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APPLICATIONS


APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED
Apps will open on June 23rd at 11:59 am EST



Player Cap: 52/70


RESERVES | APPS


Before you submit your application, please review the Applications and Reserves section of the info / faq page, as there are additional rules regarding malleable protagonists, CRAU characters, fandom OCs, canon caps, player caps, and other important things to note.

Applications will be processed in the order they are received and after the application cycle closes. We will only accept as many players as we have player slots, however, we will review all applications submitted during the cycle. Application cycles are not first come first serve, and instead will be judged on clarity of the app and samples.

Application revisions will have three days to submit adjustments. If not submitted in time, they will have to wait until the next application cycle to resubmit.

Application rejections will have to wait until the next application cycle to resubmit unless otherwise specified in the original rejection.

You may either post your application in a comment to this post, or link to it from your character journal.

Please use the following format for your comment in the subject line:
CHARACTER | CANON | RESERVED / NOT RESERVED

There is a limit of 2 characters initially maximum that can be played. (You can redeem additional character slots by way of the rewards page.) As with reservations, you may apply for 2 characters at a time.

Proxy applications are not accepted.

We do not accept application challenges.

We do not accept duplicate characters.

We only accept applications for 1 malleable protagonist in a cast. Malleable protagonists may not have preexisting relationships with other characters from their canon aside from base storyline. (Exceptions will potentially be made for CRAUs and handled on a case-by-case basis.)

Fandom OC characters are accepted, but may not have preexisting relationships with other characters from their canon. (Exceptions will potentially be made for CRAUs and handled on a case-by-case basis.)

CRAU characters are accepted, however, must not be so removed from their original canon state that they are unrecognisable. CRAU characters who carry a multitude of prior games may only carry over memories, relationships, and experiences from their most recent game.


APPLICATION FORM


Player:
Contact:
Age:
Current Characters: If applicable.

Character Name:
Character Canon: If applicable.
Canon Point:
Age:

Crime: All characters are accused of a crime upon their arrival, and it's printed on their indestructible parchment. This crime can be fitting of your character or ill-fitting. It can be a crime they've committed or a crime they would never commit. Consider that Expiation's definition of crimes may not mirror reflect what we think of when we consider crime in the real world. Feel free to think a little out of the box and more abstract. Fiction versus reality here doesn't so much make a difference. Please choose one crime, bearing in mind that there may be occasions in which the crime chosen could affect how a character interacts with certain events or situations.

Background: You may provide a link to a wiki, for canon characters. If your wiki has limited information, or your character may not have much canon behind them, you are expected to write supplemental details without leaning too heavily into headcanon. For OCs, you don't need to provide an overly verbose background, just enough to give an accurate portrayal of the world they come from and definitive experiences that are important to their character. For CRAUS, please specify additional information about what they are carrying over from their prior game. This can also be limited to definitive experiences and relationships.

Personality: Although this game heavily relies on the analysis and reflection of a character, we don't expect a dissertation. Please provide information on your character's motivations, how their relationships and experiences have affected or shaped them, and other related information. You may use character dialogue to further showcase this, but it's not expected. If you find it easier to use bullet point formats, feel free to do that. Please do not exceed 800 words.

Abilities: If your character has any special abilities (magic, weapon skills, and so on), please list them here. Remember that world-breaking abilities will be diluted.

Inventory: A list of inventory that your character is carrying on them can be put here. Characters will not have access to an infinite hammer space, so please only list things that would make sense for your character to be physically carrying.

Samples: Two recent samples from the last year are required and must adequately convey a character's voice. In a thread, we prefer at least five comments from you. At least one sample must be from the current TDM post. Other threads may be taken from bakerstreet, other games, or other memes.

During application review, not only will we be judging for characterization, but also longevity and completion of threads. Not all threads have to be finished before being submitted, but the mod team would like to see an effort in furthering the thread if it's not completed.

Questions: If you have any questions for the mod team, please include them here and we will address them during the processing of your application.




