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APPLICATIONS [REVISED 07/16/13]
APPS WILL BE PROCESSED EACH WEEKEND.
Please feel free to make a RESERVE.
CHARACTER COUNT IS AT: 6/125
Basic Application Rules and Reminders:
- This is a panfandom game. That means that any character from an anime, manga, comic, live action movie, television series, book, etc., is allowed. Characters from official Canon AUs (meaning playing from an official alternate universe of a canon, like one of the many done by DC Comics) and Original Characters may also be apped, but no Canon OCs (meaning you cannot app an OC from the Naruto canon. If you would like to play a character from this series, please select one that already exists). The exception is if you are apping from an RPG-style game canon, such as World of Warcraft or Runescape.
- No game or canon may be apped from without an easily accessible English translation/wiki. For video games, the official English version must already have been released for at least one month. The one month apping delay also goes any brand new series or canon.
- Transplant/Game CRAU Characters with memories from other games are allowed, but if the character has been in multiple games only ONE game's memories can be used. Fandom AUs are not allowed at this time (but might be in the future). The only other AUs that are NOT Canon that are permitted are Daedalus Setting Game AUs (playing an AU version of a character as if they have always lived in the Daedalus Universe). These are special permission apps and cannot be done unless you are already playing a character in the game.
- Only 2 Versions of any character are allowed in the game at this time. Meaning you can have a Dick Grayson from the DC Comics New 52 (DCnU), and a Dick Grayson from Young Justice (YJ/Earth-16), but not also a Dick Grayson from Batman the Brave and the Bold (BatB). Game CRAUs are considered a separate version of the character than the standard Original Universe that would be apped directly from the canon itself. Your app should be labeled based on which universe your character is from. All Official Canon AUs are considered their own separate official universes and should be labeled as such. The "AU" designation is for Fandom AUs or canons with two distinct universes, one that is the Primary Universe and one that is the Alternate Universe. Game CRAUs are always labeled “CRAUs.”
- No Fandom AU is allowed that is merely transplanting a character into the setting of another canon. Using a similar setting is allowed, but it cannot be a direct copy of any other canon. That is to say, you can make your character a modern day mutant, but you can't put them into a Marvel Comics/X-men universe. Which of course, means no randomly having your character know characters from other universes (unless other players are apping those characters from joint Original Fandom AU where they all know each other).
- These is currently no character cap for any fandom, but if it does seem like there is an excessive amount of one fandom over all of the others (such as 20 characters from one canon), this may have to be reevaluated.
- A player can have 2 characters from the same canon, but they cannot be close enough in relation to each other that deep, close CR would be expected. You must be able to justify why these characters would not interact with each other except in maybe seeing each other in passing or being in the same room at the same time.
- Each player can only apply for 1 character at a time. You can only play 3 characters at any given time without special permission.
- This is not a “communicator-accessible” roleplay game, meaning all interaction between characters will occur without the aid of communicators/phones/computer networks/etc. Please remember this when making your samples.
- Characters can be apped without being reserved, but if there is a reserve for that character by another player, your app will not be reviewed until their app has been submitted or the reserve has expired.
- Apps must be SUBMITTED TO THIS POST, not just linked to on your character's journal. This rule may change in the future, but it stands for now.
- Before submitting an application please make sure you have read over all of the game information as linked on the navigation page.
- All apps should be processed within 48 hours after apps close (no more than a week after the app has been posted if it is an extended app cycle). If you receive revision requests you have 72 hours to respond. Our decision will take no more than 48 hours after your response. Should anything occur to make any of these processes take longer than they usually should, you will be informed promptly.
Header Format (meaning the header of your first comment)
CHARACTER NAME (WESTERN STYLE) | FANDOM | OU/CRAU/AU/Universe Label | Reserved/Not Reserved
Player Information
Player Name:
Contact: Email, AIM, Plurk, Personal journal, etc
Other Characters In Game:
Character Information
Character Name: (Western Order)
Fandom/Canon/Setting: Please provide a link to the character's canon (aka, wiki or official pages with a large amount of information.) If you are apping an OC, a link to a journal page for the canon and setting is also allowed, or you can provide it here on the app itself. This description should include a detailed overview, all information directly important to the character you are apping and how they fit into the world. Any relevant information that could come in while your character is in play should be explained.
