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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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Pepper Potts | MCU | Reserved 1/2
☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : Laurel
( Personal DW ) :
( Age ) : 27
( Timezone ) : EST
( Other Characters ) : None
☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : Virginia “Pepper” Potts
( Character's Age ) : 36
( Series ) : Iron Man/Marvel Cinematic Universe
( Canon Point ) : The beginning of The Avengers
( History ) :
To say that Pepper is Tony Stark’s “long suffering assistant” is an understatement. She has been by his side for over ten years cleaning up after his drunken binges, one night stands, mishaps, mistakes and misfortunes. She takes care of anything and everything that needs doing simply so he doesn’t have to. At any given time she plays the role of personal assistant, PR or liaison while all the while remaining his friend, confidante and (once they both man up enough to admit it) love interest.
On May 2nd, Pepper’s birthday, she finds Tony shirking his responsibilities in his workshop- as per usual. Having plans, she rushes him out the door to his jet so he could fly to Afghanistan for a weapons presentation… where he’s kidnapped by insurgents. And thus did Pepper never celebrate her birthday again. She’s extremely distraught, but never gives up hope that he would somehow make it home again. Which, being the protagonist of the entire movie, he does.
Despite her best efforts to bring him to the hospital, Tony insists on calling a press conference and making his announcement that suddenly makes her job exponentionally more difficult. Overnight she’s gone from fielding questions from reporters and dealing with tabloids to being approached by the CIA, DOD, FBI and Agent Phil Coulson from that agency with the really long name she’s never heard of. Knowing Tony didn’t want to talk to any of them she manages to deflect and absorb each request that flies her way. There is hardly a single moment when she’s seen without her laptop or phone, taking care of all the behind the scenes work and keeping an eye on the company, itself. Well someone in that house has to do it and it’s sure as hell not gonna be Tony.
Shortly after he gets home, Tony calls her down to his workshop to do the single most terrifyingly disgusting thing she’s ever done in her life. He’d been trying to change out the Mark I Arc Reactor but his hands were too big to pull out a wire that was in the way. He tells her it’s like operation (which she’s apparently never played. Sheltered life, much, Pepp?) and to just pull it out without letting it touch the walls. What does she do? Touches the socket wall with it and pulls out the piece it was connected to – sending him into cardiac arrest. Way to go, Pepper. But despite the disgusting puss-like inorganic substance and nearly killing her boss she manages to plug the new reactor in and get his heart going again. He tells her to incinerate the Mark I chest piece, but she has bigger plans for it. She has it set into a glass case with an engraving reading “Proof that Tony Stark has a heart.” You know. The engraving that might as well have read “break in case of backstabbing reactor stealing bastards.”
So, life goes on. Tony continues to be… Tony… and building things in his workshop. She doesn’t quite understand what they do; only that he keeps blowing things up down there. She goes to the charity gala to have a break and spend some time with the other people she works with… and ends up being shanghaied into the most awkward dance of her life. They come close, SO CLOSE to having the cheesy romantic first kiss on the roof… and decide to have drinks, instead. Tony leaves to get said drinks and, well, never comes back. Story of her life.
However! All is finally explained when she comes down to the workshop one day to find broken glass and Tony being pried out of a suit riddled with bullet holes. Now that she knows his secret, Tony enlists her help in tracking down the rest of his weapons around the world. It seems easy enough, use the drive Tony gave her to hack into his computer and copy the files... easy enough until Obadiah Stane walks in on her doing just that. Attempting pleasant conversation with the man who apparently paid to have your boss killed… awkwaaaard. But she keeps it relatively cool and with some slick slight of hand she manages to take the drive without Obadiah seeing. When she leaves she spots Coulson waiting oh so impatiently for an appointment… that Tony never told her they had… never one to look a gift horse in the mouth she ushers him out the door and fills him in on everything. She tried to call and warn Tony but was seconds too late so she calls in the cavalry in the form of Lieutenant Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes to save Tony while she drives Coulson and the suit squad to Stark Industries.
