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• 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.

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• 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.

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<b>Name:</b> Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you. <b>Personal Journal:</b> If you have one; a journal on another website is fine. <b>Contact Info:</b> 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. <b>Other Characters Played:</b> Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable. <b>Preferred Housing:</b> 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". <b>Character Name:</b> 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. <b>Character Series:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>Background:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> 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. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Sample Entry:</b> 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

<b>Name:</b> Not the character's name, but yours or however you'd like us to refer to you. <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>Contact Info:</b> 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. <b>Other Characters Played:</b> Any other characters you play at Mayfield, if applicable. <b>Preferred Housing:</b> 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". <b>Character Name:</b> 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. <b>Character Age:</b> <b>Background:</b> 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. <b>Personality:</b> This section is probably the most important. We're looking for <i>at least</i> 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. <b>Abilities:</b> 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. <b>Sample Entry 1:</b> 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. <b>Sample Entry 2:</b> 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.

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Butch Cassidy | Drifters | Part 1 | Reserved

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Name: Hotaru
Personal Journal: duncefieldsamurai
Contact Info: gekifire@plurk
Other Characters Played: Basco ta Jolokia, Yukihina, Hibari Kyoya, Fran, Hyuuga, also apping Maya this round
Preferred Housing: 7133 Brooks Lane with Latvia; permission granted.
http://junefield.dreamwidth.org/17052.html?thread=3274396#cmt3274396

Character Name: Butch Cassidy
Character Series: Drifters
Character Age: 40-ish

Butch Cassidy | Drifters | Part 2 | Reserved

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Background:
Pre-Drifters history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy (most likely, if the artist let him keep his real persona's history as the characters with known back-story's do. Headcanon is a lot like the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.)

Butch arrive into the world pre-canon, alongside his friend the Sundance Kid. He is the leader of the Wild Buch (Hole in the Wall Gang) of which Kid is also part of.
He is first seen at the North Wall of Carneades, which is the Frontier fortress of North Carneades.
He and Kid watch Scipio, Hannibal, the Octobrist's and the Carneade soldiers fight. Neither of them really get what's going on, or what the fuss is about.

He is present when the Black King arrive to attack, and he and Kid bring along Scipio, Hannibal and Seimei to get away from the battlefield, because according to Seimei, they can't afford to lose the Drifters.

They fight their way through, and it's very close that he was fried by a dragon. It was only the fact that Kanno Naoshi shot down the dragon just in time that saved him.

While they were heading towards the location of Toyohisa, Nobunaga and Yoichi, Kid and Butch opened way for them while they were fleeing from the enamies. Buring this, they lost Scipio, who fell off the carriage.

When Yoichi was being suffocated by Gille de Rais, Kid and Butch appears. While they don't get what's going on, Kid, encouraged by Seimei, shoot Gille to pieces.

They show and demonstrate their guns to Nobunaga, who is very interested in the weapons. Butch don't really get why Nobunaga get so excited when they show him their gatling gun, nor all his monologue about ''could have done things that way instead of that'' but he think it's awesome that they are making gunpowder.

When Toyohisa's group is going to free the dwarves, he give one of his guns to Nobunaga, and ask him to keep some bullets for him ans Kid, once they have managed to create bullets.

Butch Cassidy | Drifters | Part 3 | Reserved

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Personality:
Butch is a very cocky person. He believe himself a lot, and believe in his ideas – even when they happen to be really stupid. He is confident with himself, and don't often regret what he does. Some would even call him full of himself, but he wouldn't agree. He live in today and not in the future, after all. Because he believe that the Wild Bunch only has a present, and no future, he don't hesitate taking chances. He has lived a dangerous life for many years as a cowboy and bandit. He don't care what happens to him, if he get killed by a bullet or a few, if he get swallowed by a dragon (although that wasn't really on the list before he came to the Drifter world) or if he die of tobacco poisoning.
He's quick to action, again, due to no bars up to stop him from acting without thinking. He's rushed, but he's also planned. Because at the same time as he can be a big idiot, he's also intelligent. Not concerning everything – far from – but he's still knowledgeable about a lot of different – often useless – things.

Butch is an impulsive man, always making things without planning before acting. Because living on the edge make him feel the thrill of living. And now that he's not in America robbing trains anymore, he need something else to give him the thrill. The fights in the Drift world make him enjoy himself quite a lot. He is not afraid of much, and not really of dying. While he don't exactly want to die, he want to live a life with any regrets. His way of acting without thinking can also make him a bit rude or brash, but it's not really like he always mean it. Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't; in those cases, it just happens. Not that he very often regret what he says, though.

He is a pretty happy person at the same time, and he really enjoy meeting new interesting people. He can be pretty innocent at times, too. Especially when he's enjoying something he find really fun.
He enjoy guns, smokes, drinking and robbing trains. He wish he could smoke as much as he wanted until he drops, and he absolutely love guns. He can be simple-minded and pure-hearted, however much possible that is for one of the cowboys that once ruled the Wild West.

