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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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Your Name: Ian
Journal (IJ, LJ, IS or DW): Journal (http://www.insanejournal.com/users/lavosadvocate)
Email Address: lavosadvocate@gmail.com
Character Name: Ragna the Bloodedge
Canon: Blazblue
Reference picture and Wiki link: Reference (http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u20/Orsted/?action=view&current=Ragnawallpaper.jpg) and Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlazBlue)
Point in the time-line taken: Right after the True Ending of Blazblue: Calamity Trigger

Character History:

Life hasn't been easy for poor Ragna the Bloodedge. Granted. life hasn't been easy for a lot of people after the magical apocalypse one hundred years ago, an unpleasant affair involving a monster called the Black Beast wiping out half of humanity before its own demise at the hands of Six Heroes. During this catastrophe, humanity was taught by these Heroes to use the Ars Magus, the setting's term for sorcery. To regulate the use and education of the Ars Magus, an organization known as the NOL (Novus Orbis Librarium) was formed, eventually consolidating its power as a totalitarian world government.

But things have been especially hard on Ragna. He was raised as an orphan in a small church, along with his younger siblings, Jin and Saya. Extremely protective of the two, he had to deal with both Saya's poor health, and Jin's dependence and possessiveness toward him. When Ragna was a teenager, tragedy struck. An evil being named Terumi forced Jin to assist him in burning down the church and abducting Saya. Ragna tried to intervene, but failed in stopping them, losing an arm in the process. In that moment, he lost everything he had held dear, but his life was spared. A new arm replaced Ragna's severed arm; it was the Azure Grimoire, a legendary magical artifact formed from condensed “seithr,” or magical energy. The Azure bestowed upon him superhuman physical abilities, a mastery of the Ars Magus, and the ability to drain the life-force of others.

After the incident, he was mentored in swordsmanship by Jubei, one of the Six Heroes that defeated the Black Beast. Newly armed with skill, resolve, and absurdly powerful magical abilities, Ragna has waged a one-man war with the NOL, earning him the highest bounty in the history of humanity, and the nickname “the Grim Reaper.” Ragna's motives are mysterious, but appear to be related to the mysterious Cauldrons found at the heart of every NOL headquarters. Something in the Cauldrons is inextricably linked to Ragna's past and his disappeared sister Saya. Thus he heads to the city of Kagutsuchi, in search of the Cauldron within it.

What Ragna does not know, is that when he finds the Cauldron, something will go wrong. Due to the Azure, the Cauldron will transform Ragna into the Black Beast. Time will be reset to one hundred years ago where Ragna will cause the apocalypse against his will. This cycle has repeated countless times, each slightly different, but all leading to the same tragedy. For the purpose of this app, Ragna will be taken from the final repetition, in which the cycle is broken and he learns of Terumi's involvement in his past.

Canon Personality:

Ragna isn't the life of most parties. He's coarse, bitter, stand-offish, and disdainful of anybody telling him what to do. Ragna despises being lied to or manipulated, and especially hates being toyed with. He dislikes anyone interfering in his business, and in turn would prefer to stay out of the business of others. He is very slow to trust others, with Jubei being possibly the only exception. He has a great deal of anger and a rather short fuse, but he generally only uses violence in self-defense. On the other hand, in the case of the NOL, or those he truly despises, Ragna is merciless.

Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Ragna the Bloodedge 1/2