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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!
Marla Sanzashi | Pokemon OC, Demeleier/Cosmographia CRAU
Player name: Indy
Player age and gender: 26, she
Player Contact:
Any other characters in game? Not at the moment.
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Character name: Marla Sanzashi
Character canon: Pokemon OC, but also Demeleier + Cosmographia CRAU
Canon point: After things start going to shit in Cosmographia (so, endgame, but that never got off the ground after the game died.)
Physical Description: A first impressions post! Marla is a pouty-lipped 20-year-old girl of about 5'6'' with a brown pixie cut, a sandy sort of skin tone, and bluish-grayish-hazely eyes with slightly bluish sclera. Her build is fairly androgynous and slender, and there's not a whole lot of muscle tone on her. Oh, and also, there’s a huge faceted copper-toned gem shoved into her chest.
Also as far as facial features go I kinda have an idea.
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Marla had a pretty uneventful childhood by Pokemon world standards (by a certain definition), as she grew up with her two parents, her younger sister. and two older half-siblings. She was also born with a mild to moderate bone disease that left her unable to explore the entire region to the same extent a lot of other kids would, so she mostly stayed in school. Marla doesn’t have too many complexes over her disability, and is honestly more self-conscious and salty when people make judgments on her over it than she is about the condition itself - which she just views in a “yeah it sucks, but what are you gonna do” kind of way.
After finishing high school, she received a scholarship to study abroad in Kalos. After a few weeks, she received an email from her mom with some harrowing news: her maternal grandparents had been found dead.
So on her mother's request, she decided to head over to her grandparents' house with her siblings to help with funeral stuff. This started off relatively painless at first...until she started cleaning out a bedroom and found some spooky ghosts which dragged her into a blood-spattered feverdream. Most of thid has to do with the fact that Marla's maternal aunt (also the biological mother of Marla's two older siblings that Marla's mother subsequently adopted) died years and years ago, only to be turned into a ghost Pokemon of some sort and in the middle of an existential crisis.
Things are kind of boring on the CRAU front here, mostly because I apped into both games as they were experiencing a bit of a downturn. Demeleier closed a mere three months after Marla was accepted, but the few months she spent there taught her to be more self-sufficient: she went from being an ordinary teenager with no idea how to do shit to one who was still maybe flailing around and sucking at life, but who had more of a drive to do things herself and more resourcefulness when it came to things like building shit. During this time she also found her formerly trusting nature crushed to dust as she had to deal with the fact that fairies lie and trick people all the time. She’s still a little salty and on edge because of it.
In Cosmographia, this self-sufficiency grew even more as she was asked to deal with obstacles on her own. The addition of actual powers, for the first time, has made her a bit more confident in this regard, although she’s still somewhat reluctant to do more intensive dungeon-crawling things out of a fear of biting off more than she can chew. Still, she did help take down a giant hawk and play with some babby hawk...griffin things, which she does remember fondly. Dealing with gem bullshit has also given her a fairly blase outlook on things other people would normally consider terrifying, although a lot of this is left over from the Pokemon universe she came from.
Due to her caring nature that’s wrapped under a thousand layers of stupid, but also the fact that she comes from the Pokemon universe, Marla has a natural affinity for animals and monsters of all stripes.
BOY HOWDY, this is depressing, but one fact remains as I write this app: Marla is someone who had a happy childhood and a loving family that she more or less had healthy relationships with...only for all of that to be cruelly torn away from her once she got thrusted into panfandom RP. Without her support network to fall back on, her tendency towards depression has gotten notably more pronounced, even as she insists that she’s just fine, don’t worry about it.
Being in jamjars for this long, particularly since both had been in a series of drops during her time there, has also left her somewhat reluctant to form long-term relationships with anyone there. Why become close to anyone when they’re just going to disappear on you? In Cosmographia, this has affected a few of her fusions: while she’s been able to do this a few times, they’ve never been that powerful or stable. She’s still very much at a point in her life where she’s trying to figure out what the hell she’s doing and what she wants out of life, so I’m hoping that building CR here will help her either figure that out, or realize that life doesn’t necessarily need to have a purpose.
Marla’s also grown just a tad more cynical and petty over the past couple of years - she’s still not the most violent person out there, but if she decides she doesn’t like you and you tell her not to do something...well, guess what she’s doing. Her naturally rude, hyper-casual, and abrasive way of dealing with people also usually doesn’t have any ulterior motives behind it, but she’ll kick it up a notch when dealing with people she doesn’t like. It’s like a cloak of armor, defending her from the stings of the outside world by making everyone pass her off as an irreverent schlub so that she doesn’t have to deal with them on a deeper level unless she puts forth a little more effort.
She's also a highly creative and excitable little nerd at heart, with a penchant for arts and crafts and weird performance stuff. This is exemplified with her career as a fledgling Let's Player at home, her secret love for Pokemon musicals, and her organization of the haunted house event in Cosmo.
That doesn’t mean that there’s absolutely nothing in this world (or the multiverse) that Marla cares about. The few people who did make some progress in cracking her shell (Haruka, Amelie) are some of the people she’s made the fondest memories with, and even after everything, she does prioritize her friends (and her family, both adopted and not) over everything else.
So once she decides she likes you? She’s never going to turn her back.
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Some highlights:
-Fluent in Japanese, English, ASL, and JSL, and kinda sorta fluent in French
-has the ability to transmute objects into other objects, as long as she has the raw materials required.
-can briefly stun enemies for a couple of minutes, but can only do this once every 10 minutes
-can shapeshift. She can hold a form indefinitely of she's humanoid, but struggles with animals/Pokemon.
-Can do a brief analysis of monsters.
Inventory:
-The clothes on her back.
-Dolly
-Stella
-Julius Sour Cream Potaternator XVI, who is a boy, thank you very much.
-A cane
-Approximately 35 goldfish, all of which are individually wrapped in little baggies.
-A small bag of weed
-A perfectly intact order of fish and chips in a takeout box, along with a bottle of fizzy lemonade.
-An individually wrapped serving of what looks like HoHos, from a convenience store.
Note that all Pokemon are in their balls.
Samples: I guess this is a toplevel
IT’S NOT WEED YOU PIECE OF SHIT STONER
ACCEPTED
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For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
-> Someone's notebook full of fashion design sketches. If you found someone who could sew, some of these would be pretty nice.
-> A box of Theat Wins, which appear to be a popular-theater based fruit snack from an alien planet where people really, really like opera, and hold reality TV contests about it. The shapes are all the faces of winning contestants.
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