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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote2013-02-23 11:29 pm

Applications


THIS APPLICATIONS PAGE IS NOW RETIRED. TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION, GO HERE.



As of April 1st, 12:00CDT, applications have opened.



The Application Explained.

Please post the application to the character journal and post a link to this page. In addition, please check for spelling and grammar prior to submitting the application. Applications that are error-ridden to the point of severely affecting clarity may merit revisions or rejection.

OOC Information:
Name: Whatever handle you go by.
Are you over 15? If not, sorry but stop here.
Contact: Should we feel the need to contact you privately, what is your preferred method?
Current characters in the game: Include preincarnation's name and canon, or none if applicable - please do NOT delete this section entirely!

IC Information:
Name: If the names of the Preincarnation and Reincarnation are different, please specify. Remember that your character will have a human name.
Canon and Medium: Please note that only well-established (significant source material published, with viable translations available in English) canons are acceptable here; we do not accept self-published canons due to potential conflicts of interest.
Age: If the preincarnated age and the new life's age differs, please specify.
Preincarnation Species: Their original species, if known.
Preincarnation Appearance: A concise description or link to an image will do.
Any Differences: Remember that only a normal human appearance will be acceptable, except in cases when the character will begin as a terrestrial animal.
Starting Location: What Echo boundary is your character starting in? Current locations: 1) Locke City, NJ, USA. 2) Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Preincarnated History: What happened to your character in their canon? You don't need to explain the entire series to us, just the relevant parts in regards to the character's development, and some context to make sure it makes sense. Headcanon should be written in italics.

If you prefer you may write a bare-bones history and post a link to a wiki or resource that covers more details. If the character is an original character, please outline the world they live in as well.

Reincarnated History: What happened to your character that got them to this point in their normal, human life? While a lot of information isn't necessary here, please give us a clear picture of who they are now and where they'll be headed in the context of the game. If you're re-apping a character you previously played, please include their experiences in-game and what they've been doing in the mean time as well.

First Echo: What caused their first Echo, and what did it give them? Players may choose events from the timeline or a canon recurrence. Keep these Echoes simple, but meaningful, and keep in mind that returned effects/objects caused by canon recurrences must be directly related to the event giving them back. If re-apping, please include all of their previously-obtained Echoes.

Preincarnation Personality: What sort of person were they in their past life? Headcanon should be clearly marked in italics. This section is important, as it helps us gauge your grasp on the character, so spare no expense here.

Any Differences: You are encouraged to deviate from the original personality in three or four major ways, made to make their personality logical to the setting and their new history (which, by default, varies from their original life). If the personality does not differentiate significantly, or if the differences do not make sense given the rest of your app, revisions may be asked for.

Abilities: What abilities did your character's preincarnation have? To what extent were they used? Include any equipment they had access to and any skills they had. Headcanon should be indicated in italics, as before. You may write a brief synopsis and link to a more detailed resource if you wish. Favor conciseness here, and try to limit (or else otherwise elaborate upon) canon terminology to avoid confusion.

Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Some form of extended, third-person prose exhibiting strong voice and key behaviors of your character. If the voice is weak or the characterization appears to be off, revisions may be asked for.

Roleplay Sample - Network: Same as above, but in network-style format, using text, video, audio, etc. This MUST be on the network.
*Note: One of the samples (of your choice) must be done from the perspective of the reincarnated character, set within the game. Samples from the test drive community may be used for this purpose.

Any Questions? If you need to clear up any lingering questions or concerns, here's the place to do it.





Combo Applications Explained.

We allow applications for multiple characters that are deeply linked and will only count as one towards the player's character limit and activity, although to prevent disappointment, any combo apps must be requested beforehand. This is for characters that are deeply intertwined to the point that if they are ever apart, it's a moment worth noting, including characters that are physically incapable of being apart and ones that are so often together that being apart would affect their personality drastically. There is no upper limit to the number of characters that can be in a combo app, aside from as common sense dictates. Combo apps are opt in, so characters suitable for a combo app could also be played individually. Combo apps can be retroactively applied in these cases at request.

To request a combo app, please fill out this form.

