Applications

[havenmods]

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:
<b>Name:</b> Your name or nickname <b>Contact Info:</b> Email, plurk, IM... as long as there's a way to contact you, it's fine! <b>Other Characters Played:</b> Any other characters you play at Haven. <b>Preferred Apartment:</b> If you have no preferred apartment, just put None. <b>Character Name:</b> Names and nicknames, in Western order (first name, surname) <b>Canon:</b> <b>Canon Point:</b> Where in the series are you taking them from? <b>Background/History:</b> A link to a source about the canon is fine for this. <b>Previous Game History:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> This is the most important section! There is no specific word count, but anything less than three paragraphs likely isn't detailed enough. <b>Abilities/Powers:</b> Please assume canon-blindness and explain in as much detail as possible. <b>Items/Weapons:</b> Which three items and/or weapons will your character arrive with? <b>Sample Entry:</b> At least ten sentences in first person, please. A link to a previous post or thread with the character is also acceptable. <b>Sample Entry Two:</b> A third person sample of at least two paragraphs.

To apply for an original character, please fill out this form:
<b>Name:</b> Your name or nickname <b>Contact Info:</b> Email, plurk, IM... as long as there's a way to contact you, it's fine! <b>Other Characters Played:</b> Any other characters you play at Haven. <b>Preferred Apartment:</b> If you have no preferred apartment, just put None. <b>Character Name:</b> Names and nicknames, in Western order (first name, surname) <b>Background/History:</b> At least three paragraphs, please. Try to focus on events in the world history that have had an impact on the character. <b>Previous Game History:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> This is the most important section! There is no specific word count, but anything less than three paragraphs likely isn't detailed enough. <b>Abilities/Powers:</b> Please explain in as much detail as possible. <b>Items/Weapons:</b> Which three items and/or weapons will your character arrive with? <b>Sample Entry:</b> 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. <b>Sample Entry Two:</b> A third person sample of at least two paragraphs.

Comments

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Personality:

Vanitas is a selfish person full of dark emotions. Anger, hatred, regards others with contempt, and treats them ruthlessly. However, he didn't start out that way. Originally, Vanitas was much like Ventus-- the person he was once apart of. It was all the pain and suffering, the negative energy he gave off, that caused him to become that way. It doesn't help that Xehanort was completely manipulating his feelings from the very start, feeding his rage, hatred, and loneliness until it devoured Vanitas as a whole. Making him fight past his limits, leaving him all by himself when he felt desperate, telling him to hate everything. Slowly, his personality warped from one a little similar to Ventus' own, into what it is now. The cruel, angry child who hates everything that Ventus is and the world as a whole.

Yet he's always being drawn to him, to his light. At the same time, Vanitas feels the need to harm and kill Ventus( and everyone else). When it comes to Ventus, Vanitas is constantly contradicting himself. He wants to be one with him, he wants to strangle him, he wants to make him stronger, he wants to watch him suffer. He hates him and Terra and Aqua, his friends. Yet he feels terrible whenever he's away from Ventus. It's desperation that keeps him coming back, that gives him the goal of becoming the χ-blade. Because if he can create the χ-blade with Ventus, then he and Ventus will be together as one once more, and there won't be all of this conflict within himself.

He's constantly suffering under the weight of his emotions, and the negativity that comes up with that, but Vanitas rarely ever shows it. He puts on a face, looks down at others, and does what he has to. His sense of loyalty is also warped-- supposedly, he serves under Master Xehanort yet goes against the other's will often enough. Once, almost killing Ventus, and again, attacking Aqua with the intentions of killing her. He acts arrogantly, threatens other's lives to manipulate Ventus into doing as he pleased with a smile on his face, enjoying even the thought of being able to do it because chances are, it's going to hurt Ventus.

As far as he's concerned, becoming the χ-blade is the most important thing. Being something other than the pure darkness he is-- that's what Vanitas strives for. He hates his fate, he hates being apart from Ventus, he hates the fact that just having all these feelings of hate bring about the Unversed, creatures formed just from his negativity. Hates them enough to destroy them, enough to deal with the pain that comes from destroying them and dealing with the negativity of their beings flowing right back into him.

Weakness on himself is horrifying, disgusting, something that needs to be destroyed and tossed to the side. His weakness over being attached to Ventus, especially. Not that it stops him from latching onto the thought of being one with him again. Weaknesses on others? Something to be manipulated, used to his advantage, to be laughed at and used to torment those people. He's not above using whatever he can learn to his advantage.

Being made of pure darkness-- his view of the world is rather dark, too. Nothing is right with himself, nothing is right with his surroundings, he hates this, hates that, feels like destroying this, doesn't want that, wishes he could be this. He feels lonely, constantly. Without being joined together with Ventus, there's not really anything in this world for him. Without his light, what's the point in everything else? What's the point of living in a world full of negativity, where nothing ever feels right?

