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Applications Two

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED!
The next application opening date is Friday 16th January, 7pm EST.
The next application processing date is Friday 23rd January, 7pm EST.

IMPORTANT: PLEASE POST YOUR APPLICATIONS HERE ON THE NEW APPLICATION PAGE

We're so glad you're thinking of joining us in Haven, where we are all safe.

In order to apply for a canon character, please fill out the information below and post it in a comment in this entry. For an OC, please apply using the OC information. Please do not link to applications, all applications must be posted here. Please do not delete your applications; if you do not want it to be seen, you can request for it to be screened after a decision is made.

You may apply for two characters every application round, to a total of six characters. Only two of these may be from the same canon, and they cannot be too familiar with one another. Please make sure to mark the header of your comment(s) with RESERVED or NOT RESERVED, as well as the character name and canon. App challenges are not allowed currently.

Try to remember spelling and grammar are important, and in app length quality and not quantity is what matters. All parts of the application must be your own work, plagiarism will not be tolerated, though you are welcome to reuse your own old applications.

If you are asked for revisions, please don't panic! It doesn't mean the mods don't like you, only that we probably need more information before making a decision. If you are asked for revisions, you will have one week to supply them.

Applications are open on a monthly cycle, where they will be opened on the second Friday of every month for a week, and then processed on the third Friday of the month, before being closed again.

We now have a test drive community at haventest which is continuously open. Posts there may be used in lieu of a sample in the application. You may also link posts, logs, or threads from other games and memes in lieu of samples, though we ask that they be no more than one year old. As of November 22nd 2014, samples cannot be "where am I" intro posts. The reason for this is that we often find it hard to gauge characterization from those, as most people when immediately in a new surrounding are confused or frightened.

While we encourage players who have dropped to re-join us, we do not encourage the continual rapid dropping and re-apping of the same character in a short time period. You are welcome to request specific housing, and all attempts will be made to accommodate that request, but it may not always be possible.

To see what we are looking for:
Canon Characters:
Sample Application (Faith Lehane)
Sample Application (Iroh)

Original Characters:
Sample Application (Mors)
Sample Application (Vera de Barr)
Sample Application (Malkus Iverwelling)

Previous Game History:
Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
Sample Application (Bolin/Discedo)

The old application post can be found here if you would like to look through past accepted applications.

Applications will be open on the following dates (from 7pm EST):
12th-19th December
16th-23rd January

Applications will be processed on the following dates (at 7pm EST):
19th December
23rd January

To apply for a canon character, please fill out this form:
Name: Your name or nickname Contact Info: Email, plurk, IM... as long as there's a way to contact you, it's fine! Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Haven. Requested apartment: Please put N/A if you have no preference. Character Name: Names and nicknames, in Western order (first name, surname) Canon: Canon Point: Where in the series are you taking them from? Background/History: A link to a source about the canon is fine for this. Previous Game History: At least two paragraphs on important events for the character and how they have been shaped by the previous game. If this is not applicable, please delete this section. Personality: This is the most important section! There is no specific word count, but anything less than three paragraphs likely isn't detailed enough. Abilities/Powers: Please assume canon-blindness and explain in as much detail as possible. Items/Weapons: Which three items and/or weapons will your character arrive with? Sample Entry: At least ten sentences in first person/action bracket format, please. A link to a previous post or thread with the character is also acceptable. All links must be one year old or less. Samples submitted may not be in the form of a "where am I" intro, as these are hard to judge characterization from. All other scenarios are welcome. Sample Entry Two: At least two paragraphs in third person/prose format, please. A link to a previous log or thread with the character is also acceptable. All links must be one year old or less. Samples submitted may not be in the form of a "where am I" intro, as these are hard to judge characterization from. All other scenarios are welcome.

To apply for an original character, please fill out this form:
Name: Your name or nickname Contact Info: Email, plurk, IM... as long as there's a way to contact you, it's fine! Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Haven. Requested apartment: Please put N/A if you have no preference. Character Name: Names and nicknames, in Western order (first name, surname) Background/History: At least three paragraphs, please. Try to focus on events in the world history that have had an impact on the character. Previous Game History: At least two paragraphs on important events for the character and how they have been shaped by the previous game. If this is not applicable, please delete this section. Personality: This is the most important section! There is no specific word count, but anything less than three paragraphs likely isn't detailed enough. Abilities/Powers: Please explain in as much detail as possible. Items/Weapons: Which three items and/or weapons will your character arrive with? Sample Entry: At least ten sentences in first person/action bracket format, please. A link to a previous post or thread under a year old with the character is also acceptable. All links must be one year old or less. Samples submitted may not be in the form of a "where am I" intro, as these are hard to judge characterization from. All other scenarios are welcome. Sample Entry Two: At least two paragraphs in third person/prose format, please. A link to a previous log or thread with the character is also acceptable. All links must be one year old or less. Samples submitted may not be in the form of a "where am I" intro, as these are hard to judge characterization from. All other scenarios are welcome.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Items/Weapons:
1.) A bottle of D67 pills.
2.) A bottle of 1967 ~wine~
3.) A handkerchief.
Sample Entry:

My, it looks like a lot's happened here.

