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riverviewmod) wrote2017-02-05 12:21 am
riverview: applications
Applications will be open from 10:00 PM EST on the 1st of every month until 10:00 PM on the 7th of every month. They will be processed as quickly as possible after they are submitted; if you have not received a response by the 10th of the month, feel free to contact the mod.
Applications will be open from October 1st until December 7th, and will be processed on a first-come first-served basis.
● Please post the entirety of your application in a comment to this entry.
Applications may receive a verdict of Approved, Declined, or Revisions.
● Declined applications can be reworked and resubmitted during the next application cycle. If an application is declined 3 times, it cannot be resubmitted.
● Revisions must be submitted within 48 hours of the revision request being sent out. If this is impossible due to extenuating circumstances, please contact the mod.
● There are currently 58 Character Slots still available in the game.
● While the game is close to character cap, reserved applications will be processed before unreserved applications, with unreserved applications being processed at the end of the cycle until cap is reached.
● Application Queue: All applications that would put the game over character cap will be placed in the queue below and processed on a first-come-first-serve basis. Applications in queue will be processed as drops happen, regardless of whether the application cycle is complete.
● Casts at or close to Cast Cap: Marvel Cinematic Universe: 15/15; Marvel Comics: 12/15
● Accepted character types: fandom, original, canon AU
● Non-accepted character types: fandom OC, AU
● The character limit is 2, with 2 apps allowed per month; players can buy up to a maximum of 4 character slots with AC bonus points. There is a cast cap of 15 characters per cast at this time.
● Linked samples should be no older than 1 year.
● Application challenges are not allowed at this time, but if you would like to apply for a character that is on reserve, please submit the application with "not reserved" noted in the subject line, and your application will be considered if the reserved application is declined or not turned in.
● CLARIFICATION ADDED 04/02/2017: Applications must fit in ONE COMMENT on the application page. In special situations such as original characters or canon characters without an information link, please try to keep the summary concise and stick to major turning points. If you have been as concise as possible and it absolutely will not fit in one comment, please store the background section in an entry on your journal/musebox/website and link it to keep the application within one comment.
● CLARIFICATION ADDED 02/03/2018: The Strengths and Weaknesses sections are a stand-in for the usual personality section and should relate to the character's personality strengths and weaknesses. These sections should not include anything related to abilities and the weaknesses should not be 'positives in disguise' (for example, stating that a character has a weakness to iron because they are a fairy would not be an acceptable response to the weaknesses section, nor would stating that a character is too generous). Every character has good and bad personality traits, please include both.
● CLARIFICATION ADDED 03/10/2018: Linked samples must be from a publicly available source. Friends-locked samples are not acceptable for use (via screencaps or other methods), unless they have been unlocked and made public.
● A mod-created sample application can be found here. This is an example of a canon application. The strengths section has been filled out in bullet point form, and the weaknesses have been filled out in paragraph form - both options or a combination thereof are acceptable.
● Sample Applications: Ronan Lynch (Canon Character; Written Background), Yuuri Katsuki (Canon Character; CRAU), Derek Hale (Canon Character; CRAU), Tolemi Pagoda (Original Character), Benjamin Holt (Original Character)
player information
● name: your name or alias
● age: your age (generalizations are fine)
● contact: any way to contact you (PM, plurk, etc.)
● other characters: any other characters you play in Riverview
character information
● name: your character's full name, in Western order
● canon: your character's canon, please specify which if there are multiple versions
● canon point: please state as specifically as possible, with chapter/episode reference, if possible
● age: please clarify if your character is not mentally, physically, and chronologically the same age
● (canon) background: this is for canon characters only; link to a resource or give a quick run-down of your character's involvement in canon
● (original) world: this is for OCs only; please give a succinct rundown of your character's world and your character's place in that world, as well as a brief explanation of their history
● abilities: list your character's abilities including any specialist non-superhuman skills they might have; feel free to link to a wiki or other information source that clearly states them; clearly state if any abilities need to be nerfed
● strengths: list at least 3 personality strengths your character has and elaborate on them; this section should not be more than 300 words
● weaknesses: list at least 3 personality weaknesses your character has and elaborate on them; this section should not be more than 300 words
● job skills (optional): if you would like your character to be placed in a job to start out, list three work-related skills so they can be assigned something suitable; this is different than the abilities section, and should only be three words or very short phrases - the character will not be placed in a job if there are no traits listed here; This is something that is asked in orientation, and would be volunteered by your character. But please feel free to specify if they have a skill they might not mention but that you would like considered in their job placement and I'll take it into consideration as a "funny coincidence."
● housing (optional): tell the mod if you have any preference for where your character is placed in community housing
● network username: provide the username that your character will use when accessing the network; the default is in the form of first initial, last name (j.doe) but your character can pick anything else they like; usernames should have no spaces, but periods are fine
● network sample: write out or link to an example of how your character would communicate over the network; this sample does not have to be long, but it must clearly show your character's personality and a good understanding of their voice; links can be from the test drive meme, other games, PSLs (as long as they are not AU), or memes - but should not break the fourth wall (Dear Player etc.)
● prose/action sample: write out or link to an example of how you write your character in interactions; this sample should be a bit longer and can be done in prose or action bracket style and can be set in the game or your character's canon, though please avoid over-use of NPCing other characters - this is about your character; links can be from the test drive meme, other games, PSLs (as long as they are not AU), or memes - but should not break the fourth wall (Dear Player etc.)
Please fill out the information in the form below and submit it in its entirety in one comment to this entry. If your application doesn't fit in one comment, it needs to be trimmed - application standards are weighted to quality rather than quantity.
