Applications are OPEN.
♢ We accept applications for: fandom (OU), original (OC), alternate universe (AU), and fandom original characters.
♢ Please check the taken and reserve pages to make sure the character you wish to apply for is available.
♢ Up to three versions of a single character may be in the game at once.
° NPCs do take up one of these character slots. They count as AUs.
♢ We allow only one OU version of a character, out of a total of three versions. (That means we can have a combination of either one OU and two AUs, or just three AUs before we stop accepting applications for that character.)
° Alternate universe characters are marked by silver borders on the taken page.
♢ If you are given a revision, you have two weeks to fill it out before we issue an automatic decline.
♢ In the case of a decline, you must wait two weeks before reapplying.
♢ We don't do app challenges.
♢ Headcanon is allowed.
♢ 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.
♢ Our goal is to have apps processed within a week of their posting.
♢ Existing players, please make sure you can manage activity with your current characters before applying for more.
♢ Applications are screened. Upon acceptance, you may ask us to unscreen them if you wish.
° Remember: Dreamwidth allows you to reply to your own screened comments!
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.)
Did you read the rules? |
commander shepard | mass effect | reserved | 3 of 3
But Shepard was, unfortunately for Kenson, not exactly an ordinary woman, and sedation that would have kept anyone else under wore off sooner than expected. Shepard woke to find that Kenson had kept her unconscious for two days, and she fought her way through the base until she reached the control room for the asteroid's mass effect engines. Activating the engines to propel the asteroid toward the mass relay, Shepard attempted to warn the colonists on Aratoht of the imminent explosion, but was interrupted by Kenson. Infuriated at what Shepard had done, she attempted to overload the base's reactor core in order to destroy the asteroid and everyone on it before it could hit the Alpha Relay. However, Shepard stopped her, and Kenson died in the process. Having only a few minutes to escape from the asteroid before it could hit the relay, Shepard was finally able to contact the Normandy, which picked her up and escaped the system through the relay seconds before the asteroid collided with it.
Though her actions delayed the invasion of the Reapers, Shepard was still responsible for the destruction of the Bahak system and its 300,000 colonists, and Admiral Hackett warned her that she would likely have to face trial for her actions in order to stave off war with the batarians. Believing that what she had done was right, Shepard indicated her willingness to defend herself in court-martial. Some time later, she returned to Earth, where she was stripped of her commission and placed under house arrest while the Alliance deliberated what to do with her.
This is the canon point I'm taking her from.
Powers/skills:
In a general sense, Shepard is a very, very competent soldier, having graduated from the Alliance's most intensive special forces training program, which teaches advanced combat, survival, and leadership skills. She has survived, and excelled, in circumstances under which most people would be killed or give up. In her own world, she's perhaps the galaxy's most famous hero (or infamous, depending), and she is well used to confronting situations others have deemed impossible or suicidal. Additionally, soldiers in her world undergo gene therapy to improve strength, stamina, speed and dexterity, so she's somewhat more enhanced in these areas compared to the average human or even the average soldier.
That said, Shepard has some skills specific to her military specialization — she is a Vanguard, a soldier whose talents combine combat expertise with biotic powers. While she has more abilities in canon than the ones listed below (mostly pertaining to certain kinds of special ammo that can probably only be used with firearms from her world), I'll be limiting her strictly to her biotic powers.
↳ Charge
Shepard cloaks herself in a biotic field and charges across the battlefield at an enemy, hitting them and sending them flying. This power enhances Shepard's speed and strength and inflicts massive damage when it connects.
↳ Shockwave
As the name implies, this power unleashes shockwaves of biotic energy along the ground that send weaker enemies flying and stagger or stun stronger ones; it also causes significant amounts of damage. This is one of Shepard's go-to abilities, and it's useful for clearing out crowds of weak opponents.
↳ Pull
This power levitates the target into the air with a mass effect field, simultaneously pulling them towards Shepard. While under its effects the target is unable to defend themselves, making them easy pickings for anyone armed with firearms or other ranged weapons.
City
Name: Sarah Wilcox
Position: Navy commander.
History: Sarah Wilcox was not the first person in her family to join the military, but she was the first woman. Determined to prove she could serve just as well as the men of the Wilcox line, she has earned every promotion she received on her own merit, and has already been decorated twice for valor. She was serving as the executive officer of the Navy's single aircraft carrier at the time of the disaster.
She was mostly a very serious woman, though with a certain offbeat charm and a warmth to her once one grew to know her well. Both her parents and two siblings were still alive before the Disaster, as well as a significant other whom she met on shore leave once. They'd only known each other two years, but she had intended to marry him once her tour of duty in the Navy was completed.
Proof: A photo of her with her family at her graduation from boot camp.
Playing
First-person sample:
Let me get this straight. You're trying to tell me over three years of my life — that everything I experienced was all some kind of dream? That that person I was isn't actually me?
I don't buy it. Photos can be faked. And don't you dare try to tell me I'm crazy. I've heard that enough.
... All right. The rest of you — let's get a headcount, figure out who else is here.
Third-person sample:
↳ A musebox post with Shep, an Eclipse mercenary OC, and the Illusive Man.
Did you read the rules? Yep!
ETA; fff sorry for the deletions, had to correct a factual error. This is what I get for writing apps in the wee hours.
accepted!
Welcome to the game!
Now that you've been accepted:
1. Confirm that you are using the same character journal as in your application, then please join
1½. If you wish, you may also join landofglass and gdbatcave with your personal journal.
2. Comment to the taken characters page, and then locations to let us know where your character will be working.
3. Once you gain access from
4. Let us know if you would like your app unscreened.
5. Go ahead and introduce yourself if you like!
6. Have fun. ♥
BONUS 7. In honor of the game opening, please head over to the player plot post share your ideas!
As a side-note: at the time of the Disaster, there were numerous aircraft and carriers in use. She can certainly have been on one of the more notable carriers, however.
Re: accepted!