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:

Her acrobatic skills are fairly off the charts. She tends to utilize these combatively throughout her seies (though she does get pulled out of a very promising circus career upon her introduction in order to chase the Avatar, to her initial dismay), but Ty Lee's acrobatic feats also just tend to be something she does naturally and without thinking it over too much. Ty Lee is basically crazy skilled in parkour and free running because of her mad acrobatic skills, and basically she can be relied upon to be dodgy and limber as all get-out. This makes her a pain in the ass to fight against, and she's seen to be capable of outmaneuvering huge groups of soldiers and some pretty powerful benders throughout the series, although admittedly familiarity with her fighting style can be used against her. See the following.

She's also an adept chiblocker; in ATLA, she was the only chiblocker ever shown, although it became a Thing in Korra. She was admitted into the Kyoshi warriors (so she does have their fighting styles in addition to her ATLA styles, nowadays) after trading the girls some chiblocker lessons. It basically disrupts the hell out of bending, but also just renders muscles and the like useless, so fighting against her can be annoying as hell. You can read all you could ever want about chiblocking here. Suffice it to say this style of fighting meshes really well with her acrobatic shenanigans. As I said above, familiarity can work against her; once people know she can do this they tend to do the intelligent thing and take measures against it. SADLY. Still, it is a thing that is a thing, and can probably at least disrupt any magical fighting style that utilizes a flow of energy in the body, although it is unlikely to disrupt any other type. ...Though you'll still get limp noodle limbs if she lands her hits, but the paralyzation effects are not by any means permanent.

Further, Ty Lee has since been trained in the Kyoshi fighting style, which you can read about further here! The main thing they do is use people's energy and movements against them (little wonder Ty Lee caught on pretty fast, there) often with the help of their dual fans, which can be used defensively, to direct movements, as projectiles, or even as boomerangs! Aside from the fans they are trained in the use of their shields and also thin katanas, although the katanas are not their main weaponry as they prefer to utilize their fans, apparently. They have a lot of coordinated team movements that obviously will do jack all for Ty Lee without her squadron, but yeah.

Ty Lee also claims to be able to see auras, occasionally complaining about people having "dingy" auras or complimenting them for having happy or pink ones. It's never actually stated if she's full of it on this count or not, but Ty Lee herself certainly believes she can see auras.

Items/Weapons: For reference, Ty Lee is arriving in her full Kyoshi Warrior get-up. The only thing of note about this uniform is that it is basically fancy pants armor that she wears all the time these days and that is has a built in retractable shield thing that can withstand firebending (...not that this helped the Kyoshi Warriors when they took on Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee herself back in the day um). The three items that arrive with her otherwise are:

• Her twin metal fans, the trademark weapon of a Kyoshi Warrior.
• Her original outfit.
• Her Kyoshi Warrior katana.

Sample Entry: Here you go!
Sample Entry Two:

Haven was sort of a silly name for a place that was anything but. It wasn't a joke, really, and Ty Le hadn't made the observation aloud to anyone because, well - come on, who wouldn't have noticed it? But it was something that flickered through her thoughts whenever she looked at the billboard, the creepy one with the message that made her think of the Dai Li. Made her think of Ba Sing Se, really. Where everyone had seemed to think if they just pretended hard enough there wouldn't be a war outside their walls.

And then she'd waltzed in with Mai behind Azula, and how had that gone for them after?

That was in the past, though. In the present Ty Lee was...well, exploring. So far her explorations had turned up more questions than answers, but you got that, sometimes. She felt weirdly naked, even though she had her full kit on her. It'd been ages since she'd really been alone for any amount of time, especially for something like this. Sure, scouting ahead was a thing, and she went off on her own now and then, but...a dangerous situation, with none of the other girls in sight? It was just...weird. Wrong. Even before she'd joined up she'd had people around all the time. Mai and Azula, back when Mai wasn't off doing whatever she's doing now, and Azula wasn't...well, Azula, although she'd still been Azula back then. The circus people.

Her sisters, although it'd been longer still since Ty Lee had had them nearby.

At that thought, Ty Lee smacked her own cheeks. Not hard, just...for warmth, and to sort of wake herself up. "Nope! Come on, we can do this...even if it's just "me", not "we". First things first...more information, and look for the girls. Right?" And if they weren't there, well...she'd look for other people, maybe circle back around to the room she'd woken up in. She'd find someone she knew, surely (if she just believed she would hard enough) and then...

Then she'd make a plan for after that. Yeah. That'd do it. Normally Suki was the brains of things, or before that Azula, but she was okay. Ty Lee could handle this, surely. And if she let herself think otherwise, she'd get worry lines or her aura would go dark and manky and who wanted that to deal with, right? So...onwards. That was the only option.

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

Congratulations on being accepted, Ty Lee, your apartment block and number is #2.2, and your tag is character: ty lee. 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.

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-> Join havenrpg, havenooc, havenlogs and havenplots.
-> Check out who your character is sharing an apartment with.
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-> Fill out this form.
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-> 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

Ty Lee | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Reserved 3/3

Re: Ty Lee | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Reserved 3/3

-> ACCEPTED