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Entanglement has switched over to a dressing room format for now, so applications aren't needed for the time being.

FANDOM CHARACTER APPLICATION:

Mun: Your Name: Your Journal: (optional) Your Email: Your AIM: (optional) Character: Character's Name: Character's Fandom: Character's Home Universe:(Please either describe a bit of your character's universe or link to a wiki that does so) Canon Point you're taking him/her/it from: (If your character's spent a signifigant amount of time in the game universe, please include it here, including whether they've been on Senburu-Trati'salan a while) Method of Arrival on Station: (see the FAQ for a list of options) Physical Appearance: (You may link to a picture if you like. If they'll be gaining new clothes upon arrival, describe them here) Personality: (at least two paragraphs) Abilities and Skills: (Both human and superhuman. Optional section.) Sample: (At least three good sized paragraphs. Please set this within the game's multiverse. You may use NPCs or characters already in the game as foils for your character in this sample if you wish. Format is prose, either third or first person. You may also use a musebox post or one in <lj site="livejournal.com" user="testrunbox"> as your sample. This post may be slightly shorter than a sample written here, as long as your total length of writing (initial post+your tags) fits the length guidelines.)

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Mun: Your Name: Your Journal: (optional) Your Email: Your AIM: (optional) Character: Character's Name: Character's Fandom: (if an original universe based OC, put 'OC' here) Character's Home Universe:(Please describe it. What's it like? Magic? Technology? What is their home culture like?) Method of Arrival on Station: (see the FAQ for a list of options) Physical Appearance: (You may link to a picture if you like. If they'll be gaining new clothes upon arrival, describe them here) Character History: (Their life up to arrival on Senburu-Trati'salan. You don't need to tell us every detail but enough that we get an idea of what shaped them into who they are today.) Personality: (at least two paragraphs) Abilities and Skills: (Both human and superhuman. Optional section.) Sample: (At least three good sized paragraphs. Please set this within the game's multiverse. You may use NPCs or characters already in the game as foils for your character in this sample if you wish. Format is prose, either third or first person. You may also use a musebox post or one in <lj site="livejournal.com" user="testrunbox"> as your sample. This post may be slightly shorter than a sample written here, as long as your total length of writing (initial post+your tags) fits the length guidelines.)

Whichever application you're posting, please put the character's name, if they're an OC, and their fandom (if any) in the subject line.

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After great meditation...

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Because there's no such thing as too many loose-laced, sharp-tongued rogues out of Thedas, am I right?

For brevity's sake, I have the application here: http://easternseaqueen.dreamwidth.org/289.html

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Mun:
Your Name: Sitouh
Your Email: sitouh@gmail.com
Your AIM: SitouhSinsaang

Character:
Character's Name: Lai Siu Lung
Character's Fandom: Eclipse Phase (RPG)
Character's Home Universe: The world of Eclipse Phase is a dangerous place - transhumanity has lost Earth to the ravages of the TITANs, but fortunately we'd spread through the solar system before that happened. Luna, Mars, venus and Jupiter's moons all hold growing colonies, and smaller habitats fill the rest of the system.

The history of the world A-lung comes from can be best looked at in three parts: before the Fall, the Fall itself, and things since the Fall. Prior to the Fall, humanity was continuing in its best tradition of conflict, with technological progress adding to the mix, solving some problems, making others worse, and adding whole new ones to the mix. Humanity spread itself across the solar system, even while continuing to squabble endlessly over Earth, made steps towards learning the secrets of the human mind, at least enough to allow for it to be saved, transferred, and copied, and succeeded in creating true artificial intelligence.

In retrospect, attempting to weaponize seed AIs (artificial intelligences capable of recursive self-improvement) was one of those really bad ideas, but by the time humanity realized just how big a mistake it had made, it was almost too late - the TITANs, who had already infiltrated essentially the entirety of humanity's digital networks in the days since their creation, managed to kick the simmering tension between Earth's myriad factions into full-on conflict. Atrocities were committed on all sides - nuclear, chemical, biological, digital, nanotech, every weapon mankind had developed was brought to bear. And then the TITANs launched their own attacks, capturing every human they could get their claws on and forcibly downloading their minds. Nothing humanity had could stop the TITANs - the best that could be done was to try and hold them back long enough to run.

Then, suddenly and without warning, the TITANs left. They exited the solar system, through the wormholes they left on the moons of Saturn and Mars, and perhaps by other means, incomprehensible to humanity's understanding. Earth was left a wasteland, a patchwork of radiation hotspots, sterile ground, nanotech clouds, autonomous war machines, and who knows what else. Humanity survives, on the Moon, Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and countless habitats scattered through space, turning its attention back to fighting with itself as it ever does.

