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.

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Character Name: Jacuzzi Splot
Character Series: Baccano! (Anime)
Character Age: 16
Background:

Have a wiki! And a tiny wiki section! And a TV tropes! And another one! Though you'll have to go open "Jacuzzi's Gang" to get to that.

Personality:

Jacuzzi Splot is a crybaby. No way around it, he cries sometimes. A lot. Almost always. This is a kid you can't expect much from. Or so a lot of people would think.

Jacuzzi Splot is the bravest coward in the world. Almost everything terrifies him, and when I say terrifies, I mean it brings him to tears. He cringes at the slightest provocation, and even his smiles look like he's afraid someone's going to hit him. It's almost pathetic, really. The kid's got some severe anxiety issues, leaving him apologizing for every move and whimpering at any scare. He's like a kicked puppy.

It's hard to believe he's co-leader of a gang of bootleggers during the prohibition who took down 18 mafia speakeasies in one night single-handedly. Or that he's got a small army of people who will come and beat the shit out of you if you fuck with him. Or that Jacuzzi--with no delusions like Claire, no immortality like Czes, no training like Chane, no guns like half the goddamn train, no... whatever you want to call it that Isaac and Miria have--manages to out badass nearly every person in the cast.

Jacuzzi is nothing if not sincere. It's obvious how he feels, more so than any character I've ever seen. When he's upset, he cries. When he's happy, he smiles. And when he's worried, he voices it. There's something about a sincerity like that that has to be based in goodness. Jacuzzi is always full of the best of intentions. He might get scared, but he always does his best to do what he thinks is right, whether it's within the law or not. If it means making and distributing alcohol because he disagrees with the prohibition, he'll do it. If it means getting a tattoo on his face for his scarred girlfriend, he'll do it. If it means trying to protect someone actively hurting him, he'll do it. If it means taking out mafia territory in revenge for his dead eight friends, he will do it. And if it means facing down a monster that killed a great deal of people on a train, don't you doubt him, he will get on the roof of that train and do it.

If it means turning himself in for a ransom, he'll do that too. And that's where the draw to the kid comes from. Jacuzzi's sincerity extends to how much he cares about people. When he believes someone is good, there's no changing his mind. He'll care about that person, and do so with more honesty than you'd think someone so easily scared could manage. When it comes to matters of friendship, Jacuzzi never thinks about himself. Nice says it always leaves him at a loss, but it also leaves him with a lot of friends to back him up.

And it's true. Jacuzzi's gang really cares about him. When Chane is held for ransom and Jacuzzi goes to turn himself in, the members of the gang who are in New York with him all show up after him, despite the note saying that he should come alone and his insistence that he has to. When reminded of this fact, they all respond without blinking that they came alone, too. In a show of the closeness of the group, Jacuzzi notices that one of their number is not a normal member of the gang just by his voice. Jacuzzi's gang of bootleggers? Yeah, they're close.

Jacuzzi's balanced out by his partner and co-leader of the gang, Nice Holystone. Where he's timid and scared, she's more outgoing and adventurous, with a fondness of things that could blow people sky high, even after her accident that left her covered in scars. No matter how incompatible the pair might seem, they work better together than apart. She keeps him on his feet and he keeps her from getting arrested.

In all his timid nature and easily scared life, Jacuzzi still has the potential in him to be a brave motherfucker. In a show with a full cast of badasses, there are moments when Jacuzzi out badasses them all. He fights a man with a flame thrower on top of a train yielding only a single cherry bomb that comes out of his girlfriend's eye socket ~~Nice why oh god why~~. He faces the Rail Tracer only moments later, severely injured, sure the monster was going to kill him, without batting an eyelash. And he turns himself over to be given to the Russo family, who wants him not only dead, but painfully dead, in order to save Chane Laforet, who he may have known a few days. He can summon more courage in him in a second than most people can summon in their whole lives.

Courage and cowardice aside, there's one thing that's constant about Jacuzzi Splot: He's a complete and total derp. He and Nice have been a thing for ten years and he still hasn't kissed her. His philosophy on crying is something most people could never understand: he cries whenever he feels like crying so when he faces a day he needs to be brave, he'll have run out of tears and he can face it head on. When he realizes he's cried too much, he says he's cried for Nice as well, so she won't have to cry when she's sad. He ignores injuries trying to be a Big Damn Hero in the OVA but even then still shakes with fear. He's a comic relief more often than he's not. When Claire reveals himself as the Rail Tracer, Jacuzzi is so startled he falls over. The kid's a dork, plain and simple. But despite being powerless in a world full of immortals, being afraid of everything, and being a bootlegging criminal, Jacuzzi manages pretty well to play the part of a hero.

Abilities:

Jacuzzi. Has not. A single one. He's not immortal, he's not sort of immortal, he's not anything. He's just him. He has no abilities that can be taken away. Because he's just that awesome.

Sample Entry:

Jacuzzi is good at panicking

Jacuzzi is still good at panicking

So one time his girlfriend went missing

Welcome to 1648 Albright Lane, Jacuzzi Nightroad! 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: jacuzzi splot

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

Right here!

Applications

Jacuzzi Splot | Baccano! | Reserved

Accepted!

Accepted!