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: Sapphire
Personal Journal: Swordspoint
Contact Info: velaxise at gmail
Other Characters Played: The People’s Republic of Hungary
Preferred Housing: N/A

Character Name: Lily Evans
Character Series: Harry Potter
Character Age: 17
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_potter#Plot
Personality:

Lily Evans is marked by gentleness. Precocious at an early age, her sharp sense of observance veers towards kindness, and it shapes her relationship with those around her from close family and friends to strangers. The first glimpse we get of a young Lily is chastising her older sister for calling her a freak, less out of indignation, and more out of concern at the malice of her sister’s words. She is quick to defend her sister--despite her harsh words and demeanor, due to her ability to see the good in her underneath her lack of acceptance. Her friendship with the young Severus Snape is another example of her kindness. The young boy from a poverty stricken neighborhood gains her innocent affection and her unwavering friendship. Lily’s faith in others shine through this friendship as she keeps standing up for a friend even as they drift apart.

The ability to love through and through, however, is Lily’s strongest trait. Ranging from her faith in her family as she tries to reach out to her estranged sister, to her complete devotion to those she holds close: her husband and her child. It is Lily’s exceptional love--an old form of strong magic--that manages to keep her child safe through its ultimate protection. She willingly sacrifices her life in order to keep her son alive. This love is enhanced by a fundamental and exceptional courage, standing up to bullies during her school years, and from then on defying a dark wizard by refusing to join his cause.

Lily’s courage is supplemented by her strong mindedness and perhaps even her strong headedness. Her fiery temper is reserved for those preying on the weak, even if it has to be directed at her future husband. Her strong sense of justice gets the better of her sometimes, prompting her to lash out with her sharp tongue to those deserving her anger. James Potter comes to mind, for whom she has very little patience. She is quick to see beyond his popularity, latching onto his arrogance and his tendency to hex other students as a past time. Similarly, her solid principles is what she lives by, lending to her unwavering resolve. However, Lily has to balance a struggle between her non-wizard background and the new life and atmosphere she is introduced to. Dealing with the prejudices that come with adapting to the wizarding world, she also deals with the conflict in her deteriorating relationship with her only sister, who does not take kindly to Lily’s vastly different new life.

Extremely talented, Lily’s exceptional talent has made her well liked among her peers and professors in addition to her sweet nature. She is described as “exceedingly bright”, especially for her ordinary background. Her wit is apparent under nicer circumstances when its sharpness is not used in anger, the former which she is remembered for by her potions professor, if fondly so. She tends to be overwhelmed by emotions, her sympathy taking the better of her when losing loved ones whether to death or estrangement. She is tender hearted enough to be kept awake for nights after the death of her colleagues, and bursting in tears at her sister’s harsh treatment of her. She is, however, able to weigh logic over emotions, choosing to end her friendship with her oldest friend when it threatens a break with her principles.

Abilities:
As a witch, Lily possesses an inherent ability to perform magic, although she’s proficient at some particular disciplines more so than other ones, namely spell dueling and transfiguration.

Sample Entry:

This is certainly was not what I had in mind whenever my parents joked about pulling me out of Hogwarts into a “normal school”. And across the ocean, no less! I do hope it’s just a prank. I can’t bear to think of them waiting innocently for my arrival back home at the platform.

Not that I’m going to be any lenient if it is a prank! The nerve of them--whomever they are, although I’m starting to have a good idea now--sending me into the past and to another country altogether. You tell an arrogant toerag to go snog the Giant Squid and he blasts you off across the ocean! That will be something to answer for... As soon as I get my wand to start working again.

Edited 2012-06-04 04:05 (UTC)

Welcome to 1485 Kramden Road, Lily Lensherr! Please reply here with your character journal. Once you've done that, complete the following:

• Join

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• 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: lily evans

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

Thank you!

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Lily Evans | Harry Potter | Not Reserved

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