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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
<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

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OOC

NAME: Sara
USERNAME:

sarajayechan
CONTACT: lucy.brianna@gmail.com/J Random Sara/tehsarajaye @ plurk (html ferked up there)/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A

NAME: Lyn (full name Lyndis)
CANON: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword (simply Fire Emblem in the US)
CANON POINT: Post-"Cog of Destiny"
AGE: 16
APPEARANCE: This is a picture of her.
PERSONALITY: Lyn was born to a Lycian noblewoman and a Sacaen nomad, and lived a relatively simple life filled with love, peace and nature. Everything changed, though, when a pack of bandits attacked her tribe, poisoning the drinking water and slaughtering everyone in their path except for Lyn herself. She escaped and spent the next six months alone, angry and saddened, until the day she stumbled upon a young woman unconscious on the plains. Taking the woman home and nursing her back to health, Lyn discovered she was a strategist by trade and asked to travel with her so she might avenge her people.

Of course, Lyn never got that chance. While stocking up on supplies in Bulgar, a young man attempted to flirt with her. The young man turned out to be a knight of Caelin, a territory in Lycia; he and his partner helped Lyn fight off some bandits and then dropped a bombshell on her: She was the missing heir to the Caelin throne. Lady Lyndis, granddaughter of the ailing Marquess Caelin. Upon learning she had a flesh and blood relative left in the world, Lyndis agreed to reclaim her title in order to rescue him.

One year after successfully achieving this goal, she found herself drawn into another war. What began as a Lycian civil war started by Laus turned into a race to stop a powerful sorcerer from calling a horde of dragons to destroy Elibe. Lyn teamed up with Lord Eliwood of Pherae and Lord Hector of Ostia, citing that they were the only ones who knew enough about the situation to do anything about it.

Lyn is, in a word, headstrong. She grew up among warriors and with a sense of pride in herself and her heritage. But her strength is a double-edged sword; it may have gotten her through some of the hardest times in her life, but with it comes the unfortunate side effect of stubbornness. She refuses to back down even in the most dangerous situations, and though she will eventually accept help she's initially reluctant to, and doubly so to ask for it. And while she has yet to push herself to the point of collapsing from exhaustion, her friends definitely are warranted in worrying about it coming to that.

However, Lyn is far from made of stone. She has her vulnerabilities and her insecurities like anyone; when she reunited with her grandfather and became the heir to the Caelin throne, she had to learn how to act like a noble lady after spending her whole life as a warrior. It hasn't been easy, and despite her hatred of such strict rules and regulations she fears disappointing her grandfather. She despises the thought of becoming "Lady Lyndis" and losing her identity, but for her grandfather's sake she knows she has to try.

She's also rather single-minded at times. Until recently, her obsession with taking revenge on the bandits who slaughtered her tribe has all but ruled her life. When she discovered her revenge had been taken for her by the knight Wallace she was initially angry, but is slowly beginning to realize why he did it and what he wanted to impress upon her: that obsession and hatred can cloud the mind, and that she does not want to succumb to them.

Despite her insecurities and her stubbornness, Lyn is a very kind person. She's quick to smile, very easy to talk to and will never turn her back on those she loves. She's a natural leader, but doesn't have too much of a problem following or assisting when she's needed. She's deeply loyal to the ones she loves, which is the source of her Sacae vs. Lycia conflict; though she longs to return to her beloved plains, she doesn't want to abandon the only blood family she has left.

Lyn is an excellent tracker due to her Sacaen heritage; she was able to sniff out fleeing Black Fang assassins despite heavy snow, and her night vision is quite good for someone who isn't a thief or a spy accustomed to that sort of thing. She's not book smart and is a bit naive at first, but she's a quick learner and very sensitive to the feelings of her friends.

PROJECTED CLASS: I picture Lyn as being the Samurai class. She doesn't have too much defense, but she does defeat enemies quickly and some of the abilities of the class are similar to her combat style in canon. Her personal weapon is essentially a katana.
OTHER: Lyndis carries a personal sword called the Mani Katti, which "chose" her after she drove off some bandits from ransacking its shrine. She also has some skill with a bow, not as much as her comrades in the war but she's a fairly good shot.

