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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!) | ||
Tony Stark | MCU: The Avengers | Reserved
Of course it turns out in the second movie that Howard adored his son, knowing that Tony would accomplish great things with the resources and scientific breakthroughs that Howard himself did not have in his time. Eerily enough, Tony is almost the spitting image of his dad. Compare Stark Expo from Iron Man 2 to the scene where Howard is introduced in Captain America—classic case of the apple and the tree.
Tony seems to have an aversion to rejection--whether he’s just not used to it, or hates it, all the same. Tony shoots down the conversation at first (telling Fury he doesn’t want to join his “super-secret boy band”). But when he meets with Fury again after Vanko was defeated and Tony had a new ticker that wasn’t slowly killing him, he seems taken aback by Natasha Romanov’s analysis of him. In fact, he even goes so far as to try and defend his case, pointing out that she had been shadowing him during abnormal circumstances (his screw-ups being in direct correlation to what he thought were his final days on earth), and he was changed.
Most superheroes choose to keep their identities under wraps, living two compartmentalized lives—Tony spontaneously announces who he is to the entire world in a highly publicized press conference. Everyone knows that Iron Man is Tony Stark and Tony Stark is Iron Man. He doesn’t even worry about his security the way fellow billionaire-genius-playboy-superhero Bruce Wayne does, as proven in the sequel when he makes a public statement worthy of a pro-wrestling arena about how nobody was brave enough to go toe-to-toe with him in the Iron Man suit. These actions say a lot about his character, his ego, and the fact that he wants to be a public about his actions. He doesn’t seem to worry too much about his enemies attacking him or his loved ones—the first part because his methods are much more definitive than Batman’s, not having the same code about not killing, and the second because he probably doesn’t consider it, too often.
It was a gutsy move, among many other gutsy moves. From testing Bruce Banner’s limits to openly threatening a demigod that killed eighty people in two days, Tony has iron balls, if nothing else. He has no reason to believe that his math is ever wrong, and he wouldn't be able to find a quick way to slip out of danger.
Despite everything that he has done in the Iron Man suit, no one has truly forgotten the Tony Stark that existed before he became Iron Man—mostly because he never really changed, from an outside perspective. And from a storytelling standpoint, this is probably for the best--Tony wouldn't be half as interesting if he made a total transformation and started kissing babies and rescuing harp seals from trees. He’s still obnoxious, eccentric, and madly in love with the sound of his own voice. So what would drive a womanizing egotist to jet around the world in a metal body cast, fighting terrorism and making innocent people feel safe? Apart from trying to score with one of those beauty queens that like world peace so much. Or maybe he just shoots to thrill, just like the song says.
When it comes to problem-solving, Tony takes a practical approach, concerned primarily with the success or failure of his actions (and even then, he often cares quite a bit more about his successes rather than that other thing). In fewer words, Tony is a pragmatist--a man that takes action, and believes that the ends will always justify the means.
Before his Humvee is attacked by the Ten Rings, Tony makes a speech to a military quadrant, claiming that he believed the best weapon was not one you never had to use, but one you only had to use once. Depending on your point of view, this statement could either be considered reprehensible and heartless, or chillingly honest. A lot of things changed about Tony when he returned from Afghanistan: he stopped producing weapons, and chose to focus on arc reactor technology instead (something that would benefit the people more than explosions), but he doesn't become a diplomat or moves Pepper and Jarvis to a neutral country to stop dealing with war all together--hell, he doesn't even become a Buddhist. Instead, Tony reinvents the Iron Man suit, which he won't define as a weapon, but he also punched a hole through a thick layer of stone and blew up a tank in it—it might not be a weapon, but the Iron Man is not a basket of kittens, either.