This is the world A-lung comes from.

Method of Arrival on Station: A Firewall operation brought A-lung into contact with a Station recruiter, and the Little Dragon agreed to join the movement (with the promise that the version of him restored from backup would be paid handsomely for the trouble in exchange for continuing to work towards Firewall's goals once there).

Physical Appearance: A-lung stands about 160 cm high (5'2" for you imperial measurement folk) and masses about 45 kilograms (just under 100 pounds). When he's wearing his own face (see below in Abilities and Skills) he looks to be of Chinese ancestry, with short, rather messy black hair and dark brown eyes. He generally keeps his clothes configured as a t-shirt, baggy hooded jacket and baggy slacks, with light running shoes completing the ensemble. He has nanotats, generally configured to be a Chinese dragon dancing around his torso and arms, occasionally peeking out past his collar or sleeves, but which can be adjusted to other uses.

Character History: A-Lung is one of the Lost generation - an attempt to quickly raise a new generation quickly through use of accelerated-time simulation space and AI supervision that produced thousands of hypercognitive/psychic socio- and psychopaths. In the chaos that ensued when they tried to shut down and cover up the project, A-lung slipped through the cracks, made it to Mars, and established himself in the criminal underground there, parlaying his talents and skills into success as a freelance conman and organizer/mastermind for larger criminal endeavors.

His success there led to him being contacted and recruited into Firewall, a paramilitary social network dedicated to protecting humanity against existential threats, which led to A-lung's coming into contact with the Station's recruiters and eventually making his way here.

Personality: If you had to pick one word to describe A-lung, the most obvious choice would be 'hyper'. About 90% of the time, the self-styled 'Little Dragon of Qianjiao' radiates an enthusiasm for life that borders on and occasionally crosses over into the manic, ranging from a voracious curiosity about practically everything to . That energy is at the heart of how he approaches (attacks may be a better word) the world - he soaks up all the information he can get his hands on until he sees an exploitable opening, then slams a gig through that hole, banking on surprise, forward momentum, audacity, and sheer will to carry him through the inevitable complications.

The sorts of high A-lung tries to live at can't be sustained indefinitely, however, and his crashes can be as hard as his highs. About the only reason he hasn't committed suicide is because he's granted Monkey lockout authorization on his pistol, and generally he can't be bothered to get up the effort for anything more involved.

Morally, A-lung tries to come across as an amoral pragmatist motivated only by curiosity, profit, and self-preservation, and comes across as such well enough to convince most people (including himself in his depressive crashes) that he's a weasel who'd sell out his best friend for the right paycheck, he does have something of a personal moral compass, stunted though it may be.

Basically, his approach towards people breaks down into a few general categories:

Small Fry - people on the bottom rungs of whatever totem pole. A-Lung tries to minimize the impact his jobs have on these people when he's pulling a job, and generally not be a dick the rest of the time, unless they're in his way.
Schmucks - people who've mildly pissed him off, or who are associated with causes he dislikes on a low-to-mid-management level. Fair game for a passing prank and splash damage from a job.
Marks - people who've gone out of their way to piss A-lung off, or who are closely associated with A-lung's hotbutton causes. These are the ones A-lung hunts, waiting for the slipups that let him spit in their eye and make off with what they hold dear for fun and profit.
Menaces - People who have actively threatened A-lung or his friends. All bets are off - to borrow the line from Gabe of Penny Arcade, he will burn his house to the ground around him if he thinks he'll catch you inside as well.
Professionals - Others in the communities A-lung chooses to associate himself with (autonomists, anarchists, and criminals back on Mars, the denizens of the Station here). If you know A-lung by his real name, you're probably in this category. He's generally straight-up with these; pissing off the people you might have at your back at some point is a good way to end up dead.
Friends - No man is an island, and even a weasel like A-lung will open himself up to a person or two. A-lung generally won't admit it, but he'll move heaven and earth for these people.

The things that get A-lung's goat generally fall into a few basic categories: institutional greed, institutional discrimination, excessive governmental reach and annoying/intrusive advertising are the most constant, while others come and go.

Abilities and Skills: A-lung is something of a renaissance man of criminal endeavor. He's competent at the more physical side of things - pickpocketing, infiltration, surveillance and counter-surveillance, etc. - but where he really shines is in the mental side of things. He's a consummate liar, a silver-tongued salesman, capable of projecting far more menace than you'd think you could squeeze out of someone his size, and a master of disguise and impersonation.

