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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
008 | Cyborg 009
☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : Silk
( Personal DW ) :
( Age ) : 20
( Timezone ) : CST/EST
( Other Characters ) :
Dirk Strider (
Kurloz Makara (
☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : 008/Pyunma
( Character's Age ) : 23
( Series ) : Cyborg 009
( Canon Point ) : Episode 45, "Goodbye, Dolphin"
( Playability ) : n/a
( History ) :
008 was born Pyunma, in a small country, Muamba, in West Africa. Muamba was originally a colony of the European country Glutonia. Glutonia was interested in the land because of the precious Metal X. Eventually, Muamba gained independence, only to be taken over by a dictator, Unbaba, who was kept in power by Glutonia in exchange for supplying them with Metal X. Pyunma became a revolutionary and joined a group of guerrilla fighters attempting to oust Unbaba and bring a better quality of life to the people of Muamba. Among those rebels were his friends Kabore and Mamado. Mamado, faced with his brother's death after a life of working in the mines gathering Metal X, had sworn that he would bring freedom to Muamba.
One night, while on a mission, Mamado and Pyunma were nearly caught by Unbaba's forces. Rather than allow both of them to be noticed, Mamado drew the guard's attention, allowing Pyunma to escape. Unfortunately, Mamado's efforts were in vain, since Pyunma was later shot and kidnapped by one of the robots of the Black Ghost.
The Black Ghost or the "Merchants of Death," created advanced weapons to assist in wars and create global chaos. One of their most advanced projects was creating cyborgs to serve as weapons- and this is where Pyunma's kidnapping came in. He was given mechanical lungs that allowed him to breathe underwater and given a number, 008, to designate him as the eighth cyborg warrior created by Black Ghost.
Pyunma was unwilling to serve as a weapon of war, so with eight other cyborgs (001 through 009) and the help of some Black Ghost scientists sympathetic to their cause, they escaped the labs where they were created, and destroyed the Island X laboratories of the Black Ghost, and kidnapped a state-of-the-art ship that could function as both a jet and a submarine. With the help of one of the scientists, Professor Gilmore, they fled to Japan, where they stayed with a man named Professor Kozumi, a friend of Gilmore's.
The Black Ghost sent several other cyborgs after the 00 numbers during this time, and also kidnapped Professor Kozumi. After rescuing him, the cyborgs decided it was best for them to move on. Using their stolen Black Ghost ship, renamed Dolphin, they began traveling the world, fighting the Black Ghost wherever they found them.
One such place was 008's homeland of Muamba. There, the cyborgs discovered that the rebel guerrilla forces had been sold a weapon by the Black Ghost. 008 attempted to convince his friend Kabore, leader of the rebels, to give up the weapon, but was unsuccessful until an attack on the camp revealed that the Black Ghost was selling weapons to Unbaba's forces as well. Those weapons were controlled by other cyborgs, who included 008's former ally Mamado. In attempting to understand what had happened to Mamado, and why he had turned against his country, 008 was kidnapped by the Black Ghost. After being freed by the other 00 cyborgs, Pyunma faced off against Mamado again, only to be forced to kill his former friend.
Shortly after, the 00 cyborgs were able to find and destroy the Black Ghost's base, and kill Skull, the leader. After that, the group split up, and Pyunma returned to Muamba, where he offered his help to villages around Muamba during a famine. He did not reconvene with the other cyborgs until a series of natural disasters occured the world over, which it was discovered were caused by a group of cyborgs modeled after Greek gods.
As time went on, more unusual events occurred, leading the 00 cyborgs to eventually conclude that Black Ghost organization still existed. During this time, the cyborgs investigated Von Bogart, the CEO of a suspicious manufacturing company, as well as the sudden appearance of animals with supersonic weapon capabilities. While hunting down one of these animals, Pyunma was severely injured. Dr. Gilmore was able to save him, but during that process replaced the skin on his torso, arms, and legs with a scaly material that increased his speed in the water. Although he was horrified by these unasked-for changes at first, Pyunma was still able to use these new modifications to help when enemies attacked the Professor's house. Shortly after, due to two girls they had taken in, Helen and Bina, the cyborgs learned that Black Ghost's new base of operations was deep under the earth, in a kingdom called Yomi. This is where the animals with supersonic capabilities had come from.
