mayfield_ooc | Applications

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• Please read over all the rules and information before applying in order to minimize any confusion before joining.

• If applying for a character that has already been dropped, it would be a good idea, though not required, to know something of their previous interactions. You are also free to pick up a dropped character with no memories of their previous time in Mayfield.

• All content for the personality and sample entry in your app must be written or roleplayed by you; for the personality section in particular, we do not accept copied text from wikis or other sources. Obviously, you may not copy your app from other players, whether in Mayfield or other games. Application plagiarism will result in a ban from the game.

• If you wish for your character to be placed in a specific house, please mention this in the relevant section of the application and specify that permission was obtained by the PCs already residing in that house. We will be operating by the Honor System for this, and there is no need for others to comment their permission in this post!

• Other special requests would also best go in the beginning of the application. Remember, grammar and spelling are important -- if your app contains errors, you will be asked to revise.

• Please post all applications or canon updates in this post; posting them elsewhere and linking to them from here may cause them to get changed later. Posting them here keeps us from having to save them.

When Applying, Fill Out the Following:

Name: Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you.
Personal Journal: If you have one; a journal on another website is fine.
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc. AIM appears to be the common link between most players, so having a handle on AIM is preferable.
Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable.
Preferred Housing: We encourage random matches, but if there is a particular house you want, you will need to contact every person in the house for permission. Please post your app AFTER doing this. If you cannot get in contact with any one person, please wait a week after contact and we'll accept it as a good faith effort. It is not necessary for those you received permission from to comment; we believe you! If you have no housing preference, simply put "N/A".

Character Name: Names, nicknames, whatever is applicable. In western order, please. If the character has no last name (adult males especially), you are free to either make one up or let us do it.
Character Series: 
Character Age: 
Background: We will accept copy/pastes or links to Wikipedia or another source, provided that the source reasonably explains the canon. This section is necessary, so if you can't find an explanatory source, you'll have to write something up yourself.
Personality: The more detailed here, the better. This lets us get a good feel for the character. Please try to back up your details with canon examples when you're getting past their basic character and more in-depth. Generally, we want to see at least four good-sized paragraphs.
Abilities: This section may end up being optional for you. If your character has any abilities or powers, such as magic, they'll be taken away upon arrival in Mayfield. These will come back over time, though.
Sample Entry: Please write as if you've already been accepted and writing an ordinary post from your character during their stay in Mayfield. Using an "introduction" post is fine, but we tend to discourage it, as the typical "who am I where am I what is this crazy place" format doesn't really give us a good grasp of how your character will behave on a daily basis. If you have trouble writing sample posts, we allow links to museboxes or other RPs to demonstrate as a sample. However, you'll want to post with the account you'll be linking to in that situation. Please make sure that your app is written in first person (!!!), as that's the format that will be used in the roleplay. Generally, we want to see at least five sentences, if not more. Prose log style samples will not be accepted. If you're confused about the distinction, we will be happy to explain. Remember, we're looking for FIRST-PERSON format; prose narration is fine, but it cannot make up the bulk of the entry.

When Applying for an Original Character, Fill Out the Following

Name: Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you.
Personal Journal:
Contact Info: Any other way of contacting you. IM screen names, e-mail address, etc. AIM appears to be the common link between most players, so having a handle on AIM is preferable.
Other Characters Played: Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable.
Preferred Housing: We encourage random matches, but if there is a particular house you want, you will need to contact every person in the house for permission. Please post your app AFTER doing this. If you cannot get in contact with any one person, please wait a week after contact and we'll accept it as a good faith effort. It is not necessary for those you received permission from to comment; we believe you! If you have no housing preference, simply put "N/A".

Character Name: Names, nicknames, whatever is applicable. In western order, please. If the character has no last name (adult males especially), you are free to either make one up or let us do it. 
Character Age: 
Background: For OCs, we require a detailed background to be fully written out. Please make sure to describe both the character's specific, personal background, and the world the character is from. If it is exactly like the real world, you'll still need to describe the location and the specifics of the society the character lives in (also please note here that we no longer accept 'Canon OCs,' so if this world is not one invented by you, the character is not appable).

