Applications

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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
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20th December

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death the kid | soul eater | reserved

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Name: Owl
Contact Info: kuuderes -at- gmail dot com.
Other Characters Played: None.
Preferred Apartment: None.

Character Name: Death the Kid
Canon: Soul Eater
Canon Point: Chapter 86.
Background/History: Here and here.

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Personality:

On one hand, you have a really calm and collected person, who is capable of assessing, taking charge, and handling just about any situation. And on most days, he's like that-- aloof but nice enough to the people he cares about, and passionate to the core about the things he chooses to be passionate about. It's the things he doesn't have the capability of control over that he sort of loses it, so we'll go from there.

Let's tackle one part of him to start out, that will be very much compromised in the setting of the game. Kid has a lot of control over himself and what he chooses to do, to the point that his self and situational maintenance becomes ridiculous. He hand-picked his weapons to mirror each other for his comfort. He wants the situation to be properly contained and handled at all time, and he's actually pretty good at it. While one of the most obvious things about his personality is how he acts out when he can't keep it all together, especially to people who don't know him, the truth is he actually got his way more often than people would admit. He's perfectly capable of maintaining a composed, yet absolutely asocial demeanor that usually tells people 'I'm not really interested in what you have to say' and if he isn't, he'll let you know.

On the polar opposite of Kid's personality is his ever-famous OCD. In the earlier part of his history, this involved painting correcting for hours on end, devotedly fixing just about everything to fall in line with the laws of symmetry, an unhealthy love of the number 8, and it was never softened for a long time just how bad he would get. There is no end or curbing once a crooked idea enters his head and he has to straighten it out. While his amount of proverbial triggers is somewhat contained in-universe, in a new setting, there are all kinds of people and all kinds of things he will not have direct control over, like in canon. It's entirely likely for things to get out of hand, especially if someone decides to pick on this particular nerve over and over. It's important to understand this sort of stimulus has to be in most situations, presented to him, otherwise he is perfectly capable of functioning.

It's important to understand that Kid's ability to keep things calm and under control and his manic obsessive behaviors are balanced-- neither is the exception nor the rule. He is perfectly capable of one but finds himself leaning into the other when a certain idea enters his head and he fails to block it out. He is never more of one than the other, though his behavior often paints him as completely obsessive-- after all, to other people, it is the foremost thing noticeable about him. Again, though, it is not the rule. While he is perfectly capable of waiting out a scene even if there's a detail that messes with his OCD off, he is just as capable of getting distracted by the same detail later depending on multiple factors; severity of the scenario being at the top. He's also not necessarily controlling of other people, just his own situation if he can and will manage to do so. He can disagree without flipping out, he's mature enough not to.

But let's get away from that for now. His empathy quotient is low, but not non-existent. When confronted with someone who was trying to fit in and could have been a danger, he opted to be kind and ask that the person go along at their own pace to fit in, and try not to rush. This implies not only does he understand, but he's been there himself, and that rushing something as really delicate as friendship never really helped anyone. He's very quick to react when someone on the team goes down… On the opposite end, yet again, he can often think of himself when creating his own comfort, to the near exclusion of anyone else (for instance, begging to do someone's eyebrows, and not caring that the last time, it took a month.) Most of the time, he falls in the middle, often thinking about just his own group and his own wellbeing. Also, if someone betrays his trust, or earns actual anger from him, there will be zero forgiveness, ever.

… which, outside of his group of his friends, makes him a veritable loner. He tends not to display an interest in people that his inner circle doesn't introduce him to, and tries to stay professional and distant with people he doesn't know well. Even inside his group of friends, he still keeps that up, though showing he can be very protective or trying to be stabilizing by instinct. He arguably doesn't make friends very well because he doesn't want to, often people will have to make the extra effort, or be a certain way that keeps him interested. It's just a way he behaves-- while he definitely knows a lot of people, the amount of people he knows positively is a limited number. He prefers to be dignified, in control, and respected, even if that doesn't go his way all of the time, which balances him out quite a bit.

