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

Background/History: wham; specifically, the manga version—only one section of the wiki page talks about anime ver. Hazel, who has a super different backstory & also dies

The wiki also abruptly stops after describing Hazel's second meeting with The Main Characters, so allow me to pick up from there:

After Hazel interrupts the main group's fight in the woods with youkai, he invites them to come back to town with him and buys them lunch! There, the townspeople beg Hazel - who is becoming infamous as a savior from youkai - to trek into the woods and deal with a group of youkai who have been kidnapping humans from the town. Hazel drags the main group along with him (because he needs a ride...), they use themselves as bait, then force the youkai who try to attack them to take them back to their youkai hideout. Here is where things get a little questionable, because after plowing through all the youkai in the way and reaching the room where the kidnapped women from town are being kept, Hazel resolves to kill them all. Yes. All. Women included. He justifies this by explaining that killing three youkai and three humans leaves him three youkai souls, so after he kills the women he can revive them, and "The price is zero."

This doesn't go over well with the main group and they kill the youkai without harming the women, who are then taken back to town by Hazel, Goku, and Hakkai. On the ride back to meet up with the others, a youkai child runs in front of the jeep—they usher him on, and Hazel casually asks if they'll stop the car for a bit. Suspecting (correctly) what he intends to go do, they don't let him and threaten him if he tries to get out. When they get back to the others, some other humans approach them and ask them to save a sick infant—the group looks to Hazel, who says he can't do what they expect of him because he's out of souls. He makes a pointed reference to the youkai child on the road, and they get really mad at him about it. Later that evening Hazel tries to get Sanzo to join forces with him because they have ~similar pasts~ (true), and Sanzo totally rejects him.

The following day, while eating, the same youkai child runs into the inn to escape from humans chasing him after being caught stealing food; he hides under the main group & Hazel's table, and afterwards they let him run out again. Hazel then... immediately gets up and says he's done eating, at which point the main group gets tired of his shit and challenge him to a fight to prove a point about their clashing ideals. Out in the woods, the fight is Hazel and Gat vs. Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo, while Sanzo stands off to the side and says he's not involved in this. Eventually the youkai boy shows up and Hazel explains to him that if he dies he can save a human baby, and the boy says he's willing to give up his soul because all the other youkai - his family - have gotten weird and he doesn't want that to happen to him. Sanzo steps in then to wheedle the boy into saying he doesn't want to die and everyone looks nastily at Hazel, who's like, "Whaaatever." They agree to a stalemate and make a wager: who can accomplish their goal first, Hazel trying to kill all youkai or Sanzo and co. trying to stop the Minus Wave? Then the main group takes off, deciding to "Leave it at 'much obliged'," both a thank you and a jab at Hazel's accent. Friends!

Enter Ukoku Sanzo, another, you know, Sanzo priest, who shows up suddenly to reunite with Hazel after the ten or so years since Ukoku visited Hazel's home in The West. They go have a drink and Ukoku conveniently tells Hazel a bunch of emotionally manipulative things about his master's death-by-youkai and how there's a Great And Terrible Youkai lurking around called Seiten Taisei. He tells Hazel there won't be any peace for humans while Seiten Taisei is alive and Hazel, gullible, realizing he's talking about Goku, immediately leaves Ukoku there and takes off to follow Sanzo and friends again. When they get there, Gat tries to tell him listening to Ukoku is a bad idea, and Hazel agrees but is going to do this really dumb thing anyway. The dumb thing is removing Goku's little tiara thing, which he suspects is a power limiter (wow and it is).

However, he never actually gets to do this, because Ukoku almost kills Goku and causes his friends to take off the limiter themselves because Seiten Taisei's power will heal his wounds. They fight Seiten Taisei, and Hazel stands back being kind of horrified and misinformed about everything that's happening. When the fight finally ends and they've gotten Goku back to normal, Sanzo comes back from having suddenly run off to catch Ukoku; Gojyo promptly ditches him and leaves with Goku and Hakkai, unconscious, and Sanzo tells Hazel to follow him. They split.

THEN, in this bizarre oasis town in the desert, Hazel and pals are on the human side (with access to the water), while Goku and pals happen to be on the youkai side (basically abject misery, without access to the water). The humans in this town trick Hazel into starting a "war" between the two towns by kidnapping a youkai, bringing him to the town, and telling Hazel he's attacked and needs to be killed. After this is revealed they tell Hazel he has to revive their fallen men because he started it, and he would have—if not for Gat crushing his pendant and Sanzo telling the humans that at least Hazel has pride because he was ashamed of being tricked into something like that.

They take to wandering again, with Sanzo intermittently pressing about Ukoku's whereabouts and Hazel getting more involved in youkai fights for the sake of "training" instead of just, uh, murder. Suddenly Ukoku appears in the woods with them!! And immediately sets about tormenting Sanzo while Hazel and Gat watch in mild horror; complete with using his sutra to nearly erase Sanzo's existence before Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai crash the party and drag Sanzo out of the retcon pit. Everyone gets in on fighting Ukoku after that, except Hazel who stands in the back looking tragic, until Ukoku manages to get a word in edgewise about how fascinating the various members of their group are—including Hazel, the human with a youkai living in his body.

At this point, the youkai that is indeed literally living in his body wakes - no longer suppressed by Hazel's childhood trauma - and takes over his body. The group tries to fight him to give Hazel his body back, but nothing works until they let Hakkai loose and Hakkai calls him a weak, pathetic, stupid coward for like five solid minutes. This insults Hazel's pride so much that he suppresses the youkai actively, complete with meaningfully echoing in the "Let's leave it at 'much obliged'" from way earlier. Then he passes out, and stays passed out until Gat throws him out of the way of Ukoku's sutra, which cuts Gat in half. Hazel looks around for a soul to take to revive Gat before he truly dies, and all the assembled youkai-ish guys are pretty worried until Hazel abruptly attacks Ukoku instead. It doesn't work, and Gat's body crumbles, at which point Hazel fully loses it and utilizes the power of the youkai in his body to its fullest to attack him. Ukoku winds up sending him falling off a cliff, where he's found by a local and last seen waking up the following morning, crying about Gat's bandanna.

Applications Two

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