Laura / X-23-23 | Logan | OU | Not Reserved
● name: Ashlee
● age: 25
● contact: simpledog @ plurk.com
● other characters: N/A
character information
● name: Laura / X-23-23 (She'll go by Laura Howlett)
● canon: Logan / Xmenverse
● canon point: End of the film
● age: 11
● (canon) background: Here!
● abilities:
Pulled from her wiki, lemme save you a few clicks though:
Regenerative Healing Factor - "X-23's primary mutant power is an accelerated healing factor that enables her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. She is capable of fully healing injuries resulting in massive tissue damage and blood loss, such as slash wounds and puncture wounds within a matter of seconds."
(NOTE: We can go ahead and assume that if she's blown up, burned alive, etc, she would be super fucking dead.)
Psionic Resistance - "X-23 and Logan were both not fully incapacitated by Charles Xavier's seizure-induced psychic attacks, allowing them to not only remain able to move, but potentially able to survive the fatal affects of the seizures."
Retractable Claws - "X-23 has two retractable adamantium claws in both of hands, and one in each foot. Her hand claws extend between finger's knuckles and the foot claws emerge above the base of her toes. Xavier accredits this to her gender, akin to how the lioness is the superior hunter of the feline breed.
Enhanced Strength - X-23 is strong enough to overpower adults far larger than herself with ease. Combined with her acrobatic ability, she was able was to defeat several Reavers, even when one of them had managed to pin her down with a cybernetic hand. She later flipped a store clerk over her head and onto the floor with one hand, before Logan stopped her from killing him."
Enhanced Agility - "X-23 possesses a high amount of flexibility and agility. She is able to perform gymnastic maneuvers, such as flips and springs, with little to no difficulty, in order to overwhelm her opponents. She is potentially faster than her father because she never had her entire skeleton infused with adamantium; only her claws."
Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant - "X-23 has shown to have some proficiency in hand-to-hand combat. She is capable of subduing multiple members of the Reavers with hand-to-hand combat alone, with little effort. X-23 combines her agility with her hand-to-hand combat skills making her a very capable fighter."
Multilingual - "Despite her normally silent demeanor, Laura is fluent in both English and Spanish."
Enhanced senses - Since she's Logan's clone, she likely inherited his super good sense of smell, sight, and hearing, though likely not yet as honed as Logan's (or I'm at least saying as much since she's a.) new to the world and b.) still pretty young.)
(As a note, her papa has been listed before as being resistant to drugs and anasthetics before in previous movies, and while she likely needs higher doses than normal people, she can be tranquilized and incapacitated and whatnot (she's put under for surgeries in flashback phone scenes). She heals, but she isn't immune to needing to sleep and eat and can definitely get her lights punched out if rattled hard enough.)
(... Also — a weird addition, but she has really good memory. She memorized an entire paragraph-long quote from a movie after only seeing it once in a Las Vegas motel. Apparently things stick really well in her head, man. I dunno if I'll ever use this explicitly, but I wanted to at least bring it up since it made me cock my head in the movie theaters, pfffft.)
Great fashion sense - muy bueno.
● strengths:
She is a determined child, and mature in ways many children are not; obviously, being forced to grow up around terrible circumstances and being seen as a weapon has had negative consequences on her development, but it also has steeled her to the real world and danger. She's nearly fearless, difficult to frighten or intimidate. Once her mind is set on something, her will is difficult to veer into another direction.
She's also extremely independent for someone from her background, even if she's out of her element and unsure how to exist 'normally' right now. She's tasked with watching out for an elderly Charles Xavier and giving him his medications while Logan is out, for example. If left to her own devices, there'd be no doubt she'd find ways to survive and care for herself or others.
Laura is a curious creature, focused and interested in the world and what roams in it. Having never left Transigen for the entirety of her life, she quietly enjoys experiencing new things and enjoys learning as long as it's on her own terms. Most importantly Laura, despite her history, is far kinder than expected of what was supposed to be a living weapon. She shows concern for her nurse/caregiver Gabriela when she falls down and is injured, and she is seen holding Logan or Xavier's hand in times of their distress. She may be emotionally stunted in many ways but she has compassion for others. She will fight for whoever she's endeared to, and will not back down.
● weaknesses:
Temperamental, and very much not a social butterfly. She is prone to fits, likely because she's never had a proper parental figure to address those issues growing up (in fact, they likely pushed for them to be as aggressive as possible, and Laura certainly allows herself to get wound up easily). She butts heads with Logan a lot and has a childish habit of annoying him just out of spite or ignoring what he says because she's terribly stubborn. Her and authority figures of any kind don't really mesh well, due to the fact that she's dealt with them far too long as it is. Her freedom was hard won and the idea of anyone looming to disrupt it makes her someone you really don't want to mess with.
She also is quiet — she doesn't like to deal with people or play the social card. In the film, she travels thousands of miles with Logan before she finally talks with him — her only source of interaction is a mental link with Xavier, and he appears to be one of the few people in her life she's enjoyed conversing with, albeit not out loud. She's the typical outcast, the odd student in the back of the class who never has anything to say but is always thinking. Her lack of interaction with the real world makes her someone looking in, and while she's mature in many respects, she's immature in plenty of other areas. She doesn't mind stealing things and doesn't consider the ramifications for breaking rules/laws out on the open road. She has a harder time making friends because of... well, you know, all of those things above this sentence — not necessarily aggressive toward new faces, she's often still withdrawn and not talkative.
● job skills (optional): A kid who skips school sometimes. :)
● housing (optional): no preference!
● network username: ilikehorses
(*probably with some coaxing of things she actually likes, if that seems logical, otherwise she'd probably be boring and pick 'laura' and that's no fun)
● network sample: Here we go! Let me know if this isn't enough; she's a pretty brief and quiet sort, so apologies for the brevity. There's lots of responses in network format there, though!
● prose/action sample: Here! I got plenty more if you need it. ♥
ACCEPTED
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