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

Abilities/Powers: ❝ Booker, are you afraid of God? ❞

Elizabeth possess the power to open rips across dimensional time and space known as tears.

Described by her as a sort of "wish fulfillment", she is able to open these doors to alternate worlds filled by events and objects that do not exist in the current world she occupies. By manipulating them, she is able to exploit them and summon objects from these alternate worlds such as health, salt, weapons, ammunition and pieces of scenery that Booker is able to make use of in battle. Other examples include when she opens a tear inside an elevator, revealing an open window so she wouldn't have to kill a bee. Later on, when she running away from Booker, she makes use of these tears to slow him down by opening them to reveal a cascade of balloons and streamers, a marching band and even a train.

She can also use these tears to transport Booker and herself to alternate timelines and realities. Timelines where certain people have not died, or timelines where certain things have happened that seemed impossible to accomplish in another. At her current state, she is unable to take them back to the original world which makes going through the tears very risky. Perhaps the biggest drawback is the state of flux she can cause on people, the mind will immediately begin to try and make new memories where none exist in this new world and it causes terrible nosebleeds of them as they try to make sense of things. Even more traumatic are the people who have died in one world and are alive in another, it leads them to remembering two realities of being both alive and dead and being unable to separate them.

Although not definitely stated, she seems to have trouble opening and closing tears when in a panic. She also mentions that tears have a way of appearing when she is anxious.

Despite her powers being impressive by normal standards, this is only a small fraction of them. She mentions that as a child she was capabel of not only opening tears, but creating them too. As she grew up, she lost this power but not because she simply forgot but simply because she was unable to due to the siphon built within her tower leashing her powers. When the siphon is destroyed later in the game, her powers return and she becomes both omniscient and omnipotent; able to see all of the infinite timelines and capable of opening doors to them with utter ease.

While she is inside of Haven, following what was decided with the last time she was in the game, instead of tearing into alternate versions of Haven she will instead be capable of opening tears to the worlds of characters represented in the game with permission. Much like in Columbia, Elizabeth will also capable of bringing small items from these worlds but is very limited on how often she can do this and can only do so in battle.

Outside of this, she is also a very skilled at picking locks provided she has the lockpicks needed to do so. She is also a talented codebreaker, painter, singer, dancer and knows about a great deal of literature. She also has a grasp of medicine, partly in thanks to fighting across Columbia with Booker.

Applications Two

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