I've heard about it, you know, what's happened in Haven. The public executions, the experiments underground, not to mention monsters lurking in the subway and the -- ghosts? [there's the slightest hint of condescension at the end of that, because lol GHOSTS] More importantly, the Yao corporation had a series of tests recently and if I'm not mistaken, they were all specifically designed to test a certain character trait --

Oh, but what's the use in dwelling on past events here, hm? What a truly optimistic attitude that some of you have here. But most of you are eager to see this doctor Kite's head impaled on a stick. It's no less than what he deserves, but... Isn't revenge a poor motivator? I've seen people so bent on getting pay back before and I can assure you that it only ends tragically. What happens after you kill him? No doubt, the Yao Corporation has a dozen more flunkies to replace him. It's just such a waste...

Before you become righteously angry, hear me out. We don't know what Kite is exactly. If we kill him without finding out, then what exactly would that give us? Bodies hold a lot more secrets than one expects, after all. Testing how much he can handle, how much he can hold, how long he can go before he grovels on his knees in front of you -- doesn't that sound promising?

[a pause, as Solomon gets his creepy under control]

It's merely a suggestion, but it'd do you well to think it over! Since we have all the time in this world to do so....

Sample Entry Two:

He's been stuck in places longer than this. Compared to his previous experience, several months in Haven were like a second compared to the years he spent in Russia, France, and whatever other country Amshel liked to take them. Still, out of all of these places, Haven had to be the most dreary of them all. There were so many humans, and yet the close quarters forced him to be especially careful with killing or eating. Reading and writing required long trips up north which he could accomplish quickly, if he wasn't so lazy about it. Having new people arrive every other week or so and having to listen to their squawks of confusion and complaints was starting to annoy him as well. Not to mention a dozen other inconsequential things, like the lack of running water and good wine and white suits!!

Still, he could learn to adapt after all. He was a master at adapting. He wasn't Amshel sitting in his room with his 18th century styled furniture and still-corded telephone. If nothing else, Solomon readily embraced whatever new trends came up -- whether it was cellphones or mass-manufacturing -- because to refuse to do so seemed so silly to him. If he's going to look the same forever, then he might as well entertain himself with something new.

It's true that he's had the same goal for the last century or so, to see if the Chiropteran queens can produce children, but he's realized that to survive in a place like Haven, you need a shift of priorities. He had no influence over Diva without Brother Amshel, much less a civil relationship with the only other Chevalier in Haven, so the idea of forcing the experiment to a close was pretty much impossible. Still, his true aim -- while he did structure it around the mating experiment -- was more of an abstract theory on whether or not Chiropterans could be... Bound by human emotions.

In other words, how similar were Chiropterans to humans? And in a place like Haven, where Chevaliers and humans were forced in close quarters, this goal seemed much more attainable. Watching Diva and Charles forge relationships that they wouldn't have thought twice of back home... Solomon could feel the thrill that accompanied him whenever he thought of his goal. This was true living. Having a question and seeing if it could be answered -- the pursuit of knowledge of something that should rightly be impossible -- !

Well, and it didn't hurt that it was cute to see. Monsters playing house, honestly, how could that not be adorable?

Name: Li
Contact Info: rain.brass.petals at gmail, libekory (plurk)
Other Characters Played: ~~Hopefully Buffy~~ None!
Preferred Apartment: None

Character Name: Thor Odinson
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: Post-Thor: The Dark World
Background/History: MCU-specific wiki | Wikipedia (comics-canon)

Personality: As the favored son and crown prince, Thor has lived something of a charmed life for the last thousand years. He grew up absolutely steeped in both privilege and power, with the certainty that a grand destiny and many glorious victories lay before him, and all of this is reflected in his bearing and his manner. Thor would be a towering presence even if he weren't 6'4" and ridiculously muscular. Handsome, charming, a natural leader, and beloved by his people, Thor has never met a challenge he could not overcome, and the worst treatment he has ever experienced -- even from his closest friends, who obviously do not fear retribution -- is affectionate exasperation. He is a king in all but name -- and, as Thor opens on the day of his coronation, that's about to change.

Until this moment, everything had not only always gone Thor's way, but he could never have conceived of a world in which that was not so.

It is, therefore, only natural that when his coronation is rudely interrupted -- interrupted by an attack by forces from Jotunheim, the realm of an ancient and supposedly long-defeated enemy -- Thor is stunned. Shocked. Outraged. And when his father, Odin, refuses to retaliate or even investigate, Thor reacts by literally flipping a table.

This first, childish response to not having gotten his way is telling, and it sets the stage for the rest of Thor's character arc. For the shortsighted actions that follow, Odin will call his son vain and cruel and greedy, unworthy of his heritage and the people he loves, but -- fortunately for Asgard and all the other realms -- the truth is that Thor is not and has never been a bad person. At his very worst, he is still willing and ready to lay down his life for his friends, his family: even strangers, if it comes down to that. Instilled in him alongside the right to rule was a duty to protect and defend his people.

All of the mistakes he makes in the opening of Thor are instead caused by a simpler character flaw: youth.

