[mod] (ls_mod) wrote,
@ 2009-05-14 18:48:00

Entry tags:

[applications]
[ application ]

.o1 There is a limit to two characters per person.

.o2 Please remember that this roleplay is based in modern-day Tokyo, Japan.

.o3 If you're having trouble deciding on a character, here's a list of needed/requested characters. There's also a reservations post here.

.o4 Make sure you read both the faq and rules before applying!

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Name: {real, alias, or nickname}
LJ Username: (a real journal is required here. a code is provided for you.)
Age: {your age}
AIM Screename: {required}
Past RP Experience: {you can use any example here. a snip from past logs or links to other communities you've been in. anything that shows us you've roleplayed before.

Character's Name:
Character's Age:
Character's Model: {whom you wish to portray your character; also known as your PB. please supply name and a sample image}
Year in School: {freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. if character is not in college, what are they doing that keeps them in the surrounding area?}
Major / Minor: {if applicable; if your character hasn't decided, say so} [see below]*
Clubs / Activities / Job?: [see below]*

Background History: {minimum 300 words - nothing is truly 'canon' in an alternate universe setting such as this. so feel free to go wild and use your imagination to it's fullest capability! creativity is very important here. if you plan on playing a character that depends on another for some aspects of plot [ex: Hyuuga / Zabuza-Haku / Orochimaru-Kabuto / Madara-Tobi-Izuna] do not write them in unless the character exists already in the community and you have planned something out with them. with that in mind, keep mentioning of another character in your application down to a minimum. your application is all about your numero uno character and that is the one we want to see the most out of.}

Personality/Likes & Dislikes: {minimum 300 words - there's bound to be quite a bit about your character that makes them a special snowflake. you have your chance to tell us about it right here. what are their talents or aspirations? details and more details, please. what makes them who they are and why? describe their personality to a tee. paint a picture with your summary and assume that you are the only one who knows everything about this character.}

Writing Sample: {minimum 300 words each - our requirement is for you to write both a first and third person sample in order to show your grasp on the character in the two formats that dominate the community. prompts are optional as they are only there to help aid you with the writing examples. feel free to be as imaginative as possible.}

Prompts:
- Interview
- Out past curfew
- This one time at ___ camp...
- First day of class / work / etc,.

First Person

Third Person

Other Notes:
Any Questions:

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Copy this:
Name: LJ Username: [For Scribbled: <lj user="Scribbld Username"> / For Livejournal: <a href="url for journal goes here">Username</a>] Age: AIM Screename: Character's Name: Character's Age: Character's Model: ( <a href="image url">link</a> ) Year in School: Major / Minor: Clubs / Activities / Job?: Background History: Personality/Likes & Dislikes: First person writing sample: Third person writing sample: Other Notes: Any Questions:

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*Any and all actual college majors and club/sports can be found here.

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Haku, part I

silentlucidity
2009-10-25 05:31 am UTC (link)

Name: Bohemian or Bo or...I also answer to Jo if you'd rather.
LJ Username: [For Scribbled:

hushedlaw / For Livejournal: SidneyJames]
Age: 23
AIM Screename: HushedLaw

Character's Name: Haku
Character's Age: 18
Character's Model: ( Horikita Maki )
Year in School: Freshman
Major / Minor: Major: Theatre (Acting), Minor: Dance
Clubs / Activities / Job?: Theatre...essentiallly covers every one of those avenues. Though he could certainly be prompted for things like Chess and the like.

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Haku, part II

silentlucidity
2009-10-25 05:32 am UTC (link)

Background History:
The very early years of Haku's life are typical-small, happy family in a little suburb living on the wages of a blue collar man. His mother was a home-maker and, in his youth, the light of his small world. From a very young age, he showed a great deal of promise-as he had clever hands and a mind that was eager and willing to soak up any and all knowledge available-and the prospect of Haku making more of himself than his parents presented itself. However, the sunny, eager child was not blessed with a stable home-his father had started his family young and on earnings much too meager to stay ahead of bills, so when things got tough, his father turned to wayward activities and trains of thought. The family that the man had once doted on began to hold hidden and frightening demons and, in the midst of a cold and bitter winter, he finally teetered off of the edge of the sharp and steep cliff of mental breakdown.

