havenmods | 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Sample Entry:

[it didn't take Cloud long to figure out how this phone worked exactly. wherever he was, it was nowhere on the Planet anymore. he'd already been here for the past day- he just didn't think to communicate with anyone until now. he had his own cell phone, but the reception was dead and useless to him. in the camera you can see a man with hauntingly glowing blue eyes. you can't hear it through the video, but occasionally his eyes dart around...as if he hears something. someone. voices. he's inside, it seems. but where? one of the apartments no doubt]

I've lived nightmares worse than this. (Let's just hope this doesn't come back to bite me.)

Can anybody hear me? Tifa? Barret?

... ... ...

All alone. Hm.

[with a creaking sound, he falls back on the bed he's on, holding the camera over himself still as he stares up into it. his eyes don't show any real signs of fear... but there's something else in them. the feeling of isolation. of being alone. it was worse than most horrors]

Think. I fell asleep in my own bed. Don’t think I was even dreaming but I…

[one last time, Cloud pulls out his old phone, the reception dead and the battery life starting to dwindle down. no one to call, text, no one to give him an answer… he finally closes his eyes as he lets his cell drop beside his head. he suddenly feels tired]

Where am I really? I can't wake up.

Sample Entry Two: This wasn’t exactly how Cloud had anticipated his first day in Haven to pan out. Down beneath the equally bleak city above and into the subway tunnels, one man in particular had taken his chances. He didn’t know where he was going or what he was going to find, but he’d found the stations and railways familiar to him. It was reminiscent of the same train stations that he and the others travelled through in Midgar. This time, there were no missions on hand or reactors to destroy; only a selfish desire to escape and find that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Every step that he took invoked an echo that seemed to ring far longer than he would have preferred, as if it came back to pound in his ears and remind him that each step he took was to be cherished.

As if he didn’t have many left to live through-

“!”

Whirling on his heel, Cloud’s paranoia was beginning to reach critical mass. The voices in his head, the whispers, the thought of being touched but it never actually coming… So wound up by this realm of despair was Cloud, that he impulsively drew his sword, pointing it at the darkness only for nothing to answer the call of battle. For a good minute he stood there, holding his ground as the brightest light down there was the dull glow of mako in his sapphire-hued gaze. The grip upon his blade tightened too until eventually it ceased, an admittedly shaky sigh escaping the man’s lips as he didn’t bother to resheath it. He would keep it by his side, like an elderly man in need of his walking stick. It was his only way, his only solace in this world of darkness and madness. Theorizing that if he kept following the tunnels, he’d eventually see a way out, the acerbic warrior pressed onward. Would he wake up? Was he already awake to begin with? What was he supposed to believe and what was he supposed to deny? He didn’t dare call out least he attracted unwanted attention. An hour passed as he checked his phone- no reception underground. It was only natural after all.

And yet Cloud wasn’t afraid of the dark or what lurked here. No, his fears ran far deeper…

”You hate being alone so let people in. Sure you don’t answer the phone, but I don’t see you throwing it away either!”

“Ah…?” He stopped again, this time sensing that something was approaching. In the darkness ahead was a pair of sinister glowing red eyes. He should have known that staying down here for so long he would eventually come across something. But he wouldn’t give in- he still felt power surging through his body, adrenaline guiding him to his goal, to a way out. To victory; it would never be in his grasp however. And if he was going to stubbornly keep this up, he was going to learn the hard way.

--
SEVEN HOURS LATER . . .
--

”Haah… haah… ngh—aah..”

The grunts and groans heard rising from the steps of the Haven West station almost signified that something wicked was daring to rise up from the depths underground. It was always more frightening when you didn’t know what went bump in the night. For anyone that was happening by at the time however, or would happen by later on, the otherwise dull and washed out scenery would be accentuated by some fine, fresh crimson, a trail of blood leading up the steps to the entrance. And who or what was responsible for the change of scenery? Dragging his blade behind him with blood and gore clinging from the otherwise shining work of art, he could barely use it as a crutch let alone as a weapon now.

Seven hours…seven hours he stayed down there and threw himself to the wolves as it were. And what did Cloud have to show for it? A glazed over look in his eyes with a notable and deep gash in the back that threatened to let you see to his spine, bite marks that tore bits of flesh from his body, and so much more that no one should have dared survive through. With the last of his strength, the blond warrior that could never truly say die, found his gaze searching the murky skies above. It was in that moment that he finally found solace in something. Something cool that conflicted with the hot sensation coursing through his body.

“Ah…”

The rain… If he rested for a while, the rain would wash away the blood and he could get back up later. Right?

“………”

Was he even aware of where he was now? His heart beat in his chest, his body broken but his mind unable to truly yield. And even than as he finally collapsed to the cold ground beneath him, his eyes lifeless and betraying that he was still alive…

(Tifa…)

Cloud would carry on. Cloud would suffer. There were other ways to die than to lose one’s physical being. The question at hand was, would he let himself die anyway?

Welcome to Haven, Cloud Strife. You have no power here.

"Somebody..."

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on October 25th.

Congratulations on being accepted, Cloud Strife. You will be living in apartment #2.005, and your tag is character: cloud strife. Please use this tag when you are the poster of the entry or log, and when you tag into an entry or log, thank you. Please note that tags will not show up on the tag list until they have been entered manually once, this does not mean we have forgotten to give your character a tag.

Please make sure to complete the following:

-> Join havenrpg, havenooc, havenlogs and havenplots.
-> Optionally join havenmemes, the Haven Meme community, and haventest, the Haven Test Drive community.
-> Fill out this form.
-> Fill out your details on the taken characters page.
-> Check out who you'll be sharing an apartment with on the apartment listings.
-> Introduce yourself in the OOC community.
-> Make sure you have read this guide

IMPORTANT: An IC mingle log will go up on Saturday at 7PM EST, where new characters can intro with the rest of the game. Feel free to join the communities and introduce yourself OOCly before then.

Applications Two

Cloud Strife | Final Fantasy VII | Reserved

Re: Cloud Strife | Final Fantasy VII | Reserved

-> ACCEPTED