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APPLICATIONS


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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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Tetchou Suehiro | Bungo Stray Dogs | Reserved

[personal profile] frozenblossoms 2023-10-15 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Cherry
Contact: dm or [plurk.com profile] crimsonpetals
Age: 20+
Current Characters: N/A

Character Name: Tetchou Suehiro
Character Canon: Bungo Stray Dogs
Canon Point: Chapter 100.5 of the manga, directly after his fight with Kenji (and his lil nappie)
Age: Unknown but around 25

Crime: Putting Jouno above Justice.

Background: Tetchou Suehiro Wiki

Personality:
Formality - Tetchou is very formal in his mannerisms. He takes a lot of things seriously, including his work as a Hunting Dog. He strongly advocates for Justice, it's one of the main focuses of his. He's the least cruel of his team, and has shown his dislike for people who hurt others several times, including directing this dislike towards Jouno.

"There is evil that goes unpunished and good that goes unrewarded. Without my blade, how could anything in this mortal world ever hope for balance!?"


Eccentricity - Despite being formal and serious, he's also very eccentric. He prefers to match his foods by color instead of taste (soy sauce lattes, sugar on white rice). He's also eaten hard-boiled eggs with the shell on, done muscle training during meetings, and watched ants for over eight hours. Tetchou is also shown to be very brain-empty, no thoughts. He prefers to focus on the simplest things in life, the things he can understand in black/white terms such as leadership, loyalty, justice.

"Ants are a perfect model of leadership and loyalty, so I've been watching them for around eight hours. Do your best, ants."


Tetchou has a strong-will, especially when it comes to what he sees as the right thing. He wants to protect the good in the world. He holds a lot of sympathy for those who want to help the people they know.

Within the Hunting Dogs, he and Jouno are seen as rivals. They push each other to become stronger. Constantly arguing about who is stronger. Jouno constantly scolds Tetchou for his eccentricities, Tetchou keeps Jouno's sadistic tendencies in check. The two are the perfect partners in the Hunting Dogs. His relationship with Jouno highlights who he is as a person.

Justice is a very important aspect to who Tetchou is and when his closest rival, Jouno, went missing, Tetchou put Jouno above Justice. He focused on finding Jouno instead of focusing on stopping who he believed to be terrorists, even though he's meant to be an agent of Justice as a Hunting Dog. He'll need to learn what Justice means to him, and what he can do to pursue that. He also, technically, has been actually helping the current Big Bad (sort of) in the show/manga, which, once he learns that, it'll shatter his current worldview, due to the fact that the Justice he's been working for hasn't actually been the Justice he believes in.

β€œFor just five minutes, I will place Jouno above justice.”


Abilities:
a. Plum Blossoms in the Snow - Blade Manipulation. Tetchou can extend his sword to any distance and bend it at will, making it difficult to escape from.

b. Physical Prowess - Tetchou is said to be the strongest Hunting Dog physically, having an almost superhuman strength. He can easily fight Kenji, who has super strength, though he did also get beat up by him.

c. Negotiation Expertise - Tetchou prefers communication over force to extract information from people.

Inventory: His Hunting Dog outfit. His sword.

Samples: one || two

Questions: N/A

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Shoto Todoroki | My Hero Academia // Reserved

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"Whether that's good, bad, or something in between... That's something I'll have to think about."

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manjiro sano "mikey" / tokyo revengers

[personal profile] invinciblemikey 2023-10-17 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
all my friends are heathens take it slow
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motifs: (eqFgqv4)

yusuke kitagawa | persona 5 | reserved

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Shinjiro Aragaki | Persona 3 (reserved)

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JOUNO SAIGIKU | BUNGO STRAY DOGS | RESERVED

[personal profile] pricelesstears 2023-10-18 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: Elodie
Contact: [plurk.com profile] spectrophile
Age: 33
Current Characters: N/A

Character Name: Jouno Saigiku
Character Canon: Bungo Stray Dogs
Canon Point: end of Chapter 93
Age: not stated, most likely mid twenties

Crime: Torturing the Innocent

Background: Here

Personality:
"But, you see, either way is fine by me. Whether the detectives are evil or not… I simply want to hear someone's anguished voice."

Jouno calls himself 'society's evil' which is a pretty good description of his core characteristics. He's a sadist who enjoys the pain and anguish other people go through. If he has a chance to make someone squirm, he does so gleefully to the point he is regularly reprimanded by his teammate, Tetchou, for going too far.

Jouno plays games with the people he catches. On one such occasion, he offered his sword to a group of bank robbers and told them that anyone who could effectively stab themselves through their stomach until the tip of the sword came out of their backs would be allowed to go free. When they attacked him instead, he swiftly killed them and thanked them for the sounds of their desperation and despair.

Jouno usually appears cool and collected, but under Jouno's mask of a composed individual lies a hot temper. This shows most often with his partner, Tetchou, as Tetchou's lack of intelligence grates on Jouno's nerves the most. He's often seen losing his cool and berating Tetchou for various things, such as his choices in food and how stupid he is. He loses his temper other times as well, even going so far as to draw a gun on his Commander for making him smell something bad.

While Jouno likes to appear like he has it all together, he is often complaining about minor annoyances. Much of his inner dialogue is about how he doesn't want to be there or how he wishes someone would die. He's quick to wish death on most of the people he comes across.

Jouno's loyalties lie only to himself. While he is a member of the Hunting Dogs, he makes it clear that he doesn't care for their mission nor does he care about doing good for the sake of doing good. Originally a criminal executive in a criminal organization, Jouno betrayed his group and joined the opposite side when he became military by joining the Hunting Dogs.

