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WHAT TO KNOW

Applications are ALWAYS OPEN, and will be processed as they are received. They must be posted in the comments, NOT linked to.

Before applying, read the rules & setting page and this post in their entirety. Use the potential applications page or the FAQ if you have any questions about the process. There is also a sample app and an explanation of how we process apps if those interest you. The wanted characters list may also be helpful.

In general, however, we would rather have a shorter, better written application than a longer one, every time. That said, length is one of the least important factors in our applications. We look primarily at the voice samples, then the personality section and writing sample. The voice samples are by far the most important section, and we prefer that these be thread links, because they give us a sense of how you play the character rather than simply how you write an application for the character.

The application page from the former site can be found here.

MISC. RULES

We do allow challenge apps, but we wait the duration of the reserve for the other app to come in before processing them against each other.

Applications or parts of applications (such as the initial comment containing contact information) will be screened on request.

There is a one week grace period for dropped characters during which applications for them will be held pending. The former player can choose to pick up those characters at any time during that week without re-applying.

If you are asked for a revision, you have one week to submit them before your app will be automatically declined. You must resubmit your app in its entirety if that happens. Always feel free to ask us to clarify what we're looking for on revisions; we won't bite.

If you are rejected, we encourage you to re-apply. We like seeing players that have taken our critique and worked on improving their portrayal. The exception is a character rejected on the grounds that they would be difficult to impossible for others to play with. Playability is an important factor.

Our plagiarism policy is as follows: the first offense will be met without consequence. The second offense results in a one month ban from apping. Subsequent further offenses will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis but most likely incur longer bans, up to and including indefinite bans.

APPLICATION IN DETAIL

Your name:
Your journal: A sock is fine, or a commonly used character journal if you don't have a personal one. Just please be consistent with your identity for ease of reference.
Contact: AIM/plurk/email/etc., whatever you prefer to be contacted.
Other characters played at Passing:

Character name:
Character fandom:
Version: V1, V1.# or V2+ should be the only options.
Canon point: What point of their timeline you're taking them from.
Importing development from old game? If yes, where from?
Background: Link to the Wiki entry on it, or if the series has its own wiki, the character's page. A comprehensive fan site is an acceptable substitute. If you cannot find one of these that works well enough for us to get a good grasp of your character from a third party, please write out the standard 'history' section for this on your own. Please include this even if applying for an AU version of the character. OCs need the history section written out as well, obviously.

In general, though, this should be a link whenever possible and not a written history. We use it to compare an unbiased third party account against your represented version of the character. If you include a written history, we will ignore it completely and look up whatever is available for that character on Wikipedia ourselves.

Changes from canon, if AU: What it says. Detail here how the AU world is different from canon, or what events have happened in their previous game that have lead them to be different.

Personality: The meat of the application, and self-explanatory. We want to see that you understand what makes them tick. If AU, try to include explanation for where and why the character has changed from canon.

Abilities: What are they particularly good at, or if they do have superhuman powers, what are they? A bullet point list will suffice.

Writing sample: At least 200 words of your own writing in third person prose, preferably about the character you're applying for. Samples about others are allowed, in any setting. This is to gauge your writing style and technique, not your grasp of character. That's the next section.

Voice sample: You may either write 200 words of your character speaking to himself, or you may link to threads, or you may request to thread with a mod character.

Regular voice sample: If choosing option one, the standard first person sample rules apply. The word count applies only to spoken words, not action in brackets, and since 200 words is a lot for some quiet characters, more than one different samples are allowed.

Linking to threads: If you are linking to threads, make sure they are lengthy ones that demonstrate your understanding of the character. We don't need a million of them, but remember that this is as a substitute for a sample, and we will evaluate it the same way. Threads that took place in other games, museboxes, or

dear_mun are all fine.

Threading with a mod character: You may also request to thread with a mod character - please do so in the body of your application when you submit it, rather than contacting a mod privately. The first available mod will respond back as soon as possible and discuss with you who your character would be best suited to play off of of their characters, and then you will agree on a time to sit down and crack out a thread.

