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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

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Version: V1, V1.# or V2+ should be the only options.
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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: Tora
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Contact: torastellar (AIM) // Serilia (Plurk)
Other characters played at Passing:

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Character name: Tsukuyomi Tsukino (Usagi Tsukino)
Character fandom: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon crossoving slightly with Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
Version: V3
Canon point: After Venus joins the senshi
Importing development from old game? No
Background: Wiki article on the series
Wiki article on Usagi Tsukino

Changes from canon, if AU: The past life happened as in many other versions of this universe, with the exception that when Serenity committed suicide she also released the power of the ginzuisho which destroyed both the Moon and the Earth kingdoms. Only Serenity's mother survived, at least long enough to use the ginzuisho herself to make the Earth return to its previous form and send the souls of everyone who had died in that war to the blue planet, in order to be reborn in the future without memories of their past. However, the process wasn't completed and memories of the past still chased those reborn in the future at times. Usagi Tsukino was one of those people.

Since she was a baby, the young Usagi would often scream and cry at night, haunted by nightmares that sometimes plagued her mind even when she still didn't have enough presence of mind to know who she was. Her nightmares always consisted of the same thing, a crying beautiful princess who had lost her prince and who brought destruction to the whole world because of it. She grew up tormented by those dreams that felt way too real for her to be able to just ignore them, dreams that came to her far too often to be able to forget them. Even without being able to fully understand their meaning, she came to fear that the princess of her dreams, the one who destroyed the whole world just for one person, was somehow connected to her... While other girls of her age dreamed with being princesses, the little Usagi got sick at the mere thought of being a princess, she hated the idea, disliked it with all her mind and heart. A princess selfish enough to just care about one person, a princess capable of bringing pain to others just like that, who would want to be a princess like that? She didn't. She loved the world where she lived, she loved her parents and her little brother, she loved her friends and their families, even the teachers at school, she didn't want to ever become someone who would hurt them all just because of one person, no matter how important said person was. She tried her best to detach herself from the princess in her dreams. She rejected being called a princess even by a pet name, she refused to wear princess costumes or even try to get the princess role in a school play. She didn't want to he a princess, no matter what, she felt she shouldn't be allowed to and she really didn't feel comfortable with it.

It's hard to exactly pinpoint when it happened or how, most likely it was just another response to the princess, another act against it, a rebellion and an attempt to make the princess of her dreams someone far too different from her, but Usagi came to the realization that she didn't feel comfortable being a girl, that she didn't like being a girl and wished to have been born male, because then she wouldn't have to be haunted by that princess that destroyed everything, because boys couldn't be princesses, just princes. And so, Usagi herself cut her hair, destroying the odango hairstyle her mother worked so hard on doing for her, leaving her hair short like a boy's. She began to dress only in pants, rejecting skirts and frilly clothing just as she rejected princess costumes. She also began to talk in a deeper voice, more boyish, and changed her manner of speech to that of a boys until finally, she began to address herself as a boy named Tsukuyomi completely disregarding Usagi's existence. Though the changes worried her parents, at first they assumed it was just a "stage", something that would change with time. But it didn't change, because the more she transformed and became a boy, thought of herself as a boy, the more comfortable she was and the more she realized that being a boy was "right" for her. As if it was what she should have always been even beyond the matter with the nightmares and the princess. Ultimately the identity of Usagi vanished from her mind, leaving only Tsukuyomi, a boy trapped in a female's body and nothing anyone said or did changed that.

