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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!]
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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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OOC Information
Player name: Jisu
Player age and gender: 29/she
Player Contact:
Any other characters in game? No
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Character name: Mai Kawasumi
Character canon: Kanon (2006 anime by Kyoto Animation); CRAU (Airlocked)
Canon point: Last time we see her in the series (telling Yuuichi to go save Ayu) -> endgame of Airlocked
Physical Description: Image link. Mai is 19 and officially 167 cm (5'4.8").
About the Character: Mai grew up with her mother, who was always in and out of hospitals, and tried to keep high spirits; when her mom became tired quickly on her one day out and couldn't take animal lover Mai to the zoo as she'd promised, for instance, Mai made her own "zoo" of snow bunnies around the bench her mother had sat down to rest on. They tried their best to be happy, but Ms. Kawasumi's health declined, and the next thing they knew, she was in a hospital bed with family members and medical staff coming in and out until the readings went flat and everyone emptied out of the room but her crying child, begging for a miracle. Except that miracle actually happened, and when a nurse came in to collect Mai, she dropped her tray in shock finding the girl clinging to her mother, who was suddenly alive and in perfect health.
Magic in this world was mostly bred out of the population over the last thousand years, and while it and miracles existed, it wasn't common knowledge and was treated as freaky. Still, the family had medical bills, so Mai's aunt had the idea to sell the story to the media. Mai was led onto soundstages and shown injured animals, brought to tears and forced to heal them before the studio would let her leave, and broadcast as a miracle child across the nation. Unfortunately, the saying that the nail that sticks out gets hammered down applied here. Mai and her mother were bullied and ostracized as either freaks or con artists in equal measure, their apartment was vandalized, and they eventually had to leave town. Mai had trouble making friends in her new town, too, and the once happy and optimistic child worried that no one would ever want to be around her again. She finally made one friend, Yuuichi, a child a year younger who was staying with relatives for the summer, and told him about her powers after a while. He said he'd accept her, but then he had to go home the next day, and while his reason to leave was genuine, Mai had seen too many people make excuses to abandon her. She tearfully begged him to stay, and seeing that construction vehicles had come because the city had bought up the farmer's field they liked to play in, Mai made up a story that demons had come and they had to fight to protect the field. Yuuichi still had to leave, and Mai was alone.
Alone, again, because of her powers -- she had no way of knowing that Yuuichi actually did just had to go home, and while he'd come back that winter and again for the next three years until an unrelated tragedy kept him home after, there was no way for two kids in 1989 to find each other again with their old stomping grounds under construction and no other clues as to where they could be. Mai felt she'd been abandoned again and she couldn't bear for it to continue happening. She rejected and repressed the powers her loved ones had called miraculous and the world had called an aberration, the emotions that made her vulnerable, and any hope she had for a better future. However, it turned out that Mai's power wasn't just to heal the sick and injured. Her power made ideas into reality. With that level of repression and pushing back against everything she was, she unconsciously made invisible "demons" appear in the field, causing destruction and delaying construction for years. Mai didn't know why the demons appeared, but she was determined to fight them alone if she had to, and would break into the construction site and fight them with a wooden sword that would magically work like a real one.
This continued as the high school they were building was finally finished and Mai attended it, fighting in the halls at night with a plastic sword. She would be blamed for damage the demons caused and was ostracized again. By this point, Mai refused to fight back, allowing them to scapegoat her. Her excuse was that nobody would believe her if she told the truth, but in reality, she not only feared that they'd believe and still hate her, she believed she deserved every bit of that suffering. She also researched anything she could about supernatural phenomena, made friends with exactly one person, a lonely rich girl named Sayuri, and became dedicated to protecting her. In her third year, a new student moved in, Aizawa Yuuichi, who by chance saw Mai fighting demons at night and who was surrounded by supernatural things. Mai took an interest even as she tried to tell him to be safe and stay away, he became a good friend to her and Sayuri, and he even started helping her to become more popular -- until demons attacked in public and the student council president, who had it out for Mai, blamed her because it's easier to just rewrite an incident of "invisible monsters broke stuff, girl with sword broke more stuff killing them to save us" in your mind as "girl with sword went crazy and broke stuff" if you don't believe in invisible monsters. Mai nearly got expelled over this. Douchebag.
After this, Mai shut herself off from her two (2) friends in the entire world, but they kept trying to reach out to her. She noticed that the demons would target Yuuichi over her, so relented and taught him to fight, but kept pushing Sayuri away; however, when Mai didn't show up to her own birthday celebration in an attempt to chase Sayuri off, Sayuri instead showed up to the school, having figured out where Mai was going at night, and was mauled by demons. They rushed Sayuri to the hospital, and when Mai nearly killed herself in grief over what pushing her friend away had done, Yuuichi stopped her and said if the demons were the problem, they'd deal with them that night. This nearly worked, except when Yuuichi finally noticed that every time Mai killed a demon, it would put black bruise-like marks on her body, he discovered that the demons were part of Mai. The last fragment of her repressed self, Mai's hope, manifested as a young Mai and told him the truth, and the both of them realized that Yuuichi was the same Yuuichi she'd known as a child. Confronted with the reality of her friend and the demons, Mai couldn't handle it and stabbed herself in the heart. However, Yuuichi's grief as she was dying and her own hope still hanging on used Mai's power to bring herself back to life. She was sent to hospital to recover with Sayuri until another miracle, which would take ten more paragraphs to explain, healed them to full.
