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APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
Applications open on July 24 at 12:01AM EST. Please post your applications on this page!
You may app up to two characters per round. The total amount of characters you may have at this time is four. You may have two characters from the same canon, however these characters can not have met or will have no reason to do so in the future. We will decide this on a case-by-case basis.
Reserves are not a requirement. However, a reserve is an excellent way to state your intentions and to give us a heads up to research your canon and character so that we can process it faster.
If you are asked for revisions, then you have seventy-two hours to reply to the comment with what we have asked.
If you would like details on a rejection then you may PM the mod account or reply to the comment and we will be as detailed as possible.
Applications open on July 24 at 12:01AM EST. Please post your applications on this page!
You may app up to two characters per round. The total amount of characters you may have at this time is four. You may have two characters from the same canon, however these characters can not have met or will have no reason to do so in the future. We will decide this on a case-by-case basis.
Reserves are not a requirement. However, a reserve is an excellent way to state your intentions and to give us a heads up to research your canon and character so that we can process it faster.
If you are asked for revisions, then you have seventy-two hours to reply to the comment with what we have asked.
If you would like details on a rejection then you may PM the mod account or reply to the comment and we will be as detailed as possible.
_________applications. ooc info; Name: (Your online handle.)Age: (Your age. Unfortunately, players below the age of 16 are not allowed.) Ways to contact: (Email, AIM, Plurk, etc.) Characters currently played: (List of characters currently played in the game. Character limit is currently 4.) character info; Character Name: (Your character's full name, in Western order. The characters may call themselves whatever they wish ICly, but for organization's sake we need this.)Canon: (Name of your character's canon.) Canon Link: (Link to your character's history/canon, i.e. wikipedia articles/informative fansites/etc.. If it's a particularly obscure canon with very little information available, you may write your own section to give us an overview of your character's history and world background.) Canon Point: (The point from which your character is pulled i.e. chapter 500, just before the final battle, after confessing their eternal love, etc.) Character Age: (Your character's age, or approximation thereof. Characters of all ages are allowed, though we request that if a character is under the age of 10, you fill out an additional section detailing their suitability for living in a post-apocalyptic world.) Character Suitability: (For characters under the age of 10 only. We need to know why the Caretakers would think such a young child would be strong enough to survive a zombie-infested earth and help to rebuild the world.) Personality: (The meat of the app. Tell to us your character's motivations, their likes and dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, relationships, and anything else you think is important in letting us know what makes them tick. A bunch of words doesn't always mean a good application, and we won't ask for an college essay, but we do require that this section be at least 350 words long, to show us you know what you're talking about and can elaborate appropriately.) Powers & Abilities: (Briefly describe any supernatural powers or abilities your characters may have i.e. healing spells, super strength, teleportation. Their powers will, of course, be severely dampened upon arriving, but perhaps, if seen as worthy, they can wake up to find it more potent than before.) Items on their Person: (List any items you character would have had with them upon being taken. Your character has to be holding or touching these items somehow for them to be brought with them. For example, items in the pockets of clothing or in a backpack will be brought along with you. Summoned weapons will also be brought, but they cannot be put back.) samples; ALL SAMPLES MUST BE SET IN THE GAME'S UNIVERSE.First Person Sample: (This is to showcase your character's dialogue, so while you may use [bracket action] when needed, this should be at least 5 spoken sentences. Remember, a sentence has to have a subject and a verb. Monosyllabic sounds do not count toward the minimum. If you're having difficulty thinking up a sample, you may request a Q&A for this portion instead, where we will give you 5 questions to be answered ICly.) Third Person Sample: (This is a prose portion, meant to showcase your character's thoughts and actions, as well as your own writing ability. Samples must be at least 300 words. Remember to use proper spelling, grammar, and paragraphs.) Additional Information: (Questions, comments, and additional miscellaneous facts about your character may be added here!) | ||
Caroline Forbes ♚ The Vampire Diaries ♚ reserved!
Age: 24
Ways to contact: AIM: msLmcool
Characters currently played: None!
Character Info;
Character Name: Caroline Forbes
Canon: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Link: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: 3.22, after Tyler 'dies'
Character Age: 18
Character Suitability: N/A
Personality:
Like every teenage girl, Caroline comes with her issues; she can be petty, immature, insecure, and jealous. She gets wrapped up in things that don't really matter to most when there are 'bigger things' happening. Outwardly, she seems sweet, peppy, in control but of course, some of that, later on, appears to only be skin deep. Caroline has a bit of a competitive streak too, especially where Elena is concerned. It feels like, to her, that she tried so hard, and yet, Elena doesn't have to try at all and she gets everything while making it seem so effortless. She can be gossip sometimes and has an uncanny ability to find out information from any source and fast. Her 'Little Miss Innocent' act comes in handy because she's good at providing a distraction on demand despite being a terrible liar.
