Sorry for the slow response and the wall of text below, I was trying to think this one through and got.... very general indeed, so this is really more of a mini-essay on how I vote at this point /o\
I also know that some voters don't place an equal amount of importance on the canon section, and that's a fair way to vote! But I tend to look to them not only to tell me what to look for in an app, but also as a benchmark for how the potential player views that character, what they're going to focus on, if they've noticed and are giving equal weight to all facets of characterization, and so on.
It's true that I pretty frequently ask appers for clarification on their canon sections, because I do think that the nature of camp apps means that you have to distill complicated characterization into single-word summaries, and I don't want to penalize someone because I read that word differently than they intended me to.
In this case, I think the apper could have summed this trait up just by bringing up a very few harsher words in conjunction with 'cynical.' Cruel, amoral, hardened... whatever would best describe her state in more recent canon, but without actually needing to add any more spoiler-y plot details. (For the non canon-familiar reader, the "whys" are often so much window-dressing.)
Incidentally, my apologies to the apper if this feels like crit overload, whenever they see the thread. Not my intent at all, a good 60% of this is not even about you so much as it is about me.
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I also know that some voters don't place an equal amount of importance on the canon section, and that's a fair way to vote! But I tend to look to them not only to tell me what to look for in an app, but also as a benchmark for how the potential player views that character, what they're going to focus on, if they've noticed and are giving equal weight to all facets of characterization, and so on.
It's true that I pretty frequently ask appers for clarification on their canon sections, because I do think that the nature of camp apps means that you have to distill complicated characterization into single-word summaries, and I don't want to penalize someone because I read that word differently than they intended me to.
In this case, I think the apper could have summed this trait up just by bringing up a very few harsher words in conjunction with 'cynical.' Cruel, amoral, hardened... whatever would best describe her state in more recent canon, but without actually needing to add any more spoiler-y plot details. (For the non canon-familiar reader, the "whys" are often so much window-dressing.)
Incidentally, my apologies to the apper if this feels like crit overload, whenever they see the thread. Not my intent at all, a good 60% of this is not even about you so much as it is about me.