Do you have feedback on:

• The way I'm writing Raju's personality?


• OOC stuff, like whether I'm communicating well enough?


• HTML stuff, like whether the text in my info posts is readable?


• Anything about Raju's background I could be writing better?

(I'd particularly appreciate that last one, since absolutely everything about his background and beliefs are things I've had to google.)

Or anything else? Feel free to let me know! I feel better when I know whether there's something I should be trying to improve on.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

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• 5’8”, 75kg/165lbs.

• Usually as neat and put together as the setting allows for, unless he’s been up to something.

• Braces/suspenders, thin button up shirt, argyle socks, leather oxford shoes. This pendant usually worn around his right wrist.

• Voice clip here.

• If he’s in a setting that allows him to use it he’ll smell like old fashioned shaving cream and strong pomade.

SINGILLATIM APPLICATION
PLAYER INFO

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Player Name: Xil
• Player Contact: Messaging this account is fine
• Player Age: 34
• Permissions: Here


CHARACTER INFO

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• Character Name: Alluri Rama Raju
• Character Age: mid 20s-mid 30s
• Character Canon: RRR
• Canon Point: After Lacchu gets him with the snake bite and he's laying there mostly passed out in Bheem's arms.

• Character History:
Heavy spoilers here for stuff the movie only reveals like two hours in, so beware anyone who might want to watch it.

Starting some time in or before his teens Raju was trained, along with the rest of his community, by his father, who'd been a soldier in the British Indian Army in the early 1900s and who left in horror at the brutality he saw there, going home to train his community the same way he was trained in hopes of someday arming them all well enough to start a revolution against the British. But the British army caught on, and the very same day Raju's father discovered his son was the perfect marksman he'd been looking for — he only had the rifle and bullets that he'd left the army with, so whoever began the effort to get more would have to be very, very good at using them — the town was attacked. Raju's mother, brother, and friends died in front of him, and his father asked him to promise to give every person a weapon, then strapped himself with explosives and tricked the British soldiers into coming close enough that they died too when Raju shot him.

Raju's father had already sent a man into the Indian Imperial Police as a spy to keep an eye on things, and the man knew that only a certain special kind of high ranking officer there was trusted with weapon and ammunition shipments. They decided that was their only chance at getting the weapons Raju had promised and Raju trained obsessively to be ready for it, joining the Imperial Police himself and eventually leaving his home for the opportunities he'd get stationed in Delhi. But the very system he hoped to rebel against meant he had a hell of a time trying to get promoted high enough no matter how hard he worked or how many horrors he committed in the name of British glory, and after around four years he got the only opportunity he was ever going to: the governor's men had gotten word that a very dangerous man was coming after him, a man intending to rescue the child the governor's wife had stolen out of her home, and if Raju captures that man and leaves the child to rot with her captors he'll get the promotion he desperately needs.

So Raju goes undercover, gets an apartment, and starts going to nationalist meetings to try and make enough of a name for himself as a revolutionary that the man he's looking for, or anyone with him, comes to Raju. It nearly works, but a badly timed salute from another police officer clues in a friend of the man he's looking for and the friend flees, losing Raju in the crowd. The chase leads Raju to a boy who needs rescuing and he teams up with a stranger to do it, the two then quickly becoming close friends. Raju spends every free moment with the man, the friendship reminding him how to be human again after years of cutting himself off from his humanity, and has no idea the stranger he met that day is the same man he's trying to hunt down.

At his canon point, Raju still doesn't know. He's found the man who approached him at that nationalist meeting, the one who ran, and tortured him to try and get more information, but the man managed to capture a deadly snake and threw it at Raju, telling Raju after that snake bite he had about an hour to live. Raju uses that hour to find his friend, wanting to see him one more time, and gets taken by the aurora as he's lying in his friend's arms.

• Character Personality:

— Driven:
His introductory scene establishes this perfectly: the other officers are afraid of the massive protest while Raju is the only person who responds to the order to jump right into the enraged crowd, not hesitating to wonder if it's possible for him to arrest the one man he's after but just doing it, continuing to do it no matter how much of a beating he takes or what obstacles stand in his way, and not stopping until he succeeds.
— Devoted:
Once someone does manage to get under his skin to be someone he cares about he'll do anything for them. See the portion of the film where he thinks Bheem is in love with Jenny: he manipulates the situation to give them time together, tells Jenny Bheem's said things he hasn't ('You should ask him for a ride', and 'He wanted to look his best to meet you'), and he throws the dance battle specifically so his bestie can look cool in front of his date. He is the sole driving force behind that whole romance, he really throws himself into it.
— Moral/Motivated to help people:
While his overall motivation could arguably be attributed as much to loyalty to his father as to morality, the scene on the bridge where he and Bheem save the little boy establishes that Raju, absent any complicating factors like dramatic secret identities, is the kind of person who runs toward danger instead of away from it, and who doesn't hesitate to help a stranger in need.