Basically, Vanitas is a person who's full of negative emotions, hates his own weaknesses, and doesn't know how to properly deal with any of it. But he'll act as impermeable and malicious as he wants despite this.

Abilities/Powers: Every time he felt something, an Unversed would come into existence.

Unversed.
The Unversed are literally an extension of Vanitas’ self, his emotions in physical form, and they’re completely unintentional. Vanitas himself expresses hatred for them, and will destroy them himself at times. However, he also tends to spawn a lot of them. They were the main opponents the protagonists of Birth by Sleep had to face, and there were many of them scattered over every world they went to, ranging in skills and strengths. Because of this, I’d like to restrict his ability to create Unversed, if it’s okay! They come into existence to feel out his feelings for him, and so -- there can be quite a few. Instead of an Unversed for every emotion he feels ( and considering this is a horror game, I suspect he will have quite a few terrible, terrible feelings over the span of his stay ), having weaker leveled Unversed form for the most extreme of emotions will probably be easier to play out! He won’t use these to attack others often, but they do like to create mischief themselves.
The Unversed do cause him physical pain each time they’re destroyed, as if it’s a piece of himself being torn apart -- because they are a piece of him. He can absorb them back into himself at will ( which can also be painful ), and can give them orders from any distance. They’re an extension of himself, even if he hates to treat them as such!
Ventus
Vanitas can sense what goes on in Ventus' heart, to a certain extent. Getting a slightly warm feeling when Ventus is happy, feeling sad and hurt when Ventus feels them because of how they're linked together.
Physical.
Vanitas is very strong, can endure a lot of pain, and can normally get up no matter how many hits are thrown at him, shrugging off any battle damage as nothing at all. He’s fast enough to seemingly freeze time, appearing behind an opponent after leaving a shadow of himself in front of them to distract them, and can quickly throw off counter attack after counter attack.
Keyblade.
Vanitas wields his own keyblade, Void Gear. Keyblades can be used to unlock any kind of door, and are useful in battle -- as their name “key” “blade” suggests. They also assist with using magic.
Magic.
Like his counter part, Vanitas can use magic -- although his magic is on the opposite side of the scale of Ventus’ own. Vanitas’ magic is dark, not light. He can’t use it to heal, but he can use it to destroy. He’s seen using fire and lightning spells in the game, and can also fire off dark balls of magic from his keyblade.

Items/Weapons: Vanitas won’t be arriving with anything on him! His only weapon is summoned from his heart ( pretty much ), and he doesn’t have anything else.

Sample Entry: here!

Sample Entry Two:

Vanitas always felt half-empty, incomplete, unable to be whole- but now, the only thing that's left is nothing, and he feels it. The complete nothing of fading away into the background, of having his body destroyed and then what there was of a heart inside of him broken, by Ventus. The χ-blade shatters right in front of him, after he spent what felt like forever desperately reaching his fingers out, trying to grab onto it and salvage what was left of his life, fight Ventus ( the idiot ), merge together with him completely, become something instead of half of nothing, feel what it's like to have a whole heart instead of one filled with only darkness.

It's all over now. All the effort spent making Ventus stronger, worthy to become half of him, to become the χ-blade. Those four years spent spreading the Unversed across the realms, showing up in Ventus' room and telling him how Terra was going to change, fighting against all three of those idiots and watching them grow. He wants to hate himself for it, all that time wasted-- but it's not as if he could have done anything else. He's half of a whole, half a heart- and the darkest of halves at that.

There's nothing he could have done except sought blindly for this person above him. Fought for what was owed of him. His eyelids slide shut as he falls back, feels his entire being fade back into the darkness. Nothing went as he had planned, and it irritates him. He's failed and how could he have?

He wants to destroy Ventus. He wants to be the person who puts that stupid light out, and how easy it should be, to reach up and break what was left of him. But he's breaking himself, Ventus won't last that much longer, either. Useless. Ventus doesn't deserve that, anyway. He deserves to fade away, all alone, after Vanitas is gone. He's better off without him, has gotten nothing but trouble because of Ventus.

Small shards of light start breaking off of his body, and he knows there's nothing left. Eyes closed, what's left of his limbs hanging in air, and body falling back, back into the darkness.

Ventus isn't getting a happy ending either. There's the slightest twitch at the corner of his lips at the thought. The slightest of smirks, before everything fades away.

-> ACCEPTED

[havenmods]

Congratulations on being accepted, Vanitas. You will be living in apartment #4.002, and your tag is character: vanitas. 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.