mayfield_ooc | Applications

• 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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Personality:
First and foremost, Makoto is a beastkin. Beastkin aren't the most liked of all the species back home, so she has been subject to much teasing and harassment because of it. It most certainly bothers her when people make fun of her for what she is, but because of Noel and Tsubaki, she doesn't mind as much anymore. She flaunts what she is proudly, and she is nowhere near ashamed of it. She even dresses all skimpy-like with no regrets. However, she still doesn't like being made fun of for it, so it's a bit of a soft spot. It only makes her stronger, though.

Makoto is a bit of a goof, constantly acting silly and over-dramatic around her friends, and even making the simplest of things sound hundreds of times more epic (legendary chocolate, anyone?). She loves all of her friends, but most definitely loves Noel and Tsubaki the most. She would do anything to keep them safe, even if it meant attacking an old friend like Carl. She has even made an idle threat about protecting Noel to Iron Tager, who makes a T-Rex simply look large. She can be very friendly with people, and loves to be social and outgoing with her friends whenever she can. Because of that, Makoto really wishes that things back home could be like they used to be; simple and fun. Everything got so complicated back home, and Makoto abhors it, and she wants to work towards that.

Despite being shown as being a complete goof who makes a complete mess of her living quarters with a disinterest in learning much back in the Academy, Makoto is surprisingly perceptive and intelligent -- and definitely knows when to get completely serious. There's no other way she would be an officer in the Intelligence Department of the Novus Orbis Librarium. She knows much more than she lets on to people, and only gives grains of salt to people about her motives. Those motives happen to be more in sync with Sector Seven than with the NOL, which is a world without magic. Her primary example of it all was bringing a creature back to life with magic, even if it didn't want to come back to life. It simply bothers her. That's why she works as a spy for Sector Seven within the NOL.

She doesn't enjoy fighting, or at least fighting people that she knows or has known well in the past, but she will do it without questions if someone she cares about is in trouble, such as the case as attacking Carl to protect Tsubaki. You simply just don't mess with her close friends or face her fury. Tsubaki and Noel are like family to her. She even cares enough about Jin to tend to his wounds nonstop until he woke up, and try to bring him back to rest after he left. Like it was mentioned before, Makoto just wants things to be like they used to be. It's this pure willpower and love for her friends that even allow her to retain her identity when her soul is sucked into the Cauldron, a place where her soul should have disappeared and killed her. That love for her friends and those she truly cares for is more than enough to keep her alive and even end up returning her back to her world.

She also believes that people and other living things should be helped a little bit, just enough that it can go off and live its own life for itself. That way they don't become dependent on someone's help, and a helping hand is always a nice thing to give someone in need. Her belief of this comes from personal experience with the prejudice she experienced throughout her life, and how Noel and Tsubaki stood up for her and gave her that helping hand that let her squeeze out the poison from the discrimination, and live her own life.

Makoto also has a huge soft spot for cute things, such as Carl. She thinks Carl is adorable, and would instantly just grab him and hug him for quite awhile on sight. In fact, she probably treats cute things worse than Noel when she sees them. Not only that, but Makoto gets excited over the smallest of things sometimes, such as chocolate. She also loves all-you-can-eat buffets and chestnut parfaits, and playing lacrosse is a hobby of hers. Makoto is also apparently a fan of things such as mecha and video games.

Abilities: Makoto is a Beastkin, which means that by default she lives a very long life. Besides that, she has very monstrous strength hidden within her and is more than capable of punching a crater in the ground with one swift attack. Is is also fast enough to separate into illusions in the middle of a battle (up to 3), and can punch dozens of times quickly. In other words, she's athletic and strong, and more than capable enough to handle herself in a fight.

She fights using hand-to-hand combat mixed with her tonfas, which are a type of ars armagus (in other words, magical) and only aim to improve her combat prowess. Those tonfas, which help to magnify her incredible strength, also allow her to emit small ball-projectiles and project giant images of her fists through energy. They also allow her to charge the power of her blows, making them even stronger with the longer she charges her attacks, which is known as Impact. Impact applies to most of her punches and major attacks, including amplifying her powerful enough to send an opponent flying into the sky and through the moon.

Her tail can also totally be used as a weapon, and Makoto isn't afraid to smother someone's face in it so long as its aggressively. All of this, excluding what she gains from her tonfas, are due to her being in peak physical condition and her heritage as a Beastkin.

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