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

He didn’t die. Raizel arrived and saved everyone—just as he and Frankenstein had done each time before. M-21 was already in their debt for they had taken him in, given him a job as the head of security at the high school, and gave him opportunities to achieve his goals that he otherwise never would have had. By this point M-21 had come to respect Raizel more than anyone. He serves him just as Frankenstein does, but he’s also in debt to Frankenstein, and he does what he can to show that he is grateful.

He cleans, puts up with Frankenstein’s jibes, lets him study his physiology and use him in his strange cooking experiments, and is generally a gopher and errand boy for him when needed. It’s not much, and M-21 lives with them constantly reminding himself that he is subject to their charity. It’s a restrictive feeling. He was even surprised that Frankenstein was providing him a normal paycheck for working at the school. As time passes he becomes more and more comfortable, but he never forgets all they have done for him and never forgets it could all be taken away just as easily. It’s disrespectful, and he’s aware that it’s wrong to have such doubts despite all they’ve done for him, but M-21 cannot change that all he has known is betrayal and being used for the designs of others.

It took a lot for him to ask Rai and Frankenstein to take in Tao and Takeo after they, too, defected from The Organization, but the connection, knowing that they were like him and would be discarded just as he was, pushed him to make the request. Because comrades and kinship (even when it’s not of blood), will always mean more to him than his pride and how pathetic he may come out looking. Frankenstein shocks him by telling him that if he wants them to stay, then they can stay, but their home is also his. Despite how comfortable and at peace he had begun to feel, M-21 had not yet thought of the apartment, or the town with the people he had come to know and care about, the school where he worked to protect the students…he had not thought of any of it as “home.” But as soon as Frankenstein said it, he could not deny that it was.

And thus things changed again and M-21 with them. He wasn’t alone. He had comrades and even “friends.” The lifestyle had become comfortable and routine. He had a purpose and yet he still had not given up his goals. He wouldn’t ever stop wanting to find out the truth, but that truth was something more for the promises he had made to his dead comrades. He had to find it out for them because they had died never knowing. But it was no longer a priority for himself. M-21 may not have a name, he may not even have a true identity, but he was a real person and he had a real place in the world, even without them.

M-21’s strong sense of loyalty means that he will go to the ends of the Earth for someone he cares about, and even when Regis and Seira are in trouble and Rai and Frankenstein are ready to leave him, Tao, and Takeo behind he refuses to let it happen. Like the others, he feels his debt to them—his loyalty is too strong and he cannot stand idly by. Raizel and Frankenstein have done so much for him that standing by them through dangerous situations is the least that he can do, even if he didn’t realize how dangerous at the time.

There is also a part of M-21 that is locked away inside of him that he has yet to be able to fully reach. The werewolf. When he was experimented on, M-21’s heart was replaced with that of a werewolf, along with other parts of his body, and he never knew until Raizel woke it up inside of him. Since then he has only been able to scratch the surface of that hidden side of him and he feels anger and frustration at what he sees as his own ineptness. While he watches Takeo and Tao improving, he feels as if he has stagnated and that he is too weak to reach out and embrace that power Raizel once showed was inside of him. He doesn’t express his feelings about this often or publically, but Frankenstein is aware of his feelings of inadequacy. The self-deprecation can all be traced back to the fact that M-21 now sees his purpose as being a protector to the students of Ye Ran and a servant to Rai and Frankenstein. If he is not strong enough to face anyone who would hurt those under his protection, he’s worthless.

Though out all of this, especially as his relationship with the young Noble, Regis, grows, M-21 is shown as having a strange interest in young people—possibly because M-24 had a soft spot for them. He himself isn’t the kindest older brother figure, but he cares and can be very protective—if gruff and aloof about it. He usually leaves the niceties up to Tao and Takeo, since they are more social and therefore handle those situations better. But because of his reserved demeanor, M-21’s actions will always speak louder than his words. His defending of Regis, Shinwoo, and the others, his loyalty to Rai and Frankenstein, and his willingness to plea for a favor for Tao and Takeo (and even his admission of jealousy that others could be free enough to have romance troubles), show that he’s come a long way. He’s not the guy who didn’t even care about anyone outside of his extremely small circle of important people anymore. And it’s not that this other, different, kinder person wasn’t inside of M-21 all along, it’s that the layers had to be peeled back to see him—and M-21 himself still doesn’t.

Applications Two

M-21 | Noblesse | Not Reserved 3/?