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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: Era
● age: Been buying my own booze legally since 2005
● contact:

a_new_era
● other characters: nada

character information
● name: Caleb Danvers
● canon: The Covenant
● canon point: Post-Film
● age: 18! Like. His birthday was today, or yesterday, depending on how one counts the passage of time during reality traveling whatnot.

● (canon) background: Ok so first have a fairly basic wiki link: on Wikipedia, because the actual wiki for this film is so awful it misnames the female lead character in the male lead's entry.

Now allow me to provide a better breakdown of the film: here. Let me know if you need more, but the second link is much more in-depth.

● abilities: Caleb is a witch! However, he's a witch who has had fewer chances to use his powers for practical applications, though he does have an academic understanding of what he is capable of and how his magic works.

There don't seem to be any hard and fast rules, beyond the fact that overuse leads to premature aging and living life trapped in a body twice your age, and in the movie, Caleb and the other Sons of Ipswich (who are also witches!) are shown using the following abilities:

Psychokinesis – The power to move or levitate objects without touching them, also called telekinesis.
Pyrokinesis – The power to control fire and heat.
Aerokinesis – The power to control air and wind.
Atmokinesis – The power to influence the weather, particularly to make it rain or to summon storms and lightning.
Levitation – The power to defy gravity and hover or maneuver freely in the air or even fly.
Astral Projection – The power to project one's consciousness and senses beyond and away from the physical body.
Superhuman Strength – Increasing one's physical strength to above-human performance.
Shapeshifting – The ability to change one's physical appearance and voice to appear as another person.
Teleportation – The power to instantaneously disappear from one place and reappear in another.
Clairvoyance – The power to see things that are invisible, such as the creatures known as 'darklings'.

And other spells to damage, or protect self from physical damage. Healing is not in Caleb's forte, and he is too reactionary to really know how to change that.

strengths: STUDIOUS: Caleb is a good student, enjoys knowing how things work, and is used to an academic application towards learning new things. He's definitely a book learner as opposed to a hands-on learner, especially when there's a lot of risks associated with doing things hands on before doing the research. Risks? Not his thing. Especially if unnecessary. That said, you put a problem in front of Caleb and he is likely to plot out some kind of solution after doing a little bit of research. He's good at that!

RESPONSIBLE: Out of his group of immediate friends, Caleb is the one who tends to keep them all in line. He points out the flaws and the dangers, he gets in their faces when they take poorly thought out risks, he tries to keep them on the path that will take care of everyone instead of serving the needs of a selfish few. He's not a showboat by any measure and is the kind of person to get their homework done in the midst of a personal crisis.

CARETAKER: Caleb has been taking care of his mother who has been an alcoholic for likely the vast majority of his life, seeing as how his father has rapidly aged himself into near uselessness as a husband and father. This means that he has a patient and even tone even when dealing with outbursts, and is somewhat hardwired to find himself concerned with the wellbeing of others. He's the kind of friend who will make sure everyone eats during a party with the illegal booze he won't touch, and would happily hold someone's hair back while they pray to the porcelain gods while never throwing it back in their face.

● weaknesses: WORLD ON HIS SHOULDERS: Do you have a problem? Well. Caleb has all the problems. Not to say that he'll play the suffering Olympics - far from it, actually, he's going to swallow it down and bury it because he has other things to worry about. Like his friends' problems! All this to say that Caleb does not process his own suffering and instead makes it his mission to help his friends with theirs while internalizing his own. Super healthy, that. Not bound to backfire at all. Nope.

REACTIVE NOT PROACTIVE: Caleb just...doesn't do things first. He waits to see what he has to work with, waits to plot, waits to react, and sometimes that waiting? Means that things go awry, especially when he is dealing with a situation in which the opposition are faster or more proactive than he is. He rarely takes the first step in anything, waiting instead to be invited into a situation. He's good at responding to things, but, yeah. Not the best at that act, not react business.

LACKING IN IMAGINATION: Despite being a teenager with magical powers Caleb has the imagination of a bored video game-addled person stuck in the woods without a console in sight. Which is really just to say that he's so used to the niches he's been forcing himself to exist within, out of fear of what happens when things go out of his control or beyond the boundaries of that niche, that he barely knows how to think outside of the box. He could get better at this, heaven knows, but it will take some time for him to even recognize it as a problem. Also, this means he's a terrible kisser.

● job skills (optional): Caleb considers himself a fairly patient and understanding person who is used to rigorous academic standards, and would likely suggest that he take on some kind of teaching or research role if that is at all available. Otherwise, he's not sure how his skill set would be best applied, considering the fact that he hadn't started college yet and isn't well into any career beyond "student" and "student-athlete" at the moment of his arrival.

While Caleb would not volunteer that he is a magic user I am all for it coming out by coincidence that he is assigned a job where he has to use his magic. Like. Rubbing my hands and cackling at the idea, that kind of all for it.

● housing (optional): Communal housing with his castmates (aka his Girlfriend and his It's Complicated) please.

● network username: c.danvers.01969 (yes, that is his name and the zip code for Ipswich; he is unimaginative and I am sorry for him ok?)

● network sample: here on the Riverview tdm

● prose/action sample: here on the Riverview tdm

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.

● Caleb will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 1, Bed 3.
● Caleb's job, should he choose to accept it, is Student Researcher at Gramarye Magic Reseach, a well-respected facility researching magic itself, magical entities and locations, and other supernatural phenomenon in the Quarantine. While they won't know he is a magic user, this will seem like the perfect fit for someone who is very interested in entering the world of academic research. If you wish to accept this job, please fill in the information on the Occupations Page.
● Threads for Activity Bonus Points can be submitted here.

● Your first activity check for this character will begin on December 1st.

● 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.
● Optionally, you may also set up a Friendr entry (code on the arrival page).
● Add your character to the Taken Characters list.
● (Optional) Introduce yourself on the OOC community.
● Post an entry or tag around to the current intro/event log.

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riverview: applications

Caleb Danvers / The Covenant

ACCEPTED

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