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ALLOWED CHARACTERS
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- We now operate ROLLING APPLICATIONS that are always open. You can submit 1 character anytime in a month!
- Our application process has become simplified due to staffing changes, please take note!
- As apps are always open, reserves are NO LONGER REQUIRED. Please simply complete the application below and post when you are ready.
- If two people apply for the same character, the first to post their application will be assessed. The second application will only be considered if the first is declined.
- However, we do allow UP TO TWO versions of each character in game. The second applicant would therefore be permitted to apply for an AU version of that character if they so choose.
- Agents of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. or antagonist applications will open on November 4. These characters are either brainwashed (quick resolution) or coerced (slow-play resolution, long-term espionage) to help usher in the apocalypse. More information here!
OOC:
Player Name: Provide your handle
Age: Indicate you are 18+; players less than 18 years-of-age are not permitted
Contact: One or more of Plurk, PM, or Discord are needed
IC:
Character Name: Mrs. Handsome
Canon: Indicate which version if there are multiple (e.g., book to movie)
CANON POINT: Briefly describe in a sentence.
CRAU: Yes/No, please link the game/musebox the character is from
Age: Note that characters below 16 years of age should be apped with caution, as self-sufficiency/autonomy are extremely important. Heavy interdependency and neglect risks should be OOCly opt-in.
AGENT OF DESTINY: Yes/No, "Brainwashed" or "Coerced." Brainwash agents will be captured in-game and start to remember themselves within 1-2 months of play; coerced agents are knowingly helping the other side but under duress. Antagonists cannot begin gameplay until November 4, 2017, but you may feel free to apply and plot before then!
Background: Brief summary as possible, Wiki links preferred. If you wish to write your own, please us bullet points and be concise, 250-800 words. Please avoid over-describing the world or any jargon, focus more on key points in personality development (see above), changes wrought by CRAU and important CRAU relationships, and events that are likely to be regarded as offensive or sensitive material.
Powers/Abilities: Bullet list preferred. 1-400 words. Include non-human weaknesses/limits and superlative skills. Estimate numerical limits (weight, distance, speed, etc.). At the mods' discretion, destructive capacity may be scaled down based on a maximum lift of 5 tons (~2 full-sized cars).
Starting Equipment: Name your daemon, describe its form (max 50 words), and list any other items the character will be arriving with. Note highly destructive items will be controlled by metaplot. If you have critters that have powers or special abilities, please describe them briefly.
Samples: 1 required, may be from any meme, game, or setting; however, it should have been written within the last year. They should also be written from your preferred canon point.
In-Universe:
Exit Strategy: Maximum of 200 words. If your character is an agent of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y./antagonist, describe what D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. agents did to them (e.g., torture/magical brainwashing, or family held hostage/apocalypse postponed).
For non-antagonists, tell us how the D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. apocalypse and the enemy appeared in their world, then describe the technology or magic the character used to escape their world. Note any characters they are arriving with (i.e., 'group app') including usernames. This may be used for future plot, but don't worry too much about perfect consistency with your group mate/castmates/etc.— adjustments can be made later. We just want you to be thinking about it. All characters start on the beach.
Applications
Who's Allowed?
✔ CRAU, or characters who have experienced life in other games/museboxes. 'Partial CRAU' is not allowed, but if you apply in fresh, you will be able to obtain memories of CRAU during special events.
✔ Original characters
✔ Canon characters who must personally appear and preferably have a speaking role in the material of the canon point (specific episodes, books, films, etc.). You cannot app a minor/supporting character and headcanon the substance of their personality, or extrapolate a character's off-screen activities from material that only their canonmates were seen in
✔ Child characters (see Age warning in the Application section; note that self-sufficiency is important and other characters and players will not be forced to face consequences for failing to take on a dependent without careful OOC plotting)
✔ Multiple iterations of the same canon character are allowed. The two versions must be at least one with CRAU. The current maximum is 2 of each character. This may be raised by 1 if the character exists in another form of media and is determined to be sufficiently different.
✔ Non-human characters (greatest height in all directions is 30 feet; weird genitalia is fine as long as no one has to deal with it if they don't want to)
✔ Agents of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y., allowed as of November 4
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✘ Characters who must kill sentient beings (compulsion, physical appetites/dependence, etc.); there are limited NPCs and escalating ICC may render your character unplayable
Players should consider introducing themselves to players of close canon CR before they app. However, this is only required in the case of a group application (castmates arriving together from the same version and canon point of their world), or if you are apping the second version of an existing canon character. The purpose of this is not to mandate approval, but to initiate and encourage intra-cast communication.
Application - Rafaello d'Este | Original Character (CRAU)
PLAYER NAME: Kerry
AGE: 31
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: Chinatown and Ellie
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Rafaello d'Este
CANON: Original Character
CANON POINT: 2016, following his people's truce with the Fae. Also following his second stint in Eudio.
