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

Name: Steve
Contact Info: darkspineshadow on AIM | Abnormacus on Plurk
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Apartment: With Naoto Shirogane, if possible.

Character Name: Tohru Adachi
Canon: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Canon Point: December 5th, 2011 | Shortly before Adachi bumps into the Investigation Team at Inaba Municipal Hospital.

Note! Since his initial canonpoint is being moved back a bit, this would mean that Adachi will be coming back into Haven with no recollection of his previous stay. Everything'll be brand new to him once again.

Background/History: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 | Adachi's Wiki Information

Personality: Imagine, if you will, that one bumbling coworker of yours. You know the one. The kinda awkward one who always seems to invite himself into your conversations, sharing information with you that really doesn't need to be shared? The innocuous one who tries his damnedest to act confident and to be competent in what he does, yet never seems to get much respect from you or your peers. The manipulative one who is secretly responsible for the murders of two innocent people and the endangerment of countless others in---

Wait. What?

No, you heard me correctly. This, ladies and gentlemen, is Tohru Adachi. Beneath this unassuming, derpy, cabbage-loving exterior beats the heart of a madman. Or at the very least, a man who's incredibly fucking angry with the world he finds himself in. Not very much is known about Adachi's early life (or even about his early career as a police officer in a big city), but after some pretty heavy-hitting revelations that come late in the game of Persona 4, it's evident that Adachi didn't become a policeman to protect or serve. Why did he become a policeman? So he could legally carry a gun, he says. He goes on to explain that after an eternity of "studying his ass off," he was supposed to be "the best of the best," but an undisclosed incident had led to Adachi's superiors reassigning him to the police department in Inaba, a small rural town in the middle of nowhere.

But alas, the move to Inaba really wasn't what Adachi needed at all. To be more specific, it was the strange power he acquired upon his arrival in town that he really didn't need. Gaining a Persona, as well as the ability to access the bizarre world of the Midnight Channel within his own television, was a full-course meal for Adachi's ego, cranking his issues of entitlement all the way up to eleven. And unfortunately for the first two victims of the Midnight Channel---one Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi---it was Adachi's personal entitlement that led to their untimely demises in the first place. Adachi, assigned to be Yamano's bodyguard in the midst of a major scandal, had nursed an unwelcome crush for the female reporter, and when he didn't get his way with her, he tried to force her hand and get exactly what he wanted the hard way. The ensuing struggle led to her accidentally stumbling into the world behind the TV, and to Adachi discovering yet another new power. It was only days later that he attempted to get his way with Konishi, a high-school student he was meant to interview, as well before she rebuked him and he retaliated, shoving her into the TV as well. He feels very little shame about what he did, however, labeling both women as gold-diggers, petty bitches who deserved what they got in the end.

But did he stop there? Oh, no. After the disgraced Taro Namatame was revealed to have similar access to the Midnight Channel, Adachi turned one simple phone conversation around and manipulated Namatame into trapping more victims inside the TV, carrying out more of Adachi's dirty work all for the sake of his own entertainment. There's very little reason for Adachi to have done what he did apart from the fact that he could do it, and that it was "fun." So really, don't be fooled by this New World Fool. Much like the reversed Fool Arcana, Adachi is impulsive (making very rash decisions that lead to a mess of problems for the town of Inaba and the world at large), obsessed (particularly with his little game of cat-and-mouse and with a good deal of women he meets, much to their discomfort), frivolous (hardly taking the ramifications of his actions seriously), and just all around lacking in terms of any real foresight or human decency.

Abilities/Powers: Adachi can summon a Persona---a spectral figure that represents his true self---known as Magatsu-Izanagi. It was bestowed upon him when he first arrived in Inaba, and since then has grown to Level 73. In addition to a high HP count of 4200, as well as a resistance to Light and Dark skills altogether, Magatsu-Izanagi has the following skills:

Vorpal Blade - Inflicts heavy Physical damage on all enemies.
Ziodyne - Inflicts heavy Electric damage on one enemy.
Maziodyne - Inflicts heavy Electric damage on all enemies.
Garudyne - Inflicts heavy Wind damage on one enemy.
Magarudyne - Inflicts heavy Wind damage on all enemies.
Power Charge - The next normal attack, physical skill, or Almighty physical attack will be 2.5 times greater in power. Self.
Mudoon - 50% chance of instant death from the power of Darkness on one enemy.
Dekaja - Cancels stat increase on all enemies.
Heat Riser - Increases an ally's Attack, Defense and Agility for 3 turns.
Evil Smile - 25% chance of inflicting the Fear ailment on all enemies.
Foolish Whisper - 25% chance of inflicting the Silence ailment on all enemies.
Ghastly Wail - Instantly kills all enemies suffering from Fear ailment.
Atom Smasher - Inflicts medium Physical damage on all enemies up to 2 times with a chance of fear.

Apart from being able to summon his Persona, Adachi has also demonstrated several other bizarre powers and abilities both in game and anime canon. These aren't really powers he would display out in the open, mind, but he can interact with televisions and pass through them into another world entirely. And inside the Midnight Channel, the world is Adachi's playground. He can create Shadows of himself, lifelike duplicates meant to confuse and distract his opponents. He can teleport in the blink of an eye. He can distort the TV world into something sick, corrupt, and twisted. And finally, he can coexist with Shadows to the point that none would dare attack him, probably, he believes, because they share the same ultimate goal. Though, really, that may have something to do with the malevolent presence that still lies dormant within Adachi:

Ameno-sagiri. A powerful, godlike entity who shares its desires with mankind. And if mankind wishes to end its suffering and remain blind to the truth of their everyday lives, then Ameno-sagiri will stop at nothing to envelop the world in a thick fog and leave mankind without its humanity.

Items/Weapons:
- His New Nambu M60, the standard-issue revolver for Japanese police.
- His police badge
- A threatening letter addressed to one Mr. Yu Narukami, a crucial piece of evidence that Adachi conveniently "forgot" to send off to the Forensics labs. Since there's no text in Haven, then the envelope and its contents are sure to show up as blank to anyone who tries to take a look at it.

Sample Entry: Here is an entry from Adachi's previous stay!

Sample Entry Two:

By now, Adachi's no stranger to this town. It was a bit of a weird adjustment at first, but hey. He can't say he isn't used to that sort of thing by now.

See, things have a habit of never quite going his way.

One second, he's a rising star with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. The next, he's transferred---like a disease---to some hick town in the middle of nowhere.

And only months after Adachi finds a way to spice up his otherwise mediocre life and have a little fun, his game's cut short. He's dragged, yet again, to an unfamiliar place where he'd rather not be.

Same shit. Different shithole.

Edited 2012-12-09 06:48 (UTC)

Congratulations on being accepted, Tohru Adachi. You will be living in apartment #1.005, and your tag is character: tohru adachi. 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.
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-> Fill out your details on the taken characters page.
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-> Introduce yourself in the OOC community.
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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.

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