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CHARACTER APPLICATIONS

Application periods are open all month, every month.

The Final Fantasy VII Compilation cast is at cap, and FFVII Compilation apps are currently closed.

Please read all rules and guidelines before submitting an application. Be sure to check the Taken Characters list and the Retired Characters list before posting an application here.

NOTES:

After applying for a character, we ask that players allow 30 days before bringing their next character into the game. In some cases (warden or cast caps, upcoming major game events) players may approach the mod team and clear submitting an application a few days early, though it will not be approved before the 30 day mark.
If you are applying into an existing cast, please be aware that we may speak to players of characters close to (any version of) the character, and will speak to the players of canonmates of the character for which you are applying. We reserve the right to reject an application if it would render a current character or characters unplayable in the opinion of their player(s). If your app is rejected for this reason, we ask that you respect the decision.
Both samples may be taken from threads on the Test Drive Meme, as long as they are recent and match your application with respect to canonpoint and warden/inmate status. The TDM goes up once per month and is always marked on the Event Calendar. If you would prefer to write yours out and would like some inspiration, check out the Flood Event tag on the OOC community; you're welcome to write a sample based on your character's reaction after one of these events! Here are a few popular choices.
Canons (or canonpoints, in the case of ongoing series) must have been out for at least 30 days before they can be applied for.
If you're reapping a character that you previously dropped and you plan to have them retain their memories of their previous stint onboard, please include at least a few sentences discussing how their previous stay affected them, and noting any relevant changes to their personality, worldview, and motivations. The more significant the changes, the more detail we'd like.

WARDEN APPLICATION FORM - CANON CHARACTERS

User Name/Nick:
User DW: If applicable.
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game:

Warden Justification: Why does the Admiral think your character would be useful as a warden here? What do they bring to the table? Regardless of their methods and motivations, do they have the capacity to help an inmate achieve graduation?

Item: What form will your character's Warden Item take?

Abilities/Powers: Generally wardens may keep their powers in full, but anything with the potential to be gamebreaking, or anything that would render a warden more powerful than the Admiral, will need to be nerfed. If you're unsure whether or not your character's powers qualify for nerfs, feel free to contact the mods!

Wardening Strategies and Philosophies: How will your character respond to and operate on the Barge at large? How will they view their role as warden, and how will they engage their inmate in their efforts to help them on their path to redemption? What are their wardening strengths and weaknesses likely to be? What sorts of inmates would your character pair best with, and conversely, what sorts of inmates would they not be such a good fit for?

Deal: What is your character expecting to get for their effort in graduating an inmate?

History: This may be linked or written out.

Sample Network Entry: 5-10 sentences of spoken/written monologue, not including narration. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice, and must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date) and in network style.

Sample RP: 3-5 paragraphs of prose or brackets RP, with focus on both action and internal thought processes. Must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date) and in log style.

Special Notes: Anything else not covered here that you'd like us to know!

WARDEN APPLICATION FORM - ORIGINAL CHARACTERS (sample app #1, sample app #2)

User Name/Nick:
User DW: If applicable.
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game:

Character Name:
Age: This is important; characters must be at least 15, and characters under 18 will be considered only on a case by case basis. If your character is over 15 but under 18, please briefly explain why they have the skill/experience necessary to serve as a warden despite their young age.
From When?: At what point in their timeline did they agree to come onboard the Barge?

Item: What form will your character's Warden Item take?

Deal: What is your character expecting to get for their effort in graduating an inmate?

World Information: Please explain in as much detail as is necessary the reality that your character comes from, being sure to include everything that is not necessarily part of their personal history but that nevertheless still relates/applies to them: the political and social situation where they live, laws of the universe, general levels of tech and magic that your character might be familiar with (even if they're not techy and/or magical themselves), and so on.

Special Notes: Anything else not covered here that you'd like us to know!

