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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.

In your app you mentioned that Lawrence has only even made one actual choice in his life (shooting William), and that he wanted to be a good man but was prevented by circumstances. Given this, could you talk more about the justification for bringing him in as an inmate, given that he cannot be held accountable (and would not need to be redeemed from) actions that were made before he had free will? What do you see as the context for and implications of his choice to shoot William, and what do you think this means for who he chooses to be going forward?

Lawrence undoubtedly has trauma to recover from and will need to find a healthy path forward, but at this canonpoint what past of unethical choices has he made to be redeemed from?

To clarify: Lawrence knows what it is to be a good man, but be prevented by circumstances, because it's something he's programmed to know. Something you could even say he uses as an excuse for any of his behavior. He was created as someone who was born poor and not white, and as such there is no point in trying to follow the rules, because he sees them as skewed against people like him.

While this is something he is programmed to know and think, the problem (and reason I would like to bring him in as an inmate), is that awake Lawrence still thinks this, as well as agrees with most of his prior programming. Unlike Maeve (who's bulk apperception was cranked to 11, and who also had Felix, Sylvester, and Lee to guide her), and Dolores (who Read All The Things, and was taken out of the park more than once), Lawrence only has his experiences in the park to draw from. Westworld, particularly the parts both of Lawrence's characters inhabited was a violent place, full of people who you mostly have to go through to get what you want, and having access to his memories is likely only to cement that as the way of the world in Lawrence's opinion.

Lawrence's definition of 'a good man' is also very narrow, and I would argue that it's more likely he only wanted to be one in the eyes of specific people. Lawrence's heritage and people are important to him, but he doesn't generally care what happens to other people if it doesn't effect him directly. He wants to make money, and he will steal and kill to do so, and as El Lazo, he wanted to take Pariah back from the Confederadoes, and all of his men were expendable in pursuit of that goal. While he likes being loved by his wife and daughter, he is not willing to find a way to make money that would not put them in harm's way. And while this is programmed behavior, he would still argue that his actions were correct, rather than selfish. The only actions he sees as bad, are those of the human guests in the park.

In season 3, we are introduced to two versions of Dolores. One who eventually chooses to really see and focus on the beauty in the world, despite being able to remember all of the trauma inflicted on her. She chooses to aid humanity. Another version (in the body of Charlotte Hale) chooses to see and focus on the ugliness, and we are left with the impression that she is creating a host army to destroy humanity. The first Dolores, in accepting that good things did happen to her (and she even includes meeting William, a man who would go on to treat her brutally after falling in love with her, as one of those good things) is able to find peace with her circumstances and move forward. Charlotte-Dolores is stuck enacting petty revenge. Lawrence's choice to shoot William is the choice of someone who would side with Charlotte-Dolores against humanity. Although it is cathartic as a viewer to watch Lawrence shoot William, it is the petty and wrong choice. It is based in selfishness: Lawrence in that moment did not think about how William had so recently saved his wife and entire village, he only wanted to make William suffer like he was suffering. Although this was Lawrence's choice, it also aligns with what he might have been programmed to do or want to do to another host in similar circumstances.

He doesn't need to be redeemed from actions he was programmed to perform, but he does need to be taught to break out of his pre-programmed thought patterns. He does need to be held accountable for and redeemed from choosing, in his first real act of free will, to attempt to kill a man.

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