Tony Stark | MCU: The Avengers | Reserved
Bill MaherJohn Pillinger for a documentary he was producing, though it quickly turns into a game of "Make Tony Feel like the Biggest Piece of Shit Alive in Six Pages." Pillinger wants to know if Tony thought of the Iron Man suit as a military device and argues with him about it, discounting the benefits of Iron Man and even lumping it in with Tony's other destructive weapons. Afterwards, in a stream of exposition, Tony thinks to himself: "I've never sold any element of the Iron Man suit to the military. It's used for extraordinary rescue and response situations. Iron Man saves lives." If it sounds like Tony is drawing a line in the sand between the actions of the US military and his duty as Iron Man, it's because he is. A similar situation also emerges in Iron Man 2, when the Senate tries to force Tony to fork over the Iron Man suit for the military to use, and he refuses. He argues with them: "I am Iron Man. The suit and I are one. To turn over the Iron Man suit would be to turn over myself, which is tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution, depending on what state you're in. You can't have it." And later mutters that the Senator didn't really care about the well-being of American citizens. In either scenario though, Tony is unyielding and completely against the military even touching his suit.Being held hostage in Afghanistan made Tony painfully aware of the fact that Stark Industries was doing more harm than good in preventing the world from spinning into chaos. Terrorists had access to his weapons, and they were using them not only on the American soldiers he invented said weapons to protect, but innocent civilians that were just unfortunate enough to be in the way. He realized he could do a better, more precise job of protecting the people.
So he isn't bogarting the Iron Man suit and pulling a Bill Clinton about the definition of a "weapon" in a court hearing just to be a selfish dick--though for Tony Stark that might be reason enough. He legitimately doesn’t consider his suit military property. Nor does he believe that the military is capable of using it for the highest good. Instead they would just turn it into a war machine that would reap casualties from both sides, and take no accountability for the rivers of blood. The Iron Man could be easily abused in the wrong hands. This much was already proven by Obadiah Stane and Ivan Vanko.
But most of all, Tony loves being Iron Man; in fact, he seems to enjoy being Iron Man a lot more than he enjoys being Tony Stark, for aforementioned reasons. Iron Man is a symbol of justice that single-handedly privatized world peace. Tony Stark, as the world knows him at large, is an arrogant brat that has one-night stands with questionable women and doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
This duality becomes lethal at one point. In Iron Man 2, Tony discovers the palladium in the arc reactor is poisoning him, and using the Iron Man suit was making the process go even faster. He works tirelessly to try and find a healthier substitute for the palladium core, but he also continues to use the suit, and hides his illness from the people closest to him. Naturally to prevent a tropical storm of worry from coming his way, but also presumably because he knew if Pepper or Rhodes knew he was dying and the suit was responsible for it, they would do anything in their power to stop him from using it again. Tony didn’t even listen when Rhodes eventually did find out, and tried to reach out to him, telling him the lone gunslinger act was unnecessary and he didn’t have to fight alone.
People don't perform the same act over and over again if they don’t get at least some amount of enjoyment out of it. But he also tells Pepper--in so many words--that without his responsibilities to the world as Iron Man, he shouldn't even be alive. Iron Man is as much his reason to live as it is his redemption, making up for the blind eye that he turned on the true destruction that his weapons created. He is in fact the man that would make the sacrifice play, and do it at the expense of his own life without a second thought.
Very often people talk about Tony Stark and Iron Man as though they are two separate people, which is not hard to understand when Tony himself gives off the impression that he is not the same person that he is in the suit when he’s just walking around being a troll. But in the end, Tony doesn’t need the suit to be Iron Man. It’s just as much a part of him as what drives him to do the right thing. As he said at the very end of his court hearing: "My bond is with the people, and I will serve this great nation at the pleasure of myself. If there's one thing I've proven it's that you can count on me to pleasure myself."