INMATE APPLICATION FORM - CANON CHARACTERS

User Name/Nick:
User DW: If applicable.
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game:

Character Name:
Series:
Age: This is important; characters must be at least 15, and characters under 18 will be considered only on a case by case basis. If your character is over 15 but under 18, please briefly explain why they are worthy of inmatehood despite their young age.
From When?: At what point in their timeline were they brought aboard the Barge? Keep in mind that inmates must have just died, or were about to die. If your character has no canon death, or if you'd like to pull them from a point well before their canon death, you may headcanon a death that makes sense for the character/canon and doesn't require too many logical leaps or extra steps. Things like "My city-dwelling inmate was hit by a bus" or "My gangster inmate died in a gunfight" would be fine for a headcanoned death, as would "My character is in a life-threatening situation at their pull point that they canonically survive, but for the purposes of the game I'm going to say that they die instead".

Inmate Justification: Why does your character require redemption? How can working with a warden on the Barge help them achieve this? Feel free to just give a brief general overview here; we're going to ask for specifics down below.

Arrival: Was your inmate character brought in against their will, or did they agree to come to the Barge and graduate instead of dying forever?

Abilities/Powers: Remember that Inmates will have reduced powers, with dangerous, offensive (as opposed to defensive), and combat-related abilities being removed entirely. Please tell us both what your character can do when their powers are at full strength, as well as what your proposed limits and reductions for them are.

Inmate Information: Please lay out the most important things that your character's warden will need to know about them. Remember that permanent wardens will receive a file on their inmate's entire life story, and while we won't require you to write out a full history here (though we'll ask for at least a link to one elsewhere in the app), we'd like to hear about the highlights in your own words! This should include any serious crimes committed, details about the harm they've done to others, and major life events and how they were affected by them. While this wouldn't necessarily be included explicitly in the file, please also touch on their defining personality traits and behavior patterns, their general temperament, their worldview, and how they react to challenges.

Path to Redemption: What does your character need to change about themselves, and what sorts of milestones do you envision them needing to reach before they're ready for graduation? How will they react to being on the Barge? How will they react to being wardened? What sorts of wardening styles would they be likely to respond best to, and conversely, what wardening styles would likely be ineffective or unhelpful? What methods can a warden use to get through to them, and what are some ideas for things that might trigger or motivate them to change?

History: This may be linked or written out.

Special Notes: Anything else not covered here that you'd like us to know!

INMATE APPLICATION FORM - ORIGINAL CHARACTERS (sample app #1, sample app #2)

User Name/Nick:
User DW: If applicable.
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact:
Other Characters Currently In-Game:

Character Name:
Age: This is important; characters must be at least 15, and characters under 18 will be considered only on a case by case basis. If your character is over 15 but under 18, please briefly explain why they are worthy of inmatehood despite their young age.
From When?: At what point in their timeline were they brought aboard the Barge? Keep in mind that inmates must have just died, or were about to die.

Arrival: Was your inmate character brought in against their will, or did they agree to come to the Barge and graduate instead of dying forever?

Inmate Information: Please lay out the most important things that your character's warden will need to know about them. Remember that permanent wardens will receive a file on their inmate's entire life story, and while we won't require you to write out a full history here (though we'll ask for one elsewhere in the app), we'd like to hear about the highlights in your own words! This should include any serious crimes committed, details about the harm they've done to others, and major life events and how they were affected by them. While this wouldn't necessarily be included explicitly in the file, please also touch on their defining personality traits and behavior patterns, their general temperament, their worldview, and how they react to challenges.

History: This must be written out fully and comprehensively. Remember that, in the absence of a wiki page or a canon to refer to, this will be the only reference point that the mods or other players will have to your character. This will be especially important for potential permanent Wardens, who will receive a file detailing your Inmate's life history.

Special Notes: Anything else not covered here that you'd like us to know!

Last Updated: 07/09/2023

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REVISIONS

We thank you for taking the time to apply to Last Voyages. Overall, the moderators like and approve of your application; however, we do have some things we need clarification on before we can provide you with a final approval. Please post your revisions within 72 hours, or we will reject your application.

