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.

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Name: Celes
Personal LJ:

sodium
Contact Info: AIM = REDScoutonFire
Other Characters Played: None! But I did play this cheerful fellow very briefly around July 2010!
Preferred Housing: n/a

Character Name: (RED) Scout, though he has no 'real' name in canon. I figure I can make one up here to give him a last name, so I'll go with Timothy Jones. He would much, much rather be referred to as Scout, though, and in most cases won't answer to his actual name.
Character Series: Team Fortress 2
Character Age: No official age is given for him in canon but he appears to be around 20 years old.
Background:
Information about Team Fortress 2: http://tf2wiki.net
Information about Scout: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Scout and http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Meet_the_Scout

Team Fortress 2 is a First Person Shooter game that unfortunately has very little plot. The plot that is there is a very simple one. Basically, one company in control of one side of the world is constantly at arms with the company controlling the other side, both of which are given the orders to capture parts the other company controls by a mysterious woman with simply a title for a name. Since the plot is so basic, there really isn't much information given about the classes one can play as. Their history, for the most part, is up in the air, though the official website for the game does occasionally have comics starring the classes posted. These comics can give you a bit of information, but not much.

All that is known about Scout is that he was born and raised in Boston, and being the youngest of eight in his household, learned at a relatively young age to train his legs to the point where he could outrun his older brothers and beat them to the fights they were hoping to engage in. Of course, after finally being able to outrun his brothers, Scout adopted a strong method of offense, with his favorite weapon being a baseball bat dubbed The Sandman. Also occasionally using a pistol (The Scattergun or The Force-A-Nature), Scout grew to become a decent fighter, though he never thinks twice about using his speed to his advantage.

Personality:

Scout is, in short, a very boisterous and energetic young man. Spewing out insults such as 'chucklefuck,' 'chucklenuts,' 'blockhead,' and 'knucklehead', he clearly doesn't care about being even the slightest bit friendly to anyone, even his teammates. On occasion, he will slip out a 'thanks,' but it's pretty rare, and when it happens, it's inevitable that it won't be long until another insult comes flying out of his mouth. His accent is sometimes hard to decipher, since it's a heavy Boston one, but once someone is around him long enough they tend to pick up on the way he says things. (For the most part, words ending with an 'r,' like 'liar,' adopt more of an 'ah' sound at the end, like 'liah'.) He is also very boastful -- this can prove to be annoying to others, and it clouds the Bostonian's mind where he can't see any faults that he has. In the Meet the Scout video, he's seen saying that he's 'a big deal,' and that his muscles are 'beautiful'. In all honesty, one can barely see any muscles at all, proving that Scout has a fairly large ego, at least in that sense.

A big ego isn't the man's only personality flaw. He's also extremely impatient -- in the Meet The Spy video, he is seen literally yelling at the Soldier on his team to hurry up and unlock the door to the room in their base with important information hidden in a briefcase because they have no time to waste. Scout despises wasting time. In fact, as soon as a mission starts in the game, Scouts are usually the first class to run the heck out of the respawn point and toward the action. Life is short and there's only so much time to get stuff done, right? At least, that's Scout's point of view.

Scout, being the youngest class in Team Fortress 2, still obviously cares about his mother, which is evidenced by some of the things he says when the player earns an achievement while playing as him. He quite happily says, "hi, Ma!" and "look at me, Ma!" then, meaning that he's hoping his mother is paying attention to what he's doing and is hopefully proud of him, though he'd most likely never go out and actually announce that specifically. He also has a fondness for baseball, which can also be tied to the fact that he's still pretty young. He wears the same type of trousers a professional baseball player wears, as well as a batter's helmet and athletic shoes, and his main weapon is a baseball bat, which he swings with ease, most likely due to watching and studying his favorite teams play on television. If he actually shows interest in another person, (which is extremely rare and only shown in one of the official Team Fortress 2 comics), he may bring up baseball with them as it's a subject he's fairly knowledgeable in.

