Josh Arnold's Civil Authority Application

OOC Name: Airborne1st

IC Character Name: Josh Arnold

1) Please write a minimum of 3 paragraphs OOC'ly detailing why your character wishes to join the Combine Civil Authority and what lead your character to do so.
From a young age, Josh had a desire be a part of a disciplined organization such as the military. During his education in the United States, he spent four years in N.J.R.O.T.C.; a military organization in many U.S. high schools. He planned to go in the military years before the Seven Hour War and intended to spend the rest of his life in the military. When Josh was 18, he went to sign up with a military branch called the Army National Guard with intent to fly helicopters some day as a career. Because of his motion sickness, he was denied the ability to join any branch of the military.

Being in N.J.R.O.T.C. fed Josh's desire for discipline and prestige and he was distraught when he wasn't able to join the military. Years later after surviving the Seven Hour War and learning that all police and military personnel were killed, he was glad he had been turned away, but at the same time, he was patriotic and respected his country's military highly. Realizing they were all wiped out saddened Josh, but at the same time he respected the Combine for being able to take over Earth in Seven Hours and crush any resistance. After being found by the Combine, he was sent to City 45.

Upon arrival to this new environment, Josh was lost and didn't know what to do with himself. He was used to being surrounded by friends and family, but those days were over. He asked around the city for more information about things. After being informed of where he was, what happened, and who the Combine were, he began to think of how he could restart his life here. The CCA intrigued him immediately. He saw their discipline, the way they presented themselves, and their desire for order, and the prestige their officers held, called to Josh. While he realized they were the ones who separated him from his family, took him from his home, and destroyed his beloved country, he saw another chance to become a part of what he always desired. He showed no anger towards the Combine Civil Authority, but only respect.

After learning of the Loyalist point system and how it could be his ticket to join what he what respected so much and desired to be a part of, he got his hands on a request device from the local store ran by the CWU. With this device, Josh called in contraband here and there, suspicious people, and the occasional anti-citizen. He felt it was his duty to keep society safe and do his best with what he had to make sure people upheld the laws. One day he overheard two men talking about a shotgun stashed in a room in the UCH. Knowing owning weapons was a high level offence, and that only bloodshed could come of such a weapon, he reported it in. The CCA raided the UCH room Josh reported and were very surprised to find the shotgun hidden in the bathroom. Josh was awarded the last few points he needed to gain Loyalist status and was given his Loyalist armband which he wore with the utmost pride and dignity. He was overjoyed at gaining Loyalist status, knowing this was the first big step towards obtaining his goal of becoming a CCA officer.   



2) Please detail your characters traits. (Eg, Pure, Lawful, Trustworthy)
Proud, Honest, Hardworking, Loyal, Trustworthy

3) Please provide 2 paragraphs about what you are expecting the Combine Civil Authority to be like for you and your character.
I am expecting the Combine Civil Authority to be a new type of challenge for my character. My character has learned the in's and out's of civilian life wants a greater challenge. My character doesn't expect the CCA to be easy for him, but that's what he likes about it. He wants to use the CCA to expand his horizons and improve him as a person, and he wants the CCA to use him as an instrument of order.

I'm personally expecting the CCA to be a fun challenge. Not an easy challenge, but a fun one to experience. As a person, I like to be pushed and challenged to achieve things I desire. I'm drawn to organizations that are hard to get into and I strive to become a part of it if it interests me. The CCA and what they stand for interests me greatly and I'm hoping to having the opportunity to join and experience new things. I'm expecting the CCA to be a sort of brotherhood in terms of the relationships between the members and I want to be a part of that. I'm also expecting the CCA to give me a new RP experience, and improve my RP skills further by presenting me with a new way of role-playing.



4) Please provide a detailed back-story from an out-of-character perspective on your applying character. This section must be detailed and consist of a minimum of 300 words.
Born in November of 1992, Josh Arnold lived with his mother, Melanie, and his father, Roger, until the age of five. At the age of two, his father, a Vietnam War veteran, died of heart complications at the age of 44. His mother got into drugs and alcohol and his aunt had to take custody of him at the age of five. Josh grew up not knowing his father, but hearing of how he was, he strived to be like him; simple, hard working, and honest. Josh also grew a desire for a life of discipline and wanted to be respected and looked up to. He spent four years in N.J.R.O.T.C. in his high school and loved that lifestyle. He planned to join the military when he graduated and make a career out of it as a pilot. At the age of eighteen, Josh contacted a recruiter for the Army National Guard, a military branch in the United States. After being checked out for medical problems, he was turned down and unable to join any branch because of his motion sickness.