This section will need to be somewhat long; there's no specific length we want, but we want to have a very clear feel of the character's backstory, so that we can compare it to the personality section.
Personality: This section is probably the most important. We're looking for at least six or seven paragraphs, but what's more important is that this be comprehensive and detailed. We want to see what makes your character tick, and we want to see that you understand what makes them tick and have fleshed them out as a character. Some things we will need to see include their important relationships and the major events in their lives and how these have shaped them, how they tend to interact with others and the world around them, their strengths and weaknesses, and what motivates them, among others.

If we do not have a strong sense of personality or it doesn't seem to match up with the background or sample, we will not accept the character even if your writing is strong.
Abilities: This section may end up being optional for you. If your character has any abilities or powers, such as magic, they'll be taken away upon arrival in Mayfield. These will come back over time, though.
Sample Entry 1: We're looking for a first person sample here; prose or action log format is not acceptable. If you write a sample, please write as though your character has already been accepted and is in Mayfield. You may write an introduction or first post, but we tend to discourage this, as the typical "who am I where am I what is this crazy place" format doesn't really give us a good grasp of how your character will behave on a daily basis. You may also use a link to a post in a dressing room, another game, or a musebox. We're looking specifically for a clear sense of character voice; spelling and grammar are important, but showing strong voice and characterization is more important than anything else. Remember, we're looking for FIRST-PERSON format; prose narration is fine, but it cannot make up the bulk of the entry.
Sample Entry 2: In this sample, we'd like to see a different side of your character than we saw in your first sample. This sample also needs to be in first person, but you may do a sample heavily based on introspection and action as long as it shows us a different side of your character and your first sample was strongly focused on speaking voice. For this sample, we will ask you to write something out as though your character is already in Mayfield. Please do not link to a sample elsewhere or use their first post/waking up in Mayfield here. That can go in the first sample instead.

• Before applying, please look over any applications that were recently accepted to get an idea of what we're looking for.

• If you apply for a character that has already been reserved, we will inform you and ignore the application until the reserve runs out. You may not apply for more than two characters from the same canon. For the sample entry, you may write your own entry, or use a post from a musebox, dressing room, or other game. We recommend testrun_box if you prefer the latter!

• After you're accepted, please follow all of the instructions given. You will need to reply to the acceptance, post your journal to the friend add page and your canon post, join the communities, and use the friend add page to update your journal. Once you're accepted, please introduce yourself on the community when you're ready to play.

• If your app is "Pending", do not freak out! This means that we need you to make some revisions, and does not mean you're rejected. We generally give players a chance to revise before rejecting them, but we will reject apps that do not address the concerns stated when we asked for a revision. If you have been rejected, our reply will clearly state this to be the case. If we have not gotten back to you yet, under no circumstance does this mean you are rejected. If it has been over a week since our last reply, it would be a good idea to contact us with a reminder, otherwise, please be patient!

• If you have received a "Pending" notice, you will have one week to supply us with your revisions, or your reserve will be considered expired and that someone else is free to apply for the character.

• The typical wait for a reply on apps may be anywhere from a day to a little over a week. If any part of your application requires a pending, it may be another week after your reply to that before we can get to you. We process a high volume of apps every round, so please be patient.

• If you have not heard back on a pending for over a week after apps close, please send a PM directly to the mod account.

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Korii
Personal Journal:

asondeiru
Contact Info: AIM and Plurk: koriinchan
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: If you could pair her up with Edward Nigma, that'd be supergreat. Steve and I have discussed this.

Character Name: Ema Skye
Character Series: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Character Age: 25
Background: Here. She will also be retaining memories of her time at Mayfield prior to this.

