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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
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Contact: Email, AIM, Plurk, Personal journal, etc
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Character Information
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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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Jason is, for starters, a street kid. He practically raised himself after his father was killed by Two-Face, taking care of his drug-addict and depressed mother on his own. When she died he was left alone… but he didn’t tell anybody, he didn’t allow people to put him into an orphanage or a foster home. He decided to live alone and he managed to go on by stealing what he needed to eat. That should already tell you a lot about him… he’s strong and stubborn, and he isn’t scared to face danger or to do what he needs to do in order to survive. He has morals and a very strong sense of justice though- he never stole more than what he needed to get food or the drugs her mother needed while she lived. That part of him never changed.
He loves to fight. He pisses people off and get into fights just to get the thrill, and he doesn’t care much about what people might think about him for doing that. He has a lot of steam to blow off; a lot of anger inside of him and… kicking people’s butts is the easier way to get rid of it. If Jason picks up a fight with you it might not mean he doesn’t like you… it probably just means he sees you as a ‘worthy opponent’, or something by the sort.
That doesn’t mean he’s all dumb muscles. He’s actually rather smart, if the comments his classmates make about his outstanding GPA are anything to go by. He was Bruce Wayne's ward- the man wouldn’t have a dumb boy under his wing. He plans when needed and he’s actually very thorough when he wants to. The problem is that very few things catch his attention enough for him to do that.
Even though he’s angry most of the time he’s actually rather sweet too. Especially when it comes to the innocent, he always has a nice word of encouragement or something silly to do to distract them from the pain. He might not realize it but he has a huge empathy in him at this point of his life. That doesn’t mean he isn’t the most annoying little scamp- he’s always looking for ways to bother everybody and get their attention. It just means he knows when the time for laughter is and when it’s time for a comforting hand instead.
A big part of him is also his wish to be better than Dick. He is the second Robin, the one who came after the original. During all his training he has had to endure comments about how Dick would have done this faster, Dick would have done that better, Dick would have known about this without needing me to spell it out for them. It was probably not intentional on Bruce’s part, and he most likely didn’t even realize it, but it only helped on Jason’s insecurities and how he felt inadequate.
He likes to talk, and he’s… good at it. Good meaning there’s a lot he can do with only his mouth, just by speaking to you. He knows which buttons to press, which words to use to make people angry or sad- or just to get a reaction out of them. He’s reached a point where he does it without even realizing it, and makes people angry at him or simply uncomfortable without really meaning to. There’s the opposite of the spectrum to: if Jason wants you to be happy it’s nearly impossible not to be. He makes everybody around him grin even when they don’t want to. When talking to Jason you will be permanently torn between punching him and ruffling his hair lovingly.
Jason is, like all kids, still trying to find his place in this world. He wants to be loved, to be cared for- but most of all he wants people’s attention on him. It’s probably the reason he’s such a bundle of energy, always jumping on people and teasing them to get a reaction out of them. He spent most of his life on his own, he can handle silence and loneliness… but that doesn’t mean he likes it. This is probably why he constantly seeks Bruce’s approval and is so dependent on him, and also why he teases the old man constantly to get an answer or a reaction out of him.
During his times living on the street he also learned rules aren’t always necessarily a good or bad thing. They are useful most of the time, but sometimes you’ve got to twist them if you want to be completely fair. Jason will try to follow the rules anytime he can, but he isn’t above setting his own law if he thinks he must. Justice must be fair as far as Jason is concerned, and if it isn’t it’s the time to take it into your own hands.
How did a_facility change him
Being in a_facility made him (surprisingly enough) more trustful and open, in a way. He’d still take a lot about himself to the grave but when you’re being tortured to death every other week and losing people you care about left and right you can’t be picky about who you let close to you. When he got to the facility he was still very much the kind of teenager that thinks he could do anything he wanted if only these silly overprotective adults would let him. Now he acknowledges he might be in need of help sometimes, and even if he isn’t likely to say it out loud he wouldn’t hesitate to accept it if someone offered it.
