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:

Yo! Yao guys! I got a bone to pick with you! [ guess who's back. back again.

old rap songs with questionable quality aside, there's a very familiar mop of white and red hair appearing on the network, with a not so familiar pout gracing (HEH) her face. she's also pointing at the camera all accusatory-like, and whether or not she's aware that this message likely won't get the attention of the Yao Corp is up for debate. ]

Okay so, it's like super obvious that your timing is just plain bad-- like, ridonkulously bad! "I-was-totally-gonna-save-the-world-when-you-guys-did-your-wee-woo-wobbly-thing" bad. 'Course, this wasn't the first time you did that sorta thing-- by the way, thanks a bunch for getting rid o' those itchy scars, they were a real pain in the butt! [ she starts mumbling about time displacement and how it's totally weird that she and the others were brought back to Ephinea without any sort of memory of being in Haven... she stops after almost half a minute, shaking her head and free hand dismissively. ]

--Aaanyway! Thanks for getting rid'a those things but y'know what? You're all still a buncha rotten bananas. I mean, your timing was terribad 'cause I was about to do the whole world-saving thing again and you brought me back to this dump! Sure, it's not that big a deal or anything...

[ her priorities: they're about to show. ]

But come oooooon!! Couldn'tcha at least let me keep Mecha Asbel?!

[ SHE JUST FINISHED IT AND SHE WANTED TO SHOW IT TO HUBERT, YOU JERKS. ]

Sample Entry Two:

There were several things Pascal expected when she came to: a mouth full of rocks was one of them, but not quite at the top of the list. Although the taste of sediment was one that was all too familiar to her (one could ask Fourier, or even Sophie to attest to this), last she recalled, Pascal couldn't remember a situation where she ended up kissing the ground for whatever reason. First of all, she wasn't alone: she was with the gang. If she really did end up tripping over her own feet and blacking out as a result, she wouldn't be face down for long if she had her friends around her, or so she believed. Secondly, she wasn't anywhere near any sort of rock: she was in the Enclave, finishing the final touches on Mecha Asbel. The floating streets of her home were carefully crafted by her ancestors and cleaned daily. If there were any pebbles on the streets, they were few and far between.

And yet here she is: shoving another body off of her while spitting out rocks that managed to sneak their way into her mouth. Continuity displacement — the only likely situation she can think of — is not exactly something Pascal can find herself getting used to or maybe appreciating: it's too confusing and she has better things to worry about than figuring out how she ended up in the ruins of a building with more bodies piling up (such as relishing the sight of Hubert's tears of happiness when he sees Mecha Asbel in all its glory).

After a moment, she finally pushes herself up with a grunt before someone else decides to roll onto her, dusting herself off and wiping the blood off of scrapes she can immediately find. Her legs and arms are stinging with irritated cuts and she can already see blood collecting on the elbows of her sleeves, but she pays no mind to it as she crawls out of the ruins and onto firm ground, Fandom's Light in hand. Briefly, Pascal wonders if she'd been brought to Telos Astue while she was knocked out, or if there was an explosion triggered that caused a building to collapse. The latter seemed plausible: it wouldn't have been the first time a building fell in the Enclave if that ruined walkway by her home was anything to go by. Not only that, but the surroundings are not as rust-colored as she remembers Fodra's atmosphere being. The thought that maybe her house exploded while she wasn't paying attention is put to rest, however, when she notices a billboard in the distance-- a billboard she can recognize anywhere.

At whiplash speed, she turns back to the ruins that she emerged from. Something's not right: the angle was correct as she remembered it to be, but there was something missing, that "something" being, oh perhaps, an entire building. Last she remembered, the apartment building — her home for several months — was supposed to be standing here. It was slowly being taken over by plants, sure... and there were regular earthquakes up until she left, some stronger than others but not enough to bring down an entire building. Despite that, the clues were all there: the occasional oddity that likely belonged to someone, the strange plants, that barely standing staircase...

There was no doubt about it. She's back in Haven, and these ruins were what remained of the apartment building.

"Holy..."

Her first instinct: find the others. Undoubtedly, everyone's found a different place to stay if this was what remained of the apartments, but where would she even start? Would they be on their own, or among friends? Finding a place where there are more people gathered would be a good start as the group shared the common belief in strength in numbers and bonds, and getting into contact with them immediately would be even better, though that's not a route she intends to take. While calling them would be the better option, what kind of return to Haven would that be? No, what she wanted to see was their surprised faces as she makes her Ultimate Reintro(c) in person, not on a screen where she can barely make out the faces anyway.

Though finding them... clearly won't be an easy task. All the other buildings look no better than what used to be the apartments, and everyone's seemed to have spread out-- not to mention Haven West is fairly big on its own, giving the Amarcian an unfairly wide area to cover if she intends to find her friends on her own. And then there was looking through all of the other ruins, and while she does enjoy her fair share of ruins spelunking... Pascal honestly couldn't believe that Haven West could look worse than it already did.

Pascal spares another glance at the ruins, kicking up the earth with a groan before setting off, Fandom's Light balanced on her shoulder. "Yeesh, what'd these guys do to the place this time?!"

And more importantly, why wasn't she around to see it happen?!

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on 14th February.

Congratulations on being accepted, Pascal, your tag is character: pascal. 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.
-> 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

Pascal // Tales of Graces ƒ // Not Reserved 3/3

Re: Pascal // Tales of Graces ƒ // Not Reserved 3/3

-> ACCEPTED