Pride and impatience, not callousness or malice, are what cause Thor to ignore his father's desire for peace and to storm Jotunheim with only his brother, Loki, and a few of his friends for backup. Inexperience and eagerness to prove himself in his father's eyes combine to create a situation where Thor endangers all their lives -- not deliberate cruelty. He is not indifferent to the pain of his friends when he provokes the King of Jotunheim or fails to notice that the tide of battle has turned against them, just overconfident of his and their abilities. In Thor's mind, war -- and Jotunheim itself -- are things he has only ever heard about in fairy tales; and when he attacks Jotunheim, he is not plunging his people into violence and horror but saving them from the monsters. How could that be anything but good and right and just?

When Odin arrives in Jotunheim, Thor's fundamental ignorance becomes crystal clear. Completely unaware that anything might be wrong, that he has been caught risking the lives of his brother and his friends in direct defiance of his king, Thor fully and joyfully expects that Odin will join him in slaying the monsters and saving Asgard. And again, when he doesn't get what he wants -- his father's approval, glorious retribution for the attack that ruined his coronation -- Thor's temper gets the best of him and he responds by stomping his feet and hurling insults at his king.

It really cannot be stressed enough how new the experience of being in trouble is for Thor, at this point in his life. Even after Odin strips him of his powers and banishes him to Earth, Thor's immediate reaction is to demand that Asgard's gatekeeper, Heimdall, bring him home. He really and truly has not processed what has been done to him, or why. He knows he needs to find his weapon, Mjolnir, in order to be restored to godhood -- so, presumably, he heard the spell Odin placed on the hammer: "whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor" -- but the thought that he might not, in fact, be worthy simply never crosses Thor's mind.

Only when he finds Mjolnir and is unable to lift it does the veil finally lift from Thor's eyes, and the change it brings about in him is immediate. The good person he is at his core comes to the surface, painfully, and by the end of the movie worthiness has become his defining trait.

Thor's pride and occasional shortsightedness don't completely evaporate, of course -- he is still young, still fully capable of being a brat, and frankly most of his pride is well-earned. But everything now is tempered by a sense of humility, and less likely to translate into serious consequences for those around him. Thor still enjoys the thrill of battle, and is still liable to lose himself in it -- but much of his bloodlust has been soured by empathy, and when he finds Loki about to destroy Jotunheim, slaughtering all of its inhabitants, Thor's response is not to cheer but to object. Even his ancient enemy has been humanized, in his eyes; no longer monsters to be slain for the good of all but people, and exterminating their entire race would be wrong. And war itself is no longer a fictionalized series of glorious victories in Thor's mind, but something terrible to spare even Asgard's soldiers from if at all possible, as we see in Thor: The Dark World.

The young man we met at the beginning of Thor has, in short, grown. Older and wiser than two years should have made anyone, he has gone from a boy excited to be king to a man so aware of the burdens of ruling that he longer wants to be king at all. Instead of glory, Thor now wants to be a hero -- to protect not only Asgard but all the realms from harm, and he fears that he would be unable to do that if he ascended the throne. He fears that the pragmatic sacrifices ruling demands would be beyond him, that they would change him, or both, and so he tells [what he believes to be] his father: "I would rather be a good man than a great king."

He cannot tie himself to Asgard and its affairs and still be available to all the realms, wherever they might have need of him, and the choice is not even particularly difficult for the man Thor has become: one of the universe's mightiest heroes.

Abilities/Powers: Thor is Aesir, from a race of people who are all supernaturally strong, durable, and so long-lived (with 5000 years being the apparent average) that they consider the people of other realms "mortal" by comparison. As the God of Thunder, Thor also has full command over the weather, and is capable of such subtle control that he can literally choose to spare individual people from rainfall. He can also fly, and is essentially bulletproof unless you can fire your gun with the right amount of force.

(For Asgardians, it's a matter of scale: They can stab one another, and a more powerful creature like the Hulk can shake them around like rag dolls, but ordinary and even extraordinary humans should probably expect to do very, very little damage.)

Additionally, as mentioned briefly above, Thor wields Mjolnir, a mysitcal nigh-indestructible warhammer forged in the heart of a dying star. Mjolnir moves to its wielder's will, and can be summoned into Thor's hand across literally any distance, a feature which allows Thor to wield it like an intelligent boomerang, with all the pain that implies for anyone or anything standing on the wrong end of a nearly unstoppable force.

Thor's centuries of practiced skill and natural talent make him a force to be reckoned with even without the above powers, though, and he's also a natural leader, and after quelling the Nine Realms and stopping Malekith is even almost sort of experienced with the actual art of war. He knows how to strategize, although -- as above -- is not quite willing to make the kind of pragmatic sacrifices required by a large-scale battle. Thor will sacrifice his own life without hesitation; but no one else's.

(Note about Mjolnir: Once, Thor and Odin were the only ones who could lift Mjolnir -- but Odin's enchantment on it means that anyone who is worthy of Thor's power can lift it... and, once they do, they will have all of Thor's abilities for as long as they continue to wield it. When "activated" in this manner, Mjolnir also provides its wielder with armor, in a sort-of "transformation sequence".)

Items/Weapons: Mjolnir! He would probably have nothing else on him, at his canonpoint.

Sample Entry: Test drive post!

