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nextgen_mod ([info]nextgen_mod) wrote in [info]nextgen_ooc,
@ 2009-05-08 23:27:00


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Application Post
So, you want to apply to [info]marvel_nextgen? Great!

A few things first.

Alternate Universe and Time displaced kids are welcome. As are totally original characters. Not every mutant or Avenger is going to have parents that were mutants or Avengers. So feel free to use your imagination!

While we gladly accept applications for X-Men and Avengers, we encourage applications for Eternals, Defenders, Inhumans, Asgardians, and other characters off the beaten path.

We also welcome Canon kids. IE Franklin Richards, Luna Maximoff and older versions of any super kid. Like say, Power Pack, Valeria Richards, Kevin Masterson, Ahura Boltagon and the like. Also adult versions of any Canon Teenagers are welcome. As are canon characters and villains in their adult incarnations. (Ie: Julian Keller, Kate Bishop, Tommy Shepherd, Billy Kaplan, Nico Minoru...)

We're taking advantage of the wonderful sliding timeline policy of Marvel, so if your character's birth date/age doesn't quite work out, it can easily be modified.

Please give us at least 24 hours to look at your application. We will email you when the app is approved. Once it's accepted, you can jump right in. If we have any problems or questions with any applications we'll contact you for clarification.

In some situations a sample with another player may be required.

The game focuses on the next generation of heroes and the kids are the ones out being the superheroes. The adults for the most part are starting to retire and passing the torch to the kids, so if you are looking to play an adult, be advised that in this game they are mostly support roles and plot devices.

The process:
The first step is to fill out an application.(Please check with the team admin to see if there is room on the team you want to join)
Your application will be reviewed by the mods.
In the case that you are applying for a character on a team, the application will be reviewed by the team members.
If your character is related to another character in the game, the relatives will also get to review the app.
A mod will notify you if it has been accepted, declined or if more information is needed.
The mods may ask you to clarify certain things (concept, powers, purpose) in your app. This is nothing personal, it is just the mods and team members trying to better understand the app.

Some basic rules:

1. If you are apping a sibling/parent of a character in the game, the player(s) of those characters get approval/veto rights on the app. We require you to discuss the character idea with the other players before apping the character you want to play. If you don't know who is playing a certain character please ask a mod. The list of characters and their relatives is here

2. If you are apping a cousin or other distant relative to a character/characters already in game, the player(s) of the character gets to review the app and provide feedback.

If you can't contact a player, feel free to contact the mods and we'll answer any questions you have!

3. Please do not give names, gender or ages to siblings of canon-pairing characters. This is to allow greater flexibility for people interested in picking up a sibling or parent. A vague reference like "Character X has three other siblings." is fine.

It is okay to give names, gender and ages to siblings of characters who have non-canon parents.

4. Apping Characters just to "hook up with someone" - Please do it somewhere else. This is a game for people who are interested in more than just hooking their character up with another character. While it is natural for characters to start dating and otherwise participate in physical relationships, it should not be the main purpose of the character and it is not the main focus of the game.


We accept applications for heroes, villains, parents and other adults.

We will accept applications for Original NPCs (Next generation of - Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Masters of Evil, Serpent Societly, MLF, etc) seen here.


Notes:
Xavier's is not publicly known as a place for mutants. There is an underground in place to direct mutants to Xavier's.

Avengers are listed in the phone book and publicly known. Characters can directly contact them.

List of used PBs http://marvelnextgen.wetpaint.com/page/PBs

NextGen Application (Canon and OC)

Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ:
Email:
AIM (if you have one):
Character Name:
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight):
Age:
Birthday:
PB: (If using one.)
Abilities:
Weaknesses and flaws:
Character location/Home:
Alignment (villain, hero etc):
Relatives (living/dead?):
Backstory:
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?:
What are you planning to do with this character?
What do you want to see happen with this character?:

Sample post:



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[info]rabbitfromahat
2009-09-11 09:58 am UTC (link)
Player (nickname, handle)/ LJ: Melanie
Email: miles.ahead.of.me [at] gmail.com
AIM (if you have one): MilesAheadOfMe
Character Name: Summer Morgan
Character LJ (if applicable): rabbitfromahat
Physical description (face, build, weight): 5'6", 125 lbs, blonde hair, brown eyes, athletic build
Age: 23
PB: Jennifer Ellison
Abilities: Low level telepathy and illusion projection. She can produce incredibly realistic illusions and uses her low-level telepathy to make them even more believable in her magic show. Make fire "feel" hot, ice "feel" cold, etc. She also uses this combination to perform seances in her magic show, pulling images of the deceased from her clients minds and projecting the images as manifestations.

She also knows the stock magic trick set. Card tricks, juggling, knife throwing, etc.
Weaknesses and flaws: She's had no formal training with her powers. Everything she knows, she learned by trial and error. Her illusions are fairly effortless, but she must use a lot of energy and concentration to use her telepathy to make them believable (mostly the tactile ones that should have heat, scent, etc.) unless it is an illusion/telepathy combination she's had a lot of practice with like the ones she uses in her act. She's also a little bit reckless.
Character location/Home: Travels with a magic show. Is staying in New York for the time being.
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Neutral, but mostly inclined to good.
Relatives (living/dead?): Heather Morgan (mother, living), Donald Morgan (father, living), Christopher Sharpe (partner, living)
Backstory: The Morgans never thought, when they welcomed their little girl into the world, that she would ever be anything beyond the special and unique that every parents thought of their new baby. Summer experienced a relatively normal childhood growing up in the chilly winters of Northern Michigan.

