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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 [community profile] 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

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Shinji Ikari | Neon Genesis Evangelion | Reserved

[personal profile] thehedgehogsdilemma 2014-07-14 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
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Character Name: Shinji Ikari
Canon: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Canon Point: post-episode 24
Background/History: Canon | Background

Personality: The death of his mother and the abandonment by his father, not too long after losing his mother, resulted in Shinji Ikari growing up to have very low expectations and self-worth; a boy with terrible self-esteem since childhood. Shinji Ikari is boy who grew up just living through day-to-day and doing what was expected of him with no objections from him. He went to school, played the cello often at the request of his teacher that he grew up living with after his father walked out of his life. (Fast forward to when he's 14 years old and meets Gendo Ikari again; the reunion was a far cry from heart-warming. To this day, he does not have a good relationship with his father.)

At an arms-length-distance, Shinji Ikari is an average, agreeable boy who is a bit quiet and has a few problems with his self-esteem. And he is perhaps a bit awkward around women (especially if they come onto him. But from what we gathered with the infamous encounter with Kaji in 2.22, ANYONE can fluster him if they come on strong.), and not the most assertive person you'll meet.

While he sometimes bickers with Asuka Soryu, another fellow Eva pilot and chosen child, Shinji is still a passive person and is the one who usually attempts to pacify her abrasive behavior in any way he is able to. So it's not that Shinji doesn't have a backbone, it's just that he doesn't always have the energy to care enough to put up a fight. So he usually thinks it's just easier to let people have it their way, rather than fight it. (and more inclined to pick his battles.)

In the beginning of the series, Shinji feels as if he had no choice but to pilot the eva, that this was a thing that Shinji had no say in. However, Shinji does become a little more willing of piloting the Eva when he gets praised by his father after a mission. Just hearing a "Good job" from his father left Shinji taken aback, and made him finally think of his reason of piloting Eva after a while answering "I don't know what my reason is" when he was asked before. He is no hero, and even he had a better attitude, Shinji wouldn't want to be, let alone think of himself as a hero. As odd as it sounds, he pilots the Eva for the praise and approval of others, including his father, who he still had some disdain towards; which is a total contrast to Asuka's reasons for piloting Eva which was "to be the best.". He feels his existence has some worth when he pilots the Eva.

Shinji is a boy who wants to be liked and wants your approval, another reason why he isn't a confrontational person. Growing up, his teacher had him take up playing the cello. Shinji kept playing it and actually became quite skilled at it, as Asuka commented when she heard him play. When she asks "Why do you keep playing?" he answers "Because no one told me to stop."

When it comes to getting emotionally close to Shinji or wanting to make a bond with him... Well. There is an expression called "The Hedgehogs's Dilemma" that describes one of Shinji's downfalls. It is when:
(1) The closer two beings come to one another in a relationship, the more likely it might be for them to inflict psychological pain on each other
(2) Yet if they remain apart, they each might feel the roughly-equivalent pain of loneliness.

It is the very explanation of why Shinji is quite the introvert who rarely makes friends at school and is rather content with just listening to his SDAT player (his cassette player) than talk to other classmates. Only Toji and Kensuke were the ones who got through to Shinji and were his only friends at school. When he is with them, he acts and behaves like the 14 year old boy he actually is, and not just an Eva pilot with responsibilities and burdens. Thus, this proves that Shinji is able to make friends, he just doesn't always take initiative to reach to others.

He'd rather keep you at an arms-length distance, if he is able to. Get any closer or cross that boundary and he will try to close in on himself, emotionally.

He rarely reaches out to others because he believes it will only hurt him in the end. And on the flip side of that same coin, he hates and fears being alone and that hurts him just as much, if not more. From what we gather from the conversation that he had with Kaworu Nagisa, the only person Shinji was able to confide in, is that while Shinji is cautious of people around him, he does not hate anyone. (except his father, which he feel he is perfectly justified in doing so.)

In the "End of Evangelion", it is shown that while Shinji has been hurt and betrayed in his lifetime, he still values his individuality and would rather still exist physically than live a life in Instrumentality where the souls of all beings were merged into one huge sea of LCL. He realized that even there is pain/will be pain in his lifetime, there is still the happiness from being cared about and caring about another individual; Shinji got to experience what that is like with the help of Kaworu Nagisa, no matter how short-lived that bond was.

This was why when the Third Impact happened, the Apocalypse of their world, he rejected Instrumentality, in the end. So, all that said, Shinji is not all hopeless when it comes to people. Shinji has the potential to go in a better direction. Towards the end of the series, he starts to think in a better direction than he did in the beginning despite needing a little work on self-esteem. (Going from "I am worthless/useless" to "Yes, I'm a coward, and I am only me.. but I am worth living here!") As hopeless as he made himself and his life out to be, and as much as he dislikes himself, somewhere in his heart, Shinji Ikari has the will to live and wouldn't want to die.

Abilities/Powers: None. But he did pilot an Evangelion, so he could probably pilot something similar to it!
Items/Weapons: Just his SDAT player for item! No weapons.
Sample Entry: Here's one from another game. (Can provide different or more if needed!)
Sample Entry Two:
"Wake up. Please just wake up, Shinji. It's just a dream."

Shinji would try mentally telling himself that when he realizes he's stuck in a place he thinks he vaguely remembers. (Vaguely. His memory of Haven would be very fuzzy.) Needless to say, his reaction was to close his eyes and hope he'd wake up to the unfamiliar ceiling that was Misato's apartment. But all he got when he opened his eyes to see vaguely-recognizable skies that was Haven, instead. The building that was the apartments were not too far from his eye sight.

He wondered to himself just how long would he be here, this time? Well... Then again. Did it really matter? What would be left for Shinji when he returns, anyway? With someone who genuinely cared about Shinji winding up dead, with a another friend in a comatose, and another he just can't confront after finding out a certain truth, the former pilot has little to look forward to now. Misato was different since Kaji died, too. So it wasn't like the former pilot had much to return to. There were no angels to fight, anymore. No one would be there to welcome him home anymore.

But it's alright, he reasons to himself. That noisy apartment (with Misato and Asuka? It was noisy! But he tolerated it.) that he probably was beginning to call "home" was not going to last forever. He should have known better. Things like that were too good to be true. Shinji thinks all that to himself, but was he really OK with going back to what he's done before? After what he's been through with everyone? He closes his for a second before he opens them again, blinking away the burning sensation and moisture. (No, Shinji. You will not cry.)

No. Maybe he honestly isn't fine with going back to before he met everyone. But it's what he needs to do to keep himself safe and live for as long as he's in this place. He won't hurt again. He'll be fine this way, with keeping distance, he thinks to himself as he starts walking to the housings. Whether he would have roommates or not, it didn't matter to him. Either way, he was not in a hurry to greet people yet. He'll greet anyone with a forced smile to be polite, but he'll keep them at arms-length.

...Would he run into anyone he met here the first time? Honestly? He hoped not.