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stiles stilinski \\ teen wolf \\ reserved

[personal profile] hypervigilance 2012-09-23 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Name: cori
Contact Info: [plurk.com profile] sundaes
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Apartment: None.

Character Name: “Stiles” Stilinski
Canon: Teen Wolf
Background/History: you named your kid stiles stilinski?
hypervigilance: (well hey there)

[personal profile] hypervigilance 2012-09-23 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Personality:
It’s easy to look at Stiles Stilinski and see an average teenager, all awkward limbs that don’t know where they want to be half the time, lame jokes, ADHD, and inexplicable big time crushes on the hardest-to-get-for-his-social-status girl in school. And for the most part, anyone saying that would be one hundred percent correct. In a town rapidly getting full of supernatural creatures and creature hunters, Stiles is the only person who’s essentially “normal,” who isn’t trained to use a bow and arrow or to run around in the woods at night to hone his senses, and that’s perfectly fine with him, thanks. Sure, it’d be pretty nice to have super healing and inhuman strength, or even just a better way of defending himself than running and hiding, but because of his sheer humanity, Stiles is able to bring something to the table that no one else can.

Stiles is very brave, constantly running (or in some cases, quite literally diving) into situations where he may always be outmatched, but he's there to watch someone's back in the heat of a fight as best he can. Best of all, he's a smart kid, and since he doesn’t have claws or weapons, his cleverness is his greatest asset. He’s the first person to think outside of the box, to come up with that elusive third option and get things done. The nice side of his Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Adderall prescription is that it gives him plenty of energy to spend on researching, trying to find answers for those tough supernatural questions, and wound up being ironically more knowledgeable about werewolves than his newly turned werewolf best friend. And while he might find it hard to concentrate in class (something he's constantly belittled for by peers and teachers alike), he's a gifted reader and tends to keep it all tucked inside his head, setting him up with surprisingly good grades and problem solving ammunition. The only unfortunate(?) side effect of his wit is his particular brand of sarcasm, which he in turn is quick to use as a nice, easy defense mechanism. Has gone pretty well for him so far. Mostly.

Stiles is also smart enough to be see the whole picture and arrange his priorities appropriately. Whereas his friend Scott will forsake friend, safety, and wolflihood (or what Stiles likes to call wolf lessons) so that he can be with his girlfriend, and might (will) complain when it's not possible, Stiles is the guy who puts everything on the back burner if it means the safety of friends and family, if it means finding (if semi-by-accident) the culprit behind the murders all over town, if it means peace of mind for everyone involved. Even if what he’s missing out on might be something important to Stiles, like his first lacrosse game that he’s actually supposed to play and his dad is there for, or finally getting a chance to lend an ear to the girl of his dreams, he’s the one who understands the gravity of the situation at large, will get his priorities straight, and make whatever things need to happen happen, one way or the other.

And he'll do it without (much) complaint, because Stiles is thrilled for the chance to help out a friend, particularly his best friend (and by extension, his best friend’s girlfriend). If there's one word to describe Stiles Stilinski-- besides hyperactive, the first word that ought to come to mind is loyal. His friends may throw him under the bus, ignore his ideas or warnings, or take advantage of his friendly nature completely and he'd grin and bear it all. Stiles genuinely wants to help his friends, whether or not they return the favor, and is on just the right shade of loneliness where he finds it easier to forgive and forget than entertain the idea of losing a friend. Stiles also has a nice habit of going above and beyond to help people – typically only friends, but he has been known to put himself on the line for the sake of someone he’s stated his distaste for, and he may do this once, maybe twice, or maybe so often that really, he needs to stop trying to convince people he dislikes them. Outside of Scott (and later, Scott’s joint pack with Derek), Stiles doesn't really have anyone to fall back on, and the only person he knows he can count on immediately is his own father - which is perfectly fine with him, by the way, he loves his father absolutely, but while they have a very good and honest (mostly, he isn't sure how to breach the werewolf topic to his father yet, and while it’s to protect him, Stiles is nothing if not a liar, guilty as he may feel) relationship, things are occasionally still somewhat strained between the two of them after the death of Stiles' mother.

It’s likely because neither of them are willing to talk about it – to the point where Stiles can tell just how drunk his father is if he brings her up. And it kills Stiles, it absolutely does, but he can’t speak about it either. Not often, just once or twice in passing since Scott became a werewolf. And he's perfectly fine with not dealing with how much it still affects him - he said quite clearly himself that he prefers to ignore a problem until eventually it goes away. In fact, if Stiles can redirect a conversation's focus off of him, he'll absolutely take the chance. And just looking at him, just seeing him in school or around Beacon Hills would lead anyone to believe that he has the angst capability of a banana. It's true most of the time, Stiles is a very classic case of comedic relief, the first to crack a joke in the middle of a tense situation, if only because he literally has no other method of handling them. He's no good with silences, and tends to constantly chatter away about anything and everything if it means keeping himself occupied. That may or may not be extremely annoying to certain people, but they can take it up with his ADHD.

The downside to his energy level is that Stiles is not what anyone would consider patient. At all. In the least. And that’s not just impatience in terms of time management, but with people as well. To his friends, he’ll be the most loyal person in the world, but if someone doesn’t make it onto Stiles’ exclusive list of priorities? Stiles can be downright aggressive, particularly when he’s at his wit’s end, snapping and showing absolutely zero empathy if it doesn’t convenience him. And there are definitely times where he’ll warm up to someone just to get something out of them; he’s a practiced liar, and fairly manipulative, seeming to know exactly what buttons (or police records) to push to get people to do what he wants. He sees the wrong in lying, knows what the consequences may be, but he is firmly of the idea that the end justifies the means. This isn’t to say he would ever just set out to be horrible to someone who, in his mind, doesn’t deserve it; he’s generally pretty friendly, but he has no qualms at all about pushing his morals aside to get what he needs to get done.

