sabra_la_mods

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

Ever since the church incident, Ragna has had a deep sense of powerlessness. He was unable to protect everything that he loved, and nearly died. Much of Ragna's thorny personality came as a result of this trauma. It filled him with anger at the world and self-loathing toward himself for his weakness. Ragna still finds the past difficult to think about, much less confront. In spite of being the world's most infamous terrorist, deep down Ragna isn't a bad guy. He still cares very much about his family, and basically wants to do the right thing if possible. He'll never admit it, but he's even a bit of a softy at times, inclined to lend help to the suffering, the well-intentioned, and hungry cats. Ragna is fiercely protective of anything that he does care about, and will react very violently toward anything that attempts to harm them. The case with Jin is complicated. Although he still cares for Jin, he is uncertain of how exactly he was involved the disaster years ago. If he were to have his memories restored, and met Jin, its likely he'd react with some hostility.

Blank Personality:

Without his memories, Ragna would actually be a pretty likable guy. The brief scenes in the game that depict him when he was younger show a mellow, even lazy, young man with few worries. The church incident filled him with anger, and made him unable to trust others. Without that trauma, he'd be less reserved about being kind toward others and making friends. Ragna would lose his fear of powerlessness, and be less contemptuous of authority. Put simply, his hardened outer shell would no longer exist. However, he'd also be less determined and courageous.

Ragna would keep his inclination toward protecting others, though it would not be nearly as fierce. He'd still be determined to right wrongs, though not quite as vehemently, and be more honest about his motivations. He'd also remain somewhat headstrong and stubborn, as he was depicted as occasionally showing some annoyance toward the nuns running the church when they asked him to perform chores. With his personality, he'd likely fall into something of a big brother role toward younger members of his team.

When memories start to come back, he may start to grow more bitter and distant, more reluctant to trust others. His complex about powerlessness would return, and he may start growing resentful of Sabra itself for constraining him. And if he sees Jin, needless to say he will want some answers.

Writing Sample:

The person on the other side of the looking glass glowered at him with eyes that didn't match. One green and one red, under a shock of white hair. He could tell that the image was far away, that it was some sort of message, but he could also tell that the stranger was directing his scowl directly at him.

“Hey, asshole,” the white-haired man growled. “Keep yourself alive out there.” Advice? But why? Who was this? “I do this willingly.”

The Blank's eye left the glass, and he shook his head. What the hell was he even doing? He couldn't understand anything. He tried to probe his mind for something; memories, people, some idea of why he woke up in a room he'd never seen before. But there was nothing. Not even himself. It's as if he had come into existence just moments ago, in this room.

But something was wrong. His right arm was warm, tingling slightly. It wasn't pain; there something else, something he couldn't identify. He held the arm in front of his face. It responded normally, it could move fine- why did something feel odd about it? He shuddered, feeling unreal, as if he weren't entirely there, and that the room and his right arm were the only things that existed, and he was just an illusion-

No. The Blank squeezed his eyes shut. He had to think clearly and figure out what was going on. Who was he? The only clue was that device and the image of the person inside it. Was that him? The idea that he had gone here willingly comforted him slightly. He was pretty sure he wouldn't betray himself.

There was no use moping about it. The Blank flung himself off the bed, stretched. He certainly intended to keep himself alive, and he was pretty sure that feeling “empty inside” could be cured by something to eat.

Congratulations! You have been accepted to the game!

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Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Ragna the Bloodedge 2/2

[Accepted]