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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: Itou Miyabi.
CANON: Yamada-kun and the 7 witches.
CANON POINT: chapter 59.
AGE: 16.
APPEARANCE: Your average teenage girl.
PERSONALITY:
Suzaku High has a surprising amount of problem students and Itou Miyabi is one of them. These kids don't do well in school, are bullied, or left on the fringes of society. Itou is one that gets ignored. She made it all the way to the second year without making a single friend and is a giant joke around the school. Ever heard of the boy that cried wolf? Well, that's pretty much how she's treated. To seek attention she attached herself to the occult overwhelm anyone new enough to listen to her tales with blatant lies about UFO sightings and the like. It got so bad that no one listened even when she told the truth and just laughed at her to her face. She saw her last chance to make friends in the newly formed Supernatural Studies Club.

Which wasn't a club set up for supernatural studies at all, but a safe place for Yamada and friends to experiment with the Witch Powers. Yeah, in this high school said problem children sometimes are given super special powers to help them reach out and make friends. Itou didn't get one but she doesn't let that keep her down. After learning about the real supernatural happenings of the clubs he opens up ten times more than before. Especially since she shares a secret with her club mates and actually becomes friends with them. This was a major breakthrough for her as she has never, ever really had good friends. When she invites them over to her house her family is ecstatic that she finally brought someone over. The fact that she has only recently dealt with these things called friends means she is still totally socially awkward though.

No longer alienated or hated Itou lets her true colors shine. As a complete and utter dweeb. When she was ignored and laughed at she was quiet and serious, trying to appear mature and cool to win people over. But once that hurdle was passed there was no holding back her loud and bubbly personality. She is energetic and gets emotional quickly. In short, she's overbearing. Once she gets going she doesn't stop and that goes for whether she is talking about something she loves or rampaging mad. She's still serious about some things, the other members would sit around eating snacks if she didn't motivate them, but they are definitely childish subjects to get testy about. She worries about the club room looking like a club room, what to do during culture festivals, and dumb school things like that. It's pretty normal worries considering they routinely deal with crazy things like preventing school fires, getting expelled by crazy first years, and being the student council's errand runners.

The love of the occult is really not an act for attention either. When she wants something she doesn't hold back to get it. She spent hundreds of yen on fake occult merchandise just so she could show it off in the hopes of getting friends, and once she got those friends she really doesn't hold back in the experimentation. Which can get a bit awkward considering the powers only work with you kiss someone. It's pretty amazing how fast she stops caring about kissing a boy or other girls when it's for science.

In summary, Itou is your normal everyday teenager who has a bunch of crazy friends with magical kissing powers. It's sad when the crazy occult fan is the most normal of the bunch.

PROJECTED CLASS: Considering Itou is a normal human girl with no prior training she is doing what any teenager would do and pick the coolest sounding one! Taking into account her love for the occult and the fact she isn't sporty at all the most obvious choice is the Mage guild as a Summoner. She will have a lot of cool trinkets and use magic to help out without having to be on the front lines. The best of all worlds for her.
OTHER: none!

FIRST PERSON SAMPLE: A meme thread.

Testing, testing!

[Hello, there is a bright and bubbly redhead now on screen. Not for long though as the screen suddenly moves to and fro erratically before settling back down to a standstill. There is a goofy laugh before she begins again.]

So it does move! I was worried it might just track on my face or something. Oh, but that isn't important. [She clears her throat.] My name is Itou Miyabe and I'm the strongest mage you will ever meet! If you ever need help in your endeavors look no further than The Great Itou!

[A pretty obvious lie since she doesn't even remember the correct class term... But she seems to be enjoying the idea a lot so don't judge her too harshly.]

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE
Everything here was amazing. Itou had bought 'magical' items off of the internet before but even she knew it was a scam. Never in her wildest dreams had she ever thought she would find herself in a real magical marketplace overrun with tools for spell casting and exotic everything! She had left that morning on a mission to buy -- with money she didn't have -- fitting flowing robes for her new life as a Summoner.

It was obvious to her to join the most magical guild as it obviously had to be the best and most exciting. But she really didn't look the part as she was now. Who would cower in fear of a small girl in a school uniform waving around a wand. This wasn't some magical girl show, she was now a real life sorceress and she needed to look the part. Which meant robes of the deepest black or richest purple, a cowl to obscure and add mystery, and the most mystic staff and channeling trinkets. Oh yes, she had it all planned out. Monsters were going to run away at the sight of her after she got decked out.

Some part of her brain was reminding her she should be scared out of her mind after being kidnapped. She was just a normal girl. She wasn't even special like her friends, she had no secret powers or especially interesting back story. She wouldn't make the cut as a heroine at all. But the majority of her mind was just too taken with the idea of real magic. Or maybe the entire thing was in her wildest dreams and she just never gave herself enough credit. Either way, worrying was not winning any battles today. She was living in the land of dragons, princesses, and magic and she wasn't going to let anything slow her down. And living the life currently included pressing her face against the window and getting an eye full of beautifully embroidered robes. Well, there was only one way to try and get it right now.

Itou burst into the shop. "Hello, Sir Shopkeeper! Do you have any great deeds or requests for me to complete?" You never know, maybe she could haggle the robe as a reward.

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!

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APPLICATIONS

Itou Miyabi | Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches

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