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

Personality: Like the rest of the children from her future, Lucina’s life was full of hardships after Grima woke and both her Mother and Father both died. These hardships are what shaped her into the strong, loving woman she’s become.

In her own time, Lucina has faced many hardships and, unlike the child Lucina that is born into the game's timeline, has grown up knowing nothing but evil and the dangers and destruction that that evil had brought into the world. As a result, this has made her hold an attitude more serious and grim than most and rightfully so. As someone who comes from such a dark time and knows what the future will bring, Lucina sees the dire straits in the situations they find themselves in. So with every repeat, misstep, and bad thing that happens, she thinks of them as stepping closer to a fate similar to the one in which she left. This is shown several times throughout the main story and even her supports, like when Basilio died and in her support with Inigo when they came across a pillaged village. And often times it’s these mistakes that she takes responsibility for, considering them failures on her part from preventing them. It’s this grave way of thinking that often times Lucina doesn’t understand has a negative effect on others, especially since she’s seen as a leader. This is pointed out mainly throughout her support with Inigo and Cynthia. Throughout Inigo's support he tells her that her emotions reflect and effect others and through Cynthia's, she tells her that as their leader, she affects the groups morale.

To go along with her serious nature, Lucina is also incredibly straightforward and a realist. She doesn’t sugar coat dark matters and is fairly blunt about them. Using her knowledge of the future, she isn’t afraid to tell people that they will die if they do certain things or go somewhere where, in her own time, they had died once before. She did this for Basilio, Emmeryn (through telling Chrom of her imminent death), and even Chrom himself. Another good example of her straightforwardness would be in her support with her sibling (in this case, Morgan). When he brings up never holding Falchion, it occurs to her that they don’t know if he is worthy enough to wield it. So she tells him that they must find out if he is in case she were to die in battle. When he objects and tells her that there’s no way he could practice for her death, she tells him that they need to be practical and there are no guarantees that she will survive during the war and they need to be prepared if she doesn’t.

Despite her grimness and stoicism, Lucina is deeply caring. Through her blunt words and dark way of thinking, Lucina is kind and cares deeply for her people and especially the children who look to her as their leader. In her supports with them, Lucina will go out of her way to spend time with them, even if it’s time spent doing nothing, simply talking or doing silly things that would usually be seen as pointless to her. In the Future Past DLC, the children call Lucina out when she arrives to meet with them, despite not being invited, telling her she was reckless to come out alone and leave the castle when she shouldn’t. To which she told them that she wouldn’t miss the chance to meet with the friends she hadn’t seen in so long. Though it’s also because she cares about them so much that sometimes she’ll make misguided decisions. A good example of this is in her support with Laurent, when he notices she’s injured and she tells him she told no one nor got it healed in order not to needlessly worry anyone.

Despite her rough life, Lucina maintains hope for a better future throughout the game. In fact it is the very thing that drove her to go back in time, because she had hope that she could change fate. She constantly strives to achieve a future better than her own, always taking every chance she can to stop events and even certain deaths from taking place, such as Emmeryn’s assassination and Basilio’s death by Walhart, in order to divert fate from its original course. Even in her own time, Lucina tried to maintain hope in her troops and people by fighting back against Grima and encouraging them to fight on so he wouldn’t win.

Lucina is fiercely protective of her father, Chrom. She loves him and considers him to be the most precious person who she can't bear to lose. It’s more than evident that as a child she had a close bond with him and still thinks and clings to the idea of having a close father and daughter relationship, especially since he died when she was so young. In her support with Chrom, she mentions that in her own time, when he was alive, he would tell her little secrets. However mundane and unimportant they were, she considered them to be treasured memories. She also says that he had been the one who taught her how to fight with a sword, her main weapon. In the Future Past DLC when Chrom speaks to her, she says "You have burned brightly in my memory since the moment I lost you."

And because he remains so important to her, several times throughout the game Lucina goes out of her way to protect him and even objects and speaks up with worry at many of his decisions if they mean putting him in harm’s way. One notable time was when he talked about the awakening ritual and she asked him if he had to do it when she heard that he could die if not deemed worthy by Naga. Another would be when she snuck into Ylisstol to stop an assassin from attacking him. There isn’t one thing Lucina wouldn’t risk or do to protect Chrom and keep him from dying again, even willing to go so far as to pointing a sword at her mother with the intent to kill her after figuring out that she was the one who killed him in her own time and this time again.

But of course, this doesn't mean Lucina hates or dislikes her mother. She loves her as much as she loves Chrom. In fact, in that very scene, Lucina lowers her sword, finding herself unable to go through with her initial plan because she loves her too much. She tells her multiple times, both in the main story and in their support that she had missed her mother and being with her again is like a dream come true. In Future Past, when Robin speaks to Lucina, Lucina tells her that she had missed her mother’s strength, wisdom and guiding hands.

Because Lucina loves and missed her parents so much, when it comes to spending time with them she loses her usual serious attitude and acts more carefree, playful and even a little childish. She insists upon it as much as she can without feeling as though she’s troubling them. Like in her support with Chrom when she asks him to give her lessons on how to fight with a sword, even though she knows how to fight well enough on her own, and pulls out two swords she had with her to practice without knowing what his answer would be. She also tells Robin that such simple pleasures like going out shopping with her is something she has always dreamed of. She wishes to know all that she can about her parents, even begging Chrom to tell her of the time they met despite his protests.

But even though Lucina craves spending time with her beloved parents, she acknowledges herself that she isn’t their real daughter and thinks of herself as a burden to them, despite Chrom and Robin both constantly telling her otherwise. She often tells them both that after the war is over she will leave them to their lives with their real daughter, which, in her solo ending, she does. Despite her words and promises of leaving them alone however, Lucina is deeply jealous of her younger self. As silly as she finds it, she feels envious that her younger self can grow up with the two loving parents, who always think of her, that she could not and knows she must give them up to her. This she tells to Robin in their final support.

Applications Two

Lucina | Fire Emblem: Awakening | Reserved