Personality: When someone first encounters Ema, he or she is likely to write her off as a grumpy, moody twenty-something who takes out her frustrations on other people. In many ways, that person would be absolutely right. Ema finds it easier to sulk, glower, snap, and hurl tiny snack projectiles than to try and adequately express emotions such as anger, insecurity, and hurt. When dealing with people who don’t hold her attention, she has a tendency to simply ignore their existence; when dealing with people she actively dislikes, she’s likely to become hostile. In the end, it’s little more than a defense mechanism, designed to force people to keep their distance until she’s really ready to let them in. Her two years in Mayfield has tempered this tendency somewhat--they're not going to get anywhere if they don't cooperate--but she's still more than capable of prickly behavior.

Ema has a healthy disdain toward showy people—she condescendingly refers to Klavier Gavin (her cooperating prosecutor) as “glimmerous.” In her professional life, she much prefers to deal with people who are calm, cool, and collected (“simmerous,” by her own vernacular). Considering her ~~fangirling over~~ admiration for Miles Edgeworth in her appearances at age 16 and 18, respectively, she seems to prefer this type in her interpersonal life as well, or at least in a prospective romantic partner. (Of course, what she prefers is not necessarily where she ends up; her current (Mayfield) relationship is with Edward Nigma, who is perhaps the showiest person she's ever met. It's a relationship filled with pushing, pulling, disdain, and affection. Somehow, this works.)

Beyond the grumpiness, Ema is actually capable of warmth and friendly behavior. If she feels comfortable enough, she does know how to let go and actually enjoy herself. Generally, she’s more open around her friends and family, although many of them are not quite exempt from fits of temper. People she openly admires (e.g. Miles Edgeworth) are likely to receive unbridled admiration from her; age has tempered the tendency toward hero-worship down quite a bit, but not entirely. Alcohol is a good way to get her to loosen up in circumstances outside her close social circle (it’s not seen in canon, but this picture suggests that might be the case).

However, the most prominent aspect of Ema’s personality is science. Science is the love of Ema’s life—just the very mention of it brings a light to her eyes. Her love for forensic science is great enough that she purchases kits over the Internet and carries out scientific investigations at crime scenes when the forensic team isn’t around to stop her. It’s a love she’s willing to share with pretty much everyone, regardless of whether anyone is actually interested. It goes without saying that appealing to Ema’s scientific interests is the most effective way to bypass her otherwise sour behavior.

Just after Ema’s love of science is her love for Snackoos. She keeps a stash with her at all times and will pull them out to munch when she’s bored, irritated, or trying to ignore someone/something; how she’s not overweight from the near-constant snacking is a mystery.

Abilities: Science! And a damn good metabolism! And hurling small projectiles at people with deadly accuracy!

Seriously, Ema is canonically above-average in her proficiency with science, despite having failed the test to become a forensic scientist (probably due in large part to her inability to draw correct conclusions to her scientific observations). Considering her dependence on Luminol for investigation in both of her AA appearances, the vials peeking out of her purse, and her chemical threat (Hydroxyacelunodosetrase, which she describes as “experimental”) to Apollo Justice in game four, chemistry seems to be Ema’s strongest scientific area. Ema’s also relatively technology-savvy, considering how high-tech scientific investigation has become… which is essentially useless in a setting like Mayfield, but might be good for a few regains.

Sample Entry: Here and here.

Accepted!

mayfield_mods - 2012-08-05 18:32 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Accepted!

glowing_skye - 2012-08-11 00:58 (UTC) - Expand

Name: Justyne
Personal Journal:

segues
Contact Info: AIM: BattleToasters |

coffeerocket
Other Characters Played: Jacuzzi Splot
Preferred Housing: N/A

Character Name: Aigis
Character Series: Persona 3
Character Age: Appears to be 15/16, has the mind of a 15/16 year old, has been active for roughly three years, has existed for 11
Background: Wiki
Personality: Aigis is a canonly robot, yes. You will see more than one person portray her as nothing but a robot, all the USB cords and data ports included. Personally, I think this completely contradicts the game and you will not ever see me focus on her being on a robot. There, the elephant in the room is out of the way.

