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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.

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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.

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THIS APP CONTAINS MAJOR SDR2 SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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Name: Lucy!
Contact Info: Emailing me at ilovelucille89@gmail.com or pinging me at lucylovespluto on plurk are the best ways to contact me. Journal pms will also work, however!
Other Characters Played: None!

Character Name: Sonia Nevermind.
Canon: Super Dangan Ronpa 2.
Canon Point: Just before the end of Chapter 6; i.e. immediately before initiating the Forced Shutdown.
Background/History: Here is her page on the wiki, but it's pretty sparse (tbh the wiki is pretty sparse in general). Here is a pretty detailed synopsis which covers her role in the game as well as everyone else's. Let me know if you need something written up instead!

Personality:

Friendly and almost excessively polite, Sonia was one of the more diplomatic and amicable students in her "class" (spoilers: they were not all from the same class year, and the class years are all sort of up in the air so no one knows them outside of a few). While she did occasionally tell people off, it was always in her habitually polite and formal mode of speech, and almost always had to do with disrespect to another of their classmates. As far as the others went, her generally forthright manner seemed to have gone over fairly well, and she didn't have any major problems with any of the others to speak of. She did disagree with others at times, but even so didn't work up to any real rivalries or anything of that nature, even with those she scolded from time to time. Of course, this could be because there were characters who had this "major problems with others" thing on lockdown (Komaeda, and Kuzuryuu for a while, and Saionji, and - look, her class just has a lot of very strong personalities in it!) but there you go.

Though she words things a little oddly due to her status as a foreigner, at least half of Sonia's word choice can be applied to "speaks in an overly formal manner with an occasional sprinkling of outdated terminology that she's pretty sure is very current because she grew up watching outdated dramas". Her formality is linked to her being polite - Sonia even calls Monokuma Monokuma-san, which is far, far more polite than anyone else ever bothers to be. She's not likely to interrupt the others when they're speaking - in fact, near the end of trial two this works against her as Sonia isn't able to get people to continue speaking about the facts of the case before the vote, as her interjections are politely worded and peppered with "please" and "excuse me" while everyone is very worked up about the trial at hand - and shows disapproval whenever anyone else starts arguing or being rude to one another. Most of her scolding has to do with others disrespecting one another, as stated above. It's worth noting that even in the midst of Murder Island: The Game (aka Super Dangan Ronpa 2) Sonia tends to greet people and even make pleasant remarks about the weather - she's very much a polite girl, and the times she's outright rude are far and few between and therefore worth paying attention to when they happen.

While Sonia is generally always polite, she does not always agree with others or simply go along with things by any means. Even given her respectful phrasing when referring to Monokuma, Sonia also responds to him with "In that case... please excuse us for not looking forward to it." after Monokuma prepares a game for them in the second chapter. While polite on the outside, this statement is a good example of how Sonia will manage to be polite while also basically saying how about not. This diplomacy is something others remark upon in the game from time to time. Sonia also refuses to just go along with Koizumi's insistence that she ought to be the leader in the first chapter, saying that her status had always been more of a figurehead at home, and that she believed Togami was a good choice. Sonia does go with the flow sometimes - for example, she allows Hinata and Souda to join the girl's beach outing when pressed, although she remarks that it had been planned to be girls-only - but she generally will not do anything she does not wish to do. This is perhaps best displayed by something she says to Hinata early on in a Free Time Event: "I do not plan on killing anyone... nor have I any interest in meekly being killed!" Sonia actually manages to stick to this, so...props to her.

It should be noted that Sonia is very caring and really does seem to feel for her classmates. She's among those actively trying to get along and get to know others at the start of the game, and goes so far as to organize a girl's meet-up after the first murder trial is finished, believing stronger bonds would help them to eschew the mutual killing (...it doesn't work out, but hey, she tried). She's also one of the first to Kuzuryuu's side when he's hurt at the end of the second execution, not caring about getting blood on her hands as she tries to assist Tsumiki in checking on him, and apparently got absolutely no sleep while they were waiting for word on how Kuzuryuu was doing. Sonia's one instance of snapping at someone unprompted came from a lack of sleep during this time, and she apologized immediately after. She's also the one who first wants to listen to what Tsumiki has to say when the other girl interrupts during the first trial, although it is Tanaka who carries through the motion of listening to the Super High School Level Nurse. Even more so, the fact that she would forget the others was almost more important to Sonia as a factor that scared her in the Forced Shutdown than becoming Super High School Level Despair did (as did the fact that Hinata wouldn't even be reset to a Super High School Level Despair Hinata, which was a sticking point for pretty much every survivor). And after she'd decided that the best way to care about the others was to not let their deaths go to waste, and to grab the future they'd built together, for good or ill...well, that was what swayed her more than anything else as well.

