APPLICATIONS

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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:

<span style="font-family: bell mt, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: black;">OOC</span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>NAME</b>:</span> Your name. <b>USERNAME</b>: <user name="your username here"> <b>CONTACT</b>: email/aim/<user name=plurkname site=plurk.com>/what have you <b>CHARACTERS IN GAME</b>: put N/A if none</div> <span style="font-family: bell mt, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: black;">IC</span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>NAME</b>: Your character's name. <b>CANON</b>: Your character's canon. Please note the specific canon if the character is from a large franchise <small>(i.e. Marvel Comics vs. Marvel Cinematic Universe)</small> or has different ways the canon can progress <small>(i.e. Fate/Stay Night's routes)</small>. <b>CANON POINT</b>: At what point are you pulling your character from? <b>AGE</b>: How old is the character? <b>APPEARANCE</b>: 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! <b>PERSONALITY</b>: 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. <b>PROJECTED CLASS</b>: 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! <b>OTHER</b>: Additional notes/questions about the character go here.</div> <span style="font-family: bell mt, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: black;">SAMPLES</span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>FIRST PERSON SAMPLE</b>: Links to threads from previous games, memes and museboxes are allowed, but must be within the past six months. <b>THIRD PERSON SAMPLE</b> 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

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:

<span style="font-family: bell mt, serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: black;">OOC</span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>NAME</b>: Your name. <b>USERNAME</b>: <user name="your username here"> <b>CONTACT</b>: email/aim/<user name=plurkname site=plurk.com>/what have you <b>CHARACTERS IN GAME</b>: put N/A if none</div> <span style="font-family: bell mt, serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: black;">IC</span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>NAME</b>: Your character's name. <b>AGE</b>: How old is the character? <b>APPEARANCE</b>: 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! <b>WORLD INFO</b>: 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. <b>BACKGROUND</b>: 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. <b>PERSONALITY</b>: 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. <b>PROJECTED CLASS</b> 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! <b>OTHER</b> Additional notes/questions about the character go here.</div> <span style="font-family: bell mt, serif; font-size: 24px;"><span style="color: black;">SAMPLES</span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><b>FIRST PERSON SAMPLE</b> 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. <b>THIRD PERSON SAMPLE</b> 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

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

Comments

Wataru Mitani | Brave Story (novel) | Reserved

[hasavision]

OOC

NAME: Dani
USERNAME: danidanidanica
CONTACT: user name=danidanidanica site=plurk.com>
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A

IC

NAME: Wataru Mitani
CANON: Brave Story (Novel)
CANON POINT: Chapter 32.
AGE: 11~12
APPEARANCE: Right in the middle, basically, but with some differences in clothing due to showing up in in a magical fantasy land. He has a silk tunic, undyed, blue baggy pants, a hempen cord for a belt and some sturdy traveling boots. On his left arm, he wears a red leather band – the mark of a Highlander.

[hasavision]

PERSONALITY: Wataru is a child. Much of what he thinks can be divided cleanly into very clear categories: what is good, and what is bad. Though he is starting to see that not everything can fall into just one or the other, he is used to the idea of good vs. evil, a process not helped by his love of role playing games where the main characters are clearly good and the bad guys are downright despicable. When things begin to fall into a gray zone, he becomes confused and isn’t sure what to think of it at all. More often than not, he’ll throw his support to one side and remain fiercely loyal to it, even though sometimes that side may not be right at all – it’s the only way he knows how to deal with such situations, at the moment.

He is also sensitive to criticism, especially when he feels he has done no wrong. He has a habit of questioning things that don’t make sense to him, and when others become annoyed and call him on it, he feels hurt and angry with them. He is a very strong believer in truth and logical reasoning, so when people deny his reasoning over a pack of rumors or superstition, he is understandably annoyed. Though he does wish that magic were real, he is grounded enough to know there is no such thing outside of dreams, and contents himself with those video games as mentioned before. Although… alternately, if it is exceedingly obvious that he is in a place where magic exists, he’ll believe it. He will believe in what he can experience via his own sight and senses.

That being said… Wataru really, really likes his video games. He plays them at home often, or with his best friend Katchan. In his head, he secretly thinks of things in terms of typical RPGs: a girl who is confined to a wheelchair, unable to speak or function after being kidnapped? Totally like a princess who has been locked away in a tower. A man in a robe hanging out in an abandoned building late at night? A wizard! Of course, once Wataru actually ends up in a world that is very much like one of his video games, these comparisons only increase in number. He knows his tropes, and can usually point them out when they appear. Whether or not the trope holds true or is secretly inverted (such as an old priest turning out to be evil) depends on the specific situation.

