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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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Oh no I totally misread that (as... 300 per strength/weakness, I don't even know), I'm sorry! Revisions below, with Eluvio notes indented:

● strengths:

focus/drive. Victor has been focused on his skating career (and that alone) for the last twenty years. He's strict with himself and those around him, keeping on task and driving toward his goals, whatever they may be. He applies this to figuring out the means of adapting to and surviving in new situations and circumstances, where focus and a drive to succeed help him adapt and look to learning new skills as they become relevant and necessary.

In Eluvio, this extended to learning how to move in zero-g and picking up self-defense training.

charisma/crowd handling. Victor's noted in canon to always be kind to his fans. He's a laid back flirt as well as easy-going when surrounded by fans/strangers. He's used to living a life in the public eye. He's capable at handling social niceties and more political(ish) situations as needed, such as those encountered with sponsors and bigwigs in his sport; it extends to him learning how to better network when networking is a survival mechanism and not just a social outreach.

In Eluvio, this meant keeping in touch with and being a welcoming face for new arrivals, specifically to keep aware of the arrivals of people on ship and networking with those who'd arrived since he had, as the new arrivals seemed to be largely on their own.

intelligence/manipulation/calculation. Victor is intelligent, for all he's also laidback and presents as whimsical (and is whimsical based on his desires to be so). Where he isn't intuitive reading emotional states in people when he's their emotional support, he's intuitive at reading a crowd. He pulls strings to push people to strive for their best; it's not an unkind sort of manipulation, but it is calculated. This can and does backfire on him time to time. He adjusts his approach as he goes. He's willing and able to admit he's wrong; he actively learns from his mistakes when they're important to him.

● weaknesses:

whimsical. Whimsy with Victor is a nod to his tendency to be make promises and be forgetful about things he doesn't find personally important. This comes as a frustration to those who know him; including how he decides pursue something wholeheartedly without listening to outside input and end up making drastic seeming decisions on his own. Whimsy is dangerous when it comes to pursuing activities or taking up missions (so to speak) without fully thinking through consequences or being adequately prepared for what may come up in the process. Whimsy has him dismissing people out of hand because they're not "interesting."

In Eluvio, he's been working on not being so dismissive or whimsical in what he takes up or does as a matter of necessity in surviving outside of his canon context. He has to think things better through. He can't afford to dismiss people out of hand.

emotional disconnect/distance. Victor struggles with understanding emotional points of view that are different from his own. While he learns over time to offer emotional support, he is not intuitive about this, even when he really cares about the person/people involved. Victor's used to relying on himself for emotional support; his first assumption is that everyone else does the same or would outright ask if they need help.

He's been working on this on the Eluvio, though most his progress has been with Yuuri or in how he was trying to learn to be a better source of emotional support for people around him. Success was understandably mixed.

(over)confidence. Victor fails to consistently communicate his confidence in others, making assumptions based on that confidence which creates a blind spot that can lead to unfortunate situations when his confidence is unfounded, or causes miscommunication because his confidence in people knowing what he means or being on the same level is not always merited. It leads to him mistakenly believing things are being handled, or being better handled, than they are in truth.

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.

● Victor will be housed in Shared Housing; Floor 7, Room 2 with Yuuri Katsuki. Upon entering, he will find that the two twin beds in separate rooms have been replaced with one queen bed in one room with the other room set up as a study with desk.
● Victor's job, should he choose to accept it, is Program Coordinator at the Riverview Central Community Center. He will be in charge of coordinating a figure skating program with classes for children, youth, and adults of various skill levels; this will include choreograping routines for end-of-program performances. If you choose to accept this job, please fill out the information on the Occupations Page.
● 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, 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 in to the current intro/event log.

welcome to riverview quarantine

(No need to apologize, I know asking for less on an app is not a common mod request!)

Edited (added a note on his roommate) 2017-04-02 19:36 (UTC)

/still laughing into hands over face, ahhh

Thank you, and this is the journal I'll be using!

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