Powers & Abilities: Tony Stark doesn’t have x-ray vision, super speed, or even super healing abilities. But he is a super genius. He built his first circuit board when he was four years old, and his first engine when he was thirteen. Before Tony was even old enough to legally drink in the states, serve in the military, or be valid for membership at Costco, he graduated summa cum laude from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with double majors in physics and engineering. Once Tony took control of his father’s company, he went well beyond the legacy that Howard Stark left behind, vastly improving robotics, satellite technology, and of course, weapons. He was to explosions what Willy Wonka is to chocolate, transforming the industry and earning himself such nicknames as, “the Da Vinci of our time,” and “the Merchant of Death.” Back when he was still dealing in weapons, that is. These days, Tony has turned his attention to clean energy resources.
On his own, Tony is not much stronger than the average man his age and build—if anything, he has a rather abnormal physical handicap working against him. In 2008, during a routine weapons demonstration in Afghanistan, his convoy was attacked by a terrorist group known as the Ten Rings, and Tony found himself on the wrong end of one of his own missiles. The explosion lodged shrapnel in his chest that are slowly trying to work their way into his heart, and the only thing stopping them from killing Tony is the arc reactor, a tiny generator built in his chest that functions like an electromagnet, drawing the pieces of metal away from his arteries. However this, within itself, almost kills Tony in Iron Man 2, when it turns out the palladium he had been using to charge the arc reactor was also poisoning him, pressing Tony to find a suitable replacement. Of course he figures it out in the end, and invents a brand new element in the process.
What puts Tony in league with other fantastic humans such as Captain America and the Hulk is the Iron Man suit: a “high-tech prosthesis” he first built in a cave to escape captivity, but then later remodeled when he had the resources to do so. The suit is made of a gold-titanium alloy, durable enough to protect Tony from bullets, explosions, and being scraped against the side of a mountain by a demigod like a piece of gum someone’s trying to get off their shoe. It’s capable of super strength, as Tony is seen lifting cars, punching his fist through stone walls, and swinging a large barbell around like a baseball bat. There are jets in the boots for flight and stabilizers in the gloves to help steer himself around while he’s airborne. When the stabilizers are concentrated, they can knock people back several yards, so they can also be used as weapons. A similar blast can also be fired from the center of Tony’s chest, but it takes much longer to charge, so he doesn’t resort to it, very often.
There are other fun gadgets hidden inside the armor that help Tony in the fight against terrorism: anti-tank missiles, anti-personnel guns, flares, and repulsor rays. The suit also comes equipped with a dry British AI known as Jarvis that helps operate the system and informs Tony of any issues that might arise during combat. Tony’s means of communicating with Jarvis is a holographic interface called the Heads-Up-Display, or the HUD (or the glowing blue stuff you see floating around Tony’s face whenever the camera pans inside his helmet). The HUD allows Tony to see the world around him when he’s in the suit, as well as serving many additional functions, from receiving data, analyzing objects and people’s profiles, targeting marks, and diagnosing his armor’s conditions. It also has a built-in radio and phone, to contact people from the outside.
Last but not least, there is a filtration system, so Tony can pee while he’s inside the suit. All in all, the Iron Man is a force to be reckoned with, though it still requires consistent maintenance after battle, and a fully-automated machine to store it inside. The most up-to-date version of the Iron Man suit is the Mark VII, which can attach to Tony's body on its own without the use of machines, and is more heavily-armed than its predecessors. Though as far as we know, Tony still needs mechanical assistance to disassemble the entire thing from his body.
Tony Stark | MCU: The Avengers | Reserved
Samples;
First Person Sample: [He sets the device down on the table and sits back in his seat, drumming a pointless rhythm on his arc reactor. Whatever he was thinking about, he doesn’t allow himself to stay on it, too long. He’s still adjusting to the fact that he wasn’t floating in space, right now. He couldn’t begin to wrap his mind around this, not right now. So what does Tony do? Deflect.]
I just want to see if I have this straight: I’m me, but I’m not really me. I’m actually a character from a comic book played by some Hollywood actor. And someone saw this movie, and had the idea to pull me from it to save the world…well I guess stranger drug trips have happened.
