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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.

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Name: Levi
Personal Journal:

to_be_fire
Contact Info: AIM: hirimioda, Email: pretendytimes(at)gmail(dot)com
Other Characters Played:

tsukihime | Arcueid Brunestud,

thug_disease | Yamame Kurodani
Preferred Housing: 945 Beulah

Character Name: Crona, doesn't really have a last name by canon.
Character Series: Soul Eater
Character Age: 14 or so
Special Note: Crona's gender in the original manga is left completely ambiguous, and Crona is meant to appear extremely androgynous. As such, for the sake of what goes on in Mayfield...I suppose the town can identify Crona as "male" just for the lulz. In canon...it's really unknown what gender Crona is...despite the use of "he" in the official translations.

Background: Crona on this Soul Eater wiki.

Personality: (For the purposes of this app, and my sanity, I'm just going to use "he" for the pronoun to describe Crona.)

Crona's personality is very difficult to grasp, so I suppose it would be best to simply start with his childhood. Crona was born the child of the snake witch, Medusa. Needless to say, Crona's mother is insane. In an effort to create a Kishin (basically a god of insanity in the Soul Eater world), Medusa essentially used her child as an experiment. Likely in infancy, Medusa melted down the Demon Blade known as Ragnarok into what is called "Black Blood" and infused it into Crona, entirely replacing his own blood. Thus, the weapon and wielder became one. Crona spent his entire childhood being trained and abused by his own mother to, essentially, create a dark insanity within the child. This training involved learning every way possible to kill a person, and using what has been learned on poor defenseless little rabbits. If Crona refused, or did not perform well, he would be locked in a dark room and not fed for days at a time in order to break his mind and will.

Thus, the child became twisted inside. At his core, Crona is not a bad person, simply following the teachings of his mother. These teachings created a child who is constantly fearful and completely lacking confidence in his ability to live on his own. Crona tends to spend most of his time isolating himself from others, doing as he's told so as not to be punished by either his mother or Ragnarok himself. Crona has known nothing else but suffering, killing and madness, so his ability to interact with the world is negligible at best.

Despite the power and skill Crona has in wielding his weapon, Crona has no self-worth or confidence whatsoever. He believes himself to be weak and useless, and this causes him to be fearful of just about everything. Toss in his inability to interact with people normally, and even just being spoken to can bring about this fear, easily throwing him into a panic rather easily. The only companion Crona has had through his life's journey has been Ragnarok himself, who can manifest himself outside of Crona's body. Ragnarok usually acts as an "annoying older brother" type to Crona, constantly bullying him, stealing his food, and generally manipulating him when it needs to be done. Still, at the base of it Ragnarok seems to care for Crona somewhat, providing encouragement in fights and healing Crona when needed, though this usually means he will bully Crona into thanking him when he does so. Ragnarok is well aware that if Crona dies, so does he, so he will do what he must to protect Crona.

As such, Ragnarok has been the only real companion Crona has ever known. Friends were a foreign concept to him until Maka Albarn saw fit to understand Crona during the battle to resurrect the Kishin. Maka essentially dove into Crona's soul to gain an understanding of him, and due to their similar "soul wavelengths" managed to get through to him, offering to become his friend. Despite Crona's life so far, he accepted this friendship with no small amount of panic and tears. Below all of the madness Crona is not a bad person at his core. Crona wishes to find friendship, to be useful to others and even possibly grab on to a bit of happiness somehow. His inability to interact with others, his self-loathing and lack of confidence, as well as the fear and shyness toward everything around him make this rather difficult. As the friendship began to grow between Crona and the other children at the Academy, though, it almost seemed as if Crona could possibly come into his own as a person able to move beyond what his mother had done to him, but unfortunately he remains very easily manipulated by Medusa. Through that Crona is driven to betray his new friends, despite voicing just how much he doesn't want to do that. His madness and childhood abuse do not allow him to go against the wishes of the one who essentially brainwashed him.

Maka Albarn seems to be the only person able to ever get a proper response out of Crona, due to their common "soul wavelengths" and the fact that Maka was the first one to offer her friendship to him. Without Maka's urgings, Crona is typically content to sit in a corner and not move, moping about while the war against what he wants and what he was taught to do rages within him. Crona's demeanor and mannerisms are rather child-like, causing him to do things like name the favorite corner of his room "Mr. Corner" and find comfort in staying in that corner. Things that are familiar will always draw Crona to them, as the world is a very frightening place for him and the comfort of the familiar is the only way he can seem to deal with all of this new stimulus.