That is not to say, of course, that Aigis didn’t begin the game as hugely, painfully robotic. Her speech style was formal, her voice was monotone. And her personality was… basically that of your kitchen toaster, if your toaster had a complex over a high school boy named Minato. (If your toaster also happens to be an antishadow weapon, you might very well know what I’m talking about, if not, imagine it having guns and summoning creatures from the depths of its mind and you’ve got Aigis as of July, 2010.)

But through the course of the game, Aigis grows, as characters in 100+ hour games are wont to do. She becomes quiet, almost shy, curious to the point of awkwardness and goes all-around soft, by robot standards, by the end of the Journey. I’m certain other video game robots are ashamed of her.

I’ll begin by going over her fierce loyalty. Aigis is fiercely loyal. Her entire point in the game revolves on how desperate she is to protect Minato. She sneaks into his room at night, follows him around at school, and begs for Minato to take her into Tartarus. Her sole purpose, in her mind, is to be with him. And that means anyone who gets in the way, or is a potential threat to Minato, is going to be shot down early on by the bot (haha, shot down. I made a joke). A great example is the emergence of Ryoji Mochizuki ([spoiler] the perverted, humanoid form of Death [/spoiler]), whom she claims is dangerous with her super death-sensing skills that seemed to be missing when she first met Minato… considering he was housing death at the time. She hates him with a passion, and what she hates even more (though this is more prominent in the manga) is the time he spends with Minato. When Minato is summoned to battle Nyx, Aigis tries to force herself to accompany to him to the point where her parts begin to fall off. She’s with him at his last moments on the roof, and chooses to live her life helping others find a way to live… and therefore protecting Minato. Again. Really, it’s kind of ridiculous how obsessed she is.

Even when it’s not Minato, she’s always caring about her friends. When they forget her after fighting Nyx, it tears her apart--knowing she would do anything for them, and they'd forgotten everything they'd done together. Learning that Minato actually remembered her nearly brought her to tears. In the Answer, upon being disabled when Metis is about to kill Ken, she manages to exert a totally new ability to protect the rest of SEES—and show off that she now has the powers of the Wild Card. She’s reluctant to fight against the others, though forced. Even with Minato gone, Aigis still does everything for the ones she cares about. Despite having no will to live, she leads the team in order to protect them all, when it’s obvious she’d rather just chill in her room and cry for a while.

That determination is present in, it would seem, everything she does. She really seems as if she belongs in Gurren Lagann half the time because: Impossible? Surpassed. Reason? Kicked to the curb (in its face, no less. Probably while naked). Reprogrammed to murder everyone she loves? NO BIGGIE, AIGIS GOT THIS. Robots can’t cry? NOW THEY CAN. Robots can’t really be alive? BEEN THERE, DONE THAT. Aigis’ entire body has short circuited, leaving what should be a burnt-out shell of a bot? MORNIN’ GUYS, WHAT’D I MISS? Everything she does she does with 500% effort. And she rarely fails. About the only thing she can’t do is bring Minato back to life—but that’s because she’s got moral obligations not to.

Despite this, Aigis is also clueless, giving her a sort of childish innocence that makes everyone else in the room tense up. Having been active for a total of maybe a full year (and that’s pushing it), Aigis doesn’t understand most of the world. Hence why she sneaks into Minato’s bedroom, wakes him up five minutes early and doesn’t understand why he seems a little confused by a girl-shaped robot standing over him. She also makes some hilarious remarks comparing clothing to camouflage, and (alas, only in P3P, though I can imagine she fails just as hard in FES) cannot seem to grasp the idea of a water gun. She sometimes does things that would seem mean or insulting (like repetitively telling Ryoji he is dangerous), but she honestly doesn’t understand what’s wrong with it.

