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

Personality: A kid like Rin Okumura could be easily dismissed as a hotheaded youth with too much spare time on his hands. He’s as brash as he is passionate, an empathetic young man who has a slight case of tunnel vision. In some ways, he is as typical as any fifteen year old: he is noticing the other sex, his confidence is low, and he has moments when he feels as if he can do anything. He is invincible! Nothing could possibly hurt him! The world belonged to him!

Rin loves reading dramatic manga with super dramatic plot twists and engaging characters that make him cry, watching movies (like Star Wars), and listening to music (sometimes). He can (and prefers) to sleep for 10 hours a day and he has slept through class more than once. If asked to describe his study habits, he’d say something along the lines of “hands-on practical learning!” which easily means he can’t stand to be locked in a stuffy room all day long. Rin also enjoys pulling pranks on his friends, has something of a rivalry with his twin brother, and can be sarcastic when the need arises. Rin likes cooking, being outside, and he has a tendency to disobey direct orders. But like other kids his age, there are factors that help influence his actions, and events in his life that have shaped him into the individual he is becoming. Despite the fact that he is the son of Satan, Rin works hard to prove that he much more than just another half-demon. The results are usually mixed between the reactions of others and his own self confidence. He has learned to accept himself and how others view him, and focuses instead on becoming the best person he can be.

Rin has always been the odd one out. As a child, he felt ostracized from his peers because of his volatile temper. He would become vicious when angered, and his strength (impressive even at a young age), would lead others to label him as a demon and a monster.

It was difficult for him to understand the connection between his strength and their fear, but he knew that it was his actions and his power that alienated them. To him, their words were unfounded. He believed it had more to do with how he had been able to cause that much pain to his classmates and show no remorse (or sentience) while doing so. His temper as a child was as wild and unrestrained as the strength he displayed. These factors led to a small confrontation between Shiro Fujimoto and Rin, father and son, which damaged a few of his Fujimoto’s ribs and left Rin with a resolution he could attempt to stick to. After the incident, Rin decided to use his strength for something good, in emulation of his father. Try as he might to abate his initial hotheaded reactions, it was his willingness to help others (whether they wanted his help or not) which proved to be his undoing. He was too strong to be seen as human by the townspeople and he often fell into trouble by causing more destruction than needed. While Rin would feel as if there was little he could do to change the image already constructed for him, he never stopped trying to find a way to be helpful to those around him. While in middle school, he helped less and less. He skipped class and barely kept his grades up. Yet his temper remained unchanged and his attitude became more rebellious. Rin no longer cared what others thought of him as the years went by. He felt as if he should just accept that being “a cool and respectable person” just wasn’t in the cards for him. No matter how much Father Fujimoto believed in him, Rin had a hard time believing in himself.

After graduating from middle school, Rin started looking for a steady job rather than pursuing higher education. He felt that schools would be better off without his personality and he doubted that he would learn anything, or be of use to anyone while inside of a classroom. A part time job seemed to Rin like a better place to start, but he soon found out that he was unable to hold down a job. It always came back to something he had done, in one way or another.

However, after the death of his father, joining an Exorcist cram school, and coming in contact with classmates he would later consider friends, his temper was put to the test. Rin found himself smiling a little more than before as he slowly began to realize how much it meant to him to finally have close connections with others. As much as it filled him with good cheer, it also greatly frightened him. Rin could not accept that he was a demon, and he wasn’t sure how his companions would react to his parentage.

Rin tried to pull back his anger (and felt it dissipate) as he grew closer to his classmates and through his studies. Yet, he would always remember who and what he was. He feared their reaction if they ever found out that he was the son of Satan. As he grew closer to his friends from the Exorcist Cram School, the calmer he began to feel. His outbursts changed from angry declarations to childish proclamations. His conflict between hiding his parentage and protecting his friends from himself came to a peak during a fight with the Earth King, Amaimon. His relation to Satan was revealed to his classmates, and soon followed their open distrust towards him.

When he reveled himself through his fight with Amaimon, his fears were realized. His friends rejected him and, in turn, Rin decided that he would rather earn their friendship and trust again than to live life without that companionship. He knew that they were afraid of him. He had dealt with other people’s apprehension before, but he had not been close to them. While his classmates were taken away for a proper explanation of Rin's condition, Rin had been taken to a religious counsel to have his fate decided. Unwilling to bend to the will of those aging exorcists, Rin fought back with his ambitions and promised to himself to train harder so that those around him were left unharmed by his flames.

But his new resolve could not convince his companions. To them he was a dangerous creature and Rin felt their animosity more acutely than he had before.

It took a memorable trip to Kyoto to help Rin see that he was a person worthy of recognition by those who wanted his attention and that he need only to accept who he was in order to take hold of his life and find meaning within himself. As the group headed to Kyoto for their mission, Rin worked on his flame control. He was able to speak to Izumo and Shima, but the fear and anger amongst the others still lingered. Rin could hardly blame them for it, but as the mission continued, it began to grate on his nerves. He had already dealt with that behavior for most of his life. He wasn’t willing to see it repeat itself with the friends he had gained.

During the Kyoto arc, Rin did what he could to redeem himself in the eyes of his companions. While the cram school gang and the other exorcists worked on the case at hand, Rin was busy with other tasks that were (initially) much more prevalent to him. He trained every day under Shura’s surveillance, performed many menial tasks, and made sure that he was as helpful as he could be. Rin was diligent in both his training and daily interactions with the others, so much so that he was able to speak to Shima as well as Suguro’s father. For a moment he even managed to gain a semblance of control, but his joy was short lived. The trouble in the Kyoto base had reached its boiling point. Rin witnessed Suguro’s argument with his father, immediately spotting the similarities between his own final words to Father Fujimoto. Rin didn’t want anyone else to suffer the same pain he had experienced that day. Rin’s words towards Father Fujimoto haunted him, even when he tried hard to move forward.

Applications Two

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