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APPLICATIONS
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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:
application for canon characters:
OOC
IC
SAMPLES
SAMPLE APPLICATIONS
Arcueid Brunestud, Tsukihime
Panda, Shirokuma Cafe
application for original characters:
OOC
IC
SAMPLES
SAMPLE APPLICATIONS
Sidel Blanchet, Original Character
Cheriour, Original Character
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
NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
plurkname/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/
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.
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.
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
NAME: Your name.
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/plurkname/what have you
CHARACTERS IN GAME: put N/A if none
USERNAME: Your personal Dreamwidth account.
CONTACT: email/aim/
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.
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.
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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USERNAME:
CONTACT:
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A
IC
CANON: Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
CANON POINT: After the end of the series (when she’s seen having reverted back to her “Chuuni” ways)
AGE: 15
APPEARANCE: http://i.imgur.com/4IFCcnq.jpg?1
PERSONALITY:
Dekomori is a prime example of a chuunibyou or a person going through “eigth-grader syndrome” as it’s translated to. The series describes it as “an adorable, yes dreadful disease resulting from new-found self-awareness mixing with an overly active imagination which results in the peculiar behavior.” Basically it’s when children start acting like fictional characters of their own creation and get immersed in their own fantasy world. As far as Dekomori is concerned, she’s the wielder of the Mighty Mjolnir Maul and with its might can make “men meet their mortality”. In actuality she’s just a normal junior high schooler named Sanae Dekomori with no mystical powers to speak of, but a girl can dream can’t she?
Being a side character, the series doesn’t dwell into too much of her past. From what we’re told, Dekomori had started frequenting online forums a year before the start of the series in search of answers about the “Otherworld”. That’s when she came into contact with the wielder of the Wicked Eye, Rikka Takanashi, who granted her with personal responses to her questions. During their messaging back and forth, the two soon realized that Dekomori was actually Rikka’s servant from a past life! This soon led to a close friendship between the two girls, and they remained in close contact ever since then. Another important person whom Dekomori came into contact with during that time was a mage named Forest Summer. Forest Summer wrote about all phenomena throughout the world from birth to death in a book called the Mabinogion’s Rainbow Manuscript, which according the Dekomori is the “source of all knowledge.” Dekomori believes that she’s the prophet of Forest Summer and refers to the Mabinogion often for words of wisdom.
Outside of her “Chuuni history”, not much is known about Dekomori’s personal life. In the last episode it can be inferred that she comes from a wealthy family since she arrived at Rikka’s house in an upper-class sedan and having a butler with her as well. It’s also revealed that, despite coming off as quite the ditz, Dekomori’s grades in school are among the best in her year level and at one point she’s seen tutoring one of her fellow students in math.
Dekomori, at first, comes off as someone who thinks very highly of herself. Since she sees herself as a powerful warrior, she looks down upon other humans with arrogance. When she first meets Yuuta, she refers to him as a “foolish mortal” and comments that “his eyes are that of a commoner rotten to the core”. She carries herself in a very grandiose way and expresses herself physically to an almost ridiculous degree. One of the ways she loves expressing herself is through flailing her twin tails around and sometimes points them at people for emphasis. That being said, she doesn’t always come off as cool or graceful as she intends. Dekomori has had many moments during the series where in the midst of her dramatic hair flailing, she’s managed to trip on it or become completely entangled in her hair. As much as Dekomori wants to come off as tough, in the end she’s still a dorky middle schooler and it shows.
Despite putting up the front of someone with boundless confidence, Dekomori still has her own insecurities and flaws. She gets very sensitive whenever anyone mentions her short height and usually responds with “I have a lot of growing ahead of me!” or something of that manner. She absolutely hates milk yet she forces herself to drink it in the hopes that it will help her grow taller. She has terrible motion sickness, but remains stubborn when offered help when dealing with it. Dekomori also has moments when she can act like a true child and will throw mini tantrums (though since she’s such a drama queen, they can’t always be taken at face value).
