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(applications are closed.) opening october 8th at 00:01 GMT-8. SO, you've read the F.A.Q., the rules, checked that the character you're interested in is free and not reserved, and now you're ready to apply? Great! We're ready to accept you! The application description is below, and the form is ready for your copypasta convenience just underneath it! Please submit all applications in comments to this post with the subject "chara name | series". Have a seat, and drink some tea. We'll get right to you! At this time, we do NOT allow application challenges. Sorry about that! It's all first-come, first-serve. You can apply for TWO (2) characters per round, with a maximum of SIX (6) characters allowed altogether. RESERVES are not necessary. We run on a first-come, first-served system, but if you reserve your place is guaranteed for apps. REQUESTS will always be as clear as possible on what we believe was lacking and expect to see written into the application, but feel free to ask for clarification and we'll reply as soon as possible. You have seventy-two (72) hours to revise, or your application will be revoked. Although you're more than welcome to ask for an extension if for some reason you're unable to complete in time, within reason. REJECTIONS will also have clearly-stated reasons, and you'll be more than welcome to re-apply next month. However, we ask that if you're rejected three times in a row, you please try your hand at another character. WHEN ACCEPTED, please read and follow the directions in the welcome copypasta closely! We don't ask for a terrible amount, but we do note that some things are mandatory for the game and it helps greatly with organization! DID YOU PLAY IN HOLYRELIC BEFORE? We have a special rule for that! If you're repicking a character you had in HR before we closed previously, we're upholding our promise that your character can come back with their memories, THREE (3) event items of your choosing, and half of their levels. (I.E: Gauche was level 42 thereabouts, he'll be 21 to start.) Just comment to the apps with an updated player/character section to reclaim! No need for samples. :) Applications can be screened for privacy after they've been judged, so please add a note if you'd like it screened. player. NAME: Your name or handle. JOURNAL: Your personal journal. I.E: dickingsE-MAIL: Your e-mail for mod contact records! PLURK&MESSENGER(S): CHARACTERS PLAYED: Characters you currently play in holyrelic!character. CHARACTER NAME: Your character's name. SERIES: The series your character is from; anime, manga, book, television, video game, you name it! Just give us a link. CANON POINT: The point in time that your character is being applied from. APPEARANCE: A link to an image, and/or an optional description if there's anything not covered in the image. DESIRED CLASS & REASONING: The class you'd like your character to be! We ask that you follow any canon inclination towards fighting types and state what they were previously, but if your character is someone that has never held a sword before, never took karate, and comes from a regular world with no magic, please provide a brief reasoning as to why you've picked what class you did! PREVIOUSLY IN HOLYRELIC: ONLY FOR PLAYERS FROM HR'S LAST INCARNATION! Please note what their halved level will be and the three event items you'd like to keep. :) (if this doesn't apply to you-- 98% of you-- just remove this line. ♥) PERSONALITY: Your character's personality; this needs to be written by you, though! We'd like at least two solid paragraphs, although three would be great! samples. FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE: A first-person sample-- or a journal/action post-- in the game's context. Anything you might use as a post in the game would be just fine here, but you don't need to use what you put in your application as your first post! Please do keep in mind that while journal posts are more natural to write for samples, we have no network in The World-- everything is face to face. All entries to the main community will be action posts! :) THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: A third-person sample-- or log style-- that accurately displays your character's personality and motivations. Setting doesn't matter! We just ask that you please not write a sample about your character first arriving, because it greatly limits their usual personality and reactions. We aren't too particular about length but please write at least two or three paragraphs so we have something to work with! Also, if you've previously been accepted with another character and you're currently in the game, you do NOT need to write a third-person sample! |
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FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE: [ It's raining.
It's always been raining in Asuka's world, ever since the time those things violated her, when they'd stolen her vision, her limbs, and the few sacred things left after her mind was finally shattered, but she doesn't mind it. She leans on the hilt of her axe, one good eye surveying her surroundings, searching for an easy kill. Player or monster didn't matter; whatever netted a fast, easy reward was just fine.
