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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
<div style="text-align: justify;">NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: <user name="your username here">
CONTACT: email/aim/<user name=plurkname site=plurk.com>/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none</div>
IC
<div style="text-align: justify;">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 <a href=http://imgur.com/>Imgur</a> 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.</div>
SAMPLES
<div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div>

OOC

NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/

plurkname/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none

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
<div style="text-align: justify;">NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: <user name="your username here">
CONTACT: email/aim/<user name=plurkname site=plurk.com>/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none</div>
IC
<div style="text-align: justify;">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 <a href=http://imgur.com/>Imgur</a> 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.</div>
SAMPLES
<div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div>

OOC

NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/

plurkname/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

NAME: TK
USERNAME:

crawly
CONTACT: saevitum on AIM
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A

NAME: Nicolas Brown
CANON: Gangsta
CANON POINT: Chapter 12
AGE: 34
APPEARANCE: dude is ripped.

PERSONALITY: Like so many, Nic is a product of his environment. He was brought up as an unwanted remnant of an unwanted past. He knew very well from early on that he wasn't the same as other people, but he was also told that everyone else was better than he would ever be, because they were normal.

Nic is, understandably, bitter about this, developing an attitude of permanent annoyance and indifference towards the rest of the world. He hates that humans can be 'normal' and feel as if they have a reason to band together even in a unsympathetic world, but he's also resigned to this fact. He gets that he won't be the same as normal humans and that Twilights, despite their superior physical activities, won't be able to survive. Since he thinks he already knows how he'll end up, he's apathetic towards everything else that happens — insults, crimes, and anything else that life throws at him.

Nicolas still does things that show more of his personality under the general indifference. He defies the three principles constantly, for example, overdosing on the pills that give him more access to his abilities, though that leads to unfortunate repercussions. He doesn't like being regulated or supervised, and his actions often lead to Worick being forced to 'order' him to stop. It's a habit that no one approves of, but he keeps doing it anyway. Since he's known since he was about ten that he would likely die before he hit forty, he doesn't see it as a problem that he can change.

In addition to being self-destructive, he tends to be a hazard to others, too. He was raised by a group of mercenaries that despised him, and he's grown up to be a mercenary himself. He has few qualms about using violence to solve his problems, or selling his skills as a super soldier. Despite his jadedness and lack of morality, he also tends to be immature and lazy. Also although he's capable of talking with reasonable accuracy, he calls it tiring and expects Worick to translate for him. He reacts to jabs or jokes at his expense (usually about his height) with great annoyance, though he likes picking on other people's quirks and making their lives generally difficult.

He has little regard for other people's safety even outside of his job, viewing violence as indifferently as everything else. He does have a few — well, more like two — people that he cares for. One is Nina, a young intern at the office of a black market doctor, and the other is 'Veronica', another Twilight who appears only in a near-comatose state. So uh, that should give you a good idea of Nic's attitude towards other people.

He gets along with people more out of genuine necessity or some sort of empathy, generally speaking. His partner Worick has been with him for years, and they know each other better than either of them really want to — which is why they have to work together. And then there's Alex, of whom Worick is fond. Nic, though, is stand-offish about new people and especially women, and they hardly speak to each other. Nic's one relationship that isn't necessary is with Nina, whose optimism is enough to make him slightly nicer around her. He's stiff and uncomfortable even then, but it's an improvement over his usual attitude. Even the police chief in the city, who has acted as a father figure to both Nic and Worick, gets threatened when he tries to impress his power over them. Backed by Worick, Nicolas smashes his police cruiser and makes it very clear that neither of them will back down.

PROJECTED CLASS: Mercenary. Nicolas, in canon, is in fact a mercenary (and handyman, but mostly mercenary). He handles a sword as his preferred weapon, and his physical abilities are well beyond those of normal humans. Even without those inhuman abilities, he's had over twenty years of experience fighting people who want to kill, not just wound. Besides, he's pretty rough around the edges himself and shows way more excitement when fighting than a normal person should.

OTHER: N/A

FIRST PERSON SAMPLE:

[ This sucks. Nic hates talking, first of all, and second of all, using this piece of equipment is more trouble than it's worth. So it's only weeks in, after he really has no other choice, that he uses it.

And when he does, it's with text. ]

who the fuck even thought that this would be a good idea

[ Which idea, he doesn't specify, because this entire place seems to him like bad choices all around. ]

going on a party and hunting monsters or whatever in this fairytale place not my thing

basically what i wanna know is has anyone tried killing the guards

[ That's it, mostly. Oh, one more thing -- ]

show me your face or text or don't bother answering

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE Being in a world with dragon and dungeons isn't so bad, Nicolas decides. It's the fucking people. They look weird, dress weird, and they don't know how to sign. At all. Usually, in Ergastulum, most people at least recognized what he was trying to do. Here he either has to talk, and get strange looks for his awkward diction, or just play charades until someone gets it.

That said, steel is a language that everyone speaks. He keeps his sword on him. It stays at his side nearly everywhere he goes. Even after joining the guild, they'd suggested getting a new weapon, but he'll stick with this one. It still smells like smoke and blood from the city, and it's nearly comforting how familiar it feels in his hands. One day it'll probably break, but he'll use it until then.

And even stranger, he doesn't need Celebre here. At first, he'd been frustrated. He can't jump or recover nearly as quickly, and he can't cut things apart like he used to be able to. But then, he realized the long-term implications. He'd expected the symptoms to show up within days. Dizziness, blurring sight, but none of it's come up. It's freeing, but at the same time, disorienting. Those pills kept him on a schedule, told him that he had to make it to the next day or next time he swallowed far more than he was supposed to and Worick had to ground him by slamming him onto the ground. He's still not sure if he likes this more or not, but to be fair, he's just been trying not to think about it.

Now, Nic scowls at the mission information. It's not all that different from the kind of thing he does at home, but it's been quite a trip, adjusting to a new world. There are monsters here -- actual monsters, not just people who did awful things. They're almost better, because they fight differently, but they also don't talk back.

Well, he was never big on talking, anyway. That was Worick's area. So was listening, come to think of it, and memory. Nic's all about the fighting and not much else.

His hand tightens on the hilt of his sword, almost casually. Well, many-headed snakes still die like regular snakes, don't they? And if they don't, he'll come up with some other way to finish the mission.

ACCEPTEDWelcome 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 dyspros, dysproslogs, dysprosooc and optionally, 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!

i'll be using this one!

APPLICATIONS

NICOLAS BROWN | GANGSTA | UNRESERVED | 1/2

NICOLAS BROWN | GANGSTA | UNRESERVED | 2/2

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