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:

Don’t let Cesare’s initial cute and cuddly ways fool you: behind the frivolous smiles, the Disney princess curls, and the 200 lbs of mink fur nobly sacrificed for his cape du jour lie… more smiles, curls and completely gratuitous furs. Behind those, however, is one of the sharpest minds of his era, dutifully & frequently exercised in the name of all that is manipulative wrongdoing. Cesare intelligence isn’t purely academic, as much as it is human - he understands men, how they are likely to act, why, when, and where. His capacity for strategy is fundamentally personal: he never thinks of events in isolation, but always of who might take an interest in the goings on and in their outcome, of how person X’s doing might affect Y’s welfare, how Y in turn might choose to act against Z in direct consequence.

His classical, academic intelligence, while also inspiring, is significantly more determined by the side of the bed on which he wakes up on a particularly gory morning: on the one hand, he’s sufficiently arrogant to only attend classes when he so pleases, and to think a number of his esteemed professors bloody well stupid; on the other, he will always, always take five to fangirl the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, and he has been caught on a number of occasions Oooohing and Aaaaahing over the strategy records of conquerors of old. In spite of the custom that a lord’s opinion should go unquestioned, he allows public challenges in debate – admittedly, more often because he enjoys publicly shaming an adversary by way of rhetoric, than because he genuinely cares about what someone else might have to say.

Like with everything else in his life, Cesare partially attends to his wit because he derives some use from it – he calls on history and oratorical artifice for all and any smooth talking purposes, and he carefully cultivates the illusion that he is all charm, all grace, all gallantry. This and his air of sheer, unyielding confidence is part of what has attracted and tamed the countless cronies at his side. It may or may not be also what choreographed them: the simplest threat against Cesare, and they rise with their swords bared; the wave of the master’s hand, and they take their seat. Even Michelotto, his childhood friend, confidant and closest critic, casually remarks that he’s well and prepared to take down every one of Cesare’s enemies with his own two hands. Befitting his Evil Overlord status, Cesare is sadly not as quick to repay his men’s loyalty with gratitude, often sacrificing their time, their welfare, or their lives, on the premise that since they’ve chosen to dedicate themselves to him, they should lie back, think of ~~England~~ Italy and put up with his whims.

This apparent need to rationalise his “idgaf” reaction about commanding, overseeing, or carrying out murder and mutilation doesn’t stop there. Over time, Cesare becomes increasingly fond of explaining that, you know, it’s all very terribly sad that the people of whose good will or ignorance he’s taken advantage had to suffer – but really, they brought it upon themselves, because they chose to show themselves weak or kind around him of their own will. So, this just in: if Cesare Borgia gets you socially ruined, disfigured, or killed, you had it comin’. You had it coming all along. Hilariously, this attitude underlines the unfortunate reality that man of reason & steel though Cesare Borgia might want himself to be(come), even he is currently unprepared to acknowledge the means to which he has to go in order to achieve his ends.

In terms of his personal relations, Cesare’s so far shown himself capable of two types of friendship: one is forged in, and after a point, by ignorance, with people like Angelo and his sister, Lucrezia, whom he goes to great lengths to protect both from the world and from his own nature; secondly, there’re bonds like the one he’s formed with Michelotto, whom he spares not an ounce of his cruelty and selfishness, but whose enduring loyalty Cesare also repays through a number of extreme and even self-damaging gestures. As the story progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that all the polishing in the world won’t keep this white knight’s armour bloodless, and Cesare starts to emotionally distance himself from those who don’t know, or are unlikely to accept the ‘real’ him.

His interaction with Michelotto is a fairly competent reflection of the selfishness that governs Cesare: he is oddly, viciously loyal to his bee-eff-eff, up to promising him the corpses of the Dominicans who have oppressed or looked down upon him for being a Jew. He fights Henri of Marseille largely for Michelotto’s honour, for all that he later tsuntsuns, claiming the deed was done purely because he’d ~ felt like it. But for all his ‘concern’ for defending or avenging his best friend, Cesare never once takes a decision that might benefit Michelotto and Michelotto only. Tellingly, he deigns to allow his friend the opportunity to leave him and seize a more promising life devoid of religious discrimination in the New World – but this generosity only manifests itself after Michelotto has publicly and irrevocably refused the offer. Likewise, even people like Angelo, who only wish to hero worship at Cesare’s feet, are primarily treated as vehicles of future plans: yes, senpai notices Angelo, but only after the good boyo reveals himself to be close to the Medici, thus having the potential to serve as a spy on Giovanni and on his fellow Florentines. Cesare might have issues with real friendship but never with discovering its benefits.

Beyond his… sociopathic tendencies, Mr. Borgia the Younger is not much unlike what you’d expect of the average, spoiled and very competitive sixteen year-old: he enjoys riding, bad puns, skipping class, drinking, (hopelessly) flirting with mature women, and reminding his elders that he too is a man already – a man!!! On top of that, he’s very, very curious, which sometimes leads to Guinness worthy records for the depth to which he shoves both feet down his mouth, when he asks questions with an indiscretion that verges on cruelty.

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