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VICTORY ROAD - APPLICATION COPY
Player
Name: Daniel
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Timezone: EST (UTC-5; UTC-4 when observing Daylight Saving Time during the summer)
Current Characters in Victory Road: none!
Character
Name: Harald
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds
Timeline: As his d-wheel’s engine explodes from the stress of creating the Bifröst Bridge
Canon Resource Links: Here’s Harald’s wiki page! The wiki uses dub names, so for the sake of reference, Halldor and Brodor refer to Harald and Brave (the latter of which I mostly mention cause I’ll likely bring him up at some point). There are minor spoilers for the end of 5Ds on Harald’s wiki page, which is to be expected, but it felt worth mentioning nonetheless!
Personality:
Harald’s ability to remain calm in stressful situations is his most frequently demonstrated trait throughout his screen time in 5Ds, and it serves him well as the leader of a Duellist team devoted to preventing the end of the world. He frequently discusses details of the world’s demise with both a dire urgency and a level tone, and the foreboding reality of his predestined fate never outwardly shakes his nerves. He’s capable of acting on a whim in a calculated manner when faced with a life-threatening situation; an example of this would be when, during his time as a pilot in the Swedish Air Force, he fired his rockets to clear his partner’s flight path of an obstacle that appeared due to temporal meddling by Yliaster. His level-headedness also plays into his strategic capabilities, allowing him to reform his card combos in the heat of a Duel while hardly breaking a sweat. No matter how many times he and Yuusei break down each other’s strategies in their Duel, both of them constantly adjust their next movements in order to defend against their opponent while preparing for the final blow. Harald is constantly aware of every option he has, and his card effects aid him in knowing his opponent’s every option as well, allowing him to form near-perfect counters to everything he might come across (even if he still loses in the end). One might not describe Harald as being “level-headed” in a Duel in the most traditional sense, however: though Harald doesn’t panic or lose his cool, in Duels very specifically he seems to be filled with an energy that outright betrays his Shonen-typical stoicism. He’s most expressive in this particular atmosphere, but this eccentricity of his does not cloud his judgement.
Harald’s aforementioned Duel with Yuusei demonstrates another of his strongest qualities: his determination to succeed never falters until failure crushes him. No matter what is asked of him, Harald will take steps to follow through with it in order to meet his goals. He travels the world to find the exact two people he needs to form Team Ragnarok and save the world; and even before that he goes on what 5Ds references as a “Duel Pilgrimage” where he lives among the most destitute and experiences their struggles, all to prove himself to Odin so that he may bear the god’s power. Sometimes, however, this hardiness rears its head as a force of dangerous tenacity. Harald’s greatest flaws manifest in various forms of stubbornness borne from a strict adherence to his own standards. The aforementioned examples of his determination can be interpreted as excessive, for instance; Harald does exactly what he believes is right and refuses to stray from that set path. His incredible ability to strategise and fight until the very last card is also in part due to his insistence that the fate of the world must fall in the hands of his team, and he’ll do anything to prove that.
Resources of any kind mean little to him in the face of his own sense of right and wrong so long as the outcome benefits his cause. After the incident with the rockets, Harald is scolded by his superior for firing without permission, and in that very moment Harald decides that military might cannot save this world and leaves the military on the spot. His search for Dragan and Brave can also be cited as an example of his “no spared expense” attitude. At his canon point, especially, he and his team use the energy of their gods combined with reverse-rotation Momentum - the latter of which previously split Domino City in half and unleashed gods from the underworld - to form the Bifröst Bridge for Team 5Ds to ride up to the Arc Cradle, and while Team Ragnarok is later shown to be fine and safe, they had to endure what appeared to be electric shocks the entire time that they form this bridge. It doesn’t matter what methods are necessary and what the potential consequences might be; as long as there is a sliver of a chance that it could work to the benefit of their final mission, Harald will grasp at it.
All of this is in his previously-stated insistence that his beliefs are absolute and that the words of god and destiny are law. Everything he does is in the name of his fate to prevent the end of the world, no matter what hardships he must face in the meantime. The words of Odin always come first, even to his own detriment; this is why Team Ragnarok refuses the help of and even looks down upon Team 5Ds at first: because the gods do not trust them to be reliable allies. It isn’t until Harald is bested in a Duel that he must acknowledge that Team 5Ds is on an equal level of skill as himself, for the proof is right there in his - and Odin’s - face. He isn’t so arrogant as to deny his moments of weakness, but only the most blatant evidence will dissuade him from that which his god has told him.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder!
Starter: Goomy || Nidhögg (Hogs)
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Harald and Tony Stark on the 4th Diatu TDM
Victory Road Sample: Harald’s toplevel on the Feb-Mar VR TDM! Despite this being a link to a comment, I’d like for these prompts to be treated as prose/actionspam samples instead of a thread sample, as I don’t have enough comments for the latter!
