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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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Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryuu | The World Ends With You | Reserved
NAME: Kat
JOURNAL:
E-MAIL: shiokat@gmail.com
CONTACT INFO:
Mayfly TK @ AIM
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
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CHARACTER NAME: Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryuu
SERIES: The World Ends With You
CANON POINT: Post-game
APPEARANCE: Right here~ For a 15 year old boy, Joshua is a little on the small side, around 5'5" or 5'6" by estimation. For the most part, his looks can almost be described as feminine. He's fairly slender and frail-looking, with a slight, girlish face and very little muscle mass; he doesn't care much for physical activity, having told Neku that he doesn't "do sweat". His hair is an almost dusty color, closer to ash blonde, and his eyes are a deep violet.
DESIRED CLASS & REASONING: Shadow Warlock. Canonly, he doesn't care for doing too much physically, and this includes jumping to dodge attacks - he simply sidesteps instead. Not to mention any melee-based class would involve sweating in some form or fashion. In canon, his form of attacking is using his cell phone to both summon junk from the sky and, later on, attack enemies with beams of energy.
Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryuu | The World Ends With You | Reserved
On the outside, Joshua is an incredibly enigmatic individual. He's evasive, overtly flamboyant and prissy, incredibly arrogant and a seeming know-it-all. Right from day one, he's already irritating Neku to no end with his teasing, avoidance of topics and pretentious nature, as well as his surprising amount of knowledge of the Game. By no means is his intelligence unwarranted, but for how much he knows, it does mark him as suspicious. After all, Players are usually oblivious as to the workings of the Game when they first begin to play.
It's very difficult at any given time to tell exactly what he's thinking, or even to determine if he's telling the full truth. His typical reaction to questions is to either dodge it entirely, or give bits and pieces of the answer, making it to where the person asking the question has to figure out the answer for themselves. Joshua is more than willing to make people work for their answers, rather than give it to them straight. Even so, he does tend to give quite a bit of advice and several positive thoughts, frequently telling Neku to expand his horizons and open up. Despite this, he rarely follows any of his own advice, keeping his own thoughts to himself and largely commenting on everything else instead.
Although outwardly friendly and willing to talk to any type of person, Joshua is a very self-centered, antisocial individual, preferring to do things his own way. Manipulative is his middle name. He knows what he wants to accomplish, and he knows exactly what to do or say to get it done. His true intentions are kept strictly to himself. This is partly due to the fact that in reality, he is the Game's Composer, and cannot let his identity be known.
Being the Composer means that he is the head of the Reaper's Game. It also means that he is the figurative God of Shibuya, where his word is law. He can create and destroy what he wishes, as he wishes it. The fact that he was willing to destroy all of Shibuya simply because he couldn't see any potential for change in it is scary enough. He has that little faith in people in general - which makes him surprisingly like Neku at the beginning of the game. It's this quality that helps them to bond and somewhat befriend each other. Fortunately for Shibuya, Neku had other partners to help him open up, and this change in Neku spawned an optimistic turn in Joshua regarding Shibuya, causing him to decide to give it a chance. Shibuya was also directly impacted - positively - by this change in Joshua, according to Mr. Hanekoma, showing just how connected Joshua is to the city.
On the inside, however, Joshua is simply incredibly lonely. Mr. Hanekoma says it himself, in that Joshua has been alone most of his life and never had very many friends at all. It makes sense, considering that the Composer stays hidden, only speaking to the Conductor or the Producer, and also in the fact that his position alone makes others either fear his power or want to kill him to obtain it themselves. Mr. Hanekoma even points out Joshua's loneliness to him at the end of the game, where they are seen on the top of Shibuya's 104 building, looking down on Neku and friends as they reunite. Joshua almost seems like he refuses to acknowledge this, as he leaves without a word, interrupting Mr. Hanekoma's sentence.
Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryuu | The World Ends With You | Reserved
FIRST-PERSON SAMPLE:
Hmm...
[Today in Mac Anu, there's a rather petite little Shadow Warlock roaming around. And, unlike most people taking their first trip down the streets, he's practically emitting the idea that he knows what he's doing and where he's going. Even though the whole point is to explore his new surroundings.
The Grimoire shifts beneath his arm. At least it hadn't been as heavy as it had looked, which was... a definite bonus, seeing as how he apparently needs to carry it around with him.]
This place certainly screams 'medieval fantasy RPG', doesn't it? An interesting attempt at kidnapping, that's for sure...
[Another, softer hum of thought as he looks down at himself, and then a slight giggle.]
Change of clothes included, I see. Someone must be quite the pervert~
THIRD-PERSON SAMPLE:
[[I used my third-person sample from my app at another game-- I hope it's okay! If not, I'd be happy to write another. c:]]
Joshua had been knocked into other dimensions before. This certainly wasn't the first time. But it was the first time he'd ever been politely carted in on a train against his will. Surely this had to constitute as kidnapping.
The last time this had happened, he'd just been thrown into an alternate Shibuya by an errant blast of Imagination from a half-crazed Reaper Officer. This time, though, he had simply been minding his own business, working on the clean-up that came after the unorthodox month-long Game that had taken place. But rather than having accidentally slid into a parallel universe, he seemed to have been delocated somewhere else entirely, somewhere that looked... very small-town, and was most definitely not anywhere near Shibuya. Unsettling, to say the least. The fact that his attachment to the city had been nullified wasn't much better on his nerves; he'd never been unattached from Shibuya in the entire time he'd been Composer. Not even in the alternate Shibuya.
Frustrated, Joshua turned his eyes down to his personal cell phone, open in his hand and, thankfully, picking up a signal. As soon as he got his bearings here, he could call Hanekoma, get him to figure out just where he'd ended up and come pick him up, just like the last time. But if for some reason he couldn't contact Sanae... well, he'd effectively be stuck.
For once in his life, Joshua wasn't quite certain what to do. On one hand, he had a lot he was responsible for, a lot he had to do. He couldn't leave Shibuya without a Composer in place, especially in the middle of clean-up. After Minamimoto's stint, there wasn't any telling who might try to usurp his position. But on the other hand... he could treat this like a holiday, of sorts. If he could get in touch with Sanae, he wouldn't have much to do while he waited. And he was able to have a little bit of fun in that alternate Shibuya, at least, though not nearly as much as he'd liked.
Flipping his phone closed with a soft 'clack' of plastic on plastic, Joshua raised it to his lips, tapping it against the lower one as he glanced down the road at what was visible of this small, strange town. Far different from Shibuya, relatively quiet in comparison... but something had to be amiss here. It wasn't every day that groups of people were kidnapped and placed on a train and brought to the middle of nowhere.
Perhaps, if he wanted to have a bit of fun, this would be the perfect place for it.
ACCEPTED
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(one.) Create your character journal if you haven't already done so, and join the following game communities:
(two.) Comment to our taken series list if your canon hasn't already been posted (or you're an original character, in which case they go in the 'original characters' series post!).
(three.) We have an AIM chat at holyrelic that everyone is more than welcome to join, but if you don't want invites, just let a mod know! There's also a mod plurk for events, app/reserve opening and closing, and asking for occasional quick opinions.
Lastly, we have a comprehensive permissions post with comments by anyone that needs replying to-- this would be for characters with abilities that affect others, such as ability-copying, cannibalism, random violence and so on. If your character has an ability where you'll need permission from others, please make a post in their journal and link to it on the comprehensive permissions post. Then please comment around to any listed posts and help your fellow players out!
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