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

Personality:

The most obvious thing about this guy is that he's a huge ham (apparently a natural trait although the superhero wrestler training made it even worse). And also a huge weirdo, like pretty much everyone else in the series. A great deal of his plain ordinary conversational lines are hugely overacted and laced with expansive arm gestures. He gives incredibly out of place manly speeches to inanimate objects at the drop of the hat, at one point working himself into a spate of manly tears over a broken house pillar. He then picked up the pillar and walked away with it, as they had bonded. He's also done this with everything from someone's mailbox to a fully manned miniature submarine to a frozen tuna. He's semi genre-savvy, defending his impractical transformation mechanics to Yuri with the logic that nobody likes superheroes without any weak points.

Despite the vampire thing and the sexed-up spiky outfit, he's pretty much solidly a good guy. He's very into justice and loyalty, shown by his defense of the Lot family and the fact that he's willingly gone into some fairly grim situations with the rest of the part despite the fact that he's one of the few without having anything personal at stake. He also loves kids and is an absolute sucker when they're involved. He pretty much adopts Yuma and John as surrogate siblings and lets the latter use his snazzy butterfly mask as a hairclip, which ends up temporarily screwing him over when she gets kidnapped. He also lets the little girl who joins the main party walk all over him. He's generally pretty good-natured and is fairly playful in battles that aren't super serious business. The only trivial situation in which he's gotten ticked off is when the main character laughed at the whole sparkly vampire thing, and even then he just got a bit snappish.

He's reckless and isn't much for thinking ahead (Keith's broken sword, the fact that he didn't consider shooing off the little girl - a camera-happy little girl at that - before the rather… explicit end to the Man Festival, his issues with debt in later games, that horribly managed sushi battle restaurant - regular sushi is boring so lets have the customers fight men in sushi costumes before eating also they don't have to pay). He's fairly bright in some areas, though - he's smart enough to figure out how crests work, he's pretty quick about picking up new techniques, and he knows a hell of a lot of languages considering his reputation as a huge meathead. Then again, he's like over four hundred years old so he's had a lot of time to study said languages, but it says a lot about him that he spent said time studying linguistics instead of just lying around snoozing all day. Admittedly, he does do a lot of that which seems to come with the vampire territory. They sleep when bored which is fairly often and they can keep it up for decades, and Joachim's usually one of the first party members to turn in for the night.

He also seems to have a slightly different personality in bat form, like the rest of his family to varying degrees. It's not all that extreme in his case, he's just a bit more abrasive. Then again, his form changes are essentially triggered by hormone levels, so batform seems to be more of an effect of the mood than a cause. On the third hand, his changes also rely on cutscene power so I'm going to handwave them as being somewhat controllable and somewhat not depending on narrative convenience which is pretty much what canon does anyway. Regardless, Gold Bat form is more aggressive, Invisible form is more playful, and Grand Papillon form is both. It's a way less extreme personality change than, say, his sister has. It's probably due to the same phenomenon that causes folks to act extra goofy when in cosplay.

Sample Entry: Testrun! (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/271116.html)

I just want you to know that I strongly considered writing a manly speech about apps before realizing I'm lazy. Follow the directions here!

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2/2 what am I doing

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