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:
Teru Mikami sees the world in black and white. While for other people personal interests take up the majority of their attention, to Teru there is nothing more imporant than morals. To say he has a strong moral compass would be an understatement. In Mikami's eyes you are either good or bad and his world-view does not allow in-betweens. Once you have broken a law, once you have dirtied your hands with an unrighteous action, once you have harmed another person... you are completely beyond redeem. In his younger years Teru used to believe people could change, but in growing up he has lost this optimism completely. Once a sinner, always a sinner. There is no way to atone for past actions. The only exceptions to this rule is small children, approximately up to the age of ten. Teru is shown to try and correct their behaviour on occassion, but even here he would not be lenient toward misbehaviour for long.
For a law-abiding and order-loving person as Mikami it makes sense that he chose the profession of a prosecutor. To him it is much more than just his work, being a prosecutor is the purpose of his life. Teru practically defines his entire being as his profession. On earth, prosecutors are the ones with the power to bring criminals to justice, to protect society from evil influences. As such he is really dedicated and prioritizes work-related matters over everything - even his schedules, that he usually sticks to neurotically.
Obviously Teru is pro-death penalty. As he thinks criminals cannot be redeemed he also considers them to have lost their place in this world. Anything that is not useful to society or hindering a peaceful cooexistence of people needs to be erased.

It is easy to fall unrighteous in Teru's eyes, but not every unrighteous person is a criminal. There is a slight difference between being directly and indirectly deserving of death. Criminals fall into the first category as they are the ones that can and will be hunted by the law. The second category mostly exists in his mind and labels the people Teru considers inappropriate and who he doesn't want to associate with. Being 'unrighteous' is easy. Slacking off and being a burden to the state is one stronger possibility, but even not helping someone when it is within your range of possibility can make you become 'unrighteous'. When it comes to this, Teru judges harsher the closer someone is to him and the better he knows them. His mother is a prime example. Only telling him to stop being so self-destructive for the sake of others was enough to make Mikami believe she did not share the 'right' mindset. The line between right and wrong is very thin and easy to step over, so Teru turns from most people. While he has no other choice but to tolerate those who aren't perfect society members, he certainly doesn't accept them. This of course makes him very distanced from ordinary humans who could not possibly fit his ideals. It results in Mikami having large difficulties with trust. Teru couldn't open up to a person who's unrighteous and as it is the unrighteos waits behind every corner.

Those who Mikami can't accept have, of course, not done anything to be deserving of a trial, but yet Mikami feels the world would be better off without them. For this as well as for real crimes, there are divine punishments. While he does not have any particular religion to belong to, Mikami still is a religious fanatic. In his childhood it has happened several times that people who he deemed unacceptable died one way or another, which Teru took as a sign that a God of justice existed to pass judgement onto the 'bad ones'. This has only been underpinned by the death of his mother, shortly after he lost trust in her. It was both cold conviction and a way to cope with her passing.
The God of justice came to an actual manifestation many years after Mikami came to believe in him. Kira's murders, the criminals dying by heart attacks, only occured after Mikami had already become a prosecutor. His belief in Kira however started in his childhood.
By adult age, he is a completely fanatic believer of Kira. He feels that the appearance of this God, his God completely valiadates all the things he has believed in all along. To Teru Kira is the hope for a better future, the only one who can save this rotten world. He would do anything for his God. This complete devotion doesn't go without a tiny hint of arrogance though. Because most people Teru encountered in his life didn't share the 'right' mindset, he considers himself more worthy than others and even believes God had watched over him personally.
The confirmation that Kira's appearance gave him also caused him to grow even more extreme in his beliefs. While he wouldn't bring slackers to trials, he is approving of them being killed by Kira so that the building of a new and better society can progress faster. Approval makes Mikami turn from someone with strong views to a complete extremist. While usually, Mikami wouldn't sacrifice innocent people, serving Kira makes him ready to sacrifice even his only friend for the greater good. With God's support and the goal in plain sight he suddenly allows casualties he would have looked upon with disgust in another situation. The lives of all humanity outweigh the life of one innocent here.

But one should make no mistake. Not even Kira's word is final to Mikami. Even 'God' is walking on a very fine line. Should Mikami ever see Kira revealed as a selfish unrighteous person, he would lose his belief in him in a matter of mere moments. Kira is God, Kira is absolute... But only as long as Kira stays the pure and just arbiter Teru sees him as. His belief in God makes him blind to other people's input, but he's not blind when it comes to God himself who he pays more attention to than to anyone else.

As much as Mikami is focused on the 'deleting' of 'bad' people, he is also a selfless protector to those who are innocent. Mikami's protective side is doubtlessly also self-sacrificing. From childhood on he would take all physical abuse intended for other people in an attempt of shielding them. He has no sense of self-worth in this regard and will not retreat no matter what.

Despite his moral views mixing with religious terminology, Mikami is usually a very down-to-earth and logical person. His life is structured in all areas and he relies heavily on order. With this obsession he is far above ordinary levels. Mikami has a schedule for each day that he follows completely unchanging, regardless of holidays or other interruptions. The only thing he prioritizes higher is work. His return from the prosecution office is the only variable component in his every-day life. He's quite neurotic about this and a loss of order would completely throw him off. Even at home, all books in his shelves have the exact same size. Teru is the kind of person to have all his pencils the same length at all times. Further, he even goes as far as separate work and private life by colors of clothes subconsciously - green-ish tones are for office hours and purple is for free-time.
To go with this compulsive behaviour, he also feels a strong need for cleanliness. It's as if actual sterility was a physical symbol for the dirt-less word he desires in the metaphorical sense. It's not far fetched to say that this is a neurosis as well, as it was even specifically pointed out when he was under surveillance. Likely enough this is partly has its origins in all of his childhood trauma. By keeping his body and surroundings clean he washes off all the bad that the bullies left on him both physically as in dirt and emotionally as in being looked down upon, having people disgusted with him etc.

While these traits don't make Mikami inadept for social life, private interactions with others are scarce. Mikami doesn't actually have much of a private life at all. His free time is mostly used for doing more work and work-related research. Aside from going to the gym to keep healthy, he doesn't seem to have anything close to a hobby. Neither does he appear to have many friends. His sole mentioned friend is a lady called Kiyomi Takada with whom he meets to discuss Kira. He only connects to people intellectually, emotionally he is closed off. He's not interested in friendships, just in an exchange of thoughts. If he's lonely, he himself fails to realize it.

Mikami comes across as polite and smooth, but not exactly interesting. When he isn't talking about morals, he only says what is necessary and while he's never rude, he clearly shows no interest in more conversation than needed. When he is talking about morals, he seems much more focused and a bit of passion shows behind his determined speeches.
Teru rarely smiles and next to never laughs - except maybe when something good directly involving God happens.
He loses his polite ways only when talking to criminals. Then, while he still speaks eloquently, he gets directly insulting. They are the scum of society to him and he makes them feel it in an only slightly unprofessional way. (This applies to private situations, at work he remains mostly neutral as expected of him.)

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