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APPLICATIONS

APPLICATIONS


july 6, 2013
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about applying
If you'd like to apply for a character, you're in the right place! As of June 24, applications are now always open. Fill out one of the two forms on this page depending on the type of character you're applying for and post it in the comments of this entry. While you fill out your application, here are a few things to keep in mind:
  • Please read over the rules and FAQ before you begin to fill out your application—This will save you headaches later!
  • Check the taken and reserved pages to make sure that your character isn't listed on either (unless you reserved them, naturally).
  • Please check your application for spelling and grammatical errors. While we're hardly going to reject for a misspelled word or two, a large amount of errors makes us much more likely to reject an application.
  • Plagiarism is unacceptable. If we find an application has been plagiarized, it will result in immediate rejection and a ban from the game.
  • You may app ONE character per round, for a total of THREE characters in the game. You may have two characters from the same canon provided they have little or no interaction in canon.
  • If you're already in the game, all of your current characters must have passed the last AC to apply for a new character. If this is your first character, don't worry about this, of course!
  • When posting your application, please format the subject line of your first comment in some form of Character Name - Series - Reserved/Unreserved in that order. Do not link to your application.
  • Original characters are allowed, but their applications are judged to a much higher standard than canon characters. We want to make sure that the character and their world are thought-out and developed. This isn't meant to discourage such characters in the slightest, so all this really means is take care to explain the world your character comes from especially, since all we have to judge them by is what you tell us!
  • If we ask for a revision, don't worry! Usually we just need clarification on something before we decide on your application. If you are asked for one, you have five days to supply the requested revision.

application for canon characters:



OOC
NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/[plurk.com profile] plurkname/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none

IC
NAME: Your character's name.
CANON: Your character's canon. Please note the specific canon if the character is from a large franchise (i.e. Marvel Comics vs. Marvel Cinematic Universe) or has different ways the canon can progress (i.e. Fate/Stay Night's routes).
CANON POINT: At what point are you pulling your character from?
AGE: How old is the character?
APPEARANCE: A link to a picture is fine! It's recommended to upload it to Imgur or a similar site to prevent pesky hotlinking images!
PERSONALITY: This is the most important part of your app, so take special care with this section. Describe their personality, and use canon to support this section as needed. While quality is of course more important than quantity, we're likely to ask for a revision if this section is less than three solid paragraphs.
PROJECTED CLASS: Which base class can you see your character having and why? This doesn't need to be more than a paragraph, but we just want to make sure you understand the class system and think about how your character will fit into it!
OTHER: Additional notes/questions about the character go here.

SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON SAMPLE: Links to threads from previous games, memes and museboxes are allowed, but must be within the past six months.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE Must take place in the game's setting. 300 words minimum.


SAMPLE APPLICATIONS
Arcueid Brunestud, Tsukihime
Panda, Shirokuma Cafe

application for original characters:



OOC
NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/[plurk.com profile] plurkname/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none

IC
NAME: Your character's name.
AGE: How old is the character?
APPEARANCE: A link to a picture is fine! It's recommended to upload it to Imgur or a similar site to prevent pesky hotlinking images!
WORLD INFO: Explain the world that your character comes from. While we hardly want pages and pages of information, this does need to be a solid section. Relay the parts of the characters world that relate directly to them or have affected them the most. We're looking for evidence that this character is clearly thought out, and in absence of a canon, this section is how we'll be judging your character for consistency.
BACKGROUND: Your character's history/background. This doesn't need to be extensively detailed, but we need to know what made the character who they are today.
PERSONALITY: This is the most important part of your app, so take special care with this section. Describe their personality, and use canon to support this section as needed. While quality is of course more important than quantity, we're likely to ask for a revision if this section is less than three solid paragraphs.
PROJECTED CLASS Which base class can you see your character having and why? This doesn't need to be more than a paragraph, but we just want to make sure you understand the class system and think about how your character will fit into it!
OTHER Additional notes/questions about the character go here.

SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON SAMPLE Links to threads from previous games, memes and museboxes are allowed. Links to threads from previous games, memes and museboxes are allowed, but must be within the past six months.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE Must take place in the game's setting. 300 words minimum.


SAMPLE APPLICATIONS
Sidel Blanchet, Original Character
Cheriour, Original Character
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dio eraclea ♦ last exile (reserved)

[personal profile] lucena 2013-05-11 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
OOC
NAME: Laura
USERNAME: [personal profile] appliances
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] tableflip
CHARACTERS IN GAME: n/a

IC
NAME: Dio Eraclea
CANON: Last Exile
CANON POINT: end of Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing
AGE: 18
APPEARANCE: here
PERSONALITY:
Dio is flighty (the joke is he's a pilot). He's described as whimsical and prone to slacking off and running off to do his own thing when he should be working or doing chores or whatever, and it's... well it's true. Very 'beat of his own drum,' that Dio. He generally behaves in this flighty, eccentric way because he somehow manages to have fun all the time. Almost everything is fun for him, even (perhaps especially) boring, mundane things like carrying food around. This is generally because he's incredibly spoiled. Having lived for most of his life in more luxury than literally anyone else in the world (other than his sister), he has been raised to do whatever he wants and have a great time while doing it. It's only been about two years since he made a Great Lifestyle Change, so while he has adjusted well to the obvious less-luxurious changes (he's spoiled but he has so many Issues with his childhood that he was very eager to get away from that life), he's very excited about... chores. Taking orders. Being a "normal" guy. Ordinary things make him extraordinarily happy, and he can and will find something to be joyous about in the most boring of activities--like engine repair. Engine repair is so fucking fun you guys!!

