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

Name: AF
Personal LJ:

hotandcoldrp
Contact Info: AIM: DecepticonAF; e-mail: decepticonaf@aol.com; Plurk: hotandcoldaf

Character Name: Michael "Booster" Jon Carter AKA Booster Gold AKA Supernova
Character Series: It's DC Comics, you might've heard of it before?
Background: You'll want to stop reading in the "52 and Supernova" section, that's my canon point.
Personality: Booster Gold is a selfish, egotistical, loud-mouthed, shallow, immoral jackass.

At least, that's what he can easily appear to be and it tends to be the face he puts on in public, especially after he came to realize that that was what people tended to expect from him. Of course, the best facades have basis in reality, and this is especially true with Booster. All the listed characteristics are faults that Booster possesses, but the part that makes it a façade is that Booster is aware that they're faults and tries to reel them in in his private life and exaggerate them in his public one. Of course, circumstances have also eroded the prominence of some of these traits, particularly the egotism.

In fact, Booster's egotism has been so eroded by circumstances that it's even gone so far as to become a lack of self-esteem, even an overwhelming one. As poor as the opinions of other heroes or the public can get of Booster, they can never quite get as low as Booster's opinion of himself can. He no longer really considers himself a hero, and doesn't particularly think he was ever a real hero to begin with. It almost goes without saying that Booster at this point in his life is a far, far cry from the 19-year-old kid who crawled out of a wrecked time machine on the outskirts of Metropolis with a grin on his face and dreams of grandeur in his head. The experiences he's been through and the lengthy list of people he's lost have worn down on him a lot.

What remains, however, is Booster's egocentrism, so to speak. Booster doesn't consider himself the best thing ever, but he does consider himself the center of his personal universe, in a way. More specifically, he considers his actions to be the deciding factor in what happens around him. So when things are good, Booster's pretty pleased with himself, but when things are bad, he considers it a personal failing. This is often worsened by the fact that Booster is from the future, and, as such, things that are current events are also ancient history to him, and so when he fails to see something coming (like, say, Sue Dibny's death) or when he does see something coming and fails to stop it (like, say, Ted's death), he then feels that he should've known things were coming and that he should've been able to stop them. So, yes, he is extremely prone to being plagued with guilt, especially over things that nobody in their right mind would consider holding him accountable for.

Part of this is also that what's most important to Booster is not actually himself, but those around him. As a time-traveler, Booster is basically cut off from everything and most especially everyone he once knew, which got even worse after he lost his sister. As such, the JLI was basically his replacement family during his time with them and there is nothing he wouldn't do for them, even if they don't always get along. Of course, there's nothing he wouldn't do for his biological family, either.

Booster is kind of a dick, though, don't get any misconceptions about that. He's certainly not above taking potshots or doing terrible things. Notable is the fact that Booster has never expressed any sort of regret over starting his superheroic career with a massive theft (regret over how his superhero career ended up, yes, not how it started), and, in fact, he's proven a couple of times that he'd do it again.
Booster also lies a lot. And, perhaps more importantly, has a lot to lie about. He doesn't want people to know his origin, he doesn't want them to know the sketchier things he's done, he doesn't want them to know when he's feeling down, etc., etc., etc. That all being said, Booster's not an all bad guy. He usually really honestly does want to do the right thing, he's just usually really bad at figuring out how to go about doing it. Really, really bad. His heart is usually in the right place, it's just that his head often isn't.

And then there's Supernova. Supernova is, in a way, Booster's attempt at doing the whole superhero thing again, but right this time. Which really comes out to mean that Supernova is pretty much the opposite of Booster Gold in every way. He's a very idealized hero: brave, noble, and professional, with strong, unwavering principles. Supernova would never monetize his superheroic image or get involved in a scam like Kooey Kooey Kooey or be completely useless when people start dying left and right! (Though this last one doesn't quite work out in practice, Booster still being as much of a terrible-shit-magnet as always.) And while's he's still fairly personable, it's different from Booster's friendly, casual personableness: while Booster will give you a nickname within two sentences of your first conversation with him, Supernova will be calling you by your last name even months later.

Sample Entry: A testrun post!

I felt like putting this in gold, but eh, too much effort.

Fuck you, no I didn't.

Application Post

BOOSTER GOLD is not the character I reserved, whoops! [1/2]

[2/2]

ACCEPTED