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riverview: applications

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: Noodles
● age: 25+
● contact: pm to

cupnoodles
● other characters: n/a

character information
● name: William Holt
● canon: Original character.
● age: 17

● (original) world:

content warning for cross multiverse relationship between one emotionally inept demon and her morally questionable half-siblings. collaborated with

snarkbark with moderator permission!

the prologue

The setting of our story is a complicated one. Not one world, but countless worlds filled with countless possibilities. But in the beginning, it started with one: a world where demons ran rampant across the Earth, seducing and eating their way through the human race without care nor consequence. In desperation, they reached out for the God's that once ruled them: and their prayers were answered.

For a price, anyway.

The demons were cast back to Hell and the God's ... stayed. They ruled. They accepted only devotion. For a while, humanity accepted it. Until, of course, they day came when a group simply could not. Caught between a rock and a hard place, they called upon the Devil to set them free from the oppressive reign of the Divine. They gave her a girl and she returned her to the Earth as her own unholy Messiah.

As fate would have it, the girl would come across a boy, cast out by Baldr, burning somewhere in Romania. He would become the first new demon of the new world and the only one allowed to walk by her side.

She probably ended up regretting it, honestly.

chapter one: the young adult romance prelude

Once upon a time there was a little demon with big dreams. For a long while, those dreams mostly consisted of obtaining the Guiness world record for most participants in an orgy. A modest dream. A realistic dream. This did not change when he fell in love, but he found himself able to see beyond the temptations of flesh and booze. He found himself becoming more ambitious and more reckless, and with little to no shame, Petre Dodrescu set his sights on taking the throne of Hell for his own.

In the end, through some hard work, deception and some shady ass deals, he finally did it. All the while kind of encouraged by his sweetheart, though mostly side-eyed and slightly judged by her.

Petre, being the paranoid narcissist that he is, was not always easy to live with. Or easy to love. As such, he did what any loving Satan would do: he asked her to start a family and gave her the gift of not one, but three anti-christs. Louisa was first born, gifted with the most power of her siblings. Her fathers shady dealings before obtaining the throne and given her the surprising gift of not only ending her own world one day, but also being able to travel across the multiverse and ending all of those worlds too. Eventually. Whenever she felt it like it, really.

As a teenager, though, Louisa had no real interest in the inevitable destruction of all things. She travelled, mostly, to see new things. No people. New species. If she concentrated hard, she could anywhere. If she didn't, she often found herself circling around realities where her father existed in one form or another. In one such world, she stumbled upon Caleb and Nicholas Holt. Beautiful, charming twins who ultimately turned out to be huge assholes with god like power. Louisa fell for their charms easily and fell for their power even harder. Convincing them to use their power to travel with her was easy. Finding out that their mother was Petra Dodrescu was not. But, then, the heart wants what the heart wants and what's a little sin among monsters?

chapter two; the flipside

Somewhere out there, there's a dimension where gods are all-powerful tyrants with their very own patches of followers across civilizations. Petra Dodrescu is a tiny girl with no ambitions and when she questions what makes Mr Baldr so great, she becomes a tiny girl on the brink of death as he makes her watch her entire family and town burn to the ground. Saved by the Devil's Messiah, she becomes a nice (she isn't nice) demon (like at all) who goes around saving the world with her partner. Whenever she isn't screwing people. Or eating them.

Then she meets Santiago Holt. A man blessed by a long-forgotten goddess, what should have been an easy kill. It turns into a game of cat-and-mouse in which Petra ends up addicted to his blood. Sex is another bad idea on the menu, and when she realizes she's pregnant, the Devil demotes her back into a human and leaves her on her own. When Petra's attempts to get rid of the babies fail, she crawls back to Santiago for help. A few months later, Caleb and Nicolas Holt are born, and a few weeks after that, Santiago has prophetic dreams of his boys growing up to become incredibly powerful. The only thing that keeps them alive growing up is secrecy - if the Devil or any other deity knew about the twins, they would have been destroyed as quickly as possible - and once they are fully grown, very little can be done to stop them anymore. That's when they start to get bored.

But worry not! Here comes Louisa, the interdimentional traveling anti-Christ, looking for a good time and a pair of cute boys to devour. Things don't quite go her way when she tries it on the twins, although it does lead them to the greatest discovery of their lives: each other! The not so great discovery, on the other hand, is that Louisa's father, aka the Devil of her world, is Petre Dodrescu.

Which doesn't stop them from escalating things and having a child of their own. Diana Holt, a bratty all-powerful monster without the slightest concept of what it's like to respect anything that ever was, is, and will be. And then William and Benjamin Holt, yours truly, the idiot twins.

With their parents' powers combined in varying degrees, the twins travel with their parents and sister to various dimensions and realities. What they see and do in every world is vastly different: sometimes it's a nice, relaxed holiday, sometimes it's total chaos and destruction. Their world is the infinite expanse of the multiverse and they travel to seek out new experiences and satisfy their curiosity for adventure and for humanity. The excitement of the unknown is what keeps them moving.