Despite the fact that he is pretty out there and runs off on a whim without saying anything (he left a crew of friends for six months without a word and joined a new crew of new friends; they didn't seem too upset about it), he is a smart guy. You wouldn't expect it from how he acts - in fact, all of his friends think he's super weird and one of them even says to his face that "[his] interesting news is always stupid." He sings these little made up songs and yells about flying!!! so much that some of his friends don't believe he's even capable of being a serious double agent type (which he kind of is, incidentally). Dio likes sharing miscellaneous, useless information, but he's not doing it for any reason other than he is genuinely interested. He is very smart: he plays chess super well!! and he's been an indisposable aid in both airship fleet battles and political strategy meetings, and he knows his way around a ship engine. But being smart isn't very important to him; given the interactions with his sister and the admission that he's had, like, one friend by the time Last Exile starts, it's pretty likely that he had nothing better to do with his time than study. Dio is (was) a member of the Guild, which, on this space-colony-fake-planet called Prester, is supposed to act as mediator between the two nations of Disith and Anatoray. This means that, before the Guild's eventual downfall, they were In Charge. Dio's older sister, the now deceased Maestro Delphine, was even more In Charge than everyone else, and groomed (or attempted to groom) her precious baby brother in her image as cunning, ruthless, and brilliant. Dio is cunning and brilliant. For a while he's ruthless at first, but it turns out to be because he doesn't know anything else - he is actually a big softie and he loves everyone and they love him.

As for cunning and brilliant, worth mentioning is the Thing with the Ships. Dio is a Vanship pilot; in Last Exile, this means he pilots small, two-man ships. And he is very, very good at it. The best pilot in the series, legitimately. On top of his brilliant flying skills (he flies a two-man ship by himself, without the help of a navigator which you really should have, technically, but) he is also gifted in hand-to-hand combat, like most Guild members. In the Guild they prize superiority and intelligence over hard work, so Dio has turned out a little bit lazy but quite good at the things he does bother putting his back into. His laziness extends to his interactions with Authority, mainly in the way he goes out of his way to reject organized military-type things. He loves taking orders! -- but only sometimes, and only from his friends. Organized military action bothers him and he doesn't like putting up with all the posturing and uptight, rigid rule-bound stuff. It just wouldn't go well with his habit of doing anything he wants, you see.

Dio's interactions and relationships with other people come in three flavors: friends!, crushing & paralyzing guilt, and his sister. But in reverse order: first, his sister. Maestro Delphine is the Big Bad of Last Exile, and long story short she was not a very pleasant person to be around. She was also very, very attached to Dio, in a bizarre fashion where she treated him like an exalted precious sibling and also her favorite pet. It was creepy. This didn't get to Dio until he was about 6, when she murdered their parents in order to take control of the Guild. Dio saw her do it; she didn't know, and so she thought that his sudden discomfort and sadness was about being lonely without their parents around. This actually sparked a deep and terrible fear of his older sister, as Dio never really managed to shake the feeling that she was going to kill him, next (hence his eagerness to get away from the Guild and talk to normal people). Although Delphine has since died and it's been two years, the problems Dio has involving his sister still haunt him and he is profoundly uncomfortable even thinking about her. He is additionally traumatized in a way tangentially related to his sister, which involves his birthday and his best friend Lucciola. Lucciola was "given" to Dio by Delphine after she killed their parents; he is essentially Dio's servant, although Dio adores him and they're best friends 4evr. Until Delphine kills him, too. There is a lot of complicated Guild stuff involving Dio being ceremonially brainwashed and Lucciola finally deciding that he valued Dio more than Delphine and having their other friends take Dio away from the Guild, and in the end Lucciola sacrificed himself for Dio's freedom.

This, along with some other interactions Dio never got a chance to apologize for, absolutely destroys him. Lucciola is the most important person in the world to him (he basically starts screaming and crawls out of his ship in midair when he breaks his brainwashing and realizes Lucciola isn't there) and still is--the reason he flies a two-man ship all by himself? The backseat is Lucciola's seat. He won't let anyone touch the controls and he talks to the empty seat sometimes, and basically he is not over it. The guilt of letting that happen to Lucciola is enough, but Dio also has to live with the fact that he took Lucciola's presence for granted and has to live on without him even though it feels really pointless to do so. He's learned from it, at least, that taking people for granted is a bad thing, and so every time he makes a cute new friend he treasures them dearly and is not a stranger with his affections. Which brings us to friends: Dio wants to be everyone's friend. Unless someone starts stabbing his friends or something unforgivable, he wants to be friends. On the sliding scale from total stoic to that guy who's in everyone's business, the range of people Dio wants to be friends with is all of them. Whether or not he lets people get really close to him is another story; the whole Lucciola problem and his general inexperience with close friendships makes up unconsciously put up walls sometimes, but friendly acquaintances? Oh yes. All the time. Everyone.

