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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

Blank Personality: So much of Elliot's personality that we see in canon is influenced by some of his earliest memories, especially by the murder of his siblings and the reputation he carries as a member of the "evil" Nightray family. As a result, most of his "noble" affectation would be gone. However, I think that one of the traits that would remain is his determination and his willingness to go the distance for people that he cares about. He's the sort who really wants to find his own way to deal with issues, and he isn't always the best of team players, but he will always hold his family in high regard. He would probably still keep some of that temper, and some of that love of justice that he values so highly over the course of the series, but it would be a bit more muted without all of those years of memories of feeling isolated. He's a bit on the uptight side in the series, and while I don't think he'd lose that completely, he would definitely be less guarded around new people than he mostly was in the course of the series, and less likely to intentionally alienate them. He'd still be the headstrong boy who has a tendency to investigate anything he finds suspicious. He'd probably be less likely to lecture people for their faults though, since his hatred of the self-sacrificing seems to have developed from his own family background.

Writing Sample: The mousy blonde blank woke up to a strange metallic lump digging into his back. Not the sort to lie around when he was feeling uncomfortable, he sat up, and reached behind himself blinding. When his fingers found the strange object, he brought it back, and only then did he think how odd it was that he didn't know where he was.

The object didn't seem to hold any answers, though, and he almost put it down impatiently when he heard a flicker of sound come from the strange device, and he picked it up roughly, trying to locate the source of the noise. He finally noticed that there was a bit of a hole that he could look through, and, cautiously, he did.
Within the strange device was a moving figure of a young man, with blue eyes and a strange, hollow expression. The sound he heard was the same few words repeated over and over again.

It's easier this way, if you'll believe that much. I did this willingly.

His eyes widened a bit as he watched the clip through a few more times, not entirely sure what he had seen. But he knew that that was not any sort of explanation. Not an explanation for how he felt so empty, how he felt like everything was missing. And he knew that he'd have to figure out a way to get that back. He threw the device back onto the bed and got up. He could hear other noise too, and it wasn't just those mysterious words coming from that bizarre metal object. There were voices mixing together just outside the door to the room he was in. He hated to admit it, but the people behind those voices might just be the people he needed to solve this problem. To understand just what was happening.

They might be the ones who could tell him how or why this was easier.

Congratulations! You have been accepted to the game!

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Keep an eye on the OOC community for your team assignment!

Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Elliot Nightray [2/2]

[ACCEPTED]