Aigis is just generally nice. She helps find missing cats, treats her friends and teammates well and wants to save people from thinking their lives are worthless. In fact, she’s made it her freaking purpose in life. Maybe it’s because of the childish innocence mentioned in the previous paragraph, but Aigis rarely doubts others intentions (which causes her, at one point in the game, to be reprogrammed to kill all her friends). She’s respectful and polite, addressing everyone with the honorific “-san” and using proper grammar almost all times. She just doesn’t have it in her to be purposefully harsh.

By the end of the epilogue, Aigis is the kind of person who can move forward, who can see that life wants to keep her down and sweetly punch life in the face. She’s a bit fail, with her sometimes corny jokes and simplistic outlook, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But the most important thing to remember about Aigis is that you don’t get between her and her friends. Keep this in mind and you should be fine.

Abilities: Aigis has two major things that can fall under abilities in the Mayfield setting. The first is the power of Persona. She technically has the ability to summon 170+ personas, but her own specific persona is Athena, which is able to use strong physical attacks.

The second is her robot body, which is... robotic. And when given the appropriate attachments, her hands turn into guns.

Yup.
Sample Entry: From a different game, but with a stronger sense of voice.

As a note, I'll be playing her with her memories and regains from her first time in Mayfield. (her regains being her body, six-shot, her persona with basic skill levels, her ribbon and her dress).

Welcome to 3475 Erwin Road, Aigis Arisato! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

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• Make sure to tag your first post with the !intro tag, as well as your character's personal tag: c: aigis

Go ahead and introduce yourself in the main comm and tell people where your character will be living!

(no subject)

beneathmyribbon - 2012-08-05 19:39 (UTC) - Expand

Name: James/Nathander
Personal LJ: truebluehorror
Contact Info: e-mail: jhr061000@utdallas.edu
AIM: nathander2007
Other Characters Played: Pokey Minch, Haruko, and Mabel Pines who I'm apping this round (I'll be dropping Old Gregg)
Preferred Housing: None

Character Name: The Major
Character Series: Hellsing
Character Age: Appears to be in his late 20s; in actuality, he’s around his 80s-90s
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_(Hellsing)
Personality:
There is one very specific thing, one goal, that the Major idolizes and bases his life around. Every action, and thought, and step he takes is to attempt to lead to that one great desire he has, and to see that it comes to fruition. And that thing is war. The Major more or less breathes, eats, and lives war. If he isn’t actively engaged in some form of conflict, then he will actively begin seeking ways to start one. And he’s a patient man, having waited about fifty years from the end of the last great conflict before finally beginning another, one night war himself with the battalion of vampires that he had built up over the decades of remaining SS troops and officers. The Major desires the chance to be on the battlefield again, amidst carnage and destruction and burning cities. And he will do anything to gain this.

Despite this apparent desire for the destruction, it would be hard to classify the Major as an out and out nihilist. While his cause seems to be to spread destruction and death as far as he can see through battle, he seems to look at these terms exceedingly lovingly. He acknowledges war to be something monstrous, yes, but in that monstrousness he also sees something beautiful about it. In his warped perception of people and things, war is the single most beautiful thing in existence. It brings out both the best and the worst of people, and that is-aside from just how beautiful he finds war to be-the most beautiful thing about conflict. In his own odd way, the Major is a bizarre form of a humanist, and he clearly believes humans to be remarkably interesting and beautiful creatures. The problem is that he finds it much more interesting to constantly endanger and kill other humans then preserve them.

Considering his hard-on for war, the great majority of the Major’s personality traits shouldn’t be surprising. He’s incredibly cold, cruel, and practical, and has no problem showing this. He would gladly send wave after wave of men out to die as sacrifices in battle if it would act as a way to further his own goal in the battle and draw him close to victory. He has absolutely no guilt or remorse about his actions, nor concern for the lives that are ended in the conflict he creates. If there was ever such a thing as a man without a conscious, and lacking any idea of Kantian imperative, it would be the Major. Everything, including comrades and allies, are considered expendable in his war effort, and it’s expected that those who would ally themselves with him realize this. So far, this hasn’t been a problem since the great majority of Millennium had agreed with his belief set, and so taking action to correct any possible problems has been minimal.