In addition, he's a competent if not stellar programmer and IT technician (although his skills are rather biased towards the polymorphic adaptive protocols standard where he comes from, rather than the nightmare that is the Station's network configuration, but it's somewhere to start), a decent marksman, and a passable freerunner/traceur.

On top of all this, there are the 'gifts' gained as a result of exposure to the Watts-McLeod variant of the Excrucian virus. While most strains turned people into ravening monsters of one sort or another, Watts-McLeod instead granted superhuman mental abilities. A-lung's case was mild - he manifested none of the active psychic abilities some did - but the hypercognitive abilities it did grant are not to be sneezed at. His brain's subconscious analytic and predictive capabilities have been massively ramped up, along with the conscious mind's ability to process this onslaught of information. The most obvious manifestations of the changes are seen in A-lung's mental multitasking ability (he can literally think about two different things at once) and in the uncanny accuracy of his gut instinct - A-lung's snap judgments are generally as good or better than any more thought-out analysis or plan he can come up with.

All this will come along with A-lung if he ends up getting transferred to another body (something made possible by cortical stack technology - see below). His body grants a variety of advantages as well:

Basic Biomods: A-lung naturally heals twice as fast as a standard human, will regrow lost body parts over enough time, is immune to most normal diseases, the ill effects of extended exposure to low gravity, and only requires four hours of sleep a night.
Mesh Inserts: A-lung has a computer embedded in his head that serves the role filled by most modern personal electronic gadgetry - smartphone, PC, PDA, media player, etc. It also houses Monkey, his muse, an AI who serves as personal assistant/personal accountant/psychotherapist for when A-lung's bipolar disorder gets especially bad. The system has a radio range of 20 km in open space, or 1 km or so in areas with more radio interference.
Cortical Stack: A tiny data storage device at the base of the skull, embedded in a synthetic diamond case about the size of a grape. The cortical stack uses a network of nanobots to monitor and record synaptic connections and brain architecture, maintaining a backup of A-lung's ego. If A-lung were to be killed, the stack could be recovered and he could be restored from the backup contained therein.
Medical Sensors: An array of implanted sensors let A-lung monitor heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, temperature, neural activity, and more.
Eidetic Memory: A-lung can remember and recall anything he's paid attention to, with no long-term memory loss.
Medichines: On top of the already impressive healing from the sleeve, nanobots in A-lung's bloodstream allow him to heal in hours what would take a non-augmented human days or weeks. They also protect him from most drugs (unless he chooses to allow the drug to take effect), and drop him into a medical stasis and call for help via his mesh inserts if he is injured too severely.
Skinflex: A-lung can reconfigure his facial features, skin tone and hair, augmenting his already impressive disguise and impersonation skills.

Sample: See http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/7858.html for writing sample

We overall like the app, but we'd like to get more of an idea of his history. We don't need a huge amount of detail, but we'd like to get a better overall picture of how events during his time spent in the Lost project connect to both his underworld dealings after that and to his current personality.

Updated with expanded history: http://little-lost-dragon.dreamwidth.org/262.html

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Mun:

Your Name: Josie
Your Journal: N/A
Your Email: killer dot slot dot machine at gmail dot com
Your AIM: Josie Mostly

Character:

Character's Name: Bethany Hake
Character's Fandom: Dragon Age II
Character's Home Universe:

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki

The Dragon Age wiki explains things far more thoroughly than I could manage.

Canon Point you're taking her from: The version of Bethany I am bringing in matches the current Hawke in game; Bethany is a Grey Warden who recently helped her sister fight Orsino and Meredith in Kirkwall. She specifically is taken from six or so months after Anders's attack on the Chantry.

Method of Arrival on Station: Bethany discovered one of the portals and followed it on impulse, hoping to find her sister who she had been searching for in Thedas.

Physical Appearance: She will arrive in her Warden Armor, and is the default Bethany appearance, see picture.

Personality: Bethany has changed a great deal as a Warden. While she used to be rather biddable and terrified of discovery by the Templars, her time with the Wardens has brought not only independence but also a quiet leadership which she previously had not discovered. She still is compassionate to a fault, but focuses now on ending whatever conflict is present rather than escaping it. For personal canon, she specifically spent a great deal of time at Vigil's Keep before returning to Kirkwall a second time. This helped her not only forgive her sister, but also to understand what being a Warden meant. She now sees it as a source of pride rather than a banishment.