He enjoys caffeinated beverages, his favorite being a concoction known as Bonk! Atomic Punch. (How he obtains these beverages is pretty much unknown, and he seems to have a relatively large supply of them.) These drinks amplify his energy, though even without them he's known to literally bounce off of walls. Usually his energy is used to dart away from the enemy as soon as he whacks them with either his trusty bat or the baseball hit by his bat, so he suffers minimal, or preferably no damage, and Bonk! Atomic Punch helps him even further by speeding up his step to push him out of harm's way. The fact that he drinks so many of these beverages probably proves that Scout isn't the healthiest man, in that he doesn't eat and drink things that are 'good' for him. In the Jarate advertisement, Scout is seen eating a taco, and in an official drawing, he mentions hot dogs. Nowhere does he ever mention anything remotely healthy, and though it's pretty evidenced that he cares about his mother, he may not actually listen to everything she suggests he should do. Either way, he's a fast-talking, even faster-moving force to be reckoned with, and his poor eating habits don't seem to affect his ability to fight.

Abilities: Scout is extremely fast. After drinking a certain type of Bonk! Atomic Punch, he is able to run fast enough to completely deflect any sort of damage dealt to him, and other types of the drink cause him to simply run really, really fast -- faster than normal, even, and normally he's the fastest class in Team Fortress 2. Being fast allows Scout to obtain secret information about the enemy, which is undoubtedly very, very helpful for his team to capture all of the points. Scout can also double-jump, and being the only class with that ability, can easily get out of harm's way and/or attack enemies before they can even figure out what hit them.

Though, being fast and small has its downfall, in that Scout takes a lot of damage when he is hit. Running away after shooting an enemy with his pistol or smacking them with The Sandman is usually the smartest course of action for the boy to take, since only a few hits cause him to pass out completely and, in the canon of Team Fortress 2, get sent back to the respawn point.

Sample Entry: (from his previous stay at Mayfield. If this isn't okay, please let me know and I will write a new sample!)

Any motivated, hard working, diligent young man would have been getting ready for work at this time of day, but Scout wasn't any of those. Well, he'd tell you he was, but he really didn't care to be motivated for work right now. After all, he worked in a construction yard doing menial labor for a pathetic pay -- not his profession of choice.

Wearing casual clothing (and not a construction vest or anything like that), Scout casually strolled around his front yard, eying up the large, colorful mushrooms that were splayed about the grass. He didn't recall them being there earlier, but it was possible that he simply didn't notice. He crouched down in front of the biggest one he could see, then poked it. It was almost as if the mushroom were made of rubber, the way it bounced back into shape as soon as his finger pulled away.

It reminded him of candy. The color, the way it moved when poked, the ...

While the thought of delicious grape candy fluttered through his mind, the RED haphazardly grabbed the fungus and shoved it into his mouth before actually realizing what he was doing and chewed. The taste was interesting -- it wasn't grape, or anything like that, but it wasn't too terrible either.

"Mmm, ah, ahkay, dis ain't so bad."

He stood up and suddenly felt a wave of dizziness rush through his head. He closed his eyes for a moment to regain his composure, and when he reopened them, the neighborhood was blue. Everything was blue. The BLU team. Builders League United.. Memories of battles fought at the Granary, the Dustbowl, and the Gravel Pit (among others) quickly flashed in an almost photographic manner in his mind.

He wasn't in Mayfield anymore, at least, he thought. Sure, the town looked the same, but everything was BLUE. And that meant pretty much one thing, and one thing only. Somehow, sometime, the enemy team had taken over the point. And Scout knew he had to defend what was rightfully his, by any means necessary.

Okay, so I totally whiffed that sample because it's not the right format. Whoops! I am really embarrassed about that!

Here's another sample, this one in the correct format. So so sorry about that.

Edited (messed up my sample ;_;) 2012-05-04 20:19 (UTC)

Just posting here under this account since the sample was posted under it as well.

Welcome to 336 Brady Lane, Timothy Jones! 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: red scout

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

here's his journal

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Applications

RED Scout | Team Fortress 2 | Reserved | 1/?

RED Scout | Team Fortress 2 | Reserved | 2/?

RED Scout | Team Fortress 2 | Reserved | 3/4

RED Scout | Team Fortress 2 | Reserved | DONE

Notes!

proof quickly is me

ACCEPTED

thank you! :3