Live wasn't easy for Tsukuyomi. It didn't matter how right it felt to acknowledge that he was a boy even if the body didn't match his gender identity, for a world which judged people based on appearances he was a girl and not everyone could understand something as simple as feeling that the female body he had just didn't really belong to him. It was just like when playing a video-game and controlling a character, he was controlling said character, their actions, their thoughts... But the body of the character wasn't his, it simply didn't match. His body certainly felt as if it didn't match, it was uncomfortable and if it had been mere clothing he would have gotten naked without hesitation just to get out of that skin. Even his family had problems understanding it, both his parents and his little brother had problems making sense of the fact that their daughter and sister felt as a boy once they realized that it wasn't just a stage that would pass. At school things weren't better, even with a school change, they couldn't lie about the biological gender of the child and many teachers would see Tsukuyomi's gender issue as something that had to be corrected rather than accepted. Yet, even though the world didn't see beyond appearances, Tsukuyomi didn't revert back to Usagi, because it felt easier to just be disliked and ignored by the world for not fitting with what they expected than to be unable to live because he didn't fit with himself.

It took many years of hard work and effort, but by the time Tsukuyomi was fourteen, his family had come to accept him even if at times his mother would lament to have lost her daughter. To make things easier for Tsukuyomi, the family agreed on saying that from the start there had been two kids, twins, a girl and a boy, but that the boy had been terribly sick during his first years, leaving only Usagi to be known until she died, just when her brother began to recover to be able to go out. Though there were people who knew the truth, for those who didn't the story made sense and even some of the people who knew the truth decided to believe the fabricated story as it made things easier. At school only a few members of the staff knew the truth, for the rest and the students Tsukuyomi is a boy both in mind and body. He still had to face problems due how his body and identity don't match, but overall he's able to have a normal life. The nightmares still haunted him, but he no longer felt identified, he was a boy, the princess was a girl, starting from such a basis there was no way they could ever be the same person. Life was good.

Until Tsukuyomi found a black cat with a crescent moon mark on her forehead. Though Luna couldn't understand how Sailor Moon, a female senshi of the Moon Kingdom, could have been reborn as a boy, she was completely sure that Tsukuyomi was the one she was looking for and managed to convince him to try to transform. Tsukuyomi expected it to not work, but apparently the transformation didn't care of he felt as a boy or not and he transformed into Sailor Moon, a healthy looking female that even had the odango hairstyle he had destroyed years ago. The events of that tragic night were too rushed and almost unreal, to the point where even he doubts they really happened. Transformed, he had to rush to fight a youma in order to help a classmate, while being told that he would have to do that from then on, transforming and becoming a magical girl that fought monsters while searching for a princess and her magical crystal. Tsukuyomi can't explain why the story the cat told him shook him down to his very core, bringing up the feelings regarding the princess of his nightmares, it repulsed him and he refused to do it almost desperately. Because he refused to fight, though, he put himself, his classmate and Luna in danger which resulted with the cat being gravely injured and killed before Tsukuyomi was able to defeat the youma. Still, even though he didn't want to transform and fight while looking so much like the princess from his dreams, Tsukuyomi couldn't bring himself to not worry about the youma. He kept his eyes and ears open, just in case something strange happened around him that could be related to the youmas. Without transforming he had a great disadvantage, yet the boy tried to fight the monsters all the same, it helped that they seemed to be attracted to him once they took notice of his energy which seemed to be higher than normal -consequence of the ginzuisho being inside of him-. It was hard to fight but he soon found an ally in the masked fighter Tuxedo Mask who, after finding Tsukuyomi fighting the youmas every time there was one around no matter how much in disadvantage he was, eventually decided to teach the boy how to fight so he could do something else besides being a distraction. Soon, Tsukuyomi and Mamoru Chiba, the real identity of Tuxedo Mask, became friends and fought together even if each of them had their own agenda.