If you are apping a Fandom AU that is not set in the original canon setting, please provide both a link or write-up for the original canon and a write-up of the new setting that the AU is taking place in. For example, if you are apping Uchiha Sasuke from a space cowboy AU, then you need to provide a link or write up of the Naruto canon setting AND include a write-up of the AU world. The same requirements for an OC setting applies to Fandom AUs. This is NOT the character history section. This is entirely about discussing the setting in which your character’s canon is taking place.
Timeline: When in your character's canon are they being taken from? (Just a very brief summary is needed.) If you are apping a CRAU, when in their game’s canon are they being taken from?
Character History: If your character is a Canon/Fandom character (or from an official Canon AU), a link to a detailed history page/wiki is accepted. If you are applying an Original Character, please provide a detail explanation of your character’s history. 4-8 paragraphs would be preferred to give a strong idea of what your character's history is like, how they are connected to their world, and how both have influenced who your character has become. If you already have their canon history written out somewhere easily accessible, please provide a link to it, but be aware we will watch for any altering after apps have closed.
In the case of a Fandom AU, please provide a fully written out history section with all important details and events with all major changes from the original canon detailed and color-coded to signify what has been added or altered. If you are changing everything make sure to detail how. 4-8 paragraphs would be preferred to give a strong idea of what your character's history is like, how they are connected to their world, and how both have influenced who your character has become while also included any major changes that you have includ This part will be judged severely because making "slave AUs" and things like that just for the sake of heaping trauma on your character will not fly in this game. Players are expected to have thought all of this out and make a good case for it in the app itself.
Game Canon History: If you are applying a character that is being transferred with memories from another game, please explain which game you are transplanting from and the basis/premise of that game. Then in detail explain the history of your character in that game, important events that have influenced their development up to the exact point they are being taken from in that game’s canon history. If you are not apping a CRAU/Game Transplant, then this section can be deleted.
Personality: Please give a detailed description of your character's personality, behaviors, and motivations. We want to understand what your character is about and why they behave/think/feel the way they do. References to where in canon they have displayed the traits you explain here are very much preferred. If you are apping a Fandom AU the personality section must describe in detail the character's goals, motivations, behaviors, development and how their new background or changes in canon events have influenced/altered them in any way from their original canon personality/direction.
Please include one paragraph explaining how your character will deal with the emotional, psychological, and physical strains put on them from being in Daedalus Penitentiary where they might be faced with bullying, torture, experimentation, gang violence, isolation, extortion, coercion, and other negative situations.
If you are applying a Game Transplant please include an extensive explanation on how the events in the previous game have affected your character, physically, psychologically and emotionally. Fandom AUs and Game CRAUs will be judged with higher scrutiny as despite the events that have altered them from their original canon selves, they should still be the same character at their core. Apps that cannot show this will receive revision requests or be out right rejected.
Abilities: Please describe any and all special abilities, extra skills, knowledge your character has that might be of use to them in the prison. Special abilities should be explained in detail. If it is not in this app, it is not considered one of their abilities in game. Because all characters with special abilities are restricted to at most 50% of their power (and for particularly high-powered characters, probably less than that) please provide in your own words how you believe these restrictions would manifest for them.
Stock: Your character will find all non-lethal items/non-weapons that were on their person at their canon point has been left in a plastic tote on their bed, including clothing (no matter how bloody or damaged). Please detail here what would be.
Room: You can request which cell block you want your character to be placed in here. If numbers are too uneven we do reserve the right to select a different block. If you have a particular reason for wanting that cell-block, please say so here. Initial Roommates selections (if any) are up to us, but your character can move later on if they like. E-Block is not available for selection at this time.
First-Person Sample: Please provide a sample of your character speaking or thinking in first person. We want to get an idea that you understand your character’s "outer voice." This can be written in an "[action]" style, but should have at least five sentences of your character speaking to someone or thinking out loud in first person. You may also copy and paste a sample from another game, dressing room, Dear_Mun, etc, or provide a link to a roleplaying thread that has them speaking in at least three comments.