Sample Entry Two:

When he thinks ahead, to what he is about to do, Thor feels a sense of tightness in his chest -- of nerves -- that he has not felt since the day of his ill-fated coronation, two years and a lifetime ago

Again, he will go before his father -- his king -- not as son but as successor. Again, the outcome of their meeting will irrevocably change his life. And while he hopes it will end less disastrously this time, he has none of his younger self's brash surety. He is all too aware of the dangerous line he is about to cross.

To give up the throne... to renounce it, possibly forever...

He knows his father will blame this all on Jane. Everyone in his life, it seems, has been eager to make her and her alone responsible for his choices since he fell to Earth. But while Thor owes much to her kindness and even more to her firm hand, in his heart he is certain he would be doing this regardless.

He has not given his whole heart to Midgard. He is not blinded or even motivated in this moment by the love he has for her.

No: this is about his duty, and he must make his father see that if his choice has any hope of being accepted -- let alone respected.

It is time. Thor would swear he almost hears his mother's voice in his ear, and then Loki's; teasing him, as they had on the day of his coronation, about the nerves he had not then been willing to admit to -- and it is with both the loss and the love of them fresh in his mind that he goes to see the only family he has left.

This is the right thing to do, Thor tells himself. For his mother, for his brother, for Jane, for all the realms -- and for himself.

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on 20th December.

Kind of misread the app page, I'M SO SORRY.

Sample Entry Two:

Hellmouth is the first, most obvious conclusion. No jumping at all required to get there. And if the Hellmouth itself wasn't, exactly, directly involved, "some creepy leftover Initiative experiment" is still just the tiniest jump.

Someone snuck up behind her, jabbed her with a needle she didn't feel and doesn't remember, then shoved her into a car and took her to one of the least appealing tourist traps on Earth. Maybe to do things to her, maybe just to get her out of the way.

It makes sense -- right?

The other people around her, they're just... more victims. It still tracks. Especially since some of them are as strong as she is, or stronger.

But the longer she spends in "Haven" -- truth in advertising, that name -- the more Buffy feels sickly certain that whatever this is, it's nothing like she's ever faced before.

A brand-new big bad, one with more on the agenda than Sunnydale, America, or even Earth.

Buffy is really trying hard not to think too much about all the people and all the things she misses right now. But she's pretty sure she's never needed access to an intact Sunnydale High library and all the boring, moldy old books within it more than she does in this moment, in this place.

Name: Yun
Contact Info: soft drowning @ aim
Other Characters Played:
Lily Baskerville // reddour // pandora hearts
Rui Ninomiya // idealists // gatchaman crowds
Rita Mordio // reputation // tales of vesperia
Preferred Apartment: None

Character Name: Håkon Wium Lie, “War”
Background/History:

So it’s a story like any other. You have a planet with sentience, and you have a human race that needs to be controlled. What else would a planet do but churn out supernatural beings to observe and regulate the beings that it gave birth to?

Håkon is one of those beings. The universe he hails from has a mechanic called ‘world-cores’. These world cores are sentient beings, collectively called ‘birds’, who power worlds by generating a theoretically unlimited amount of life force. Each world has a single ‘bird’ powering it. This life force is what goes into the world, giving birth to plants, animals and human beings. When beings die, their life force goes back into the pool of life force to be recycled and churned out again. The recycled life energy loses past memories and personalities, and are reborn as new living creatures. A rabbit in one life will become a millipede in another. A person in one life can become a tree in another. Pretty simple, right?

However, the world has four self-regulating bodies of power that it uses as back-up energy sources that defy the mechanics of their world. Essentially, they are blobs of life force that do not get recycled back into the life-stream, as it were. Instead, they keep their memories and personalities intact. With every natural life-span they live out, they are pulled back into the core of the world, and then spat back out again into yet another life-span. These are the ones who are to watch over the world, to regulate the world, to do what the world cannot, and to keep all the inhabitants of the world safe from themselves.

When the world gave birth to these blobs of self-regulating powers, each blob took on a different aspect of the world. What were the aspects?

Pollution, Famine, War and Death.

This is the story of four horsemen.

When Håkon first became sentient, he didn’t call himself ‘Håkon’. He didn’t have any reason to, because names didn’t even exist back then. He first breached life by being an amoeba that has evolved the ability to photosynthesis. This is how long ago the beginning of his story stretches. As a being outside of the natural cycle of life, he’d die again, and again, and again, natural life-spans for the species that he was being reincarnated into, but unlike most organisms, he’d keep his memories and basic personality traits between reincarnations. A little while later, he was reborn as a trilobite, and a little whole later, he was a fish. Once upon a time, quite a while later, he became a dinosaur. A little bit more recently, he’s been a wolf, a platypus, and a cormorant. He even spent one miserable wintery stint as a snowshoe hare. The world tends to reincarnate him as an apex herbivore or carnivore for the time period. Tends to, being the keyword. In practice, he’s probably hit most of the major animal species, and a few of the weird ones.

It’s not until he’s become a creature like, say, a fox or a whooping crane that he realizes there are three other beings out there who share the same fate he does. He first meets Death as a turtle. He first meets Famine as an owl. He first meets Pollution as a baby harp seal, white against the bloody snows of the north. But because of the natural way of things, none of the four had much of a way of interaction with one another, until after the 1200’s, where all four of them were, for the very first time, reincarnated as the same species. Specifically, they became human. And from then on, all four of them have been human since. The very first of the four that Håkon met as a person was Death, and Death, to this date, has been his first and most cherished friend. He would eventually meet Pollution and Famine as well, but Death was the very first. And it was from meeting Death that Håkon realized how lonely he had always been.

