@uruz | somnia application
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bogeymanPLAYER INFO
Name: Ruri.
Preferred Contact: PM, Discord (marvelouscheers).
Age: 30+ years old.
Invite Link: Current player.
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Murphy Pendleton.
Canon: Silent Hill: Downpour.
Age: Late thirties - early forties.
Canon Point: Immediately after being shot by Cunningham on the boat.
Wiki Link(s): Wikia.
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia โ a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
A dream. While in Silent Hill, Murphy can release birds trapped in a cage. Each time he does, he's given flashes of a fragmented scene featuring his son being alive. It is what spurs him to keep finding birds to set free; he is rewarded with the complete meeting. He would chase after the idea of seeing his son alive and well - even though he knows that it isn't possible. Just to be able to hear his voice and see his smile again is enough to keep him tied down.
2. Somnia is a slow unravelingโof worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
Not well! He's one of the few individuals that stumbled into Silent Hill that responds to the madness and reality bending of the town with screams of panic and attempting to scramble away to safety. He tries to act calm and collected, but in truth that's what he has to do to not completely fall apart to his own terror. However, if he's cornered, he will fight - with everything that he has. It doesn't matter how violently he'll have to get to survive, but he will survive.
However, he isn't completely selfish in his desire to live. He does try to bring others with him. While at the orphanage, he attempts to save the children but is thwarted by the town. Even though Cunningham has been literally shooting at him almost every time they meet, he tries to convince her to escape with him.
So, despite how frightened he may be, he never completely loses his humanity - no matter how much of a monster that he thinks himself to be.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character formโ fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
Despite not being as bad as he himself thinks he is, Murphy is incredibly wary of other people. He has energy that tells people to stay away from him; he's not quick to open up about much. Most of his thoughts are meant for him and no one else. He believes if that people hate him that they are right to do so; he doesn't try to say anything in his defense even if they may be wrong.
Cunningham believes that he's responsible for her father's crippling and slow death. However, he was actually framed for that assault. Yet he does blame himself for not being able to protect her father; he doesn't have any of the desire to argue the truth to anyone. He doesn't think that he'd be believed, either.
It takes a lot for him to be able to open up to anyone, and he only seems to with those already seemingly know him. Like Howard Blackwood, the mailman of Silent Hill; he's a little more forthcoming about who he is with him but not by much. But people being shown visions of his past doesn't necessarily mean he's going to admit to anything.
4. What are two major forces in your characterโs personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
Self-destruction vs compassion. When his son died, he knew he was going to kill the man who did it. He pulled away from his wife; he purposely ruined his marriage. She did as she hoped - she abandoned him and moved as far away from where he was. It's only after she separated herself completely from him that he set to further destroying his own life and letting himself be incarcerated in the same place as his son's murderer. It's only then that he sells what little goodwill he has left to kill that man as violently and painfully as possible.
In some ways, he does this to spare her further pain of seeing her husband ruin himself; in being part of another tragedy with a loved one.
For killing his son's murderer, he's asked to kill another prison guard to fulfill his part of the deal. However, Murphy refuses. He doesn't think that's a fair bargain; the man has done nothing wrong and instead trying to help those incarcerated be able to have a life after their prison time. Killing a good man after killing an evil one isn't any sort of balance in his eyes.
When he escapes the prison bus, he hears a fellow escapee seemingly attacking an woman. He could've fled but instead gets himself involved to save her. It turns out it's a monster in the shape of a woman that immediately kills its would-be assailant and tries to kill Murphy after. He just has a lot more compassion and desire to look after people than he thinks; he's just drowning in his own pain and suffering to see anything outside of it.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Offering - Merrow.
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character?
Murphy has an affinity with water already, but he does consider himself to be monstrous by what he's done and been "complacent" in. He believes punishing himself is the only thing he has control over anymore, but body autonomy and the shape of that punishment being taken from him (much like how it started to be removed in Silent Hill) probably would let him take a step toward less self-destructive means to control his life.
Samples: TDM thread.
Name: Ruri.
Preferred Contact: PM, Discord (marvelouscheers).
Age: 30+ years old.
Invite Link: Current player.
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Murphy Pendleton.
Canon: Silent Hill: Downpour.
Age: Late thirties - early forties.
