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APPLICATIONS.

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.

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!)




regal_azure: (smiling at you)

[personal profile] regal_azure 2012-06-24 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Samples;
First Person Sample:

The zombie horde had all but overwhelmed Kingswater over the last few hours. As Vivi peered out of the glassless window of the ruined building she'd sought shelter in, she saw the undead swarming in the street, beating their ruined hands on the bricks of the building.

She knew she had no chance against them alone. She takes a deep breath and shouts out of the window as loud as she can.]


Hello?! Please, someone answer me! I can't be the only one left!

[Only the moans of the horde below answer her cries.

The floorboards creak behind her, and the first of the undead enter through the rotting door frame. Vivi grips her weapon, a baseball bat, tightly in her ashen fingers. She turns around with a look of resolve on her face, which turns to anguish as she sees that the zombie shuffling towards her is a child, no more than five or six years old.]


No... No, I can't. [She falls to her knees, the bat clunking dully as it drops to the floor. She looks into the vacant, dead eyes of the boy in front of her.] I will cure you. Whatever it takes, I will do it. No one should have to suffer like this, especially an innocent child.



Third Person Sample:

Vivi replaced the pamphlets on the table, turning to face away from them. This was too much for her to take in right now. It wasn't enough that she'd woken up on a table in some lab somewhere instead of in her own bed, but now to be told that she was fictional? That everything she'd gone through - all the pain and suffering of her people, her fear and despair, the friendships she'd forged and the joy she'd found in them - they were a lie. The product of someone else's imagination.

She sat back down on the end of the operating table, looking down at her shaking hands. This must all be some sort of sick joke. What right did the disembodied voice on the other end of the strange device, which seemed to Vivi like a mechanical Den Den Mushi, have to play with people's lives like this? Her feelings, her memories, they were as real to her now as they were five minutes ago, before she'd heard any of this, before her worldview had been shaken to the core.

Several books were stacked on a desk opposite where she was sat. On the cover of the first one, Vivi saw as she picked it up to examine it, was drawn in bright colors the faces of some very familiar people. People she cared deeply about, but had given up all hope of ever seeing again. With shaking hands, Vivi picked up the first book on the pile. Opening it, she began flicking through the pages. Almost immediately, she let out a shriek, hurling the book as far away from her as she could. It bounced off the wall onto the floor, the pages spilling open, onto the picture that had given her such a start. There in front of her, inked in black and white and coldly smirking at her from the paper, was Crocodile.

Vivi nudged the book closed with her foot. Taking a deep breath to steady herself, she took another from the stack. This time she was greeted by Luffy's grinning face. Vivi couldn't help smiling down at the picture of him. That look in his eyes, she knew that so well, the one that told everyone he was unstoppable. It gave her strength in this harsh, unfriendly place. What would Luffy do, if he were here? Well, he wouldn't give up at being told he was a character in a tale someone else was spinning, that was for sure.

Vivi nodded in resolve. It wouldn't stop her, either.