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PLAYER PROFILE
Player name: tifa
Age: 27
Contact: tifa#8285 /

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Characters currently in-game: Rey (Star Wars)
Triggers/Fears/Squicks: pregnancy, childbirth, teeth removal

Character Motivation: Shallan is a Knight Radiant, tasked with protecting the Cosmere from the Desolation (i.e., apocalypse). It's pretty in-line for her to do Whatever It Takes to save people's lives, no matter how morally unsavory it might seem.

VOLUNTEER PROFILE

Name: Shallan Davar
Age: 20
Physical Appearance: link to official art
Point in Timeline: Mid-Oathbringer, after leaving Urithiru for Kholinar
World Description: Roshar
History/Background: Main Wiki and alias

Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:

WITTY - Often at the cost of her own sense of propriety, Shallan provides sarcastic commentary because she's too smart for her own good. She develops a witty rapport with Kabsal, an ardent, while tutoring under Jasnah. Jasnah chastises her for her loose tongue.

CURIOUS - While in Jasnah's tutelage, Shallan blossomed because she has the mind of a scholar. She even questioned her commitment to the plan where she robs Jasnah blind (the point of the whole affair) because she just really wanted to stay and learn. Shallan values scholarship, reason, and logic, and tries to employ them in everything she does.

RESILIENT - She compartmentalizes her various traumas in order to keep pushing forward towards her goals. Shallan suffered the death of her mother, her brother, and her father, and continues to try and take care of her family. She puts on a happy face and strikes out to solve the family's problem of her father's debts instead of dwelling on her grief.

Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:

IMPULSIVE - Shallan has a tendency to get in over her head because she makes impulsive decisions. For instance: Shallan cut herself in a fake suicide attempt to try to disguise the fact that she had soulcast using Jasnah's fabrial because she didn't want to get caught trying to steal it. This backfired because she was transported to medical and searched.

DISHONEST - Pattern, Shallan's spren, feeds on her lies. She pretends to be other people (both with illusions and basic cons), she inserts herself as Jasnah's student in order to rob her, she takes advantage of a misunderstanding to get Tyn to teach her. Shallan seems to feel an ounce of neglect for these lies, but if she sees an advantage to it, she won't hesitate — and she rarely considers long-term consequences.

DELUSIONAL - Because of all her trauma, Shallan's psyche is fractured. She has dissociated into three selves: Shallan (her true self), Veil (the thief who works for the Ghostbloods), and Radiant (the Knight Radiant who is righteous and capable). She does this to avoid having to process the trauma of killing her mother to protect herself, for which she has instead blamed her father he whole life. Radiant allows her to use Pattern as a shardblade, the weapon she used to kill her mother; Veil allows her to pretend to be someone else entirely, without her history.

Character Fears: Confronting her abusive childhood, being alone and out of control of her powers (especially in Shadesmar), loss of status

Powers/Abilities:

SCHOLAR - Shallan has poured herself into her studies from a young age. Her primary area of study revolves around natural history, a sort of combination of biology, botany, and anthropology.

EIDETIC ART - A photographic memory allows Shallan to take 'snapshots' in her mind of a moment and recreate a perfect likeness of it later in sketch format.

SOULCASTING - Soulcasting is fundamentally similar to alchemy from Fullmetal Alchemist. It involves the conversion of one substance into another through magic, but is limited by the law of conservation of mass. Most people in Roshar require a fabrial (magical artifact) to perform soulcasting, but Shallan does not because of her bond with her spren, Pattern.

LIGHTWEAVING - The primary power Shallan has through bonding Pattern is to create illusions using light. She must absorb stormlight to do so, which is a special magical light infused into spheres (used for money in Roshar) through the storms that circle the planet. When she has infused herself with this stormlight, she can create convincing illusions that move — however, they lay OVER what they obscure, so she can't make anything look smaller.

SHARDBLADE - Pattern can transform into what basically amounts to a fancy blade at will. Importantly shardblades do not sever bone and flesh and blood; they sever the soul. So if a shardblade cuts through a limb, the limb becomes dead — its nerves are cut off, essentially, and it cannot be used. But it doesn't physically remove from the body. 'Decapitating' someone with a shardblade kills them.

Personal Item: Shallan would like to bring her drawing bag. It has a sketchpad and some pens.

VOLUNTEER SAMPLES
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Action Log Sample: tdm top level with many prompts, or short thread w/noctis