Applications Two

[havenmods]

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:
<b>Name:</b> Your name or nickname <b>Contact Info:</b> Email, plurk, IM... as long as there's a way to contact you, it's fine! <b>Other Characters Played:</b> Any other characters you play at Haven. <b>Requested apartment:</b> Please put N/A if you have no preference. <b>Character Name:</b> Names and nicknames, in Western order (first name, surname) <b>Canon:</b> <b>Canon Point:</b> Where in the series are you taking them from? <b>Background/History:</b> A link to a source about the canon is fine for this. <b>Previous Game History:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> This is the most important section! There is no specific word count, but anything less than three paragraphs likely isn't detailed enough. <b>Abilities/Powers:</b> Please assume canon-blindness and explain in as much detail as possible. <b>Items/Weapons:</b> Which three items and/or weapons will your character arrive with? <b>Sample Entry:</b> 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. <b>Sample Entry Two:</b> 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:
<b>Name:</b> Your name or nickname <b>Contact Info:</b> Email, plurk, IM... as long as there's a way to contact you, it's fine! <b>Other Characters Played:</b> Any other characters you play at Haven. <b>Requested apartment:</b> Please put N/A if you have no preference. <b>Character Name:</b> Names and nicknames, in Western order (first name, surname) <b>Background/History:</b> At least three paragraphs, please. Try to focus on events in the world history that have had an impact on the character. <b>Previous Game History:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> This is the most important section! There is no specific word count, but anything less than three paragraphs likely isn't detailed enough. <b>Abilities/Powers:</b> Please explain in as much detail as possible. <b>Items/Weapons:</b> Which three items and/or weapons will your character arrive with? <b>Sample Entry:</b> 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. <b>Sample Entry Two:</b> 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.

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[slushfund]

Previous Game History:

To say Hiruma had a tough time in Holly Heights would be a gross underestimation. His illustrious year and a half was chalk full of everything from death, destruction, boredom, inertia, hard-fought loss, and endless toil to keep himself and his mind preoccupied. He never wanted to face the fact that, yes, he was kidnapped (irony—he’s normally the kidnapper—aside) and, yes, he couldn’t do a single goddamn thing about it.

After his arrival, Hiruma quickly made enemies, one of the natural happenstances when dealing with an offensively brash kid straight out of high school who had the gall to colour himself “invincible”. A month in, he learned that the dark in people could grow far far darker. He was shot in the chest by a too-trained, too-paranoid man named Robert; killed on Halloween on his front doorstep. From that jarring experience on, his offensive ideals led him to believe that it was far more beneficial to spiral into a cynic’s world to adapt and survive—at this point, Holly Heights became a jail to his eyes, and he developed the prisoner’s mentality, kept more people (even friends, even teammates) at arm’s length, shut himself up and in, became that dangerous and unpredictable son of a bitch he always craved to be.

He did, however, discover benefits to this lifestyle. It was like an extended vacation; it allowed him to hone himself, his mind, and his skills without the worry of time constraints.

He learned how to take heavy hits and took some combat lessons from Hijikata Mamoru, so he’s not entirely helpless in a scuffle. Not to mention he trained himself rigorously to improve his aim with guns, accuracy and precision sharpened to an impressive pedigree (not tournament-level, but that’s far from the desire).

Hiruma made countless acquaintances—few “friends”, but the ones he raked in were the ones who were worth it, who helped him with his plans to break out of the suburban nightmare (“slice of life”? not a chance, not to him, not to the driven and the ambitious with plans at home left unfulfilled). He found small comforts in strange places, in strange people; he learned to grow too fond of strangers, discovered that he could take solace in company whereas he couldn’t before.

His “friends” left, however. Dropped from the game. He always knew they would, especially his teammates from the same canon.

The impact exacerbated his sociability issues and affected him negatively; it made him more apt to distrust, to take extra caution, to remain distant and wary of people who express interest in him.

All in all, the changes have been negative, but the bad times pave way for good lessons learned — Hiruma recognizes that he’s adapted in a sketchier way. The angles of his personality are sharper, far more barbed. He’s well aware of his newfound aggression, cynicism, and instinct, a wilder approach to thought being taken; he isn’t relying solely on his mind to suss out situations for him, they have to feel right now, they have to feel safe, feel rational.

Hiruma matured greatly over a year and a half. In his last few days in Holly Heights, he realized that his naivety and his “want it now, get it now” mentality didn’t fit with the rest of his modus operandi, or his hard-working, relentless soul. So, naturally, he changed it. Too bad he won’t be too pleased getting dragged onto another meaningless roller-coaster ride.

Such is life.

Personality:

Hiruma’s personality, on the whole, is rather bizarre.

He demonstrates this in almost every situation, intimidating others with his eccentricities and his belligerent attitude. He chooses to approach his circumstances uniquely; from the way he copes with stress to how he teaches people lessons, he is shown to be an amoral, vulgar character – an “anti-hero” in the eyes of the Eyeshield 21 cast.

