Name: Kaitie
Journal: red_confession
Contact: AIM – RedConfession, Plurk - RedConfession


Character Name: Gavril Ivanovich (Rocket Red)
Series: DC Comics, Justice League: Generation Lost
Gender: Male
Age & Canon Point: Unknown, assumed late 20s/early 30s; Post-Generation Lost
Requested Sponsor: was Lapis Lazuli
Entry position: Instructor - Engineering
History: So cool to be on Justice League!
Garden History: Though Gavril wasn’t too happy to have left his new-found friends in the Justice League at first, he quickly saw being in Balamb as an opportunity of a lifetime, and learned as much as he could as a student, majoring in Computer Science before passing his SeeD exams.  He also enjoyed meeting all the new and exciting people found within the Garden, attempting to befriend as many as possible.

After learning all he could at the garden, he left. He had this new world at his fingertips, and he wanted to see it all for himself.  He traveled around, having adventures before deciding that he wanted to return to something familiar, and came back to the Garden. Though not his real home, it’s come to be something akin to it, as people he knows and cares about were there. And not one to be idle, he decided to put his technologically-savvy brain to work by becoming the Garden’s new engineering instructor. God help his students.
Abilities & Physical Abnormalities: Gavril’s main source of power comes from his armored suit, which he created himself. Without it, he’s just a normal human being. While wearing the suit Gavril has:
Enhanced Strength
Flight - His boots contain rockets in the soles that enable him to fly. The boots aren't connected to the rest of the suit, so he can fly with just the boots on.
Limited Invulnerability - The suit is first and foremost a suit of armor, so while Gavril is wearing it he has a certain degree of invulnerability, though like any other suit of armor it’s not without its weak points and flaws.
Energy Blasts - Gavril is able to fire energy blasts from the palms of his gauntlets. Like his flight-enabling boots, the gauntlets don’t have to be connected to the rest of the suit to work.
Mecha Empathy - A byproduct of the suit is that it has the ability to seek out and sometimes control other electronic devices in the area. When he seeks out other electronic devices, it’s sort of like echolocation—the suit sends out a signal seeking out other devices, and once it locates another piece of electronics, his helmet informs him how far away it is. Gavril still hasn’t mastered controlling other devices yet, but the process is similar. The suit sends out a signal, reads a piece of electronics, and tries to match the device’s signal in order to get it to do what he wants.
Personality: At first glance, Gavril Ivanovich seems like an idiot. He’s a sworn communist who immediately signs up with the Justice League, the embodiment of America (and, through that capitalism) because “is cool to be on Justice League” and has a child-like curiosity about everything he does. He thinks everything that the rag-tag group of Justice League is awesome, despite the serious task in front of them. That can’t be farther from the truth. In actuality, he’s an incredibly smart and technologically savvy man, as evidenced in the fact that not only did he create his Rocket Red armor himself, he managed to repair Skeets, a 25th century robot with advanced tech, when he got injured.

Like most of the other members of the Justice League International of the past and present, he tends to view the brighter side of life, despite whatever heavy circumstances surround him. He likes to joke and make puns (although most of the ones he uses are incorrect), and is usually seen with a grin on his face. That isn’t to say he can’t be serious when he needs to, he just doesn’t see the need to be serious all the time.

In times of stress, Gavril keeps a level head. He’s the one who reminds the team of their objective whenever they begin to argue or get off track, and is always thinking of potential solutions whenever they get in a jam. He’s also good at thinking on his feet and adapting strategies when plan a goes wrong.

However, because English isn’t his first language, it gets him into a bit of trouble. He either mixes words up or uses the wrong phrases, making it hard to understand what he’s trying to say. When all hell is breaking loose, a language barrier is a very bad thing to have.

He has a strong sense of teamwork, most likely stemming from his days as captain of the Rocket Red Brigade. He’s protective of his new team, and even the members of his old team. When a former teammate dies at the hands of Max Lord, he tells the JLI what a good man he was, despite the fact that he, not only 10 minutes earlier, had been trying to hunt him down.

However, Gavril tends to see the good in all people, to a fault. He can be a little too trusting of anyone with seemingly good intentions, and that can get him into trouble. He was smitten by Max Lord, the man that he just agreed to hunt down, after the man said a few ostensibly nice words about him. He still sort of liked the guy until Max used his mind control to kill thousands. Who knows how far a master manipulator can get with him, so long as they don’t blatantly go against his moral compass?

