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: Shrimp, if you please.
Personal Journal:

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Contact Info: AIM: AvadaCadavre | Plurk:

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Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: I have spoken to Sapph and she’s okay with Remus being housed with Lily Evans.

Character Name: Remus Lupin (Moony)
Character Series: Harry Potter
Character Age: 17 (Marauder-era, taken mid-seventh year).
Background: Remus on HP Wiki

Personality: Of the four Marauders, Remus tends to be the most sensible. Intelligent and fair-minded, he’s the voice of reason, or tries to be; he’s stated that it rarely -- if ever -- works when his friends are concerned. Even when he’s made a prefect in Gryffindor, it’s challenging for him to exercise any control over his friends. It could be owed to James and Sirius’ tendency to be the domineering personalities, but more than likely, it’s due to Remus’ complete inability to say no to them.

Remus is ever-eager to please his friends, sometimes to the point of desperation. Growing up with lycanthropy, he was instructed to keep to himself -- to keep his head down, to keep from potentially hurting anyone or passing his condition along -- so actually finding friends who accept him is something of a novelty. Particularly friends who accept that he is a werewolf, and taught themselves the animagus transformation simply to keep him company during the full moon. He’s terrified of losing that, and will rarely speak out against them, even if he disagrees morally with what they’re doing. James and Sirius’ constant bullying of Severus, for example, has always been something that Remus frowned upon, but has never even attempted to put a stop to it. (Though for the record, he later stated that he wished he had tried to put a stop to it. Fat lot of good that did them then.) Sirius later stated that Remus was occasionally able to make them feel bad about the bullying.

It could thus be argued that Remus was coerced into a good deal of the nonsense he and the Marauders got themselves into. But the fact remains that Remus has a rather stunning sense of humor, and has an uncanny ability to see the good in everyone. Even if he doesn’t precisely think up the pranks, he’s all too willing to go along with them, as long as no one’s being seriously injured. One of their grandest achievements during their Hogwarts years was the Marauders’ Map, a living diagram of the entire castle, complete with hidden passageways and the passwords required to access them. Authoring such a thing required a great deal of sneaking off in the middle of the night and careful trial-and-error, during all of which Remus was a participant.

In order to even achieve prefect status in Hogwarts, Remus had to have maintained good grades, though not quite so good to earn him the status of Head Boy (a position that was awarded James Potter in their final year). Clearly he is a studious and focused individual, though this is by necessity; he achieves this solely through hard work, rather than being a natural talent like his companions. His grades were probably negatively impacted by the sheer amount of classes he had to miss due to his illness around the time of the full moon. During a pensieve scene in book 5, Remus is absolutely glued to his books.

While Remus is generally self-conscious about his looks, that is not the reason he keeps potential romantic interests at arm’s-length. He’s terrified about passing on his condition, and has convinced himself that he is an unfit match for a woman simply because of fact that he refuses to have children. Though it’s not merely romantic relationships; Remus seems to have some difficulties letting many people close in a capacity beyond simple acquaintances, partly because he fears their reaction when and if they learn the truth about his condition. Regardless, he is polite, and once he lets someone close, he is loyal to a fault.

At times -- very, very rarely -- Remus can have an explosive temper. This will usually result in him snapping and then storming out for extended periods, simply to be alone with himself and think. This usually stems from overwhelming stress, though he has -- as with his temper tantrum in book 7 -- demonstrated that even if has to temporarily escape, he will always return to later rectify the situation.

Remus is also empathetic to a fault, and reads people rather well, or otherwise can guess at what a person is feeling. Being thusly fair-minded and observant, he was often the adult to whom Harry would turn for advice and support in the book series.

Overall, though Remus is generally reserved, he is nevertheless a good-natured fellow with a lovely sense of humor.

Abilities: Standard Harry Potter universe magic, magic is usually channelled through a wand, of which Remus’ is unknown as far as type and core. Remus has demonstrated proficiency in Defence Against the Dark Arts (of which he was later the Hogwarts professor), some nonverbal spells, duelling, Charms, Transfiguration, and broom flying.

Remus is also a werewolf. Every month during the full moon, he endures an incredibly painful transformation, which often leaves him relatively incapacitated for a few days before and after. When he is a wolf, he is violent and has no control over himself if he has not taken a Wolfsbane Potion that month, though he has stated that when he was in the company of Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, he was more docile and practically tame.

Sample Entry:
Right. Well. Lovely as Makeout Point was, don’t think I’ll be making a return journey any time soon. Poor drone bird was a bit knackered, I think. I knew there was a reason I didn’t date. At some point she lost consciousness, and I sort of... propped her up in the seat and walked my own self home.

Word to the wise, my friends: dating drone girls, safe and unassuming as they may seem, is an elephantine waste of time. Not that I imagine I’ll be getting another invitation at any point soon. ...one of the scars came back recently, just across my nose. If you see it, don’t be too alarmed. My natural state, I’m afraid. Before this place.

Well then. Pads, Lily? Shall we make a night of it?

Lily is currently the only member of the household (Erik Lensherrs was game-ejected), so the apper has my permission.

Welcome to 1485 Kramden Road, Remus Lupin! 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: remus lupin

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

Here's his character journal. :3

Applications

Remus Lupin | Harry Potter | Reserved

Housing note for 1485 Kramden road

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