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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. |
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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. |
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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 ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} 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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BLANK FORM |
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Your journal:
Contact: plurk: motomiya
Other characters played at Passing: N/A
Character name: Rei Hino/Sailormars
Character fandom: Sailormoon
Version: V1
Canon point: Post Stars arc
Importing development from old game?
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Mars#Profile
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
Personality: It's kind of weird that the soldier of fire and passion would be such a bitchy ice queen at first glance. One would think that the soldier of the planet of war would be fiery and spirited, not a demure, quiet spiritual girl with few friends. But Rei is the sum of all of her parts, as most people are. Yes, she's quiet, a perfect, ideal Japanese lady, beautiful and reserved, but Rei is an emotional being, able to tease and joke with her friends. Rei is not the fire burning ever bright, crackling and popping -- she is the slumbering coals, cool on the outside but burning deep, and like coals, when stirred, she can flare up.
When you meet Rei, she comes across as hesitant and snobbish. She keeps people at arm's length at best, and completely isolates herself at worst. People aren't to be trusted, and men in particular are the least trustworthy of the lot. This dislike is rooted in Rei's contempt for her father, a politician who was never around in Rei's childhood. Rei's mother, frail of body and spirit, died of loneliness in Rei's eyes. Her relationship with her father was, to put it nicely, strained after the death of her mother. The pair of them rarely got along as it was, and Rei went to go live with her maternal grandfather at the Hikawa Jinja.
At the shrine, Rei learned to hone her psychic powers, which alienated her from her peer group. Sure, people thought she was elegant and beautiful, but they also thought it was freakish and weird that should read fortunes, and talked to a pair of crows as though they understood her. And Rei was fine with that image. After all, it's easier to be alone, isn't it? Still, after meeting Usagi and awakening to her destiny, Rei has learned to warm up to people, somewhat. She's still fairly reticent and standoffish to the people she doesn't know, but to her friends, she's the emotional voice of reason, unafraid to tell her friends whats on her mind.
When you become Rei's friend, you've become it for life. Rei is very much the type to jump in and defend her friends, often being a little bit bossy or a bully because of it. Harm her friends, and her normal, hard to invoke temper flares considerably, and she will do her best to singe you with either words or her powers. Rei isn't afraid of making enemies, and she also doesn't much care what people think of her, for the most part. Words hurt, of course -- being accused of spiriting away children because you're the local psychic girl would chip at anyone's self esteem, but Rei is usually able to let insults and praise slide off her back. She's only needed herself for sixteen years of her life, and now she only needs Usagi, Minako, Makoto and Ami. It may seem silly, but Rei's friendship with these girls does partly define who she is.
Who she is, is elegant and refined. Rei doesn't like making a spectacle of herself. Being in the spotlight is something she isn't comfortable with, and she absolutely detests singing in any form, even if bribed with paopu ice cream. Her hobbies tend to sit firmly in the traditional range, and she's quit good at Japanese calligraphy. She takes her duties as a miko quite seriously, and this could also be why she doesn't see the need to find a boyfriend or get married. Rei dreams of being able to take over her grandfather's shrine someday (though she knows that ultimately that dream is futile -- Rei will live her life for her Princess and no one else, when it comes down to it). Popular at school for her beauty, girls want to be like her and boys want to be with her, though none of them know the true Rei.
All they get to see is the ash on the outside of the coals, while the fire slumbers within.
Abilities: Fortune Telling/Psychic Ability/ESP- Rei has Extra Sensory Perception, and as a result, has a pretty good 'sixth sense' about things. She can read auras, tell fortunes, and can tell when a person has a good or bad 'vibe'. Rei can also read fire, and is able to perform the Kuji-Goshin-Ho, a ritual that can dispel evil spirits.
Sailor Soldier- Rei is a Sailor Soldier, a celestial warrior tasked with protecting the Princess of the Moon, Serenity. As the chosen soldier of Mars, Rei wields power over fire, and can cast various attacks reflecting both her spiritual heritage and her element. In order to transform, Rei must use her Mars Crystal while shouting her transformation phrase (Mars Crystal Power, Make Up) in order to transform.