OOC Information:
Name: Whatever handle you go by.
Are you over 15? If not, sorry but stop here.
Contact: Should we feel the need to contact you privately, what is your preferred method?
Current characters in the game: Include preincarnation's name and canon, or none if applicable - please do NOT delete this section entirely!

IC Information:
Names:
Canon and Medium:
Why should they be combined? What makes them suitable for a combo app? Be as detailed as you feel is necessary.



Once approved, you may fill out a single application with all the approved characters.



Note: Applications are dealt with as they are received, by a majority vote process among the mods. While we try to get to each app in a timely process, ultimately speed may depend on busyness and the need to discuss some apps before a decision is made. Regardless, if your app has not been seen to within a week of its submission, or if it's been three days since you answered a request for revisions, please feel free to drop us another line here or by some means of mod contact here!

Characters being re-apped: While you may use the same application as before, if you intend to have them be the same reincarnated character, please make sure that the application has not changed, and to include new information covering what happened to them in-game and what they have been up to since losing contact; if they are keeping their Echoes, please include them under the regular 'first echo' heading. Also note: characters who dropped or idled while having a strike can not be be reentered until their first strike has expired (four months past the activity check they failed). For example, a character who took a strike in the September AC must wait until February to be reapplied.
selfabsorbed: (hrrrngh pop)

[personal profile] selfabsorbed 2013-07-13 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Info post!

Wooooo!
gogoghostpowers: (Fenton: GNARLY MAN!)

[personal profile] gogoghostpowers 2013-07-13 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
what what

whoop whoop
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[personal profile] counterclock 2013-07-13 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
I realized wayyy too late that I was appallingly unclear about this -- Avery's sister is not Bro, she is a completely different character. I just wanted the 'raised by a sibling who worked in porn' to be a constant. The app will be edited to make this more clear.

Eta. The application has been edited to clean up the confusion about Avery's sister being a reincarnation of Bro. I took out references to her as 'Sis' and just used her name.

Secondly, Avery's first echo has been changed to this:

About a year before her entrance into the game, Avery was arguing with an internet troll on one of her blogs and said a couple of rude things about male genitalia and the ways they could orally stimulate it in the hypothetical case where Avery possessed such a thing. This parallels to Dave taunting Tavros with a long string of euphemisms about his dick and triggered a serious case of dudebrain in Avery’s head.
Edited 2013-07-13 22:23 (UTC)
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Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] unwakingwaters 2013-07-13 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
allinvein: (i like watching you sleep.)

Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] allinvein 2013-07-13 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I have no doubt that it'll be a giant pain in the neck.

I mean, uh, look! A wild info post has appeared!
grimmopedia: (Default)

Re: ACCEPTED

[personal profile] grimmopedia 2013-07-13 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Thank you :D

info post
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[personal profile] philosophicalzombie 2013-07-14 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose there's any compromising on that point? The perception could be interpreted as a highly specific form of visual agnosia, particularly if the part about being able to use it to intuit what people are good at is removed.
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REVISIONS

[personal profile] shambles 2013-07-14 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Alright, that's fine! It's not, so i'll come up with something different.

I'll just use the pink light on March 13 2013 to trigger some sort of familiarity with swordsmanship, since him being a swordsman is canon.

I'd love to hear back from you very soon!
Edited 2013-07-15 00:52 (UTC)
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REVISIONS

[personal profile] rivalize 2013-07-14 05:28 am (UTC)(link)

Hope this clears up a few things!

1. Hair color:
I realize how unlikely this seems, although I could argue the point and provide evidence that it is in fact possible—had I any. I based this off an actual occurrence in my family—namely my cousin—who at the time was perfectly healthy. Her hair went from brown to white in a matter of weeks, although admittedly, it did regain its original color overtime, an option I could have eventually toyed with for Repliku. It was unclear as to why it even happened, but it did nonetheless, and even to this day she hasn't met anyone who could unveil the mystery. I just wanted to clear this up, as it wasn't something I'd merely pulled out of my ass to butcher the explanation behind the uncanny color of his hair.
I'm just going to have to go with the dye option. It wouldn't be surprising that he'd want to look as different as possible from his adoptive parents—in an attempt to further detach himself from the very memory of them and all the ache/frustration that comes with it—and as luck would have it, he ended up with the same hair color. Black. Instead of a gradual whitening, he merely dyed his hair the moment he left—white—which not only suggests renewal but also pertains to antipodal symbolism.

