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passingmod) wrote2012-01-05 03:02 pm
passingmod) wrote2012-01-05 03:02 pm
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Applications
| ONE PASSING NIGHT ↓ rpg thought ooc spam quick facts rules & setting FAQ mod contact theme suggestions credits reserves applications taken characters hiatus post dropping potential apps wanted APPLICATIONS ↓ what to know misc. rules application in detail blank form sample app how we review |
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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Cortana | Halo | V1
Your journal:
Contact: AIM : divinascomedias
Other characters played at Passing: Yu Kanda @
Character name: Cortana (Serial Number: CTN 0452-9 )
Character fandom: Halo
Version: V1
Canon point: Pre-Halo 4 (During those years while Chief was still asleep)
Importing development from old game? n/a
Background: HERE
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
no subject
Cortana was made from biological matter; a scientist's brain by the name of Catherine Elizabeth Halsey to be precise, through a process highly frowned upon known as cognitive impression modeling that incorporated memories, attitude, and morals. Although she's nothing but data, this artificial intelligence showed many characteristics most humans bare.
Like any program written, she's made for loyalty and service to the UNSC yet through the transition of time and due to the nature of her making, she's managed to produce a personality. Although she knows there is probably very few others who can know as much as she, Cortana knows her boundaries between her affairs with human beings. She knows order and she knows rank, she offers advice and her justifications but she knows when to stand down. Ironically, she is prone to bouts of annoyance or anger when her suggestions are left unconsidered. It's not so much that she considers herself better than the humans but she understands that she was made for a purpose and that purpose was to facilitate and think up of every possibility a normal human wouldn't manage to do on their own.
Alongside anger bouts, she can also play the sarcastic card. She's got a sense of humor though a bit dry and rough. Considering what she is, that's a surprise all on its own. Unfortunately Cortana's countenance has deteriorated. An A.I. like her has a short life span and nearing their end they get into a period of rampancy where they literally think themselves to death. Cortana is known for her loyalty, though after spending so much time with John, her loyalty is more to his cause and his needs. She witnessed him fight a war single-handedly and how he was questioned for it. She learned that they needed each other and that no one was going to help him so she made herself his and devoted all her abilities and strengths to making sure he got through this war safe and sound.
Unfortunately, due to her rampancy, she's become a little unstable. Her anger is now at times ten-fold and her outbursts are now generated to everyone and everything even John himself. She has still kept her conscious self but the battle between silencing those aggressive voices becomes harder every day that goes by. She's become prone to bouts of aggression and displayed forms of bitterness.
Cortana has become a hazard in a sense. Although her loyalty is chained with lock and key to Chief, her rampancy has even made her speak out against him. Her aggression is indiscriminate, her process's have slowed down due to her overload and she's definitely someone to be kept a close eye on. Regardless of that, her sanity still remains somewhat intact as long as Chief is around. One could say her dependance on him has become almost complete by now. Like I human being, she needs him for her own sanity.
Abilities:
Cortana is a self-sustaining intelligence unit used for many different jobs. Cortana is able to run ships, infiltrate other systems and even those of their enemies. Her knowledge is an endless database, she can pretty much teach or demonstrate how to run or use a machine or vehicle of any sort preferentially one of military standard.
She's got amazing deduction parameters that enable her to be able to learn and deal with new information for example in regards to alien technology. She can decipher languages she's never heard before through her functions and she can run various simulations in her programing to allow her to report probabilities of success and failure for any given plot. She's able to compose strategies and formats to best handle any given problem or situation. She can do this all in a matter of seconds and even have time for back-up plans. It's very rare the time you can surprise Cortana with something she hasn't prepared for.
Writing sample:
Living in John's helmet wasn't always a bad thing. He knew how to take care of a girl, how to make her feel special. If she could choose a place out of all the locations she was consciously aware of(and for an A.I. those were many) she was sure that there was no other safer place than that little slot in the back of his head. She felt close to him when they were together, it was the most optimal way to securely ensure she was aiding him in everything he could possibly need.
When she wasn't analyzing enemy comm-links or checking his vitals, she was watching. Being an A.I. definitely had it's cons but what she lost with her inability to touch, she gained with her ability to see. Everything John had ever lived she had shared and sometimes she wondered what was beyond her confinements.
Perhaps it was why her dream had manifested into a world of color and sky. Despite the danger they always seemed to be in, these new worlds they explored were majestic. Chief had gone through jungles, mountains, flat lands, and he never stopped to watch. But she had, she remembered the way the jungles were stiffed with heat, how she had to overwork his armor to keep him in adequate homeostasis or how wind would blow and make all those leaves dance and shimmer in the sunlight. Cortana heaved a sigh as the wind seemed to pick up, some invisible force pushing her off her center and she stumbled forward blue locks coming over her eyes as she brought a hand up to brush them away in shock.
"What are you doing, Cortana." She could feel. "Look at you. Over thinking again. Analyzing all those definitions and descriptions and this is what you accomplish?" But why not? After all they've been through, "After everything I've suffered-"
"Stop. Just stop thinking."
The wind wasn't stopping, truth be told, she wasn't sure she liked it. It was pushing her, she could feel it. Millions and millions of atoms were pressing against her nude form and she couldn't do anything but grip her head and keep the voices under control. She had to stop thinking but it was useless.
"I-I can't...." Her voice quivered.
Voice sample:
Pain is nothing like I imagined. I know how to define the word pain and I know how to tell when someone is hurt. I can analyze and identify a wound, I can tell you how to cure a bleeding wound but I have never bled. I have never felt pain.
That's all changed now, hasn't it?
With all the databases in my disposal, nothing comes close to explaining just how painful 'pain' can be. We were so wrong. I was wrong. I'm never wrong but I was wrong about this. It's not my fault, how could I reason with something I've never experienced? You can't shoot me, you can't even touch me, how could they have told me pain was nothing?!
John, he... he has felt pain all his life and he was never given a reason why. We told him it was fine, that he could bear it, that he had to. Who were we to choose for him? I bled today and as I held my wound and felt the warmth from my own blood against my fingertips, I thought about the boy I chose and how every time he was beat down they ordered him to get up. Get up, as if it's so easy to fight a war. They don't know what pain is, but I'm trying to learn. I'm trying very hard, John. We're supposed to take care of each other right?
It's about time someone bled for you, even if it's just a little.
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