But Tuxedo Mask wasn't the only ally that Tsukuyomi would find. Not long after the start of his friendship with the older boy, Tsukuyomi finally dared to talk with a girl who he had been observing for years thanks to the fact that both of them always went to the school's rooftop at lunch hour to eat their meals. Ami Mizuno, classmate, school genius and basically lunch companion despite the fact they never talked before. Once Tsukuyomi gathered courage and actually started to talk to her, though, the two of them soon were talking and even going home and back to school together, to the point that there were rumors that both were dating. Their relationship got only even closer when Tsukuyomi heard strange things about Ami's new cram school, eventually checking on it which resulted into a fight with a youma that had been gathering energy from students. Wanting desperately to help Tsukuyomi and save him when he got in trouble for trying to stop the monster, Ami awakened as a senshi, Sailor Mercury, defeating the monster with her powers. From them on the two of them formed an even closer team than how Tsukuyomi was with Mamoru (after all Mamoru had his own agenda as Tuxedo Mask and wouldn't appear if there weren't jewels or strange powers involved), fighting the youmas while Ami struggled to understand her mission as a senshi as she knew that she had one but couldn't remember it.

In the following weeks and in a rather quick succession, Ami soon was joined by two other girls who awakened their senshi powers while facing the youmas, Rei Hino (Sailor Mars) and Makoto Kino (Sailor Jupiter) joined the duo team... And caused several rumors of Tsukuyomi having an harem spread around school due the amount of time he spent with the girls. Though the girls certainly tried to keep him from getting involved in the fights, thinking that as a civilian he shouldn't put himself in danger, the boy refused their attempts and kept assisting them. However, even with three senshi reunited, they still didn't know what their mission was, being stuck at just chasing youmas because they were the enemy they could see and since no one else could do anything about them, the girls took the eradication of those monsters as their duty. It wasn't until the well known heroine Sailor V joined them as Sailor Venus (Minako Aino) that the senshi finally gained a guide in Artemis the cat and a purpose for their existence as senshi. But there were still many questions in their heads...

Personality: On first sight Tsukuyomi is nothing else but a normal boy. He's just a normal teenager who likes to have fun with his friends, loves video-games, has constant crushes on any cute female idol there is and reads manga while eating tons of food. Though he's not an idiot he's terribly lazy and constantly gets distracted by things which causes him to fail again and again on exams and tests except for when he is desperate to pass. It's not hard to find him laughing and having fun with his friends, vibrating with an unknown light no matter what.

There's something in the boy that radiates a certain magnetism, it drags people towards him, to wanting to know more of him, as if he has some great mystery inside of him. However, no one can really get to unravel the mystery. Though he's friendly and sociable, it's not hard to notice that he rarely shares much about himself and most of his friendships are superficial and apparent. Up until he met Mamoru and started to talk with Ami which lead to meet the other senshi, Tsukuyomi didn't have any real friends. But even with them, there are still times in which he will step back and withdraw, raising a wall between them and himself to avoid them from getting too close to his secrets. If someone pays real attention, Tsukuyomi will appear as a reserved and mysterious boy who uses an apparent friendliness and optimistic facade as a defense mechanism. Where others would frown and shake people off with a glare or a rude comment, Tsukuyomi will smile and welcome them, paying careful attention to how deep they go before he blocks the path to his heart.

It's not easy to live in a body that doesn't feel yours while trying to be who you are, the person that you feel you are rather than what others expect you to be. Though sometimes he wonders if the way he is now isn't just because of the nightmares that have haunted him since he was born, right now there's no way for Tsukuyomi to be able to think of himself as a girl no matter what his body tells him. It's a matter that still annoys him endlessly, because it's something he has to face daily at basically every hour, he can't shake the feeling of his body and the realization that it doesn't fit. Though he tries his best to conceal both his annoyance and his secret, this causes him to be extremely cautious in his relationships because it doesn't matter how good friends he can be with someone, people often only look at the appearances and have no problems disregarding his own wishes and feelings. It's only when he meets others who also have secrets that he feels he can relax, though he still keeps his distances without hesitation regarding his body, specially with the senshi.