Knowing this, the cyborgs together decided to travel to Yomi and defeat the Black Ghost once and for all. However, before they were able to get there, they were ambushed by Black Ghost robots, and their ship, the Dolphin, was destroyed.
Additional resources here and here.
( Personality ) :
Of the 00 cyborgs, 008 is often distinguished as the only one who had combat experience before being kidnapped by the Black Ghost. It comes through constantly in his actions. Aside from being trained in hand-to-hand combat, 008 shows a good understanding of how battles work. He often knows what needs to be done, both when he’s piloting the Dolphin and when he’s outside of the ship swimming on his own. He is one of the main pilots of the Dolphin. 008 is also shown to have a good head for tactics. He contributes both to initial plans to get the cyborgs away from Black Ghost’s Island X, and to the plans for defeating their enemy, Cyborg 0010.
008’s background of combat also comes through in his ability to set aside something that’s troubling him in order to concentrate on a fight. This isn’t to say he stops feeling anything the moment there’s a fight. Rather, he has the capacity to put aside a troubled mind for the sake of helping his friends. When the cyborgs go to Muamba, Pyunma’s ability to do this is tested by his friend turned Black Ghost cyborg, Mamado. The first time he realizes that he is fighting his former friend, he is nearly defeated. The second time, when he actually goes to confront Mamado for turning against the country he once fought for, Pyunma is not only defeated but taken hostange. The third time 008 is put in a position to confront his old friend, he attempts to reason Mamado into joining his group and leaving Black Ghost, but when Mamado starts to attack, 008 is able to immediately shoot to kill.
Another habit this confrontation with his former friend reveals is 008’s tendency to keep his troubled thoughts to himself. When he begins to suspect that the enemy cyborg is his former ally, he doesn’t talk to any of the 00 number cyborgs about it, but rather withdraws and spends time thinking about it on his own. And when he goes to confront his former friend, he does so alone, without even informing his allies of it. He does so again, later in the series, after Professor Gilmore modifies his body without asking. Instead of getting angry about it and arguing with Professor Gilmore, he runs off to be by himself- though this time he doesn’t go too far away from the group. At another point, when they thought Black Ghost destroyed, Pyuna returned to Muamba, rather than staying with Professor Gilmore and several of the other cyborgs in Japan.
Being turned into a cyborg definitely exacerbated Pyunma’s combat-readiness and his quietness, but he didn’t start acting that way because he became a cyborg. While his reactions to his comrades from Muamba, and many of his memories of his time with them are happy, Pyunma still had that same tendency toward introspection. During one particularly significant conversation with Mamado, he doesn’t say much, but rather serves as a witness to Mamado’s promise to make their home a better place. Nevertheless, he longs for peace just as much as Mamado once did. He finds happiness in helping people, as he does in bringing food to a village starved by drought. The difference is that Pyunma rarely voices these thoughts, the way someone like Mamado, or his comrade 009 would.
008 seems to have a very balanced view of the world around him. He is fully aware of the horrible things human beings are capable of doing to one another, thanks to people like Unbaba and Black Ghost, yet he is still able to trust in those he fights alongside, whether they are the Muamban rebels or the other cyborgs. What Pyunma doesn’t do is insert himself into debates of morality, the way 009 so often does. Instead, he tends to wait for the others to reach a conclusion, and speak up once they’ve begun making a plan of action. It’s this habit that has kept Pyunma from getting into arguments with his comrades the way the others so often do. Being willing to learn from the others also helps. Most of the reason he is able to face the drastic changes Professor Gilmore makes to his body is a conversation with 004, who reminds him that he isn’t the only member of the group whose body is so visibly modified. What 004 is able to help Pyunma understand is that those changes can’t take away his humanity, and that they are also Professor Gilmore’s attempt to protect him, in the only way he can. Whether or not he is happy with the modifications, this conversation still helps him to set aside his own worries, and once again fight with his comrades.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
+An experienced fighter
+breathes underwater, thanks to mechanical lungs
+physically more resilient than most humans (i.e. resistant to bullets)
+ can swim incredibly quickly
- Doesn't often speak his mind
- Not a lot of physical strength
( Other Important Facts ) :
In case it wasn't obvious by now, he's a cyborg!
And part of being a cyborg is having a universal translator chip in his head, though that isn't particularly relevant in Vatheon.
( Sample ) :
Here!
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) :
Accepted!
☆ Accepted! - - -
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