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

Personality:

Milla Maxwell isn't just your average girl, she's pretty extraordinary.

From the very beginning of the story, she's fierce and determined. She has a mission that's been given to her and she never wavers from reaching her goal no matter the cost. She tries without relent and does not give up until her objective is complete. Even when others tell her to slow down, or to stop, she doesn't listen. Because she is Milla Maxwell, and she never gives up. This is evident when an accident occurs later on and Milla becomes temporarily paralyzed. Even though she cannot walk or move her legs she never gives in to forgetting her mission. She goes as far as to crawl along the floor because that is just how little she wants to stop moving forward.

This goes back to when Milla was a child, she didn't know much else aside from what she was told by The Four and what she learned from books. This caused her to have a very different view of the world than an average person. What she knew of humans and the way they live their lives she knew from observing them and reading about them in books. Due to this, when Milla is older she doesn't really understand human interaction very well. She often comes off as cold and distant when in actuality she just doesn't understand why she is seemingly so cold. In her eyes she's just doing what is necessary to save everyone, even if that means she has to sacrifice being sentimental in the process. Like when Elize has lost her doll Teepo and asks Milla if they can please look for him. Even though Milla is extremely fond of Elize, she says no because they don't have time and it would be too great a detour for her to consider.

That isn't to say that Milla is mean or cruel, because she's not at all. She's actually incredibly kind! It's just hard for her to express human emotions very easily because she was raised like a spirit and not a human. Throughout the course of the story Milla consistently encourages her party members. With Elize for example there comes a point where she needs to jump down from a very high point and she doesn't know if she can do it. Milla tells her that she knows that she can do it, and so Elize takes a leap of faith and Milla catches her. There is another time later where Leia is very upset with low self esteem and talks down to herself saying she's holding everyone back. Milla then steps in and tells her to quit thinking that she's inferior to anyone here. Because to Milla, everyone in her party has a meaningful life and they are all equally strong and important.

Milla's emotional development changes over the course of the story. Toward the end she's more expressive and has learned a great deal from human culture. She even views humans very differently than she did in the beginning. At the start, she mentions how she sees man as being like babies. Beings that couldn't stand on their own and needed to be protected. However, through meeting Jude and the rest of her friends she learns that humans are capable on their own and her fondness for them grows even more. Speaking of humans, Milla really loves humans. She loves both humans and spirits more than anything else and would give her life to protect them. Actually, she does that. Near the middle of the game Milla sacrifices herself and dies because at the time she believed that it would save both spirits and humans. That's how much she loves them, and that love is pretty strong. After the events of the game she even takes on the title of Maxwell, one that she earned from a young age and becomes the new Lord of the Spirits. This allows her to watch over the birth of new spirits and protect the world she loves so dearly.

Aside from being physically strong, Milla is also intellectually strong. She's able to figure people out, and know when someone has malicious intent versus when someone has a kind heart. This is pretty evident by how she's trusting of Alvin at first but when things start to go awry she can tell that he's very untrustworthy. From that moment on, she always keeps an eye on him to make sure that he doesn't put her mission in jeopardy. This isn't to say that Milla is a genius. Most of what she knows she's learned from books and what other people have told her. She is also very capable of being wrong, because when she has her grand encounter with the Lance of Kresnik she realizes that her preconceptions about the Lance had never been right at all. Despite this, Milla is always willing and quick to learn new things.

Milla's also pretty... strange. She's got an obsession for all things human - even the really mundane things. One of those things being hunger. Milla loves food, actually, to say that she loves food would be an understatement. Milla enjoys the feeling of hunger and the feeling of enjoying a good meal. She salivates at the idea of a roast chicken in Leronde and can really pack down a meal when it's given to her. She even says "I quite enjoy ingesting calories with you!" after eating a meal with Jude and Alvin. Like, who says that? When Milla becomes a spirit after she dies, she can no longer feel the sensation of hunger however she still enjoys eating. Another example of Milla's obsession is when the group is traveling to Kanbalar and Milla sneezes. She gets extremely excited at the prospect of mucus because it's something only a human could experience. Milla really loves everything that makes a human, human. She never goes without displaying a fondness for human behavior whenever one of the group acts in such a "human" way.

Milla is strong-willed, protective, smart, kind and... sometimes a little weird. However these are all qualities that make Milla Maxwell the great Lord of the Spirits that everyone knows and loves.

Applications Two

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