If worst came to worst, he would sacrifice himself for the sake of his friends, but a lot of what he does is to try to prevent that scenario from ever happening (though he has failed that pretty badly). He does a lot more for the people he cares about than he tends to let on (but friends can often catch onto that eventually). It's all about how you view Kid. Some characters view him as the most reliable person, and other people view him as a complete and utter train wreck who is beyond saving. Some view him as manipulative, some people he's so easily manipulated that it's a joke. The truth is he's shades of everything, and while he tries to give off one impression, that effort in itself gives off many. Even in several different phases of being unreasonable and unable to handle, he still makes time to keep everything together as a prodigy and as a fighter. It takes some serious inner strength to do.

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Abilities/Powers: Going to include the ones that don't include his weapons.

• Marksmanship. Naturally, wielding two pistols in a very unconventional manner consistently and effectively has made him a natural marksman, and while he is very, very choosy about his weapons, he's very good at using the ones he settles on.
• Skateboard/Hovering. Beelzebub, his skateboard, is capable of hovering and covering large distances and maintaining great velocity.
• Soul Perception. Being able to see the anthropomorphization of a soul, either among the living or the dead, is pretty handy. Souls appear as slightly detailed 'orbs.' He's also very closely attuned to the wavelength of souls as well.
• Close Combat. Given his blood line and his preference of using specialized stances to increase his power, Kid can hold his own with even some of the stronger members of the cast.

He's also the son of the God of Death, so he has some potential that we're not ... quite filled in on yet.

Items/Weapons: His skateboard, Beelzebub should be enough, given his weapons are appable characters.
Sample Entry: Previous thread @ bakerstreet.
Sample Entry Two:

There is just nothing worse than having your mind set on something important, and you get spirited away into a hellish, disorderly town.

At least, that's what he'd say if you'd ask for his current list of worse things. Really, it was updating and changing faster than an online article. Balancing himself easily on his skateboard, he was able to stay above the rust and broken glass of the building he decided to investigate, the building humming with a wavelength that seemed to spiral downward and thinner. It was his responsibility, wasn't it? If he could eliminate a dangerous threat, he'd do the stranded a favor and temporarily relieve himself of the stress of trying to think of what exactly was big enough and mean enough to lock him down.

It also helped to stare at the floor and mentally organize how it could be cleaned up-- how an entire ruined building could be given a better, higher purpose by not looking like trash and didn't have a little issue like the thunderous, unsettling crackle of an aura the building gave off, as if with each turned hallway, he was making an unwanted descent. So naturally, he could put his priorities in order. Get out as long as the building isn't going to erupt with something unpleasant, try to find someone familiar, solve the problem and leave. One of those on the list was far more difficult in concept than execution, but there's no reason to be intimidated, is there? He's always… even in his darkest hour, been able to get out (with some help).

And he'd stay there with the spiritually sleeping beast in the building, but someone familiar was near. In the town, but near. He exhaled in relief. He didn't want to be alone again and be something to be rescued again. He'd served his quota, and even though it wasn't good someone else was wrapped up in the problem, he was selfishly a little relieved that they were. He sped around the corner, beyond the rusted wheelchairs and broken windows that had only two panes still intact on the left side.

… two panes…

He backed up. The other four wings were all missing their windows, except. This. Wing. Well, easier to complete what's done than replace them.

Kid carefully chose a wooden rod from the ground and promptly smashed it through the first pane of glass, followed by the second. Even if the building was a heinous den of a living something, no one would stare up at it any more wondering what disastrously incomplete earthquake left it in a painterly disheveled appearance.

One more good deed for the day.

[havenmods]

Thank you for applying to Haven.
Your application is in the queue and will be processed on April 12th.

-> ACCEPTED

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Congratulations on being accepted, Death the Kid. You will be living in apartment #2.003, and your tag is character: death the kid. 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 note that tags will not show up on the tag list until they have been entered manually once, this does not mean we have forgotten to give your character a tag.

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