However, while the Major is cruel, malicious, and outright evil as to be expected of him, he also has some traits one wouldn’t expect of him. The first is the fact that he generally carries himself with an oddly pleasant demeanor. He tends to have a very calm, almost kind tone of voice while speaking, and his body language incredibly relaxed and almost warm if it wasn’t for the fact of how he generally behaves or speaks. However, this warm tone can give way to a somewhat sharper and more crazed tone when he works himself up when talking about war or anything else that might immediately make him impassioned. He also displays very few leanings towards the beliefs of the National Socialist Party, which is surprising considering he’s an officer in the SS and a battalion commander who was given special orders by the Fuhrer. He appear to view his affiliation with the Nazis as more a sign as to why he went to war to begin with and continues to wage war. He has no concern for the party or nation he fights for, or is meant to fight for. Rather, he’s simply concerned with the war he will inevitably get to fight.

Abilities:
For the most part, the Major is entirely human and thus has no real powers so to speak. The exception to this is that, in order to have kept himself from dying after being executed (why he is executed is debatable; it’s believed it might have been for failing and allowing the original Artificial Vampire project to be stopped by Hellsing in 1944 during the downswing of the war), his body was retrieved and he was made into a cyborg by his comrade, the Doctor. The great majority of his body appears to have been replaced with cybernetic parts. What this means is that, being primarily machine, he would be immune to most poisons and such, but that’s pretty much it.

Sample Entry:
dear_mun entry: http://community.livejournal.com/dear_mun/32262626.html
Junefield Test Run Meme: http://community.livejournal.com/junefield/100173.html?thread=30494797#t30494797

Welcome to 340 Brady Lane, The Major! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

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• Make sure to tag your first post with the !intro tag, as well as your character's personal tag: c: the major

Go ahead and introduce yourself in the main comm and tell people where your character will be living!

Name: James
Personal Journal:

truebluehorror
Contact Info: plurk - nathander
e-mail jhr061000@utdallas.edu
Other Characters Played: Pokey Minch, Haruko Haruhara, and the Major who I'm reapping this round
Preferred Housing: 1338 Benny Hill; I have received permission from the Doctor and Karkat's players and am have informed/am waiting for permission from Ib's player.

Character Name: Mabel Pines
Character Series: Gravity Falls
Character Age: 12
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Falls
Personality:
If there was such a thing as a sunbeam, characterized and then injected with sugar and tearing around on a hyperactive spree, that would be Mabel.

Mabel is both one of the girliest girls you will meet and yet an odd ball in that respect. Being a twelve year old girl she’s going through her boy phase at the moment and several of her actions and attitudes reflect this. She tries to catch the attention of boys her age she meets (sometimes going to absurd means and lengths in order to do so) and seems to be caught up in the world of teenage girl magazines and novels to the point where she thinks a possible boyfriend turning out to be a vampire would be awesome. At the same time she hasn’t gone all the way over into the territory of a teenager yet. The concept of romantic love is something that seems desirable to her and something that, if she can, she would pursue the chance to play matchmaker on as she does with her Great Uncle (or Grunkle) Stan. That said she’s still a young girl and behaves that way, taking enjoyment in playing childish games (or inventing some herself) and the wanderlust and curiosity that leads to exploring the things in front of her are as strong as they are in any young child. She loves what many people stereotype as “girly” things such as dressing up (in fact she seems to have a rather impressive wardrobe of sweaters) and her before mentioned love of romance. At the same time these would seem to clash with her adventurous nature and oddball personality.