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orphne: (Default)

kotone shiomi | persona 3 portable | reserved

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noel kreiss | final fantasy xiii | not reserved

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Sailor Galaxia | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon | Reserved

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galling: (pic#14836316)

satoru gojo / jujutsu kaisen / reserved

[personal profile] galling 2023-03-13 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAAAAATTT??"... so what did you see? LEEEEEEEETTT'SSS THINKING!
*a really shoddy attempt at a humorous segue into a pretty mediocre app
*an adult actually crying because she doesn't know if translating JUPPON!! into TEN POOOOIIINNTS makes it less deranged
*this app

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murderingjustice: ~antibiotical (Default)

Goro Akechi | persona 5 royal | not reserved (discussed with mods)

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singlemalts: (thirteen | i figured as much)

michel | find me | reserved

[personal profile] singlemalts 2023-04-10 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
Player: S.
Contact: PM or [plurk.com profile] thewriteway
Age: 35
Current Characters: N/A
Link to Reserve: Here

Character Name: Michel
Character Canon: Find Me
Canon Point: Post the Cadenza chapter; Elio has left Michel behind to tour the States.
Age: 62 approx; he's almost twice the age of Elio who is in his early thirties in that chapter.

Crime: Severe child neglect leading to death; a crime Michel hasn’t committed physically, though if you ask his estranged son, part of it’s probably true, emotionally. They never see each other, he might as well be dead to Michel. Michel would say differently, but who cares about a child murderer's opinion, really?

Background: Born as the only son of parents who, in his own words, hated each other, trying to hide that fact and mostly failing, Michel, a Parisian lawyer, grew up in an if not completely loveless home, then at least a home in which love was always in hiding. His father, formerly a concert pianist, now a lawyer, like Michel would later become, too, at his mother’s insistence, never openly expressed his emotions, never played the piano anymore and was quietly unhappy with his life, the life to which Michel belonged. They had a deep understanding of each other, his father and him, but it was never voiced or talked openly about, so as not to rouse his mother’s controlling streak.

Throughout his life, Michel would find that his father became a beacon, both someone he longed for, dutifully followed and kept secrets from, when he discovered that he was gay around his late teens, in a time when homosexuality wasn’t widely accepted, if at all. To live up to his parents, in particular his father’s example, he would marry a woman whom he’d stay with for twenty years, have a son with and later, after yet again falling in love with a man, divorce to pursue his true self. That move wouldn’t just lose him his wife, but also his son who resented him and cut all contact.

In the following period of his life, Michel would begin seeing an architect whom he'd be with for years, but like all his relationships, this one would also end prematurely, the other man moving to Canada eventually and the two falling out of touch. What followed was a string of brief affairs with men, though nothing that lasted and perhaps nothing that was meant to last. His focus now is good food, expensive wine, young men. Living alone in a Paris apartment, he lives by habit.

That is, until he meets Elio Perlman, a concert pianist half his own age, at one of his habitual concerts in a local church, and the two share an immediate, mutual attraction. After the concert, the two go to Michel’s favoured bistro and enjoy a meal together, agreeing to meet the following Sunday before parting ways for the night. Before the week is over, however, Michel seeks Elio out at the conservatory where the other man works, and their relationship becomes intimate from that day forward. Their affair lasts all winter, until Elio has to go on tour to the States, where he – at Michel’s encouragement – looks up an old flame he never truly got over. Michel, in turn, lets him go without complaint or objection.

Personality:
"Again the warm, fetching smile, a blend of wisdom, irony and just a dab of sadness to remind me that there was nothing light about this gentle, possibly unhappy man." - Elio about Michel at their first meeting

Possibly unhappy; skeptical; pessimist.

Michel describes himself as a man of many contradictions which especially shows in his approach to Elio, whom he dotes on, shows open appreciation, love, infatuation and other similar emotions for, while at the same time always keeping a slightly ironic distance, not just to Elio, but to their relationship as a whole, because he has seen enough relationships in general break and crumble, but especially because he’s in perfect tune with Elio and senses that the other man is not giving himself over as much as Michel is and maybe never will. Yet, Michel doesn't hold back as a result, rather he's someone who gives himself away in the face of a constant expectation that his relations won’t last and he’ll end up alone again. He gives and gives and gives, although he never expects anything in return. He has never stopped giving, but he has stopped believing anything will change from it.

