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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
APPLICATIONS
Applications are currently closed and will open at 12:01 AM PST on February 22nd.
Post your applications to this entry in the following format: First comment should contain the OOC information section only. Successive comments should be posted in reply to that comment, as many as you need. Moderator responses will be appended to the last comment of the application.
A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
APPLICATION TEMPLATE:
Please note that apps are processed in batches at the end of the application period!
IMPORTANT: Be sure to post your app with the journal you intend to use for the game!
Post your applications to this entry in the following format: First comment should contain the OOC information section only. Successive comments should be posted in reply to that comment, as many as you need. Moderator responses will be appended to the last comment of the application.
A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
APPLICATION TEMPLATE:
- OOC Information
Player name: [Your preferred name or handle here]
Player age and gender: [18+ folks only. Preferred pronouns go here, though please include one least one of he/she/they for the sanity of your mods and fellow players]
Player Contact: [Plurk, Discord, what have you]
Any other characters in game?
[THIS IS THE END OF YOUR FIRST COMMENT. EVERYTHING AFTER THIS GOES IN REPLIES TO THE FIRST COMMENT.]
IC Information
Character name: [Western order, please. Also if your character is a AU with a different name than the one they had in canon, please let us know!]
Character canon: [If your canon has multiple adaptations and you pull from one in specific, please note that. If your character is a CRAU, please note game they came from here!]
Canon point: [If your character is an AU, please include both their ORIGINAL CANONPOINT and their AU canonpoint. In the case of a CRAU, please note their canonpoint at their PREVIOUS GAME.]
Physical Description: [Image links are fine! Please also include your character's relative height and age!]
About the Character: [Tell us about your character! This is a freeform section for both history and personality, and we're looking for 500-2000 words. Please don't go too far under or overboard!]
Character abilities: [Include both supernatural abilities and more mundane ones, please! Details are good.]
Inventory: [What's on your character's person when they arrive, magically or otherwise?]
Samples: [Threads from the test drive are strongly preferred, but any thread of at least eight comments from your character will do.]
Please note that apps are processed in batches at the end of the application period!
IMPORTANT: Be sure to post your app with the journal you intend to use for the game!
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Player name: Claire
Player age and gender: 23, she/her
Player Contact:
Any other characters in game? Yuuri Wakasa (
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Character name: Erina Estival
Character canon: Original character, from an OC verse called "Synchronic Blade"
Canon point: About two months after starting to attend Estrella Academy
Physical Description:
Erina is a sixteen year old teenage girl, Caucasian but of pretty indeterminable nationality. She has blue eyes and long black hair that's mildly wavy and falls to the bottom of her back when she leaves it loose. Most of the time it's pulled up into either low ponytails or a high side pony. No matter what she does with it though, it always seems a little out of control with a handful of stray locks doing basically whatever the fuck they want to do.
She's fairly tall, standing at 5'8'' with most of that height in her legs. She's got an athletic build with toned muscles but it should be noted that her actual physical strength is pretty out of proportion to her her actual musculature.
Erina's PB is Aki Adagaki from the manga Masamune-kun no Revenge.
About the Character:
To save this app being seven billion words I'm going to do this in bullet points with a handy link to our full world build info entry RIGHT HERE.
◆ Some few hundred years before the beginning of the story, Earth is ravaged by an event known as the "Cascade", a shower of space debris that tears apart continents, wreaks environmental havoc and causes the flora, fauna and many of the species native to Earth to mutate and evolve at a rapid pace.
◆ This environmental damage (not to mention the mutated species) causes widespread desertification in some areas and generally makes everyday living pretty dangerous for the average human. In areas less affected by the disaster, a number of societies pool together their resources and begin to construct hi-tech, fortified megacities to better ensure their safety and survival.
◆ As eventually becomes apparent, the Cascade also gave birth to a new race of humans who eventually become known as "Synchronics". On top of being much stronger, faster and altogether better for combat than regular humans, Synchronics have the ability to resonate ("Sync") with fragments of the meteors that brought them into existence, further enhancing their own supernatural capabilities. Humankind uses this information to develop what in turn come to be called "Keys", weapons and tools that synchronize with compatible Synchronics and bring out their full strength and potential.
◆ The main action of SynBlade takes place in the megacity of Verdette, at one of many academies existing to train Synchronics in their unique abilities, Estrella Academy. Notable for its policy of refusing entrance to students who cannot achieve a baseline 20% Sync with a Key it nevertheless serves as the most well known and prestigious school for Synchronics.
◆ It is run by the Estrella Foundation who have... interesting views on how to further the progress of humanity. They hold a yearly battle tournament known as the Seven Sisters Tournament for the purposes of weeding out the Synchronics with the highest rate of compatibility for conversion into Keys.
◆ And this is where Erina finally comes in.
◆ Raised by a pair of Non-Combatant Synchronics, Erina was a dumb kid who thought Combatants were the Coolest Thing She'd Ever Seen and longed to be one herself. On her ninth birthday, Erina was (at her request) taken to see the finals of the Seven Sisters Tournament and immediately developed the world's hugest crush on that year's winner, Anetta Zweinter. The two of them manage to meet and speak briefly and Erina was inspired by Anetta's words to aim to attend Estrella Academy herself.
