![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Application
Applications
Join the Game
ALLOWED CHARACTERS
Notes:Please do not link from your journal, make sure all the content is pasted into the comment(s).
- 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
✘
✘ 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.
no subject
PLAYER NAME: Ember
AGE: 25
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: Adelai
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Arthur Stuart
CANON: Velvet Goldmine
CANON POINT: 1975/post-Death of Glitter concert
CRAU: Yes,
AGE: 20
BACKGROUND:
POWERS: N/A
STARTING EQUIPMENT:
SAMPLES:
eudio log
test drive sample
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: Arthur is coming along with the rest of the Eudio denizens, through a portal that shows up in his apartment. He didn’t get a chance to realize his incentive, and the eponymous death of glitter is weighing heavily on him, which gives him little to look forward to. He’s a bit of a romantic at heart and desires something bigger than what’s back home. Even before he actually becomes a reporter, he has a journalist’s instinct for leads, which he follows with an intense, almost obsessive focus; he hasn't honed this skill yet, but he will get a sense there's something more to uncover, and quickly pack everything he can fit into his suitcase before following the scent.
MORALITY: Arthur is painfully shy, to the point where he doesn’t think of himself as the sort of person to stand up and fight for something, but when it comes down to it, he is much more idealistic than he realizes. He doesn’t talk about his morality--he rarely talks about himself at all, except in recollections through narrative that are mostly his observations on others--but he seems to put a lot of weight in sincerity and personal integrity. Liars, cheats, and bigots don’t sit well with him.
WAR ATTITUDES: He’d prefer to stay in the city--he’s somewhat rangy and waifish, and not really cut out for physical fighting. He will likely seek information, and will spend considerable energy verifying it and making sure it’s accurate before disseminating it, whether through an official paper or on his own. He communicates most effectively via writing, and will try to use that to inspire and inform the population without having to talk to anyone directly.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Arthur is taciturn and quiet to the point where he’s nearly silent, and doesn’t make friends easily. When he does, though, he is intensely invested in them, quickly becoming wrapped up in them and their lives.
He is also gay, and grew up in a home where it was treated as something filthy and shameful, if it was talked about at all, which has given him some hangups. His family, especially his father, seems distant and detached and even sometimes scornful; Arthur, while quiet and private, can also be a hopeless and somewhat flamboyant romantic, and threw himself into the solace and freedom he found in the glam rock scene.
Over his years rooming with The Creatures, he blossoms under the freedom and belonging, and becomes more and more comfortable with his own sexuality and expression. He’s still his shy, quiet self, but he enjoys being a flashy part of a flashy crowd, and his repressed upbringing has made him skin-hungry. He’s nervous and reluctant to make the first move, partly because of his shyness and difficult home life, but he’s eager to please and still basking in the glow of being able to be open about his sexuality.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: As I previously touched on in the attitudes section, Arthur’s primary contribution will be through his words. He will likely start with things like music reviews and listening to others’ stories, but may eventually begin to start digging around the circumstances of the world, and may even become a war correspondent.
He will also be interested in the lives of his few friends and acquaintances from Eudio, since they share a displacement story, and at least one of them has earned his intense loyalty.
ACCEPTED