CRAU: Yes - Eudio.
AGE: 535 (appears 18)
BACKGROUND:
POWERS: Rafa is a vampire! This means:
STARTING EQUIPMENT:
SAMPLES:
1. Xistentia Test Drive: Top level with both log and network | Extra network thread in case you need a longer sample.
2. Open log in Eudio.
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: D.E.S.T.I.N.Y came to light during Rafa's last days in Eudio. When analysis of the threat indicated that multiple worlds were being targeted, Rafa immediately chose to return to his own - if a fight was coming, he would stand with his people to face it. He had been in Eudio with one of his husbands, Hunter. They asked Eudio's management to send them home together, but Rafa will arrive here alone and with no idea what happened to Hunter. This will be his immediate worry on landing here.
MORALITY: From a standard human perspective, Rafa has a skewed sense of morality. He grew up learning that he must kill to survive, and then spent most of his 500+ years at war. Killing only seemed wrong to him when it applied to someone he cared about. However, he is, and has always been, heavily influenced by the people around him; he wants to be liked, and if he's aware that something he's doing will put him on bad terms with someone he cares about, he'll stop. At his current canon point, the influence both of his husband Shane, and of the humans with whom he became friendly in Eudio, have given him cause to rethink his stance on killing. Additionally, he began to seek an end to the war he'd been fighting for so long - not because he thought it was wrong, but because he was always afraid it would break up his family again. This has also influenced his stance on killing. He is now reluctant to kill (in cold blood, at least), and does not kill at all when he's feeding. Rafa has never had much of a moral compass of his own, but he does recognise 'goodness' in others - and he considers it to be something he lacks. He wants to be more worthy of the good people in his life, even though the instincts he was raised with have never really gone away.
WAR ATTITUDES: Rafa is painfully used to war. From his perspective, his people have recently ended a centuries-long war with the Fae, in which Rafa acted first as solider, then as General, and then as King. As discussed above, peace is something that he craves in order to secure the safety of his family. However, he is still more used to war than peace, and he has a natural instinct to fight even though he feels tired of doing so. He is an experienced strategist and leader, and has always preferred to lead from the front rather than sit back as King. His priority is his family, and by extension, his kingdom as a whole. D.E.S.T.I.N.Y threatens their whole world; it is absolutely natural to Rafa to fight them. He would fight to kill.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Rafa is polygamous. He has three husbands, and several committed-but-not-married relationships which he's keen to preserve. This would not be a barrier to him starting new sexual relationships, though he is less likely to seek them out than in the past - he's happy with his lovers, so he's not desperate to find someone new. Despite this, it has always been, and remains, easiest for Rafa to navigate sexual relationships than anything else. Casual relationships with Rafa are relatively rare, unless they relate purely to sex. He is a loyal, possessive friend; once someone starts to mean something to him, he won't want to let them go - but even his friendships often have a sexual undertone. The concept of family has always been difficult for him, since for a very long time, the only blood relatives he'd ever known had been his competition - there was no love between him and his siblings, or between him and the vampire he called his father. He has a better track record with found families; his husbands are the family he's chosen, his 'sister' Lark is adopted, and in Eudio he was able to develop brotherly relationships with Alec Lightwood and Rosie Nurumi. Eudio also granted him a vision of a possible future which included children, a concept that had previously unnerved Rafa. The vision has made him rethink it, with a part of him keen to expand the family he's managed to gain.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: Rafa's priority here will be the safety and security of his own kingdom. If that means protecting this world first, then he's game. It's also worth noting that he's used to staying busy, and has never done very well with idleness. When he's not actively fighting the enemy, he's likely to channel his efforts into other kinds of work. He owned two businesses (a training dojo and a bar) in Eudio, and chances are high that he'll want to do something similar here if it's at all possible. Rafa is also someone who craves company; he likes to be surrounded by people, and he's likely to put himself in situations where he will be.
ACCEPTED
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1. Is it okay to change the daemon's name to Kyd?
2. Do you guys want Rafa's Enthralling to be nerfed like it was in Eudio, or will that be active here?
Also I am assuming that his sunglasses, Umbreon and magic immunity are approved - please let me know if not!
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- Woops yes Kyd is totally fine. Go for Kyd. (Is it 'kid' or 'k-eye-d?')
- Rafa has his Enthralling, but it will not function inside the city without the target consenting. With enough time inside the city, the character will lose their attachment and need to start over, even if the addictive properties continue. It will only work entirely as normal as long as the target character is out in the woods or at sea. Let us know if that makes sense!
The sunglasses, Umbreon, and magic immunity are all good to go!no subject
And that's grand, thank you! I'll update his permissions post with that.