The fact that Sonia is a bit odd is indisputable, but it also seems to have a lot to do with her being a foreigner - in particular, it seems to have a lot to do with her being a foreigner from Novoselic (which is a the fictional European country that Sonia is princess of). Hinata wonders at one point if the people of Sonia's homeland are in fact sane, and the answer is...well, we don't know the answer, but they are apparently universally quirky. It's a place where there are odd rituals involving animals called "Makangos", which are relevant to couples. Apparently one has to raise them, and then show them off to one's lover in order for them to be a thing - or you have to fight them. It can be a little confusing because it sounds absolutely insane - also of note is that Sonia has to have a gold one. It's a place where quirky magical girl anime can get a 90% approval rating from the public, and apparently old Japanese dramas are trendy. Being thirteen minutes early for any appointment is apparently expected (...weirdly) and in elementary school students start training on how to use things like tanks. To put it simply? Novoselic is weird as hell and quite a few of Sonia's oddities seem to be linked to her homeland and upbringing.

Quite a few, but not all. One of Sonia's other little quirks is an intense appreciation of serial killers and the occult, which is all her own - her appreciation of Japanese dramas, for example, is more Novoselic weirdness, not Sonia weirdness. Throughout the game this "hobby" of hers gets remarked upon by others (usually in the "...okay, that's a bit weird for a princess, but if you say so, Sonia" sense, since no one appears to have the heart to call her out on it completely save for one or two occasions) and Sonia herself frequently reminds people of it by things she does or says. Her friendship with Tanaka Gundam seems to be founded on her appreciation of his dark arts (as well as his cute hamsters) and she's openly admiring of him, for example, and when the topic of serial killers comes up in trial two she's very surprisingly knowledgeable. There's also the curious statement that precedes her assertion to Hinata that she had interest in killing or being killed - Sonia remarks that "It might have been different were this my own country, but for me, this is a foreign land" in terms of eschewing the mutual killing, which seems to indicate that she might have been a more active participant if they had been in Novoselic. This is never really expanded on, but it's definitely enough to make Hinata do a double-take at it.

Sonia also tends to miss references to things on occasion, or misunderstands colloquialisms - her first on-screen conversation of any length has to do with Sonia completely missing Hanamura's innuendos (Komaeda and Hinata put a stop to him for her, though, or at least play interference) despite the fact that she later admits she isn't a virgin. The things that go over her head have a lot to do with that sort of thing, or with cultural things she just doesn't get. See: fire doors, which was a plot point for a case. And for a silly example, Nidai once uses the phrase "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" to express surprise. Sonia seems shocked, and then...turns around and copies it five minutes later, because she added it to her repertoire. Sonia is admittedly fairly willing to go along with silliness - she at least never puts up too much protest to some of the weirder topics of conversation, and can occasionally get embroiled in derailments. That said, Sonia is actually a very intelligent young lady. She can read and write in thirty languages, and is frequently complimented throughout the game on her fluency with Japanese. Even aside from that, she often notices things and brings up things that are relevant in trials (and she isn't doing so randomly, as Sonia is one of the characters who at the very least pays attention and contributes actively to trials, although she's more active in some than others). It's clear that she has a good head on her shoulders, even if she's occasionally silly.

While Sonia doesn't remember anything from the missing memories (...somewhat obviously, since they are missing) she is aware of her fall to Despair at her canon point, and it is certainly worth noting that Sonia Nevermind did become a member of Super High School Level Despair in the ordinary course of things. This is an irrefutable fact, as were the things she did while in that group. While the details are vague or hard to attribute to specific students, every member of Super High School Level Despair had a hand in murder and mayhem, and it is likely that all of their families were sacrificed to this in one way or another. For Sonia, it is likely her country did not survive her fall.

I bring this up solely to discuss this: "She used that overwhelming irrationality to gather "Super High School Level Despair" around her...she used love, hate, revenge, whatever she could to turn them to despair." That quote is from Monokuma, discussing Enoshima Junko. While Sonia has determined to move forward to the future that she and her friends fought for and grabbed with their own hands and while she is overall a charming and friendly person, it is worth noting that in the past she was capable of being broken to the degree of becoming a member of Super High School Level Despair. While the specific downfalls of each student are unknown (save for a few, like Hinata and so on) it is likely that Sonia's personal despair had something to do with her status as a princess and what that meant for her in her personal life. In one of her Free Time Events with Hinata she tells him that her life was was the property of her country and its citizens, and multiple times over the course of the game she states she'd never had a chance to do many mundane things, including having friends her own age. She admits she was looking forward to her time as an exchange student in Japan for that reason: a chance to be something other than a princess, as "In my country, before I am a human being or a woman, I am, firstly, the princess." The feelings of loneliness she had without friends and the belief that her life always belongs to her country before herself are things that still exist within Sonia to this day, although hopefully she would recognize an attempt to turn them against her.

