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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: Mordrid
● age: 25+
● contact:

MomeMordrid
● other characters: n/a

character information
● name: Jade Harley
● canon: Homestuck
● canon point: end of Act 7, just after John opens the victory door
● age: 16

● (canon) background: MSPA wiki

● abilities:

Plant Growth - She can make plants bloom and/or grow rapidly by playing the electric bass for them. This comes up exactly twice, early in the story, and is never brought up again. I have no idea why she has this ability. The growth doesn't happen rapidly enough for combat applications, and encouraging the growth requires playing a pleasant tune for a prolonged period.

Sylladex - Like most characters in Homestuck, Jade has a sylladex, an inventory system utilizing a personal pocket dimension. Ordinarily the stashed items can only be retrieved through use of a "fetch modus" (aka performing a specific activity). However, Jade appears to have learned to somehow bypass the usual need for a fetch modus and can stash or retrieve things purely at will--likely due to her space manipulation abilities. Canon plays pretty fast and loose with sylladex capabilities, but for game purposes I'll be limiting hers to only being able to contain inanimate objects which don't exceed the size or weight of a car.

For simplicity's sake, she'll arrive with an empty sylladex.

God Tier - Jade died while fulfilling a specific set of conditions, causing her to revive and level up to "god tier", which granted her a couple perks:
- Flight - She can fly, including while carrying another person about her own size.
- Conditional Immortality - God tiers can only die permanently if their death would be considered "heroic" or "just". Otherwise they revive a few minutes after dying. This is overpowered and arguably the "heroic" and "just" judgments are assigned pretty arbitrarily even within canon, so I'm nerfing this away.

Space Powers - As a god-tier'd "Witch of Space" Jade has abilities utilizing the aspect of "space". This is more than simple control over spatial properties: aspects in Homestuck cover metaphysical concepts as well as the more obvious connotations. A lot of the metaphysical side strays deep into authorial meta, however--stuff like her overall role in canon's narrative--soooo... I'm sticking to the spatial properties side for her in-game abilities.

And then she's also merged with her space-bending dog. The merge happened at the same time as coming into full realization of her own space-y powers, and she herself states that she's not sure where one set of powers leaves off and the other begins. There is a difference: her space aspect powers are innate to her, while her dog's space-bending is due to having a connection to the "Green Sun". The Green Sun is a magical star around which all universes and dimensions orbit. Having a connection to it grants what canon calls "omnipotence", but in function it seems to be closer to "incredibly powerful space-bending" than true omnipotence. There are things its powers cannot grant control over (such as time or death), and there are also places between realities which do not fall fully under its domain. The Green Sun was destroyed shortly before her canon point, meaning she would have lost access to some powers shown in canon. Due to contextual clues I think her teleporting and ability to resize things may have been granted solely by the Green Sun, while her telekinesis seems to be more an innate ability which the Green Sun greatly enhanced. I've removed both teleportation and resizing completely, and decreased her telekinetic abilities a good bit.
- Locating - She has a really good intuition when it comes to guessing where things are. In canon she always picked matching cards on her first try when playing the Memory card game. She does have to have a good feel for what she's looking for though, so she needs to be familiar with at least some aspect of her target. Opposing magic can block this ability: due to interference from his Green Sun powers, her locating didn't work on her dog back before they merged. It's also only guessing: while she's never shown to guess incorrectly with it in canon, it's still possible that she could. She displayed this ability long before merging with her dog, so this one is definitely innate to her.
- Telekinesis - Canonically, Jade's able to levitate a full-sized battleship and then fly it at just under the speed of light for three years straight. When pulling particularly impressive stunts, such as with that battleship, she and/or the moved object glow green, suggesting she's drawing on the Sun's power then, but there isn't always glowing when levitating baseball-sized objects. This is probably an innate ability to some degree, but greatly enhanced by the Green Sun. Due to the Green Sun's destruction, I'm nerfing her telekinetic capabilities down to a lifting limit of a few hundred pounds and top speed of about 10 mph.
- Resizing - In canon, she's able to shrink planets down to baseball size within seconds, as well as later returning them to full size. The targets glow green when being resized, so this is likely a Green Sun-granted ability. I'm making a judgement call that she lost this power entirely when the Green Sun was destroyed.
- Teleportation - Jade can teleport herself, items, or other people to and from pretty much anywhere, though she can't teleport stuff across dimensions. There don't appear to be any limitations on size in canon, with her exchanging the locations of two full-sized planets at one point. Stuff always glows green when teleported, and she can also function as a one-way portal to the Green Sun itself--meaning this is almost certainly Green Sun-granted. Again, I'm making a judgement call that she lost access to this power with the Green Sun's destruction.

