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APPLICATIONS


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



Player Cap: 29/70


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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geass: oh the heck with it all of these icons are from lj ok (To become the change)

lelouch vi britannia | code geass | formerly reserved

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knives | trigun stampede | not reserved

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Elizabeth | Persona Arena Ultimax | Reserved

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Player: Ben
Contact: https://www.plurk.com/YuiichiKayama
Age: I’m on the wrong side of 40
Current Characters: None

Character Name: Elizabeth: The Blue of Jubilant Justice! Velvet Blue!
Character Canon: Persona 4 Ultimax (Has been through P3FES and P3P, yes I know they’re from different timelines, but time is weird in the Velvet Room, as well as the Q and Q2, once again time shenanigans)
Canon Point: After the end of the game
Age: Time is an Illusion, Lunchtime doubly so. She looks to be in her late teens to early 20’s, but time doesn’t exactly flow in the velvet room. Even if she left several years ago.

Crime: Dereliction of duty. She left the velvet room and her position without permission to persue her goal of saving the boy in the Great Seal

Background: https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Elizabeth

Personality: Elizabeth is playful, bubbly, cheerful, impulsive, and highly murderous. She has also seen some shit. Time doesn’t exactly go the same in the velvet room, the hero seems to space out when interacting with it, but it is implied that they see all the various timelines in the room, including the ones where the protag has failed. So just given what I’ve seen that for every success there are dozens of fatalities. Still her job was to support her protagonist, and she did, cheerfully. The thing is, when it ended badly, and then, his wild card moved to another trial that only SORT of solved the issue, she decided she had to take things into her own hands.
She means well, just having grown up in the Velvet Room setting, she doesn’t quite get things in the way a normal human would. She likes problems to be wrapped up quickly and doesn’t care if it is messy. If murder is an option, generally, it will be considered. She just doesn’t want to do things that would have upset her guests, whom she still cares deeply for, and as such she spends more time observing and trying to understand as opposed to just dealing with the issue at hand. That being said, she does tend to lead with strength, which is why she bullies her brother and is a bit afraid of her older sister whom she can not beat in a fight. Also why she refuses to challenge Igor and leaves in the night so to speak, as she simply can not compete with the power of his nose.
Elizabeth is very curious, especially after her own wild card awakening. She was incredibly interested in seeing if a wild card with bonds, or one without was more effective. In the end she decided the one with bonds was more effective. It also caused her to want to see what was going on with many persona users coming to one place, and ultimately to gate crash the General Kuma issue. It was a new thing to experience, and while most of her impulses tend towards combat (either her own or others) it peaked her curiosity. She also gave many quests to collect things to sate her curiosity, be it simple documents, or to see how a persona was created. Also, she went out on many “dates” with her guest, to see their world and understand the universe through their eyes.
She is also stubborn. She saw multiple ordeals, she witnessed what was involved, and decided that she had to tie up the loose ends to protect what was important to her, not to just leave it in the hands of some other fool. She gave up her beloved family, and the safety of existing in the Velvet Room to go into the conscious world and duke it out with a Titan because it wouldn’t stay dealt with. Because she wanted it gone she endured till she realized how to draw upon her own wild card, and while the story panned away from her then, she didn’t return home, but moved forward to test out how to best use it.
Abilities: Persona use – Currently she only has Thanatos, but being a wild card, she has the ability to use others.
Persona summoning – In Persona Q it is shown that she can forge persona by combining others, though she finds doing so tedious
Medical training – In Persona Q as well as in Arena, she is shown as having healing abilities
Identification through smell – She has an excellent sense of smell and can identify the ingredients of food with it
Can eat more than a 6 ton trash compactor – She has the ability to pretty much eat all she wants. In one date she took the protagonist to every restaurant in one area and didn’t seem to be slowing down, even when they had to after their 7th or so meal.
Kinetic powers that can form a chair to sit on out of thin air. Really, all it does is give her some place to sit, it can’t get in people’s way or anything, it just is the ability to sit floating in the air.

Inventory: Persona Compendium – This has a list of all of her guest’s persona
Tarot Deck – This is a simple Velvet Room issue Tarot deck
Velvet Room Uniform – She’s been wearing it since she left, but it is still with her
Persona Thanatos - https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Thanatos#Reload Note: Instakills are going to be only aimed at gribblies, not bosses and PCs as that is frankly kinda broke

Samples: https://expiationlogs.dreamwidth.org/31576.html?thread=6801496#cmt6801496
https://expiationlogs.dreamwidth.org/31576.html?thread=6764376#cmt6764376
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Vincent Valentine | Final Fantasy VII | Reserved

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AIGIS | PERSONA 3 | RESERVED

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Player: Audrey
Contact: eviefrye on plurk
Age: 25+
Current Characters: N/A

Character Name: Aigis
Character Canon: Persona 3
Canon Point: Post-game, before the events of The Answer
Age: Chronologically 10 years old, she appears to be in her late teens and her mental state reflects this.