Pepper probably could have stayed in the car or outside while the agents did their thing… but she’s too cool for that. She leads them right to Section 16 and Obadiah’s work. Unfortunately for her she also happens to find Obadiah, himself, in his new toy – the Warmonger suit. Let’s just say that looking down the barrel of a really big gun and being told her “services are no longer required” isn’t her idea of a nice night on the town. Thankfully, Tony’s a big damn hero and swoops in just in time. She watches as the two have their epic showdown that really doesn’t seem to be going too well for Tony. That point is made even clearer when he instructs her to overload the reactor and blow the roof. The fact that she’s able to do this with only minimal directions shows that either she has some preexisting technical knowledge or that she’s learned a lot from watching Tony all these years. Either way. She ends up being showered with broken glass, bullets flying overhead and pressing that big red button to blow the reactor even though Tony is directly in the blast zone. Thankfully Tony survives; making that two times that Pepper’s saved his glowing butt.
Then, of course, Tony has another press conference that only results in making life that much harder for her. Why do people keep letting him do these things? Why? Though, of course, the fact that Tony kind of sort of in a roundabout way says that he likes her does take the edge off things.
Fast forward to six months later and we find Pepper looking stressed, harried and utterly fed up with Tony. He’s so busy being Iron Man that she’s had to take up the mantel of running Stark Industries on top of being his assistant and he keeps doing things that make her want to throttle him… like donating their (yes, THEIR) entire art collection to the Boy Scouts of America. She’s trying desperately to explain all of this to him… when he suddenly drops the metaphorical bomb on her and makes her CEO. While it makes sense- she was doing it all anyway- she never expected him to actually take that step. She doesn’t argue, she takes the promotion with a smile, stepping into her new status with grace and poise.
Until Tony starts being more egotistical and self-destructive than usual. It all starts with Monaco and his sudden burning desire to be a racecar driver. If that’s not bad enough he gets attacked by a crazy Russian. Thankfully she had the foresight to jump into the car with Happy Hogan and the Mark V and they got there just in time to hit the guy with the car and keep Tony from being filleted. She throws him the suit and has a front row seat to the beat down that ensues.
Pepper finds herself in the midst of a PR nightmare. Between Tony giving her the keys to the kingdom, the military trying to confiscate the suits and now the fact that someone else apparently built the tech that could run them she’s got her hands more than full. So when Tony makes her a peace offering and tries to reach out and tell her something’s wrong she doesn’t read between the lines and thinks that he’s, once again, just trying to run away from his problems. She thinks that he’s just being immature and reckless… a thought that’s only solidified at his birthday party. She tries to get him to stop and tell him he’s out of control but does he listen? No. He blows up half his house and it takes his best friend stealing a suit and kicking his ass to get him to chill out.
Being CEO isn’t as fun and glamorous as it sounded. She’s putting out Tony’s fires, trying to make the best of the Stark Expo, fighting with lawyers to get the Mark II suit back from Rhodey and being called a “pinhead” on national TV by Bill O’Reilley. Needless to say she’s completely and utterly lost all patience and confidence in Tony Stark. So of course he takes that exact moment to try to stammer his way through a confession to her. The fact that he at least tries is completely lost in the massive mountain of stress and problems that have been heaped on her shoulders. She cuts him off and leaves with Hogan – now her assistant and driver – to go to New York for the latest presentation in Hammer “technology.”
At the Expo she has the displeasure of watching Hammer moonwalk his way into infamy with his “Hammer Drones” and the centerpiece – Rhodey in the Mark II suit she’d just been fighting to get back. When Tony shows up and all hell breaks loose she knows Hammer had something to do with it. So instead of evacuating like everyone else she heads straight backstage to confront the slime ball. Once Natasha runs off to try to reach Vanko, Pepper takes it upon herself to take care of Hammer. She immediately steps in and takes control of the situation, calling the NYPD to come arrest Hammer. Unfortunately it also puts her in just the right place to hear Tony announce to Natasha that he’s no longer dying. Un. Im. Pressed. But that doesn’t keep her from having Hammer arrested and give the police orders regarding evacuating people from the expo. She declines to evacuate, herself, wanting to stay put until everyone else is clear of the area. Unfortunately, her stubborn nature has once again put her in prime explosion territory. But there are perks to having a superhero boyfriend, one of which is last second rescues. However it seems that flying through the air at high speeds without the benefit of a suit is the last straw. She tells Tony that she physically cannot handle the stress of being CEO. She resigns after only having the job for one week. Of course, her working one week as CEO is about the equivalent of one year as CEO for Tony… at least. In the midst of her ranting and raving and finally really talking to Tony for the first time since this whole ordeal started, he pulls her in for a kiss. Everything’s finally falling into place… it only took a few near death experiences and explosions to do it.
