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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.
RESERVE - Adam Parrish ( The Raven Cycle )
Your Plurk/DW/Discord Contact:
Invited By: Ellie&China <3
Reserved Character/Canon: Adam Parrish, THE RAVEN CYCLE.
APPLICATION - Adam Parrish ( The Raven Cycle )
PLAYER NAME: Sarah
AGE: 29
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: China & Ellie
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Adam Parrish
CANON: The Raven Cycle.
CANON POINT: End of The Raven King.
CRAU: No
AGE: 18
BACKGROUND:
POWERS: Adam will not come to Xistentia with any specific ability due to his severed connection to Cabeswater. Had the city it's own version of a ley line or something happened to awaken that part of him, his powers would be the following:
STARTING EQUIPMENT: His daemon, a small robotic car painted like a police vehicle that occasionally turns into a humanoid looking robot named Barricaded. One pair of jeans, socks, sneakers, and a faded coca cola shirt, plus a hideous velcro wallet with a $5 bill inside, and a pack of tarot cards.
SAMPLES: here and here.
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: Adam had been helping Ronan with his newly dreamt Cabeswater 2.0 - and by help, he was mostly just touching trees fondly - when D.E.S.T.I.N.Y. appeared, eating away at both real and dream world. The portal appeared as it reached the forest and both boys escaped through it at the last moment.
MORALITY: Adam is someone who very much believes in doing what is right. He is a good person who is maybe not as personable as he would like, who finds injustice and cruelty very off-putting. While he hasn't had the best start in life, he never tries to use other people to his own advantage. He wants to succeed in life on his own merit. He also would do anything he could to keep his friends safe and well. However, that also has a negative aspect. Anything means anything, whether that be through letting someone die by supernatural circumstance or blackmail. He's not morally grey so much as there's a protective streak in him that doesn't care what he has to do to keep them alive. Bad people should be punished.
WAR ATTITUDES: He will not want to fight physically initially, but he would want to help in ways he could stomach, and so missions that require brain over brawn he'd sign up for. The likelihood is too, that despite his issues with violence, if one of his friends goes on-mission Adam will have to follow like a worried mother hen.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: He's quite difficult to get to know at first. Adam has spent much of his life feeling unknowable, a strange creature who doesn't fit in anywhere in the world. He'd struggled with connecting well to even the closest of his friends, over analyzing everything about himself to the point where he feels awkward and judged. There's been some mellowing as of late. He'll be more open to making friends and alliances, because everyone here is in the same point. Romantically, Ronan will be with him and so it is very unlikely that Adam would be open to that anywhere else because his boyfriend is a good catholic and anyway Adam loves him.
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: He'll be very much for saving the world he'd come from, especially considering some people he cares for might have been left behind. However, he's not much of a fighter and so his main interest would be information gathering and that means talking to everyone he can even though it's awkward and difficult. If Adam thinks someone might know something helpful or useful he'll make it a point to find out, using his time and energy to even go so far as to pick up new skills. The fact that he's not alone might help soothe him enough that while he is in Xist he'll try to find a place in it, something of a home, even though that too is a foreign concept.
ACCEPTED