Elio describes him as someone who doesn’t believe a word he hears. That’s to say that Michel knows from himself what deception looks like and that many things in this world deceive, that you can’t trust your eyes, your ears and least of all, the people around you. People have secrets, secret agendas. You can only trust your own feelings and even they will sometimes trick you. He approaches the surrounding world openly and with a bombastic, open-armed attitude, but not because he is naĆÆve, most likely because he isn’t. His job as a lawyer has no doubt showed him the worst sides of humankind and although he hates having to work in this field, it has prepared him for the realities he’s part of.

Shy; gentle; habitual.

On the other hand, Michel describes himself as shy. Behind the bombastic faƧade, the loud talking, the extroverted behaviour, he hides a deep sense of insecurity. Not to have lived up to his father, not to have made him proud, to have failed his ex-wife, his son and himself, lastly. He hides behind his dinners and his alcohol, but in reality, Michel is a man who fundamentally doubts himself. Doubts his life. The worth and meaning of it all. There are things he holds back and which he doesn’t do, due to this shyness, mostly things that pertain to him taking care of himself and meeting his own wants and needs, emotionally. Materialistically, he has everything already, but the material is only one half of a whole.

Instead, perhaps as a result, Michel is very focused on meeting the needs of others. He isn’t selfless out of a lack of self-awareness or self-worth, but he is desperate to be something to someone else. With Elio, he tries answering to all his needs, even before they have been spoken, he wants to be sure he isn’t hurting him, physically or emotionally, and he will eventually let him go to pursue his old lover, rather than try to hold on to him and their relationship for his own sake. Elio roused him out of his stupor, the habitual living from scotch to scotch, from concert to concert, from day to day at the office. And still, he lets him go – to return to that habit? Or to overcome it finally? The book doesn’t say.

Abilities: Has an extensive knowledge of law, since he’s studied it and worked in the field for thirty+ years. Other than that, he’s a completely ordinary human.

Inventory:

+ Underwear
+ Shoes (Corthay) and socks
+ ForĆØstiere jacket
+ Scarf
+ A white shirt and a dark blue sweater
+ Black trousers
+ A small planner in his back pocket
+ A cellphone (2001 model)
+ A briefcase in leather full of notebooks and various writing tools
+ A wallet

Samples: ONE, TWO

Questions: Michel is never mentioned by last name in canon, though given the modern world framework he's from, he's bound to have one. In RP land I usually call him Michel Laurent when a last name is necessary, but Laurent is a choice made by me and not taken from canon - can I use it in the game when introducing him to characters and such?

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bratherine: (144.)

kate galloway / original / not reserved

[personal profile] bratherine 2023-04-10 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)


today in potentially daft choices... and now with the post unlocked šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
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laserguy: (tempting fate)

Scott Summers | X-Men Movieverse | Reserved

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kiche: (Default)

Mokuren | Please Save My Earth | Not reserved

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emet_sulk: (83 Impassive)

Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV | reserved

[personal profile] emet_sulk 2023-04-12 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Behold, a sorcerer of eld!

Edit: I forgot to add in that he can possess other people and forcibly remake their appearance to suit himself. Would that require nerfing when used on generic NPCs?
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chemex: (0213)

akira kurusu | persona 5 strikers (royal-compliant) | not reserved

[personal profile] chemex 2023-04-13 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
you dare provoke a legend?!
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schmooze: (Default)

kaeya | genshin impact | not reserved

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partymagician: (35)

fai d. flowright | tsubasa: reservoir chronicle | not reserved

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caregives: pb is shivani ghai (Default)

leanne erod | original character | reserved

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crisantemo: (if there's nothing here)

lapis de fiore | original character | not reserved

[personal profile] crisantemo 2023-04-16 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
the dark doesn't intend to hurt you.
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alethiological: (Anna Koldings (d. 1590))

Willard H Wright | Umineko no naku koro ni | Reserved

[personal profile] alethiological 2023-04-16 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
So in layman's terms, he cheated on his wife.

Also as a note: I mentioned it in the app itself, but doesn't hurt to repeat. My timezone is wonky and I am not here to care about powers. So I preemptively accept any and all nerfs to abilities. Trust you guys ♄

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