We would like to see Azula's powers reduced further as to cause no unnecessary issues in port or in the CES. The mod team also requests that this take the form of a) lessening her powers' intensity or b) length of effective use, as it is extremely destructive. We also respectfully request a fake death scenario (accidentally inhaling water, suffocation--something with the potentiality to kill her, but that doesn't necessarily do so) as canon dictates that Azula survived. Furthermore, at the time of her attack on Katara, Azula didn't have the emotional control to produce lightning, rendering the proposed noncanon death unable to be completed as stated in this application.

Fully revised app can be found here, and these are the specific changes I made:

Revised From When?: The end of the series, when Katara catches her in an enormous burst of water. Just a moment of near-death, here. If she'd done anything as simple as gasped too hard in the instant that this happened it could have killed her.

Revised Abilities/Powers: Azula's unrestricted powers are unimaginably strong and controlled for a fire bender of her age. Despite being Zuko's younger sister, until the latter part of the series when training allowed Zuko to better master firebending, she far outmatched him. Her control of fire and the amount of power behind it is so intense that she no longer produces normal flames; hers are blue, and she is also capable of generating lightning and electricity (something that generally takes a complete mastery of one's emotions to control).

On the barge, her powers will be completely restricted in several ways.

There is no sun on the Barge, and fire benders in the series are shown to be without their abilities at certain times when their connection to the sun is cut off -- not at night or when they are out of sight of the sun, but when the Moon -- power-giver of the water benders (whose powers vanished when the moon was "killed") -- eclipses it, they are completely powerless. So I am going to assume that as an Inmate and not a Warden she exists in the state she would if the sun ceased to exist in her world (minus the flash-freezing). This will change if her warden decides to handle her otherwise.

In the CES and in ports with a sun, her powers are still significantly reduced. Her bending will not work without complete emotional calm -- which also means that until her Warden chooses to change it, she can't use fire bending to defend herself if she is afraid or panicking, and she cannot bend fire through anger, as many firebenders are known to do. Furthermore, she has to concentrate harder than she used to, so while it may be possible for her to reflexively bend fire, it is highly unlikely, and even the slightest distraction will cancel her out. Making lightning, which requires even more concentration, would tire her physically to the point of being unable to bend at all for some time without rest. The effort required in focusing enough to pinpoint a small, specific target (like an animal, a smaller person, or a specific point on a person) at further than point-blank range (even if it were unsuccessful) would cause her to lose consciousness. Her fire also won't be blue until her restrictions are further removed and she has more control. Bending fire, period, cannot be done for over-extended periods of time and will only be effective in short bursts. She could no longer, for instance, propel her full body weight in the air using fire bending. Her range will be less than a 10 ft radius with only very small (no larger than her hand) blasts capable of being shot at longer distances (they will burn out and dissipate if the distance exceeds 20 ft and are reduced in intensity by half at anything over 10 ft). Holding a single burst (cone-shaped attack, for instance) for more than 5 seconds would begin to tire her. Manipulating one piece of flame (as water benders might a single tendril of water) is also more difficult. She will lose control of it after about 5 seconds and can potentially burn herself. Effectiveness of these techniques (sans the 'emotional control' clause, which is a permanent factor) may increase only slightly (perhaps up to 10-15%) in extremely arid climates where there is not much moisture in the air, but not in full vacuum or any place with limited oxygen, ie extremely high altitudes or space.

Her capabilities as a hand to hand combatant are not reduced, however. She is dangerous with or without her powers, an excellent hand to hand combatant whose edge comes from unpredictability and a complete willingness to lie and cheat to get the upper hand. She lacks much in the way of weapons training because her preferred weapon has always been fire or her body -- she compensates with superior agility and speed. The style of martial arts that she uses is characteristic of that of the Fire Nation -- which greatly resembles Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. She is also a distinguished strategist, who planned the successful takeover of Ba Sing Se and quelled the invasion of the Fire Nation during Black Sun. Finally, and something not to be underestimated, is her supreme talent for lying -- she's indetectably good at lying and probably couldn't be picked up by conventional instruments or experts in reading facial expressions or voices.

Edited 2012-04-04 00:02 (UTC)

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