She knows how shallow she is and she understands that this and her tendency to be a bitchy, control-freak are two very serious flaws. She very much wants to change and work on her flaws; she wants to be "abyss deep" and her "kiddie pool" level frustrates her. She's also admitted that at times, "I'm a terrible, awful person-but I'm working on it". She starts taking baby steps towards the grand understanding that it's not all about her.
But over all, Caroline is a fierce and loyal friend. Despite the bitchiness and the shallowness, she can be just as kind and caring and sweet. She's protective of her friends and is willing to take on whatever comes that keeps them safe. She saved Matt from dying, therefore exposing her secret and herself as a vampire because she loved him and couldn't stand by and watch him die. But she also puts a lot of stock in other people's loyalty, she expects it in return. When Tyler didn't help her and the rest of the vampire gang against the werewolves, after she helped him (which is risky considering a werewolf bite is deadly to a vampire) and kept his secret, Caroline told him they were done as friends, that their friendship was over. However she does forgive him because despite it all, she understands him and cares about him.
After Caroline is turned into vampire, her personality and neurotic quirks seem to go haywire, which is standard vampire fare. To quote her from the show, "[N]ow I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?" Although at times, she seems to be a tad more mellow, taking more things in stride. It probably helps that becoming a vampire has made Caroline a lot more confident. (And Stefan seems to help keep her calm). Though she can definitely still be high-strung like before. And with all the vampire strength and 'live forever' factor, she's not 'girly Caroline' anymore, she can handle herself.
Unfortunately even as she starts to become a more accepting and understanding person herself, she doesn't get it back from the person she really loves, Matt. He rejects her once he finds out who she is and after a series of events they break up because of it. Heartbroken about being dumped for who she is, something she can't change, it pushes her back towards Tyler, who understands what it's like to be different 'against your will'. Tyler becomes the boy she loves, they have their ups and downs, but ultimately, he's the one who'd do anything for her, the one she'd run away with.
Caroline is still really good at the whole denying her true feelings thing as well as getting petty and jealous despite growing as a person since she was turned into a vampire. Caroline always seems to remain positive and strong despite the horrible things that happen to her (like being turned into a vampire, being rejected on all sides for being a vampire, for being kidnapped and tortured more than once). She's quite confident in her vampire-ness but she's always been confident in her own way. But even when her father tortures her for being a vampire, trying to torture the blood lust from her, she accepts that she cannot change, that she can't be changed but that she has a good grip on her need for blood, that the only time she screwed up was the first time she killed. And even though she liked it, it scared her enough for her to strive to never do it again. But despite appearances, it's a struggle every day.
Caroline Forbes ♚ The Vampire Diaries ♚ reserved!
Powers & Abilities: As a vampire, Caroline gets the usual perks of living forever and never aging, she heals faster too. She's got super human strength, speed, and heightened senses. She's got the ability to control someone, remember certain things or forget them entirely (aka compelling). Because Caroline is a newer vampire and drinks animal blood, her ability to compel (as well as her physical strength) is less effective than older, stronger vampires.
The only way to kill in the TVD-verse vampire is sunlight, a werewolf bite, fire, or a stake through the heart. Anything involving wood or the herb vervain is extremely painful and debilitating for a vampire. Caroline has a ring made by her best friend Bonnie, who is a witch, that allows her to go out in sunlight, but very few vampires have this thus helping her hide the fact that she is a vampire.
I think that a good way to limit her abilities would be that any time she tries to use her super strength or speed or healing, it weakens her for a while, maybe a few hours or she has to get blood into her before she can do it again.
Items on their Person:
Caroline would be wearing her daylight ring which allows her to be in the sun. She'd also have her purse with money, some makeup, sunglasses, one blood bag, and her tablet/cellphone. (Which I assume will probably be useless for internet and phone calls but it'd have movies and pictures on it.) Of course, that can be taken away if that's not okay with the game's aesthetic.
