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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 - Clint Barton (MCU)
PLAYER NAME: MerryB
AGE: 34
CONTACT: PM this journal
IC:
CHARACTER NAME: Clinton Francis (shuddup) Barton
CANON: MCU [Earth-199999], with possibility of compatible details sneaking in from mainstream comicverse[Earth-616] and the Ultimate version[Earth-1610].
CANON POINT: post-Infinity War
CRAU: No
AGE: 47
AGENT OF DESTINY: No
BACKGROUND:
POWERS/ABILITIES:
• enhanced hearing (thanks, S.H.I.E.L.D.; surgical implants more than cured partial deafness)
• enhanced vision (ditto; eyes had been hazel before blinded on a mission, woke up with new blue ones that he can sometimes consciously focus like riflescopes). Exceptional detail recognition, distance vision, and motion sensing.
• dead reckoning (learned)
• master-level archer: exceptional aim, seen "send[ing] an arrow into moving targets with pin point accuracy". Supranormal spacial awareness, split-second calculation and anticipation demonstrated by shooting "an enemy warrior off a fast moving vehicle while looking the other way." [199999] His precision is not affected by arrows having different attachments (grappling wire, explosives, etc. from his trick quiver) so he's adaptable; can fire arrows with supranormal rapidity.
• hand-to-hand combat, both armed and un-. (He's shown sometimes using his bow as a shortstaff.) He's extremely advanced as he's shown as a formidable opponent to Black Widow. Of course she beats him, but it takes her whole minutes longer to knock him out while she's on her feet than it takes her to pwn a roomful of mafiosos while tied to a chair.
• speaking of adaptability and combat: One trick Clint and Tasha have in common is a mastery of situational awareness and being able to use an opponent's surroundings against them. Clint focuses this mainly on an "uncanny knack for using miscellaneous hand-held objects as projectile weapons".[1610] They've compared notes (played like a scoring game) on most creative/unexpected/ironic things they've weaponized.
• veteran espionage operative, whose training, while (paraphrasing Tasha) not covering gods and magic, probably does include other forms of weaponry and tactics.
• can pilot small aircraft.
• can draw really well. Not so great at making things up but can draw things he's seen very accurately, from maps to portraits.
STARTING EQUIPMENT: You'd think his daemon would take the shape of a hawk… but no, it takes the shape of a spider. With a smokey female voice. (Future nicknames for it may include "Natd"/"Nattered", "Blackd", "Rovd"/"Novd".) Just as well… he takes info and instruction from her original better than just about anyone else. Plus, super easy for daemon to stay on his person near-invisibly.
SAMPLES:
1. Scorched Multilog (plus extra facetwin fun)
2. Zombie meme
3. butt appreciation meme (plus Nat and Cap)
EXIT STRATEGY: Headcanon based on SPOILER FOR END OF "INFINITY WAR"
(Thanos might [as] well be an agent, witting or un-, of D.E.S.T.I.N.Y.)
When half the Earth's population abruptly disintegrated, that tragically included Clint's wife and sons. He tried to flee with his daughter who then also turned to ash in his arms. The combination of her ashes and Barton's fists hitting the ground seemed to collapse it beneath him, crumbling away as the people had, and he blacked out with grief and fury with a last sensation of falling. He woke up in Xistentia. What's keeping him basically on his feet and coping is the suspicion nothing is real and he's had a psychotic break, which he might as well make the best of, in the hopes when he comes out of it, his wife and kids will be fine. He also spent so much time away from them, dissociation/confusion—imagining himself in different times (perhaps before he married Laura or the kids were born)—is horrifically easy. He'll alternate between his usual self and falling through the fissures.
REVISIONS
Hello! Thank you very much for your application. Your application led us to realize that we had made several assumptions about "universal" understandings in our app rules, which were vague and unclear and needed clarifying. As a result, we have generated a very extensive list of "revisions" for you, but we want to be very clear that we understand there was absolutely no way for you to know most of this beforehand. We understand if this feels too effortful for you to remain interested in apping.
:
- We have recently decided that canon points must be from material (book, film, comic, etc.) where the character personally appeared on-screen as themself, preferably with a speaking role. As such, we would ask you to choose a canon point from a movie Clint appears in. His Exit Strategy would have to be revised.
- Please have samples written within the last 1 year IRL, and have characterization based on or very close to the IC canon point.
- We would like to remove the 616/Ultimates influences that lead to Clint having more "powers" or skills-based enhancements. We are comfortable with the level of incredible/nearly superhuman competence he demonstrates in canon, but prefer the explanation of "talent." Supporting 616/Ultimates explanations for non-powers/skills details is okay.
- Clint can have his choice of nicknames, but we need an official name for his daemon.
Please drop us a few bullet points or paragraphs in a reply to this comment!Re: REVISIONS
Will do some mulling! Totally workable adjustments for Clint, though also makes me think about another character to app (instead/to start)… ^_^ Definitely does not dampen my interest in the game!
Re: REVISIONS - everything except sample
Updated powers/abilities:
• master-level archer: exceptional aim, seen "send[ing] an arrow into moving targets with pin point accuracy". Supranormal spacial awareness, split-second calculation and anticipation demonstrated by shooting "an enemy warrior off a fast moving vehicle while looking the other way."[MCU wiki] His precision is not affected by arrows having different attachments (grappling wire, explosives, etc. from his trick quiver) so he's adaptable; can fire arrows with supranormal rapidity.