Tsukuyomi can be quite forgiving with everyone and anyone, but there is a major exception to this rule. The princess that constantly appears in his nightmares is the focus of the biggest grudge and hate that Tsukuyomi could ever hold, even if he doesn't know her name or even if she's real, he hates the princess of his dreams with a burning passion as he can't help to think that if she was real, that if she was ever around his world, she would destroy everything he holds dear just because of a whim. The fact that he can't understand just why he keeps dreaming with her only serves to fuel the frustration in his heart regarding her. No matter how many times he tries to put himself in her shoes, to imagine how he would react if he lost his family and loved ones, he's unable to understand, justify or forgive in any way the destruction of a whole world just because one person died. The thought that she's not real, that she could just be a figment from his imagination does little to comfort him, as the dreams feel too real for him to accept that thought. It's a strange feeling that he himself can't explain very well, the dreams just seem too personal and close to him and the fact that he has had them since he was born doesn't help.

However, despite his many flaws and facades, there are certain things in him that are true no matter what and have been so since he was born. With the exception of the issue regarding his nightmares, Tsukuyomi can be quite sweet and gentle with others, even with those he's at odds with, he can still be somewhat gentle in his fights. He won't resort to low tricks or anything worse than childish insults and he's quick to forgive anything that's not really serious, and compared to what he's used to see in his nightmares there's nothing as serious as that, which means he can basically forgive and forget almost anything. He always tries to have others around him smiling and being happy and that's why he loves to help others no matter what, it's mostly that why Luna was able to convince him to try and transform in the first place and it's because of that wish that he keeps fighting the youma rather than ignore the issue which would have been the logical option for many, specially since youma are quite scary and strong while he had nothing to face them at first. Also, despite his antagonist feelings towards the princess of his dreams, Tsukuyomi isn't against other princesses, in fact he likes them treats girls as princesses, because he thinks that any girl deserves to be a princess, except the one from his dreams of course.

Abilities: CAN TRANSFORM INTO SAILOR MOON BUT WON'T EVER DO IT UNLESS IT'S A REAL MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH... Note: it has to be a matter of life or death for others, if it's his he chooses death, thanks. However just in case he ever transforms again, as a senshi he gains enhanced physical abilities (though they still remain within the realm of what's humanly possible) as well as the special attack "Moon Tiara Boomerang" which consists of throwing the senshi tiara to his enemies as a boomerang of sorts. He also has the weapon called Moon Stick which allows him to perform the purifying attack "Moon Healing Escalation".

On a more real note, as in abilities that will be seen more normally, thanks to Mamoru's advice and training and his own desire to fight the youmas without having to transform, Tsukuyomi entered the kendo club and is learning how to fight with a bamboo sword. He's also a member of the manga drawing club so he has some ability with drawings.

Writing sample: [The character pictured in this sample is Bulma Brief, not the one this application is for.]

Subjectively speaking, taking in consideration all the information she has at the moment about the situation she is... Bulma is confident in the conclusion that this is the worst situation she has ever been. Of course, objectively there have been worse situations, starting from being jailed in a metal and crystal prison where she was bond to wait for the noon sun to roast her, or being tied and abandoned besides a time bomb about to explode, or being trapped in another planet that's ticking down to its destruction... Definitively, she has been at worse situations objectively. But when she considers it subjectively it changes, because no matter how dangerous those situations were, how close to dying she had been, she was never alone. Ever since she met Son-kun back then in Mount Paozu, she had gone through a lot of dangers, but he had always been there somehow, Son-kun had always been at her side or had always arrived at the nick of time to help her. He wasn't the only one, though, of course, at some times even he had been in danger, but still they hadn't been alone, another friend would have helped and saved them. Launch, Krillin, Yamcha, Gohan, Piccolo... The list could go on for at least a whole day if she had to list all their friends, all the people to whom they owed their lives. There was always someone. Always, no matter where she was, even in another planet, there had been someone there looking out for her.

Not anymore.

