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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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Terezi Pyrope | Homestuck | Reserved
☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : Lauren
( Personal DW ) :
( Age ) : 29
( Timezone ) : central US
( Other Characters ) : none
☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : Terezi Pyrope
( Character's Age ) : about 15
( Series ) : Homestuck
( Canon Point ) : Act 6, Intermission 3
( History ) :
here
( Personality ) :
Compared to many of the characters in Homestuck, we actually get to see a lot of Terezi's personality and development - moreso than most of the trolls aside from Karkat. She starts out seemingly quite sure of herself, though we become more privy to her flaws and insecurities as the series progresses.
Though blinded, it doesn't seem to hinder her much, and in fact she seems to prefer it - to the point that her dream self also became blind even when its eyes weren't the ones burned. Whether she's just really good at adapting or because she just wanted to stick it to Vriska that badly is never delved into, but whatever the case she operates just as well without her sight as she did with it. Perhaps better. She's also quick to use it to her advantage in conversation, sometimes acting offended when whoever she's talking with has forgotten/doesn't know about it. Of course it's highly doubtful she's very offended at all.
She's a fun-loving troll who gets along well with Dave, while at the same time holding mock trials and executions. Terezi basically roleplays the troll equivalent of a lawyer (when she's not being a dragon) and she holds her ancestor, a well known legislacerator, in high regard (this generally being the person she roleplays as in the first place). The area around her hive his filled with plush scalemates hanging from nooses - results of her own played out investigations. So at first she seems like someone who finds most of life to be a game. And maybe this is true, at least until reality gives her a hard smack in the face.
Despite the way she comes on in the beginning, she ends up being one of the more sympathetic characters as the story progresses. She honestly feels a little bad when Davesprite tells her about the doomed timeline he came from that she helped create, and runs away from her computer in tears when she gets a doomed Dave killed in another, despite having known this would be the outcome from the start. Then, even after all her investigating and all the blame she placed on Vriska for all the deaths that occurred on the meteor, she's still not happy that she has to kill her. She might not be out and out compassionate, but her heart is in the right place for a troll.
The death of Vriska was something of a turning point for her, as she hasn't been quite her old self since. The realization that her feelings toward Vriska may have further blinded her to the truth about other matters. When Dave and Rose arrive she can only be embarrassed for herself and her fellow trolls, attempting several times to say how much cooler they usually were but realizing they weren't.
Her and Dave do hit it off well, though, being already on friendly terms. Terezi herself isn't completely lost to mopiness, as we do see her drawing and playing with both the Mayor and Dave later on - so much so, in fact, that Karkat becomes jealous of their interaction. Unfortunately, the other troll never gets up the nerve to say anything, and as of the current point in the story it is inferred that Terezi and Dave are seeing each other (though this is shown entirely off-screen the same way the Jade and Davesprite one is and we never really have any details on it). There is clearly also some romantic tension between her and Karkat still, and she can be found sitting near his sleeping form during one of the Meenah mini-games. Though Meenah has also shown some interest in Karkat, I believe Terezi is aware that Karkat hasn't actually shown any real romantic interest back , despite what the sea troll might think.
There is also the matter of her current blackrom situation with Gamzee, of which we also have very little detail on aside from what Gamzee mentions to Rose. Some concern is expressed over how this would make Karkat feel, and Rose (though inebriated at the time) believes she should take up the position of an auspistice to keep them from being an actual couple. How this relationship originally occurred is also something the reader is unaware of at this point. Given how Gamzee currently is at Vatheon, however, there shouldn't be too much of an issue with that - though she won't know how to handle this at first.
When it comes to their ancestors, (or rather, their "dancestors") Terezi felt so insecure after meeting hers that she took to hiding away with the hood of her dragon cape pulled over the top half of her face. (Not that she needs to see, being blind and all. Karkat approached her about it, and when she revealed how bothered she was by the sheer coolness factor of the other Pyrope, he argued that she was the better of the two simply because she didn't fake anything. Terezi seems to have been very touched by this.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
Did I mention she was blind?
In Terezi's case, this acts as both a strength and a weakness. The obvious weaknesses are those accompanying the lack of sight. As much as she can pick up through her other senses, she by no means gets a perfect readout of a room just by walking in and giving it a few sniffs. On the flip side, her senses of smell and taste are through the roof when it comes to how much detail she can pick up. Licking the screen of her computer, for example, somehow lets her read the text on it. She doesn't have another program read it to her.
Mentally, she's not as sure of herself as she once was. She's full of insecurities, as I mentioned previously, and I think it's mostly because of these that she fell into the relationships she currently has - because they were easy to grasp for.
On the other hand, even if she doesn't act it sometimes, she's one of the more sane and level-headed of the trolls. To an extent, anyway. Her quirks and habits are just that, and they help cover a surprisingly rational mind.
( Other Important Facts ) :
Taking Terezi from this point in canon means she's about two years older than anyone taken from the end of Act 5 or before (not counting their time spent in Vatheon).
As far as her typing quirk goes, she uses all caps in teal font, replacing A, I, and E with 4, 1, and 3, respectively. I will provide translations when necessary.
( Sample ) :
The door was thrown open with far more force than necessary, leaving Terezi framed in the doorway with an expression that clearly stated she was ready to lay the smack down on its painted-faced occupant. She was so ready to do this. She'd run over what she was going to say multiple times in her head. First would be a comment on the general state of his room, followed by a snide remark on his current company (Karkat excluded), with the finisher being a jab at his continued slime reliance.
Except the room was empty. A simple sniff of the air made this perfectly clear, and this realization left her feeling deflated. Her whole prepared argument crumbled to a fine dust and left her in a sigh.
This wasn't going to work out anyway. She didn't need to be a Seer to realize this. The Gamzee here really was the sweet and innocent troll she'd originally thought him to be. Even if there was the potential within him to become the one she'd eventually fallen into black with, he didn't want it and it would be wrong of her to try and force it on him. (Not to mention he probably couldn't keep their relationship a secret if his life depended on it.)
Perhaps she could just... mess up his room a bit while he was gone. Break a few things, leave chalk graffiti covering his walls. Of course, with her luck, he'd enjoy the drawings and not even notice the added mess. Or worse, he'd just get sad about it. Ugh, she couldn't stand the idea of him looking at her with wide, hurt eyes.
It was a bit like kicking a puppy. An ugly, pathetic puppy that honked when it was sent flying.
Quite abruptly, she pulled herself back out of the room and slammed the door behind her with just as much force as she'd used when she first entered. Something rattled and fell, and she couldn't help the slight amount of pleasure that gave her. It was wigglerish of her, but she'd take what she could get at that point.
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) :
Nope.
ACCEPTED
☆ Accepted! - - -
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