Crime: Failed to protect the person closest to her.

Background: A link, as they say.

Personality: Initially Aigis's personality is incredible simple. Every aspect of her is robotic, from her speech to the way she carries herself. She doesn't question this, as it's the way she's always been. It's also the way she's supposed to be, you wouldn't ask a toaster why it's not worried about relationships or having fun. Aigis is built for the purpose of destroying shadows and she dedicates herself to that fully. Despite that, Aigis does have a subconscious and finds herself acting on it on multiple occasions, even though she's not aware of it. It's the memories of a past robot, and even further back, the memories of the girl who supplied that robot's personality, that causes Aigis to go to pier on Yakushima. It's here that she meets the protagonist, and that meeting drastically changes Aigis. 
 
Aigis senses something in them, and immediately declares that being with them is her top priority. Unbeknownst to Aigis, she feels this way because ten years ago, she sealed a portion of the shadow Nyx within the protagonist. However, it's not mere programming that attaches her to the protagonist, but a forgotten sense of guilt. On the surface, she appears in love with and obsessed with the protagonist, wanting to touch them and always be close to them, even while they're sleeping. Through her experiences with the protagonist and SEES, she begins to become more human, and care for them all outside of her duties. 
 
Over the course of the game, Aigis regains her memories and struggles with the fact she was the one who forced the protagonist into their role, by literally sealing the embodiment of Death within a child's psyche. Resigning herself to a life as a weapon, she attempts to defeat Nyx herself, only to lose and become badly injured. From this point on, Aigis begins to truly question her identity as a weapon or as a human being. As a weapon, she had failed in the sole reason for her existence. But even so, she found she wanted to live nonetheless, continuing alongside her friends even when things seemed hopeless. Protecting others becomes her new reason to live, a reframed version of her original purpose. 
 
WOO STORY SUMMARY OVER, but really her character development follows a very straight path in accordance with the plot of the game so it's unavoidable. Aigis's personality is seen in snippets early on; she is impressionable, naive, and extremely literal, all in line with her being a robot who's had little exposure to humans. She doesn't understand social cues or norms, even when they're explained to her, often taking the explanations too literally and coming to an even more non-sensical conclusion. She's prone to copying those around her, mostly by repeating their speech mannerisms or literally repeating them right after they've spoken. In this way, she at some times acts like a child, the kind of person who would absolutely see a character do a thing in a book and then attempt to do it herself. Aigis is extremely kind and worried about those around her, and she'll go out of her way to help others even if  this means chasing down a dying cat. 
 
As she develops, she becomes much more self conscious and frets over the fact she is not a real human. This becomes worse as she falls in love with the protagonist and realizes that her love extends beyond her selfless need to protect them. She's in fact become very selfish and jealous, wanting them to love her the same as a human, while believing she doesn't deserve it. When romanced by the female protagonist, she states that she knows the protagonist should be with a human man, and despite that, she wants to be with her more than anything else. This can be further seen in the Answer, when Aigis's human side splits into another robot. This other self is childish and needy, never wanting to be left alone, showing the feelings Aigis tries to hide.
 
At her canonpoint, Aigis is attempting to ignore her grief from losing the protagonist and accept her life as a weapon, even planning to quit high school and return to the lab. This is also a childish reaction, showing how Aigis can be very all-or-nothing. Either she gets her happily ever after with her love, or she might as well not be human. Add in the fact they died in her arms and she failed to protect them and well... extremely sad robot!

Abilities: Aigis is a weapon designed to destroy shadows, her entire body is made for combat. Being made of steel, it's difficult to damage her or kill her by normal means, as she is able to be repaired and rebuilt. Her body is loaded with firearms, most notably bullets that shoot out of her fingertips. While she's also occasionally shown with cannons and other weapons, I don't plan on using those in Expiation since they come out of nowhere and are mostly flashy for special attacks, rather than any narrative purpose.

As an anti-shadow weapon, Aigis is able to summon a Persona, one of the few ways of combatting shadows. Unlike other characters in Persona 3, she doesn't need to use an Evoker as the function is built into her body. At her canonpoint, she has awakened to her Ultimate Persona, Pallas Athena

Aigis is also capable of entering Orgia Mode, which buffs her stats for a short amount of time, though Aigis is unable to hear commands as she's acting on a sort of auto-mode. After using Orgia Mode, her body overheats and she is unable to move until recovering. 

Random robot abilities: she can speak with animals and doesn't need to eat or drink. 

Inventory:
  • Gekkoukan winter uniform
  • A ribbon given to her by the scientist Yuu Kimijima
  • A few rounds of ammo, stored in her body

Samples: Link... two! As they say. And three.

Questions: N/A
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