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dcparadoxmods) wrote2018-02-24 09:35 pm
dcparadoxmods) wrote2018-02-24 09:35 pm
Apps
Apps will open on April 10th.
Apps will remain open, except for when there is a game-encompassing mod plot (which will happen fairly infrequently).
Unfortunately, at this time, OCs cannot be apped. This includes tabletop characters, characters from fan-made spinoffs, and canon OCs.
Up to three versions of any given character will be accepted. This includes canon AUs and CRAUs. For example, you could have Zelda from Ocarina of Time, Zelda from Breath of the Wild, and Zelda from Breath of the Wild with memories from her time in Fade Rift. No more than one CRAU of any character will be allowed. Different canon points on the same timeline do not count as different versions of a character. What-if or fanon AUs are not accepted.
Characters with very little canon will be decided at the discretion of the mods based on the strength of the app. Generally, though, minor characters with small storylines are more likely to be accepted than minor characters with less than a minute of screen time, as the latter can essentially be an OC depending on player interpretation.
Most importantly, your character needs to be someone that CFP-DNR would have recruited and would have accepted said recruitment. Put some thought into how and why your character would become involved and function and what missions they would be best at. (To this end, most outwardly villainous characters would be difficult to app and play, as the government would have a hard time trusting them outside of extreme duress. Doctor Director Leonard Church might be actively recruited, and you might be able to get away with a Prince Lotor here, but nobody’s going to recruit the Joker. Additionally, the government will be hesitant to recruit a teenager but may do so based on their powers and/or skill set; they will absolutely not recruit a small child.)
Post your app in a comment below with the subject line “Application: [Character’s Name] | [Character’s Canon].” All apps will be screened when posted and will be unscreened upon acceptance. Revisions will not be unscreened unless they are later accepted, and denials will not be unscreened.
Please feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions pertaining to your app.
APPLICATION
Player name:
Plurk handle (or other contact if no plurk):
What other characters do you play?
Character name:
Canon:
OU or CRAU?
Canon point:
History: Please feel free to provide a link to your character’s wiki page or other linked history. For characters with very little canon, please write out a history fleshing out your character’s part in the story. For CRAU characters, please note at what point your character diverged from canon and what development they experienced.
Personality: Tell us what makes your character tick. Include internal motivations as well as external actions. (Please keep this section under 1000 words.)
Why did the CFP recruit them? CFP-DNR came to your character for a reason - tell us why. This is the place to talk about your character’s powers or special skills. Be sure to give the mods a good scope of what they’re capable of. Powered characters will come in with their full powers within reason; if your character is incredibly overpowered (think Gohan, Destroyer of Worlds) or has a power that could break the game (dimension hopping of their own, etc), then they may find their powers diminished or disabled. Use your best discretion and contact the mods if you have any questions; the mods may ask for revisions if we feel your character is too powerful for the setting.
Equipment: What is your character bringing with them? This can be their standard equipment; anything they would reasonably have on them. This cannot include overly large weaponry, vehicles, or live animals, with two exceptions: if the live animals are the reason your character was recruited (e.g. Pokemon trainers) or an integral part of your character’s abilities (e.g. Caleb and Frumpkin from Critical Role).
Samples: One of your samples should be written out and should be at least 100 words. You have the option of providing a link to a previous game for the other sample; said thread needs to be from within the past 3 months and needs to have at least 5 comments from your character.
Network Sample:
Prose Sample:
Apps will remain open, except for when there is a game-encompassing mod plot (which will happen fairly infrequently).
Unfortunately, at this time, OCs cannot be apped. This includes tabletop characters, characters from fan-made spinoffs, and canon OCs.
- Malleable protagonists - protagonists from Skyrim and Pokemon, for example - do not count under Canon OCs and instead fall under the “very little canon” rule.
- The exception to tabletop characters is largely-known tabletop games, i.e. Critical Role, The Adventure Zone, Friends At the Table, etc. Essentially, you cannot play your own tabletop character - tabletop characters must be from canons widely accessible to the public.
Up to three versions of any given character will be accepted. This includes canon AUs and CRAUs. For example, you could have Zelda from Ocarina of Time, Zelda from Breath of the Wild, and Zelda from Breath of the Wild with memories from her time in Fade Rift. No more than one CRAU of any character will be allowed. Different canon points on the same timeline do not count as different versions of a character. What-if or fanon AUs are not accepted.
Characters with very little canon will be decided at the discretion of the mods based on the strength of the app. Generally, though, minor characters with small storylines are more likely to be accepted than minor characters with less than a minute of screen time, as the latter can essentially be an OC depending on player interpretation.