Archery- As a Shinto Priestess, Rei is skilled in the art of Kyudo, a form of archery found in Japan. Hand her a bow and arrow, and she can pick a fly off someone's shoulder from sixty paces.
Writing sample: The fire always told her when something was wrong. Rei rarely felt like she relied a little too much on the sacred flame in the Hikawa Jinja; in fact, it had almost a calming effect for her. After their fight with Galaxia, and being reborn in the Galaxy Cauldron, Rei had sought solace within the room of the fire, meditating and praying to the kami. The world was finally at peace, she could continue her life as a miko and a high school girl, and spend time with her friends that wasn't clouded by the need to transform into a soldier.
This night wasn't any different than the last few had been (or, at least, it had started out that way). The sun had set, the shrine closed to the public for the day, and after helping her grandfather with dinner, Rei had gone to the one place in her home where she always felt at peace, no matter what was happening. The fire greeted her as it always did, crackling gently within it's hearth. Rei smiled slightly, one of the few times she ever did outside of her friends, and knelt before the flame, linking her fingers together in their proper position for meditation. Rei closed her eyes and took a deep breath, mentally going through the meditation ritual she had been practicing since she was a small girl, going through her prayers for herself and her friends.
But something felt off. Rei opened her eyes, and gasped slightly as she saw the flame spark violently, a loud crack echoing through the room. There was a distant sound of cawing; Phobos and Deimos were clearly agitated by something, and Rei turned standing up as she did so. She was hesitant as she walked towards the door, an aura of 'wrong' nearly suffocating her, and when she finally threw open the rice paper door, it rolled in on her like a wave.
The sky was black. Not the black of night, or the black of a storm (though the humidity in the air certainly foretold one of those). Pitch black. There was something coming, and it wasn't good. Rei bolted out of the shrine, and stood at the stop of the stairway to the road, staring in horror as.. things began to drop from the sky. They reminded her a little of ants, with giant yellow eyes, though they were much bigger and more dangerous. A couple attempted to swarm her -- she beat them back with her ofuda, and took off towards Usagi's home, her only instinct to protect her princess.
The ofuda were effective, but not enough. Rei raised her hand to the sky and transformed, but for every one of the monsters she set aflame, six more appeared to combat her.
She made it to Usagi's front door before she collapsed under a swarm, her hand reaching out to the front door that she could see but not reach. She'd failed her princess. She'd failed the Earth. The Darkness had returned, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. Letting out an anguished cry, Rei unwillingly succumbed to the darkness.
Maybe it was hours. Maybe it was moments. Rei wasn't entirely sure, but when she woke up, the first word off her lips was Usagi's name. She had de-transformed at some point, and she was lying in a heap on a cobblestone road, with buildings she'd never seen before in any of her lives. There was a strange noise next to her left ear, and Rei jumped, whipping out an ofuda and slapping it to the creature's forehead before it could do anything else.
"K-Kupo!!" The noise came again from behind her, and Rei whirled around, another ofuda at the ready.
"Stop that, kupo! Mogri didn't mean to scare you! Here, take this."
The thing, whatever it was, handed Rei a communicator, a small vein popping out of its forehead.
"What--" Rei was interuppted before she could finish, the moogle that was speaking to her flitting around in front of her.
"You're in Traverse Town, kupo! Talk to the people on that, they'll explain."
With that, it picked up it's friend and flew off, Rei staring after it in what could only be described as befuddlement. She glanced down at the communicator, and then around at her surroundings.
Why was peace always broken for them? Willing her heart to keep from breaking, Rei took a deep breath and switched the communicator on.
"My name is Rei. I've been told that by talking to you, I'll get an explanation as to what's going on."
Voice sample: http://star-kingdom.livejournal.com/66308.html
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