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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Abilities/Powers: Magical Girl - Sayaka made a contract with the extraterrestrial-like being known as Kyuubey to make herself into a magical girl. In short, her soul was ripped out of her body and placed into a small vessel known as a Soul Gem, which can take increasingly compact forms such as rings or small accessories. This has effectively made Sayaka's body a meat puppet that is remotely controlled by her soul within said Gem, and while she will otherwise function normally, being separated from the Gem for more than 100 meters will result in her physical body immediately dropping dead until it is returned. Incidentally, as long as the Soul Gem is preserved and has a sufficient amount of energy, any physical damage to the body up to and including decapitation and disfigurement can be healed. This is likely to take a considerable amount of magical energy depending on just how damaging the kill was. Likewise however, Sayaka will instantly and irreversibly die if the Soul Gem itself is destroyed. Until then, she will not die or age.

When the Soul Gem itself is used by Sayaka, it envelops her body and becomes her Magical Girl form, which gives her magic-boosted strength, speed, and endurance. She also has the ability to generate swords, mainly cutlasses, out of thin air to use as both melee weapons and projectiles. Her uncommon ability created by her wish is a powerful healing factor that removes major injuries that would take months to heal in but a few short seconds. She also has the ability to extend this healing factor to others and be able to heal the injuries of allies, though obviously not to the ridiculous extent her own Soul Gem allows her to.

However, this power has a price and a debt attached to it. A common rule with all magical girls from her world is that their power runs on a finite amount, and the longer one goes without a recharge, their Soul Gem will gradually blacken and become weaker, and the holder of the contract will start to suffer from increased mood swings, anger, and despair. A way to delay this loss of energy is by charging a Soul Gem with a Grief Seed from a deceased witch, but the nature of Sayaka's wish means that she has to pay for the happiness she gave Kyousuke with her own despair...as such, Sayaka's Soul Gem will lose energy faster than the average magical girl would. Should the Gem blacken completely, it will burst open and release Sayaka's soul in the form of a witch, transforming into a Grief Seed and leaving her physical body behind forever. There is no way to reverse this process (in canon, at least).

Sayaka is only aware of roughly one fourth of the problems and abilities her contract comes with, but will likely discover more of this as time goes on. Without using her magical girl form, however, Sayaka is no different or any more special than any other middle schooler her age.
Items/Weapons: Soul Gem, CD Player, Baseball Bat
Sample Entry: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/7133384.html
Sample Entry Two: A third person sample of at least two paragraphs: Haven wasn't really a prime vacation spot, Sayaka decided. Or even a 'just stop by for a while and keep moving' kind of place. The dreary atmosphere around the buildings was almost suffocating compared to the clear glass back home, and the sheer emptiness of it all aside from the other residents didn't help much. Not only was this place incredibly creepy and unsettling, but it was boring and stagnant when it wasn't even doing anything. She compared it a little to being trapped in a witch's barrier for months on end, but at least that problem could be solved by killing the witch...and that wasn't even considering the other ways into different parts of the city.

Walking down the street with obvious tension and unease, Sayaka would come to a stop around the billboard showing the two smiling faces looking down at her from the visors of their gas masks. Attempting to ease the atmosphere a little, she'd puff her cheeks at the billboard and point accusingly at it. "Hey! What do you think you're looking at, huh?!" While this was meant to make herself look and feel brave, she quickly realized how stupid she looked yelling at a billboard. "Aha...this place is really getting to me..." She'd say with a nervous laugh and a sigh as she rubbed the side of her head a little, feeling like someone, somewhere was laughing at her for that. Still, the atmosphere of eerie silence and constant paranoia was starting to drive her crazy. It wouldn't be long before she'd start accusing trash cans of plotting sinister things.

Alright, she knew that wasn't true, but darn it she needed to think about a bright side to all of this -somehow-.

"Okay! I'm sick of wasting time out here. I'm a magical girl now, so I should be trying to find a way out of here and save everyone," Sayaka would declare, gradually reducing her voice to a mumble before her hand made a fist. "Right. First stop, the subway!" She'd add before running off in the general direction of the tunnels. It probably wasn't going to work or give her new information, she felt, but would quickly push those thoughts aside. Because she felt she could accomplish anything if she just pushed hard enough. Everyone else was just too quick to give up on their escape attempts. If they were brought here, Sayaka decided, she could definitely find a way out.

Inwardly, she couldn't think too much about being far from home without feeling sick. If nothing else, she could forget about it for a little while this way.

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on March 29th

Congratulations on being accepted, Sayaka Miki. You will be living in apartment #5.008, and your tag is character: sayaka miki. Please use this tag when you are the poster of the entry or log, and when you tag into an entry or log, thank you.

Please make sure to complete the following:

-> Join havenrpg, havenooc and havenlogs.
-> Optionally join havenmemes, the Haven Meme community.
-> Fill out this form.
-> Fill out your details on the taken characters page.
-> Check out who you'll be sharing an apartment with on the apartment listings.
-> Introduce yourself in the OOC community.
-> Make sure you have read this guide

IMPORTANT: An IC mingle log will go up on Saturday at 7PM EST, where new characters can intro with the rest of the game. Feel free to join the communities and introduce yourself OOCly before then.

Applications

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-> ACCEPTED