Canon Point: Immediately after being shot by Cunningham on the boat.
Wiki Link(s): Wikia.
SOMNIA-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS
1. Dreams are how Sleep chooses you. What might draw your character into Somnia โ a wound, a wish, a weakness? Would they follow the dream, or run from it?
A dream. While in Silent Hill, Murphy can release birds trapped in a cage. Each time he does, he's given flashes of a fragmented scene featuring his son being alive. It is what spurs him to keep finding birds to set free; he is rewarded with the complete meeting. He would chase after the idea of seeing his son alive and well - even though he knows that it isn't possible. Just to be able to hear his voice and see his smile again is enough to keep him tied down.
2. Somnia is a slow unravelingโof worlds, and of selves. How does your character respond to fear, transformation, and losing control? Do they fight, adapt, collapse?
Not well! He's one of the few individuals that stumbled into Silent Hill that responds to the madness and reality bending of the town with screams of panic and attempting to scramble away to safety. He tries to act calm and collected, but in truth that's what he has to do to not completely fall apart to his own terror. However, if he's cornered, he will fight - with everything that he has. It doesn't matter how violently he'll have to get to survive, but he will survive.
However, he isn't completely selfish in his desire to live. He does try to bring others with him. While at the orphanage, he attempts to save the children but is thwarted by the town. Even though Cunningham has been literally shooting at him almost every time they meet, he tries to convince her to escape with him.
So, despite how frightened he may be, he never completely loses his humanity - no matter how much of a monster that he thinks himself to be.
3. Connection is the only constant. What kind of bonds does your character formโ fast and burning, slow and wary, deep and desperate? How might that shape their time in this world?
Despite not being as bad as he himself thinks he is, Murphy is incredibly wary of other people. He has energy that tells people to stay away from him; he's not quick to open up about much. Most of his thoughts are meant for him and no one else. He believes if that people hate him that they are right to do so; he doesn't try to say anything in his defense even if they may be wrong.
Cunningham believes that he's responsible for her father's crippling and slow death. However, he was actually framed for that assault. Yet he does blame himself for not being able to protect her father; he doesn't have any of the desire to argue the truth to anyone. He doesn't think that he'd be believed, either.
It takes a lot for him to be able to open up to anyone, and he only seems to with those already seemingly know him. Like Howard Blackwood, the mailman of Silent Hill; he's a little more forthcoming about who he is with him but not by much. But people being shown visions of his past doesn't necessarily mean he's going to admit to anything.
4. What are two major forces in your characterโs personality that are often in conflict? (Ex: logic vs emotion, power vs guilt, obedience vs rage, etc.)
Self-destruction vs compassion. When his son died, he knew he was going to kill the man who did it. He pulled away from his wife; he purposely ruined his marriage. She did as she hoped - she abandoned him and moved as far away from where he was. It's only after she separated herself completely from him that he set to further destroying his own life and letting himself be incarcerated in the same place as his son's murderer. It's only then that he sells what little goodwill he has left to kill that man as violently and painfully as possible.
In some ways, he does this to spare her further pain of seeing her husband ruin himself; in being part of another tragedy with a loved one.
For killing his son's murderer, he's asked to kill another prison guard to fulfill his part of the deal. However, Murphy refuses. He doesn't think that's a fair bargain; the man has done nothing wrong and instead trying to help those incarcerated be able to have a life after their prison time. Killing a good man after killing an evil one isn't any sort of balance in his eyes.
When he escapes the prison bus, he hears a fellow escapee seemingly attacking an woman. He could've fled but instead gets himself involved to save her. It turns out it's a monster in the shape of a woman that immediately kills its would-be assailant and tries to kill Murphy after. He just has a lot more compassion and desire to look after people than he thinks; he's just drowning in his own pain and suffering to see anything outside of it.
VESSEL SELECTION
Which Vessel Type are you choosing: Offering - Merrow.
Why does this Vessel type feel appropriate for your character?
Murphy has an affinity with water already, but he does consider himself to be monstrous by what he's done and been "complacent" in. He believes punishing himself is the only thing he has control over anymore, but body autonomy and the shape of that punishment being taken from him (much like how it started to be removed in Silent Hill) probably would let him take a step toward less self-destructive means to control his life.
Samples: TDM thread.