Finally, Gavril is a self-proclaimed "true communist." He believes that all people are equal under the eyes of the government and prior to joining the JLI he destroyed buildings of western culture in an attempt to remove western influences from his country. He doesn't like capitalists or what they stand for, and so if you challenge his beliefs, he might monologue at you. He definitely won't hurt you, though--that's not who he is.
What are your plans for the character in-game? Well, other than to be the anti-Damian… To just be Gavril. He’s a fun-loving, smart guy who knows when to fool around and when to take things seriously. He’ll try to be a role model to his new students, and friends with the other faculty. If anyone ever wants him to teach them the ways of robot armor building, he’d be more than happy to teach them. I’m hoping someone thinks Gavril’s a giant pushover because he chooses to be nice, and I want to see their reaction when they learn that Gavril isn’t that type of person at all, when he stands up for himself and his beliefs (and maybe the person trying to take advantage of him as well). I’d like to see people get confused by Gavril’s butchery of the English language, or maybe find someone who can actually speak Russian. Anywhere the game really takes me, I’ll go.

Anything else? Gavril’s English is beyond atrocious. Prepare for butchered grammar, incorrect words, and improper idioms.

Also, the chances of Damian and Gavril interacting are almost nil, except if Damian ever takes Engineering so I can easily handwave all interactions.




Questionnaire
What do you prefer to be known as? Call me Gavril, comrade!
How old are you? Is impolite to ask age, no?

Do you have any history in combat? Da, I have fought on Justice League! Was also captain of Rocket Red Brigade, but we have in falling.
If so, have you ever killed? Only buildings of western plague.

i) How do you feel when you get involved in some project that calls for immediate and rapid activity? I jump into the action. What do need done.

ii) Do you organize and initiate leisure activities? Am very sorry, do not understand question. My English not powerful.

iii) What role do you take when working in a group? Whatever role is need. Gavril is team player!

iv) How talkative are you around other people? Is very important to make friends. Hard to make friends without the talking.

v) What three things would you want to have with you on a desert island? State your reasoning. There is island of snacks? I bring spoon, drink, and friend to share!

vi) Is it important to be liked by a wide range of people? It is important to be nice to wide range of people. Not everyone will like and should never try to force.

vii) When the odds are against you, is it worth taking a chance? Is always worth taking chance. But important to value know of retreat.

viii) Do you consider yourself to be an impulsive person? Nyet. I like to think I see before I look.

ix) Would you agree that planning things ahead takes the fun out of life? Planning is accessory evil. But no need to plan too much, let live life.

x) Do you like surprises? Surprises bring fun to life!

xi) Do you sometimes wonder if there is something wrong with you? Comrade Booster, did write question?

xii) Do you consider yourself to be smarter than your superiors, and disagree with their decisions? I have had disagreement with superior in past. Is why leave Rocket Red Brigade. But never think better than Rocket Red Brigade or anyone else.

xiii) Lastly, how do you feel about cabbages? Taste good in soup.

RP Sample
This one is worth it for the Kanda keysmashing

Application

Player Info
Player Name: Kaitie
Player LJ: red_confession
Player Instant Messenger Type and Handle: RedConfession
Player Email: Kaitiekudara@yahoo.com
Are you 18 years of age or older? Yes


Character Info
Character Name: Gavril Ivanovich (Rocket Red)
Character’s Age: Unknown, assumed late 20s/early 30s
Fandom: DC
Timeline: Current Canon
Appearance: Looking like an ass-bad in suit!
He doesn’t look like Deadpool, promise.

Gavril is one giant beast of a man. He’s easily over 6 feet tall, and 250 lbs. None of that weight is fat, though; it’s all muscle. Basically, he’s a human wall. In the looks department, he’s a blonde man with a military crew cut and a fluffy goatee. When he’s not burned to hell, he’s sort of attractive. He’s also fond of his Rocket Red suit, because he’s rarely seen outside of it, though in his defense he really hasn’t had a chance to take it off (except that time he was in the infirmary).

The Rocket Red suit is of Gavril’s design, looking more like former Rocket Red Dimitri Pushkin’s armor than the current Rocket Red Brigade design. It’s a white suit with a red helmet, shoulder pads, gauntlets, crotch area, and boots, with a red star over the right breast and the number 07 printed over the left breast. On his back is a giant cylindrical pack of some sort, whose purpose hasn’t been explained. My best guess is that it holds some sort of liquid to power the energy blasts or the suit itself, but it could be anything.

History: Don’t leave Gavril to be hanging

Personality:At first glance, Gavril Ivanovich seems like an idiot. He’s a sworn communist who immediately signs up with the Justice League, the embodiment of America (and, through that capitalism) because “is cool to be on Justice League” and has a child-like curiosity about everything he does. He thinks everything that the rag-tag group of Justice League is awesome, despite the serious task in front of them. That can’t be farther from the truth. In actuality, he’s an incredibly smart and technologically savvy man, as evidenced in the fact that not only did he create his Rocket Red armor himself, he managed to repair Skeets, a 25th century robot with advanced tech, when he got injured.

