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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: Katie
USERNAME:

themadmaiden
CONTACT: email/aim/

themadmaiden
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A

NAME: Ukraine

CANON: Axis Powers Hetalia

CANON POINT: June 2013

AGE: She appears to be in her early-mid twenties but is actually somewhere over 1200 years.

APPEARANCE: picture here

PERSONALITY:

Ukraine is a very warm hearted and loving nation. She’s the older sister of both Belarus and Russia and was something of a mother figure for them when they were younger. She gets along with most nations and she cares for her people like they were her children. She’s something of a team mom for most of Eastern Europe, not just her siblings. She’s also good friends with many of the other female nations such as Hungary and Liechtenstein who she shares a strip with taking about traditional clothing where they call each other by nicknames.

She’s cheerful and upbeat for the most part, unless she’s worried about something. Ukraine tends to worry about things a lot. It’s something she’s known for and she worries far too much then she should. Her history gives her a lot to worry about as she’s usually poor and doesn’t have very good luck. She has a tendency of getting dragged into trouble by others who take advantage of her kind nature. Being pulled into situations like wars, or being taken over by the nations surrounding her. She tends to break out in tears at times as well when she’s worried.

However, despite being a bit of a cry baby, Ukraine is also described as ‘fearsome’ and someone who will stand their ground to the last. She may worry but she won’t let that get in the way of acting or fighting if that’s what’s needed. She’s one of the few nations that is not afraid of Russia and Belarus and tends to try to help them when they have problems, or they scare other people. She can be scary at times as well, but this is rare and her siblings are so scary all of the time, other people tend to focus on them and not her. All the same you do not want to make her angry.

Her relationship with Russia is bumpy as she cares about him dearly, but he’s also been responsible for a lot of her troubles. She understands why other people might hate him, but she doesn’t. He’s her brother and she loves him. However, her independence is very important to her and in the end she will pick her people over family.

Her relationship with Belarus is somewhat bumpy as well. Ukraine worries about her sister’s obsession with Russia and just wants her to be happy. However Ukraine tends to ignore any cruel things her sister might say, and loves her anyway. She just wishes that Belarus would stop breaking poor Lithuania’s fingers, and scaring everyone.

Ukraine can be a bit forgetful at times and she’s forgotten when her boss has forbidden her to speak to Russia and had to run off right after arriving once. This is shown in a strip when she runs away after trying to bring some milk over. She also sometimes talks before she thinks things over.
She’s an incredibly hard worker, working long hours farming and doing things that might make things easier for her people. It’s one of the reasons she usually has a pitchfork with her. She’s always looking for ways to help them and she’s very proud of them. Despite seeming quiet Ukraine is a proud nation, who wants to make sure her culture and history is preserved.

PROJECTED CLASS: Mage | Summoner
I can see her going toward this role because:
-She will want to help her friends when they go on missions
-She has strong ties to nature/elements
-She’s old enough to remember the old myths and legends about spirits and they don’t scare her.
-A sunny happy person being surrounded by people others find terrifying is pretty par for the course for her given her siblings.

OTHER: Additional notes/questions about the character go here.

FIRST PERSON SAMPLE:
Example One
Example Two

THIRD PERSON SAMPLE

Ukraine sat down with a sigh. It was a lot to take in. Getting stuck in a strange world, being told to join a guild and then discovering she had the potential to use magic. She wasn’t sure how that last one was true, but well that’s apparently what she was going to be learning here wasn’t it?

She only sat for a few minutes before getting up and getting back to tidying the room she would be staying in. Her pitchfork was leaning against the wall in a way that made it almost homey. She’d have to find some fabric in the future and make a flag to hang up as well. Somehow she doubted she was going to find a Ukrainian flag for sale in this strange land.

She was going to start crying in the future, once it fully sunk in that there was no simple way to get back to her home or her family, but for now she worked on organizing the room to her liking. The picture of her siblings that had luckily been in her wallet was now lying on the desk by her notebook and she looked at it for a moment before finding a safer place for it. She’d have some interesting stories to tell them when they met again at least.

And after sorting out a few more things that was that. There wasn’t anything else to do but sit down with her notebook and make a few lists of things. She wrote and idly touched the necklace with the blue stone she’d been given. A means of communication apparently, though she had yet to try it and wasn’t really sure she had anyone here she knew to talk to. Did the people brought here have a community she didn’t know about? She planned to wait and see if there were any other new students around who knew about the answer to that before she tried to contact anyone who might not even be here. The person who had enchanted it had been very clear about how it worked at least, so she knew that much.

After a little while she closed her notebook, picked up her pitchfork and went out to try and meet new people.

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

» We would like to see an alternate first person sample, since we don't feel like we can gauge the character's voice well in the sample provided. You may submit another linked post or thread, or write a new one out.

You have 5 days to reply with your revisions.

New Thread

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!

Thank you!

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