run Pawnee Animal Control and be accepted into Veterinary school, which she does not actually attend.
Other: She's fluent in Spanish
● housing (optional): Community housing is fine and she'll HATE IT.
● network username: snakehole
● network sample:
[No greeting. No small talk. No Pleasantries. Just a flat look, a flatter tone, and possibly the worst case of resting bitch face ever documented in any format, including those cool Victorian post-mortem photos people used to take with their dead loved ones.]
Seriously? I get sucked into an entirely different reality, and I still have to work in a stupid office, with stupid people, and not even the stupid people that I kind of like? Really funny, guys. I hate to break it to whoever decided to hire me, I'm terrible, I won't do anything right, I'll spend all my time coming up with pranks, and I'm going to change everyone's bios on the website.
Ughhh. [The sigh she lets out is long and dramatic, her eyes roll back into her head, and her shoulder slump.] Why am I even here if all I have to do is stupid paperwork? Isn't there anything more interesting going on? Is anyone dying? Do you need sanitation workers? [She's actually dead serious, she kind of loves garbage.]
I guess if this world was dumb enough to try to get greedy and rob another planet of all their natural resources like the dick aliens in every 90s movie, someone has to be dumb enough to think I'm going to even try to do a good job here.
● prose/action sample:
If April was salty before, she's dangerously close to a sodium overdose now that she's found herself in the Riverview Quarantine. DC was bad enough - she was already homesick, already surrounded by unfamiliar, entitled morons, already feeling like she didn't belong... and that, she had figured out, was the problem. If only she'd stayed home with Andy and Champion...
Except, she never quite felt like she belonged, not entirely. Maybe in certain moments, with certain people... but overall, even April would have to admit that she almost always went out of her way to be annoyed by her immediate surroundings. It clearly hasn't done her any favors up to this point, but that's not going to stop her from being pissed and feeling sorry for herself. Ron isn't around to talk sense into her, Leslie isn't there to try to force her to cheer up, and Andy isn't around to actually finish the job. Hell, at this point she'd even settle for one of Chris' annoying pep talks, or one of Jerry's fart attacks. If there's any silver lining to the situation, it's that Ann is literally in a different reality.
It's too depressing to sit at home alone, so she heads out for a walk, glaring at everyone who happens to be misfortunate enough to cross her path. Ironically (or, ok, maybe on purpose) she finds herself at a fairly unremarkable park. At around the twenty minute mark of halfhearted swinging that a cat strolls over and casually rubs against April's ankles. It's only then that a small smile twitches at her lips, and she reaches down to scratch it's ears.
● name: Jay
● age: 31
● contact:
● other characters: None!
character information
● name: April Ludgate-Dwyer
● canon: Parks and Recreation
● canon point: Episode 5x2, Soda Tax
● age: 23
● (canon) background: http://parksandrecreation.wikia.com/wiki/April_Ludgate
● (original) world: n/a
● abilities: She's just a regular human.
● strengths:
Intelligence/Creative point of view: April is an effective problem solver, often coming up with a compromise no one else thought of with seemingly minimal effort. She prefers to use her intelligence to either troll people or get herself out of doing any actual work, but it's there.
Knowledge of the occult and macabre: Though not everyone might think of this as a particular strength, April certainly would. She enjoys anything gross, frequently references ritual sacrifice in a manner that makes it unclear whether she's joking or not, seems to know an unsettling amount about serial killers, and generally appreciates anything avant garde or weird.
A big heart: Though she hides it well and reserves it for a select few, the people April chooses to love benefit from deep loyalty, unconditional caring, and willing self-sacrifice.
● weaknesses:
Hates People: Though she has some close personal relationships that mean a great deal to her, April largely hates people, interacting with people, dealing with people, meeting new people, speaking to people, and can consequently be extremely abrasive because she genuinely doesn't care much about anyone, and makes this abundantly clear to most who cross her path. She becomes a more effective communicator over the years, but her underlying reluctance to deal with others remains a dominant trait of her personality.
Generally bad attitude: This is, of course, relative, but most people would perceive her demeanor as rude, uncaring, strange, and generally unpleasant. Her efforts in this regard are carefully curated and it's all quite intentional, rest assured.
Impulsive: It's not something April sees an issue with and it would seem that she's been really lucky with her spontaneous choices working out for her, but she doesn't tend to think things through, makes huge decisions on short notice with little thought, and bails on things quickly if she doesn't like them. She got married at the casual suggestion of her very new boyfriend, she decided not to attend Veterinary school after attending a few hours of orientation after spending months trying to get in, and she decided to become a full time Parks Department employee pretty much just to be close to her crush at the time - also her future husband, but that's beside the point.
● job skills (optional):
Administrative/Government: At this point, she has successfully stepped in and taken over most of Leslie Knope's Deputy Director duties during her run for City Council.
Politics/Campaign Management: At her canon point, she is working for Ben Wyatt in Washington D.C., assisting him with running a senate campaign. (Read: Terrifying entitled interns into doing their jobs)
Animals: She demonstrates an aptitude for handling and helping animals, has run a (somewhat) successful adoption fair, and later goes on to run Pawnee Animal Control and be accepted into Veterinary school, which she does not actually attend.
Other: She's fluent in Spanish
● housing (optional): Community housing is fine and she'll HATE IT.
● network username: snakehole
● network sample:
[No greeting. No small talk. No Pleasantries. Just a flat look, a flatter tone, and possibly the worst case of resting bitch face ever documented in any format, including those cool Victorian post-mortem photos people used to take with their dead loved ones.]
Seriously? I get sucked into an entirely different reality, and I still have to work in a stupid office, with stupid people, and not even the stupid people that I kind of like? Really funny, guys. I hate to break it to whoever decided to hire me, I'm terrible, I won't do anything right, I'll spend all my time coming up with pranks, and I'm going to change everyone's bios on the website.
Ughhh. [The sigh she lets out is long and dramatic, her eyes roll back into her head, and her shoulder slump.] Why am I even here if all I have to do is stupid paperwork? Isn't there anything more interesting going on? Is anyone dying? Do you need sanitation workers? [She's actually dead serious, she kind of loves garbage.]
I guess if this world was dumb enough to try to get greedy and rob another planet of all their natural resources like the dick aliens in every 90s movie, someone has to be dumb enough to think I'm going to even try to do a good job here.
● prose/action sample:
If April was salty before, she's dangerously close to a sodium overdose now that she's found herself in the Riverview Quarantine. DC was bad enough - she was already homesick, already surrounded by unfamiliar, entitled morons, already feeling like she didn't belong... and that, she had figured out, was the problem. If only she'd stayed home with Andy and Champion...
Except, she never quite felt like she belonged, not entirely. Maybe in certain moments, with certain people... but overall, even April would have to admit that she almost always went out of her way to be annoyed by her immediate surroundings. It clearly hasn't done her any favors up to this point, but that's not going to stop her from being pissed and feeling sorry for herself. Ron isn't around to talk sense into her, Leslie isn't there to try to force her to cheer up, and Andy isn't around to actually finish the job. Hell, at this point she'd even settle for one of Chris' annoying pep talks, or one of Jerry's fart attacks. If there's any silver lining to the situation, it's that Ann is literally in a different reality.
It's too depressing to sit at home alone, so she heads out for a walk, glaring at everyone who happens to be misfortunate enough to cross her path. Ironically (or, ok, maybe on purpose) she finds herself at a fairly unremarkable park. At around the twenty minute mark of halfhearted swinging that a cat strolls over and casually rubs against April's ankles. It's only then that a small smile twitches at her lips, and she reaches down to scratch it's ears.
