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: Demothi
Personal Journal:

demothi.
Contact Info: AIM: redheaddreck, e-mail: murasakinome@gmail.com
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: N/A

Character Name: Prowl
Character Series: Transformers (Generation 1)
Character Age: Millions of years old, in a human form he appears to be in his mid twenties.
Background: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prowl_%28G1%29#Generation_1_cartoon_continuity Prowl’s history on the Transformers wiki, link goes to start of relevant section, he is taken from the point shortly after the second season end jump to the movie, somewhere in the late 80’s, early 90’s.
Personality:
He was one of the Magnificent Six who became well known in the beginning of the war, he has a great force of will and determination, like the others among the six he spent a lot of time alone in Decepticon territory, working to damage their strength and position. It was on a mission that would cost them one of the six that he finally met and started to learn more about Jazz, who, over time, became his romantic partner, which carries no gender stigma on their world or among their people (Based off CR with Jazz’s mun). Prowl is the kind of person who has two personalities and they each are show in turn depending on the situation, and while one is similar to the other, they are different enough to be noticeable to anyone who has the chance to see both.

In Public:
Those who have only gotten to see Prowl’s in public face would most likely describe him as cold, callous, cynical, calculating and an over all stick in the mud. The truth of the matter is that publicly Prowl keeps a tight check on his emotions, not letting anything of his inner state of being reflect on his face or in his actions and words. He is a deeply loyal person and so views the obstructed completion of his job to be of greater importance than what others think of his emotional state.

Along with his loyalty Prowl has a strict rule adherence what seems like a galaxy wide. When he is in his public persona he has a tendency to make decisions based on logical facts and calculable possibilities, which means he can, and has, sent good people out into suicide situations, though there are few more grateful than he is when they do return alive from those missions. What keeps Prowl from being A-moral about this is that if his calculations proved that putting himself at that kind of grave risk was to the greatest advantage then he would go through with it just as he expects those under his command to do.

In Private:
Even in private Prowl does not always show the full of his personality to just anyone, what people get a chance to see of him is based greatly around how close he feels to the person and how much he trusts them. Of all the people out there Jazz is the only one who has ever seen him fully ‘be himself’ in private. As with all people and things when someone holds in a lot of emotions they either need an outlet or they will do themselves damage, for Prowl he uses private time with those he trusts and is close to, most preferably Jazz, to let his emotions out. He is not the kind of person to rage over things or whine about them, but he does say all the emotional things he has been holding in.

Another factor to Prowl that is unseen in public is that while he supports logical, well meant and run rules he does not like meaningless or harmful rules and will go out of his way to break them whenever he can. He also has a playful, somewhat sarcastic aspect to him. His wits allow for some creative comebacks and he likes to try and see how much he can fluster others by acting naturally around them when they aren’t paying attention. One thing that he absolutely refuses to have in the public, when he is fully aware of himself and his surroundings, is to air his relationship publicly.

Abilities:
Prowl is a giant, transforming robot with the ability to turn into a car. He also carries various weapons including a plasma pistol and a gun that shoots acid pellets. As a robot he has access to a disproportionately large storage space that allows him to carry a seemingly endless supply of data pads and tools for nearly any situation. In his robotic form he has access to a logic processor that can calculate nearly infinite possibilities to create various probabilities of outcomes for a situation. Prowl is the Autobots chief military tactician and battle strategist, he is also a fighter though he prefers a subtle method where he doesn’t get caught rather than an out and out fight.

Sample Entry:
[Phone]

[He had been considering the best way to get some information from people and after a little bit of research had come up with this, as a subtle way to hopefully get a little more intelligence on who was in control of this place.]

I was wondering if anyone felt like having a card game this Friday night? Nothing too extreme, just a game of chance. No big money, and no alcohol please. Just some friendly guys sitting down to a friendly game of cards. If anyone is interested please let me know.

[He hesitates a moment before saying his next bit.]

Jazz, I would like to speak to you in person, are you available?

Welcome to 7136 Brooks Street, Prowl! (We'll need a last name; you're free to make one up or let us do so.) 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: prowl

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

Thank you, feel free to make up a last name for him (he doesn't like the idea of having to have one at all.) Also I am assuming you mean Brooks Lane, since there is no Brooks Street?

Applications

Prowl |Transformers G1 | Not Reserved

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