The Deimon quarterback is disreputable for being a foul-mouthed cretin whose violent behaviour scares the wits out of everyone he meets. He calls everyone by a specific nickname which starts with “fucking” and ends in the most descriptive feature of a person. “Fucking monkey” and “fucking fishlips” are two among many—anyone who disagrees with the derogatory name is subject to the wrath of his weaponry. He carries guns around everywhere and he always, always has one on him at any given moment. Hiruma even went as far as to build a weapon’s silo underneath their team’s clubhouse.

Being the excitable person that he is, when he’s faced with exciting situations he tends to go all out to the point of ludicrousness. He celebrates things like well-executed plays by his team, touch-downs and winning games with flashy reactions including setting off fireworks, confetti, spraying fire hoses at large crowds and shooting dangerous weaponry into the air (a very common reaction, whether something happens as planned or not).

He’s prone to manic cackling during these activities when he’s particularly pleased or is plotting something sinister... not to mention at the misfortune of people around him. He is rather easily entertained by such things as idiocy, overconfidence and failures, while extremely quick to anger — just say something uncultured about American football, mess with him personally, or do something inexplicably stupid. His short fuse is seen frequently, in one case when Monta, the team’s wide receiver, almost gets disqualified for fighting with a referee. Hiruma ran after him hollering, guns blazing.

Though, really, he holds no special regard for any authority (including law enforcement, the air force, even the army), his superiors, those he trains, or the rest of the general populace.

This is clear from the way he is constantly exploiting peoples’ weaknesses through blackmail — where his infamous “Book of Threats” or the “Devil’s Handbook” comes into play, a notebook supposedly filled with dirt on everyone he meets. He has managed to get funding for the American football club from the principal of Deimon High with relative ease as he threatened to tell the man’s wife about an affair he was having. The extent of his manipulation is so notorious that his name is even known in the United States and when they travel there for training, they have no trouble getting into restricted places like casinos because of Hiruma and his extremely wide net of dirty information.

Known as one of the “brainy three” on his team, Hiruma is as intelligent as he is cunning. He makes up inventive ways of communicating to his teammates without the use of words to confuse their opponents, can see through enemy football teams’ plays with ease and has an exceptional photographic memory.

He can memorize an entire multi-paged booklet of unique sign-language cues the club manager, Mamori, created in a matter of seconds. In Las Vegas at the end of the team’s Death March across America, Hiruma won ¥20 000 000 (around $255 232) playing Black Jack by “counting cards”, basically keeping a running tally of all high and low valued cards seen by the player, an extremely difficult mathematical, memorization approach to the card game.

Hiruma hates the idea of showing his feelings to others. Having feelings would ruin his image, the carefully sculpted demon persona almost everyone but his teammates see when they look at him, would ruin the frightening factor, the element of surprise. He is verbally extroverted, but mentally introverted; he goes home alone, he sits alone on more than a few occasions (like on the Devil’s Bats Death March across America) and shrugs worrywarts off, finding it extremely difficult, due to past transgressions against him (most notably his terrible relationship with his father), to trust and put faith in others. This is clear when members of his team, Musashi and Mamori, point out his struggles to him, and begin to find sympathy for him. He belittles the things they have to say, tells them it’s all in their heads, replies sardonically in order to deflect the conversation away from himself.

He is goal-oriented—one of the main reasons he acts the way he does.

He says that “In American Football, you’ll win if you scare the opponent outta their wits! You gotta become a badass in order to deal with the enemy!” Hiruma believes a lot of the game is about psyche-outs, tricks to confuse his opponents, taunts and intimidation. The writer of Eyeshield 21, Inagaki, stated that he intended to make a character “only concerned with winning” and who will do “whatever it takes to win”. He is unfalteringly stubborn, refusing at times to rest when he sees a goal is in sight — even when he received a broken arm in a later chapter, he asked Mamori to hide it with bindings so he could support his teammates.

He’s rarely ever seen slacking off or doing something that isn’t for his benefit, or for the benefit of the Devil Bats; his incessant hard-work is an important staple in the development of his team, and he even trains his teammates in odd, roundabout ways by helping Musashi — a former construction worker who later rejoins the team as their kicker — renovate and build parts of the football clubhouse.

He’s selfish and exploits people to get whatever he wants whenever he wants, but at the same time selfless. He puts his team and their physical needs first — he is shown on the Death March to have neglected the health of his own legs while running in order to train the team’s rookie players. It’s clear that while Hiruma actively pretends not to harbour a conscience of any kind, on occasion he is sympathetic and even shows compassion to his fellow teammates. When someone tries their hardest and gives the absolute maximum they can possibly manage, he reaches out to help the underdog to bring their hopes up.

When he made potential recruits for the American football team grab bags of ice, forcing them to climb the Tokyo tower before all of the ice had melted, Hiruma is seen assisting Yukimitsu — a cram school student with no talent at sports — at the last second by dropping an ice cube into Yukimitsu’s bag, declaring that there was still one unmelted cube left.

More than anything, Hiruma is inspirational.

He may be loud, crude and mischievous on and off the field, but when a chance to teach his team valuable lessons appears, he seizes each and every one of those chances. He is a walking, talking pep-rally for his friends, encourages his players to give their all whatever the circumstance and has a surprising amount of charisma that enables him to receive the hope and faith of his team, in some cases just by shouting:

“There’s no fucking trashes that would think like that in the Deimon Devil Bats, right?!”