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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Gingey
Personal Journal:

speedster
Contact Info: AIM: gingerveer,

Gingeyweasel
Other Characters Played: Accelerator, Bart Allen, and Schrodinger
Preferred Housing: 1336 Benny Road with Wataru and the Kyouko that's apping in, I have permission from both muns!

Character Name: Sayaka Miki
Character Series: Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica
Character Age: 14
Background: Episode summaries at wikipedia.

Because the Madoka wiki doesn't really have this stuff written out, I've also provided my own summary up to the canon point I'll be using:

Not much is ever said about Sayaka's past, but we do know that she has been friends with both Madoka Kaname and prodigy violinist Kyousuke Kamijou since childhood. Kyousuke eventually fell very ill and supposedly would never play again, and as Sayaka had developed romantic feelings for him, she visited him in the hospital frequently.

On one seemingly ordinary day, a girl named Homura Akemi transferred into her class. After school, Madoka and Sayaka went to mall, where they ended up being telepathically contacted by a small, furry creature that was begging for their help. As fate would have it, Homura turned out to the be the one this creature--known as "Kyuubey"--was running from. As Sayaka confronted Homura about her actions, she was interrupted by another girl who chased Homura off and went on to introduce herself as Mami Tomoe, explaining that she and Homura were magical girls and that Kyuubey was a creature that forms contracts with girls, granting a wish of theirs in exchange for their service as a magical girl in the fight against monstrous "witches." While the two were immediately enamoured by the idea, Mami warned them that being a magical girl is dangerous and to be taken seriously, so they should put a lot of thought into it before they contract. To help them make an informed decision, Mami decided to take the two witch hunting with her.

The trio went out hunting together a few times, and everything seemed to be going great for them until one of the witches...ate Mami. It was certainly a wake-up call for Madoka and Sayaka; Mami may have warned them of the danger of the job, but it hadn't really sunk in for either of them. An angry Sayaka blamed Homura for not intervening in the fight early enough to save Mami, despite the fact that Mami had tied Homura up with one of her ribbons before unwittingly walking off to her death.

As the two grieved, Kyuubey continued to pressure them to contract with him. After all, with Mami gone, who was going to protect the area from witches? He eventually convinced Sayaka to contract, healing Kyousuke for her wish. Sayaka started patrolling for witches herself, bringing Madoka along for company, but she wasn't anywhere near as good at it as Mami. She was inexperienced, but eager to learn.

Not long after contracting, Sayaka was attacked by another magical girl while attempting to fight a witch's familiar. This girl, Kyouko Sakura, explained that she stopped her from killing it because familiars should be allowed to mature into adult witches so their Grief Seed could be harvested. Sayaka could not accept endangering the population by allowing that, so the two got into a heated battle before Homura came and broke it up.

Personality:
At first glance, Sayaka Miki is a bubbly, energetic girl. She's almost always got a smile on her face, and she's eager to cheer up anyone that seems to be down. She's also extremely friendly--she tries to get to know everyone in her class and is on first name, no honorific basis with nearly everyone she talks to. She's a loud, boisterous person that loves to make silly jokes and tease people.

Sayaka is also very caring. She's constantly visiting her sickly friend Kyousuke in the hospital and goes out of her way to try and bring him things that will make him happy. She strongly believes that she needs to protect the people around here, and this is why she takes on a knightly magical girl(and later, witch) form. One of the first things she does as a magical girl is vow to protect the people of Mitakihara. When patrolling as a magical girl, she searches out both witches and familiars despite the fact that letting familiars become witches would be more convenient for her, because those familiars could hurt people just as easily as a witch. Even as an ordinary, powerless girl, Sayaka would throw herself into danger to protect others, as she jumped to defend Madoka the first time the two encountered Homura in her magical girl form.

Sayaka is extremely selfless, and has a very flawed, idealistic view of morality. She believes that no act is truly good if you get something out of it. This doesn't mean all of Sayaka's actions are completely selfless and without any benefit to her--it means that she hates herself for wanting personal gain from her actions. When Sayaka contracted, she used her wish to cure Kyousuke--something she doesn't immediately benefit from. However, it doesn't take long for someone to ask her--did she want to grant his wish, or to be the one to grant his wish? Did she grant it thinking she would get something from him in return? She says that she only wanted his wish to be granted, and in the end that is what she wants above all else, but she would still like him to reciprocate her feelings. She doesn't hold any ill will towards the girl that actually ends up dating Kyousuke...only herself, for being upset about him ending up with someone else. Her need to feel validated through completely selfless acts becomes her own undoing in the end, as she refuses to clean her Soul Gem, because doing so would be gaining something from fighting witches.

Being the naive, narrow-minded child that she is, Sayaka does not mesh well with people who hold beliefs that conflict with hers. She is very hostile towards Homura Akemi(who does not feel the need to protect everyone in this timeline, only Madoka) and Kyouko Sakura(who allows humans to die so familiars can grow into witches and she can get Grief Seeds from them), and her dislike for them makes her act irrationally, often making wild claims about them and blaming them for things that aren't actually their faults(like claiming Homura allowed Mami to die so she could have Charlotte's Grief Seed for herself when Homura couldn't have done anything even if she wanted to and Sayaka very well knew that). Even when Kyouko and Homura reached a hand out to her, she denied them, because she believes that she's just and they're not.

While her happiness is easily shattered as more and more of the unpleasant parts of being a magical girl become apparent to her, she still tries her best to soldier on. This is because Sayaka is incredibly stubborn. She's very set in her ways and very convinced that she's right about the world and how it should operate. She has a strong sense of justice and it takes a lot of traumatic experiences--most of which she hasn't gone through at this canon point--to make any of this waver.

Abilities:
Sayaka is a Puella Magi/magical girl. This gives her magical power as well as increased strength, agility, and durability. Sayaka in particular has incredibly strong regenerative abilities and can make it so she does not feel pain while transformed, as the wish that was granted when she became a magical girl was used to heal someone else. In her magical girl form she is capable of summoning as many cutlasses as she pleases from thin air.

There is also her Soul Gem to consider. Exactly as it sounds, the thing literally contains her soul, which was ripped out of her body when she became a magical girl. While this means that harming her body technically cannot kill her, Soul Gems are incredibly easy to break and doing so would result in her death. Not only that, but if she does not keep her Soul Gem pure, she will turn into a monstrous "witch." Soul Gems are generally cleaned by the "Grief Seeds" dropped when a witch is defeated, and both using magic and being in despair dirties them.

Sample Entry:
Thread with Kyouko at Dear_Mun.
Thread from another game.

Welcome to 1336 Benny Road, Sayaka Kurenai! 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: sayaka miki

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

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Sayaka Miki | Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica

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