Like most of the other members of the Justice League International of the past and present, he tends to view the brighter side of life, despite whatever heavy circumstances surround him. He likes to joke and make puns (although most of the ones he uses are incorrect), and is usually seen with a grin on his face. That isn’t to say he can’t be serious when he needs to, he just doesn’t see the need to be serious all the time.

In times of stress, Gavril keeps a level head. He’s the one who reminds the team of their objective whenever they begin to argue or get off track, and is always thinking of potential solutions whenever they get in a jam. He’s also good at thinking on his feet and adapting strategies when plan a goes wrong.

However, because English isn’t his first language, it gets him into a bit of trouble. He either mixes words up or uses the wrong phrases, making it hard to understand what he’s trying to say. When all hell is breaking loose, a language barrier is a very bad thing to have.

He has a strong sense of teamwork, most likely stemming from his days as captain of the Rocket Red Brigade. He’s protective of his new team, and even the members of his old team. When a former teammate dies at the hands of Max Lord, he tells the JLI what a good man he was, despite the fact that he, not only 10 minutes earlier, had been trying to hunt him down.

However, Gavril tends to see the good in all people, to a fault. He can be a little too trusting of anyone with seemingly good intentions, and that can get him into trouble. He was smitten by Max Lord, the man that he just agreed to hunt down, after the man said a few ostensibly nice words about him. He still sort of liked the guy until Max used his mind control to kill thousands. Who knows how far a master manipulator can get with him, so long as they don’t blatantly go against his moral compass?

Finally, Gavril is a self-proclaimed "true communist." He believes that all people are equal under the eyes of the government and prior to joining the JLI he destroyed buildings of western culture in an attempt to remove western influences from his country. He doesn't like capitalists or what they stand for, and so if you challenge his beliefs, he might monologue at you. He definitely won't hurt you, though--that's not who he is.

Powers/Abilities: Gavril’s main source of power comes from his armored suit. Without it, he’s just a normal human being. He does know basic self-defense (blocking basic attacks, how to properly throw a punch and kick, and so on), taught to him by the Rocket Red Brigade, but he’s hardly a master fighter.

He also created a Rocket Red suit of his own design, is similar to the suits owned by the soviet government. It provides the user with:

Enhanced Strength - In the suit, he's able to lift 10 times his body weight; he can easily lift a car over his head and throw it. Though if he's not careful, he can hurt someone doing simple tasks like patting them on the back or hugging them because his stength is so enhanced. As a result, he has to be constantly aware of what he's doing to avoid harming others.
Flight - His boots contain rockets in the soles that enable him to fly. The boots aren't connected to the rest of the suit, so he can fly with just them on.
Invulnerability (to a point) - The suit is first and foremost a suit of armor, so while Gavril is wearing it he has a certain degree of invulnerability. Most bullets will either be deflected off or dent his armor, though a well placed or high volocity shot could pierce it. Energy blasts are deflected as well. However his suit is weak against electric overloads and he can get burned while inside.
Energy Blasts - Gavril is able to fire energy blasts from the palms of his gauntlets. Like his flight-enabling boots, the gauntlets don’t have to be connected to the rest of the suit to work. He can change the intensity of the blast by controlling how much power comes out of the gauntlet, but the more intense the beam is, the quicker his battery dies.
Mecha Empathy - A byproduct of the suit is that it has the ability to seek out and sometimes control other electronic devices in the area. This requires intense concentration to do, and Gavril must be wearing the full suit to pull it off. When he seeks out other electronic devices, it’s sort of like echolocation—the suit sends out a signal seeking out other devices, and once it locates another piece of electronics, his helmet informs him how far away it is. Gavril still hasn’t mastered controlling other devices yet, but the process is similar. The suit sends out a signal, reads a piece of electronics, and tries to match the devices signal in order to get it to do what he wants.


Limitations:
- The Rocket Red suit, will run out of power much more quickly with each use than it did back home, and nothing he does to try to fix this problem will work. Once the suit runs out of power, it will take it two days for it to be functional again.

- Even without power the suit can still function as a suit of armor. However, it becomes much more vulnerable to attack (gunshots are more likely to pierce it, etc).

- Instead of lifting 10 times his body weight, he’ll be able to lift 5, and even then it will require some effort. He’s still in danger of harming someone if he isn’t careful in the suit.

- Gavril will only be able to hover a few inches off the ground if his boots aren’t attached to the rest of the suit, and his energy blasts will inexplicably only work while the entire suit is on and they won’t be as strong as they once were. Nothing Gavril does to try to fix it will work.

- The suit's mecha empathy will be severely limited, as it will only able to pick up electronics within the room it’s in, and it won't be able to control anything more technically advanced than a radio, if it works at all (which it probably won't), so who knows how much use it’ll be.


