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:
Travis is skilled at swordplay as well as physical combat. His experiences in both are varied; he's learned new techniques everywhere, from training in the infamous Dungeon in Calgary and under a former professional wrestler to correspondence courses and video tapes. His style's rough at times, yes, but his strength is not something to be taken lightly. He's at his most clever in the middle of a fight--he's got a decent sense of strategy, even if he's sometimes too hot-headed to remember it. (For example, during his fight with Bad Girl, the wrestling moves he did were all focused on weakening her batting arm.) Travis is also quick to learn new techniques and is reasonably intelligent.

In-game, he has a set of "Dark Side" abilities. Travis enters a trance-like state for a few moments and displays superhuman abilities, most notably super-speed, time manipulation, firing energy blasts from his sword, and shapeshifting (into an adult tiger). There is very little canon explanation for his powers, but they operate in two ways. The first is through an "ecstasy" gauge: the more riled up Travis gets from fighting, the more likely one of the Dark Side abilities is to activate. Finally, the ability can just occur randomly while he's fighting--in-game, when you kill an enemy a slot machine icon appears, and getting three icons in a row determines what ability you get. Because there is no canon explanation for how and when these abilities work, (or whether or not they're just in Travis' head SUDA51 GAMES ARE WEIRD OKAY), these special abilities will not be applying to Travis in Haven.

As for weaknesses? Travis is an ordinary human and, now that he’s without cutscene immortality and unlimited continues, he can be killed fairly easily. Furthermore, his fighting style is quite rough and unrefined, and he is also mostly accustomed to a beam weapon, which is much lighter than the average sword. It’s likely that he’ll be slowed down a lot without his trusty beam katanas. He also has the tendency to be a bit of an idiot and easily finds himself in trouble. Especially when there are ladies involved. Or people who aggravate him on purpose. Or both.

FINALLY, Travis is completely fourth wall aware, but I will be putting up permissions for this should I be accepted!

Items/Weapons:His beam katana Peony, his clothes (this outfit!), and his cellphone.

Sample Entry: post to the haven network

Sample Entry Two:

Until arriving in Haven however-many months ago, Travis hadn't really ever been bored. Not truly, anyway. Back in Santa Destroy there was internet, television, video games... hell, there was at least jerking off if he was desperate enough. But here, there was very little to fill the space. All of those things-- distractions from reality, the white noise and static and bright colors and glowing screens-- were things he realized he had taken for granted now that he was in a world without reliable electricity or entertainment. On top of being horrifyingly dangerous, Haven was also horrifyingly dull. There were only so many places he could get to and only so long that he could gather supplies, and even then what was to be found was scant. As usual.

(...As for the jerking off, the walls were too thin and the apartments too occupied to do it in peace. The Worst.)

All in all there was an absence, especially at night; an empty space of time in which he knew he should be asleep, but just couldn't do it proper. Some remnant of a golden time with high-speed 'net access, maybe. Now, this was real boredom: staring up at the white stucco ceiling of an apartment full of strangers or near-strangers, the only sound their quiet breathing and occasional snoring.

And that was the real killer of Haven, now, wasn't it, having to sit around and wait for Yao to fuck you over?

Travis, lying on his back in his bunk, glared up at the mockingly average ceiling-- some psychological screw-with-your-mind bullshit, it had to be. This was not Yao deciding to give them a break, or not having anything to do with them at all, he'd theorized (a product of all these boring nights with nothing else to do but think, and overthink). It must be part of it: part of whatever they were trying to do with them.

It was all too reminiscent of a lab rat shoved in a cage between experiments for him to pass off. Just waiting, and being watched all the while.

And suddenly, the silence broke.

Scraping. Metallic, and familiar.

Another thing he hated about Haven: being actually obligated to choose his battles. That Pyramid thing was patrolling the housing spiral again, no doubt, and by now he had it beaten into him more than once that some of the monsters here just weren't to be taken on. He had to wait for it to pass. Like always, even as his fingers itched for the hilt of his beam katana.

A cage that was impossible to escape; a prison guard impossible to take on. He had to hand it to Yao, they were pretty efficient about making him feel absolutely goddamn useless. Travis rolled over, scowling, and planted a pillow over his head-- at least until he couldn't hear Pyramid Head anymore.

This was more than boredom. It was remembering that he was trapped.

Edited 2014-06-14 00:08 (UTC)

Congratulations on being accepted, Travis Touchdown, your apartment block and number is #1.1, and your tag is character: travis touchdown. 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

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-> ACCEPTED