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: Allie
Contact Info: practicedrowning@gmail and aim, stopcounting@plurk
Other Characters Played: None
Preferred Apartment: None

Character Name: Claudia Donovan
Canon: Warehouse 13
Canon Point: Season 4, episode 9
Background/History: Wiki!
Previous Game History: None
Personality: For the most part, though, Claudia is an upbeat person. She's snarky and tends to push boundaries, but it's clear that she cares about the people she works with. The other agents have all worked for the US government prior to joining the Warehouse team, but Claudia has no formal education or training and thus lacks the discipline of her cohorts. However, she's a quick learner and relentlessly curious, and she seems to have a natural knack for understanding how technology works. She's not modest in the least and enjoys the chance to show off, and she feels underappreciated if others don't notice or comment on her work.

Claudia means well, taking initiative to improve the technology used by the other agents, but she has a poor sense of boundaries and doesn't ask for permission before modifying equipment or snooping around in personal files. She's fiercely independent and has little regard for authority, though she does secretly seek approval from the people that she come to view as family members. While her methods of rebellion are usually harmless and often helpful, she also possesses a darker determination that can lead her to pursue certain goals at any cost. When we first meet her, she kidnaps Artie and forces him to rescue her brother from inter-dimensional limbo, and when Steve is killed while undercover, she turns her back on the Warehouse and steals an artifact to bring him back--a grave and extremely dangerous offense in her world. Losing people she cares about has been a theme in Claudia's life, and she'll do anything to prevent it from happening again.

Her sense of humor relies heavily on pop-culture references and Claudia definitely acts her age (which is somewhere between 18 and 23; canon can't do math). She becomes petulant when ignored or dismissed, develops crushes, complains when she doesn't get what she wants, enjoys small acts of defiance like pranks and teasing Artie about his age, has a unique and punk-influenced sense of style, and plays guitar at a local bar. She occasionally resents being thought of as a child, but overall, being true to herself is more important to her than the opinions of others, especially strangers. Claudia has grown quite a bit since joining the Warehouse team, but the current caretaker, Mrs. Frederic, has stated that she's not yet mature enough to fulfill her destiny (which is to be the caretaker after Mrs. Frederic passes on).

Abilities/Powers: Claudia is an extremely skilled hacker, as we see when she manages to discover the warehouse's existence and then bypass all of its security (Warehouse 13 is often referred to as one of the most well-hidden, secure sites in the show's universe). Once she joins the team she becomes the resident tech expert, showing proficiency in quickly understanding unfamiliar technology and then improving on it. She's invented several things based on the warehouse's unique devices, drastically upgraded their security, and is often tasked with cracking highly protected systems and databases during retrieval assignments. She also has the ability to sense the creation of an artifact, but since artifacts don't exist in Haven, I doubt that one has any in-game use.

Items/Weapons: her Farnsworth (a video communicator used by Warehouse agents), a Tesla (electrical stun gun), and an ordinary smartphone.

Sample Entry:
[After a brief crackle of static, the screen flicks on to display a...well, it's hard to tell what's being displayed aside from a small pile of scavenged metal and plastic on a rooftop, but considering the self-satisfied "TADA!" heard offscreen, one can assume that the person broadcasting the message is either terrible at modern art or has some greater purpose in mind.]

I present to you the Gyroscopically Navigated Airborne Thingy, GNAT for short, a Claudia Donovan original. Patent pending, rights reserved, all that junk. Do we even have patents here? Whatever. Check it out.

[After a few seconds of clacking and wobbling the top of the machine spins to life, and after a few seconds more, it lifts a few tentative inches from the ground. Still offscreen, Claudia hums the Transformers theme as the GNAT continues its unsteady ascent.]

I figure we can rig up a few cameras, maybe some kind of heat-sensor or something, and use these things to scout out the shadier locations around here. That way, we-

[As she speaks the sound of heavy wings can be heard offscreen, and an instant later, the GNAT is returned to its previous incarnation--though now, instead of being a mere pile of junk, it's a pile of junk in the beak of a very large bird.]

...ooor not.

[A beat as the creature continues toward the horizon, and within a few seconds, both it and its metallic prey are gone.]

So, who knows anything about bird repellant?

Sample Entry Two:
The Warehouse is many things to many people--a life purpose, a ticking time bomb, the perfect setting for a quirky sitcom--but Claudia prefers to think of it as a high-end shelf-stock computer circa 2005, something that strains to handle four gigs of RAM and could use a bit more room on its hard drive (don't even get her started on the sloppy retrieval system), but boasts a pretty bitchin' video card and has the potential to be so much more, if someone would just give her an unlimited expense account let her at its metaphoric and literal innards. They won't, of course. At least, they won't permit the first one. That would be too easy. No, she has to make do with scavenged and repurposed supplies, as if she were setting up a security system for a Costco and not a top-secret storage space stuffed with objects of unimaginable power and owned by a group that makes the Illuminati look like the local PTA.

She hasn't gotten started on the wiring yet, but she has plans. Man, does she have plans. Sure, she just tweaked the system a couple months ago, but that had been the protocol equivalent of digitally remastering the X-Files series finale. There are some things in life that no amount of superficial tweaking can fix. Luckily for the Warehouse, a tech goddess of unparallelled talent is here to save the day. No need to thank her, guys. Really. It's not like she keeps the whole damn place running or anything.

Claudia grumbles something that's muffled by the screwdriver between her teeth as she balances on a carefully constructed tower of crates to lower a metal panel from the ceiling...then drops it, startled, when a rasping buzzer sounds in her pocket. Goddamnit. At least now she has a free hand to hold the screwdriver as she answers the Farnsworth.

"Kinda busy right now," she tells the screen.

"Be kinda busy in the office," says Artie. "We have a ping."

"It's not like, the mystical bowling ball of J. Edgar Hoover or anything, is it? Because I'm getting really, really tired of mystical bowling supplies."

"Oh, I'm sorry, do I pay you to be tired?" Grump grump grump grump grump. Claudia rolls her eyes as he continues. "No. I pay you to retrieve artifacts."

"You pay me?"

"Just get up here," he says, and the video cuts out. Claudia sighs, pocketing the device and screwdriver before climbing down her tower of crates. True genius is never appreciated in its own time.

Congratulations on being accepted, Claudia Donovan. You will be living in apartment #5.006, and your tag is character: claudia donovan. 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.

Applications

Claudia Donovan | Warehouse 13 | No reserve

-> ACCEPTED