Writing Samples
Third Person Sample:
There was something wrong with his armor. Gavril could tell almost the second he took a step in this snowbound town that it wasn’t right. His first thought had been to discover where exactly he’d wound up, but this took immediate precedence. This suit of armor was his baby, and he couldn’t bear to see anything happen to it.

And what luck! There were houses nearby. Once indoors he could safely take off the armor and try to determine the source of the problem. It was too risky to fly until he could tell what was wrong, so he decided to do it the old fashioned way—he hoofed it. He tried knocking, but the houses seemed to be unoccupied. Desperate, he decided to try to break into one of the homes—at least temporarily—until he could fix his armor and be out of the way. He would be careful to not disturb anything in the home, and clean up after himself before he left. But the problem was, they wouldn’t open. Undeterred, he continued down the street, trying each house as he went. Finally, he found one that opened.

Settling in the living room he could see the home was unoccupied, something that was of small comfort to him. He took off the armor and placed it down in pieces. All he had on him was a small screwdriver that he kept in his gauntlet in case of an emergency, and that would have to do. Gavril began to examine each piece carefully with care, whispering words of apology to it in Russian. With each piece he put back together, he promised it he would find the source soon. And with each piece he examined, he was beginning to suspect he couldn’t keep that promise. Nothing looked wrong with it.

But he knew otherwise. He knew something was wrong with his armor. And he would figure out what if it was the last thing he did.

First Person Sample: Blog Post
Hello my name is Gavril Ivanovich. I have blog back home. Fight against capitalism. I will start blog new here and talk adventure. Now in English!

So we where are? This not base for Justice League. Looks more like Mother Russia. Lot of snow. No part of Russia look like this. This look off beaten horse. Is new. Is in America, yes?

I first need to find friends. If anyone see Justice League, please make comment. We have mission. We are fighting the Max Lord! Is very bad man. No one seem to remember him. I do not remember him. But he is very bad.

Enough of the rumbling. Until the next time,
Gavril

Name: Kaitie
DW: redconfession
LJ: red_confession
AIM: RedConfession
Plurk: RedConfession
Email: Kaitiekudara [AT] gmail [DOT] com

ACTIVE

Mark Grayson Image Comics shorttempered tushanshu Canon Point: Invincible 71

HOMELESS/MUSEBOX/ETC.
the midnighter The Authority/Wildstorm grouchinleather/grouchinleather Canon Point: Pre-World's End	damian wayne DC Comics worthyheir/worthyheir Canon Point: Batman and Robin 13
daken Marvel Comics settleforahug/mongreldog Canon Point: Wolverine Origins 48	gavril ivanovich DC Comics hypocriteonjl/hypocriteonjl Canon Point: Post Justice League: Generation Lost
seven 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors atenine Canon Point: True End	thor odinson (thorlief golmen) Ultimate Marvel Comics godnotcrazy/godnotcrazy Canon Point: The Ultimates 2 13
kate bishop Marvel Comics hawkette/donttouchmybow Canon Point: Pre-Children's Crusade	Jonah Hex DC Comics twocompanions Canon Point: All-Star Western v3 0 (subject to change)
trucy wright Phoenix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban mybffmrhat/mybffmrhat Canon Point: Post Apollo Justice	trucy enigmar Phoenix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban trucythegreat Canon Point: "7 Years Earlier"
cho hakkai Saiyuki RELOAD burial yetanotherpunishment Canon Point: Post Saiyuki RELOAD burial	cho hakkai Saiyuki RELOAD threwawayhumanity/youkaibydesign Canon Point: Post Saiyuki RELOAD
tallant wayne (batman) DC Comics Elseworlds batmullet/thebatmullet Canon Point: Post Brotherhood of the Bat	batman (bruce wayne) Batman: The Brave and the Bold doesnoteatnachos/nodinnerbreaks Canon Point: Post Series
pb: nicholas gonzalez aged-up damian wayne DC Comics (AU) gothamscrusader AU: Adult Damian; goes by the Crusader	damian al ghul/wayne DC Comics assalghul Canon Point: "Batman and Son"
damian wayne DC Comics (AU) babbybat/babbybat AU: Receives the cowl of Batman as the result of a wish	damian wayne DC Comics (AU) badbittybat AU: Jason Todd became Batman. Damian's his Robin.
pb: giuseppe cristiano damian doe (wayne) Nolanverse AU accidentallegacy AU: Bruce and Talia's son but doesn't know it. Grows up in Wayne manor orphanage. Blackmails Blake into helping; goes by Oracle

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS
pb: aaron johnson aiden carpenter aidencarpenter	pb: jon foster chase kelly hispeedchase

POTENTIAL MUSES
- Genjyo Sanzo (doyouwanttodie) - Saiyuki
- Train Heartnet - Black Cat
- Sven Vollfied - Black Cat

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Last Updated: August 15, 2012