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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: Ramey
● age: 30
● contact:

exposition
● other characters: N/A

character information
● name: Alec Brennan
● canon: Original
● canon point: Modern day
● age: 58, but physically he appears to be late 20s/early 30s

● (original) world: Alec's world is little different from our own, aside from the presence of magic and the supernatural. The magical community at large takes care to stay under the radar and out of the public eye. For the most part, everyone keeps to their own- wizards have their own, self-contained society; psychics, lycanthropes, etc, etc, have their own, self-contained society, and so on and so forth.

Wizards in this world make use of a special runic alphabet to cast spells. This alphabet is extremely extensive, and it is common practice for wizards to choose a Specialization, a set of runes that serve a specific function, and devote their skill and studies to that. As such, wizards are given classifications based on their area of study; Mender, Destroyer, Illusionist, Enhancer, Defender, etc, etc. Wizards who pick and choose from Specializations without focusing on a single one are called Jacks, as in "Jack of all trades, master of none". This is highly frowned upon, thanks in no small part to the massive class divide between older "upperclass" wizarding families who hold their legacy above all else, and... literally everyone else. Jacks are considered little more than thugs or muscle for hire. A wizard's power is also solely passed down through the males of the family, from father to son. Girls born to a wizarding father usually possess a singular magic Talent, and cannot use the runes to do magic, as far as anyone is aware.

The product of a one night stand, Alec is the son of Thomas Brennan, a former wizarding mercenary, and Sabrina Cordell, a regular human and the daughter of one of Chicago's many crime families, with heavy ties in the drug trade. After he was born, Alec’s mother vanished from his life, leaving him with his dad, who had done his best to straighten out his act in order to provide for his son. He left his mercenary group and studied in earnest to become a Mender, a wizard whose focus is repairing broken objects. They lived and worked in a tiny mechanic shop, scraping to get by, very much on the bottom of the food chain in every way. Alec was always resentful of his absentee mother, who had more than enough money to easily provide for them both, but instead chose to act as though they didn’t exist.

It was probably Alec’s bitterness an unhappiness that prompted Thomas to make a misguided attempt to blackmail Sabrina over the existence of Alec. Thomas wound up dead, and Alec would have very nearly followed suit if not for the fact that he was faster on the draw with his magic than his would-be assailant was with his gun.

Not long after that, Alec fell in with his dad’s old merc group, and they taught him the tools of the trade. Where before, Alec was an Elementialist, a wizard whose focus lies in wielding the elements, he learned enough to be classified as a Jack. While his strengths still very much lie in Elemental magic, he learned spells to pick locks and to make himself invisible and to enhance his natural strength and speed. As technology began to evolve, he shifted his studies there, leaving behind his mercenary roots in order to become a hacker, an information dealer, and a man very adept in the art of manipulation.

With his newfound skills as an information broker and saboteur, he tracked down his mother, and effectively ruined her life by exposing her and her family’s misdeeds, destroying her reputation and her marriage to a well-to-do businessman. But he didn’t stop there. Alec keeps mostly to the shadows, working as an embittered sort of Robin Hood, and making a name for himself by pulling power and influence out from underneath those who had it, for the benefit of those who did not. He has no preference for whether or not his clients or victims are human or wizard. A rich asshole is a rich asshole, and he loves taking them down a peg or two or seven. Now and again, he’ll join forces with his old merc team, or they with him, but Alec is much more comfortable behind a monitor than he is out in the field, slinging magic around.

● abilities: As stated above, the wizards in Alec’s world cast spells using runic characters that are written into the air. Every wizard’s magic is a different color, though that doesn’t have any bearing on what kind of magic they can use or what kind of person they are. Alec’s magic is a grey-ish purple color, kind of dull and stormy and not very pretty.

Alec himself is highly skilled in the use of Elemental spells, being able to create and wield the elements of water, air, ice, fire, and lightning. Lightning is by far his specialty, which extends to him being able to manipulate and draw power from electricity as well.

The other schools of magic he borrows from are: Animation, the ability to manipulate inanimate objects, though his skills are limited to moving things in simple ways and picking locks. Destruction, which is exactly as it sounds, and Alec’s repertoire contains a few hard-hitting and fast concussive spells. Illusion, which allows Alec the ability to make himself or others nearly invisible (his camouflage spell is closer to transparency than actual invisibility, and his presence leaves a slight distortion in the air, not unlike heat rising), and to cast minor illusions to give things a different appearance.

Most of Alec’s spell utility comes in the form of tattoos. When a wizard wants to skip the casting process, they can get spells tattooed right on their skin and magically hotwired to their brain, able to be activated with a mere thought. These spells are mostly defensive in nature, though any spell could reasonably be turned into a tattoo for easy use.

Being trained by mercenaries and being a meticulous planner means Alec has a lot of these. Alec’s tattoos are all solid black bands on his arms, as he had the spellwork covered in black ink so another wizard looking at him would not be able to tell what they do. He has twelve in all (six per arm), starting with one on each wrist, and spaced out from there all the way up to his shoulders. They are each explained in more detail here.

Outside of magic, Alec is very technologically savvy. Whether it’s breaking into a bank account or a Snapchat account, he can usually manage it with ease. He has a good sense of what will be useful to him and what is just meaningless fluff, and how best to take what he has learned about a person and set about ruining them with it. Being a wizard with an extended lifespan means he’s had a lot of time to learn and evolve with the technology.