Canine Senses - Since becoming part dog, she has a greatly improved sense of smell, to the point she can tell when someone she knows has been nearby recently.

● strengths:

Strong-Willed - She relies on her strength of will to face down stuff that she might find intimidating otherwise--if a thing must be done, well then she'll just hafta suck it up and do it! She easily stood firm when a stubborn friend tried to talk her out of an inconvenient (but useful) password system she'd set up to avoid temporally non-linear conversations.
Caring - She's not only willing to risk her life for her friends, but actually does die at one point in the process of saving one. She feels concern for others' well-being and wants to do what's best for them. (What she believes is best for them might not match up with what they believe, though...) She also tries not to burden others with her own problems.
Intelligent - She processes new information and concepts quickly. She figured out how to utilize someone else's time travel abilities to cram several weeks' worth of frog breeding into a far shorter amount of time, and also successfully implemented several plans that played out across centuries and/or the literal boundaries of universes.
Enthusiastic - Enthusiasm permeates everything she does, causing her to throw herself wholeheartedly into projects. She approaches problems and pastimes alike with energy and tries to maintain an upbeat, can-do attitude. She gets excited about most things.

● weaknesses:

Self-Reliant - What? Surely this is a strength, right? Unfortunately she's so accustomed to being self-reliant that she has a poor grasp on the concept "someone else could do this". It often doesn't occur to her to request assistance unless the need for collaboration is GLARINGLY obvious. And if something's amiss and she can't at least assist, she can feel at fault.
Insensitive - While she does care a great deal about others, she lacks a delicate touch. She is aware of this, and she tries to be sympathetic, but... she's very problem-solving oriented, and gets frustrated if there is no real solution. Her frustration only increases if the reaction to a truly unsolvable problem isn't "oh well, guess this is just gonna be a thing :T" and moving on--and having that reaction to a problem she still deems solvable is just as bad.
Memory Issues - She used to tie colorful strings to her fingers to jog her memory, but eventually she forgot what the strings meant as well and gave up on that system. She's not absentminded exactly, so much as she has a tendency to get too many long-term projects going simultaneously and can't keep up with all of them.
Impractical - She wore an evening gown to go muck about in the wilderness on a frog breeding expedition, and placed important machinery based on aesthetics rather than whether her friend could actually reach them--and though she did later decide to make access easier, she was a bit saddened because the equipment had looked so nice where it was. Basically, she's a rather silly person, and while this makes her fun company at times, it also makes her frustrating to deal with at others.

● skills (optional): general athleticism, gardening, creativity
● housing (optional): wherever's fine!

● network username: gardenGnostic

● network sample:
recently a bunch of us convinced a big creature named liam to move further away from the city. as far as i know, he wasnt hurting anything! people just worried he might by accident due to being so big. im worried about him though, because there were a bunch of smaller creatures chomping on him! :(

does anyone know more about them? they weren't always bothering liam so im hoping there will be other stuff they can eat in the new location. i also want to figure out some kind of repellent to encourage them to go looking for non-liam foods, but im not sure what theyd find unappealing. i really dont want to kill them!!! they cant help being hungry and i dont think theyre doing liam serious harm.

● prose/action sample:
with Sans

Edited 2017-05-02 12:27 (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.

● Jade will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 6, Bed 3.
● Due to her age, Jade will receive a bi-weekly stipend to live comfortably off of until such time as she chooses to become employed, and is invited to attend Riverview High School after a short aptitude test to place her in the proper grade. She will also be offered a part-time job as a Hydroponics Assistant (General) at the Hydroponics Garden, where she will help with finding the best techniques for growing plants without soil. 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 around to the current intro/event log.

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riverview: applications

Jade Harley | Homestuck | Reserved

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