Stiles is also an incredibly awkward person. He doesn't always say the right thing - though he'll get there eventually, give him a couple of seconds to defrag his brain. In a word, he's uncoordinated, all broad silly gestures and tripping up over his own two feet. All in all, Stiles is a big old goofball who doesn't mind playing second fiddle to girlfriends and monsters alike, who warms the bench but spends the entire time running ideas through his head as to how to make his friends' lives easier, and will absolutely do anything in his power to be there for them when they need it. While he’s not the most honest – and often not the most sympathetic – person in the world, being a bullshitter himself makes him more than capable of seeing beyond other peoples' bullshit, to see them for who they really can b, if he’s willing to give them a chance to prove it.

He may just be a bench warmer on the lacrosse field, but at the end of the day, when it comes to anything else, Stiles is the best person in the world to have fighting on your side.
hypervigilance: (really? really.)

[personal profile] hypervigilance 2012-09-23 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Abilities/Powers: Stiles is completely powerless in terms of might, magic, and wolfiness. In his own words, he’s “147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bones, sarcasm is [his] only defense.” He’s also somewhat prone to panic attacks and, though we’ve only seen it rarely, asthma attacks. In a lot of the episodes, he’s being protected by his good friend Scott or his good frenemy Derek – but he’s done his fair share of saving as well. It’s not a skill per se, but he’s extremely brave for being he who runs with werewolves and all. His smarts help quite a bit as well.

Sample Entry:
test drive meme for another horror RP;
train to the afterlife meme;

Sample Entry Two: [aaahaha so I hope you don’t mind me using an [community profile] amatomnes sample. No sex involved, he’s just landed on the island of misfit sextoys and attempting to figure out what to do with himself.]

Sex-or-die collars, libido affecting curses, the idea that he’s going to have to bump uglies with a bunch of attractive strangers if he wants to survive—Stiles reacts to it all as he does with anything else that comes his way: he doesn’t. Or it may be more accurate to say he’s ignoring it, refusing to let it affect him, because so much of it is just too unreal for him to process, and he’s the dumbass who runs alongside of werewolves and gets threatened by reptilian death monsters, so. It’s saying a lot. And really, no one is asking him to write his feelings about the place on paper (that he knows of), so he can freely, happily push it to the back of his mind. And it’s kind of simple, because yeah, the leather fucking chaffes a little, but it’s not like it’s tight, right? He has a week or so until he actually has to do anything about it, and damn, that’s seven whole days to prepare his essay on Sex Islands and What They Do to The Human Psyche, a Dissertation by Stiles Stilinski.

But for now? He can zip his collar up underneath his big red hoody and… what, exactly.

All he knew was that he had to get the hell out of that room before he had a panic attack. Not that it wasn’t a nice room, thanks for the good night’s rest, but the last thing he knew, he was on the lacrosse field, and he’d just won them the championship. He did. He can’t help but let out a nervous laugh at the thought of it, because that’s—it actually happened, he’s pretty sure. If he can believe he’s been suddenly transported to another islandy dimension, well, actually playing in a lacrosse game and scoring the final three points really ought not to be that much of a stretch. Except in the way it kind of is, he’s actually more convinced about his predicament than he is of the lacrosse game, but he’s pretty sure he didn’t imagine that oh my god I’m doing this feeling, because hey, it doesn’t come up often enough that he can afford to just forget about it.

And the best part? Lydia was there. His dad was there, everyone was freaking there—

And now he’s here. And his heart is pounding again just thinking about it, this is why he had to leave the room earlier, he just can’t focus on home right now. Specifically, on not being there, being where his dad and friends are, and with the devils he knows so dearly. He couldn’t breathe in the room he’d arrived in, with the realization that he wasn’t where he should have been, let alone discovering the concept of survival here.

Oops. Right. Not thinking about it. Probably a good time to move away from the temple entirely, and this is a perfectly good dirt path his sneakers have found, why ignore it, right?

It’s kind of nice here, if the whole collar and trapped forever problems are ignored, and yes, they are, Stiles doesn’t need to remind himself anymore. But really, it’s kind of pretty, and nothing like he’d ever seen before. His first thought when he saw all of the architecture that he’d landed in Greece, like, maybe ancient Greece, and he’d started to rattle off a list of all the gods he could remember and what they stood for, both their Greek names and their Roman updates, just in case he wandered outside and was asked to, he has no idea, drop a vase off at the nearest temple to Hecate or something. Then he worried he was in Pompeii or something, because really, that couldn’t get any worse, but his network device had given him the answer.

Atia. Not in Greece or anywhere close. Not on Earth. Named for the island’s very present deity (not that Stiles expects to see her, or particularly wants to), and suddenly, Stiles knows exactly how he’s going to spend his first afternoon here. Atia is not someone or something or any place he’s heard of, with good reason, but that leaves him at a disadvantage he’s not typically used to. Before he knows it, he’s tapping away at his device for the map application, searching, and turning abruptly in a perfect right angle, because there’s really only one place, the best place to push a problem as far out of his mind as possible while still actually kind of sort of dealing with the problem as much as he is capable: the library.

If he can find and check out every single book on lycanthropy in the Beacon Hills library and memorize every detail regarding kanimas in the newly acquired and translated bestiary, he can damn well find the history and practices of the island Atia and its goddess. He’s not in the mood for any more surprises, he’s decided, and it suddenly feels like he hasn’t even left home the moment he cracks open the first book he can find once he’s arrived.

And, okay, it turns out to be a book full of interesting and flexible sex positions, but hey, here? That counts as research, too.
Edited 2012-09-23 02:15 (UTC)