When his father came to slaughter his mother, Haku slid out of a window and onto the high ledge where he stayed, for hours on end in the cold, bitter air, until, atlast, the authorities found him.

For the next several months, Haku was passed back and forth in The System, shuttling between home and home and foster parent and foster parent. Though he was a pleasant and well behaved child, a permanent home seemed to be missing from his particular deck of cards. It wasn't until Zabuza, a man who had not seemingly been looking for a family, met with the fickle Lady Luck and happened apon Haku quite by accident.

The adoption issue had been over quickly and Haku began his new life with the only person in the world that seemed to want him, to have a place for him, and who needed him. Zabuza gave Haku's young life a purpose that it had never before had and, in doing so, gave the child who so believed he was alone and unwanted a reason and a goal to live for.

His schooling had not been typical for a great many reasons but, all in all, in came down to the simple fact that Haku's world revolved around Zabuza. Haku ate any and all knowledge eagerly but focused on the things that seemed to please his gaurdian. Haku learned to clean, to cook, to take care of the man as if, indeed, he was his wife. This skewed view on the world lent to Haku's bent androgyny-he threw himself into a role unmeant for him at an age wherein the difference between a man and a woman were unimportant.

Even Haku's personal interests reflected that of his greater purpose. He took dance-ballet mostly-because it appealed to his need to please people. A crowd who enjoyed his movements on stage or the cast he practiced with for months to create something lovely and moving was allowing him to be needed. And as he grew and Zabuza's need for him lessened, Haku threw himself more and more into his art.

When he turned 18, Fickle Lady Luck agained knocked on his door and, due to reasons Haku still doesn't care to speak of, he left the man who had taken him in and loved him so. With many skills to speak of but none that made Haku happy, he enrolled in college to further his dancing and took to the theatre like a duck to water. More so than dance, bringing a story to life with a cast of others allowed Haku to feel he was serving some greater purpose and bearing wieght for others.

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Haku, part III

silentlucidity
2009-10-25 05:33 am UTC (link)

Personality/Likes & Dislikes:
On the surface, Haku seems very nearly one dimensional. He is polite, soft spoken, and direct-though certainly not insensitive. He graces everyone he sees with a smile, a polite hello when within speaking distance or prompted, and moves with a grace that gives away his dancer's body in an instant. His single dimension is a pleasant one that, for the most part, keeps him out of any immediate danger. But that is only on the surface.

Haku is very adept at adapting. Stronger than his faintly feminine looks would lead any one to believe, he has accepted the going ons of his life and has moved on, taking with him only what he needed to survive and tossing any trauma, any pain, by the wayside to be collected with the trash. And that, among other things, gives a small insight into those deeper depths from the surface if anyone cared to look...

His mental stability, while questionable when coupled with the strange relationship he held with his caretaker and his almost obsessive need to please, does not make him dangerous. On the contrary, Haku would gladly lay down his own life before intentionally wounding anyone.

Due to his curiously feminine look, Haku's sexuality has come into question more than a few times. As far as Haku is concerned, sex is unimportant and uninteresting. While he has experienced physical longing a time or two, he's never actively sought out any kind of physical relationship with anyone. If that sort of a thing would make him more useful, more hopeful, in fulfilling his need to please someone else, he would gladly give of himself.

First person writing sample:

At first, I thought that unpacking would be the very best way to begin making the new apartment feel more like a home-after all, a few touches of personality, of sentimentality, can add as much warmth to a place as morning sunshine. But the more my house mate seems to flutter around, so quiet and unobtrusive, the more I feel that, perhaps, getting better acquainted with her would be the best way to make both of us feel more at home. Knick knacks and curtains aside-it is the people in a house that make it a home.

Everyone is supposed to feel safe in their home-not awkward. So, I am planning a night of bonding with her. I've rented a movie-one that is not sappy (I don't want her to think that my intentions are impure) and just scary enough to, perhaps, bring us a little closer together through the human experience of 'safe fear'-and we are sufficiently stocked up on popcorn and hot cocoa. I know that I have never loved a home that didn't have atleast a little hot cocoa drinking going on within it every now and again. Hot cocoa has the very essence of safety and home and family in it.