Though he definitely has his dark side, Wataru is generally a nice kid. Sure, he can be selfish, and even jealous of others, but if he sees someone in need of help he’ll try to do something about it. When in the world of Vision and forced to race to the end of his journey or be offered up as a sacrifice as a result, Wataru couldn’t help but be continually delayed by various side-quest type adventures, helping out the oppressed people of Lyris and doing other random good deeds that others would deem unnecessary. Some even go so far as to describe him as “too gentle”, since he also happens to cry when sad things happen and that’s a big no-no for tough manly boys like him. This is in fact reflected in the creation of Vision, which is at its core an entire world made to match his heart. Although his heart is full of turmoil, represented by the racial tensions and constant troubles (although interestingly, not representing any type of racism from him; he is noted as being very accepting of everyone he encounters, regardless of their appearance), it gives him an opportunity to do what he wishes most: to help people. And in the end, it has the very real world effect of allowing him to save the souls of two children who had been trapped within this world in the form of birds.

He’s polite to people he doesn’t know, and friendly to those he does. He is ridiculously loyal to his friends, even when said friends are doing terrible things and killing hundreds of people for some very misguided reasons. He doesn’t currently have much confidence in his own abilities because the last world he ended up in made a point of showing him just how useless he was compared to his much better, stronger, cooler friend Mitsuru, but he does know how to swing a sword (kind of) and will do the best he can to become a proper warrior.

PROJECTED CLASS: As he is currently too young to join up right away, Wataru will be (grudgingly) joining up with the Seven Titans in order to become a Paladin. In the world of Vision, he joined up with a group called the Highlanders, which act much in the same way as paladins do; protecting people wherever they go and fighting for what is right as opposed to the Knights of Stengel, who work directly for the Senate. Its skillset also matches his own fighting style acquired as a Brave: he is accustomed to using a single blade that is capable of minor magics such as shooting mage bullets.

OTHER: I will be using icons from the anime since that’s the… closest visual adaptation of the novel, but as mentioned above, his actual clothes are a bit different from how they came out in the anime!

SAMPLES

FIRST PERSON SAMPLE: Testrun!
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE Wataru walked through the city, gazing about with his mouth open wide in admiration. This was not, of course, his first time seeing such a grand city, or even one that appeared so heavily inspired by RPGs. After having spent some time in the world of Vision, it would be hard to say this was exactly a new experience.

However, that didn’t make it any less impressive. Even here, the architecture was completely foreign to what he had grown accustomed to in Vision – not that the architecture of that world was exactly static, either. This city, Goldvale was it? Somehow, it carried a much different feel from any city or town he had visited before.

It’s like I jumped out of one game and into another, he couldn’t help but think. Both RPGs, but with a slightly different flavor. This was certainly one full of wizards, even if Vision had been rather sparing as far as magic users went. And hopefully, the ones here will be nicer, he thought wryly, remembering his experience at the so-called Hospital. Yes, he could do with less people trying to have him executed.

So caught up in both his thoughts and the sights themselves, he found himself bumping into a much larger man – another human. “Whoa- Sorry!” His hands shot up apologetically, and the man merely gave a grunt before moving along. People aren’t so friendly here… But maybe it’s because I don’t fit in? His eyes went to the red band around his arm. Normally people would see the mark of the Firewyrm and automatically give him respect despite his age, but he supposed that would not be the case here. After all, he was in a whole different world now – the people here couldn’t be expected to know of the Highlanders. It was likely they didn’t even exist here.

Unbidden, his mind began to turn to his friends, all Highlanders like himself, and he quickly had to shake his head to end the thought. He couldn’t keep dwelling on that, or the fact that he had once again been left on his own… He needed to find out where he could stay here, and maybe look into getting a job of some sort to support himself. His first thought had, of course, been monster slaying, but after Wayfinder Lau had reprimanded him for saying such a ridiculous thing when he first entered Vision, he was no longer so quick to assume that battling monsters would reward him in gold, or even EXP.

“I’ll just have to find some other way…” He mumbled to himself. Let’s see… if he found the mayor and explained his situation, surely he would be able to get some advice on how to proceed? In order to continue the story, you need to raise the right flags. So the first one has to be establishing contact with an official. With a nod to himself, he turned and looked for the friendliest person nearby.

“Excuse me! Can you tell me where the Mayor lives? I have something important to talk to him about.”

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