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: [At first the camera is zoomed in a little too close, the corner of a frown the center of the focus before it zooms out to reveal a better image of William.]

Good day to those that are watching this. My name is William T. Spears, I am one of the newly arrived citizens to this...community of sorts.

[A little fixing to his tie to make sure that it is perfect, which it already was, for this was just a ploy to distract himself from being unnerved at being misplaced.]

I would like to know about any current sense of rules that must be followed here, as well as proper manners that should be displayed. I do not wish to present myself as a fool because of laziness and the inability to gather information about my surroundings. What do they mean that everyone is safe here and by how could they ensure the safety of everyone?

Sample Entry Two:

Carefully and with precise, methodical flicks of a dark blue silk handkerchief, William wiped away the nauseating black and dark green sludge that had splattered across his face. It was the unfortunate result of when he kicked in a head of a rather demanding zombie--one that had the bad sense of timing and unfortunately came across an already foul-tempered management supervisor.

"Note to self: add the cost of dry cleaning and new work shoes to Sutcliffe's bill," William muttered to himself as he used the last clean corner of his favorite handkerchief to clean away the spare flicks of zombie brains off his glasses. Through the now-cleaned lens William's rather sharp bright green eyes could been seen. Some, mostly a lazy and often troublesome rouge field officer, might describe his eyes as being cold and soulless. Looking behind him to inspect the messy path that he had cleared, William finally became alert to the sound of soft moans. At first the demands for a certain sugary confection were too soft and easily ignored as mere white noise, but now they had gradually increased--as if what was making them was even closer--and judging from the echos they were surrounding him.

It was a fluke that he found out that a piece of chocolate would distract the living dead long enough for him to either escape or to forcibly remove them with a well placed kick. As such, when he found himself awakening to the foul odor of the rotting corpse who was searching through his coat pockets and pulling out his stash of chocolate. William was more upset that his personal space was being invaded than the fact that the ones who were doing the invading were long dead humans.

While the majority of the application looks good, we'd like to ask for a revised first person sample.

The reason for this is that we don't feel as though the sample provided gives a good insight into William's personality. You are welcome to link a post or thread, or write a new sample.

We apologize for the inconvenience. You have one week to reply to these revisions, thank you.

Sample Entry:

[At first the camera is zoomed in a little too close, the corner of a frown the center of the focus before it zooms out to reveal a better image of William.]

Honestly...

Finding myself sharing a room with *that* muzzled mongrel of a demon was not enough trouble to begin with but to have also find out that my collection book been tampered with? Every single page within it's perfectly organized and color coded binder wiped clean of all my hard effort. All my hard work wasted. I have you know that it is a tedious affair to follow up on a single person for months at a time, watching their every single action before and up to after their deaths. Good grief, mortals are more trouble then they are worth and I can not comprehend what demons find so attractive about their souls.

[A little fixing to his tie to make sure that it is perfect, which it already was, for this was just a ploy to distract himself from the temptation to either throttle someone or to just point blank turn heel and leave.]

I would appreciate it if in the future- whoever is in charge of this...problem... that they would leave my collection book alone. I would rather not have to do everything all over again.

Congratulations on being accepted, William T. Spears, your apartment block and number is #28.1, and your tag is character: william t. spears. 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: As the mingle log has already gone up, you may feel free to use it or to make your own post to intro.

Applications Two

Re: William T. Spears | Kuroshitsuji | No Reserve

-> REVISE

Re: -> REVISED- Reworked!

-> ACCEPTED