These will be 'quick log' style in brackets and not prose to make them go faster and keep the focus on dialog. These do not have to be masterpieces of wonder, but your application will not be judged until you have finished the thread (at least 20 comments on your part), so think carefully before choosing this option. The mods will make every effort to respond to your tags quickly.

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Personality:
His Organization Days

Steadfast, stubborn, yet beneath it all? Reflective with a mellow kindness.

Or at least as much as a Nobody can be. An individual said to possess no emotions.

For someone 'born' without memories, Roxas comes off as a surprisingly complex individual although his desire for a simple life sometimes seems to contradict that. A life where he can just spend his days on the clock tower with his two best friends. Something that he earnestly strives to keep in tact throughout his existence. These simple times with his friends are what matters the most to him. What makes him the most content. It's in those times that he can be comfortable and happy, gladly taking jabs at his friends and getting them in return with false protests and laughter. Around them, he becomes animated and warm. Where his kindheartedness surfaces and reflects a muted sense of his Other's fond attitude.

Another part of Sora that Roxas seems to mirror is his confidence, specifically in bearing the keyblade. Even in his early days as part of the Organization, he remarks to Axel after one of his first missions that he 'could have done it blindfolded'. In a way, perhaps the keyblade brings him a sense of security. A sense of something that gives him value and helps define his existence, even as he later questions why he has it in the first place. The keyblade was something that made him 'exceptional' as Xigbar once put it. A tool that no other Organization members could use other than he and Xion (~~which makes one wonder just what the Organization was doing all those years beforehand~~). And his proficiency grounds him. Makes him happy in some sense and gives him purpose as Xemnas once emphasized he would be given by joining their ranks. Roxas himself simply accepting things at face value at first, even, for a long period of time.

In that sense of simplicity though, Roxas can be taken as naive. Which he is in a lot of ways. While he does have the convenience of having Sora's memories to go by, he yet remains oblivious to many things. The simplest concepts that a Somebody would take for granted such as the why someone would worry about someone else go right over his head at first. In the beginnings, he doesn't even know what a best friend is. This, among many other things, is something heavily taught through Axel and in some part by his travels throughout the worlds. And something he may even still indeed be naive to in some aspects (considering his last words to Xion are "Who else will I have ice cream with?").

That isn't to say he's ignorant though nor chooses to be that way. In fact, quite to the contrary, Roxas is incredibly curious. Ever play the game of twenty questions? Triple it and that seems to be often times what many of the Organization members contend with throughout his early days. If he doesn't know something, he'll seek to know. To understand. To 'commit it to memory'. And with that in mind, when Roxas doesn't know something, he doesn't typically hesitate to ask for the most part (only really avoiding it depending on the attitude of the person he's asking at first; he didn't really like to rock the boat). His curiosity blends well into his honesty. Just like if he doesn't know, he'll let someone know, whatever he says is whatever he thinks.

At first, it may come off that Roxas just never really knew to use digression. And at the start, he didn't. Because he didn't know what that was. But even as he grows, like Sora, Roxas just isn't one to lie. He wears if not his heart then his thoughts on his sleeve, mirroring his Somebody, too, in that respect. Making him easy to read. There's a good chance he doesn't even know what it is to lie at first, too. But then as his develops through the unintentional instigation of his friends, he realizes how much the Organization and even his friend, Axel, is withholding from him. So, while perhaps at first honesty was something he didn't even really think about-- it was just part of who he was --it later becomes a core value of his due to his constant frustration and confusion that revolves around his two best friends. Roxas once even shouts at Axel in his later days, "Friends are supposed to be honest with each other!"

Being left in the dark is something that Roxas despises. He hates it when people hide things from him and tends to snap out in anxiety and anger when he realizes people aren't being honest with him. When he does though, Roxas isn't one for petty insults, more focused on seeking answers. Even if he's simply trying to overcome someone who is an obstacle to him such as when he faces off with Saix, he never directly calls him a jerk. And the same can be said for Riku. About the only snappy comment he makes towards him is when he shouts at the other boy to shut up. Roxas is very concentrated on keeping himself pieced together and holding to what he believes. And he'll stubbornly follow through with that intent.