Though Dekomori comes off as standoffish towards most people she is shown to be extremely compassionate towards Rikka. Part of it ties into the fact that Dekomori sees herself as Rikka’s servant, but their relationship has clearly evolved past that into a close friendship. In one episode, Dekomori tells Yuuta how Rikka would call her almost every night to tell Dekomori about how she was doing and would ask Dekomori’s advice on certain things going on. Another important relationship Dekomori has in the series is her relationship with Nibutani, the real identity of Forest Summer. Nibutani has since rejected her past Chuuni self and her and Dekomori throughout the series have a very rocky relationship. The two go back and forth, tormenting each other constantly. However, by the end of the series you see that the two have come a long way with their relationship and Dekomori even lets Nibutani comfort her when she’s upset. So while Dekomori can seem detached from most people, she really just takes a while to warm up to people at first before being able to become friends with them.
In one of the last episodes of the series, Yuuta confronts Dekomori about her eight grader syndrome, telling her that none of the attacks and magic she’s been pretending to use has been real. At first she merely tells him to shut up but after more badgering she finally breaks down and tells him that she knows that. In this moment you realize that Dekomori has been able to separate herself from fantasy and reality this whole time, she’s just chosen not to. This is different from Rikka’s case who needed the cling onto her fantasy in order to cope with the real world. Dekomori simply preferred the fantasy she had created but wasn’t bound by it. This explains why Dekomori had seemed to have adjusted to Chuuni life much better than the rest of the cast since she still seemed to be on good terms with her other classmates (unlike the other Chuuni cases, where they had been generally outcast or ignored). In one of the earlier episodes you get a glimpse of this as you see her go back and forth between talking to Rikka and then speaking normally (for the most part) to another student she’s tutoring in math.
After her confrontation with Yuuta we get to see “normal” Dekomori. She’s much more polite, referring to all of her older classmates as “senpai” and uses very formal language when speaking. She still has moments of her usual, dorky self (finding ridiculous things to be “deathly cool”) but for the most part her normal self is the opposite of her Chuuni self. At the very end of the series, we see that Dekomori has reverted back to her Chuuni ways and seems happier because of it. While she can pass for a normal person if need be, she clearly enjoys living a fantasy life with her friends much more.
PROJECTED CLASS:
Fighter > Berserker
I chose this class because it fit best with the Chuuni persona Dekomori formed for herself. Her character uses a giant hammer to fight with and in mock battles with Rikka, you can see that she can use great force behind her attacks but may not have the best precision behind it. The ability “smash” and “charge” also sounded similar to an attack she used in the series where she used ran at full force with her hammer to destroy a force field Rikka had been using. The class itself seems to fit her personality as well, since she can be very brash and tends to act before thinking.
OTHER: In the show, Dekomori ends most of her sentences with “desu” but since that sounds really awkward to do in English I’ll be handling it the way the anime subs did and will have her use the word “death/deathly” as a substitute (since her use of the word desu is meant to emphasize the word death).
SAMPLES
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE
“This is so deathly cool!” Dekomori muttered to herself. Weapons lined the walls of the shop and Dekomori couldn’t help but closely examine each and every one of them. It’s one thing to imagine yourself holding weapons or to play with toy versions, but it’s a whole other experience to actually see the real deal in person. As much as Dekomori prided herself in her powers of imagination, she knew her fantasies couldn’t compare to what she saw laid out before her.
Dekomori let out a giddy chuckle. “Uuhuhuhuhu, which deathly one will I choose to use for myself!?” Dekomori’s excitement was reaching critical levels! She was filled with such joy that she was finally going to be able to make all of her fantasies into a reality! She loved pretending to be the powerful wielder of the Mighty Mjolnir Maul with Rikka as her master, but deep down (as much as she hated admitting it) she’d always known that it wasn’t real. But now, now things were different! She could finally live the life she had wanted to! A moment of sadness came over Dekmori. “I wish Rikka was here with me…she would love this world, deathly so.” She shook her head, twin tails flailing back and forth as she did so. Now was not the time for such feelings! She and her beloved master would be reunited once again, she was sure of it!
Dekomori’s eyes continued scanning the weapons but soon stopped at one in particular. The weapon she had her gazes on was a giant, lavishly embellished golden hammer. Dekomori began to hop up and down in place. “That one! That is the deathly weapon the mighty Dekomori shall use!” It was perfect, almost exactly like she had always imagined her weapon to be. Even though Berserkers were more known for using axes, she didn’t see the harm in mastering two weapons. Dekomori reached up and took a hold of the hammer for herself, weighing it in her hands.
“Yes, this is deathly perfect!”
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