Applications

[aungier_mods]

APPLICATIONS
Reserves are OPEN

Apps will be closed for the foreseeable future! From June 26th, reserves will last for two weeks; reserves placed before this date will expire two weeks after the date they were first made. If you'd like to apply to the game, please fill in the app, post your app in a journal and link it below; if you've reserved please say so in your comment header.

Currently, we ask that players already in the game to wait three weeks before apping another character. The game has been closed as of the 27th of July. Thank you for your interest.

APP GUIDELINES

OOC Information

Name: Whatever handle you'd like to go by.

Age: There is no age limit to the game, but we'd like to know all the same.

Characters already in game?: If you don't have any, just put N/A.

Contact: However you'd like us to contact you- DW journal, plurk, email, whatever.

IC Information

Name: Your character's name and what they go by, if it's something different.

Canon: The canon they're from.

Canon Medium: TV series, comic, anime, game, etc?

Age: Physical and actual.

Gender/ Sex: If they aren't the same, please say so here.

Canon History: Their history in-canon. You're very welcome to provide a link to a wiki if one exists, provided it's well put together and covers everything we would need to know. If you choose to write your own history or add to it, please put all headcanon in italics.

Canon Point: Where are you taking them from in their canon?

Powers: What powers does your character have, if any? Be as thorough as possible. All powers will be removed on entry to the game, but we may run events that involve partial regains.

Personality: Give us a good, all-encompassing explanation of your character's personality. We need to be able to really get a grip on who they are and why they're the way they are- not just how they behave, but what motivates them, what frightens them, what makes them them. If you use canon examples, try to use them to illustrate your point rather than as points in and of themselves; we know what your character does from their history, and now we want to know why.

AU Role: What role would you like them to take at Aungier House?
Please refer to the available roles here. You should also bear in mind that some roles may be more in demand than others; you should have a back-up role and AU history in mind just in case we decide to give your first choice to another applicant.

AU History: Describe the kind of life your character's AU self has led. This section is primarily dictated by the role you have chosen for them, and as such we will use this to decide which character should get the role in event that two players apply for the same one. Most characters will only require a couple of paragraphs, but more in-demand roles may benefit from more detail. Try to be historically accurate, and feel free to engage with the setting in whatever way you choose!

Samples

This is a prose game, and as such all samples should be in prose. You can either give us:

a) A prose sample of around 400 words

b) A prose thread where you have posted at least three comments

What we want to see is your writing ability (spelling, grammar, clarity, coherence) and the way in which you express your character's personality and thoughts.

Application:

<b><u>OOC Information</u></b><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> <b>Name:</b> Whatever handle you'd like to go by. <b>Age:</b> There is no age limit to the game, but we'd like to know all the same. <b>Characters already in game?:</b> If you don't have any, just put N/A. <b>Contact:</b> However you'd like us to contact you- DW journal, plurk, email, whatever. </div><b><u>IC Information</u></b> <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b>Name:</b> Your character's name and what they go by, if it's something different. <b>Canon:</b> The canon they're from. <b>Canon Medium:</b> TV series, comic, anime, game, etc? <b>Age:</b> Physical and actual. <b>Gender/ Sex:</b> If they aren't the same, please say so here. <b>Canon History:</b> Their history in-canon. You're very welcome to provide a link to a wiki if one exists, provided it's well put together and covers everything we would need to know. If you choose to write your own history or add to it, please put all headcanon in <i>italics</i>. <b>Canon Point:</b> Where are you taking them from in their canon? <b> Powers:</b> What powers does your character have, if any? Be as thorough as possible. All powers will be removed on entry to the game, but we may run events that involve partial regains. <b>Personality:</b> Give us a good, all-encompassing explanation of your character's personality. We need to be able to really get a grip on who they are and why they're the way they are- not just how they behave, but what motivates them, what frightens them, what makes them <i>them</i>. If you use canon examples, try to use them to illustrate your point rather than as points in and of themselves; we know what your character does from their history, and now we want to know why. <b>AU Role:</b> What role would you like them to take at Aungier House? Please refer to the available roles <a href=" http://aungier-mods.dreamwidth.org/2292.html">here</a>. You should also bear in mind that some roles may be more in demand than others; you should have a back-up role and AU history in mind just in case we decide to give your first choice to another applicant. <b>AU History:</b> Describe the kind of life your character's AU self has led. This section is primarily dictated by the role you have chosen for them, and as such we will use this to decide which character should get the role in event that two players apply for the same one. Most characters will only require a couple of paragraphs, but more in-demand roles may benefit from more detail. Try to be historically accurate, and feel free to engage with the setting in whatever way you choose! </div><b><u>Samples</u></b> <div style="margin-left: 40px;">This is a prose game, and as such all samples should be in prose. You can either give us: a) A prose sample of around 400 words b) A prose thread where you have posted at least three comments What we want to see is your writing ability (spelling, grammar, clarity, coherence) and the way in which you express your character's personality and thoughts.</div>

Comments

CLARIFICATION REQUEST

[aungier_mods]

Hello! Sorry about the delay processing your app! We just wanted to ask for clarification on your AU history: did this Mary actually sacrifice her child to Satan (and thus become his servant) or does she only believe herself to have done so?

Re: CLARIFICATION REQUEST

[motherof_bone]

Mary did kill the baby, I can see why that's a confusing point in the AU/OU situation, since Mary doesn't really remember her role in it herself and the murders were blamed on Freddy.

But in the end: yes, she was the one to sacrifice the baby. This makes her one of Satan's servants, but since she's suppressed the memory of her bargain, Satan doesn't have as much of a concrete place in Mary's life as he does in her OU. As it all starts to come back to her, that will change, and that's why I really tried to tie the two losses of memory (in AU, of OU) around the same focal point. Which is "What Mary Really Is."

I hope that's a clear enough answer!

REVISION REQUEST

[aungier_mods]

The rest of your app is fine, but we'd like to ask that you revise her AU history; having her actually be a servant of Satan decides more about the Aungier universe's cosmology than we can allow. Would it be possible to make the validity of her deal more ambiguous (ie, that she believes she sold her soul to the devil in her sacrifice, but, objectively, there is no reason to believe that she is right)?

Re: REVISION REQUEST

[motherof_bone]

Oh, absolutely! I had actually meant to ask if it was something allowable by your verse, but kind of took it that if you had included the option it was a tenable one. Oops!

But long story short, I am completely fine with it being ambiguous. I had written it that way so it could be interpreted however it needed to be, which is why I thought there was confusion over the event when answering your question initially. I see it's a slightly different issue now.

Would you guys like me to add in a line explicitly stating that she imagined her contact with Satan, or does our conversation cover it? It dovetails into her overall delusional nature, so it really would be just one line of clarification. I'm still going to add it to the app, in case other players want to read the application, it's just a question of if you want me to repost it here to the app page with so few changes.

ACCEPTED

[aungier_mods]

Just adding in a line to clarify that would be great, thank you! And with that-

Congratulations, and welcome to Aungier House!

Now that you're part of the game, there are a few things you need to do to get started:

1. Reply to this comment with the journal you will be using in the game
2. Request to join aungier , aungier_ooc and aungier_notices
3. Reply to the Player Information and Taken Character pages with your information.
4. Introduce yourself in the OOC comm, if you'd like!

Please note that, given that this is our first app cycle, all characters will be waking up in their roles as though they have already arrived in them on the first day of the game, which officially opens on July 1st. Thank you for applying and we hope to see you around very soon!

Re: ACCEPTED

[motherof_bone]

Thank you for working with me, mods. I'm very excited to play here.