anemoisity | Application Post

Please read over the rules and information posts before applying in order to minimize confusion.

Players are limited to five characters.

Samples can be written in first or third person.

Name: Your name or preferred handle, whatever you want us to call you..
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc.

Character Name: If they'll start out remembering a name other than their first name, please make a note of it.
Character Series: Toss a link to a general overview of the canon. Canon-specific wikis or Wikipedia are accepted! 
Background: Again, a wiki link to the character's background will generally suffice. A combination of this and the above canon overview should give a good explanation. Given the nature of the game, this is not only necessary, but we will require you to write something yourself if there's no explanatory source.
Point in Canon: When are you taking your character from?
Personality: The more detailed here, the better. This lets us get a good feel for the character. Please try to back up your details with canon examples when you're getting past their basic character and more in-depth. Generally, we want to see at least four good-sized paragraphs.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and playing for some time. Introduction posts of "what is this where am I what is this crazy place" are likely to be shot down if there's nothing else there. Musebox posts will be acceptable, posts at testrun-box are preferred, Dear Mun is not acceptable.

VILLAIN APPS:

Villain apps are currently OPEN.

There is a limit of three villains in the game at one time. There is currently one villain slot available.

Playing a villain will not count against your five character limit.

Be sure to note somewhere in the title of your app that you’re apping into a villain slot.

For more information on villains, see this page.

Name: Your name or preferred handle, whatever you want us to call you..
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc.

Character Name:
Character Series: Toss a link to a general overview of the canon. Canon-specific wikis or Wikipedia are accepted!
Background: Again, a wiki link to the character's background will generally suffice. If none exists, a bare-bones overview will do.
Point in Canon: When are you taking your character from?
Personality: This doesn’t have to be as detailed as an app for a normal character would be, but it still has to demonstrate an understanding of your character and how they operate. Three solid paragraphs is a good estimate of what we’re looking for.
Plans: You don’t have to outline a whole plot right here and now, just give us an idea of why you’ve chosen to app this character as a villain, and what sort of things you have in mind for them to do to antagonize the other characters.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and playing for some time. Introduction posts of "what is this where am I what is this crazy place" are likely to be shot down if there's nothing else there. Musebox posts will be acceptable, posts at testrun-box are preferred, Dear Mun is not acceptable.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

She’s… rather bully-able. Given her desire to gain approval of others, Yomiko can be goaded into doing things she wouldn’t normally and given her past of dealing with people who were less than kind to her, she has a high threshold of personal pain when exchanging with unpleasant individuals. She's an optimist at heart, and hopes that even though sometimes bad things happen, she may be able to grow from the experience or make a friend. She tells Joker when the world is threatened to be reset by the power of the Gentleman that while a part of her wishes that the pain of her own past could be erased and undone that people need to grow from the bad things that happen to them, to fully develop themselves.

However, because of the time she’s spent on the social “outs,” she’s very understanding of people who aren’t exactly within the social norm. When she learns that the original Nancy was a member of the I-Jin and a mole planted in her party, rather than be angry with Nancy’s betrayal, she instead shows sympathy over Nancy’s situation and appeals to her conscience, asking her to recognize that Ikkyu’s plan is wrong and help convince him of the fact. She’s a very different woman and she understands what it can be like to not fit in (Jinbocho was a dream come true- so many people there who understood the importance of books!), and so she can often get on very well with people who find themselves in the same boat. She also generally gets on very well with children and adolescents, as she can very well associate with the concept of trying to find one’s place in the world. She cherishes the people who know and accept her for all of her eccentricities.

Sample Entry: Hmm… you know… I’ve been thinking about it. It’s not… all bad. The memory loss, I mean. For example, I might have read some of the books I’ve found here back… wherever it is that I came from. I might have loved them dearly, read them when I was sick to make me feel better, or when I was happy or content. I might have been captivated by them and swept away by the setting, or the plot. But here, I don’t remember… and I’m not saying that it’s good that I can’t remember them, but now there’s the chance that I did, and I’m able to experience all of those feeling all over again, but completely new! Sort of like falling in love all over for the first time.

…that’s probably silly, isn’t it? Uhm… forget I said anything…

The personality section is fine, but the sample entry needs to be expanded a little bit. Please comment here after adding a bit more, or go and make a post at

testrun_box or musebox of your choice if those would work better.

[It had been several months since Yomiko dropped into Sirocco, not unlike Alice being brought into Wonderland, and many things had happened to her since then. She’d made some wonderful friends she cared for very deeply and remembered several things about herself: her age, her heritage, and her ability to control paper. Every day was busy and she found that she was never bored… but through it all there was something, a question, or concern, that kept surfacing at the end of the day, making her wonder… making her worry.

The disappearance of Sirrocon residents decades ago.

It was puzzling, to be sure. How could all of those people go missing all of a sudden? There had to be a reason… And where did they go? Did none of them ever return? And why did the people brought to Sirroco lack their memories? Was a side effect of the journey? Or was it purposefully done to them? It was quite a mystery… and while that thought confused her, it also rather excited her. She and all of her friends were caught up in what would make a fantastic mystery novel! A group of strangers, each different and unique, brought together by fate to a foreign land, deprived of their memories, banding together to overcome the obstacles put in their path and regain their memories and possibly find their way home…!

In the hands of the right author, it would be a brilliant story. She was sure that even if she weren’t in the situation she was, Yomiko would have read it and adored it.

But that didn’t exactly solve their problem… So, she supposed that it was time to get proactive! And she was sure that she wasn’t the first to wonder about it, so she decided it would be a good idea to request assistance.]

Excuse me, everyone, it’s Yomiko. I’ve been thinking more about the event we learned about, the disappearance of all of those people seventy years ago, and well… it occurs to me that maybe there’s a way that we could learn some more about it! I’d like to organize a thorough search of the library here to see if there are any materials there that relate to the event. Maybe there’s a history book related to it, or someone kept a personal journal that might reveal some more details of things that happened around that time… We probably won’t find anything that gives a definitive answer to the questions surrounding it, but there might be something there that contains a lead! And I think it will be a lot of fun to fully explore the library! Who knows what might be there undiscovered? I’ve mainly kept to books on the fiction section since I arrived. Even if we turn up some books that haven’t been on the shelves, I would be happy! It would be like a scene right out of a mystery novel… What do you say, is anyone interested in lending me their assistance?

Also A Testrun_Box Entry (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/274554.html)

The first sample and the testrun would've been more than enough together. But this works.

Now that you've been accepted, please follow the directions here.

Application Post

Yomiko Readman

PENDING

Sample #2

ACCEPTED