• hand-to-hand combat, both armed and un-. (He's shown sometimes using his bow as a shortstaff.) He's extremely advanced as he's shown as a formidable opponent to Black Widow. Of course she beats him, but it takes her whole minutes longer to knock him out while she's on her feet than it takes her to pwn a roomful of mafiosos while tied to a chair.
• veteran espionage operative, whose training, while (paraphrasing Nat) not covering gods and magic, probably does include other forms of weaponry and tactics.
• can pilot small aircraft.
May I keep these two purely headcanony things?
• dead reckoning (learned) <- since he spends so much time staying high up getting a bird's eye view, and Radiolab has taught me that this is the way to envision the world to get dead reckoning
• can draw really well. Not so great at making things up but can draw things he's seen very accurately, from maps to portraits. <- 'cause, y'know, he's got a good eye…? /winkgroan/
• Daemon name: Novad
• Samples incoming soon!
ACCEPTED
Re: ACCEPTED
Re: ACCEPTED
Since Clint's canonpoint is now end of Avengers 1, and his wife Laura wasn't established until Age of Ultron, I'm wondering if I can gracefully circumvent the whole marriage/family situation entirely…? Not to write out Laura's existence, but since canon leaves the timeline entirely unspecified, suppose perhaps Clint and Laura dated, might not currently be together, had he made it home from Avengers he would have proposed and started a family, but since he's in Xistentia instead…? I'd like to leave him open to all kinds of CR in game, and that would definitely help him invest fully in this plane of existence rather than always being fixated on trying to get home to his kids. Your thoughts?
Thanks so much again.
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Unfortunately we are going to have to say no to the request to circumvent Clint's family situation. Having done some research into the timeline for the MCU, the general consensus appears to be that Age of Ultron took place approximately 3 years after Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is confirmed to take place 2 years after the Battle of New York. There is no official confirmation for how soon afterwards Avengers: Age of Ultron took place; however, it hit cinemas during the following calendar year. Therefore we would estimate that Age of Ultron took place 2-3 years after the Battle Of New York. If we were to assume that Clint hadn't started his family at your current canon point, then his oldest child in Age of Ultron could be no older than 3. Both of his grown children in that movie appear older than that - having looked at screenshots of the kids in Age of Ultron, we would estimate that his oldest son looks around 8 years old.
Due to this, we don't think it would be reasonable to assume that Clint and Laura's family has not been started at his current canon point. We think it likely that, at the very least, his eldest son would have been born already, if not his daughter as well.
That is not to say that you cannot explore Clint's potential feelings for other characters while he is in game. We would only stipulate that you keep to what canon does establish about his family, including the ages of his children and the implications of that for his relationship with Laura.
We hope that seems fair! Please let us know if you have any queries.
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Re: REVISIONS - sample
[Subject:] Daemon:Novad
[Several things have become instantly clear about Clint—to himself, to his daemon, and quite possibly, in a moment, to whoever receives the transmission. First: he prefers thinking as a team activity. Second: he thrives (and secretly likes) when it challenges him. Third: he likes getting outside intended boundaries. Bonus fourth for those with the inside knowledge to recognize the daemon's smoky voice: he misses his old partner.
The transmission begins as Voice, and has two of them. First, Clint:]
Will you just transmit what I tell you to?
[Second: quickly obviously the daemon.]
The point of this is to communicate with others. No one's going to know what you're saying.
Let me worry about that, will you? It's kind of the point.
Okay, okay. Which do you want to start with.
Text.
Fine.
[Transmission switches abruptly to text. Which scrolls itself out with almost reluctant and/or sarcastic slowness.]
9.24-24.9.22 / 9 / 9.9-9-24.24-22
[Everything not banter is a S.H.I.E.L.D. recognition tactic. This one: standard alphanumeric conversion expressed in Roman numerals themselves alphanumerically converted, whose translation was a falconry reference re: restraint. Simultaneously a status update, an identification, and a request for extraction.
Probably in response to non-transmitted exchange, feed switches back to voice]
Ври, да помни.
[Said by him. A commandment of Fury's in Nat's language. Lie, but remember.]
Video now, please.
Yes, sir.
Don't call me that.
Yes, sugarbutt.
Ugh.
[video activates in time to catch the end of Clint rolling his eyes. But he adjusts quickly to look down the barrel, out at whoever may be receiving, and offer the slightest of not really happy smiles.]
'We defy augury.'
[A temporospatial reference in hopes of orientation, for whoever might recognize it; and yeah, a bit of cheek, even if you don't. That one's for Coulson.
… who's not going to be answering … … …
Shake it off, man.
Though the feed remains video, the female voice remains off-camera:]
So the idea is that anyone who can possibly understand any of that will present themselves back as countersign—?
Hey, could you not share our secrets?
You haven't confided any yet. Except some of what you said when you were still half conscious, which—
O-kay sign off please, computer.
Not a computer.
Sign off, m'lady.
Not a lady.
Sign off, dammit.
[Obligingly signs off]