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:
[When the video feed comes on it shows an average looking guy. Nothing out of the ordinary, just another random person that's suddenly appeared. Gabriel sure looks irked, but he's going to settle for a bout of sarcasm. Shouting is for idiots.]

Just couldn't let me go, could you? I saved your sorry asses and wind up here. Yeah, thanks for that. I really wanted to wake up in some cheese-induced nightmare.

[There's a shrug at that, Gabriel swiftly moving on to other things. He's not one to loiter too much on the depressing side of things.]

Okay seriously, someone throw a guy a bone here. And I'm not talking literally before some knucklehead gets that idea. Would not put it past this place. Or you can just not. I mean it isn't like I won't find out anyway, so no skin off my back. [Actually gives a look at that one. Don't even try it. This whole thing stinks of a giant clusterfuck. He won't be surprised if the Winchesters pop up out of nowhere. They are always breaking shit.]

So. Who's going to crack and start talking first? Bueller? Bueller?

(ooc: Another example of a first person post here, from mask or menace.)

Sample Entry Two: (from mask or menace)

Gabriel wasn't sure what had happened anymore, and for him that was a new one. The archangel was used to "flicking ahead" when he needed to see what was going on. He'd seen the discussion with Lucifer and how it would probably have ended, and that part hadn't disappointed per say. His own brother had managed to kill him, and in Gabriel's mind it was labelled under "annoying as Hell, but shit happens". After all, if Lucifer hadn't killed him, he'd have killed Lucifer. At least the brothers had gotten away with the dvd, the information on how to put Lucifer back in his cage. Gabriel had been all for letting things run their course, even trying to hurry them along at one point before Dean had come out with a few home truths. Then it had been fuck everything, but most of all fuck destiny.

And yet merely a month prior Gabriel had been up to his usual tricks. He could remember with ease how he'd watched a man get pummeled to death by a big, green killing machine. The asshole had had it coming to him, some would call it just desserts which was fitting. The victim had a temper on him, enjoyed taking it out on his wife. Gabriel had merely returned the favor in the most hilarious of ways, even if the wife had seemed a bit fucking crazy explaining that one to the police. There had been many laughs and then some more over that one.

Just thinking about it as he briefly glanced at the folder handed to him made Gabriel grin. The police reckoned it was a bear. Gabriel would love to see a bear that could leave an eight foot hole in the porch. That would be a dammed cool bear, and even now Gabriel was mentally adding it to his list of things to use in future.

Now he was in some strange place, and Gabriel wasn't sure if it was what the woman was saying or some strange concept of angelic afterlife. It was never a question they'd really entertained. For people it was simple- if you were good you went to Heaven, if you were bad you went to Hell. For demons and some others there was Purgatory, though Gabriel wasn't sure if the archangels qualified for that cesspit of eldritch horrors. And this place sure didn't look like it. Soon he was nodding idly at the explanation of the device he was now being handed. Simple enough, anyone who didn't understand that was a certified moron. If this was to be believed, it was a group of people fucking with things to get their own way. Gabriel had found it hard to side with anyone in the war between Heaven and Hell. This group would have a hell of a time trying to get him to do anything.

Gabriel never did anything he didn't want to do. If this group could deal with an archangel sitting around drinking diet orange slice, then that was their prerogative. Unless the Winchester boys were around, like they were always bound to be. Then things could be more fun than planned.

(ooc: Another example of third person posts here, from Exit Void.)

Congratulations on being accepted, Gabriel, your apartment block and number is #13.1, and your tag is character: gabriel. 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.

NOTE: As Gabriel's reality manipulation powers have the potential to be game breaking, we would request that they are reduced to only covering a small area (for example, the size of one room), and only able to be used for a short length of time per day. Thank you.

Applications Two

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