But, as she got older, strange things began happening around their little girl. They began seeing things that simply couldn't be there. Fires would appear and blaze hot only to vanish seconds later, leaving no trace of heat behind. Animals charged through their apartment living room, paws and hooves thundering to shake the floor, before disappearing. Summer was always nearby looking just a little too self-satisfied. Not a "bad child", Summer still managed to be a handful for her parents over the years. Her practical joking nature often led her to trouble.

Just days after graduating high school (not without incident), Summer attended a carnival at the local fairgrounds. It was every bit a run of the mill traveling show. Most of the attendees showed varying degrees of boredom. Until the magic show. The magician, a man named Christopher Sharpe schilling poor imitations of Copperfield like tricks, went through all of the usual motions but found the results much changed that day. When he pulled his white rabbit out of a top hat, a dozen rabbits emerged and bounced all throughout the audience, into laps, over feet, under chairs... until they all paused at once and vanished into puffs of multicolored smoke. "Real" fire shot from the tip of his wand and rain clouds burst over the stage to put it out and when the clouds vanished, the stage was dry again.

Baffled but delighted, he caught Summer's eye as she sat laughing in the front row. She was clearly enjoying every moment of the show and not surprised in the least at what she was seeing. He knew, in that moment, that she was his ticket out of the run down show and into something bigger.

They left her home town that weekend and set out on the road with their own show. At first, he took the stage alone with Summer in the wings casting the illusions to delight the audience. Eventually, she talked her way onto the stage herself. Her pretty face and flare for drama brought in even more money than his initial show idea had and so Christopher retired to run the business aspect of the show while Summer performed under the stage name Morgaine.

After five years of non-stop travel and magic tricks, Summer has begun to think that, perhaps there might be more to life. She also thinks that Christopher might not be so quick to let his meal ticket go.

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[info]rabbitfromahat
2009-09-11 09:58 am UTC (link)
How do you plan to introduce the character to the game?: Her traveling show will make a stop in the city.
What are you planning to do with this character? What do you want to see happen with this character?: I'd like to see her learn to develop her powers more effectively and possibly get involved with the X-Men side of things. Probably in some kind of back-up manner.
Sample post:

The house was packed and the crowd was enthralled. Summer was working her magic on them in every sense of the word. She'd charmed them with her jokes and pretty smile, and she'd wowed them with her illusions. There was not a bored face in the bunch as she went through her routine.

She was on a roll.

"For my final trick, I'll need a volunteer from the audience." She beamed a dazzling smile as she looked over the various hands raised. Someone sturdy looking and just a touch skeptical... that college boy with the sports jersey in the back. He'd do nicely.

She pointed and he surged to his feet, paused a moment to slap high fives with the similarly jersey'd boys at his table, and then made his way to the stage while his compatriots hooted and hollered their encouragement. Summer stood with a bland smile plastered on her face as she watched him approach. So easy.

"What's your name, friend?" She gestured wide to the audience to indicate he should speak loudly so the room could hear. And speak loud he did. Brash and mildly intoxicated, the young man roared that his name was Freddie and then howled a cheer for his football team.

So very easy.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid Freddie will be absent from your next ball game." She gave the audience an exaggerated, pouty, sad face as she stepped over to her magical equipment and picked up a length of opaque, black silk about the size of a bed sheet. She held it up in front of her face, veil-like, for a moment before lowering it to show her 1,000 watt smile had returned.

"Because, you see, I'm about to set him on fire."

The audience roared and cheered while Freddie at least had the good sense to look a little unsure. She smiled at him as she stood beside him holding the silk in two hands. After a moment, a drum roll was played over the speakers and the crowd quieted.

"The old ones are the best ones, folks. Say it with me now: Abracadabra!" She and the crowd chanted the word together three times and on the third repetition, she swung the cloth with matador flair, covering Freddie from head to toe. A second later, she whipped it off again and Freddie appeared covered head to toe this time in crackling flames. He didn't have time to draw a panicked breath before Summer slung the cloth back over him, shouted the magic word once more, and then removed the cloth again just as quickly. The flames were gone.

The crowd that had been stunned into silence by the flames erupted into cheers as Freddie blinked in astonishment at his undamaged form. Summer took a bow and then blinked at Freddie in mock consternation.

"Oops!" She pointed and drew the audience's attention to Freddie's jersey, now sporting the opposing team's logo. Laughter rolled over the two of them on the stage as she shook her head. "Poor Freddie. Let me get that for you."

She swung the cloth once more, smirking just slightly when Freddie flinched, and then whipped it off again. The removal motion was so wide that the cloth moved from covering him to covering her. In the span of a breath, the cloth fell to a puddle on the floor. Freddie's shirt was returned to its original state and Summer was gone.

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