As stated above, Butch is a smoker, and states that he would kill for a smoke. If he really would (since Kid actually have two cigarettes that he refuse to give to Butch) is another question. If it was someone else that hid them from him, he might do just that. This shows that he also can be a bit unstable, but it's not a very big problem most of the times. Only at times where he really would need to focus but just can't because he's craving a smoke.

Not much anything is a problem to him, even if – for example – the Sundance Kid wouldn't agree with him. He take everything as it comes, even running out of ammunition in a world where guns isn't yet invented. Then again, Nobunaga is working on producing those things, which he find really cool.

Now if only he could at least smoke to his hearts content...

Butch Cassidy | Drifters | Part 4 - END | Reserved

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Abilities: One hell of a gunner. He's great with them. Not super, but still great.
Sample Entry:

Why can't I find any smokes in this house. Don't people smoke here? I need a smoke, damnit! If I can't have a smoke soon, I'll go fucking crazy! Kid, did you take 'em? I know you have some, so just give me!

Moreover, where the hell is this? I liked that world with the dragons and shit much better than this sunny thing. And Bolivia was much better too – you know, even riding for days non-stop through the desert is better than what this looks like.

Aaaah, this's just plain weird again! Does weird things always have to happen? It's often interesting, but this is just plain boring. C'mon, just bring me back to that weird action world, it was really interesting! A lot of things happened there! ...this place, on the other hand, seem to be really slow-paced... Come on, Corridor Guy! I don't like ya or anything but c'mon this is mean, I was getting used to that place!

Pending

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This application has too many grammatical mistakes to be acceptable. Please submit a corrected personality and sample. For the sample, grammatical errors are acceptable to the extent that they represent Butch's speaking style, but there are some that don't seem intentional or stylistic.

Re: Pending

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Personality:
Butch is a very cocky person. He believe in himself, and believe in his ideas – even when they happen to be really stupid. He is confident with himself, and don't often regret what he does. Some would even call him full of himself, but he wouldn't agree. He live in today and not in the future. Because he believe that the Wild Bunch only has a present, and no future, he don't hesitate taking chances. He has lived a dangerous life for many years as a cowboy and bandit. He don't care what happens to him, if he get killed by a bullet or a few, if he get swallowed by a dragon (although that wasn't really on the list before he came to the Drifter world) or if he die of tobacco poisoning.
He's quick to action, again, due to no walls up to stop him from acting without thinking. He's rushed, but he's also planned. Because at the same time as he can be a big idiot, he's also intelligent. Not concerning everything – far from – but he's still knowledgeable about a lot of different – often useless – things.

Butch is an impulsive man, always doing things without planning before acting. Because living on the edge make him feel the thrill of living. And now that he's not in America robbing trains anymore, he need something else to give him the thrill. The fights in the Drift world made him enjoy himself quite a lot. He is not afraid of much, and not really of dying. While he don't exactly want to die, he want to live a life with any regrets.
His way of acting without thinking can also make him a bit rude or brash, but it's not really like he mean it all the time. Sometimes he does, sometimes he don't; in those cases, it just happens. Not that he very often regret what he says, though.

He is a pretty happy person at the same time, and he really enjoy meeting new interesting people. He can be pretty innocent at times, too. Especially when he's enjoying something he find really fun.
He enjoy smoking, drinking and robbing trains. He wish he could smoke as much as he wanted until he drops, and he absolutely love guns. He can be simple-minded and pure-hearted, however much possible that is for one of the cowboys that once ruled the Wild West.

As stated above, Butch is a smoker, and states that he would kill for a smoke. If he really would (since Kid actually have two cigarettes that he refuse to give to Butch) is another question. If it was someone else that hid them from him, he might do just that. This shows that he also can be a bit unstable, but it's not a very big problem most of the times. Only at times where he really would need to focus, but he just can't because he's craving a smoke so badly.

Not much anything is a problem to him, even if – for example – the Sundance Kid wouldn't agree with him. He take everything as it comes, even running out of ammunition in a world where guns are yet to be invented. Then again, Nobunaga is working on producing those things, which he find really cool.

Now if only he could at least smoke to his hearts content...


Sample Entry:
Why can't I find any smokes in this house. Don't people smoke here? I need a smoke, damnit! If I can't have a smoke soon, I'll go fuckin' crazy! Kid, did ya take 'em? I know ya have some, so just give me!

Moreover, where the hell is this? I liked that world with the dragons'n shit much better than this sunny thing. And Bolivia was much better too – y'know, even riding for days non-stop through the desert is better than what this looks like.

Aaaah, this's just plain weird again! Does weird things always have to happen? It's often interestin', but this is just plain borin'. C'mon, just bring me back to that weird action world, it was really interestin'! A lot of things happened there! ...this place, on the other hand, seem t' be really slow-paced... Come on, Corridor Guy! I don't like ya or anythin' but c'mon this is mean, I was gettin' used to that place!

Rejected

[mayfield_mods]

The mistakes from the first sample have not been suitably corrected, so we cannot accept Butch at this time. You are welcome to app again in a future cycle.