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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
INDEX
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vatheon ☆ caughtinanetwork ☆ vatheonooc ☆ batheon
Garry | Ib | Reserved | 2/2
☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : Garry
( Character's Age ) : Not given. A headcanon I am comfortable using is 24.
( Series ) : Ib
( Canon Point ) : post-Promise of Reunion ending!
( Playability ) : N/A
( History ) : Garry is first met in the game when Ib sees him looking at The Hanged Man painting in the museum. When approached, the man says nothing.
Later, when Ib is sucked into the horror art world, she eventually runs into the man again. He, like Ib, has had his life-force attached to a rose, a blue one, that must be kept healthy. When Ib finds Garry in the art world, he is collapsed on the ground, in a great deal of pain. After taking a key from him, Ib tries to wake Garry up, to no avail. Soon after, though, she finds the blue rose and puts it in water. Garry regains strength, and is delighted to see his is not alone in this horror world. He sticks with Ib because he doesn't want her to be in danger.
The duo goes through a series of room where they most solve puzzles, and eventually they meet a girl named Mary. Shortly after, Garry is separated from the two girls, and both Garry and Mary and Ib must work to reunite. During this time, Garry has a traumatic experience with some dolls, leading up to a giant, terrifying one. He is seen to be quite mad when Ib and Mary find him. Unfortunately, this causes him to forget another experience in his time alone - learning that Mary is in fact a painting and quite dangerous and insane. He quickly remembers, however, when he finds her (fake) rose and she tries to attack him. Garry pushes the little girl away, and tells Ib what he learned about her.
With Mary knocked out, Ib and Garry continue their journey, while they also continue to grow close as friends. Garry suggests they go get macaroons together if they get out... And then quickly corrects himself, saying when they get out. And, in time, they do... But not before a dramatic face-off with Mary. She comes at them with a knife, and Ib finds and burns the frame of her painting. Mary is defeated. The glass of the painting breaks, and cuts Garry's hand; Ib gives him her handkerchief to bandage it up. Because of this, they are able to remember each other after finally leaving the horror art world, albeit vaguely at first. They promise to meet up again, as Garry wants to clear Ib's handkerchief before giving it back.
( Personality ) :
Garry is a character we learn little about, and his history is a complete unknown, in particular. However, here is what we can say about him:
Garry is a somewhat unusual young man. Though he tries to be an adult for Ib, he is quite cowardly, jumping and screaming at almost every single thing in the painting world. He’s easy to spook, and when he is, he can act out, such as when he tries to break a mannequin head that startled him. When on his own, she does a fair bit of running away and just worrying about his situation.
But Garry does not only worry about himself, and this is where her inner courage comes through. For example, in one version of the story, he runs to save Ib from Mary when Mary's true colors are revealed, getting between them and attacking Mary. He’s constantly worried about Ib's safety and trying to take care of her; he wraps her up in her jacket and finds a safe room for her when she gets too tired out. In fact, in one ending, Garry sacrifices his life to save Ib’s, and makes no complaints about it. He is very caring and polite, and generally quite friendly, being sweet to Mary when he first meets her and eagerly encouraging the second girl to go with him and Ib to find a way back to the art gallery.
Garry is noted to have some behaviors that are stereotypically deemed very “feminine”, such as a way of speaking that involves calling people ‘dear’ often, an interest in fashion – shown by his interest in Ib’s outfit – and being easily startled. He’s also generally a bit odd, shown to be fairly comfortable with her safety lying in the hand of two young girls, and being so wrapped up in the painting “The Hanged Man” that he doesn’t even speak to Ib when he first meets her in the art gallery. This is even stranger when one considers that, at one point in the game, Garry may say that he finds art galleries boring.
Gary is socially unusual, as well. He treats Ib as an equal for the most part, except for her initial worries about a child being on her own. He, at one point, refers to Ib as "a tough kid", and seems to admire that about her. In that same scene, he is surprised that Ib, being "tough", is shaken by seeing a portrait of her parents in the horror art world and then talking about not knowing where they are. It seems weird that Garry is surprised that such a thing would bother Ib, as the idea of losing one's parents is very upsetting.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
Strengths:
-A strong kick!
-Compassionate
Weaknesses:
-Cowardly
-Temperamental at times
( Other Important Facts ) :
N/A
( Sample ) :
Here!
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : Nope!
ACCEPTED
☆ Accepted! - - -
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Congratulations again, and we hope you enjoy the swim!