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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
Elektra Natchios | Daredevil (2003) | Reserved
☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : Rose
( Personal DW ) :
( Age ) : 23
( Timezone ) : Central
( Other Characters ) : none
☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : Elektra Natchios
( Character's Age ) : unknown; early to mid-twenties.
( Series ) : Daredevil (2003)
( Canon Point ) : after her fight with Matt in the park
( Playability ) : n/a
( History ) :
Daredevil movie wiki
Elektra movie wiki
I include the second one since despite being a sequel movie it offers up more backstory for Elektra in the movieverse.
( Personality ) :
Elektra is the perfect loyal, devoted daughter. She strives to make herself the best. Why? Because that is what her father expects of her. There is no task that is put in front of her that she will not do everything in her power to excel at. Failure is not an option for her. Needless to say this does not win her friends. She is perfectly content with that.
Elektra is a closed off, distrusting person. When she meets someone she refuses to give her name. She does everything in her power to push whoever tries to speak to her away (if her bodyguards do not get to it first). She is even willing to get violent if that is what it takes to get rid of them. She has no desire to have anyone in her life aside from her father.
That is on the surface though. Deep down Elektra is lonely and unhappy. She often ditches her bodyguards just to get away from it all. The pressure of her father’s demands puts a huge strain on her emotionally which caused her to develop Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She suffers from terrible nightmares about her mother’s death. A great part of her just longs to connect with someone just to ease the pressure and loneliness.
One day it does happen. Elektra meets her kindred spirit in the form of a blind lawyer from Hell’s Kitchen named Matt Murdock. He will be someone who can keep up with her physically and emotionally being no stranger to tragedy and high expectations from a father himself. When Elektra is with him, we see an entirely different side of her. She can be playful and caring to the needs and desires of people aside from her father.During their fight in the playground, he jokes with her about why they are fighting (he just wants her name) and she quickly returns that he should try getting her number.
When Matt later requests on their first date that she stay with him so he can see what she looks like in the rain (when it rains, he claims that he can almost see again) and she obliges despite the fact she was trying to leave the date sooner. When Matt tries to leave the early date too (he overhears someone being mugged due to his enhanced hearing), she stops him and later does not question him about it; she lets him keep his secrets.
While there's a great deal of darkness inside of Elektra stemming from her mother's death, just waiting to seep out the moment her father passes, she does have a pure heart as Stick puts it. Her actions are guided by love. It is the loss of the people she held closest to her that pushes her later to act out in violence and cause pain to everyone around her. It is out of love for Abby she later finds redemption by protecting her and is able to make peace with the past.
Of course none of that is relevant at her current canonpoint. She is only an heiress struggling with her mother's death and trying to be a good daughter.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
Strengths
- Her training. This is woman who has been trained in martial arts since she was five years old. Before that, her father gave her lessons which seem to be based in endurance and strength. We see her handle multiple weapons through both movies with great skill. It is safe to say she knows how to protect herself and in many different ways.
- Speed and agility. It ties into her training, but this is a woman who can jump across a rooftop casually, do flip kicks in mid-air, push herself off a wall so she can lunge at someone with her sai, etc. Don't be surprised if she starts jumping across buildings and doing back flips in the game.
- Her intelligence. She has mastered multiple fight styles and weapons over her life. It is safe to say she's got brains. Given her economic status, she likely had the best possible education.
Weaknesses
- Emotionally Elektra is incredible fragile. She deals with negative feelings by either denying they exist or acting out. As a result, she's prone to nightmares and suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She will try to control everything around her to give her a better sense of security as well. Finally, she has serious trust issues as in she only truly trusts her father. She refuses physical contact and tends to holds still when people do touch her.
- Speaking of acting out, anger is a big issue. Once she's upset, Elektra will get sloppy. Her judgment and fighting skills are poorest at this time. She also has a tendency to tear down everyone around her regardless of their status as friend or foe.
- She also has a great deal of pride. She will pick fights to either prove herself superior or make a point that she is not someone that can be pushed around or imposed upon.
( Other Important Facts ) :
I believe I covered it all!
( Sample ) :
It was always an afterthought of Elektra’s. Out of blue she would begin to notice how bizarre this scene must appear to an outsider. The talented, beautiful daughter of Nikolas Natchios was sitting in a park and watching people all by herself in the middle of winter. In particular, an old woman with what she could only assume was her granddaughter building a snowman. It was a foolish move on her part. This was just the opportunity kidnappers and assassins needed to get a hold of her. She should go back to where she ditched her bodyguards and let them take her home.
Yet, she kept watching. Those vivid green eyes took note of every line and wrinkle on the woman’s face; lines that her mother would never have.
Her stare must have gotten too intense since the woman was finally taking notice of her. Elektra immediately flushed thinking how pathetic and weak she must look right now. Instead of being dismissed or scorned however the woman just smiled and offered to let her join them. Elektra did not think about it consciously. She simply stood up and started working on the base. Maybe she had just been out in the cold too long but that smile reminded her of simpler days. She could feel the warm sun beating down her in Greece as she ran through hedge mazes with her mother for fun. This woman was not her mother but, it still felt nice to be part of something for a little while.
For the next half hour, she worked on the snowman. Both the woman and child asked only polite, simple questions. Did she come here often? Not really; she was just exploring today. Was she excited for Christmas? Yeah, she found her father a nice gift in an antique shop the other day. She should come again another day to play with them. That caused her to pause. For a second, she dared to hope but, hearing the slam of a car door quickly dashed that. Her oldest and most experienced bodyguard approached speaking in her native tongue so quickly she could almost feel the apprehension of the older woman and her granddaughter. She had been gone for too long. They had to call her father. He was furious. She turned to the confused pair with a small smile, thanking them for a good time, and walked off with the older man.
She would never see them again.
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I would also like to include a network post I made in another game with Elektra. It shows a different ranges of emotion and gives a better idea of what you can expect in game if accepted.
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) : I'm fine for now.
ACCEPTED
☆ Accepted! - - -
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If you have any further questions or comments, please head over to the FAQ.
Congratulations again, and we hope you enjoy the swim!