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Please read these guidelines carefully, as failure to complete the application properly may result in a need for revision or outright rejection. Be sure that you have also read the Rules and General Info pages, the latter of which contains information necessary to write your RP sample.

Apping New Characters

In general, all answers besides the first two should be answered in full sentences with a reasonable grasp of the English language. Run it through a spell-checker; make your Grammar Nazi friend take a look at it. Nothing here needs to be a college thesis, but a little proof-reading can go a long way. We do not demand that your paragraph breaks come at an editorially ideal point, but we do demand that they exist.

We are also looking for insight over length. A longer application is not always better! Take the space you need to give a well-thought-out answer, but walls and walls of text will definitely not speed up the approval process.

Contact/Personal Info
A comment separate from your app with your name, preferred journal, and email. Making it a separate comment lets us know who you are, but lets us keep your email address screened.

Canon (and version, if applicable)
Should be pretty straightforward!

Reference Picture and Wiki link (again, if applicable)
Again, pretty straightforward!

Point in the time-line taken Whether the character comes from the end of the series or a point partway through. For characters being apped from ongoing canons, we ask that you pick a definite spot to start from, though you are welcome to add memories past that point when your canon progresses.

Character History
A brief summary of your characters history, just so the mods have at least a little background to go on. This section generally need be no longer than 300 words, and if it takes up more than an entire comment you have done it wrong.

Motivation
Basically, why this character would willingly agree to come to Sabra. What you write in here isn't set in stone, especially for ongoing canons, and doesn't have to be that SPECIFIC WISH, but show us you're thinking about it at the least!

Canon Personality
Can be a little longer than the history, if necessary.

Blank Personality
The most important section! Please explain what personality traits you believe your character will lose and retain upon arriving in Sabra La Tau and why. Analysis of why your characters do what they do, and how their memories shape those actions is necessary to give an acceptable answer to this section; simply listing how your character will act is not enough.

Some characters may act in an extremely similar fashion to their canon selves and some may act radically different. However, in either case, we want you to explain why. We want the players to chose for themselves what their character would be like sans memories, but unsupportable (or simply unsupported) answers will be rejected.

Writing Sample
Your character receives the recording that all Blanks receive upon awakening. Describe both the recording and your character's reaction in a ~300 word third-person sample. Yes, it may seem strange to have a third-person sample required in a first-person RP, however, this will give you a chance to show off your grasp of both the canon and Blank incarnation of your character. Don't worry about your purple prose or deadly allergy to adverbs; what we are looking for here is characterization and an interesting spin. Please also keep in mind what can and can't be in that video.

As a general rule of thumb, we tend to prefer apps that describe the Blanks' reaction to seeing themselves in the message over the ones that concentrate on the Blanks' reaction to the room or their own sense of confusion. Introspection is key! How would your Blank's reaction be different from other Blanks?

Contact/Personal Info comment (separate from your app!):

App form:

Reapping Dropped Characters

This app form is for those of you who have dropped a character and wish to pick that character back up. It is NOT for a player who wishes to app a character that someone else has dropped; those characters will use the normal app form and start over as a fresh Blank.

Character Name:

State before they left:
Give a brief description of the character's emotions/state of mind up to the point where they stopped being an active character.

IC day they were dropped:
Gives a good idea of how much IC time they've been away.

Destination:
Where were they, and, if they were with a judge, what was their time away like? For instance, if you went off to frolic with the Foreman, you spent time working just like he said! You were super happy and well fed. You feel like you had the springtime of your life but you really can't remember any of the details! Why? Because you were a giant cave ant at the time! You lucky dog. While it's not strictly necessary to go into much detail about your life as an ant, it makes Foreman conversations in the future more fun.

Reaction to their time away:
This section will vary depending on where your character ended up. Also, if you wish to reset your character and have them join a different unit, this is the place to let us know!
- If they were in the pillar, how will it affect your character to have been completely immobilized, in a semi-conscious state, for the aforementioned amount of time?
- If they were with the Foreman, they spent their time away as a GIANT ANT. What effects did their time away have on them? Mood improvement? Strength and constitution up? Just put on muscle weight? Regained health? Zen with the world?
- If they were with their unit's patron or otherwise away, how was it? What effects did or will it have on their physical and mental health?

Reapp form:

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Applications for new characters are no longer currently being accepted at this stage of the game. Any apps posted will be automatically declined.

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Character Name: Tsuchimiya Kagura
Canon: Ga-Rei (manga)
Reference picture and Wiki link: wiki link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga-rei) and pic link (http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/reactive-san/Ga-Rei_v02_000_dust_cover.png)
Point in the time-line taken: The latest chapter (45)
Character History: For centuries, exorcists -- people with exceptional spiritual ability -- have stood between evil spirits, demonic entities and dark spiritual energy and the rest of the world that isn't even aware these things exist. Kagura is the last of a family of such exorcists and has been part of the government's "Supernatural Disaster Prevent Department" (under the Ministry of the Environment!) since she was in grade school, fighting spiritual crime by night and sleeping through class by day. However, it sucks to be an exorcist. Really, really sucks. For every one monster they drop, two more show up to take its place, and the casualties on their side climb higher every day.

When Kagura was young, her older sister figure, Yomi, was possessed and slaughtered the majority of the department, including Kagura's own father, and it was Kagura herself that was forced to put at stop to her with a nice traumatizing fatal stabbing. It was also then that she inherited the spiritual beast "Byakuei" from her dying father -- a monster sealed directly to the soul that continuously burns through the host's spiritual power until the day they die.

Two years later, she accidentally runs over the boy of her dreams with a motorbike, and after abusing government resources to find out what school he goes to, she transfers there (read: stalks him) and so begins a tale of spiritual shenanigans and the eventual destruction of the world.
Canon Personality:
Kagura is cheerful, kind, and energetic. She's a friendly person that, while completely ignorant of social norms most of the time, generally means well and wants to protect people -- particularly from things of a spiritual nature because, as exorcists, they are "the only people who can". She's a bit of a spaz when set off, and incredibly impulsive -- particularly with strange ideas such as using real ghosts to spice up the school's haunted house or building a snowman in the middle of a deep and heavy conversation for no particular reason. A touch random, in other words. She doesn't hesitate to put herself in the line of fire to protect people and the city she lives in, and at the end of the day, all she really wants is to be able to pass the time with the people she loves. Kensuke often calls her 'strong' because she is still such a bright, smiling person despite how hard things have been for her, but he's actually a little off-base.
Kagura simply represses, even to the extreme of amnesia, at one point. Even though she saw the corruption in the world for what it is, she forced herself to smile and be happy, because she firmly believed that she could never be a burden for others. She believed she had to follow her duty exactly and without question and could never allow emotion or injury to slow her down because it would be troublesome for the other exorcists. That's how she ended up killing Yomi. Only lately, she's got a newly-formed backbone, and has decided that she's tired of losing all the people she loves, and even if she's considered a traitor, and even if it's selfish, she's going to stand by her Important People right up until the very end.

Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Tsuchimiya Kagura