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Please post your application below as a comment to this point, not as a link to your journal -- all comments are screened. If you wish to post your application to your journal after being approved, please feel free!
An invite is required to apply. This can come from being a friend of the mod on plurk, a player invitation, or asking for a mod invite. Please note that having an invitation does not guarantee acceptance of your application. Reserves are optional, but you are not allowed to apply for a character that someone else has reserved. Reserves are also first come, first served.
Applications will open on the 17th of TDM months (16th in EST), and will close on the 24th, NZT (23rd in EST).
Writers may only apply for one character in each round of applications, and may only have two characters in total in the game.
Please note that revisions may be requested if the application was not filled out correctly, and if too many rounds of revisions are needed, your application may be denied.
OOC
Name:
Age: (must be over 18)
Contact: (plurk, pm, or discord)
Invite Link: (a link to your mod invite, player invite, or simply state that you are friends with the mod on plurk)
IC
Character Name:
Canon:
Canon Point: (Specify the point from canon that you are taking this character from)
Character Age: (If below 16, please specify why you think an exception should be made for your character)
History: (a wiki link is fine, if applicable)
Division: (Please state your Division choice, and at least a few sentences of why you think this is the best choice for your character)
Edict: (Please state which Edict your character will be bonded to, and a few sentences about why it's a thematic/appropriate/interesting/funny/chaotic/etc choice)
Powers: (Please list your character's abilities, with a short explanation if needed. This can be things like superhuman powers, magic, tech weapons they rely on, and so on. Try to split them up into categories, as this will be how regains work. If none, say n/a)
For the following questions, please go indepth into your character's motivations, personality, and suitability for this game. References to canon events to back up your point would be extra useful; the point is to get a good feel for your character and how they might function in this game. Ideally aim for 200-300 words per answer.
As the Ascendants deemed your character worthy of being on this exploration voyage, what qualities did they observe in your character that they found appropriate for the mission?
What is your character's best quality, what is their worst, and how do these two qualities affect each other?
Your character's Edict appears in front of them, and agrees to grant them one wish: what does your character wish for?
The Theorem has broken down, and is drifting toward a black hole. There is very little hope of outside rescue. What does your character do?
Writing Samples: (Please include a link to a thread of at least five log-style comments from the character you are applying.)
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SAMPLE APPLICATION
sample application under the cut!
OOC
Name: Cosmo
Age: 18+
Contact:
Invite Link: it's-a me, mod-io
IC
Character Name: Jiaoqiu
Canon: Honkai Star Rail
Canon Point: The latest patch, 3.6, although he last appeared around 3.3
Character Age: 200+
History: wiki link
Division: Support! Jiaoqiu is both doctor and chef, having combined the two into a unique artform of food-as-medicine — however, he was recently blinded, and will find it difficult to practice medicine without his sight. With time he may be able to adapt, but until then he will be focusing more on the chef aspect of his abilities. Part of his goal in exploring new planets will be to find new ingredients, and research how to cook them in a way that makes them medicinal.
Edict: The Sorrowweld. Jiaoqiu's home is a ship called the Xianzhou Yaoqing, one part of an alliance of ships whose mission it is to fight the denizens of the god of Abundance, whose destructive creatures have annihilated entire worlds. It is a fight that has been going on for thousands of years, and for Jiaoqiu's entire life. The Yaoqing is particularly known for being constantly caught in battle, and so too was Jiaoqiu, having spent decades on the front lines as a war medic. Eternal battle defines his life, his personality, and has contributed heavily to his trauma both old and very recent.
Additionally, the Sorrowweld's mission is to eradicate time and make all immortal and invulnerable to injury and illness — this is a highly controversial concept in Xianzhou culture, as living too long almost always leads to corruption and self-destruction.
Powers:
As the Ascendants deemed your character worthy of being on this exploration voyage, what qualities did they observe in your character that they found appropriate for the mission?
Jiaoqiu is, above all else, a scholar and an inventor. Though his official day job is acting as the General of the Yaoqing's retainer and advisor, he is far from being a diplomat: his true passions are in cooking and medicine. Combining the two of these in an alchemical prescription allowed him to invent a new medical technique called the nine-squared grid, a method of cooking hotpot that aligns its ingredients and greatly enhances their natural medicinal qualities. This allows him to quite literally serve up food and call it medicine; even something as simple as a steak will allow the consumer to run faster and jump higher.