The rest of the story is about a long, long wait. Håkon was born basically with an intrinsic love for the world, and a strong sense of responsibility that he didn’t try to fight in regards to protecting the world that he loved. The love wasn’t born from experience or any natural inclinations of affection. Instead, it’s something that’s been written into what he is. He was born to love and protect the world. He recognizes and understands that his love for the world isn’t his, but rather like a commandant from the world that he serves. Ultimately, he’s okay with this, because he solidly believes that there needs to be something that everyone loves more than they love life. It’s just that because he viscerally knows his role in the world, he is waiting for the chance to act on the role. He acts in the world’s benefit, and he watches over the world in case anything untoward happens. As the aspect of War, he is drawn to warzones. Time and again, no matter which corner of the world he is born in, he would ultimately travel to whichever great conflict of the decade was taking place, and to horrifically look on as humans slaughtered one another. But this isn’t what he’s here to prevent. No—as ‘war’, conflict is a part of him. A part of him feels excited because of the face of conflict. He remembers his first conflict vividly—it was a mere land dispute between two tribes. In the night, a group of men from one tribe ambushed another, killing everyone they could. Flames were lit, blood was spilt. Survivors fled into the night. He was a part of the tribe that fled. He had been snatched up by his human mother, who had dragged him out of their tarp made of animal skins and soft leathers, and had taken him into the wilderness. But he remembers returning to the site of the battle in the morning, remembers seeing the blood on the ground, the slaughtered animals, the bodies of people that he had once known. He remembers crying, there, an incredible ache of his heart that could not have been anything but the world grieving for the loss of life, but also remembers the horrified elation he feels at the brimming energy of the conflict and tension.

He remembers the holler behind him, the axe coming for his head.

He dies. He had only lived for twelve years with that tribe. When he is reborn again into another tribe, he travels back to the general area where that land dispute was fought. A flood had changed the landscape, making the area uninhabitable. The tribe that had destroyed his no longer existed. This was seventeen years later.

The story of his life basically goes on like this. Countless lives pass. He grows up as a man, as a woman, a starving child, the daughter of a despicable dictator. During the Roman era, he grows up as a lady in a virtuous roman household, the wife to a great war general. He bears children and cares for them the way society expects him to. When his husband dies, he attempts to reform the politics of his household, but his shut away by his children. He dies after he is poisoned by an assassin. The stories usually go like this. But you know, this is life. A part of his task is to watch life pass, and record it with every passing day, inscribed into his memory. He knows, starkly, that the world is watching life go on through his eyes—he is the arms and eyes of the earth, and someday, the earth will call him back and assimilate him, and he will no longer exist. He bears children, makes countless dear friends that eventually die and leave him behind, and navigates each and every society that he is born into the way only humans can. The only constant are his counterparts—Death, whom he seeks out the best he can every lifetime. Famine and Pollution, who become his friends, and with whom he shares cherished memories. However, there’s no guarantee that all four of them will be born together in the same era. The reincarnation cycle is rather random. It’s not until the current day, where technology has become wide-spread and finding someone you really wish to find has become but a click of a button and a quick three-second flip through facebook, that he’s been easily able to find all four of them.
But what’s the purpose of keeping around beings like these, reincarnated through each and every cycle, fated to watch the world pass by? To protect the interests of the world they serve, of course. To repel threats to the natural order of things.

The threat comes from the sky one winter morning. Håkon remembers it clearly. Back then, he had reincarnated into a small girl. When the first beings from the other world force their way through their world’s membrane, he felt the entire world shake. It was a feeling like none other—like being violated from the inside out, the anger, the rage, the humiliation, the pain, oh god, the pain. That day, he ended up hospitalized. While the rest of the world turned on, the Wishmakers came to their world. And the Wishmakers, they began harvesting people’s life energies via contracts, with the promise of granting people wishes. They took, they stole, and they killed. They killed so, so much.

Håkon took up arms. At this point, he was the only one of the four Aspects that still maintained the full range of his powers. Famine’s powers had been steadily waning, as he was slowly getting recycled back into the world. Pollution had grown unstable, both mentally and emotionally. Death was nowhere to be found. This was brought about by two millennia of complacency. The world hadn’t expected to be violated. Only Håkon was ready. Ultimately, he fought this battle alone. For decades afterwards, he gathered intelligence on the beings that came from the sky, watching, documenting, and coolly calculating. The end goal was to drive them all back, enough to leave this world alone and thereon after. But he knows that he can’t do this alone. He makes preparations for decades, while waiting for the other three Aspects to slowly be reborn into the world again. Generation after generation, he’d find Famine and Pollution again, and waited for Death to be reborn again so that someday, the four of them can gather together their strength, and put into action a plan that will protect their responsibility and duty.

It all sounds easier than it really is. There are numerous factors that make this difficult, and anyway, it’s not like the Wishmakers wanted to be here in the first place, and it’s just a very grand, convoluted plot that spans two stories and a side-series. But where I’m taking Håkon from is just after he’s begun to put his plan into action—his plan to drive these outsiders from the world that he is bound to protect.