So here is to hoping! I really want her to feel happy here and for us not to ghost around each other as though we're complete strangers. She looks like a girl who could use a friend to talk to when she comes home and, I suppose, it would be good for me too. It's unhealthy for a person to be alone all the time-theatre family or not!

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Haku, part IV

silentlucidity
2009-10-25 05:34 am UTC (link)

Third person writing sample:

The first few moments on stage were always the most pleasing to Haku. Standing there, blinded by oh so many stage lights, with his chin up and his character make-up in place, waiting for the first laugh or the first round of applause always made him feel more than useful, it made him feel alive. He knew that there were hundreds of people, raptly caught up in a story he was using himself to tell-their pleasure in his work made him belong to every one of them. His life, for the next two hours, would be the means to their pleasant end of a story.

And this show was no different. He stood there, in his shirt pulled straight from a 1927 factory workers closet, on a tiny little wooden balcony painted to look like so much rusted metal giving, his opening monologue about his life, Tom, in a tiny apartment across from a dance hall. He pulled the cigarette-filled with baby powder and tipped with painted on embers-to his lips and blew, casting that first puff of faux smoke up to twist and string in the simulated evenning light.

Beautiful and sad and alive.

He pulled up a hand and, finger extended, showed the audience that he, indeed, did not have any tricks up his sleeve and cued for the first sounds of swing music to play, pulling the audience with him into his simulated dream.

Yes, Haku felt magical and perfect in that moment.

He leaned against the railing, his dancer's lithe body shifting to give the impression of a man tired. He worked in a shoe factory.

"Hold, please."

With the voice of his Stage Manager, the illusion was, for the moment, broken. Haku stood straight again, hands moving to enfold each other infont of him as he waited, his small, pleasant smile taking its place on his face. The illusion that was Tom Wingfield was gone in an instant, taking with it Haku's envisionment of his audience. Opening night was just around the corner and, though Haku was ready for it, there was still much to be done.

"Haku, can you come down stage? We're losing you under the framing. It's awkward."

Haku gave a little half nod and took two steps forward. "Yes. Thank you. Is this better?" His voice was soft, gentle-not all the voice he spoke with on stage. But that stronger, more demanding voice belonged to someone else-a character he created.

"That's great. Can we take it back to, uhmm, when you're introducing Laura and Amanda."

Haku gave another nod, took a second to reposition the prop cigarette in his hands, and shifted his body, giving his light frame the appearance of a weight he didn't have. And he began. And his voice was that of his stage self again, tired and dry and full of sorrow.

For in those moments, Haku was Tom Wingfield and he was about to tear his family apart. All for the means to an end.

Other Notes:
-Haku does dress in a way that allows people to make their own inferences about his gender.
-And he will audition for a male or female role without any qualms about character gender and then adjust himself accordingly.

Any Questions: None yet! All of my other questions have already been addressed.

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ls_mod
2009-10-25 06:32 am UTC (link)

Welcome! Be sure to do the following with your character journal:

o1. Join both the IC (

last_stretch) and the OOC (

reach_for_ooc) communities as well as

sticky_noto and add

ls_mod as a friend here. Only then will you be able to comment to the friend add/remove entry. Here, you will also add all the players to your IC journal.

o2. Once you are friended, you'll be able to view certain friends-locked entries. Next, you will go here and fill out the player contact information. When we dot all the "i's" and cross the "t's," we will promptly add you to the official taken characters list.

o3. Please also take the time to add a phone post to your character journal. The phone posts are used for characters to communicate outside of the company journals. Once done, please comment to this post with your information.

o4. As of o9.23.o9 it is also mandatory to join the community 'bandwagon'. Go to this post and follow the directions in the edit at the bottom.

.o5 And finally, please disable the custom comment pages on your character journal. Information on how to do and and why we do it can be found here. Also there is how to work out layouts on Scribbld, if you're new to this. ♥

And you're done! You are also free to write an introductory post in the OOC community, and write up a character info post in your journal! And don't forget to go on over to our handy rules one last time. There will be a test.

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