Abilities and Skills: Bethany is an Elemental/Force mage with minimal healing powers. Her strengths are very much in offensive magic rather than either controlling, entropic or healing types, although she is capable of patching up a wound or two.

Sample:

http://faemused.dreamwidth.org/680.html

This is an RP that Hawkemun and I did to sort out Bethany's backstory with Hawke. I've also spoken with Andersmun and hope to chat a bit with Nathanialmun before bringing her in. :)

After reviewing your application we'd like to ask for some revisions.

1: The personality section is too short. Please add at least six lines of personality.

2: Please elaborate on her magedom: how does it work, what fuels it, what spells does she know, for instance.

3: Samples need to be set in the game universe. Please have a sample set somewhere within the game's universe.

4: Upon consulting with the other mods, we've decided that the gates are not generally found on a planet's surface. Please choose an alternate method of arrival for her. Sorry if there was confusion!

There's no need to alter any part of the application besides those. Thank you and we hope to see a revised application from you soon.

1. Bethany's view on her family is based less on her rose colored glasses version of them from memory but understanding now as an adult how much was sacrificed in keeping her safe as a child from the reach of the Templars. She is thankful not only for the difficulties that they endured, but also the fact that they never once showed regret in doing it. Granted, her father was apostate as well, but her memories of childhood are quite happy and she realizes the depth of their affection to make that happen. It's kept her the kind, warm-hearted person she was before her Joining rather than allowing her to become embittered like some of the other Wardens.

Her relationship with her sister often was a mixture of hero-worship and tag-along, which is common for a younger sister to follow. As she grew up, and become more powerful as a mage, she started to try to find her own path to becoming herself, even before the Joining. At first she was prone to 'people pleasing' at all costs, but now she tries to help people by doing what is needed for the common good rather than what they demand or think they need.

To an extent, she is being groomed for command by the Wardens, as the mages that join don't always show promise for tactics. This leads her to often attempt to come up with a strategy to deal with the situation, but not to immediately try to wrest control of it. She does not believe that leadership means bossing people around, but instead trying to find a solution to the problem.

2. Mage powers in this universe are strictly defined into five schools; Creation, Primal, Spirit, Entropy and Blood.

Creation applies primarily to healing and support magic, and of this Bethany can only cast a basic, non-enhanced heal which can stabilize a wound but not heal it fully.

Primal is her main specialization, which is fire and ice magic used for damage and control, with the additional Force magic which acts as a sort of telekinesis, allowing her to throw an opponent to the ground and mess with their personal gravity and physical movement. Please note that due to in game weirdness, they split Primal and Elemental in Dragon Age into two different skill trees, so when I speak of Primal Magic I mean it here as the overall school (as the in game lore states) rather than the tree in Dragon Age 2. For whatever reason they called Fire/Ice magic 'elemental' which doesn't exist as a school, and 'primal' refers to earth/lightening magic. Bethany does not have access to the 'primal' tree, but the magic she casts as 'elemental' is part of the Primal school.

Oh, Bioware.

Spirit and Entropy are also damage schools which she does not have anything but basic knowledge of, and only the Spirit Bolt (which is a basic spell) out of these schools.

Blood Magic is a forbidden school due to the nature of the spells cast. The power source is the mage's own lifeforce and blood, and requires a pact with a demon. Bethany not only is not tempted down the road of blood magic in the slightest, but views it as outright evil and reacts very strongly towards anyone stupid enough to tract with demons.

3. Bethany will arrive via a sleep pod.

4. Her first conscious thought was that of incredible thirst.

Bethany barely had cracked her eyes before the need to drink, to do something to make the fierce thirst abate had her scrambling for her water skin. Slung along her hip, she managed to gulp down a few mouthfuls before fully realizing just how very wrong the world around her was.

Surrounded by a strange metal carapace, Bethany stood up out of the shell and immediately tried to take in her surroundings. It wasn't the Fade, and for that she sent a silent prayer to the Maker. But whatever it was Bethany couldn't identify past the abundance of metal. She liked to humor herself by saying she was better traveled than most, but this wasn't anywhere she had ever heard of, much less seen with her own eyes. There were lights without candles, blinking of their own accord with an intensity she couldn't explain, and strange, advanced machinery that defied description.

Frankly, she was using the word 'strange' in her own mind far too much for comfort. Wherever this was, it was very clear she was not in Thedas any longer. Only one thought burned through her mind as she started down the hallway.

"I will get back. I have to find Marian."

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♪ Yet an orphan's a sad sight and so when I munch ♪
♪ I'm careful to take out a virgin for lunch ♪

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