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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: Xep
● age: 20
● contact: Plurk - esquivant
● other characters: n/a

character information
● name: Letha Isidora Regis
● canon: Original
● canon point: March 1854, five months after her death.
● age: 17/18 (born November 4th, 1836)

● (original) world: Letha's world is a fictional country equivalent to England, where magic is widely available and accepted. The one type of magic that is rarely accepted is, unsurprisingly, necromancy. Thus, the Regis clan of necromancers isolated themselves in the town of Thornwell, where they had very little contact with the outside world. For hundreds of years they have avoiding nearly all contact, only sending traders to major cities for supplies and otherwise being left alone. It has instilled a fear of the unknown in the Regis clan members, as well as a strong sense of superiority over the outside world. The Regis's dress and live like royalty, but only because no one wants to bother with disputing with them. And, after all, they have unlimited supplies of slave labor. Every Regis is trained in necromancy.

While necromancy is a learned magic, the Regis family believes that their line is especially adept at learning it. This, among other reasons that have been forgotten over time has led to an obsession with blood purity that leads them to only accept members who are born of two married cousins. Anyone born with blood outside of the family recieves the surname of Thornwell as a punishment, both to them and any Regis they might marry in an attempt to appease the family.

Letha was born in a respected part of the family, the youngest of four and only daughter to Vincentia and Attius Regis. She was very close with her brothers, especially her middle brother Nathaniel who she considered her best friend in the world. Nathaniel served in the army of warriors that protected Thornwell from the dangers in the woods that surrounded the town, and she dreamed to be part of them as well. However, when the exams came on her 12th birthday, she didn't make the cut. And this made her very bitter toward the Elder Council, who she believed had passed up a perfect warrior.

A few years later, Nathaniel died in service to the warrior army. Officially he was killed in battle, but as no one had had any good reason to go up against the army Letha didn't see how this was possible. Her investigations were ruled as entirely unladylike, and as punishment for snooping she was married off to her cousin so that they would both be pushed to the side by the rest of the family.

While they had grown up in close enough quarters, Letha and her new husband Aristeo hated each other. They took every opportunity to bicker and fight, and would stay in the same room only if they could avoid eye contact and stay at least a foot away from each other. But as fate would have it, this started to ebb. Slowly they began trusting each other, and after a year they realized that they trusted each other more than anyone else they knew. Enough to conceive a child together, who Letha fretted over the health and safety of constantly. When she wasn't fretting over her unborn child, she was preening with pride of the child on the way, refusing to leave the house in case anything happened and only communicating with the outside world through the Netherworld.

One of these such visits proved to be a fatal blunder; while communing with the dead for pregnancy tips, Letha left a candle unattended next to her comatose body, and the candle fell over. Within minutes the house was in flames, and she didn't know what had happened until her husband found her later in the afterlife and explained the situation. She wasn't dead, but she had no body to return to, and she was doomed to rot in a purgatory state along with her unborn daughter. For the next five months she struggled to remain in existance, slowly losing parts of herself each day as she and her husband could do nothing but lament and watch her deteriorate.

She'll be coming into Riverview seconds before her sense of self completely disappears; while returning to a living body will restore her memories and cognitive abilities, she'll be left with the memories of five months of horror, and a much stronger sense of protectiveness over her child than the average parent.

● abilities:

- Communing: Letha is a necromancer; she is very closely tied to the Netherworld, aka her world's afterlife. She can enter a comatose state at will to effectively die temporarily and visit with the dead, or simply speak to the dead at their corpses.

- Reanimation: She can also animate the dead; in this state the original owner loses touch with their corpse, and the corpse becomes a puppet for Letha to control. It takes concentration, and if she loses focus without disanimating it, the corpse becomes a violent and dangerously strong zombie.

- Sixth Sense: Her close ties to the Netherworld and unhealthy levels of necromantic training have gifted her with some extrasensory perception. Specifically, she can feel the auras of others around her. Since she's being played from after her death, she'll be able to feel the locations of others who are a room away, or sense the presence of ghosts. However, ghosts do not exist in her world, so this will come as a surprise to her if she finds any. She's also less likely to be surprised by people sneaking up on her.

- Divination: While it has nothing to do with actual magic, she can divinate using tarot cards. It's not entirely accurate, but it's cleaner than using animal intestines like a normal necromantic fortune-teller. She admits to it being mostly a fun parlor trick.

● strengths:
- Smart: While it comes off mostly as a snarky attitude, she's undeniably intelligent. She has a good memory, reasoning and logic skills and a healthy amount of curiosity that make her good at playing detective, despite her formal academics being more geared toward poise.
- Brave: Not only is she willing to fight anything that threatens her, she is also rarely shaken by the unknown. Rather than be spooked, she tends to react to new things with curiosity and a friendly attitude, until she decides it's time to fight. And then, she'll fight as dirty as needed in order to win.
- Compassionate: Not a word one would immediately think of when meeting her, but she is a compassionate person at the core. She may not know how to treat different people and creatures well, but she has good intentions and doesn't believe in hurting anything that doesn't deserve it. She strives to make equal trades with others, will happily help those in need and will do her best to help injured creatures. She especially loves striking up conversations with the dead - since they don't get company often, and that's just very sad.
● weaknesses:
- Stubborn: Though she can tell when pushing her luck is no longer in her favor, she doesn't like submitting to others. She's a very proud creature, and it takes a lot of work for her to admit being wrong or out of line. While she will accept it gracefully once she's reached that point, convincing her that she's made a mistake is a job in and of itself. She is often motivated by spite.
- Hot-headed: Speaking of which, being wrong often can really frustrate her. It's not out of the question for her to go into a manic rage and stab or break nearby objects when things haven't been going her way for too long, or to lash out with verbal abuse toward someone who's bothering her (or was just in the wrong place at the wrong time).
- Paranoid: Despite a tight grip of self-control, she's a meek person at the core and rarely affords herself the amount of emotional comfort she actually needs. When her guard drops she can come off as clingy and emotional, because she has very little idea how to express her emotional needs in a healthy manner. She is very worried about people leaving her, or not liking her. She's even more worried about people becoming boring and hard to talk to.

● skills (optional):
- She has exquisite handwriting that is easy to read, can write quickly and will be an even quicker scribe when she discovers non-dip pens.
- While not physically strong herself, she can animate up to two zombies at once who are infinitely strong and can handle muscle work as long as they remain within 10 feet of her.
- Though lacking in most other skills, she's a quick learner and has a penchant for working hard just to improve out of spite.

● housing (optional): I don't mind where she ends up.

● network username: necromantica

● network sample:

I admit... I'm not quite used to quick communications with anyone in the living world, and I haven't really spoken to anyone but my family and their servants before. That being said, I have little choice now but to make allies in this new world, so it's in my best interest to be friendly.

[She's quiet for a moment, thinking over her words carefully before continuing.]

My name is Letha Regis, and I'm a lady of Thornwell. Since coming here I've made my peace with the fact that my husband will not be around, but I would still like to be notified if anyone catches sight of a tall, gaunt gentleman who answers to the name of Aristeo. He is best recognized by a belt of bleached bones around his hip.

In the meantime, I believe my ability to commune with the dead is still intact. For a small fee, I'd be happy to speak to the loved ones of anyone who might require it.

● prose/action sample: here

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.

● Letha will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 1, Bed 4.
● Letha's job, should she choose to accept it, is Data Entry Clerk in the Riverview City Hall, with the option to take on other clerical tasks and move up the ranks with time.
● 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 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 open, a CR Meme has been posted. Feel free to tag around right away!

"welcome to riverview quarantine"

Yay! Her journal is burntbridges.

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