Obviously, the tech in the city will be mostly alien to him, and he'll need to take the time to learn. He won't go delving into people's private files just for kicks, and will only do so with good reason, and only after I have worked things out on an OOC level.

● strengths:

well-prepared:
Alec is a planner to an almost ridiculous degree. He is sure to think of every available outcome of a given situation in order to better manipulate it to reach an outcome that is favorable to him. Even his mundane social interactions are planned, in a sense, because he has an image he is consciously trying to put forth.

adaptable:
Alec’s penchant for planning things down to the minute detail by no means makes him inflexible. His time spent training with his dad’s old band of wizarding mercenaries taught him a lot about working in the moment, rather than making the moment work for him. While he would prefer things to go his way, he knows that sometimes they just won’t. In fact, thinking two steps ahead usually helps him when he has to act on the fly.

intelligent:
Many older wizards don’t bother with technology if they don’t have to, content to rely on their magic and the magic of their peers. It was different for Alec, whose father decided to use his magic to work with cars. He grew up around the combination of magic and tech, and when he realized the best way to get back at his mother would be to go for her reputation, he dove right into learning everything he could. He’s damn good with computers.

● weaknesses:

abrasive:
He harbors a lot of self-loathing over the way his selfishness got his father killed. As such, he deliberately tries not to get close to people. The image that Alec very carefully tailors his every interaction to put forth is that of… well, a giant jerk. He’s scathing and sarcastic and cocky on purpose. He wants people to know he’s good at what he does, not be friends with him.

selfish:
Alec is selfish in a different way now than when he was an unhappy teenager harping on his single father for the way they had to scrape to survive. As far as Alec is concerned, the less people know about him, the easier it is for him to do his job. He keeps his own secrets, details about himself and his abilities, to himself and will only offer minimal information if it’s absolutely needed. This doesn’t make him a great team player, and while he will work with others, he doesn’t always work well with them.

ruthless:
The way Alec sees his work is very cut and dry: Someone with no power is being taken advantage of by someone with power, whether that power comes in the form of money or status or family ties doesn't matter. He doesn’t care whose life he’s destroying or what skeletons he has to drag out of the closet to do it. He literally ruins lives for a living, and that’s just something he’s learned to accept. The distant, unfriendly persona masks just as much bitter anger as it does self-hatred.

● job skills (optional): Obviously, Alec has skill with computers. He also has the private habit of cooking, which he does to unwind. He would volunteer the former, but not the latter. I’m cool with him landing a job that deals with either of these.
● housing (optional): I'm good with whatever!

● network username: a.brennan

● network sample:

i can’t be the only one here who builds their own computers, right? anybody know any places for parts?

i would also take a primer on whatever the hell tech is commonplace around here. someone tell me if other-dimension mac is better than other-dimension pc. and don't tell me you don't have an opinion. everyone has an opinion. it's a debate that's old as fucking time.

● prose/action sample:

[ Alec doesn’t do the whole “helping out of the goodness of his heart” thing, but ending up in an entirely new place has changed things up for him a bit. Back home, he was rather comfortable in his network of contacts, having built it up over the course of a few decades. Here, however, he has a totally blank slate to work with, and he needs to rectify that if he hopes to be halfway effective at what he does best.

So, when the city has a big ol’ killer plant problem, Alec supposes it’s a good place to start. If nothing else, it will certainly tell him who his more altruistic neighbors are.

He may be more comfortable behind a monitor, poking around in other people’s business and selling their secrets, but Alec is still a wizard, and one with mercenary training to boot. He can handle a few overgrown weeds.

When he arrives at the section of the wall currently being overgrown, it doesn't take him long to spot someone going toe to toe with a mass of crazed vines. Even in a completely different dimension, where the rules about keeping magic a secret don't apply, Alec isn't one to flaunt his abilities out in the open. He relies on secrecy and the element of surprise far too much for that. So he waits until their back is turned before raising a hand, index and middle fingers extended together, and etches out a rune in the air with stormy purple light. A bolt of fire lances from the mark in the second before the rune disappears, flying past the head of Alec's unwitting ally, and setting the coiling tendrils ablaze.

Turning around will reveal Alec, looking for all the world like he did not just conjure fire out of nothing to throw at carnivorous plant life. He blinks a couple of times, glances over his shoulder and back. ]

What are you looking at?

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.

● Alec will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 5, Bed 10.
● Alec's job, should he choose to accept it, is Computer Technician in charge of developing, upgrading, and maintaining the computer systems at Gramarye Research, a well-respected facility researching magic itself, magical entities and locations, and other supernatural phenomenon in the Quarantine. If you wish to accept this job, please fill in the information on the Occupations Page. Additionally, while Alec is magically inclined, I saw that you didn't mention magic on your job skills, so if you'd like him to work as a computer tech at a different business, feel free to make up the business name or choose one from the list and use that instead of Gramarye.
● 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; optionally, follow the memes community, quaranmeme.
● 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.

welcome to riverview quarantine

Here is his journal!

And Alec wouldn't mention his magic, since there are Rules about that in his own universe and he's not very forthcoming about it anyway, but I'm happy to chalk it up to a ~coincidence~. He'd find the work fascinating. :)

I thought that might be the case and thought it might be interesting for him to work with fellow magic-users without having to come out about it! Feel free to assume that the computer and network systems at Gramarye are as backward and behind-the-times as you'd like (and probably patched together with random spells), because most of the upper management there are more used to relying on magic than tech.

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