In this lifetime, Håkon is the son of a billionaire. He was born in a small chateau in the Swiss alps on a snowy November evening, and was promptly declared Swedish citizenship. His mother is the CEO of a large tech company that is widespread across Europe, but which holds their base in Stockholm, Sweden. Despite this, Håkon,as a child, grew up in France. As the Aspect of war, and technically the furthest thing from a regular human, he has all of his past memories intact of the lives he had lived previously, but because the world has recognized that shoving into the head of a three-year-old child two millenia’s worth of memories won’t do anybody any good, Håkon recovers his memories slowly over the course of his childhood. The first thing he remembers is his love for the world, and the three other aspects in the world—Famine, Pollution and Death. The next thing he remembers his how his previous lives dealt with his returning memories: calmly, carefully, analytically, without revealing said memories to the people surrounding him. From there onwards, the going was easy. As he recovers his memories, he grows up like a spoiled rich kid. He is fiddling around with computers at the age of four, gets pushed through a private schooling by the age of ten, and by the age of thirteen, he has recovered all of his memories, his powers, and most importantly, his purpose. At the age of fifteen, he graduates highschool, and spends the next two years traveling the world under the guise of an ‘international learning experience’, which is, in actuality, a quick overview of the state of the conflict between Wishmakers. During this time, he becomes a chess grandmaster. He enters university at the age of seventeen. Three years later, he puts his plan into action.

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Personality:
The majority of Hakon’s personality is based on societal views on war, which is just as well, because he is essentially the personification of war. The strangeness is that he is not so inhuman as he may seem.

Basically, at first glance, Håkon is what you see: the rich son of a billionaire. Eccentric and brilliant, he is in the habit of driving people up the wall, undermining authority at every possible given step, and basically playing up a cultured yet utterly insufferable personality. He is loud and boastful, he makes deadpan cracks, he is a total nut about Lego and history and other really nerdy things, and he spends money like water. As a person, he has an incredibly off-beat sense of humour that manifests itself as the most inappropriate of times, he loves to prank others, and he is horribly untactful at times because he prefers bluntly speaking his mind—as is proper, for he is the son of a billionaire, and he’s always been surrounded by people who listened to him. He has expensive hobbies, expensive ways of driving people nuts, and hates sitting still— crazy active enough to run across furniture, jump on tables and generally cause a scene wherever he goes. And people have to get used to this, because, well, he’s rich, and he’s eccentric, and he’s allowed to be eccentric because he’s rich. Funnily enough, just two lifetimes ago, he was a worker at an assembly plant, and a lifetime before that, he worked in the coal mines. What Håkon’s strength is his ability to adapt to the lifetimes that he is reincarnated into. There are several things that help him along the way: the fact that he doesn’t completely regain his memories until he’s around ten to thirteen, which allows him to absorb and be shaped by the environment his present self is growing up in, and his need to blend in with society. This illustrates his first true personality point: Håkon is viciously adaptable, and is an amazing actor. Underneath his insufferability, or not-so-underneath, as he doesn’t bother to hide it, just that different situations bring out different aspects of him—is an insatiable appetite for wealth, and an extremely calculating personality. He is the sort of person who will laugh you to your grave, all hands on deck, because blackmail is sweet.

In truth, the name ‘Håkon Wium Lie’ is a name that he inherited from his present lifetime. Over the course of the years, he’s been called many names—each family names their child something special, after all, and he’s been recorded in the annals of history in many, many different ways. Håkon makes it a policy to be referred to by whatever name his current lifetime has bestowed upon him. In this lifetime, he is ‘Håkon’. Basically, it’s the easiest and simplest way to go about doing things. This illustrates Håkon’s second personality point: that he doesn’t put the same stock into certain societal traditions that regular people would. Names hold no power over him. Similarly, society’s views on gender and norms also don’t hold any real power over him. He calls himself ‘male’, but to be honest, he doesn’t identify as any of the available genders on the spectrum of gender identity. He doesn’t particularly identify with the society that he has grown up in, and the cultures that the people around him ascribe to.

Essentially, then, his character is made up of a synthesis of all the environments that he grew up in, and a distillation of what it means to him.

Håkon, as a character, is a character embroiled in bitter conflict. Håkon is the aspect of War. This is as much as what he calls himself as it is what he is. At the core of his being, he is an individual who is contradictory in subtle ways. For example, he is a highly pragmatic individual who puts stock into logical decision-making, but of the four horsemen he is the most emotional, and he is extremely prone to adrenaline-junkie behaviour. Surprisingly, these traits co-exist within him naturally. He is logical and strategic, but believes that you must your emotions into account when making decisions, or else the decisions that you make will never be the morally acceptable one. As a character, he doesn’t believe that logic will necessarily lead you to the best decision. The way he puts it ‘Why are you making a decision? Because you’re trying to satisfy a need. Why do you want that need satisfied? Because there’s emotional attachment to the need. So in the end, the end result from decision-making will bring about an emotional reaction. So then, why, during the decision-making process, do you not use your emotions? You have the world’s strongest decision-making tool in your chest right this very minute. So why aren’t you using it?’ This gives you a good idea of his character—blunt, pragmatic and logical, but who is someone who places great stock in human emotion, and who believes morality is impossible without emotions. In Håkon’s mind, just because two concepts are opposites in the dictionary does not mean these two aspects cannot coexist.

