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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Personal History

In this reality, there is a twenty-two year old college student in Boston, Massachusetts that has just been accepted to law school and enjoys the local bar scene when she gets the opportunity.

Caroline graduated from high school with honors in El Paso, Texas and moved to Boston for a scholarship. She has three brothers (two older, one younger) and her house in El Paso also bustles with her mother, father, paternal grandmother, her aunt, and her niece. She is the picture of normalcy, if just a bit over-achieving. Her favorite drink is a chocolate milkshake and she has an unhealthy addiction to cheeseburgers with hot sauce and onion rings. She blames her mother’s cooking for her obsession with hot sauce. She enjoys it on eggs, french fries, and just about anything else. When at home, she loves helping her mom cook up carnitas with homemade corn tortillas. Her grandmother taught her how to make tortillas from scratch when she was young, but she still thinks her grandmother does a better job with them.

She enjoys running and participated in track through high school and into college. Her specialty was the 100 meter dash and she made it to the state finals in Texas. In college she participated on the track team, but quit during her junior year when her studies became too demanding. She works as a tutor for high school students to support herself and her little studio apartment just two blocks from campus. The entire apartment isn’t much bigger than her bedroom back home, but it’s all hers and she can make it to class in about five minutes if she’s in a hurry.

Caroline’s completely boring and normal life was up-ended when she saw a house on fire while out jogging on an early Saturday morning. She called 911, but also went to investigate. She made the reckless decision to go into the house when she heard a child crying. While she was inside, the roof burned through and collapsed. Her memories of the event are a blur that make no sense, but she woke up in the woods with a strange man watching over her. Her body was covered in cuts, like her skin had tried to split open. The man opened what appeared to be a dark tear in the empty air and carried her through it.

Lying on the couch in the strange man’s perfectly normal apartment in Illinois, the situation was explained to her. Caroline was a mage, and unless she learned to manage the abilities that had been forcefully woken up, she could tear herself apart. Her abilities were powerful and her body couldn’t handle the out of control surges. The strange man that had found her, James Gardener, knew her from a previous life and was there to keep her safe and alive. He was called the Guardian. She stayed the night so he could be sure she was under control, then he sent her back to Boston to continue on with her life but with some new drains on her time.

In order to protect Caroline from herself, James started to train her to control her abilities. Power without training made her dangerous to others and also made her a target for anyone looking for a power boost. Blood mages or blood wizards could torture and kill her to boost their own abilities. He could talk to her via telepathy to keep tabs on her, and also ‘ported to her apartment to check on her and train in person. After a small incident where she accidentally blew out a wall at her college, she was removed from classes and sent to the planet Masola for emergency training with a wyvern, Nova, and his apprentice, Jade. After two weeks of intensive work, she was allowed to return to her regular life and her college classes.

It’s been three months since her stay on Masola. She’s now a part of mage society, both on Earth and on other planets. She’s been cleared to ‘port on planet on her own (so long as she’s careful and warns James she’s going to make an attempt) and just recently had to ‘port to Dallas to help sort out a situation with a blood mage. This dual life is starting to wear on her relationship with her boyfriend, Brad. ‘Porting to Dallas cost her lunch with him, and the relationship is on thin ice. She can’t tell him why she’s taking off with little warning or why her nights are suddenly not available. Between her evasiveness and her distraction, he suspects she’s cheating on him.

She is also catching up with classes so that she can graduate on time and enter law school as planned. Being a mage certainly will not pay the bills.

Her current training is limited and she does not have much in the way of skills. Her potential far outstrips her control, so she keeps things throttled way back for the safety of herself and others. There are legends about her previous lives floating around, where she was called the Archmage, but like any other mortal (aside from James), she can’t remember them. She doesn’t truly believe they’re her. Considering those lives are linked to insanity and instability, it’s really for the best that way.

Considering the situation on Earth, Caroline will be very quiet about her abilities, at least at first. Once some have been regained, and she notices that some others have unusual abilities, she may relax enough to let others see what she can do, but she will always prefer to keep the cards very close to her chest.

Applications

Re: Caroline Martinez || OC || Not Reserved