FIRST PERSON SAMPLE: On the Broken meme (March)

Bodyguard meme (April)

[Her image is projected to the other side, sleepy and still a little disoriented. Lyn is still not completely used to her new surroundings; upon waking up she'd been worried when she saw Florina wasn't asleep in the bed next to hers.]

Good morning, everyone. I...I think I understand this place a little better now, thanks to everyone who helped me.

I still wish I had a way of knowing that everyone back at home was okay. That last battle was tough, and... [She tries not to think about Nino's sorrow at losing the last of her family, or Ninian offering herself up for capture to protect Nils] Is there a way I can contact people on the outside?

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE Must take place in the game's setting. 300 words minimum.

The city is beautiful, but so crowded. Lyn carefully makes her way through the crowds, trying not to step on or shove anyone as she takes in her surroundings. It reminds her a bit of Lycia, in a way, but...not quite. Subtle differences, little things...the people seem friendly enough, at least so far. No one's talked to her, but they haven't been rude to her and she can hear snatches of conversations and greetings here and there.

The attendants at the castle were very helpful, much to her relief. The castle was lovely, but she knew some nobles and their attendants could be rather snooty, especially to strangers. Especially to strangers from foreign lands who still wore their swords at their side. Somehow they hadn't mistaken her for a prowler or an assassin. Though one had said she was smart to stand and wait instead of rushing further into the castle, so Lyn guessed she'd done something right. Jasper and Beryl, they'd called themselves as they guided her into the bustling city. The first thing they'd told her to do was join a guild. That sounded simple enough until Lyn realized she wasn't sure where to sign up.

Which guild was right for her? Should she just guess and hope she made the right choice, or go somewhere to find out more about these guilds? After debating it, she decided it was best to think before she acted; her headstrong impulsiveness had gotten her into trouble more than a few times in the past, and the last thing she needed was to find herself in a bad situation her first day in a strange new place.

So she walked through the city, searching and thinking. The information she had been given was helpful, at least. Finally, she found a large building and decided this must be where you signed up.

"Okay. Step one conquered," she whispered to herself as she walked through the door.

REVISIONSYour application is almost good to go! But before we accept it, we want to see the following:

» We would like to see an expanded personality section that explores Lyn's relationships with other characters in greater detail. While the personality section is good as a whole, we feel that her relationships with characters such as her grandfather, Eliwood, Hector, and Florina need to be detailed to correctly gauge your understanding of her character. A paragraph or so should be fine.

You have 5 days to reply with your revisions.

Different people bring out different sides to Lyn. Florina brings out her gentle, protective side; even though she acknowledges Florina as having grown stronger over time, she's grown used to protecting and looking out for the girl who was afraid of her own shadow when they first met. Florina is probably the person she's closest to, there's very little either of them would do for each other, and Lyn wants them to stay together no matter what direction life takes them. She acts in similar ways towards her grandfather, Ninian and Nils; she wants to keep them safe from anything that might hurt them and worries about them easily.

Hector, on the other hand, invokes her stubborn side more than anyone. Not a day goes by where they're not arguing or poking at each other about something or other, to the point where the rest of the army wonders if they're even friends at all. Or if all that arguing is a prelude to something else...it isn't, of course, but Hector and Lyn definitely give off that vibe. Lyn does care for him, of course, but it's almost impossible not to be annoyed with him sometimes. Similar personalities do lead to a clash, after all.

Eliwood is the closest thing to an equal she has; though she does worry about him the way she does Florina, he's even-tempered and resolute enough to mostly be on the same wavelength as her. While not best friends, the two have a very strong bond.

When it comes to those who want to protect her, though, Lyn is conflicted. She hates the idea that she's someone who needs it, but Kent, Wallace, Wil and Sain are like family to her and she doesn't want them to think she doesn't appreciate their efforts. So she tries to hint that she wants to fight side by side with them.

And then there's Rath. A fellow Sacaen, quiet and reluctant to open up despite her efforts, but he's saved her hide on two separate occasions. She knows he cares, but he has a difficult time showing it.

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!

Yay! :D

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Lyn | Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword | Reserved

Lyn | Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword | Reserved

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