While the overall application so far was good, we would like to request an extended personality section. Specifically-- how does she act toward others? What are her thoughts about himself? What are her flaws? Does she have any personality quirks or anything pertinent to her individual character? Tell us more about her. Don't just say how she is--give examples of how she reacts in situations.
The personality mentions her confusion and references self-exile; can you elaborate on why she is confused with herself and why she went into this self-exile? Explain in ways she has changed other than confusion or how and which of her ideals have weakened. How does x affect y concerning her personality. This is your chance to make her shine, so we would like to know more about her!
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I apologize if I repeated things in the expanded personality that I already mentioned in other parts of the application -I just wrote this with your comments in mind. I hope this is good enough!
[ Expanded Personality ] :
Riven is mostly a quiet and reserved girl now that she is no longer a soldier, no longer in the position of a military leader. While she still has the skills to lead if necessary, that’s a persona she adopts, rather than how she really acts. Still fresh out of her exile, Riven isn’t opposed to the company of others, but it might be clear to most that she doesn’t have a whole lot of experience in dealing with other people.
As it might be with anyone else, Riven is most active or excited when doing something that interests her. The problem here is that, if you asked her, she’d tell you that she doesn’t know what interests her. The only answer she could give at the moment is fighting. In battle, when she fights, Riven truly comes alive. She loves to fight because it is familiar to her. When Riven fights, at the base of it all, there is one truth that Riven knows when she fights: there is an opponent to defeat.
It is helpful, though, that Riven is also a curious girl. While she doesn’t know what exactly interests her, she is a girl who will investigate things simply out of curiosity. She is also very kind and genuine. Riven will help just about anyone who looks like they’re in need of it without even thinking of getting anything in return. She’s basically just a very nice person.
The reason Riven is confused with herself is because for pretty much her entire life, she blindly followed and dedicated herself to Noxus. She did everything that was asked of her because she really believed that Noxus was good, that it did not oppress people, only that it had the right to exercise its strength. If there was another nation that could best them in a show of strength, then they deserved to do so. This was Riven’s life, fighting for and as part of something she believed to be good. Then, she came to the realization that Noxus was not at all like that. Noxus’ actions in Ionia made it clear to Riven that those in command were not actually interested in having “the strong prevail,” but only themselves. They were wiping out the Ionians, not taking over to rebuild it as Noxian. They destroyed the land, they wiped out the people, and there was no contest of strength. The technology deployed in the war ensured that there were no evenly matched battles. The fact that there was no contest of strength was a great impact to her, because it was how Riven attained rank, and how almost all Noxians did. It did not matter if you were an orphan or a noble, so long as you were strong, you would get somewhere. Despite that being how Noxus worked on the surface, it demonstrated none of that ideal in war.
Also, as Xypherous once said in regards to this moment in Riven’s life, it did not help anything that she was in the middle of an artillery strike from machines called melters. It can’t be pleasant or easing to the mind to see and hear men and women alike all around you being slowly and steadily reduced to liquid.
It all threw Riven’s mind into a spiral. This is the nation that she’d so blindly devoted herself to, and this is what they did to others. She could only see malice in what had been done in Ionia, and she couldn’t believe that she’d taken part in something so horrific. She’d seen the melters in action many times before they’d been used on her own squad, and yet it took her so long to realize that it was wrong. She had her doubts, but she did nothing to act on them.
The exile was Riven’s own self-punishment, but also an act born of her confusion. She could not return to Noxus, how could she go to a place so terrible? She could not stay in Ionia, how could she stay in a country she had a hand in ravaging? There was nowhere in Valoran for her to go, and nowhere that she believed she deserved to go.
Much of Riven’s self-exile was spent in self-deprecation. Reliving her mistakes, thoughts of all the lives she took so unjustly. Her in-game quote, “My hands are stained,” reflects this. A lot of blood is on her hands, but unlike others, Riven has the strength to acknowledge her guilt rather than deny it. Acknowledgement is a large part of what Riven has gotten out of her journey so far. She knows the wrong she has done and her mistakes from the past, but she has come to accept them.
Now, she seeks retribution for herself. For the wrong she has done, she must repay them in good. Her ideals have not exactly weakened, but she was unsure of them for a long time after the incident. This is because she did not know if her ideals meant anything any longer. She has since come to accept that she still believes that the strong are meant to prevail over others, but that there is a little more to it. It is the duty of the strong to do good. Spiderman’s Uncle Ben’s famous quote could probably apply here: “With great strength comes great responsibility.”