He also isn't someone who will just sit around and let things roll as they are, preferring to dive into the heart of the problem and consider the consequences only later on in. And it's usually only when he's hit a wall. This act first, think later policy can tend to get him into trouble at times, but it has had its upsides when the situation has called for a lack of hesitation. Still, there are times that he could use someone to point him in the right direction. But they usually have to bar his way completely in order for that to happen. Once set on a goal, Roxas is stubborn to pull through. His lack of trust in people in later days makes it even harder to stop him from what he intends on doing once he has his mind made up.

When he loses all faith in the Organization and Axel, Roxas begins to second guess people and expresses a considerable amount of caution and distrust for others. This can be attested to the secrets kept from him, Axel's betraying silence despite the knowledge he had, and the mistreatment and eventual annihilation of Xion, all things of which he may begin to slowly recall- potentially retriggered if they were to appear there and if he were to let down his walls. Roxas has been continuously manipulated by the Organization for their own selfish motives, using him as a means to their end. And it's something that has also caused him a lot of anxiety. Anyone who uses him is written off pretty quickly as being someone he never wants to associate with.

That isn't to say he cannot and will not befriend others. It just takes time and patience with him. In reality, as solid as he tries to be in his ambitions and his sense of self, Roxas does carry an underlying fear. One that makes him jerk at the mention of name, Sora. He really wants to believe he is who he is, but he knows that things aren't always what they seem. How exactly did he end up with the keyblade? And just who is Sora? Despite his lingering thoughts though, there's just a bigger piece of him that just doesn't particularly want to accept that things aren't how he knows them to be and thus he rejects it with a boldness. "I am me! Nobody else!"

Those who can get past his aloofness though will tend to find a good friend. Protective, loyal, and always more than happy to spend his afternoon on the clock tower eating ice cream with you.

His Summer Vacation

In the simulation, Roxas does act quite a bit different. First and foremost, Roxas' memories have been radically altered. He has become familiar with the every day "normal" human routine. His life consists of chilling out with his friends, Hayner, Pence, and Olette, during summer vacation while they dread the downer that school will be coming up soon. In general, he has gained the demeanor of a typical teenager. All his memories prior have been disconnected from the original chains, compliments of Naminé. This has brought out a lot of his softer side- the kind one that just enjoys sitting on the clock tower and eating ice cream with his friends. Ironic, really. Considering he continues that habit with his simulated gang.

Then he has less drastic changes. He's prone to be more of a space cadet. He thinks a lot and often times is caught looking like the most introverted of the group. Given, he's nearing the peak of his connection with Sora though, it's to be anticipated. He's constantly bombarded with weird dreams about that boy in red- and then his world only becomes more fragmented by the strange encounters he starts to face off with even in his awoken state. For someone so insistent on keeping a grip on himself and holding onto the reality he believes to be true, he slowly puts himself at a distance from it anyway without really noticing as the days progress. It isn't that he's accepting of these tidings though.

In fact, Roxas tends to be very dependent of his friends in the simulation in a way. One moment is when he loses the money that they have collected in order to go to the beach. While at first he's insistent on there being some strange man in a coat who took it, when his friends tell him they didn't see anyone, Roxas lets the matter drop. While he is shown to be having second thoughts, with how strange things have been lately for him (and apparently his weirdness tolerance being pretty high), he just tries to brush it off at first.

Still, this isn't to say he's completely disconnected from his friends. He values them highly as he always has, a trait carried over from his Organization days. He gets involved. Even for being as quiet as he can be, Roxas serves to be the one to be the decision maker in the group. The first day alone, while Hayner announces his frustrations, Roxas is the one that suggests that they should be concerned about clearing their names and then act from there. That doesn't always mean he's level-headed though as later that day, it's him that fakes out Seifer into thinking Roxas is going to do what he says. Yet then he takes up a struggle bat against him. This might be considered a ghost of his rebellious side that was born at the end of his Organization days- one further prompted by the strange matters going on as the days progress. And while part of him wants answers like his prior self, the other side of him just wants to run away back to the normalcy he's pretty certain he knows.

Currently, he thinks that Naminé was a daydream of some sort... but then another part of him is having second thoughts. Why does 'the Keyblade' seem so familiar? And who was that pickpocket and what about the guys in white? So many questions and no answers in sight.

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