As an individual who has lived a long, long time, through many lifetimes and many, many different circumstances, Håkon has a very particular view of the world. He no longer sees the world in black and white—no matter where he looks, he sees things in shades of gray. Because he’s experienced so much, he is confidently—almost assuredly so. He is confident in his decisions, he is confident in his approach to the world, and by god, he is stubborn. Because he’s seen so much and experienced so much, he doesn’t believe that he is likely to be in the wrong. In fact, statistics would show that, of all the decisions that he’s made over the course of those two millennia, he has had more practice at making a wider variety of decisions and opinions than most people alive. Therefore, he has the right and confidence to speak his mind, and he has the right to believe that he is right. This is his way of thinking, and in a way, it’s tantamount to arrogance. His in-canon nickname is ego-mountain. This isn’t an exaggeration. Whether it’s his role or not, Håkon is vastly confident in his own abilities, and while he’s always tried to take into account the opinions of other people, he sometimes loses sight of what is important.

Håkon is reactive, not active. As much as he’d rather act than react—if you think about what war is like, it’s almost a truly reactive behaviour towards bigger problems. If war is breaking out, it’s because all other avenues have already been explored and discarded, and the problem couldn’t have been resolved without needing violence and bloodshed. Håkon is highly reactive. While he’s a busybody who likes getting up in people’s business, almost loudly social and annoying attentive to others, he almost never acts unless someone else has already placed the first chesspiece on the board. As a chess grandmaster in canon, he understands the value of waiting until your opponent has shown their hand. This also extends into how he interacts with people on a daily basis. His reactive state of mind allows him to gauge other people’s reactions, and then strike back as needed. Pragmatic, thoughtful, he is dangerous. He can be mean. And he has an incredible sense of jealousy and preservation—both for himself, and for those around him, almost borderline extremely clingy, ruthless and annoying.

While the application looks good, we'd like to request a revision of the personality section.

The reason for this is that the jump in canon point is a significant time (approx. 16 months) and Clementine has some noticeable changes as a result. We would also like to see a little more detail into her motivations.

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However, when you think of war, this is what you’d expect, right? Someone who is competent, almost violent. Dangerous, powerful, bewildering, sadistic, cruel. Håkon fits almost all of these categories, except perhaps for the sadism and the cruelty. He is violent, yes—he prefers violent video games, when push comes to shove, he will fight and he will be bloodthirsty, he is powerful in both presence and in powers, he is dangerous because he is a being that humans tend not to want to associate with. This is the aspect of war. But war holds many different meanings—while war destroys, tears apart families and cultures, leaving behind suffering and injustice, war is also the clash of perspectives. It’s through war that multiple perspectives are put into light, and the perspectives can then grow and become nurtured. It’s through war that the voices of the weak eventually make it out into the public. War is emotional. As much as war is strategic, faceless enemies that brutally slaughter the opposing side, war cannot occur without the clash of emotions. And this is also Håkon—this nurturing, brutal, emotional side of war, this is also what’s within him. To be honest, he gains no true pleasure from war. While war makes his hair stand on end, his heart beats faster, and he gets a high off of the adrenaline, but at the same time, he hates war. Hates it. Hates it, hates it, hates it, because unlike most adrenaline junkies, he’s seen war over and over again, in various forms, and it robs. It steals. It takes things away from people who deserve them. And the part in him that loves the world knows that war is horrible for humanity. Horrible for everyone who has to witness it.

His deepest wish is to eradicate war.

And he isn’t particularly quiet about this.

Because at the core of his being, he is an incredibly lonely individual. He is terrified of being lonely. Imagine his relief when he realized that there are three other beings who shared his fate, and who will support him throughout the millennia. He makes deeply cherished friends every lifetime, not because society needs him to, but because a lifetime without friendship, in his opinion, is not worth living. He knows that lives are short. While he will be reincarnated, time and again, the people that he has fallen in love with will likely be dead by the time he is reborn again. He only has one lifetime to meet them, to get to know them, to make a connection. Therefore, he will fight to the death in order to spend one more day with the people that he cherishes.

This is the true nature of war.

They do say love and war are two sides of the same coin...

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Abilities/Powers:
As the aspect of War, Håkon has a set of passive and active abilities. Passive abilities include the ability to generate his own life force. This means his human body is stronger and sturdier than the average person’s, and that he is capable of surviving injuries people normally would not be able to survive. His healing ability is also quite strong. While a broken leg will remain a broken leg, his leg will likely recover in four weeks, when the usual takes six. Little things like that. To be honest, in the grand scheme of things, his sturdiness is of no use. Because he will be reincarnated anyway, the need to stay alive decreases. He is also able to sense conflict within others. At the peak of his power, Håkon is capable of cataloging and sensing the conflict of every individual who lives in his world. He can look at anyone, and be able to tell you what sort of conflict they’ve experienced, whether or not they’ve fought, physically or verbally, with anyone, whether or not they have ever experienced war. He is instinctively drawn to people who are embroiled in conflict. At Haven, this passive ability will be toned down: he will only be able to sense that people are related to conflict, but will not know any details unless the other mun agrees to it. Other passive abilities include: rudimentary magic resistance, and the ability to grab any mundane object and allow it to be used as a weapon. A ruler gains a sharper edge. A lightbulb glows hot. Wood strengthens. Cords become sturdier. He is also able to pick up any weapon and have instinctive knowledge on how to use it to maximum efficiency. His ability will be toned down to only weapons that he has seen before, and only if other muns in the thread agrees.