While Sonia appeared to have come to terms with returning to the Sonia Nevermind who was in Super High School Level Despair without any memories of her time on the island ("The future we'll create from this point on, it’s also the future that the others helped us create, isn't it?") it is likely to be something that will come up and very much be a part of her. She understands what she became, and she can look out for it so it doesn't occur again, but...the fact that it did occur is unquestionable and that matters in terms of who Sonia is.

Abilities/Powers:

In terms of powers, Sonia has nothing supernatural to her name. In Dangan Ronpa (and Super Dangan Ronpa 2) students of Hope's Peak Academy are accepted based upon their talents, and receive Super High School Level titles in accordance with said talents. Sonia's talent is that of the Super High School Level Princess, which (as I've gone over in the previous section) is due to the fact that she is a Princess. As far as this talent goes in practice, she seems to be capable of speaking in an unintentionally authoritative tone (typically accompanied by this pose) which tends to make her classmates snap to attention and occasionally go along with her against their initial wills. At one point Hinata even finds himself nearly kneeling down before her when she dismisses him curtly due to a lack of sleep. This isn't a supernatural ability or anything - it's just Sonia's princess side showing through, the authority of someone of royal lineage used to behaving as such.

Outside of that, Sonia is apparently capable of reading and writing in at least thirty languages (and presumably speaking in them) and has a truly ridiculous knowledge of outdated Japanese dramas. Truly useful skills in Haven, where there's nothing to read, writing disappears, and everyone mysteriously speaks the same language. And, well, when is the Japanese drama thing ever going to benefit her?

Items/Weapons: Nothing outside of the clothes she was wearing during her time in the New World Program will be arriving with Sonia.
Sample Entry: Here you go! I also replied to one of the more horror action-y prompts in this thread, if you required that.
Sample Entry Two:

Is this Jabberwock Island? That's the thought that flickers through Sonia's mind even as others coalesce and dissipate one after another, fleeting as she struggles to wake up. She's uncomfortable, an elbow in her side and people pressing against her. Wet - rain? And the ground, beneath her. If everything she'd known was true, then this couldn't be "waking up"...could it? It's hard to think about it critically as more information filters in. A few moments of struggling extract her from the tangle of people - some waking, some sleeping still - and she scoots backwards while still seated, before realizing that she's just getting dirt and muck all over her skirt.

More dirt all over her skirt, at least.

That mundane concern is what gets Sonia to her feet, and she ineffectually tries to brush herself off - nothing to be done here without better resources, Sonia. One of her hands hits something hard in her pocket, and she freezes. Student ID Card...? No, that's not it at all. Instead it's a cellphone, which she easily recognizes, although the model is rather out of date compared to her usual sort. "I do not believe this is mine..."

Though that wasn't the main thing to worry about. She could flick it open and attempt to ascertain the owner at a later date. For now, Sonia looks around, increasingly worried. Whether or not she "woke up" as she was meant to do - which she couldn't have, because she remembers everything about the island, and even if they'd promised to remember it wasn't supposed to be possible - whether or not that was true...there were people she'd been meant to see after they'd pressed those buttons together. The shock of waking up somewhere strange isn't what flips her into actual fear, although she's confused and worried from the start. Even waking up surrounded by strangers, and the ruined landscape around her...those things she could tolerate more than something that becomes increasingly apparent.

No matter how hard she looks at the people waking and sleeping still, she can't spot any of the other four students who ought to be with her.

No, no. Take a deep breath. And then another...so she couldn't see the others here, could she? That just meant that she would have to look for them, in..."Haven". The ominous undertones of that supposedly warm message on the billboard...it worried Sonia, but not half as much as finding the others did, at this point. The possibility that there was no one to find was there, but - no. Worrying about it until proving it one way or the other wouldn't do anyone any good. She'd just have to look around and see if she found anyone she'd misplaced, and if not...Well, nothing had changed in terms of what she had to do, right? She was still living on time bought for her by the others, the future they'd all created, good or bad. She couldn't possibly disrespect that. Sonia had already decided that much.

With a little nod to herself, that settled, Sonia set off - though she already knew she'd pause several times before this was through. It would hardly be good of her not to help the other people waking up - and anyway, maybe they knew something more than she did.

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Applications Two

Sonia Nevermind | Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | Reserved | SPOILERS ARE IN THIS APPLICATION.

2/3 Sonia Nevermind | Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | Reserved | SPOILERS ARE IN THIS APPLICATION.

3/3 Sonia Nevermind | Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | Reserved | SPOILERS ARE IN THIS APPLICATION.

Re: 3/3 Sonia Nevermind | Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | Reserved | SPOILERS ARE IN THIS APPLICATION.

-> ACCEPTED