Fast forward to one tower later and Pepper finds herself living in Stark Tower with Tony as they start to take the first steps forward into clean energy for the world… and Agent Coulson steps in to shake things up way too much for her liking.
( Personality ) :
Pepper Potts has the patience and tolerance of a saint. She’d have to, otherwise how would she have put up with Tony Stark for over 10 years? However, even patience like that has a breaking point and once that’s been reached no one, not even Tony Stark, can stand in her way.
The question she is likely most often asked is how she’s been able to work so closely with Tony for that many years when most people get fed up and leave. The key is not to treat Tony like just any corporate big wig. Through the years they’ve developed their own workable system.
i.e. he trusts her to do everything.
She only really goes to him to approve the most important things and to make sure he gets to where he needs to go when he needs to be there. Of course this trust also goes to her spending his money. Case in point – she buys herself a birthday gift “from him.” She would never abuse this spending power, though, and only uses it when appropriate and necessary.
The two of them have practically developed their own language. Honestly, the only way to get a word in edgewise around him is to talk right over him and she often does, blatantly disregarding his rambling. By doing this she also moves things along more quickly. At points it seems like they’re having two conversations at once, yet both of them somehow completely understand everything that’s being said. While on the subject of speaking, Pepper has a tendency to ramble when she’s nervous, upset or stressed, to the point where she doesn’t really even hear anything that’s being said to her. When she starts rambling it’s essentially every thought racing through her head spilling out of her mouth no matter how disjointed or ridiculous it is.
Managing Tony’s schedule is about as easy as herding cats… in a tornado. Between board meetings, weapons demonstrations, speeches, awards, photo shoots and his extensive social calendar it’s a lot to keep track of. And that’s before he decides to throw it all out the window and throw spontaneous parties in Dubai or hide down in his workshop for days on end. The fact that she can keep up with all this and still be able to make plans on her birthday or go to charity events speaks volumes for her organizational skills, not to mention her vast attention to detail.
Although Pepper’s connection to Tony is extremely important it does not completely dictate who she is on her own. She is a strong independent woman who takes no shit from anyone no matter who they are (or in Hammer’s case, who they think they are). When she’s simply Tony’s assistant… though to call Pepper “simply” anything is just downright insulting… she turns her snark on him. When she becomes CEO she uses her quick wit and intelligence to her advantage while dealing with the press and other corporate connections. Whether her sarcasm and wit is natural or a side effect of working side by side with Tony for that long is a toss up but I’m inclined to say she’s always had a sharp tongue, Tony just helped hone it to a razor’s edge. She is the master of backhanded compliments and comments worded just right so people don’t realize they’ve being insulted until she’s smiled sweetly and walked away.
Above all else, Pepper knows the power of appearances. She is the personification of the idiom about going through life as a duck – smooth and unruffled on the top but paddling furiously beneath the water. No matter how bad things are, she always appears impeccably dressed and perfectly poised to the public and, more importantly, the press. In fact, the only time she looses her cool in public is during Tony’s fight on the race track in Monaco and, well, her life was in danger so she was entitled to a few hysterics.
One thing that Pepper has in spades is confidence. This also translates to stubbornness and courage. When Tony instructs her to overload the reactor and blow the roof she doesn’t say she can’t do it. She doesn’t run away or beg for him to walk her through every step. She walks her ass into that building and just does it. The only time she hesitates is when she realizes he won’t get out of the way in time. Even then, knowing there was no other choice, she still pushed that button. Granted this confidence gets her into trouble on more than one occasion and has nearly gotten her killed a few times, but it’s also helped save Tony’s life and put the right people in prison.