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

Name: Ashley
Contact Info:

ashooree, sharingank@gmail.com
Other Characters Played:

Taiga Aisaka | Toradora! |

taigabite
Natsu Dragneel | Fairy Tail |

delectablefire

Preferred Apartment: With Anna, if possible!
Character Name: Kristoff Bjorgman
Canon: Frozen
Canon Point: Post movie
Background/History: sup

Personality:

Reindeers are better than people.

For the first half of the movie, this is pretty much Kristoff's mantra. Not only does he sing it to his reindeer companion, Sven, as part of a cute little bedtime ditty, but...he genuinely believes it. 'People will beat you and curse you and cheat you.' They're jerks and they're all bad, every last one of them. Granted, he had just gotten tossed- bodily, I might add -out of a shop/sauna for calling the owner a crook, an incident which was likely the inspiration for said bedtime ditty, however, Kristoff is a loner by nature. He's got his sled and he's got Sven, which is all he needs to get by out in the mountains, harvesting ice (a profession he started to prepare for as a kiddo). He prefers it that way. Sven is totally a fantastic conversationalist- so what if Kristoff speaks for him? Got the voice down and everything. They've been together for years, he knows what Sven is thinking, even when he wants to pretend he doesn't, like the time Sven kept nudging him to go back to the palace after Anna and he insisted he couldn't understand Sven when he talked that way.

(No, there's nothing weird about pitching your voice so you sound like what you'd imagine your reindeer would if he could talk. There's nothing weird about that at all. You're weird.)

Kristoff might've kept contact with other human beings as minimal as possible, in fact, if Anna hadn't imposed herself on him. Never mind he's an orphan and was raised by a bunch of love experts- er, trolls (no really, they're actual trolls, in a figurative and literal sense). Never mind he's a sensitive guy who needs the contact and the interaction more than he'd ever admit. Sure, he hems and haws and tries to scare Anna at first by going way too fast in the sled (that gets destroyed), but she doesn't react the way he expects her to. She never does. And...that's not so bad! At all! He can be himself around her, can even have fun with her- she's like another Sven, except. Not a reindeer. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa? It's only when he starts to realize he cares about Anna, maybe even loves her, that he gets a little awkward and unsure of himself, which is a strange new experience. He's got a ton of quirks that he doesn't think twice about and he knows he's good at all aspects of his job and then Anna busts into his life and shakes everything up, throws him off balance. Even so, when Anna's running out of time, his only thought is getting her back home as fast as he can, and that means letting her go, no matter how much it hurts him to do it. She's engaged to someone else, after all, and that someone else is the person who can save her, not Kristoff.

But this is Disney so. Ya know. Happy endings.

Anyway, let's talk about those quirks! Kristoff is cool with eating stuff that has been inside a reindeer's mouth and is covered with reindeer slobber. Ain't no thing. He does wash himself but he still winds up kinda smelly (again, his primary companion for most of his life up until this point was Sven, and reindeers smell). He can be very blunt and gruff and cranky, not to mention gross. He expressed disgust at the fact that Anna got engaged after knowing her fiance for a day and asked her all these questions about Hans that she didn't know the answers to, following up with a line about guys picking their noses and eating their boogers- according to Kristoff, all guys do it. Which means he has done it, maybe more than a few times. Nice!!! Also he cleans his sled (IT'S MAHOGANY) with his own spit and yet freaks out when Anna puts her feet up ON THE MAHOGANY (and some of his spit flies in her face). He thinks Elsa's ice palace is the coolest thing in the world and gets pretty bummed when Anna says she wants to go in alone first. He plays the lute! He knows how to sing! He wanted to tell Olaf what would happen to a snowman in summer, because he thought somebody should break the bad news, but Anna ordered him not to. He gets all nervous when he's taking Anna to meet the trolls because they're loud and inappropriate and really heavy, you guys, seriously.

And he asked Anna for permission to kiss her instead of just doing it, which is pretty great.

Abilities/Powers: He's been lugging huge blocks of ice around since he was little, so he's pretty strong! He's also an outdoorsman, and is used to roughing it with few supplies. The conditions of Haven suck, but the concept of living without any luxuries isn't all that foreign to him.

Items/Weapons:

-His clothes
-His lute
-A bag of carrots

Sample Entry: what up

Sample Entry Two:

Love makes you selfless.

There was more than one kind- Kristoff knew that. He loved Sven, who had been by his side since they were both little sprats, basically. Wherever Kristoff went, Sven went with him. They survived abandonment (on account of death) together, they survived as tagalongs until the trolls, trolls who had healed a little girl as he watched, concealed- or so he thought. A girl with a white streak in her hair, like she'd been touched by snow, by ice (she had been). He loved the trolls that took him and Sven in as their own, Grand Pabbie and Bulda and Cliff and the rest, for all their crudeness and their exuberance and their...well, their heaviness (maybe because of those things; the apple didn't fall very far from the tree). No matter how often he left to explore the mountains, to seek adventure and ice, always ice, they welcomed him back like he was their golden boy. Not to brag or anything, but he was. Their golden boy. (They made sure to poke fun at his blonde hair as often as possible.)

He knew about love.

What he didn't know was the way it could sneak up on you. It hardly mattered if you were alert or if you were the most observant person around, and it definitely didn't matter if you were looking for it or not (he wasn't). There could be nothing there one moment and then the next, you're getting socked in the face by it, with no way to defend yourself. If you told him that leaving some girl behind when he knew he'd probably never see her again would be the hardest thing he'd have to do in his life so far, he'd scoff and suggest you get your head out of the ale barrel.

Except Anna wasn't just some girl, and leaving her behind was the hardest thing he'd ever had to do in his life so far.

But he did it. Even when he wanted to be the one she loved, even when he wanted to be the one who saved her.

She saved herself, in the end. Hans didn't do it. Kristoff didn't do it. Anna did. Anna and the love she felt for her sister. A love that was worth the sacrifice, more than worth it.

Because love makes you selfless.

There were worse life-changing revelations he could have, he supposed.

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

Congratulations on being accepted, Kirstoff Bjorgman. You will be living in apartment #6.007, and your tag is character: kirstoff bjorgman. 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

Kristoff Bjorgman | Frozen | Reserved 1

Kristoff Bjorgman | Frozen | Reserved 2

Re: Kristoff Bjorgman | Frozen | Reserved 2

-> ACCEPTED