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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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Your Name: Joan
Journal (IS or LJ): lj: lilorchid1023
Email Address: himejima(at)gmail.com

Character Name: Kiryuu Zero

Canon: Vampire Knight

Reference picture and Wiki link: ref photo (http://www.pink-ichigo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/vk2.jpg) and link (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Knight_characters#Zero_Kiryu”)

Point in the time-line taken: Taken shortly after the Rido fight, having eaten his twin brother, killed a pureblood and determined Yuuki to be a vampire as well. End of Chapter 46.

Character History: The name Kiryuu is synonymous with vampire hunters in his canon society, o it’s no surprise that even as a young boy, Zero was trained to be a hunter as well. All was well and good until a very powerful vampire decided to exact revenge upon his family for killing her lover, thus massacring Zero’s parents and his twin brother(sort of; spoiler: he’s not really dead) and biting Zero, thus turning him into a vampire as well. He then gets adopted by the headmaster of a school that houses both humans and vampires, and has to lead a double life of trying to deal with his duties of being a vampire hunter, and the fact that he craves for blood.

Canon Personality:
The guy is a walking poster child for emo. Zero hates himself for being the thing he despises the most (vampire) and often has suicidal tendencies about offing himself if he gives into his bloodlust. Because of this, he tends to be reserved and more withdrawn. He takes his role as a vampire hunter very seriously, and considers it his first and foremost priority above all things. When needing to interact with others, he’s very bitter and harsh, if not a little awkward. Zero is very perceptive, both due to the training he received as a kid and also an innate ability He does have a kinder side to him, which most people never really get to see. He can be very protective and worrying about others he cares about. A large part of what he has to deal with is his constant growing need for blood, to which his closest friend and almost-romantic partner, Yuuki Cross, offers herself to him. He does drink from her, but is constantly guilty over inflicting harm towards her, and not having stronger willpower to deal with his hunger.

Blank Personality:
Basically, his tragic past with the vampire massacre is the key turning point that influences canon Zero, so having his memories of that event erased would make how he is very different. He’s lived a large chunk of his life hating vampires, and not having that over his head would be a relief, almost, to live like a normal boy. I imagine Zero would be a lot friendlier towards others, more trusting. Definitely less suicidal and more prone to smiling than in canon. A nice guy. As a child, he was naturally perceptive about people and things, and I believe it’s a trait he would keep because canonly it’s a trait that his family is known for, and even as a child he was already sharper than his parents. He will also be more softhearted, kinder towards others. It seems to be more of Zero’s default before the incident. There are several examples in canon: there was a prophecy about twin vampire hunters and that the stronger fetus would eat the other in the womb, which… Zero didn’t. He let his brother live, and continued to watch over him constantly. Also, while he was in his younger training days, Zero tried to defend a suspected vampire school nurse from being killed. Unfortunately, he learned the hard way that she really was a vampire and she gouged out his teacher’s eye.

He is still a vampire though, so there are some… ingrained traits, which is mostly the hunger. He wouldn’t know what it is as first, but it is a hurdle he would have to deal with as a Blank.

Apps

Application Status: CLOSED except for reapps

Kiryuu Zero (1/-)