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° NPCs do take up one of these character slots. They count as AUs.
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♢ Don't worry about apps getting long. If it takes a lot of words to get across what you're trying to say, then go ahead and use them.
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If you're unsure of who to apply, we suggest the potential app discussion page. Filling out the small form might give you a better idea of who would work better for you and the setting!
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Player
Name: What would you like to be called?
Username: ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) username
Current/former characters: Are you already in the game? Were you here before?
Sleeper
Character: The character's name goes here, obviously.
Username: username
Canon: What series is your character from? If an original character, feel free to come up with a fake canon name to be listed on the taken page, while also listing "original". Mark AUs here.
Canon point: Where in their story do they come from?
Age: Tell us how old they are. If your character's age would be altered upon acceptance into the game, make sure to note that you are changing it here, and what their new age will be.
Appearance: Height, build, hair and eye colors, demeanor, even a general fashion sense if you want. Tell us what we would see if we took a glance at your character.
Personality: The meat of the application! This should be around four solid paragraphs describing who your character is, both inside and out. We want to make sure you understand the character and will play them accurately to the setting.
If you'd like, you can also include a paragraph on how you see them reacting to the game environment.
History: Your character's life. You may link to a wiki here, but we would love to hear your own take on it! This is nearly as important as personality, as we will be using both sections to compare to the City history and make sure it's appropriate.
Powers/skills: Be sure to explain how they'll be changed or powered down in the case of non-humans turning human or those who are overpowered.
Characters who are canonically powerless may pitch to gain a power here. All new powers need to enhance an aspect the character already has, whether it relates to their personality or lifestyle, and you will have to explain how you believe it fits with this requirement.
Skills gives us a better idea of what this character is good at in mundane terms, so that we can help with a City position if you're coming up blank.
City
Name: This shouldn't allude to their canon name.
Position: Profession or other pigeonholing as necessary. Basically, "What laws do they abide by?" for us mods to consider. This will tell us what job the character will be assigned in the Cave, as well.
History: Two paragraphs minimum, but this section doesn't need to be very long. You can contact the mods to work with us on this. Absolutely needs to relate to the character in some way or another. Ironic placement, while fun, would not work for the setting. Any powers they may have in the Cave will not be present in this history.
Remember that you need permission if you plan to include other PCs in this history.
Proof: This is what will be waiting for a character in their living quarters when they first wake up in the Cave. It should be a photo, a voice clip, a video, etc., anything that would feature the Sleeper in a way that could be recognized. An item that would make a very solid case for your character living in the Diamond City before the Disaster.
Playing
First-person sample: (Should be at least 5 or 6 sentences. Links allowed: 15 comments minimum. If AU, samples must be of the same AU.)
Third-person sample: (At least 300 words. Links allowed. If AU, samples must be of the same AU.)
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Liam McNally ; 2/2 [sample app: overachiever edition]
This more or less left Liam without a position in the company, but he quickly picked up the slack by becoming more of a moral support than ever before. Ken and Liam took something of a mascot position at the company, more than content to let the younger folk do all the hard work while they reaped the benefits and had a good time with everyone.
Months passed with this new and exciting life. It looked like no one would slow down for years to come. Then, of course, Liam woke up.
Powers/skills: Liam possesses canonical ghostly powers: any that he keeps will be converted or powered down, with some aspects being dropped entirely to make up for being human again. Liam has the ability to hide from the sight and senses of all but those who can perceive other planes of existence (espers, psychics, mediums, etc.). To them, his presence can be felt, even if his form can't easily be seen, depending on the strength and specialty of the psychic. This ability extends into the talent of only appearing selectively to certain people, if he so wishes.
The ability to materialize wherever he pleases is being powered down drastically. It will be converted into a flashstep which allows him to move over a large distance, about forty feet, near instantaneously regardless of obstacles in the way. This ability only works if Liam is in motion. As with all abilities that allow you to pass through walls, chances are high that Liam could injure himself by entering an unknown area and forcefully colliding with an object upon reformation.
