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applications: open

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

application guide

● 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.)

submit an application

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.

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player information
● name: Roy
● age: 20+
● contact: journal pm
● other characters: James Flint (~diagenesis) of Black Sails.

character information
● name: Ellie (popular assumption is that her last name is ‘Williams’ but she’ll... never give it out anyway.)
● canon: The Last of Us
● canon point: post-game
● age: 15-ish and change.

● (canon) background: Wikia link. Let me know if anything needs clarifying.
● (original) world:

● abilities: Ellie’s a normal baseline human girl who’s maybe better with a switchblade than any fifteen year old should ever be. She has experience handling firearms, bows and building molotov cocktails, both smoke and shrapnel bombs, and knows basic first aid.

● strengths:

Bravery.
Ellie is absolutely the girl who will bring a pocket knife to a gunfight and say ‘bring it on, fucker’ to whoever she’s going up against. She is brave with her whole heart, not only physically but also when it comes to facing her emotions and having difficult conversations. By no means is she fearless. She grew up in a world where fear was the only thing that kept her alive in a lot of circumstances.

Joie-de-virve.
She serves as a contrast to Joel in a lot of situations. She finds joy in the smallest things. Comic books. Learning how to whistle. She genuinely enjoys learning about the world the way it used to be, although she doesn’t seem to long to inhabit it. It's not that she doesn't see darkness, necessarily - it's that she balances it with the light still left in the world. She's wise beyond her years in many respects.

Self-Reliant.
With a notable absence of strong adult figures in her life for most of it, Ellie learned from a young age how to take things into her own hands. Nothing’s ever been handed to her, she wants to contribute and help when someone is around her because that’s her way of repaying the kindness of Sticking Around. She is clever and quick, capable of coming up with strategies and plans under pressure. They aren't always the best, but she's learning.

● weaknesses:

Impulsive.
Remember that thing about a knife to a gun fight? Ellie doesn’t do a lot of looking before she leaps. She’s a very reactive person and can be extremely volatile, which can lead to her blowing small insults way out of proportion, leap to startlingly incorrect conclusions and just generally be a Teenager. She can be prickly and abrasive at the best of times, but it only worsens when she feels threatened. Due to canon events, she can also be very suspicious of New People.

PTSD/survivor’s guilt.
She’s a girl who has seen monsters, has watched people die, has herself killed living, breathing humans. She has learned some very hard, uncomfortable truths of the world. She is really, really not Okay. She knows it. She tries very hard to deal with it. But as the game progresses and certain events transpire we really see her go from someone who is outgoing and enthusiastic to someone who is very withdrawn and for lack of a better word, world-weary. She says at one point that she wants to believe that everything that’s happened should mean something, that their suffering can’t just be for nothing. Her greatest fear in the world is being alone.

Anti-authority.
Okay, so you’re an adult. Cool, now get fucked. Ellie isn’t really inclined to offer respect where none is earned, and since she also seems to have no sense of self preservation (probably as tied to the above) she will mouth off to absolutely a n y o n e. This ranges variously throughout the series from someone whose help she needs to someone who has her locked in a cage and has beaten her unconscious. She tends to assume that people ordering her around means they don’t trust her own judgement and ability, and she reacts accordingly.

● skills (optional): she is definitely not going to want to go to school but doesn’t really have any appropriate job skills that aren’t like. Hunting animals or killing people. Up to you?
● housing (optional): Maybe somewhere quieter? Not quite a private room but maybe something shared with just one or two people. Stronnnnng preference for being roomed with women, though, because if she’s put with a strange guy he might get shived in his sleep.

● network username: ellie. (she’s terribly creative)

● network sample: with Kara (10+ comments)

● prose/action sample: with Clark (15+ comments)

accepted

Thank you for your application and welcome to Riverview! Please see the arrival page for an explanation of what will happen to your character on arrival.

● Ellie will be housed in Shared Housing; Floor 3, Room 3. She does not yet have a roommate, and will be placed with a woman.
● Ellie's job, should she choose to accept it, is Secret Shopper at the Riverview Mall, where she would buy things at various stores and report back as to whether the service was good. In the meantime, she is invited to attend Riverview Middle School after completing a short aptitude test to place her in the proper grade. (This is not mandatory.) If she does not wish to accept her job or attend school, she will receive a bi-weekly stipend to live comfortably off of until such time as she chooses to become employed.
● Threads for Activity Bonus Points can be submitted here.

● Please respond to this comment with your character's journal.
● Join the communities riverview, riverviewlogs, and riverviewooc.
● Make sure to set up an ic inbox and hmd on your journal, and then add your character to the Taken Characters list.
● (Optional) Introduce yourself on the OOC community.
● Since the game is not yet open, a CR Meme has been posted. Feel free to tag around right away!

"welcome to riverview quarantine"

Thank you! c:

riverview: applications

ellie | the last of us | not reserved

ACCEPTED

no subject