As a person, Håkon eats and sleeps like a regular human being, but he technically doesn’t need anything but sleep. Food and water are things that he consumes to keep up appearances—technically, his organs only function at a minimal level. However, he needs at least three hours of sleep per day to be at full functioning capacity. He tends to forgo even that amount of sleep—causing him to crash in energy levels approximately once every week and a half.

Håkon’s only active ability is the ability to form ‘Contracts’ with other people. As the Aspect of war, he is unable to perform magic unless he holds a contract. Usually, he holds a contract with his world, negating the need to form contracts with other beings. Upon arriving in Haven, he will need to hold a contract with another character in order to tap into the full range of his magical powers. Ultimately, his power, like the Wishmakers of his world, is the ability to grant miracles by manipulating life-force. With a contract, he will be able to tap into both his own life-force and the life-force of his contractor. His element is fire, and his nature is war, which allows him to perform strong magic to do with war—summoning swords and storms of flames, for example. He is also able to grant minor miracles that have nothing to do with his nature, such as levitation, limited flight, making an apple pop into existence, drawing a large-scale graffiti on the wall etc. But these are limited. The larger the scale of the magic, the the life-force it’d take. He cannot bring the dead back to life, and as healing is not his nature or element, he can only grant minor healing magic. Any large-scale healing will likely cost both him and his contractor’s full life-force, causing them both to die.

Also, not really abilities, but I wasn't sure where to put this-- Hakon cannot recognize human faces. As in, every face more or less looks the same to him. It's like trying to get a three-year-old child to recognize the differences between the faces of identical breeds of horses. Impossible. He judges people's identities via their actions, voices and mannerisms, but he's pretty easy to fool if you know what you're doing. Also, Hakon hits states of mania and depression. He'll get worked up on adrenaline, and then crash a few days later. ~~*The more you know~*~

We apologize, but we will have to decline the application at this time. The reason for this is that the application required too many sections revised.

You are welcome to reapply at any time in the future, and for any possible future reference, these were the points we felt were in need of revision.

The personality section - while this covered some of the basic points, it didn't provide enough of an insight into the more serious man beneath the goofing around. We would advise fleshing this out with a closer look at his motivations, and the relationships with the canon characters which help shape him.

In addition to this, we did not feel the first person sample provided adequately reflected the personality laid out. Finally, the link to the third person sample was over a year old.

We apologize for the inconvenience and we invite you to reapply at any time. Thank you.

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Items/Weapons:
1. A small switchblade
2. A broken watch
3. A small first-aid kit tucked into his jacket

Sample Entry:

Two threads! Let me know if more is needed ;u;

http://tearsofademon.dreamwidth.org/23684.html?thread=1275012#cmt1275012
http://fictionalized.dreamwidth.org/19234.html?thread=228386#cmt228386

Sample Entry Two:

A quiet day at the residence. Birds are chirping, the sun is shining—okay, who are we kidding here. No birds, no sun. But we do have two, rather bored individuals sitting in a room. One is sitting on a chair and pretending to be The Thinker. The other is painting him.

Okay, fine. Clarification. Only one is bored. And it’s not the one painting.

"Okay, I take it back. At least give me my phone or something. I’m about to turn the painting of ‘The Thinker’ into ‘The Fidgeter’, and you’re not gonna like that a whole lot," says the 'model'. Currently, Håkon is bored out of his mind. Watching the other guy paint him was interesting for the first five minutes, but for every minute that passed afterwards, he’d felt his interest waning. Watching repetitive movements of wrist, brush, brush against water, brush against paint, brush against canvas, rinse and fucking repeat three hundred million times is not exciting, not matter how bored the way they before, and anyway, Håkon feels a little cheated here. He had been promised that this would be something interesting. Turns out it was only interesting for the other guy. At some point or another, he got tired of watching paint dry out of the corner of his eyes, and now is wondering how long it’d take before the paint on the side of the canvas dried. This was the worst.
Carefully trying not to squirm, he surreptitiously peeks over the lens of his glasses. The painter is studiously ignoring him.

Wow.

Slowly, he begins to draw up a plan that involves three cans of eggplant, a brick, and nine socks with holes in them.

If he has to sit here and pretend to be ‘The Thinker’, he muses, he might as well put his time to good use and start thinking.

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Although the majority of the application looks good, we'd like to ask for a revise on the personality section.

The reason for this is that we'd like an expansion on what is already provided. The information currently provided lays out a good outline, but doesn't provide much detail into what makes Nil tick and the relationships he has with others throughout the series.

We apologize for the inconvenience. You have one week to reply to these revisions, thank you!

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... just noticed half this application was posted after the deadline 8'D;;; I'M SORRY I'D HAVE BEEN FASTER WITHOUT FORMATTING ISSUES D8

feel free to not judge this app until the next app round ;u;7

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