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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.

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 [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

To apply for a canon character, please fill out this form:


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Peko Pekoyama | Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | expired reserve

[personal profile] perfectstrike 2014-10-12 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: Jade
Contact Info: [plurk.com profile] blutundeisen
Other Characters Played: N/A
Requested apartment: Any room in block 20, though preferably not the same room as Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu. If that's not doable, then any block near 20 is fine, provided Kuzuryuu is in the same block/different room.

Character Name: Peko Pekoyama
Canon: Super Dangan Ronpa 2
Canon Point: End of chapter 2, upon being executed.
Background/History: Super Dangan Ronpa 2 | Peko Pekoyama

Previous Game History: N/A
Personality:
Peko is the Super High School Level (SHSL) Swordswoman, a fancy title meaning that she's the strongest kendo practitioner of high-school age in all of Japan. She behaves much like one would expect a traditional samurai to act; she's cool and collected, reserved in both manner and speech, though easily flustered if complimented. She has a certain constant, severe intensity to her expression, which tends to terrify children and small animals.

Her personality is a direct reflection of the things she has chosen to give up in pursuit of her ultimate goal -- protecting the one person more important than her own well-being or life, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu, and acting as his hitman. Abandoned as a child and adopted by the head of the largest organized crime syndicate in Japan, Peko conducts herself with a grace and dignity that might seem somewhat incongruous to the rough life of a yakuza hitman. As Fuyuhiko prefers to hide their professional relationship, she doesn't speak with the same kind of harsh accent one would expect from someone affiliated with the yakuza. In many respects, she acts as a stable rock for him and the other members of her SHSL class.

Or tries to, anyway. Her severity is largely due to trying to pretend that she is nothing more than Fuyuhiko's "tool," or rather, an emotionless weapon that exists only to serve him in whatever capacity he needs. Her entire purpose is to protect him, not only because she was ordered to by his family, given to him to act as his sword and shield, but because she truly cares for him. This is a source of inner conflict; while she wants to protect him, and is completely willing to give her life for him, she also wants to stand at his side as an equal. Though she tries to claim that she is nothing more than his tool, she also shows a strong desire to be with him and "fight by his side," rather than solely at his command.

She loves animals with fluffy fur or soft feathers, often remarking how she wishes she could get close to them to pet them. However, her severe personality means that every animal is frightened of her. This extends to people, as well, often being described as being "swordlike" in her interactions -- sharp, cold, and completely unwavering. In the pursuit of becoming strong to protect the most important thing in her life, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu, she's even forgotten how to smile except when thinking of his smiling face. Tough and determined, she thinks nothing of her own life except in how it matters to serve him, completely willing to die up until the very moment before her execution.

This conflict between trying to play the part of a simple tool and the genuine emotions of loyalty and desire she felt is likely what drove her to Despair in the Super High School Level sense. Canon itself is not clear on the exact circumstances, but it does state that the entirety of her class were SHSL Despairs. What we do know from canon is that an important member of the Kuzuryuu Family was murdered -- Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu’s sister. As a result, Fuyuhiko murders the culprit in exchange, rather than trusting that duty to his "tool." Having been raised as Fuyuhiko's hitman and being ready and willing to shed blood for him, having the young master do it himself, when she knows him to be a far kinder person than he tries to project, must have been a source of emotional turmoil. She had one job, and she wasn’t even able to fulfill that for the person who is most important to her.

In addition, she also references in one of her Free Time Events that she “was unable to comfort her childhood friend (obviously referring to Kuzuryuu),” with even so much as a smile or a word of reassurance. As a further inability to look after the young master, she was helpless to even do so much as make him feel better. As someone who’d been trained to look after him and protect him, being unable to do so thanks to her own training likely served as one of the catalysts for her to start feeling the kind of uselessness and strong emotion one associates with a SHSL Despair. This could have been enough for Junko Enoshima to start manipulating her and driving her further into the madness of Despair.

Though the memories of SHSL Despair were taken from her, and she swore that even upon being executed, she would never fall into it, the events immediately prior provide an opportunity for a huge shift to her personality. The guilt she feels for slicing Fuyuhiko's eye, and the knowledge that more than anything, he wants her to stay at his side, will render her more cautious in Haven, less willing to take risks that could endanger her life unless it's directly responsible for preserving his.

In summary, while she tries to pretend that she is nothing more than a "tool" for Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu's use, she has her own agency, a willingness to protect him beyond mere obligation, and a strong need to improve herself so she can one day stand at his side as a equal.

Abilities/Powers:
Super High School Level Swordswoman: talented in the art of Japanese swordsmanship (kendo) to the point of being named the best high-school aged swordswoman in all of Japan. Incredibly strong and flexible, as befitting a top swordswoman.

Items/Weapons:
  • Bamboo Sword (Shinai)
  • Katana (+ Sheath)
  • Cloth shinai carrying case

  • Sample Entry: test drive meme

    Sample Entry Two:
    It's difficult to tell when Peko is dreaming; it's more difficult to tell when she's having a nightmare. There's snow brushing gently against the window to the outside, intersperced with the pitter-patter of occasional sleet. All in all, foreboding enough to spark anyone's nightmares.

    But Peko's are something different. In her nightmares, it's warm, hellishly so, and while the ocean breeze and the scent of cut coconut should be soothing compared to the weather here in Haven, it only brings the strong iron of blood to her nose.

    The only sign that she's awake is the harsh intake of breath as red eyes fly open. It takes less than a second for her to identify her housing block, her surroundings, to orient herself out of the nightmare of scorching sand and heat and back to the chill winter spreading around her new home. A glance at the window proves that it's early still. But she can't stay there, not when she knows that drifting back to sleep will bring those same nightmares. She pushes herself out of bed, quietly padding across the room to dress herself, pull a hood around her face, and head out. Spending some time walking in the snow would be the solution to drive away the memory of the island.

    She'd been executed, back on that island. Among the sand and sea, an army of robot samurai sliced her to pieces. That alone should be the stuff of nightmares, remembering the pain of the blades, a thousand cuts on fast-forward to end her life. But for someone raised to think of herself as a hitman -- as less than that, as someone who had forced herself to think that she was nothing more than a simple tool, because it hurt too much to be human -- pain like that was nothing. She'd take those cuts a hundred thousand times again if it meant never seeing her own blade slice the skin of the most important person in her life, or worse, her imagination conjuring the sight of her shattering his skull with a baseball bat, the sharp crack and spray of warm blood.

    It's not long before an errant gust of wind sends sleet into her face. Teeth chattering, she ducks under an overhang to wait for this particular burst to pass. She cuts a bit of a strange sight, wandering around without much of a purpose in the snow. But every now and then, she pauses, scoops up a handful of snow with her bare hands, and forms it into a hard ball to hurl high into the sky. A flash, and her bamboo sword is in her hands, slicing the ball as neatly as if it were with steel itself.

    Peko can't afford to wallow in the past. She needs to keep moving, keep active. Any distraction right now is welcome.