In recent events, however, Jiaoqiu was greatly injured and blinded. Hoolay, the leader of his people's mortal enemy, was able to break free of prison and took Jiaoqiu captive. In order to take down this near-immortal enemy, Jiaoqiu drank the most potent poison he could get his hands on, knowing that Hoolay would eventually bite him and ingest the poison. It worked, and Hoolay was defeated, but Jiaoqiu was left scarred in the aftermath: blinded, with severe scarring and nerve damage. This, on top of the trauma and emotional disassociation he already had, would no doubt send him down a path of depression: unless he got something new to focus on. Unless he was provided with a mission where he could scout out new, exotic ingredients, and perhaps even work to devise new medical techniques.
After all, it has happened to him once before. After serving for so long in the war against the Abundance, Jiaoqiu became so numb to everything that he retired, and ran a restaurant for a while, determined to never go back to being a healer. It was only when he was offered the chance to work on a cure for his General that he agreed to come back, intrigued by the difficult task.
What is your character's best quality, what is their worst, and how do these two qualities affect each other?
I can do a two-for-one sale, here, and list two best qualities, two worst qualities, and how they interact.
One of his best qualities is that he is (almost) never anything less than polite, and one of his worst qualities is that he's a little schemer. Multiple characters even remark that he looks like he's a bit shifty and scheming something all the time, though people that don't know him just think he wears an ever-present polite but distant smile. He swears that he's just a healer and doesn't want to be involved in diplomacy and meeting important people, and yet he near-effortlessly manipulates people to achieve his goals. He is often sarcastic, though it's veiled behind his polite smile.
Another of his best qualities is that he's a person who will anything on the line to help others and his patients, but on the other side of the coin, a worst quality of his is that he experiences emotional disconnection. Spending many years as a battlefield medic, Jiaoqiu eventually grew jaded about the whole thing, questioning what the point of healing soldiers was when he had to send them back out onto the battlefield to get injured again, or worse, to die. He resolved to never again be a healer, but was tempted back into the profession when his General revealed that she had an illness that no other healer could cure.
He cares, academically, but finds it difficult to feel that care. This will no doubt be something he has to work on during his time on the Theorem.
Your character's Edict appears in front of them, and agrees to grant them one wish: what does your character wish for?
The very first wish that would come into Jiaoqiu's mind would be: to end all war. Right on the heels of that thought, however, would come the reluctant acknowledgement that some war is necessary. To fight back against oppressors, to reclaim stolen land— these things are necessary, and ending all war would mean that some people lose the only voice (and choice) they have available to them.
Instead, after careful thought, his ideal wish would be to end the influence of the Aeon of Abundance in his universe. The Aeon Yaoshi was so benevolant and nurturing that they granted everyone who wished for it the gift of immortality; unfortunately, such a thing is usually more of a curse than a blessing. The Xianzhou Alliance that Jiaoqiu lives within originally sought that blessing, and were granted it, becoming hosts of multiple long-life species. But it came with a heavy price: the advent of mara, an illness that strikes those that live long enough and turns them into violent beasts. Entire planets and solar systems have been overtaken by the unkillable denizens of Abundance. Jiaoqiu's people, the Foxians, were enslaved by the Borisin, wolf-people that had been granted the gift of immortality.
Ultimately, I'm not sure if Jiaoqiu would make the wish. He's too smart to think it would be so simple, and would be wary of unseen side-effects and hidden catches. Still, if he were forced to, that would be the wish he'd make: to kill the Aeon Yaoshi, and all of their abominations.
The Theorem has broken down, and is drifting toward a black hole. There is very little hope of outside rescue. What does your character do?
Jiaoqiu's first instinct would be to gather everybody together. He has seen enough people dying alone, and while he bitterly thinks such things are inevitable, he would still try to make sure that nobody is alone. Ultimately, Jiaoqiu is not an engineer, so he knows he'd be no use in trying to repair the ship, but he would volunteer to act as a diplomatic go-between for the various factions working toward repair and trying to contact the outside world. He's good at reducing tempers, and being calm in a crisis — his expertise, here, would be in making sure everything runs smoothly and there is as little conflict as possible.
After all of that, if there truly was absolutely no hope of rescue in the end, Jiaoqiu would ensure that everybody is as comfortable as they can be, and would figure out the most painless way for them all to die. Being caught in a black hole is, in the end, a fairly slow way to die, and Jiaoqiu would propose a solution: the crew agrees to die quickly and painlessly, together, before a slower and more painful death occurs. His first instinct would be an overdose of a sedative, but if that is unavailable, then something like helium inhalation would suffice.
Writing Sample: link one, link two