Since Mai had missed entrance exams, she was going to spend a year studying for next year, but a while into that year, a plant alien named Nina had other plans. She was kidnapping people from across space and time to force them to kill each other, testing out secret cutting-edge technology that made death temporary and could upload minds to virtual reality simulations, and sell the recordings as fiction. This meant wiping their memories and then restoring them piece by piece, in Mai's case undoing her self-acceptance and progression from "seems completely emotionless and represses everything" to "shows slight emotion and is getting used to being honest with herself and others." Since her power had recovered over time, when a motive in the murder mansion restored people's nerfed abilities, the demons returned with Mai rejecting her power and emotions again and killed someone she'd started to grow fond of. Mai, the Champion Scapegoat, was executed as the first culprit, even as the others didn't want to kill her.
In the simulation the dead's minds were trapped in, Mai made friends and slowly recovered her memories, and over time, ended up relearning that people might not all hate her for her powers and how to like herself and -- as her eventual girlfriend said -- how to be a person again. By the time her surviving friends had escaped the network and blown up the mansion, Mai felt that she had hope again, and gratefulness that she was still accepted led her to go from vengeful over whoever had hurt any of her friends to learning to accept others who had done bad things in turn (see: dating her round's hate sink because she saw there was still good in her). There was still a lot of time to go, and while Mai tried her best to help the others who had found themselves dead in Nina's clutches (and occasionally clashing with them, like when enemies of her friends showed up), she had to learn to wait for rescue when she'd always regretted running out of patience for a friend who hadn't abandoned her after all.
The one thing that defines Mai is dedication. She refuses to give up on something she's set on doing, even if it's for a long time and even if she's got nobody in her corner; she's used to that, after all, going for ten years fighting demons on a construction site and then in a school and being blamed for everything they do. If someone does show that they're on her side, she'll become completely devoted to protecting them, doing whatever she thinks is the best thing to keep them safe. She may not be well-spoken, but she's a good ally to have. Even with no support, she picks up things by herself, figuring them out on her own, and over time, her aforementioned devotion to causes makes her get better and better. Her swordsmanship is completely self-taught, as are her battle strategies, which focus on hitting the enemy and protecting others rather than keeping herself safe. She often fights through injuries and takes tremendous risks, but she's learned to put some stock in her own well-being and to rely on her friends. Her dedication has proven detrimental too, with her finding one thing to devote her life to and then being unable to go on without it; this has led to breakdowns and suicide attempts in the past, though at least she's better off now that she has friends and general hope for the future.
Mai was very emotional and repressed all that to seem emotionless, but just because she's in a better place doesn't mean she knows what to do with her face now. She still defaults to few expressions and few words, but will talk more and emote a little, and she will still snap to a full-on emotional breakdown when things get bad enough. Mai's also prone to being unintentionally funny just because she deadpans at everything and doesn't react to things she probably should. Living in a small apocalypse society in deadland has done wonders for Mai's willingness to let other people help her instead of trying to do everything by herself, though. Even so, she can still be very careless and self-sacrificial because she hasn't quite gotten to the "valuing herself as a person" bit yet. It's taking a while.
Character abilities:
-Mai's main power is to heal. She can heal herself and others and, since childhood, has even been able to bring people, animals, and plants back from the dead. Her self-destructive quest against the demons weakened her, but now that she's accepted her power, it's recovering; however, her personal hangups make her hesitate to heal anyone.
--Her own body healing is also boosted by technology, the nanites pumped into her blood by InterGal 7, so she'll recover from things easier even if she's not using her power. These nanites are also said to boost or give psychic powers as an artificial equivalent of the component that gives people native to the setting the power of the Flavour, but this hasn't been seen in most of the characters, so we'll just not deal with that because Mai would already be OP if she didn't have so many issues.
-There's another major component to Mai's power: her will makes things real. The first instance of this you notice is that her sword is just a drama prop but she makes it work like a real one to kill demons and wreck everything. A bigger one is the whole demon thing, where they were doing things specifically to cause trouble for Mai (breaking stuff that she gets blamed for and trying to kill her loved ones), because they were a manifestation of how much she hated herself.
-Mai is very physically capable; she's agile enough to do flips off rooftops, runs through hallways regularly, and taught herself how to fight with a sword (and eventually got pointers from people who actually had professional training). The only drawback is that, because she doesn't value her own safety very much, she will often neglect her health.
-In what I headcanon was a desperate search for anyone like her, Mai has researched everything she can about the supernatural, and so she can tell at a glance if someone isn't normal (she recognized Makoto and Ayu, who both look completely normal, as a kitsune and an ikiryou with a single conversation each when even they didn't know).
-She's learned to cook better rather than rely on instant and/or gifts, and now Mai can forage and cook all kinds of things, though most of the recipes she knows are either theme park food or weird concoctions from the food-obsessed pirate planet Flavourtown.
Inventory:
-Plastic Sword: A European-style sword that can't even cut fruit, much less people. "Property of Eastern High Drama Department" is written on the handle in small letters. There's a chip where the tip would be.
-Palette Swap's Dress: A mauve dress over a beige long-sleeved shirt, plus a greyish jacket and orange-red scarf, all very muted.
-Ribbon: A large lavender ribbon. Can't fight if your hair's flying everywhere.
Samples:
American goths lie in piles.
It's strange. I hated my power before. But all of you... I want it back. All of it.
CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE
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;
-> A string of rope lights that change from red to blue and back over the course of thirty seconds or so.
-> A small glass bottle of shimmering butterfly wings that glow with a faint crimson light. The bottle itself is warm to the touch, heated by its contents.
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. (Abilities in question: Supernatural identification; possibly parts of Mai's make-it-real abilities that could affect other characters' minds, if any.)
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