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thalassino) wrote2012-09-05 03:44 pm
thalassino) wrote2012-09-05 03:44 pm
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◣ Application ◢
Please note that as of July 28th, Vatheon will start working towards end game.
August 31st is the last day for applying. We will no longer open applications after that. Thank you for your consideration.
» Please make sure that you read the rules, and check the reserves before applying. People who do not read the rules will be rejected immediately.
» You are allowed to apply for two characters per application cycle. You may also reserve two characters. We will try to review each application as soon as possible. If longer than a week has passed and you have not heard back anything about your application, please drop us a message.
» Don't lie in your application. Don't copy / paste things from wiki. Keep what you post in your application strictly you. Sure, it's hard to add your own flair to writing history or a personality, but try to keep from summarizing too much. Show us your shine! Plagiarizing another player's application is ground for an immediate rejection.
» If someone has a reserve for a character, and you want to apply for them, you have the choice of either A) challenging the application with one of your own or B) waiting until the reserve expires and then applying/reserving as the character. If you challenge the original reserver, your application will not be reviewed until the original reserver has submitted theirs.
» Currently, the character limit is five characters. Any more is up to the mods, and must be discussed ahead of time with them. You may only apply for two characters from the same canon.
» Keep spamming to a minimum on the applications. Wait until that person is accepted into the game before holding out a conversation on a thread. Comment spamming here makes things cluttered, and a mod may accidentally miss something important. ( But feel free to comment-spam the Reserve page, if you'd like. )
» Please don't skip over any section of the application below.
» Please finish your application before posting. We reserve the right to decline any applications that are still unfinished when we process them.
» When reviewing applications, we take opinions of our members into consideration. If you would like to make a comment about an app that is being decided upon, do not hesitate. Here is where you can leave a comment with what you thought of another app. All comments will be screened for privacy, and the option to be anon will be left on. Do note, player opinions do not decide if an application is accepted or not, but will be taken into consideration.☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : A nickname will work. Whatever you would like to be listed as.
( Personal DW ) : Not your character's journal. Your own, just in case one of the mods ever needs to contact you that way.
( Age ) : No players under the age of 15, please!
( Timezone ) : Just for reference sake!
( Other Characters ) : At Vatheon, that is. Please list in the following format.
Character ( Character's Journal ) | Series☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) :
( Character's Age ) : There is no set age limit for the characters, and in fact, this is very flexible. So long as your character is mature enough to take care of him or herself and is mature enough for the game, they can be apped! As a basic guideline, think the maturity of someone around the age of 13 or so.
( Series ) :
( Canon Point ) : What part of the story of the series is your character coming in after? Did he or she just die? Did something traumatic just happen? Is it near the end, the beginning, or the middle? Tell us!
( Playability ) : If you are apping your second person for a particular canon, please give us a quick reasoning on why the characters would not be extensively interacting/how you are planning to avoid any playercest issues. If you are not apping from a canon you already play in, please disregard this section.
( History ) : You may provide us with a link to a wiki-page, or something else that will sufficiently give the Community and the mods background on your canon. If you wish to write out the history yourself, you still may do such.
( Personality ) : Probably the most important part of the application! Tell us what your character is like. We're looking for a well-developed analysis of the character. Perhaps between three to five paragraphs, roughly. Feel free to do more or less, however, if you think that better suits you. Most applications will be closer to the three than the five, and that's completely okay!
Just make sure to hit on crucial aspects of that character. What does he or she like? What does he or she hate? What are his or her motives? What parts of your character's past influenced how they are? Does your character act differently in front of different groups of people? Think of these questions as you write. Feel free to go off the page and focus on other questions. The above questions were just to get you thinking.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) : So tell us! What can your character do well? What is your character weak against? Any cool spells? Good at picking locks? Anything you can think of, put it here.
( Other Important Facts ) : Have something else important to mention about your character that doesn't really fit in anywhere else? Be sure to include it here!
( Sample ) : This can be in first person or third person. There's no limit to your sample post. Just be sure to include your character's voice. Don't just write your character walking around! Be sure to include thoughts, quirks, and anything else that shows us you know your character. How would he or she react to the mark? How would he or she react to waking up some place new? Is he or she still brooding over something? The sample does not have to be set in Vatheon. You may also link to other roleplay threads; just be sure to give us something that shows how you plan to play them and clearly shows their voice! Or feel free to do a few of the above. Whatever you think will best show your characterization.
Please note! If you are linking samples, please make sure that at least one sample is from within the last three months. You are still free to link other samples that are older in addition, if you feel these would help show your ability to play the character, but at least one sample needs to be recent. Thank you.
If you are unable to think of a good starting point for a sample, we collected some prompts of situations that are pretty likely to happen within Vatheon to start you off. You are very welcome to deviate from these prompts or come up with something completely new. This is just something to hopefully help you get started:☆ A new curse has settled upon the city of Vatheon: Suddenly you character realizes they are unable to lie for the duration of a week. How do they react?