Josh went on with his life, working petty jobs and just getting by in society, when one day chaos erupted. The Combine invaded Earth and took it over in seven hours. During the confusion, Josh was found alone wondering the streets of his hometown looking for people and answers. The Combine officers who found him sent him to a place with other survivors where they were each divided up and sent to different cities. Josh was sent to City 45, which he realized was far from his home in the U.S. He saw that City 45 was a diverse place, full of people from all over the world, of all kinds of cultures. After spending a few months in the city, he learned his way around and how things worked. He also learned about the CCA, who's discipline and order caught Josh's attention. He learned of how he could apply to join if he obtained Loyalist status. He set out to achieve that goal, and wanted to become a part of the CCA strongly as it was his new opportunity to live a life of order, discipline, and respect that he wanted when he first tried to join the Army National Guard before the Seven Hour War.

5) Have you ever had a CCA character here at Catalyst Gaming?  If so, explain why it was removed.
No, I haven't


OOC Details

1. How long have you played on role-playing servers in general?
5 years of role-play experience, a year on servers

2. How long have you played on serious servers?
2 months

3. How long have you played on Catalyst Gaming?
2 weeks

4. What Time zone are you in?
GMT -5:00 (Eastern Standard Time)

5. In what country do you live?
United States

6. How old are you?
19

7. What�s your most memorable quality RP experience?
I was playing with an anti-citizen character with a group of others and we took in a new member who pretended to be in our group but later told the CCA about us and where our base was. The CCA raided the base and I managed to hide until just before they left, after detaining two others, when they noticed me behind a couch. I was also detained and we were all later questioned and killed. I tried to give the CCA officers interrogating me false information to keep them from catching our other two members that weren't there when we got raided. The whole process of everything was a really fun, in depth RP experience, from being detained to being questioned and even amputated.

8. Do you consider yourself a good listener?
Yes, I pay a lot of attention to detail.

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IC Section

Full Name: Josh Arnold
CID: 33857
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11"
Hair Colour Brown
Eye Colour: Green
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Weight: 130lbs
Mental Distinctions: Quick to react, able to think quickly under pressure
Mental Defects: None
Mental Advantages: Fairly intelligent, observant, quick learner
Notable Qualities: Athletic build, looks upstanding


1. Have you ever been detained or apprehended for a Sociostability Infringement before? If so, explain?
On a different character, yes I have. I had an anti-citizen character that was detained, interrogated, and amputated. Josh Arnold has never been  detained, however.

2. Do you regularly eat Combine Civil Authority Issued Rations?
Yes, I do.

3. Are you willing to give your life to the cause of the Universal Union?
Yes, I am.

4. Do you as a Citizen and future Civil Protection Member accept ALL actions performed by you and those under your command as your OWN responsibility?
Yes, I do.

5. Will you remain loyal and faithful to the Universal Union as long as you live?
Yes, I will.

6. Why do you want to join the Combine Civil Authority?
To satisfy my desire for a life of order, discipline, and to earn and pay respect, as well as uphold the law and find a greater purpose in life.


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I'm planning to apply for CCA on the HL2RP server when my 2 week waiting period is up. I'm worried though, because I'll have only been registered on the forums for about 2 weeks when I actually apply, which makes it look like I've only been RPing for 2 weeks. Which is true when it comes to this server, but not RPing in general and on other servers.

I don't want to be denied because I'll have only been registered here for 2 weeks, or because it seems like I've had 2 weeks or so of RP experience on this server, when I've actually got years of RPing experience in general, and months of experience with HL2RP on other servers.

I'm asking about this because I was wondering how much the amount of time you've spent on this server RPing and how much time you've been registered here on the forums comes into consideration when being chosen for CCA. My information here as of now isn't impressive because as I said, I've only been registered a week, and I've only got about a week or so of playtime on this particular HL2 server.

I'm an Administrator on another forum and have been for well over a year and I'm pretty experienced in RPing in general. I think I'm capable of handling a CCA character with exceptional RP. I'd hate for my app to just be thrown out just because of my stats here with this particular server and forum. So if someone who actually knows about what I'm asking could respond to this post and tell me how much these things are taken into consideration, it would be greatly appreciated. I feel like these things are taken highly into consideration, so please inform me if I'm right or wrong on that. Thanks.