To your credit, oh-disembodied-voice—can I call you Carol? You sound like a Carol. I’m not disagreeing with you, entirely. Or your Human Regenesis Program, though that name is really stupid. If something was never technically birthed, it can’t be rebirthed. See my point? But the idea of my life as a blockbuster hit is actually…appropriate. I mean, picture it: the heart-stopping fight scenes, the soundtrack, the most stunning beauty to ever be put on film…and Pepper can be there, too.
A feature-length movie, all about me…[The corner of his lip quirks into an appreciative half-smile.] Why didn’t I think of that?
…But don’t get me wrong, Carol, I still don’t buy it. And even if there really is some gigantic truth out there that we were never in on, this whole set-up? [Gesturing to the room at large.] It’s not working for me. If you want me to star in your Matrix knock-off, starring Tony Stark as the actor in his own life, I’m going to need a few things.
First off, ditch the Saltines and water. As far as I know I’m not a prisoner, and I don’t have morning sickness, either. I’m going to need a McMuffin, and about eight gallons of coffee, preferably in the form of an intravenous drip…coffee is real in this place, right? I’m also going to need a soldering gun, a workshop, and some other supplies. Are you writing this down, Carol?
You don’t want to hear from my agent, do you?
Third Person Sample: There could have been a hundred or at least ten things someone could be positive about during a zombie apocalypse: the state of technology was not one of those things. This much was obvious during a test run when the stabilizers in his gloves kept hissing like a bug zapper, and flight was about as smooth as a car with bad shocks on an unpaved country road. If it wasn’t obvious then, it was when they finally gave out, and he went crashing face-first into the roof of a building.
Blindly he grunted, hearing debris still falling through the hole as he rolled in the wreckage, and he moved to remove his helmet. But Tony’s fingers stopped in mid-motion, once he heard something, too organic to pass for pieces of the house, shift nearby. The smell of rot reached Tony’s nose, a smell he had almost gotten used to by now: it was like road kill, wet and gamy, that put him on edge even before the HUD came online again and he could see.
He was in a child’s dilapidated bedroom. He could see dirt, and clowns on the peeling wallpaper, and three zombies stuck on the opposite side of the room. It was hard to tell, what with them being undead monsters with white emotionless eyes, but Tony got the distinct impression that they were considering him like a chicken nugget in a high school cafeteria—more likely than not trying to figure out if he was edible beneath his questionable coating. But he moved: that meant life. That meant warm flesh. One of the zombies staggered into movement, and the other two followed.
Stuck in a room with three shamblers. Tony didn’t ask how it could get any worse, but an arm burst out of the insulation on his left side, all the same, and a female zombie pulled herself from the wreckage as though it were a grave. She threw that arm over his opposite shoulder, and used it to drag herself out until she was straddling him—all straggly blonde hair and growling and missing chunks. Not sexy, by the way, and he tried to get up, but gravity didn’t let him move fast enough to stop her from sinking her teeth—into his armor.
He blinked. The zombie persisted. Teeth and nails scraped against the metal ineffectually, like a toothless squirrel trying to crack open a nut. It was almost funny until he realized the risks of them (them, as the others were still shuffling towards them), finding out how to get the helmet off. His mind zipped through the options.
“Sorry, gorgeous, I’ve got this thing: no hickeys on the first date.” Tony curled his hand into a fist and slammed it into her half-decayed cheek. That knocked her weight off his torso; he left her there, for the moment, stood up and tried the repulsors again on the other three. Though the blasts were shorter, and sparked, it still knocked them back.
In his world, he would’ve kicked himself back into flight and gotten the hell out of dodge, looking cool while he did it, too. But technology was a bitter former one-night-stand in this place. He used the door.
Additional Information: As previously mentioned in the abilities section, it’s not a simple task to get out of the Iron Man suit. Every scene that we see of Tony being stripped of it, he uses a machine, and he is being taken from a point where he still has it on. I was wondering if the Caretakers would have the means to take him out of the suit before strapping him to the surgical table? Or would they just leave him as he is?
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