havenmods | Applications

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!
The next processing date is Friday 11th October

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 two weeks, 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. If you wish to request a specific apartment, please do so in the relevant part of the application. 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.

Every attempt will be made to place a character in their chosen apartments, though this may not always be possible depending on the slots available.

Applications are open constantly, but are only processed every other Friday at 7PM EST. The Saturday following acceptance, an IC mingle log will be posted for characters to be introduced to the game.

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.

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)

Previous Game History:
Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
Sample Application (Bolin/Discedo)

Applications will be processed on the following dates:
11th October
25th October
8th November
22nd November
6th December
20th December

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. Preferred Apartment: If you have no preferred apartment, just put None. 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, please. A link to a previous post or thread with the character is also acceptable. Sample Entry Two: A third person sample of at least two paragraphs.

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. Preferred Apartment: If you have no preferred apartment, just put None. 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, please. A link to a previous post or thread under a year old with the character is also acceptable. Sample Entry Two: A third person sample of at least two paragraphs.

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Personality:

A high but fragile wall. A tightly stretched thread. The fear of not being needed.

An Eva pilot who is both proud and strong, Asuka is confident, loud and conceited. She’s highly opinioned when it comes to both her appearance and her skills as pilot and often compares herself to others. In some cases she is seen being violent and ruthless, especially when it comes to interacting with Shinji who she shares a very difficult and complex relationship with. She has a tendency of closing herself off to others and refuses to open up to people, afraid to reveal a more vulnerable side. This is due to “growing up too fast” which is first noted by her grandmother during Asuka’s mother funeral.

I hate this. I hate everyone. I hate everything.
But most importantly, I hate myself.

The reason to why Asuka presents herself in such way is through most of her life, she felt the ever growing need to impress the people around her. She seeks for recognition and to be praise, from her parents, NERV, Shinji or anyone who is willing to give her the time and energy. As innocent as this may seem, throughout the year, it caused her to feel insecure about herself and questions if “anyone is willing to love her and be with her?” Simply put, if Asuka fails to impress, she, herself becomes a failure.

This goes all the way back to when Asuka’s relationship with her mother’s. Her mother was a scientist who with the Evas, more specifically she worked with the Eva Unit that Asuka later pilots. After undergoing an experiment, her mother suffered from head trauma causing her became incapable to communicating properly, thus leaving her going insane and forgetting her own daughter. She believed that Asuka’s doll was her real daughter and referred to Asuka as “that girl”. When Asuka was around, she often heard her mother speaking to the doll as if she was speaking to her, bad mouthing her father and how he had left the both of them. She even suggested wanting to form a suicide pack with her, exposing the meaning of despair to her at a very young age.

Her mother eventually does commits suicide by hanging herself; right before Asuka was chosen to become an Eva pilot. Soon after her mother’s death, she promised herself that she wouldn’t cry, show weakness and took on the responsible that she hard to care for herself, because she knew that no one else would. After when her father remarried after his wife’s death, it was said that stepmother found it difficult to become attach to her new daughter, due to her defensive and cold nature. The events from her past cause her to hold back a great deal of her feelings, more importantly her feelings and mental scarring that came from her mother’s illness and death.

Her main focus as an Eva pilot is not to protect Tokyo-3 from destruction from the Angels, but to merely impress and to show off to those around her. She often wears her A10 nerve clips in her hair, sporting them with pride and to remind that everyone that she is in fact a pilot. This is also a form of attention seeking, which goes back to her need to feel “wanted” and for certain people to noticed and love her. She has infatuation with Ryoji Kaji, her former guardian and made numbers of advances towards him. She even went as far telling him she wanted to be with him as a woman, implying she wanted to engage in sex with him. He however declines her offer because she was still a child and it would be immorally wrong. This more than likely crushed her spirit.

Why are you there, damn you?! You don't do anything!
You won't help me!
You won't even hold me!
You're no one! No one! No one! Why won't you look at me?

She also has strong feelings for fellow pilot and housemate, Shinji and although she denies the attraction due her cold nature, she fears of that he’ll hurt her in the end, which leads her hides her feelings by being overbearing and violent towards him, physically and mentally. When she suggested that the two should kiss, she pinches his nose shut and nearly suffocates him, showing that she holding back from opening up to him and hides her vulnerability with abuse. Jealously also plays a big part in Asuka’s character as she is equally jealous of both Shinji’s and Rei’s relationships with Gendo, Rei being his favorite and Shinji for being his son. She is more openly about her jealously with Rei and had told her that she hated downright hated her existence and mocks her by referring her as a “doll”.

After her losing battle against Zenuel, following by Arael entering into her mind and forcing her to relive her childhood, successfully traumatizing her. She becomes even more hostile towards Rei and Shinji as a sense of her pride was tainted after Rei had to take over her battle and save her. She also extremely jealous of Shinji’s friendship with Rei and fuels her rage towards Shinji and the fact that he is incapable of comforting her expressing his feelings to her.

Despite of her anger towards him, she desperately seeks his attention and revealed that she was upset with him because he didn’t hold her while they kiss, but is unable to realize that her aggression keeps him from getting close to her. Her overwhelming feelings and the fact that she couldn’t sync back up with her Eva causes her to fall into a heavy depression. Unable to pilot for NERV, she expresses that she has no real reason on continue to live and attempts to commit suicide but fails and falls into a deep coma.

Asuka fiery personality fails to keep people close and because of this, it leads her into a downward spiral of ever ending despair. Deep down and past her hard shell, Asuka is as delicate as a flower who is afraid of the world around her. She hates herself with a passion. She knows her behavior and bitterness causes the people who want to be close to her rejects her and that she has no else to blame but herself.

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