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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:
Lady as a Blank will start out a very different person than the one who appears in the game. Without the memories of her father's betrayal, her mother's murder and all the time spent as a solitary demon-hunter, she will act a lot more like the Mary that we see briefly in the manga. In fact, I intend to at least base her personality mostly on what we see from Mary and how Lady acts after achieving her revenge against her father.

She'll go back to being more open and warm. Her big-sisterly streak will also be present. As someone who is naturally inclined to value family highly, she'll probably bond quickly with her unit and want to do her best for them. As in both forms, she's brave to the point of foolhardiness and doesn't take crap from anyone; that will be there too. Though she won't remember her toughness as Lady, it won't take her too long to fall into the role of a fighter. She may "feel" like a normal girl, but it'll be clear enough that she has the body of a warrior. She won't know it when she first wakes up, but she will still enjoy a good fight and has a rather generous helping of bloodlust.

As she starts to regain memories, this new Mary-type personality will be at odds with the memories of Lady. In the game, she works hard to keep her Mary side stuffed down, she likes to think of that part of her as "dead." Mary, to Lady, represents naiveté and weakness. Lady is a loner, but may not remember that until she's already gotten close to people. Having reverted to that state will bother her quite a lot when she remembers what it means. On the other hand, having spent time as open, loving Mary, she may be reluctant to sever those ties and go back to being alone.

Writing Sample:

"You've no name anyway," the thing in her hand had said, "Fight. Win. That's all that matters."

"Gee, thanks," she had replied, "how about saying something actually helpful?"

"You've no name anyway," the recording politely declined, "Fight. Win. That's all that matters." After considering for a moment and deciding she had no better ideas, the girl began to walk down the stony corridor before her.

As she walked, she did some more careful pondering of her current state, which really didn't actually help much at all either. If she knew one thing- which was debatable at this point- it was that last night had better have been one hell of a party for her to feel like this. What did a party have to do with waking up half-naked lying face down in a pool of water? No idea. Why did it happen near what was far and away the most distressing rock she had seen out of all the many, many rocks that she had seen since then? Couldn't help you there either! How did it make her head hurt? Nada. Hell, what was a party? All these questions and more, the girl had absolutely no answers to. Still, though, she could feel deep down that her first though must have been right. That all the signs of an awakening that really had to have been decently high up in the shitty-waking-up scale could only have been cased by this mysterious and illusive event she knew to be "a party."

Maybe it involved explosions. That seemed like something that would be both desirable and cause unfortunate mornings-after. She wasn't exactly sure what an explosion was, but just as her heart told her that headaches and memory loss were probably not all that bad if caused by a party, it told her too that explosions were pretty much always awesome. So hey, she did know something after all! Today was looking up already, wasn't it?

Congratulations! You have been accepted to the game!

Please reply to this comment (using your character journal) with the following:
۞ A link to your Memory Registry (http://sabra-la-mods.insanejournal.com/1937.html)
۞ A link to your Stats and/or Power Retention (http://sabra-la-mods.insanejournal.com/3757.html) forms

At this time you are also free to join the main community with your character journal. You can also join our IRC channel (#Sabra_La_Tau on irc.nightstar.net 6669) and OOC community (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/sabra_la_ooc) to say hello to your fellow players!

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

Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

[Lady 2/2]

[ACCEPTED]