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PLAYER INFO

Player Name: Em
• Player Contact:

paingravy
• Player Age: 30+
• Permissions: Here.

CHARACTER INFO

• Character Name: Sandor Clegane
• Character Age: 35ish - unspecified.
• Character Canon: Game of Thrones
• Canon Point: S4E10.

• Character History: link.

• Character Personality:

— DEDICATED: When Sandor commits himself to a person, or a cause, he really dedicates to it. He's willing to tolerate a high amount of struggle, frustration, or even abuse for the sake of doing his duty. Even with a temparament like his, he held himself to silent, obedient standards working for the Lannisters until, after years, they finally pushed him too far and broke him. After that, his dedication to Arya had him hauling her all across the country, killing for her and fighting for her — even braving fire and a burning building for her, toward the end. Finally, his dedication to the Brotherhood had him freezing his tots off in the snow fighting zombies and generally living miserably, but he stayed unshakably by their side until the war was won.

— REDEEMABLE: We go with redeemable, because secretly good or heart of gold are far too generous to use for this man, and whether or not he actually deserves it when all's said and done is hotly debatable. But he has the potential; the entire point of his character arc, his entire journey really, is to slowly demonstrate that even somebody like him can find redemption and change themselves. It starts subtly, with the kindness he shows Sansa and the discreet ways he protects her during their time together in King's Landing. It develops further when he takes charge of protecting Arya, which initially he claims is because he intends to ransom her, but even after he finds all of her family dead, he stays with her and fights for her to the death — nearly. He only begins to truly consider that there's a path for himself after he's rehabilitated and healed by Brother Ray, and spends months helping the flock build something — which is the show's equivalent to his time at the Quiet Isle in the books. Unfortunately, before that thought can crystalize in him and properly bloom, Brother Ray and his entire flock are murdered, and Sandor once again commits himself to the trenches of being a warrior. At least from this point on, he fights for a good cause that he can actually believe in, for no personal gain. Apping him from after his near-death but before Brother Ray and his ensuing murder gives a really good opportunity for a second chance to slow-burn explore the concept of redemption in him.

— PERCEPTIVE: He has an extremely keen sense of perception throughout the show that manifests in a few different ways. The most obvious one is that it makes him a better warrior, but more than that, he sees the intent of people. He can see through the politics and manipulation and bullshit of the high-borns that happens in King's Landing, and he can also see though to a person's deepest insecurities. The former makes for the occasional surprising bit of advice or wisdom, the latter he tends to use to deliver the most targeted, pointedly hurtful comments one could possibly wield against a particular person. He spots Sansa's dead-eyed intention to push Joffrey off the ramparts from across the room knowing only the look on her face and the way people are. He cuts Arya with pointed observations about her fear of being the closest she's ever been to her family since her father was beheaded. He brutally demolishes Brienne's idealism about keeping Arya safe by dismantling the very concept. He sees things more clearly than most do — but whether he uses it as a tool or a weapon depends on the person, he's not always guaranteed to be helpful with this skill.

— ANTISOCIAL: This is meant in the most broad, clinical definition. It isn't just that he doesn't like people — which is also true — it's that he exhibits some some overlap of traits with antisocial personality disorder. Being impulsive and often criminal, blaming victims for being foolish or helpless, justifying or rationalizing behaviors. A lack of empathy, lack of remorse, and a tendency toward substance abuse in the form of heavy drinking. He has a general disdain for the public, for other people, and especially for attractive, well-liked people who err toward charming or gregarious. He would rather be left alone than happily welcomed into a group, and he would sooner growl at an interested romantic partner to chase her off than actually engage in intimacy with her. He is a man that does not known how to be liked, because he spent so much of his life being feared and being on the receiving end of disgust — partly based on his disfigurement, partly based on his own eventually reprehensible actions.

— TEMPERAMENTAL: If Sandor is a slave to anything, it's his own temper. Even on subjects that he can later think back on rationally, or logically, he has a tendency in-the-moment to interpret things the least flattering, most bad-faith way. When he's in moments of high stress or heightened emotions, he defaults to anger, or rage. Violence is a self-defense mechanism, and he often reacts with it first before stopping, calming himself, or thinking.

— CYNICAL: Growing up with a facial disfigurement isn't even the sole source of his cynicism — it goes a little deeper than that. As a child, Sandor admired the concept of knights. It was even borrowing one of Gregor's toy knights that earned him an abrupt face-first trip into the fire. But seeing the dishonorable things his brother did, the women he hurt, the innocents he slaughtered, knowing that Gregor was the least worthy and least good person on the face of the planet — and then watching his brother get knighted? Really cemented what a crock of shit the entire concept was. Then came the way people treated him just at the sight of his face, and later came watching the true colors of royalty from his silent place behind them as a sworn shield. Sandor's seen every terrible shade that humans are capable of, and therefor tends to assume it's the default for everyone. If you assume the worst, you're prepared for it, and rarely disappointed.

• Character Skills:

• Wilderness survival
• Trained warrior: sword, hand to hand, improvised weapons, jousting
• Hunting / tracking / skinning
• Horseback riding & horse maintenance
• Tactical warfare & battlefield strategy
• The general skills that arise as a result of being from a medieval-adjacent world with no real technology to rely on

• Character Inventory:

— ITEM ONE: His full set of armor
— ITEM TWO: Sword & sheath
— ITEM THREE: A helm in the shape of a dog's head

• Important Notes: He's an inflammatory character who says offensive things very often, so I'll keep an opt-out post up for anyone who wishes to opt out either of the CR, or of any specific triggering subjects he's likely to bring up.

Also, in the event that you guys receive more applications than slots and need to get selective — my buddy Ami's applying for a character from the Terror. If for any reason there isn't enough space and this makes a difference at all, I'd prefer she get a spot over me! I know she's hella hype about the cast.

• Writing Samples:

— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here