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the_measurers) wrote2010-04-14 10:55 pm
the_measurers) wrote2010-04-14 10:55 pm
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Application
Entanglement has switched over to a dressing room format for now, so applications aren't needed for the time being.
FANDOM CHARACTER APPLICATION:
ORIGINAL CHARACTER APPLICATION:
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.
Note again that you are allowed to use musebox posts and posts on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
testrun_box for your sample. In that case, your total amount of tags written will be added up, so the initial post can be shorter than normal for a sample. You're still required to use a prose format and set the sample in the game universe though.
ORIGINAL CHARACTER APPLICATION:
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.
Note again that you are allowed to use musebox posts and posts on
testrun_box for your sample. In that case, your total amount of tags written will be added up, so the initial post can be shorter than normal for a sample. You're still required to use a prose format and set the sample in the game universe though.
音(Sound) || OC
Your Name: Ritsu
Your Journal:
Your Email: yokoist@hotmail.com
Your AIM: yokoist
音(Sound) || OC 2/4
Character's Name: 音; Yin (Sound)
Character's Fandom: OC
Character's Home Universe:
Sound came from central China, from a relatively new era—her world is filled with gore, savages and many unexplained deaths. From a outsider's point of view, her world seems like the most ideal world to live in, yet it is heavily guarded with security everywhere. Her world is highly advanced in the technological side, and lacking in the social side. Computers and data chips have already taken over most of the schooling system, yet the traditional ways have not lost themselves. Most children born in her world are highly advanced in knowledge, as they are educated from a young age. However, the militarism and the socialism ideal are still in tact, never-changing. China is one of the most populated countries in the world, and the drawbacks from being one of the densely populated countries, the country itself is booming with people. The one-child policy is in tact, and parents are not allowed to have a second child unless they have enough money to back it up.
In the traditional culture, people still bow down to buddhism, as it is seen as one of the highly respected religions of China, on the most part. Some children, who cannot afford to go to school are usually situated at a temple, learning buddhism—as they will gain enough talent to be useful in the world as a part of society. However, children could choose to earn money in their own way to afford education, however, they are not without their parents' help.
However, to a new aspect of buddhism, there came a new strategy for expelling bad spirits, and that is the use of what's called Ling, which is most recognized as the spirit that resides in a person. Once a person is trained specifically for this purpose, then they are able to step up to the next level—which is to control their Ling, and merging Ling with elements or celestial power. For the people who are heavily trained in the subject area, they call themselves monks. They start off on the title of apprentice, and move upwards on the level of skill.
The basic level is the apprentice; one who is only starting on recognizing his or her Ling, and then after that, the second level would be the master apprentice—one who is a leader to the apprentice. At master apprentice, he or she is already able to control their Ling. After Ling, is Yin, one who controls their own Ling, and insert it into an inanimate object, controlling an inanimate object. After Yin, is Yang, which is the skill of inserting one's Ling into an animate object, such as animals or humans. Then, the path divides up into many different elemental branches. Feng风 (wind/air), Shui水 (water), Huo火 (fire), Tu土 (earth), and tie铁 (metal), as well as celestial paths, which one cannot take until they have mastered all five elements, An暗 (dark) and Guang光 (light). Each has their own specific paths, as well as specific ways to dealing with different elements, and therefore, most trainees only specify in one or two of the elemental branches, becoming masters in both, or one, in other cases. They all deal with inserting Ling into the different elements, controlling them and having the pure elements do their bidding.
As a part of training, apprentices are all well-trained in hand-to-hand combat as a basic necessity, as well as battle preparations for the first two years of training. It is mandatory, and one's mana and stamina needs to be in high standards in order for the Ling to function properly.
One who has mastered at least one of the elemental branches will go on to becoming a mage, a master of one element. So, there were a lot of mages around, and in theory, it takes around seven years to complete the title of a mage in two elements. If one learns simultaneously, then that will be possible. They are also called elementalist.
Those who completes all five elements are given the title of monk, and those who master the celestials are called celestial monk. There is one extra level at the top, and that's the master-monk. There can only be one master-monk in one village, as they are most powerful monk over all the other monks.
