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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: Lily
Canon: Pandora Hearts
Reference picture and Wiki link: Pic (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101201195557/pandorahearts/images/thumb/6/66/Lily.jpeg/200px-Lily.jpeg) // wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_hearts)
Point in the time-line taken: After chapter 57!

Character History: Once upon a time Lily was born to a pretty poor family with waaaay too many children. Her parents decided that neglecting her was THE WAY TO GO. And then they felt especially validated in their choice because ~weird~ and ~bad things~ would happen around Lily. So the village was like, man we should tattoo the devil's sign on this kid and cast her out so she dies! So they did just that. Luckily for Lily a bright warm light entered her and told her she was special -- a Baskerville, and compelled by this knowledge she headed off to find the rest of the Baskervilles.

The Baskervilles are ~special people~ who are emissaries of the Abyss. This means they have a connection to a mystical sort of Hellish place where monsters reside. Lily was oh so very happy to meet these people because they were just like her and didn't care that everyone hated her or thought her useless and worthless. She found her new family! And then they went and slaughtered a bunch of people because their master told them too. But that's okay, it's part of the Baskerville job.

After the slaughter (called the Tragedy of Sablier), Lily and the rest of the Baskervilles were trapped in the Abyss for a while. Recently Lily has been let out again and she made a friend ♥ but then he shot her in the head so she tried to kill him. That is just how Baskerville life is.

Motivation She could have come to Sabra to find a playmate for her hungry hungry ~~hippo~~ soul pokemon, Bandersnatch. Or to bring Fang back to life. Or to revive Glen. There's a lot of reasons, I haven't picked a specific one yet :|a

Canon Personality: Lily is a young girl! And she acts like one. She spills the "secrets of the Baskervilles" easily and conversationally. She approaches problems very directly and doesn't think too much about complicated adult ideals. When she wants to play, she wants to play. She also has a child's sense of 'right' and 'wrong' -- that is not terribly moral one, and it's mostly influenced by people she trusts and what she wants.

But there's a soft side to Lily too! She can also be a nice kid. She likes to talk to people and get to know them. She knows that she's been "powerless" and "useless" but knows to look for other traits as well. If someone else says they're powerless and useless Lily will tell them it's okay! They must have some good qualities, too.

Lily strongly believes in family. She refers to the Baskervilles as her 'true family' because that's where she belongs. She also would really like to have friends! Other people having friends is an enviable trait.

Blank Personality: As a Blank Lily would not be toooo different. She'd still be childish and just a bit cheerfully morally confused. She would probably be less superclose to "family" as she is in canon but would bond with her team nonetheless. Otherwise most of her other traits would remain \o/

Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Lily