Speaking of oddball personality Mabel has it in spades. The nicest way would be to say that she’s exceedingly hyperactive. Mabel tends to be quite a talker when given the chance and many times seems to have difficulty focusing on one single task or thing at the same time. She often tries to focus on several things at once (to varying degrees of success) in order to keep herself entertained and interested in whatever is going on. At the same time the problem seems to be that Mabel can be very easily amused, finding it fun enough to just roll around in the grass or spin on a globe for a little bit just as long as she can keep doing something. She tends to say things without thinking a lot of the times and seems to have a special fondness for things that sparkle and shine (one time Mabel goes so far with this that she ends up eating a bottle of toothpaste because it “looked so shiny”). At the same time once Mabel sets her mind to do something she moves towards doing it with all she’s got and can be pretty single minded in getting there. Well. That isn’t to say there still couldn’t be some things that could distract her at least for a little while but most times when Mabel seems something she wants to go for she’ll try and get it. She’s also a bit of an oddball, loving to make puns and bad jokes when the chance presents itself, such as pretending to be the voice of a pelican while making a joke about a pelican having to leave a restaurant because he has a very big bill.

At the end of the day Mabel is also a very sweet girl. While hyperactive and a bit nutty she has a good heart at the end. While she can speak without thinking she never means harm and the fact that she can be so concerned about making sure to not hurt others that she’ll put others interests before her own. An example of this is when a boy who liked Mabel pressured her into going on a series of dates with him and Mabel found herself unable to say no to him out of fear that she would hurt his feelings, leading to Mabel’s brother Dipper telling the boy Mabel wasn’t interested to try and get her out of it. Dipper is, himself, a big part of Mabel’s life due to being her twin. Dipper is Mabel’s brother, confidante, and best friend. She’s never known a life without her brother and considering how well he works as a foil for her, including tempering her own outright fearlessness and oddball behavior and going somewhere without him will be an entirely new experience for her that she’ll have to adapt to.
Abilities: Mabel has the greatest power of all. Which is the power of Mabel.

That is to say, she's a normal 12 year old girl.
Sample Entry: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/3563091.html#comments

Welcome to 1338 Benny Road, Mabel Doctor! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

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• Make sure to tag your first post with the !intro tag, as well as your character's personal tag: c: mabel pines

Go ahead and introduce yourself in the main comm and tell people where your character will be living!

Note: I am reapping her with her previous memories and regains in full!

Name: Liz.
Personal Journal:

advancing
Contact Info: AIM: Rafflesia Sky.
Plurk:

advancing
Other Characters Played: N/A.
Preferred Housing: 1649 Albright Lane. Permissions have been granted!

Character Name: Diana Ethelbert.
Character Age: 18.

Background: For the Ethelberts, they made their name in Epyaxa and conceived a child named Diana. The family was well off and notorious in the business world between the matriarch Ingrid Ethelbert and her engineering tycoon patriarch Jonathan Ethelbert. Her parents knew that she was not going to be an ordinary child; far from it, actually. At the age of three, she was perplexed and captivated by the information she discovered in one of the many encyclopedias the family kept. This event helped to pave the road for her development here on out. As part of her education, her parents hired private tutors instead of sending her off to private academias or even public school in order to make a difference in her life. And it did; very, very scarily so.

However, her family wasn't the picture perfect image they put forth. In fact, Diana's family is a bit off kilter, as it were, what with them deciding to have a second occupation with stealing precious artifacts and important federal documents. Their reasoning towards this behavior is that it gives them a thrill rush and they're not looking to stop any time soon. As a result of this behavior, when Diana was seven, and having begun to outsmarting her tutors, she was able to go on one of the heists with her parents. This is when things got... weird for her.

