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beyondriftmods) wrote2015-01-02 08:27 pm
beyondriftmods) wrote2015-01-02 08:27 pm
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Application
Please, fill out the following and comment to this post with it. If you'd prefer, you can send in your application via e-mail (mods@beyondtherift.com) where the entire process will remain private. Refer to this post for an explanation of what we're looking for. Remember when applying, you have a week from your acceptance to intro within the game.
Please, add the name of your character in the subject line. You can place part #s beside the name in the subject if you'd like but make certain the name is there.
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We will wait two weeks before processing applications in casts that are over the size of ten. In addition, there is now a two week wait between applications for the same mun. You apply for one and get accepted, but then have to wait two weeks to apply for another character.
When you have two active characters in game, you can apply for a cameo character. Information about what kind of characters qualify for cameo status is here.
If you've been on hiatus, please, don't apply until you have returned to full activity (there's a two week wait generally).
Please, direct any questions regarding the application to this post or to the mod e-mail.
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED
Please, add the name of your character in the subject line. You can place part #s beside the name in the subject if you'd like but make certain the name is there.
This is for AU applications only. Please check our AU Guidelines before applying.
We will wait two weeks before processing applications in casts that are over the size of ten. In addition, there is now a two week wait between applications for the same mun. You apply for one and get accepted, but then have to wait two weeks to apply for another character.
When you have two active characters in game, you can apply for a cameo character. Information about what kind of characters qualify for cameo status is here.
If you've been on hiatus, please, don't apply until you have returned to full activity (there's a two week wait generally).
Please, direct any questions regarding the application to this post or to the mod e-mail.
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED
Peter Burke | White Collar
Name: Morgan
Age: 22
Contact: Email: nowalouderstrain@gmail.com, DW: thelinesoflearning
Past Role Playing Experience: All the things? All the things! Some eightish years online, I think. Plus Peter was here... less than a year ago, and the three I have in game now.
The Character
Name: Peter Burke
Age/Birthdate: 43/January 19th, 1973
Species: Human
Canon: White Collar
*Pre-existing powers: N/A
*Rift Change, if applicable: He is now an awkward, awkward empath. It's going to come on slowly over the first month or two after being back, starting with him picking up on surface emotions and not being sure where he's getting it from. By the time it fully kicks in, he's going to have trouble being in public until he learns to shield himself, because anybody passing too close will give him a new burst of emotion. When he does learn to shield himself, he will still get a surface read on anyone near him, but it won't feel like he's feeling what they're feeling anymore. Also, he will eventually be able to focus on one person and get a deep read on them, but it's gonna take a lot of practice before he can do that on purpose.
Dreamwidth:
Played By: Tim DeKay
Icon: http://www.dreamwidth.org/userpic/1294345/1150028
Appearance: Peter is tall (6' 2"), with brown hair and brown eyes, in very good shape, and definitely shows his age even if it hasn't particularly detracted from his looks. Though he's usually found wearing suits due to his job -- and has been told, on several occasions, that his suits could use an upgrade, but he likes them -- he prefers casual dress, when he isn't working.
Personality: At heart, Peter Burke is exactly what he tries to be -- he is a good man, doing the best that he can. He believes in the law and doing the right thing, in earning things instead of taking easy roads, and in doing his best to take care of the people he cares about. That's not to say he doesn't have his flaws, but at the end of the day, Peter usually can be confident that he did what's right.
Peter's comfort area lies mainly in his job. Whether it's sitting in the office doing paperwork, or sitting in the van doing surveillance, or going undercover, he's most comfortable when he can be Special Agent Peter Burke. Even when, for situational reasons, he's not specifically working a case as an FBI agent, he stays as close to the guidelines of his job and the law as he can. He can become obsessive, especially on cases that last for a while, and he often ends up staying late at the office to work on a case.
He deals best with people when it's a relationship clearly defined by the constraints of the workplace: boss and subordinate, agent and witness, agent and suspect. When he can deal with people as an agent, Peter is brilliant with them, and his instincts about what a criminal is going to do is almost always right. But outside of those definitions, Peter is clueless about how to deal with people -- he doesn't handle messy emotional displays well, is terrible at 'the dating game' and insecure when in a relationship, and most of his friends are actually husbands of Elizabeth's friends that are barely described as acquaintances. Though when somebody does earn his loyalty and his friendship, there's very little he won't do for them -- including putting himself in danger, compromising his morals (to a reasonable extent -- there are things Peter wouldn't do for the people he cares about, but then, it's unlikely he'd care for anyone who'd ask him to cross those lines), and as close to complete honesty as he can manage, most of them. So far, this small list of people includes his wife, his partner, and his former boss and team.