Most importantly, your character needs to be someone that CFP-DNR would have recruited and would have accepted said recruitment. Put some thought into how and why your character would become involved and function and what missions they would be best at. (To this end, most outwardly villainous characters would be difficult to app and play, as the government would have a hard time trusting them outside of extreme duress. Doctor Director Leonard Church might be actively recruited, and you might be able to get away with a Prince Lotor here, but nobody’s going to recruit the Joker. Additionally, the government will be hesitant to recruit a teenager but may do so based on their powers and/or skill set; they will absolutely not recruit a small child.)
Post your app in a comment below with the subject line “Application: [Character’s Name] | [Character’s Canon].” All apps will be screened when posted and will be unscreened upon acceptance. Revisions will not be unscreened unless they are later accepted, and denials will not be unscreened.
Please feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions pertaining to your app.
APPLICATION
Player name:
Plurk handle (or other contact if no plurk):
What other characters do you play?
Character name:
Canon:
OU or CRAU?
Canon point:
History: Please feel free to provide a link to your character’s wiki page or other linked history. For characters with very little canon, please write out a history fleshing out your character’s part in the story. For CRAU characters, please note at what point your character diverged from canon and what development they experienced.
Personality: Tell us what makes your character tick. Include internal motivations as well as external actions. (Please keep this section under 1000 words.)
Why did the CFP recruit them? CFP-DNR came to your character for a reason - tell us why. This is the place to talk about your character’s powers or special skills. Be sure to give the mods a good scope of what they’re capable of. Powered characters will come in with their full powers within reason; if your character is incredibly overpowered (think Gohan, Destroyer of Worlds) or has a power that could break the game (dimension hopping of their own, etc), then they may find their powers diminished or disabled. Use your best discretion and contact the mods if you have any questions; the mods may ask for revisions if we feel your character is too powerful for the setting.
Equipment: What is your character bringing with them? This can be their standard equipment; anything they would reasonably have on them. This cannot include overly large weaponry, vehicles, or live animals, with two exceptions: if the live animals are the reason your character was recruited (e.g. Pokemon trainers) or an integral part of your character’s abilities (e.g. Caleb and Frumpkin from Critical Role).
Samples: One of your samples should be written out and should be at least 100 words. You have the option of providing a link to a previous game for the other sample; said thread needs to be from within the past 3 months and needs to have at least 5 comments from your character.
Network Sample:
Prose Sample:
Re: Application: Brook | One Piece (part two)
There is no denying that, even with the aid of holograms, Brook is a liability at best when it comes to missions that require quietly blending in with society and avoiding any diplomatic fumbles. But as troublesome as he can be in some situations, he is incredibly effective in others and will only get more effective with time.
His speed (which can reach "not even a blur of movement" in short bursts), light weight and nimbleness grant him tremendous horizontal and vertical mobility, and the particulars of his skeletal state result in a body that doesn't bleed or grow weaker over time when injured, and that can't suffer "flesh wounds" at all. In an emergency situation he can go without food or water indefinitely, though it isn't fun, and owing to the fact that he has no body heat to lose he can scamper about unaffected in freezing temperatures. Poison that isn't inhaled or ingested is useless. He can cause grievous bodily harm so quickly that the human eye can't tell he moved at all, or disorient/disable groups of targets via his music powers without leaving a single bruise or scratch. And those same music powers can inspire courage and positivity just as easily as cause chaos. (That said, he is unquestionably a precision instrument, lacking in raw destructive power. If an enemy is without physical or tactical/situational weak points he can leverage, he rapidly runs out of options for direct action. He tends to be very "hilariously swift and devastating victory" or "is having serious problems" with little in between.)
So while his mission partners should probably handle all the delicate socializing, Brook is extraordinary in the role of mobility, utility/support, stealthy infiltration/scouting and crowd control. Perhaps more importantly, behind his eccentricity and bouts of foolishness there is a surprisingly intelligent, cunning, and patient mind that remains quite capable of gathering information and devising and executing plans on his own, even carrying them out subtly...sometimes. He is also about as kindhearted and altruistic as a pirate with literally no heart can be, and looking past the fact that he doesn't quite remember how to interact with other people he has a powerful sense of honor and integrity; he may be a weird man, but he can be trusted to keep his word, repay his debts, and to never act out of maliciousness or (unfeigned) treachery.
In addition to blending in and delicate diplomatic scenarios where the first impression is the only impression you get, Brook's other primary weakness is one shared by everyone who eats a Devil Fruit: submersion in standing water. This isn't something he'll try to keep secret; it's common knowledge in his home setting and he'd certainly prefer any mission partners know they'll need to drag him to the surface if something unavoidable happens.
(As Brook is taken from the start of a two-year training timeskip, besides generally strengthening his music over time he has the possibility of unlocking entirely new abilities in the future. I will contact the mod/s to discuss this further if a good situation arises.)
