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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: Alex
Player age and gender: 25+ and he/him/they/them
Any other characters in game? Nope
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Character name: Akira Kurusu / Joker (Metaverse code name) / The Nagging (name he was assigned in last game)
Character canon: Persona 5 /
Canon point: Endgame / post-game
Physical Description: 17 years old / 5'9" / gray (or red, depending on whether or not he's Metaverse form) eyes / black hair
-Regular form (without glasses, since he lost those in his last game)
-Metaverse / battle form
About the Character: Canon history is here.
Early on, it’s established that Akira isn't the type of guy to just let someone innocent get hurt or killed. In his culture, it's perfectly fine for someone to keep their head down in the face of something such as that -- he didn't hesitate to demonstrate that he’s sort of an outlier. His time in the mall is far more intense and filled with far more pain than canon puts him through. Content warning for the below are (and mostly within the links provided): murder, suicide, survivor’s guilt, slit throats, death by crushing, suffocation, NSFW content / implications, and obviously some major P5 spoilers
NEW GAME: START
Just after he left with the thieves for the beach, Akira woke up to find himself trapped in a mall with fourteen other people. All he knew (thanks to missing memories) was that he'd been in a school festival and needed to get back home. Naturally, he was angry, and ended up taking it out on the Life Coach. Knowing that they were supposed to kill each other until only one remained didn't help.
The fact that he was stuck there with Goro Akechi, who he wound up in a relationship with (thanks to feelings aided by missing memories), didn’t help in his conflicts regarding the place. He would have already been worried, and yet he had a boyfriend on top of the list of people to be worried about.
And so when the first motive for murder was announced (which was “kill for money”), Akira was surprisingly conflicted on how to feel about it. For once, he wasn’t sure how to judge someone who’d be willing to kill. But, someone did kill after this motive, and wound up being executed for it – something which Akira didn’t handle seeing with the most grace. This was his first time seeing someone die (and it had been a matter of them being crushed to death)…
WEEK TWO
Then came the second week, which came with additional memories for Akira: Haru Okumura’s father dying during his press conference. And after Torri Feiji and Yuuri Katsuki were killed by Goro for the sake of protecting his secrets, as well as Akira’s, there was considerably more conflict in his mind and heart.
But, after the trial revealed that Goro murdered the two of them, as well as why (stated above), Akira didn't hesitate to fight alongside Kurama in an attempt to stop the execution. He was angry at Goro for what he did, and yet he knew it had been to keep the two of them alive. Of course, their attempts ended in failure, in the form of them being knocked out by a drug delivered by the executioner.
It was Kurama who pushed Akira into taking an actual moment to grieve the loss of his boyfriend, which led to Akira giving into the feelings he'd formed for the redhead. Initially, there was some guilt, but he did eventually remember Goro telling him (and vice versa) that he was okay with Akira being with someone, should he ever die.
WEEK THREE
In spite of having taken a moment to break down and actually cry, Akira still attempted to appear as fine as possible; he was determined to be strong for everyone else. Even when he discovered that he could talk to Goro's ghost, he stuck to questions that he hoped would lead to them getting out. And, when it came time for the motive, he did his best to comfort the others. Even though all he wanted to do was scream over it.
After Helena's sacrifice in an effort to bust through as many barriers as possible, he once again shoved all his feelings aside to hold a funeral of sorts.
When the death of Ren occurred, Akira attempted to ignore the gut feeling that it was Kurama who did it (he knew Kurama cared a lot about his mother, after all). When it seemed that Ren's death was a suicide, he latched onto that… which didn't prove to make any difference on reality. When the scent check proved that it was, in fact, Kurama, Akira immediately chose to fight to stop the execution…
… which did nothing. Kurama executed himself by utilizing his Title Power (put as mildly as possible, it allowed him to shoot himself in the heart).
But with the Fabricator's (the mole's) identity revealed (Croix Meridies), and her newfound determination to fight alongside the entire group, Akira was able to focus entirely on that, but--
WEEK FOUR
--after the loss of both Kurama and Goro, and with the addition of the memory of his "true canonpoint" (endgame, as opposed to only remembering up to pre-Goro Akechi's blackmail), it was a struggle. Akira had to put a lot of effort into forcing all of that beneath the surface, and he did have moments where he let them slip out. There were as many tears as there were hero speeches.
It was the motivation and drive of the entire group that led them through the final trials within the mall. It was (at the expense of sounding cliche) their determination and fighting spirits that helped them in the fight against the final boss (Yotsuyu).
After defeating Yotsuyu, they learned that they'd been taking part in what's called a Reaper's Game, and that the dead were now declared Reapers in some cases, and returned to life in other cases. Their memories had been taken prior to the game, but they'd all signed up for it for the sake of saving their respective worlds.
POST-MALL
Thus began Akira's journey alongside his boyfriends. Their first stop was Goro Akechi's timeline, where they met his version of Akira Kurusu. It was in this timeline, Goro was able to obtain four new Personas and Akira was able to fight alongside those three for a bit. He's currently learning to balance supporting his boyfriends with being more open himself. It's a frustrating juggling act, but he finds them worth the pain and struggle.
Character abilities: Due to his almost overwhelming number of skills, I made an entire post dedicated to them (for my own sanity, really).
The abilities obtained from the last game are:
Scanning
>> Allows him to tune into the thoughts of others and scan for Noise to battle.
Vacu Squeeze
>> Summoning a shadowy vortex, which is able to draw people/things into it and hold them in place for 20-30 seconds.
Pact
>> For one week at a time, he's able to form a pact with someone else who's in possession of a Player Pin. They're able to do more damage at the cost of sharing life force.
Fusion Attack
>> After forming a Pact with someone, he's able to perform a combined attack with them. This attack does a combination of their abilities and recovers some of their health. The power behind the attack is determined by the strength of their bond.
Inventory: Due to the way Hammerspace works in Persona games, his list is here.
Samples: TDM toplevel and tag-in.
CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED
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;
-> These glasses, wire-rimmed with pale blue lenses, allow the wearer to see at night as though in full sunlight.
-> This empty vial steams when the cork is removed. That seems to be all it does.
Condition: Due to your character's abilities, the mod team requires an easily located permissions/opt out post on your journal. Please leave a link to such a post in response to this comment.
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