2. Echo:
As for his Echo (mental), what I meant for it to be is somewhat of an abrupt blast-from-the past kind of thing. Riku was this one being he never stopped wanting to kill, even after making peace with Sora and turning against the Organization. Meeting Riku for the first time in his Reincarnated life brought that feeling back, the sensation that the Earth isn't big enough for the both of them, the impulse to surpass him no matter what. It was in the way he stood, older and taller and seemingly stronger, and because of their similar features— it didn't help that his parents always seemed to praise him—Tyler winded up feeling less, which in turn created a deep-seated kind of hatred towards him that resulted in a slowly developing competitive streak.

philosophicalzombie: (Default)

Re: REVISION REQUEST

[personal profile] philosophicalzombie 2013-07-14 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
To back up my defense of Yukari's vision as Visual Agnosia, here's an excerpt from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat of a transcription of a real interview with someone who has the condition:

I showed him the cover [of a National Geographic Magazine], an unbroken expanse of Sahara dunes.
'What do you see here?' I asked.
'I see a river,' he said. 'And a little guest-house with its terrace on the water. People are dining out on the terrace. I see coloured parasols here and there.' He was looking, if it was 'looking', right off the cover into mid-air and confabulating nonexistent features, as if the absence of features in the actual picture had driven him to imagine the river and the terrace and the colored parasols.
I must have looked aghast, but he seemed to think he had done rather well. There was a hint of a smile on his face. He also appeared to have decided that the examination was over and started to look around for his hat He reached out his hand and took hold of his wife's head, tried to lift it off, to put it on. He had apparently mistaken his wife for a hat! His wife looked as if she was used to such things.


The man looked at a picture of a desert, and was able to describe it as a river in great detail, in a manner very similar to how Yukari looks at people and sees machines. Can I move forward with this interpretation?
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[personal profile] selfassured 2013-07-15 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
It was based off an event within canon where Derek notably has a sexual relationship with a hunter. The hunter was doing it to gain his trust and then proceeded to burn his family home down with the majority of his family inside.

So, I went for the idea that what would be returned would be a sense of deja-vu in a sense. Or, more accurately would bring on a sense of paranoia of a house, or someone familiar, burning down.
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[personal profile] iustitia 2013-07-15 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
I wish there was a video somewhere of this kid because the whole thing was basically great. He ended up having to dance with his dad before the judges gave him the green light to Las Vegas.

[info post]
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[personal profile] dododo 2013-07-15 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay! Tweaking it a bit, then. Is this alright?


First Echo: Only a few mere days after arriving Locke City, during a clear night while out on the balcony, he looked up at the sky as a plane passed over his head. He found himself with the strong desire to get up there again, but even further. For that moment, he wanted to see the stars. Properly. Since then, the idea has reoccurred to him from time to time.
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Re: REVISION REQUEST

[personal profile] face_kick 2013-07-15 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Thing one:

As for the Echo, it's really no trouble to move it to Locke City proper, and should would have arrived in the fall for classes, so perhaps the sort of snow storm that shut most of the East Coast down irl this year--something that a woman who grew up in a temperate climate would never have experienced before (the most she would have known is 'a couple of inches that melts to slush really soon' and/or 'snow that has been there a long while and is still melting' while traveling. Neither of which hold a candle to a real and proper snowstorm. Given that her entire powerset is ice-and-snow based, and I headcanon that this is likely what her inner world is like, this should be enough to get the Echo of her zanpakutou's voice in her head without, of course, knowing what it is or why it's there.

If this is still not OK as an Echo, just let me know and I can come up with something else.

Thing Second, I have written a second sample here

I do wish to point out that the personality may feel flat in the first sample because that's essentially what the character is going for. Because of her fame outside of the city, she is trying to avoid giving people clues as to her identity (given her well-known social status and her avoidance of the press/paparazzi/etc. and not knowing every one of the people with access), at least in initial posts.
Edited 2013-07-15 08:18 (UTC)

Re: Revision Request

[personal profile] wirsinddiejager 2013-07-15 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I've revised and expanded the reincarnated history section!