☆ What is this? Is that rain? How nice-- wait a minute, is it raining rubber duckies? Seriously?
☆ Suddenly, by the force of Vatheon, an over zealous npc, or even your character's friends playing a joke, your character suddenly finds themselves wearing clothes they otherwise would never wear. What do?
☆ The city of Vatheon is under attack (again). Giant sea-creatures are wrecking the city (again). Time to prepare for battle.
☆ A new plot development has happened and your character has decided to get some more information from one of the NPCs. How do they proceed?
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : Tell us here!
GETTING STARTED: premise ☆ rules ☆ taken ☆ reserves ☆ applications
GAME INFO: faq ☆ the city ☆ the island ☆ nostalgia nook ☆ welcome brochure ☆ information database
OOC INFO: mod contact ☆ player contact ☆ dropping ☆ hiatus ☆ residency
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Rose Lalonde | Homestuck | Reserved 2/2
Each friend plays an important role for Rose. Jade, the one whose interactions we are introduced to last, seems to be the best at getting through to her, to make her listen. Yes, John and Dave both advise Rose against actions or choices, but rarely are they taken more seriously than “I will keep my guard up.” It is Jade who convinces Rose that maybe, just maybe, she should second guess what she is doing. Maybe she should question the motives of the Horrorterrors. Unfortunately, this does have a hand in her death at Jack's hands, however the fact is Rose still listened. Even earlier in canon, where normally she would most certainly continue believing what John gave to her for her birthday was some passive-aggressive jab at her interests, it's Jade who reminds her and gets it through her head that not everyone means the opposite of what they say.
Dave, the second one she is shown interacting with, understands where she's coming from the best. Their situations are, in some ways, similar. And this is beyond the fact that they are related. Both tend to be very close guarded, doling out facetious quips and sarcastic comments without a second thought Their conversations are often times back and forth one-upping banter. Sometimes it's a game of psychological chicken. And sometimes their genuine concern for each other shines through. Of course, despite understanding each others situations, and therefor by extension each other, so well, they rarely talk about it if it isn't brought up in one of their various passive-aggressive wars. It would likely take a lot to get them to talk about it together. To really sit down and talk about it.
And John, the first of whom she interacts with and therefor fittingly last addressed, is the one who knows her the best. When she jokes around with John, while she's still often cynical and sarcastic, it's far more playful and lighthearted. There's less passive-aggression there, as she seems to understand that John really just isn't like that. So she's more than willing to allow their conversations to turn out silly and fun once in a while. In fact, John himself claims to know just how well he sees through Rose's facade in his birthday letter to her. And really, he's right.
Now, I've mentioned passive-aggression quite a few times so far. As well as cynicism, skepticism, facetiousness, and a variety of other poor social skills, and I bet you are wondering just where all this came from. Well that, quite unfortunately, all came from her mother. In Rose's eyes, their lives together have been nothing but one giant clever strife. She asks for a funeral for her cat, her mother goes way over the top and builds a mausoleum for the animal, then forces them to stand in the rain for a good portion of the day before simply heading inside to pass out from alcohol consumption. She draws a picture of her pet and writes a poem on the side, and her mother not only attaches it to the refrigerator, but does so with fifteen-thousand dollar frame. And then the woman has the gall to decorate the house with wizards as if she actually likes them. Nothing she has done was viewed as genuine to Rose. That didn't, however, stop her from nearly breaking down after learning of her death, upset with herself for not seeking her out and believing so strongly that her mother was perfectly safe. She admits in that conversation with Jade that all of the passive-aggression was likely just her way of preparing her for what was ahead.
Now. I am going to ask you to remember something one more time, and this will be the last time I do this to you I promise. But, at the beginning of this section, I posed to you the question of “Why would you ever wish to interact with someone like this?” If reading this over hasn't convinced you yet, then let me put it as simply as possible. Despite her shortcomings and attitude, Rose has her light. She can be a rock when desired or a therapist when not really wanted but probably needed, but all the time? She is a friend all the time. One that cares more than she lets on, who's loyalty is stronger than she ever shows, and who would literally give her life for you.
Twice if you're a certain constantly dying Egbert.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
-Intelligent
-Loyal
-Her powers as a seer of light allow her to know the most fortuitous path to follow for her party to obtain victory, whatever victory happens to be classified as.
-Her god tier status gives her conditional immortality; if her death isn't just or heroic, she'll just keep coming back to life.
-Tends to be a bad judge of character
-Loyal to a fault (blindly following advice from a shady character to save her friends.)
-Cynical
-Passive Aggressive
( Other Important Facts ) :
She will be retaining her memories from when she was here in Vatheon previously. (Oglogoth on Livejournal, about a year ago.)
( Sample ) :
@ Caligo
@ Caligo
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : Nope!
ACCEPTED
☆ Accepted! - - -
Congratulations! Your application has been accepted into Vatheon.Now that you're in the game, please follow the next few house-keeping steps.
If you have any further questions or comments, please head over to the FAQ.
Congratulations again, and we hope you enjoy the swim!