On one such heist, she accidentally picked up the item they were thinking of seizing. As a result of this action, all information on Epyaxa's and Earth's government records, databases and information downloaded in her mind. This also gave her access to all the necessary files without ever needing to physically read them. In addition, she was granted the Epyaxain psychic abilities. As a consequence of the large volume of information being imparted into her mind, Diana had a mind-numbingly splitting headache and suffered with migraines and other mental related stresses for a long while. Her parents consulted no one's help on this and tried to deal with it on their own. Eventually, Diana got used to having so much information crammed inside her mind that she was able to return to her life as it was - only now with the added effect of having the Epyaxain/Earth's library in her mind.

When she was eleven, Diana managed to make a considerable reputation for herself with winning chess championships and many other tournaments. Her reasoning behind this was that she wanted a challenge. Just sitting around wasn't going to do anything but hinder her curiosity that had a desire to be sated. Yet, the more she pursued this, the more her social skills suffered. Books interested her more than actual people did and she didn't find anything particularly wrong with this behavior. This did concern her parents who wanted her to try to get her involved with other people. However, she politely refused the offer and focused her energy on understanding and utilizing the new ability she acquired instead. Through her research, she managed to find an interest in the field of technology. Technology, as she knew it, was always developing and she could learn even more things with her innate ability. She tinkered around with the machinery itself and soon enough, she managed to be fairly proficient with computers and kept herself updated with the newest software, hardware, and information.

This interest continued on for two years as she continued to join her parents' escapades with getting more and more used to her library and the psychic abilities she was able to obtain. Life still was fine and well for the Ethelbert family until one day, her parents disappeared for the reason that they finally made the wrong person angry. How Diana found out about this was through a message that appeared specifically for her and told her that if she wanted to see them again, she had to gather the funds necessary and show up alone. She had a week to do this or else the captors would make an example out the Ethelbert family to Epyaxa.

Naturally, this didn't sit well with Diana, so she pulled the strings necessary to save her parents. However, unbeknowest to her, her parents had set up a failsafe if this situation ever happened and Diana was greeted by a family friend - Xenia Anderson, who went by the name Olivia Hawk in order to keep her identity with her organization, it aptly named the English Defense Service. The two of them got along surprisingly well and Diana placed her faith in the older woman to do her job well. In no time flat (around five days of tireless searching), Diana and Olivia managed to find her parents, but it wasn't easy. Even though she brought the money as agreed upon, the captors wanted more. In fact, they wanted Diana solely because of the gift she had as the money meant nothing to the wealth of infinite knowledge did. And so, a hard battle commenced between Olivia and them while Diana did what she could to free her parents before anything bad happened to them.

However, this didn't work out as planned. Right when Diana managed to get her parents to safety, she was taken captive and struggled her entire way throughout it. As it turned out, she managed to push them away with just a single thought and a scream on her part. As far as she was aware, she wasn't capable of this power just yet. But, it did surprise the captors enough to scare them away. Diana immediately joined up with her parents once more and she vowed to take care of them for a change. In addition to this, she tried to tell them to give up on their theivery because she didn't want to see them be taken away from her again. Her parents agreed and the life of crime they had previously stopped while Diana was grateful for the change in events.

The life she had after this was pretty much the same, only that she was getting used to having Olivia around and her powers. As it turned out, Olivia was more motherly and caring than Diana once thought she was and would do her duty to protect, as well as take care of her. And, as it turned out, Diana was appreciative of this and began to open up more than she did previously. However, she did notice every now and then that she had little green discharges of electrical build up come off of her hands when she would do her work. She did her best to ignore it, but when it got more and more prevalent, she knew she couldn't ignore it any further. She then caved to seek help for what was going on. But, the problem that came as a result of this was that she didn't know who was well versed in entire physical changes, as well as the kind of abilities she had. So, while she was willing to get help for what was going on, she didn't know who to turn to. Thus, she kept quiet and tried to deal with this problem on her own. As she consulted her library for help, she couldn't narrow it down enough to get a concise answer. Unfortunately, she decided to suffer with her problem alone - just like she did with her library and psychic powers in the beginning.

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