Equipment:
-His cane-sword
-His violin (This is where I should mention that Oda makes almost no real effort to to show Brook carrying instruments before he needs them and even less effort to have any explanation make sense. Brook has casually whipped out an entire guitar from his coat that's bigger than his torso. Please don't ask me to explain this. I'm just going to say that since he was playing his violin in a scene on Sabaody Archipelago and still has it after the timeskip, it was on his person when Kuma smacked him. And we can just never question that ever.)
-A piece of Rayleigh's Vivre Card which will do absolutely nothing outside his home setting.
-And, of course, one seashell hidden inside his head.
Samples:
Network Sample: [VOICE]
[The voice sounds small and distant at first and the volume cuts in and out as it goes, almost as though the speaker is someone who doesn't entirely understand technology and is carelessly gesturing with both his hands in his excitement.]
Hullo! Good morning! Ah, I don't know if I did it...perhaps I ought to have asked a few more questions about how to use this clever little thing properly, or else better remembered the answers, but there is ever so much to take in and I can be such an awful scatterbrain- [He suddenly and quite uncontrollably cackles.]
But let's do be serious now. [The only one rambling and fooling around was him.] My name is Brook! How do you do! I suppose we shall all be working together for a time; I'm looking forward to it very much! [The sound gets bad here, but he might have added 'though I have no eyes' before he started laughing again. Did he say that? Maybe you just misheard.]
Also, if you would be so kind, please recommend your favorite songs and singers! It's for professional reasons; I am a musician myself, and it has recently come to my attention that I am terribly old-fashioned. This seems like a lovely opportunity to catch up, what with recorded music apparently being a good deal easier to come by these days and everyone hailing from so many far-off places. If we can get our hands on it, I'll listen gladly!
All right, well! Thank you! Good morning!
Prose Sample: "You really do take us for fools," said the little man outside the bars, his face shrewd and unsympathetic in the moonlight.
"Not at all, sir!" said the man inside the bars, who was not so little - and whose face was neither shrewd nor anything else, for he had none, only two empty sockets and a grin that never faltered. "I only thought it a small thing to ask of you, and after all, I have been profitable these last few days and never troubled you for a bit of it."
"Ha! You wouldn't get any if you did ask. We caught you fair and square, and caged birds don't get a cut."
"True," Brook said, idly stretching his long legs out before him. "But I should think it an awful shame if I missed my cane so terribly that I became too downhearted to sing. Ah! Though I have no heart regardless..."
The little man rolled his eyes.
"...but even so, lazy bones are not profitable bones, are they? I might be mistaken for a doll again. Only a bit of sleight of hand and stage magic. And all because we quarreled over something that is already mine, and costs you nothing to give me."
"I say it might cost me a lot, giving a thing like you a weapon."
Brook laughed, high and loud and sudden. "Shall I pick the lock with a fencing sword, sir? Saw through the bars? Now that is a gut buster of a joke, and here I am without any guts at all! I'll gladly surrender it before anyone opens my cage, if you like. But I have had that blade a long time, and I should very much like to have it back."
The little man's eyes narrowed, considering. Brook tapped the sides of his shoes together once, twice, and waited.
"I guess having a sword didn't save you from being caged in the first place, did it? But one trick from you - even one - and you'll be real sorry. You'll be sorry for a long time."
"Certainly, sir."
The little man left. Brook grinned. Brook was always grinning. He hummed to himself, watched the moon, counted a few stars. The little man returned, and one double-elbowed arm pushed a seemingly unremarkable cane between the bars before jerking back out of reach like one wary of a snake. It was not so quick that Brook couldn't have caught him, if he'd had a mind to do so.
"Tomorrow, you sing."
"Certainly, sir," he said again, and the little man left, and did not return.
The skeleton, left now to his own devices, took up the cane in his long fingers and twisted just so until the handle slid free and the blade - nearly as much a part of him as his own limbs - caught the moonlight. "Hullo again, old friend. It does my heart good to see that our hosts haven't mistreated you."
The old blade offered no opinion on the matter of his little joke. Well, he was used to it. He sheathed it and lay the cane across his lap, and reached over to tug his equally old violin case close against his hip, and leaned back against the bars of his cage with a yawn.
He closed the eyes he didn't have.
Later, when the cage bars at his back vanished and he fell backwards with a quiet clatter, he opened them again - not to cold bars and moonlight, but to a room filled with peculiar machines and serious-looking people in suits. Brook grinned, as ever, and picked himself up, and picked his belongings up, and held up his cane.
"Thank you! I've got it, and I'm quite ready now. Ready to work my fingers to the bone!" He laughed again, loud and wild.
"We're gonna regret this," someone muttered, and not a one of the serious-looking faces in suits looked ready to admit it was them.
Accepted
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Re: Accepted