Name: Daniel
E-mail: Please PM if you need it!
Preferred Contact:
Timezone: EST (UTC-5; UTC-4 when observing Daylight Saving Time during the summer)
Current Characters in Victory Road: none!
Character
Name: Harald
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds
Timeline: As his d-wheel’s engine explodes from the stress of creating the Bifröst Bridge
Canon Resource Links: Here’s Harald’s wiki page! The wiki uses dub names, so for the sake of reference, Halldor and Brodor refer to Harald and Brave (the latter of which I mostly mention cause I’ll likely bring him up at some point). There are minor spoilers for the end of 5Ds on Harald’s wiki page, which is to be expected, but it felt worth mentioning nonetheless!
Personality:
Harald’s ability to remain calm in stressful situations is his most frequently demonstrated trait throughout his screen time in 5Ds, and it serves him well as the leader of a Duellist team devoted to preventing the end of the world. He frequently discusses details of the world’s demise with both a dire urgency and a level tone, and the foreboding reality of his predestined fate never outwardly shakes his nerves. He’s capable of acting on a whim in a calculated manner when faced with a life-threatening situation; an example of this would be when, during his time as a pilot in the Swedish Air Force, he fired his rockets to clear his partner’s flight path of an obstacle that appeared due to temporal meddling by Yliaster. His level-headedness also plays into his strategic capabilities, allowing him to reform his card combos in the heat of a Duel while hardly breaking a sweat. No matter how many times he and Yuusei break down each other’s strategies in their Duel, both of them constantly adjust their next movements in order to defend against their opponent while preparing for the final blow. Harald is constantly aware of every option he has, and his card effects aid him in knowing his opponent’s every option as well, allowing him to form near-perfect counters to everything he might come across (even if he still loses in the end). One might not describe Harald as being “level-headed” in a Duel in the most traditional sense, however: though Harald doesn’t panic or lose his cool, in Duels very specifically he seems to be filled with an energy that outright betrays his Shonen-typical stoicism. He’s most expressive in this particular atmosphere, but this eccentricity of his does not cloud his judgement.
Harald’s aforementioned Duel with Yuusei demonstrates another of his strongest qualities: his determination to succeed never falters until failure crushes him. No matter what is asked of him, Harald will take steps to follow through with it in order to meet his goals. He travels the world to find the exact two people he needs to form Team Ragnarok and save the world; and even before that he goes on what 5Ds references as a “Duel Pilgrimage” where he lives among the most destitute and experiences their struggles, all to prove himself to Odin so that he may bear the god’s power. Sometimes, however, this hardiness rears its head as a force of dangerous tenacity. Harald’s greatest flaws manifest in various forms of stubbornness borne from a strict adherence to his own standards. The aforementioned examples of his determination can be interpreted as excessive, for instance; Harald does exactly what he believes is right and refuses to stray from that set path. His incredible ability to strategise and fight until the very last card is also in part due to his insistence that the fate of the world must fall in the hands of his team, and he’ll do anything to prove that.
Resources of any kind mean little to him in the face of his own sense of right and wrong so long as the outcome benefits his cause. After the incident with the rockets, Harald is scolded by his superior for firing without permission, and in that very moment Harald decides that military might cannot save this world and leaves the military on the spot. His search for Dragan and Brave can also be cited as an example of his “no spared expense” attitude. At his canon point, especially, he and his team use the energy of their gods combined with reverse-rotation Momentum - the latter of which previously split Domino City in half and unleashed gods from the underworld - to form the Bifröst Bridge for Team 5Ds to ride up to the Arc Cradle, and while Team Ragnarok is later shown to be fine and safe, they had to endure what appeared to be electric shocks the entire time that they form this bridge. It doesn’t matter what methods are necessary and what the potential consequences might be; as long as there is a sliver of a chance that it could work to the benefit of their final mission, Harald will grasp at it.
All of this is in his previously-stated insistence that his beliefs are absolute and that the words of god and destiny are law. Everything he does is in the name of his fate to prevent the end of the world, no matter what hardships he must face in the meantime. The words of Odin always come first, even to his own detriment; this is why Team Ragnarok refuses the help of and even looks down upon Team 5Ds at first: because the gods do not trust them to be reliable allies. It isn’t until Harald is bested in a Duel that he must acknowledge that Team 5Ds is on an equal level of skill as himself, for the proof is right there in his - and Odin’s - face. He isn’t so arrogant as to deny his moments of weakness, but only the most blatant evidence will dissuade him from that which his god has told him.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder!
Starter: Goomy || Nidhögg (Hogs)
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Harald and Tony Stark on the 4th Diatu TDM
Victory Road Sample: Harald’s toplevel on the Feb-Mar VR TDM! Despite this being a link to a comment, I’d like for these prompts to be treated as prose/actionspam samples instead of a thread sample, as I don’t have enough comments for the latter!