音(Sound) || OC 3/4
Physical Appearance:
Sound sketch (“http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/307/5/3/sound___one___frontal_sketch_by_yokoist-d4ez7nz.png”)
She has green hair and red eyes, and her clothes hold a light blue colour on the outside, and the clothes on the inside is red. It's takes up a rather traditional Chinese look. (I hope that's good enough).
Character History:
Born from a family of structure-loving parents, Sound was the younger twin given birth to. Sound was actually nameless from the beginning, because in China, the one-child policy overrules all of the other policies in the country, and since her parents were not rich enough to support the both of them, or pay heeds to the government in order to keep Sound, they left her, where he was tossed (her mother was actually very keen on keeping her brother, though). Because she was a girl and the other child was a boy, her parents favoured the boy because of the structural view that her parents had taken up—boys are far more hard-working, in their view, and much more capable, as well as able to take up the family. Women were viewed as less important, and almost as objects, even though the law of owning women were liberated and primarily taken out of society (but in truth, everyone else was still as sexist as they were when the policy were in tact).
She had been left out, free to anyone who was willing to take her up—and in her case, children who were not wanted were primarily left to temples, where monks and temple leaders took them in. The master-monk at the time had been out on a field study, spotted her, and ultimately picked her up. At the age of 1 (from birth to age of one, Sound's background had not been recorded, so it was unknown, many state that she had been picked up by another family, and tossed one year later because of issues of the unknown), she had been living with the master-monk, who treated her like his own daughter (although the master-monk is aging quite a bit). At the time, twins and unwanted children were rare, because there would be families, who were without children, would adopt children because of their problem in fertility.
She had grown up to age four when she had witnessed a banishing ceremony, and immediately ran away from the temple, then three days later, sighted by one of the monks and brought back to the temple, where she had received punishment for running away—at the time, she had been scared to see all the gore in the temple (it's ironic considering that the temple was a sacred place, as well). The master-monk, who had deep thoughts about this, decided to teach her, when she gets a little older, the ways of a buddhist. She had been named by the master-monk at the age of two, Yin, or Sound because of her affinity with sound. It was also because the master-monk's dead daughter was named Yin, as well.
By the age of seven, she had become this crazy curiosity monster who would not leave the master-monk alone, and so, the master-monk decided to start early, since he knew that she wasn't able to go to school. She had been taught reading and writing in the temple with all the other kinds who were schooled there, and did fairly well for her age, and then, at the age of eight, started her training as an apprentice, learning under the master apprentice of the temple, who had been only 4 years her senior. She had shown improvement fairly quickly, faster than most other kids. That's when the master-monk knew that she would be the one to inherit his temple when he passed on. But he didn't say anything to her, apparently.
By the age of 17, she had already mastered the element of fire, water and earth, which were fairly easy to manoeuvre in most cases, and ultimately studied under the same person she had when she was an apprentice, to which Sen was his name. He had all five elements mastered (although he hadn't received the title of the monk, yet, and the two had bonded relatively well. The two had shortly began a close relationship, since she was soon becoming of age, as well. When she was on her way to master her fourth element, the two celebrated, and soon entered a romantic relationship when she turned 18.
音(Sound) || OC 4/5
After mastering the last element, she moved on to learning the celestial level, which at that point, she had left Sen behind, as Sen stayed a monk, whereas she went on learning—choosing to learn An (dark), first. That had caused a major backfire when she 'killed' Sen on their last field trip together (his last field study), because of a mishap and miscalculation the both of them overlooked. She still blames herself to this day.
On her twenty-second birthday, she had finally gotten An under her wing and was ready to move on to the last celestial element, Ling-Ling, her friend of ten years, decided to study abroad in America to be doctor. Sound had been somewhat against the idea of her friend stepping into the new soil of somewhere all the way across the world, but had been won over by her friend's reason. The friends separated, and Sound continued to study, and Ling-Ling travelled over to the other side of the world in America.