Son-kun isn't here, nor Krillin, Gohan, Yamcha... Not even Vegeta. There is no one here from her world and there is no way for her to contact them or return. Stuck in another world, trapped inside an unbreakable barrier and used as a subject for experiments from an organization of scientists that affirm to aim to find a way to send them back home. She is a lab rat in a labyrinth at the mercy of scientists that are trying to either find a cure against cancer. And she is alone, none of the others trapped here were her friends. She doesn't know them, she doesn't know if she could trust the, how strong they are, if they could be of any use to her. It is like being sixteen all over again, having found a dragon ball and being ready to go on an adventure to wish for a lifetime supply of strawberries or a boyfriend. Back then the idea of doing it alone hadn't been something that worried her, now however... She's older, she's wiser. She has seen cities been erased from the surface of the Earth, she has seen a planet explode under someone's will, she has seen her friends die again and again, fighting against monsters that back at the start of everything she had thought were just part of fairy tales and bed stories.

She knows exactly how bad it is to be alone in an unknown place, how dangerous it can be... And Luceti is dangerous, even if the other people trapped with her aren't dangerous, the Malnosso are. The experiments are and then there's that draft, a war going on beyond the barrier. Even if they broke out there, they would be running straight into a war, and she doesn't know if this is another planet or another dimension, it doesn't really matter, without knowing where the planet is even if she managed to build a space ship she would be risking to wander across the space eternally. So first she needs to know that. She needs to find out if it's a planet or another dimension in order to know what they need to go back home. She needs to find out exactly how people are brought to this world, is it really the Malnosso? But why bring more people here if they claim to be trying to find a way out of there?

All in all she needs more information. But information flow seems to be inconsistent here from the looks of it. As inconsistent as its technology... Books that work almost as mini-computers for communication, teleporters, but no vehicles, no airships or cars, no capsules. At least they have electricity and warm water, so she can still have a stereo and enjoy warm baths. She will try to make capsules again, they could be useful here, maybe build a vehicle would be too much, or rather, not important enough after all the area isn't that big and there were those teleporters already. There are other things to worry about, definitively, so even if building a vehicle was possible she thinks it would be better to leave it be and build something else. There's no money here so she doesn't have to worry about the costs of building things, but who knows if she will be able to find materials and tools. She needs a laboratory to work in and... That's all, isn't it? That's kind of all she can do for now, until she has more information, until she finds a way to learn more, until she finds a way to get out of there.

Would things be that different if her friends were here? If Son-kun was here with her... Or Vegeta... Would they be able to destroy the barrier? To get them out just like that? Maybe not. As much confidence as she has in them she wouldn't hold high hopes about it. But if they were here at least she wouldn't be alone. She wouldn't have to be scared, she could stay behind their back. Vegeta would surely want to keep training, he would demand her to build him a new gravity machine and robots to train with. Maybe Son-kun would want one too, training in the spaceship her father made seemed to work well with him too. Maybe by being there the situation would still be bad, but at least she would have something else to do and to worry about. She's not a teenager anymore, she's a woman and she needs some stability, it was one of the multiple reasons why she and Yamcha had decided to break up for good this time, despite all his talk and apparent willingness to get married he never took the next step and kept going after other girls and even if he didn't, Bulma doubts that the stability that he could give her is the same that she wants and needs. Sometimes she really envies Chi-Chi. But, really, she isn't made to be alone anymore, it's a scary feeling even if she won't admit or show it.

Bulma sighs and moves, laying down on the bed at the Welcome Center that she has temporarily claimed as her own. Complaining won't solve anything and no one here would care to listen to her anyway. She's not made to be alone anymore but she can't let this beat her down. Tomorrow, she will search for a place to settle in, she wants to check how the apartments are or maybe a house. Getting a house for herself doesn't sound nice but she's selfish and she needs a place with space for her laboratory, still she will check the apartments first and get used to the village's layout. For now she should sleep and get some rest. Who knows, maybe she will be lucky and all this will just be a bad dream and she will wake up to Vegeta screaming at her dad, demanding the robots to be fixed again or the blackout that he caused to be fixed so the gravity machine works again or for said gravity machine to be rebuilt. Such a bad way for a lady to be waken up. But she definitively wouldn't mind it now as infuriating as that Saiyan Prince is.

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