The samples cannot be “text”-based as this game does not have such a system and we are aware that how someone speaks out loud is not usually how they write or text. The only exception to this is if you character is mute and thus cannot speak verbally. A post or thread showing their body language or one including them speaking through text is allowed in this case.
Another route for this sample is to think of a situation in which your character might be interrogated by the Investigations Department and have them respond to questions in that format. You can choose a question of your own for them to answer, but here are some possibilities:
2. How do you think someone who has been convicted of a crime should serve out their sentence?
3. Do you believe criminals are born or made? Explain.
4. What do you believe is the most effective form of rehabilitation for a criminal?
5. You have been mentioned in an ongoing investigation involving the trafficking of prohibited contraband to different blocks of Sector 3 and evidence was found in your cell that supports this suspicion. Care to explain yourself, Inmate?
Third-Person Sample: Please provide a sample of your character's actions, behaviors, introspective thoughts, etc. This sample should also provide a detailed insight into your character’s thought process and their "inner voice." This should be written in a "prose" or "log" style of writing. You can choose to write a sample about them waking up in the Processing Block of District 6 and being transferred by guards to their cell, a sample set in their canon or previous game, a sample as if they have already settled into the prison, etc. You may also copy and paste a sample from another game, dressing room, etc, as long as it is set in your character’s canon.
We do not accept third-person samples that are not set in the game setting or your character’s canon setting. In the case of a Fandom AU the third person sample must be set in the AU setting/timeline you have created for your character.
Tag Label: What tag would you prefer to use for your character in this game. All tags should be set up as [canon] character name (ou/au/crau/universe label). Examples: a tag for Daniel Rand aka Iron Fist of Marvel Comics primary universe could be written as: “[marvel] danny rand (616),” where as a tag for Dean Winchester of Supernatural from the Five Years Later AU episode could be: “[supernatural] dean winchester (fyl).” Any character from a canon with only one universe should use "OU." If someone else has already apped a character from your character's universe into the game, then please use the label style they already have in place. This new ruling will go into effective immediately. If the tag you request is already taken, the mods will select one for you.
Mature Rating Awareness: This is an 18+ game and by submitting this app you are saying that you are indeed 18 years of age or older and that your character is at least 16 years of age physically and mentally. Now what are your thoughts on kumquats?
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Tom "Toro" Raymond | Marvel 616 | CRAU | Reserved 3/4
Bucky let it slip when they were home alone that he liked when they had sex and wanted to do it again, to which Toro eventually agreed because he felt Bucky needed the reassurance and they both needed a distraction. It turned into an affair that would last months. They kept it under wraps and never spoke about it out loud to anyone but themselves.
Most of those people would eventually recover (with Yukina being the one Tom had been particularly worried about himself) and then Timothy came back, which was a huge surprise for both of them. But the next big event was just around the corner when they were sent to another F3 that resembles several different locations all at once separated through various doors. Tom, Bucky, Eli and majority of the people from their world and similar ones chose to remain in an abandoned version of New York City. And then people started being attacked and dying but they couldn’t figure out who was causing it.
That same week they had to deal with another experiment where they fell head over heels for whoever they were in close contact with at the time. It was confusing and Bucky and Toro didn’t even really notice because they’re behavior towards each other had stayed the same, but Eli walked in on them practically cuddling on the couch and they used the strange love inducing event as an excuse for it. But the following week they were still in that F3 and Toro was cleaning when he found love letters sent to Bucky from someone else in his clothes. He didn’t know what to do about it so he decided to confront Bucky and ask him what they were.
Then Tom walked in on Eli after he had killed Bucky with a knife to the throat. Eli didn’t remember what had happened at first and Tom had to calm him down when the memories hit him. He took care of Eli and then called Carol to let her know what had happened and so someone could take Bucky’s body to the only useable hospital to be cared for somehow. He had to be the one to tell Eli’s teammates about what happened and that Eli was possibly the culprit for killing their other teammate Kate the previous week. It was a tumultuous time, made worse by the fact that gaping holes opened up and started to eat the very worlds they have been forced into.