— Obsessive:
Before meeting Bheem, we see no part of Raju's life that doesn't have to do with his goal. He's left his home to pursue it, stopped writing letters to Seetha, disconnected himself from everything that doesn't help him get that promotion. Even after meeting Bheem he works himself hard enough that he falls asleep at his desk, regardless of the risk (because what he fell asleep on top of is his Diary of Evil Deeds still open to the page where he's written about his secret cop activities, while he knows very well that Bheem just walks into his apartment whenever he wants. Sure Bheem can't read the language he wrote it in, but Raju is damn lucky his good friend isn't a suspicious enough person to look closer at the news articles Raju's got sticking out from the journal's pages and start wondering about shit).
— Ruthless:
Raju's ability to be ruthless is a part of almost everything he does, from how he handled that protest right at the start even when we know for that were things different he would have been helping them succeed instead, to torturing Lacchu when we get shown that doing that (and his own emotional state while doing it) disturbs Raju, even down to little things like the way he handled his wingman duties with Bheem and Jenny, where he didn't think twice about lying to Jenny constantly in order to make Bheem look good. It isn't that, in most cases, the morality of any situation doesn't matter; it's that he sees what it takes to reach his goal and then he does it. Even when he doesn't like it, he's mostly killed the part of him that tries to hesitate.
— Disconnected from emotion/morality:
When we see Raju do terrible things — the protest at the start, when capturing Lacchu, when struggling to motivate himself to capture Bheem — we get deliberate closeups on Raju's flat, emotionless expression, his completely still body, which contrasts dramatically from the open, changing emotions and constantly moving hands and feet that we see when Raju's happy and relaxed. The only emotion we see from him during the protest and during the torture is anger, while the movie makes a very clear point (particularly in the moment he stops crying after finding out that Bheem is the man he's looking for, once he starts thinking about his father) that Raju is pushing everything else away in order to do what he believes has to be done.

• Character Skills:

• marksmanship (bow and arrows, firearms, anything that requires hand/eye coordination)
• combat (very agile, knows the best places and ways to punch, jumps real good)
• horseriding, if that ever becomes relevant
• basic emergency medical care
• clothing repair (not making clothes, just sewing)
• map reading/writing

• Character Inventory:

— ITEM ONE:
sewing kit
— ITEM TWO:
1920s era shaving kit
— ITEM THREE:
5ish inch knife

• Important Notes: I'm not sure if things like the sewing and shaving kits would count as one item or more than one, if those count as more than one I'll replace the sewing kit with a spool of thread and the shaving kit with like, tiny scissors.

Also, I'm not sure how much writing you want for the writing samples. If you need full threads rather than individual comments in different threads, would logs from Discord pasted into a google doc or something work? If so, how many comments from those would you need?

• Writing Samples:

— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here
— SAMPLE THREE: Threading example here

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• There may be general food/eating topics: I play him as eating too much when he's happy, although that's tied into kinky shit for me so I'm never going to play it out in a thread with anyone who hasn't told me they're also into foodkink-adjacent stuff. What may come up is the other side of that where I play him as not eating enough when he's on his own, unhappy, or even just distracted; he doesn't make a habit of taking care of himself. 

• Raju was trained as a child soldier, saw friends and family get shot and die in front of him, and ended up having to shoot his own father when he was a kid.

• He's done a lot of bad shit, largely unspecified in canon, but we know it includes torture. He tends to deal with doing those things by cutting himself off from his emotions and/or disassociating.

• Related to fallout from the previous point, I'm playing him with some unconscious feelings which might have some similarity to suicidal ideation issues. It's not something Raju would want consciously or seek out on purpose but I'd like him to face what a dark place he was at in the canonpoint I tend to take him from.

If you'd like me to avoid any of this in my tags, or to avoid this character altogether, let me know!