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APPLICATIONS
Apps will open on June 23rd at 11:59 am EST
Player Cap: 30/70
| 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. |
Kazutora Hanemiya | Tokyo Revengers | RESERVED
Contact: ozturknf #9933
Age: 36
Current Characters: N/A
Link to Reserve: Here!
Character Name: Kazutora Hanemiya
Character Canon: Tokyo Revengers (Nightfell CRAU)
Canon Point: This is taken from the Nightfell CRAU, where he came from a few months after being jailed for his second murder.
Age: 15, born Sept 16, 1990
Crime: Kazutora is currently in jail in his original canonpoint, for murder. His second murder. He went to jail the first time for the murder of his friend Mikey’s brother, Shinichiro, at the age 12, and he spent three years there in juvie. The entire time, he became obsessed with the idea that Mikey was actually at fault for Shinichiro’s death, and by the time he came out, his sole goal was to kill Mikey. In an attempt to do that, however, he instead stabbed and killed his best friend, Baji, and now is spending a sentence of ten years for that crime. He feels incredibly guilty for both of those murders and would do anything to turn back time.
Background: 1 , 2
For the Nightfell CRAU, Kazutora spent less than a month there building friendships, seeking jobs, and looking for a place to live. His most notable CR was with Mikey. He found him as an adult, 12 years into the future of what he knew, downtrodden and depressed beyond recognition. Kazutora wanted to help him, which is in stark contrast to the view he’d always had of wanting to murder Mikey, not only because he was now in therapy and learning to be a better person, but also because he always knew of Mikey as having strength beyond strength. He couldn’t stand that he just wanted to die..
The decision to want to help Mikey, to be a beacon of light for him when for so many years he was a well of darkness, was a massive development for Kazutora. He’s choosing now to listen to people, to repent for what he’s done, and to be someone others can lean on. But not too below the surface he is still rife with his own demons, and it doesn’t take much to scratch them out.
In addition to that, Kazutora had just gotten in contact with Baji, his best friend and the boy he stabbed and killed in a fit of rage over a perceived betrayal. He is desperate to help fix his relationship with Baji and to make up for the many horrible things he’d done to him or gotten him involved in.
Personality: Kazutora is a mentally unstable but kind boy who looks out for others, holds loyalty above all else, and will murder without much of a second thought if his friends were in danger.
He grew up in a broken home; his father was terribly abusive to both him and his mother, merely because he wanted to teach them discipline and to not be disappointments, despite the fact that hey would never do anything to trigger him. His mother eventually divorces the father, but she makes Kazutora promise to chose her side before doing so, further manipulating him. Once the family was broken, he barely had contact with his mother, who was always busy working and rarely at home; when she was home, she wouldn’t even pay attention to him.
On top of that, Kazutora was used by his group of friends as a money bag, the friend who would pay for things even though nobody wanted him around for anything else. One fateful night, he met and got into a fight with Baji, a rough around the edges, pure hearted boy who would show him how to defend himself and what real friendship meant.
Because of these experiences, Kazutora is overall a kind but guarded individual. He doesn’t do well with groups, even having trouble at times with his own gang, which was founded to protect him from another gang. But he does do well with individuals. He is naturally violent and tends to react in violence without thinking. With that said, however, he wants very much to help people in need, especially those he can relate to who were or are still in such a horrible mental space as he used to be.
He is easily triggered by disloyalty, by seeing familial bonds, and by disappointing someone he cares for. At this point in his canon he is working very hard to overcome his traumas, real and misconceived, taking into consideration the things his therapist has told him. But he’ll go so far as to murder someone he thinks has betrayed him, even if that person is the most beloved person in his life.
Kazutora doesn’t like families or the concept of families, particularly happy ones, and gets irrationally unhappy when that subject is at hand. He was abused by his family and is disgusted by the sight of any family that seems happy and content.
Before going back to jail and starting therapy, Kazutora had the philosophy that he was a hero so long as he killed his enemies. He used this as a motto for his life and to suit his delusions that he hadn’t killed Shinichiro, Mikey had. He needed this delusion to persist in order to survive. While at this point in his canon he no longer has those delusions, he may still find that philosophy suitable in his life.
Kazutora doesn’t like to rely on anyone, choosing instead to fight his own battles and to protect himself. But secretly he yearns for someone to come and save him, to be the hero for him that he thought he had to be for himself. After Mikey and Baji save him from the Black Dragons, he learns to rely a little more on others, but he still struggles with the concept.
Abilities:
GO FIGHT KILL
Kazutora is a normal human, with no special powers or abilities. He is, however, an objectively capable fighter, which is enhanced by the fact that at twelve years old he suffered a mental break after murdering the brother of the friend he most admired, by accident, to protect the identity of another friend. Unable to handle the burden of that reality, he mentally shifted the blame for it onto the friend he admired; Mikey; and decided the only way to resolve the rotten feelings inside of him was to snuff Mikey out with death, too. All of this to say, Kazutora, while a normal, average teen with above-average fighting skill, has no inhibitors — this functions as a skill all on its own. At age twelve, when he thinks his friend Baji is in danger, he picks up a metal pipe and hits a much older man over the back of the head in a moment of unbridled violence. This unbridled violence “mode” his sick mind sometimes snaps him into leads to Kazutora using weapons effectively and brutally. Almost anything can be a makeshift weapon for him in this state. He snaps into this state when he decides someone is an “enemy”, going to far as to join a rival gang for a chance to kill Mikey with a pipe, and mistaking Baji for a traitor and stabbing him in the back with a long knife. After these hellacious moments often come “clarity” moments where he regrets or can’t cope with what he’s done. In other words: Kazutora is just an athletic, violent teenager, used to fighting and fairly good at it. But when he gets “furious” or decides to kill or feels abandoned, he’ll lose all inhibitors, becoming a brutal fighter who uses weapons effectively, aiming for kill shots. Admittedly, he also goes down fairly easy, so he’s only really effective in sneaky, unkind attacks where the victim isn’t suspecting it. He’d fall to most powerful characters in game, and his lack of inhibition makes him reckless and easy to overpower.
SUVIVOR
Kazutora can take a lot of punishment. Part of this is his lack of inhibition when he feels he deserves punishment or can’t fight his way out of his mental disturbia; part of this is because he spent the last three years with the most brutal of brutal in Tokyo, living in a murderer’s wing of a juvenile prison and learning to survive there by any means necessary, bent on his revenge. He also grew up in a household rife with physical and emotional abuse, watching his father beat his mother, and being emotionally manipulated by his mother into picking sides. This trauma led to his ability to “cope” by taking punishment and meting it out. It’s important to note that in future canon, of which this canon point is just the beginning of, Kazutora dedicates himself to repenting through therapy and actually gives up violence and learns to cope with his demons. He may (I hope) eventually work to this in-game as well, at which point he will probably lose (slowly) all of the above skills and be akin to just a normal person with a heinous and PTSD-studded background. In addition, Kazutora is great at stealth and breaking in, using his skills to infiltrate without detection. He can also ride a motorcycle and has basic knowledge of bike maintenance.
Inventory: Kazutora would be wearing prison scrubs but would otherwise have nothing else on him. He has a medium cut black hair with blond streaks, a beauty mark under his left eye, and a black and white, ink-style tattoo of a tiger on his right neck down past his shoulders. He would come with one earring – a gold ball on a chain that rattles when he moves.
Samples:
Mikey on Nightfell
Baji on inbox
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