They finally were let out of F3 and Bucky recovered but Tom had not forgotten about the love letters. He tried to talk to Bucky about it and it turned into a confusing, awkward and poorly worded accusation when it wasn’t intended to be and then he told Bucky they should break off their confusing affair. It upset them both and Tom wasn’t really sure how it ended like that, but he was too afraid to turn back. This time, instead of moving out and avoiding Bucky he strove to prove that he was still Bucky’s friend even if that aspect of their relationship was over. He refused to abandon him.
The next few experiments really test Tom’s endurance. They were forced into various traps and had to make decisions that usually led to injuring themselves or someone else in order to survive. Toro was tortured by a brainwashed Bucky, and then he was turned into a vampire and almost fed on a young girl that Bucky cared about, Chie. Eventually Bucky realized what was wrong with him and why he’d been avoiding people but it was Carol who took matters into her own hands and locked them both in an empty apartment until they talked out everything between them. It did work in fixing some of the issues, but Tom was still wary and insisting that he wasn’t holding back as much as he was. Tom was better at acting like things didn’t bother him when he was focused on something else so he became very set on the kids he and Bucky had taken to looking after and his relationships with them deepened. He even tried to make more friends among the other people on the station, meeting a lot of the younger guests like Hope and Sora. There were a whole lot of young people in this place and it surprised him at times just how many.
Then Yukina died. Neither Bucky or Toro took it well. In was barely weeks after her death that Val did another of her “wish” granting weeks, only Toro just wanted Yukina back, which she granted by giving him a toddler Yukina. A little child for him to take care of and look after while making him completely devoted to her at the same time. He saw her as his child. Then Red Val turned the wishes against everyone and toddler Yukina turned into a zombie that tried to rip Tom’s throat out with her teeth. And he was still devoted to her. Bucky locked them in their bedroom and the little monster destroyed their apartment, so they ended up spending the next few days after the experiment ended having to put it back together. They had to pick up the pieces and they did. They still had Timothy, Eli and Accelerator and Timothy had received severe brain damage in an experiment with stone angels that would take over people’s bodies. Things had finally taken a turning point because Tom and Bucky both realized that in the end, they cared about each other and what they had been building together. Tom didn’t want to give it up. So when Bucky finally told him he was serious and intended to keep it that way, Tom responded in kind.
And then they were forced into another F3 on a desolate planet that was sunlight for a whole week before turning to night. The problem was that with night came beasts out of the caves that were out to eat them. The only way to protect yourself was to hold onto a lantern with a designated partner so it would light up. This was very difficult and isolated some groups at time, but they tried to make it work. It was luck that anyone managed to survive to make it back to the station that time.
Personality:
At first look, Tom is generally what people would call a “good guy.” He’s normally polite, if a bit cocky, helpful, cares about people, knows right from wrong, and all that good stuff. He grew up with sickly parents who were both exposed to dangerous chemicals due to their work as scientists and researchers and he cared about them, greatly. Even though they weren’t the richest family, living off of a very modest income, he didn’t lack for all of the important things. Still, because of the hardships that his family went through financially and, especially, with his mother’s rapidly declining health, Toro came to understand early on that life isn’t always the kindest to good people, like his parents.
But even a good guy can have rough edges. Living through the train wreck that killed his parents left Toro with survivor’s guilt and believing that he was the cause of the crash. His parents and everyone else on the train were dead, but he wasn’t, so it had to be his fault and the fault of the powers he had that his parents were so afraid of, because those powers meant that he was a mutant. Even after meeting Jim Hammond and later on learning the truth about his parents’ deaths, Toro would never stop believing that who he is—what he is—cursed them somehow.
As he aged, Tom came into full control of his powers and it helped him to fear himself less. Instead, he focused on using his powers to help people, just as his mentor, Jim Hammond, did. His relationship with Jim was one of the strongest bonds he had after he had lost everything else and it shaped the way he looked at the world. Jim didn’t understand everything about human beings, because as an android he learned human emotions through observation and mimicry. Toro became one of the biggest models he followed because of their constant companionship, while in turn, Toro tried to be more understanding and open to the world because that was how Jim approached things. He wanted to make Jim proud of him, tried to live up to the legacy Jim had set before him even years after his death. It doesn’t always work, as Toro is more cynical and less optimistic than Jim, but he tries anyway.
