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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.
Chandra Nalaar | Magic: the Gathering | Not Reserved
● name: Rakath
● age: still old
● contact:
● other characters: Lola Pacini
character information
● name: Chandra Nalaar
● canon: Magic: the Gathering
● canon point: End of Aether Revolt’s storyline
● age: 24
● (canon) background: Canon blurb | Fandom Wiki
● abilities: Chandra is a planeswalker, meaning she has the innate ability to move from plane to plane, and world to world, without much fanfare or trouble. ...or did, cause that sorta power would be a problem in a game like this.
So let’s focus on Chandra’s other claim to fame, she’s a pyromancer. Chandra molds mana into fire. Living fire, big fire, small fire, just plain heat. Chandra’s fairly powerful but usually lacks in both fine control and staying power. She doesn’t know how to, um, reserve some energy for later. She’ll burn fast, hot, and then she’s out. She can push a little harder if the person she’s fighting ticks her off, or threatens someone she cares about, because fire magic and ‘emotional state’ go hand in hand.
She also knows how to throw punches… but not in a really refined well taught way? More in a ‘she was that small child who picked fights with everyone’ way. She’s also versed in parkour (not with any training, but in a ‘she knows how to run through cities that occasionally rearrange itself and forests/mountains that fly and occasionally try to kill you’ way).
Her armor is meant to help amplify and hone her fire magic, and not get melted, burned, or destroyed by all the fire she plays with. But is otherwise... fairly basic. Her goggles do nothing.
● strengths:
●● Improvisation - Chandra’s mind is constantly moving, figuring out how to do what she wants with what she has. Rather than thinking about what she’s missing or what she wants. She has a creative artistic mind… just her arts are not seated in the way of her home plane. Her arts generally come to fire and movement, not tinkering and machines.
●● Passion - Chandra doesn’t feel things by half, she is all the way in with whatever she’s doing. If she’s fighting the guy who killed her dad, or watching goblins blow up flying machines, she is completely emotionally invested in what she’s doing. This has a natural downside I’ll get to, but the upside is that she gives it her all, or tries to.
●● Earnest - There’s an approachability to Chandra, she isn’t really sure that it matters (in spite of repeated attempts to teach her yes it matters). With her passion she just speaks from her heart, no strings, no polite game playing, just who she is front and center. It may bring her off as naive or childish, but that is why she was named Abbot of Keral Keep, why she was the voice of the revolution in Kaladesh. Because that earnest nature is very alluring to people worried about being mislead or cheated.
● weaknesses:
●● Short Tempered - Chandra doesn’t have much filter between ‘what she feels’ and ‘sharing that with the world’ so her fuse is rather short, and her anger is… well, she’s a firebomb. No, literally, if she’s angry her hair bursts into flames and then usually other things she touches because she has no impulse control going on in there. And this has been exploited, repeatedly, by bullying her into poor choices.
●● Untempered - Chandra’s gifts are natural, she plays into her strengths and those strengths are just naturally good. However she lacks in patience and attention to things she doesn’t like, so she has issues learning new things. Or honing her skills with practice and refinement. The previous Abbot found it endearing, but he also found ways to bypass Chandra’s lack of attention, but most teachers do not have the patience (or ability to survive being set on fire) to really get past Chandra’s… limits.
●● Anarchy - Chandra has a healthy dislike for authority. On top of that she has a distrust of just ‘doing as she is told.’ She prefers a reason why, a good one. Or at the very least the time and effort to build a trust and respect for one another, then being told what to do. You would have her issues if someone burned a village to the ground, blamed you for it, killed your dad, then sentenced you to be executed, at age twelve. Chandra’s parents were renegades who fought a corrupt government, she learned to handle authority from them. Generally if anyone starts trying to throw their weight around Chandra’s first instinct is to punch them in the face.
● skills (optional):
● housing (optional): Probably better for most people if she is in shared. She’s loud, messy, and refuses to sleep normal hours. Best only one person has to deal with her.
● network username: Chandra
● network sample:
*The first thing you might notice is that Chandra has four stray cats curled up around her. Where did they come from? Why are they here? What’s going on? Not really important.*
I just wanna be really clear on this, none of you know what a planeswalker is? Like, not even a little, and most of you have never ever left your own world for a different one? And you’re sure these devices aren’t running on aether. You’re all sure! Really really sure!?
*Someone jumped up so fast she scared off all the stray cats. That happens. A lot.*
Cause I’ve been trying to leave, go home, go see my mom again and I’ve been stuck here! On this one plane, it sucks! ...I guess it wouldn’t suck if I were somewhere with friends. If Jace were here he’d be all hunched over a pile of books and notes figuring this out. And Nissa would just ask this place why we can’t leave. And Liliana would… make a bunch of zombies, I guess…
The point is you’re all sure you don’t know what Planeswalking is?
● prose/action sample:
Chandra eyed the small rodent thing. It wasn’t an animal she’d ever seen before, but that wasn’t all that surprising. The blind eternities were, well, eternal. Or something. Still, the creature puffed up and a bunch of fire jets burst from its back. Chandra grinned at it. “You’re way cuter than the rats we had in the temple. But I can do that too.”
Chandra’s hair, and shoulders, burst into flames. This seemed to take the small fire creature by surprise. Apparently it thought it was unique in its ability to create flames. Chandra fell back on her butt, Nissa said that small creatures aren’t too keen on towering over them. She held out a hand, letting her flames die down, hoping she’d made a new friend. Wouldn’t that be cool, coming home with her own pet whatever-this-is. Just like Jace with his books, Nissa with her… earth? And better than Liliana’s zombies. This guy didn’t smell bad. It was kinda like charcoal and dry dirt? She guessed? Her nose wasn’t that good. The creature tilted its head and skittered off.
“Wait, come back!” She thought this was going a lot better than most of her attempts to make friends. It took a few moments for her to hear what spooked the small rodent. Felt, more like. The ground was shaking. “Crap.” Whatever that herd was, it was a lot of them and they were herding toward her. Which was a very pressing concern. The town behind her, also in the way of this herd of whatever-those-are, was honestly a bigger concern. Towns couldn’t get out of the way of herds with the same speed as she could. Chandra quickly set to protecting the town.
First she made a firewall at the edge of the town several yards behind her. Then she created a second wall of flames curving toward the woods. Her hope was that the first wall would spook them, and the second wall would help lead them towards anywhere but the town. She was mostly right, most of the beasts followed her path, into the forest and away from the flames and the town. Except one of the beasts at the front, who went through the first wall of flames, freaked out, ran through the second wall of flames and crashed through a window of a shop at the edge of town.
It sold cheese.
“...I’m going to get in so much trouble for that…” It was hardly even her fault! Nobody else was trying to keep these things from stomping through the town.
ACCEPTED
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