As for skills, when you've been around as long as he has, lack the ability to sleep and can be anywhere in the world as soon as you want to? You pick a lot of things up. That is to say he's a jack of all trades, but a master of
noneonly a few. Among the most notable of his hobbies are cooking and dancing (with Ken, anyway). Brawling and business management are on the second tier, although the latter is something he picked up mostly from auditing classes while Ken was in university, then watching the man work when he graduated. He has a serviceable knowledge of many things supernatural.Liam notably speaks with a conservative, RP English accent, although he easily falls into his natural Scottish when he feels stressed. He is also quite fluent in several other languages.
City
Name: Owen Bates
Position: Bar / drag club owner
History: Owen Bates was a simple man, if not quite passionate. He grew up in the Diamond City, nearer to the outer slums than the inner suburbs and was quite street-savvy because of it. As a teenager, he dropped out of high school and started to put together the funds to strike out on his own. When he was eighteen, he founded a drag club called the Rogue's Gallery that soon became quite the hit among its demographic.
Owen met George Kardos when he was 19 and George was 16, and they hit it off even though George was too young to be employed at Owen's bar. George was not, however, too young to be pulled into a territory war with a nearby city and lose his leg in the ensuing battle two years later. The next year, when George was released from the hospital, Owen confessed his love and proposed; they got married soon after, at 23 and 20. George, as it turned out, was quite the intelligent young entrepreneur and the Rogue's Gallery did even better with George's help — both with business matters and reigning in the short-tempered Owen.
Their life went on like this for three more years, until the fateful day of the Disaster struck.
[ Note: I have Hawk's permission to include George in this history segment. ]
Proof: Wedding photo.
Playing
First-person sample: When they told me I was just crazy for thinking I'd been dead for fifty-five years, you bet your arse I was ready to kick 'em from here to Tuesday. Then... I found a photo. No idea where it came from or when, but it's definitely me in it. Me and my—husband. We're supposed to be married here. You'd think a guy would remember his own wedding, eh? Doesn't convince me something fishy isn't up, though. It's just food for thought.
Oh, one more thing: anybody else having issues with tattoos—or birthmarks or scars, I guess—magically swapping places when you woke up? That one's got me, too.
Third-person sample: "Papa!" Joell Parker flickered onto the screen, her audio and movements just slightly out of sync with each other. Liam would have said it was like watching a ghost trying to interact with the living, except... well. In any case, his daughter's bright expression dimmed just a bit while her eyes flickered about her screen. "Where's Dad?"
"Elsewhere, I'm afraid," Liam excused, waving a hand with an apologetic smile. "One of those obligations that I hear living people still have to deal with." He let it transform into a much more vibrant grin as he continued, "What, don't have time for the dead anymore?"
"You know that's not it," she replied. "I was just hoping to speak to both of you. It's been ages!"
Five days. It's been five days.
Liam rolled his eyes skyward. "Oi, Tanya, hush from the peanut gallery!"
The intrusion of the all-seeing-AI did give Liam an idea, however. If Ken wasn't there, there was no real reason he had to deal with being caught on video for the call; it wasn't as if he was bound to the earth anymore. It had just been such habit to come down here on Thursday to say hi to Jewel. Embarrassingly enough, Liam hadn't considered to simply pop on over to see her in person. (If he had to, he was certainly going to blame old age for falling into such a habit.)
"Well, enough of this," he said, abruptly disappearing from sight. He materialized next to Jewel and held out his arms. "Good afternoon, sweetheart."
Laughing, Jewel stood and embraced her father, enduring the kiss on the cheek before they settled back down. Her on the chair she had set up, and him balancing on the arm rest. She wasn't taller than him (thank God), but he still enjoyed the extra height it gave him.
"Now," he began, "tell me all about your—Tanya?"
... Yes?
"Hang up, Tanya."
With a huff, the AI appeared on the screen just long enough to stick out her tongue before the call was disconnected. Liam grinned at his own victory, then turned back to the matter at hand. "How have you been, Jewel?"
Did you read the rules? Yes, ma'ams.
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