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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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Your name: Amber
Your journal: N/A
Contact: provenworth@gmail.com

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Other characters played at Passing: N/A

Character name: Elena
Character fandom: Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete
Version: V1
Canon point: Post Northern Crater incident; seconds after shooting the mighty NetGun to safe Rufus from being a Presidential Pancake
Importing development from old game? Nope
Background: Final Fantasy Wiki and Wikipedia

Changes from canon, if AU: N/A

Personality: Where Elena had once been naïve, impetuous and often overeager, cursed with a loose tongue that would from time to time let accidentally loose secret information, she has grown into herself and her role as a Turk. Be it a mission, a short task, or even filling out paperwork - Elena takes every aspect of her job with the utmost dedication and determination to complete it within the defined perimeters with little deviation from the objectives. Anything that gets in the way of completing her assignment, be it an individual, personal feelings, or an object, is removed with extreme prejudice.

A good deal had happened since her first days as a Turk, the frustration by Reno's utter lack of professionalism and devil-may-care attitude, deepened to greater tolerance and understanding of his odd personality, has shifted to that of a calm bystander, watching with mild amusement. Where she had been easily stressed out about minimally stressing situations, now she takes things with a cool stride. That isn’t to say she’s softened as a Turk, for that certainly isn’t the case. If I a mission required leaving a man behind to ensure its completion, Elena would do so as per the Code of the Turks. However, if given the ability to complete an objective AND return home with her team intact, this would Elena's preferred choice.

All in all, the naïveté and innocence she’d had as a junior member has been slowly erased by the experiences and missions she’d encountered over the past several years. Less talkative than before, Elena is more protective of her secrets – though old habits die hard and she will at times slip more information that what is necessary – and she is less trusting of those she does not know. Since the incident at Northern Crater with the Remnant where she had been tortured for information, Elena has suffered from a (yet to be diagnosed) mild form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as well as increased anxiety, claustrophobia, sporadic insomnia, and mild-alcoholism. She maintains her usual processional demeanor in her day-to-day interactions to give the impression that she has moved on from the experience. However, if it is ever brought up in conversation, she is one to dance around the details as it is still – and forever would be – a very delicate subject.

Abilities: Elena didn't get those five Elite Emblems for nothing - she's an excellent martial artist with a strong right hook. That isn't to say that Elena isn't capable with a firearm either - she did race to compete against her older sister until deciding to take her own path. Her skills were top notch , but since her experience at the Northern Crater her aim as suffered, always pulling up and to the left in the first two shots. Hours upon hours at the firing range has helped her become aware of the limitation and how to deal with it.

Writing sample:

There was little sign of life in the small office that housed the remnants of Shinra Inc. An office for each Turk, a file room, and a break room was all that was required, and all put together it didn’t even take up half of the floor they’d rented. Their once lavish lifestyle was now a cramped existence with close quarters to one another. But there had been no complaint from her, or any of the others. Not even as the holidays came around and it was quickly discovered that there would be no room for a Christmas tree. But she had made do, stringing red and green lights around her door and hanging a wimpy plastic wreath on her door. Anything to bring in some of the holiday cheer, even what little there was left of it.

Even with all the changes in the world, with all the changes within Shinra itself, some things never changed. The workload, for example, remained a steady and familiar constant. That had been a happy welcome; for fear that even the slightest change to the routine would threaten a lapse of falling off the bandwagon. So even as the snow fell quietly against the black of the evening sky, with work piling across her desk, Elena was content. Leaning back, ankles crossing delicately under her seat, she cupped her hands around the still lukewarm cup of coffee she had poured earlier. Where she had first taken it with both cream and sugar, now only one sugar would suffice, if at all.

Hazel eyes moved slowly from the ample piles of work to the slightly fogged window, an amused smile just gracing the corners of her lips. It didn’t snow much in Junon, at least not as much as it did when she had lived in Midgar. Even in that hectic, slum of a city, the fresh white snow was still beautiful and its beauty was – even if momentarily – transferred to the buildings, the streets, and the slums. And while Junon was no Midgar – and may it blessed for never being so – it too was blessed with the snow’s beauty. Elena sighed, allowing herself a moment reprieve to rest her eyes. She’d come in to work at her normal six-o’clock in the morning. She didn’t need to look at the clock hung in the hall just outside her door to know it was pushing well past eight in the evening. The bar was still open, but she’d promised herself to stay put tonight, to sleep in an awkward heap in her second-hand chair and hope she wouldn’t drool on the paperwork that never, ever, left her desk. Opening her eyes once more, she lifted her glass in a silent toast to the full moon outside. To a hopeful new year.

Voice sample: Link to sample

This application has been declined. While headcanon is accepted in applications, it needs to be clearly marked as such so we see that the canon basis is understood; you demonstrate a good understanding of her personality on first joining the Turks, but the development over time lacks support. In addition, her voice isn't coming through clearly in the sample.

Thank you for your interest in Passing, and please feel free to re-apply.

Applications

Elena of the Turks | Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete | V1

DECLINED