At the canon point I am taking Crona from (Being the end of Chapter 40 of the Manga, when Crona is called back to Medusa after betraying his friends), Crona is essentially a very mentally damaged individual. His grip on sanity and social norms is very, very shaky and his confidence in himself is almost zero. He is very shy and fearful of others, and for the most part is very easily bullied/taken advantage of. Despite all of this, Crona has grown touched and appreciative by everything his new found friends had done for him, though the guilt of his betrayal has began to eat away at the very core of his being. Due to what has been done to him the storm will likely never fully die within Crona, though it seems he has the potential to grow apart from his current broken state of mind.

Abilities: In the world of Soul Eater humans exist that can take the form of weapons, improving and aiding the ability of the meister that wields them. As such, Crona has a weapon flowing through his very veins in the form of Black Blood, which happens to be the Demon Sword Ragnarok. This blood gives Crona many abilities, which include Ragnarok's form being able to sprout from his body, as well as that blood forming the very sword he wields. With this dark blade and black blood Crona has many abilities, as well as a great skill in swordsmanship, though his style is very strange and difficult to follow. The black blood is always a weapon, even when it leaves Crona's body, and is able to make needle-like attacks on others either in the air or splattered on the ground. Ragnarok can harden the blood in Crona's body as well, making it neigh impossible for weapons to pierce fully through his body and even providing methods for healing if Crona does manage to be injured. Ragnarok is capable of many shockwave-type attacks, as well as being able to vibrate his sword form using what is called "scream resonance" to create an intense saw-like ability in the sword's edge, increasing it's ability to cut through things a sword normally could not handle.

Beyond the fact that Ragnarok flows through his veins, Crona has no other special abilities.

Sample Entry:

[Action | Mayfield High]

[It's another lovely day at Mayfield High School! Children chatting and laughing, diligently learning and paying attention to the teachers so they can excel in life!

Except for one child. It seems, in one particular classroom, that Crona is completely unwilling to leave the safety of the corner of that room. The drone teacher stands over Crona, scolding and attempting to pull the child up by the arm so that Crona may be returned to a proper seat.]

If you don't get up off of the floor, you're going to be expelled! Now what will your parents think if that happens? Why, golly you won't even be able to make it in the world without an education!

[Crona sits with knees pulled up, bound by the arms wrapped around them. Crona's head is resting against the knees, speaking quietly in response to the drone. Crona seems to be trembling, curled up as small as possible.]

I'm sorry...I...don't know how to handle this. I can't. I want to stay with Mr. Corner. Please don't make me. I'm sorry. It's just too scary.

[Soon, the drone finally gives up, leaving Crona to quake in fear in that corner. Though, between classes, Crona takes the next opportunity to flee the school.]

[Action | The Park]

[Instead of going back to the strange house that seemed to be Crona's assigned home, the darkest and most tucked-away corner of the park will be chosen for the continuation of Crona's moping. Crona didn't much like being outside, or being anywhere nearby the wandering people, but the hiding place was somewhat comforting. Talking to oneself also seems to be comforting, as well.]

I can't...handle this place. I don't know what to doooo...

What would Ragnarok say? "Don't be a baby and find me something to eat." Then he'd hurt me.

...I miss Ragnarok.

[Action | The Church]

[There seems to be one androgynous looking child sitting in one of the pews of the church. Crona has been sitting there for a number of hours, simply staring at the ground. Crona didn't seem to be there for worship, but for another reason.

Indeed...this church reminded Crona of the first time that Maka had been seen by Crona. That meeting didn't end well, but it later turned into the first friendship Crona had ever known.

Still, the child had a reason to repent. Crona had done something horrible before coming to Mayfield. Something, Crona was sure, not even Maka could forgive. So, the child simply sits in that pew, hands folded together on bent knees, and stares at the floor, muttering quietly. Finally, it seemed Crona had found a place nice and quiet where even people passing through didn't seem to bother the fearful child too much. Memories were nice. Crona could cling to memories.]

Permissions for housing obtained from all but one individual. Will reply when all permissions obtained!

The app looks good, so just let us know when you've got permission and we'll process it.

Permission from me is granted!

Yea, just to let ya'll know I can't seem to get into contact with the Vivio player in that house, but everyone else has provided permission. Haven't been able to catch her for the past 5 days or so.

MODS, MODS. I GOT THE FINAL PERMISSION!

All members of household have agreed! ;u;

We are very sorry about the delay.

Welcome to 945 Beulah Street, Crona Sufferson! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

mayfield_rpg,

mayfield_ooc,

mayfield_logs, and optionally

junefield
• Add your info to your canon post
• Add your info to your household! Use the street list to find your house.
• Make sure to tag your first post with the !intro tag, as well as your character's personal tag: c: crona

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

...Crona Sufferson seems to fit quite well.

Also, don't sweat it mods ilu.

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