BUT! That only applies to trusting other people’s abilities and acknowledging he can’t do everything alone. Said trust doesn’t extend to actually sharing secrets or being open about his feelings, at all- actually if anything thanks to learning what happens to future-him was like a slap to his face and opened his eyes to the fact that even people who were really close to him could lie to him. The fact that no one ever really told him what would happen to him was actually more shocking than the fact that he died.
He eventually forgave them all, as they hadn’t lied so much as hidden the truth and he could understand why they had done it. But still it’s something he keeps on the back of his mind. Before the facility it was really hard for him to open up, but when someone managed to get through those walls (like Bruce, Dick and Dr. Leslie had managed to do in canon) he took their word at a face value, and he trusted them all to a fault.
But now… Jason is open to friends now, and open to creating close bonds. He shared house with something he called ‘family’ in special occasions, made really close friends and even got a girlfriend (!!!). But he also knows better than to trust them all without proof.
Jason in canon is also very dependent on Bruce, even if it might not seem so at first look. There was no Bruce during Jason’s time in a facility, so he got to grow as a person away from him, and he had to learn to adapt to a world where he wasn’t there to grab him is he fell. He won’t admit it, but the part of the mentor fell on Barbara Gordon’s shoulders. Dick Grayson was only there a couple of months and disappeared twice, so Jason was left with her and he pretty much latched onto her. He’s a very independent kid, yes but he’s still a kid that had lost his mother a little more than a year ago and was tossed into a torture space prison, it’s no wonder he sought for support. Being so many months without Bruce opened his eyes to the fact that it wasn’t really him he needed (even though he missed him every day and would jump at the change to see him again), just a mentor figure. Not having Bruce is also probably why he learned to open up more, and to let other people get through his walls. Say what you want but the man’s paranoia is probably not the best thing to grow up around.
Something important that also changed was that his stay in there pretty much made him way less squeamish about killing. It pretty much confirmed his opinion that sometimes it’s better to use lethal force than to go through the same over and over again just because you don’t have the guts to put the criminal down. In a_facility sometimes you had to kill to go through an experiment, had to kill the ‘enemies’ the place would throw at you… and Jason ended doing it like everyone else. At one point he even killed a Skrull that had taken Barbara’s body… that was pretty much when Jason decided sometimes sending them to prison wasn’t enough.
(This doesn’t mean he’s turned into a killer like his future self will be! He’ll only kill when there’s no other option and someone he cares about is in danger.)
Jason learned there would be other Robins after him, but since the Robin he actually met weren’t Tim or Steph (the third and fourth Robins) but actually Damian, who’s Bruce’s son and the fifth one he assumed he had given the mantle to Batman’s actual son and would go off to do something else in the future, and no one bothered to tell him otherwise. Jason could still tell they were hiding something from him, especially Damian, but he didn’t know what. The search for the truth was something that kept on bothering Jason during his stay in the facility, until he found out about it- and it wasn’t exactly pleasant. Oh well.
Maybe I should also mention that in the facility they were clones, so Jason will pretty much still think he is one- but honestly he didn’t care much about the whole thing. He’s still here and has to survive, clone or not. The only thing that pissed him off is that he couldn’t change his fate because it wasn’t really his fate.
And to finish this… the physical aspect. Jason spent more than a year in a_facility (which made him conveniently of age to be apped here, hah). He had enough food to go by and trained daily so there are probably no sequels on his body about it (let’s pretend spending so much time in space doesn’t affect your bones, they did have a gravity pull close to Earth’s). But he has a lot of scars all over his body from all the times he got tortured- not as many as you’d expect since his body was made from 0 every time he died.
The most important scar is one he got from acid being thrown at his face. He got that one from trying to protect Nill, who’d later become his girlfriend. The others he probably doesn’t even remember how he got them, it’s hard to focus in one scar when you’re in a torture game.
Jason got a bit more training in the facility than what he had had as Robin, thanks to the people he’d known over the months. He’s still brash and too quick to attack at times, but he’s learned a lot of patience and other skills in battle that aren’t just ‘ways to punch’. He also got a crash course in technology! He came from the 80s and the facility was a pretty advanced space station with incredible technology, so he pretty much had to learn to survive. Not that he minded, kid is really curious.
