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

Name: Megan
Contact Info:

mercurialfelines or flufflekittens@gmail.com!
Other Characters Played: Eugene Fitzherbert (Tangled,

panhandled)
Requested apartment: N/A

Character Name: Lumina (also Claire Farron, technically)
Canon: Final Fantasy XIII series (only appears in Lightning Returns)
Canon Point: Near the end of Lightning Returns, before Lumina is reintegrated into Lightning near the very end.
Background/History: Wiki link!

Personality:

"I swear that child is a demon." It's no wonder that the patron of Yusnaan thought that of the tiny trickster girl, though many of the other citizens of Nova Chrysalia apparently make light of her penchant for mischief. Her interactions with Lightning are less "mischievous" and more "randomly antagonistic", however, but that may be because Lumina is a part of Lightning; the part she rejected in order to be what she considered strong. Lumina has a skill for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong, in the name of help. And while some of her meddling does have a golden lining (she procures the coffer of souls so that Sazh can restore his son's soul, as well as points out that he needs to be less sad and mean if he wants his kid to return) there are somethings you just have to go "what the hell, Lumina" (such as when he purposely gives Noel an oracle drive with a fake prophecy of him killing Lightning...) though it's likely that Lumina sees even her more... rude stunts as "helpful" in their own way. She's very much a big picture person over little details.

And Lumina does mean to help-- well and have fun, as she states herself. She is far from a normal child, and clearly considers it her job to in particular check-in on Lightning's friends (including being there when Fang and Vanille were freed from crystal, pestering Snow enough that he thinks she's a demon, etc) while Lightning was, y'know, missing for five hundred years. That said, Lumina has a habit of seeing the world and the people in it as her playthings, so to speak. While she has a desire to help others, she is very playful and incredibly unpredictable. When she appears to Lightning, it's usually to taunt her or summon monsters for the Savior to fight. Despite her clear dislike of God (aka Bhunivelze), it could be said that she has a habit of playing God herself-- or, no. Rather, she plays snack-sized guardian angel. The residents of Nova Chrysalia seem to regard her mischievous antics lightly. To be fair, who could hold anything against such a sweet face? (Snow Villiers didn't seem to be a fan, but it could be that it's the weird resemblance to his dead fiancée throwing him off. Or that Lumina has just been a brat to him.)

While not a normal child, she is a child. Having fun is clearly a priority, even if it's followed closely by whatever tangled up help she gives others. She is easily amused, not surprising since she often has the upper hand. Some of her "helping" antics barely seem that at all-- giving an oracle drive with a false prophecy to kill Lightning to a guy, trying to convince Lightning to kill Snow to put him out of misery-- but they are. Lumina has a good understanding of those around her, of the humans that she toys with most. Of course, by that time she had been running around for five hundred years, so it's not entirely amazing. Though she seems to be the only one who's gotten anything done in all that time, even if most of it could be summarized as "general mayhem and mischief".

Lumina is the part of Claire Farron that Lightning wanted to be rid of-- "I'm Claire Farron. Her selfishness, her loneliness, her fear. That little bit of your soul that you couldn't accept." And these are the traits that make up Lumina's core; a selfish, lonely, and scared child. Lumina is not Lightning and Lightning isn't Lumina, but both of them are Claire Farron. Both of them care for the same people, in particular Claire's sister Serah. It's no real wonder that Lumina toys with Lightning like a cat with a mouse, considering that she knows the woman best and could be a bit hurt by Lightning essentially tossing her away like trash-- and she only reintegrates once Lightning realizes she doesn't want to be sucked into the Chaos and left alone, in other words once Lightning sucks it up and stops trying to reject her emotions.

Abilities/Powers:

• Lumina is not human. She's essentially the repressed emotions of Claire Farron. She looks human, feels human, but has special powers and can dance around in the chaos without being, y'know, disintegrated. She isn't some immortal being, however, and likely has no other special traits/powers than as listed here.
• Teleportation, appears/disappears with a flash of light.
• Monster summoning. She canonly only summons a couple of different monsters, it is unknown what her "range" or stock of monsters for summoning is.
• Chaos. Chaos in the FFXIII world is force that destroys everything it touches. However, humans all have a piece of chaos in their soul-- it could be said that this is what Lumina is made of. She walks through it unharmed and refers to the monsters it can spawn as her "friends".

Items/Weapons: Aside from her clothes, Lumina comes with Lightning's Crimson Blitz sword, which she broke; and nothing else because she doesn't have three items to choose from. :|

Sample Entry:

[ A young girl with a mischievous grin and pink hair appears on screen. She gives a small wave of greeting, then directs the camera's phone over to where the convenience store and Pyramid Head lie. She's fairly far away from him, obviously, since otherwise she would be shredded by now. ]

Now, I'm quite curious-- what's this thing supposed to be? It's not a person, I don't think... [ Is it a plant/mineral/animal, then. ] I'd ask it myself, but! I saw someone try that. It didn't seem to go too well.

[ She means someone got ripped to pieces by it; "didn't seem to go too well" is an understatement. ] Is there a way to approach it without it wanting to rip me up?

[ It may be prudent to advise the small child to not approach the murderous triangle-headed thing guarding the store. Or perhaps just drag her away from the area, since she doesn't seem to take seeing someone get ripped to shreds as much of a warning to STAY AWAY. ]

Sample Entry Two:

She could hear Lightning call out, and she'd been coming to her... now all she heard was the beep of some machine. There's a moment of fear, of sharp loneliness until she hears the rustling noises of other people in the room. They may be strangers, but somehow not being all alone is enough to calm her. A clock is going off. Sitting upright and swinging her legs over the side of the bed, she looks around until she finds the source. Then she casually gets up and turns it off. There, that's better.

Lumina doesn't linger long in her apartment before she goes out to inspect her new surroundings. Humming pleasantly, she isn't panicking like some people seem to be. In fact, she isn't horribly concerned at all. Yes, she doesn't want to be here. But she is, so might as well have a bit of fun while she figures a way out, right? And figuring a way out requires exploring! Apparently, anyway, since Lumina has never been in such a situation before. It's just a bit fascinating to her. Just a bit.

After a walk, she finds herself in front of the black, deep Void. She stares into it, curious. "This isn't like the Chaos, is it?" That's not said to anyone in particular; she's just musing aloud. "No, not at all. What is it, then?"

She's half-tempted to jump in and find out, but thinks better of it. If it isn't Chaos, there's no telling what might happen if she were to leap in. She might not even be able to teleport out, and that'd be terribly troublesome. That doesn't mean she isn't considering finding out, however.

Congratulations on being accepted, Lumina, your apartment block and number is #26.3, and your tag is character: lumina. 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 - please note, all re-apped characters are also required to fill out this form fresh, thank you.
-> 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

Lumina | Final Fantasy XIII | Not Reserved

Lumina | Final Fantasy XIII | Not Reserved

Lumina | Final Fantasy XIII | Not Reserved | 3/3

-> ACCEPTED