After joining the League of Legends, Riven has come to the conclusion that with her strength she has to do good! However, that is a very broad and very vague conclusion to come to. This is where most of her confusion comes in: how does she do good? How does she decide who or what is in the wrong? She just doesn’t know, and that’s where she is in her journey.
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The personality mentions her confusion and references self-exile; can you elaborate on why she is confused with herself and why she went into this self-exile? Explain in ways she has changed other than confusion or how and which of her ideals have weakened. How does x affect y concerning her personality. This is your chance to make her shine, so we would like to know more about her!
If you respond to this comment with your revisions, we'll look them over ASAP! You'll have until 08/11.
Re: WAVERING
[ Expanded Personality ] :
Riven is mostly a quiet and reserved girl now that she is no longer a soldier, no longer in the position of a military leader. While she still has the skills to lead if necessary, that’s a persona she adopts, rather than how she really acts. Still fresh out of her exile, Riven isn’t opposed to the company of others, but it might be clear to most that she doesn’t have a whole lot of experience in dealing with other people.
As it might be with anyone else, Riven is most active or excited when doing something that interests her. The problem here is that, if you asked her, she’d tell you that she doesn’t know what interests her. The only answer she could give at the moment is fighting. In battle, when she fights, Riven truly comes alive. She loves to fight because it is familiar to her. When Riven fights, at the base of it all, there is one truth that Riven knows when she fights: there is an opponent to defeat.
It is helpful, though, that Riven is also a curious girl. While she doesn’t know what exactly interests her, she is a girl who will investigate things simply out of curiosity. She is also very kind and genuine. Riven will help just about anyone who looks like they’re in need of it without even thinking of getting anything in return. She’s basically just a very nice person.
The reason Riven is confused with herself is because for pretty much her entire life, she blindly followed and dedicated herself to Noxus. She did everything that was asked of her because she really believed that Noxus was good, that it did not oppress people, only that it had the right to exercise its strength. If there was another nation that could best them in a show of strength, then they deserved to do so. This was Riven’s life, fighting for and as part of something she believed to be good. Then, she came to the realization that Noxus was not at all like that. Noxus’ actions in Ionia made it clear to Riven that those in command were not actually interested in having “the strong prevail,” but only themselves. They were wiping out the Ionians, not taking over to rebuild it as Noxian. They destroyed the land, they wiped out the people, and there was no contest of strength. The technology deployed in the war ensured that there were no evenly matched battles. The fact that there was no contest of strength was a great impact to her, because it was how Riven attained rank, and how almost all Noxians did. It did not matter if you were an orphan or a noble, so long as you were strong, you would get somewhere. Despite that being how Noxus worked on the surface, it demonstrated none of that ideal in war.
Also, as Xypherous once said in regards to this moment in Riven’s life, it did not help anything that she was in the middle of an artillery strike from machines called melters. It can’t be pleasant or easing to the mind to see and hear men and women alike all around you being slowly and steadily reduced to liquid.
It all threw Riven’s mind into a spiral. This is the nation that she’d so blindly devoted herself to, and this is what they did to others. She could only see malice in what had been done in Ionia, and she couldn’t believe that she’d taken part in something so horrific. She’d seen the melters in action many times before they’d been used on her own squad, and yet it took her so long to realize that it was wrong. She had her doubts, but she did nothing to act on them.
The exile was Riven’s own self-punishment, but also an act born of her confusion. She could not return to Noxus, how could she go to a place so terrible? She could not stay in Ionia, how could she stay in a country she had a hand in ravaging? There was nowhere in Valoran for her to go, and nowhere that she believed she deserved to go.
Much of Riven’s self-exile was spent in self-deprecation. Reliving her mistakes, thoughts of all the lives she took so unjustly. Her in-game quote, “My hands are stained,” reflects this. A lot of blood is on her hands, but unlike others, Riven has the strength to acknowledge her guilt rather than deny it. Acknowledgement is a large part of what Riven has gotten out of her journey so far. She knows the wrong she has done and her mistakes from the past, but she has come to accept them.
Now, she seeks retribution for herself. For the wrong she has done, she must repay them in good. Her ideals have not exactly weakened, but she was unsure of them for a long time after the incident. This is because she did not know if her ideals meant anything any longer. She has since come to accept that she still believes that the strong are meant to prevail over others, but that there is a little more to it. It is the duty of the strong to do good. Spiderman’s Uncle Ben’s famous quote could probably apply here: “With great strength comes great responsibility.”
After joining the League of Legends, Riven has come to the conclusion that with her strength she has to do good! However, that is a very broad and very vague conclusion to come to. This is where most of her confusion comes in: how does she do good? How does she decide who or what is in the wrong? She just doesn’t know, and that’s where she is in her journey.
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