How will he deal with the darkest aspects of the game?
Jason comes from another torture game so honestly? ‘Been there, done that’. The first weeks will even be easy since he’ll just assume it’s another of the facility’s experiments (where sometimes they would be sent to other words in what they would call ‘F3s’). As soon as it clicks that no, he’s not going back to the facility and this is just another space station-prison where he’ll have to undergo even more trauma he will be pissed.
He’s a smart kid with the will to survive though, so he’s not just going to call it quits. Sure he will be depressed for a while, but eventually he will make close friends, he will have people to care about and to fight for and hey, maybe this isn’t like the facility.
Maybe this time he’ll even get to escape.
Abilities:
He doesn't have any superhuman abilities. He was, however, trained by the Batman to reach the peak of his human abilities and potential. He's without doubt natural at most things required to hurt or kill somebody.
- Gifted Martial artist in a lot of different styles.
- Trained acrobat.
- Good with weapons of any kind.
- Knows most kind of chemicals, too.
- He's smart, and he's a trained detective.
- He knows many languages. He's been shown to know Arabic, German, Italian, and Russian in canon among others. He's also good at faking accents.
- Top education, Bruce himself made sure of that.
- Trained (and sparred with) a lot of people in his stay in a_facility, in many different techniques. Among them Damian Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Bucky Barnes… an example would be how Damian taught him how to use a sword, and how Bucky was teaching him how to be more ‘sneaky’ (or a ninja, as Jason put it). Still, unlike his grown-up self he hasn’t been trained by Talia and her league, so he still has a lot to learn. He’s a good fighter and acrobat… but he still lacks the experience and “finesse” he’d have as the Red Hood.
Stock:
Nothing, just his normal civilian clothes. He wouldn’t have his Robin-suit with him. He’d have had a couple of hidden weapons under his clothes but those would have been taken away.
…Also a rape whistle he got from Val.
Room: Cell Block A or C because he’s a pretty average criminal, but B could also probably make sense if the warden underestimated him for being a kid.
First-Person Sample:
Sample in a_fac
Sample in d_m
Third-Person Sample:
If someone had actually noticed Jason running around carrying the tires of the batmobile under his arm, he would have probably been asked if he was out of his mind. He couldn’t really blame them, he wasn’t actually sure of what he was doing himself. But when he’d seen the black car, shinning in the alley like it fucking owned the place? He hadn’t been able to help himself. It had been actually pretty easy, he had done it god-knows how many times already. It was one of the few things he didn’t feel too bad about stealing, they could always get new ones right? And they sold well.
Really well. So he’d grabbed his lucky crowbar and gotten to work. Honestly he’d expected some sort of alarm or something and batman to appear running, but he’d thought that as long as he could get a hand on one of the tires… and then no alarm, no sound, no Batman, no nothing. He’d grabbed two tires (which was the most he could carry) and ran.
And he would probably do it again, he told himself once he was almost back in front of his flat. Batman was just a man, and his car was just that: a car. Who did he think he was? They didn’t need him in here. He was just flashing his wealth or something- ‘cause you know a man with that suit and toys has to be rich, the car was just further proof. Jason was sure he’d get a lot of money for the tires once he found somebody brave enough to buy them. Probably enough to get him by two months, or more! Maybe a whole year if he went back and took the others.
... Scratch that, he was going back and taking the others. What were the odds the B-man would be back already, anyway?
Mature Rating Awareness: Aware! I had to google what a kumquat is now I want one
ACCEPTED + Note
Your application for Jason Todd has been approved! Their cell assignment is [C313], which you can add to the rooming assignment document. Please feel free to familliarize yourself with their floormates and the how inmates arrive.
Additional Note: In regards to future applications, please select only one thread from a post to be your first person sample, not an entire post. If you would like to use the post itself as your sample, copy and paste it into the app itself.
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Re: ACCEPTED + Note
This is the journal! Thanks <3