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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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player information
● name: Essie
● age: 30
● contact:

estivaate
● other characters: None

character information
● name: Tony Stark
● canon: Marvel Comics (Earth 616)
● canon point: After Rhodey’s death in Civil War II
● age: 36

● (canon) background: Here there be a condensed history for Tony, and a expanded history for Tony in the 616 universe. I recommend tormenting yourself with the former.

● abilities:

Abilities can be found in the condensed history link above, but for ease of access they are:

◎ biological enhancements ( which we don’t actually have details on. Yet. )
◎ super-genius intellect
◎ expert engineer
◎ expert businessman
◎ expert tactician
◎ skilled hand to hand combatant
◎ skilled martial artist
◎ trained marksman
◎ multilingual (Japanese, Mandarin, French, Russian, all coding and programming languages if you give him the time, and conversationally fluent in Middle Eastern languages but we’re never given specifics)

● strengths:

⎊Intelligence.
Tony Stark is known for being a holy shit how-do-you-think kind of genius. He is one of the smartest people in the Marvel universe and has the ability to think several steps ahead of most people. It is this that makes him such a great futurist, a great engineer and great inventor. He can see the curve coming, and what comes after it. It also makes him well prepared for things going completely awry as well as leads to a childlike curiosity that he possesses to know things which he already does not have an understanding of.

⎊Resiliency.
This is both a physical resiliency as well as an emotional resiliency. Tony has been knocked down both mentally and emotionally more than once in his life, has been betrayed by those he loves and considers friends, family even, but still has it within himself to get back up and go at the world again. To try to make the world, and the future, better despite the shit that it is constantly throwing at him.

⎊Empathy.
Look, I know, you think I’m insane. But seriously, Tony is empathetic. He cares and has the ability to feel for others and what they are going through. He can understand why people might make terrible choices for the greater good (he doesn't have to agree with them, but he can see why and that can make all the difference). In almost everything that he does, he is genuinely attempting to make things better for everyone. It also allows him to be pretty damn forgiving because even when people wrong him, he can see why they have done so.

● weaknesses:

⎊Intelligence.
Knowledge is power and power corrupts. Even though this is one of Tony’s greatest strengths, it is also one of his greatest weaknesses. With a certain level of intelligence, there is a grey morality at play; Tony can see the end that is the 'best' (in accordance to him) and sometimes is willing to justify means that are less than favourable to get to that end. He also tends to become arrogant in so far as because he knows, and knows best, therefore his plans are the way things should proceed (a lot of the time without consulting others).

⎊Stubbornness.
Tony doesn't stay down, even when he really should. He just-- keeps going. Keeps digging himself into holes (occasionally throwing others into the hole with him) and refuses to stop. At best, he will justify it with the ends justifying the means (he likes to think his reasoning for doing things absolves him of implications), and at worst he gets killed because he refuses to stand down.

⎊Guilt/Self-worth
Nothing Tony ever does leaves him without a scar. Or nine. Someone always dies (usually because of him) and there is always blood on his hands, and he could have always done better. He constantly feels like he is failing at things, even when no one else would see it that way. Holding himself up to impossible standards and feeling guilty for his failures also leads to him also being more than willing to throw himself in the line of fire for someone else. Becuase, if you ask him, they are worth it more than he is.

● skills (optional):
The skills that are of the most use to Tony (and others) in this kind of situation are: his mechanical and engineering skills (he built a functioning suit of advanced technical armour from a box of scraps okay, just—) which can be adapted to suit pretty much any kind of technology once you give him some time with it, his creativity skills which are honed more towards weapons, defences, advancements of the technological kind, rather than you know, knitting (but he can knit if he needs to), and finally his technological skills. The last skill being of a wide and sweeping variety from being able to create a functioning AI if you want him to, to repurposing random shit into weapons and defences. Let him play with the machines and the wires okay.

● housing (optional): EH. No preference.

● network username: Tony would like to have the username stark.naked. Because he’s awesome like that.

● network sample:
[ There is an annoyed voice that cuts through the silence, screen still dark because of course Tony isn't really paying attention to the communication device, it's tossed to the side, face down because-- whatever.

Point it, Tony sounds annoyed (possibly Annoyed) as he speaks.]

Look, look, I have been to space, okay? Teamed up with guardians of the galaxy and all that shit, and I am telling you, there is no corner of the known galaxy that has a planet made entirely of edible rocks.

[ There is a clang of metal followed by a hiss and some rather creative curses before a second voice speaks, this one distinctly female.]

Whatever you say, Boss. But that still leaves a lot of unknown galaxies don't you think?

[ Another annoyed noise, this time closer to a groan.]

This is the last fucking time I let you watch weird cartoons about moons and cheese. I though I programmed you to be brilliant here, what the-- oh shit shitshit--

[Whatever else Tony might want to bitch about is lost in the resulting clatter of metal and curses and perhaps a little echo of light female laughter. There is silence for a moment before the sounds of movement, the communicator moving slightly before the screen is filled with light and the sight of one Tony Stark covered in the remnants of scavenged scrap from around the ship with a resigned look on his face. Behind him, barely noticeable, is something that looks an awful lot like a smaller version of his armour.]

Of course, this was one, my fucking lu--

[ The feed cuts out.]

Also, a network post at Eluvio.

● prose/action sample:

Log at Eluvio with Kirk, McCoy, and Sombra.

TDM with Loki.

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.

● Tony will be housed in Communal Housing; Floor 5, Bed 7.
● Tony's job, should he choose to accept it, is Perimeter Defense Engineer and Coordinator. This means that he will be working closely with Perimeter Guard Captain Apple and the Government of Riverview Quarantine to develop, maintain, repair, and upgrade the protective armaments and laser fences on the outer wall of the Quarantine in an effort to make repopulation of the abandoned city possible. If you have any questions, feel free to PM the mod account.
● 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"

This is the journal I will be using!

riverview: applications

Tony Stark ℼ Marvel Comics (Earth 616) ℼ Reserved

ACCEPTED

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