Unsurprisingly, as soon as they're old enough to wander off, the twins often find themselves exploring worlds without the rest of their family. Prone to a lot less destruction than their older sibling Diana, they still sometimes abuse power to satisfy their curiosity, though they have yet to wreck anything to a significant level because of it. Hopping worlds feels like they're just going out for a run through the family's massive property behind the modest country house, popping back in for dinner when it feels like the day's coming to a close. They're relatively discreet; at least they have been discreet enough to not draw any further attention to the Holt-Dodrescu family. That might change one day, and who knows how that will go.

● abilities:

blood hunger: William does not require blood and human flesh to survive like his mother does, but consuming it does provide him with vitality and an immense energy boost.

fire: can create fire and withstand it, though the generation of fire only happens from his skin. He cannot manipulate it or make it surge without physical contact over the subject.

healing: He will heal from virtually any physical harm, poison and disease. He and his brother are designed to live forever, even without a physical form, though no one in the family is aware of the last part.

animal hoarder: loves animals, animals love him. Canines are more susceptible to his and his brother's charm, but other species will feel a little more at ease than usual.

empathy mind link: can feel almost everything his siblings feel, able to communicate his own feelings across great distances with them. can locate his brother wherever he is. It is sometimes difficult to differentiate his own feelings from his siblings', though they have never been known to sway each other's opinions or thoughts in any significant way.

multiverse travel: the ability to travel between all worlds, though with less precision and deliberation than his parents and sister. alone and with his brother, it's a more random process; they have less control where they end up. being with their family negates this and serves to anchor the twins to their parents and sister. this ability is removed for games.

● strengths vs. weaknesses

MULTIVERSE BOYS
( + ) Having visited many places and met several kinds of people, not all of them human - or even humanoid - William has an open mind about what's not considered normal or real by our standards. Aliens is a funny term - he's as much of an alien to every world as strange beings from outer space would be to us. He won't question the veracity of claims about being a wizard, a monster, or an alternate version of his grandmother. That part is canon, by the way.

( - ) This also means that William can be clueless about some norms. He's used to exploring, questioning, which often makes people uncomfortable (because that's none of your business, creep). His family has a bad history with not giving people much space once their interest - be it positive or negative - is sparked. The twins have yet to be openly harmful about it, unlike their sister Diana, but they're still spoiled brats who will bully you into being their friend when they want to be.

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE
( + ) The twins aren't known for taking situations very seriously, no doubt due to a near-godemode status where they've never known what it's like to be in real danger. Their cheerfulness and banter can be infectious or uncomfortable, depending on the other character's predisposition. They can be the antithesis of their sister Diana in that they refuse to sulk or kick around when they can, instead, discard any situation that's just unimportant anyway.

( - ) This kind of charisma and carefree attitude often draws people in, but is known to create hollow relationships, too. The twins are very centered on each other and their family, and being so used to hop from world to world means they've never formed lasting bonds with those unrelated to them. They might not necessarily acknowledge it out loud, but everyone they meet, everyone they consider a friend or lover, is replaceable. It's very doubtful that they will grow significantly attached.

BRO, I DON'T EVEN LIFT
( - ) Despite all their superpowers, whenever he's facing a fight, William does not have knowledge in any martial arts and relies purely on strength and ability to get out of many situations alive; if there's any way to overpower him with an entrapment or alternative superpowers, he's pretty much doomed. In addition to that, due to being immune to poison and disease, William is unaware of any limitations of his body. There are a number of worlds and powers the twins still haven't yet faced and wouldn't know what to do about. They're invulnerable, but not invincible, not by any means. So good luck with that, Will.

● skills
ANIMAL CHARMER | would maybe be useful when dealing with monsters, if they are of a more animal persuasion than a humanoid one.

HEAVY LIFTER | good for all those heavy weapons crates and bulking ration supplies that need carried around etc.

● network username: willnotben

● network sample: LINK

● prose/action sample: LINK

Edited 2017-03-07 00:12 (UTC)

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.

● William will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 6, Bed 7.
● William's job, should he choose to accept it, is Animal Shelter Worker at one of the major no-kill shelters in Riverview Quarantine. He will be working with animals native to Earth as well as from many other dimensions and planets. Alternately, or additionally, his skillset would be an asset on the Perimeter Guard.
● Threads for Activity Bonus Points can be submitted here.

● The network community has been opened to all accepted characters, so you may post a network intro whenever you wish. Additionally, game opening has been bumped up to March 8th.

● 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, permissions or info link, 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 fully open, a CR Meme has been posted. Feel free to tag around right away!

welcome to riverview quarantine

Edited (incorrect link) 2017-03-07 08:17 (UTC)

Thank you! the journal is

barksnark

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william holt | original character | reserved

ACCEPTED

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