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:
Irritating. [ His voice is borderline-apathetic, if best, but there's an undercurrent of irritation that festers like an open sore beneath the inflection. It remains ambiguous whether he's referring to the functions of the network audio post itself, or something outlying the bare-boned absurdity of being chucked head-first into a world he can't just warp out of. ]

You're all boring, and frankly I hate you all. [ Blandly stated; there's some static on the audio heard as he drops the cell phone on the ground, grinds it into the dust with the heel of his foot. ]

Oh, yeah. [ The audio is thinner, more splintered with patches of radio silence now that his voice is projected from a farther distance, but still coherently audible. ] If bluebird or my master's deadbeat vessel are listening in —

I wouldn't be here without him now, would I? I've got plans, and none of you are any use to me dead. [ A pause, and then a percolating moment or two that suggest he's cut off the line, but then — ]

Tell Ventus to come out and play. As incentive for the idiot: I'll break someone if he doesn't feel like it. [ Laughter, raucous and hollow, reverberates through the interface as he abruptly cuts off the feed. ]

Sample Entry Two:
In the sense he’s only as real as believes himself to be, a collective solipsism of axiomatic half-truths and whole lies, Vanitas sticks to the static, the ambiguous, the delineation of melting shadows and incompleteness. Memories were only worth their weight in pyrite; they hadn’t redeemed him, only sealed him into his fate, leaden, the gravity of losing his individuality mildewing somewhere around his ribcage, right where his heart should have been. Seeing is believing, even if four years is only the distance he’s traveled in circles, skittering from one revelation to another. There would be no return, and it's nothing he expects. Death becomes him, fingers splayed out as a macabre form of control, and by extension, the exertion of his own will.

"You used to be too broken to talk back." His breath runs dry, a garish derision that reveals what his mask conceals — an undying hatred.

In this way he isn't weak, held down by the pathetic excuse of a weakling scrabbling past him in Destiny Islands, too concerned with the fate of his friends to realize that the end was already upon them. Assimilation at the roll of a dice, as if becoming someone else was another form of afterlife, as if he could measure the circumference of his destiny through seven days of some godforsaken, penultimate dogfight. Best-case scenario, he’d dissolve into his other half’s mental schema, poltergeist in mind and spirit – but that was no way to live, less than a shadow, unable to resolutely die. Vanitas would be the one to win. He'd make certain of that. He could’ve laughed then, let some kind of hysterical cacophony right from the bend of his lungs, from expelling air gone slightly tangible, but with irritation settling in too quick, he's more prone to make an ultimatum with Ventus's nearest and dearest.

"Fine. Then I'll give you a reason to fight. Come and find me ... at the one and only place to spawn the χ-blade — the Keyblade Graveyard. There you're gonna' see me choke the life out of Terra and Aqua. Then we'll see how long you play the pacifist."

Straightening with his blade summoned in an act of menace, he leaves satisfied, (much to the insistent yells of Ventus as the Corridor of Darkness closes up around him). Everything was finally set into motion, and case in point, the catalyst usually was the plot twist.

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on 28th February.

Congratulations on being accepted, Vanitas, your apartment block and number is #7.1, and your tag is character: vanitas. 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.
-> Check out who your character is sharing an apartment with.
-> 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.

NOTE: Your proposed restrictions to his Unversed Summon are fine by us! However, this is a note to let you know that any teleportation will only work within each area and not between areas (you can find more details on the nitpicker's guide.

Applications Two

vanitas | kingdom hearts | reserved

Re: vanitas | kingdom hearts | reserved

-> ACCEPTED