His work isn't the only place Peter holds himself to guidelines. He believes in earning everything in his life -- and so when something good happens to him that he feels he hasn't earned, Peter can be suspicious of it, and insecure about it. It's clearest in his marriage -- despite his forgetfulness and his tendency to place his job above his home life, Peter never does forget that his wife is out of his league, not to mention far more patient about his dedication to his work than he deserves. While he's mostly become comfortable in how their relationship works over ten years of marriage, when he does feel as though he's not living up to standards, he gets angry at himself and his insecurities become obvious.
Despite this, his marriage is the thing Peter trusts most in his life, and he relies on Elizabeth to keep him steady and tries to do the same for her. There's very little about his life that he doesn't eventually share with her, if not straight away, and even when she can't give him advice on something -- and more often than not she can -- he often uses talking it over with her as a way to clear his mind and sort out his thoughts on things. Elizabeth is the only person Peter is likely to be openly emotional with, and even with her, Peter is as likely to keep quiet until she picks up on something as he is to say it outright.
If he does show strong emotions to anybody else, usually it will be anger. Peter doesn't let his temper run away with him often, but he's likely to channel anxiety or fear into being annoyed and snappish. He won't hesitate to call people out on their idiocy, barring situations where it'd be a really bad idea (like when undercover).
When it comes down to it, Peter is happy with his life. He had the option once to live a different one, with a higher station, and he doesn't regret letting it pass by. He likes his pleasures simple -- spending time at home with his wife, ball games, beer -- and he's happiest feeling that he's earned what he has.
Events: -- Joining the FBI is the single most important decision Peter's ever made. It changed his life, and every thing that's happened to him since, good or bad, has been in some way because of that decision. It was kind of an impulse; the original plan had been to become an accountant, and it was something he was good at, and was being actively courted for by big companies. But instead he decided to submit an application to the FBI, even though it had only been a passing consideration before then. Though Peter is very good at math and would have made an excellent accountant, he'd never have the pride and comfort in his job there that he does as an FBI agent. Work is the one thing in his life Peter is entirely confident in. Without being able to fall back on his badge, and on being Special Agent Peter Burke, he's lost and drifting and has barely any self-esteem. His life might have been safer and more comfortable elsewhere, but he wouldn't be half as happy.
Besides that, it was through one of his early cases with the White Collar division that Peter met his wife. Elizabeth is the center of Peter's world, the one thing more important to him than his work. He adores her, he has absolute trust in her, he needs her to get through the occasions (less rare now than they used to be) where he doubt his job, the law, his instincts, and himself. El is the only person that Peter would break any and all of his moral codes for, in a heartbeat, if she needed him to do it. He's his happiest with her, and without her he wouldn't have a home so much as someplace he went only when kicked out of the office to sleep, and he wouldn't have much of a family, considering how little his contacts his parents and brother. And he would never have met her, had it not been for that case.
-- The decision to take Neal Caffrey on as a CI changed Peter's job, his life, and eventually just changed him. Though Peter's rates were already impressive, his name already starting to get heard, it's Caffrey's case and capture that really put him on the map with the FBI; and when Burke and Caffrey's arrest rates rose to unbelievable heights, it only got Peter more and more attention. But it was when Neal made friends with Elizabeth, and Elizabeth began befriending others from Neal's life, that things really changed for Peter. Neal became a friend of his, which has always been rare; until Neal, Peter really only had Elizabeth and his coworkers. Having Neal around relaxed him, even with his frequent frustrations; it challenged him, even more than the job ever have; and eventually, it relaxed his morals a little. Though Peter will always be strict in belief of the letter of the law, Neal taught him to see a few more shades of grey than he used to -- though whether that's for better or for worse overall, depends on who you ask and why you're asking. Regardless, by the time Neal came off the anklet and they fell through the rift for the first time, he was a permanent fixture in Peter's life, and their time in Chicago, particularly before Elizabeth came around, only cemented that further.
-- After leaving Chicago for the first time, Peter found himself in the Oregon Trail. Not the real-world migration route, no, a world that is basically the video game, stuck in the pioneer life forever. He found himself in Indepence, bargained his way into a wagon by showing that he can hunt, and is about halfway through the train three months later when the Rift scoops him up again.
Writing Sample: An old Rift thread that will hopefully suffice?
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