◆ After training her butt off during middle school (helped by her mother, who was one of the instructors), Erina tries out for Estrella Academy. She only just scrapes by the theoretical portion of her entrance exam but smashes through the practical section by achieving a 60% Sync rate with her Key on her first attempt. Unbeknownst to her, this instant connection is due to the fact that her Key contains the amnesiac soul of Anetta Zweinter who had been converted into a Key following the final Seven Sisters Tournament all those years ago. Unaware of the irony, Erina names her Key "Zweinter" after the Synchronic who inspired her, which she often shortens to just "Zwei".
◆ As per Estrella's policies, Erina is paired with the Synchronic Hilda Roth who becomes her partner and roommate going forward. Despite their near-constant sniping, the two of them form a... sort of friendship and in turn befriend a handful of other students in their dorm. Erina's point of entry into the game is around two months after she begins to attend Estrella Academy and has just started getting settled into her new life there.
Erina Estival is, first and foremost, a loudmouth.
Spend more than five minutes with her and you'll probably come up with a handful of other choice adjectives. Braggadocious, flippant, arrogant and eager to showboat... the list probably goes on. She’s also kind of a wise-ass. Snarks and light-hearted barbs are Erina's style and she speaks casually, with no concern for censoring herself. For the most part, she says what she means and always says what's on her mind – as such, she really can't stand people who dance around the things they want to say. She tends to view authority figures as a target rather than a superior to be at least grudge respected. Depending on your tolerance for her sort of nonsense, Erina can either be a good friend to shoot the breeze with or absolutely insufferable. Though the two aren't always mutually exclusive.
Her attitude, grating as it is, is part nature and part nurture. Her confidence doesn't come from nowhere – Erina has been training to be a Synchronic ever since she was a young child. While she isn't exactly a model student when it comes to sitting down and studying, combat is something that Erina sincerely enjoys and it shows. Though she likes to play the role of a slacker, she has a kind of discipline that most girls her age would struggle to maintain. She trains daily, eats healthy and works herself to the bone to make sure she's in tip-top Synchronic condition both mentally and physically. Her reflexes are sharp and she has a good instinct for how to conduct herself in a battle.
Unfortunately for Erina, all of her training can’t make up for the fact that she's still just an immature teenager and her age frequently betrays her. Her life and much of her self-image is rather ruled by a sort of hipster-ish desire to not come off as a try-hard. As a result, she's prone to self-sabotage and procrastination to achieve this and it should go without saying that this often comes back to bite her. The real issue is that Erina struggles quite badly with authenticity. For all her inability to filter herself when it matters, when it comes down to attempting mushy sincerity, she goes red and throws around barbs and insults before she can actually force herself to be honest.
But under all Erina's sharp edges and awkwardness, she's a much better person than she tries to let on. She likes to project the image of a couldn't-care-less dumbass but Erina cares fiercely, particularly about the people who put up with her nonsense long enough to be friends with her. Even outside of personal loyalties, she's fiercely devoted to doing what she can to right injustice and exploitation whenever she sees it happening.
Her determination to graduate Estrella Academy is the result of this mindset. While she was initially inspired by Anetta to consider attending it, her single-minded devotion to graduating comes from viewing it as a path to becoming someone who can help those in need. And this, at her core, is who Erina is: when the chips are down, her in-the-moment response will be to prioritize the safety of other people. If she sees a messy situation, Erina will go wading in with all guns blazing if it means sticking up for someone who needs a helping hand. She might talk all sorts of shit and put on a front of being uncaring and lackadaisical but she’ll conveniently always be there when she’s needed, always free if her presence is required and always ready to break someone over her knee if the situation calls for it. She's the sort of girl that you would under no circumstances trust with your wallet but you'd most certainly trust with your life.
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Just as a note, some of Erina's abilities are reliant on the presence of other Synchronics and will be basically dead on arrival in PhanRift. I've listed them anyway in case anyone else from the cast rocks up and anything Erina won't be able to use by herself is marked with a ◇ symbol.
◆ Synchronic: Erina is a Synchronic, which means she's genetically more geared towards combat and fighting than a regular human being. She's much tougher and faster and stronger than a regular brain her age and her brain basically hardwired for combat.
◆ Sync: Erina has what is essentially a symbiotic relationship with her two-handed sword – or rather, the soul occupying it. The two of them have a constant telepathic connection and Zwei essentially serves as a backup parter and 24/7 set of eyes for Erina.
◆ Combat Training: Like all other Synchronics from Estrella, Erina has been trained for combat since she was a tiny little Erina. Her area of expertise is two-handed swords, but she's reasonably competent with one-handed swords and shortswords.
◇ Resonance: Erina's unique ability as a Synchronic. She's unusually sensitive to the levels of Sync between other Synchronics and their keys and can tap into that connection as she sees fit. Because of this, she is able to hear and communicate with Keys that she isn't Synced with and can briefly mimic the Resonance of other Synchronics by piggybacking off their Sync.
Inventory:
◆ Estrella School Uniform: Erina's school uniform – a brown cardigan over a white blouse and gray skirt. It's tragically boring.
◆ Zweinter: Erina's Key, a two-handed sword, carried in a sheath on her back currently.
◆ Messenger Bag: A black messenger bag. Contains a slightly squished takeout cafeteria lunch, a bottle of soda and a lump of unfinished homework.
Samples:
TDM Toplevel
Tagging out to Asch
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Additionally, if you use a secondary journal for icon space or other purposes, please respond to this comment with it so that we can get it included!
For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
Flower Arrangement: A lovely bouquet of fresh flowers. They're held together with a neatly tied bow.
The Best of King: The Best of Queen, except as rendered by a female vocalist with a deep, soulful voice. Nothing about the lyrics has changed.