Personality:
A rather humourous person, she has a slight sense of humour. Only slight. She has been abandoned by her parents due to the one-child policy in China, and therefore, never really knew her parents. She 'was' a very warm and bubbly child when she was younger, but as she got exposed to more, that outgoingness and extrovertedness slowly gone away, little by little. Despite all the things that happened in her life, she maintains a proper mental stability, and manages a smile on her face, presenting herself as a friendly person. She's worrisome, and cares a whole bunch about the people she loves. She very doting at times, and taking after her foster father (the master-monk), she resumes a very motherly figure for most people, and won't think twice to put other people before herself.
With that said, she can also be quite selfish sometimes, and at critical times, she can be quite manipulative (a trait she has inherited after learning the dark element of the celestial elements, at her later years), and sometimes, bossy. Because her survival mode as kicked in, she isn't able to figure out nice from mean, and therefore, she treats everyone the same way, and that could often come off as a cold demeanour, even though she doesn't mean it that way.
She can also be a klutz, and often time than not, she can manage to trip over her own feet, and therefore, gaining her the title of the klutz genius. She learns very fast, and adapts to new environments fairly quickly—albeit too quickly, as she would have liked. However, when Sen had passed on (due to a mistake on her part, as she views), she wasn't able to move on for a rather long time. She had been down in the dumps for the whole year and a half before she stepped up (after long lecturing and nagging from the master-monk), and moved on.
She hates to harm the people she cares about, and would do about anything to keep them from danger. However, she understands that she, too, is a person with numerous limits, she learned to accept her limits, and act to the best of her abilities.
She hates bitter foods, and is known to have a sweet tooth. She is a disaster in the kitchen. Period.
音(Sound) || OC 5/5
Sound is able to manipulate her Ling into people and inanimate objects, and manipulate the five basic elements along with the celestial element, dark. The five basic elements are described above, but to summarize, they are fire, water, air/wind, earth and metal. She is capable of inserting her Ling into these five different elements and command them at will, to protect herself. She was actually commanded to not use the celestial element, dark, because it has an immense destructive power, and therefore, she is mostly forbid to use it—all others, she is able to wield to her will.
She is trained in the most basic form of hand-to-hand combat, as well as a relatively large stamina level.
She has a Buddhist staff, although it's a little different. The thin pole is attached to a Yin-Yang symbol, with rings hanging from the thin bands at the bottom of the yin-yang symbol, and to top with Buddhist beads wrapped around at the top of the staff.
Sample:
It really didn't help that she didn't want to help in the rebellion at all—heck, she didn't even want to take part in it. Had she not just randomly appear in this space, she would have been happily sitting at home, waiting for Ling-Ling to come home and having her friend bake a cake for her—or something. The last time she tried to cook something, they had to remodel the kitchen three times—three times. What ever she touched, it appears to catch on fire—or better yet, burnt to crips. No, she wasn't using her fire element at all, but seriously, who sets a whole kitchen on fire because they like it?
And considering that she had a major sweet tooth, too. What good is there to set something worth cooking on fire—then whining about the fact that she had no good to eat? The master-monk would usually give her vegetables—and true to his words, he did give her food to eat, although he had to say, Ling-Ling was a much better cook than he was. Not that she was going to voice that out, of course. Or else, the master-monk would berate her. For sure. She sighed. Why was she reminiscing on what could be?
She was stuck here no matter how much she didn't want to, and to be frank, she wished she wasn't here. And better yet, she had wished that she was elsewhere. Looking around—she couldn't spot a single thing that was familiar to her, and she had already been here for a month. She had long adapted to this place, but it was just very nerve-wrecking. She had gotten used to it, for sure, but to be without her friends was just discomforting. Really.
But she won't complain—she just won't. Not with this, anyway. And to her words, she had never complained once, although on the inside, she might have done so a few times. A sigh escaped past her lips as she leaned against a pole—where had the pole come from? It wasn't there when she saw it first, jeez—and watched the clouds pass by.
Ah, mind-blowing, really. She had nothing to say to that, and to that, she lifted herself off of the pole and walked away, the moment still lingering within her—time to do something, and keep herself busy.
Or something along those lines, anyway. A smile broke out on her face. I wonder what's in store for me today.
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