When it comes to the subset of Dio's friends which is everyone, he has a very strong protective streak. He will do all manner of reckless and dangerous things to protect his friends, especially those who are younger than him. Dio likes kids and kids love Dio. He has that kind of open and friendly demeanor that might make Serious Adults get tired of his antics, but kids flock to him and he is totally okay with that. It helps that kids are also more receptive when he shows off, which he does all the time. Put him in a ship and be prepared for him to do a bunch of loops and unreasonably difficult turns just for the hell of it, even if he should be doing something related to an actual mission.

A final note is that he is super tactless, because he finds it funny. He will point out that dumb thing you just did, and he will totally do it in front of everyone. But he means well.

PROJECTED CLASS: Probably Performer. Dio already has considerable martial arts skills and so wouldn't feel the need to join a guild that focuses on more weaponized combat, and on top of that he is really thoroughly disinterested in organized military-type obligations, so anything that sounds like it will be rigid combat training (whether or not it truly is) will put him off. He's not a scholarly type or a thieving type, and genuinely just likes to show off, so performing would keep him entertained. Also he really likes to sing, although not necessarily well...
OTHER: none!

SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON SAMPLE: a test drive yonder
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE
Truthfully, Dio had signed up with a guild that sounded the least strenuous. Or the least strenuous while also not being boring, like reading books all day. He hadn't meant to, initially, but when he was loitering in any location that would let him sit there long enough, singing loudly, enough people stopped and asked him if he was with the Performers Guild that he eventually had to ask one of them what they were talking about. Having more than one Guild--it's still strange to him, although he knows that even at home there were Guilds besides the one he'd been a part of. At first he's wary, when he gives the recruiter woman a nervous smile and laughs and says something stupid about songs for birthday parties, but he's welcomed in readily enough. While he's here, he figures, before he goes back out into the crowded streets to stop more people just for a chat - he ought to look at the rooms. He hums all the way there, and when he stops in the doorway to the lodgings his humming hits an excited crescendo. Bunk beds! He all but swan dives into the nearest one.

The thing about bunk beds is Dio loves them. His favorite part about being on any manner of large ship had always been the rooms, for how small and cozy they were (he'd had many a one-sided disbelieving conversation with crewmen on the Silvana, in particular, who didn't seem to understand his fixation on tiny and cold metal rooms). This room, in comparison, is spectacular. Dio spends five minutes rolling back and forth between the edge of the bed and the wall. He hums again. Then he vaults himself upright and out of the bed, looks around, then skips two rungs at a time to get up the ladder onto the top bunk.

They aren't labeled. Surely no one will object to him trying them all out. He doesn't roll around this time, at least, but is so overcome with excitement! that he grips the side of the bunk and hangs his whole upper body over the side to exclaim just how excited he is -- before remembering that, ah, there isn't anyone... in the room. Dio pauses.

"Oh," he says to the empty mattress. It's rumpled from his messing around and almost looks like someone other than him had been in it recently. Somehow that makes him feel profoundly lonely. He pushes himself back up to the top bunk and shifts to hang his legs over the side. He swings his feet and sighs. "There's no one here..." Something itches in the back of his throat, threatening to make his eyes water and his nose burn, and he laughs and looks down. His hair falls in his face and he thinks of the people who aren't with him, who would love this place, surely--certainly not this place, this guild where they'd surely say he truly belonged, him and his singing, and if only they had a Vanship for him it would be perfect for keeping him out of their hair...

Dio takes in a sharp breath and tugs at the goggles around his neck, pulling them up to cover his eyes. As he looks around the room he says, "What do you think, Immelmann? Isn't it--interesting?" His voice cracks on the last word and he sighs again, flopping backwards onto the mattress and raising his arms above him. He moves his hands, in rough approximation of a ship... "Immelmann turn!"

Then his hands drop to his chest and he lays there, looking at the ceiling, bored and lonely.
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[personal profile] powergamer 2013-05-12 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
ACCEPTED
Welcome to the world of Reis Alurelia! Here's what you have to do before you can start playing:
» Reply to this comment with the account you will be using.
» Join [community profile] dyspros, [community profile] dysproslogs, [community profile] dysprosooc and optionally, [community profile] dungeoncrawls.
» Make an IC Inbox post for your character on their journal so other characters may interact with them!
» Unless your character has a strong reason to not join a guild within a few days, please comment here to sign the character up for a guild! Remember, characters will be homeless, penniless, and hungry until they sign up for a guild. If the character's decision would take place within a few days of arriving in the game, go ahead and comment—If they change their mind, you're free to edit!
» Reply to the Taken page.
» Introduce yourself on the OOC community! Everyone wants to know whom they'll be playing with.
And you're all set! Once you've done all of the required things above, feel free to jump into the intro log and start playing! Even if you don't use this post, please go over the information there, since it contains important information for characters to know.

Thank you for applying at Dyspros!
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[personal profile] lucena 2013-05-12 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
oh boy

this is the account!!
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