Samples;
First Person Sample:
[Here, have a Caroline, brow furrowed, eyes narrowed as she looks into the device.] Okay, seriously, zombies are gross. They're gooey and drippy and they smell. And they have this annoying tendency to want to gnaw on everything. [She mutters something that might sound like 'like someone else I know'. Hint: She's talking about Klaus.] Then they don't die unless you do some stupid crazy move, like stab them in the head.
[She sounds especially annoyed at that before she pans the camera to show a zombie on the ground, a curling iron sticking out of it's face. You can practically hear the glare she's giving the motionless zombie in her voice--] Do you know how hard it is to find a curling iron? [She turns the camera towards her and gives the camera a chipper smile even if her next question is the most dire and important of questions.]
Does anyone have an extra one? [Priorities, she has them.]
Third Person Sample:
This is not the way our lives are supposed to be.
She'd heard Matt say it once to himself before he… It's a mantra for her, it's been that way before all this happen, before the world went to hell, before being part of the 'living dead' and being 'undead' were two different things. And before being a vampire was far better than the fate most of her 'fellow man' had met. But life wasn't supposed to be this way, she was supposed to be Miss Mystic Falls two years running, be prom queen, head cheerleader, to rock her senior year.
Not even being turned into a vampire, being a pawn in a twisted and dangerous game were going to stop her from that, she managed. But zombies? They were kind of a different story. How could you be prom queen when everyone who'd vote for you just wanted to eat your brains?
It had been hard enough for her to smile, to grin and bear it when she'd first been turned and realized all the things she wouldn't do because of it. But she always smiled, always found something to be excited about, to throw herself into, to pretend to live a normal life, for a little while longer. The future used to be filled with endless possibilities. Now it was just plain endless. And not the good kind of endless. Full of death and mayhem, loneliness and desolation, as that handy thing called 'civilization' kinda crumbled before her eyes. And smiling is difficult when you're fighting for your life but she manages.
She should be some kind of thankful and most of the time she is.. You're being selfish, Caroline Forbes. That's the old you, not the new improved, vampy you. She could be dead, she could've been ripped to pieces, eaten like so many other countless people she's seen. Everywhere seemed dead, no pun intended, no where feels truly safe. She's got friends, if you can even call them that. It's just people, people who aren't shells of them former selves that aren't craving a brain milkshake. You don't ever get to close to each other because tomorrow you might have to shoot them in the face. It's not like the movies, where people band together and there's camping and stories, and some rando guy who's a comic relief. But laughter is as hard to come by as food or even more important, blood but she manages. Caroline's not being picky by refusing to drink from those zombies, she's not stupid, there's something wrong with their blood. Better safe than sorry.
The only real comfort she gets is when she can't hear the sounds of screams, gun shots, or the constant groan and moan of the dead as they search for a meal. Gone are the days of gossip magazines, mani-pedis, and staring at hot guys as they walk by. Now her days were filled with scrubbing blood out of her blond curls and mini-skirt and discussing the values of the double tap or various other ways to kill a zombie.
Living is hard to do when everyone else is dying and the air smells of grief but she manages.
REVISION REQUEST
As with the case of Damon and Stefan, their strength, speed, and healing were taken down for them to only be slightly stronger and faster than the average human's abilities. Since it wouldn't be entirely fair for Caroline to be able to keep her powers, even if they do weaken her upon use, we would like to request that she be brought down to a similar state. Strength and speed are slightly better than that of a human, while healing is only slightly accelerated (minor cuts and bruises only take a couple of days, broken bones take about four weeks, etc). In the same vein, compelling also won't really work; it will be inconsistent at best and only able to implant minor things for short periods of time.
Also, as a note, Caroline's daylight ring will be reduced to an ordinary piece of jewelry, but she will already have immunity against sunlight upon arrival.
Are these guidelines for her powers acceptable?
Re: REVISION REQUEST
I don't know if this is where to ask, but I was also curious as to zombies and their blood. Would drinking from a zombie kill a vampire or something like it?
ACCEPTED
We are pleased to accept your application to Dead Weight. Welcome to Kingswater. You have been chosen for the Human Regenesis Project. Your starter weapon is Shotgun and 15 Bullets.
• Please create your character journal if you haven't already, then join the following communities:
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• There is an intro log as well as a NPC post to respond to, and backtagging into it is perfectly acceptable.
MOD NOTE: Zombie blood and flesh are infected, and drinking or eating either will cause the person in question to turn. If you want, you can have Caroline keep her scent for blood, as I believe both Stefan and Damon have chosen to do so.
Good luck in the Real World.