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.

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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

Name: Alba
Contact Info: IM: NightblitzWakka
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Apartment: None

Character Name: Fulcrum
Canon: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (IDW Comics)
Canon Point: Post-Issue 8
Background/History: A conviction of cowardice.
Personality:

To begin describing Fulcrum, there are a few aspects to bear in mind: ~~his memorable chin~~ his canonically described affable nature and his desire to really, really, really want to live. He likes living. Who doesn't like living? Because he sure does! Let's look into these traits a little more closely.

For a Decepticon, Fulcrum is oddly very social and good-natured. He isn't really against most of the ideals of the Decepticon Empire, but at the same time, he doesn't really care to get himself involved in battle and tends to get along with his coworkers/teammates quite well in most cases. While he seems to get along with most other people despite their quirks, he's bluntly against the more psychopathic aspect of other soldiers that he feels tainted the Decepticon army. It's more average individuals that he's spent time with (the Scavengers at Clemency) that made him realize this, that the army failed because it introduced, allowed, and excused these violence-obsessed people, like the Decepticon Justice Division. This has disgusted him and had voiced as such to the D.J.D. bluntly. (To put into better perspective, the D.J.D. is a sector of the Decepticon army that executes traitors. However, their methods of execution are extremely violent.)

Now, for the other quirk: Fulcrum likes living. He likes living so much that when he and other Decepticons were attacked during a project by Autobots, he pretty much ditched everyone and ran for it, saving his own plating. Considering himself more of a tech-head and less of a warrior, he really didn't feel like getting killed that day. Some might call him a coward, because the Decepticon army sure did, convicting him of cowardice. Really, Fulcrum just doesn't want to die, and hadn't been willing to sacrifice his life when he knew he was a goner. However, this doesn't mean he has no self-sacrificial qualities. When it came down to it, Fulcrum was prepared to sacrifice himself to save the Scavengers, for example. Sure, he ended up living anyway, which is a plus! But this doesn't dispute the fact that he'd been willing to give himself up for people he ended up getting attached to and found respect for.

That aside, let's talk about Fulcrum's sense of morality. On one hand, yes. He bought into the Decepticon Empire's standing in general. That is, he sees organic life as inferior and felt proud that they overcame their oppressors in the beginning of the war. However, he does not personally condone the torture and violence-obsessed Decepticons, like the Decepticon Justice Division, who clearly enjoy how they maim and murder their targets. There's a bit of a superiority sense in him, but no, he does not agree with pointless violence. Probably at this point in time, Fulcrum would rather live simply, and has just one desire: to live free now and do what he wants without anyone ordering him around.

Abilities/Powers: Like other Cybertronians, Fulcrum transforms. Unlike other Cybertronians, he turns into a bomb. A bomb that does not explode. Suffice it to say, Fulcrum has kind of a terrible alt-mode. His bomb mode is only activated if he jumps from a high point, not that it'll do him much good because he doesn't go boom anyway. Hopefully he won't be tripping from a high place anytime soon.

Still, he has some skills and knowledge in him. Fulcrum, a self-proclaimed tech-head, could easily be said that he has some engineering capabilities since he had been working on to cyberforming planets during the war. That does take technological knowledge. Otherwise, Fulcrum's more natural skill is talking to people; he has some pretty good charisma and can usually get people to listen to him.

I wasn't sure where else to notate this, but Fulcrum's usually about 16 feet tall. In order to size him appropriately for the game, I'm going to estimate about 10 feet should be fine?
Items/Weapons: A pair of robot-sized goggles. That's it.
Sample Entry: I usually don't tend to get lazy at this point, but I think this thread particularly emulates well into his racism concerning organics. And an additional example of him interacting with a castmate.
Sample Entry Two:

Really, he'd just... he'd just been kind of curious! Because, seriously, he doesn't really need water outside of maybe cleaning himself sometimes, but that's it! He doesn't need it, the weirdo organic guys do. So, out of sheer scientific nosiness, he was just looking down the well. After all, as much as the meatsacks gross him out, he still wants to learn about them.

Then there was a noise behind him. Like something shifted and hissed at him or something. A really loud noise that surprised the hell out of him, quite possibly made him shriek like a little girl, and he fell.

And falling meant down the way, he transformed into his useless alt-mode.

Damn it.

Floating on top of the water now is a ten foot large bomb, bobbing uselessly. Fulcrum gives a shaky sigh and calls out:

"Hello? Anybody? Can, uh. Can anyone help me out here? ...Please?"

Nothing.

Scrap. That means he probably needs to wait until he's able to transform back. He grumbles and tries to be as comfortable as possible where he is.

Congratulations on being accepted, Fulcrum. You will be living in apartment #3.008, and your tag is character: fulcrum. 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.

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-> Introduce yourself in the OOC community.
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