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: Shiki are pretty standard vampires. They sleep during the day and suck blood at night, they have a healing factor beyond that of normal humans (and are effectively immortal), and have no pulse or other vital signs if inspected closely. Some shiki have certain amplified abilities, like Nao, who is seen jumping up to a second-story window, and an unnamed elderly shiki with superhuman speed. This doesn't seem to be the norm, though.

All shiki also have the ability to perform hypnosis on their victims. This is primarily used to gain entrance into a home: shiki will bite their victims outside, then instruct the victims to let them inside whenever they come to feed. At first, it appears that only the first shiki to bite someone can use hypnosis on them, but later it's established that two shiki can imprint on the same victim. It's likely that the first shiki's hypnosis is more effective than any subsequent ones, though this is never stated.

Despite their healing factor, though, shiki can still be killed. If their circulatory system is disrupted in a catastrophic way, such as by decapitation or destruction of the heart, then their healing factor won't be enough to save them. Sunlight will also kill them by boiling their skin off, though this is a much slower, drawn-out death. They also suffer from certain aversions. They can't be near religious icons or symbols, and they can't enter a house (not even their own!) without an invitation from the owner. They also don't sleep of their own free will; their sleep is more like a coma that automatically comes upon them when the sun is about to rise. If they happen to be outside when this happens, they're as good as dead. They physically cannot go without feeding for too long, probably no more than a day -- they suffer from an unbearable hunger so painful that even the most "human" of shiki will compromise their morals and suck blood just to stop it.
Items/Weapons: Nothing, much to her dismay.
Sample Entry: Previous game thread.
Sample Entry Two: The worst part of dying was being fully aware of why it was happening, and not knowing what would happen next. Of course she understood that Chizuru Kirishiki was a vampire. As if in a trance, she had opened her window for that woman every night, and every night Chizuru Kirishiki would suck blood from her arm. It wasn't hard to figure out. But what was truly frightening was not knowing if she would become a vampire herself once she died. After all, things might not work as they did in movies. And if this was how Megumi Shimizu would die, anemic and shriveled in her bed... Well, it just wasn't fair. Her life had only just started; she hadn't even gotten to leave Sotoba. To have that taken away, without the chance of rising up -- that's what scared her the most.

So when she awakens in darkness in a bed of dried flowers, the first thing she feels is relief. Her chance to leave hasn't been taken away, this isn't the end of her dream to go to the city. In the moments after she comprehends this, she becomes aware of a second emotion, but before she can put a name to it, she hears a shnnk sound above her head. It's rhythmic, coming every three seconds or so, accompanied by a softer, more faraway plop... a shovel?

Oh, right. Surely the Kirishikis would know some of their victims might rise up, and they'd take measures like digging up graves to accomodate for that. Megumi waits patiently in her coffin, hands folded over her stomach and a smile on her lips, until the lid is shoved aside and the stars peer at her through the trees overhead.

The next hour passes in a blur. From Tatsumi, the Kirishikis' butler, she learns the full extent of what she's become, her strengths and weaknesses, her needs and, perhaps most importantly, their needs. For, as she now knows, the Kirishikis intend to use her and the others like her to convert Sotoba into their own village, to turn as many of its residents as they can and then live where no one will find them. Megumi listens intently, imbibes in blood for the first time, is taken to the Kirishikis' mansion to rest, and all the while that second feeling grows in her chest.

It's excitement. She'd been so scared she wouldn't get this power, that Chizuru Kirishiki would drain and dispose of her, but instead she's being embraced into their fold, and now she can use this to enact her revenge on the village that has trapped her here, that has dared to exist for this long. She will punish everyone who lives here, everyone who has dared to talk to her, and then she will finally be free.

Note: As noted in the Abilities section, Megumi is incapable of being awake during the day and will burn in sunlight. Would it be possible to have her wake up (at night) either under a bed or completely under the sheets rather than exposed to the light from the windows? I also have questions/suggestions about her feeding and hypnosis/invitations but that can be discussed over AIM/PM if she's accepted because it's far too long to list here. Thank you!

Congratulations on being accepted, Megumi Shimizu, your apartment block and number is #19.2, and your tag is character: megumi shimizu. 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: Waking up under her bed is fine.

Applications Two

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