Toro may not be the smartest guy around, but he is intuitive and learns on his feet. He doesn’t like to jump into situations without thinking things through or to go against orders—as a teenager, it was usually Bucky who did that and Toro who followed after him, arguing that they shouldn’t do it the entire time—but he does have a temper. It clouds his judgment if he lets it get the best of him, such as when he decides that the best way to regain control of his life after being brought back from the dead is to go after the man that had killed him, the Mad Thinker. Even when he was being warned against it by a friend, he went ahead with it because Toro was at the point that he needed something, anything to have a purpose in his life. For a second time he had lost everything and so he chose to avenge himself because he didn’t think he would be able to move on otherwise.
This negative side of him isn’t something he had only after being brought back. When finding out how he had died after being sent to the future, Toro became upset and bitter, believing that he had died alone and abandoned by his friends. It’s something that eats at him. Of course, his reaction is what pushes Bucky Barnes to wish for him to return to life in the future. It could be said that Tom is his own cause for being displaced in a world decades away from what he knows, a wife who is remarried and moved on, and a political climate that’s heavy on the anti-mutant and anti-superhuman sentiment. “Be careful what your best friend wishes for” could be his motto.
Toro is still, despite his at times cynical outlook, protective of humans in general (this does not include Nazis or supervillains). He was willing to give up his life to bring back a whole village of people that he had been forced to kill during the war because of the guilt he felt over it. But even though the world as a whole is his concern, his priority is usually those he considers his friends and loved ones, because Toro has already lost enough people that he cares about. He could argue with a friend more times than they get along, but Toro will still consider them important. When he and his friends in the Young Allies were making an appearance for a war bonds drive, the program director refused to remove a blown up cover of one of the propaganda comics that were being published about them—despite the fact it included a disparaging caricature of one of the members, Washington Jones. Toro’s solution? Burn the poster down. He doesn’t stand for discrimination or racism in general, but having it happen to one of his friends really gets to him. He knows the world isn’t a perfect place, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to just let it go and think he can’t make a difference. Making a difference is what being a superhero is about and even if he’s retired from being one, he hasn’t forgotten all the reasons he was one.
Being sent to Facility only concerned him when he first arrived because he was worried about Jim and what could be happening to him back home, but to be honest, he did have anything else waiting for him back there. As far as he knew at the time, his friends were still dead and to everyone else, so was he. He was already spiraling down into a depression, but finding himself in a place where he was experimented on for some arbitrary reason he was never told only further isolated him. He was a friendly, social person who had already been beaten down by life to the point where he hoped there was no other way to go but up.
He was shy, awkward, and ended up clinging to Bucky because he was familiar, despite all the ways that Bucky was a different person from the one that he remembered. Bucky was still Bucky to him and he used that as a crutch because he felt less off balance with him than around anyone else. Then Jim arrived and Toro started to believe that things would look up for them.
Then Jim died. Steve had already died early on after Tom arrived, and he had comforted Bucky through that, but Jim dying was too much. It took him weeks to get over it and it left him feeling even more bitter, but Toro also knew that Bucky needed him and he couldn’t just let himself stew in that pain and anger forever. So he tried to move past it. When your father figure dies often enough that you start counting on more than one hand, it’s at a point where you can’t keep letting it get to you the way it did before.
Every time something went wrong for him, Toro would usually default back to leaning on Bucky for support or Carol, who ended up being really important to him. The problem with this was that Bucky and Tom became too dependent on each other, always looking to each other first and then other people, to the point that when things shook up their relationship and Tom didn’t know how to handle it, he would run away, like the time they had sex because they were under the assumption that they would be poisoned to death if they didn’t. Toro went so far as to move out of their apartment for a few weeks and lived with Carol because you really aren’t supposed to enjoy having sex with your best friend and his girlfriend. He needed time to process things and come to a decision about what to do, and then things went south between Bucky and Natasha so he went back because he couldn’t leave Bucky to deal with it on his own. The entire reason they continued a sexual relationship months later was because they both found it comforting, but Toro was too afraid to put any kind of label on it except “this Thing between them.” Giving it a name would mean having to face what it meant and Tom wasn’t ready to do that, and the fact Bucky did not seem like he was either made it easier to just…do it and not look at it too deeply. It was a good thing going on between them.