That's when she sees them. Hobbling along, breathing heavily, about to collapse. A grin spreads across her face. Perfect.
She rushes the stumbling player before they even have time to turn their head, twirling her weapon elegantly and unleashing a mighty shockwave that sends them flying backward with a shrill cry. They hit the ground hard, and a flash of brilliant red stains where they fell.
Red. She hates that color now, wishes she'd never have to look at it again, but it's satisfying at the same time. Rewarding that it's happening to someone else and not her. Her axe glows with every Wicked Strike, and just like that, it's already over. The rise and fall of her fellow player's chest ceases, eyes frozen forever in that moment of fear, that moment they realize they're done for. ]
Sorry, kid. Nothing personal.
[ And it really wasn't. Just survival of the fittest, a result of the food chain. Food. Just as she'd been for those hideous harpies, tearing her to shreds. Asuka strides over and rummages through what's been left behind, trinkets, bits and bobbles. Ultimately, nothing worth taking. She sighs in frustration and turns her back on the corpse, gazing out over the horizon. Maybe the monsters would prove better fare today. ]
C'mon. [ She's not sure when she started talking to her weapon, but it's a small source of comfort in the absence of Unit 02. Her feet sink heavy into the mushy ground as she follows the scent of a stream. ] Let's go.
[ Where she was going, what she was doing, she wasn't quite sure anymore, but living was better than dying at any rate. And so long as she was stuck here, in this world without Evas and Angels, she'd make the most of things. After all, she still was the great Asuka Langley Soryu – except maybe not so great anymore, but it's a thought she shoves to the back of her mind as she wanders off wherever the field will take her. ]
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE: (The following scene is set in Asuka's canon during episode 16, after Shinji is consumed by Leliel. It was also used in an application for Asgard.)
“I wonder...
Do you only pilot an Eva for the praise from others?”
Asuka turned on the side of her blanket and glared hatefully at the wall, as if the very act could summon that damned doll from nowhere and turn her into putty. I should've hit her, she thought, shifting again, attempting to get comfortable even though everything was so terribly unsettling and uncomfortable and empty that she knew full well she'd never get to sleep. Should've slapped her, for all the good it would've done. It wouldn't bring Shinji back. Nothing would. And no matter how much she tried to convince herself she didn't give a damn, that the stupid showoff got what he deserved, she couldn't get him out of her head, couldn't shake him from her mind.
“That idiot,” Asuka muttered under her breath, biting her lip and shoving a pillow over her face to keep from sniffling. “Why'd you have to go and do something so stupid? I... we...”
...need you.
“...ugh!”
The pillow went flying at the same spot that had earned her ire, her fist clenching and pounding furiously into the straw mat beneath her body. Why was she sobbing over this, anyway? She didn't need him or anyone else. She could handle the Angels by herself. She'd beat them, and then everyone would see how useless Shinji and Wonder Girl both were, how she should've been the leader all along, and then maybe Misato would finally let her use her grown-up perfume, and Kaji would finally pay attention to her, and the Commander would stop drooling all over Ayanami, and...
Yeah, in a perfect world, Soryu.
In a perfect world, she wouldn't have nightmares, wouldn't have doubts, wouldn't have anything but the applause of her adoring fans. There goes Asuka, isn't she something? Saving the world again, like it's no big deal. What a hero! What a hottie! What a–
“What a joke.”
Curling into herself, Asuka let the tears fall. No one could see them, anyway, and even if they did, who would care? Who would bother? In a perfect world, she wouldn't have nightmares, wouldn't have doubts, but more importantly, wouldn't be alone and wouldn't be abandoned, but paradise was far from reality, where everything could shatter in an instant. She'd given up on finding it a long time ago, given up on hope and everything associated with it, because what was even the point? Piloting Eva, facing those monsters, what did it even matter?
“Shinji, I... really hate you... Shinji...”
She cried – silently, just in case Misato was still awake – until she couldn't anymore, and finally fell asleep, the bitter sound of his name on her lips.