Even as a Hunting Dog, he states that he doesn't care if what they're doing is right or wrong. He's only there to hear the suffering of others. He's later asked to betray the Hunting Dogs by his Commander and chooses not to, not because he feels any loyalty to them, but because he enjoys the praise he gets from the job. It's clear that Jouno feels no loyalty to his Commander or to the Hunting Dogs themselves -- he simply wants to be where he can do what he enjoys doing and reap the most benefits for it.

Abilities: Jouno is a Hunting Dog and an augmented ability user.

Super Strength: It's said that fighting a Hunting Dog is like fighting 1,000 men at once. Jouno shows his strength in a few ways in the manga, including breaking a car door by kicking someone out of it and stopping bullets that were strong enough to pierce through a person and shatter the ground beneath them.

Super Speed: Jouno has super speed as well, and is capable of catching bullets in mid-air. He's also able to run faster than the average person and travel great distances in short amounts of time.

Heightened Senses: Jouno is blind, but his other four senses are heightened. His hearing, for instance, is shown to let him listen up to 500 meters away if he puts his ear to the ground. He can hear heartbeats and the movements of muscles, oftentimes telling him what people are truly feeling. He also has an increased sense of smell which he often complains about.

Priceless Tears: Jouno is an ability user with an ability called Priceless Tears. Priceless Tears lets Jouno turn into cell-sized particles, essentially becoming dust. He uses this to avoid attacks and pass through vents/under doors/etc. He's weak to fire in this form.

Inventory: Hunting Dog uniform, sword, his switchblade, and a pistol

Samples: one and two

Questions: More a statement than a question since I talked this over with Jenni a little and I believe she asked the mod team, but the Hunting Dogs need surgery once a month to keep up their abilities or they rot away and die. I'd like them to still need surgery/find a place in town to get it if that's okay. Thank you for reading my app. m(o_o)m
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Mitsuru Kirijo | Persona 3 | not reserved

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thank you mods!

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Edgar Portnell | The Poe Clan | not reserved

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RYOJI MOCHIZUKI | PERSONA 3 PSP | NOT RESERVED

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satoru gojo | jujutsu kaisen | reserved

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Avalon | OC | Reserved

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I only exist in your mind. CW: Suicide, murder

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Kotetsu T. Kaburagi | Tiger and Bunny | Reserved

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vash the stampede | trigun stampede | reserved

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rolo lamperouge | code geass | reserved

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no one lives in my time
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Maximus Decimus Meridus| Gladiator I Not Reserved

[personal profile] maximusspainard 2023-12-23 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Strength and Honor

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Jack| OC |TDM| Reserved

[personal profile] novahatessharks 2023-12-27 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Nova
Contact: PM
Age: 21+
Current Characters: N/A

Character Name: Jack Kingsley
Character Canon: Original Character
Character Point: When he discovers
that he is now being chased by the company for fear of what he knows.
Age: 22

Crime: Stealing confidential documents detailing a massive cover-up
from the company that he works for. He is being hunted down for it.

Background:
Jack Kingsley lived a normal suburban life in a world like ours. He was an only child to his two loving parents. However, it took only a short time for things to go awry. When Jack was five years old, he experienced something that he could not explain, yet would determine the rest of his life.

One August morning, the Kingsley family arrived at the park of the neighborhood for a stroll. It was eerily void of people, and the family grew to be on edge. Suddenly, the surroundings grew much brighter, and a mechanical whir could be heard stirring above them. There was nothing to be seen other than the bright light and nothing to be heard apart from the screams of Jack’s parents. Before he even had a chance to say anything or call out, Jack woke up. He was lying on the sidewalk, paralyzed in fear, and realizing that his parents were gone.

Jack desperately tried to get help, but who would believe him? No one, to his knowledge, had seen what his family had. His parents weren’t home or at work. Whenever he called for help, it was as if his parents had never existed. No one recognized the names or even Jack. He was taken in by a foster family two days later.

When with the new family, Jack did his due diligence to find out what had happened to his parents. His searches were for not until he had come across a book detailing alien encounters and claims of abductions. A few questions later, Jack felt he had his answer. To this day, Jack believes that his parents were abducted by aliens. He dedicated his life’s work to understanding foreign invaders and the supernatural.

These studies led him to find a career after college with a company that owns a channel on television that tries to find answers for the world unknown, mainly cryptids. When an expedition to search for extraterrestrials turned up nothing on the show, Jack became curious and found that they had found foreign invaders to be real, but had not disclosed the information for a much larger cover-up. Jack is found to have stolen documents and knows classified information. He is now on the run from the company and police as he uses the information he has stolen to find a way to get his parents back.

Personality:
Jack is an upbeat person when it comes to his passion and life mission of studying the occult. He doesn’t have any close relationships, not even with his foster family. His sole mission in life is to find his parents, and he will tell anyone who will listen about it (which is usually no one). He is the eccentric type, finding any way to tie what is happening in his life back to cryptids and the supernatural.

Abilities:
Handgun/Rifle Proficiency
Ability to use firearms with excellent aiming and control. Ammunition is in great supply.
Well-Read
Knowledgeable about most things and can identify symbols, languages, etc.
Keen Sense
Can detect threats before they’re revealed.

Inventory:
Pistol, Notebook, and Pencil

Samples:
one: https://expiationlogs.dreamwidth.org/23171.html?thread=4916099#cmt4916099
two:
https://expiationlogs.dreamwidth.org/23171.html?thread=4651139#cmt4651139

Questions:
N/A




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