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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 - Joseph Kavinsky | The Raven Cycle (CRAU)
Your Plurk/DW/Discord Contact:
Invited By: Me [yeti]
Reserved Character/Canon: Joseph Kavinsky (The Raven Cycle)
cw drugs, kidnappings, other felonies
PLAYER NAME: Chinatown
AGE: 30+
CONTACT:
INVITED BY: Self
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Joseph Kavinsky
CANON: The Raven Cycle
CANON POINT: End of The Dream Thieves, Book 2
CRAU: Yes
AGE: 20
BACKGROUND: POWERS: Kavinsky is a dream thief, which means he can utilize ambient energy to manifest physical objects from his dreams. These objects can subvert physics or even include sentient beings. However, as I plan to have him gain vampire hybrid powers in-game, I am happy to have these nerfed. It could be helpful to go off some of the limits imposed by the Eudio reps, such as they blocked him from creating sentient creatures and any single object larger than a car.
STARTING EQUIPMENT:
SAMPLES: TDM log thread and TDM network
In-Universe:
EXIT STRATEGY: In Eudio, D.E.S.T.I.N.Y manifested itself in national disasters, including severe earthquakes. Kavinsky was with Murphy at the time and he used his dream powers to manifest something that would help them to escape-- it turned out to be one of Xistentia's white elk, suggesting F.A.T.E.S.' intervention more than Kavinsky's genius. Seconds before they would absolutely have to flee, Aric apeared on his horse, and the three were able to leave together with their animals.
MORALITY: Kavinsky remains a tremendous asshole, though he's grown up since canon. The worst of his old, shock-value, impulsive repertoire is gone-- he's unlikely to punch or sensually touch anybody's back without consent, or at least not without reasons comparable to the other children in his canon; he's even less likely to kidnap someone in hysterical gay revenge. However, these visible improvements conceal the fact most of his underlying personality dysfunction is still there. His worst trait is that he tries hardest to hurt those he cares about most. His dramatic self-loathing is a way he avoids honestly taking responsibility for the wrong he has done and still does, from the little ways he tries to offend people every day to those who died because of him in Henrietta.
WAR ATTITUDES: Though he's yet to murder anyone yet, righteous violence has always come quite easily to Kavinsky. In canon, he escalates beyond any sense of reason. Post-CRAU, he is less likely to act out so badly, but he still has fewer limits than most people in Henrietta when it comes to violence. He is also depicted as being oddly efficient in the face of a non-human monster attack where others panic, killing the creature nonchalantly, and this aspect isn't gone from him just because he's mad Eudio has pooped out. Though he has no formal tactical training, he is a good shot and can handle himself without freezing.
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: Physical intimacy is much easier for Kavinsky to accomplish than genuine emotional connections. He is terrible at vulnerability. That being said, he does tend to have a lot of strong emotions and thoughts about people, under his veneer of rude indifference. He is capable of friendships, but grief over the loss of Eudio will lead to spiteful and nasty self-protective measures, exacerbated by the loss of his psychiatric medications. His CR is likely to be more mixed than ever!
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS: The current plan is to outfit most if not all of the city with vehicles and transportation, then live indefinitely off business services and goods on 'payment plans.' Short of or apart from that, Kavinsky held several legitimate jobs in Eudio for the first time in his life, mostly in nightlife and entertainment and enjoyed that. He is also likely to contribute to construction and other community development to stroke his own ego by showing off his powers. Alternatively, he likes going out and exploring and killing stuff because he's bored.
ACCEPTED